{"id":37378,"date":"2019-08-16T10:26:35","date_gmt":"2019-08-16T17:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=37378"},"modified":"2019-08-16T10:26:35","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T17:26:35","slug":"open-thread-8-16-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/08\/16\/open-thread-8-16-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 8\/16\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&#8217;m running late, as I overslept and had several chores&nbsp; to complete. <\/font><font color=\"#0000ff\">Next week will be so busy that I will probably have only a Personal Update Monday though Wednesday.&nbsp; Monday is a WWWendy day, a day late, and we have lots to do.&nbsp; Tuesday I have an Oncologist appointment to interpret my Cat Scan.&nbsp; Wednesday I have a power chair repairman coming.&nbsp; I suspect a bad wheel bearing as my chair screeches whenever I&#8217;m on the move.&nbsp; TGIF Hugs!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:02 (average 4:40).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2019-08-16-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=tznHwD66yQ0\" 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 Nominates Advocate Of &#8216;Ethnonationalism&#8217; For Judgeship<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/tznHwD66yQ0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">How did Bought Bitch Moscow Mitch know to hold all those judgeships open for Trump, when most thought Hillary would cream Trump. Bought Bitch Moscow Mitch must have already known Putin was stealing the government for the Republican Reich. Can anyone guess which ethnic group that Republican racist Menashi favors? <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Zab7gIlxVQA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCwlHzGKZA-e2GeLMjIE51uw\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Parody Project Channel<\/a>): <\/font>HALLELUJAH FOR THE NRA!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/Zab7gIlxVQA\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Don retreaded this, but with Republican Ammosexual terrorists on a killing spree, he could not have picked a more appropriate time to bring it back. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2019\/8\/12\/1878547\/-Susan-Collins-continues-to-reap-financial-benefit-of-that-Kavanaugh-vote?detail=emaildkre\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>Sen. Susan Collins took time out of her busy schedule of being <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2019\/8\/8\/1877644\/-Collins-is-extremely-disappointed-that-people-are-demanding-she-do-something-about-mass-murders\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">extremely disappointed<\/a>that people expect her to do something about gun violence to attend a fundraiser on Friday. A <a href=\"https:\/\/mainebeacon.com\/collins-attends-fundraiser-at-4m-mansion-of-nations-leading-anti-choice-judicial-activist\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">fundraiser on her behalf<\/a>. Held by Leonard Leo, Donald Trump&#8217;s &#8220;judge whisperer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Remember all that hand-wringing we saw from Collins last fall over her vote for Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court? It was kabuki. The fix had been in for a long time, with Collins <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2018\/8\/31\/1792428\/-Report-Susan-Collins-greenlighted-Trump-s-SCOTUS-pick-before-he-was-officially-nominated\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reportedly giving Mitch McConnell<\/a> the green light for her vote on this nomination before it happened. Now that she&#8217;s hobnobbing with Federalist Society executive vice president Leonard Leo\u2014and he&#8217;s raising buckets of money for her\u2014the quid pro quo is staring us in the face.  <\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s already <a href=\"http:\/\/mainebeacon.com\/conservative-legal-activists-help-fill-collins-campaign-coffers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">received the maximum contribution<\/a> from Leo, $2,800. So now he&#8217;s opened the doors of his $4 million mansion for Collins and all his rich friends\u2014who got a big tax break thanks to Collins&#8217; vote on that Trump tax scam\u2014to say thanks. Leo has become <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/leonard-leo-supreme-court-federalist-society_n_5b354230e4b0f3c2219f4082\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">increasingly high-profile<\/a> since Trump got installed in the Oval Office, even taking a leave from his job at the Federalist Society to specifically get Kavanaugh on the court. He has unprecedented sway and say over Trump in judicial nominations, ensuring that the courts get packed with young judges who have extreme anti-abortion, anti-LGBTQ rights, and anti-voting rights records.  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">There are two kinds of Republicans in office: open goose-steppers and secret goose-steppers. <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\/0816Cartoon.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m running late, as I overslept and had several chores&nbsp; to complete. Next week will be so busy that I will probably have only a Personal Update Monday though Wednesday.&nbsp; Monday is a WWWendy day, a day late, and we have lots to do.&nbsp; Tuesday I have an Oncologist appointment to interpret my Cat Scan.&nbsp; <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/08\/16\/open-thread-8-16-2019\/' 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-37378","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\/37378","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=37378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}