Left Coast Sports Babe

Well Michigan fans, in 2020 at least Jim Harbaugh won’t lose to Ohio State again. #smallmercies

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And besides OSU-Michigan being cancelled, now the Indiana-Purdue game is iffy due to COVID-19 cases.

Somehow I missed recent White House tweets taking credit for Big Ten football.

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So when this pandemic is over will NFL find a way to continue Tuesday Night Football?

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Apparently Jenna Ellis has COVID-19 & per Axios attended “senior White House staff party last Friday where “People brought their families.” Considering super spreader events that have already happened isn’t bringing families to WH now grounds for charges of child endangerment?

So maybe Joe Biden could consider appointing Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson as Ambassador to Russia. Would put Ron closer to his boss Vlad, and Governor Evers could appoint a replacement who actually cares about Wisconsin.

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Wait, Andrew Giuliani says “My dad has improved significantly over the last 48 hours and continues to get better.” I thought Rudy had very mild symptoms? Is there nothing they won’t lie about?

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Roche CEO said today even with vaccines, “Demand for coronavirus tests will probably outstrip supply for a long time.” Wait, what happened to “Everyone who wants a test can get a test?”

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Since “War on Christmas” is still a thing, your reminder that when packages and cards get delayed and/or go missing, Election “vote-by-mail” saboteur Louis DeJoy is the man who “fixed” the USPS this summer.

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Nevada Supreme Court the latest to turn down Trump’s request to overturn the election. At this point why is Donald bothering with courts when his most servile sycophants are in Congress. Maybe Moscow Mitch would stop confirming judges long enough to call for a vote on election results?

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Mitch McConnell when asked if he accepted Biden’s victory. “This has become a weekly ritual. Electoral college is going to meet on 14th & cast a vote & we’re going to have a swearing-in of the next president on the 20th of January.”

What’s Mitch’s excuse on the 14th going to be?

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(And btw, Mitch, want to STOP the weekly ritual? Let’s make it simple. Three little words ” Joe Biden Won.”)

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Joe Biden mispronounces his HHS choice Xavier Becerra’s name. Donald Trump still insists he won the election. Yeah, seems worthy of equivalent media coverage.

(And I live in California, I voted for Xavier Becerra, I’ve seen him speak live. I still don’t think I know how to pronounce his name.)

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Donald’s Executive Order insists America must have 1st priority on all COVID vaccines.

Dude, when you wouldn’t commit to buy doses from Pfizer they sold to other countries.

It’s like refusing to put ring on your girlfriend’s finger & objecting at her wedding to someone else.

Another back to back since I forgot to hit “publish” Sunday night.

So wait, the Washington NFL football team showed it was possible to have an upset win in Pennsylvania without threatening someone to change the score after the game was over?

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WTF. As someone who has rooted against the Pittsburgh Steelers since I read the Ben Roethlisberger police report on his “alleged” rape years ago, I stopped paying attention to the game when they went up 14-0 on Washington.

Apparently so did the Steelers. (Washington came back and won 23-17)

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Used to look on Monday for College Football Rankings. Now we look to see which games were postponed due to COVID-19. This week so far it’s Ole Miss-Texas A&M

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ESPN reports, new NBA policies for 2020-21 regular season will have “significant flexibility to teams resting players in non-nationally televised games.” So does this mean non-televised games won’t count as much in the standings?

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RIP Chuck Yeager, 97. But if ANYONE could be in heaven before the Devil knew he was dead…

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Now former Jets defensive coordinator Gregg Williams was suspended for a year indefinitely for orchestrating Saints “Bountygate” and accused with other teams of pushing players to injure opponents, yet Williams has had no problem getting employed regularly with four different teams since 2012.

But single-coverage in Hail Mary situation, THAT gets you fired in NFL

Velveeta Voldemort has a “Vaccine Summit” tomorrow and actual vaccine makers Pfizer and Moderna have declined invitations. Because they couldn’t keep a straight face while listening to him take credit for all of it?

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Why would representatives from Pfizer and Moderna want to attend Donald’s Vaccine Summit anyway? A summit that is likely to be another super spreader White House event. Would be like cancer researchers attending a meeting in a cigarette factory.

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Dr. Anthony Fauci, who will Joe Biden’s new “chief medical officer” said he doesn’t expect to play a dramatically different role than he is supposed to play under President Trump.

“Supposed to play.” Who knew Dr. Fauci had master troll potential?

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Why is ANY Governor taking Donald Trump’s calls any more?

Donald was quoting Ken Starr about the mail-in rejection rate being “minuscule compared to what it used to be.” and that it meant “massive numbers of bad votes.”

Uh, Ken Starr was fired from Baylor for covering up sexual abuse while he wasted hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars investigating Clinton over a consensual affair…. but you do you, Grandpa.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis sent armed goons in to raid the home of Rebekah Jones, a data scientist who challenged him on COVID-19 data. So is he angling early to be Velveeta Voldemort’s 2024 running mate?

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Ooh, Rachel Maddow tonight just referred to Donald Trump as “Spiro Agnew’s spiritual doppelganger.” And I am SO here for it.

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Don’t watch The View but Ana nails it “That empty podium projected more warmth & humanity than Kelly Loeffler. She sounded like programmed robot…like my alarm system when it tells me my door is ajar. She just repeated ‘left, radical, socialist.’”

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I’m watching replays of Kelly Loeffler answering (or rather not answering) every single question in Sunday night Georgia Senate debate without her hair extensions so much as moving a millimeter & I never want to hear a joke about Amy Klobuchar’s bangs in the Democratic debates again.

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We all knew that Donald would lie.

A loss makes him sulk, whine and cry

But GOP all being loath

To remember their Oaths.

Well that IS how democracies die.

