Left Coast Sports Babe

Early days. But the over-under on Spurs wins in Las Vegas for a 72 game season was 28.5. It is my serious non-snarky opinion that there is not a single NBA team Gregg Popovich couldn’t coach to 29 wins this season.

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The Washington Football Team, with an injured quarterback leader, AND a losing record, turns out to have had a much more legitimate chance than Velveeta Voldemort of pulling off an unexpected win this week.

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I already miss those long ago days when many of us could focus our outrage this weekend on #6 seed Buccaneers w/ Tom Brady getting to face the worst team in the NFL playoffs… You know, like last week?

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If we need a reminder of how sometimes we Democrats need to get together and strongly back our candidates in purple states/districts, I KNOW Claire McCaskill is a moderate who many in left-wing of party didn’t support. And when she lost Missouri got Josh Hawley.

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Airlines have names & personal details of many of those who traveled to Washington DC for Trump’s insurrection/coup and broke into the Capitol. Putting anyone arrested on a no-fly list would be a good measure towards ensuring the safety of all decent Americans.

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While he’s banned from most sites, has anyone checked to see if Trump is trying to sell the White House china on Ebay?

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On 3rd day in office, GOP Rep. Mary Miller, trying to block certification of Biden’s win- “This is the battle. Hitler was right on 1 thing. He said, ´Whoever has the youth has the future.” She now says some are “twisting her words.” As if there’s ANY decent way to quote Hitler.

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Just realizing, for all of us who have ever thought we had the “worst boss ever,” Trump’s trying to have Pence killed might have raised the bar out of reach forever.

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If one of that mob had actually injured a member of Congress or worse, do you think any of Velveeta Voldemort’s other elected cult members would have disowned him?

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So some in GOP are warning Biden that if Democrats proceed with impeachment it “would inflame Trump supporters.” Uh, “inflame” as opposed to what?

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Still think there was more outrage from Democrats over their President’s consensual affair than there has been from Republicans for their President’s fatal coup attempt.

Meanwhile, back in sports, Michigan signed football coach Jim Harbaugh to a five-year extension. To be fair this WAS the first year the Wolverines didn’t lose to Ohio State.

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RIP Tommy Lasorda. When SF Giants fans booed him loudly at Candlestick Park, he used to smile and tip his cap, seemed to love every minute of it. So I hope he’s getting a standing ovation of boos from Giants fans today in heaven.

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Friday should have been about Alex Trebek’s last episode on Jeopardy. His last words: “Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, for spending the time with us. We’ll see you again next week.”

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Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski told Anchorage Daily News that Donald should resign and says if GOP is nothing more than the party of Trump, she questions whether she can remain a Republican.

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I disagree with Senator Lisa Murkowski on MANY things, but if she leaves the GOP now over them not disavowing Trump, I promise I will, even as a staunch Democrat, make a small donation to her re-election campaign. Who’s with me?

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Before the riots started on January 6, Oliver Darcy of CNN pointed out that Fox News showed Ted Cruz’s speech about election being “rigged”, but not Chuck Schumer’s speech preceding him, nor Amy Klobuchar’s rebuttal. And we wonder how people end up in the Trump cult.

So since Donald spent years convincing Americans it was the scariest threat they could imagine, can we start referring to Trump’s mob who attacked the Capitol as a “caravan?”

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Since we need to laugh – one of my favorite stories during this rough week is one MAGA rioter being fired, because he was identified by HIS WORK BADGE, which he wore while attacking and entering the Capitol.

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By now deleting his account, and his tweets from @POTUS accounts, Twitter has shown they actually mean to stand up to Donald Trump more than most of the GOP.

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Shouldn’t be hard to figure out Velveeta Voldemort’s alternative secret account. Look for a random account with 70 million new Russian bot followers.

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So how much will Donald up the prenup if Melania gives him her Twitter password?

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Now Ted Cruz says he has disagreed with Trump’s language and rhetoric for years. If Ted weren’t so unlikable that would be a great opener for a comedy routine.

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Rachel Maddow reports that Mitch McConnell says he would not convene an impeachment trial until January 19. So much for all those who praised Mitch’s “new tone” on January 6. Once a sycophant, always a sycophant.

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I’ve seen Joe Biden speak twice in person. To be honest, both times I thought he was kind of boring. Words cannot express how much I miss boring.

