Left Coast Sports Babe

USA-Canada’s best players will face off in hockey at 4 Nations Face-Off on Saturday night.

Spent years a kid in Toronto. Hockey Night in Canada was most important TV of the week.

And biggest games I ever remember were 1972, Summit Series Canada vs Russia.

Under Trump, is Canada-USA same difference?

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Does it count in Trump “start a war” bingo when J.D. Vance insults most of Europe?

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In less than a month America has gone from “the shining city on the hill ” to a global embarrassment.

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LG has recalled 500,000 electric range ovens due to fire hazard which caused extensive property damage, injuries & killed several pets. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) received at least 86 reports of unintentional activation & at least 28 fires… When will President Musk dismantle CPSC

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So what is the Kennedy Center going to do now for acts? Now that Donald has named himself chair, filled the board with cronies, and artists are rushing for the exits?

Hang around American Idol auditions and offer jobs to anyone who doesn’t make it to Hollywood but is willing to wear a MAGA hat.

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RFK Jr. today on Fox News vowed to tackle a spiritual ‘crisis’ in the country. He said lack of connectedness is driving disease epidemic as well as depression, suicide, alcoholism & drug addiction. His ex-wife committed suicide after finding sex journal listing all his affairs.

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In deep-red Gaines County, Texas, a measles outbreak has reached 24. All patients are unvaccinated, and 9 have been hospitalized. If only God could send a sign about RFK Jr’s HHS confirmation.

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Maybe we’re missing something. MAYBE when Trump said about McConnell “I have no idea if he had polio.,” maybe he wasn’t being insulting…. maybe DonOld’s memory is just that far gone.

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Tuesday President Musk brought his son to the Oval Office. Thursday he brought three of his children to a White House meeting with Indian PM Modi – before Modi met with DonOld.

Almost like a badly behaved tomcat spraying urine around the house marking his territory.

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Day 2 of RFK Jr’s tenure as HHS secretary.

And a 2024 video resurfaced video shows RFK Jr. saying “I was at the bottom of my class. I started doing heroin and I went to the top of my class. Suddenly, I could sit still and I could read.”

But hey, who needs the Department of Education when kids can use heroin

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Heather Cox Richardson reminded us 4 yrs ago that February 23, 2021

Senate GOP acquitted Trump in his 2nd impeachment, 57-43. McConnell acquitted Trump but after vote, blamed him for Jan 6, adding former Presidents aren’t immune from being held accountable by justice system.” That aged well.

He already tried a violent coup, on camera, and 49.8% of Americans still voted for him.

So yeah, while we’re in a constitutional crisis, I still think Democrats need to keep talking about egg prices.

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Yes, 77 million people voted for Donald Trump But 75 million people voted for Kamala Harris.

And almost 3 million people voted for someone else.

(and about 100 million eligible idiots didn’t vote.)

Hardly a mandate.

Facts still matter.

Next year’s Super Bowl is Feb 8, 2026 at Levi’s Stadium and will be broadcast on NBC.

Has the 2026 Super Bowl pregame show started yet?

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Saw that Farhan Zaidi is returning to Dodgers as special adviser.

Can only hope he brings the Los Angeles Dodgers all the success he brought the San Francisco Giants.

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Reminder that in 2018 Philadelphia Eagles turned down an invitation to go to the White House and team owner Jeffrey Lurie called Trump ‘disastrous.”

This year apparently it will be a team vote. Unless Donald disinvites them first. Or says Super Bowl was stolen from the Chiefs.

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As JD Vance poses that judges are not allow to control the executive’s legitimate power, your reminder that a Fox News Chyron once referred to President Joe Biden as a “wannabe dictator.” Every accusation is a confession.

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Some GOP Senators claim to believe cabinet nominees lies that they’d put loyalty to the country before loyalty to Trump.

But we know from his first term, if appointees DO go against Donald, he’ll fire them.

He’s fired & attacked others who showed ANY independence in past. Why are Senators pretending he hasn’t gotten worse?

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Trump now saying Palestinians wouldn’t be allowed back into Gaza under his plan. “In meantime, I would own this — think of it as a real estate development for the future. It would be a beautiful piece of land.” All those who protested & voted against Democrats must be so proud.

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Trump’s DOJ told Prosecutors to drop the Federal corruption case against Eric Adams. So where do we sign up for the pool on what day the New York Mayor will announce he has become a Republican?

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Rachel Maddow nails it. Not just Elon who never ran for anything. But people who voters said “no” to. Almost as if Trump’s top criteria in choosing an administration is giving the finger to voters. #TeamOfLosers

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Susan Collins will vote for RFK Jr, but said she’d spoken to him about her “strong opposition to these arbitrary cuts in funding for vital research at Maine institutions.” “He has promised that as soon as he is confirmed, he’ll re-examine this initiative.”

