And the hits just keep on coming

Posted June 5, 2026 by left coast sports babe
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SF Giants manage to lose 16-2 then 8-3 to the Milwaukee Brewers

Then they (barely) hold on to win 1-0 and (barely) hold on to win 12-9. In the same week

Baseball is a weird game.

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Meanwhile Donald Trump has decided he will go to game 3 of the NBA finals, and while he says he is a Knicks fan he mentions none of their players but does mention Wemby as a great player

Now as a Spurs fan I must say this is one of the few times I actually agree with Donald.

But uh, Victor Wembanyama is FRENCH. How’s MAGA gonna take that

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Short term memory is the first to go.

How close are we to having some reporter asking Trump about his favorite player on the Knicks now and Donald responding “Patrick Ewing”?

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Trump seems so obsessed with attacking Kaitlin Collins these days you’d think she turned him down for a date.

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Jimmy Kimmel pointed out tonight that one of six statements made at every meeting open to the press is his adminstration/cabinet praising Trump.

“Say what you will about Bill Clinton, when he had hid staff “bleep” him he didn’t make us watch.”

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When old male cats get dementia some of them start spraying everywhere – due to combined confusion and a perceived need to marking terrority. Sounds like what Donald’s doing in DC with his signs and monuments. #TrumpPromenade

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Trump seems so obsessed with attacking Kaitlin Collins these days you’d think she turned him down for a date.

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So many posts about US Senate race & probable Democratic Candidate in Maine.

Can we start paying attention to OTHER races and candidates that matter?

These lesser known people in red states can WIN.

Mary Peltola
Josh Turek
Dan Osborn

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Not to mention Sherrod Brown

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The day after

Posted June 3, 2026 by left coast sports babe
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We are now about 24 hours after the polls closed in California.

Which means we’re about 2 weeks from ballots all being counted.

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And of course Trump is pretending it is some sort of conspiracy. Ironic since he’s still trying to recount votes from 2020.

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So go figure.

A guy named Victor somehow won a game for his team tonight.

And it wasn’t Wemby.

Victor Bericoto for the SF Giants with his first MLB home run in a 1-0 win against the Brewers.

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Can media stop pretending it’s a big deal Spencer Pratt got about 30% of vote for Los Angeles mayor?

Heck, Steve Garvey, whose experience was simply being good at baseball (and who got two women pregnant while he was engaged to a third received 41% of the vote vs now Senator Adam Schiff.

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Wait, I thought Trump says Kaitlin Collins never smiles. “

“I never see a smile on her face. I see her standing there with hatred in her eyes.”

So we shouldn’t share this picture, it would upset Donald.

We shouldn’t share this picture, it will upset him.

Oops.

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Marco Rubio claims that Trump never falls asleep and by way of defense says Donald has called him at 2 a.m. and 5 a.m.
Not the flex he thinks it is: dementia patients often can’t sleep through the night and then can’t stay awake during the day.

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60 Minutes deserves a better home. MSNow? PBS? Netflix? Who wants to start the bidding war. Oh, and f*ck CBS.

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Amy Klobuchar speaking on the 40th anniversary of C-Span 2, notes that the presiding officer on June 2, 1986, their inaugural broadcast, was Senator Chuck Grassley-

(And he’d already been a Senator for five years.)

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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to Senator Maggie Hassan today

“Except for inflation, the economic data is very strong.”

Except for that, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you like the play?

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Donald had a closed to press dinner in what he calls “The Rose Garden Club.”

It’s a small detail in the grand scheme of things.

But it is NOT the bleeping “Rose Garden Club”

It is the “Rose Garden.”

In the American people’s White House. Not Velveeta Voldemort’s Club.

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Will take probably serious two weeks for final results but Matt Mahan and Katie Porter both have conceded in the California Gubernatorial Primary.

They could have given those speeches last week… Or last month.

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I’m trying to imagine what the $200 million Tom Steyer spent in the California primary could have done and could do in swing districts and purple states across the country.

If Tom were only able to put aside his ego to let others lead and be elected.

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Hasan Piker made a last minute endorsement for Tom Steyer

If anyone needed another reason to vote for Xavier Becerra.

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Steyer’s cost for funding his campaign is probably going to be record breaking.

But there’s also $35 million spent by Matt Mahan campaign for about 210,000 votes.

Even if Mahan gets up to about 250,000 that’s about $120 a vote.

And his campaign spent less per vote than Steyer.

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The best of games the worst of games.

Posted June 2, 2026 by left coast sports babe
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19-6 win Sunday against the Rockies

2-16 loss Monday against the Brewers.

In this outhouse or castle year for the SF Giants there’s been way too much outhouse.

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So GOP & right-wing media clutched their pearls when Jasmine Crockett referred to Greg Abbott as “Governor Hot Wheels.”

Missing their outrage this am over Abbott posting AI meme himself in his wheelchair with a Spurs jersey dunking on NY Governor Kathy Hochul

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Meanwhile Hochul’s response on Twitter: “BREAKING: Greg Abbott comes out for men and women competing on the same court.

