{"id":41615,"date":"2020-10-25T11:05:38","date_gmt":"2020-10-25T18:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=41615"},"modified":"2020-10-25T11:05:38","modified_gmt":"2020-10-25T18:05:38","slug":"open-thread-10-25-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/10\/25\/open-thread-10-25-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 10\/25\/2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It a tired day, here in the CatBox.&nbsp; I hope the Republicosis is now under control, but I still have lots of sleep to catch up.&nbsp; It&#8217;s also a holy day in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb.&nbsp; My Broncos&#8217; game won&#8217;t be televised here, but they&#8217;re playing the team whose most illustrious fan shall not be named.&nbsp; Have a great Sunday!&nbsp; (Later &#8211; the Republicosis is still with us.)<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:13 (average 5:30).&nbsp; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2020-10-25-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click here<\/a>.&nbsp; How did you know?<\/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\/2016\/10\/1025Cartoon.jpg\"><\/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\/10\/1025TrumpVirusMap.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"1025TrumpVirusMap\" 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=\"1025TrumpVirusMap\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/1025TrumpVirusMap_thumb.jpg\" width=\"752\" height=\"453\"><\/a><\/font><\/p>\n<p><strong><font color=\"#ff0000\">US Cases: 8,831,446<br \/>US Deaths: 230,086<br \/>Plus all the Trump*\/GOP plague murders Republicans are hiding<\/font><\/strong>  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/2020\/10\/joe-biden-finds-trumps-19-plan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Crooks and Liars<\/a>: <\/font>Joe Biden has excellent news! He has managed to locate the White House&#8217;s super secret, totally awesome, incredibly strong, very tough, hugely smart and amazing COVID Healthcare Trump White House Plan to combat the Chinese Virus that was totally not Donald Trump&#8217;s fault because the Dear Leader did an amazing job saving 15,000,000 lives through his strong and brilliant leadership that no one else could have matched.<\/p>\n<p>And guys, it is a great plan.  <\/p>\n<p>Please visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trumpcovidplan.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.TrumpCovidPlan.com<\/a> for all the details!  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I have to admit it, he&#8217;s never released a better plan for anything!&nbsp; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font>  <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ozGr4IsTUng\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/snl\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SNL Channel<\/a>): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">Final Debate Cold Open<\/font><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/ozGr4IsTUng\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Having seen both, I assure you that this version if far better than the original debate! For details on the Trump* Plan see the short take from C &amp; L above. I do wish, however, that pseudo-moderator had allowed pseudo-Biden to slap pseudo-Trump* upside the head!!&nbsp; <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=v5tr_L31StI&amp;list=PLGBuKfnErZlBLNzS_JlDAeiH5aW26rvHc&amp;index=24\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a> (a blast from the past): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">Gordon Lightfoot &#8211; If You Could Read My Mind<\/font><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/v5tr_L31StI\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Ah\u2026 the memories! Protest like the 60s!&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 a tired day, here in the CatBox.&nbsp; I hope the Republicosis is now under control, but I still have lots of sleep to catch up.&nbsp; It&#8217;s also a holy day in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb.&nbsp; My Broncos&#8217; game won&#8217;t be televised here, but they&#8217;re playing the team whose most illustrious fan shall <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/10\/25\/open-thread-10-25-2020\/' 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":[3704,3913,3709,3718,3739,3854,3705,3706,3769,3714,3928],"class_list":["post-41615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","tag-cartoon","tag-covid-19","tag-humor","tag-music","tag-protest","tag-republicare","tag-resist","tag-satire","tag-snl","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\/41615","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=41615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}