{"id":39649,"date":"2020-05-05T10:30:57","date_gmt":"2020-05-05T17:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=39649"},"modified":"2020-05-05T10:30:57","modified_gmt":"2020-05-05T17:30:57","slug":"open-thread-5-5-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/05\/05\/open-thread-5-5-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;5\/5\/2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It\u2019s a tired day, here in the CatBox, as yesterday completely wore me out.&nbsp; I\u2019ve avoided tatoos all my life, but now I have five.&nbsp; They are small dots on my abdomen to serve as targeting guides.&nbsp; I almost asked them to roll me over and put two eyes above my butt hole.&nbsp; That would have given me a Trump* tattoo that acts just like the Fuhrer does!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today\u2019s took me 3:38 (average 5:08).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2020-05-05-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\/2016\/05\/0505Cartoon.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=\"650\" title=\"0505TrumpVirusMap\" style=\"border: 0px currentcolor; border-image: none; display: inline; background-image: none;\" alt=\"0505TrumpVirusMap\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/0505TrumpVirusMap.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/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\/5\/3\/1942274\/-Best-News-I-Read-Today-There-will-be-Criminal-Prosecutions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <font color=\"#000000\">There is an op-ed in the Kansas City Star written by Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren (<\/font><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kansascity.com\/opinion\/article242350451.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.kansascity.com\/&#8230;<\/a><font color=\"#000000\"><\/font><font color=\"#000000\">) promising to use the power of the government to punish the blatant corruption that is obvious everywhere:<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The Biden administration will appoint an inspector general to review every coronavirus relief transaction currently evading serious scrutiny. Wasteful, corrupt deals and giveaways will be rooted out and undone. Suspicious transactions will be referred to the Justice Department for investigation and prosecution. Every Trump administration official and business executive contemplating such deals should hear us loud and clear. Trump may wink and nod at this corruption. We will not.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Imagine what this means for Jared Kushner? Or everyone involved in the open piracy of stealing medical supplies from a state that paid for them (and arranged transportation)? Or all the companies selling our national stockpile for high profits? <\/p>\n<p>When this unfortunate virus has stabilized, we need a national truth and reconciliation committee. And with real jail time!!<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Wow! If they really follow through this time, unlike far too many past instances, we&#8217;ll need to build more prisons to hold those Republican corporate criminals.&nbsp; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CEjif3TvDRQ\" 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\">New Ad From Conservative Group Angers Trump<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/CEjif3TvDRQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I think the Lincoln Project made a fantastic ad. On most things, I completely disagree with most conservatives. However, I am willing to respect them, coexist with them, and compromise with then, with one caveat. It must be mutual. That cannot happen with today&#8217;s Republican Reich.&nbsp; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=J8hjEYTpwE8&amp;list=PLkjEvMJpFKeWFaJB9ssO7kvmnCcbuYDL-&amp;index=47&amp;t=0s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (a blast from the past):<font color=\"#000000\"> Donovan &#8211; Catch the wind<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/J8hjEYTpwE8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe><\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s a tired day, here in the CatBox, as yesterday completely wore me out.&nbsp; I\u2019ve avoided tatoos all my life, but now I have five.&nbsp; They are small dots on my abdomen to serve as targeting guides.&nbsp; I almost asked them to roll me over and put two eyes above my butt hole.&nbsp; That would <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/05\/05\/open-thread-5-5-2020\/' 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":[3704,3919,3761,3712,3753,3711,3760,3964,3718,3743,3705,3706,3714,3928],"class_list":["post-39649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-cartoon","tag-corporate-welfare","tag-corruption","tag-donald-trump","tag-elizabeth-warren","tag-gop-crimes","tag-joe-biden","tag-lincoln-project","tag-music","tag-republican-reich","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\/39649","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=39649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}