It’s a busy day here in the CatBox, and I’m running behind after thirty minutes of filling my throne with recalcitrant Republicans. Tomorrow please expert no more than a Personal Update or an Open Thread. WWKristin is filling in for WWWendy. Have a great weekend, and flush your Republicans!
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 2:49 (average 4:19). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Cartoon:
Trump* Virus Map:
US Cases: 3,771,101
US Deaths: 142,080
Short Takes:
From The New Yorker: Alleging that it “has treated me very unfairly,” Donald J. Trump announced on Friday that he is suing the coronavirus.
“This is a very nasty virus, and by that I mean it has been nasty to me personally,” Trump told reporters. “I never thought that there could be anything more terrible than Jim Acosta, but the coronavirus is like an invisible Jim Acosta.”
Offering a preview of his lawsuit, Trump said that he was accusing the coronavirus of meddling in the 2020 election.
“You look at the numbers and, every time the virus’s numbers go up, my numbers go down,” he said. “This virus is trying to rig the election for Sleepy Joe.”
Dang, Andy! If criminal Fuhrer Trump* is so afraid for his political future, why didn’t he take the needed steps to control Trump* virus in the beginning? That it’s making him even more distasteful to voters is the only good thing about his Republican plague! RESIST!!
From YouTube (CNN Channel): Ruth Bader Ginsburg announces cancer recurrence
Please remember RBG in your thoughts, wishes, prayers, or however you address the infinite. She a bastion of freedom, and we need her. Furthermore, God forbid that criminal Fuhrer Trump* should get to appoint another Fascist Republican Injustice to SCROTUS (Republican anti-Constitutional VD)! RESIST!!
From YouTube (a blast from labor): I’m Sticking With the Union
Except for Republican police unions, support labor! RESIST!!
Vote Blue No Matter Who Top to Bottom!!
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Best to WWKristin and to you getting stuff done.
John Lewis – Rest In Power. And C. T. Vivian also.
RVAT – incidentally, they have WAY more personal testimonials than professional ads. If it’s worth it to you to comb through looking for one that might convince a friend or relative, here’s the link.
Beau on Portland. I really hope he’s right. I fear we are up against something more devious than the Brits.
The opera last night was “La Cenerentola” (Cinderella with a few twists), and, as I was watching the second-to-last numbered section (#39), I couldn’t help but think, “And that is why you don’t try to forgive Republicans.” Rossini (and his librettist) really nailed the Republican stepsisters and (in this version) stepfather.
Lincoln Project “New”
Lincoln Project “Story Hour #3”
Meidas Touch
Cartoon – For sure.
Map – Another milestone – 3-3/4 million – passed.
TNY – Sounds about right.
CNN/RBG – I’ve been following, and been praying. She knows how critical her presence is and she will not give up of her own volition – and she’s a tough cookie – but that doesn’t mean we don’t need to pray (or whatever.)
Past – YAY!
RVAT: Did we just hear from one of those parallel universes some cosmologists hypothesize?
Beau: “It’s in the manual, you don’t do this.” Because it creates blowback, and energizes the very people you want to intimidate. “Backfire?” Some of the time they create a real revolution. I think I see where he is going. There was a long article I saw recently, and maybe he read it too, about how that is the lesson of Ireland. Excuse me if I seem to be repeating him, but I am pausing him, and writing, as he goes along.
LP, “New”: Like Mary Trump said, she is “less than useless.”
Story Hour: Like I said somewhere, recently, Putin, and the others he crawls behind, are substitute Daddies!
Meidas:”We don’t want CDC guidance to be a reason,” for anything! Bunch of bastards!
The actual manual he is talking about is called Field Manual 3-24 (in a later vid he says “42” but he must be a tad dyslectic.) You can find it at archive dot org – several versions actually – I glanced at the DHS version, which is 282 pages. The title is “Counterinsurgency.” I didn’t even try to find the actual place where i said “Don’t do this, it will blow up in your face,” but I believe him that it’s there.
Great videos.
Both Lincoln Project videos show such brainless/heartless acts of tRump and Ivanka.
Meidas Touch video: Despicable that tRump and his cronies are out to kill the school age kids. Besides the students, that the parents, teachers and school officials would be at risk too.
Thanks Joanne
good luck to you and all the WW that help you…..
Cartoon: Oh! but of course!
TVU: 752 Texans died from Covid19 in all of June. Halfway through July, 1008 already have died.
NYer: Can’t argue about that, and dt’s actions on this. Pathetic, and sickening.
CNN: I pray for RBG every single day, and for her strength to carry on!
BFTP: Great! song!!
Hi, WWKristin! Hope that you have a good rest of your day, get in a nap, and take good care, Thanks, Tom.
This just in: “Chris Wallace was talking about the interview, and he said that Trump did get the charter and found all kinds of stuff that dt had to complain about, and did not find the ‘defund police’, because it’s not there. He also complained about the heat, and whose idea was it to have the interview outside, when in fact it was HIS IDEA.” ~ Bev H. ~
2. “Whoops! Clean up on aisle Trump!” ~ Bad B. ~
3. “Rupert Murdoch’s son, James and his wife drop more than 1.2M $$$ to Biden’s campaign.” ~ Linda B. ~
4. “The difference between that anecdote and other things I see happening, is most of the time people don’t correct him, which completely plays into his hand because then he can do it with impunity.” ~ Mary Trump ~
5. “One of our Beloved has gone home to rest. America celebrates Mr. Lewis, our Hero. Rest well and in Peace, Mr. Lewis. *pb*
Thanks, Joanne for the videos.
Meidas Touch: Hits my heart.
Hi Krisitn!
‘Toon: “And then, in one simple phrase, Orwell delivers one of the most heartbreaking lines in literature: ‘He loved Big Brother.’
TVU: People are worried about a 2nd wave, in the fall. I think we won’t be done with the first one, by then.
New Yorker: I did not know that Andy is a clairvoyant!
CNN: RBG says that she is responding to the chemo. PLEASE!
BFL: Love it!
Cartoon: Exactly the way these fools preach.
TVU: Scary to still see it continue climbing at such a rapid speed., everywhere.
TNY: Poor tRumpy…his numbers are going down. What does he expect when he doesn’t give a hoot about our health? I’m praying that the people get this fool voted out of office in November.
CNN; RBG is one powerful lady. I pray that the chemo helps her fight this cancer again.
BFTP: Great one.
Good luck tomorrow with Kristin, hope everything goes nice and smooth for you both.
Take care Thanks TomCat
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Sounds like you’re having a reasonable weekend, TomCat. Continue to take it as easy as possible.
3:44 Too hot to handle.
Cartoon: straight from Trump’s campaign texts.
Update: Straight for 4 million, if we can believe the figures.
NYT: Surreal and not funny; the more people get infected with COVID-19, and as a result, the more people die, the more Trump’s numbers go down. So now it has come to that; it has to take nearly 150,000 deaths and millions of people in fear of their life for Trump to finally become unpopular with some of his own base. It takes more people killed by a virus than in a war to finally have a handful of Trumpians see the light. How many deaths will it take before they all turn on him?
CNN: Dear RBG. I know you’ll fight this tooth and nail, as you have so many times before, and you’ll do everything to hang in there in SCOTUS until a Democrat sits in the Oval Office again. You’ll do all humanly possible to prevent Trump from appointing a Trumpian in your place and stay in office until January 2021 because you know McConnell will not prevent him from doing this lame-duck from doing so. I know you must be so tired, dear Ruth, but please, for America’s sake, find the strength to fight for another six months.
Thanks and Hurry Hugs to all!