Left Coast Sports Babe

So many teams now expecting the same miracle. But if the Stanford band hadn’t rushed the field 40 years ago, the New England Patriots probably win today’s game against the Raiders.

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Any day when Bill Belichick, Tom Brady and Jerry Jones all lose is a good day. #NFL

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So after two incredibly improbable late French comebacks, Argentina still ends up winning the World Cup. Who did France think they were? The Minnesota Vikings?

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But seriously, down 33-0!??

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Even the Atlanta Falcons are wondering how the Indianapolis Colts blew that game to the Minnesota Vikings.

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As a New Orleans fan, it’s so much more fun when Minnesota does miracle stuff against a team that isn’t the Saints.

Meanwhile the Saints, 5-9, are in a three way tie for 2nd place in the NFC South…. Behind the 6-8 Tampa Bay Bucs. Yes, someone has to win the division

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But hey, at least with the World Cup done and everyone out of Qatar we can stop either boycotting or else feeling like we need a shower after we watched any of these games. Now let’s just hope they Qatar doesn’t bribe the IOC into an Olympics.

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Yeah, it’s early in the bowl season, but when most college football headlines are about where players are transferring, thinking the NCAA has a problem.

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Has the My Pillow Guy applied to be Twitter CEO yet?

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TSA found a record number of guys in carry-on luggage 2022. 6301!

And of thosee 6,301 guns discovered by officers at checkpoints, more than 88% were loaded.

USA! USA! USA!

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In January, 2023 Arizona will inaugurate their FIFTH woman Governor. Her name is Katie Hobbs. Can we stop talking about the sore loser?

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State Senate results in California District 16.

Melissa Hurtado (D) 68,457

David Shepard (R) 68,437

Don’t let ANYONE tell you your vote doesn’t matter.

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Not that Muskrat probably thinks anything Congress does applies to him… But w/ anti-competitive blocking of sharing information about rival platforms, does he realize Amy Klobuchar even has Republicans like Josh Hawley & Mike Lee on board w/ big tech antitrust issues?

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Wrap your head around this one: The so-called pro-life Governor of Florida wants to be President and so is promoting anti-vaccine sentiments that will kill people. #DeathSantis

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SNL Weekend Update’s Colin Jost refers to “semi-retired maniac” Donald Trump getting into NFTs after the market crashed… What’s next, a line of Velveeta Voldemort Beanie Babies?

Non-snarky PSA. Many of us get gift cards as incentives or prizes. Some have expiration dates. Went through some of mine and found small amounts left on several, two expiring end of 2022. It’s easy to zero them out with donations to favorite causes. And it feels good,

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Fox News headline “Florida boy dies from injuries after horrific accident at friend’s house.” 12 yr-old accidentally shot himself when he found gun at friend’s house during sleepover when friend’s parents weren’t home.

This isn’t a horrific accident, it’s criminal negligence.

If you didn’t already know how “messed” up college football is these days. Alabama did not make the College Football Playoff, but did make a New Year’s Bowl.

And it’s a headline that Alabama linebacker Will Anderson Jr and QB Bryce Young, both healthy, but also top NFL draft prospects, will play in the Sugar Bowl instead of opting out.

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The Big 12 was originally going to keep Texas and Oklahoma in league until 2025 when the schools will leave for the SEC.

But now apparently both sides are working on an agreement to leave after the 2023 season.

Why don’t we just call the SEC and Big Ten the NFL AAA leagues North and South?

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Love the 30th anniversary Beauty and the Beast. But I can’t be the only one who’s thinking “How could it have been 30 years ago?” “Tale as old as time.”

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Chuck Schumer today on CNN: “Nancy (Pelosi) instinctively knew how to handle Trump. Because for her first 35, 40 years of life, she raised five children, and she knew how to deal with children.” We shouldn’t spread this quote around, it would upset Velveeta Voldemort.

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When a toddler throws a tantrum it is best to ignore him. Now I know that a certain meglomaniac billionaire loves attention and yes, some of his acts are outrageous. But we need to keep amplifying good people too on social media.

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Oliver Darcy on CNN – “I think we’re just learning that Muskrat is very thin-skinned.” Are we also just learning that water is wet?

Can’t blame this purely on politics and media.

But at this point more Americans are convinced they will win the Powerball lottery than think they will get seriously ill or die from COVID.

It’s Friday, December 16, and if you’re reading this you’ve probably missed some of the first game of the NCAAF Bowl season.

And if you know who’s playing and you aren’t an alum of Miami (Ohio) or UAB, (I had to look it up), you just might have a problem.

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Drew Brees will be an assistant coach for the Purdue Boilermakers in this year’s Citrus Bowl.

Cool, if it works out can he try a stint with the New Orleans Saints?

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WTF NBA? – Brooklyn Nets fined $25,000 “for failing to comply with league policies governing injury reporting,” -because they rested 8 players against the Indiana Pacers, including Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving & Ben Simmons. Except Nets ended up winning game, 136-133.

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Have to think that suspending big accounts just because they hurt the Chief Twit’s feelings is not exactly a winning strategy to hold onto advertisers.

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Muskrat believes in free speech like Republicans believe in freedom of religion. Everyone has the freedom to speak or worship in the way they are told to speak or worship.

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If Velveeta Voldemort seriously thinks his NFT’s were a “major announcement,” then maybe it’s time for another “Person, woman, man, camera, TV” test.

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Fox News reporting that conservatives are disgusted by John Boehner crying at Pelosi tribute. Now if the former GOP Speaker had just flown to Mar-A-Lago and cried while talking to Velveeta Voldemort, Boehner would be considered a big strong Republican hero.

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Some GOP Senators voted against extending government funding through Dec 23. If Senate doesn’t do this stopgap, the government partially shuts down tonight. Why do Republicans hate Christmas?

