Left Coast Sports Babe

Prohibited from playing in Canada, the Blue Jays are looking for a “major league ballpark” this season. Well, closest MLB city to Toronto’s spring training home in Dunedin is St. Petersburg.   But “major league ballpark?”    Don’t think Tropicana Field qualifies.

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Still think it’s a longshot that MLB makes it through this shortened season. But I admit I look forward even briefly to being incensed for a change about balls and strikes… and the abomination that is the Designated Hitter.

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The Blue Jays have been denied permission to play MLB games at home in Toronto this year, because the Canadian government feels travel back and forth across US border is too risky. Ladies and gentlemen, we are officially a sh*thole country.

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For those saying we can’t call them the Toronto Blue Jays if they play in Buffalo, not like either the Jets or Giants play in New York.

Lindsey Graham was out golfing with Donald Trump this morning. “What profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?” – But for golf?

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Let’s be honest, some of the Republicans praising John Lewis today would be on the wrong side at the Edmund Pettus Bridge.

Maybe we shouldn’t be that hard on Marco Rubio posting a picture mistaking Elijah Cummings for John Lewis. Many of us Democrats have at times mistaken Marco Rubio for a Republican with a soul.

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How much must Trump be seething? Mary Trump beat him on book sales AND ratings. And now John Lewis’s death has knocked Donald’s regular rants out of the headlines.

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If you’re in the media still talking about Kanye’s campaign stunt while largely ignoring Joe Biden you might be part of the problem.

Going to keep reminding people of this: “A poll conducted on July 21 and 22 of 1988 found that Dukakis had expanded the size of his lead over Bush to 17 points.” Hope for a landslide. Work like it will come down to a single vote:

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Can you name Secretary of State in your state? Because she/he fundamentally controls elections. In 2000 Katherine Harris, George W’s election co-chair, was Florida SOS. In 2018 Brian Kemp was Georgia SOS. State & local races matter.

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Trump last night held Wisc. “telephonic” rally. “We’re doing really well w/ therapeutics & vaccines, but until that gets solved going to be tough to have big massive rallies…we’ll do it by telephone.” Meanwhile, children need to go back to school? Once again, Pro-life my a**.

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Wonder how Trump would feel if a leader in Europe bragged to his/her constituents that they saved lives by instituting a “USA travel ban?”

Rough times for ESPN these days. But on a brighter note, at the Memorial Tournament, Tiger Woods made the cut by one stroke.

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I’m so old I remember when headline “Yasiel Puig testing positive” would have caused SF Giants fans to chortle about him being a cheater.

John Lewis’s legacy will be love. Donald Trump’s legacy will be hate. “Which side are you on? Which side are you on?”

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John Lewis wouldn’t want flowers.
John Lewis would want us to vote.

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Not sure this “Sleepy Joe” nickname is a smart move for Trump.   Right about now most Americans would take “We can sleep at night Joe.”

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Mary Trump tonight with Chris Cuomo on Donald’s calling her “a mess.” “I believe he’s said the same thing about Nancy Pelosi, and I’m fine with that.”

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Reports are that “The Art of the Deal” has sold about 1.1. million copies total. Mary Trump has sold more copies of “Too Much and Never Enough” in two days.

And beyond that,  Thursday’s  The Rachel Maddow Show” at 9 p.m. ET, with Mary Trump interview, was the #1 program in total viewers across all of broadcast and cable television. It was also the show’s highest-rated hour in history and the highest rated regularly scheduled show ever on MSNBC.

Do not share this information, it will really upset Donald Trump.

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Mike Pence “This election isn’t about liberal vs. conservative, left vs. right: “It’s about whether America remains America,” whether it continues to respect the country’s “highest ideals.”

When VP Pence is right, he’s right.  Vote Joe Biden to save America.

COVID-19 case totals, and death totals keep rising in US. What’s next – GOP will demand cause of death on death certificates be marked “Hoax?”

Open note to America: If RBG can continue to work saving democracy on the Supreme Court while undergoing chemotherapy for cancer, then you can bleeping survive going outside of your house while wearing a mask. Thank you.

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Meanwhile, as the mask wars rage on, can all these red state governors saying it’s your life and your choice please remember that the next time there’s legislation regarding women’s health?

Washington Nationals home opener may be postponed as DC has required quarantine of 14 days for ANYONE exposed to COVID-19, including players. Nats might be able to use spring training facility in West Palm Beach, maybe in lieu of hotel Trump will offer them use of Mar-A-Lago?

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Kayleigh McEnany’s line about reopening schools, “The science should not stand in the way of this.” might be the most perfectly defining Trump administration quote ever.

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Press Secretary Barbie says Trump’s COVID-19 response is “historic.” So was the voyage of the Titanic.

