{"id":40225,"date":"2020-06-23T11:06:26","date_gmt":"2020-06-23T18:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=40225"},"modified":"2020-06-23T11:06:26","modified_gmt":"2020-06-23T18:06:26","slug":"open-thread-6-23-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/06\/23\/open-thread-6-23-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;6\/23\/2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It\u2019s a steamy day here in the CatBox with 90\u00b0 forecast and high humidity.&nbsp; Yesterday\u2019s doctor visit never happened.&nbsp; The office called right when she was supposed to arrive and told me she could not come because she was ill.&nbsp; We rescheduled for Friday morning.&nbsp; I\u2019m still doing very well on the Fentanyl.&nbsp; Have you flushed a Republican today?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:&nbsp; Today\u2019s took me 3:02 (average 4:42).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2020-06-23-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\/0623Cartoon.jpg\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Trump* Virus Update<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/0623TrumpVirusMap.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"754\" height=\"386\" title=\"0623TrumpVirusMap\" style=\"display: inline; background-image: none;\" alt=\"0623TrumpVirusMap\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/0623TrumpVirusMap_thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><font color=\"#ff0000\">Cases: 2,389,785<br \/>Deaths: 122,659<br \/>Recovered: 1,003,320<\/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\/trump-calls-drinking-glass-of-water-proudest-achievement-as-president\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <font color=\"#000000\">Donald J. Trump on Monday called his successful drinking of a glass of water at his Tulsa rally his proudest achievement as President.<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI brought that glass of water up to my mouth and drank from it without spilling a drop on my tie,\u201d Trump told reporters at the White House. \u201cYou can look at the tape. There was not a single drop of spillage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump added that, while drinking a glass of water was an impressive achievement in itself, executing it so well in front of such a large crowd made it even more extraordinary.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Dang, Andy! What large crowd? Do you think the idiot* added Clorox? <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=m3KwwwEODjo\" 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\">COVID-19 Crisis Has Arizona Reeling; Trump, Heedless, Plans Visit<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/m3KwwwEODjo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Criminal Fuhrer Trump* does not care about how many people he murders by spreading his virus to Sheeple, stupid enough to attend his events and to all the people they infect with Trump* virus. Criminal Fuhrer Trump* cares only about hos greed and extending rule of the Fifth Reich. I bet that those pseudo-Christian pastors will soon be selling those bogus ionization units.&nbsp; Any takers?&nbsp; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=w6iRNVwslM4&amp;list=PLGBuKfnErZlCkRRgt06em8nbXvcV5Sae7&amp;index=70&amp;t=0s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (a blast from the past): <font color=\"#000000\">Bad Moon Rising &#8211; Creedence Clearwater Revival (HQ &#8211; 5.1 Studio )<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/w6iRNVwslM4\" 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 steamy day here in the CatBox with 90\u00b0 forecast and high humidity.&nbsp; Yesterday\u2019s doctor visit never happened.&nbsp; The office called right when she was supposed to arrive and told me she could not come because she was ill.&nbsp; We rescheduled for Friday morning.&nbsp; I\u2019m still doing very well on the Fentanyl.&nbsp; Have you <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/06\/23\/open-thread-6-23-2020\/' 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":[3708,3704,3913,3712,3736,3774,3709,3718,3752,3743,3705,3706,3714,3928],"class_list":["post-40225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-borowitz","tag-cartoon","tag-covid-19","tag-donald-trump","tag-gop-greed","tag-gop-sheeple","tag-humor","tag-music","tag-pseudo-christians","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\/40225","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=40225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}