Left Coast Sports Babe

At least USA didn’t sneak into World Cup.   As when they would no doubt be eliminated in first round no doubt Trump would have started a trade war at the very least with their opponent.

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And didn’t we all have Hunter Pence as the walk off in 11 innings  hero for today’s SF Giants  game?

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Marco Rubio told CNN he doesn’t think Trump will change his behavior. So when will Senator Rubio change HIS?

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\On “Fox and Friends” former Trump deputy campaign manager told Dem strategist Joel Payne he was out of his “cotton-picking mind.” Payne is black.
The best people….

Except that it was written by a gay man “I Just Can’t Wait to Be King” would be Trump’s anthem.

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Ted Cruz better hope he never chokes at lunch in the Senate.

In 2018, it’s not that Democrats need to change minds on party, it’s simply that we need to change minds from “non-voter” to “voter.”

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Would really love to see how many people, including Trumpers, are certain they have NEVER personally hired an undocumented immigrant for anything?
And guessing most of them will be wrong.

For those trying to say Red Hen and Colorado baker are the same, remember -Sarah Sanders chooses to work for and lie for this President.
People do not choose to be gay.

Mets are 4-16 in June. Mets fans are going “We won 4 games?”

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How long until the chants change from “Let’s Go Mets” to “Please Go Mets?” #Mets

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It took the 51-27 Astros 12 innings Saturday to beat the 23-53 Royals.  Arew we sure that win shouldn’t have an asterisk?

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Timing is everything. Have to assume millions more Americans would be following World Cup if Supreme Court had legalized sports betting sooner.

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Germany and Mexico both won Saturday in World Cup So expect even more cranky tweets than usual from Trump.

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Hank Aaron on whether he would visit White House: ‘There’s nobody there I want to see’   “Hank Aaron overrated” tweets from Trump in 3.2.1…

At least the Red Hen didn’t serve Sarah Sanders a slice of Minny’s chocolate pie.

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KKKFC #Restaurants4Sarah

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Waiting for Trump to tweet that the Red Hen food isn’t nearly as good as that served at his hotels.

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Sarah Sanders and GOP should be applauding Red Hen restaurant owner for acting on her moral convictions.

So along with thoughts and prayers maybe supporters can send Sarah Sanders cakes from a certain Colorado bakery?

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As a liberal waitress in college I worked a dinner featuring Caspar Weinberger. (along with a lot of Secret Service. )   Decided to serve him politely, even though I disagreed strongly with his views and actions.  I still do. But he was actually very pleasant, asked for “tea if it wasn’t too much trouble.”

On the other hand, that was my choice.  And if GOP is going to trumpet the individual freedom to refuse to serve someone…well then perhaps they should respect individual decisions.

(Considering number of both LGBT & undocumented workers in industry & what I remember from experience behind the scenes have to figure being asked to leave isn’t worst thing that has happened in restaurants to Sarah Sanders.)

#SFGiants postgame Beatles-themed fireworks night tonight. In honor of Strickland breaking his hand on a door are they playing “Fool on the Hill?

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Giants posted a list of the 2018 draft picks they signed. A handful of them were born after January 1, 2000. How did this happen?

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NFL to suspend Jameis Winston for allegedly sexual assaulting a female Uber driver. Someone should have stuck to grabbing crab legs.

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Clayton Kershaw will skip a scheduled rehab start to start against #MetsSaturday. To be fair, pitching against Mets offense IS a rehab start. #Dodgers

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The silver lining about Trump staffers in DC not being able to get dates – at least they won’t be reproducing.

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Prescient about Trump voters? James Baldwin in 1955 – “I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.”

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ICE announced they may seek up to 15,000 beds to detain immigrant families. Can we start calling these detention facilities Trump hotels?

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To be fair, does anyone really think if Trump were separated from his young children that either he or they would have cared?

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Would be too absurd to imagine Melania was told to wear that jacket just to provoke outrage that GOP could then get outraged about. Wouldn’t it?
#ItsJustAJacket #ItsNotJustAJacket

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While we’re focused on pictures, where are the pictures of Americans lining up to apply for jobs picking fruit, working in restaurants, doing construction and delivering pizzas etc now that Trump is deporting immigrants who had had those jobs?

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Under Trump, EVERY day feels like the longest day of the year. #SummerSolstice

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Somehow I missed the Trump press conferences with Parkland and Santa Fe parents #AngelFamilies

Was autographing pictures of murder victims another of those moments Trump became Presidential?

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“AP Fact Check: Trump’s take on immigrant crime off mark.”
Uh, once again, how hard is it to say “He lied”?

