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Open Thread–7/18/2020

 Posted by at 11:38 am  Open Thread, Personal, Politics
Jul 182020
 

It’s a busy day here in the CatBox, and I’m running behind after thirty minutes of filling my throne with recalcitrant Republicans.  Tomorrow please expert no more than a Personal Update or an Open Thread.  WWKristin is filling in for WWWendy.  Have a great weekend, and flush your Republicans!

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 2:49 (average 4:19).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Cartoon:

Trump* Virus Map:

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US Cases: 3,771,101
US Deaths: 142,080

Short Takes:

From The New Yorker: Alleging that it “has treated me very unfairly,” Donald J. Trump announced on Friday that he is suing the coronavirus.

“This is a very nasty virus, and by that I mean it has been nasty to me personally,” Trump told reporters. “I never thought that there could be anything more terrible than Jim Acosta, but the coronavirus is like an invisible Jim Acosta.”

Offering a preview of his lawsuit, Trump said that he was accusing the coronavirus of meddling in the 2020 election.

“You look at the numbers and, every time the virus’s numbers go up, my numbers go down,” he said. “This virus is trying to rig the election for Sleepy Joe.”

Dang, Andy! If criminal Fuhrer Trump* is so afraid for his political future, why didn’t he take the needed steps to control Trump* virus in the beginning? That it’s making him even more distasteful to voters is the only good thing about his Republican plague!  RESIST!!

From YouTube (CNN Channel): Ruth Bader Ginsburg announces cancer recurrence

Please remember RBG in your thoughts, wishes, prayers, or however you address the infinite. She a bastion of freedom, and we need her. Furthermore, God forbid that criminal Fuhrer Trump* should get to appoint another Fascist Republican Injustice to SCROTUS (Republican anti-Constitutional VD)!  RESIST!!

From YouTube (a blast from labor): I’m Sticking With the Union

Except for Republican police unions, support labor!  RESIST!!

Vote Blue No Matter Who Top to Bottom!!

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Personal Update–7/17/2020

 Posted by at 9:58 am  Open Thread, Personal, Politics
Jul 172020
 

It’s a crazy day here in the CatBox.  My cable service went down for about three hours this morning, negating my ability to do research.  Then my palliative care nurse came to change my patch.  I’ll be back in the saddle tomorrow, and off on Sunday.  TGIF!

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 5:29 (average 8:31).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Cartoon:

Trump* Virus Update:

0717TrumpVirusMap

US Cases: 3,698,358
US Deaths: 141,150

RESIST!!

Vote Blue No Matter Who Top to Bottom!!

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Samantha Bee from 7/15

 Posted by at 11:03 am  Politics
Jul 162020
 

It’s that time of week again, and here are four fine video clips from Sam’s show last night.  Enjoy!!

The Dangerous Spread of Mask Hysteria Pt. 1

The Dangerous Spread of Mask Hysteria Pt. 2

99% of the idiots who suffer from mask hysteria have something in common. They are Republican Sheeple.

The Homophobic History of Blood Donation Pt. 1

The Homophobic History of Blood Donation Pt. 2

Continuing the restrictions against gay men donating blood is nothing more than Republicans punishing the entire nation.  They are trying to turn us against the LGBTQ community. What hateful hypocrites!

Thanks Sam!

RESIST!!

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Open Thread–7/16/2020

 Posted by at 11:02 am  Open Thread, Personal, Politics
Jul 162020
 

It’s a busy muggy day here in the CatBox.  My back is painful today.  Store to Door should come with my groceries between 11 AM and 1 PM.  By now WWWendy is on a plane.  Her plans changed, and she’s going to CO instead of CA.  JD, you ought to give her a call.  She’ll land around 1 PM your time.  Everyone, please keep her in your thoughts and and prayers.  If you find yourself in an elevator with a Republican, please fart.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 2:51 (average 4:37).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Cartoon:

Trump* Virus Update:

0716TrumpVirusMap

Map Reference: click through for interactive map

US Cases: 3,618,739
US Deaths: 140,185

Short Takes:

From The New Yorker: Trying out a new line of attack against the former Vice-President, Donald Trump said on Wednesday that Joe Biden could never have a pandemic as big as his.

“Biden was Vice-President for eight years and had all the time in the world to have a pandemic,” Trump said. “Where was his pandemic?”

