{"id":40340,"date":"2020-07-04T10:54:21","date_gmt":"2020-07-04T17:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=40340"},"modified":"2020-07-04T10:54:21","modified_gmt":"2020-07-04T17:54:21","slug":"open-thread-7-4-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/07\/04\/open-thread-7-4-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;7\/4\/2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It\u2019s a relatively lazy holiday here in the CatBox.&nbsp; I looked forward to today, because I would have been able to see Portland\u2019s main fireworks display from my window.&nbsp; Of course, it has been cancelled.&nbsp; Maybe I\u2019ll see it next year, if I live that long.&nbsp; Tomorrow, please expect no more than a Personal Update or an Open Thread.&nbsp; WWWendy is coming so destink the pungent TomCat, change my patch, goop and help with chores.&nbsp; Also, because we\u2019re running out of time, tomorrow is Infernal Revenue day in the CatBox.&nbsp; Have a fine weekend!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today\u2019s took me 4:15 (average 6:28).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2020-07-04-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\/07\/0704Cartoon.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=\"422\" title=\"0704TrumpVirusMap\" style=\"border: 0px currentcolor; border-image: none; display: inline; background-image: none;\" alt=\"0704TrumpVirusMap\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/0704TrumpVirusMap.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p><strong><font color=\"#ff0000\">US Cases: 2,891,380<br \/>US Deaths: 132,112<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=u-NNLTcNSxA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/TheLincolnProject\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lincoln Project Channel<\/a>): <font color=\"#000000\">Gettysburg<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/u-NNLTcNSxA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">This could not be more appropriate for today! We must remember those murdered by criminal Fuhrer Trump&#8217;s* racist Republican Reich! God bless those very few Republicans that understand this.&nbsp; The smart ones have left or will soon leave the party.&nbsp; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/2020\/07\/trumps-jr-girlfriend-tests-positive-for-covid-19-in-south-dakota-ahead-of-the-presidents-event-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Raw Story<\/a>: <font color=\"#000000\">Yet another senior Donald Trump advisor has tested positive for COVID-19.<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p>\u201cKimberly Guilfoyle, the girlfriend of President Trump\u2019s eldest son and a top fund-raising official for the Trump re-election campaign, tested positive for the coronavirus on Friday before a Fourth of July event at Mount Rushmore, a person familiar with her condition said,\u201d The New York Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/07\/03\/us\/politics\/kimberly-guilfoyle-trump-campaign-coronavirus.html?referringSource=articleShare\">reported<\/a> shortly before Trump\u2019s speech began.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMs. Guilfoyle traveled to South Dakota with Mr. Trump\u2019s son Donald Trump Jr., in anticipation of attending a huge fireworks display where the president was set to speak. They did not travel aboard Air Force One, according to the person familiar with her condition, and she was the only person in the group who tested positive,\u201d the newspaper reported. \u201cStill, that another person who was expected to be near Mr. Trump tested positive \u2014 and someone who most staff aides consider a member of the Trump family \u2014 is likely to renew attention around potential risks to the president.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">How rabid! She attended criminal Fuhrer Trump&#8217;s white supremacy super-spreader campaign show, while infected with Trump* virus and no mask or distancing. How many will die, because she spread her Fuhrer\u2019s plague?&nbsp; She needs to do one more thing: give her boyfriend&#8217;s father* a BIG, sloppy kiss!&nbsp; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CA-NPCq_Jd8&amp;list=PLNyYtDem_VEUEOLV9CJW1ePVeuyZgEyXr&amp;index=27&amp;t=0s\">YouTube<\/a> (a blast from Woodstock): <font color=\"#000000\">BERT SOMMER &#8211; AMERICA &#8211; WOODSTOCK 69<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><font color=\"#000000\"><\/font><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/CA-NPCq_Jd8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The next few songs are dedicated to all who were at Woodstock or wanted to be.&nbsp; Most of us gave Bert a standing ovation for this song.&nbsp; 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 color=\"#0000ff\"><font color=\"#0000ff\"><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s a relatively lazy holiday here in the CatBox.&nbsp; I looked forward to today, because I would have been able to see Portland\u2019s main fireworks display from my window.&nbsp; Of course, it has been cancelled.&nbsp; Maybe I\u2019ll see it next year, if I live that long.&nbsp; Tomorrow, please expect no more than a Personal Update <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/07\/04\/open-thread-7-4-2020\/' 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":[3704,3913,3712,3746,3751,3866,3964,3718,3705,3706,3714,3928],"class_list":["post-40340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-cartoon","tag-covid-19","tag-donald-trump","tag-gop-incompetence","tag-gop-insanity","tag-history","tag-lincoln-project","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\/40340","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=40340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}