Left Coast Sports Babe

In college football, undefeated Cincinnati, 8-0, is ranked #9, undefeated USC, 5-0, is ranked #13, while three two two-loss teams, Iowa State , Florida and Georgia are ranked #6 and #7 and #8

Not surprisingly, many are upset by what seem to be arbitrary and illogical CFB rankings. At least there’s some normalcy in 2020.

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Although Drew Brees is practicing this week, Coach Sean Payton says the Saints QB has “a ways to go.” 49ers fans thinking “a ways to go” sounds better than what we got.

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#NotTheOnion

Trump’s Twitter account was hacked, and the Dutch ministry confirms the hacker guessed the password – maga2020!

You can’t make this stuff up.

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Marco Rubio clutching his pearls because Biden’s campaign manager & future deputy chief of staff Jen O’Malley Dillon called GOP in Congress a bunch of f*ckers.

Missed Rubio’s outrage when Donald’s lawyer suggested Chris Krebs be “drawn and quartered.”

Jen was right.

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After Pete Buttigieg said he proposed at United Gate B5, @fly2ohare now calling themselves on Twitter -“O’Hare Intl. Airport – Place of romance & official O’Hare Intl. Airport (ORD) twitter feed.”

Wonder how many relationships HAVE started in O’Hare lines or during flight delays?

(Or less romantically, how many couples have split in such situations?)

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Paraphrasing what Joe Biden once said about Rudy Giuliani – All of Donald’s Trump’s sentences are now lies with a noun, a verb, and “voter fraud.”

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On a day when NY Times writes “Russian espionage attack on U.S. government & private companies, underway since spring & detected only a few weeks ago, is among greatest intelligence failures of modern times,” Fox News headlines are about the threat from… China??!

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As Palm Beach residents try to keep Donald Trump from breaking a 1990s agreement where he promised not to live at Mar-A-Lago more than 21 days straight can you blame them?

Given Donald’s love for attention, imagine security & media circus in neighborhood on a regular basis.

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Mitch McConnell controls Senate but any GOP Senator could have said publicly Mitch needed to call vote on COVID relief bills.

Even opportunists like Loeffler & Perdue could have done so after Nov. election. They said nothing. They didn’t care. Georgia deserves better.

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Loeffler & Perdue also issued statement saying they’d protect Atlanta Braves name. “Problem with the statement is Braves have never said they plan to change name.

They’ve said the opposite actually.” No dog whistle left unblown.

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Today Cory Booker spoke about a bill to improve privacy of judges & add other safeguards against violence & threats about judges after judge’s son was killed in assassination attempt. Scary that we need this bill. Scarier we now really need such a bill for election workers.

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Since Trump signed a deal in 1993 that no one can stay at Mar-A-Lago for more than 21 days that means it’s not really his home. Also means that DONALD committed Voter Fraud. Lock him up.

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CNN Chyron says that “WH creates spreadsheet to track “crazy” influx of pardon requests.” Assume the spreadsheet includes space to keep track of current $$$ bids.

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More almost 2:00am rambling and angry tweets from Velveeta Voldemort, 43 days after the election.

“Dear White House staff, could you switch to Caffeine-Free Diet Coke?” Asking for a really tired country.

NBA preseason is officially underway.

But seriously, with the regular season so much a nonissue for so many teams, shouldn’t we call this the pre-preseason?

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Bad news for Bucks’ rivals, either in the East or in free agency – Giannis Antetokounmpo has signed a five year $228 million contract to stay in Milwaukee. So will any other team in the NBA try to hire Rudy Giuliani to try to overturn this Wisconsin result?

Michigan-Iowa has been canceled this weekend, along with Indiana-Purdue. Does NCAA really expect us to believe that this college football season exists now for any other reason than big televised playoff games?

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Woke up on Tuesday to see that Donald Trump, who supported Republican Brian Kemp’s election as Governor of Georgia, now RTed a post saying Kemp and Georgia’s GOP Secretary of State should be in prison….

We really need an advent calendar for January 20, 2021. And it might need to have miniature liquor bottles in it.

