{"id":40429,"date":"2020-07-16T11:02:48","date_gmt":"2020-07-16T18:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=40429"},"modified":"2020-07-16T11:37:02","modified_gmt":"2020-07-16T18:37:02","slug":"open-thread-7-16-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/07\/16\/open-thread-7-16-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–7\/16\/2020"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s a busy muggy day here in the CatBox.\u00a0 My back is painful today.\u00a0 Store to Door should come with my groceries between 11 AM and 1 PM.\u00a0 By now WWWendy is on a plane.\u00a0 Her plans changed, and she\u2019s going to CO instead of CA.\u00a0 JD, you ought to give her a call.\u00a0 She\u2019ll land around 1 PM your time.\u00a0 Everyone, please keep her in your thoughts and and prayers.\u00a0 If you find yourself in an elevator with a Republican, please fart.<\/span><\/p>\n

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

Today\u2019s took me 2:51 (average 4:37).\u00a0 To do it, click here<\/a>.\u00a0 How did you do?<\/span><\/p>\n

Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Trump* Virus Update<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n

\"0716TrumpVirusMap\"<\/span><\/p>\n

Map Reference<\/a>: click through for interactive map<\/span><\/p>\n

US Cases: 3,618,739
\nUS Deaths: 140,185<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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

From The New Yorker<\/a>: Trying out a new line of attack against the former Vice-President, Donald Trump said on Wednesday that Joe Biden could never have a pandemic as big as his.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cBiden was Vice-President for eight years and had all the time in the world to have a pandemic,\u201d Trump said. \u201cWhere was his pandemic?\u201d<\/p>\n

By contrast, Trump asserted, \u201cIn just a few months, I\u2019ve built the biggest pandemic this country has seen in a hundred years.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople are going to be talking about my pandemic for generations to come,\u201d Trump said. \u201cWhat did Biden ever have? Swine flu? What a joke.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dang, Andy! Don’t do that! Portraying criminal Fuhrer Trump* telling the truth about the severity of his plague is enough to make someone throw up!\u00a0 RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n

From Alternet<\/a>: \u2026In the context of what we\u2019ve been hearing from the Trump administration\u2014or rather what we\u2019ve not been hearing\u2014I have to think that Donald Trump and his billionaire sycophant, Betsy DeVos, our current Secretary of Education, have absolutely no clue about what is metastasizing in the fevered swamps of American parents of school-age children right now in this country, or its potential to explode in a wave of electoral anger that could dwarf what occurred to the Republican Party in 2018.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019m talking about a thermonuclear, cataclysmic, event of raw, unbridled voter fury. I\u2019m talking about an existential, political wipe-out of Biblical proportions. A tsunami, if you will.<\/p>\n

The most generous characterization of the Trump administration\u2019s approach towards the situation facing our public schools in less than two months\u2014six weeks or less, in fact, for many schools, including ones in Texas\u2013 is one of willful blindness, suggestive of an astonishing degree of deliberate, magical thinking\u2013 that imagines an idyllic sequence of cause and effect, where these schools will miraculously reopen, filled with rows of smiling teens, pre-teens,\u00a0 elementary schoolers and their teachers, happy to share and mingle in their wondrous educational experience in the face of this horrific and unprecedented health crisis\u2026<\/p>\n

I wish Trump* and DeVos would back down for the sake of the families they are about to murder, but they won’t back down. Let that tsunami wipe the Republican Party out of existence!\u00a0 RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n

From YouTube<\/a> (a blast from Labor): Union Maid<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n