No runs allowed in 8 innings and game winning RBI. In Madbum we trust.

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“Baseball is a slow, boring, complex, cerebral game that doesn’t lend itself to histrionics. You “take in” a baseball game, something odd to say about a football or basketball game, w/ the clock running and the bodies flying.” #CharlesKrauthammer. RIP He would have liked Madbum

Meanwhile, Don Mattingly and Dan Straily suspended for throwing at Buster Posey in Marlins SF Giants game Tuesday.
Moral of story – don’t retaliate at superstars. Especially one the Marlins have broken already.

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Argentina and Messi would like to thank Melania Trump and her jacket for making sure they weren’t the most embarrassing story of the day. #WorldCup

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Many worry- about changing minds of Trump supporters. To use baseball analogy, to get more #SFGiants fans you don’t try to convert #Dodgers fans, you try to recruit NEW fans, or those who haven’t cared much about any team in the past.

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Melania’s spokesperson #ItsJustAJacket
Donald  Trump – It was a jab at journalists
Amazing buses can run in DC with all the people Trump has thrown under them?

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GOP apologists trying to make these detention centers seem so luxurious that soon Scott Pruitt will be sending his staff to steal their body lotion.

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Supreme Court ruled states can force retailers to collect sales taxes even if they don’t have a physical presence in the state.
Wait until Trump figures out that means 47 states will now start taxing purchases from Trump Store!

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Trump wants to merge Departments of Labor and Education. Presumably he’ll put Betsy Devos in charge. She knows as little about Labor as she does about Education.

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Back to baseball from Marc Ragovin – “Brewers’ pitcher Adrian Houser threw up twice while on the mound the other day. Gave up a run but completed the inning. Guess you can say he “gutted it out.”

Good news for SF Giants fans. After today team doesn’t need to see Marlins until 2019!

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14 pitch AB for the SF Giants’ Gorkys Hernandez. Brandon Belt has to be thinking “Isn’t that cute.”

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A Phillies fan was slightly injured with a slight facial hematoma Monday night when she was hit by a hot dog launched by the Phillie fanatic.   The team did make sure she didn’t have a concussion,  though she will have a black eye for a while.

What’s particularly newsworthy – the woman will NOT sue. There’s hope for America.

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Stanford star basketball player is going to be a graduate transfer and play at Kentucky next year. “The biggest thing that I wanted was to align both my academic and my athletic interests…”
And he said the first part of that sentence with a straight face.

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Even in tough times, we’ll always have Darwin awards – Tourists on Big Island are getting arrested for taking selfies near lava from Mt. Kilauea

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Who knew Peter Fonda was still alive?

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Trump said he had no authority to stop family separation at the border, now he signed an Executive Order keeping families together. So will he fire himself?

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Now Trump is lauding his “political courage” in reversing his own policy. Courage in what? Disagreeing with one of the voices in his head?

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That moment you’re in such a hurry to fix a PR disaster you created that your team of “best people” misspells separation as “seperation.” #ExecutiveOrder

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Trump on family separation “Ivanka feels very strongly about it. My wife feels very strongly about it. I think anybody with a heart feels very strongly about it.”
Translation, if it were up to me i’d keep them separated. #noheart

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Waiting for Laura Ingrahame to claim that #ExecutiveOrder will disappoint many migrant children by keeping them from summer camp.

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Trump fans at Duluth rally shouting “lock her up.” Confused. Do they mean Kirstjen Nielsen or Sarah Huckabee Sanders?

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Trump just canceled tomorrow’s annual Congressional picnic. Because the optics of lawmakers enjoying a party with their families were too much even for this White House?

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Since Trump is so focused on immigration he could’ve told Duluth supporters he’d pay big $$$ if they moved to Florida at Mar-A-Lago so he doesn’t have to hire all those foreign temp workers….

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If Trump REALLY cared about immigration problem he could stop most of it in ONE day. Start arresting & JAILING people who hire undocumented workers, including for child care, gardening, restaurant work, housework….

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So as Trump pretends to fix the crisis he created, how does he propose reuniting the families he’s already broken apart, and can DHS even find the kids?

Hunter Strickland clearly needed to pay more attention to Lebron James. Who apparently figured out a way to hit a wall and only cause an injury he could play through.

Meanwhile this Marlins SF Giants series is about one more hit batter from being on Pay-Per-View.

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I miss the times when Gregg Popovich finally meeting with Kawhi Leonard would have been the most intriguing story of the day.

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In Turkey, father of NBA player Enes Kanter has been charged with “membership in a terror group.” Kanter has spoken out against the Turkish President. So how long until Trump again praises Erdogan?

