{"id":39105,"date":"2020-03-02T07:53:08","date_gmt":"2020-03-02T15:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=39105"},"modified":"2020-03-02T07:53:08","modified_gmt":"2020-03-02T15:53:08","slug":"open-thread-3-2-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/03\/02\/open-thread-3-2-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;3\/2\/2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><sub><\/sub><sub><\/sub>Please pardon my brevity.&nbsp; I\u2019ve made <u><strike>five<\/strike><\/u> six trips to the throne since 2 AM, and my&nbsp; breakfast experiment went into the sink, leaving screaming heartburn.&nbsp; Oh God, it\u2019s Monday.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today\u2019s took&nbsp; me 5:26 (average 5:28).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2020-03-02-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\/03\/0302Cartoon.jpg\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/2020\/03\/cnn-host-michael-smerconish-slammed-for-comparing-sanders-surge-to-spread-of-coronavirus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alternet<\/a>: <font color=\"#000000\">Radio personality and CNN weekend host Michael Smerconish came under fire Saturday morning\u2014along with the network\u2014for \u201ccasually\u201d portraying the <\/font><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/2020\/02\/28\/california-poll-shows-sanders-double-support-closest-rival-just-days-ahead-super\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">surging prospects<\/a><font color=\"#000000\"><\/font><font color=\"#000000\"> of Democratic presidential frontrunner Sen. Bernie Sanders as comparable to the threat of the infectious coronavirus <\/font><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/2020\/02\/29\/trump-cries-hoax-nurses-california-warn-quarantines-124-health-workers-show-us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">which continues to spread<\/a><font color=\"#000000\"><\/font><font color=\"#000000\"> in the United States and around the world.<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">He should be fired immediately.&nbsp; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=k0EG7aIRZS0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/msnbcleanforward\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MSNBC Channel<\/a>): <font color=\"#000000\">Buttigieg Suspends 2020 Race To &#8216;Bring Our Party And Country Together&#8217;<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/k0EG7aIRZS0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I think he&#8217;s a good VP choice.&nbsp; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=k0EG7aIRZS0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (a blast from the past): <font color=\"#000000\">Del Shannon &#8211; Runaway (Rare Stereo Version)<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/ziLagAgoPCE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe>\n<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please pardon my brevity.&nbsp; I\u2019ve made five six trips to the throne since 2 AM, and my&nbsp; breakfast experiment went into the sink, leaving screaming heartburn.&nbsp; Oh God, it\u2019s Monday. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today\u2019s took&nbsp; me 5:26 (average 5:28).&nbsp; To do it, click here.&nbsp; How did you do? Cartoon: Short Takes: From Alternet: Radio personality <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/03\/02\/open-thread-3-2-2020\/' 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":[3790,3704,3796,3718,3758,3705,3706,3714],"class_list":["post-39105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-bernie-sanders","tag-cartoon","tag-media-bias","tag-music","tag-pete-buttigieg","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\/39105","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=39105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}