{"id":40481,"date":"2020-07-21T09:56:24","date_gmt":"2020-07-21T16:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=40481"},"modified":"2020-07-21T09:56:24","modified_gmt":"2020-07-21T16:56:24","slug":"open-thread-7-21-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/07\/21\/open-thread-7-21-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread&ndash;7\/21\/2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It\u2019s another hectic day here in the CatBox.&nbsp; I\u2019m having a telephone visit with my nutritionist this morning, so that will kill my morning nap, and exacerbate my back pain.&nbsp; I guess they\u2019re going to increase my Oxycodone instead of my Fentanyl patch strength.&nbsp; I disagree and will argue it at my next appointment.&nbsp; A patch gives constant pain relief, so increasing the strength lowers my overall pain level.&nbsp; Oxycodone gives yo-yo pain relief, as it is taken only when the pain level has risen, so I suffer needless pain.&nbsp; Please check your outhouse for Republicans.&nbsp; If one is hiding down there, go.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today\u2019s took me 3:34 (average 5:18).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2020-07-21-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\/2018\/07\/0721Cartoon.jpg\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Clinton had Lewinski.&nbsp; Putin [R-RU] had Trump*.<\/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=\"837\" height=\"566\" title=\"0721TrumpVirusMap\" style=\"border: 0px currentcolor; border-image: none; display: inline; background-image: none;\" alt=\"0721TrumpVirusMap\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/0721TrumpVirusMap.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><a href=\"https:\/\/globalepidemics.org\/key-metrics-for-covid-suppression\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click through for interactive map<\/a>.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><strong>US Cases: 3,963,376<br \/>US Deaths: 143,889<\/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=bgTmGBCncI4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/CNN\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CNN Channel<\/a>): <font color=\"#000000\">Veteran discusses getting hit by unmarked police in Portland<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/bgTmGBCncI4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Our veterans deserve honor, praise, and gratitude from our people and government, but from the Republican Reich and their Nazi Gestapo, our veterans get hate, neglect and violence!&nbsp; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ASETf7YWrlw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/msnbc\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MSNBC Channel<\/a>): <font color=\"#000000\">GOP Tested As Democrats Call Out Foreign Interference In Election<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/ASETf7YWrlw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">This is what a President sounds like and acts like. May God grant that we have a President in January, instead of the criminal Fuhrer we have now. May God also grant that the Republican Reich go the way of the Whig Party. But God can&#8217;t do it alone. She needs help from YOU!&nbsp; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5_7C0QGkiVo&amp;list=PL4D1CD2F32801CC4D&amp;index=14&amp;t=0s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> ( a blast from the past and labor): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">Arlo Guthrie\/Alice&#8217;s Restaurant<\/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\/5_7C0QGkiVo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Ah\u2026 the memories! Except for unmuzzled Republican Nazi Police Unions, support Labor!&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><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s another hectic day here in the CatBox.&nbsp; I\u2019m having a telephone visit with my nutritionist this morning, so that will kill my morning nap, and exacerbate my back pain.&nbsp; I guess they\u2019re going to increase my Oxycodone instead of my Fentanyl patch strength.&nbsp; I disagree and will argue it at my next appointment.&nbsp; A <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/07\/21\/open-thread-7-21-2020\/' 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":[3704,3937,3765,3711,3760,3798,3718,3998,3743,3705,3706,4048,3714,3928,3766],"class_list":["post-40481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-cartoon","tag-election-fraud","tag-election-theft","tag-gop-crimes","tag-joe-biden","tag-labor","tag-music","tag-police-misconduct","tag-republican-reich","tag-resist","tag-satire","tag-veterans","tag-video","tag-vote-blue","tag-voting-rights","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\/40481","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=40481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}