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Donald’s handling of COVID-19 will result in hundreds of thousands more deaths than shooting one person in the middle of 5th Avenue. But was the death of Brian Sicknick, a Capitol Police Officer, FINALLY enough to make some of his supporters abandon Trump?

And who had the San Antonio Spurs winning back to back games in January…. against the Clippers AND the Lakers.

Now all you liars put your hands down.

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Tennessee-Chattanooga today fired assistant football coach Chris Malone for a racist tweet mocking Stacey Abrams. I’m not so naive as to imagine there aren’t plenty of racists in sports, but to put it in a public tweet? That’s grounds for firing both for racism AND stupidity.

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Rachel Maddow says we’ve all aged 30 years in the last 4 years. Four years? Feels like we’ve all aged 30 years in the last four months.

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So is it too late to start a game of Trump Cabinet resignation bingo?

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So can you invoke the 25th Amendment if there aren’t enough Cabinet members left for a quorum? Asking for a really tired country.

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Not seeing this really discussed, but think HUGE reason Joe Biden waited to pick Garland – Merrick sits on important DC Court of Appeals. Garland would always have been an easy AG confirmation, but if Dems hadn’t won GA Senate, McConnell would’ve replaced him w/another unqualified right-winger like Justin Walker

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Dana Bash was talking about Donald Trump’s “new tone?” Please. The only new tone Donald ever has is when he switches brands of spray-tan.

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These last minute resignations from Trump administration remind me of Bruce Ismay. For the uninitiated, Ismay was Chairman of White Star Line, approved reduction from 48 to 16 lifeboats for Titanic, ignored ice warnings while aboard… & still ended up in one of last lifeboats.

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Betsy Devos followed Elaine Chao by resigning today. So looks like it’s going to be women first into the Trumptanic lifeboats.

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Give Betsy Devos credit. During her tenure as Secretary of Education, no children were killed by grizzly bears.

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Meanwhile, over on state TV here’s headline “Time to Heal – Trump condemns Capitol rioters, calls for calm, vows to ensure ‘seamless transition of power’ For some reason Fox didn’t cover trump telling rioters he loved them & they were special. Sure it’s just an oversight.

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Meanwhile, anyone remember how Velveeta Voldemort said we wouldn’t hear about COVID-19 starting Nov 4? After today, another almost 4,100 people will never hear about anything ever again.

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So Velveeta Voldemort is also going to Camp David for the weekend. One simple solution to this mess is to change the White House locks.

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Crooks and traitors are stupid alert: The man who stole the Speaker’s podium reportedly put it up for sale on eBay. (Ebay eventually removed the listening.) But I am sure prosecutors appreciate Ebay having all his contact information.

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Meanwhile, the death toll, so far, at yesterday’s attempted coup attempt was one more than Benghazi. So we should have AT LEAST as many hearings and investigations into it? And Donald, after he leaves office should have to testify the same as Hillary, right.

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Crickets from Velveeta Voldemort & many of his Congressional sycophants on the death of the Capitol Police Officer tonight. I guess I misunderstood – Blue Lives only Matter when they’re going after Black and Brown people?

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Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick, hit in head w/ fire extinguisher by one of Trump’s MAGA mob, died tonight. His brother said he served in Operation Desert Shield & Operation Enduring Freedom. So he survived fighting foreign terrorism to be murdered by domestic terrorists.

Wednesday night, Bradley Beal set a career high with 60 points against 76ers, but his Wizards still lost 136-141.

So yet another time someone from Washington set a personal best and still came in second.

(Yes, 75 million votes also definitely loses to 81 million.)

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Bummer that the Spurs didn’t play Wednesday night. Really wanted someone to put a microphone in front of Gregg Popovich.

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DC Police said something like 52 arrests now. 52 arrests? As a long time #SFGiants fan I remember more than 15 arrests during an average Giants Dodgers game at Candlestick.

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“A selfish man’s injured pride” – Mitt Romney just summed up the reasons for this charade and for the riots in DC today.

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Once again, as a Stanford alum can I call upon the university to rescind Josh Hawley’s degree? Along with Yale Law School. Ditto Princeton and Harvard Law School with Ted Cruz.

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How do these house Republicans say they rise with “a heavy heart,” when they have clearly demonstrated they don’t HAVE a heart?

