{"id":40740,"date":"2020-08-14T11:36:05","date_gmt":"2020-08-14T18:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=40740"},"modified":"2020-08-14T11:36:05","modified_gmt":"2020-08-14T18:36:05","slug":"open-thread-8-14-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/08\/14\/open-thread-8-14-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 8\/14\/2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It&#8217;s a sickly day here in the CatBox.&nbsp; I experimented with a new kind of goop this morning, and sometimes such experiments fail.&nbsp; It blocked my tumor, and I spent most of the morning throwing up.&nbsp; On the plus side, most of my goop experiments have been successful, giving me a variety of tasty things to eat.&nbsp; TGIF!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Speaking of goop, today&#8217;s took me 3:29 (average 5:22).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2020-08-14-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\/0814Cartoon.jpg\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Republicans HATE this treaty, ratified unanimously by our founding fathers.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Trump* Virus Update<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/0814TrumpVirusMap.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0814TrumpVirusMap\" 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=\"0814TrumpVirusMap\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/0814TrumpVirusMap_thumb.jpg\" width=\"750\" height=\"651\"><\/a><\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/covidactnow.org\/?s=870170\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click for interactive map<\/a>  <\/p>\n<p><strong><font color=\"#ff0000\">US Cases: 5,418,071<br \/>US Deaths: 170,446<br \/>Plus all Trump&#8217;s* Murder victims Republicans are hiding from us<\/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\/trump-accuses-kamala-harris-of-maliciously-speaking-in-complete-sentences\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The New Yorker<\/a>: <\/font>In a blistering takedown of Joe Biden\u2019s running mate, Donald Trump on Thursday accused Senator Kamala Harris of maliciously speaking in complete sentences.<\/p>\n<p>Blasting her penchant for hewing to the rules of grammar, Trump said, \u201cA lot of people are saying, mean, nasty, disrespectful. To a new level, like you wouldn\u2019t believe.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cSad,\u201d he said. \u201cSick and sad.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I&#8217;m not buying that fib, Andy! Trump is much too racist to say any minority can speak in complete sentences.&nbsp; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font>  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RkU-HoL8cBA\" 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\">Trump Speechless After Reporter Asks If He Regrets Lying To Americans<\/font><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/RkU-HoL8cBA\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The lies are bad enough. Even worse, he and the Republican Reich have murdered over 8.52 Americans with their Trump* virus plague for each of those 20,000+ lies!&nbsp; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ez7CvvsywMg&amp;list=PLg2SA6O8kKilps1rGUG4v8yyq_0289tFn&amp;index=17&amp;t=0s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (a blast of protest): <\/font>DUMP TRUMP SONG &#8211; Leigh &amp; The Dumpettes<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/Ez7CvvsywMg\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Amen! Flush!! Kudos to 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 sickly day here in the CatBox.&nbsp; I experimented with a new kind of goop this morning, and sometimes such experiments fail.&nbsp; It blocked my tumor, and I spent most of the morning throwing up.&nbsp; On the plus side, most of my goop experiments have been successful, giving me a variety of tasty things <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/08\/14\/open-thread-8-14-2020\/' 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":[3708,3704,3712,3746,3721,3924,3709,3718,3739,3705,3706,3714,3928],"class_list":["post-40740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-borowitz","tag-cartoon","tag-donald-trump","tag-gop-incompetence","tag-gop-lies","tag-gop-murder","tag-humor","tag-music","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\/40740","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=40740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}