Left Coast Sports Babe

Spurs had 16 point lead on the Warriors after 1st quarter and lost.  So will the league fine Popovich for resting his entire team for three quarters?

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The Warriors-Spurs matchup, one of the marquee regular season games, tipped off at 930pm ET, 830p central.   Even Major League Baseball is thinking, don’t you care about your fans?

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To be fair to Spurs that 8:30pm start meant 2nd half was past Gasol, Parker and Ginobili’s bedtimes.

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T.J McDonald suspended 8 games by NFL after being arrested for driving under the influence of prescription drugs. Hmm, so had he hit a woman instead of driving would he have only gotten six?

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Does it make you a snowflake if you get upset because your favorite #Starbucks is closing? Asking for a friend.

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Consumer confidence reportedly up.   Or it’s just Americans feeling, “We might as well spend, we’re all going to die.”

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Trump approval ratings now at 35% . Waiting for #SeanSpicer to explain how this is really like golf. Lowest scores win.

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Not sure what was worst, that Matt Cain gave up 4 runs in 5.1 innings  for the SF Giants. Or that the outing actually lowered his Spring Training ERA to 7.82.

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Trump & Christie pledge to fight opiod epidemic. No one told them GOP healthplan would strip coverage for mental health/addiction services?

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Chris Christie met with Donald Trump at the White House today, the same day one of his former top aides was sentenced to 2 years in prison over “Bridgegate.” Only the little people pay penalties.

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GOP-controlled Congress voted to let internet providers sell our browsing history.. So yep when it comes to privacy, these are the good old days

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So with this new bill gutting internet privacy rights is it too much to ask that Trump has filed his taxes online?

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Apparently none of the White House staff will attend annual correspondents’ dinner in “solidarity” with President Trump, Translation, “solidarity” means “keeping your job.”

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#Trump asked women today “Have you heard of #SusanBAnthony? No doubt he heard she & #FrederickDouglass are being recognized more & more

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Who says Trump is not a uniter? CNN reporting how the GOP vote to repeal internet privacy rules, a bill expected to be signed by the President, has been “panned by both the editorial board of The New York Times and by commenters on conservative media outlet Breitbart News.”

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“The Classic” concert just announced this summer will feature the Eagles, Steely Dan, Doobie Brothers, Fleetwood Mac, Journey, and Earth Wind & Fire. So based on the target audience demographic assume all tickets will include a senior citizen discount.

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Jeb Bush on Donald Trump “He should stop saying things that aren’t true.” Would Jeb care to opine on what things Trump says that are true?

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#Hawaii judge issues an injunction against Trump’s travel ban. Too soon to start a pool on the timing of #FakeState tweets?

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Ivanka Trump gets a White House desk & top level security clearance. Wonder if Donald will invite Tiffany to the Easter Egg Hunt?

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Iowa GOP bill would allow parents to stop abortion if “woman is less than eighteen years of age or unmarried.” #Bridgetothe19thcentury

And with Opening Day almost upon us.   Thanks to JD for this Carnac moment I had forgotten  “Another favorite Carnac memory: The answer is “Catch-22.” The question is “What do the Los Angeles Dodgers do with 50 fly balls?”

Roger Goodell seems to be so much in favor ot the #Raiders going to #LasVegas you almost wonder what kind of odds he got on the move.

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Didn’t really care between #SouthCarolina & #Florida. But going to miss watching Canyon Barry shoot underhanded free throws. @NBA take note

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This year’s Final Four features all teams from coastal states – Washington, Oregon and the Carolinas. No team from the Midwest or Kentucky.  Is this somehow still  Obama’s fault?

In Lexington, University of Kentucky students rioted after losing their Elite 8 March Madness game by lighting things on fire and chanting “f–k UNC” Just imagine what they might have done if the Wildcats had won?

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Tara Vanderveer would probably think coaching #Stanford men’s basketball would be at best a lateral move, but Cardinal could use her. #WomensFinalFour

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United denied boarding to girls wearing… leggings?  But hey, it’s an about an  offensive look they should refuse many male tourists boarding in shorts.

And okay, I get it, the girls were employee children and there is a dress code when using free tickets. But United’s Twitter feed didn’t try to strike a conciliatory or explanatory town, just doubled down on the airline’s “conditions of carriage”  #wannagetaway?