By contrast, Trump asserted, “In just a few months, I’ve built the biggest pandemic this country has seen in a hundred years.”

“People are going to be talking about my pandemic for generations to come,” Trump said. “What did Biden ever have? Swine flu? What a joke.”

Dang, Andy! Don’t do that! Portraying criminal Fuhrer Trump* telling the truth about the severity of his plague is enough to make someone throw up!  RESIST!!

From Alternet: …In the context of what we’ve been hearing from the Trump administration—or rather what we’ve not been hearing—I have to think that Donald Trump and his billionaire sycophant, Betsy DeVos, our current Secretary of Education, have absolutely no clue about what is metastasizing in the fevered swamps of American parents of school-age children right now in this country, or its potential to explode in a wave of electoral anger that could dwarf what occurred to the Republican Party in 2018.

I’m talking about a thermonuclear, cataclysmic, event of raw, unbridled voter fury. I’m talking about an existential, political wipe-out of Biblical proportions. A tsunami, if you will.

The most generous characterization of the Trump administration’s approach towards the situation facing our public schools in less than two months—six weeks or less, in fact, for many schools, including ones in Texas– is one of willful blindness, suggestive of an astonishing degree of deliberate, magical thinking– that imagines an idyllic sequence of cause and effect, where these schools will miraculously reopen, filled with rows of smiling teens, pre-teens,  elementary schoolers and their teachers, happy to share and mingle in their wondrous educational experience in the face of this horrific and unprecedented health crisis…

I wish Trump* and DeVos would back down for the sake of the families they are about to murder, but they won’t back down. Let that tsunami wipe the Republican Party out of existence!  RESIST!!

From YouTube (a blast from Labor): Union Maid

Except for police unions, support labor!  RESIST!!

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Fuhrer Trump* Goes Bat Shit!

 Posted by at 11:06 am  Politics
Jul 152020
 

Do you remember Michelle Bachmann, aka Bat Shit Bachmann?  Michelle is about to lose her title.  Yesterday in an unethical campaign event, masquerading as a news conference, in the Rose Garden, criminal Fuhrer Trump* made Michelle green with envy by giving all present an unforgettable demonstration of Bat Shit!

TRUMP CHINA

President Donald Trump clearly misses holding rallies filled with thousands of his fawning supporters hanging on his every self-aggrandizing word. So on Tuesday, at a press event ostensibly staged to discuss his new executive order withdrawing recognition of Hong Kong as independent from China, he decided to indulge himself by launching into a meandering campaign-style monologue for the reporters in attendance.

He leaped from topic to topic, sometimes in a single run-on sentence, and often failed to complete thought. He took aim at his election opponent, former Vice President Joe Biden, attacking a laundry list of the Democrat’s policies that he twisted and distorted. Recalling a campaign theme he has long ignored, Trump called out Biden’s son, saying: “Where’s Hunter?”

And he returned to many of his favorite topics, such as immigration. He boasted of his relationship with Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and warned that a President Biden would tear down the wall he has started to build on parts of the U.S.-Mexico border.

“Probably never been a time when candidates are so different,” Trump said.

There was no consistent thread or argument to his ramblings, aside from his own supposed greatness. It was pure stream of consciousness, supplemented by factoids apparently printed on notes on his lectern. He claimed to be the defender of African Americans at one moment because he favors school choice, but then slipped into attacking low-income housing and saying he’d preserve the suburbs — an unsubtle code for protecting white neighborhoods… [emphasis added]

Inserted from <Alternet>

In the process of my research I came across a complete video of criminal Fuhrer Trump’s* diatribe.  Consider yourselves blessed that I am far too kind and compassionate to inflict that on you.  Instead, here is a description.

Trump Gives Subdued, Rambling Campaign-Style Speech In Rose Garden

He appears to be coming apart at the seams, and in the process, pulling the plug on both himself and the Republican Reich.  Pray that I’m right.

RESIST!!

 

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Open Thread–7/15/2020

 Posted by at 11:05 am  Open Thread, Personal, Politics
Jul 152020
 

It’s a muggy day here in the CatBox.  Kristin seemed quite nice, and she’ll do a fine job filling in for WWWendy.  She’ll be coming once, while WWWendy is away.  WWWendy returns your greetings and appreciates your good wishes.  Happy Hump Day!

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 2:52 (average 4:42).  To do it, click here.  How dis you do?

