{"id":41161,"date":"2020-09-18T10:41:04","date_gmt":"2020-09-18T17:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=41161"},"modified":"2020-09-18T10:41:04","modified_gmt":"2020-09-18T17:41:04","slug":"open-thread-9-18-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/09\/18\/open-thread-9-18-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread – 9\/18\/2020"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s another sick painful day here in the CatBox.  Since I have to be up for Diana’s visit, I might as well put the time to good use with this article, but this is my only article today.  Tomorrow, please expect no more than a Personal Update.  WWWendy is coming a day late, because she works her bartending job tonight, and Diana can change my patch when she’s here.  I’ll finish after Diana comes.  Diana thinks I should call in.  She does not think they’ll send me to the hospital.  She thinks they’ll just set me up with the stent surgeon.  TGIF!<\/font><\/p>\n

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

Today’s took me 3:14 (average 4:43).  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

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Trump* Virus Update<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

\"0918TrumpVirusMap\"<\/font><\/p>\n

Click for interactive map<\/a><\/p>\n

US Cases: 6,880,914
US Deaths: 202,307
Plus thousands of Trump’s GOP plague murders Republicans are hiding from us.<\/strong><\/font> <\/p>\n

These stats come from worldometer<\/a>, an international organization.  The NY Times also uses their data.  they are more accurate than US (Trump*-muzzled) stats.<\/font> <\/p>\n

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

From Daily Kos<\/a>: <\/font>A Michigan pastor has been hearing a whole lot from the public recently after sending an email to journalist Sarah Jeong\u2014which was then posted<\/a> by Jeong on her Twitter account. In the email, the christian (with a little \u201cc\u201d) David Muns threatens Jeong with genital mutilation, calling her a \u201cbitter Asian woman.\u201d The entirety of his statement will be discussed below, and includes graphic language, but those are the broad strokes.<\/p>\n

Muns was supposedly responding to a meme that attributed a fake quote to Jeong, from her time on The New York Times editorial board. Someone (or someones) spent a good amount of time coming up with some wildly awful things to say about white folks and white children<\/a>, and then attributed them all to Jeong. These quotes were debunked back in 2018, but Muns, not much for reading deeply into things, clearly missed the memo. <\/p>\n

The nasty email that Muns sent reads<\/a>: \u201cHow about if we took all the little bitter Asian women and had a lottery and cut their clits like the Muslims do. Not a very classy position is it, neither is your trashy little bitter personality towards white men. Only in a world where journalism is controlled by brain dead Liberals do you people even have jobs.\u201d  <\/p>\n

If I were not feeling so bad, this typical Republican pseudo-Christian (the exact opposite of a real Christian) POS would get a parade! What a jerk!  RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font> <\/p>\n

From NY Times<\/a>: <\/font>When Donald J. Trump first ran for the White House, he promised to \u201ccome up with a great health plan,\u201d one that would repeal the Affordable Care Act but replace it with something better while maintaining its biggest selling point: protecting people with pre-existing medical conditions. <\/p>\n

Once elected, he swore he had a \u201cwonderful plan\u201d and would be \u201cputting it in fairly soon.\u201d <\/p>\n

On Tuesday night, President Trump was at it again, during a town-hall-style meeting broadcast on ABC, where he was schooled by Ellesia Blaque,<\/a> an assistant professor of Africana and ethnic literatures at Kutztown University in Pennsylvania. She told him she had a congenital illness, demanded to know what he would do to keep \u201cpeople like me who work hard\u201d insured \u2014 and cut him off when he tried to interrupt her. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re going to be doing a health care plan very strongly, and protect people with pre-existing conditions,\u201d Mr. Trump told her, adding, \u201cI have it all ready, and it\u2019s a much better plan for you.\u201d <\/p>\n

Amen. This lie is old bullshit. The only “health care” plan we’ll ever see from Trump* and\/or the Republican Reich is RepubliCare. Those who can pay get overpriced care. Those who can’t pay get the RepubliCare Death Benefit. They get to die.  RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font> <\/p>\n

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From YouTube<\/a> (a blast of past protest): <\/font>People Got To Be Free – The Rascals<\/font><\/p>\n