{"id":40523,"date":"2020-07-24T15:28:23","date_gmt":"2020-07-24T22:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=40523"},"modified":"2020-07-24T15:59:18","modified_gmt":"2020-07-24T22:59:18","slug":"friday-fun-odds-ends-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/07\/24\/friday-fun-odds-ends-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Fun: Odds &#038; Ends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I apologize for being a bit late, and this will be one of my shorter ones.\u00a0 I had some last-minute, unanticipated obligations popup that I had to take care of, so just some odds &amp; ends I quickly put together.<\/p>\n<p>There are some rumors circulating that there&#8217;s a movement afoot to change our national Independence Day to November 3, 2020.<\/p>\n<p>I could live with that!<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>CREDIT WHERE CREDIT IS DUE<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While thinking about the upcoming Biden-Trump debates, I happened to recall a promise he made during the second debate with Hillary that he&#8217;d run our country just like he runs his companies.<\/p>\n<p>And he&#8217;s kept his word: Out-of-control debt, no idea how to manage a crisis, millions unemployed \u2013 and yet he and his grifting family keep get richer and richer.\u00a0 Trump truly has run the country like one of his businesses.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>THINGS I TRUST MORE THAN DONALD TRUMP<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Came across this Tweet which really had me chuckling.\u00a0 But I would encourage you to scroll down through the comments, because folks kept adding additional more trustworthy things than Trump.<\/p>\n<p><em>NOTE: You have to scroll down past the Lincoln Project entry.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">THINGS I TRUST MORE THAN DONALD TRUMP :<\/p>\n<p>1) Flint Michigan Tap water<br \/>2) Gas Station Sushi<br \/>3) Bill Cosby as the bartender<br \/>4) Taco Bell&#39;s bathroom<br \/>5) Tom Brady putting air in my tires<br \/>6) A shark with a pet me sign<br \/>7) A North Korean trial<br \/>8) A fart when I have diarrhea.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Timed (@Sagi14_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Sagi14_\/status\/1286688142091640832?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 24, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>FUN WITH PHOTOSHOP<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>File this under <em>&#8220;Be Careful What You Wish For&#8221;<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a wizard at Photoshopping, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jamesfridman.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>James Fridman<\/strong><\/a>, who gets hundreds of pictures sent to him requesting that they be edited \u2013 with specific instructions included.<\/p>\n<p>His shtick is that he takes their requests quite literally \u2013 with some funny results.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s quite prolific, so if you have the time you can visit his above website.\u00a0 Some are hit-and-miss, but I hope these are a few of his better ones to give you a flavor of his work.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/1_Fridman_Background-Guy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-40534\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/1_Fridman_Background-Guy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/1_Fridman_Background-Guy.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/1_Fridman_Background-Guy-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/1_Fridman_Background-Guy-150x120.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/2_Fridman_Ferris-Wheel-Pee.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-40530\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/2_Fridman_Ferris-Wheel-Pee.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"813\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/2_Fridman_Ferris-Wheel-Pee.jpg 813w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/2_Fridman_Ferris-Wheel-Pee-300x177.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/2_Fridman_Ferris-Wheel-Pee-150x89.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/2_Fridman_Ferris-Wheel-Pee-768x453.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 813px) 100vw, 813px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/3_Fridman_Angle-Wings.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-40531\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/3_Fridman_Angle-Wings.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"682\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/3_Fridman_Angle-Wings.jpg 682w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/3_Fridman_Angle-Wings-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/3_Fridman_Angle-Wings-150x106.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 682px) 100vw, 682px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/4_Fridman_Boxer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-40532\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/4_Fridman_Boxer.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/4_Fridman_Boxer.jpg 625w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/4_Fridman_Boxer-300x230.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/4_Fridman_Boxer-150x115.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/5_Fridman_Lamp-Dark.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-40533\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/5_Fridman_Lamp-Dark.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"629\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/5_Fridman_Lamp-Dark.jpg 629w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/5_Fridman_Lamp-Dark-300x229.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/5_Fridman_Lamp-Dark-150x114.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 629px) 100vw, 629px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I apologize for being a bit late, and this will be one of my shorter ones.\u00a0 I had some last-minute, unanticipated obligations popup that I had to take care of, so just some odds &amp; ends I quickly put together. There are some rumors circulating that there&#8217;s a movement afoot to change our national Independence <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/07\/24\/friday-fun-odds-ends-2\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4051],"class_list":["post-40523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-james-fridman","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\/40523","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}