{"id":42433,"date":"2021-01-08T11:28:02","date_gmt":"2021-01-08T19:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=42433"},"modified":"2021-01-08T11:28:02","modified_gmt":"2021-01-08T19:28:02","slug":"open-thread-1-8-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2021\/01\/08\/open-thread-1-8-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread -1\/8\/2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s a very tired day here in the CatBox.&nbsp; Unpacking and putting away groceries took over 90 minutes yesterday.&nbsp; Also, I slept poorly last night, as I wondered how our nation can survive another week and a half.&nbsp; I expect to be in the saddle tomorrow.&nbsp; Tomorrow and Sunday are High Holy Days in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb, but my Portland gave a bye in the Wild Card Week of the playoffs!&nbsp; TGIF!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:45 (average 5:05).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2021-01-08-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">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\/01\/0108Cartoon.jpg\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/2021\/01\/new-congresswoman-mary-miller-praises\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Crooks and Liars<\/a>: <\/font>Rep. Mary Miller (R-IL) has been a Congresswoman for approximately 9 minutes, and saw fit to make herself famous by quoting Adolf Hitler in her speech supporting Trump&#8217;s attempted coup to overturn Biden&#8217;s win in the 2020 election.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"480\" src=\"\/\/embed.crooksandliars.com\/embed\/dgEBYK7I\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"600\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It America survives, Trump* will be out office on or before the 20th, but He would never have become Fuhrer, if he did not represent the beliefs of the Republican Party, the Nazi Party of America.&nbsp; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=piYogs7rxE0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/msnbc\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MSNBC Channel<\/a>): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">Two Days After Riots, Trump Reverses His Stance On Election Loss<\/font><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/piYogs7rxE0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The Republican Reich will parrot Trump&#8217;s* teleprompter speech and act like everything else never happened. It&#8217;s time for Trump* to become Trump** and for him and the rest of the crew to inmates.&nbsp; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qfZVu0alU0I\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube<\/a> (a blast from the past): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">Barry McGuire &#8211; Eve Of Destruction<\/font><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/qfZVu0alU0I\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Ah\u2026 the memories! Again?&nbsp; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><font style=\"font-weight: bold\" color=\"#0000ff\">11 Days Until the Big <font color=\"#ff0000\">FLUSH<\/font>!!<\/font><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a very tired day here in the CatBox.&nbsp; Unpacking and putting away groceries took over 90 minutes yesterday.&nbsp; Also, I slept poorly last night, as I wondered how our nation can survive another week and a half.&nbsp; I expect to be in the saddle tomorrow.&nbsp; Tomorrow and Sunday are High Holy Days in the <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2021\/01\/08\/open-thread-1-8-2021\/' 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":[3704,3712,3744,3721,3717,3718,3732,3743,3705,3706],"class_list":["post-42433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-cartoon","tag-donald-trump","tag-gop-fascism","tag-gop-lies","tag-gop-violence","tag-music","tag-nazis","tag-republican-reich","tag-resist","tag-satire","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\/42433","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=42433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}