Georgia Governor Brian Kemp is now suing to block Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms’ COVID-19 restrictions and mask mandate. It’s not enough that Kemp suppressed black votes in in 2018. Now he’s trying to kill black voters in 2020.

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Nancy Pelosi, talking about COVID-19 response, says Trump is “like the man who refuses to ask for directions.” Uh, not only does Donald refuse to ask for directions, he’s the man who screams at the Google maps voice that she is wrong.

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Can anyone imagine what GOP would have done if Barack Obama posted a picture of himself on Twitter with a jar of Grey Poupon mustard?

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How much is it killing Trump that his niece Mary on Rachel Maddow is going to have some of the highest ratings of the year?

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Mary Trump tells Maddow she’s heard Donald use anti-semitic slurs and the N word. “This shouldn’t surprise anyone given how virulently racist he is today.” Trump’s going to be even more upset when someone tells him what “virulently” means.

Seriously, wouldn’t it have been a bigger shock if Mary Trump said her uncle Donald never used racial slurs?

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For those wondering why Trump supporters haven’t abandoned him – well, if they only watch Fox News – “Gov. Kemp sues Atlanta to block mandatory mask rule, saying local leaders want to ‘undermine economic growth.” For some reason not a word about Georgia’s RECORD hospitalizations.

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Georgia recall law requires just “Valid signatures of 15% of voters in last preceding election for the office of incumbent being recalled.” Now with 2018 voter suppression, by my math that’s only about 600,000 signatures. How about it Georgia?

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Sadly, serious sociopaths are incapable of feeling guilt or admitting they are wrong. That explains Trump. What about the 198 GOP House members and 53 GOP Senators? Not to mention Donald’s Cabinet.

Wednesday, tonight, which would have been the day after MLB All-Star break, after NBA and NHL playoffs, before NFL and college football games started, has long been a black hole on the calendar for sports fans.
I’m never going to complain about ONE day without real sports again.

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Current reports that city Philadelphia will decry that Eagles games will not be able to have fans in attendance. But to give the team a sense of normalcy will they be allowed to pipe in boos?

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Mexico announced Tuesday that “after checking the rise of the COVID-19 spread” they were closing the border with US for non-essential traffic until Aug 21. Does this count as “building that wall?”

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Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt was at Trump rally June 20, says it was too long ago probably for him to have gotten COVID-19 there.

BUT, someone who works with Stitt could have gotten it at rally, then passed it to him, or to a friend or colleague who passed it to him.   See how this exponential stuff works?

Who had Alabama and Walmart respecting science more than President of the United States in the 2020 bat-shit crazy pool? Now all you liars put your hands down.

July polling: 55% want Biden, 38% want Trump No, wait, that’s July 1988 (!) polling. 55% Dukakis over 38% Bush. Hope for a landslide Work like it will come down to a single vote. 

Trump must have been really upset with Brad Parscale to fire him almost 48 hours before Friday night.

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New Trump campaign manager Bill Stepien’s Wikipedia page: he “managed both Chris Christie’s gubernatorial campaigns & was Deputy Chief of State before being fired in 2014 after Christie said he “lost confidence in his judgment.”

So Bill got hired w/o him or WH scrubbing Wikipedia? Good start.

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Atlanta mayor Keisha Lance Bottom on CNN saying  Trump broke city law by not wearing a mask. #LockHimUp

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Washington Post reports Trump’s new U.S. postmaster general ordered the agency to leave mail behind at distribution centers if it delayed letter carriers. Can they start by delaying packages from the Trump Store and Trump Campaign Store?

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It couldn’t be more perfect on the day Trump spoke on infrastructure that he hires as his campaign manager former Chris Christie manager Bill Stepien, the man whose claim to infamy is shutting down a bridge. #BridgeGate

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In Georgia, where COVID-19 cases are rising, local mask mandates have been ‘suspended’ tonight by Gov. Brian Kemp’s executive order. Don’t forget Amy Klobuchar back in debates – “My friend Stacey Abrams would be governor of Georgia right now if it wasn’t for voting violations.”

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Donald Trump isn’t worth a hill of Goya beans. Pass it on.

Ex-football coach Tommy Tuberville won Alabama GOP primary. In 1999 Auburn WRer Clifton Robinson pleaded guilty to misdemeanor after being charged with raping 15-yr-old girl, Tuberville suspended him 1 game: Once again – “Vote Doug Jones so you don’t have to hide your daughters?

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WNBA Atlanta Dream owner Sen. Kelly Loeffler, “Sports have the power to unite us, but WNBA has embraced BLM — a radical movement that seeks to destroy American principles.”

The Atlanta Dream roster is 12.

Two players are white.

This will end well.

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But hey, GOP Senators who’ve hitched their wagon to Donald Trump’s “star.” Jeff Sessions was 1st to do so in 2016. Never turned on Trump, he simply and rightly recused himself from Russia investigation. Look how well his loyalty has been repaid.

