Video Thread 12/12/2020

Posted by Joanne Dixon at 1:13 pm Open Thread, Politics

Dec 122020

Now This News – CoViD reality

Now This News – I saw the tweet thread – but seeing and hearing her is better.

The Lincoln Project – Mitch’s Tears

Steve Schmidt on MSNBC (Nicolle Wallace). Not pretty. But real.

At least THIS is delightful.

Beau – Term Limits. I was opposed to term limits already, but he has some good reasons to be opposed I never even thought of.

Keith from yesterday – and he’s right, dammit.

Jesus Christ the Apple Tree (18th century English poem set by Elizabeth Poston between 1961 and 1967

Open Thread – 12/4/2020

Posted by TomCat at 11:13 am Open Thread, Personal, Politics

Dec 042020

It’s a tired day here in the CatBox. WWWendy and I got everything done yesterday, and I did get a morning nap this morning. However, I’m already ready for another. I had a cheeseburger and eggs for breakfast. Tomorrow please expect no more than a Personal Update from me. It’s a WWWendy day to destink the TomCat, cook and do chores. TGIF!!

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:16 (average 4:59). To do it, click here. How dis you do?

Cartoon:

Short Takes:

From NY Times: In his urgent demand on Monday that President Trump condemn his angry supporters who are threatening workers and officials overseeing the 2020 vote, a Georgia elections official focused on an animated image of a hanging noose that had been sent to a young voting-machine technician.

“It’s just wrong,” the official, Gabriel Sterling, a Republican, said at a news conference. “I can’t begin to explain the level of anger I have over this.”

But the technician in Georgia is not alone. Far from it.

Across the nation, election officials and their staff have been bombarded in recent weeks with emails, telephone calls and letters brimming with menace and threats of violence, the result of their service in a presidential election in which the defeated candidate’s most ardent followers have refused to accept the results.

There is a single word that best describes such heinous threats of violence to intimidate honest workers and keep them from doing their jobs: Republican! RESIST!!

From NPR: President-elect Joe Biden on Thursday said he has asked the nation’s top infectious disease expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci, to become his chief medical adviser and said he plans to call on Americans to wear masks for the first 100 days of his administration.

In an interview with CNN, Biden said he’ll urge Americans to wear masks starting Jan. 20 to reduce the spread of the coronavirus. Biden said he would use his authority to require masks in federal buildings and on interstate transportation.

“Just 100 days to mask, not forever, 100 days. And I think we’ll see a significant reduction,” Biden said.

I think Fauci is an excellent choice. If super-spreader Trump* had followed his advice, America would be far better off. 100 days of masks is just the beginning of policies Biden should implement. Another is extensive contact tracing. RESIST!!

From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): Canadian Premier Makes Emotional Holiday Plea

Kudos to Brian Pailister. The US needs a Grinch like him in charge of every state. RESIST!!

From YouTube (CNN Channel): These Trump supporters say big tech is biased. Here’s why they’re on Parler [Twitter for GOP Sheeple]

A commenter on YouTube Said it best. The universe is made of protons neutrons, electrons and morons. To that I add, on Parler the morons are Sheeple whose intelligence echoes BAAA-A-A-A-A-AAADLY!! RESIST!!

From YouTube (a blast for the planet): The Yardbirds – Shapes Of Things

This will be the last in the BFTP series. The Yardbirds knew the shape of things to come many years ago. Is it too late to change it? RESIST!!

46 Days Until the Big FLUSH!!

Open Thread – 11/19/2020

Posted by TomCat at 11:20 am Open Thread, Personal, Politics

Nov 192020

It’s a busy day here in the CatBox as Store to Door is bringing a double-order of groceries since they will be closed next week for Thanksgiving. I have a lot to unpack and put away. Tomorrow, please expect no more than Personal Update. It’s a full WWWendy day, and we have much to do. I hope you all have a fine day.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:16 (average 4:58). To do it, click here. How did you do?

Cartoon:

Short Takes:

From Daily Kos: Texas Rep. Louie Gohmert has made quite a name for himself around these parts and others. Now the House Republican is jumping with both feet into suggesting that, well, maybe if Donald Trump didn’t win the election maybe it’s time for his Republican voters to rise up and end American democracy, period.

As reported by the Dallas Morning News, Gohmert claimed to a “Million MAGA March” audience near the White House that “this was a cheated election and we can’t let it stand.” He spoke of the American revolution and the Egyptian uprising: “They rose up though all over Egypt, and as a result of the people rising up in the greatest numbers in history,” he said, and “if they can do that there, think of what we can do here.”

And in perhaps what passed for an acknowledgement that an armed coup by red hat-wearing bozos would be, ahem, unpopular with the general public, Gohmert was quick to point out that “only about 30%” of American colonists supported that previous revolution. You don’t need a majority in these matters, after all. You just need enough ammunition.