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Still having a really hard time wrapping my head around Kevin McCarthy being considered a GOP moderate.

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Travel agent PSA for day: Client I hadn’t heard from since 2021 emailed for Jan 2023 ticket to Chile. No problem but found in old email her saying “my passport doesn’t expire until Dec 2022.” Said “please tell me you’ve renewed it.” Oops. Time flies. Check your passports.

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American Airlines touting “Loyalty Points Rewards, more rewarding AAdvantage Experience,” w/ a “fully dynamic” award experience. Would be nice if they’d just say “We’re making money again so we’ll make it harder for you to get status & require more miles for free tickets…”

Much of the speculation about the SF Giants signing Carlos Correa has centered on where he and Brandon Crawford will play.

But here’s a new one… Correa wore #4 with the Twins. In San Francisco that number’s been retired as belonging to Mel Ott…

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UCLA AD Martin Jarmond, defending Bruins’ move to Big Ten, which will cause all kinds of travel issues for student athletes, especially those who don’t play football and need to travel commercial: “You’re not playing Rutgers every week…Benefits far outweigh challenges.”

Uh, Rutgers is easy drive from Newark airport with nonstops from LA. . MANY Big Ten schools need connecting flts; UW – Madison, Purdue/IU – Indianapolis, MSU-Lansing….

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Watching Jon Ossoff preside over the Senate on C-Span 2 today and thinking again he must pull the average age down a full year just by himself.

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Kevin McCarthy is whining about deficits. So when is he going to say “America can no longer afford tax cuts for billionaires and millionaires?” Waiting.

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Lots of nice moments with bipartisan farewell praise for in the Senate for Roy Blunt, Rob Portman and Richard Burr. Have to wonder, what’s it going to be like when Rand Paul retires?

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Senator Cory Booker has a racial discrimination bill to protect employees’ right to wear natural hair styles, especially black men and women. And Rand Paul objects with a dishonest “safety” excuse.

We are all Rand Paul’s neighbor.

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For some reason Fox News still hasn’t gotten around to reporting yesterday Labor Department report that inflation dropped to 7.1% in November, lowest overall rate since last December & 5th month in a row it has fallen.

#ThankyouBiden

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Just when you as a travel agent you think you’ve heard it all: Client reports flight delay because as United flight to SFO was on taxiway at Dulles, flight attendant discovered woman had dog in kennel that didn’t fit under seat. So returned to gate to put her and her pet off….

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As facts come out in the criminal case against the man who attacked Paul Pelosi, remember this, Paul Pelosi is 82 years old, woken up in middle of night by attacker with hammer looking to hurt his wife, Nancy.

And Paul had more presence of mind than most of us younger folks would have wide awake in daylight. #Respect

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-So who in SF Giants organization has the job of calling manufacturers…. uh, how quickly can you make new bobbleheads?

Yes, athletes aren’t saints. But it’s rich to see Dodgers fans attacking SF GIants over “character” issues for signing Carlos Correa because he was on 2017 Astros, while LA is still sorting out situation with their problematic bad boy signing of Trevor Bauer.

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From an anonymous NY friend in the sport world last week…. “Carlos Correa is a great player. That’s the guy the Giants need to sweep in and get. He’s a great shortstop and a clutch hitter and a real gamer. Teammates love him. #SFGiants

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Seen on Craigslist. A number of SF Giants bridesmaids’ dresses?

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Sometimes I seriously worry for this country. On a package of Pillsbury Crescent rolls: “Do not eat raw crescent roll dough.” I mean, I get it with chocolate chip cookie dough but WTF?

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We’ll never know true COVID death toll. But Alex Wagner tonight covered on how excess death rate was 5.4 percentage pts – 76% higher – in Florida & Ohio for Republicans between Jan. 2018-Dec. 2021.

No wonder GOP wants to suppress votes. their anti-vaccine politics are killing their own voters.

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Louisiana GOP Senator John Kennedy “Nobody in this body wants to throw people off Medicare.” So is Kennedy lying? Or just admitting that he never listens to his Republican colleagues?

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Inflation slowed to 7.1% in Nov, 5th-straight month of decline.

Fox has expected misleading headline “Inflation climbs again as prices remain near multi-decade high.”

But even CNN “Inflation is finally falling. But days when prices rose just 2% may never return.” #DoBetterMedia,

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Stephen Colbert last night weighed in on Kyrsten Sinema leaving the Democratic party and registering as an independent. “That is shocking. Kyrsten Sinema was a Democrat?”

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Colorado Congressional district 3 in 2020 Solidly red. Went for Trump 52–46% And Cory Gardner 53–45% In 2022. Lauren Boebert won by only 546 votes out of 327,000 votes cast. Not exactly a ringing endorsement of GOP extremism.

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Something particularly evil about Deathsantis’s attacks on medical science & COVID vaccines…

His wife Casey DeSantis was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2021, she is now “cancer-free.” Good for her.

But we all know d*mn well they only went to the best doctors in the state

So Giselle Bundchen might have been forgiven for smiling while she watched the man who chose football over their family get schooled Sunday by Mr. Irrelevant.

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Oakland As have traded All-Star catcher to the Braves in a three-way deal, including the Brewers, for prospects.

The A’s really need to start selling jerseys with player names on them using Velcro letters.

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So is it a rule that SOMEONE has to win the NFC South? (If the Saints had not collapsed in the last three minutes last Monday night vs Tom Brady’s Bucs, the whole division would be tied at 5-8.)

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Houston Texans leading 23-20 with 1st and goal at Dallas Cowboys 4 yard line with five minutes left in the game & still find a way to lose by 4. Yeah, there’s a reason Texans have one win all season.