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Note to @realDonaldTrump – Insects and animals infest. People do not infest. Unless we are talking about you and your people in the White House.

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Trump “to prosecute the parents for coming in illegally, which should happen, you have to take the children away.”
So is that how he keeps Melania complicit, by threatening to take Barron?

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How has GOP gone from “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down that wall” to holding children hostage to build our own wall?

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To be fair, given his relations with most of his own children, maybe Trump convinced himself he was almost doing parents a favor by taking their kids away.

So if an immigrant girl is raped at a detention center and gets pregnant, assume Trump and GOP will force her to have the baby so they can deport it?

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While Manafort sits in jail, Trump’s campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski clearly is making a strong pitch for Trump to adopt him.

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The gaslighting begins again from #FoxNews “President backs House immigration bills that ‘solve’ family separation crisis, WH says after GOP meeting
What happened to “you break it you bought it?”

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So if this family separation nightmare finally ends assume @realDonaldTrump will take all the credit and blame Democrats for causing it. And Fox News will agree with him.

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Fox News saying Trump trying to solve the immigration crisis is like saying arsonist has shown up at the scene of a 5-alarm blaze with a bucket.

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Trump and GOP trying to tie reuniting children with parents to a border wall? “Terrorist” – noun – a person who uses unlawful violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims.

Red-hot Nationals rookie Juan Soto debuted on May 20. Today in continuation of a May 15 interleague game against NY, he hit a 2 run game winning homer. So the hit and RBI count before his actual first game..AND against the Yankees?!   Amazed MLB didn’t somehow disallow it.

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For baseball fans, remember there are many players, including stars, Puig, Chapman, Cespedes, Abreu -, who fled Cuba like these immigrant families are doing and were given asylum. If they couldn’t play baseball they too would have been arrested and separated from children. –

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Nine leads lost for SF Giants against Marlins in 5 games. But who’s counting?

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ESPN reports FIFA opened disciplinary proceedings against Mexico for alleged anti-gay chants by fans during World Cup win over Germany.
Was this an attempt by Mexico to curry favor with Trump and GOP?

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I disliked Rudy Guiliani  less when all his sentences were just “a noun, a verb, and 9-11.”

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On a lighter note, not a serious soccer fan but when is the Queen going to knight Harry Kane?

Can someone tell @realDonaldTrump we already have a #SpaceForce and it’s led by Michael Jordan?

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Who’d a thunk we’d miss Reagan’s “Star Wars?

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1962 -“We choose to go to the Moon in this decade & do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard…”
2018 “In defending America, it is not enough to merely have an American presence in space, we must have American dominance in space,”
#Progress?

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How long until the only made-in-China products that Trump doesn’t slap tariffs on are clothes made by him and Ivanka?

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“Boarder security?” Is Trump ranting about AirBnb now?

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Ann Coulter is not doing a very good acting job in pretending to be a human being.

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Trump continues to rant on MS-13 gangs, but if Central and South American families flee from those gangs he puts them in jail and separates the children..

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As awful as separating children from parents is, almost have to wonder with Trump, does he think this is distracting us from something worse?

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I know some “progressive” Dems aren’t thrilled with Senator Feinsteinn, but she IS the one who introduced legislation to prevent DHS from taking children from their parents at the border. And now all other Dems have signed on. Well played, Dianne

Mexico beat Germany in World Cup.  Maybe Trump will now think he can get Angela Merkel to pay for the wall?

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SF Giants looked REALLY wrong in blue Father’s Day hats down in Los Angeles.  Until they won a game by scoring 4 runs, more than they’ve scored in one game in a couple years at Dodger stadium.  So maybe they can keep the caps… #Priorities

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Considering that US Open champion Brooks  Koepka ended up 1 over par, seems like the real winner this weekend was the Shinnecock Hills golf course.

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So after Yankees’ Tanaka gets injured running bases suddenly MLB wants to make both leagues use the DH?  By that token since a line drive broke Bumgarner’s hand, baseball should forbid pitchers from fielding.

Lord Ivar Mountbatten, Queen Elizabeth’s third-cousin was the first member of the Royal Family to have a gay wedding this weekend.  Unless you count Elton John.  God Save the Queen.

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Maybe reason @realDonaldTrump doesn’t care much about #FathersDay is that it reminds him he can’t date Ivanka?

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To the media. Here are 2 simple words you’ve forgotten with Trump administration: “Lie” – noun or verb. “Liar” – one who lies.
These words also take up less newsprint & airtime than euphemisms. You’re welcome.

