It’s a very tired day here in the CatBox. Yesterday’s trip was a success, but the trip exhausted me. I am Big Time pooped. The doctor and I were on the same page. Since my cancer cells did not react favorably to immunotherapy, and the best chemo regimen would fill my home with Republicosis, I asked her of there was another chemo drug that would not cause such a severe reaction. She had anticipated my request and there is: Docetaxel. They will install an infusion port in my chest and pump me full of chemo goop every two weeks. It will give me nausea, but they have meds to help that. I will lose my hair. If it’s effective, I should have a year. If not, I may make it six months. That’s the plan. Tuesday is flatulence at Republicans day. Ready… Aim… FIRE!!
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 3:05 (average 4:30). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Cartoon:
Trump* Virus Update:
Cases: 164,798
Deaths: 3,178
Recovered: 5,507
Short Takes:
From Daily Kos: Donald Trump called in to Fox & Friends Monday morning and openly admitted that if more people vote, Republicans will lose. Democrats are pushing for vote by mail so that people don’t have to risk coronavirus to exercise their right to vote. Asked about “special interest projects” added to coronavirus relief bills, that is right where Trump’s mind went.
“The things they had in there were crazy,” he said. “They had levels of voting that if you ever agreed to it you’d never have a Republican elected in this country again.” You might think it’s amazing to hear a politician in a democracy saying that democracy is bad, but Trump joins a long line of Republicans saying that too much voting is bad.
Criminal Fuhrer Trump* is not the first Republican to voice this sentiment, and he won’t be the last. Republicans want to make the Fifth Reich permanent and establish a National Socialist plutocracy in which elections are only for show, because Republicans control who gets to vote. RESIST!!
From The New Yorker: In a conversation over the weekend that reportedly left the President “shaken,” Dr. Anthony Fauci warned Donald Trump that if everyone in the United States dies, it would adversely affect his television ratings.
Although Fauci was quick to add that the everyone-dying scenario was purely hypothetical, he stressed that, from a medical perspective, alive people were more likely than dead ones to watch television.
According to a source familiar with the conversation, the possible impact of covid-19 fatalities on Trump’s ratings “totally blindsided” the President, who immediately convened an emergency meeting of the White House Coronavirus Task Force.
“It’s time you losers started taking this situation seriously,” Trump reportedly barked. “Especially you, Pence.”
I wondered why criminal Fuhrer Trump flip-flopped to support social distancing. Andy has explained it. RESIST!!
From YouTube (a blast from the past): Status Quo – Pictures Of Matchstick Men
I hope that those of you who had not heard some of my psychedelic hippie music are enjoying it. Ah… the memories! RESIST!!
Vote Blue No Matter Who Top to Bottom!!
9 Responses to “Open Thread–3/31/2020”
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Time, and comfort, long enough to celebrate Dumpshit’s incarceration, would be best. But, at least his removal from office.
‘Toon: I will/we will celebrate the last of the GOP in office! That will be THE DAY!
DK: If not for cheating, lying, breaking the law, we’d never have had St. Reagan, or the subsequent assholes!
New Yorker: I can se Dumpy having to really think* hard to see the flaw in Fauci’s argument.
BFTP: I like me some psychedelic hippie music!
Cartoon: How wonderful for him to be able to do so. R’s – of course they would, ugh! Perth Amboy is a lovely little town that I used to hang out in the summer…years ago.
TVU: We are @6, pray to God it doesn’t get any worse for anyone living in other states.
DK: Hey, I’m all for national mail in voting!! We’ve done that for several years now, (me & hubs).
NYer: LOL, Andy. LOL
BFTP: Great song!!
Glad to read that you and your doctor are on the same page, and that things work out for you having a port. I also pray, and hope that it’s effective for you. Get your rest, Tom, and take good, good care.
*This just in: “Need money and supplies for your state? Tell me I’m pretty.” dt
2. “How many ventilators could we buy with the $133 million we blew on dt’s golf vacations? ~ Carol W. ~
3. “Question that would be great if asked: “If you inherited a broken system, why did you do nothing to fix it the first 3 years of your administration?” ~ Ben Stiller ~
4. “Trump displays the latest testing equipment UPSIDE down (@ yesterday’s briefing)! Why? Because the front was facing him when he was standing..not forward for everyone to see. That’s who he is!! ~ Kevin O. ~
5. Question – “Dear Press Corps – “Can you ask trump (Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces), what are you doing about the CVN-71 Theodore Roosevelt and the Covid19 they have on board?” ~ Robert E. ~
p.s. The carrier arrived in Guam. At least 36 sailors aboard the Navy aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt have now tested positive. 5K will be tested. pb
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/23-sailors-us-navy-aircraft-carrier-test-positive/story?id=69818040
#3 – I expect Jerry is proud of him, and that Anne is looking down with pride as well.
It sounds like you and Evelyn have touched all bases. Love and hugs and prayers.
Cartoon – I’ll celebrate the last Republican who votes.
Map -Yes. What else can I say?
DKos – His base is too dumb to figure out what that means – that the majority of Americans eschew Republicans and all their works and ways. Because Republicans are evil.
TNY – Sounds like pretty straight news to me. Sigh.
Past – Don’t they say, “If you remember the sixties – you weren’t there”?
Cartoon: Glad he did. Agree with Joanne to celebrate the last R who votes.
TVU: It’s up to 734 here that’s 131 more than yesterday.
DK: tRump and his R’s are evil. I’m all for mail in voting too.
NY: Seems like there’s something definitely wrong with the idiot tRump, when it comes to listening to truth and letting it sink in. It’s like these professional have to knock it into him.
BFTP: Don’t recognize this one.
Glad that you and your Oncologist came up with a plan that will be easier on you, Tom.
Will continue to pray for you.
Take care. Thanks TomCat
“Tuesday is flatulence at Republicans day. Ready… Aim… FIRE!!”
Two things:
[1] Improve your damn aim!
[2] At least have a little consideration, and add some baby powder!
Glad you and your oncologist are on the same page; given the circumstances, there’s little else to do but try the Docetaxel and hope it can keep a promise. We’re all here hoping with you.
Update: Trump has his second triumph; the number of deaths in the US now surpasses that of China.
DK: Again Trump’s reaction is true to Republican for, isn’t it. And it is exactly what Republicans want to hear. To hell with democracy.
TNY: This isn’t satire, Andy, this is a very reasonable explanation of one of Trump’s innumerable flip-flops. As always it’s all about him and his ego.
BFTP: English Status Quo did very well with this song in Europe but soon left the psychedelic road for very straight rock&roll which made them even more popular there. In fact, they’re still touring, I think.
Thanks and Pooped Hump Day Hugs to all.
Tom, I wish you all the best. Thanks for the posts! Believe or not I still have a 45 single of The Status Quo’s Pictures of Matchstick Men.