{"id":38340,"date":"2019-12-04T09:07:19","date_gmt":"2019-12-04T17:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=38340"},"modified":"2019-12-04T09:07:19","modified_gmt":"2019-12-04T17:07:19","slug":"open-thread-12-4-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/12\/04\/open-thread-12-4-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 12\/4\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s a tired day here in the CatBox.&nbsp; Yesterday was so hectic and frustrating, that it just tired me out.&nbsp; I finally got my biopsy reset for Tuesday the 17th.&nbsp; I&#8217;m listening to the Judiciary Committee.&nbsp; The Republican Reich is fighting like hell to obstruct the hearing.&nbsp; WWWendy is coming tonight, and I&#8217;m most ready to be de-stunk.&nbsp; Happy Hump Day!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:45 (average 5:17).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2019-12-04-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\/12\/1204Cartoon.jpg\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/nato-leaders-challenge-trump-to-spell-nato\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>This year\u2019s summit of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization began on a discordant note, on Tuesday, after the other twenty-eight nato leaders challenged Donald Trump to spell nato.<\/p>\n<p>At a preliminary gathering of the leaders, Trump demanded that the other member nations increase their cash contributions to the alliance, prompting Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor, to issue the unexpected and unwelcome spelling challenge.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ll be happy to give more to nato, Mr. President, if you can spell nato,\u201d she said, drawing raucous applause from the other leaders.  <\/p>\n<p>Handing Trump a pencil and a yellow legal pad, Merkel watched as he struggled to spell the word correctly, crumpling page after page in the effort.  <\/p>\n<p>After several failed attempts, Trump finally offered up a drawing of several stick figures standing in a row and asked for \u201cpartial credit.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p>When the other nato leaders rejected his request by a 28\u20130 voice vote, Trump stormed out of the room, vowing never to return.  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Dang Andy! That wasn&#8217;t fair! He never had a chance!&nbsp; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font>  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hne29xkUPbg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/CNN\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CNN Channel<\/a>): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">Video appears to show world leaders gossiping about Trump<\/font>  <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/hne29xkUPbg\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">How do Republicans stand it? I feel embarrassed as hell to see the head of this nation, albeit unelected, ridiculed in a forum of world leaders. Of course he deserves it. They have no shame!&nbsp; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9diZJks95Ko\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCuDv5p8E-evaRSh542hDV5g\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Robert Reich Channel<\/a>): <\/font>How America Created Its Shameful Wealth Gap with Robert Reich<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/9diZJks95Ko\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Solana Rice is right. The Republican Reich mandates poverty for minority Americans. It&#8217;s one more way the Republican Reich institutionalizes racism.&nbsp; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bGopskR5jSM&amp;list=PLCGcelpRfnj6NvkwlP1SD15Dlu6N-MvIj&amp;index=12&amp;t=0s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (a blast from the past): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">Free Bird Lynyrd Skynyrd: Lyrics<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/bGopskR5jSM\" 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!&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 tired day here in the CatBox.&nbsp; Yesterday was so hectic and frustrating, that it just tired me out.&nbsp; I finally got my biopsy reset for Tuesday the 17th.&nbsp; I&#8217;m listening to the Judiciary Committee.&nbsp; The Republican Reich is fighting like hell to obstruct the hearing.&nbsp; WWWendy is coming tonight, and I&#8217;m most ready <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/12\/04\/open-thread-12-4-2019\/' 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":[3708,3704,3712,3734,3746,3709,3747,3745,3748,3705,3706,3714],"class_list":["post-38340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-borowitz","tag-cartoon","tag-donald-trump","tag-gop-hate","tag-gop-incompetence","tag-humor","tag-inequality","tag-nato","tag-racism","tag-resist","tag-satire","tag-video","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\/38340","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=38340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}