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Besides Donald Trump, Mitch McConnell is the Republican who’s done most to subvert democracy; blocking Merrick Garland, installing right wing judges, not allowing votes on bills to help Americans survive. MAGAs still turned on him for saying President-Elect Biden.

Dr. Frankenstein’s monster is loose.

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Betsy Devos apparently urged her staff at Dept of Education to ‘be the resistance’ as Biden takes over. So petty, Betsy couldn’t even ask them to help provide protection for Joe against grizzly bears?

As we begin to see light at the end of Trump tunnel – your reminder how all Democratic candidates came together to support Joe Biden. I’m a proud moderate Democrat myself. But while we hope GOP will give Biden a chance hoping various factions of our party will do the same thing.

Pretty sure all of us Democrats have at least one person who we would have urged Joe Biden not to choose for his team. Not the point. The worst choice Joe has made, whoever you think that is, is better than the best of Donald’s administration.

Saddest people who weren’t Browns fans at end of MNF? Gamblers who had bet on Cleveland, as Ravens were favored by 3 points, and the Browns crazy series of laterals at the end the game with 2 seconds less, resulted in a safety and a 47-42 loss, instead of 45-42, which would have been a push.

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Roger Goodell said COVID-19 vaccine priority obviously should for “health care workers, first responders & those in riskiest state. We don’t fall into those categories; we don’t anticipate that & we’re not planning for that.” Some thought it couldn’t be done but Donald gave NFL moral high road

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So who do we think actually wrote Attorney General Bill Barr’s “resignation” letter?

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Today Senate Majority whip John Thune, “I think once the electoral college settles the issue, it’s time for everybody to move on.” Still nothing from McConnell. We’ll only know he’s accepted President-Elect Joe Biden when Mitch vows to make Joe a one-term president.

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Today Senate Majority whip John Thune, “I think once the electoral college settles the issue, it’s time for everybody to move on.” Still nothing from McConnell. We’ll only know he’s accepted President-Elect Joe Biden when Mitch vows to make Joe a one-term president.

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Random quote I stumbled upon from Nora Ephron. Seems particularly appropriate these days though – ““Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy.”

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Kelly Loeffler actually appeared with Gym Jordan at rallies today in Georgia. If only Jordan had spent half the energy trying to protect those college wrestlers from sexual assault as he is trying to protect those who now assault our democracy.

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Kelly Loeffer pretends she didn’t know who former KKK leader Chester Doles was when she posed w/him for picture. Uh, in Sept 2020, the Atlanta Journal Constitution reported “Marjorie Taylor Greene had Doles escorted out of September rally Loeffler briefly attended.” When you’re known & too crazy for Q-Anon.

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Today, while many Georgians struggle during this pandemic, Jon Ossoff and Reverend Warnock are talking about Health, Jobs and Justice.

While Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue put out a statement assuring Georgians they will resist all efforts to rename the Atlanta Braves. No joke.

#Priorities

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Wait, Press Secretary Barbie is complaining on Twitter that Joe Biden gave a “DIVISIVE” speech and “should never utter the words unprecedented assault on democracy.” Is she auditioning to play herself on SNL?

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In Michigan, State House, Capitol & Senate office buildings are closed during Electoral College meeting – “not made because of anticipated protests, but based on credible threats of violence.” Are we great yet?

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Remember when Wisconsin voters were forced to line up, some in garbage bags, to vote in April? In that election they chose liberal Jill Karofsky for the Supreme Court. Monday that court ruled 4-3 to confirm Biden’s win. State and local elections matter.

As the Electoral College certifies Biden’s win today Stephen Miller tells Fox News that Donald will have votes from “alternate slate of electors.” Have to assume the only college this alternate slate could be from is Trump University.

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As Joe Biden wins again, this time with the electoral college voting, this is beginning to feel like we’re on an endless loop of watching Dorothy melt the witch in Oz.

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Well, to be fair, not like Donald Trump accepts as factual the number 306 when it’s on his scale either.

