Left Coast Sports Babe

Tom Brady with Phil Mickelson lost to Tiger Woods and Peyton Manning in a charity match play yesterday.  And Saints coach Sean Payton weighed in…“I’m liking this Florida @TomBrady right now,” Payton said in a tweet.

Good to know social distance doesn’t stop snark.

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Included in Trump’s rants this weekend is that he played golf “for the first time in almost 3 months.” Uh, he played March 8. Then again May 23. That’s 2 1/2 months Such a trivial detail, and yet, no lie too small.

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Seeing so many crowd scenes from the weekend of people close together and not wearing masks. Do they realize the point of Memorial Day is to honor the dead, not to try to join them?

Donald Trump in an interview today said of his former attorney general Jeff Sessions that he was not “mentally qualified” for the job. Well, Sessions WAS the first US Senator in 2016 to endorse Trump.

We are 3 months away from Republican National Convention & Trump wants guarantees on being able to operate at “full attendance” in North Carolina.

Uh for comparison purposes… about 3 months ago in late February Trump proclaimed “Because of all we’ve done, the risk to American people remains very low.”

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Meanwhile, this headline from Fox News, no joke. “Shootings, MAGA boat parades mark start to Memorial Day as US adapts to post-pandemic culture.” We. are. not. in.”POST-PANDEMIC” culture. Would be funny if State TV wasn’t going to get innocent front-line workers killed.

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Yeah, President Obama wore a tan suit in the White House. You know what he’d also be wearing in the White House now? A mask.

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NHL considering a modified postseason where 24 of 31 teams make the playoffs.

And as a casual observer I wonder, this differentiates from standard operating procedure how?

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Meanwhile today Eli Manning  joins Twitter, gets into some very white trash talk with Tom Brady.  And how much am I nostalgic for a world in which that was today’s biggest controversy on social media.

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Random question.  If churches are essential what was the point of all those bedtime prayers we learned as children?

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Chief Justice Roberts told his son’s high school graduating class that COVID-19 pandemic should teach “humility and compassion.” Now can he say the same to Trump?

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Joe Biden said he was trying to be a “wise guy’ and apologized. Donald Trump still can’t admit the Spanish Flu pandemic was in 1918, not 1917.

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Amazing how many people who defended the rights of businesses to choose not to make wedding cakes for gay couples, are furious when other businesses choose to tell customers to wear masks to save lives.

Jeff Sessions was the very first Senator to endorse Trump. Today in a tweet storm Donald attacks him and tells him to drop out of the Alabama Senate race. Again, reminder to Trump GOP loyality lapdogs in the Senate, there is no “immunity passport.” – #ETTD

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Trump is demanding, even in COVID-19 hotspots, that churches must be allowed to reopen. Back in college, my studies focused on Tudor England, when your religion and how you prayed could get you killed. Kind of thought in USA we’d moved beyond that.

Not a joke, the President of the United States is accusing TV host of murder, & sending out Fundraising email headlined “HILLARY CLINTON  – Shouldn’t she be in jail?” Meanwhile Democrats obsess about our candidate making a stupid joke. Why we can’t have nice things.

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Conventional wisdom: Biden said stupid thing, apologized, but needs to make up for it by picking VP of color. Dissenting opinion: Joe, always gaffe-prone, is 78. He won primary but reminded us his best VP is a younger version of himself. Yes, I DO think that’s Amy Klobuchar.

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Just thinking, if you’re more upset by Joe Biden’s “you ain’t black” gaffe, than you are about White House using OANN plant to ask Kayleigh McEnany if Trump will pardon President Obama, you might want to rethink your priorities.

There’s a man who KNOWS Joe Biden isn’t racist. There’s a man who I supported, still do, with all my heart and hope he speaks out now. That man is Barack Obama.

Alabama football coach Nick Saban did a PSA where he scolded the Crimson Tide’s mascot for not wearing a mask.

https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/29206506/nick-saban-scolds-crimson-tide-mascot-lack-mask-psa

Good start Nick, now do Trump.

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According to ESPN report,  canceling the college football season would result in a $4 billion loss for college athletic programs across the country.

Wonder how much it would cost ESPN.

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Lori Loughlin and her husband, who’ve been expensively tying up court resources for over a year, decided to plead guilty to bribing their daughters’ way into USC.   She’s getting two months in jail.   He’s getting five months, During a time when most prisoners are getting let out early for Coronavirus.

“Siri, what is white privilege.”

