{"id":40011,"date":"2020-06-03T11:45:25","date_gmt":"2020-06-03T18:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=40011"},"modified":"2020-06-03T11:45:25","modified_gmt":"2020-06-03T18:45:25","slug":"open-thread-6-3-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/06\/03\/open-thread-6-3-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;6\/3\/2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It\u2019s a very busy day, here in the CatBox.&nbsp; I got to bed late last night.&nbsp; I slept poorly, because it was muggy.&nbsp; WWWendy gooped me a cheese omelet.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The new recipe worked.&nbsp; It tasted wonderful!&nbsp; It was the first time I could eat an egg in months.&nbsp; This morning I took another YUGE dump.&nbsp; How did the entire Republican Reich get up there?&nbsp; I took a double dose of pain med and am barely hanging on.That was four hours ago.&nbsp; I\u2019m about to add another single.&nbsp; I can\u2019t lay down to rest my back, because I expect a delivery of portable O<sub>2<\/sub> tanks anytime between now and 1:00 PM.&nbsp; WWWendy and I are changing our schedule for a bit.&nbsp; Instead of our normal Wed\/Sun routine, we\u2019re changing to Tues\/Sat at least through 6\/19, due to medical mayhem.&nbsp; Happy Hump Day!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today\u2019s took me 3:07 (average 4:24).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2020-06-03-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\/06\/0603Cartoon.jpg\"><\/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=\"420\" title=\"0603TrumpVirusMap\" style=\"border: 0px currentcolor; border-image: none; display: inline; background-image: none;\" alt=\"0603TrumpVirusMap\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/0603TrumpVirusMap.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p><strong><font color=\"#ff0000\">Cases: 1,883,497<br \/>Deaths: 108,159<br \/>Recovered: 646,414<\/font><\/strong><font color=\"#0000ff\"><br \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>WWWendy\u2019s Return<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/7Uxkpkf_vNk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I sure missed her!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/2020\/06\/iowa-republicans-vote-out-master-of-racism-in-congress-steve-king-amid-protests-for-racial-justice\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alternet<\/a>: <font color=\"#000000\">Rep. Steve King, widely known as <\/font><a href=\"https:\/\/www.salon.com\/2018\/11\/07\/steve-king-the-most-overtly-racist-member-of-congress-wins-competitive-bid-for-re-election-in-iowa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the most overtly racist member of Congress<\/a><font color=\"#000000\"><\/font><font color=\"#000000\">, was defeated Tuesday in the Republican primary battle for Iowa\u2019s 4th District.<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p>Challenger Randy Feenstra, a state senator, officially beat King by a margin of 36,797 votes to 28,977 with 100% of precincts reporting, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2020\/06\/02\/us\/elections\/results-iowa-house-district-4-primary-election.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The New York Times<\/a>. Feenstra, who won by a margin of just under 10 points, will go on to face Democrat J.D. Scholten in November.<\/p>\n<p>King, who was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salon.com\/2019\/01\/15\/steve-kings-racist-comments-finally-cost-him-iowa-republican-stripped-of-committee-positions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">stripped of his committee assignments<\/a> after expressing sympathy for white nationalists and white supremacists, later <a href=\"https:\/\/www.desmoinesregister.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2019\/01\/10\/steve-king-iowa-4th-district-white-nationalism-supremacy-western-racism-nazi-freedom-trump\/2535382002\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">denounced the ideologies<\/a>. But King already had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salon.com\/2018\/11\/07\/steve-king-the-most-overtly-racist-member-of-congress-wins-competitive-bid-for-re-election-in-iowa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a long and established history of racist comments<\/a> under his belt.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It could not have happened to a more Republican Republican.&nbsp; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KaPPS85qAHs\" 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\">Joe Biden Hits Trump, Vows Not To &#8216;Fan The Flames&#8217; Of Racial Division<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/KaPPS85qAHs\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Biden may not be the most astute Democrat available, but he is authentic, and he has empathy. Those two qualities make him infinitely superior to criminal Fuhrer Trump* and the entire Republican Reich.&nbsp; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=A_MjCqQoLLA&amp;list=PLGBuKfnErZlCkRRgt06em8nbXvcV5Sae7&amp;index=7&amp;t=0s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (a blast from the past): <font color=\"#000000\">The Beatles &#8211; Hey Jude<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><font color=\"#000000\"><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/A_MjCqQoLLA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<\/font><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Ah\u2026 the memories! <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\"><font color=\"#000000\"><font color=\"#0000ff\"><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s a very busy day, here in the CatBox.&nbsp; I got to bed late last night.&nbsp; I slept poorly, because it was muggy.&nbsp; WWWendy gooped me a cheese omelet.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The new recipe worked.&nbsp; It tasted wonderful!&nbsp; It was the first time I could eat an egg in months.&nbsp; This morning I took another YUGE dump.&nbsp; <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/06\/03\/open-thread-6-3-2020\/' 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":[3704,3781,3734,3760,3718,3748,3705,3706,3714,3928],"class_list":["post-40011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-cartoon","tag-elections","tag-gop-hate","tag-joe-biden","tag-music","tag-racism","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\/40011","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=40011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40011\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}