I’m not at all surprised that the guilty party is Louie “Go Go Goose Step” Gomerde. However, it’s hard to find a Republican that would not plug into GOP Nazism. RESIST!!

From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): Ex-Pres. Trump On Trial? Why It’s Not Biden’s Call

I fully agree. Biden should have nothing to do with it, one way or the other. His job, with respect to DOJ, is to provide them the means to do their job. That’s ALL! RESIST!!

From YouTube (a blast of unity): The Briar Rose Ramblers – “We Are One” (Live in a Living Room, 11-29-2015)

Amen! We are one! As such, those who would divide us, the Republican Reich, are against us all! RESIST!!

61 Days Until the Big FLUSH!!

Open Thread – 10/30/2020

Posted by TomCat at 10:43 am Open Thread, Personal, Politics

Oct 302020

It’s a tired day here in the CatBox. My Republicosis last night was severe enough that I had to get up, pop on George, and make the mad dash three times. Sadly, ice cream before bed was a bad idea. I’m waiting for Diana to come. She is due momentarily. Tomorrow I hope to post a series of election maps. TGIF! (Diana just came.)

Jug Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 5:29 (average 9:21). To do it, click here. How did you do?

Cartoon:

Trump* Virus Update:

Click for more maps

US Cases: 9,220,428
US Deaths: 234,262
Plus all Trump*/GOP plague murders Republicans are hiding

Short Takes:

From Daily Kos: According to a just-released study, the risk of interference in the coming election by far-right “Patriot” militiamen heavily aligned with Donald Trump is not only real, it’s growing intense in over half the states in the nation, with five states in particular likely to see disruptive behavior and perhaps violence: Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Oregon.

Compiled by the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED), the study gathered and examined “the latest data on right-wing militia organizations across the country, identifying the most active groups and mapping the locations most likely to experience heightened militia activity before, during, and after the election.” What it found should send up warning flares to officials at all levels concerned about election security, as well as among law enforcement officers who seem to be currently preoccupied with election-related civic violence coming from the left.

Pennsylvania is the tipping-point battleground state that should give Joe Biden his 270th electoral vote, and Republicans are doing all they can to suppress the vote. No matter where you live, click here to volunteer for a virtual get-out-the-vote activity in Pennsylvania.

As strongly as I support GOTV activity, I urge lefties to avoid confrontations with Republican Nazis. Every time one unarmed left winger defends herself or himself against 50 heavily armed Republican Nazi Gestapo, it will be reported as a left-wing assault. RESIST!!

From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): Jocelyn: Voters Have Right To Cast Ballot ‘Free From Intimidation And Harassment’

The notion that Republican Ammosexuals are allowed to display their guns at a polling place boggles my mind. The best weapons for self defense are ballots, not bullets! RESIST!!

From YouTube (CNN Channel): They say they are married to ‘deplorables’. So they formed a support group

God! Those poor women! Can you imagine the horror of being married to a deplorable Ammosexual idiot who measures penis size in caliber? RESIST!!

From YouTube (a blast from the past): The Beatles – Here Comes The Sun (2019 Mix)

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

Vote Blue No Matter Who Top to Bottom!!

Open Thread – 9/27/2020

Posted by TomCat at 10:29 am Open Thread, Personal, Politics

Sep 272020

It’s a very busy WWWendy day here in the CatBox. This is my only article today. Tomorrow I have my Trump* virus test, and Diana should be here slightly after I get home, so please expect no more than a Personal Update tomorrow. This Sunday, may the Lord keep Resident Donald Trump*… from destroying the country before we can put him in a cell.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:10 (average 4:35). To do it, click here. How did you do?

Cartoon:

Trump* Virus Update:

0927TrumpVirusMap

Click for interactive maps and charts

US Cases: 7,290,347
US Deaths: 209,208
Plus all the Trump* virus murders Republicans are hiding from us

Short Takes:

From Crooks and Liars: A hair-raising article in Bellingcat details what has been learned from chat logs of the Patriot Coalition of Oregon, thanks to an Antifa infiltrator. Journalists Robert Evans and Jason Wilson describe the group as part of a growing network “increasingly organizing around direct physical confrontations with leftist protesters in Portland and other American cities.”

The leaked chat logs appear to reveal that some members of the Patriot Coalition have taken part in multiple violent rallies throughout the summer, and that they claim to have operated a series of vigilante patrols and checkpoints during the Oregon wildfires. While the chats appear to show they work and fight alongside members of extremist groups like the Proud Boys, American Wolf and 1776 2.0, the Patriot Coalition seems to have no coherent ideology beyond a desire to violently confront leftists in the name of the police and President Trump. A user identified as Paige summed up the general feelings of the group in a post made ahead of a what turned out to be a bloody ‘Back the Blue’ rally on August 22nd in Portland when she wrote: “I’m waiting for the presidential go to start open firing.”