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Texas men’s basketball coach Chris Beard has been suspended after he, was arrested early Monday on a felony family violence charge after a woman told police he strangled and bit her.

Beard as a coach has had three players charged with domestic violence and has given all of them the benefit of the doubt as much as possible. Freshman Arterio Morris is playing now despite prosecutors still deciding whether to charge him after an arrest this summer. All joking aside, it’s not a good pattern.

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Wait, Secretary Pete Buttigieg is trending because he has taken a small percentage of his business flights on government planes instead of commercial. Well I am sure all these folks were equally incensed when Velveeta Voldemort’s spawn regularly flew privately at taxpayer expense. #sarcasm

World’s richest man gets roundly booed at Dave Chappelle’s show in San Francisco. The Beatles were right. “Money can’t buy me love.” #MuskRat

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If you don’t think you as an individual have power: Apparently thousand of random individuals who spontaneously booed at a comedy show last night had power to hurt Muskrat’s feelings enough he disbanded the Twitter Trust and Safety Council tonight. #snowflake #pathetic

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Marjorie Three Names says she would have brought guns and led a coup that would have succeeded. With her outside voice. Most people who said something like that would be arrested. Immediately.

The more interesting question is not why Twitter banned Velveeta Voldemort in 2017 but why it took them so long.

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Sen. Mark Kelly, who just won re-election in Arizona, is moderate Democrat who quietly does his job Kyrsten Sinema, who changed registration to get out of 2024 Primary, is moderate who doesn’t do ANYTHING quietly. Which one do most Americans hear about? #DoBetterMedia

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Many in GOP claimed border security was the top issue facing our country during midterms. Now apparently President Biden is sending some air marshalls to the border. GOP response “Biden is making our skies unsafe.”

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Florida Senator. Rick Scott said Herschel Walker would “continue to be a leader” in the GOP “for years to come.” So many of us have worried about Walker’s mental state, maybe we need to start worrying about Scott’s?

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Released prisoner Viktor Bout said in 1st interview he supports Putin’s war against Ukraine “And if I had chance & the required skills, I’d join up as a volunteer.” Uh, considering Putin’s drafting every Russian man alive and breathing, Bout should be on front lines next week.

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Donald Trump Jr last night was attacking Hunter Biden for now being able to sell his paintings. Lest we forget, in 2020 Forbes reported “RNC spent more than $300,000 on Donald Trump Jr.’s self-published new book.”

Congrats to Heisman winner Caleb Williams, who played only his freshman year at Oklahoma before following head coach Lincoln Riley to USC in early 2022 via transfer portal. So can we finally put nail in coffin of pretending college football has anything to do with academics?

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Advantage of being a US soccer fan as opposed to a British soccer fan? For all the things wrong with QATA World Cup Americans never expected to be in the finals.

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Okay, last month how many Americans gave Croatia and Morocco a chance of being in the World Cup semifinals. Okay, last month how many Americans even knew Croatia and Morcocco even had teams in the World Cup?

NY Times has headline story about Brian Kemp “The Georgia Republican Unscathed by Walker’s Defeat.” Uh, what about a headline story about Reverend Raphael Warnock. “The Georgia Democrat who Won in a Red State?”

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Tis the season for “It’s a Wonderful Life,” which often is shown now in theaters. While I like MOST of the movie, can’t be the only one who cringes that if George Bailey were never born the horror that would have happened to his wife was to be.. an old maid?”!!

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Can we also stop headlines about the independent Senator from Arizona making it official she doesn’t have a “D” after her name? Sinema has always mostly voted Democratic, but is anti-filibuster reform and pro-media attention. Nothing has really changed.

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Does it really make a difference Kyrsten Simena has changed her affiliation to “Independent?” She’s actually been less of a Democrat than Angus King & Bernie Sanders. But if Lisa Murkowski wants to follow her into being an Independent….Now that I would believe, & applaud.

NY Times has headline story about Brian Kemp “The Georgia Republican Unscathed by Walker’s Defeat.”

Uh, what about a headline story about Reverend Raphael Warnock. “The Georgia Democrat who Won in a Red State?”

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It’s all about transparency, unless you leak something that offends him. It’s all about free and open speech, unless you hurt his feelings. So when is Muskrat changing Twitter’s mascot from a bird to a snowflake?

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Apparently Velveeta Voldemort is upset with Joe Biden’s deal to bring Brittney Griner home. Well, yeah, when the Former Guy was President he made such a great deal to bring Paul Whelan home. Oh wait, never mind.

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There oughta be a media rule: If you are going to write about Kari Lake’s plans you should give equal or MORE coverage to the plans of the woman who will be incoming Democratic Governor of Arizona – Katie Hobbs.

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Can someone PLEASE tell Kari Lake to go home and knit?

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What’s wrong with American media in one headline. From USA Today: “Week in politics: Sen. Sinema leaves Dems, Sen. Warnock wins Georgia runoff.” Uh, the second, Raphael Warnock’s win, giving Democrats 51-49 majority, was HUGELY more important than the first.

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Meanwhile – Kyrsten Sinema thinks by becoming an Independent she’ll keep Democrats from primarying her in 2024 & risking losing seat to GOP. She’s probably right. But it’s not completely free ride. If Sinema doesn’t keep voting Blue most of time Dems will figure they have nothing to lose.

The Christmas story we didn’t know we needed:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11524089/Liquor-store-worker-gives-sneakers-homeless-man-using-cardboard-boxes-shoes.html

New Orleans Saints blow 13 point late 4th quarter lead against Tampa Bay Bucs and Tom Brady. Las Vegas Raiders with a 13 point late 4th quarter lead against LA Rams and …Baker Mayfield? Hold our beer.

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As MLB free agent stars sign contracts upwards of $200 million.

