{"id":40866,"date":"2020-08-23T10:42:16","date_gmt":"2020-08-23T17:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=40866"},"modified":"2020-08-23T10:43:05","modified_gmt":"2020-08-23T17:43:05","slug":"open-thread-8-23-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/08\/23\/open-thread-8-23-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread – 8\/23\/2020"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s a crazy Sunday, here in the CatBox.\u00a0 I overslept by over 90 minutes, so that was my AM nap.\u00a0 Have a fine Sunday!<\/span><\/p>\n

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

Today’s took me 3:19 (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:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"0823TrumpVirusMap\"<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Click for Interactive Map<\/a><\/p>\n

US Cases: 5,844,432
\nUS Deaths: 180,228
\nPlus all the GOP plague murder victims Republicans are hiding from us.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Showdown at Chicken Liver Gulch<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n

Yesterday, there was some hilarity here.\u00a0 At my request WWWendy saut\u00e9ed and gooped some chicken livers.\u00a0 Now Wendy’s opinion of liver is considerably worse than my opinion of Trump*.<\/span>\u00a0 It was delicious, and I had some for lunch with guacamole, aka goopamole.\u00a0 I often feed her bites of goopamole, when\u00a0 I eat it, so I did so yesterday.\u00a0 I had teasingly asked her if she’d like a bite of liver to see the strength of her NO<\/strong>!\u00a0 So when I offered her the goopamole, she decided that I was using goopamole to hide the liver underneath.\u00a0 Although I have never done anything mean to her, it took me several minutes to convince her that I would not do such a thing, and she enjoyed the goopamole.\u00a0 In fact, I was so considerate that I gargled with Listerine, so I could hug her goodbye without liver on my breath.\u00a0 It was so good, I had more for breakfast.<\/span><\/p>\n

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

From CNN<\/a>: <\/span>Maryanne Trump Barry bitterly criticized her brother, President Donald Trump, saying, “Donald’s out for Donald,” and appeared to confirm her niece Mary Trump’s previous allegations that he had a friend take his SATs to get into college, according to audio excerpts obtained by CNN.<\/p>\n

The Washington Post<\/a> first obtained the previously unreleased transcripts and audio from Mary Trump, author of a recent bombshell book about the President and one of his most outspoken critics. Mary Trump, who has said that Donald Trump is unfit to be president and has voiced support for his rival Joe Biden, revealed to the Post that she had secretly taped 15 hours of face-to-face conversations with Barry in 2018 and 2019.<\/p>\n

In one of the conversations revealed by the Post, Trump’s sister called him “cruel.”<\/p>\n

Among the some of the more critical comments made by Barry was commenting on how her younger 74-year-old brother operated as president. “His goddamned tweet and lying, oh my God,” she said, according to the recording. “I’m talking too freely, but you know. The change of stories. The lack of preparation. The lying. Holy shit.”<\/p>\n

This is nothing new to us, but it might influence those few, who are still on the fence.\u00a0 RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n

From NY Times<\/a>: <\/span>Tropical Storms Marco and Laura continued to churn in the Caribbean on Saturday, prompting a wave of warnings and watches for several countries, and leading the governor of Louisiana to declare a state of emergency.<\/p>\n

Marco on Saturday was about 110 miles northwest of the western tip of Cuba, with maximum sustained winds of 65 miles per hour, the National Hurricane Center<\/a> said on Saturday night.<\/p>\n

Mr. Cline said it was possible that both storms would become hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico as early as Monday<\/strong>. He added that it would be \u201cpretty unusual\u201d and that the last time it happened was in 1933. The last time a hurricane and a tropical storm were both in the Gulf of Mexico was in 1959<\/strong>, he said…[emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n

Note that for the second time, criminal Fuhrer Trump* has stolen FEMA funds to pay for his scams. First, he did so in 2019 to pay for the wall that never happened. Second, he did so to pay for the Unemployment relief that nobody received. I doubt that he will put the money back, even though hurricanes are on the way.\u00a0 RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/span><\/p>\n

From YouTube<\/a> (a blast of protest): <\/span>“He’s Got Bone Spurs” a Roy Zimmerman song parody<\/p>\n