NY Jets show that you need real talent to have a perfectly imperfect season. 46 yard winning TD pass for Raiders with 5 seconds left and it was a Hail Mary into single coverage.

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On the other hand, how crazy was it? Unlike the NBA, NFL doesn’t have penalties for flopping, or tanking.

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With his first two TD passes of his NFL career, New Orleans Saints QB Taysom Hill is now only 563 behind Drew Brees.

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Ohio State is a 30 point favorite over Michigan next Saturday. At this point the Wolverines might be the only team in football secretly hoping for cancellations due to COVID 19 tests.

So basically GOP COVID-19 plan is – 99.9% of our rich leaders get the expensive antibody treatment so we can claim the virus is harmless.

The rest of you are dying to re-elect them.

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Meanwhile, as CDC discusses travel risks…. So how many people did Rudy infect on his subverting democracy tour?

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And wait, Rudy Giuliani’s COVID-19 diagnosis was reported by Velveeta Voldemort himself on Twitter. So add to the rest of his misdeeds can we add a HIPAA violation?

COVID death toll over 280,000. But I’m sure all those who have lost loved ones, or know someone in hospital, despite their best efforts, will be comforted to know Rudy Giuliani, who publicly ignored CDC guidelines, will get very best care money can buy at taxpayer expense

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Jon Ossoff faced an empty podium today in a one-person “debate” after David Perdue refused to participate. GOP couldn’t even replace the coward with Clint Eastwood’s empty chair?

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Wonder what it would have taken to get Perdue to show up… if someone promised him a couple good stock tips?

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Gym Jordan tweets “Durham confirms what we already knew. James Comey’s FBI was out to get President Trump.”

Right, Comey torpedoes Hillary just before 2016 election so he can install Donald and then take him down? Makes perfect sense.

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Kelly Loeffler in Georgia Senate Debate talked about growing up on a farm, and said she lived the American dream….

Loeffler financed her MBA by mortgaging land from her grandparents. Why didn’t all Americans who are now buried under student loan debt think of that?

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Or did she mean the American Dream was growing up as a young girl to marry a billionaire?

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I seriously am having Disney World flashbacks watching Kelly Loeffler “It’s a small minded world after all?”

Okay, Botox tonight is trending on Twitter and didn’t even have to click on it to know people are talking about Georgia Senate debate. But hey, we shouldn’t don’t care what Loeffler puts inside her face. We should care about her insider trading.

Not watching college football because I don’t think they should be playing during this pandemic. But if we’re going to talk College Football Playoff contenders my money’s still on COVID-19.

(And besides, if anyone really wants to see top amateur talent, the Jaguars and Jets are playing Sunday early games.)

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From ESPN after Alabama beat LSU 55-57 today – “The electricity went out at Alabama’s team hotel a half-hour before the pregame meal and coaches and players were forced to eat in the dark. “Stuff happens,” Saban said, “and everybody keeps on keeping on.”

Gosh, “forced to eat in the dark.” Does this qualify the Crimson Tide for a nomination for 2021′ ESPY “Arthur Ashe Courage Award?

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So Hillary conspired with Russia to lose an election in 2016, and GOP Gov. Brian Kemp conspired with Stacey Abrams to have Trump lose Georgia in 2020. Are Republicans stupid, or do they think we are?

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More Democrats condemned Bill Clinton for lying to cover up a consensual affair than Republicans are condemning Donald Trump for lying to subvert democracy.

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Snarky but serious question: Wonder how many of Trump’s MAGA supporters at his vanity rallies would be able to get past the gates if they tried to visit Mar-A-Lago?

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Not that he would ever do it, but if Hunter Biden became a partner in an expensive Washington, D.C. hotel and Democrats started having events at taxpayer expense there, GOP would be cool with that, right?

“Have a great Saturday evening — even if you’re not jetting off somewhere at taxpayer expense.” Republican National Committee May 2009 – when @BarackObama had audacity to take Michelle on a date night to NY.

But jetting off to Georgia, to subvert democracy, that’s ok. Got it.

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If Georgia GOP Senate candidates were just toeing Republican line, they could campaign just on keeping Mitch McConnell as majority leader.

Instead, they campaign as supporters of a would be dictator.11337

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So if GOP wants to cut cost of COVID relief bill, why don’t they suggest a compromise that eliminates funding for red states whose governors still don’t believe the virus is serious?

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USA now reporting a third of the world’s new COVID-19 infections! Are we tired of winning yet?

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Almost wish I had one of the My Pillow guy’s pillows so I could burn it.

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South Dakota has officially now 1,091 Covid-related deaths. .123 of the state’s population, and over 85,000 cases, almost 10% of the state’s population

Just for comparison, those percentage numbers in California would be over almost 50,000 deaths and 3.8 million cases.

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Lindsey Graham: “When I go to meet God at the pearly gates, I don’t think he’s going to ask me, ‘Why didn’t you convict Trump?'”

Think Lindsey isn’t reading his boarding pass correctly.

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He’s not exactly a quick study. Took Gov. Brian Kemp until APRIL to say he learned COVID-19 could be transmitted by people who were asymptomatic. And even Kemp knows Biden won Georgia.

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Imagine if Hillary Clinton had called Democratic Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf and demanded he overturn his state’s results in the 2016 election.

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The first time Mitch McConnell will publicly accept the election results will be when he vows to make Joe Biden a one term President.

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Comedy writers need to mark January 23 on their calendars: It will be the first Saturday night in recent memory that if we’re looking for easy material we won’t just be able to look at the President’s tweets.

As Donald keeps whining like a petulant child about Georgia recounts at least the Atlanta Falcons must be happy. Their blown 28-3 Super Bowl lead is no longer the state’s most embarrassing loss ever.

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Over 50% of small businesses who applied didn’t get a PPP (Paycheck Protection Program) loan. Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady’s merchandise and supplements company – TB12- received over $960,000 from the Federal Government.

