{"id":40612,"date":"2020-08-02T11:17:13","date_gmt":"2020-08-02T18:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=40612"},"modified":"2020-08-02T11:17:13","modified_gmt":"2020-08-02T18:17:13","slug":"open-thread-8-2-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/08\/02\/open-thread-8-2-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 8\/2\/2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s a relatively lazy day here in the CatBox, as it&#8217;s Sunday, but I am back in the saddle today and tomorrow,&nbsp; before WWWendy comes again on Tuesday.&nbsp; Friday night the built in A\/C unit in the CatBox broke down, and I have to offer kudos to Central City Concern for replacing it by 9 AM Saturday morning.&nbsp; May all your Republicans be flushed.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:59 (average 5:52).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2020-08-02-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\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/0802Cartoon.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=\"0802TrumpVirusMap\" 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=\"0802TrumpVirusMap\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/0802TrumpVirusMap.jpg\" width=\"750\" height=\"505\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><a href=\"https:\/\/globalepidemics.org\/key-metrics-for-covid-suppression\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click for interactive map<\/a>.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#ff0000\"><strong>US Cases: 4,766,323<br \/>US Deaths: 157,924<br \/>World Cases: 18,070,640<br \/>World Deaths: 689,761<br \/>Trump&#8217;s Share of World Deaths: 22.9%<br \/>US Share of World Population: 4.3%<\/strong><\/font>  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/08\/01\/us\/politics\/brian-murphy-homeland-security-protesters.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>The head of the Department of Homeland Security\u2019s intelligence branch was removed from his position after his office compiled reports about protesters and journalists covering the Trump administration\u2019s response to unrest in Portland, Ore., last month.<\/p>\n<p>Brian Murphy, the acting under secretary for intelligence and analysis, was reassigned to a new position in the department after his office disseminated to the law enforcement community \u201copen-source intelligence reports\u201d containing Twitter posts of journalists, noting they had published leaked unclassified documents, according to an administration official familiar with the matter.  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">What the Republican Reich isn&#8217;t saying is that &#8220;reassigned&#8221; is a code word for &#8220;promoted the Nazi asshole&#8221;.&nbsp; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font>  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bpIHUptzICY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/oregoniannews\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oregonian Channel<\/a>): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">Black Lives Matter protests in Portland: Day 65<\/font>  <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/bpIHUptzICY\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">This is what criminal Fuhrer Trump* calls &#8220;terrorist&#8221; riots. After 65 straight days, Oregon still leads the way!&nbsp; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=C67IIt3_X50\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/ParodyProject\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Parody Project Channel<\/a>): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">FAILED AS THE CHIEF<\/font><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/C67IIt3_X50\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Wonderful, Don! You have perfectly pegged criminal Fuhrer Trump*, may he rot in prison for life.&nbsp; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font>  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=40JmEj0_aVM&amp;list=PLy_AmnYLyvV_MKycRRtpwc7p0iScyG0tp&amp;index=18&amp;t=0s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (a blast of protest): <\/font>Creedence Clearwater Revival &#8211; Fortunate Son (Official Lyric Video)  <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/40JmEj0_aVM\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The Republican Reich represent only fascist billionaires and corporate criminals. 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 a relatively lazy day here in the CatBox, as it&#8217;s Sunday, but I am back in the saddle today and tomorrow,&nbsp; before WWWendy comes again on Tuesday.&nbsp; Friday night the built in A\/C unit in the CatBox broke down, and I have to offer kudos to Central City Concern for replacing it by 9 <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/08\/02\/open-thread-8-2-2020\/' 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":[4036,4001,3704,4058,3711,3724,3731,3739,3705,3706,3714,3928],"class_list":["post-40612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-abuse-of-power","tag-black-lives-matter","tag-cartoon","tag-freedon-of-the-press","tag-gop-crimes","tag-oregon","tag-parody","tag-protest","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\/40612","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=40612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}