Long seasons

Posted April 3, 2026 by left coast sports babe
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Ugly SF Giants game.

Well at least Shawn Estes didn’t have to worry about being accidentally soaked by Willy Adames with Gatorade tonight.

IYKYK

(And hey New York fans, we may not have had pizza rat in SF. But we have pizza seagulls…

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Headline should be that South Carolina upset previously undefeated UConn. 62-48.

Not even close.


But much of the media and headlines focused on Geno Auriemma’s tantrum about the referees and claiming he didn’t getting a pre-game handshake.

Men leaders can be so emotional…

(Geno also said “And they’ve been beating the s— out of our guys down there the entire game. I’m not making excuses….. Uh, 1, that is an excuse. 2. you’re coaching WOMEN, not guys.)

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So is Trump now really serious about Alcatraz being reopened or is this just the latest segment in “Operation Distract from the Epstein Files?”

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The FAA just singled out San Francisco International Airport’s perfectly workable parallel runway landings and banned them…even in good weather

They’ve only been allowed in clear weather when BOTH pilots acknowledge each other.)

(One excuse was the helicopter – plane collision near National, and near misses, but helicopters don’t use SFO.)

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And now Trump is talking again about turning Alcatraz into a prison… On top of all the other insanity Alcatraz is one of the very top tourist draws to San Francisco.

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Is this part of Donald TRYING to hurt a city that hates him?

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Headline “Trump plans spending $377M on executive residence renovations – and wants $174M more

So we can’t afford daycare for actual children? But we can afford $551 MILLION for Velveeta Voldemort’s White House playpen?!

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The Labor Dept said US economy added 178,000 jobs in March, but they also revised February numbers from a drop of 92,000 down to a drop of 133,000 jobs. So when will they revise March numbers? And do we believe ANYTHING Trump’s labor department says?

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Pete Hegseth repeatedly mocks “rules of engagement.”

But now that a US pilot is missing and possibly captured, a reminder, rules of engagement don’t just protect people we go to war against, they also protect OUR troops.

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Oops they did it again

Posted April 3, 2026 by left coast sports babe
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Fortunately for Stanford, the Crown Basketball Tournament is not nationally televised.

(Yeah, I know the “Crown Basketball Tournament,” I hadn’t heard of it either.)

But Stanford was up with 3 with 9 seconds to go, missed a game clinching field goal, and then while trying to foul to avoid a game-tying 3 pointer, managed to foul a West Virgina player heaving the ball from half court. He then hit all three fouls and the Mountaineers won in OT.

But yeah, Cayden Boozer’s bad pass almost looks good by comparison)

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Not a good night for Los Angeles NBA Teams. Lakers lost by over 40 to the Thunder, and lost Luka to a hamstring injury. Then the Clippers faced the Spurs with Wemby resting, and lost by 20.

Might almost make you feel sorry for Los Angeles sports fans. Except… the Dodgers.

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CBS News first reported Pete Hegseth has asked highest-ranking (& much decorated) US Army officer, General Randy George, to resign immediately amid the Iran war.

Because nothing is so confidence boosting as changing leadership in the middle of a war you say you’ve won.

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Only reason for Pete Hegseth to fire top generals in middle of a war is that they refused to follow orders.

Only reason well-respected generals would refuse to follow DOD Secretary’s orders was that those orders were insane.

Americans are going to die for Pete & Donald’s egos.

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Wonder if Donald Trump realizes…

That Bruce Springsteen has a Oscar, a Tony and a Grammy (Plus Emmy nominations.)

More real awards than Donald will ever have.

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So Trump actually fired Pam Bondi… Not for being an awful AG. But for not being awful enough. Who can Donald find- and get confirmed- to be worse?

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Now bodycam footage shows Tiger Woods on the phone before he would talk to police after his latest crash. He then told officers: ‘I was just talking with the President.”

Was Tiger asking for a pardon or to be named Secretary of Transportation.

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Just saying, if Trump had carefully considered firing Pam Bondi he’d have a new nominee ready to announce today.

So either he put as much planning into this as he did into bombing Iran.

Or maybe he can’t find anyone to take the job?

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Apparently Trump considering nominating a conservative GOP Senator to take over as AG for Pam Bondi.

Let’s see, give up safe seat in US Senate to accept a job that if confirmed will destroy your reputation & you’ll still end up thrown under bus.

Sounds like a great offer.

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Not just fares & fuel surcharges going up.

United Airlines just announced 1st & 2nd checked bag fees fees will increase by $10 USD for travel within the US, or to Mexico or Canada.

For family of 4 each with a bag, that’s $80 added to their vacation price.

Trump war surcharge?

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Trump – It’s “not possible for the federal government to help pay for daycare when “we’re fighting wars.”

Democrats could pay a million dollars to a consultant and not come up with a line for a campaign ad as good as that.

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20 minutes

Posted April 2, 2026 by left coast sports babe
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Okay, does anyone believe that Donald Trump in his right mind would have abandoned a prime time stage with all networks agreeing to cover it in less than an hour

And yes, it was barely 20 minutes…

An eternity in sports. Nothing in speech time.

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Very few positive ways to spin tonight’s rambling wreck on Iran, where Donald looked & sounded really old.