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Patriot Coalition members regularly declare Democratic politicians to be “Antifa” and thus fair targets for violence.

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Discussions of violence in the Patriot Coalition group chat are not hypothetical. While some individuals are likely grandstanding, the chat logs show members gearing up for a number of events where very real violence occurred.

On August 22nd more than 300 heavily armed right-wing demonstrators rallied in downtown Portland for what was, nominally, a rally supporting the police. Yet the situation quickly degenerated into a mass brawl, with numerous injuries (including to one of the authors of this article).

Those events reflected the plans that Patriot Coalition had made. In the lead up, members discussed acquiring paintball guns and freezing their ammunition for maximum damage.

One of the many, many horrifying comments obtained from the group reads, “The only real way to end it is start shooting everyone of them. Fists and pepper spray are fun but don’t get the job done. I think sooner or later it’s coming. Our governor and the coward mayor of Portland will let it go on till November. If we don’t take care of it ourselves. Then there’s the whole prison thing I don’t quite like. So your damned if do damned if you don’t.”

Click through. The rest is too important to miss. What these Republican terrorists are doing in my town today, they shall do in your town tomorrow. RESIST!!

From YouTube (Elizabeth Warren Channel): Elizabeth Warren Responds to Donald Trump’s Supreme Court Pick

Liz could not be more spot-on. Every Republican in power is one Republican too many! RESIST!!

From YouTube (a blast from the past): Lynyrd Skynyrd – Sweet Home Alabama

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

Vote Blue No Matter Who Top to Bottom!!

Open Thread – 9/8/2020

Posted by TomCat at 11:51 am Open Thread, Personal, Politics

Sep 082020

It’s a hectic day here in the CatBox. I have the AC working, but I have to babysit it. I lost the washer in my portable O₂ unit, and Providence Medical Equipment will deliver one this moaning. I’ll be scarce for the next few days. Please expect no more than a daily Personal Update before Monday. Tomorrow I have to take the TriMet Lift Bus to to the hospital for my second infusion in 90°+ weather. Because of WWWendy’s work schedule, I had to schedule the appointment for 3:20 PM. I’ll nap during the morning. WWWendy will pick me up at 5:30. When we get home at around 6:00 PM, we still have a whole normal WWWendy day to do. I’ll be exhausted and will get to bed way late. I may be too worn out to do more Thursday. Friday Deborah, the Providence Home Health doctor is coming for a routine visit. Saturday is a morning WWWendy day. Sunday I’m meeting with several prison volunteer coworkers and former prisoners on Zoom. If I can do more, I will, but I’ll be busier than a long-tail TomCat in a rocking chair showroom. Tuesday is flush your Republicans day. Flush fast. They’re sneaky as hell. Oh God, it’s Tuesday!

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:12 (average 5:17). To do it, click here. How did you do?

Cartoons:

Trump* Virus Update:

Click for interactive map

US Cases: 6,486,426
US Deaths: 193,587
Plus thousands of GOP plague murder victims Republicans are hiding from us

Short Takes:

From NY Times: Just before hundreds of far-right activists recently tried to storm the German Parliament, one of their leaders revved up the crowd by conjuring President Trump.

“Trump is in Berlin!” the woman shouted from a small stage, as if to dedicate the imminent charge to him.

She was so convincing that several groups of far-right activists later showed up at the American Embassy and demanded an audience with Mr. Trump. “We know he’s in there!” they insisted.

Mr. Trump was neither in the embassy nor in Germany that day — and yet there he was. His face was emblazoned on banners, T-shirts and even on Germany’s pre-1918 imperial flag, popular with neo-Nazis in the crowd of 50,000 who had come to protest Germany’s pandemic restrictions. His name was invoked by many with messianic zeal.

It was only the latest evidence that Mr. Trump is emerging as a kind of cult figure in Germany’s increasingly varied far-right scene.

As much as the Republican Reich tries to claim that Trump* is not a Nazi, even foreign Nazis know who their Fuhrer is! RESIST!!

From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): Study: 93% Of Protests In The U.S. This Summer Were Peaceful

Left wing protests are generally more peaceful than those of Republican Ammosexuals. Nevertheless, I agree that there are violent wing nuts on both sides. The difference is that that the lefties reject our wing nuts and condemn their violence. The Republican Reich love and accept their wing nuts and applaud, encourage, and cultivate their violence. RESIST!!

From YouTube (a blast of protest): I Approve This Message

“Change comes from here.” Amen! I am a dying activist, and I approve this message. Protest like the 60s! RESIST!!

Vote Blue No Matter Who Top to Bottom!!

