{"id":39384,"date":"2020-03-27T10:49:59","date_gmt":"2020-03-27T17:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=39384"},"modified":"2020-03-27T10:49:59","modified_gmt":"2020-03-27T17:49:59","slug":"open-thread-3-27-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/03\/27\/open-thread-3-27-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;3\/27\/2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It\u2019s another painful day here in the CatBox, but taking a pain pill at bedtime allowed me a good sleep last night.&nbsp; Thank God it\u2019s Friday!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today\u2019s took me 3:24 (average 4:59).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2020-03-27-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\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/0327Cartoon.jpg\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Trump* Virus Update<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/0327TrumpVirus.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" title=\"0327TrumpVirus\" style=\"border: 0px currentcolor; border-image: none; display: inline; background-image: none;\" alt=\"0327TrumpVirus\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/0327TrumpVirus_thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h6><font color=\"#0000ff\">Cases: 85,762<\/font><\/h6>\n<h6><font color=\"#0000ff\">Deaths: 1,306<\/font><\/h6>\n<h6><font color=\"#0000ff\">Recovered: 1,868<\/font><\/h6>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2020\/3\/26\/1931529\/-White-nationalist-planned-to-bomb-a-Missouri-hospital-as-revolt-against-coronavirus-lockdowns\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Daily Kos<\/a>:<font color=\"#000000\"> Given the intensity of the conspiracy theories on the radical right that have arisen <\/font><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2020\/3\/23\/1930417\/-White-nationalists-looking-to-weaponize-coronavirus-pandemic-both-literally-and-figuratively\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">around the coronavirus pandemic<\/a><font color=\"#000000\"><\/font><font color=\"#000000\">\u2014particularly the number of rightists claiming that government lockdown orders are an initial step in the imposition of a tyrannical order\u2014it was only a matter of time before the U.S. experienced its first coronavirus-related act of domestic terrorism.<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/03\/25\/us\/politics\/coronavirus-fbi-shooting.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">On Tuesday<\/a>, a Missouri man named Timothy Wilson made preparations to set off a car bomb at a local hospital in suburban Belton, which was intended as a revolt against the stay-at-home order issued by Belton\u2019s mayor, but his plan was cut short by an FBI raid. When he apparently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kmbc.com\/article\/fbi-man-shot-killed-in-belton-actively-planning-to-bomb-hospital\/31933950\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">resisted with a weapon<\/a>, he ended up being shot and killed.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><\/p>\n<p>One Republican terrorist went down, but there are a pants load more to take his place. Some of them even hold elected office.&nbsp; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MDPzrJcdfTU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/msnbcleanforward\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MSNBC Channel<\/a>):<font color=\"#000000\"> House Scrambles Back To DC To Vote On $2 Trillion Coronavirus Relief Bill<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/MDPzrJcdfTU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p>All it takes to screw up anything is just one Republican. That&#8217;s why every Republican in office is one Republican too many!&nbsp; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TokYdNmOt3s&amp;list=PL70AD99F445E0286C&amp;index=5&amp;t=0s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (a blast from the past): <font color=\"#000000\">Amboy Dukes &#8211; Journey To The Center Of The Mind<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\"><br \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/TokYdNmOt3s\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p>Ah\u2026 the memories!&nbsp; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/p>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><font color=\"#0000ff\" style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Vote Blue No Matter Who Top to Bottom!!<font color=\"#000000\"><br \/><\/font><\/font><\/h1>\n<p><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s another painful day here in the CatBox, but taking a pain pill at bedtime allowed me a good sleep last night.&nbsp; Thank God it\u2019s Friday! Jig Zone Puzzle: Today\u2019s took me 3:24 (average 4:59).&nbsp; To do it, click here.&nbsp; How did you do? Cartoon: Trump* Virus Update: Cases: 85,762 Deaths: 1,306 Recovered: 1,868 Short <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/03\/27\/open-thread-3-27-2020\/' 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":[3704,3913,3734,3746,3751,3717,3749,3718,3705,3706,3803,3714,3928],"class_list":["post-39384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-cartoon","tag-covid-19","tag-gop-hate","tag-gop-incompetence","tag-gop-insanity","tag-gop-violence","tag-house-of-representatives","tag-music","tag-resist","tag-satire","tag-terrorism","tag-video","tag-vote-blue","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\/39384","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=39384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}