Meanwhile AAA players make a minimum of $14,700 a year but if they are on the 40 man roster they make $46 thousand a year, and $93 thousand a year if it’s their second contract. And some still wonder why players will risk taking PEDS?

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Meanwhile the Mets payroll with the re-signing of free-agent Brandon Nimmo, 8 years, $162 million, is now projected on Opening Day payroll to be $333 million,

No word on if the team will sell beer at Citi Field on the installment plan.

Great news that Brittney Griner is on her way home. Of course same Fox News and other conservative media complaining Biden wasn’t doing enough to get her home are now complaining about the deal. At least they’re consistent.

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For all those complaining President Biden traded arms dealer who’d served about 1/2 his sentence for Brittney Griner.

Did anyone think, especially after seeing atrocities in Ukraine Putin was going to ler Griner her go in exchange for US releasing some Russian college kid detained over pot?

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On top of everything else imagine if Paul Whelan were a gay man of color and Brittney Griner were a heterosexual blonde woman athlete.

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Hoping incoming Senator J.D. Vance has been paying attention to farewell speech from Rob Portman & speeches from his colleagues on both sides of aisle. Portman irritated the heck out of me regularly, but in polarized time, he had many bipartisan moments. These days that’s rare.

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Saddest thing about Senator Rob Portman’s retirement speech Thursday.

That fellow Midwestern Senator Ron Johnson isn’t also making a retirement speech. Please do better next time, Wisconsin.

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Do understand that a handful of nominees are controversial, but as Senate confirms more of President Biden’s judicial nominees would love to hear some of these Republicans justify their “no” votes for any other reason than “Joe nominated them.”

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House passed Senate version of Marriage Equality Bill, 258-169 vote, with 39 GOP yes votes. To the other 169: You say you care about religious freedom. But clearly you don’t give a damn about the freedom of people who don’t believe in YOUR religion to marry.

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These December criminal referrals being discussed by January 6 commission for Velveeta Voldemort and four of his henchmen could really be called the ultimate Santa’s Naughty List.

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Was at United Airlines business event & met a woman who works remotely.

After about a 15 minute very casual chat she said ‘thank you so much for talking, I came by myself but have really missed in-person conversation.” Guessing this is true for more of us than we realize.

Well; if I didn’t already hate the Yankees…

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Mookie Betts, now Xander Bogaerts. Who figured the Boston Red Sox as a farm team for the NL West?

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GOP Chair Ronna McDowell

“We just have to understand why 1 Republican won (in GA) & 1 didn’t…why 1 Republican appealed to independents & another didn’t. If she really doesn’t know difference between Kemp & Warnock, as a Democrat all I can say is “re-elect her as FOP chair, please.”

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As Tara Reade is trending, your reminder that she 100% lied about accusing then Senator Joe Biden. Her lie included that she wasn’t wearing panty-hose. In 1993 that would not not have been possible for a Senate intern.

Link below, from a 1993 Washington Post story. “DC’s Nylon Clad Rule.”-

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1993/09/03/dcs-nylon-clad-rule/fbb38ef0-6660-4639-80d7-1da3a867c5a8/

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Time Person of the year is Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Well deserved… And a whole lot of people won’t be cancelling their subscriptions since Time decided NOT to pick Muskrat.

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Lots of hugs for Senator Reverend Warnock today on the Senate floor. Thank you Georgia for returning a good man to Washington!

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Has Herschel Walker made it back home to Dallas yet?

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Stephen Colbert kind of nails what many of us are thinking about Georgia.

“I come to you both gratified & terrified Gratified Raphael Warnock defeated Herschel Walker 51.4% to 48.6% Terrified 48.6% of Georgians looked at Walker & said “Yeah, guy should be a U.S. Senator.”

That moment when the SF Giants offseason has more drama than the 2022 SF Giants season.

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But looking at some of these contracts, even for names most casual fans have never heard of, hard to remember that it was within many of our lifetimes that MLB players had offseason jobs to “feed their familes.

College QB JT Daniels has entered the transfer portal from West Virginia. He’s previously played at USC and Georgia. Not sure if this kid will make the NFL, but he may play for more colleges than many players do in their pro careers.

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Tonight was a good night for democracy. But a friend has long said Republicans would vote for a puppy in a Santa suit with an R by his name. Today’s great but closer than it should have been victory for Warnock against a joke of a candidate in Georgia proved her accurate.

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Fully aware that what happens in Georgia is far more important in the grand scheme of things than who a baseball free agent signs with. But we liberal SF Giants fans are very capable of stress multi-tasking. #Warnock #Judge

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Herschel will be fine and happy back in Texas back in his normal life of pondering werewolves and vampires. But how long until Velveeta Voldemort blames Walker for the loss in Georgia?

Gleeful Amy Klobuchar celebrating Senator Warnock’s win and talking about how he’s been reaching out to independents and moderates. “Every Senator loves the guy..We couldn’t be happier.” Have to wonder how many GOP Senators privately agree with her.

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Senator Raphael Warnock makes an important point. Just because Georgians worked so hard to vote, doesn’t mean voter suppression doesn’t exist. We have to keep fighting for voting rights. “A republic, if you can keep it.”

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Interesting how GOP loves to make the dishonest claim about how bad things are in urban areas in the United States. So IF that were true, wouldn’t voters in urban areas decide they’ve had enough and switch blue to red?

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Well, Velveeta Voldemort wanted to be the top President for something. Looks like he’s going to be a runaway winner for criminal convictions.

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There have been rumors almost from beginning that domestic terrorists who knocked out power to Moore County NC were motivated by hatred of LGBTQ community. If you need more evidence rumors are true – Fox News is completely ignoring the story.