IF smart people around Trump see his decline and want to push him out, then suggesting he should make that prime time speech might have been an opening salvo…

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When “sundown” trends this time of year, we should be thinking “Passover.”

Instead, how many millions of us figure it refers to the current President of the United States?

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If anyone’s plan was to drink everytime Trump lies tonight hhey probably passed out in the first five minutes…

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The #PresidentialAddress SHOULD be The Gardens Court in Palm Beach Gardens.

Just looked it up, less than 20 minutes from Mar-A-Lago and it’s rated one of the top nursing homes in the country.

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Very few positive ways to spin tonight’s rambling wreck on Iran, where Donald looked & sounded really old.

IF smart people around Trump see his decline and want to push him out, then suggesting he should make that prime time speech might have been an opening salvo…

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Donald’s now saying this Iran war is not a big deal because World War I and II, and other wars lasted years…

And his war is “nearing completion.”

I’m sure that’s a comfort to the military who will actually be facing death, and their families.

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So per the NY Times, President Trump has discussed firing Pam Bondi.

Not because she’s awful.

But because she’s not being awful enough.

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As Ron DeSantis tries to out-Trump Trump with Florida voter suppression law…which will probably be blocked anyway.

Does he realize how many Republicans vote by mail?

And how many have moved from other states & thus may have a harder time obtaining the proof of citizenship?

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As Don Jr. shared a headline “NATO didn’t show up — now Trump’s asking why we stay.”

Actually NATO’s Article 5 has been invoked exactly once, on America’s behalf. After 9-11

Putin must be so proud of his puppets.-

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All these MAGA type who are cheering Pete Hegseth’s decision not to investigate military helicopter pilots who did a fly by at Kid Rocks’ house.

I am sure they’d be equally sanguine about it if some liberal helicopter pilot does the same for Jane Fonda or Bruce Springsteen.

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Is it just possible that Wednesday’s lost and rambling speech by Donald Trump trying to justify his Iran war may go down in history as more damaging to his Presidency as Joe Biden’s 2024 debate performance was to his?

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It comes with the terrority…

Posted April 1, 2026 by left coast sports babe
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Headlne after listening to Nathan Lane talking about “Death of a Salesman”

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And meanwhile, a week into 162 game season, most MLB teams can dream.

Well, okay, not the As. Marlins, White Sox, but you get the point.

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Meanwhile, for at least a night, SF Giants fans remembered that baseball could be FUN.

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Tiger Woods just announced he’s stepping away from golf to seek treatment and focus on his health.

Hoping this means he’s also stepping away from driving, before he kills someone.

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Donald is so obsessed on his White House ballroom almost beginning to wonder if he views it as his future memorial and tomb?

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When Trump is finally gone from the White House will any phrase have been so degraded in general popular usages as “two weeks?”

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As Donald keeps threatening to cut off Federal money to states who don’t obey his mad demands, at what point does it occur to state governments that the Feds get that money FROM states. Mostly blue states.

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Hey MAGA

Would like to interrupt your “liberal judge bashing” for a simple fact:

The judge who blocked Trump’s “ballroom,” Richard J. Leon was appointed in 2002 by President George W.Bush.

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Trump telling European allies that the closed Strait of Hormuz is saying something Europe needs to fix is like an arsonist lobbing a flame grenade into their neighbor’s yard and then saying the resulting fire is not their problem.

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I don’t care if Kristi Noem’s husband wears women’s clothing.

I do care that the President of the United States has been credibly accused of being a rapist pedophile.

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Psst… every news story on Trump’s abominable planned future library is a news story not focusing on his even more abominable presence in the Epstein files…

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In Jan 2026, United Airlines “fuel surcharge” for business class ticket to Europe from SFO was $2130.00
Late Feb it was $2150.00
When war started it jumped to $2700.
Today it’s $2805
How long until $3K
If Trump’s war ever ends, how slowly will “fuel surcharge” go down? If ever

And yes, similiar level increases are happening even for the lowest fares.

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CNN paid Trump pundit Scott Jennings today

“I simply cannot understand why people are so angry about a ballroom that future Presidents will enjoy and is 100% privately funded. President Trump could save a kitten from a tree and it would still be a scandal.”

As if Donald would save a kitten from anything? Heck, he’d probably run over a kitten who had the audacity to run in front of his golf cart on a Trump course.

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It’s a start

Posted March 30, 2026 by left coast sports babe
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The Giants got a win! The Giants got a win.

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Yep, the SF Giants will not go 0-162 in 2026. (They beat the Padres 3-2)

And for that matter the NY Yankees will not go undefeated. (They lost to the Mariners.)

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Meanwhile in the NBA, 7 games left in an 82 game season… and all the 20 teams who will be at least in the play-in game are already decided. Yes, there’s jockeying for some seeding. But seven games left and the ten lottery teams are already decided..

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Whatever Florida gets up to, some of us still refer to DCA local airport only as NATIONAL. Not by name of President who fired all air traffic controllers & seriously messed up flights in USA for years.

Same way it will always be PBI to many of us. Not Velveeta Voldemort’s name.

When she was slammed in a House committee about lack of indictments in the Epstein Case, Pam Bondi responded “The Dow is over 50,000 right now.”

The Dow is now about 45,000. Can we talk about indictments?

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A Washington Post poll indicates that 56% of Americans believe President Donald Trump lacks the mental sharpness to serve effectively.
And that’s with about a third of Americans getting news from Fox News and/or right wing social media.

