{"id":36906,"date":"2019-06-28T10:12:02","date_gmt":"2019-06-28T17:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=36906"},"modified":"2019-06-28T10:12:02","modified_gmt":"2019-06-28T17:12:02","slug":"open-thread-6-28-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/06\/28\/open-thread-6-28-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 6\/28\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s a seasonal day here in the CatBox.&nbsp; WWWendy left for Vegas at 4:00 AM.&nbsp; I sure hope she does not become a showgirl.&nbsp; For some reason, I woke up exhausted.&nbsp; It was a real fight just to drag my ass out of bed.&nbsp; TGIF Hugs.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:06 (average 4:53).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2019-06-28-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=0oxi_t3dbkM\" 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\">Trump to Putin: Don&#8217;t meddle in the election<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/0oxi_t3dbkM\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">That evil smirk says it all. I bet a buck that both Fuhrer&#8217;s have already agreed to have Russia interfere in the 2020 election. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7rpC2aSXAVk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCuDv5p8E-evaRSh542hDV5g\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Robert Reich Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Robert Reich: Trump&#8217;s Secret Tax on Ordinary Americans<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/7rpC2aSXAVk\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Of course the Reich on the left, Robert Reich, is right. Trump, Fuhrer of the evil Reich on the right, the Republican Reich, is lying about his tariffs. Foreigners don&#8217;t pay them. You do. Yjrn Re[ublicans use the money to give welfare to billionaires. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/debate-viewers-struggle-with-concept-of-president-without-glaring-personality-disorder\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>Millions of viewers of a televised debate Wednesday night found themselves struggling with the notion of a President with no visible personality disorder.<\/p>\n<p>In interviews across the country, viewers said that they were having difficulty imagining a President who does not display flagrant signs of malignant narcissism, impulse-control deficit, or rampant paranoia.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI kept trying to picture whether any of these people would be capable of insulting another country on Twitter to compensate for his or her own pathological sense of inadequacy,\u201d Harland Dorrinson, who lives in Akron, Ohio, said. \u201cNone of them showed me that they have what it takes to do that.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cA President should be ready, at a moment\u2019s notice, to ridicule another person\u2019s face,\u201d Carol Foyler, of Nashville, said. \u201cI didn\u2019t see one person on that stage who seemed up to that task.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Dang Andy! I don &#8216;t know what to say I&#8217;m quite sure Liz doesn&#8217;t want a Russian hooker. <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\/0628Cartoon.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a seasonal day here in the CatBox.&nbsp; WWWendy left for Vegas at 4:00 AM.&nbsp; I sure hope she does not become a showgirl.&nbsp; For some reason, I woke up exhausted.&nbsp; It was a real fight just to drag my ass out of bed.&nbsp; TGIF Hugs. 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