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Perfect to see hero police officers (and Brian Sicknick’s mother) this morning doing exactly to Mitch McConnell what he has done with January 6 attempted coup – pretend it didn’t exist.

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Certainly wasn’t fan of Kirstie Alley in her later years, but loved her on Cheers. And 71 is way too young. RIP. Sam: “I want to sleep w/you 25 times, but you don’t want to sleep w/ me at all, am I right?” Rebecca. “Right.” Sam.” OK, so what’s 1/2 of 25? Rebecca. “Your IQ.”

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Stephen Colbert – “Enough with Hunter Biden’s laptop. You don’t see anyone obsessing over the Former President’s son’s laptop. And Eric has a good one. It’s made by Fisher-Price and can tell you what sound a cow makes.”

Mets just signed Justin Verlander, 39, to pair him with Max Scherzer, 38, at the top of their rotation. Will the team be sponsored by AARP?

And somewhere Jamie Moyer is saying “I’m available.”

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Saints have 3rd & 2 at Bucs 11, up 13-3, then 3rd & 1 up 16-3 late in 4th quarter lead trying to run out clock & coach Dennis Allen called pass plays – incomplete – twice??!

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Am not an NFL coach but jeez, with Alvin Kamara AND Taysom Hill you don’t run for it? At least once. Even Pete Carroll “What were you THINKING?”

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Cannot stand Tom Brady, but a very tiny silver lining in tonight’s Saints meltdown would be if it convinces Aaron Judge that a star can win without a big name team around him. #SFGiants

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Hunter Biden was clearly a mess who admits he had serious problems with addiction & his father Joe, who loves him, stuck by his son every step of the way.

Meanwhile Velveeta Voldemort for years didn’t want to be photographed with his younger daughter because she was overweight.

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Wonder how many Republicans are obsessed with Hunter Biden because they wish their dad loved them in good times and bad as Joe Biden clearly loves his son.

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Watching GOP rant about COVID vaccines because Velveeta Voldemort made them political makes you realize if he were President when seat belt laws were introduced his cult followers would be cutting up their seatbelts in the name of freedom

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Mitt Romney today in one of his better moments when asked by reporters in DC about Velveeta Voldemort: “Well, the Republican Party is the Constitution party. So when he calls to suspend the Constitution, he goes from being MAGA to being RINO.

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Missouri GOP Sen. Roy Blunt on Velveeta Voldemort’s “termination” idea : “I stood 10 feet from him when he took oath of office & there was no emergency clause not to follow the Constitution.” Hah. Has Blunt learned midwest snark from his Rules colleague & friend Amy Klobuchar?

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Louisiana GOP Sen. John Kennedy, campaigning for Herschel Walker railed against “high IQ stupid people” in Congress who “think they have an answer for everything.”

John Kennedy, in case you didn’t know, is a Phi Beta Kappa who was senior class President at Vanderbilt, then was law review editor at University of Virginia & also went to Oxford..

Okay who had Tulane finishing the College Football regular season ranked higher than LSU? Now all of you liars put your hands down.

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Colorado hired Deion Sanders as football coach. The outspoken former 2-sport star (and one time SF Giant) has no big time coaching experience, but 3 years success at FCS’s Jackson State.

Wish Deion best. But if Sanders is over his head, better for this to happen in NCAA football than as member of Congress.

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GOP tweeted today “we need strong leadership in Georgia, and that includes a Senator who supports our values. Vote for Republican Herschel Walker for Senate!

Saying Herschel Walker supports Republican values is actually probably accurate, and more revealing than they thought.

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As flu cases skyrocket this fall, have to wonder, since vaccines have suddenly become so political, how many people also decided not to get a flu shot?

Before COVID there were these nine MANDATORY vaccinations that all service members are required to get before initial entry/basic training:

Adenovirus

Hepatitis A

Hepatitis B

Influenza

Measles,

mumps,

rubella

Meningococcal Poliovirus

Tetanus

Diphtheria Varicella.

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Kenan Thompson’s impersonation of Herschel Walker is spectacular, as was Cecily Strong’s impersonation of Kari Lake. But hope they can both be retired after this week.

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One thing I will never understand is all these apologists saying Velveeta Voldemort doesn’t really mean the awful things he says he wants to do. He often can’t accomplish them but doesn’t mean he doesn’t want to try.

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Maybe it’s just me but seems like a former President and 2024 candidate saying we should terminate the Constitution is more concerning than a President’s son who admits being a former addict having dick pics on his laptop.

USA loses 3-1 to Netherlands and is out of the tournament. So now Americans can stop pretending to overlook what a corrupt organization FIFA is, how awful Qatar’s human rights’ abuses are, and how many workers actually died to put on this World Cup?

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Colorado just hired Deion Sanders as their next football coach. The outspoken former baseball and football star has little big time coaching experience, but three years as a successful coach at FCS’s Jackson State. Wish him the best. But if he’s over his head, so much better for this to happen in college football than as a member of Congress.

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From NY Times obit on Gaylord Perry “His daughter Allison Perry said in confirming death that Perry contracted the coronavirus last year and never fully recovered.”

We may be done with COVID. But it’s not necessarily done with us. Be careful out there.

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Nick Saban says 2-loss Alabama earned consideration for College Football Playoff with the question “how are they playing at present?

Leaving aside Crimson Tide didn’t even make SEC championship, by that token why not pick 2-loss Tulane Green Wave. who just solidly avenged their loss to UCF?

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Lindsey Graham claims “It’s just a matter of time’ before a terrorist gets through border and kills Americans.” Uh, these days we’re far more likely to be killed by terrorists grown right here in the USA.

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New poll in Georgia find white women with college degrees support Warnock 53% to 44% for Walker As a white woman with a college degree am somewhere between pleased that the Reverend has a 9 point lead with our demographic… and appalled that it’s ONLY a 9 point lead.

