Left Coast Sports Babe

President-elect Joe Biden running to the podium tonight is the sweetest troll ever.

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Wonder if Donald can hear the cheering in the streets outside the White House.

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I will forgive Dr. Birx a multitude of sins if she shows up Monday in a Biden scarf.

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All these people calling for a Trump concession speech. Does anyone really want to see Donald pretending to be gracious but in reality making it angrily all about him?

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Of course if Donald actually had a healthcare plan he could unveil it next week and try to end his Presidency on a nice note….

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While we’re trying to figure out how to fund COVID-19 relief, Donald Trump dragged out of the White House kicking and screaming might be a good idea on Pay-per-View.

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Apparently before the game against Clemson in South Bend, Notre Dame coach Brian Kelly told his team “I just want you to know, when we win this thing, the fans are going to storm the field.”

Nice warning about COVID-19, which was part of Kelly’s point, but let’s see, at home in South Bend, with Clemson’s Heisman QB out of the game… well, that prediction might have been as prescient as someone late last night calling Presidential race for Biden.

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Meanwhile, yeah, just saw the pictures of mask-less Notre Dame fans storming the field. Covid spike in South Bend in 3.2.1…

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Meanwhile, this real opening paragraph from ESPN “After Michigan’s first loss to Indiana since 1987 and the team’s second straight loss of the season, Jim Harbaugh said after the Wolverines’ 38-21 lost to Indiana on Saturday that he still believes this team is close to turning the corner.”

Like the USA is turning the corner on COVID?

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As a travel agent this tweet from Four Seasons feeling the need to disavow a relationship with POTUS has to be one of highlights of the weekend

“@FSPhiladelphia · To clarify, President Trump’s press conference will NOT be held at Four Seasons Hotel Philadelphia. It will be held at Four Seasons Total Landscaping— no relation with the hotel.”

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Posted a countdown clock for the last 100 days before the election. Didn’t expect we’d need another countdown clock for the days to CALL the election…

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And now it’s the Arizona Utah Pac 12 football opener for both teams cancelled. How long until betting on which games get canceled for COVID-19 becomes a thing in Vegas?

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Rob Manfred said there will be no punishment for Justin Turner celebrating with Dodgers on the field after World Series even after Turner had tested positive for COVID-19 & was removed from game. I miss having an MLB commissioner.

Seriously, the NFL punishes people more for wearing their socks too low.

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I haz idea. Since the networks seem so terrified of Trump, maybe someone could convince him to go golfing this weekend and then call the election while he’s on the course?

Joe Biden’s popular vote win is currently at 4 million votes. But It’s going to be more than a 5 million vote win. Maybe closer to 6 million.

California alone has about 2.5 MILLION votes left to count.

(America, you’re welcome that our state isn’t close.)

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I was mostly kidding earlier this week when I said #ElectionNight was going to last a Scaramucci.

Scaramucci himself appeared on CNN tonight. Must admit that of all the times I’ve heard about the Milgram Experiment, this is first time I’ve heard experiment referenced to describe working in the White House.

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More Democrats were quick to condemn Bill Clinton over a consensual sexual relationship, than Republicans are condemning Donald Trump over an assault on democracy.

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Mitch McConnell today “Every legal vote should be counted.” While you’re at it Mitch, how about counting votes for the 400 bills sitting on your desk?

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Have probably seen a half-dozen articles/posts today suggesting Nancy Pelosi should step down as Speaker because Dems didn’t do as well in House races as expected. Well, not like anyone expected Dems to Flip The Senate so no one goes after Chuck Schumer. #misogyny

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Trump RT’s Paul Sperry “Funny how CNN has suddenly stopped its “COVID-COVID-COVID!” drumbeat, isn’t it?

CNN Breaking News “White House chief of staff tests positive for coronavirus.”

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Open note to soon to be former President Trump: Votes are like COVID-19 cases. You can’t pretend they don’t exist by not counting them.

