{"id":40358,"date":"2020-07-08T07:16:53","date_gmt":"2020-07-08T14:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=40358"},"modified":"2020-07-08T07:16:53","modified_gmt":"2020-07-08T14:16:53","slug":"open-thread-7-8-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/07\/08\/open-thread-7-8-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;7\/8\/2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#00ff00\"><font color=\"#0000ff\">It\u2019s a busy day here in the CatBox.&nbsp; Both WWWendy and the Palliative Care nurse are coming this morning.&nbsp; In addition, my tumor is acting up again.&nbsp; This is my only article today.&nbsp; Happy Hump Day!<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today\u2019s took me 2:57.&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2020-07-08-CE2504A965A9\">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\/07\/0708Cartoon.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=\"0708TrumpVirusMap\" style=\"border: 0px currentcolor; border-image: none; display: inline; background-image: none;\" alt=\"0708TrumpVirusMap\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/0708TrumpVirusMap.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p><strong><font color=\"#ff0000\">US Cases: 3,097,602<br \/>US Deaths: 133,994<\/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\/putin-admits-taking-sats-for-trump\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <font color=\"#000000\">The firestorm of controversy swirling around the upcoming tell-all book by the President\u2019s niece exploded on Tuesday, after Vladimir Putin revealed that he took the SATs for Donald J. Trump.<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p>Putin said that he had hoped to keep his role in Trump\u2019s college admission a secret, but, with the impending publication of Mary Trump\u2019s book, \u201cit was only a matter of time before the truth came out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Russian President said that, when young Donald Trump was applying to college, in the nineteen-sixties, Putin was making \u201ca few extra rubles\u201d by offering his services as a test-taker to wealthy but academically hopeless American high-school students.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Dang, Andy! And Putin [R-RU] wasn&#8217;t the only one.&nbsp; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=etfAMCTdhR4\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/msnbc\/videos\">MSNBC Channel<\/a>): <font color=\"#000000\">&#8216;Lying, Cheating Failure\u2019: New Book By Trump&#8217;s Niece Casts Trump As Traumatized Narcissist<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/etfAMCTdhR4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">We certainly couldn&#8217;t find a better source on the Republican insanity of criminal Fuhrer Trump*. Of course, have known the broad strokes for years, but the details sure are juicy!&nbsp; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Jk68D91hTXw&amp;list=PLtUX_8l6KtS9mnDRNM-mI89Eiee8mVmNK&amp;index=3&amp;t=0s\">YouTube<\/a> (a blast from Woodstock): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">Country Joe McDonald live at Woodstock<\/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\/Jk68D91hTXw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Dedicated to all who were at Woodstock or wanted to be. 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 busy day here in the CatBox.&nbsp; Both WWWendy and the Palliative Care nurse are coming this morning.&nbsp; In addition, my tumor is acting up again.&nbsp; This is my only article today.&nbsp; Happy Hump Day! Jig Zone Puzzle: Today\u2019s took me 2:57.&nbsp; To do it, click here.&nbsp; How did you do? 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