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Whoever is running #United‘s Twitter account is doing a good enough PR job to be considered for position as assistant to Sean Spicer

Uber halted self-driving car testing in Phoenix following crash involving 1 of their SUVs. Cars still probably safer than most snowbirds.

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15 people shot, 1 fatally in #Cincinnati. Not terrorism, just a good old-fashioned American night with guns. Move along nothing to see here.

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John Kasich on a possible 2020 Presidential run “I’m not really interested in running for political office again. You don’t close the door on anything, but I don’t have my eyes on that.”
Translation, only if I think I can win.

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Wait, Kellyanne Conway gets called out on ethics violations, justifiably for promoting Ivanka’s clothes & then President tells us to “Watch @JudgeJeanine on @FoxNews?” #WTF

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Reince Priebus “I think it’s time to potentially get a few moderate Democrats on board as well.” Does he think they’ll be easier to bully?

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Now talk of Trump trying to work w/ Dems. Yeah, it’s going to go real well when Bannon says “You have no choice you have to vote for this bill.”

The #1 seed Jayhawks, who’d breezed through their first three games,  were upset in basically a home game in Kansas City by Oregon.  Last time things were so unexpectedly turned around for Kansas, a tornado and witches were involved.

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Lonzo says he is one-and-done at UCLA. In related news, Trumpcare never had a realistic chance and water is wet.

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Meanwhile, the only exciting game out of Friday night’s Sweet Sixteen matchups – Wisconsin vs Florida – finished after midnight on the east coast.  So maybe NCAA with basketball really is considering themselves a major professional sport.

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Pirates infielder Jung Ho Kang may miss the 2017 MLB season due to his being denied a US visa, possibly due to a DUI arrest. Yep, if you want to be a star athlete who drinks and drives, you better be born here in the USA.

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Today is #NationalCheesesteakDay To be followed tomorrow by National EKG day?

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USA Today reports that Baywatch’s David Hasselhoff now has his own cruise will host a five-night “fan cruise” this Fall on Costa Cruises. Think someone could manage to push him into a lifeboat?

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Former Penn State president Graham Spanier was convicted today of one count of child endangerment. He had chosen not to report Sandusky to the state Department of Public Welfare, despite the report from Mike McQueary about seeing him in the showers with a young boy. Apparently Spanier plans to appeal. On what grounds? That he thought he was running a Catholic university?

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CNN reports Trump aide says President “agitated” by Trumpcare bill process which he thinks is all “political.”   Hello…it’s politics.

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GOP just changed their Trumpcare Facebook status to “It’s complicated.”

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If GOP willing to eliminate all gender based healthcare from coverage with Trumpcare we could talk. Prostrate exams & ED drugs to start.

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Curiously enough, pulling out is also the GOP’s new birth control strategy. #KilltheBill

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Sean Spicer  “If you’re an older man, you can generally say you’re not going to need maternity care.” So how old was Trump when Barron was born?

Right about now, Obama might be forgiven a small smirk.

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Paul Ryan “We’re going to be living w/ Obamacare for the foreseeable future.” Well, better than dying w/ Trumpcare in the foreseeable future.

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While Dems celebrate, if some party leaders or wannabe leaders have ideas to tweak Obamacare, it  would be excellent time to put them forward.

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Amazing that Trump just didn’t rename #Obamacare & take the credit. Though no doubt that’s his plan B.

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Thinking Ryan had a lot more fun when he could blame all the GOP failures on Obama.

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Latest leak #fakenews CNN reports Trump is upset that his son-in-law and senior adviser was not around during this crucial week.” (Jared and family were skiing in Aspen.)
Actually this one has the ring of truth, if Trump is angry, it wouldn’t be at himself, or heaven forbid his perfect daughter.

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Now that #TeamUSA is in the Word Baseball Classic final will Americans actually start caring? USA ! USA! USA! #WBC

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Wonder if the #WorldBaseballClassic would be more popular if there was a way to put teams into brackets and bet on them in office pools?

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Gregg Popovich on the NBA rest debate “Luckily all the participants are sane people and care about the same thing and want to get it right.”
Right, $ane people and the $ame thing. Anyone heard a complaint yet when a “rest” game wasn’t being televised.