That must make business who were turned down feel as deflated as the Patriots’ balls.

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From Marc Ragovin “The Cubs have cut ties with Kyle Schwarber. I should have known his stock was falling when David Purdue placed a massive sell order the other day”

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Unclear on the concept – latest Safeway ad has a $5 discount coupon for party trays.

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California certification Friday puts Joe Biden officially over the top on electoral votes.

Of course, Trump team could challenge I suppose, Donald only lost the state by over FIVE million votes.)

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Meanwhile an anti-lockdown protestor in California said I’d rather ‘put a bullet in my head’ than take COVID vaccine – Well, at least that way he wouldn’t spread the virus:

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Florida Governor Ron De Santis yesterday attacked the “crazy rulings” of Chief Justice John Roberts…. Yes, GOP has gone that far off the rails.

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Since neither Senator David Perdue nor Senator Kelly Loeffler will neither publicly confirm Biden won Georgia, nor agree with GOP election officials who are ALSO officiating the runoff, why are they bothering to tell Republicans to vote? Asking for a country that is tired of this crap.

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So is there an inventory on thing like White House silver and other valuables?

Asking for a country that might want to hire security to check a certain family on the way out like they check your receipt and carts at Costco?

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Open note to GOP Senators and Governors. Donald is calling his longtime sycophant Georgia Governor Brian Kemp a “moron” & a “nut job.” It’s only a matter of time until he turns on you too. So why not abandon ship now with the shreds of your dignity you have remaining?

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In many ways, reports of GOP leaders quietly telling Joe Biden they know he’s won is worse than them believing Donald. Because they’re letting millions of Americans be permanently gaslighted so they don’t get mean tweets from Velveeta Voldemort.

Biden’s doing more winning in Wisconsin than the Badgers last time they made it to the Rose Bowl.

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MSNBC Election analyst Steve Kornacki, wearing khakis of course, will appear before kickoff on Sunday Night Football to discuss the NFL playoff picture with all possible scenarios.

Who’s playing Sunday night? Who cares? For the first time, millions of Americans will turn in just for the pre-game show.

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Between 1983 and 1988, Columbia Lions Football team set what was then a NCAA record by losing 44 in a row. Trump’s legal team is well on their way to surpassing that streak!

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Remember how many in GOP called Al Gore a sore loser for not conceding for a month when it actually was a legitimately contested election?

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Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt, who has refused a mask mandate, declared Thursday a “day of prayer and fasting” for those affected by the pandemic. Talk about sending your constituents up Stitt’s Creek….

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Often I want to say the cure to our problems is just to put more women in charge. And then I read something from Marsha Blackburn….

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Lou Holtz, 83, received the Presidential Medal of Honor today, saying he was proud “to receive it from President Donald Trump & adding Trump was the “greatest president in my lifetime.” Sad, didn’t realize Holtz was suffering from dementia.

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Media having fun justifiably calling out Democratic politicians who call for COVID-19 restrictions & then break their own rules as hypocrites. But how about doing same for Republicans who act like COVID-19 is no big deal, then when sick all get expensive experimental treatment?

So when Joe Biden said he will call for the nation to wear masks for 100 days were David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler upset they didn’t get advance notice to buy stock in mask companies?

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Imagine if USA had a leader “New Zealand has lifted all social & economic restrictions except border controls after declaring this week it was free of COVID-19. “While the job is not done, there is no denying this is a milestone…Thank you, New Zealand,” PM Jacinda Ardern

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Remember when a really bad day for USA was 1,000 COVID deaths in 24 hours. Like, last month?

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How long until we look back at “only 2,000” dead as “the good old days?” I still think Scott Atlas resigned so Donald can preemptively pardon him of manslaughter charges?

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NY Times reports Georgia Senator David Perdue has made *2,596 stock trades* in his one term as Senator, which “brings about serious ethics questions.”

2,596 stock trades in ONE term. How many Americans have made 2,596 stock trades in their lives????

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GOP AZ Gov. Doug Ducey confirmed that he heard the “Hail to the Chief” ringtone & knew it was White House calling, but ignored phone call during a press conference to certify state’s vote for Joe Biden. Face it Donny, he’s just not that into you.

So Donald’s case for election fraud basically comes down to “I was ahead and I ended up losing.”In related news, the Atlanta Falcons are claiming they won the Super Bowl since they did have a 28-3 lead over the New England Patriots!

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The Ravens-Steelers game on Wednesday afternoon was seriously listed at Sunday Night Football on TV listings… because 2020?

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Meanwhile, the NFL always lists the names of players fined or suspended for serious infractions like wearing their socks too low, but is much quieter about those who break rules about mask wearing and other COVID-19 regulation. (You had to search hard to find the name Steve Saunders, the strength and conditioning coach who may have infected a large percentage of the Ravens team.) #Priorities

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Pittsburgh coach Mike Tomlin said of his team’s narrow win over Baltimore today “It was really junior varsity, to be quite honest with you.”Well, lucky for the Steelers they were playing the JV version of the COVID-19 decimated Ravens.

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Meanwhile, if you’ve been wondering how the Canadian Football League was doing, since their Championship Grey Cup is usually in late November… they took the year off. All of it.

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Pathetic, sad and above all, small, whining speech posted to Facebook from Donald Trump today.Can we title the 46 minute video “Honey, I shrunk the Presidency?”

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Now Velveeta Voldemort is about defending legal votes.

Because he claims his all his 74,000,000 votes were legal.

But 81,000,000 votes for Joe Biden were illegal?

Do he and his cult ever listen to themselves?

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Barack Obama said candidates lose support using “snappy” slogans like “defund the police.” “You lost a big audience the minute you say it, which makes it a lot less likely you’re actually going to get changes you want done,”

Well what does Obama know about winning elections?