Florida lost against LSU in part because of a late game 15 yard unsportsmanlike conduct penalty when a Gator defender threw a shoe from a Tigers’ player that came off in his hand when he tackled him.

Tough lesson for Marco Wilson but at least if the kid goes pro he will be ready for major NFL fines over stuff like shoes and socks.

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Well at least losing 40-3 against the Seahawks meant no last second heartbreak this week for Jets fans.

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Minnesota Vikings placekicker Dan Bailey missed all three field goals and an extra point against the Buccaneers.

Uh, if Vanderbilt classes are over for the year, is Sarah Fuller available?

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Cleveland’s baseball team plans to drop name Indians after 105 years. So who’s next…. the Braves? Or the “White” Sox? Actually for that matter waiting for Southern states to tell NY to drop Yankees.

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Georgia Supreme Court deals Trump team yet another loss today. Someone needs to tell Donald this isn’t like the Super Bowl in dealing with Georgia. He’s not going to come back from anything like a 28-3 deficit.

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Understand it’s a lot to expect Americans to volunteer for military & potentially risk their lives to protect their fellow citizens. But whoever thought that a bridge too far for millions of us would have turned out to be a cloth face covering?

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If you feel safe in public without a mask, but don’t feel safe in public without a gun – you might want to rethink your risk assessment skills.

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Should we be shocked that many Americans ignore CDC in favor of people like Trump & Florida Gov. DeSantis who say mask-wearing is unnecessary?

Same country where we regularly have fad diets that say you can have as much “fill-in-the-blank” as you want or drink some magic potion & still lose weight.

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So would Donald like to tell American people why he and his mob family need to go to front of the line for a vaccine for a virus that is 99.9% harmless?

So we didn’t vote for the lady with the private email server in order to elect a guy who just let Commerce and Treasury departments get hacked AND fired our top cybersecurity expert.

Are we great yet?

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Once again, if Democrats really did have both ability & immorality to steal the 2020 election, don’t you think we’d have gotten rid of Mitch McConnell and Lindsey Graham too?

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At yesterday’s pro-Trump rally, protesters shouted “Destroy the GOP” and booed Georgia Senators David Perdue & Kelly Loeffler. So wonder what Republican plan is to close the Pandora’s box after Donald is gone?

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Great opening line from Washington Post – “Thousands of maskless rallygoers who refuse to accept the results of the election turned downtown Washington into a falsehood-filled spectacle Saturday, two days before the electoral college will make the president’s loss official.”

Sarah Fuller today kicked TWO PATS (point after touchdown) for Vanderbilt in a 17-42 loss to Tennessee. Coach Todd Fitch later said plan was to give her kicks inside 10-yd line;… that in practice, Sarah was better than other kickers on the roster at short range: “It was truly off statistics of week’s preparation…(she) made most of those kicks.” #PlayLikeAGirl

(of course the bigger story for 0-9 Vanderbilt, that the Commodores actually SCORED two touchdown.)

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Arizona fired coach Kevin Sumlin today, after the Wildcats’ 12th straight loss yesterday night 70-7 (!) loss to ASU. With a record like that in Arizona wonder if Sumlin will be asked to join Trump’s legal team?

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Joe Biden has won so many times now in Wisconsin his team should be bowl-eligible.

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Wikipedia took down the edit someone made to the description of Joseph Epstein on his page after he attacked Jill Biden in the Wall Street Journal for using the “Dr.” title despite her PhD . Phooey. So I guess we just need to share amongst ourselves. “Misogynistic condescending jackass, Essayist, short-story writer, editor, teacher.”

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How much would I like to see, to one of their faces, Joseph Epstein refer to Dr. Condoleezza Rice or Dr. Angela Merkel as “kiddo?”

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Speaking of Doctors, a good Clinical Psychologist with a PhD or PsyD might be able to help Joseph Epstein with his feelings of inadequacy.

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So where is the WSJ article saying how wrong it was for Scott Atlas, a non-practicing neuroradiologist to be acting like an infectious disease doctor?

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So what’s Donald’s next step? An election appeal to the Supreme Food Court – With Justices Burger and Sotomayor McCheese?

