It’s a very tired day here in the CatBox. Because I’m out of pain meds, I got almost no sleep last night. I have a dose to take tonight. I saved it, because it’s a WWWendy night. Happy Hump day to all.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 3:16 (average 4:17). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Cartoon:
Jen Sorenson Cartoon:
Included with permission from and link to Jen Sorenson
Trump* Virus Update:
Cases: 55,081
Deaths: 785
Recovered: 379
Short Takes:
From Daily Kos: As conditions worsen and the novel coronavirus infects more people daily, white supremacists want to take advantage of the COVID-19 pandemic to advance their racist agenda. Extremist groups, including neo-Nazis, are encouraging infected members to spread coronavirus to law enforcement officials and Jewish people, according to intelligence gathered by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). According to ABC News, “members of extremist groups are encouraging one another to spread the virus, if contracted, through bodily fluids and personal interactions,” the FBI’s New York office warned in an alert Thursday.
According to the alert, racist extremists urged their followers to use spray bottles to spread bodily fluids to police officers on the street. “Anti-government folks in America love to target law enforcement as a symbol of America’s authority,” Don Mihalek, executive vice president of the Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association Foundation, told ABC News. “It’s just sad that that’s their focus at a time of crisis in the nation.”
The white supremacist groups also advised followers to go to “any place they [Jews] may be congregated” to spread the virus including businesses, places of worship, and markets, the alert warned. According to ABC News, white supremacists have been blaming Jewish leaders and people for both the coronavirus and global response to it for weeks. Extremists even blamed the Jewish community for the shutdown of government activities in New York, New Jersey, and California, organizations that monitor white supremacist messaging found. Social media posts by extremists and conspiracy theorists are even attempting to connect “Chinese efforts to safely dispose of victims’ bodies to cast doubt on the number of Jews who died during the Holocaust, the Anti-Defamation League reported.
Here in Portland, the police association, notorious for their racism, has often supported the white supremacist Proud Boys against the almost equally loony anarchist Antifa. It would be karma if the their Nazi Republican friends did this to them, but I hope not. The good police would be infected with the Republicans! RESIST!!
From The New Yorker: At long last invoking the Defense Production Act, Donald J. Trump has ordered the nation’s factories to begin mass-producing gallons of spray tan.
Speaking at the White House on Tuesday, Trump said that, because millions of Americans have been forced to remain indoors, the country’s stockpiles of fake-tan reserves have fallen to “dangerously low” levels.
“I sent Mike Pence out to buy some yesterday, and he went to store after store and they were all out,” Trump said. “It’s a disgraceful situation.”
Trump said that, although he had been reluctant to invoke the D.P.A., “People are going to lose their tans within days if nothing is done.”
Under the order, the specific hue of spray tan that Trump has demanded will be pumped out by retrofitted factories that normally manufacture orange paint.
Dang Andy! I don’t think it will help criminal Fuhrer Trump*. Former Speaker John Boehner, aka Agent Orange, will buy out the fake tan spray no matter how much they produce! RESIST!!
From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): Lawrence: Trump’s ‘Deadly Nonsense’ On Re-Opening The Country
Millions of dead people would not bother criminal Fuhrer Trump* or the Nazis of the Republican Reich. I don’t want to see any suicides, but I have to admit that just one Trumpicide* would not be a problem. RESIST!!
From YouTube (a blast from the past) (I used up my previous playlist and needed to find another.): Time Has Come Today(Chambers Brothers-Long Version)with no cuts to song
Ah… the memories! RESIST!!
Vote Blue No Matter Who Top to Bottom!!
7 Responses to “Open Thread–3/25/2020”
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Oh, dang. That’s not good. Not that thoughts and prayers help much with physical pain at a distance, but, for what it’s worth, you have them (I’m sure not only from me.)00
Cartoon – That I believe. (Also, the ones who sound almost sane – it’s really only by comparison to the others.)
Jen – She is one of those who just nails it, time after time. She’s a regular o Daily Kos. I imagine her own page is more complete, but many of us are at Daily Kos all the time anyway. (And apparently generous too. Bless her.)
Map – Pretty much everywhere in the state is closed up except for Colorado Springs, where our Republican mayot evidently wants us to be the epicenter. The military, being smarter, has all bases on lockdown. Incidentally, I don’t expect this kind fo accuracy in something so fluid as the number of cases of corona virus, but my New Mexico newsletter this morning said NM has 100 conformed cases including 17 new ones. That matches the map precisely.
DKos – Yes. I saw it. I didn’t think it was constructive to use the Erinyes column for it, there being so many things we need to know to keep motivated, and this didn’t seem like one of them. But it wouldn’t surprise me if they, and Karma, are already on it. “Spray bottles.” Good God. (Off topic, but you know what else Daily Kos has? A roundup of things to entertain you for free while you are sheltering in place.)