WTAF? I honor the idea that you keep minor children out of politics. And then this  Donald Jr tonight tweeted “In all fairness, Joe Biden is not capable of debating Barron Trump let alone Donald Trump.”

Jeff Sessions had basically what amounted to a  lifetime Senate job, endorsed Trump, ended up AG for less than 2 yrs. Thomas More said of Richard Rich, who perjured himself & got More executed, to become AG of Wales. “It profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world, but for Wales?

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Phrase that used to be rhetorical “Would it kill you to go to the party?”

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Florida governor Ron DeSantis says COVID-19 cases are “starting to stabilize.” Well, the Titanic did stabilize when it hit the ocean floor.

Just maybe, if you can’t decide whether or not you are worried about electing a 77 year old man like Joe Biden, maybe you can focus on having a 87 year old SCOTUS judge like Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

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If Trump thought doctors and scientists were lying about COVID-19 he wouldn’t get tested every day. He just needs his cult members to believe they’re all lying so he can get reelected. Period.

Trump opens Rose Garden press conference by saying “Americans are feeling good.” 136,000 Americans were unavailable for comment.

Redskins are apparently going to retire name from the team  Monday.  (Maybe by the time people read this.)   It’s a start.

Now in 112 days can we  retire Trump name from the White House.

I’m so old I remember when the person who engendered the most bipartisan hatred in Washington D.C. was Dan Snyder.

Meanwhile, the Atlanta Braves  said in a letter to season ticket holders “”As it relates to the fan experience, including “the chop”, it is one of the many issues that we are working through with the advisory group. ”

(In all seriousness, is there ANYONE, outside Atlanta, and Tallahassee, home of Florida State, where the Seminoles originated the idea, who would miss “the chop?”

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Saw that a Trump supporter has started a campaign to buy Goya products to donate to food pantries. I’m all in favor of donations to food pantries… but is the idea that this is Hispanic food that Trump supporters won’t eat themselves?

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US Surgeon General Jerome Adams, who won’t call for an Executive Order or federal rules on masks “If we are going to have a mask mandate we need to understand that works best at the local & state level.” So is Adams saying we should get rid of federal seat belt & DUI rules too?

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Betsy Devos says “schools should have plans.” Uh, the maiden voyage of the Titanic had a plan.

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If Betsy Devos is so sure it’s safe for kids to go back to school, including in Florida, why doesn’t she herself at least commit to attending the RNC convention in Jacksonville?

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Chris Christie, asked about Trump commuting Roger Stone’s sentence. “Well, I wouldn’t have done it.” Is that New Jersey speak for being “very troubled?”

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If someone had told Trump soldiers were living monuments would he have at least pretended to care Putin put bounties on them?

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The United Kingdom has had 290,000 COVID-19 cases, and PM Boris Johnson indicates that masks will become mandatory in public indoor spaces. The USA has had more than 300,000 cases in a WEEK, and Donald Trump wants a medal for wearing a mask, once.

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The White House is trying to muzzle Dr. Fauci.

Dr. Fauci has committed two crimes in White House eyes: First, Fauci disagrees with Trump. Second, and worse, Fauci is more popular than Trump.

Hard to believe, but not only have we missed much of the scheduled MLB season, July 12 was supposed to be the last game before the All-Star break.

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NHL is going to try to resume play with 24 teams in early August. And for safety the league is going to do it with all games in CANADA. (Toronto and Edmonton.) Ladies and gentlemen, we are officially a “sh*thole country.”

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Per Washington Post, “At University of Washington, in Seattle, at least 155 of school’s 1,100 fraternity members have tested positive for the coronavirus… And there was a time when we thought “Animal House” gave frats a bad reputation.

Your reminder, as Kayleigh McEnany just claimed Trump has “absolute immunity” like a monarch, that we ARE coming up on Bastille Day…. “Allons enfants de la patrie…”

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If you’re too young to know who Eliot Richardson was, google him. America needs another Eliot Richardson. Instead we have Bill Barr.

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In January 2017, Susan Collins had a 67% approval rating in her state, one of the highest of any politicians. Now she’s about 36%. She threw away 31% of Maine residents. And for what?

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Trump ranting today so much in favor of Michael Flynn and Roger Stone you’d think they were Confederate statues.

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So while Trump visited veterans for a photo op at Walter Reed this afternoon wonder if he found time to “ace” another cognitive test?

Anyone but me thinking all these headlines “Trump wearing mask” are the media equivalent of some parents thinking their toddler should get a trophy for pooping in his potty chair?

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Yep and more headlines over Trump’s finally wearing a mask at a hospital for soldiers than there were about his ignoring Russian bounties on those same soldiers.