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Once again. “Parler” – French for talk. MAGAs can’t even come up with a Twitter alternative without help from a foreign country.

If Velveeta Voldemort had only fought COVID-19 half as hard as he is fighting to overturn the election, he might have actually won the election.

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Molly Ivins quote of the night – “What you need is sustained outrage…there’s far too much unthinking respect given to authority.”

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Final upbeat note:

It is now fewer days (38) until Joe Biden is inaugurated, until it has been days (40) since Biden won the election.

Bad wording/timing award to Kyrie Irying, fined $25,000 for not speaking with media ” I do not talk to pawns. My attention is worth more.”

Did someone tell Kyrie the most loved show in America this year might be “The Queen’s Gambit?”

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As a Saints fan, I understand not getting over it when you get cheated out of a win by a bad call.

But Donald Trump’s refusing to accept election loss is as if every replay in the 2019 NFC Championship game showed LA’s Robey-Coleman hadn’t been within 10 yards of New Orleans WR Tommylee Lewis.

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Well, if the 126 GOP members of House really feel strongly that November election was invalid they can always resign their seats in protest!

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One of many WTF moments for the day – Diamond and Silk tweeting – “If the Supreme Court can’t save our Republic, then where is the Military?”

Uh, you mean the military that Donald called “Suckers and losers?

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“Texas has not demonstrated a judicially cognizable interest in the manner in which another state conducts its elections. All other pending motions are dismissed as moot.”

Joe Biden has won, again.

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Donald Trump thought he’d bought & paid for three Supreme Court Justices. Again I give you Molly Ivins, with Molly’s paraphrase of an old quote “As they say around Texas Legislature, if you can’t drink their whiskey, screw their women, take their money & vote against ’em anyway, you don’t belong in office.”

In the Orlando Sentinel apology for endorsing Congressman Michael Waltz “During endorsement interview didn’t think to ask ‘Would you support effort to throw out votes of tens of millions of Americans in four states to overturn election in order to hand it to person who lost, Donald Trump?’

Our bad.

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RBG died on Sept 18, 2020, just after as Americans had begun voting, as Amy Klobuchar said, “in droves.” GOP ignored early voting & in 38 days rammed through her replacement.

Now it’s 38 days after Nov 3 after voters spoke “in droves’ & pretty clear Trump’s GOP never planned to accept those votes either.

Coach K has decided that Duke won’t play any more non-conference basketball games this season due to COVID. (And the Blue Devils HAVE lost two nonconference games.)

Meanwhile Alabama’s men’s basketball coach Nate Coats – “Humans, they’re not made to sit alone in isolation for weeks on end. We have to be careful on how we do life, but we still have to do life.”

Or do death as the case may be?

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The “SF” 49ers are playing a “home” game in Glendale, AZ on Sunday. against “The Washington Football Team.”

So, Phoenix is only an hour flight from SF. Will NFL and Fox still show pictures of San Francisco Sunday during 49ers game in Arizona? It usually takes longer than an hour to drive to SF from Santa Clara.

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Drew Brees probably won’t play Sunday. But three weeks after eleven broken ribs and a collapsed lung Brees, 41, was at a New Orleans Saints practice. In case you’re feeling like it’s hard to get up and get moving these days.

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It’s not just that Giuliani, Carson and Christie get lifesaving antibody cocktails most of us can’t. It’s that the three of them getting the drugs means three other people with severe COVID-19 may have died because they couldn’t get those doses.

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Remember when we thought “Election” involving Tracy Flick at Carver High was as twisted a plot line as we could imagine?

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CNN now reports “106 House Republicans support Trump’s lawsuit to invalidate millions of votes.” So would they all like to resign their seats since they were themselves re-elected in November?

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I understand that certain professions, like police or firefighter, carry with them an assumed risk of personal danger. Election official should not not be one of those professions.

So if Newsmax is the Fox substitute and Parler is the Twitter substitute, who is Donald going to say gave him the REAL Person of the Year award?