Wednesday night, 132 Republicans members of the House just voted against their own elections/re-elections this November being valid.

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Your reminder, and with all-caps since that’s the language some seem to understand: All the voting changes that Pennsylvania GOP cult members are railing against were PUT IN PLACE BY GOP PENNSYLVANIA LEGISLATURE.

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To paraphrase a quote about Charles I at his execution: Nothing in Mike Pence’s Vice Presidency so became him as presiding over the leaving of it.

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Nancy Pelosi and Mike Pence giving each other an elbow bump was unexpectedly somehow sweet. Don’t tell Mother.

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Donald had his account suspended for 12 hours today. You know, I always kind of thought the standards for keeping an active account on Twitter were lower than for keeping the nuclear codes.

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I’m so old I remember when some people thought it was an exaggeration to compare Trump to Hitler and Jim Jones.

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So the results are certified. Can we now call Trump and the GOP “The Gang that Couldn’t Coup Straight?

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One of many things to look forward to now in 2021 is that Mitch McConnell will HAVE to vote on Merrick Garland.

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I’m so old I remember watching live and thinking the most memorable part of Wednesday, January 6, might be Amy Klobuchar once again eviscerating Ted Cruz.

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I think for millions of Americans “Dry January” has just been canceled.

ESPN headline for my friends and readers who care nothing about sports “Atlanta Dream co-owner Kelly Loeffler loses U.S. Senate runoff race to Raphael Warnock.”

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So Kelly Loeffler, whose entire WNBA team, the Atlanta Dream publicly endorsed her opponent, has been voted out of the Senate. If she wants a team more fitting with her loser persona maybe she could buy the Atlanta Falcons.

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So there was a Heisman Trophy ceremony today?

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But sure, professional athletes are responsible enough to observe COVID-19 protocols- another other ESPN headline –

As the Browns approach their first playoff game in forever, Browns LT Jedrick Wills Jr and WR Rashard Higgins cited for drag racing (presumably each other) Tuesday am.

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Never been a big fan of reality TV, but at this point I do miss days when Kanye West and Kim Kardashian getting a divorce would have been the biggest story on social media.

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Not that I expected charges to have been filed in the shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, who was unarmed. But seven shots. Just wonder if how many shots the officer might have had to fire for it to have been considered reckless or excessive?

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Meanwhile, if Kyle Rittenhouse were black he wouldn’t have been arraigned today either. He’d be dead.

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NY Times compares Mike Pence’s role on January 6 as that of an Academy Awards presenter reading the winner. Have to assume Donald is now frantically trying to replace VP Pence with Warren Beatty.

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Open note to @CNN. Want to guarantee I change the channel? Put Rick Santorum on.

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So will soon-to-be-former Senator Kelly Loeffler take her private plane to Washington DC to vote to support a coup by a soon-to-be-former President who probably hurt her re-election chances? Asking for a friend who needs to know how much popcorn to buy.

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Meanwhile, over on Fox News “Warnock declares victory in Georgia runoff, but Loeffler says she has ‘path to victory’” Does this mean Kelly got some inside tips on which stocks will do better in a Blue Senate?

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When hotels have rooms available last minute they tend to lower prices at least to be competitive: Washington DC hotels Jan 6 now almost all under $400. Except Trump hotel DC – STILL $5166.43 counting tax per night. Nonrefundable. This isn’t a hotel stay, it’s a donation.

Donald Trump saying he won many states because of rally sizes is like the Knicks saying they’ve won many NBA championships because they’ve always sold out Madison Square Garden.

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Former Wisconsin QB Jack Coan announced he is transferring to Notre Dame. Give him credit, in the ESPN story story announcing the transfer he doesn’t even pretend academics are involved.

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So after last night’s in game tank job can Philadelphia’s NFL team change their song to “Lie Down Like an Eagle?”

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Chargers fired coach Anthony Lynn after a 7-9 season. Clearly Lynn’s biggest mistake – not figuring out a way to move the team to the NFC East.

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Liz Cheney on Raffensperger tape ” It was deeply troubling, & I think everybody ought to listen to the full hour of it. I think it’s deeply troubling & I’m just going to leave it at that.” As if Donald hasn’t done enough awful things, now I have to grudgingly respect Liz Cheney?