Open Thread – 9/5/2020

Posted by TomCat at 12:10 pm Open Thread, Personal, Politics

Sep 052020

It’s a hectic Saturday here in the CatBox. I got up a half an hour early this morning, so I could get a head start and a longer morning map. So much for the best laid plans of mice and men…, and far too often, of Puddy Tats. A hacker must have broken into the Bluehost server and hacked the email PW of the PP admin email account. I know it could not have come from my computer, because I have never sent email from admin. Incoming admin email auto-forwards to my tomcat PP email account. The hacker then set up a SPAM bot to to send Republican propaganda from PP. It quickly started failing due to our 250/hour sent-email limit, so for each failed piece of SPAM, admin forwarded a mailer-daemon notice to my tomcat account. I woke up to find over 4,500 notices in my inbox. I fixed the problem by changing the admin PW, but between figuring that out and cleaning up the mess, it took me over two hours. Instead of a long nap, I got a very short nap, and I’m still quite a bit late. If you sent me email that got lost in the mess, please resend it. Tomorrow is a WWWendy in the morning day, so please expect no more than a Personal Update from me. Please stay safe in holiday traffic. Have a great weekend.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:35 (average 5:41). To so it, click here. How did you do?

Cartoon:

Trump* Virus Update:

0905TrumpVirusMap

US Cases: 6,392,303
US Deaths: 192,168
Plus thousands of GOP plague murder victims Republicans are hiding from us

Short Takes:

From TPM: White supremacists pose the most serious terror threat to the United States, according to a draft report from the Department of Homeland Security.

Three different drafts of the report obtained by Politico characterize the threat from white supremacists as the deadliest domestic terror threat in the United States.

All three documents also report that 2019 was the deadliest year for domestic violent extremists since the Oklahoma City Bombing in 1995.

The documents indicate that “lone offenders” and “small cells of individuals” are increasingly joining up with people who share their ideologies and “will pose the primary terrorist threat to the United States.”

“Among these groups, we assess that white supremacist extremists – who increasingly are networking with likeminded persons abroad – will pose the most persistent and lethal threat,” the report indicates.

Here, we already know that, but far to many don’t. TELL THEM! RESIST!!

From YouTube (Liberal Redneck Channel): Liberal Redneck – QAnonsense

I have to disagree with Trae. Calling Republican QAnon conspiracy believers “dumb shits” is far too insulting to dumb shits. RESIST!!

From YouTube (a blast of protest): Creedence Clearwater Revival – Fortunate Son

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

Vote Blue No Matter Who Top to Bottom!!

Open Thread – 9/1/2020

Posted by TomCat at 10:49 am Open Thread, Personal, Politics

Sep 012020

It’s a tired busy day here in the CatBox. Yesterday Diana determined that sores in my butt crack and under my left butt cheek are a fungus infection. I have decided to forego posting pics. I have the Lotrimin I need to treat it. She’s coming back Thursday to recheck it. I think my esophageal tumor is getting worse, as I have to eat even more slowly, and I can drink water only two swallows at once instead of my usual five. WWWendy came. In addition to her routine tasks, she borrowed a plunger at the front desk and unplugged the throne. I bought a plunger on Amazon, and it arrives this week. She also cleared a bad paper jam in my color laser printer. I ate late, got to bed late, overslept this morning, and am trying not to doze off now. Tuesday is flush your Republicans day, even if you need a plunger, when they misbehave.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:20 (average 5:47). To do it, click here. How did you do?

Cartoon:

Trump* Virus Update:

US Cases: 6,214,690
US Deaths: 187,839
Plus thousands of GOP plague murder victims Republicans are hiding from us

Short Takes:

From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): Sharpton: Trump’s Defense Of Wisconsin Shooter “The Epitome Of An Insult” To Americans

That is sickening. Even though the mayor asked him to stay away, criminal Fuhrer Trump* is going to Kenosha today. Will his “visit” spread more Trump* virus, more GOP violence, or both? RESIST!!

From YouTube (TYT Channel): Police Stop BLM Medic From Helping Shooting Victim

Isn’t it ironic that the people the Republican Reich accuse of committing this murder were the ones trying to help him? Sadly, as a Portland resident, I know this is all to typical of Portland Police. There are some very fine officers here, but far to many “serve and protect” only criminal Fuhrer Trump* and the Republican Reich, including Republican terrorists. I have now seen video of the shooting. The victim, or someone near him, popped a can of mace and the shots came from within the cloud. Could it be that a Republican Ammosexual thought left-wing protestors were macing him and opened fire? RESIST!!

From YouTube (a blast of protest): The Beatles – Revolution

This could not be more appropriate for today! Kudos to peaceful left-wing protesters! RESIST!!

Vote Blue No Matter Who Top to Bottom!!

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