{"id":37301,"date":"2019-08-08T10:31:21","date_gmt":"2019-08-08T17:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=37301"},"modified":"2019-08-08T10:31:21","modified_gmt":"2019-08-08T17:31:21","slug":"open-thread-8-8-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/08\/08\/open-thread-8-8-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 8\/8\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><sub><\/sub><sub><\/sub><sub><\/sub>I had a great time yesterday, but I must have overexerted myself, because I overslept and am running quite late.&nbsp; Because I moved to the East side of the river, I get a new Store to Door delivery driver and grocery delivery day is now Thursday.&nbsp; So I have a grocery delivery coming, but I have no idea what time.&nbsp; I expect to be back in the saddle until Sunday.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 5:49 (average 7:12).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2019-08-08-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=f_vpvTHArUE\" 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>El Paso Residents, Officials Protest President Donald Trump Visit<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/f_vpvTHArUE\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">When Lawrence called the Trump infestation to Dayton and El Paso campaign stops, he could not be more spot on. Kudos for not repeating the oral sewer output. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_zd0j438tBg\" 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>): <\/font>Takedown of Tucker Carlson &amp; His Lie About the Threat of Violent White Supremacists Being a Hoax!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/_zd0j438tBg\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">A white supremacist at Faux Noise? Oh my! What a shock! Seriously, hate and racism have been the stock and trade of the Republican Reichsministry of Propaganda for years. Kudos to Jesse! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/2019\/08\/major-banks-hand-over-treasure-trove-of-information-on-russians-linked-to-trump-and-family-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alternet<\/a>: <\/font>According to a report from the Wall Street Journal [<em>Murdoch delinked<\/em>], major Wall Street financial institutions have handed a wealth of information on Russians linked to Donald Trump and members of his family to congressional committees.<\/p>\n<p>The report states, there are \u201cthousands of pages of documents related to Russians who may have had dealings with Mr. Trump, his family or his business,\u201d according to sources.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome banks are also giving documents related to Mr. Trump\u2019s business, the Trump Organization, to New York state investigators,\u201d the report continues.  <\/p>\n<p>Among the institutions turning over documents, are Bank of America Corp. , Citigroup Inc.,Deutsche Bank AG , JPMorgan Chase &amp; Co., Morgan Stanley and Wells Fargo &amp; Co.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Drip\u2026 drip\u2026 drip\u2026 <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\/08\/0808Cartoon.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a great time yesterday, but I must have overexerted myself, because I overslept and am running quite late.&nbsp; Because I moved to the East side of the river, I get a new Store to Door delivery driver and grocery delivery day is now Thursday.&nbsp; So I have a grocery delivery coming, but I <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/08\/08\/open-thread-8-8-2019\/' 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-37301","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\/37301","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=37301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}