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CKE Restaurants, owners of Carl’s Jr, said today that CEO Andrew Puzder. Trump’s first pick for Labor Secretary. who withdrew after negative publicity, will be replaced by Jason Marker in April. Well, that’s one job Trump can take credit for creating.

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Supreme Court hearings seem to have devolved into situations where nominees won’t opine on what color they think the sky is.

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Barry Bonds is back with the #SFGiants as a special assistant to the CEO. Let’s hope he doesn’t get a swelled head about it.

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In a memo to team owners Adam Silver called the practice of teams resting star players “a extremely significant issue for our league.” Lakers fans are going “What star players?”

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Trump’s latest “It was reported that NFL owners don’t want to pick (your San Francisco quarterback) him up because they don’t want to get a nasty tweet from Donald Trump.”
Kind of makes you want some team to sign Kap.

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Trump of all people should know that saying outrageous things wouldn’t stop you getting a job if people think you are competent.

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Headline “Republicans change health care bill in search for votes.” Maybe they could just change the name and keep Obamacare?

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British PM Theresa May will be featured in US Vogue magazine. Waiting for Trump to claim in a tweet that Vogue asked him first.

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Dow fell by about 238 points today. Waiting for the Trump tweet saying this is Obama’s fault.

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For years, smart travel agents have warned travelers NOT to put laptops and iPads in checked luggage. New rule may be good for security but also open season for thieves. #unintendedconsequences

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Remember all those people worried that Hillary’s election would make Bill a top WH advisor? Somehow I’m missing the outrage on Ivanka.

This laptop ban really makes airlines like Turkish, Emirates & Ethiad less attractive to US fliers. Add UAE & Turkey to Trump insult bingo

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Major budget cuts for the DOJ and a “Memorandum for all Federal Prosecutors” from new AG Jeff Sessions, directing prosecutors to focus not on corporate crime, but on violent crime.
But hey, I am sure under Trump now all potential white-collar crooks are now on their very best behavior.

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Trump’s company, now managed by his sons, is starting a new hotel change, Scion,  and talking to about 20 developers around the country, with 50-100 hotels planned within the next three years.

Move along, nothing to see here. No one I am sure would mind if Chelsea Clinton and her husband had done the same thing if Hillary were elected.

Really sad about Dwight Clark having ALS. And the ties to traumatic brain injury and CTE are getting more and more obvious. A little-known fact about Lou Gehrig is that he went to Columbia on a football scholarship. It’s getting harder and harder to watch football, seriously.

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Tom Brady’s quarterback’s game-worn jersey from Super Bowl LI  has apparently been found in Mexico.

Deflate that wall?

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Actually a shame  for Duke being out of the tournament.  Until the  Yankees start playing baseball for real there’s no one for most Americans to united against as a diversion frojm politics.

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And Allen was one of the few recognizable players in a 1 and one NCAA.

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That moment when you actually sympathize for Tomi Lahren for getting fired when she says ‘You know what, I’m for limited government, so stay out of my guns, and you can stay out of my body as well.'”
#comeovertothedarksideTomiwehavecookiesandchoice

-RIP, David Rockefeller, 101. So Trump finally killed him?

Sean Spicer said today that Trump’s $3 million a week Mar-a-Lago trips are just “part of being president.” Uh, but what about money for museums and the arts being “part of being Americans.

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So anyone get that sense if that if the House actually voted to impeach Trump he’d just decry it as “Fake News?”

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That moment when you haven’t been following NCAA basketball but saw 10 min of Mich-Wisc & thought “darn they look good”. #GoBlue #brackets

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The NCAA seeding committee did such a good job with Wisconsin and Wichita State they’ve been named honorary Presidential pollsters.

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Now Germany on the Trump insult list. How many more people have Bingo?

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Disney’s Beauty and the Beast made $170 million at the box office this weekend. With this much success wonder if someone will suggest a cartoon sequel.

Uber President Jeff Jones is quitting, less than a year after joining the company, after multiple controversies. An example to those in the Trump cabinet??

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Trump today said North Korea’s Kim Jong-un was ‘acting very, very badly’ “Back at ya” said most of the Western World.

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A California waiter was fired after he refused to serve several Latina women until they showed him “proof of residency.” Well, no doubt if he wants to move he might be offered a position at a Trump Hotel.

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Fox + Friends’ Brian Kilmeade “We keep marrying other species + other ethnics…” What punchline could possibly top this?

