{"id":38636,"date":"2020-01-08T07:40:39","date_gmt":"2020-01-08T15:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=38636"},"modified":"2020-01-08T14:10:27","modified_gmt":"2020-01-08T22:10:27","slug":"open-thread-1-8-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/01\/08\/open-thread-1-8-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 1\/8\/2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">It&#8217;s a very tired day here in the CatBox.\u00a0 Last night was so muggy and humid that I kept waking up wet and itchy.\u00a0 I ate a small bowl of soup for lunch yesterday, a small bowl of chili (without the chili), rice and Brussels sprouts for supper, and a small bowl of cheerios this morning.\u00a0 I kept it all down with minimal discomfort.\u00a0 WWWendy comes tonight for some much needed destinking.\u00a0 Happy Hump day to all.<\/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 2:43 (average 4:35).\u00a0 To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2020-01-08-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\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/0108Cartoon.jpg\" \/><\/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.youtube.com\/watch?v=c-AavwcYlnU\" 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>Iran Retaliates, Fires Missiles At US Bases In Iraq<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/c-AavwcYlnU\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Iran could have employed much more accurate missiles in their inventory. This was a very measured response, designed for local propaganda, while stepping back from war.\u00a0\u00a0 I hope that War Criminal Trump* lets it end here. I fear that he will not. Rachel is spot-on!\u00a0 <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/news\/biden-mcconnell-president-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">TPM<\/a>: <\/span>Former Vice President Joe Biden said that he predicts Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) may become \u201cmildly cooperative\u201d in a post-Trump era.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not suggesting all of a sudden everyone\u2019s going to project a new sense of courage and political courage,\u201d Biden said at a campaign event in New York. \u201cWhat I\u2019m suggesting [is] that the dynamic changes when the right vote, as opposed to the vote you don\u2019t agree with, becomes a possibility if you vote for it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden has gotten in hot water with progressives before for his optimistic vision of a bipartisan future, though he tried to give his perspective more nuance in the most recent Democratic <a href=\"https:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/live-blog\/the-december-democratic-debate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">debate<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">I think Biden&#8217;s eyes used to be blue.\u00a0\u00a0 However, his belief that Bought Bitch Moscow Mitch will be anything but criminally uncooperative means Joe is so full of shit his eyes have turned brown.\u00a0 <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cBYv2wr9co0&amp;list=RDR3ChToIvLRM&amp;index=11\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (a blast from the past): <\/span>Jefferson Airplane &#8211; Somebody to Love (Dick Cavett Show)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/cBYv2wr9co0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Ah\u2026 the memories!\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 very tired day here in the CatBox.\u00a0 Last night was so muggy and humid that I kept waking up wet and itchy.\u00a0 I ate a small bowl of soup for lunch yesterday, a small bowl of chili (without the chili), rice and Brussels sprouts for supper, and a small bowl of cheerios this <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/01\/08\/open-thread-1-8-2020\/' 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":[3704,3712,3826,3760,3710,3718,3705,3706,3714,3812],"class_list":["post-38636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-cartoon","tag-donald-trump","tag-iran","tag-joe-biden","tag-mitch-mcconnell","tag-music","tag-resist","tag-satire","tag-video","tag-war-crimes","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\/38636","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=38636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}