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Got an ad from Bloomingdale’s to rent unlimited designer clothing for $99 a month. “Wow, that’s high on my list right now” said…nobody?

WTAF? Now Trump campaign is offering “a chance to get your very own limited-edition Commemorative Trump-Reagan Coin Set.”
Uh, Ronald Reagan would be “horrified” and “heartbroken” by Trump’s America – Patti Davis.
My father “would have been embarrassed and ashamed’ of Trump. -Ron Reagan.
What do they know?

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As Trump starts up again with baseless allegations of voter fraud, it’s not too soon for principled Republicans (remember those?) to stand up and say they will absolutely respect and honor election results on November 3.

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It’s not just respect. Trump supporters idolize him and follow his lead. If he wore a mask, more of them would start wearing masks. And lives would be saved. Many thousands of lives.

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Trump on not wearing a mask – “I didn’t want to give the Press the pleasure of seeing it.” So literally being willing to kill people to spite the Press. Got it. 

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Are we really surprised that a man who refused to wear a condom with his mistresses won’t wear a mask now?

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So how much of Trump’s recent rage is caused by the realization we’re going to hit 100,000 COVID-19 deaths by Memorial Day and it’s going to interfere with his bragging?

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As Joe Biden vets Amy Klobuchar as a possible running mate remember one thing: Joe is trying to win the Presidency. He’s not trying to win Twitter.

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In all seriousness, as big of a Klobuchar fan as I’ve become, at this point if it really takes Biden’s running mate choice to convince you to vote for Joe over the Cheeto In Chief, you might want to reconsider your priorities.

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On a lighter note….last night a Twitter friend asked for suggestions for Joe Biden campaign song. Still have an idea going through my head – How about “Here Comes The Sun?” – “the smile’s returning to their faces.. it seems like years since it’s been here….”

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How long until Trump conspiracy theorists attack Joe Biden  for doing something terrible like talking on his phone in Amtrak’s “quiet car?”

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I’m so old I remember when we had a coronavirus task force.

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Since Tara Reade keeps changing story, first changing it to say she wasn’t wearing pantyhose (unlikely, they were part of dress code, and you could get sent home for bare legs) , and  now claiming she wore crotchless panties, I  did a bit of research to see if they were even sold in DC. Now getting online ads for Frederick’s of Hollywood. Sigh.

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Yeah, I know VP race is the only interest many in the media have in the Biden campaign, but maybe they’re stretching just a bit for material? This from a USA Today article on if Joe should pick a woman of color: “Klobuchar, Whitmer and Warren all are white.” Gosh, who knew?

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Meanwhile, while Trump attacks Michigan and Nevada, when will he cut off funding to Colorado and Utah, which have the option for 100% of their residents to vote by mail?

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So has everyone without a gun today had time to check on their potatoes?

Lost in today’s craziness, Trump is considering holding the G-7 IN PERSON, at Camp David, NEXT MONTH. Uh, for starters, just thinking leaders of other countries know if they travel, it won’t be to a COVID-19 hotspot like the US.

Wait…the 2020 Belmont Stakes on June 20 is now going to be a 1 1/8 mile race, instead of 1 1/2 miles?!!!
As long as no one even THINKS of touching Secretariat’s 1973 race record.

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Apparently the Sears Tower in Chicago lost power tonight. How I miss the chance to have made a Cubs joke.

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From Marc Ragovin “A South Korean soccer league team has apologized for planting sex dolls throughout the stands to make the stadium appear fuller. Man, talk about inflating attendance figures.”

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Happy Birthday Pete Townshend. Pete is now 75??!! So now it’s “Who Are You… and where did I put my keys?”

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Very confused now. So Trump says Virginians need 2nd Amendment to guard their potatoes. From who? Grizzly bears?

“Cover me Bob, I’m going in for Russets.”

Nonpolitical question. As many online ads as I still get for places like Sephora etc, why has no cosmetic company come out with “mask-proof lipstick?

Kevin McCarthy today criticized Nancy Pelosi for talking about Trump’s weight. “I would not as Speaker use those terms.” Gosh, must have missed McCarthy’s comments about a POTUS calling political opponents “Crooked” “Liddle” “Shifty” “Cheatin'” “Sleepy” “Loser” “Crazy,” etc.

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USA Today Headline “Trump goes with his ‘gut,’ outside advice on decision to medicate with hydroxychloroquine.” “Goes with his gut?” Must. Not. Make. Morbidly. Obese. Jokes.

