{"id":36865,"date":"2019-06-21T09:53:02","date_gmt":"2019-06-21T16:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=36865"},"modified":"2019-06-21T09:53:02","modified_gmt":"2019-06-21T16:53:02","slug":"open-thread-6-21-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/06\/21\/open-thread-6-21-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 6\/21\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I hope you all had a better Spring than I did.&nbsp; Welcome to Summer.&nbsp; By my divine feline decree, today shall be the longest day of 2019.&nbsp; TGIF!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:02 (average 4:25).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2019-06-21-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=X5WMt8Ye1-Q\" 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\">Hope Hicks Transcript Provides Window On 2016 Dual Trump Tape Crises<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/X5WMt8Ye1-Q\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">There you have it. If the incident behind the infamous pee-pee tape wasn&#8217;t real, then why did the Trump campaign engage a Russian operative to stop the release of that tape and others, long before the Steele Report?&nbsp; The Fuhrer really is Putin&#8217;s Piddle Pervert Puppet. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9oimuzNfyW4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/CNN\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CNN Channel<\/a>): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">Roy Moore running again for US Senate seat in Alabama<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/9oimuzNfyW4\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">If elected, Moore, Injustice Kava-Nazi, and Resident Trump can have Republican pervert parties in which all three branches of government are represented. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/nation\/migrant-children-describe-neglect-at-texas-border-facility\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PBS<\/a>: <\/font>\u2026The bleak portrait emerged Thursday after a legal team interviewed 60 children at the facility near El Paso that has become the latest place where attorneys say young migrants are describing neglect and mistreatment at the hands of the U.S. government\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2026Three girls told attorneys they were trying to take care of the 2-year-old boy, who had wet his pants and no diaper and was wearing a mucus-smeared shirt when the legal team encountered him\u2026  <\/p>\n<p>\u2026Binford described that during interviews with children in a conference room at the facility, \u201clittle kids are so tired they have been falling asleep on chairs and at the conference table.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p>She said an 8-year-old taking care of a very small 4-year-old with matted hair couldn\u2019t convince the little one to take a shower.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn my 22 years of doing visits with children in detention I have never heard of this level of inhumanity,\u201d said Holly Cooper, who co-directs University of California, Davis\u2019 Immigration Law Clinic and represents detained youth\u2026.  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Can there be any doubt that the Republican Reich racists now run concentration camps to torture Latino kids? No wonder kids are dying! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font>  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font>  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/0621Cartoon.jpg\"><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hope you all had a better Spring than I did.&nbsp; Welcome to Summer.&nbsp; By my divine feline decree, today shall be the longest day of 2019.&nbsp; TGIF! Jig Zone Puzzle: Today&#8217;s took me 3:02 (average 4:25).&nbsp; To do it, click here.&nbsp; How did you do? 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