It’s a muggy day, here in the CatBox. It was supposed to be be cloudy, but the sun is on the wall, so there will be no break from the heat wave. I had a ton of paperwork to do this morning, but I still managed to finish my research.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 5:18 (average 6:12). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Takes:
From YouTube (RWW Channel): RWW News: Liz Crokin Says Trump Has Confirmed That ‘Pizzgate Is Real’
Barf Bag Alert!!
When Trump confirms something is real, that proves that it’s bullshit! RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!
From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): President Donald Trump Admin. Won’t Meet Child Reunification Deadline
In reality, those children have rights, but in a Republican Reich all children’s rights end at birth. RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!
From Daily Kos: Trump and the GOP want to hold onto their control of the U.S. Senate more than anything in the world. They want it so bad they were willing to go to Moscow and telegraph their new quarterback, Vladimir Putin, to run the same play he ran in 2016, the one where Russian Internet trolls carpet-bombed Facebook and Twitter, spreading nasty smears about Hillary Clinton and thereby allowing Donald Trump to slither into office. Hell, all Trump had to do for this gesture of friendship was launder a hundred million or so in dirty Russian money and make a few minor foreign policy adjustments. Oh, and find a workaround to those pesky sanctions, too.
You can’t argue with that kind of success. The GOP knows that its base only wants a win, and as Trump demonstrated, it doesn’t matter much to those folks in the heartland how you get there. Besides, their constituents are now practically lining up in red states to learn Russian.
Republicans don’t need to rush to learn Russian. If they have their way, Russian will soon be available in US public schools, where English will be taught only as a second language. RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!
Cartoon:
7 Responses to “Open Thread – 7/10/2018”
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5:15. I needed those sunglasses.
RWW – I wonder if even the statement he has “confirmed” it is true. He does have a few other things on his plate. Oh, I know, that’s never stopped him before.
MSNBC – Yeah, I’ve been following this story. Given how they handled the “separations” (a better word would be “kidnappings”), it really would not have been possible to meet the court-ordered deadlines even if they were trying to do so. Which they aren’t. See my meme below, which was written about Brexit, but certainly applies here. (And I will work on a better version, but it really needs to be put up NOW.
DKos – TC, TC, WHAT are you THINKING! There won’t BE any public schools! Only private schools, and only for those who can aFford them! So they DO have to learn Russian NOW!
Cartoon – Yup. I am finally seeing how it happened that they stole our color – and why.
RESIST AND PERSIST !!!
The Rethuglicanazis want to establish one-party control over the U.S. the way the Communist party controlled the Soviet Union, and how it controls China today. We are, I fear, headed towards an era of fascism – but this time there is no “great white hope” that practices real democracy and has the political and military muscle to stand up to the villains.
Hold on tight, we’re in for one helluva ride. Hope you survive.
BBA: He (dt) doesn’t even have a clue of what he’s saying/doing. Nothing.
MSNBC: He’s responsible for this debauchery, l get ill over this. Anyone else who would do this, would be in jail for life. Sickening!
DK: Frightening!!! Ditto, Freya, I hear ya loud and clear!
Cartoon: ugh!!
Hope that you get a chance to relax this evening, take care, and Thanks, Tom.
RWW: She needs to go back on her psych meds!!
MSNBC: Just last month the Trump administration said it knew how….” That’s all one needs to hear! The bottom line is that ANYTHING the Trump administration says, is bound to be BS!!
DK: Da tovarich!
‘Toon: Precisely!
Puzzle — 5:22 Glasses won’t help me tonight!
Right Wing Watch — What a blithering idiot! She makes no sense! “When Trump confirms something is real, that proves that it’s bullshit!” — AMEN!!!
MSNBC — It appears that the Drumpf régime has done precious little to comply with the court order. As I understand things, this means that the Drumpf régime is in contempt of court for failing to meet the deadline. I also saw an article in which a group, the ACLU perhaps, was suing the Drumpf régime over its failure to reunite the children with their parents. “…those children have rights, but in a Republican Reich all children’s rights end at birth.” — Now ain’t that the truth!
Daily Kos — As Stanley Tucci said in The Devil Wears Prada . . . “Gird your loins people!” A bumpy ride is an understatement. Republicans will try to maintain power in any way necessary.
Cartoon — Ain’t that the truth!
RWW: Every time we look at a clip of those raving lunatics their counters go up and they, and the little real support they have, believe they’re very popular. They help Drumpf manipulate his base, but we aid them too by giving them our attention. For the time being I’m no longer going to waste my precious time on them; reading your comment is information, and revulsion, enough for me right now, TomCat.
MSNBC: The administration is sticking its middle finger up to both the courts, all those protesters out there and to the Democratic part of Congress and the handful of Republicans who demand oversight now. It can’t be a coincidence that the Drumpf administration had the United States joins Iran, North Korea and Eritrea as the only countries that refuse to participate in the world’s most important human rights body last month.
America on the sliding slope to dictatorship and fascism? No, America hit the bottom of that slope right then.
DK: I’m tired of all this, I can’t afford the time and energy to witness America’s downfall, but I’m too scared of the implications it has for the rest of the world to stop following it. But I’m running out of fresh comment, not knowing how to clad the repeats in different words. And now Drumpf is coming to Europe again…have mercy.
Thanks Hot Hugs Amen!