{"id":36768,"date":"2019-06-13T08:29:02","date_gmt":"2019-06-13T15:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=36768"},"modified":"2019-06-13T08:29:02","modified_gmt":"2019-06-13T15:29:02","slug":"open-thread-6-13-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/06\/13\/open-thread-6-13-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 6\/13\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s not as hot today here in the CatBox.&nbsp; Yesterday the high at the airport was 99\u00b0, but downtown, where I am, it reached 103\u00b0.&nbsp; Today will be in the high 80\u00b0s.&nbsp; I still feel frustrated and depressed, but I&#8217;m back in the saddle anyway.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:09 (average 4:30).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2019-06-13-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click here<\/a>.&nbsp; How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uooWmIvi3qo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/msnbcleanforward\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MSNBC Channel<\/a>): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">Inside President Donald Trump&#8217;s Plot To Destroy His GOP Nemesis<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/uooWmIvi3qo\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I stand boldly against Justin Amash on every issue, save one. But that one has fully unleashed the wrath of the Republican Reich against him. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HDSeXABd_Qs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/dollemore\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jesse Dollemore Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Donald Trump: &#8220;I\u2019d Take&#8221; Damaging Info on 2020 Rival From Foreign Enemy Operatives!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/HDSeXABd_Qs\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Thank you Jesse. I too am shocked that Fuhrer of the Republican Reich is bragging about his criminal intent. The Fuhrer is a traitor. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2019\/6\/11\/1864130\/-Quinnipiac-Poll-Trump-Loses-to-All-Democrats\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>Today\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/poll.qu.edu\/national\/release-detail?ReleaseID=2627\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Quinnipiac poll<\/a> finds all the better known Democratic candidates would defeat Donald Trump if the election were held today.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Joe Biden leads by 53% to 40%  <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bernie Sanders 51%, Trump 42%\n<li>Kamala Harris 49%, Trump 41%\n<li>Elizabeth Warren 49%, Trump 42%\n<li>Pete Buttigieg 47%, Trump 42%\n<li>Cory Booker 47%, Trump 42%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Woooo Hoooo!! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/0613Cartoon.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not as hot today here in the CatBox.&nbsp; Yesterday the high at the airport was 99\u00b0, but downtown, where I am, it reached 103\u00b0.&nbsp; Today will be in the high 80\u00b0s.&nbsp; I still feel frustrated and depressed, but I&#8217;m back in the saddle anyway. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today&#8217;s took me 3:09 (average 4:30).&nbsp; To <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/06\/13\/open-thread-6-13-2019\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","category-35-id","category-3-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}