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Even the USPS is afraid of NFL lawyers. Note, their alert calls it “The Professional Football Championship Game in New Orleans.”

Not the Superb Owl.

WINTER STORMS IN THE MIDWEST THROUGH THE NORTHEAST U.S. AND The Professional Football Championship Game in New Orleans MAY DELAY FINAL DELIVERY OF YOUR MAIL AND PACKAGES. 

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Super Bowl ticket prices have fallen but still several thousand, & hotel prices are insane. As Musk & Trump destroy foreign aid programs, how many millions will it cost for Donald & his entourage to attend? With that $$ how many children could USAID have given food & medicine?

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Is there a prop bet on whether Donold will be accompanied by President Non-Elect Musk?

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Since egg prices are through the roof since January 20, and that’s what he campaigned on, who else thinks we should call him “Trumpty Dumpty?”

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Project 2025 included “dismantling the Education Department, disregarding Congressional spending laws, ending DEI…” President Non-Elect Musk doesn’t do press conferences. But why hasn’t ANY reporter asked Trump since his inaugural about Project 2025?

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He’s going to demand he be the only recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors this year, isn’t he?

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Who says there’s no good news? Today was Andrea Mitchell’s last regular MSNBC broadcast.

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Humanity and decentness aside, international tourists spent over $155 billion visiting the United States in 2024. As we make ourselves the pariah of the world, how much money will the tourism industry lose as foreigners avoid us out of anger and/or fear?

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Not just that FBI director nominee Kash Patel made $50,000 from a Russian propaganda production company. It was for a mockumentary that ridiculed and lied about.. the FBI.

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WTAF? GOP pundit defending racist staffer who Musk is going to hire back, don’t want to ruin lives “of those who don’t even have their brains fully developed yet when they post.” So he’s too immature to know what he’s saying but not too immature to break things & destroy lives?

Virginia Halas McCaskey, owner of the Chicago Bears for the past four-plus decades, has passed away.

But she made it to 102. Looking at the Bears play in recent memory Virginia perhaps epitomized that phrase “What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.”

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The Dallas Mavericks play at home Saturday for their first game since trading super star Luka Doncic to the Los Angeles Lakers.

Happiest man in town has to be Jerry Jones. Despite the Cowboys’ play this season he’s no longer the most hated owner in Dallas.

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Former TV host and newscaster Casey DeSantis is considering running for governor of Florida when Ron is term-limited out in 2026.

A completely unqualified former television newscaster with no political experience running to replace her husband? Nah, that sort of thing only happens in true banana republics…. Oops, never mind.

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Amy Klobuchar at the Washington Press Club told a job last night she first tweeted in 2019.

“What’s the difference between Donald Trump and Greenland? Greenland is not for sale.

She was booed by some conservatives in the audience. “OK, for any Republican Trump administration person out there, they want to throw eggs at me as a result of that joke. You can’t, because they’re too expensive.”

This really should be getting more attention. Trump released 2 BILLION gallons of water from dams in Central California. The PR stunt barely even got coverage from Fox News. It was a toddler tantrum. And the water not only didn’t flow to Los Angeles, it nearly flooded some farmland AND will evaporate.

And many California farmers, including a lot of Trump voters, will not have the water they desperately will need this summer.

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Lara Trump was just hired as a Fox News Host. So does this mean when DonOld first gets angry at one of his cabinet members he’ll fire them and nominate her?

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All these GOP Senators genuflecting before DonOld even when they KNOW some of his nominees are dangerous…. I suppose it would be wrong to laugh when sooner or later they end up like Bill Barr, John Bolton, Ty Cobb, Jeff Sessions and Mike Pompeo under the Trump bus?

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So it’s Friday. What time today does President Non-Elect Musk tell DonOld to run along and go golf in Florida while he continues to dismantle democracy?

Detroit Pistons center Isaiah Stewart got his sixth flagrant foul of the year, so will be suspended the Pistons next game, Friday, which happens to be his bobblehead night.

Even Draymond Green is going… dude, you couldn’t work on your temper timing?

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Meanwhile if you need a little fun distraction and like basketball, Victor Wembanyama was chosen to the NBA reserves for the All-Star team. Seems like he might have celebrated tonight. Watch Spurs-Bucks for some highlight-reel stuff.

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Hey MAGA – You all quit drinking Bud Light and switched to Modelo Beer, brewed in Mexico, to own the libs? Enjoy those 25% tariffs!

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Even now when I go to London, I love British newspaper. They don’t mess around.

