{"id":40364,"date":"2020-07-09T11:04:07","date_gmt":"2020-07-09T18:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=40364"},"modified":"2020-07-09T11:04:07","modified_gmt":"2020-07-09T18:04:07","slug":"open-thread-7-9-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/07\/09\/open-thread-7-9-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;7\/9\/2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It\u2019s a busy day, here in the CatBox.&nbsp; Store to Door is delivering a very large grocery order late this morning or early this afternoon.&nbsp; It\u2019s big, because WWWendy\u2019s last day is Tuesday, before she is out of town for nine days visiting relatives.&nbsp; So, I\u2019ll need a nine day supply of goop.&nbsp; Thursday is flush your Republicans day.&nbsp; I hope my laxative works.&nbsp; <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today\u2019s took me 3:59 (average 6:12).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2020-07-09-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\/2017\/07\/0709Cartoon.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=\"550\" title=\"0709TrumpVirusMap\" style=\"border: 0px currentcolor; border-image: none; display: inline; background-image: none;\" alt=\"0709TrumpVirusMap\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/0709TrumpVirusMap.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p><strong><font color=\"#ff0000\">US Cases: 3,160,284<br \/>US Deaths: 134,920<\/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\/pence-accused-of-taking-trumps-coronavirus-tests-for-him\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <font color=\"#000000\">In a scandal that threatens to upend Donald Trump\u2019s Presidency, a new book accuses Trump of paying Vice-President Mike Pence to take his coronavirus tests for him.<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p>According to the book, \u201cSwapping Swabs: Trump\u2019s Pandemic of Lies,\u201d when the subject of being tested for the virus first came up, in March, Trump started casting about for a \u201cgood test-taker\u201d to substitute for him.<\/p>\n<p>Trump considered several candidates for the ruse, including his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and the Attorney General, William Barr, but ultimately settled on Pence, who agreed to take the tests for the fee of twenty-five dollars per result.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Dang, Andy! That should not be worded as an accusation. It should be worded as a fact!&nbsp; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2b7p71PDJjg\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/msnbc\/videos\">MSNBC Channel<\/a>): <font color=\"#000000\">\u2018Bullying, Intimidation, And Retaliation:\u2019 Key Impeachment Witness Vindman Retires<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/2b7p71PDJjg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Lt. Colonel Vindman is a hero and a patriot. Criminal Fuhrer Bone Spurs* is a bully and a coward!&nbsp; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SboRijhWFDU&amp;list=PLtUX_8l6KtS9mnDRNM-mI89Eiee8mVmNK&amp;index=5&amp;t=0s\">YouTube<\/a> (a blast that was played at Woodstock): <font color=\"#000000\">Jefferson Airplane &#8211; Volunteers (with Lyric)<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/SboRijhWFDU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<\/font><\/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<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s a busy day, here in the CatBox.&nbsp; Store to Door is delivering a very large grocery order late this morning or early this afternoon.&nbsp; It\u2019s big, because WWWendy\u2019s last day is Tuesday, before she is out of town for nine days visiting relatives.&nbsp; So, I\u2019ll need a nine day supply of goop.&nbsp; Thursday is <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/07\/09\/open-thread-7-9-2020\/' 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":[3708,3704,3712,3734,3721,3709,3722,3715,3718,3833,3705,3706,3714,3928],"class_list":["post-40364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-borowitz","tag-cartoon","tag-donald-trump","tag-gop-hate","tag-gop-lies","tag-humor","tag-impeachment","tag-military","tag-music","tag-obstruction-of-justice","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\/40364","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=40364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}