Is it just possible that Trump knew his slush fund would probably be canceled but what he REALLY wanted out of his IRS-DOJ deal is lifetime immunity for his crimes?

WTF USA today?

This headline. “Texas has never elected an unmarried man to US Senate — until this race”

Yeah, one just turned 37 & has a girlfriend. The other, 63, was divorced by his wife over adultery and “biblical grounds.”

This is NY Times Pitchbot worthy

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Jared Polis when he commuted Tina Peters’ sentence. “said that her application demonstrated responsibility and a “‘commitment to follow the law going forward’.”

That aged as well as Susan Collins saying Donald Trump had “learned his lesson.”

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Did the latest “victory” even last a Scaramucci?

The ceasefire is over. Iran has now severed all diplomatic talks with USA, accusing Israel of violating the ceasefire.

Almost like it was a REALLY stupid idea to let Netanyahu talk Trump into starting the war.

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NY Times “”High-Wire Negotiations with Iran? Trump Finds it ‘Very Boring.’
President Trump told CNBC that he “couldn’t care less” if negotiations with Iran break down.”

Bored with ending his war, bored with affordability.

Only things he cares about – his ballroom & himself.

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Por Vida

Posted June 1, 2026 by left coast sports babe
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Real men cry

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Gregg Abbott posted an AI video of himself soaring above New York Governor Kathy Hochul and talking about Texas beating New York

Uh, did he hear Wemby speak out against ICE.

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And does Greg Abbott remember that Gregg Popovich is still Spurs President of Baseball Operations?

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We knew he was a lunatic and would get worse with age.

What still shocks me is now many Republicans we thought we were sane still genuflect before him.

And how much the media sanewashes him.

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Trump is going to CANCEL America’s birthday concert and make HIMSELF the headliner while comparing himself to Elvis./

What a time for SNL to be on summer hiatus.

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So if a Democrat wins the White House in 2028 can we have a do-over of American 250?

I mean, come on, reunions, weddings and other big events got postponed for COVID, why not a belated birthday celebration for America when we get back to adult supervision?

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House money

Posted May 29, 2026 by left coast sports babe
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What the Spurs are playing with against the OKC Thunder in Game 7

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So yeah, whatever happens been a great ride for San Antonio.

Doesn’t mean fans don’t want the ride to continue

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Stats aren’t everything.

But when the Colorado Rockies had 5 home runs in their last 9 games

And then three tonight against the SF Giants. Including 2 in a five run walkoff ninth.

Sometimes they say enough.

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Yeah, he’s smart.

James Talarico will suspend campaign operations Saturday for game 7 of the Western Conference Finals.

“Are y’all ready to beat Ken Paxton? Are y’all ready to beat OKC!?”

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Meanwhile, so let me see if I get this Texas Senate race straight

Former Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton was indicted on 20 counts by a GOP-led House committee.

And James Talarico ate a potato egg and cheese taco.


Love that someone on the MAGA Freedom 250 committee clearly heard that Martina McBride sang “Independence Day” and didn’t realize it was about a woman finding a rather extreme solution to dealing with an abusive man.

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Jose Andres interviewed at his new Zaytinya restaurant in Palo Alto, CA, on investing in wellbeing of the voiceless & poor. “Life is like a lottery. Some are born with the winning numbers, & others don’t even have access to the lottery ticket.” Love this man.

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Another thing Moron MarkWayne Mullin hasn’t thought about.

Flights from Ireland pre-clear US customs IN Ireland, at Shannon & Dublin Airports. So passengers arrive as if on a domestic flight. And Aer Lingus has nonstops to SFO, LAX, JFK…

So his insane plan wouldn’t matter.

(For that matter Canada and Abu Dhabi have pre-clearance too to the USA)

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Not so old men

Posted May 29, 2026 by left coast sports babe
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Not only would most of the spurs, except Wemby, be carded trying to buy a beer, two of them, Dylan Harper and Carter Bryant, both 20, actually aren’t old enough to buy a drink in the US

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How young is San Antonio Spurs coach Mitch Johnson?

He was a four-year point guard at Stanford.

Two of his teammates? Robin and Brook Lopez

(Brook is still playing for the Clippers.)

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Meanwhile you know it’s been a tough year when as an SF Giants fan who was otherwise occupied Thursday to be able to think “okay the team absolutely won’t let fans down tonight.)

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Giants had an off day


Listing Milli Vanilli, a group who ended up admitting they didn’t actually sing on their records, and one of whose members is now dead, as performers for Freedom 250, is one of the most on brand things Trump has done.

Almost all his Freedom 250 performers have dropped out.

So for retribution is Trump going to outlaw music now?

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She was one of the later to withdraw, citing not being told that it was a partisan event. But can anyone imagine Trump listening to Martina McBride singing her hit about an abused woman setting the house on fire with her husband in it?

“Let the weak be strong, let the right be wrong
Roll the stone away, let the guilty pay
It’s Independence Day”

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How long until the Freedom 250 headliners come down to Kid Rock and Lara Trump?

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So Tuesday night, Ken Paxton got 885,949 GOP US Senate primary votes.