Who says there’s no good news these days? Chuck Todd is leaving NBC News.

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It’s bad enough now with FBI agents being fired for no reason other than they worked on cases against Trump. GOP Senators have to know that if Kash Patel is confirmed FBI will basically cease to exist. And sooner or later, even if they do Trump’s bidding now, they’ll join everyone else under the bus.

Yet these purges are rapidly getting into Russian territory- how long until people start falling out of windows?

I thought this was a sick joke. Nope. When Donald Trump was asked about his plans to visit the American Eagle/ helicopter crash site he responded “I have a plan to visit, not the site. Because you tell me, what’s the site? The water? You want me to go swimming?”

He. Is. A. Sociopath.

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No word from Trump on tonight’s tragic Medevac plane crash in Philadelphia. All on board were apparently Mexican nationals, including a child. Now, we might have heard some words of sympathy if the passengers were Russian.

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A Times printed an op-ed against RFK Jr, but the publisher edited and twisted it to make it come out as if the writer endorsed him

Almost makes me wish I had an LA Times subscription so I could cancel it.

The writer Eric Reinhart posted the op-ed with this on Twitter.

“I am the author of this OpEd, which was given a misleading title and from which key lines were cut—lines that made very clear that RFK Jr is dangerously ignorant, has absolutely no business near HHS, and is effectively a mass murderer in waiting. “

Heard on the CBS SF Bay Area Late Night News with Sara Donchey. And outside of Kansas City and Philadelphia, she’s right.

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But the least expensive Super Bowl tickets (upper corner end zone) as of tonight are going for $4350 each on Stubhub. But tell me again how it’s worth stripping funding from Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, children, seniors, parents, veterans.. so millionaires & billionaires can have tax cuts?

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Bipartisan reminder.

You can support Los Angeles after devastating wildfires and still hate the Dodgers.

They just signed star reliever Kirby Yates to 1-year $13 million contract. Dodgers total payroll, including luxury tax penalties, will be in excess of $500 million.

More than the total payroll of six MLB teams, and only at most 40% higher than combined payroll of the 4 other teams in the NL West.

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To paraphrase the late songwriter Roger Whitaker – Will the last words ever spoken be “But her emails?”

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GOP Rep Rich McCormick of Georgia asked, “when in history have we had our poorest people also be our fattest people?” Senator Cory Booker addresses this regularly; awfulness of “an apple costing more than a Twinkie.” Healthy food is more expensive than junk food. Period.

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One of the first political things I remember as a very little girl was watching and admiring Caroline Kennedy. I so admire her again today. For calling out her cousin RFK Jr as a predator. (and although she didn’t say it, as a sociopath.)

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Wonder how many Republican members of Congress are getting calls and emails to their offices from constituents over Velveeta Voldemort’s executive order freezing federal funding? Guessing it’s a lot. And it will be more. We need to keep up the outrage.

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California Farm Bureau says migrant farmworker deportation fears have virtually halted the Central Valley’s citrus harvest.

And if you think the price of eggs is high, wait until you see what the price of juice and citrus fruits are going to be…

The Miami Heat have suspended Jimmy Butler for a third time, this time indefinitely, after Butler walked out of practice today.

Guess in sports, if you’re a star they don’t always let you do it.

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So with all the upcoming Super Bowl prop bets is there one about how many controversial officiating calls will go in favor of Mahomes and the Chiefs?

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Trump just froze ALL federal financial grants & loans,

His official reasoning sounds very “sane.” “Use of Federal resources to advance Marxist equity, transgenderism & green new deal social engineering policies is waste of taxpayer dollars that does not improve day-to-day lives of those we serve.”

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As Maddow points out, Trump has now rescinded over 200 job offers for FDIC examiners. All FDIC does is protect your the money you have in the bank in case the bank goes out of business… What could possibly go wrong?

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Daily Mail headline “Typhoon Trump sends message to the world with his non-stop, four-day trip of putdowns, rows and a tariff spat.” I don’t think this is the compliment they think it is..

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Elon Musk tells the AfD in Germany that children should not be held responsible for the sins of their parents. Yet in the USA he’s fine with deporting dreamers. Make it make sense.

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Hey Fox News… why aren’t you covering the story of a man pardoned by Trump for taking part in the January 6 insurrection was killed by police during a traffic stop on Sunday in Indiana. He was allegedly armed and resisting arrest.

The best people….

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Not just that Trump’s inaugural television ratings fell – 6 million fewer than in 2017 – and 9 million fewer than for Biden in 2021….

With DonOld deciding to move indoors, television was only option for those in DC, so even those low ratings were artificially boosted.