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Kellyanne Conway on taking kids away from parents – “As a mother, as a Catholic, as somebody who has a conscience … I will tell you that nobody likes this policy.”
She lost me at “as somebody who has a conscience.” #WTF?

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Steve Bannon, asked about Trump’s repeated lying – “I don’t believe that. I think he speaks in a particular vernacular that connects to people in this country.”
Who does Bannon think he is, a reporter for the NY Times?

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Several angry tweets from @realDonaldTrump tonight. Sounds like someone didn’t get two scoops with his #FathersDay dinner.

On a weekend that Susan Collins proved a bitter disappointment, Laura Bush showed more gumption than any of her elected male relatives.

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So gangs like MS-13 are the worst monsters who go after children. But if Latin American parents agree and flee their countries, USA must take children away. #TheGospelAccordingToTrump

This isn’t a #USOpen, it’s the golf version of #Survivor.

Anyone but me think the way Shinnecock Hills played today that most pro-golfers are secretly cheering Phil Mickelson? #USOpen

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UNC beat Oregon State 8-6 today in 4 hrs & 24 min, longest game in College World Series history. Who did they think they were? The Yankees & Red Sox?

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Has there ever been tournament in recorded history where a golf ball has followed all the yelled instructions to “Get in the hole?”

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World Cup shocker – Iceland tied Argentina! Of course for many the shocker is that Iceland had a World Cup team.

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A 48-yr-old man pulled over for alleged DUI Thursday allegedly then raised a can of beer and chugged it. Could this have been anywhere else but Florida?

In case you didn’t know – new #LATimes owner is Patrick Soon-Shiong – born in South Africa to immigrant parents who fled from China during Japanese occupation in World War

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“My supporters are the smartest, strongest, most hard working and most loyal that we have seen in our countries history. ”
Uh, it’s “country’s….”

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Amazing to think for millions of Americans that using profanity towards Trump & his family is now more offensive than taking young children away from their families. #AreWeGreatYet?

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White House conversation this week? “Let’s see, angering all our allies may not have been enough to seriously damage US reputation in the world. I know, let’s try defending taking children from parents.”

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Guess I understand why #GOP senators running for re-election might be too cowardly to challenge Trump on separating families.
But those who are retiring? What would it take for a sense of decency?

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So how long until it comes out that someone in Trump family is making big $$$ off of policy of separating families? Trump factories to employ the children? Trump-branded food? Trump tents?

Another reason to hate Trump, as a Spurs fan I miss the days when the most upsetting news of the day would be the rumor that Kawhi Leonard might want to play in Los Angeles.

Can anyone explain to me how Austin Jackson at end of his career can seriously be better 2018 option than Steven Duggar at beginning of his?#SFGiants

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When SF Giants are in a hole in centerfield, maybe time to start Duggaring?

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Not a golfer but if only one  or two players  is under par, maybe it really isn’t “par?”#USOpen

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Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes indicted on federal criminal wire fraud charges after stepping down as CEO of company. If Holmes can avoid prison she’s attractive & disingenuous enough her next job could be at Fox News.

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A tow truck at Frankfurt Airport caught fire while pulling a Lufthansa Airbus, damaging the plane so badly it may be unrepairable. What’s Germany for #WannaGetAway?

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Scott Pruitt now moving to replace an Obama WOTUS (Waters Of The US) rule that protects drinking water for 117 million Americans. Let them drink Perrier?

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Trump reportedly threatened Japanese PM Shinzo Abe he’d send “25 million Mexicans” to Japan during a discussion on immigration.
How? On Trump Air? No wait, they’re out of business…

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Manafort has been sent to jail. Such a harsh punishment for being Trump’s covfefe boy.

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Trump this morning “Manafort has nothing to do with our campaign,”
Right, that’s why he had the title “Campaign Manager.” #WTF?

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Trump on Comey Friday morning “What he did was a terrible thing to the people.” Uh, yes, he helped you get elected.

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Mitch McConnell says Mueller investigation, which started in May 2017 has “gone on too long.”
The Benghzai investigations lasted over two and a half years.

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How long until Trump administration stops a pregnant migrant woman from having an abortion and then takes her baby away when it’s born?

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Trump on Kim Jong Un “He speaks and his people sit up at attention. I want my people to do the same.”
Trump later said he was joking. Two words. Yeah. Right.

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Tiger Woods made a triple-bogey on his first hole today. Does this mean ESPN is likely to give up this weekend’s #USOpen coverage?