Some concerned that Trump building a bunker under his new ballroom will me he’ll never leave.

Not that I would put it past him. But all we have to do is wait until he goes to Mar A Lago then change the locks.

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Mistakes were made

Posted March 29, 2026 by left coast sports babe
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Cayden Boozer should’ve tried to advance ball & been fouled instead of reckless pass. OTOH he didn’t blow 19 pt lead by himself As San Antonio Spurs fan tired of hearing team’s too young to win in NBA playoffs. But Mitch Johnson should have team watch Duke-UConn tape

#Porvida

If my father, a Duke professor for decades, hadn’t passed away in 2020 this Elite Eight game against U Conn might have killed him.

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ABS has a few kinks that need to be worked out.. What we also need is accountability for seriously bad umpires. Yes, talking about you C.B. Bucknor.

(Can anyone imagine Angel Hernandez and ABS together?)

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Weird off days.. SF Giants and NY Yankees had Thursday and now today off.

MLB Games unavailable on regular networks, even cable networks.

Is Commissioner Manfred trying to make the beginning of the MLB season as unappealing as possible?

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CNN Factchecker Daniel Dale, “Analysis: Trump keeps saying ‘nobody’ knew or expected things lots of people knew or expected”

How long until Donald demands CNN not have a fact checker?

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Does anyone think Kash Patel is the only Trump cabinet members whose email Iranians have hacked?

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Trump: “The military is building a massive complex under the ballroom, and that’s under construction, and we’re doing very well, so we’re ahead of schedule”

When your dementia is far enough advanced that you spill the secrets out loud…

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Does Donald Trump realize that having Kash Patel attack Eric Swalwell will actually make Swalwell more popular in California?

Hillary Clinton’s private email server was front page news for weeks.

Meanwhile FBI Director Kash Patel’s private emails are hacked – and shared publicly – by Iran and it barely makes headlines for a day.

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Seen by a friend – one of my favorite underreported #NoKings signs

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So many questions…

Posted March 28, 2026 by left coast sports babe
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So the SF Giants ARE going to score a run eventually in 2026, right?

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If Tiger Woods wants to be self-destructive that’s his business.

But what if his rollover accident, in broad daylight, had killed a child crossing the street? Or another driver?

One accident or DUI might be a learning experience. Four accidents and 2 DUI’s are a pattern.

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Though have to ask. Has Trump presumptively pardoned Tiger yet?

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Also, it it s it time to ask what Donald Trump has on Mike Johnson?

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While Americans are waiting in endless lines thanks to President Trump and Speaker Johnson perhaps they can pass the time thinking about what will happen if there’s an emergency in the US requiring FEMA assistance.

FEMA funding was also in the Senate bill Johnson squashed.

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So is GOP Speaker Mike Johnson now declaring war on GOP Senate Majority Leader John Thune?

Or is he just launching an “excursion?”

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Iranian hackers have released emails from Kash Patel’s personal account.. Wonder while they’re at it if they could release some of the redacted Epstein files.

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So Kash Patel, man who is supposedly in charge of keeping Americans safe as FBI director, couldn’t even keep his personal email account safe.. All together now #ButHerEmails

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Just renewed my passport, paying expedited fees for fast service + priority mail. Efficient if expensive.

But same admin claiming voting by mail is not secure mailed my OLD passport back to me. Which has not only private ID but travel info for last 9 years..

By regular mail.

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For some reason this story isn’t on the front page of Fox News website

“Ten US service members injured after strike on Saudi air base as Rubio says war ‘over in weeks’”

Although if one American is harmed by an undocumented immigrant…it’s a top headline.

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Will Donald fire Bari Weiss because CBS News reported this? “Two of the Americans were very seriously injured, sources said. Eight were seriously injured, which is a different category of injury under the military’s classification system.”

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A Long Day’s Night

Posted March 27, 2026 by left coast sports babe
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From SI.com‘s Jimmy Traina

“Netflix’s Opening Night Yankees-Giants Broadcast Was a Complete and Total Embarrassment

It was crystal clear that Netflix had no interest in catering to baseball fans during its first MLB telecast.”

No Lies detected.

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And as we move closer to an Elite Eight in NCAA’s men’s basketball tournament

Would be interesting to see a chart of how many on Elite Eight/ Final Four teams transferred from might have been Cinderella teams.

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From Donald again this morning “I’m the only President who ever took a Cognitive Test and I took it three times.”

Your reminder, cognitive tests are only given to people when they are suspected of dementia.

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Trump is not attending CPAC.

For a man who lives for applause and attention this means one of two things.

  1. He has deteriorated so much that he can’t appear in public without his White House minders.
  2. He knows even his MAGA base sees that he is failing on everything.

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Donald today

“I never wanna take [the National Guard] out of D.C. I mean, maybe somebody later on will do it, but I never wanna…We see these beautiful, strong people, and they’re so nice. They help, they open the doors for people, they carry bags, they pick up paper on the ground.”

Because that’s why people join the National Guard. To remember the days when they were Boy and Girl Scouts?

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Per the WSJ, “Trump told an associate that the war was distracting from his other priorities.”

Well, maybe Donald should fire the idiot who decided to start the war…

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250 years ago the United States of America declared independence from a mad King

So now a mad would-be King is demanding that his signature be placed on our currency.