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Wish one of these wounded troops at Walter Reed would ask Donald Trump how many pieces of silver he sold them out for?

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Also lost in the excitement about Trump wearing a mask, was the fact he AGAIN repeatedly personally attacked the forewoman of the jury in Roger Stone’s trial. Threatening jurors IS a crime. Add it to the list.

Finally you all do know that if Trump hadn’t worn a mask there’s no way Walter Reed Military Hospital would have let him in, right?

It was only about four months ago when I and other SF Giants fans were depressed at the thought of watching Madison Bumgarner trying to get Buster Posey out…

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Umpire Joe West is not afraid of COVID-19 “‘Look, most of these people that they’re reporting are dying are not healthy to begin with….I don’t believe in my heart that all these deaths have been from the coronavirus”
Sounds like West is as much an expert on medicine as he is on calling balls and strikes.

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On a lighter note, with college football moving towards only conference games in 2020, if a season happens at all, rumors are Notre Dame might have to join the ACC.
Who cares? Well, the Fighting Irish have a huge contract with NBC through 2025 to televise all their home games, for millions of dollars per game. and as an independent they don’t have to share ANY of the money. Conference teams have to share TV $$$ in conference….

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If we’re going to bet on sports should we bet on what major professional sports league decides to give up on their 2020 season first?

Am a really strong believer in mean bitch Karma. But she’s building up a helluva long to-do list.

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CEO of Goya Foods, facing calls for a boycott after he praised Trump, says “It’s suppression of speech, I’m not apologizing!’

Uh, no, it’s not suppression of speech, it’s the free market and free choice. And millions of Americans are just choosing now not to buy Goya’s products.

(and yeah, last year I had just discovered their really good hot taquera salsa. no more. #Priorities)

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Kayleigh McEnany said Trump won yesterday’s Supreme Court 7-2 decision. So who took Press Secretary’s Math SAT’s to get her into Harvard?

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Remember those days being a kid when you would dig and wonder if you could hypothetically dig far enough to come out on the other side of the Earth? That’s kind of how I feel when I hear people ask “How low can Trump go?”

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Today, after flying from DC to Miami, Donald Trump FLEW Air Force One to Ft. Lauderdale for a fundraiser.  Miami to Ft. Lauderdale.  On a 747.  About 30 miles it’s like flying from JFK to Newark. Or from National Airport in DC to Dulles. Why did Donald need private time on the plane? And why isn’t this a bigger story?

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Biden wasn’t my preferred candidate either in 2020 Presidential Primary. But for all those who’ve said they’d rather die than vote for Joe…. we’re getting close to that being the choice.

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Joe Biden could make a gaffe every day in the middle of 5th Avenue and should not lose any supporters.

40 hospitals in Florida already have run out of room in their ICUs. Maybe as Disney World reopens they can figure out a way to help the state issue “Fast-Passes” for hospitalization?

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Scary. Florida finally relented & released hospitalization data: 6,991 COVID-19 patients in Florida’s hospitals, Miami-Dade County, where Trump’s Doral is located, tops chart w/ 1,578 COVID patients. Scarier: There are 10 counties for which there is NO data reported at all

Uh, open note to Washington football team considering a name change. You all do know that @warriors   on Twitter is already taken, right?

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At least when  Biden takes over in 2021 perhaps it won’t be so pejorative to refer to a team as “Washington.”

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Meanwhile,  as the Big Ten and possibly other conferences move away from non conference games, look for Alabama to ask for an emergency proclamation to have “Tennessee-Martin” declared an honorary SEC member.

(No joke the Tennesse-Martin Skyhawks are on the Crimson Tide’s schedule for November 14, 2020.

Been a heck of a week. So who is Donald Trump going to fire this Friday night?

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Doug Ducey says Trump phones him so often the Arizona Governor changed his ringtone to “Hail to The Chief” for when Donald calls. Uh, paging campaign staff for Arizona Senate Candidate Mark Kelly,  I think I have an ad idea for you.

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Trump on Hannity said he “actually took” a cognitive test at Walter Reed and “I aced the test.” Wonder if Donald though of having Joe Shapiro take the test for him?

Just thinking, one sign of failing a cognitive test at Walter Reed might be forgetting that you didn’t want to admit to having taken a cognitive test. 

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Arizona COVID-19 cases already at record levels, But remember this about Trump’s Phoenix rally on June 23. It was 3,000 mostly college students! Which means some might get really sick, more will end up asymptomatic/mildly symptomatic spreaders. And they don’t believe in masks.

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“Both of Trump’s SCOTUS appointees, Kavanaugh and Gorsuch, ruled against him.” No punchline, I just like writing that.

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So who’s going to tell Donald he can’t fire the Supreme Court?

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Have been lucky enough to see both Bill Clinton and Barack Obama speak live. Joe Biden isn’t the orator either of those Presidents were. But he doesn’t need to be. President Biden will be just fine. Better than fine.