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ESPN headline “How the Lakers can land LeBron, Kawhi and Paul George.”
I think I like “How Tiger can win this year’s U.S. Open” better.

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Scott Gregory today with 92 became 1st player in 16 years to shoot over 90 in first round of US Open. Well that’s one way to get Tiger out of the headlines.

Ty Blach is my new pitching hero. 6.2 innings- in 15 inning win for Giants.   And this following Dereck Rodriguez’s 6.2 innings as starter. Two quality starts in one game. More than SF Giants have had in a week.

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Those of us who are superstitious might be upset at Duane Kuiper, who when SF Giants  were up 3-0 early in game suggested that 12n start in Miami meant team would get into LA after cross-country flight relatively early.

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As a public service, could Netflix offer free streaming of the movie “Gaslight?” And fast?!

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All this  supposed Trump focus on the parents of Korean War soldiers. But what about the forgotten victims of the Bowling Green Massacre?

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So Sarah Sanders and Jeff Sessions are using the BIBLE as justification for taking babies from their parents? Uh, don’t think this is what Jesus meant by “suffer the little children.” #WTF?

Angel to Joseph “Get up, take the child and his mother and escape to Egypt. … (Matthew 2:13).
So Sessions and Sanders are saying #Bible said Egyptians should have taken Jesus from his parents.

Remember, anyone who only watches Fox News is not hearing about children taken away from their parents. Fox is focused on Hillary’s emails, and “bombshell” IG report.
Why it’s so important to politely get out of our echo chambers and engage.

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Lewis Black nursery rhyme last night on @TheDailyShow
“Hickory dickory dock, Dear congress stop sucking the NRAs c*ck”
But guessing there won’t be major GOP outrage: A woman comic didn’t say it.

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Finally don’t think Trump gutting Obamacare affects you? One ACA provision said preventive care – mammograms, colonoscopies, blood tests etc, must be covered with no deductible. Even for those with employer-paid insurance
But I’m sure insurers won’t start charging again…

Washington Post says most Washington Capitals players would visit White House if invited. Maybe because most of them aren’t American.

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SF Giants manage to blow 3 leads in one game. 7 leads in series against Miami. Maybe pitchers can’t concentrate in empty stadiums?

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Is it a rule that any time an #SFGiants pitcher walks the leadoff runner they have to score?

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Cincinnati Reds have taken a dispute to Ohio Supreme Court over whether team should pay tax on bobbleheads given to fans attending games.   Giveaways are subject to sales tax but Reds claim don’t have to pay additional tax because they resell the promotional items as part of the ticket package. Heck, with this year’s team the bobbleheads probably have more value than the game.

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That moment in history when #MPRaccoon has more courage than any member of the GOP in Congress.

Good thing #mprraccoon didn’t try to scale the White House. Trump would have probably had it shot as undocumented

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All this talk that #KatieArrington won because she supported Trump. Uh, maybe she won because even conservative GOP women finally had a viable alternative to Mr. Appalachian Trail? #SouthCarolina

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All those people who risked their lives to escape East Germany with Berlin Wall now have to be thanking God someone like Trump wasn’t in charge.

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All the past studies of “confirmation bias” pale in comparison to reality of MAGAers being convinced Trump is on their side and actually Making America Great Again.

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So how punch-drunk do you have to be to tweet an identical insult about Robert DeNiro twice in 24 hours? Asking for a country.

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Of course there’s no chance that Trump White House started fake #SarahSanders resignation story to distract from #MichaelCohen about to be arrested & #PaulManafort about to go to jail….

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Trump pressed by Fox’s Brett Baier on about Kim Jong Un “He has done some really bad things.”
“Yeah, but so have a lot of other people have done some really bad things.” Who’d a thunk we’d miss “kindler gentler nation?”

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Beginning to think if Hitler offered to let Trump build branded hotels and golf course in Nazi Germany, POTUS & Fox News would try to convince Americans that “he’s a tough guy, a lot of people have done bad things.”

On the eternal question of whether higher salaries would get Americans to do jobs now taken by undocumented workers…. some years ago was in Costa Rica touring a Dole banana plant.
It was mostly outdoors, efficient and fascinating. Someone asked, how’s the pay? Our young tour guide laughed and said, pretty good, very good actually, but no Costa Rican wants to do this all day. So all these workers are illegal Nicaraguans….

Looks like Katie Arrington will win South Carolina primary.   But tweet from Trump supporting her over Sanford less than 3 hours before polls closed was like supporting Warriors over Cavs with 3-0 NBA Finals lead.

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Fox News “Pro-Trump firebrand Corey Stewart wins Virginia Senate primary.”
Is “Pro-Trump firebrand” the new Fox term for “white supremacist?

