Open Thread – 10/5/2020

 Posted by at 9:35 am  Open Thread, Personal, Politics
Oct 052020
 

It’s a busy day here in the CatBox.  Diana is coming this morning to check on me, so as long as I have to be up, here is a full Open Thread.  Tomorrow please expect only a minimal Personal Update.  I go to the hospital tomorrow afternoon for my next infusion.  I’ll take the TriMet Lift Bus to the Hospital.  WWWendy will get me home between 6:00 and 6:30, after which we have a full WWWendy day to do.  Therefore it’s likely that I’ll be too tired on Wednesday to do much then either.  Oh God, it’s Monday!

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:14 (average 5:00).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Cartoon:

Trump* Virus Update:

1005TrumpVirusMap

US Cases: 7,639,211
US Deaths: 214,635
Plus all the Trump*/GOP plague murders Republicans are hiding from us

Short Takes:

From Alternet: The case for Medicare for All was once again made by the consequences of the coronavirus pandemic, Sen. Ed Markey tweeted on Sunday, after Republican politicians were able to check themselves into hospitals shortly after announcing they had tested positive for Covid-19.

Markey noted that throughout the coronavirus pandemic, in which more than 7.4 million cases have been detected and more than 209,000 people in the U.S. have died, people have attempted to get care at hospitals after testing positive and showing worsening symptoms, only to be turned away and “told only to come back when they could not breathe.”

“Now politicians are checking into hospitals as a ‘precaution.’ Healthcare should be a right, not a privilege,” Markey wrote. “We need Medicare for All.”

The senator’s statement came a day after former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, a member of the president’s debate prep team this past week, announced he was checking himself into Morristown Medical Center after testing positive on Saturday.

“While I am feeling good and only have mild symptoms, due to my history of asthma we decided this is an important precautionary measure,” Christie tweeted.

This is so typical of RepubliCare, the Republican replacement for ObamaCare. Rich Republicans get care. The rest of us get the RepubliCare Death Benefit. We get to die.  RESIST!!

From YouTube (Parody Project Channel): END OF THE WORLD – a Parody

 

Wonderful, as always, Don! Unless Trump* and the entire Republican Reich are relegated to oblivion, it will be the end of the world… period!  RESIST!!

From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): Questions And Confusion Remain Over Trump’s Health

 

I have no doubt that if Trump* virus kills criminal Fuhrer Trump*, his doctors, the White House staff, and Trump* will all lie about it.  RESIST!!

From YouTube (a blast from the past): Slow Ride- Foghat (Full Version)

 

Ah… the memories! Protest like the 60s!  RESIST!!

Vote Blue No Matter Who Top to Bottom!!

Share

Video Thread 10/2/2020

 Posted by at 3:06 pm  Politics
Oct 022020
 


From the Biden Campaign

Meidas Touch

Really American has two …

The Lincoln Project

This one is 13+ minutes, and it’s about Standing Rock

Beau makes a very good point here. It isn’t easy to think like a stupid person if you aren’t one, but we need to be able to.

RBG Petitions update –
Democratic Conservation Alliance
Fight for Reform (updated)

Share

Open Thread – 9/21/2020

 Posted by at 10:04 am  Open Thread, Personal, Politics
Sep 212020
 

It’s another tired painful day here in the CatBox.  I still have no news on getting my stent.  I wanted to do more today, but I overslept, and I’m just not feeling up to it.  I’m afraid you guys may be carrying the ball until I get my stent and recover more of my strength.  Tonight is a WWWendy night.  Oh God, it’s Monday!

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 2:53 (average 4:21).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Cartoon:

Trump* Virus Update:

0921TrumpVirusMap

Click for interactive maps

US Cases: 7,011,463
US Deaths: 204,167
Plus thousands of Trump’s* GOP plague murders Republicans are hiding from us

Short Takes:

From Crooks and Liars: MAGA Nutjobs Block Entrance To Voting Site In Fairfax, Virginia

These Trumpanzee idiots are protesting IN-PERSON voting, now. Blocking entry to polling places is a felony, by the way.