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Thomas Friedman nails a question with Anderson Cooper about Trump sycophants desperately seeking his favor: “Does someone like Josh Hawley think Donald will endorse him over Don Jr? Or Ivanka.

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Before the Georgia rally Hannity on Fox News talking about what a crime it is that Hillary hasn’t been prosecuted for her emails and how corrupt the FBI has been. And we wonder why cult members think the way they do…

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David Perdue says RECORDING Trump’s call with Raffensperger was “disgusting”, not the call itself. So I’ve clearly missed all Perdue’s outrage over the wrongs done to Richard Nixon.

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Learn something every day – Georgia’s wiretapping law is “one-party consent” law for purposes of making audio recordings of conversations. Not a crime to secretly record phone call from any private place” if one party to conversation consents. #TrumpTape

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Dear Joe Biden. Can you give Gabriel Sterling a medal? Sincerely, America.

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This isn’t getting enough attention. An aide to Georgia SoS Raffensperger on why they recorded call with Trump: “Lindsey Graham asked us to throw out legally cast ballots. So yeah, after that call, we decided maybe we should do this.”

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Video now of Kelly Loeffler campaigning this weekend at an indoor mask-less rally.Well, as a Senator she’s been vaccinated. So I guess COVID-19 to her is like insider trading… different rules apply to her.

Is it a requirement if you are a woman in Velveeta Voldemort’s orbit that you have to speak in a breathy little girl voice? Asking for adult women in this country.

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Listening to Donald throw him under the bus Georgia Governor Brian Kemp must almost be wishing he hadn’t suppressed all those votes and just let Stacey Abrams rightfully win the 2018 race.

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Amy Klobuchar on with Rachel Maddow Monday night said both North Dakota senators have come out saying they are not joining the coup.

That statement shouldn’t ever have to be written. The election is over and has been over for a long time. But good news.

If Donald really wanted someone to hand him a win in Pennsylvania he should have just hired Doug Pederson.

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As annoyed as NY Giants must be at Eagles tanking against Washington, the Giants would be more deserving of sympathy if their record was better than 6-10.

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Sorry Donald, only in the NFL do you have a chance to be in Washington DC and win with a losing record.

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Minnesota Vikings beat the Detroit Lions 37-35 to finish 7-9, and QB Kirk Cousins said afterwards “We were really close to being in the playoffs.”

Well, close as in geographically Minneapolis really is East of Dallas, so technically could have been in the NFC East.

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Fox News headline: “Trump urges Georgia election official to overturn Biden’s win in the state: report.”

Also Fox News headline: “McCarthy lays into Pelosi and Dems for being out of touch with reality.”

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So who’s going to be the first Republican who calls Donald’s conversation with Raffensperger “locker room banter?”

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At this point if Trump calls and you don’t record the conversation, you’re an idiot. Period.

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For some reason this story came to mind today: In 1958, then Senator John F. Kennedy claimed at Gridiron Club Dinner to be reading a telegram from his father “Dear Jack: Don’t buy a single vote more than necessary. I’ll be damned if I’m going to pay for a landslide.”

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Not sure which mistake looks worse now…. Missouri voting out Claire McCaskill for Josh Hawley, or Texas reelecting Ted Cruz when they could have had Beto O’Rourke.

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Ted Cruz, when asked about #TrumpTape – “I get the media wants to report all sorts of things and get everyone distracted by whatever else is going on.” I forget, exactly how many times did Cruz try to investigate Hillary’s emails and Benghazi?

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Reports that Mitch McConnell told GOP senators that he is giving them room to vote their consciences on election objections. All together now – “WHAT CONSCIENCES?”

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Apparently Chuck Todd cut short Ron Johnson’s appearance on “Meet The Press” today, & accused the WI Senator of spreading conspiracy theories. Uh, if Todd didn’t want Johnson to spread conspiracy theories, why have him on the show at all?

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On July 4, 2018, eight GOP Senators visited Moscow. Three of them were Steve Daines (MT), John Kennedy (LA) and Ron Johnson (WI). Coincidence?

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Worst thing about Cynthia Lummis and Marsha Blackburn – . they keep the rest of us women from being able to put most of what’s wrong to politics down to stupid men.

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The 12 GOP Senate traitors backing Trump do realize that Velveeta Voldemort not only won’t thank them, but also he will throw every single one of them under the bus at some point when they are no longer useful to him?

