{"id":36833,"date":"2019-06-18T09:51:55","date_gmt":"2019-06-18T16:51:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=36833"},"modified":"2019-06-18T09:51:55","modified_gmt":"2019-06-18T16:51:55","slug":"open-thread-6-18-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/06\/18\/open-thread-6-18-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 6\/18\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s a temperate day here at the CatBox, but it&#8217;s so humid that I&#8217;m sticky and the grass pollen count is still very high.&nbsp; It took me a long time to find my material today.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:05 (average 4:53).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2019-06-18-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=9QU6T8uRfQI\" 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>Compromise With GOP Becomes Point Of Contention Among Democrats<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/9QU6T8uRfQI\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Biden is delusional. To compromise with Republicans, bend over, grab your ankles, and pray. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wb5vRNWr0DA\" 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>Trump AGAIN Teased the Idea That His Supporters Will DEMAND That He Stay Longer Than 2 Terms!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/wb5vRNWr0DA\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The Fuhrer would like nothing better than to make the 5th Reich permanent. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/2019\/06\/18\/if-true-they-are-even-bigger-lunatics-we-realized-un-officials-reportedly-believe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Common Dreams<\/a>: <\/font>As the Trump administration <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/2019\/06\/18\/barreling-towards-another-catastrophic-war-trump-orders-1000-more-troops-middle-east\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">prepares to deploy 1,000 additional troops<\/a> to the Middle East in a move critics warned will heighten the possibility of all-out war with Iran, United Nations officials reportedly believe the U.S. is also planning a major &#8220;aerial bombardment&#8221; of an Iranian nuclear facility.<\/p>\n<p>United Nations officials are &#8220;assessing the United States&#8217; plans to carry out a tactical assault on Iran,&#8221; the Jerusalem Post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/Middle-East\/Iran-News\/UN-officials-US-is-planning-a-tactical-assault-in-Iran-592832\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a> Monday, citing anonymous diplomatic sources at the U.N. headquarters in New York.  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;According to the officials, since Friday, the White House has been holding incessant discussions involving senior military commanders, Pentagon representatives, and advisers to President Donald Trump,&#8221; the Post reported. &#8220;The military action under consideration would be an aerial bombardment of an Iranian facility linked to its nuclear program.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p>One &#8220;Western diplomat&#8221; told the Post that the bombing campaign would be &#8220;massive&#8221; but &#8220;limited to a specific target.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Does anyone else think that bombing Iran is insane? <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font>  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font>  <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/0618Cartoon_thumb.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a temperate day here at the CatBox, but it&#8217;s so humid that I&#8217;m sticky and the grass pollen count is still very high.&nbsp; It took me a long time to find my material today. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today&#8217;s took me 3:05 (average 4:53).&nbsp; To do it, click here.&nbsp; How did you do? Short Takes: <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/06\/18\/open-thread-6-18-2019\/' 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-36833","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\/36833","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=36833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}