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Lots of tributes to retiring Senators today on the Senate Floor. Now, I know most of the Senate hates Ted Cruz – but guessing they could suck it up and tell some nice lies if he would retire too.

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Used to tell people I preferred British History to American History because monarchs were so fascinating, ranging from good to downright awful, compared to more boring but usually competent elected leaders.

USA is kind of killing that premise right now.

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You cannot make this “stuff” up. In July, GOP runs ad “Tinseltown: home of ultra-liberals & everything fake so it’s not surprising Hollywood’s bankrolling Jon Ossoff’s campaigns.” Same WEEK. Kelly Loeffer buys $5.3 million home in Studio City/Hollywood.

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So some in the GOP feel so strongly about having the freedom not to wear a mask they are supporting “limited martial law” in order to hold a new election. Got it.

Social media is so educational Today in a discussion of social media I learned there are actually people who haven’t seen “Love, Actually.”

Yet.

Suggest you see it if you haven’t.

NFL has closed facilities for two days trying to slow the spread of COVID-19 among players and staff – because of “reports that some players and staff spent Thanksgiving with out-of-town visitors.” Million dollar talent, two-cent heads. Sigh.

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Meanwhile anyone got an over-under bet as to whether there will be more points scored or more total positive COVID tests involving the Ravens-Steelers game tomorrow?

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Dibs on Friday by when Bill Barr gets fired -“Justice Department has not uncovered evidence of widespread voter fraud that would change the outcome of the 2020 presidential election.”

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Can Ron Johnson show us proof, especially after that July 4 trip to Moscow, that he isn’t a Russian spy?

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Somewhere Jeff Sessions must be giggling.

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Can you imagine if on his first day in office Joe Biden said he was pre-emptively pardoning his son Hunter?

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If you watch C-Span these days, it’s nonstop hearings for judges. If Dems can’t win in Georgia think Mitch McConnell will allow ANY hearings for Biden’s judicial nominations?

Georgia Republican Voting Official Gabriel Sterling, “I don’t have all the best words to do this because I’m angry.” Actually his words today were very good indeed. And far more patriotic than the words of most of our GOP leaders.

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So is Rudy Giuliani having his Michigan Hearing at a Ritz crackers distribution center?

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Sorry, Marco Rubio, a bible verse doesn’t count if you only do one out of three. Luke 6:37 “Do not judge, and you will not be judged; and do not condemn, and you will not be condemned; pardon, and you will be pardoned.

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McConnell canceled in-person GOP lunches, making them conference calls. Mitt Romney “Wish we had lunches with Democrats now & then, too, so we can feel what other side of aisle is thinking,” Uh, Mitt, bet if you call Amy Klobuchar she’ll be happy to schedule Zoom lunch with you & others.

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Florida today became 3rd state w/ more than 1 million REPORTED cases of coronavirus. Only California & Texas have reported more COVID-19 cases, and both have several million more people. I missed Governor Ron DeSantis taking credit.

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Latest insanity from the stable genius’s legal team reported by Fox News “Whistleblowers claiming USPS threw out, backdated ballots before election.” Uh, who is in charge of USPS?

WSJ, AP, Washington Post all report Velveeta Voldemort will veto annual national defense funding bill unless Section 230 is terminated. So our troops may not get paid because POTUS is the bigliest petulant snowflake ever?

Let me spell it out for those in the GOP who have a hard time finding the words. Joe. Biden. Won.

Houston Texans had two players test positive today and it was just for PEDs. Seems so quaint.

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Now NFL has postponed Ravens Steelers until Wednesday night, and both teams’ next game, against Dallas & Washington Dallas until next Monday. This season is turning into a weird mix of Musical Chairs and Survivor.

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Trump loves to talk about his 74 million votes.

I may have forgotten my high school trigonometry. But I am 100% positive that 80,000,000 is a bigger number than 74,000,000.

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Let’s try this election with a sports metaphor since understanding sports isn’t supposed to be partisan:

On 12/8/19, the New Orleans Saints scored 46 points, their highest total of the year.

Except 49ers scored 48 points. Big numbers do not matter if your opponent has a bigger number.

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-Yes Mitch McConnell really said today in a floor speech that the Senate has the need to confirm additional Trump nominees, “especially on the federal bench.” Satire is deader than Herman Cain.

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Molly Ivins would have written a great column on the idiocy of GOP and MAGAs being against a mask mandate.

This will do pretty well from 1995. “It’s all very well to run around saying regulation is bad, get the government off our backs, etc. Of course our lives are regulated. When you come to a stop sign, you stop; if you want to go fishing, you get a license; if you want to shoot ducks, you can shoot only three ducks. The alternative is dead bodies at the intersection, no fish, and no ducks. OK?”

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More GOP senators are complaining about Joe Biden’s OMB pick Neera Tanden than are acknowledging Biden won the election.

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So how long will it take to detox the Hyatt Regency in Downtown Phoenix after Rudy Giuliani’s event today?

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Now Velveeta Voldemort is asking for yet another recount in Georgia. Maybe if he had studied enough not to need someone to take his SATs for him, Donald might realize the answer doesn’t change when you redo math problems.

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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis reacts to state’s COVID surge not just with no new health regulations but also by banning cities even from simple things like mask mandates. Why is it the most theoretically “pro-life” politicians who seem so hell bent on killing people?

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Melania Trump today unveiled White House Christmas decorations. I suppose it would be churlish to say “Who the f*ck cares?

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As Secretary of State Brian Kemp suppressed black vote to win the Gubernatorial race against Stacey Abrams. Today, he’s pushing back on Trump and saying “Georgia law prohibits the Governor from interfering in elections.” Nice to see Kemp has integrity when his own seat isn’t concerned.

