{"id":39919,"date":"2020-05-28T08:47:48","date_gmt":"2020-05-28T15:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=39919"},"modified":"2020-05-28T08:47:48","modified_gmt":"2020-05-28T15:47:48","slug":"open-thread-5-28-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/05\/28\/open-thread-5-28-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–5\/28\/2020"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s a hot busy day, here in the CatBox, with 89\u00b0 forecast.  WWWendy is coming, and we have lots to do to get me ready for her five day trip.  Have a great day!<\/font><\/p>\n

Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

Today\u2019s took me 3:00 (average 5:10):  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

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Trump* Virus Update<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

\"0528TrumpVirusMap\"<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n

Cases: 1,747,781
Deaths: 102,197
Recovered: 490,256<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n

Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

From The New Yorker<\/a>: In an escalation of his spat with Roy Cooper, the Democratic governor of North Carolina, Donald Trump is demanding that the 2020 Republican National Convention relocate from Charlotte to Moscow.<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

\u201cNorth Carolina has been difficult every step of the way, and meanwhile Moscow has always been very helpful to me,\u201d Trump wrote, in one of a series of early-morning tweets.<\/p>\n

Additionally, Trump argued, moving the R.N.C. to Moscow would save the Republicans millions in airfare. \u201cThe most important people working on our 2020 campaign will already be there,\u201d he tweeted.<\/p>\n

Well, Andy, I see you’re doing straight news again. Is Bought Bitch Midnight Moscow Mitch dancing for glee?  RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n

From Alternet<\/a>: Trump and Republicans don\u2019t want mail-in voting this November because it blows up a couple of their most effective voter suppression schemes.<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

In presidential elections dating back to 2000, there\u2019s been noticeable media coverage of long lines in majority-black precincts; commentators sometimes wonder out loud why people would have to wait in line 8 hours<\/a> to vote in, for example, inner city Ohio<\/a> in 2004 or Milwaukee in the 2020<\/a> primaries.<\/p>\n

Leading up to Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp\u2019s contest with Stacey Abrams in 2018, the Atlanta Constitution-Journal documented<\/a> how 8 percent of the state\u2019s polling places had been recently closed, hitting rural black areas particularly hard. The Washington Post chronicled<\/a> how broken voting machines\u2014and the long lines they create\u2014were largely confined to downtown Atlanta and black suburbs and rural areas.<\/p>\n

The effect, of course, is to discourage voters from showing up or staying in line, particularly those people who are paid by the hour and have to take time off work to vote.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe strongest tool Americans have to prevent Republican attempts at voter suppression is mail-in voting.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a Republican Reich, voting while Black or Latino is a felony.  RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n

From YouTube<\/a> (a blast from the past): People Are Strange – The Doors [The Very Best Of The Doors]<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n