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Your reminder, more Democrats condemned Bill Clinton over a consensual affair than Republicans are condemning Donald Trump’s efforts to destroy democracy.

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Last fall, Mary Trump warned us.

In 2016 Hillary Clinton warned us.

They were right about everything.

Boycotting watching college football this season (don’t think they should be playing), but do check scores. Who’d a thunk Notre Dame, outclassed as usual in CFP, would still lose by less to Alabama than Clemson did to Ohio State?

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Not an Ohio State fan, at all, But with Dabo Swinney having ranked them 11th with his vote in the Coaches Amway poll, where does that put Clemson, after the Buckeyes beat the Tigers 49-28? 13th or 14th?

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Nothing is certain but death, taxes and Notre Dame getting blown out in the College Football Playoffs.

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San Antonio Spurs tonight have all kinds of cool colored shoes to match their new retro Fiesta jerseys that feature a multicolored stripe – teal, pink and orange… Not sure how I feel about the jerseys, but the shoes are awesome.

Hey, No Fun League… take note.

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Can we bleeping STOP with the idea that Trump wanted or wants $2,000 COVID relief checks. If Donald did he would have ordered Mnuchin to negotiate for them. The only thing Velveeta Voldemort wanted was to blow up the compromise bill and put attention back on himself.

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So some in media complaining today that Biden’s Treasury Secretary pick Janet Yellen made $7.2 million in speaking fees over past two years.

Uh, almost all US former politicians and leaders end up commanding big money on the speaker circuit. Even former Presidents and VPs. Wonder why it’s only people like Hillary Clinton and Janet Yellen that get slammed for it?

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Ohio governor Mike DeWine signed a bill from the GOP legislature requiring women to choose burial or cremation of aborted fetal tissue.

Okay then…being a woman I can’t quite relate, but I want to know where men and teenage boys should bury or burn the sheets after some of those dreams I hear about.

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Wonder who drew the short straw and got to explain the concept of overturning a veto to Donald Trump?

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On Friday, one of Donald’s tweet targets was Senate Whip John Thune…( I really don’t care, do u? )

But note, Thune is only 59. GOP at least seems to have figured out all their leadership doesn’t need to be over 70.

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It’s not just that Velveeta Voldemort has Twitter typos. It’s that he’s too arrogant even to be corrected by spellcheck.

Louie Gohmert’s lawsuit argued VP has the power to pick the next president. If that were true don’t you think Joe Biden would have picked Hillary Clinton?

Not watching college football in 2020-21 season, because I while I think NFL players are both old enough and well paid enough to make those decisions for themselves, college athletes are both not paid (officially anyway) and too young /immature to make potentially life risking decisions re covid:.

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But doesn’t mean I can’t write jokes about New Year’s Day CFP games. Stay tuned.

(It’s easier if you really don’t like any of the teams playing.)

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And following the Armed Forces Bowl in Ft Worth, Mississippi State and Tulsa players got into an actual physical brawl. Only one injury. So far. At least the contact tracing should be easy.

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I’m so old that I remember when Kobe and Gianna Bryant’s death in that helicopter crash was the worst thing about 2020.

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One advantage to virtual New Year’s Eve. Never a line for the bathroom.

“There comes a time in every woman’s life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne.” Bette Davis – who died in 1989,

But this could have been a quote of the year in 2020.

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NY Times reporting that distribution is going so badly several million COVID-19 vaccine doses could well expire before they can be put to use. Sadly, why should we expect ANYTHING Trump administration does be done competently?

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Just guessing this New Year we won’t be blindly writing 2020 by mistake on our checks.

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CNN reports as many as 140 GOP members of the House may vote against certifying electoral college results. So if the November election was invalid, when are they all resigning?

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For those of us wondering what political campaigns to work on next, any Democrat running against one of 140 House members who reportedly support Velveeta Voldemort’s electoral college steal, would be a good start.

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WTF? Reports that in Lexington, KY, “suspicious” RV sighting, which turned out not to contain a bomb, caused police to evacuate bars downtown. So what exactly were people DOING in bars downtown? Seriously folks, let’s try to make survival a goal in 2021.

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New Year’s Eve is a strange time to be a night owl. Almost everyone is up until midnight. And almost everyone is asleep by 12:30am.