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Republicans claim now SAVE America Act will not impose draconian requirements on voters this November.

Same Republicans who claimed that Roe V. Wade was settled law, and that Trump did not plan to enact Project 2025.

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So is it a crime to cover a signature on US currency with a Sharpie?

Asking for a few million friends

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Imagine if Joe Biden had referred to the Govenor of Philladilly…

As Donald stumbles and rambles through a Cabinet meeting –

“You can’t give lunatics a nuclear weapon.”

Not great for elderly narcisstics with dementia to have them either.

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ICYMI

Trump now says he will pay TSA agents by executive order.

After saying he wouldn’t sign ANY bill to pay them unless Senate passed the SAVE America act.

So he’s saying he had this power all along and made traveling public and TSA agents suffer for a political stunt.

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On to the real games…

Posted March 26, 2026 by left coast sports babe
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Not that it mattered in grand scheme of things but “We really need to get rid of traditional MLB Opening Day and do a made-for-tv ‘Opening Night’ event on Netflix” was an idea epoused by just about nobody.

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Netflix announcers actually said “Other than the 2nd (where the Yankees scored five runs against the SF Giants) Logan Webb has had a pretty good night.”

“Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play…?”

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If ANYONE has seen a crazier NBA overtime than the one played tonight by the Houston Rockets & Minnesota Timberwolves, I invite you to name it.

13-0 run for Rockets followed by a 15-0 run for T-Wolves to win it…

Didn’t care who won really.

But I love sports!

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But in a deeply polarized time at least I can make one statement that could have overwhelming bipartisan approval

Scott Fisher might be the all-time worst NBA referee who hasn’t been sent to prison.

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Even Fox News. Their poll: 64% of voters disapprove of how Trump is handling Iran, up from 57% disapproval in Jan. On foreign policy, 62% disapprove, up from 60% in January.

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Is this real life or an SNL Cold open?

“Mike Johnson Awards Trump First-Ever America First Honor at GOP Fundraiser”

Wonder how it feels to be one of the 2,000 US troops being deployed to the Mideast for a war Trump CLAIMS we’ve already won?

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All this awfulness at airports and the biggest Spring Break week starts this weekend.

And then we have the World Cup with ICE walking around airports looking for people who have accents or aren’t white.

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Senator Rick Scott: The average net worth of a Democrat Senator is over $3 million and they are okay with TSA agents not getting paid.

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Rick Scott’s net worth is about $300 million.

And he doesn’t worry about TSA because he has A PRIVATE PLANE.

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Money talks

Posted March 25, 2026 by left coast sports babe
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  1. Opening day should be opening day
  2. Opening day should be televised. And the “First Netflix MLB Game ever doesn’t count.
  3. SF Giants vs New York Yankees is also available on SF Giants radio KNBR

A few side notes

The Giants and Yankees actually have a day off after their first game that counts

Presumably due to TV commitments and worries about competition from March Madness.

So this game is basically like those overseas openers, mostly in Japan, that many casual fans never paid attention to…It’s just closer.

Meanwhile the Cincinnati Reds, along with other teams, have a REAL home opener on the 26th

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Trump today to MarkWayne Mullen, who identifies as Cherokee. “As the only Native American — I didn’t know that. Huh? Let me look at you. Uhh. I think that’s alright.

How long before Donald calls MarkWayne “Pocahontas?

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Donald Trump and Republicans won the White House, Senate and House in 2024.

Why do they want to change the rules now?

Eligible voters & election safeguards haven’t changed.

What HAS changed is that they haven’t delivered on any of their promises to Americans.

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“Trump calls vote-by-mail cheating after voting by mail.”

Sort of sums up Velveeta Voldemort’s administration.

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So while Americans wait in line for hours in TSA lines.
And millions struggle to pay for gas for their cars.
While our military worries about being sent to die in his war.
Our President decided his priority was to play tourist at Graceland

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Opening daze

Posted March 24, 2026 by left coast sports babe
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Anyone know how many MLB opening days and nights there are this week?

Instead of some overseas opener, MLB made the SF Giants and New York Yankees play Wednesday night, ONLY on Netflix (and radio)

At 5:05pm – a ridiculous time for fans to try to reach Oracle Park in San Francisco with traffic, and not the traditional day opener the SF Giants prefer. Not to mention that shadows will creep across the field in the late innings, making it hard for hitters to see the ball.

But the Giants are pretending that their real home opener is Friday, a day game. (Plus season ticket holders had to buy tickets for Monday and Tuesday against the “Sulantes” from Mexico.

Follow the money.

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In the meantime, have the Dodgers tried to buy the WBC Venezuelan champions yet?

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Who says NBA players don’t care about the regular season?

Asked about the MVP race, Victor Wembanyama could have spouted the usual “I’m just trying to help the team.”.

Instead “”I have thought about it,” Wemby said. “I think right now there is a debate. There should be, even though I think I should lead the race. I’m trying to make sure that at the end of the season, there’s no debate.”

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Trump apparently said that “For so many years people have been saying that Elvis and I look alike.”

Well considering that Elvis has been dead since 1977 and is almost certainly embalmed Donald could be right.

