{"id":40177,"date":"2020-06-18T10:49:42","date_gmt":"2020-06-18T17:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=40177"},"modified":"2020-06-18T10:49:42","modified_gmt":"2020-06-18T17:49:42","slug":"open-thread-6-18-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/06\/18\/open-thread-6-18-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;6\/18\/2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It\u2019s a busy day here in the CatBox.&nbsp; Store to Door will be delivering groceries, and I need to unpack and put them away.&nbsp; May your goop be better than mine.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today\u2019s took me 3:08 (average 4:45).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2020-06-18-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\/2016\/06\/0618Cartoon.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=\"0618TrumpVirusMap\" style=\"border: 0px currentcolor; border-image: none; display: inline; background-image: none;\" alt=\"0618TrumpVirusMap\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/0618TrumpVirusMap.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p><strong><font color=\"#ff0000\">Cases: 2,235,678<br \/>Deaths: 119,955<br \/>Recovered: 918,796<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/white-house-staff-seething-with-envy-after-fauci-reveals-he-has-not-spoken-to-trump-in-two-weeks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <font color=\"#000000\">White House staffers are seething with envy after Dr. Anthony Fauci revealed that he has not spoken to Donald J. Trump in two weeks, envious staffers have confirmed.<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p>News of the break in communication between the two men sent shockwaves through the White House, with scores of staffers demanding to know whether Fauci had a secret trick that they could employ to similar effect.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwo freaking weeks?\u201d Jared Kushner was overheard muttering. \u201cI\u2019d settle for one hour.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fauci said that there was no secret to getting Trump to stop talking to him, but suggested, \u201cGenerally speaking, if you pepper your sentences with facts, that\u2019s usually enough to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Dang Andy! I spout facts as often as Republicans spout lies, but it doesn&#8217;t mute criminal Fuhrer Trump* on my TV. I&#8217;m mad at Fauci! How does he rate?&nbsp; This just isn&#8217;t fair!&nbsp; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BJGgHGl-NUg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/CNN\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CNN Channel<\/a>): <font color=\"#000000\">Joe Biden blasts Trump&#8217;s Covid response<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/BJGgHGl-NUg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">That is the thinking, heart, and voice of a President. Isn&#8217;t it time to flush our traitor Resident, criminal Fuhrer Trump*?&nbsp; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HuS5NuXRb5Y&amp;list=PLGBuKfnErZlCkRRgt06em8nbXvcV5Sae7&amp;index=52&amp;t=0s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (a blast from the past): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">The Beatles &#8211; Eleanor Rigby (From &#8220;Yellow Submarine&#8221;)<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/HuS5NuXRb5Y\" 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<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s a busy day here in the CatBox.&nbsp; Store to Door will be delivering groceries, and I need to unpack and put them away.&nbsp; May your goop be better than mine. Jig Zone Puzzle: Today\u2019s took me 3:08 (average 4:45).&nbsp; To do it, click here.&nbsp; How did you do? Cartoon: Trump* Virus Update: Cases: 2,235,678Deaths: <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/06\/18\/open-thread-6-18-2020\/' 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":[3708,3704,3709,3760,3718,3705,3706,3714,3928],"class_list":["post-40177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-borowitz","tag-cartoon","tag-humor","tag-joe-biden","tag-music","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\/40177","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=40177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}