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Why would a President who regularly backs out of deals that predecessors and even he himself has signed expect that Kim Jong Un would do anything different?

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Five primaries today. Meanwhile, in San Francisco they ONLY have 17,000 ballots to count to decide will be mayor. Imagine how long it would take if the city weren’t such a high-tech hub.

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So Judith Nathan, the wife sleeping with Giuliani while he was married to Donna Hanover, is now complaining Rudy was having an affair during end of THEIR marriage. @TheOnion is going, we give up.

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So @POTUS “trusts” Kim Jong Un but thinks “there’s a special place in hell for Justin Trudeau. Beam me up Scotty…

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Seriously have to wonder, is there ANYTHING Trump could do or anyone he could befriend & MAGAers would criticize him for it?

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Question of the night – anybody but me having a hard time understanding why ANY woman would want to sleep with Rudy Guiliani?

And then…  anyone but me think on occasion that if the South wants to secede again US should let them go? And even/especially give them dibs on POTUS?

Both NBA and NHL championship parades on the same day. Well, that’s something that will never happen in New York City.

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So SF Giants put journeyman pitcher Derek Holland against NL East leading Nationals and  probable future Hall of Famer Max Scherzer and win 2-0.   Then they put Madison Bumgarner against the lowly Marlins and  Miami pitcherWei-Yin Chen with an ERA over 5, and lose 5-7.  Baseball is a funny game.

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Thanks to Steve Chapman for this comment last night – ‘Justify turned down an invitation to the White House.

When asked why, the Triple Crown winner said “If I wanted to see a horse’s ass I would have finished second.”

IHOP to IHOB. Because one thing America doesn’t have is enough burger restaurants?

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Jeff Sessions just said that domestic abuse is not reason enough to seek asylum in US. Heck, it’s not even reason enough to be fired from the White House.

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And across American millions of straight men are actually telling their wives and girlfriends “We pre-empted #TheBachelorette for his?” #SingaporeSummit

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Love may made, but the internet is forever.

Maybe after this week US can borrow the title for our dollar coins from Canada – “loonies.”

Hmm, maybe that’s the future Trump coin?

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Bus to hell time.  Maybe God is a #JustinTrudeau fan?  #LarryKudlow

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After G-7 POTUS apparently will ALSO leave North Korea summit early. Guess we shouldn’t be surprised, we knew Trump finishes faster than average from Stormy Daniels.

So all MAGAers thrilled Trump has arranged a meeting with dictator who’s been wanting to be legitimized with a summit for years…
Can see why GOP is afraid of education, it causes Democrats.

So it was Strickland vs  Harper to lead off bottom 9th in DC. Guessing both SF Giants and Nationals wish they had subscribed to show it on pay-per-view.

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But didn’t everyone have SF Giants’  Derek Holland outdueling Washington Nationals’ Max Scherzer?

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The same as everyone had Seth Lugo, normally a Mets reliever, outpitching Yankees ace Luis Severino.

#whyyoudontbetonbaseball

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After his Triple Crown win Justify walked laps in the barn and then was brought outside to meet reporters. ESPN –  “He pricked his ears at the sound of the shutter clicks, and when Baffert led him closer, he playfully bit at one camera.”

“Playfully?”   Written by someone who hasn’t been around a lot of stallions.

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Some complaints now that trainer Bob Baffert’s other horse, “Restoring Hope,” by running second in the Belmont Stakes early prevented other horses from catching Justify. Uh, in a mile and a half race,  plenty of time to go around.

Robert DeNiro “F*ck Trump.” And Stormy Daniels is thinking “Not enough money in the world for me to do it again.

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That moment that President’s top economic adviser thinks Canada is governed by “Pierre Trudeau.” Another stable genius.

Imagine GOP outrage if Robert DeNiro had said that Trump had a perfect smokey eye?

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The real reason Trump is so upset at Justin Trudeau….  

Meanwhile, Melania Trump attended Ford’s Theater Gala in DC tonight. Suppose it would be tacky to joke that finally nice to see a First Lady so happy to walk out of theater without her husband by her side.

Justified….

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Wonder if Justify will get a White House invite after winning Triple Crown. Would be one top athlete guaranteed not to criticize Trump.

On the other hand, he is going to have a lot of out-of-wedlock offspring.

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Masahiro Tanaka apparently injured hamstring scoring on a fly ball from third against Mets. Hank Steinbrenner said NL needs to join 21st century with DH. What about AL needing to join 21st century with keeping pitchers in shape?

