{"id":36887,"date":"2019-06-25T09:57:20","date_gmt":"2019-06-25T16:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=36887"},"modified":"2019-06-25T10:00:46","modified_gmt":"2019-06-25T17:00:46","slug":"open-thread-6-25-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/06\/25\/open-thread-6-25-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 6\/25\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">It&#8217;s a muggy day here in the CatBox.\u00a0 USPS did deliver the next day, so I&#8217;ll get my medicine Thursday when WWWendy comes, right before I run out.\u00a0\u00a0 She is going to Vegas this weekend, so she&#8217;ll be coming Thursday this week and next and Monday instead of\u00a0 this Sunday.\u00a0 She says she&#8217;s visiting a friend, but I thinks she has naughty intentions. <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wlEmoticon wlEmoticon-winkingsmile\" style=\"border-style: none;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/wlEmoticon-winkingsmile-1.png\" alt=\"Winking smile\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Today&#8217;s took me 5:23 (average 7:41).\u00a0 To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2019-06-25-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click here<\/a>.\u00a0 How did you do?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CY37okdKHb0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/msnbcleanforward\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MSNBC Channel<\/a>): <\/span>&#8216;These People Couldn\u2019t Even Get An Internship On Capitol Hill\u2019<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/CY37okdKHb0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">If a Republican goose stepper were competent for service as a <em>dawg<\/em> catcher, he\/she would have already left the Republican Reich. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From CNN on Twitter:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Vice President Mike Pence refuses to say whether the climate crisis is a threat, when asked repeatedly by CNN\u2019s Jake Tapper. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/w5qUrTzAl7\">https:\/\/t.co\/w5qUrTzAl7<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CNNSOTU?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CNNSOTU<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/b7g5ouc9PD\">pic.twitter.com\/b7g5ouc9PD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 CNN (@CNN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CNN\/status\/1142798137817362434?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 23, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">My reply describing Pence\u00a0 comes from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=AALREbJZEZk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/AALREbJZEZk\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/06\/24\/us\/politics\/jean-carroll-trump.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/span>President Trump on Monday again denied assaulting a columnist for Elle magazine in the dressing room of a high-end clothing store more than 20 years ago, countering her explosive accusation by asserting that he would not have assaulted her because \u201cshe\u2019s not my type.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Bullshit! Putin&#8217;s Pervert prefers two types: women with Russian urethras and women with pussies close enough to grab. RESIST!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/0625Cartoon.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a muggy day here in the CatBox.\u00a0 USPS did deliver the next day, so I&#8217;ll get my medicine Thursday when WWWendy comes, right before I run out.\u00a0\u00a0 She is going to Vegas this weekend, so she&#8217;ll be coming Thursday this week and next and Monday instead of\u00a0 this Sunday.\u00a0 She says she&#8217;s visiting a <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/06\/25\/open-thread-6-25-2019\/' 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":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","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\/36887","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=36887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}