{"id":39591,"date":"2020-05-01T11:46:12","date_gmt":"2020-05-01T18:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=39591"},"modified":"2020-05-01T11:46:12","modified_gmt":"2020-05-01T18:46:12","slug":"open-thread-5-1-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/05\/01\/open-thread-5-1-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;5\/1\/2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It\u2019s a tired day, here in the CatBox, and my back is in a lot of pain.&nbsp; I\u2019m ready for an Oxycodone, lunch and a nap, when I finish here.&nbsp; TGIF!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today\u2019s took me 3:01 (average 4:39).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2020-05-01-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\/2017\/05\/0501Cartoon.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=\"365\" title=\"0501TrumpVirusMap\" style=\"border: 0px currentcolor; border-image: none; display: inline; background-image: none;\" alt=\"0501TrumpVirusMap\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/0501TrumpVirusMap.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p><strong>Coronavirus Cases: 1,099,275<br \/>Deaths: 63,972<br \/>Recovered: 156,089<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Our Poll<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I owe you all an apology.&nbsp; What with all the medical mayhem and personal mayhem surrounding my impending demise, I neglected our poll for months, without updating it.&nbsp; If you would like to read the results and comments, <a href=\"https:\/\/poll.pollcode.com\/12758757_result?v\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click here<\/a>.&nbsp; I have put up a new poll.&nbsp; Please vote now and in November.<\/font><\/p>\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\/4\/30\/1941607\/--Over-our-dead-bodies-Sen-Graham-opposes-added-unemployment-relief-COVID-19-death-toll-be-damned\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <font color=\"#000000\">The concept of a living wage is apparently still unfathomable for South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham, who on Wednesday promised he would do everything in his power to fight an extension of federal coronavirus relief that would give those who are unemployed an extra $600 a week, <\/font><a href=\"https:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/health\/covid19\/over-our-dead-bodies-graham-promises-congress-wont-extend-600-weekly-extra-for-jobless\/article_ec357ed4-8a50-11ea-9517-c70b3eaef560.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according to<\/a><font color=\"#000000\"><\/font><font color=\"#000000\"> The Post and Courier. \u201cI promise you <strong>over our dead bodies will this get reauthorized<\/strong>,\u201d Graham said of himself and Republican Sen. Tim Scott. \u201cWe\u2019ve got to stop this.\u201d\u2026 [<em>emphasis added<\/em>]<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Hmmm\u2026 reauthorizing an extra $600 per worker in Trump* virus relief over the dead bodies of Lindsey Graham [R-SC] and Tim Scott [R-SC] is the best idea Lindsey Poo has had this year!&nbsp; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=I6biQ_2RK3k\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/voxdotcom\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vox Channel<\/a>): <font color=\"#000000\">How to vote during a pandemic<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/I6biQ_2RK3k\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">How to vote during a pandemic of Trump* virus? Vote no matter what! Vote by mail, if possible! If not, vote VERY carefully! Finally, vote Blue, no matter who, top to bottom! Every Republican in office is one Republican too many.&nbsp; Flush them all!&nbsp; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=v5tr_L31StI&amp;list=PLkjEvMJpFKeWFaJB9ssO7kvmnCcbuYDL-&amp;index=34&amp;t=0s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (a blast from the past): <font color=\"#000000\">Gordon Lightfoot &#8211; If You Could Read My Mind<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/v5tr_L31StI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Ah\u2026 the memories\u2026 <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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s a tired day, here in the CatBox, and my back is in a lot of pain.&nbsp; I\u2019m ready for an Oxycodone, lunch and a nap, when I finish here.&nbsp; TGIF! Jig Zone Puzzle: Today\u2019s took me 3:01 (average 4:39).&nbsp; To do it, click here.&nbsp; How did you do? Cartoon: Trump* Virus Update: Coronavirus Cases: <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/05\/01\/open-thread-5-1-2020\/' 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":[3704,3954,3913,3781,3736,3848,3955,3718,3817,3705,3706,3714,3928],"class_list":["post-39591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-cartoon","tag-class-warfare","tag-covid-19","tag-elections","tag-gop-greed","tag-injustice","tag-lindsey-graham","tag-music","tag-poll","tag-resist","tag-satire","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\/39591","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=39591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}