{"id":37594,"date":"2019-09-06T10:27:12","date_gmt":"2019-09-06T17:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=37594"},"modified":"2019-09-06T10:27:12","modified_gmt":"2019-09-06T17:27:12","slug":"open-thread-9-6-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/09\/06\/open-thread-9-6-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 9\/6\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s a very tired day here in the CatBox, and I&#8217;m bleary-eyed.&nbsp; Store to Door changed my route schedule without telling me.&nbsp; Instead of<\/font><font color=\"#0000ff\"> the usual Noon, my new driver did not come until 2:30, and I did not go down for my nap until 3:30, so I missed 2 1\/2 hours of my four hour nap.&nbsp; I was in my wheelchair so long that my ass has pressure sores, and my back is killing me.&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 4:02 (average 5:41).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2019-09-06-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\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/0906Cartoon.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=WgC8QUmT4dY\" 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>Team Trump Rolls Out Attacks On 2020 Dems After Town Hall On Climate Change<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/WgC8QUmT4dY\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I saw a few minutes of that, and I bet the Republican Reich is exaggerating. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2019\/09\/06\/republicans-cancel-primaries-trump-challengers-1483126\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Politico<\/a>: <\/font>Four states are poised to cancel their 2020 GOP presidential primaries and caucuses, a move that would cut off oxygen to Donald Trump\u2019s long-shot primary challengers.<\/p>\n<p>Republican parties in South Carolina, Nevada, Arizona and Kansas are expected to finalize the cancellations in meetings this weekend, according to three GOP officials who are familiar with the plans.  <\/p>\n<p>The moves are the latest illustration of Trump\u2019s takeover of the entire Republican Party apparatus. They underscore the extent to which his allies are determined to snuff out any potential nuisance en route to his renomination \u2014 or even to deny Republican critics a platform to embarrass him.  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Heil Fuhrer!! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/2019\/09\/you-are-failing-former-gop-supporter-of-mitch-mcconnell-tears-into-the-majority-leader-for-helping-russia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alternet<\/a>: When well-known former Republicans start goading Mitch McConnell with the moniker that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2019\/9\/3\/1883154\/-Moscow-Mitch-says-calling-him-Moscow-Mitch-is-over-the-top\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">clearly<\/a> has him <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2019\/7\/31\/1875684\/-Moscow-Mitch-reportedly-enraged-by-MoscowMitch-hashtag\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">enraged<\/a>, you know Moscow Mitch\u2019s cover is blown. For years he\u2019s been able to keep sliding under the radar, undermining the Senate, flouting the norms and traditions that kept the institution a functioning body, while the wider world paid little attention.  <\/p>\n<p>But that\u2019s changed. His enthusiastic enabling of this worst, most dangerous president is one thing that\u2019s breaking his protective shell. So is his refusal to protect the nation from enemy interference in our elections. But his disregard for human life is the last straw for a lot of people. That includes well-known former Republicans like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/former-trump-supporter-moscow-mitch-nickname-1457747\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">David Weissman<\/a>, who used to support McConnell, as well as Trump. In an open letter to Moscow Mitch published Wednesday in The Times of Israel, Weissman told him \u201cif you don\u2019t like this nickname, do your job.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou are failing the people that elected you to act as Senator, but instead you act as [a] Russian puppet,\u201d Weissman wrote. \u201cYou have also blocked bipartisan bills that would protect elections in our country. This gives Russia more opportunities to interfere in our elections.\u201d He writes to McConnell that he is \u201csingle-handedly putting our democracy at risk,\u201d and \u201cThis is why the people are calling you Moscow Mitch.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Click through for the rest. I love it when people tear Bought Bitch Moscow Mitch a new asshole.&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 very tired day here in the CatBox, and I&#8217;m bleary-eyed.&nbsp; Store to Door changed my route schedule without telling me.&nbsp; Instead of the usual Noon, my new driver did not come until 2:30, and I did not go down for my nap until 3:30, so I missed 2 1\/2 hours of my four <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/09\/06\/open-thread-9-6-2019\/' 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-37594","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\/37594","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=37594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}