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Tom Homan on ICE: “We’re doing a security function at the airports. We’re gonna arrest criminals going through airports, we’re gonna look for human trafficking, sex trafficking, money launder– ah, you know, money smuggling”

Man who was recorded in 2024 by FBI agents accepting a $50,000 (!) bribe says what?

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About MarkWayne Mullen

He had a safe Senate seat in Oklahoma.

And gave it up for about 2 1/2 years as DHS Secretary for an increasingly unpopular President overseeing increasingly unpopular policies.

And Donald will probably throw him under the bus too

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And would never vote for MarkWayne Mullen as DHS, but just heard a replay of his hearing where he said “I make mistakes” and ” I’ll admit when I’m wrong.”

This ups the chances that in Trump administration Mullen will be fired sooner rather than later. Donald and his policies can NEVER be wrong.

Stunning how many MAGA trolls on social media today saying we should not make tragic Air Canada – fire truck collision political.

Same trolls who blamed everything transportation related for four years on Pete Buttigieg.

(there were no fatal commercial air accidents on Pete’s watch).

Another election warning:

To fly in US right now you either need a passport or a Real ID.

And Trump claims ICE is at airports to arrest “illegals?”

On top of everything else he’s saying out loud REAL IDS are not acceptable IDs – and thus will not allow US citizen to vote

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IF Trump is really correct that 99% of Americans support his anti-trans legislation jammed into the SAVE Act then why not make it a stand-alone bill?

IF supposed election integrity is so important then it too should be voted on separately.

IF he’s not lying about all of this.

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$weet $ixteen

Posted March 23, 2026 by left coast sports babe
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As the first weekend of March Madness is over, no real Cinderella is still dancing

It’s no longer the stroke of midnight that ends these small school dreams… it’s the transfer portal.

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As much as I hate Trump’s idea of sending ICE to fill in for TSA, as someone in the travel industry can’t think of another move he can make that would so turn Americans against GOP before the 2026 elections….

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Heather Cox Richardson tonight points out

“Under Trump, ICE now highest-funded law enforcement agency in U.S., w/ annual budget higher than those of all other federal law enforcement agencies combined. Because ICE agents are considered “essential” workers, they, unlike TSA agents, are getting paid during funding fight.”

This ought to be fun – paid ICE agents working alongside unpaid TSA agents….

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A driver’s license is not proof of citizenship.

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So if Donald manages to get ICE agents, presumably masked, in place of TSA at airports, and they don’t like the way someone looks or speaks with an accent will they detain or arrest them just because they can?

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Republican fundraising email.

“If we don’t SECURE OUR ELECTIONS before November, Democrats will seize power & IMPEACH EVERYONE!

RFK Jr, Hegseth, Gabbard. GONE!”

Promise?

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Some facts on a man whose life deserved our thanks & respect:

Robert Mueller received Bronze Star for heroism & Purple Heart in Vietnam war.
He was appointed FBI director by George W. Bush & appointed Special Counsel by Trump’s acting AG Rod Rosenstein.

He was also a Republican.

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at least NY Times headline isn’t sanewashing Trump’s post yesterday

“Trump’s Reaction to Robert Mueller’s Death: ‘Good, I’m Glad.’”

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Leaving aside that recounts have shown over and over that the 2020 election was NOT stolen

Wouldn’t you think that if Democrats were as evil and powerful as Trump claims that they would have stolen the 2016 & 2024 elections when they held the White House and were in power?

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USDA Secretary Brooke Rollons “Over the last year we’ve brought almost all food prices down, with a couple of outliers”

I’m so old I remember when media ran nonstop stories about how despite strong economic indicators many people just didn’t feel economically secure under Joe Biden.

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Trump just told Congress to work through Easter if necessary to pass the SAVE Act.


So how many fundraisers is Donald having at Mar-A-Lago Easter weekend?

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Questions questions

Posted March 21, 2026 by left coast sports babe
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For all the political nightmares in the word March Madness does allow Americans to come together briefly to unite around bipartisan questions.

Like, why did Santa Clara, up 3 with about 2 seconds to go, not foul Kentucky before they got a three-pont shot off?

(IYKYK)

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The People of Minneapolis-St Paul are going to be honored with the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award – recognizing their strength against the ICE invasion.


Wanna bet …

  1. Donald never heard of the award.
  2. He will attack the JFK Foundation for not giving it to him

Chuck Norris, 86, has passed away.

How sad must Donald Trump be? Norris was one of the last people left who might have accepted one of his Kennedy Center honors.

Still think your vote doesn’t matter.

Out of over 6 1/2 MILLION votes cast in Pennsylvania for Senate in 2024, Bob Casey lost by about 15,000 And the man who beat him, GOP Senator Dave McCormick just claimed that having an ID card is required “to have a child” in the U. S.

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Always admired Cesar Chavez.

But if Chavez were still alive I would have no problem sending him to prison if he were convicted of the alleged rape charges against women and girls.

See how that works?

When you’re not in a cult.

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Could some billionaire who wants to make a mark on the world figure out a way to buy and save CBS radio?

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Day one/won

Posted March 20, 2026 by left coast sports babe
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Well, the High Point Panthers made it a good first day of March Madness for those with cat brackets.

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Meanwhile the San Antonio Spurs officially clinched their first playoff spot in years. After being down 10 with a few minutes to play. Some fans might have figured it was an off-night (including me)

Fun game, fun read.