Just putting these numbers from the Democratic US Senate primary out there James Talarico -1,103,371 Jasmine Crockett – 943,168

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Night one watching Jimmy Kimmel (and the late night ABC local news instead of CBS)

So far so good.

This line – “Donald put the ‘me’ in Memorial Day.”

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Scott Bessent, justifying the $1.776 Billion Trump Slush fund says “no American should be targeted for political reasons.”

Thinking today that it’s hard to remember most of the cabinet in Trump’s first term.

Because they mostly weren’t attention whores and batsh*t crazy.

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CBS News has become an oxymoron.

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Night one watching Jimmy Kimmel (and the late night ABC local news instead of CBS)

So far so good.

This line – “Donald put the ‘me’ in Memorial Day.”

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So if Donald has 100% approval ratings or whatever he claims why has almost every performer listed for his Great American State Fair dropped out?

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Open note to MAGA trolls who say it’s fine if Trump goes to public sporting events because they have security.

Have they been to sporting events vs secure areas in DC?

Yeah, they check you going into a game. But NOTHING like the Senate galleries, for starters. Where they take everything. Even doublechecked my watch to make sure it did nothing but tell time.

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Has Trump blamed Romania for being hit by a Russian drone yet?

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Now Donald claims it’s going to be “the most successful World Cup they have ever had.”

Because they gave him a trophy.

It is going to be an economic disaster for hotels and perhaps for cities hosting the games.

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Jimmy Kimmel last night

“Trump’s approval rating among Americans is down to 37%. But in that Cabinet room it’s about 110%.”

If Kimmel is wrong it’s that he’s underestimating the 110%.

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Is it safe?

Posted May 27, 2026 by left coast sports babe
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Apparently Donald was planning to make “a surprise appearance” at game 5 of the Eastern Conference Finals had the Knicks not swept.

So he couldn’t go to his own son’s wedding but he was going to go ruin a game in NY for Knicks fans. Very on brand.

Does he know the Knicks, if they win, probably won’t go to the White House?

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So Donald Trump, who wants to show up & disrupt a Knicks game, thinks being in as public a space as Madison Square Garden in New York would be safe.
But claims even Secret Service can’t keep him safe at the White House without a bunker ballroom?
Make it make sense.

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Spurs didn’t bring their A game in Western Conference Game 5. But when officiating is as bad as it was tonight, and NBC signs off their coverage “brought to you by Draft Kings” it’s not a good look for the NBA.

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Ouch, Shawn Estes points out that the SF Giants when behind after six innings in 2026 are 0 and 26.

An automatic team this year. No clutch.

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It is not a routine annual checkup when you have one several times a year.

Just saying.

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Donald Trump has now been to Walter Reed three time in the last year for “routine physicals.”

But the medical facilities at the White House are better than most of us experience in our lifetimes. So whatever he is going to Walter Reed for is clearly very specialized.

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Trump is calling all his cabinet to Camp David.

“At the meeting, officials will discuss “recent successes of the administration including economy & small business wins, Task Force to Eliminate Fraud highlights, and foreign policy updates.”

So he needs more praise. Got it.

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Wait, Trump JUST scheduled a Cabinet meeting at Camp David; then moved it to the White House less than a day later – citing “bad weather?”

Either the voices in his head are shouting over each other or Donald’s cuts to National Weather Service are having serious effects already.

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Trump said on Memorial day that United States service members killed during the Iran war died to ensure Iran “will never have a nuclear weapon.”

Except that President Obama had a deal that ensured Iran would never have a nuclear weapon.

And Donald tore it up.

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Markwayne Mullen apparently wants to stop processing international passengers & cargo arriving by air in blue cities..

Including Denver, LAX, SFO, Chicago, PHL, JFK, Newark & Seattle.

Uh, what’s left? MSP? PDX? Nope.

Even the cities of Houston, Miami, Dallas & Orlando vote blue

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I don’t really care if RFK Jr is crazy enough to play with snakes, poisonous or otherwise. I DO care that he’s crazy enough to play with Americans’ health.

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Nothing in between

Posted May 25, 2026 by left coast sports babe
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Not just that the SF Giants have somehow managed to hit three home runs in the last eight games.

But also that the three grand slams are the only grand slams the 2026 Giants have hit all season…

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If the NBA wanted to, they could stop the worst flopping by declaring clear flops discovered on replay were a technical foul.

Or they could limit challenges by the number of unsuccessful challenges. But as it stands now, if a team successfully challenges 2 bad calls in the first quarter, they are still done for the game.

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In the meantime, SGA has earned the right with Lebron James and James Harden to be presenters at the Academy Awards.

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Wemby in an interview, asked about strategy going forward in NBA Western Conference finals for the Spurs against the Thunder, just said he’s not “an employee to find out answers, I’m just an employee to play basketball.”

Understatement of the year.

I miss the days when the President of the United States spent Memorial Day weekend relaxing with his family before laying a wreath at Arlington Cemetery.

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Director of the National Economic Council Kevin Hassett is blaming low consumer confidence on Democrats with TDS.

So people are just imagining or pretending they don’t have enough money.

