{"id":37027,"date":"2019-07-11T10:26:30","date_gmt":"2019-07-11T17:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=37027"},"modified":"2019-07-11T10:26:30","modified_gmt":"2019-07-11T17:26:30","slug":"open-thread-7-11-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/07\/11\/open-thread-7-11-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 7\/11\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s another muggy day here in the tiny old CatBox and I&#8217;m very tired.&nbsp; I missed half my nap yesterday, because my Store to Door driver was 90 minutes late.&nbsp; Then I got to bed late, because WWWendy was late, and after my&nbsp; supper, I need to digest for at least an hour before I lie down.&nbsp; Excessive humidity makes my little A\/C less efficient.&nbsp; That won&#8217;t be a problem in the shiny new CatBox with a built in A\/C unit. \ud83d\ude42<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 4:07 (average 5:30).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2019-07-11-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=Q1Yqp0WVp9Q\" 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>Acosta Makes Himself Look Worse With Defense Of Epstein Deal<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/Q1Yqp0WVp9Q\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Acosta&#8217;s greatest mistake was his failure to make his Fuhrer the star of the speech. There was no high praise for him, and Acosta did not emulate him with attacks on the Clintons, the Democrats or the press. The Fuhrer is now less likely to protect him. I think Acosta needs to fear the terminal tweet from Resident Twit. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=q_dgb8dhhZ4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/mediamatters4america\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Media Matters Channel<\/a>): <\/font>Fox News meltdown over Megan Rapinoe and USWNT<\/p>\n<p><strong><font color=\"#ff0000\">Barf Bag Alert!!<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/q_dgb8dhhZ4\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&#8217;ll let the vile hatred of the Republican Reichsministry of Propaganda, <em>Faux Noise<\/em>, speak for itself. However, I would like to note that Megan Rapinoe has purple hair as a tribute to her college soccer team: the Portland University Pilots. Seven other USWNT women play for the Thorns, Portland&#8217;s pro team. Oregon leads the way! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/uk-unable-to-find-replacement-ambassador-who-does-not-think-trump-is-an-idiot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>Following the resignation of its Ambassador to the United States, Kim Darroch, the government of the United Kingdom has disclosed that it has been unable to find a replacement for Darroch who does not also think that Donald J. Trump is a blithering idiot.<\/p>\n<p>At a press conference at 10 Downing Street, the British Prime Minister, Theresa May, revealed that the search for a new ambassador who does not believe that Trump is an imbecile has thus far come up empty.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe did not want a repeat of the unfortunate Kim Darroch incident, so we made the first question on the job application, \u2018Do you think Donald Trump is a moron?\u2019 \u201d May said. \u201cSo far, none of the applicants has checked the \u2018no\u2019 box.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p>May acknowledged that the government might have to expand its search for applicants beyond those with diplomatic experience in order to find a replacement for Darroch who does not consider Trump a dolt.  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Dang, Andy! Somewhere in the UK, there must be a Brexit Bridiot, who wants to adopt Trump as Fuhrer. <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\/0711Cartoon.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s another muggy day here in the tiny old CatBox and I&#8217;m very tired.&nbsp; I missed half my nap yesterday, because my Store to Door driver was 90 minutes late.&nbsp; Then I got to bed late, because WWWendy was late, and after my&nbsp; supper, I need to digest for at least an hour before I <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/07\/11\/open-thread-7-11-2019\/' 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-37027","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\/37027","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=37027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}