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Remember when “Trump Project 2025” was briefly a big story and DonOld fervently disavowed it? Now go to http://project2025.org Yep “Presidential Transition Project.” He thought his voters were too dumb to know better. And he was right.

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As Senator Mike Lee calls to abolish TSA & airlines do their own screening.

How many know on 9-11, hijackers all booked one way business class tickets, without frequent flier numbers or upgrades? 1 or 2 such bookings is unusual. 4 on a plane doesn’t happen. But airlines didn’t flag it.

Patrick Mahomes told reporters that refs are not giving favorable calls to the KC Chiefs.

Hey, anyone checked out if Mahomes is in concussion protocol?

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The Miami Heat have suspended Jimmy Butler, again, this time for missing a flight. Butler is unhappy and wants to be traded. And who wouldn’t want such a great team player?

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The Mobile, ALABAMA Civic Center was being replaced. Until it snowed.

Well the GOP should be against dealing with the collapse with any federal funds until Alabama and other Southern states invest in snow removal equipment!!!ll the GOP should be against rebuilding it with any federal funds until Alabama and other Southern states invest in snow removal equipment!!!

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Oooh, while flipping channels just saw CNN Chyron “Musk bashes Trump’s AI investment” Who has February in “when will the bromance be over” pool?

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We can argue about whether or not President Biden should have presumptively pardoned many of his family members. But one thing is simple fact. None of them attacked and injured police officers.

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Chris Murphy sums it up: “If you attack a police officer in this country you’re going to jail. Unless you attack a police officer in the service of Donald Trump.”

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Now that Trump has issued an Executive Order to overturn an affirmative action /equal opportunity order issued by LBJ in 1965(!) could some media person ask Senators Cornyn and Cruz of Texas if they think President Lyndon Baines Johnson was too “woke?”

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Stephen Colbert on the story that Trump is thinking about inviting some January 6 convicts to the White House. “Really want them to get them in there? Tell them they’re not invited. They’ll find a way.”

So let’s see. Both REPUBLICAN Senators from Alaska have already come out against DonOld renaming Denali. What’s next, will Trump decide to invade Alaska?

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Hey, my fellow Democrats and the media. Can we stop letting Donald Trump talk about his “Golden Age” without calling it what it really is? A second “Gilded Age.”

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For those who forgot or didn’t learn the history “Historians saw Gilded Age as a time of of materialistic excesses marked by widespread political corruption. The Gilded Age was also an era of poverty as high concentration of wealth became more visible and contentious.”

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Majority leader John Thune is complaining that Democrats are slowing down the confirmation process for Pete Hegseth. Sounds like someone told him more accusations are coming.

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AG Pick Pam Bondi asked last week in confirmation hearing about convictions of those who violently assaulted Capitol police on Jan. 6. “Let me be very clear in speaking to you, I condemn any violence on a law enforcement officer in this country.” That aged well.

I’m so old that I remember when I disagreed with Republicans on many policies but when we agreed that injuring police officers was wrong.

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Why cult members stay in cult: Fox news website TOP headline yesterday evening.

“Trump revokes security clearance of dozens of intel officials involved in Hunter Biden laptop coverup”

Much lower on FOX website: “Trump pardons nearly every Jan 6 defendant in marathon executive order signing”

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Marco Rubio confirmed 99-0 by the Senate to be Secretary of State.

Most Democrats disagree with Rubio on many issues. But they understand Marco is a competent person who is capable of doing the job. Unlike several at least of DonOld’s nominees.

To all those who voted for Velveeta Voldemort saying they just wanted change or didn’t want Kamala Harris and told themselves “He won’t be that bad…” Yes he is that bad. Maybe worse.

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Praising Trump, Steve Scalise compares him to Rosa Parks. Scalise has consistently been against voting rights legislation & gave a 2002 speech to a White Supremacist group. To paraphrase Will Smith, Rep. Scalise, take Rosa Parks’ name out of your f*cking mouth.

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Caitlin Jenner must be so happy hearing her friend DonOld say there are only two genders – male and female.

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34.4 million people tuned in live to watch Mr. Trump’s swearing-in on the major TV networks, according to statistics from Nielsen.

Down from nearly 40 million who watched Biden’s inaugural in 2021.

Forget popular vote. DonOld just lost what really matters to him… the ratings game.

Forget Velveeta Voldemort for 24 hours.

Cecile Richards, Ann Richards’ daughter, passed away today from brain cancer.

From her family:

“If you want to celebrate Cecile today, we invite you to put on some New Orleans Jazz, gather with friends and family over a good meal, and remember something she said a lot over the last year. “It’s not hard to imagine future generations asking, when there was so much at stake for our country, what did you do?

And the only acceptable answer “Everything we could.”