This could be a great excuse for bouncing checks.

Tell the bank they have Trump derangement syndrome.

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Thom Tillis:
“To call Paxton ‘ethically challenged’ is to call Jeffrey Dahmer suffering from an eating disorder. “
Refers to Trump’s “anti-weaponization fund” as “Stupid on stilts” & “Payout pot for punks”

Tillis shouldn’t have confirmed Hegseth .

But he has a way with words.

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Weekly thoughts

Posted May 23, 2026 by left coast sports babe
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Hey SF Giants.

Great to see a game like today, but this is not the NFL, you need more than one great offensive team performance a week.

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Understand my favorite athletes may not share my political beliefs.


Drew Brees criticized kneeling as disrespecting flag in 2020. Outraged Saints teammates.

He apologized.

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Since many of my fellow Democrats are outraged by Jaxson Dart introducing Donald Trump at a rally, would like to remind them that New Orleans Saints QB Tyler Shough endorsed Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear.


But now? W/ Trump historically unpopular.

And NFL teams being 70% black?


WTF was Jaxson Dart thinkng

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Can we start the pool as to when Donald first turns on new Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh?

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Donald Trump actually said of his new Federal Reserve chair “I want Kevin to be totally independent.”

Translation: “Totally independent until he does something I doesn’t like. And then I will make sure he will be totally f*cked.”

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Many of us have that relative who needs to make every holiday all about them.

On top of everything else the President of the United States is that relative.

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Many of us who are frequent travelers have experienced cell phone issues or wi-fi outrages that make it difficult to work.

This doesn’t happen for Donald Trump.

He could work anywhere, if he wants to.

Missing his son’s wedding is an excuse. For something.

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Raul Castro, who will turn 95 in June, is not that popular at this point in Cuba.

What would make him popular?

A US invasion

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Hard to forgive Tillis for voting to confirm Pete Hegseth.

But I like Thom unleashed

Talking about Trump’s slush fund “Stupid on stilts.”

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For most Americans, if they’ve heard of the Suez Canal crisis in 1956, it was in “The Crown.”

For the English & Anglophiles, it’s often considered the end of Great Britain’s reign as a superpower.

Trump’s deal, if it holds, may well be America’s Suez Canal moment.

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Last late night …

Posted May 21, 2026 by left coast sports babe
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Two SF Giants alums pitching tonight in Yankees – Blue Jays game

Camillo Doval gave up a home run in .2 innings and now has a 5.68 ERA.

Tyler Rogers pitched a scoreless 8th ending with getting Aaron Judge to hit into a DP.
His 9th “hold” And he now has a 1.54 ERA.

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Not the Onion

Peter Thiel and Donald Trump Jr are behind “The Enhanced Games.” A mini-Olympics where PEDs are allowed and even encouraged.

Cheating meets reality TV. So on brand for the Trump family.

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So just how many GOP Senators has Donald thrown under the bus?

Cassidy and Cornyn just this week

Murkowski and Collins have never been on his good side.

Tillis is mad. and out of f*cks.

And Mitch McConnell, for all the evil he has done in this world, hears “time’s winged chariot hurrying near…”

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Asked about Stephen Colbert’s last show tonight, Donald Trump responded

“I’ll have a message at a later date.”

In two weeks?

DHS head Markwayne Mullen told travel executives that he’s serious about curbing international flights to U.S. airports in cities with “sanctuary” policies…Does this moron realize that most cities, even in red states, are blue?

What’s he going to do, try to make DFW the only international airport? Along with maybe Miami?

May I suggest he try this out a couple weeks before the midterms?

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During House hearing DOT Secretary Duffy was asked, how he managed to work while on his road trip, at the same time DOT & Trump administration has stopped allowing remote work for other federal government employees?

Of course he dodged the question

As the media talks today about the 2024 DNC autopsy report something is missing.

The nonstop 2024 bothsides-ing, sanewashing of Donald Trump, and nonstop attacks on Joe Biden’s age… by hose same journalists..

Et tu, media?

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Sean Duffy, justifying his corporate funded vacation: “Seeing your country, experiencing your country through window of a car is a beautiful thing. It actually unites America.”

More like it unites milllions of Americans in anger because they can’t afford gas for a road trip.

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Trump rants at Coast Guard commencement on being a “hot” country, while attacking others & musing about 3rd term.

Fox News headline “HAPPENING NOW: Trump recognizes parents, families in speech at Coast Guard Academy: ‘Thank you'”

And we wonder why Fox viewers still support him?

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As “acting” AG, Todd Blanche can stay in his position indefinitely.

And who knew the formerly respected Federal prosecutor might actually be worse than Pam Bondi?

As Trump keeps saying that the Iran war will be over “pretty soon.”

Wishing he’d told CBS to end the Late Show with Stephen Colbert “pretty soon.”

We’d be watching Colbert with our grandchildren

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Bruce Springsteen to Stephen Colbert “You’re the 1st guy in America to lose a show because the President can’t take a joke” And because Larry & David Ellison feel they need to kiss his ass to get what they want.”

Then he played “Streets of Minneapolis.”