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Fox News just reported Donald Trump’s pet COVID-19 “doctor,” Scott Atlas has resigned. Did Atlas do so now so Donald can preemptively pardon him on manslaughter charges?

Seriously, part of the Hippocratic Oath: “I will prevent disease whenever I can, for prevention is preferable to cure.” So now that Scott Atlas has resigned from the COVID-19 task force, when can we revoke his medical license?

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There is no way Scott Atlas resigned but for any other reason than to try to save himself and what’s left of his reputation. And still think he might be worried about legal problems from his tenure. Hoping even Hoover Foundation has changed the locks on him.

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Over 90,000 Americans now hospitalized with COVID-19. To put that in perspective 90,000 is more people than Joe Biden won Georgia, Arizona, Nevada, and Wisconsin by cumulatively.

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We know now that Hillary Clinton was right about everything that Donald would do as President. And that Mary Trump was right about everything Donald would do if he lost. Why don’t we listen to women?

So okay, fine, the Broncos are playing without a QB this week. Some Bears fans think their team has done it all year.

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Baltimore Ravens now have 18 players on reserve/COVID-19 list. As ESPN says, “causing some to whether they can field a competitive team for Tuesday’s game against the undefeated Pittsburgh Steelers” “Like that’s stopped us from playing” responded the NY Jets.

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Nancy Armour of USA Today complaining Broncos QB fiasco will unfairly help New Orleans w/ potential playoff bye & “if Saints win, 2nd Super Bowl title will always be seen as something of a sham.” As opposed to sham refereeing that kept Saints out of 2019 Super Bowl?

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Fox News Headline “5,000 Alabama students haven’t shown up for any sort of class.” So is this related to COVID-19 or are they all pretending to be football players?

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Would some reporter please ask Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue on camera what they think of the President they both support pledging to veto a defense spending bill over renaming bases named for Confederate Army leaders?

CNN reporting that Biden will get his first Presidential Daily Briefing on Monday. Which means for the first time in almost four years, a President will READ his daily briefing.

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It’s not enough taxpayers paying for Trump crime family to spend weekend at Camp David AND Thanksgiving we paid for them to stay while daddy remained in White House. Today we paid for Donald to use Marine One to fly back & forth to play golf. But we can’t afford COVID relief.

Actually it gets worse. It’s not just Velveeta Voldemort made two sets of staff & Secret Service work at taxpayer expense this holiday weekend while Donald started at WH with family at Camp David. But Melania is somewhere else now. So that’s THREE sets of Secret Service agents.

Nice thought for the night: Not only is Georgia Governor Brian Kemp, who as Sec of State, used voter suppression to beat Stacey Abrams, up for re-election in 2022 -, but also current GOP Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, while partisan, seems disinclined to cheat just to elect Republicans.

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So let’s get to the important question of the day – when are we going to see the Biden’s new cat?

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So with all the jobs that will be open in the Biden administration where does one go to apply to manage the Twitter account for their new cat?

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As Joe and Jill Biden prepare to move into White House, the residence’s population will soon increase by two dogs, one cat and two humans.

With increasing cases, Ohio State has had to cancel Saturday’s football game vs. Illinois. If this keeps up, COVID-19 might be reason Jim Harbaugh’s streak finally ends of his Michigan Wolverines losing to the Buckeyes.

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Personally I just can’t actually watch college football games in 2020. As much as I like the sport normally it just feels wrong. NFL players are (mostly) adults getting paid who are capable of making their own decisions. College athletes are young and unpaid and living on campus where there’s nothing close to a bubble feels reckless.

On the other hand, doesn’t mean I can’t gloat a bit when I read that Stanford beats Cal by a blocked extra point.

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And I admit, if Sarah Fuller, who will suit up for Vanderbilt as a place kicker, scores tomorrow I might have to watch the replay.

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6-4 Ravens against undefeated Steelers now moved to Tuesday night, primetime, over COVID-19, while Ravens vs 3-8 Cowboys scheduled for Thursday, is off indefinitely. I’m sure this NFL decision was made w/ health, not ratings, in mind. Where is a sarcasm emoji when you need one?

Now NFL is closing the facilities Mon. & Tue. (except for teams playing those days) due to risk from Thanksgiving get-togethers. Got it. But no change for Sunday. And of course COVID-19 will respect MNF & Ravens-Steelers Tue.

So Four Seasons in Philadelphia put out statement saying Rudy’s event had nothing to do w/ their hotel. How long until Hyatt, a decent company, puts out statement disavowing Trump’s “Election hearing” description of Monday’s GOP rally at their Phoenix hotel?

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I believe in free and fair elections. But would someone in GOP like to explain how if Democrats were so powerful as to steal 80 million votes we wouldn’t have stolen a few more Senate seats while we were at it?

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Watching GOP mostly stick together to humor & defend Velveeta Voldemort’s increasingly insane lies about election results, one thing is really clear: Had we re-elected him they wouldn’t have stood in the way of Donald’s demands for a third term.

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Although, when this is over, how many lawyers will end up disbarred for taking part in Velveeta Voldemort’s election shenanigans?

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Uh, sentence is from FOX NEWS website “Republicans amping up efforts to retain Senate majority through pair of Georgia runoffs they view as “firewall” against Democrats’ agenda after President Trump lost his reelection bid.” “Lost his reelection bid? Don’t tell Donald.

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So at this point I think we can put everything Velveeta Voldemort does for next 53 days in one of two categories. 1. It enriches him. 2. It makes life worse for President-Elect Joe Biden.

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Again, Joe Biden is going to go down in history as the President who won the most elections. In the same year.

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And now Ravens-Steelers postponed again. Stay tuned.

Ravens-Steelers, only NFL game between teams over .500, has been postponed from Thanksgiving night to Sunday over COVID-19 cases w/ Baltimore. Health of course a priority, but how many were counting on excuse to end Thanksgiving Zoom calls saying “Sorry, got to watch the game?”