Am I the only one not surprised? Nevertheless, ‘Trumpanzee’ is an insult to the apes!  RESIST!!

From Alternet:

Aprominent [sic] psychiatrist who spent years studying Nazi Germany has called for mental health professionals to speak out about President Trump’s “falsification of reality” ahead of the election, warning that his attacks on the truth echo those of the Nazis.

Dr. Robert Jay Lifton, distinguished professor emeritus at John Jay College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and a leading psychohistorian who has written extensively about doctors who aided Nazi war crimes, has long called for mental health experts to defy warnings from the American Psychiatric Association (APA) and speak out about Trump’s mental health. Lifton recently published a book entitled “Losing Reality: On Cults, Cultism, and the Mindset of Political and Religious Zealotry” and was one of the 27 mental health experts featured in “The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump,” the bestseller edited by Yale psychiatrist Dr. Bandy X. Lee in which mental health professionals assessed the president.

Lifton told Salon that the book and a Yale conference on the topic began the movement of “psychologists and psychiatrists speaking out against Trump.”

“I spoke about what I called malignant normality that was being imposed on us, and the need to be witnessing professionals who told the truth and oppose the malignant normality,” he said in an interview last week.

Lifton said that Trump’s supporters and enablers exhibit the same “cult-like behavior” that he has studied, adding that the current administration has “Trumpified” every part of the federal government, in much the same way that the German government was “Nazified” under Adolf Hitler.

What other pattern would Republicans follow? I called GW Bush, aka Nincompoop Nazi, the Fuhrer of the 4th Reich. Republicans planned to make him permanent, but when their policies caused the economy to collapse, they abandoned Bush to let Obama inherit their damage and blame him for it. Now they have chosen Trump* as Fuhrer. That he’s a Nazi goes without saying. Being a Nazi a prerequisite to become Fuhrer of the Republican Reich!  RESIST!!

From YouTube (a blast of past protest): Crosby Stills Nash – Carry On / Questions

 

Love that guitar in Questions! Ah… the memories! Protest like the 60s!  RESIST!!

Vote Blue No Matter Who Top to Bottom!!

Share

Open Thread – 9/18/2020

 Posted by at 10:41 am  Open Thread, Personal, Politics
Sep 182020
 

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!

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:14 (average 4:43).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Cartoons:

Trump* Virus Update:

0918TrumpVirusMap

Click for interactive map

US Cases: 6,880,914
US Deaths: 202,307
Plus thousands of Trump’s GOP plague murders Republicans are hiding from us.

These stats come from worldometer, an international organization.  The NY Times also uses their data.  they are more accurate than US (Trump*-muzzled) stats.

Short Takes:

From Daily Kos: A Michigan pastor has been hearing a whole lot from the public recently after sending an email to journalist Sarah Jeong—which was then posted by Jeong on her Twitter account. In the email, the christian (with a little “c”) David Muns threatens Jeong with genital mutilation, calling her a “bitter Asian woman.” The entirety of his statement will be discussed below, and includes graphic language, but those are the broad strokes.

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, 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.

The nasty email that Muns sent reads: “How 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.” 

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!!

From NY Times: When Donald J. Trump first ran for the White House, he promised to “come up with a great health plan,” 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.

Once elected, he swore he had a “wonderful plan” and would be “putting it in fairly soon.”

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, 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 “people like me who work hard” insured — and cut him off when he tried to interrupt her.

“We’re going to be doing a health care plan very strongly, and protect people with pre-existing conditions,” Mr. Trump told her, adding, “I have it all ready, and it’s a much better plan for you.”

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!!

From YouTube (a blast of past protest): People Got To Be Free – The Rascals

 

Ah… the memories!  Protest like the 60s!  RESIST!!