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Dear Georgia Voters; On December 6 you have a choice. You can return a good man to the Senate. Or you can be the butt of jokes for six years. Vote to re-elect Reverend Warnock.

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Has a single Republican condemned Velveeta Voldemort’s call to terminate the Constitution?

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Give me a break. Fox News headline: “‘TURNED HIS BACK’; “Rail workers unleash fury on Biden after he forces unions to accept terms or else.” GOP refused to pass legislation w/ sick leave. If Biden tried illegal step of overriding Congress, Fox would call him socialist dictator.

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One of many ways to illustrate media problem these days… After the most consequential Speaker of many of our lifetimes stepped down, Democrats quickly elected Hakeem Jeffries as House leader. And that story will get a fraction of the attention GOP’s in-House fight gets..

Susan Collins voted against paid sick leave for rail workers. But I am sure if they do get sick and are unable to pay bills Senator Collins would be very concerned.

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When Velveeta Voldemort had a state dinner for French President Macron he did not invite a single Democratic member of Congress. Whereas Joe Biden invited GOP leader Kevin McCarthy, Steve Scalise, along with Senators Susan Collins & John Thune. It’s so nice having a President.

Tampa police have issued domestic battery arrest warrant from Nov 28 incident with a woman for now former NFL WR Antonio Brown. Of course if Tom Brady hadn’t wanted Brown to help him win another ring in 2021 Antonio would have been out of football & maybe in jail, a lot sooner.

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Has Aaron Judge made up his mind yet and he’s just messing with us.

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RIP Gaylord Perry. My favorite story about Perry has nothing to do with the spitter.

Former SF Giants manager Alvin Dark once said ‘There’ll be a man on the moon before Gaylord Perry hits a home run.’”

On July 20, 1969, a few hours after Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, Gaylord Perry hit his first and only home run.

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Hey media… you’ve given us nonstop coverage of Velveeta Voldemort’s dinner at Mar-A-Lago last week. Why not more coverage of tonight’s state dinner?. Would be kind of fun & positive to see everyone dressed up at White House. Maybe there’s even some bipartisan good will there?

So 43 Senators, who only had 10 days in session in November and who NEVER get docked pay for not showing up just voted to deny railway workers paid sick leave. And the 52 who voted yes weren’t enough to pass it. It’s past time to change the filibuster.

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36 GOP Senators claimed “religious freedom” more important than right of people who love each other to marry. Really want to see test case if pharmacist says their religious views do not allow them to dispense Viagra unless a man can prove he is married & his wife agrees.

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As Chuck Grassley & other Republicans obsess about Hunter Biden, would take them just a bit more seriously if they showed one iota the outrage over Velveeta Voldemort’s spawn benefiting nonstop during his Presidency.

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Prince William’s Godmother & Queen Elizabeth’s longtime Lady in Waiting Susan Hussey resigned from Buckingham Palace after she repeatedly quizzed a British black charity founder ‘what part of Africa are you from?” What’s next? Will Lady Hussey be invited to Mar-A-Lago?

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The French Baguette has been given UNESCO World Heritage status. Excellent, but maybe some Heritage designation should be done for the US Twinkie? Baguettes last a day or two. Twinkies can last several lifetimes.

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Senator Reverend Warnock has been fighting for the people of Georgia on voting rights, prescription drugs, including insulin. He deserves re-election even if he were running against a “normal” republican. But against Walker? It shouldn’t even be close.

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GOP love to attack Democrats if any of their donors/friends do anything controversial. Meanwhile Joel Greenberg, former Matt Gaetz confidant who said “he witnessed Mr. Gaetz have sex w/ 17-year-old girl & she was paid” was just sentenced today to 11 yrs for for sex trafficking,

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RIP Christine McVie, She was 79. Can’t be the only one who knew all their music in high school to wonder – how could anyone from Fleetwood Mac be almost 80 years old?

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Stephen Colbert nails an important detail with the Marriage Equality act: “If you get married in Massachusetts and then move to Florida, no one can question the validity of your marriage. But they can question why you moved to Florida.”

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If an alien landed on this planet and somehow started watching Fox News they’d be forgiven for thinking all USA’s problems could be solved by investigating Hunter Biden’s laptop.

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At Dealbook summit, Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg Says Apple’s app store’s dominance is not ‘sustainable or good.” While he’s right, this is rich coming from the man who bought competitor Instagram and Whatsapp, and basically shut down Vine.

USC is fourth in CPB rankings

Ohio State is fifth.

The devil’s bargain for many college football fans, especially in the Pac 12 and Big 10.

Rooting for one of these teams to keep a two-loss SEC team out of the 4th spot.

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Mavericks 116 – Warriors 113. Golden State now 2-10 away from Chase Center this season. Have no idea what the team song is but it sure isn’t “King of the Road.”

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Colorado Senator Michael Bennet. “In a study of 29 industrialized countries the USA accounted for 97% of firearm deaths of children 4 years and younger… Almost 100%… what a disgrace.” If you’re not outraged you’re not paying attention.

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The My Pillow Guy is running for GOP chairman. And somewhere in SNL writers room someone is throwing their laptop against the wall saying “I give up.”

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Senators like Mike Lee act like recognizing gay marriage is a threat to religious freedom. They never say a word about recognizing heterosexual marriages where one or both of the couple had a previous marriage ending in divorce.

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61-36 vote on the Marriage Equality act which “provides statutory authority for same-sex & interracial marriages.” Mitch McConnell voted no. The previously divorced GOP Senate leader is in an interracial marriage with Elaine Chao. Hypocrisy thy name is Republican.

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On a positive note, Mormon Mitt Romney demonstrated more understanding and tolerance for same-sex marriage today than many so-called Christians.