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Now back to not fun stuff

2,403 Americans were killed on December 7, 1941.

And Velveeta Voldemort is joking about it?

He dishonors all their memories.

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GOP claiming now that the SAVE Act won’t disenfranchise voters, especially women, with often draconian rules to prove citizenship,

This is the same GOP that claimed Trump had no plan to implement Project 2025.

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Criticized last month on DOJ handling of Epstein files, Pam Bondi: “The Dow is over 50,000 right now…That’s what we should be talking about.”

Dow is now just over 46,000.

Does she want to talk about 10% drop in 6 weeks?

Or can she finally talk about the Epstein files?

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Trump claims on the war in Iran: “We’re substantially ahead of schedule.”

Wait, last week he said the war was “over in an hour”

This is so confusing.

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Many who looked up to Cesar Chavez as a hero were shocked, saddened and angered by the sexual abuse allegations now against him, including crimes against girls.

Yet no one questions taking his name off schools, streets, etc.

Because his admirers aren’t a cult.

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Not a regular Bachelorette watcher and the allegations that apparently got ABC to shelve this season are ugly.

But I miss the days when the worst ‘reality TV” scandals
were from shows produced for entertainment and not from actual news from the White House.

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Fox News is not reporting Donald Trump’s “joke” about Pearl Harbor.

“We wanted surprise. Who ​knows better about surprise than Japan? Why didn’t ⁠you tell me about Pearl Harbor?”

They don’t even try to spin. They just don’t report the worst things he says.

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Whatever Donald says about the war ending, look what businesses are doing..

United Airlines just extended waivers to the mid-East (Dubai and Tel Aviv.) until June 15!

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If you’re reading this

Posted March 19, 2026 by left coast sports babe
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Hope you have your brackets finished…

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Now back to the usual reality and snark.

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Congratulations Team Venezuela for winning the World Baseball Classic.

So is Donald Trump going to invite the team to the White House or deport them?

A simple question: Whatever you feel about transgender people competing in sports WTF does it have to do with voting?

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Good news in that projected salary cap under pending WNBA collective bargaining agreement is set to exceed $10 million per team.
Though for random comparison, LA Dodgers will pay $10 million or over to at least 14 individual members of their 2026 team.

If noncitizens’ voting was actually a problem instead of a lie to suppress votes, then GOP would be presenting examples of fraudulent voting on a daily basis.

Period.

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If House GOP really is serious about the Deporting Fraudsters Act why didn’t they say a word when Trump pardoned convicted Canadian Binance founder Changpeng Zhao or Venezuelan billionaire Julio Herrera Velutini?

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State TV aka Fox News headlines on March 17

“GOP triggers marathon Senate fight to expose Dems’ opposition to Trump-backed voter ID bill
GOP launches doomed floor takeover to put Democrats on record against SAVE America Act”

So they KNOW it’s doomed.

But Dear Leader wants the show.

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Something else that isn’t mentioned enough about the SAVE America Act.

Military ID’s aren’t good enough for proof of citizenship.

So Donald is willing to have our service men and women die for him. But not to protect their right to vote.

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Oklahoma GOP Sen. James Lankford talking about SAVE America Act “can I just say, I personally believe what saves America is if more Americans had a personal relationship w/ Jesus Christ.”

So he’s telling Jews, Muslims, Buddhist, Atheists etc they aren’t Americans?

Jesus wept

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On top of everything else, Donald Trump’s bringing a bust of Winston Churchill into the Oval Office for the IRISH Prime Minister is rather reminiscent of that commercial with the kid showing up in a Duke sweatshirt to visit his UNC girlfriend’s family.

Trump says “Iran was “two weeks” from a nuclear weapon like Donald has been “two weeks” from unveiling his heathcare plan.

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And the lies just keep on coming.

He did NOT win in a landslide.

BBC is not fake news.

Trump is NOT popular now.

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What’s tomorrow?

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Reaching for wins

Posted March 17, 2026 by left coast sports babe
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Two possible rule changes to make filling out a bracket more challenging

  1. You have to know what state your college picks are located in.
  2. You have to name at least one player on each team.

Meanwhile, in the NBA, the Golden State Warriors finally got Steve Kerr his 600th win by beating the Washington Wizards, who after a brief spurt of mediocrity have now lost 12 in a row.

Been a rough stretch for the Wizards. They couldn’t even snag an NIT invitation.

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Meanwhile Stanford accepted an invitation to the College Basketball Crown Tournament..

The what?

NCAA men’s basketball is slithering towards college football bowl levels.

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But if a team wins the College Basketball Crown tournament and they offer him the trophy, will Truup invite them to the White House?

He just called Gavin “The President of the United States.”

Okay then…

Someone in GOP want to defend Donald’s mental faculties today?

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He also called Gavin Newsom “President of the United States.”

I live in California. It’s been no secret that Gavin wants to be President some day. But he isn’t POTUS now.

Uh, Donald, regarding the Strait of Hormuz, if Iran was really “obliterated” we wouldn’t need other countries’ help now.

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Academy Awards

Barbra Steisand tribute to Robert Redford referenced one of my favorite movies -“The Way We Were” as his character Hubbell argued with her Katie in the 1950s about being so politically involved.

Hubbell”I don’t know how you do it.”

Katie “I don’t know how you can’t.”