Cartoon:

Trump* Virus Update:

0715TrumpVirusMap

US Cases: 3,548,546
US Deaths: 139,189

Short Takes:

From Crooks and Liars: The Trump supporters who defaced a Black Lives Matter mural last week may not have to worry about rent for the next year, as they may gain jail accommodations courtesy of the county. The DA issued this press release:


Click through for more.  A year is not enough jail time for those racist Republican pigs!  RESIST!!

From YouTube (Robert Reich Channel): Corporate Hypocrisy on Racism


Of Course the Reich on the left, Robert Reich, is right. The Reich on the Right, the Republican Reich, was racist long before criminal Fuhrer Trump* arrived, and will still be racist long after we drag him, kicking and screaming, from the house he stole. These corporate $billionaires actually own the Republican Reich and have kept it in power, so they must also be the authors of Republican racism.   Remember, even anti-Trump* Republicans are just as Republican.  Unlike Trump*, they hide their hate and greed.  RESIST!!

From YouTube (a blast from Labor): Joan Baez- Bread and roses


Support Labor! RESIST!!

Vote Blue No Matter Who Top to Bottom!!

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Open Thread–7/14/2020

 Posted by at 8:02 am  Open Thread, Personal, Politics
Jul 142020
 

It’s a very busy day here in the CatBox.  WWWendy and her friend Kristin are coming to destink the foul TomCat, gelp with chores, and prepare a ton of goop.  This is my only article today.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 2:52 (average 4:59).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Cartoon:

Trump* Virus Update:

0714TrumpVirusMap

Map Reference: (click through for interactive map)

US Cases: 3,480,097
US Deaths: 138,273

Short Takes:

From Crooks and Liars: It’s really hard to muster much sympathy for people like these, people who stubbornly refuse to accept science and common sense and in the end work against the common good. Waldron voted in the majority against a countywide facemask mandate only last week.

I think that, when this Republican arrives in hell, he’s going to find a lot of stupid Republican Sheeple, who are furious at him!  RESIST!!

From YouTube (RWW Channel): Scott Lively Says Giving Women the Right to Vote Was a ‘Product of the Soviet Bolshevik Revolution’

Barf Bag Alert!!

If women are not barefoot, pregnant, and in the kitchen, they are not fulfilling the role Republican Supply-side Jesus intends for them.  Republican Supply-side Jesus is the false Jesus Republicans invented to justify their hate, greed and lies.  He is the exact opposite of the real Jesus  RESIST!!

From YouTube (a blast played at Woodstock): Ten Years After – I’m Going Home(Woodstock 1969 Concert), Mono-Mix from 1969 Cotillion LP recording.

Dedicated to all who were or wanted to be at Woodstock with me. Ah… the memories!  RESIST!!

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Trump’s* Gestapo Injure Peaceful Portland Protestor

 Posted by at 10:30 am  Politics
Jul 132020
 

The State of Oregon and the City of Portland have been cracking down on the violent misconduct by our Republican dominated police department, so criminal Fuhrer Trump* sent us his own gestapo to federalize abuse of power by police.

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Federal law enforcement shot and severely injured a protester Saturday night during demonstrations in front of the federal courthouse in downtown Portland.

Donavan LaBella, 26, was shot in the head by what friends and witnesses said was an impact munition.

Videos of the incident posted online brought swift condemnation from some local leaders, including both of Oregon’s U.S. Senators, who demanded answers from the federal government, and City Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty, who asked that federal troops leave Portland immediately.

Mayor Ted Wheeler, in a statement released just before 9 p.m. Sunday, called on federal law enforcement to abide by the same standards as Portland officers in using less-lethal weapons against protesters.

In one video, LaBella is seen pushing a canister of smoke or tear gas away from his feet across the street from the Mark O. Hatfield federal courthouse. Moments later, LaBella returns to holding a speaker over his head with both hands. Shots of impact munitions can be heard, and LaBella collapses to the ground, dropping the speaker…

Inserted from <OPB>

I have both videos of the incident.  They are graphic.

* Graphic * Portland, Or. – US Marshals fire tear gas striking BLM protester in the head.

Note that neither Donovan LaBella nor the other protestors did anything to threaten Trump’s* Republican Nazi pigs in any way.  This is simply a criminal assault by Republican gestapo against citizens exercising their right to protest.

RESIST!!

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