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In the San Francisco mayor’s race,  London Breed is now ahead of Mark Leno by 498 votes with ranked-choice voting, 94,771 votes to  94,273.  Per the SF Chronicle, almost 42,000 ballots have yet to be counted.

Imagine if the City WASN’T now one of the high-tech capitals of the world.

#G7Summit dinner tonight had to be like that wedding reception after that relative you HAD to invite leaves early.

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So when Trump left Ottawa who was the first other G-7 leader to say #ByeFeliciaJ

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Trump says US relations with our allies is “a 10.” So would an 8 be all out war?

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Trump will “know within the first minute” on North Korea.
Within the first minute…..somewhere @StormyDaniels is smirking.

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But while we’re talking about the first minute, and touch and feel and all that…. how about Trump’s decisions on…Spiecer, Priebus, Bannon, Gorka, Price, Tillerson,  Ronny Jackson, McMaster…. and that’s not including Sessions, Rosenstein etc who he just WANTS to fire.

Trump does realize that he is setting it up for the next President to undo any deal HE makes?

If there’s a Heaven have to believe Anthony Bourdain is cooking there tonight, but not without a stop in Hell’s Kitchen.

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Anthony Bourdain must have been in incredible pain. But like to think he’d be smiling in that for one day he took headlines from Trump.

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One story I loved about Anthony Bourdain is him writing that as a child he ate food he didn’t think he’d like just to prove to his parents he could. And then he ended up liking much of it. Great attitude to food and life.

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Now it appears as if Lebron James may have played last three games of playoffs with a broken or almost broken hand from slamming a white board after the Cavs game 1 loss.

So besides smart players and a good coach maybe Spurs can offer Lebron padded white boards?

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Someone posted a picture of Gregg Popovich yesterday in New York City….. shopping for books.

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Don’t look now, but the SF Giants, still with 3 starters on the DL,  have somehow staggered their way over .500.

Trump says of NBA champions, before game 4  -“we’re not going to invite either team.” Uh, you can’t dis-invite anyone who has already made it clear they aren’t coming to your party.

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Doesn’t Konstantin Kilimnik sound like a villain in a Rocky and Bullwinkle episode?

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Story that Scott Pruitt sent EPA staffers to look for Ritz Carlton moisturizer is bad enough. But given what we know about him almost certain Pruitt also asked them to get it for free for him from hotel maids.

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This week Trump has alienated France, Germany and Canada. Says he’s leaving G-7 early and complaining “Why are we having a meeting without Russia being in the meeting?”
So just how long is this pee tape?

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Daily Telegraph reports Trump won’t meet with Theresa May at G-7 ” “because she always focuses on policy discussion rather than normal conversation.” Translation, British PM doesn’t want to praise him.

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If you’re an adult without a pre-existing condition you probably just don’t know what it is yet.

Congrats to the Washington Capitals on their first Stanley Cup win ever.

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Alex Ovechkin reportedly first Russian to lead his team to a championship in Washington, DC. Well, maybe the 2nd.

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Julian Edelman suspended 4 games for PEDs. Gosh, who would ever believe Patriots would be caught cheating?

Wonder if New England fans are feeling deflated by the news.

Will Trump sue the Washington Capitals for  using “ALLCAPS” as a hashtag, because he thinks he invented the idea on Twitter?

(also waiting for the first picture of the DC streets that looks like a bigger happier crowd than Trump’s inaugural…

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Starbucks raised price of its brewed coffee 10-20 cents yesterday. Well, all that “free” toilet paper gets expensive.

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Mika Brezenski says a Trump friend told her Donald’s biggest complaint was that he’s not allowed to watch porn in White House.”
If so, makes a lot more sense why Trump clings to his unsecured phone… presumably with unlimited data plan.

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Third person attacked at Yellowstone National Park this week, all because they got too close to animals. Hope the Park gets a quantity discount on Darwin Awards.

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At times like this useful to remember that on Sept 10, 2001, Rudy Guiliani was an unpopular lame-duck NY mayor who had withdrawn from a Senate race he was going to lose, and whose messy affair with his 3rd-wife-to-be had made him a joke.

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Tennessee hardware store owner put a #NoGaysAllowed” sign in his window. Does he stop his kids from listening to Disney from “Lion King” and “Beauty and the Beast?

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Trump says “I don’t think I have to prepare very much” for North Korea summit. Does he really think he has to prepare very much for anything?

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As we still count primary ballots in California, and yes, the ballot WAS the size of a novella this year, here’s an advance suggestion for November.  If you feel overwhelmed or don’t have an opinion on certain propositions/local elections – just go vote anyway for the issues and candidates that matter to you.
Not necessary to fill in the whole ballot. It is, to my mind, necessary these days to vote.