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So who wlll Donald Trump call to demand that the Academy give him their Oscar?

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Remember when many in GOP clutched their pearls when President Biden under his breath called Peter Doocy a “stupid son of a b*tch?”

(Joe later apologized & Peter accepted apology)

Now most of GOP just shrug when Trump’s FCC chair threatens to pull media broadcast licenses…

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Don’t watch much CNN these days but a great question: from CNN’s Stephen Collinson.

“If Trump has already won the Iran war, why does he need foreign ships to help him end it?”

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Trump says now USA doesn’t really need help with the Straits of Hormuz, but he wants to find out if NATO would be there if we needed them.

Uh, NATO’s Article 5 (armed attack against 1 member is an attack against all) has been invoked ONCE, after 9/11. They were there for us.

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Trump on NATO, who he now wants to send ships to the Strait of Hormuz.

“It’d be interesting to see what country would help us with a ‘very small endeavour”

So Donald’s “Pottery Barn rule” is “We break it you buy it?=

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CEOs of major US airlines wrote Congress a letter urging them to end 29-day partial government shutdown that has 50,000 TSA officers working without pay.

Democrats HAVE a bill to fund TSA, FEMA & Coast Guard.

GOP is blocking it.

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Selection Sunday

Posted March 15, 2026 by left coast sports babe
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So in 2026 does it mean the teams picked for the NCAA basketball tournament?

Or the next country Trump will attack to distract from the Epstein files.

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Allthough in the tournament, while there are few sure things, one sure thing is that even with the field expanded to 68 teams, there will always be fury from teams the selection committee decided were #69 or #70.

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One of many reasons to love sports As bad as the real world can get, for a few minutes or even an hour on any given day you can shut the rest of it out to focus on things like “nice shot,” or “please don’t blow this lead.” Or as a Spurs fan “Wow,Wemby is not human.” #porvida

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Just for fun, on 3/14 wish someone had asked Donald Trump on camera about Pi Day?

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Not that it will happen, but would make for interesting March Madness pools if playeers had to name at least one player on each team

Colin Jost on NBC SNL talking on how Trump claims USA supposedly won the Iran war on day one.
“Usually when a team wins they don’t stay on the field for three weeks

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Daily Mail headline:
“Chaos at PGA tour event as gunman shoots dead two & flees across course”

Story will fade fast. Why? Because it was domestic violence murder by a Floridian.

Most women victims are domestic violence. GOP doesn’t give a damn. Only women killed by immigrants.

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Wow. Fox News headline:

“Trump gives new order to countries that use world’s most important oil checkpoint.”

What he’s “ordering?”

“Countries of the World that receive Oil through the Hormuz Strait must take care of that passage & we will help.”

In other words – fix MY mess

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How many Americans are going to die in the Mideast because Donald needed to start a war to distract from the Epstein Files?

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President who demands Nobel Peace Prize has so far gotten at least 13 US servicemembers killed & hundreds injured in a war he can’t explain. Yet some still support him.

If it ever seemed unbelievable how Jim Jones got all those people to drink the Kool-Aid, we believe it now.

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Pete Hegseth actually said Friday about the US refueling plane crash: “Bad things can happen.”

I’m sure that’s very comforting to family and friends of the six service members killed in the crash

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But wonder why most Fox News viewers haven’t soured on Trump

Fox News webpage doesn’t have a single front page headline about the Strait of Hormuz.

But they find time for this:

Top bombshells in ‘MELANIA’ film as viewers call Amazon Prime hit a ‘masterpiece’

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Almost madness?

Posted March 13, 2026 by left coast sports babe
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So one-and-dones and NIL’s have done much to destroy college basketball..

But even if most fans can’t recognize players on “their” teams, will be nice to have “March Madness” refer to sports again…

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Wonder why many if not most Fox News viewers still support Donald?

As at time of wriing 5-6 US military crew members are currently missing & feared dead after KC 135 refueling plane crashed in Iraq today, there is NOTHING on front page about it on Fox News website

They do find space for headline “Man, 25, bitten by rare reptile succumbs despite month-long hospital fight”

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So Trump claims “We’ve won” the war in Iran

How long until he tries to tell us he WANTED to shut down the Strait of Hormuz?

How long until GOP leaders realize their naked Emperor has dementia?

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Everyone in the world knows the US fired the Tomahawk missle that hit the school and killed Iranian schoolgirls.

Probably Trump knows too.

Publicly denying it, even if it was mistaken targeting, just makes the US look worse.

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As GOP gets Another Muslim to trend your reminder, Trump just bombed Iran, without a credible or even consistent rationale and killed well over 1,000 civilians.

Almost enough to make you think part of the purpose of the war was to cause terrorist attacks in the United States.

(The Michigan synagogue attacker had lost family in air strike in Lebanon last weekend)

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GOP Senator James Lankford, arguing for 2 week funding of DHS while “we sit down & talk to each other like adults.”

Does Lankford remember the MONTHS he & others spent on 2024 bipartisan immigration bill, only to have it torpedoed because Trump didn’t want Biden to have a “win?”

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United Airlines just raised their fuel surcharge on business class tickets to Europe about $300 last weekend.

Today they raised it another $100.

Was about $2150 last week, now $2530.

What will it be tomorrow?

