{"id":36963,"date":"2019-07-04T08:50:58","date_gmt":"2019-07-04T15:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=36963"},"modified":"2019-07-04T08:50:58","modified_gmt":"2019-07-04T15:50:58","slug":"open-thread-7-4-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/07\/04\/open-thread-7-4-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 7\/4\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s a busy day, here at the CatBox.&nbsp; The CCC rep told me late yesterday that I have qualified and will get the unit in the Madrona Studios.&nbsp; It should be ready to view next weekend, so WWWendy and I plan a look-see a week from Sunday.&nbsp; I just hope it doesn&#8217;t blow up at the last minute&#8230; again.&nbsp; Today is a WWWendy Day.&nbsp; She will be coming mid-afternoon and, after we destink the rancid TomCat, we&#8217;re having BBQ ribs.&nbsp; Her two Shiatsus, who I have nicknamed Oh and Shit, get the bones.&nbsp; Were this not a Republican Reich, I&#8217;d wish you a happy 4th.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s tool me 4:17 (average 6:11).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2019-07-04-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click here<\/a>.<\/font> How did you do?<\/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=14bmOiZFdVA\" 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>Donald Trump Hints At Defying Court, Edges Toward Constitutional Crisis<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/14bmOiZFdVA\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The latest, from what I hear, is that the Fuhrer plans to issue an executive order to add the citizenship question to the census. According to the Republican Reich&#8217;s Unitary Executive belief, whatever the Resident does is legal. At the birth of our of our nation, enslaved Blacks were considered subhuman and were not citizens. Nevertheless the census counted them. I guess the racist Republican Reich considers undocumented workers less than subhuman. They are also treating Marbury v. Madison as toilet paper. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=t-xlD4rgAg8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCTHsQd-vRXK1bp4vpifl6yA\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Trae Crowder Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Liberal Redneck &#8211; Fourth of Julying to Himself<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/t-xlD4rgAg8\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Amen Trey! Flush the Republican Reich! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=o98qMWjXnkY\" 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><font color=\"#000000\">Robert Reich: Patriotism v. Nationalism<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/o98qMWjXnkY\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" 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. The Reich on the right, the Republican Reich, practices white nationalism and the politics of fear driven hate. A true patriot loves our nation enough to oppose it, when it strays from our stated values. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/trumps-fourth-of-july-parade-to-include-flyover-by-russian-air-force\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>Calling it \u201cincredibly exciting news,\u201d President Donald Trump revealed on Wednesday that his long-planned Fourth of July parade in Washington will include a flyover by Russian Su-24 fighter planes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese are beautiful, gleaming Russian planes,\u201d Trump boasted to Tucker Carlson, of Fox News. \u201cI\u2019m the first American President who\u2019s had Russian fighters flying over Washington.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p>He said that he finalized the flyover deal while speaking to the Russian President, Vladimir Putin, at the G-20 Summit last week. \u201cPutin said, \u2018This is the least we can do, after all you\u2019ve done for us,\u2019 \u201d Trump said.  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Dang, Andy! If this is true I will not be at all surprised. <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\/07\/0704Cartoon.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a busy day, here at the CatBox.&nbsp; The CCC rep told me late yesterday that I have qualified and will get the unit in the Madrona Studios.&nbsp; It should be ready to view next weekend, so WWWendy and I plan a look-see a week from Sunday.&nbsp; I just hope it doesn&#8217;t blow up at <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/07\/04\/open-thread-7-4-2019\/' 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-36963","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\/36963","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=36963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}