{"id":38787,"date":"2020-01-25T08:32:47","date_gmt":"2020-01-25T16:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=38787"},"modified":"2020-01-25T08:32:47","modified_gmt":"2020-01-25T16:32:47","slug":"open-thread-1-25-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/01\/25\/open-thread-1-25-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;1\/25\/2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&#8217;ve been throwing up most of the morning, but am pushing through, because I don\u2019t want to get behind.&nbsp; Tomorrow is a WWWendy day, so please expect no more than a Personal Update or an Open Thread.&nbsp; Have a great weekend.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today\u2019s took me 3:24 (average 5:34).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2020-01-25-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\" style=\"border: 0px currentcolor; border-image: none; background-image: none;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/0125Cartoon.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/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\/trump-defense-team-scrambling-to-find-example-of-law-trump-did-not-break\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <font color=\"#000000\">Desperately trying to change the narrative after a week of damaging presentations, Donald J. Trump\u2019s defense team is scrambling to find an example of one law that Trump did not break, sources confirmed on Friday.<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p>In concert with two of Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s most prominent defenders, Alan Dershowitz and Kenneth Starr, Trump\u2019s personal attorney Jay Sekulow has been scouring federal, state, and municipal law books in the hopes of finding one statute that Trump, for whatever reason, did not violate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo far, no luck,\u201d a source close to the defense team said.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Dang, Andy! They&#8217;re going to be searching forever! <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lZb1kjcumcQ\" 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 color=\"#000000\">Attorney: Trump caught on tape demanding ambassador&#8217;s firing<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/lZb1kjcumcQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&#8217;d recognize that pig squeal anywhere! Is there anything that the criminal Trump* has not lied about? <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1uy5JfNLmHo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/AdamSchiff\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Adam Schiff Channel<\/a>): <font color=\"#000000\">Rep. Schiff Concludes Senate Trial Argument: Give America a Fair Trial. She&#8217;s Worth It.<font color=\"#0000ff\"><font color=\"#000000\"><br \/><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/1uy5JfNLmHo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Schiff was masterful. Now get ready for wall to wall lies and obfuscation from the Republican Reich!&nbsp; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9C1BCAgu2I8&amp;list=PLs5nLtKbGBVOZBCzgXxcN9fyCz6sQ1fab&amp;index=14\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (a blast from the past): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">Simon &amp; Garfunkel &#8211; Mrs. Robinson (Audio)<\/font><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/9C1BCAgu2I8\" frameborder=\"0\" 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 color=\"#0000ff\" style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Vote Blue!!<\/font><\/h1>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been throwing up most of the morning, but am pushing through, because I don\u2019t want to get behind.&nbsp; Tomorrow is a WWWendy day, so please expect no more than a Personal Update or an Open Thread.&nbsp; Have a great weekend. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today\u2019s took me 3:24 (average 5:34).&nbsp; To do it, click here.&nbsp; <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/01\/25\/open-thread-1-25-2020\/' 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":[3708,3704,3712,3711,3721,3709,3722,3718,3705,3706,3714],"class_list":["post-38787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-borowitz","tag-cartoon","tag-donald-trump","tag-gop-crimes","tag-gop-lies","tag-humor","tag-impeachment","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\/38787","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=38787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}