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More on Kroger Albertson’s proposed merger, which they claim they need to succeed going forward.

Yes, we’ve been in time of global inflation where many have struggled economically.

But Amy Klobuchar points out Kroger’s profits in 2020 were $2.8 billion.

In 2021, $3.5 billion.

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Velveeta Voldemort says NOW he had no idea who Nick Fuentes was.

Uh, Fuentes is a well-known PERSON, who any WOMAN or MAN who has seen on CAMERA or TV, would know is a neo-Nazi, holocaust denying, anti-immigrant, white supremacist misogynist.

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GOP attacked Dems nonstop on crime pre-midterms & media amplified their accusations, including flat out lies.

Now Sens. Amy Klobuchar & Ron Wyden have actual practical legislation to fight catalytic converter theft by marking converters with a traceable ID and making their theft a specific criminal offense, both things that police have said would help.

Crickets from GOP AND media

Tweeted if God had hand in Saturday’s Wisconsin Minnesota game (won by Gophers) maybe She/He was sending message about Wisconsin re-electing Ron Johnson.

Someone replied “leftists always politicize sports.”

Uh, Dems don’t have unqualified football star running for Senate.

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Late in Saints shutout loss to SF 49ers Sunday, New Orleans, down 13-0, had 1st and goal inside the five and even announcers couldn’t believe that instead of running pays with Taysom Hill and Alvin Kamara, coach Dennis Allen tried 4 passing plays and got nothing.

Interim Colts manager Jeff Saturday – “Hold my beer.” Indianapolis had three time outs, down just 7 at Steelers 35, with less than a minute to go, and only used one of them before turning the ball over on downs.

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Know you can bet on almost anything in Las Vegas. Wonder what the odds are on Muskrat in his battle vs Apple?

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A Florida woman is suing Kraft-Heinz claiming that microwavable cups of mac and cheese saying they will be “ready in 3½ minutes,” is “false and misleading.”

She claims that while you can microwave the cup in 3 1/2 minutes, that doesn’t account for taking off the lid, removing the sauce pouch, adding water and stirring the sauce back in.

I miss the days when stories like this were the most insane things coming out of Florida.

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Marsha Blackburn was ranting Monday on Senate floor about how Democrats pretended Americans should have been concerned about COVID-19 and just used the virus as a power grab. About 1.1 million Americans would disagree if they weren’t, like you know, dead….

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If Velveeta Voldemort really didn’t know who Nick Fuentes was, then for all the GOP likes to attack President Biden over his age, maybe Donald is the one we really should be worrying about with dementia.

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As Arizona Election Liar Barbie continues her public tantrum, can anyone imagine what would have happened if Hillary Clinton had refused to concede and refused to accept the results of the election?

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Arkansas GOP Gov. Asa Hutchinson on Velveeta Voldemort’s lunch Sunday. “Don’t think it’s a good idea for leader setting an example for country or party to meet with (an) avowed racist or anti-Semite. And so it’s very troubling & it shouldn’t happen.” See how easy that is?

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One of those “nothing good can come of this” moments.

My better angels know schadenfreude is bad.

My better angels make exceptions. Including when Tom Brady loses.

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Is there a record for futility on number of times in the “Red Zone” without a single score? Asking for a whole lot of frustrated Saints fans.

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So is it a rule that SOMEONE has to win the NFC South?

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BYU Stanford game ended last night at 11:23 pm Pacific time. 2:23 am Eastern time. But for ESPN/Fox Sports scheduling this game for TV guess it was worth losing attendance and local viewers to get those late night East Coast Pac 12 fans – both of them?

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Now former Stanford coach David Shaw “It was time for me to step aside, time for the next group to come in & hopefully whoever they hire next wins more games than I do. That would be awesome.” Well, 3-9 has at least set the bar low.

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Are hardcore sports fan by nature more bipartisan? Could be.

Know almost no Stanford fans who like USC. And once they leave the Pac 12…

But right now with Trojans in 4th for possible College Football Playoff spot, ahead of Ohio State & some mostly SEC schools, well, “Fight on.”

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Have friends & family on both sides of this Wisconsin Minnesota football rivalry. Often players & coaches will thank God for a close victory. Maybe with year’s game God was telling Wisconsin, “this is what you get for coming CLOSE to electing Mandela Barnes over Ron Johnson.”

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How hard it is to say “Nazis are bad?” Apparently too hard for Kevin McCarthy. Who won’t say a word about Velveeta Voldemort meeting with Nick Fuentes. Reportedly due to rightwing Republicans who like Fuentes.

How can Kevin lead the House if he can’t even lead his own caucus?

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Hoping this “severe-weather event” forecasted for much of the country this week doesn’t turn out to be too bad. But isn’t it nice having a President who will help without regard to if a state voted for him or not?

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Meanwhile, public schools are closed Monday, and city says water for drinking, cooking, washing hands and faces and brushing teeth should be boiled for at least 2 minutes… A third-world country.

Nope, Houston. Has Cancun Cruz left town yet?

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Hillary Clinton wins the popular vote in a national Presidential election, she concedes, and media tells her to go home and knit. Newsanchor Barbie loses Arizona gubernatorial election. she refuses to acknowledge reality and media still headlines her. Do better, media.

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Joe Biden had one of most successful midterm elections in recent history. Which media paid attention to for about five minutes… and now all the stories are back to if someone will challenge him in the 2024 election. Competence isn’t clickbait.

The Thanksgiving afternoon/early evening game between NY Giants and Dallas Cowboy averaged 42 million viewers, breaking the record for a regular season NFL game.

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Well, maybe after the 2022 election even non-football fans wanted to do anything but talk politics with their relatives on Thanksgiving.