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RIP Diego Maradona, 60. Have to think, for many Americans, he was the only soccer player they could name.

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So here we go. Supreme Court tonight on 5-4 vote blocks NY Gov. Cuomo from reimposing strict capacity caps on Catholic churches and synagogues that sued. And of course Amy Barrett joins conservative wing in majority; Roberts actually dissented.

So silver lining – no caps on friends and loved ones at funerals?

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Can we start referred to her as Injustice Amy Coney Barrett?

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For those who allege bias, CNN reminds us, after an interview with Jon Ossoff that they regularly ask Senator David Perdue to appear as well. But he says no.

Thinking if you’re proud of your record you don’t hide from talking about it. Period.

Did not realize until tonight Lawrence O’Donnell was a producer and writer on “The West Wing,” and that he actually wrote 16 episodes. A show many of us are so thankful for…. and I wonder how many millions of Americans have watched old episodes to get through 2020.

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Today’s Senate GOP in a nutshell: Crickets on Trump pardoning Michael Flynn, a man who is not only a criminal but an admitted traitor to our country. But they’re already making noises about wasting taxpayer $$$ yet again on Hunter Biden.

Donald Trump, Ben Carson & Chris Christie got lifesaving drugs most Americans can’t. On top of elitism – if these COVIDiots hadn’t gotten sick flaunting safety measures w/ unmasked events, perhaps those drugs could have gone to essential frontline workers.

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With Rudy Giuliani in Gettysburg Wednesday can we call the hair dye racing down his head last week “Pigment’s Charge?”

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Again for the people in the back, Barack Obama issued 1715 commutations and 212 pardons.

Not a single one was for a member of his administration.

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President-Elect Joe Biden delivers a heartwarming tear-jerking speech for Thanksgiving. And Velveeta Voldemort pardons a well-deservedly convicted felon. Very on brand for them both.

The Washington Football Team is 4-7 and has designs on the playoffs. Well, they’re having a better year than Trump.

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My father, who passed away this year, was big Redskins fan who enjoyed complaining about team as much as anything.

Can’t decide if he’d have enjoyed today’s game. Or if he’d just be bitching about “PC” name change & how badly the now NFC East leading team will lose in playoffs.

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Now USC vs Colorado canceled, along with Oklahoma vs West Virginia. And Alabama coach Nick Saban has tested positive, again. Wouldn’t it be simpler to write “COVID-19” on the College Football 2020 Trophy and be done with it?

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Yeah, 2020 is tough. But here’s something to be very thankful for: Over 80 million people went to the polls and voted for Joe Biden. So next Thanksgiving we won’t have a President who is a whiny little b*tch.

Another thankful thought. Out here in deep blue California, from 1952 until Bill Clinton won in 1992, state voted GOP in Presidential elections except for LBJ. We haven’t looked back since. Two Blue Senators now too.. Thinking Texas & Georgia are on their way to following us.

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How much of a gap will we have between Mitch McConnell acknowledging that Joe Biden will be our next President, and McConnell’s vow to try to make Biden a one-term President?

Dibs on – “less than an hour” in the pool.

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Speaking of pools… So which member of Trump White House privately sold off the pardoned turkeys Corn and Cob to a local restaurant or club and pocketed the proceeds?

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So Injustice Amy Coney Barrett’s first decision on #SCOTUS is to strike down emergency COVID-19 orders on church congregation limits. Then when people get sick & are lucky enough to recover, next she’ll vote to deny healthcare for those with COVID-19 as a pre-existing condition.

So Amy Coney Barrett was deciding vote against COVID-19 congregation limits in churches: Question of the night. If an omnipotent God sees you praying in church on Sunday, why can’t She/He see you praying safely at home every day?

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If you’re still thinking of people to give thanks to late on Thanksgiving night – how about all the poor White House staff who had to work on the holiday because Velveeta Voldemort was too ashamed to show his face at Mar-A-Lago?

Something else to be thankful for. In about 54 days we can all go to sleep at night without waking up thinking “Now WTF did POTUS tweet?

Now it’s UW-Minnesota canceled, as the Golden Gophers have had at LEAST 15 positive tests in last five days. At this point Wisconsin will have had as many games canceled due to COVID-19 as they have played. But remind me again what a good idea it was to play Big Ten football?

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And so at this point might only thing be saving NY Jets from 0-16 be a COVID cancellation?

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How much do I love when a UN Ambassador (nominee) talks about gumbo diplomacy and uses the word “lagniappe” Is it too much to ask that Linda Thomas-Greenfield be also a Saints fan? #WhoDat

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Mitch McConnell has still not acknowledged President-Elect Joe Biden’s win, or in fact much of anything at all about election. Or for that matter anything about COVID-19 relief. Basically all Mitch’s sentences now are “A noun, a verb and a right-wing judge.”

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Joe Biden said in an interview “This is not a third Obama term.” I believe him. But most Americans wouldn’t mind if it was.

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Marco Rubio, who at one-time was a promising young GOP Senator, is whining about Joe Biden’s cabinet picks. I think anyone who has been a Trump sycophant for four years forfeits all right to say “I support American greatness.”

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Anyone else beside me not give a flying fig newton about what any Republican says now about Biden transition etc if they have refused to speak up since November 4?

So now that Dr. Fauci has said he’s begun talking to Joe Biden’s team, anyone want to venture a guess as to his first words? I’ll start “Thank God!”

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Anyone who has only been studying US politics for four years has to be puzzled by today’s Joe Biden’s initial cabinet rollout. “Which of them is related to Biden?”

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Not sure where Trump will be heading after he leaves White House, but on January 20th when we take down his picture in post offices and replace it with Joe Biden’s, will we end up moving Donald’s picture to the FBI’s “America’s Most Wanted?”