Share

Video Thread 9/15/2020

 Posted by at 12:12 pm  Politics
Sep 152020
 

Really American – their take on the Woodward revelations

Meidas Touch – Doing its best to pin the pedophile label where it belongs.

The Lincoln Project – Regarding the $800 million which has “disappeared.”

Teaser from Lester Holt’s Vindman interview. You can also read about it.

Robert Reich – Racism is profitable. For years I have been predicting another French Revolution-style event here. It has not happened, and I am starting to see why it won’t. France did not have a large minority of black and/or brown people whom they could exploit to divide the poor and pit them against each other. So there was much less preventing those people from uniting as one. How are we going to surmount the fact that we do?

Beau defines the term “failed state” and shows why it is being applied.

Share

Open Thread – 9/15/2020

 Posted by at 11:13 am  Open Thread, Personal, Politics
Sep 152020
 

It’s a painful day here in the CatBox, and this is my only article.  I don’t know whether this is a side effect of the inflammation from my treatment or a sign that my disease is getting worse, but I feel completely worn out; I am still having trouble eating, because my esophagus feels raw; and my back pain is worse.  Tonight is a WWWendy night.  What I do tomorrow will have to depend on how I feel.  Tuesday is flush your Republicans day, and I’m sure I’ll be making a throne run before I publish this (success).

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:01 (average 4:38).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Cartoon:

Trump* Virus Update:

0915TrumpVirusMap

US Cases: 6,751,113
US Deaths: 199,148
Plus thousands of Trump’s* plague murder victims Republicans are hiding from us

Religious Agony:

0914Broncos14-Titans16

Stinking Orb! 🙁

Short Takes:

From NY Times: The top communications official at the powerful cabinet department in charge of combating the coronavirus made outlandish and false accusations on Sunday that career government scientists were engaging in “sedition” in their handling of the pandemic and that left-wing hit squads were preparing for armed insurrection after the election.

Michael R. Caputo, the assistant secretary of public affairs at the Department of Health and Human Services, accused the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of harboring a “resistance unit” determined to undermine President Trump, even if that opposition bolsters the Covid-19 death toll.

Mr. Caputo, who has faced intense criticism for leading efforts to warp C.D.C. weekly bulletins to fit Mr. Trump’s pandemic narrative, suggested that he personally could be in danger from opponents of the administration. “If you carry guns, buy ammunition, ladies and gentlemen, because it’s going to be hard to get,” he urged his followers.

He went further, saying his physical health was in question, and his “mental health has definitely failed.”

There is only one word to describe this asshole: Republican. See the following Short Take.  RESIST!!

From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): Sketchy Trump Official Reportedly Hijacking CDC Scientific Reports On Coronavirus

 

Why is it that Trump* seems to have an infinite supply of criminals who carry out the vile wishes of their Fuhrer and the Republican Reich? This is why we can’t trust CDC stats anymore.  For that matter, we could trust NOTHING from the Republican Reich, long before they selected Trump* as Fuhrer.  RESIST!!

From YouTube (a blast of past protest): Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is A Season) – 45 RPM – ORIGINAL MONO MIX

 

Ecclesiastes needs updating to include ‘a time to flush Republicans’! Protest like the 60s!  RESIST!!

Vote Blue No Matter Who Top to Bottom!!

Share

Video Thread 9/14/2020

 Posted by at 1:27 pm  Politics
Sep 142020
 

Eleven Films – Right on, of course. As far as it goes. It doesn’t help to deal with impersonators and the liars who publicize guilt which doesn’t exist.

The Lincoln Project – I hopes this sinks in.

Beau was asked a question about bringing up children, which, as he points out, involves treating them as adults. He also points out that his recommendations may help deprogram Trump* supporters, if and when we get the chance.

A New Randy Rainbow! (tune courtesy of Jule Styne)

Share
 Older Entries  Newer Entries