{"id":41871,"date":"2020-11-17T11:17:44","date_gmt":"2020-11-17T19:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=41871"},"modified":"2020-11-17T11:17:44","modified_gmt":"2020-11-17T19:17:44","slug":"open-thread-11-17-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/11\/17\/open-thread-11-17-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 11\/17\/2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s another crazy day here in the CatBox.&nbsp; I slept poorly and got up early to be ready for Diana&#8217;s visit.&nbsp; Last night WWWendy left her boots in the throne room by mistake and I dang near killed myself tripping over them to Republicate this morning.&nbsp; Tomorrow, Molly is coming to check my back.&nbsp; I promise to give her back to Lona as soon as I&#8217;m done.&nbsp; Tuesday is Flush your Republicans day, and today, I flushed them all.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:11 (average 4:24).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2020-11-17-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\/2016\/11\/1117Cartoon.jpg\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The Republican will never solve the maze, because Republicans are too stupid to turn left.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/2020\/11\/sarah-palin-lashes-out-obama-correctly\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Crooks and Liars<\/a>: <\/font>Former VP candidate Sarah Palin is none too happy with former President Barack Obama for \u2014 heaven forbid \u2014 pointing out the fact that maybe we wouldn&#8217;t have had to live through 4 years of Trump if someone like Palin hadn&#8217;t already laid <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/2020\/11\/sarah-palin-snaps-at-obama-for-linking-her-to-the-anti-intellectual-wing-of-the-gop\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the groundwork for the anti-intellectualism that&#8217;s taken root in the party<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In an interview with the right-wing Newsmax TV, former Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) attacked former President Barack Obama for calling her out as part of the Republican Party\u2019s \u201canti-intellectual\u201d wing.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><font color=\"#ff0000\">Barf Bag Alert!!<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><font color=\"#ff0000\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/HXyckJivcsE\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/font><\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Actually, I&#8217;m not too sure about that. Bloody Bullseye Barbie, aka Drill Baby Dingbat, may have been an anti-intellectual beacon in her day, but these days, she&#8217;s just about the most intellectual that any Republican can get.&nbsp; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7HzGU24ujyQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/msnbc\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MSNBC Channel<\/a>): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">Graham Denies Pressuring GA Official To Throw Out Legal Votes<\/font><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/7HzGU24ujyQ\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Lindsey Poo was just as KKK before Trump* arrived. He just wears hid sheet and hood with a name tag now.&nbsp; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tElw0Cvh7ZA&amp;list=PLk6n90VAXJUaHR9AzQfuASgPeqJ-YXsL5&amp;index=36\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (a blast from the past): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">The Times They Are A-Changin&#8217; (Live) (2003 Remaster)<\/font><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/tElw0Cvh7ZA\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I like this version better than Dylan&#8217;s version. We need to make the times change in the left direction.&nbsp; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><font style=\"font-weight: bold\" color=\"#0000ff\">63 Days Until the Big <font color=\"#ff0000\">FLUSH<\/font>!!<\/font><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s another crazy day here in the CatBox.&nbsp; I slept poorly and got up early to be ready for Diana&#8217;s visit.&nbsp; Last night WWWendy left her boots in the throne room by mistake and I dang near killed myself tripping over them to Republicate this morning.&nbsp; Tomorrow, Molly is coming to check my back.&nbsp; I <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/11\/17\/open-thread-11-17-2020\/' 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":[3704,3765,3751,3721,3894,3955,3718,3739,3705,4189,3706,3714],"class_list":["post-41871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-cartoon","tag-election-theft","tag-gop-insanity","tag-gop-lies","tag-kkk","tag-lindsey-graham","tag-music","tag-protest","tag-resist","tag-sarah-palin","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\/41871","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=41871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}