{"id":37876,"date":"2019-10-08T10:25:41","date_gmt":"2019-10-08T17:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=37876"},"modified":"2019-10-08T12:24:07","modified_gmt":"2019-10-08T19:24:07","slug":"open-thread-10-8-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/10\/08\/open-thread-10-8-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 10\/8\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">It&#8217;s a crappy, busy day here at the CatBox.\u00a0 My Republicosis is back.\u00a0 I had to prepare my grocery list for this week, send it to Store to Door, prepare the graphics for our Fantasy Football Report, do my normal research for PP and make <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">four<\/span> five draining trips to the throne.\u00a0 Now I get to do the actual writing.\u00a0 Poopy hugs to all.\u00a0 ARGH!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:56 (average 5:29).\u00a0 To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2019-10-08-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click here<\/a>.\u00a0 How did you do?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/1008Cartoon.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Fantasy Football Report<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Here is the latest from <a href=\"https:\/\/fantasy.nfl.com\/league\/342380\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">our own Fantasy Football league<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Scores:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"5Scores\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/5Scores.jpg\" alt=\"5Scores\" width=\"700\" height=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Congrats to WWWendy, Patty Monster and me for winning our games.\u00a0 More congrats to me for the highest score of both the week and the season.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Standings:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"5Standings\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/5Standings.jpg\" alt=\"5Standings\" width=\"700\" height=\"450\" border=\"0\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Congrats to Vivian and WWWendy for leading the league.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/trump-sees-new-polls-and-orders-ukraine-to-investigate-elizabeth-warren\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/span>After looking at the most recent polls for the Democratic Presidential race, Donald J. Trump has ordered the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, to investigate Senator Elizabeth Warren.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat Elizabeth Warren and her crooked kids have been doing in Ukraine is a disgrace,\u201d Trump told reporters on the White House lawn. \u201cThis is maybe the biggest scandal in the history of our country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After Jim Acosta, of CNN, pointed out that there had been no reports of any involvement in Ukraine on the part of either Warren or her children, Trump responded, \u201cYou bet there\u2019s been no reporting, because you people are even more crooked than she is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump brushed aside an official statement by the Ukrainian government indicating that Warren\u2019s children had never set foot in the country. \u201cThat is because the Warren kids are basically spies, and everyone knows that spies are invisible,\u201d he said. \u201cYou people are so dumb.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Good one, Andy. I&#8217;m confident that statement is on his bucket list. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tWdjBlMX2ic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/msnbcleanforward\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MSNBC Channel<\/a>): <\/span>Cambridge Analytica Whistleblower On Dangers To Democracy<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/tWdjBlMX2ic\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">I just learned that Cambridge Analytica was founded to fight radicalization. They flipped to promoting radicalization, when Mercer bought the company and put Bannon and the Republican Reich in charge. Now that they are gone, many of the fascists on their staff are working for Mark Fuckerberg at Facebook, With Facebook, the only way to win is not to play. Flush Facebook! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/2019\/10\/nobel-laureate-paul-krugman-trump-is-unusually-blatant-and-gaudily-corrupt-%e2%81%a0-but-he-isnt-an-aberration-in-the-republican-party\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alternet<\/a>: <\/span>&#8230;\u201cFor a long time, however, making that case \u2014 pointing out that Republicans were sounding ever more authoritarian and violating more and more democratic norms \u2014 got you dismissed as shrill, if not deranged,\u201d Krugman explains. But <strong>extremism, Krugman adds, was a feature of the Republican Party long before Trump ran for president<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s important to understand that the GOP hasn\u2019t suddenly changed, that Trump hasn\u2019t somehow managed to corrupt a party that was basically OK until he came along,\u201d Krugman emphasizes. \u201cAnyone startled by Republican embrace of wild conspiracy theories about the deep state must have slept through the Clinton years and wasn\u2019t paying attention when most of the GOP decided that climate change was a hoax perpetrated by a vast global scientific cabal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Krugman concludes his column on a somber note, stressing that <strong>Trumpism isn\u2019t merely an indictment of Donald Trump, but of the Republican Party in general<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cTrump isn\u2019t an aberration,\u201d Krugman asserts. \u201cHe\u2019s unusually blatant and gaudily corrupt, but at a basic level, he\u2019s the culmination of where his party has been going for decades. And U.S. political life won\u2019t begin to recover until centrists face up to that uncomfortable reality.<\/strong>\u201d\u00a0 [<em>emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">I&#8217;m so pleased that Paul Krugman agrees me. How many times have you seen me state that Trump is the Fuhrer of the Republican Party, because he&#8217;s a perfect reflection of who and what they are?\u00a0 <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #0000ff;\">Vote Blue!!<\/span><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a crappy, busy day here at the CatBox.\u00a0 My Republicosis is back.\u00a0 I had to prepare my grocery list for this week, send it to Store to Door, prepare the graphics for our Fantasy Football Report, do my normal research for PP and make four five draining trips to the throne.\u00a0 Now I get <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/10\/08\/open-thread-10-8-2019\/' 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-37876","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\/37876","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=37876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}