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George Conway, Kellyanne’s husband, will reportedly be chosen as head of the Justice Dept’s civil division, the office that will handle legal challenges to Trump’s policies. For all those who were worried that the only nepotism in DC now benefited the Trump family.

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Paul  Ryan tweeted “Another one heads to President Trump’s desk. This legislation allows states to have drug testing to receive federal unemployment benefits.”

So can we have the same bill apply to members of Congress?

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Former U.S. NATO representative Ivo Daalde responded to Trump’s tweets about Germany needing to pay more money “Sorry, Mr President, that’s not how NATO works. Adding “The US decides for itself how much it contributes to defending NATO. This is not a financial transaction, where NATO countries pay the US to defend them. It is part of our treaty commitment.”
“Sorry, Mr. President, that’s not how NATO works.” Substitute any other word for NATO and you’ve basically got a description of the last two months.

Normally when #FloridaState‘s athletic program is this embarrassed, the police are involved.

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California teams doing surprisingly well in NCAA tournament.  Will Trump accuse refs of fake scoring?

NCAA admits missing goaltending against Gonzaga, leading to Northwestern technical. 4 pt swing in 79-32 game. What about electoral college?

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But of course, with calls against Northwestern, figure the NCAA may pay for it in future decisions involving alumni law school graduates.

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rrassed, the police are involved. #marchmadness

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Ah for the days when the worst embarassment Americans had with their President and Angela Merkel was a quick back rub.

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Dorothy Parker used to open door and ask “What fresh hell could this be?” Now millions of Americans feel the same about Trump’s twitter feed

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Sad. #ChuckBerry, 90, has passed away. Can we blame Trump?

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Reports are that when he was fired, after being first asked to stay on by Trump, Preet Bharara was investigating Tom Price’s trading of health care stocks while he was involved in health care legislation in the House – a total of over $300,000 in shares.
I’m sure it’s just a coincidence.

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Yeah, we’re  definitely in an alternative universe. China now urging United States to remain “coolheaded” over North Korea

Donna Brazile just admitted that she tipped off the Clinton campaign on potential questions about the death penalty at one debate and the Flint, Michigan water crisis. And how would Hillary have ever thunk otherwise that those questions might come up?

29-38 Mavericks vs 24-43 76ers tonight. Talk about ratings disaster. Fans of amateur basketball have so many other #marchmadness options.

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SMU blew a 10 point lead with 11 minutes to play to lose to USC, who had already survived a play-in game. Normally for this much embarrassment, SMU relies on their football team.

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Michigan not making friends in Las Vegas. They won 92-91 over Oklahoma State. But the Cowboys’ buzzer beater 3 point shot meant the Wolverines didn’t cover the 2.5 point spread. The horror.

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Pregnant client landing in London was asked by customs both when she was due, and if the baby was insured. Expecting US Trumpcare refugees?

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So in honor of #StPatricksDay wonder why Trump didn’t order ICE to round up and deport some Irish illegals?

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We weren’t supposed to vote for Hillary Clinton since she didn’t have enough stamina for the job? She never came home early as Secretary of State.

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So now Trump is tweeting against North Korea, and Tillerson is saying a pre-emptive strike is possible. What could possibly go wrong?

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So who had England in Trump insult bingo?

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Sean Spicer “We are sorry.” You can say that again.

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The Hill reports GOP-led House today passed a bill allowing VA employees to be fired more quickly “if they are found to be incompetent or engaging in wrongdoing.”
Damn, can we have legislation like that for members of Congress? And the executive branch? #wecandream

Trump ignored Angela Merkel’s request today for handshake during White House photo op. Assuming because she has bigger hands than he does.

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Rick Santorum, on Trumps wire tap allegations “We’re not in an election anymore, who he’s hurting is not a rival, he’s hurting himself.”
Another incredible Trump accomplishment.- turning Rick Santorum into a voice of reason.

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After Britain demanded an apology for Sean Spicer’s claim they had colluded with Obama to wiretap Trump Tower, Trump today responded “You shouldn’t be talking to me, you should be talking to Fox,.” Uh, is there any difference?

From T.C.  “The new Disney film Beauty and the Beast has been banned in places like Alabama and Malaysia due to one of its characters being gay. But Donald Duck can run around  “commando”, and also not wear any pants at all; without controversy. “