Well played, Boss.

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Written before the last Late Show.

(Also the last time I watch the CBS local news before the late show..)

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Going down

Posted May 19, 2026 by left coast sports babe
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As the SF Giants blow their sixth save of the season.

This time down to the last out, last strike…

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Tyler Rogers has a 1.69 ERA in Toronto. Just saying

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Even as a Spurs fan can understand OKC Thunder fans may still be shell-shocked from Wemby’s logo three with 30 seconds to tie the game in OT.

But at least they aren’t Cavaliers fans.

Cleveland had 20 point lead over the NY Knicks with just over seven minutes to play. And lost in OT.

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Donald Trump never misses an opportunity to tie a great athletic achievement to himself. And yet crickets on Wemby’s performance last night. Or indeed on any of the NBA playoffs. I wonder why? #porvida

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Donald’s newest plan…. 100 foot flagpoles in front of the White House?!

What’s next, the Trump used-car lot?

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JD Vance: “You know who never, ever gets an ounce of sympathy when it comes to disproportionate sentencing? People who voted for Donald Trump and participated in the January 6 protest.”


You know who JD Vance has never expressed an ounce of sympathy for? The 140 police officers injured by people who participated in January 6 “protest.”

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GOP now stands for Grand Old Pedophiles #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles

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You know for all the attacks on California’s jungle primary, a jungle primary might have advanced Thomas Massie into the general election, and saved his seat in Kentucky

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Doesn’t matter how many lies Trump and GOP tell.

Before the November 2024 election, the national average for gas prices for regular fuel was about $3.05

Now regular fuel is approximately $4.51 per gallon.

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Where are all the “Back the Blue” Republicans on Trump’s $1.7 billion slush fund for the January 6 insurrectionists who injured over 140 police officers?

Asking for a country

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Bill Cassidy, just defeated in his Senate Primary, turned around today and voted with Democrats for the War Powers Act.

Since sooner or later Trump throws everyone under the bus maybe some other GOP members of Congress should considering doing the right thing now before they end up under the wheels.

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Calling occupants of interplantary craft…

Posted May 18, 2026 by left coast sports babe
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Can’t understand why people call him an alien

https://www.facebook.com/reel/1463077225003241

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Look, trans athletes competing at a high level is a tough issue. Though such a small number of actual athletes.

But have to love Charlotte Clymer’s tweet today “Wemby is destroying male sports with his unfair biological advantage.

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Meanwhile, a Canadian team actually still has a chance to win the Stanley Cup. Somehow.

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Minnesota US Attorney Daniel Rosen said Aimee Bock, convicted last year, should be sentenced to 50 years in prison for “masterminding the biggest pandemic era fraud in the US.

Aimee Bock is a blonde white woman.

But GOP will probably be furious somehow because Aimee Bock isn’t an Somalian immigrant.

(And as a friend said, will Trump pardon her if she blames someone Somali?)

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How long until GOP claims dead people are eating the dogs and cats?

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Again, if you want to know how state TV operates.

Wonder how Fox News is reporting the $1.7 billion trust fund that Trump demanded his DOJ set up for his supporters who were “wronged” by Democrats?

On their website, crickets. Not mentioned.

They don’t spin, they just hide.

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NY Times “Trump had been asked about extent to which economy factored into his plans to end the war and responded that disarmament was his sole concern.”

Have they been listening to Donald?

His ballroom is his sole concern. (that and the Epstein files)

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For those who don’t follow politics closely Thomas Massie is about as conservative as they come. MAGA all the way.

But he wants the Epstein files released.

And THAT is why Trump wants him out.

A five year old could connect these dots.

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GOP Representative Thomas Massie wants the Epstein files released.

All of them

If the files exonerated Trump and implicated Democrats Donald would give Massie the Presidential medal of honor.

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Democrats probably have no chance in state wide race in Louisiana

But for all headlines about Trump having GOP control.

There are 2,964,882 registered voters in the state.

401,000 of them voted in GOP primary, 344,000 in Dem primary. 25% turnout

Primaries skew hardcore.

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Can some election denier conspiracy theorist explain to us how Trump won when Obama and Biden were Presidents, and yet Democrats managed to rig an election when Trump was in charge?

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Speaker Mike Johnson, explaining why members of Congress need to be able to trade stocks (Yes this is real)

“We have to have sympathy. We need to at least let them engage in some stock trading so they can continue to take care of their family.”=

This should be a Democratic ad shown nonstop in October.

Maybe $174,000 per year (plus a large expense account) isn’t enough to take care of a family in New York City or Los Angeles, but in most of the country….

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The cost of things..

Posted May 16, 2026 by left coast sports babe
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Trevor McDonald, 2-0 in three starts with a 2.37 ERA has more wins for the SF Giants in 2026 than either Tyler Mahle or Adrian Houser

McDonald’s salary is $780,000, Mahle is $10 million, Houser is $7 million

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Rough season for the SF GIants But at least after the 2024 season the Giants didn’t give Blake Snell a $182 million five-year contract. #smallmercies

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Sports IS the best reality entertainment

Because nobody writes the ending in advance

And because you can on any given night see something you never saw before.

