{"id":37005,"date":"2019-07-08T09:33:44","date_gmt":"2019-07-08T16:33:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=37005"},"modified":"2019-07-10T09:46:15","modified_gmt":"2019-07-10T16:46:15","slug":"open-thread-7-8-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/07\/08\/open-thread-7-8-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 7\/8\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">It&#8217;s a busy day here in the CatBox.\u00a0 WWWendy and I had Subway yesterday.\u00a0 Tomorrow please expect no more than a Personal Update with no links messages on Care2.\u00a0 Anne from CCC and I are going to the Madrona Studios for a look-see at what I hope will be the new CatBox.<\/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 3:33 (average 5:01).\u00a0 To do it it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2019-07-08-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=PtbKotgnxLY\" 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>): <\/span>WATCH Emma Vigeland From The Young Turks Try Her Best to Reason With Off-The-Rails MAGA Lady!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/PtbKotgnxLY\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">I have to agree with Jesse. Most Republican Sheeple are so far gone that their political IQ is lower than their weekly intercourse count. And Sheeple sex life is BAAAA-A-A-A-A-AAD! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-immigration-cbp\/border-agency-knew-of-troubling-facebook-posts-in-2016-acting-secretary-idUSKCN1U20K1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Reuters<\/a>: <\/span>U.S. Department of Homeland Security officials knew in 2016 about a private Facebook group where border agents posted racist and misogynistic comments, acting DHS Secretary Kevin McAleenan said on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>McAleenan said on ABC\u2019s \u201cThis Week\u201d that he had been told about an allegation in 2016 \u201cthat was investigated, followed up on, and that discipline was meted out on an agent that made an offensive post on that website.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Customs and Border Protection (CBP) service came under fire over the issue last Monday, when the nonprofit news site ProPublica reported that offensive content had been posted on a private Facebook group for current and former CPB officers.<\/p>\n<p>Posts included jokes about the deaths of migrants and sexually explicit comments referring to U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the news outlet said.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Clearly the CBP racism problem existed before this Republican Reich, but now that racism is the avowed administration policy, it has become epidemic. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/07\/07\/world\/europe\/germany-murder-far-right-neo-nazi-luebcke.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/span>The death threats started in 2015, when Walter L\u00fcbcke defended the refugee policy of Chancellor Angela Merkel. A regional politician for her conservative party, he would go to small towns in his district and explain that welcoming those in need was a matter of German and Christian values.<\/p>\n<p>Hateful emails started pouring in. His name appeared on an online neo-Nazi hit list. His private address was published on a far-right blog. A video of him was shared hundreds of thousands of times, along with emojis of guns and gallows and sometimes explicit calls to murder him: \u201cShoot him now, this bastard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And then someone did.<\/p>\n<p>On June 2, Mr. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/06\/17\/world\/europe\/germany-terrorism-walter-lubcke.html?module=inline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">L\u00fcbcke was fatally shot in the head on his front porch<\/a>, in what appears to be Germany\u2019s first far-right political assassination since the Nazi era. The suspect \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/06\/26\/world\/europe\/germany-walter-lubcke-neo-nazi.html?searchResultPosition=2&amp;module=inline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">who made a detailed confession last month<\/a>, only to retract it this past week under a new legal team \u2014 has a violent neo-Nazi past and police record, renewing criticism that Germany\u2019s security apparatus, with its long track record of neglecting far-right extremism, is still failing to take the threat seriously enough.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The German Nazi Party inspired today&#8217;s Republican Reich. Now today&#8217;s Republican Reich inspires the resurgence of Nazism in Germany. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/0708Cartoon.jpg\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a busy day here in the CatBox.\u00a0 WWWendy and I had Subway yesterday.\u00a0 Tomorrow please expect no more than a Personal Update with no links messages on Care2.\u00a0 Anne from CCC and I are going to the Madrona Studios for a look-see at what I hope will be the new CatBox. 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