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Tuesday night before Thanksgiving. First responders, healthcare & grocery workers etc will face an insane Wednesday. But millions of Americans who still have jobs will be fortunate enough to have one of those workdays where they just have to pretend to look busy. Kind of like our current POTUS.

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When he’s right he’s right, ..

Donald actually tweeted “GSA does not determine who the next President of the United States will be.”

He’s right. Voters do.

They did.

It’s Joe Biden.

If you didn’t already love Drew Brees, this from interview where Saints QB talked about about what he hopes will be a return in few weeks from 11 (!) broken ribs & a collapsed lung. My “kids can’t jump on me like they usually do….But I can still play Barbies and paint fingernails with my daughter.” #WhoDat

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Headline: “NFL to require players to wear masks on sideline.”

Real headline: “NFL getting nervous about playoffs.”

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Democrats who wonder how party will ever unify enough to govern should look at sports world. Where we fans regularly come together w/ rivals for common goal – for example, this Saints fan was cheering for Rams (ugh) to beat Tom Brady & New Orleans division rival the Tampa Bay Buccaneers Monday. All about priorities.

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Spare me. Fox News is attacking the “intolerant left” with headline “Graham hug backlash means Feinstein won’t seek top committee spot.” Uh, reason Dianne Feinstein is stepping down as Judiciary chair is not one hug. She is 87 1/2 yrs old. And it’s time.

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So the city of Pasadena is defying LA County’s health order by keeping outdoor dining open. Will Pasadena also set up outdoor clinics to take care of diners, friends and families, who get COVID-19?

As much as I’d love to see Katie Porter in a Biden Administration hate idea of giving up the raw terror she inspires in wrongdoers with her questioning and her white board.

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Limerick time:

Four years filled with lies grift and greed.

Then a Trump coup that didn’t succeed.

Despite rules being flounted

The votes all got counted.

So Donald, it’s time to CONCEDE.

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Now that GSA has acknowledged reality and that the transition can begin, is Emily Murphy expecting her participation trophy?

So which of Trump sycophants who still won’t acknowledge Joe as “President-Elect” will be the first to demand that President Biden compromise with Republicans in Congress?

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John Kerry to be Joe Biden’s climate czar. No doubt the former Senator and then Secretary of State will be very good. But your reminder, after 2004 no one told Kerry to “go home and knit.”

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Does anyone think Donald has ever conceded a loss in ANYTHING?

And how many MORE times will Donald have to be told that he lost between now and January 20?

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How will we know when Mitch McConnell has accepted that Joe Biden is President-elect? When Mitch issues a statement saying his top goal is to make Joe Biden a one-term President.

Clemson traveled to Tallahassee with player who had symptoms & tested positive day of game, but Tigers coach Dabo Swinney is complaining that FSU backed out of game and used COVID-19 as an excuse. But tell me again how college football cares about their student-athletes?

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NY Jets now 0-11, and eliminated from the playoffs. If they were only in the NL East they’d be 3 games out of first place.

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So who was sure that Sean Payton was right in deciding Taysom Hill was the right choice for the Saints to fill in for an injured Drew Brees?

Now all of you liars put your hands down.

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Chuck Todd this morning “It looks like Joe Biden is going to be the apparent winner.” Who needs church when you have Chuck Todd every Sunday getting millions of us screaming “Jesus Christ!”

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So would Trump like to tell us up front how many recounts he’s going to ask for in Georgia? Asking for a tired country.

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Meanwhile, in Fox News bubble….Headline “Rep. Collins rips ‘outside money flooding into Georgia’ for Senate runoffs.”

For some reason Fox didn’t cover this story “Top GOP super PACs drop $70 million on Georgia Senate runoffs.”

Bill Clinton’s law license was suspended just for lying about his relationship with Monica Lewinsky. What’s going to happen to Sidney Powell after this Trump election fiasco?

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So how long until Donald Trump says Rudy Giuliani isn’t a member of his legal team either?

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Mary Trump says her uncle is a sociopath. What excuse do his GOP Congressional sycophants have?

If Donald is so unhappy with Twitter and their warnings on his tweets why doesn’t he just go to Parler? “Bye Donald” could be even bigger than “Bye Felicia.”

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Trump hasn’t been back to Mar-A-Lago since March & he only spent a couple nights at his Doral Resort before election. And Donald isn’t going “home” for Thanksgiving. Yet he’s registered as Florida voter? Seems pretty clear cut election fraud to me.

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In 2019, the GOP-CONTROLLED Pennsylvania legislature passed Act 77, which allowed vote by mail up to 50 days before an election. Now GOP Rep. Mike Kelly doesn’t like the results and wants to invalidate the bill. You cannot make this sh*t up.

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We’ve always had scammers.. We’ve always had people fall for the scams.

But most depressing thing about right now is how many in GOP who took Oaths of Office to our country “against all enemies foreign and domestic,” can’t even stand up against a single “Conman-in-Chief.”

From a Facebook friend “Instead of the secret service removing him why not let the forest service do it? They will dart him, weigh him, take his vitals, tag him and then put him in a place where he won’t come into contact with people anymore. Just a thought.”

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Second lady Karen Pence to hold ‘Christmas Craft’ gathering for Congressional spouses despite CDC social distancing advisory. So which “Secret Santa” will bring the gift of COVID-19?

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Reminder, if it was just about SCOTUS, Mitch McConnell would have pushed through Barrett nomination then allowed votes on COVID-19 relief after election.

McConnell doesn’t care about American lives. Only his power.

As hard core sports fan I still won’t watch 2020 college football.

But heard there was some controversy at end of Purdue-Minnesota game over an Offensive Pass Interference call. Shouldn’t bigger controversy as COVID-19 cases spike be about Big Ten football being played at all?