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GOP officials are looking into moving next month’s RNC convention to an outdoor stadium in Jacksonville. I used to live in Florida. Jacksonville. Outdoors. In August.
That’s the punchline.

As Redskins considers a name change, perhaps they could temporarily become the Washington Republicans? Because if 2020 season happens we’ll know it’s a losing year for them by November.

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Due to the pandemic,  Stanford is cutting 11 of 36 varsity sports.  Sad. Though even as an alum not sure I could have come close to naming all 36 varsity sports.

Okay, I know putting blue fingernail polish on my hands won’t really help #FlipTheSenateBlue. But reminders can’t hurt.

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As the Supreme Court upheld the right of employers not to cover birth control in employee health plans for reason of religious freedom, I must have missed the part of the Bible where it talked about the God-given right to Viagra. 

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Mississippi governor Tate Reeves is now warning anyone who’s had contact with anyone in the Mississippi legislature to get a COVID-19 test. They had an in-person session, no masks. 26 members now positive. 

 So how are those plans for RNC convention in Jacksonville going?

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New Jersey will require masks be worn in public. It being New Jersey, thinking someone’s going to make a lot of money coming up with masks with really smart ass statements on them.

Can Betsy Devos and Dr. Birx both put a scarf in it?

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Trump fundraising email “The Radical Left (the cancel everything party) will try and keep our schools closed FOREVER.”   Uh, Donald, 130,000 Americans would like to tell you about the real meaning of “FOREVER.”

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All you need to know about Betsy Devos: She was more concerned about the danger to school children from grizzly bears than from COVID-19.

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Trump threatening to withhold federal funds from schools that don’t reopen. So assume every member of Donald’s White House and every GOP member of Congress is sending his/her children and grandchildren to school.

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Karen Pence, 63, is an art teacher at a private Christian school. So is she going back to teach this fall?

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So as people line up for hours to get tested in Arizona, wonder just how many of the best and most expensive COVID-19 tests were used, repeatedly, on Trump, the Secret Service and his acolytes to make sure Dear Leader was safe during his Phoenix vanity rally .

(at taxpayer expense.)

Wow, just saw USA hit 62,000 cases today, (a new record) and close to 1,000 deaths again, highest 2 day total in a month. Missed the Trump tweet taking credit.

If people need to bet one baseball wouldn’t it be more logical to bet on the day the 2020 season gets shut down. As opposed to who a possible World Series winner might be?

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Really rich people have been able to buy their mediocre kids’ way into good universities for decades. And colleges admissions were easier in the 1960s. So just how stupid is Trump that he needed to pay someone to take his SAT for him to get into Wharton?

Trump tonight on Fox News attacks Anthony Fauci “I think we are in a good place. I disagree with him.” Great, can Donald fire Dr. Fauci so Biden can add him to the campaign team? 

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Mary Kay LeTourneau has died of cancer. Which isn’t particularly shocking. But admit to being shocked to see she was actually a little younger than me.

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You know life is surreal when you wait 90 minutes at the DMW for a Real ID and you think how much more competent the whole operation is than the White House.

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Tucker Carlson tonight of Tammy Duckworth – “Keep in mind (she) not a child, at least not technically – she is a sitting US senator, who is often described as a hero Yet Duckworth is too afraid to defend her own statements on cable TV show. What a coward.”
Pass. The. Popcorn.

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John McCain would be defending Tammy Duckworth tonight. And shame on GOP Senators who aren’t.

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But what’s got Donald Trump most upset tonight? Mary’s book? Or the realization he may never be able to come up with a nasty nickname for Tammy Duckworth?

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Forget age as a major factor, if older rich white men with younger wives were dying at a high rate from COVID-19, Trump would have been wearing a mask months ago.

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As Trump administration withdraws from WHO, could someone ask Donald who at WHO really upset him so much – Roger Daltry or Pete Townshend.

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There’s a reason Betsy Devos has lasted so long in the Trump administration. She’s as loathsome as Donald is.

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Two questions I wish a reporter would ask Trump. 1. Would you send your grandchildren to school this fall? 2. Could you name your grandchildren?

PSA: If you feel you really need to be seen without a mask, please rewrite your will to request an open casket.

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56 Florida ICUs have hit capacity under Governor Ron DeSantis’s lack of leadership.  I miss the days when Florida Man was only a danger to himself.

If MLB season gets started Dodgers & Giants will play 10 times in first 33 games. Translation, the league wanted as many rivalry games as possible before it all probably gets shut down.

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Trump now ranting about the Redskins and Indians potential name changes. How long until out of embarrassment Syracuse changes their name from “Orange?”

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Of all the things I expected after Trump was elected in 2016, did not have “Make NASCAR look like the voice of liberal reason.”