TNY – Yes, what is it with Republican “leaders” and orange spray tan anyway? (I do suspect Orange Judas applies his by hand, though.)
Lawrence – There are a lot of people who do share his value system. And some of them certainly could suicide. And we have a pretty good idea ho they are. And they are not us. Yeah, I’ll be staying home. And prying for you.
Past – New to me.
Cartoon: They’ll lie to get their way.
Ms. Sorensen’s Cartoon: Sad. Pretty much sums it up to a T…
TVU: Just found out that we have a second Covid19 person in the county. Both folks (cases)…btw…flew in from vacation/another country. d/not say which country though. Self quarantined from what I read.
DK: How mean,vile gross and hateful. We haven’t had any of that here, but it’s not to say that it won’t spread….how very sad!!
NYer: Thank the Lord for Andy to make us laugh! I found this hilarious, especially your comment re: Boehner’s concern over the spray. lol !!
MSNBC: Excellent video. Yes, we’re in this together. Lawrence presented this very well too.
BFTP: Played this over and over….great song!
HI, Wendy! Hope all is good with you. Gee, I sure do hope that you get your pain meds…you need them. Makes for a long night too. Get some rest, take good, good care, and Thanks, Tom.
*This just in: “The biggest political risk any president takes is devesting from sound advice.”~Lindsey Graham~
2. “Please do not take medical advice from a man who looked directly at a solar eclipse.” ~Hillary Clinton ~
3. “dt turned over the pandemic management over to state governors. That way dt can blame them for his massive failings in all this.” ~ Norm R. ~
4. “dt’s ‘not going to shoot one person in the middle of 5th Avenue’. He’s going to let millions die to save Wall Street.” ~ Randy S. ~
5. “Beto is still a leader and an example of what Texas is increasingly voting into office. Compassionate leadership and the largest D majority and growing. ~ Felipe L. ~
6. “I alone can fix it.” “I take no responsibility.” ~ Donald Trump ~
‘Toon: My hope is that after the election there will be many fewer GOP reps, especially the crazies.
Jentoon: Not familiar with her, but she puts it so succinctly!
Covid- Louisiana is booming!
DK: Don Mihalek is amazed about the Nazi focus at a time like this? This crap is their bread and butter! One could even say that they are obsessed with this sort of drivel-driven thinking! Did I say “Could?” Ha!
New Yorker: Gee, does Andy think that Dumpy is only concerned with himself? Orangeya wondering where he got that idea?
MSNBC: Easter? Filling churches? THAT is why Louisiana is booming! I very much want to see Dumpy at a packed church, anytime, making believe he is a Christian, and rubbing elbows (no frotteurism), shaking hands; go for it baby! “Donald Trump thinks that….” No, Donald Trump does not think, does not care about suicides, he just wants things to look rosy for his presumed re-election. And, he will come up with any BS that would seem to him to nudge people to do things that will aid that outcome.
BFTP: I always loved that song. Time has come to RESIST!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hi Pat: And to whom can Lindsey Graham ever give “sound advice?” Hillary’s comment is precious!!
Hope you hear from your Oncologist SOON WRT your pain meds.
Don’t feel bad WRT “rattling her cage”.
Trust me: ALL the Oncologists I have ever worked w/ do NOT want their patients in needless pain!
It’s really counterproductive to therapy.
Cartoon: Glad we have sense to read through these fake fools.
Jen Sorenson Cartoon: Yep, sure shows/speaks truth.
TVU: We’ve jumped 55 cases here.
DK: Despicable.
TNY: Blows me away seeing tRump’s orange face, plus his raccoon eyes. Such a joke.
MSNBC: Maybe he’s hoping the Easter bunny is coming too. Speaking like COVID-19 is going to disappear.
BFTP: I too remember the song.
Hope you finally got a call from your Oncologist. I pray that she got something called in for your pain.
Take care. Thanks TomCat
I hope your pain meds arrive before the weekend, TonCat.
Cartoon: No, they don’t. Not even close.
Update: China is only 10,000+ ahead, America is gaining fast. Soon Trump can make his victory lap.
DK: “It’s just sad that that’s their focus at a time of crisis in the nation.” Sad? Hitler would be proud of them.
TNY: I think spray tan is really the only thing Trump would worry about. Apart from his millions, of course.
MSNBC: Trump’s behaviour should enrage Americans, instead his ratings are on the rise. He can say just about anything now, can’t he? Americans are not going to take to the streets any time soon, are they?
It’s bad, really bad and the rest of the world apparently see how bad it is, even when they have their own COVID-19 fight on their hands: America is in the calm before a storm that could kill millions and reshape the world order.
BFTP: Didn’t blast for me, I’ve never heard it before.
Thanks and painful Hugs to all.
For an update on my meds, please see today’s Open Thread.