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Meanwhile, in the first game of the day, after an incredibly well-played game against the Buffalo Bills, some late play-calling decisions and letting Stefon Diggs get open means the Detroit Lions delivered another Thanksgiving turkey to their fans.

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So now that midterms are (mostly) over, many of us who live in San Francisco area didn’t have to surreptitiously check our phones for political news during Thanksgiving dinner could instead surreptitiously check our phones for Aaron Judge news.

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Airport lounge was showing replay of USA vs England tonight. At the risk of being trolled by those who truly appreciate soccer – why does anyone want to watch the replay of a 0-0 tie?

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Whoever runs Texas Senator John Cornyn’s Twitter account apparently has a side hustle. Or managing Cornyn’s account is his side hustle,

This was the post “The Lord bless thee, and keep thee: The Lord make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee: The Lord lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace. Happy Thanksgiving! Heidi & Ted.”

John Cornyn’s wife is Sandy. Heidi is the wife of Ted Cancun Cruz.

Well, Southwest IS Texas’s airline “Wanna get away?”

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Have to love now that whenever Ketchup is trending on social media we we all know it refers to another Velveeta Voldemort meltdown.

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But with the Former Guy’s protestation that he didn’t know who white supremacist and holocaust denier Nick Fuentes was when he had dinner with him and Ye at Mar-A-Lago. ..

Uh, I was a faculty club waitress back in the day at Stanford. Secret Service needed our names, addresses and social security numbers two weeks in advance to work a dinner where the Secretary of Defense was the speaker. NFW did Velveeta Voldemort have a “surprise” guest.

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Dear Media.

I don’t want to hear about what a childish sore loser is trying to do in Arizona.

I want to hear about what Governor-Elect Katie Hobbs is planning to do in Arizona.

Sincerely, Americans tired of this BS.

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One of many things to be thankful for on Thanksgiving.

Having a good and decent man in the White House, where we don’t have to wake up every morning going “Oh God, what did he do now?”

Aaron Rodgers today confirmed his right thumb is broken. On a positive note, his medical costs should be covered by Medicare.

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Meanwhile Bears QB Justin Fields may be unable to play Sunday due to injury, and Zach Wilson has been benched for the Jets.

So Chicago Bears vs NY Jets likely to be QB Trevor Siemian vs Mike White. Just like we all anticipated/

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Thoughts on Aaron Judge..

Yes, the Yankees are a legendary team.

Yes, the Dodgers have an All-Star team

Yes, the SF Giants would be HIS team. Have to think that last one matters.

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Houston Astros gave players each $516,347 playoff share. Wonder if they gave a token amount to Josh Fields. The former pitcher the Los Angeles Dodgers traded Yordan Alvarez to the Astros to get.

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How do you not love newly re-elected Alaska Democrat Congresswoman Mary Peltola’s Twitter bio? – it starts out “Fish, Family, Freedom.

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And Peltola is not just the first Democrat elected to Congress from Alaska in 50 years…. she kept Sarah Palin out of Washington, DC.

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As many of us travel for the holidays, a good rule of thumb…. it’s not a great idea to vote for a candidate you wouldn’t trust to pet-sit your cat or dog.

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Except that we won’t get regular guest appearances by Tina Fey on SNL, Mary Peltola’s win in Alaska is truly great news for America – and democracy.

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DOJ wants to question Mike Pence in the January 6 investigation into Velveeta Voldemort. Well, presume Mother will agree as long as a woman prosecutor isn’t involved.

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Fox News complaining this am about $40 billion cost of President Biden’s pausing student loan repayments. Funny, haven’t seen Fox complain lately about the $1.9 trillion cost of Velveeta Voldemort’s tax cuts for corporations and wealthy Americans.

Just got online ad “Cardinal vs. BYU – Tickets Starting Under $10!” Stanford football team is 3-8 and the game will start after 8p on the Saturday after Thanksgiving. I think they’re gonna need to pay more.

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Example number 23305 or so why I’m Spurs fan.

Coach Gregg Popovich, asked on San Antonio struggles as a team. “Really tough life. Can’t pay my electric bill, players can’t pay their bills, gas is too expensive for them. …C’mon, give me a break. NBA is greatest job in the world, so if you complain, you’re an idiot

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In this week’s College Football Playoff Rankings, Georgia is #1, Ohio State #2, Michigan #3 and TCU #4

Two loss LSU is #5. One loss USC is #6. Two loss Alabama is #7.

So when LSU probably loses to Georgia in the SEC Championship and one of Michigan and Ohio State loses to the other, what’s going to be the CFP committee’s rationale to move Alabama up to #4.

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I’m so old I remember “I don’t mind releasing my tax return.. I’m under a routine audit, and it’ll be released.” Presidential Candidate Velveeta Voldemort.

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Has Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin offered useless thoughts and meaningless prayers for tonight’s mass shooting in Chesapeake yet?

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California Rep. GOP David Valadao won re-election. While he’s anti-choice, Valadao is one of few House Republican semi-moderates . He is pro-immigration reform & voted to impeach Velveeta Voldemort in 2021,

Now, I’d have greatly preferred Democrat Rudy Salas. But Valadao is one of the cats McCarthy will have to herd.

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At time of writing, out of over 2.5 million votes cast in Arizona for Attorney General. 1,524,612 to 1,524,102, Democrat Kris Mayes leads Republican Abraham Hamadeh, 1,524,612 to 1,524,102  –  510 votes.

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Don’t let anyone tell you that your vote, or your GOTV efforts, don’t matter.

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GOP is actually asking the Georgia Supreme Court to stop Saturday voting for the Senate Runoff.

They claim it overly benefits Democrats.

Reverend Warnock was right. “Some people don’t want some people to vote.”