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Uh oh, Lindsey Graham  may not get another golf invite: “I don’t think Bubba Wallace has anything to apologize for. You saw the best in NASCAR…they all rallied to Bubba’s side, I’d be looking to celebrate that kind of attitude more than being worried about it being a hoax.”

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Two things. 1. Hated Charlie Daniels’ politics. 2. Loved “Devil Went Down to Georgia.” R.I.P.

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Going to say this again, if you claim to be a strong supporter of a candidate but still trash someone he/she has endorsed, then you really don’t think that much of their judgment.

Kayleigh McEnany “The President said he’s not making a judgment one way or the other.” I’m sorry, if you’re not denouncing the Confederate flag you ARE making a judgment. And the wrong one. Period.

History will be kinder to John Kasich than to Donald Trump and his enablers.

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Trump tweet “Corrupt Joe Biden and the Democrats don’t want to open schools in the Fall for political reasons, not for health reasons! ” So are Donald and GOP members of Congress all sending THEIR kids to school?

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Waiting for Nepotism Barbie to defend her father’s tweet by saying she and Jared are sending their kids to school this fall….

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One of the worst things about Trump and Confederate flag/statues, you know Donald isn’t a Southerner and doesn’t give a damn about either of them. But he’s using Confederacy symbols as an evil dog whistle to his racist base.

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Katie Miller is married to Stephen Miller and is now pregnant. Presume it would be inappropriate to make references to “Rosemary’s Baby.” 

This week in Washington DC may finally bring Redskins name being taken off the NFL team A hopeful precursor to Trump name being taken off the White House.

Whatever gets decided on the potential Redskins name change, figure it’s a slam dunk at this point. Not just the mood of the county, but in a year where NFL teams might not be able to sell tickets, a new name will probably make merchandise for Washington DC’s team the hottest selling in the league.

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AP reports Rochester NY police say Frederick Douglass statue was taken from its base & damaged Sunday in Maplewood Park, a site along Underground Railroad where Douglas & Harriet Tubman helped slaves escape. Thinking we might wait long time for Trump to condemn THIS statue attack.

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RIP Nick Cordero. Saw him in “The Bronx Tale” just a few years ago. He was 41 years old. Trump is wrong. Wear. A. Mask.

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Also for those thinking they can’t  get COVID-19 from 1 random encounter?

Old birthday math problem: It’s 2 in 365 chance of having same birthday as someone you meet. But with only 23 ppl,   it’s 50-50 chance of at least 2 people having same birthday. In room of 75 it’s 99.9% chance of at least 2 people matching. Wear. A. Mask.

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Seeing a lot of people talking about Joe Biden’s  VP choice needing to be “an experienced campaigner.” Does anyone think we’re going to have anything like a regular campaign experience this fall?

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Hey folks, it’s not that Kanye will get actual votes. Too late for him to be on ballots. But the media will give his BS rants and attacks more attention than they give Biden’s speeches.

1. A vote for anyone but Joe Biden is a vote for Trump. 2. Not voting in November 3 election is a vote for Trump. Any questions?

If we originally called COVID-19 the China Virus because it originated in China, seems fair that we rename it #TrumpVirus because it’s now spreading like wildfire through the US because of Trump.

If you’re young.

Atlanta Braves star Freddie Freeman has COVID-19. Wife says it “hit him like a ton of bricks.  He has “body aches, headaches, chills & high fever.” “He’s someone who never gets sick; hit him like ton of bricks. We haven’t gone to grocery store, we haven’t gone out to dinner, we haven’t seen friends, ..still got it.”

Freeman is 30.

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David Price is sitting out the 2020 season, saying the decision “is in the best interest of my health and my family’s health.” Whatever you think about Price, he’s a graduate of Vanderbilt, one of the top universities in the country, and he is not a stupid man.

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Also, Buster Posey now says he’s considering opting out of MLB’s 2020 season depending how pandemic goes in next couple weeks. Posey was valedictorian of his high school & academic All-American at Florida State. 

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I’m sure our Founding Fathers would be so proud they fought for Independence from a mad King so we could have a mad President spend the day rage tweeting from the White House.

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Oh please oh please can someone ask Trump on camera what he thinks about mobs tearing down the statue of George Hanover in New York City?

July 9, 1776 – George Hanover was also known as King George III.

Your reminder, as Trump continues his COVID-19 lies, including his China travel ban, the EU has lifted their travel ban for residents of 15 countries. China is on the list. USA still banned. So much winning.

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Kimberly Guilfoyle and Don Jr say they will drive back from South Dakota to DC. (Presumably they were going to fly on Air Force One.) Secret service agents overseeing the trip will need to isolate for two weeks. Your tax dollars at work.

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Speaking of American heroes, thinking the first statue President Biden might commission will be a tribute to essential workers who are risking their lives to help us through this pandemic.