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So let me see if I have this straight, many Americans seem more concerned about if Nancy Pelosi fatshamed Trump than if the US was illegally selling arms to the Saudis.

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Despite Georgia being CAUGHT publishing misleading data on COVID-19, Gov. Brian Kemp maintains state’s cases are going down – “It’s really not a big issue. People trust the data. I certainly do.” Right, same as we should trust Kemp’s purging more than 1/2 million voters in 2016?

Tonight was the Oregon primary.  Joe Biden got over 70% of the vote, while Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, both still on the ballot, got 18% and 9% respectively.

Now while Joe Biden IS going to be the Democratic nominee I do understand  the desire to vote for Sanders or another candidate who’s dropped out to make a statement in remaining primaries. Just please get it out of your system before Nov. 3. Because then it’s Biden or Trump. Period. 

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Media really missing something by ignoring Joe Biden virtual town hall. Seriously. What does it take, would Joe have to pretend he’s taking some crazy drug, or come up with a catchy insult? We should be better than this.

Yeah, I am talking to you CNN, CBS, NBC, ABC, MSNBC, Fox News.

NFL Players Associate reported they are testing prototypes of modified facemasks that might contain surgical or N95 material.

The masks might even be used this year to protect players from COVID-19. Not that Tom Brady will need one. No defensive player can get within 3 feet of him without risking a penalty.

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COVID-19 issues mean Raiders new stadium in Las Vegas isn’t finished yet. But hey, if If NFL teams want to open the season in stadiums without fans, well, there is an available empty stadium in Oakland.

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So Chuck E Cheese, whose restaurants are closed during pandemic, decided to change their name on Grubhub apps to Pasqually’s Pizza. I smell a rat.

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All of these pictures of “reopen” protestors and people packing gyms are going to be very useful when we need to do COVID-19 contact tracing in a couple weeks.

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Trump’s campaign is launching a new website “Truth Over Facts.” Who wants to tell him?

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Florida Senator Marco Rubio has been named the acting chair of the Intelligence Committee. Is this the first time on Twitter that “Florida” and “Intelligence” have regularly appeared in the same sentence?

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Texas Governor Abbott posted then deleted a tweet indicating that Texas and Florida had lower “morality” rates than California and New York. Well, he said it

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So what’s a higher number in Trump White House… The number of IGs & others Donald says he doesn’t know but chooses to fire? Or the number of women he says he doesn’t know and wouldn’t have chosen to sexually assault?

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Of course we know “He’s Lying.” Dr. House was right “It’s a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what.” So what is Donald Trump lying about now? Or rather, what is he hoping we won’t notice while we’re focused on his latest lie?

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So who had “Trump taking hydroxychloroquine” on this week’s insanity bingo card?

So if Trump wants to prove he is not “Morbidly Obese” he can simply step on a scale in front of reporters.
Just saying.

Trump tonight tweeted “Fox News is no longer the same. We miss the great Roger Ailes. You have more anti-Trump people, by far, than ever before. Looking for a new outlet!”
As if all America didn’t already know Trump was cheating on Fox News with OANN.

Tonight’s Sunday Night Baseball game was scheduled to be the first of the year featuring Houston Astros.
And just over a couple months ago most worrisome thing for many baseball fans was if Astros’ cheating scandal might have overshadowed the actual game?

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Okay, I’m really desperately missing sports. But don’t think even COVID-19 will turn me into a serious NASCAR fan.

Trump today about sports “We want to be back to normal where you have the big crowds and they are practically standing on top of each other and enjoying themselves, not where they are worried.” So would he like to start by trying this with a vanity rally?

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How many married couples are realizing as they promised “for better for worse,” they weren’t thinking of “for 24-7?”

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#NotTheOnion. Now Trump fundraising email “For first time EVER, we have launched Official Trump Coloring Books. They are already FLYING off the shelves…” Flying? Like Space Force? And are Sharpies included?

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Remember Trump’s “I like the numbers being where they are” with the Grand Princess?. By claiming “testing is overrated” and trying to undercount deaths, Donald is treating America like he did that cruise ship.

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Why does anyone think the man who will go to the Supreme Court to avoid releasing his financial statements or tax returns won’t stop at nothing to hide COVID-19 death counts?

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Breathalyzer tests aren’t perfect either. So by Trump standards should we stop using them and start claiming DUI numbers are down?