So are we all now humming “On that four am train to Georgia?

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“It’s an ill wind that blows no one any good.” As many Americans remain glued to TVs for election results, 49ers have to be thrilled that no one is watching Thursday Night Football.

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Wonder if Hillary Clinton up watching CNN maps and counting with the rest of us?

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Since Georgia is about to flip how long until Trump calls for boycotts of products made there, including…. Diet Coke.

Oops, never mind.

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A majority of ESPN’s NFL headlines are about COVID-19, tests, penalties, mask violations cases. Well, NY fans have to be glad at least they aren’t about the Giants or Jets.

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Washington-Cal game football game Saturday canceled because of COVID-19 positive tests.-

But I thought Trump said no one would hear about COVID-19 after the election… This is SO confusing.

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Republicans having temper tantrums over slow vote counting must have forgotten that the reason many states waited until Election Day or the day after to count absentee ballots was that REPUBLICANS wanted them to wait.

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Just noticed, Donald Trump’s profile picture on Twitter is his unmasked, superspreader rally in Pennsylvania. Wonder if suburban women and others decided to vote for the guy who actually acted like he valued life?

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Election night is getting dangerously close to lasting a Scaramucci.

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Donald Trump ranting “STOP THE COUNT!” is like the captain of the Titanic telling the water to stop rushing in.

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As we all breathe sighs of relief over Michigan and Wisconsin, worth nothing that there were three Midwestern states with razor thin margins in 2016. One wasn’t close in 2020 – Minnesota. And media’s not talking about it but Joe Biden again owes a big debt to Amy Klobuchar.

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Georgia elections official says SO correctly that a lot of states are slower at counting, they just aren’t close. California, with about 80% of our votes counted – says “Hi.”

Georgia currently has Joe Biden & Donald Trump a few hundred votes apart out of almost 5 million votes cast in 2020 Presidential election. So if you are a Georgia voter who thinks your vote doesn’t count in upcoming Senate runoffs, think again.

Looking at Georgia I think it’s pretty clear tha Joe Biden also owes Stacey Abrams. Who if not for voter suppression would be the Governor of Georgia.

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Thank you Georgia.
But no, as an #SFGiants fan, I’m still not doing that damn Braves’ tomahawk chop.

A bridge to 270…. John Lewis’s Clayton County gives Joe Biden the lead.

You know when your team plays a game that was supposed to be a blowout, and barely wins in overtime, while several star players were injured…. This election feels like that.

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SF 49ers, already injury ravaged, put four players on COVID-19 list tonight before Thursday game against the Packers. At this point the Niners may need to allow fans in the stands just to have a pool of players for pre-game tryouts.

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Anyone but me dreaming of when we can travel again and mentally planning to spend travel dollars in swing states that go blue?

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Makes sense that since 2020 is the longest year ever that November 3 should be the longest election night ever.

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But how soon after the election now can we potentially put a “opening soon under new-management” sign on our country?”

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Anyone who thinks this is bad, remember Minnesota Senate race in 2008. Came down to 312 votes and with all the legal fighting Al Franken wasn’t seated in the Senate until July 2009!

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So if Trump loses will a million Russian bots no longer start following him every month on Twitter?

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Seriously what is it with men in North Carolina and their zippers. First John Edwards and now Cal Cunningham. (Maybe we can find a woman to run against Burr in 2022?)

As a California voter, it is a darn good thing that we aren’t a swing state. Because we are not exactly quick with ballot counting – as of tonight “74% reported.”

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So now that Martha McSally has lost two Senate races in two years to two different candidates how long until she takes over at CNN from Rick Santorum?

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Some conservative news sites gushed about what Melania Trump wore to vote. I’d prefer to vote on what she DIDN’T wear to vote. A MASK.

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Curiously enough, when Kamala Harris first ran for AG in 2010 in California, the votes counted on election night only showed she had lost. She won by about 80,000 votes.