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Kanye running for President?! Go home, 2020, you’re drunk.

If you wonder how we got into this nightmare, a simple sentence – Kanye West announcing he is running for President has gotten more attention today than anything Joe Biden has said..

Let me be very very very clear: Any vote for ANYONE not named  Joe Biden is a vote for Trump. Pass it on.

I’m so old I remember when the off-season sports headlines we hated to see were about arrests instead of positive COVID-19 tests.

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Washington Redskins have announced they will conduct “a thorough review of the team name.” Since Nike, FedEx and Pepsi have all indicated they could end relationships with Washington over the current name, presume the review is being done by the team’s accountants.

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Jeffrey Epstein’s friend Ghislaine Maxwell, arrested in New Hampshire, is now awaiting transfer to New York, where she could be held in same Manhattan jail where Epstein died last year. What could POSSIBLY go wrong?

SF Chronicle headline “How to stop a July 4 party from becoming a ‘super spreader’ event.” Real simple. Don’t have a party.

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USA just blew past 57,000 reported COVID-19 cases for the day.   To put this in perspective this is about 1/3 of England’s total cases. FOR THE YEAR.

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As much as I dislike Trump, calling him “Benedict Donald” isn’t accurate. Benedict Arnold at least was actually a competent and successful leader before he defected.

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I know Secret Service agents understood when they took the job they might have to give their lives for Vice President and President. But don’t think “being infected with a potential deadly virus for a vanity rally” was on anyone’s list.

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Wonder how Stephen Miller’s Trump speech tonight sounded in the original German?

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Saw “Abbott Out” trending.  So as far as I can tell, half of Texans want Greg Abbott out because he’s telling people to wear masks, and the other half want him out because he was too late to tell people to wear masks. Who says bipartisan agreement doesn’t exist in this country? 

Trump wants a statue of himself. Can we make it one of those State Fair butter statues? Yellow, fatty and they melt away in the sun.

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Anyone know what drugs was Trump on tonight?

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All these people packed in shoulder to shoulder in 90 degree heat without masks are definitely doing their best to shatter the myth of white supremacy

Must say, not that it cures everything but watching an old episode of the West Wing is not a bad antidote for watching a Trump speech.

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On a day when Don Jr. attacks Biden for gaffes that “show a lapse of basic reasoning,” his girlfriend, who along with him hasn’t been social distancing or wear a mask, tests positive for COVID-19. Somewhere mean bitch Karma is popping a socially distanced cold one.

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Kimberly Guilfoyle reportedly didn’t travel on Air Force One. So how did she get to South Dakota, and how many people did Kimberly expose?

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Kimberly Guilfoyle apparently attended Trump rallies in both Tulsa & AZ. Can we start calling these events what they really are “Taxpayer Funded Vanity Super Spreading?”

Well, I agree with Donald Trump on one thing. “The best is yet to come.” Starting on January 20, 2021. #PresidentBiden

Just wondering, why do we need ANY national anthem before NFL games?

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NFL reportedly going to fine players for conduct detrimental if they are found to have engaged in “reckless” behavior away from the team facility, “such as eating out in restaurants and using ride-sharing services. ”  Well, it’s a good thing we know pro-football players have never engaged in “reckless” behavior in the past.

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As USA blows past 55,000 COVID-19 confirmed cases in a day and likely hits 60,000 this weekend, Rachel Maddow points out that most Americans STILL can’t get tested. So what are our REAL numbers?

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So where have all these COVIDiots anti-mask people been for years as far as protesting places that say “No shirts, no shoes, no service?”

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Epstein’s friend  Ghislaine Maxwell arrested in New Hampshire. I’m so old I remember when worrying about harm coming to important suspects in custody in USA was only a thing on “24” episodes.

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Maybe it’s just me but having Trump & Pence fly around US, leaving little COVID-19 clusters in their wake, along with infected Secret Service agents, might not be the best way for Donald’s reelection campaign to show Americans the pandemic is over?

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Looking through the rules for 7,500 ticket holders to Trump’s vanity fireworks rally at Mount Rushmore. One of the prohibited items is “firearms.” So what about Donald’s beloved 2nd Amendment?

Trump had “a group of over 50 surrogates to campaign on behalf of President Trump” at Tulsa rally. Group included: Sen. James Lankford, Sen. Tom Cotton, Rep. Jim Jordan. Herman Cain, Diamond & Silk, & Terrence K. Williams.

And Herman Cain now has COVID-19 When he decided to go to the rally why didn’t someone tell him Nein, Nein, Nein?

My better angels are telling me I better not say any more on this one.

Trump tweeted “There is a rise in Coronavirus cases because our testing is so massive and so good, far bigger and better than any other country. This is great news.” “Great news?” The President of the United States is insane. Pass it on.