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And anyone got BINGO with NCAA Football cancellations this week yet?

Just on Friday, the Saturday games for Washington State-Stanford and Cincinnati-Tulsa have been canceled.

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Donald gave up on Fox News Friday and RTed just OANN.

OANN has won ZERO Emmys. Just saying.

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Might be waiting a while, but I’m planning a big virtual hug for the first Republican who tells Donald Trump it’s time to go home and knit.

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Gov. Brian Kemp did everything Trump wanted him to do w/ COVID-19 but when Georgia’s numbers spiked Donald threw Brian under bus.

Today Kemp certified election results, but said Trump could call for another full hand recount. When will they ever learn? #StockholmSyndrome?

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South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem says she thinks state has done a great job. Right. Like until the night of April 14 the Titanic WAS actually breaking the transatlantic speed record.

And despite a 51% positivity rate, Governor Kristi Noem actually tweeted this “In South Dakota, we won’t stop or discourage you from thanking God and spending time together this Thanksgiving.” At this point I’d chip in for Minnesota building a wall or something.

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Trump fans at a Mike Pence rally for Loeffler and Purdue chanting “Four more years.” Well, four more years added to Trump’s future prison sentence would work for me.

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Just heard that Florida Senator Rick Scott has COVID-19. It would be really wrong to say I hope he’s had an in-person meeting recently with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. So I won’t say it.

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Kayleigh McEnany called CNN’s Kaitlin Collins an “activist.” Not sure how many know this but Kaitlin started as a reporter for very right wing and not well regarded ‘The Daily Caller.”

Collins has become a very respected professional. Something McEnany will never be.

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People call Joe Biden old. But hey, our President-Elect turned FIVE on the day Queen Elizabeth married Prince Philip. (November 20, 1947.)

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Going to be really nice during Joe Biden administration when CNN doesn’t have “Breaking News” every half hour.

While we’re throwing around allegations of voter fraud, not sure how many days Donald Trump has spent in Florida this year but pretty sure it’s not enough to qualify for legal residence.

If the basketball gods wanted to punish the #Warriors for hubris, seems like they could have picked on someone other than Klay Thompson, who seems to be one of the nicer guys in the NBA. Wishing him the best.

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And on a lighter note this ESPN headline – “New York Knicks create $40M in cap space by parting ways with six players.”

Is this the modern day NBA equivalent of moving deck chairs on the Titanic?

-Watching networks covering Rudy Giuliani press conferences is increasingly like watching sports programs only showing NASCAR wrecks.

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I don’t EVER want to hear anyone call Hillary Clinton a sore loser ever again.

Rudy Giuliani’s press conference Thursday included the most embarrassing hair product fail since “There’s Something about Mary.”

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In all seriousness, if you were going to look for voter fraud seems like a likely place to look would be wealthy people who really live elsewhere but who register using what is clearly a second home in Florida.

It’s not just that we’re now losing more than half the number of Americans who died on 9-11 every day. It’s as if an American President, after 9-11, said to ignore any future airport security and anti-terrorist measures because terrorism’s “going to disappear.”

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Btw, while it’s a tough competition, if you have any questions as to who might be the most delusional and dangerous members of Congress, just go on Twitter, and watch who Donald retweets.

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If Democrats were as evil and all powerful as Trump team now wants to pretend we are, don’t you think we’d have managed to change enough votes to get rid of Mitch McConnell? Or at least changed votes in enough Senate races to take his gavel?

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How did Trump lawyer Sidney Powell ever pass the bar? Asking for an incredulous country.

Raiders now have 11 players on the reserve/COVID-19 list as they prepare to host Kansas City Chiefs Sunday. So what happens in Vegas stays off the field in Vegas?

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As Texas COVID-19 cases sky rocket. While I know this Gregg has no interest in running for office, but how wonderful would it be for the state, and the country overall, if the state could replace Greg Abbott as Governor with Gregg Popovich.

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NFL says they are investigating Antonio Brown’s allegedly destroying surveillance camera & throwing bike at a security-guard shack in Florida, 2 weeks before Bucs signed him. Well, not like Tom Brady’s new hand-picked WR did anything really bad like wear his socks too low.

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Has it occurred to COVIDiots that even a 100% effective vaccine won’t do much good if they are like, you know… dead?

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This just for my Harry Potter fan friends and readers – When is Velveeta Voldemort going to run out of horcruxes?

Mary Trump makes a great point tonight on CNN. Donald will not go to Mar-A-Lago, not because he’s doing anything important in the White House, but because he cannot bear club members sympathetically treating him like the loser after he did indeed lose.

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Jon Ossoff talking about David Perdue’s refusal to debate him: “He seems to be having some issues with self-confidence.”

Amazed Ossoff didn’t add “Bless his heart.”

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Does GSA’s Emily Murphy realize whatever she’s being promised, Donald Trump will disavow her as soon as he has no more use for her?

And, I am generally against being catty on appearances, but Emily doesn’t have the looks for Fox News.

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If Emily Murphy is having a breakdown seems like a simple solution would be to just sign the transition papers for President-elect Joe Biden and take some time off. You’re welcome.

Considering how many people were apparently infected at Donald’s super spreaders rallies, if we’re worried about dead people voting maybe we should check obituaries for MAGA types who voted absentee before they got sick?

Kayleigh McEnany attacked health experts saying Americans shouldn’t gather in large groups on Thanksgiving. “We don’t lose our freedom in this country. We make responsible health decisions as individuals.” Love to see Kayleigh try that on cop pulling her over after a few drinks

Since media seems obsessed with the need to cover several tweets a day from POTUS, is there a place I can apply for a job to help President-Elect Joe Biden by regularly tweeting out pictures of cats and kittens under his Twitter handle?