Montreal Canadiens tonight at one point led 3-1.

With 3 shots on goal.

(They ended up losing to the Buffalo Sabres 8-3)

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Tina Peters was convicted on seven counts, four of them felonies.

And now Trump knows that Jared Polis can be threatened into doing whatever he wants.

Anyone who had EVER been around a toddler knows what happens when you give into tantrums.

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So Colorado Governor Jared Polis sold his soul to please Donald Trump by pardoning Tina Peters.

That worked out so well for Senator Bill Cassidy MD in voting to confirm RFK Jr.

NY Times “President said a potential arms deal for Taiwan was a “very good negotiating chip” in talks with Beijing. His words raise questions about the reliability of U.S. support.”

Uh, does anyone anywhere now believe under Trump there is reliability for ANY U.S. support?

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Not just that Senator Bill Cassidy, MD became the first incumbent U.S. senator in 12 years to lose his primary.

Worse, as a medical doctor, Cassidy violated his Hippocratic oath by confirming RFK Jr and doing harm to millions of Americans.

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Particularly ironic with Trump-endorsed Julia Letlow as top vote-getter in Louisiana GOP Senate primary.
She’s pro-vaccine, espec. COVID, as her husband Luke was elected to Congress in 2020 & died of COVID-19 before being sworn in.
And she’ll beat Bill Cassidy MD -the deciding vote to confirm RFK Jr.

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Open note to Republicans in blue states:

As Trump threatens to withhold Medicare Medicaid funding from entire states that didn’t vote for him, remember, he won’t protect red voters in those states, meaning YOU could be scr*wed.

Unless a Democratic Congress stops him.

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Wait, Trump accused NY Times reporter of treason for saying Iran war was not over. “We won a great victory.”

But Fox News “President Trump said Chinese President Xi Jinping pledged not to provide military equipment to Iran & offered to help end the conflict.”

So confusing…

Our next US President is going to need to appoint someone to a cabinet level position in charge of “Fixing what Trump broke.”

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It’s pretty clear. Whatever it takes, searching for polling places, hand delivering absentee ballots, long lines, delays etc, make your vote count. Trump doesn’t want us to vote. Neither did Orban. But Hungary did it. Time to be Hungary for democracy. #VOTE

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Playoffs and play time

Posted May 15, 2026 by left coast sports babe
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ESPN headline “NBA defends 11% increase in foul calls during playoffs”

That wasn’t the issue most fans wanted defended. What about the fouls that AREN’T called. And the flops?

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And random hockey note: The Montreal Canadies beat the Buffalo Sabres 3-2 s are 1 win away from advancing to the NHL semifinals

I’m so old I remember when it wasn’t a shock that a Canadian team MIGHT win the Stanley Cup.

(Canadien were the last..in 1993!

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JD Vance today “There’s a lot of fraud in the federal government. It’s unbelievable how much you’ve been fleeced by your own government.”

As the late great English poet Jon Stallworthy wrote… “And every now and then our lies betray us into truth..”‘

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So the President heads to China, bringing his son, daughter-in-law and a bunch of billlionaire tech bros.

But not the First Lady.

And it’s not even a story…

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To put this in perspective.

Trump calls it a “state visit” to China.

But he brought only #2 son & his wife.

Imagine if King Charles had flown to DC, left Camilla at home, and had Harry and Meghan fly from LA to join him at the White House?

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Just went through two days of Fox News website coverage of President Trump in China.

None of the coverage mentions or pictures Donald bringing his son and daughter-in-law along.

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Hey media:

Tourists cannot snorkel at Pearl Harbor. It’s off-limits around USS Arizona & other memorials; considered hallowed, active military cemeteries.
Only “rare, approved dignitaries” are allowed.

So how did Kash Patel rate?

(And what was his liquor bill on the trip.)

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If Xavier Becerra becomes the Democrat who makes it into the general election for the governor’s race in California, it will be a story for the ages – perfect storm of the right opponent dropping out at the right time…so that calm, even boring decency and experience suddenly became attractive.


And how many other Democrats are jealous?

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It’s not over

Posted May 14, 2026 by left coast sports babe
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Ouch for Wild fans. In the NHL the Minnesota Wild were up 3-1 with under 4 minutes to play in the 3rd period and lost game 5 (and the series) to the Colorado Avalanche 4-3 in overtime.

Meanwhile Detroit Pistons, up 103-94 with less than THREE minutes to play in the 4th quarter… hold our overpriced beer.

Pistons also lost in OT. 117-113

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The Trump administration is suspending a requirement that foreign visitors from certain countries pay as much as $15,000 in bonds as long as they are confirmed FIFA World Cup ticket holders.

Tell me that hotel bookings are very disappointing for the World Cup without telling me that hotel bookings are very disappointing for the World Cup.

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Apparently President Trump is considering 250 pardons for America’s 250th birthday.

How long until he starts the bidding to buy one of those pardons?

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Trump & Vance are announcing anti-fraud initiative.

They claim it’s not partisan.

