{"id":40298,"date":"2020-07-02T07:56:38","date_gmt":"2020-07-02T14:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=40298"},"modified":"2020-07-02T07:56:38","modified_gmt":"2020-07-02T14:56:38","slug":"open-thread-7-2-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/07\/02\/open-thread-7-2-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–7\/2\/2020"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s a busy day here in the CatBox.  A fire alarm made me get up at 1:00 AM, and I could not get back to sleep.  WWWendy is coming soon, so this is my only article today.  JD, would you please publish Sam?  Have a great day!  Joke: Why did God create Republicans?  She wanted to make Satanist cannibals look good!<\/font><\/p>\n

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

Today\u2019s took me 3:57 (average 5:39).  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

\"0702TrumpVirusMap\"<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n

US Cases: 2,781,085
US Deaths: 130,813<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n

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

From  The New Yorker<\/a>: Donald J. Trump may not have read a Presidential Daily Brief on the Russian bounty scheme because he holds reading material upside down, experts suggested on Wednesday.<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

After studying photographic evidence of Trump holding a book in that difficult-to-read position, Davis Logsdon, who studies literacy at the University of Minnesota, said that such a practice could have impeded the President\u2019s ability to process information on his desk.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf Trump is holding all of his Presidential Daily Briefs upside down, what is intended to be important intelligence requiring his urgent attention might, to him, appear to be little more than meaningless marks on a piece of paper,\u201d Logsdon said.<\/p>\n

Dang, Andy! Did he learn that technique from the way Crawford Caligula, aka GW ChickenHawk, read My Pet Goat<\/em> on 9\/11?  RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n

From Daily Kos<\/a>: President Donald Trump <\/font>makes very clear<\/a><\/font> his allegiance to the almighty dollar, so it should hardly be shocking that he\u2019s willing to throw Black people under the bus when it comes to his beloved Trump Tower. The president made his position even clearer Wednesday when he vehemently opposed New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio\u2019s plan to have a Black Lives Matter sign painted on Fifth Avenue in front of Trump Tower. The building\u2019s namesake called the planned sign a \u201csymbol of hate\u201d and berated the mayor for supporting <\/font>a plan to reallocate $1 billion<\/a><\/font> of the police department\u2019s $6 billion operating budget\u2014a drop in the bucket for protesters pushing for a wholesale <\/font>overhaul to policing<\/a><\/font>.<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

Kudos to Mayor de Blasio! I can’t wait to see the look on criminal Fuhrer Trump’s* face the first time le looks down from his liars lair and sees Black Lives Matter!  RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n

From YouTube<\/a> (a blast from the the past): Get Back (Remastered 2009)<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n