Oct 052020
 

It’s a busy day here in the CatBox.  Diana is coming this morning to check on me, so as long as I have to be up, here is a full Open Thread.  Tomorrow please expect only a minimal Personal Update.  I go to the hospital tomorrow afternoon for my next infusion.  I’ll take the TriMet Lift Bus to the Hospital.  WWWendy will get me home between 6:00 and 6:30, after which we have a full WWWendy day to do.  Therefore it’s likely that I’ll be too tired on Wednesday to do much then either.  Oh God, it’s Monday!

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:14 (average 5:00).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Cartoon:

Trump* Virus Update:

1005TrumpVirusMap

US Cases: 7,639,211
US Deaths: 214,635
Plus all the Trump*/GOP plague murders Republicans are hiding from us

Short Takes:

From Alternet: The case for Medicare for All was once again made by the consequences of the coronavirus pandemic, Sen. Ed Markey tweeted on Sunday, after Republican politicians were able to check themselves into hospitals shortly after announcing they had tested positive for Covid-19.

Markey noted that throughout the coronavirus pandemic, in which more than 7.4 million cases have been detected and more than 209,000 people in the U.S. have died, people have attempted to get care at hospitals after testing positive and showing worsening symptoms, only to be turned away and “told only to come back when they could not breathe.”

“Now politicians are checking into hospitals as a ‘precaution.’ Healthcare should be a right, not a privilege,” Markey wrote. “We need Medicare for All.”

The senator’s statement came a day after former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, a member of the president’s debate prep team this past week, announced he was checking himself into Morristown Medical Center after testing positive on Saturday.

“While I am feeling good and only have mild symptoms, due to my history of asthma we decided this is an important precautionary measure,” Christie tweeted.

This is so typical of RepubliCare, the Republican replacement for ObamaCare. Rich Republicans get care. The rest of us get the RepubliCare Death Benefit. We get to die.  RESIST!!

From YouTube (Parody Project Channel): END OF THE WORLD – a Parody

 

Wonderful, as always, Don! Unless Trump* and the entire Republican Reich are relegated to oblivion, it will be the end of the world… period!  RESIST!!

From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): Questions And Confusion Remain Over Trump’s Health

 

I have no doubt that if Trump* virus kills criminal Fuhrer Trump*, his doctors, the White House staff, and Trump* will all lie about it.  RESIST!!

From YouTube (a blast from the past): Slow Ride- Foghat (Full Version)

 

Ah… the memories! Protest like the 60s!  RESIST!!

Vote Blue No Matter Who Top to Bottom!!

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Video Thread 10/4/2020

 Posted by at 2:31 pm  Politics
Oct 042020
 


From the Biden campaign (hanky alert)

I’ve been waiting for this – Jim Carrey as Joe.  And Maya Rudolph as Kamala.

Slow otherwise, so here …

Beau on bothsiderism. And common sense. And IMO all the stronger for being in some ways weak.

I’m pretty sure everyone here is well aware of this. But not everyone is. And let me be quick to say that we will not need just a victory lap but also a break of some kind. But only a break.

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Video Thread 10/3/2020

 Posted by at 2:17 pm  Politics
Oct 032020
 


From the Biden campaign

Eleven Films – I put CC on but so much of what’s not already on the screen is just noise…

Beau on why we should hope Trump* survives at least through November 3rd.

Texas today – elsewhere tomorrow. The ink reference is to Iraq.

There are other readings of this available. The backstory seems all too appropriate. You can argue whether to change it to orange or leave it as red. (It’s longish.  If you want to just read it, it’s here.)

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Video Thread 10/2/2020

 Posted by at 3:06 pm  Politics
Oct 022020
 


From the Biden Campaign

Meidas Touch

Really American has two …

The Lincoln Project

This one is 13+ minutes, and it’s about Standing Rock

Beau makes a very good point here. It isn’t easy to think like a stupid person if you aren’t one, but we need to be able to.

RBG Petitions update –
Democratic Conservation Alliance
Fight for Reform (updated)

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Video Thread 10/1/2020

 Posted by at 1:56 pm  Politics
Oct 012020
 

Last month was one of the longest years of my life  Welcome to October.

Meidas Touch (Rudy)

Robert Reich on the SCOTUS

Barack Obama from “The Shade Room” (I tried to add CC but it requires going through Google)

Really American – “Lindsey for Biden” – very cleverly done

Just for fun – the lyrics are in the score and I doubt CC could keep up with them.

Here is a link to a page where you can select your state and bring up a summary of state law on unauthorized private militias (and what to do if you run into one while voting.)

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Video Thread 9/29/2020

 Posted by at 3:55 pm  Politics
Sep 292020
 


Very busy video day, and one is long.

American Bridge (There are also 2 shorter versiona0

Meidas Touch with Bette Midler

Sound and Fury Messaging for the Democratic Coalition

VoteVets in cooperaton with LincolnProject – Sully

This is from the BBC and it is 22 minutes long, but it the complete reposrt on one huge aspect of the facebook wars from 2016. One way too successful aspect.

Beau is usually very careful – sometimes IMO too careful – not to castigate an entire specific party. That’s gone here, and good job.

Petitions update –
Congressional Black Caucus
Daily Kos (if you have one or more Dem Senators)

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Sep 282020
 


American Bridge – With all the attention on taxes, I’m glad someone remembers the Court.

Don Winslow – Good take on taxes

Really American – It would be news to the Brits if we were actually speaking English, as opposed to American “English.”

The Lincoln Project has a Spanish-language ad up on CoViD-19 here.

Beau is dripping with irony in this one, and it’s very funny – or would be if it weren’t such a serious issue.

Supreme Court petitions – we are now getting the ones whoch name the nominee.

Stop Republicans
Fight for Reform

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