But on Medicare/Medicaid fraud, only states administration has gone after are NY, MN, ME, CA, & FL (led by Trump rival Ron Desantis.)

Who thinks this won’t be weaponized against blue states??

All you need to know about how egregiously corrupt Trump’s plan to have the DOJ settle his lawsuit over someone who released part of his tax returns is…

(Note, lawsuit is for 10 BILLION dollars of taxpayer money into Donald’s pocket.

Fox News website isn’t even covering it.)

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So how long before Polymarket takes bets on when Trump’s reflecting pool costs exceeds $100 million?

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From Marc Ragovin “In a recent interview, Melania said that Trump was not in the delivery room when Barron was born. But in Donald’s defense the weather was really crappy. I looked it up and March 20, 2006, was described as a Dark and Stormy night.”

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He’s back

Posted May 13, 2026 by left coast sports babe
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Sixteen points in the first six months.

Guess Wemby was motivated.

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So can someone explain to me how the SF Giants, now with the third worst record in the National League, look terrible against lousy teams and great against the LA Dodgers?

This is a real Fox News headline “Noah Syndergaard torches Mamdani as a jobless 34-year-old running the world’s top city.

The picture shows Noah as a NY Met.

Fox leaves out that Syndergaard is a “jobless 32 year old” who hasn’t pitched since 2023 when he had a 2-6 record & a 6.50 ERA after signing a $13 million contract with the Dodgers.

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So exactly how is a Royal Caribbean cruise part of an American “road trip?”

Cruises leaving the US usually do not even stop at US ports on their way to the Caribbean.

(And while I love cruises personally, about 90% of their employees are not Americans. Royal Caribbean, like most cruise lines, registers their ships in a foreign country so they don’t have to pay US minimum wage to their mostly foreign crew, nor follow US labor laws. Cruise llines do have sales people and SOME reservations staff etc now in US)

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New CNN poll: Only 28% percent of Americans feel they can comfortably afford a vacation.

A vacation. Singular.

And Sean Duffy’s family road trip included how many vacations over seven months??!!!

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Trump posted 55 times last night in three hours last night ending after 100a.

For some reason Fox News didn’t mention any of them.

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About 600,000 people put down $100 deposits on Trump phones last year. Now the company says the $100 deposits are conditional and do not guarantee a phone will ever be produced or delivered.

Wonder what other imaginary products Donald will try selling next?

Important message to ANYONE with a contested primary this year.

Will Durst has a term “raging moderates.”

But fact is many moderates don’t care enough to show up until general elections. By which point nominees may not be our best choices.

VOTE in 2026 primaries AND the general!

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Meanwhile, while hantavirus seems at least now not to be incredibly contagious, let’s really hope the next pandemic happens when we have a Democrat back in the White House

Trump has shown that he will weaponize aid. He withholds federal funds & disaster relief from blue states.
So if we have a pandemic or even epidemic Donald is likely just to send help to states that voted for him. (Which means forget it even if you’re an non-rich Republican in a blue state.)

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LA Beaten

Posted May 12, 2026 by left coast sports babe
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Okay, an OKC sweep wasn’t surprising. But who expected the Lakers would come closer to winning tonight in Los Angeles than the Dodgers?

#SFGiants

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Only two of the four NBA second round series – Spurs-Timberwolves and Pistons-Cavaliers, will go beyond four games.as both the Thunder and Knicks swept.

Between various channels and streaming services, wonder how many millions of Americans haven’t even figured out how to watch their preferred playoff games yet.


If a President falls asleep regularly in televised cabinet meetings but press conferences and Fox News doesn’t cover it, does he still make a snoring sound?

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If Trump only cared half as much about the United States of America as he does about his ballroom, his arch and now his reflecting pool.

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Hoping Hantavirus turns out not to be a big deal for Americans.

But it would serve us right if now that Trump withdrew the US from the World Health Organization, if WHO charged us a LOT of money to help.

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Trump said he obliterated Iran’s nuclear program last July. The Strait of Hormuz was open in February. We’re all now paying higher gas prices not because of national security, but because Donald wanted to distract from the Epstein files.

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So now that Senator Thom Tillis has dropped his objection to Kevin Warsh as Fed Chair in exchange for Trump DOJ dropping the sham investigation into Jerome Powell, a simple question.

How long after Warsh is confirmed will Trump order the Powell investigation to start again?

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Now “Price reflects effort necessary to expedite timeline of completing project ahead of our 250th.

If it was that important to have it down why not have started it earlier?

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“Cost of news reflecting pool repairs balloon by $11.3 million, to $13.1 million.

So anyone brought back from the Hantavirus cruise ship to the United States is apparently being given the option to stay in quarantine or to isolate at home. On the honor system… Trump administration trusts people more who may be contagious for a deadly disease than they do verified US citizens who want to cast a vote.

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Average price of a gallon of gas now is $4.52 a gallon & rising. It was $2.98 before Donald started his war on February 28.

And Trump plans to “solve” this by getting rid of the 18 cents a gallon gas tax, which will lower it to $4.34.

Like throwing a cup of water on a bonfire.