Trump tweeting “We have claimed, for Electoral Vote purposes, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the State of Georgia, and the State of North Carolina, the State of Michigan …” And I would like to claim I am a Queen. Where does one go to make these claims?

Donald Trump thinks he can treat vote numbers the same way he does COVID numbers.

Meanwhile while Trump rages in White House, US hit over 100,000 COVID-19 cases today for 1st time ever. With 1,100 deaths. And that’s before we know effects of Donald’s last weekend superspreader rallies. Yeah, we’ve turned the corner alright.

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 Starting with a bit of sports outrage. The NY Giants thought they had a chance for an upset in overtime when a defensive pass interference was called against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers after the Giants had pulled the game to within 25-23 with 28 seconds left in the game and were attempting a 2 point conversion.

But then the officials conferred, and picked up the flag. Presumably after consulting the rule book… which says, especially late in a game, no call should ever go against Tom Brady’s team.

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Going to be an interesting Sunday Night Football next week against the Saints.

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Meanwhile NFL is looking at a 16 team playoff if more games get cancelled due to COVID. If they keep this up we’ll soon be looking at almost all teams in the NFC except the NFC East.

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Meanwhile, a President who thinks he’s going to be re-elected in a landslide doesn’t turn the White House into a virtual bunker with a non-scalable wall the day before the election. Period.

As Donald tweets pictures of himself dancing on “stage”at 3am, It might just be possible that Joe Biden will be up dancing Tuesday at 3am.But if so, he’ll be slow dancing quietly with Jill at home.And he won’t be tweeting it.

Two beautiful words – “President-elect Biden.”

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Like many other Americans I don’t know what tomorrow’s final vote count will be. But I am pretty sure of one thing – we are going to be looking at the biggest gender gap in Presidential election history

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Here’s a fun and hopeful thought for my friends in Florida. Trump says he won’t return to Minnesota if they vote for Joe Biden. Does this mean if Florida goes blue Donald will abandon Mar-A-Lago?

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An optimistic thought on election eve. California often leads the way for our country. And from 1952, except for 1964, California was a RED state. Bill Clinton flipped it, and we haven’t looked back since.

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One lovely thing in the midst of this election madness is the reminders – especially over the last few days -of how wonderful it is to listen to Barack Obama.

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Barack Obama points out that Joe Biden was his VP for eight years “I think we’d all know if he were a secret Socialist by now.

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Used to run cross country, coach taught us not to run out of gas before finish line, but goal was to JUST make it across line, so we knew we’d given it our all. That’s how I feel tonight w/ election. Running on fumes but not planning to leave anything out there.

Probably small comfort, but the SF 49ers, last place in the NFC West, have a better record than the Philadelphia Eagles, who are in first place in the NFC East.

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How amazing was it that Saints, historically an “indoor” team, managed to win a game against the Bears in Chicago, when temperatures maybe reached the low 40s and wind chill made it feel like the 20s. Of course, by Chicago standards that’s practically Indian summer.

You know you’re getting emotionally invested this election cycle —when you start really caring about Vikings Packers game because you know a Minnesota upset will give Amy Klobuchar a nice mental boost heading into last two days of campaigning for Joe Biden!

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As Los Angeles Dodgers players probably are awaiting their COVID-19 test results, would it be wrong to hope Trump invites them to the White House?

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Ivanka today compared her father to Churchill. Well, Churchill was overweight and used to roam around the house in his bathrobe. Think the analogy stops there.

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Watching some of these Trump sycophants on TV and wondering, did they sell their souls to join Team Donald or did they never have souls to begin with?

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Yes, President Joe Biden will have a lot on his to-do list. But maybe he can find time for a small medal ceremony for both Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar for their willingness on Joe’s behalf to regularly appear on Fox News.

Trump tweeted out about his supporters who tried to run Biden-Harris bus off the road in Texas – “In my opinion, these patriots did nothing wrong.” Does Twitter have a dog whistle emoji?

