{"id":39327,"date":"2020-03-22T09:19:31","date_gmt":"2020-03-22T16:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=39327"},"modified":"2020-03-22T09:19:31","modified_gmt":"2020-03-22T16:19:31","slug":"open-thread-3-22-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/03\/22\/open-thread-3-22-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;3\/22\/2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It\u2019s a bush day here in the CatBox.&nbsp; I got a late start, because I overslept.&nbsp; WWWendy is in the way.&nbsp; I will probably have to finish this after my shower.&nbsp; This is my only article today.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today\u2019s took me 3:09 (average e4:33).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2020-03-22-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">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\" style=\"border: 0px currentcolor; border-image: none; background-image: none;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/0322Cartoon.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Trump* Virus Update<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" title=\"0322TrumpVirus\" style=\"border: 0px currentcolor; border-image: none; display: inline; background-image: none;\" alt=\"0322TrumpVirus\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/0322TrumpVirus.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/font><\/p>\n<h6><font color=\"#0000ff\">Trump* virus Cases: 26,959<\/font><\/h6>\n<h6><font color=\"#0000ff\">Deaths: 349<\/font><\/h6>\n<h6><font color=\"#0000ff\">Recovered: 178<\/font><\/h6>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"350\" title=\"0321TrumpVirusTests\" style=\"border: 0px currentcolor; border-image: none; display: inline; background-image: none;\" alt=\"0321TrumpVirusTests\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/0321TrumpVirusTests-1.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xKNMWfHmUyI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (Hat-Tip <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/2020\/03\/shocking-video-captures-trump-supporter-buying-dollar-tree-store-out-of-toilet-paper-during-coronavirus-crisis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alternet<\/a>): <font color=\"#000000\">Shocking video captures Trump supporter buying Dollar Tree store out of toilet paper<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/xKNMWfHmUyI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Is this greedy bitch typical of the Republican Reich or what? <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/forty-per-cent-of-nations-toilet-paper-found-in-richard-burrs-garage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <font color=\"#000000\">In a new controversy ensnaring the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, forty per cent of the nation\u2019s toilet-paper supply has been found in Senator Richard Burr\u2019s garage.<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p>The discovery of the coveted paper products occurred on Saturday morning, when Burr, who had been checking stock quotes on his phone, accidentally leaned against his garage-door opener.<\/p>\n<p>The garage immediately disgorged the priceless cache of toilet paper, which tumbled into the street and snarled traffic for three blocks.<\/p>\n<p>Picking through the mess, a sharp-eyed neighbor of Burr\u2019s found a Costco receipt indicating that the senator had purchased the toilet paper in early January, shortly after he received classified information about the potential scope of the covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Andy, Burr has a reasonable excuse. Most of us have small assholes, but Republicans&#8217; assholes extend from the crowns of their heads to the soles of their feet and are both internal and external. That&#8217;s a lot to wipe!&nbsp; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cD0IDolKXK8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/CNN\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CNN Channel<\/a>): <font color=\"#000000\">Ex-Labor secretary: Bail out families, not corporations<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/cD0IDolKXK8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Of course the Reich on the left, Robert Reich is right. The Reich on the right, the evil Republican Reich, wants to bail out criminal corporations. Bail out people. Corporations are NOT people!&nbsp; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8ppU_XBruB4&amp;list=PLs5nLtKbGBVOZBCzgXxcN9fyCz6sQ1fab&amp;index=137&amp;t=0s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (a blast from the past): <font color=\"#000000\">THE WHO &#8211; I Can See For Miles (1969)<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/8ppU_XBruB4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Ah\u2026 the memories!&nbsp; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><font color=\"#0000ff\" style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Vote Blue No Matter Who Top to Bottom!!<\/font><\/h1>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s a bush day here in the CatBox.&nbsp; I got a late start, because I overslept.&nbsp; WWWendy is in the way.&nbsp; I will probably have to finish this after my shower.&nbsp; This is my only article today. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today\u2019s took me 3:09 (average e4:33).&nbsp; To do it, click here.&nbsp; How did you do? <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/03\/22\/open-thread-3-22-2020\/' 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":[3708,3704,3919,3913,3736,3751,3709,3718,3705,3792,3706,3714],"class_list":["post-39327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-borowitz","tag-cartoon","tag-corporate-welfare","tag-covid-19","tag-gop-greed","tag-gop-insanity","tag-humor","tag-music","tag-resist","tag-robert-reich","tag-satire","tag-video","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\/39327","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=39327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}