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Bluer than blue

Posted May 11, 2026 by left coast sports babe
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From a United flight landing at DCA National Airport a few years back. Even on a hazy day the water looked just fine.

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NBA officiating is beginning to make us long for the purity of pro Wrestling.

Meanwhile the SF Giants won their FIRST walk-off win of 2026 in 12 innings about a quarter of the way into the season.

In a game that featured the team blowing their two ABC challenges in the first two innings, Devers admiring what he thought was a home run and only ending up at second after it hit near the top of the wall, a ghost runner at second only getting to third on a double… And the winning hit from Jesus Rodriguez who was 0-5 into the 12.

No style points in baseball.

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Has Donald taken credit for the Washington Wizards getting the number one draft pick yet?

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Imagine if RFK Jr were HHS secretary in Trump’s first term.

Operation Warp speed would never have happened

And how many more millions would have died.

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HHS says an American passenger on the Hanavirus cruise ship has tested “mildly PRS positive for the Andes virus”

So if the patient doesn’t survive will they call it a mild case of death

I voted for Kamala Harris.

But HOWEVER you feel about Harris, we know she would have put adults in charge.

Including at HHS.

“American passenger evacuated from hantavirus-hit cruise ship tests ‘mildly’ positive, 2nd person showing symptoms” HHS says…

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Ball drop

Posted May 10, 2026 by left coast sports babe
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Sunday is the NBA ping-pong ball draft lottery

Let the conspiracy theories begin.

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When Buster Posey shipped Patrick Bailey to the Cleveland Guardians he couldn’t get them to take Ryan Walker too?

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Media has forgotten something:

Under the Trump administration, federal government employees, no matter how productive they had been, were ORDERED to return to the office full time or lose their jobs.

But DOT Secretary Duffy says he did “some work” on his seven month road trip….

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(Now, he’s adding that most of this was done on weekends and spring break for the kids. – Apparently United Airlines gave them free tickets to and from many of the destinations. How nice for them.)

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Duffy’s statement on the man who managed to get over a fence and onto a runway where he was killed by a Frontier plane “No one should EVER trespass on an airport.”

He made no reference to the death of the trespasser. Nor did the DOT secretary issue a statement on the death of a Delta worker when a tug hit the jet bridge at Orlando Airport.

(Side serious note, as it turns out 12 people were injured, when the plane hit the man. But how much worse could it have been. What if the trespasser were armed? Or carrying bombs?)

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VIrginia has a blue state legislature.

Don’t like what Tennessee has done in gerrymandering.

But if this is how GOP wants to play it, why can’t the Virginia legislature just do the same thing and impose
same 10-1 map voters approved?

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Meanwhile, hard not to think that DOD Secretary Pete Hegseth and Dear Leader are treating attacks on small boats in the Caribbean like some sort of combination of video game and snuff film:

“U.S. Conducts Third Boat Strike in 5 Days, Killing 2 and Leaving a Survivor”

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The only problem with Colin Jost and Aziz Ansari’s as hard-drinking Pete Hegseth and Kash Patel on SNL is sometimes it’s hard to tellt they’re not the real thing.

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But NOT the SNL cold open

Donald Trump talking about paving the White House Rose garden

“Brooke Rollins (Sec of Agriculture) would get up & start making magnificent speech & she’d be standing in mud, her speeches would never be as good as they could have been, because she was always concerned about ruining her shoes.”

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Forget running Cabinet departments, is there a single member of the Trump administration most Americans would trust to water their plants?

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Sky high

Posted May 8, 2026 by left coast sports babe
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Ticket prices on the resale market are falling and there are reports that many tickets remain unsold

FIFA tripled the price of its best available tickets to the final , offering $32,970 seats for the July 19 match

Hoping to get some millionaires and billionares to make up for the empty seats?

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If someone had said preseason that the NY Mets and SF Giants would have the same records on May 7, SF Giants at least would have been pleased.

But that’s where we are.

Except both teams have a record of 14-23..

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President Trump said retaliatory strikes against Iranian targets “It’s just a love tap.”

“Just a love tap?”

Anyone still don’t think he’s an abuser?

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Marco Rubio is getting positive media coverage for his recent press conference and meeting with the Pope.

How long until he really upsets Trump for stealing Donald’s limelight?

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Too soon to think seriously about 2028. Have to survive 2026 midterms first.

But what delightful karma if Hegseth’s attacks on Mark Kelly helped vault him to the Presidency.

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Why isn’t it a bigger national story that World Cup hotels are not only not full, their business is way below expectations. 12.5 BILLION lost in inbound tourism for Americans in 2025 2026 will be much worse. #ETTD

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So RFK Jr, who insists that even puberty blockers are bad, has just blocked a proposed FDA rule banning children under 18 from using indoor tanning beds.

Puberty blockers are temporary and reversible.

Skin cancer not so much.

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If Trump had been told hanavirus was airborne would he have told Americans?

Asking for a country that went through this before.

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Ted Turner never minced words.

If he didn’t have Lewy body dementia in his later years have to think Ted have spoken out about CNN, the network he created, increasingly bending the knee.

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