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Many are calling Loeffler and Perdue the “Bonnie and Clyde” of corruption. But that doesn’t seem fair “Bonnie and Clyde” just robbed banks. Not our country.

Now that the Hunter Biden investigation is back what’s next? Trump and GOP somehow trying to convince us Santa and his reindeer are an immigrant caravan?

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So when are we going to find out priority on the COVID-19 vaccine list for the first month will be linked to whether or not a state joined Trump’s fraudulent suit. Asking for a country that is really tired of this crap.

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So will someone explain to me how letting millions of Americans go hungry and worry about being evicted in December isn’t a REAL war on Christmas?

“Texas is the national laboratory for bad government.” I might have to post one of her quotes every day for the rest of the year – . Damn I miss Molly Ivins.

LSU says they will self-impose an NFL bowl ban this season over improper booster payments.

LSU is 3-5.

This is like any team 2 or more games under .500 (and not in the NFC East) saying they will self-impose a playoff ban.

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After a dismal year, Stephen Curry says he looks forward to the Warriors’ opportunity to start “at ground zero again.”

And Sacramento Kings fans are just weeping.

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What’s next in Georgia? Donald offers if they declare him the winner he’ll invite Falcons to the White House as 2017 Super Bowl champions?

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All 50 states have now certified election results. Next step – Donald Trump attacks the deep state “Electoral College?

So maybe as USA faces close to over 300,000 empty chairs this Christmas due to COVID-19 we might acknowledge it was a bad idea to elect a President who loves and would miss NO one except himself.

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GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy still won’t accept the results of November election and declare Joe Biden President-elect.

So does that mean the handful of races in California where GOP beat Democratic incumbents don’t count either?

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Kelly Loeffer is worth $1 billion David Perdue is worth $16 million. Both made millions w/ Senate insider trading

Wasn’t point of electing rich people that they were already wealthy so wouldn’t be tempted to enrich themselves in office?

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So remember when Heather Heyer was killed & we had that brief moment of mostly national unity in understanding that there WEREN’T many fine people on both sides. Thinking now if someone gets killed over these election lies GOP will now unite to blame the victim.

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Tonight, Katie Porter pointed out on “The Last Word” how Mitch McConnell won’t allow any relief if corporations aren’t protected from lawsuits or liability.

“It is not an epidemic of lawsuits, or liability… “Not only are corporations people to Mitch, they are the most important people.

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Quote from Dec 9…. “continuing the count” would threaten “irreparable harm” to the President-elect “by casting a cloud upon legitimacy of his election.”

Not today. Not about Biden. Dec 9, 2000.

And the writer was Antonin Scala at the Supreme Court. Joe Biden won. Can we be done now?

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Daily Mail headline “Trump claims he will ‘intervene’ in Texas AG’s Hail Mary Supreme Court bid to overturn election despite justices smacking down Republicans’ only other case – and ex-stripper Mellissa Carone is a star witness.” Even SNL is going “no, we’re good.”

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Meanwhile, in Fox News world, after the obligatory Hunter Biden story, this headline “Not a Lone Star – These states move to suppress Texas’ bid to delay elector appointment.”

Uh, brings to mind my mother telling me, if a friend did something I wanted to do “If they were going to play jump off a cliff would you do it too?

Thinking if you REALLY wanted a War on Christmas, one blueprint would be to kill about 3,000 Americans a day, have almost 2 million a week get sick & keep many of the rest of us sequestered at home through the holidays. While crippling USPS as far as mailing gifts and cards.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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We all knew that Donald would lie.

A loss makes him sulk, whine and cry

But GOP all being loath

To remember their Oaths.

Well that IS how democracies die.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Think Lindsey isn’t reading his boarding pass correctly.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Now Velveeta Voldemort is about defending legal votes.

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

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

Do he and his cult ever listen to themselves?

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

Well what does Obama know about winning elections?

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

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

USA is kind of killing that premise right now.

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

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

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

Yet.

Suggest you see it if you haven’t.

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

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

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

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

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Somewhere Jeff Sessions must be giggling.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Trump loves to talk about his 74 million votes.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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