SF Giants inexplicably pitched to Giant killer Paul Goldschmidt twice with an open base today, both times resulting in RBI doubles.  Then the Diamondbacks decided to see crazy and raise it by pitching to Brandon Crawford in bottom of 10th with winning run at 2nd, 2 outs,  and an open base.   Giants fans say “thank you very much.”

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Kansas City police arrested a woman who allegedly set many small fires around Kauffman Stadium. Will her defense be she was desperate to help the Royal bats get hot?

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Steph Curry had an off-night, Lebron James had an off-night. Difference was that #Warriors still had three remaining All-Stars

Dodgers lost tonight 9-11.  Shocking. Mostly shocking that the game wasn’t played at Coors Field.   (PNC in Pittsburgh.)

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In California Congressional District 48 as of Wednesday night, they are down to counting absentee and provisional ballots with 100% of precincts reporting and over 100,000 votes counted. Democrats Harley Rouda and Hans Keirstead separated by  44 votes for runoff spot against Dana Rohrabacher.

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

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So who forgot to tell @realDonaldTrump that yesterday’s elections were primaries?

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Kellyanne Conway called Trump today the “Commander of Cheese.”  Well, makes some sense.  What many Americans consider cheese is plastic-wrapped, orange, not very good for you, and fake.

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Rudy Giuliani today on Stormy Daniels, a person who ‘sells her body’ has “no good name” and can’t be believed. Uh, what about a person who sells his soul?

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Isn’t it nice that on anniversary of #DDay, Trump went out of his way to praise Canada for participating in the invasion?

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Trump thinks every day is D Day. But he thinks the D stands for Donald.

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#NottheOnion  Trump State Dept spokeswoman Heather Nauert  yesterday “We have a very strong relationship with the government of Germany.  Looking back in the history books, today is the 71st anniversary of the speech that announced the Marshall Plan. Tomorrow is the anniversary of the D-Day invasion.”

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I liked the idea of war with Canada better when it was a South Park movie.

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Hey Red States, your President is insulting YOU. “They saved 16,000 people, many of them in Texas, for whatever reason that is. People went out in their boats to watch the hurricane. That didn’t work out too well.”
Lies, damn lies and Trumpisms.

How many pitchers get a standing ovation when they come to the plate with the bases loaded? #MadisonBumgarner #SFGiants

(and he came closer to getting a hit than either position player in the inning, fouled a ball straight back.)

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That moment when Dennis Rodman is going to be the adult supervision in Singapore…..

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Speaking of job creation, how many people did Trump hire to pretend to be Eagles fans at today’s White House ceremony? #GodBlessAmerica

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Tim Lincecum will be released by Texas Rangers. Can he sign a one-day contract with San Francisco to retire a Giant?

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How long until @realDonaldTrump just cancels all professional sports champions visiting White House & replaces them with ceremonies focused on himself?

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Stanford graduate  Zach Ertz got FOX NEWS to apologize for using photos of Eagles players praying to accuse them of kneeling. Cool. Now can he work on POTUS?

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So Trump says he’d run to face an armed killer. Betting now he wouldn’t even face sitting in the stands with Eagles fans.

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Tough times for many liberals. Do we boycott NFL over CTE issues, or watch more because many players are standing up to Trump?

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Melania Trump  didl not attend “honoring America” Trump White House ceremony today. Was she staying in the locker room?

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Miss America is giving up its swimsuit competition, saying they will no long judge contestants on “their outward physical appearance.”
Uh, I’m liberal, but it’s a BEAUTY PAGEANT. #WTF?

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So good to see all GOP putting aside politics and decrying the hoax SWAT call to the home of Parkland survivor @davidhogg111 . Oh wait, never mind.

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IF Trump & GOP really wanted to stop undocumented workers, instead of publicizing ICE raids w/ pictures of immigrants being deported, they’d show pictures of business owners in handcuffs. But it’s not about rich business owners. It’s about playing to the base. Period.

Somehow I’ve missed all the heartwarming stories about US citizens who were jobless but fulfilled their dream of working as manual laborers because of all these ICE deportations.

Republican John Cox, advancing to the General Election for Governor in California. We’ve put a businessman in the White House, let’s put a businessman in the Governor’s mansion.”
Uh, “businessman” Trump’s approval rating in California – 35%.

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Finally and seriously.  Sad news about Kate Spade.  Reminds us that seeming to be on top of the world is no safeguard against depression.