Are we great yet?United Airlines just raised their fuel surcharge on business class tickets to Europe about $300 last weekend.

Today they raised it another $100.

Was about $2150 last week, now $2530.

What will it be tomorrow?

Are we great yet?

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And United Airlines just extended their change-refund waiver for Dubai and Tel Aviv until April 19.

So clearly THEY don’t think this “little excursion” or whatever Trump calls it is over.

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Susan Collins talking today about a “good faith” offer from the White House on DHS funding.

Does Susan actually believe Trump would make a good faith offer on ANYTHING?

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Bracket creep

Posted March 12, 2026 by left coast sports babe
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As we head towards “selection Sunday” for the NCAA tournament, especially for the men., have to wonder., with all the one and dones, how many fans are rooting for teams they can’t name a single player on?

Making choices like “cat brackets” seem even more appealing

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Yes, it’s spring training

But how often do we see this?

(Cactus league standings)

SF Giants 15-3

LA Dodgers – 12-6

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Can’t be the only one who thinks Trump WANTS a terrorist attack in California.

He hates the state and it would give him a chance to try to declare martial law.

Donald Trump just called Sherrod Brown a “terrible left lunatic.”

Sherrod Brown is one of the most decent people in politics. And one of the biggest champions of working men and women.

Ohio voters will fix their mistake and send him back to the Senate in 2026.

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He has no plan.

Trump probably wants to attack Cuba or somewhere else next for a distraction.

PS Release the Epstein Files.

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Almost as if Iran isn’t buying the “little excursion” story Donald is sellling”

“Oil price surges back to about $100 as explosions reported on two more foreign ships in Gulf”

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Trump is now attacking Thomas Massie and claiming he got Rand Paul elected.

Agree with Massie on almost nothing, and generally can’t stand Rand Paul.

But give them both props. They have more cojones than most of the GOP.

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John Cornyn, 74, has been a Senator since 2002. He’s generally been an old-school occasionally bipartisan conservative

Cornyn now says Senate should end the filibuster to pass the SAVE act.

“It profit not a man if he gain the whole world if he loses his soul.”

But for Trump?

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Amy Klobuchar talking about Democrats’ bill to fund TSA, FEMA & Coast Guard.

“It’s not written in law that you can’t negotiate on part of an agency, while you are funding the rest of the agency.”

Senator Klobuchar is correct.

Why don’t Republicans want to protect Americans?

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Reminder: Democrats have a bill to fund TSA, FEMA and the Coast Guard.

Only reason we have a partial shutdown is that GOP will not negotiate on accountability for ICE and Border Patrol.

(And ICE & CBP have money from the Big Ugly Bill)

Why doesn’t GOP want us to be safe?

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Imperfetto….

Posted March 11, 2026 by left coast sports babe
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Italy beat Team USA 8-6 in the WBC pool play Tuesday night,, one of the biggest upsets in the tournament’s 20-year history,

Many weird rules but it means team USA has a chance of being eliminated in the first round.

A journeyman pitcher, Michael Lorenzen pitched 4 1/3 shutout innings ..

One of the reasons baseball is the greatest game – all the money and loaded lineups in the world can’t overcome any pitcher who gets in a grove.

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With 83 points tonight for the Miami Heat, Bam Adebayo passed Kobe Bryant for second-highest-scoring game in NBA history.

Should NBA records against the Wizards have an asterisk?

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Kansas Senator. Roger Marshall on high gas prices: “Freedom is not free. Americans are gonna have to make some sacrifices.”

Roger Marshall’s net worth? About 6 milllion dollars.

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Can media stop asking how far Donald Trump would go to stop a free and fair election in 2026?

We already know how far he went on January 6 to overturn a free and fair election in 2020.

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As the number of injured service men and women in Trump’s Iran war grows and still may be understated, anyone else remember this?

When in 2024 he described Traumatic brain injuries sustained by US Troops in Iraq during his first term as a “headache?”

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How mad will air travelers be at Trump’s war?

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So WTF do sports and trangender rights have to do with protections?

It’s the SAVE Donald’s Ass Act

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Rumors that Iran is activating “sleeper cells” around the world, putting Americans everywhere at first

And what is Kash Patel doing at the FBI to keep us safe?

He just subpoenaed records from the discredited “Cyber Ninjas” audit of Arizona’s 2020 election.

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As GOP blames Democrats for airport lines, need to inform, or remind Americans..

Democrats HAVE a bill to fully fund TSA and FEMA.

GOP just insists they need to give money to DHS and ICE too…

This after more stories of Kristie Noem’s mismanagement of taxpayer dollars.

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Apparently the “Trump Organization” is trying to trademark “America 250″‘ to brand their products.

And their point is?

The Trump name in the USA by July 4 is likely to be as popular as that of Benedict Arnold.

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During her most recent appearance before Congress on the Epstein FIles, Pam Bondi loudly responded that the lack of indictments didn’t matter because “The DOW is over 50,000.”

That is aging well…

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Price for new premium economy ticket today I just issued

San Diego London roundtrip

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FARE USD 430.00 TAX 11.20AY TAX 46.80US TAX 3.84XA TAX 13.50XF TAX 7.00XY TAX 7.39YC TAX 327.10GB TAX 68.10UB TAX 1200.00YQ

$2140.93 total. 1200.00YQ is fuel surcharge.

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