{"id":37662,"date":"2019-09-16T10:19:21","date_gmt":"2019-09-16T17:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=37662"},"modified":"2019-09-16T10:19:21","modified_gmt":"2019-09-16T17:19:21","slug":"open-thread-9-16-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/09\/16\/open-thread-9-16-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 9\/16\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s a cool, sticky day here in the CatBox.&nbsp; 64\u00b0 and thunderstorms (rare here) are forecast, and the humidity is 92%.&nbsp; Oh God it&#8217;s Monday hugs to all.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:00 (average 4:38).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2019-09-16-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click here<\/a>. 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\/2016\/09\/0916Cartoon.jpg\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Religious Agony<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0915Broncos14-Bears16\" 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=\"0915Broncos14-Bears16\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/0915Broncos14-Bears16.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"80\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><font color=\"#0000ff\">An Official put time on the clock in error.&nbsp; That allowed the Bears to kick the winning field goal after time had expired.&nbsp; May the Righteous Orb&nbsp; blast that ref with Holy lightning right between the cheeks!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><font color=\"#0000ff\"><\/font><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=we9yLR5kBuo\" 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>Tomi Lahren on Fox and Declares Her Need to be Armed For Use Against Military, Cops, and Immigrants!<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><strong><font color=\"#ff0000\">Barf Bag Alert!!<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"right\">&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/we9yLR5kBuo\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">But Jesse, should we be surprised at Tomi Turd&#8217;s stupidity? The Republican Reichsministry of Propaganda, <em>Faux Noise<\/em>, specializes in stupidity\u2026 and greed\u2026 and hate. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font>  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3Ak463A7uEo\" 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>MOSCOW MITCH &#8211; A Parody  <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/3Ak463A7uEo\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Wonderful job, Don! You could not have pegged Bought Bitch Moscow Mitch more perfectly. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2019\/9\/15\/1885567\/-Collins-lies-again-Casts-deciding-vote-to-steal-from-military-families-to-pay-for-wall\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>There\u2019s much to hate about Lindsey Graham and the submissive puppet to Donald Trump that he has become since McCain\u2019s death. Yet at the very least, he is honest about the kind of person he\u2019s become. He no longer pretends to be a moderate or a \u201cprincipled\u201d conservative.<\/p>\n<p>Susan Collins is a rightwing hack who masquerades as a \u201cmoderate\u201d in order to keep her job in a blue state. Sure, she may vote against the worst impulses of her party\u2014usually during an election year\u2014but here\u2019s the key: <strong>only if her vote won\u2019t make the difference<\/strong>.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Harry Reid put it best on Susan Collins: \u201cShe\u2019s always there when you don\u2019t need her vote.\u201d Despite having numerous opportunities, Collins always passes at being the deciding vote against her party, no matter what. It\u2019s this grift that makes Trump blush, and it\u2019s why the hardliners love how she plays her constituents for fools.&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>The most recent example was just this past Thursday, at the Senate Appropriations Committee meeting. Collins has repeatedly and forcefully claimed that she is opposed to Trump stealing money from our military community to build a wall that Mexico was supposed to pay for.  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Goose-step Gordon Smith [R-OR] used to do the same thing, until we fired him and replaced him with Jeff Merkley.&nbsp; Now, Collins, a fascist Republican goose-stepper&nbsp; REALLY IS the least extreme Republican in the Senate, and she&#8217;s deplorable!&nbsp; Every Republican in office is one Republican too many! <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 cool, sticky day here in the CatBox.&nbsp; 64\u00b0 and thunderstorms (rare here) are forecast, and the humidity is 92%.&nbsp; Oh God it&#8217;s Monday hugs to all. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today&#8217;s took me 3:00 (average 4:38).&nbsp; To do it, click here. How did you do? Cartoon: Religious Agony: An Official put time on the <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/09\/16\/open-thread-9-16-2019\/' 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-37662","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\/37662","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=37662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}