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Trump defended his supporters who surrounded the moving Biden campaign bus later in a rally: “They escorted the bus,” Right, they wanted to “escort the bus” like they “escorted” John Lewis the first time he crossed the Edmund Pettus bridge.

Many of us still may wake up in the middle of the night after Joe Biden moves into the White House. But at least we can go back to sleep without checking our phones going “Now WTF did POTUS tweet?”

Some trying to attack Joe Biden as too conservative, some as too liberal, But look at Team Joe Everyone from Bernie & AOC on one side, to Amy & Pete in middle, to Kasich & (Cindy) McCain on the other.

Yeah, the infighting probably starts January 21. But it’s a big beautiful blue tent, with room for all Americans.

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Remembering tonight that more sitting Democrats in Congress condemned Bill Clinton over a consensual sexual relationship than sitting Republicans have condemned Trump over more crimes than I could list in a dozen tweets. We need to vote the enablers out.

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Trump tweeted out about his supporters who tried to run Biden-Harris bus off the road in Texas – “In my opinion, these patriots did nothing wrong.” Does Twitter have a dog whistle emoji?

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As much as Donald is known for stiffing people who work for him, wonder how many lawyers will actually show up to help him contest election results?

“Macho Man,” “Fortunate Son” “My Heart Will Go On.” What’s next, Trump campaign at his rallies will start playing “You’re So Vain?” Or “Fool on the Hill?”

If you’re not excited about either candidate winning in some political races , there’s always the distraction of Sunday Night Football – the 2-5 Dallas Cowboys are playing the 2-4-1 Philadelphia Eagles.

And they’re playing to take the lead in the NFC East.

At the end of the first half, an all-out physical brawl erupted at midfield between Florida & Missouri football players. But sure, these young men are mature and disciplined enough to play football during a pandemic.

So as Trump ignores Dr. Fauci and relies almost completely on Scott Atlas, would really love to ask Donald’s supporters – if you have a heart attack, would you turn down surgery from a cardiac specialist in favor having it done by a nonpracticing former radiologist?

2 days before the election and Donald Trump is up late rant tweeting and supporting Maxine Waters’ GOP opponent in her California congressional race ??! Rep. Waters won in 2018 with only 77.7% of the vote. #Sad

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Joe Biden at a speech in Detroit calls Donald Trump “Putin’s puppy.” Now that’s insulting. To puppies.

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Love “no f*cks to give” Barack Obama. At a rally for Joe Biden, while castigating Trump for his obsession with crowds sizes, Obama asks “did nobody come to his birthday parties or something?”

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Yea, it shouldn’t have to be so hard. But someday, if our grandchildren ask what we did to help America survive 2020, part of the answer should be “I voted.”

Donald Trump in today’s speech claims we’re going to put a woman on the moon. Even as a woman who was a space junkie as a little girl, thinking yeah THAT’s going to matter to suburban women in the middle of a pandemic….

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Trump late night tweet “Suburban Women are trending strongly to our campaign because they want SAFETY, SECURITY & love the fact I terminated the REGULATION that would destroy their neighborhood..” “Siri, what is the largest Presidential election voting gender gap in US history?”

As we set clocks back tonight wishing we could postpone it one week. Because I’d really like that extra hour to be able to say President-Elect Joe Biden.

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Melania Trump today campaigning for her husband “The United States is a shining city upon a hill.” Wow, someone snuck a Reagan speech into her speechwriter’s stack of Michelle Obama notes?

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Trump loves to tout his pet doctor Scott Atlas’s Stanford credentials, even though the former radiologist’s former colleagues at University largely disown him. But now survey saying Donald’s rallies cause COVID-19 cases & death is from…Stanford. Pass the tainted popcorn?

Silly limerick time, because… why not?

We’re mostly now way beyond tired.

So long in Trump’s mess we’ve been mired

But there’s light through the haze.

In a couple of days.

As our votes will tell Donald “You’re Fired.”