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Supported Barack Obama from when he was thinking about running in 2006 through both of his terms. But how lovely was it to go days without being concerned what POTUS might have said on Twitter?

While Tammy Duckworth  may not be an exciting speaker, she’s impressive, would pass “Day 1” ready test and it’s really hard to imagine what if any attacks could be used against her as Biden’s running mate. Just saying.

And meanwhile, Sen. Duckworth to block more than 1,000 military promotions unless Pentagon vows not to retaliate against Lt. Col. Vindman.    Three words – You. Go. Girl.

ESPN reports that operating the three-month completion of the NBA season in a bubble Walt Disney World Resort will cost the NBA more than $150 million.   And what fraction is $150 million of the TV revenue the league will get for those three months?

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Does Trump still think he can treat COVID-19 like a porn star – pay it to go away?

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Starting on Sept 7, 1940 London was bombed by Luftwaffe for 56 of following 57 days & nights.
And some Americans couldn’t go 57 days without going to a bar?

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So now Donald basically is saying he could let Russia shoot troops in the middle of 5th Avenue and not lose supporters?

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WTF alert – I understand that ads are designed in advance but today’s Safeway ad features large “Grab N’ Go” party appetizer trays? (Including shareable spinach dip in a giant bread bowl. Yeah, right.)

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Molly Ivins would be only 76 if she were still alive. I think I’d be waking up every morning now both in fear of her contracting COVID-19 in Texas, and in awe of what she’d be writing.

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When Trump travels to Mar-A-Lago, Air Force One lands at PBI- Palm Beach International Airport, which is closest to West Palm Beach. Mayor of West Palm Beach is Keith James, a Democrat. Who’s with me on getting “Black Lives Matter”  painted on PBI tarmac?

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“I don’t agree with being told we can’t do anything. Especially on a holiday where we’re supposed to be celebrating Independence.” Southern California man, not wearing mask near beach complaining on CNN. Sigh. Independence and Ignorance start and end with the same letters….

Chuck Grassley: “The more empathy the president can show, the more he’s going to go up in the polls.” Trump showing empathy is as likely as SF Giants fans showing love to the Dodgers.

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Forget the fact that the Lone Ranger’s mask was around his eyes, not his nose and mouth. If Trump thought he looked good in a mask you’d never see him without one. Period.

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Today Trump finally said “I’m all for masks. I think masks are good.” How long until Donald says he was one of the first to support the need for masks and anyone who says otherwise is “Fake News.”

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Washington Post opinion piece attacked Joe Biden for being in favor of penalties for burning US flag back in 1989. Uh, back in 2009, Trump was a Democrat.

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Polls show Montana Governor Steve Bullock leading in the state’s Senate race. One of many reasons I like him – Steve didn’t want to run for Senate. Democrats asked him to run, because Bullock was our best chance. And he finally agreed.
Being a team player matters. #TeamJoe

MLB legally can’t identify players who test positive during the pandemic.  But hey, expect that information will remain as confidential as those “anonymous” early MLB steroid tests.

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MLB just announced there will be no Minor League Baseball in 2020. “Who are we, chopped liver?” responded the Mets.

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Trump campaign is so desperate they are running anti-Biden ads on MSNBC?
Isn’t that in a normal year like running an ad for Yankees tickets in Boston?

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On a brighter note if we will all have to keep wearing masks indefinitely it’s going to be a lot easier to find presents for dads this year for Christmas that aren’t ties or socks.

So how long until Trump tweets an attack on Mississippi for abandoning the Confederate flag?

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Trump actually tweeted about Donna Brazile “She gets fired by CNN forr giving Crooked Hillary the debate questions, and gets hired by Fox News.   Where are you Roger Ailes?” Another sad symptom of dementia I remember from my mother – talking to dead people.

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Speaking about Donald Trump today “He sprays a mask on his face every day for vanity, but an actual mask that would protect other people, that he will not do.” Anderson Cooper has no more f*cks to give. And I am so here for it.

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Remember Christine “I am not a witch” O’Donnell? Lauren Boebert, who just won GOP primary in Colorado 3rd district makes O’Donnell look reasonable by comparison.

A virtual fundraiser for GOP Senator Martha McSally in Arizona featured McSally and George W. Bush. Along with GOP Senators Susan Collins (ME) , Thom Tillis (NC), and Cory Gardner (CO)
“Siri, tell me five people who won’t have a job next January.”

As someone who has been going to bars since I was 16 (yeah, statute of limitation has passed on that one), & who loves & misses the conviviality of a good bar, WTF are y’all thinking? Instead of “Bar Lives Matter,” more honest slogan should be “We’re dying for a drink.”

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So at these “Bar Lives Matter” places, are they doing 2 for 1 Happy Hour prices on bleach cocktails?