{"id":38544,"date":"2019-12-26T07:50:16","date_gmt":"2019-12-26T15:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=38544"},"modified":"2019-12-26T07:50:16","modified_gmt":"2019-12-26T15:50:16","slug":"open-thread-12-26-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/12\/26\/open-thread-12-26-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 12\/26\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s a queasy day here in the CatBox.&nbsp; WWWendy ran out of time, so instead of pressure cooking ham and beans for me, she brought me some of her Christmas dinner: standing rib roast and roast potatoes.&nbsp; They were a bit hard on my stomach, but when it came to her Marion berry cheesecake pie&#8230;, I was a ba-a-a-a-ad kitty!&nbsp; I&#8217;ve been paying the price since.&nbsp; Tomorrow I may run a bit late.&nbsp; Store to Door is closed for the week, so I&#8217;m getting my groceries delivered from Safeway.com.&nbsp; On the plus side, I have no medical appointments for the rest of the year.&nbsp; May America dump the Republican Reich in 2020!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 4:09 (average 5:53).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2019-12-26-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click here<\/a><\/font><font color=\"#0000ff\">. 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\/12\/1226Cartoon.jpg\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/2019\/12\/crookie-award-worst-moment-media-not-fox\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Crooks&nbsp; and Liars<\/a>: <\/font>Chuck Todd was very very Chuck Todd this year. And above, Chuck worries that Democrats are investigating too many things, and therefore have a &#8220;PR problem.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"338\" src=\"\/\/embed.crooksandliars.com\/embed\/c4Kj4v8z\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"600\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Is that media bias or what? If Democrats&#8217; investigate everything Trump* does, except one, that&#8217;s one thing too few!&nbsp; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/usa\/all-about-america\/would-i-still-be-married-if-trump-wasnt-president\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">VOA News<\/a>: <\/font>Her husband\u2019s steady shift to the political right during their 24-year marriage was a source of frustration and embarrassment for liberal Jennifer Merrill, but it wasn\u2019t until the election of Donald Trump \u2014 and her husband\u2019s support for the president \u2014 that she\u2019d finally had enough.<\/p>\n<p>Merrill moved out and filed for divorce.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just couldn&#8217;t see sharing a bed with somebody that agreed with what Trump was doing when I was so against everything that Trump represented,\u201d says Merrill, a book editor for a trade association, and the mother of three children. \u201cHe had no sensitivity for how I felt, that I felt so strongly about it, especially when I was going out and doing protests &#8230; and he would just laugh about it and continue to defend [Trump]. So that just made me very, very angry.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">If ever there were just cause for divorce, marriage to a Republican is it!&nbsp; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font>  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SHhrZgojY1Q&amp;list=PLtMJF5iI4w_RQvrU1_W07l1isq0Hf-rTQ&amp;index=58&amp;t=0s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (a blast from the past): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">The Who &#8211; Won&#8217;t Get Fooled Again<\/font>  <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/SHhrZgojY1Q\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"><\/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 queasy day here in the CatBox.&nbsp; WWWendy ran out of time, so instead of pressure cooking ham and beans for me, she brought me some of her Christmas dinner: standing rib roast and roast potatoes.&nbsp; They were a bit hard on my stomach, but when it came to her Marion berry cheesecake pie&#8230;, <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/12\/26\/open-thread-12-26-2019\/' 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":[3704,3712,3709,3809,3796,3718,3705,3706,3714],"class_list":["post-38544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-cartoon","tag-donald-trump","tag-humor","tag-investigation","tag-media-bias","tag-music","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\/38544","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=38544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}