{"id":40583,"date":"2020-07-31T11:43:31","date_gmt":"2020-07-31T18:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=40583"},"modified":"2020-07-31T11:43:31","modified_gmt":"2020-07-31T18:43:31","slug":"open-thread-7-31-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/07\/31\/open-thread-7-31-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 7\/31\/2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s another sweaty, stinky day here in the CatBox.&nbsp; I had a rough night last night, because I ate supper too fast and plugged my esophageal tumor.&nbsp; I spent most of the night imitating criminal Fuhrer Trump&#8217;s* AG.&nbsp; The blockage didn&#8217;t clear until this morning.&nbsp; Tomorrow please expect no more than an Open Thread or a Personal Update.&nbsp; It&#8217;s a WWWendy day and the TomCat could not be more stinky.&nbsp; I&#8217;ll try to swap the Politics Plus Poll, if I can, but it will probably have to wait until Sunday.&nbsp; TGIF!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 2:43 (average 4:51).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2020-07-31-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\/0731Cartoon.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\" title=\"0731TrumpVirusMap\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"0731TrumpVirusMap\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/0731TrumpVirusMap.jpg\" width=\"750\" height=\"503\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p><strong><font color=\"#0000ff\">US Cases: 4,638,288<br \/>US Deaths: 155,371<br \/>World Cases: 17,553,155<br \/>World Deaths: 678,097<br \/>Trump&#8217;s* Share of World Deaths: 22.9%<br \/>US Share of World Population: 4.3%<\/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=_i2DSkAys-8\" 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><font color=\"#000000\">Morgan Freeman Reads Rep. John Lewis\u2019 Last Words<\/font><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/_i2DSkAys-8\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe>; <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">His own epitaph was a fitting memorial to a hero that will still be remembered as a hero one hundred years from now, if we can prevent the Republican attempt to convert the US from democratic republic to Nazi Reich.&nbsp; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=56DlPjCmJxI\" 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><font color=\"#000000\">Group prepares for chance Trump refuses to concede election<\/font><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/56DlPjCmJxI\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">For more information about the war game they took part in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2020\/07\/06\/what-if-trump-loses-insists-he-won\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click here<\/a>. If this doesn&#8217;t scare the shit out of you, <strong>WAKE UP<\/strong>!&nbsp; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pojL_35QlSI&amp;list=PLy_AmnYLyvV_MKycRRtpwc7p0iScyG0tp&amp;index=12&amp;t=0s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (a blast of protest): <\/font>The Chicks &#8211; Not Ready To Make Nice (Official Video)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/pojL_35QlSI\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Many, myself included, think that this song was partially directed at the Fuhrer of the 4th Reich, GW ChickenHawk, aka Crawford Caligula. He demanded that they back down on their true statement that his war for oil and conquest was fraudulent. How much worse is the Fuhrer of the 5th Reich? Support left wing protestors!&nbsp; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><font style=\"font-weight: bold\" color=\"#0000ff\">Vote Blue No Matter Who Top to Bottom!!<\/font><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s another sweaty, stinky day here in the CatBox.&nbsp; I had a rough night last night, because I ate supper too fast and plugged my esophageal tumor.&nbsp; I spent most of the night imitating criminal Fuhrer Trump&#8217;s* AG.&nbsp; The blockage didn&#8217;t clear until this morning.&nbsp; Tomorrow please expect no more than an Open Thread or <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/07\/31\/open-thread-7-31-2020\/' 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":[3704,4043,3788,3712,3765,4052,3718,3739,3743,3705,3706,3714,3928],"class_list":["post-40583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-cartoon","tag-civil-rights","tag-democrats","tag-donald-trump","tag-election-theft","tag-john-lewis","tag-music","tag-protest","tag-republican-reich","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\/40583","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=40583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}