{"id":37335,"date":"2019-08-12T10:27:48","date_gmt":"2019-08-12T17:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=37335"},"modified":"2019-08-12T10:27:48","modified_gmt":"2019-08-12T17:27:48","slug":"open-thread-8-12-2109","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/08\/12\/open-thread-8-12-2109\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 8\/12\/2109"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I don&#8217;t know why, but I feel very tired today.&nbsp; My mouse stopped tracking evenly, and it&#8217;s driving me nuts!&nbsp; ARGH!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 7:29 (average 4:37).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2019-08-12-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=HtUH9z_Oey8&amp;list=PLGBuKfnErZlCkRRgt06em8nbXvcV5Sae7&amp;index=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (a blast from the past): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">The Beatles &#8211; Strawberry Fields Forever<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/HtUH9z_Oey8\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Ah\u2026 the memories!! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/long-john-silvers-tucker-carlson_n_5d4c6994e4b01e44e4774e1c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Huffington Post<\/a>: <\/font>Fox News and host Tucker Carlson are losing more advertisers.<\/p>\n<p>Long John Silver\u2019s will no longer advertise on Fox News, as confirmed <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GoAngelo\/status\/1159614947388776451\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">to Media Matters\u2019 Angelo Carusone<\/a>.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Nestl\u00e9 and HelloFresh, which have advertised on Carlson\u2019s show in the past, told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/news\/tucker-carlson-now-vacation-could-face-more-advertiser-defections-1230312\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Hollywood Reporter<\/a> they were no longer running ads on the show. Nestl\u00e9 said it had no plans to do so in the future.  <\/p>\n<p>On Friday, Stein Mart confirmed that it is <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JordanUhl\/status\/1159868253776334849\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">no longer running ads on Carlson\u2019s show<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for SoFi, a personal finance company that had recently been running ads with Carlson, told HuffPost that the company buys \u201cprogrammatic advertising and [does] not purchase directly through the sponsorship of any shows.\u201d Additionally, SoFi said it had \u201cmade sure our ads will no longer air during this program.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, Carlson claimed on his show \u201cTucker Carlson Tonight\u201d that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/tucker-carlson-white-supremacists_n_5d4a412ae4b0066eb709ac39\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">there is no white supremacy problem in the United States<\/a>, and that it\u2019s a \u201choax\u201d proliferated by the media.  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Wonderful! Our voices matter enough to punch the Republican Reichsministry of Propaganda, <em>Faux Noise<\/em>, right in the wallet! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font>  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2019\/8\/3\/1876418\/-The-Loneliest-Booth-at-the-Ohio-State-Fair\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>When I spotted this tiny, dark booth, I surveilled it for a while, feigning to study the map of the fairgrounds for bearings on my phone. Minutes passed, and then a few more, and all the while this forlorn booth had no guests. Literally not a single one.  <\/p>\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t for lack of potential visitors. Friday was a perfect day for the popular fair &#8211; warm but not hot, and as comfortably cloudy as it was sometimes sunny. Ohio&#8217;s capital city of Columbus is centrally located &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ohiohistorycentral.org\/w\/Ohio%27s_State_Tourism_Slogans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">in the Heart of it All of the Heart of it All<\/a> &#8211; which makes for only a few hours&#8217; drive to its location from just about anywhere in this quite populous state. Understandably, the fair was crowded. Just about every booth got their fair (sic.) share of attention this day, but for that one &#8211; sparse, and sporting an overly tiny identifying sign &#8211; which seemed patently unable to buy a break\u2026  <\/p>\n<p>\u2026Now Ohio is a purple state, but even though the fair takes place in the big city <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldatlas.com\/articles\/biggest-cities-in-ohio.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(Columbus is Ohio\u2019s largest),<\/a> the fair is a rural-themed park which attracts more than its share of the red team. That pretty much holds true for both booth denizens as well as fairgoers, but the marketplace\u2019s desire to make the sale puts a damper on risky political banter. That&#8217;s why I was surprised when I saw the undersized sign on the back of the lonely booth:  <\/p>\n<h6 align=\"center\">T R U M P<\/h6>\n<h6 align=\"center\">P E N C E<\/h6>\n<h6 align=\"center\">Make America Great Again<\/h6>\n<p>The two twenty-something booth caretakers were bored. Very bored.  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">FOMCROTFPIMPLMAO! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font>  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font>  <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0812Cartoon\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"0812Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/0812Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"450\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know why, but I feel very tired today.&nbsp; My mouse stopped tracking evenly, and it&#8217;s driving me nuts!&nbsp; ARGH! Jig Zone Puzzle: Today&#8217;s took me 7:29 (average 4:37).&nbsp; To do it, click here.&nbsp; How did you do? Short Takes: From YouTube (a blast from the past): The Beatles &#8211; Strawberry Fields Forever &nbsp; <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/08\/12\/open-thread-8-12-2109\/' 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-37335","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\/37335","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=37335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}