{"id":37450,"date":"2019-08-24T10:10:37","date_gmt":"2019-08-24T17:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=37450"},"modified":"2019-08-24T10:10:37","modified_gmt":"2019-08-24T17:10:37","slug":"open-thread-8-24-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/08\/24\/open-thread-8-24-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 8\/24\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s a quiet day here in the shiny new CatBox.&nbsp; I learned that the parts for my power chair will arrive Monday, so the tech is coming back to fix it on Tuesday morning.&nbsp; It will be nice to drive down the hallway without getting dirty looks from the neighbors.&nbsp; Please expect no more than a Personal Update tomorrow.&nbsp; It&#8217;s a WWWendy day, and as usual, we have lots to do.&nbsp; Weekend 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 3:28 (average 5:41).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2019-08-23-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click here<\/a>.&nbsp; How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/0824Cartoon.jpg\"><\/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=6z682dNDDeM\" 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>Chris Hayes On The Inception Of White Terrorism In America<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/6z682dNDDeM\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Although most of those here at PP know, these things, this a part of US history and current events that few people understand. All have a civic duty to do so and to teach those who don&#8217;t. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wJVpihgwE18&amp;list=PLvCvQKDJNRNY8rTuYvAEnereF4AGQf9hs&amp;index=56&amp;t=0s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (a blast from the past): <\/font>The Animals &#8211; We Gotta Get Out Of This Place<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/wJVpihgwE18\" 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.dailykos.com\/stories\/2019\/8\/22\/1880628\/-Moscow-Mitch-McConnell-declares-war-on-the-next-Democratic-president\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>Two thing have to happen in the 2020 election: a Democratic president and the end to Mitch McConnell&#8217;s Senate leadership. He <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/08\/22\/opinion\/mitch-mcconnell-senate-filibuster.html?action=click&amp;module=Opinion&amp;pgtype=Homepage&amp;login=email&amp;auth=login-email\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">makes that clear<\/a> in an op-ed in The New York Times Thursday. He explains how he destroyed the Senate as an institution and installed &#8220;Justice Neil Gorsuch, Justice Brett Kavanaugh and 43 new lifetime circuit judges\u2014the most ever at this point in a presidency,&#8221; to own the libs. Literally. This is the follow up to that sentence: &#8220;The consequences of taking Senator Reid\u2019s advice will haunt liberals for decades.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s throwing down the gauntlet to all the Democratic presidential and Senate candidates, threatening all-out war if they have the temerity to break his iron grip on the Senate by getting rid of&nbsp; the legislative filibuster. He throws some stuff in about the sanctity of the Senate as an institution, even invoking Madison and Jefferson. But it&#8217;s clear that this is about raw power. His raw power.  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Bought Bitch Moscow Mitch [R-KY] has made it clear that we need to do four things: keep the House, win the White House, win the Senate, and nuke the filibastards.&nbsp; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font>  <\/p>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><font style=\"font-weight: bold\" color=\"#0000ff\">Vote Blue!!<\/font><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a quiet day here in the shiny new CatBox.&nbsp; I learned that the parts for my power chair will arrive Monday, so the tech is coming back to fix it on Tuesday morning.&nbsp; It will be nice to drive down the hallway without getting dirty looks from the neighbors.&nbsp; Please expect no more than <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/08\/24\/open-thread-8-24-2019\/' 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-37450","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\/37450","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=37450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}