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Trump claims of Dr. Rick Bright “I don’t know this guy, never met him, but don’t like what I see.”
Uh, is Donald so confused now he can’t remember if Bright is accusing him of malfeasance, or sexual assault?

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New Zealand  Herald on Donald Trump’s statement “If we didn’t do any testing we would have very few cases.”

“This is a stupid statement. Not “controversial, bizarre” or “unconventional” or any other words we use to sanitize absurd things that come out of Mr. Trump’s mouth.. It is just pure, weapons-grade stupid.”

If MLB comes back this year, not only will tobacco and spitting be banned (good), but also chewing sunflower seeds will be prohibited.
Speaking as a former baseball mom, was there any reason other than baseball to chew sunflower seeds?

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NASCAR starting up tomorrow without fans. Well, at least the cars are loud enough there won’t be drivers complaining about not being able to hear the cheers.

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So trivial in the grand scheme of things with almost 90,000 people dead. But it still makes me sad, in May, to see pictures of empty baseball stadiums.

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As Italy plans to open for incoming international travel June 3, how long until they, and other countries, institute a US travel ban?

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Justin Amash has decided he is not running for President. Thereby bitterly disappointing both his supporters

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Let’s be honest. If Trump were asked to speak to high school graduates tonight Donald’s speech would have been 80% bragging about he should have been valedictorian and 20% blaming Obama for why he wasn’t.

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Mitt Romney tonight tweeted “The firings of multiple Inspectors General is unprecedented; doing so without good cause chills the independence essential to their purpose. It is a threat to accountable democracy and a fissure in the constitutional balance of power.”

It’s a start.  Then Susan Collins tweeted. “In 2008, I coauthored with former Sens. McCaskill and Lieberman The Inspector General Reform Act (P.L. 110-40), which among other provisions requires the President to notify Congress 30 days prior to the removal of an Inspector General along with the reasons for the removal. The President has not provided the kind of justification for the removal of IG Linick required by this law.”

Beginning to have new appreciation for Charlie Brown & his dreams of kicking that football: Susan Collins has a bipartisan past. Some part of me keeps hoping THIS will be time w/Trump Susan will be more than “very troubled.”

In North Carolina, a judge just issued a provisional restraining order allowing religious groups to assemble for services inside for next 2 weeks. Fine. Can those church attendees also commit to staying inside and praying the coronavirus away?

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WTAF? This is a Trump fundraising email from Saturday  “Barack Obama will forever be remembered as the disgraced former President who used federal law enforcement in an attempt to hurt his political opponents.”

Who wants to tell him?

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis criticized Gavin Newsom for not allowing sports in California & invited sports teams from states have  Stay At Home orders to operate in Florida during coronavirus pandemic. Can someone tell DeSantis not all teams have socially distanced fans like Rays & Marlins?

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After Green Bay traded up to draft QB Jordan Love,  Aaron Rodgers now says it “may not be a reality” for him to retire as a Packer.

“The first time’s the hardest,” said Brett Favre.

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Looking at some of these pictures of Wisconsin bars and thinking, uh, never thought it was supposed to be literal to say “I’m dying for a drink,”

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Looking at the Camp David attendance list for the weekend Kevin McCarthy , Devin Nunes, Matt Gaetz, Dan Crenshaw, Jim Jordan, Elise Stefanik, Lee Zeldin. And suddenly the worst Boy Scout or Girl Guide/Scout camps we ever had don’t seem so bad by comparison.

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As Trump brags about his new “Operation Warp Speed,” someone has told him that Star Trek was pure science FICTION?

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Just thinking. If and when scientists have a breakthrough, will it be like tests? “Everyone who wants a vaccine can get a vaccine?”

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So let’s see, Trump is now simultaneously blaming and attacking… China, Obama, Biden, and the media. If you ever wondered where the expression came from -“Throw sh*t against the wall and see what sticks.”

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Trump says all 25+ women who are accusing him of sexual assault are lying. E. Jean Carroll’s lawyer want a DNA sample. An innocent man could give the sample, prove she is lying, and taint others with the same brush…. An innocent man would do that.

Whatever else you want to say about Trump’s new habit of firing people late on Friday night, A man who values ratings about all else never does ANYTHING he’s proud of late on Friday night.

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Remember when it would be almost midnight on a Friday night in DC and the biggest stress Obama might cause anyone was street closures etc, if he went out to dinner with Michelle?

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The late Trump tweet rants continue. But hey, you know what President Biden will be tweeting regularly at 1a on weekend nights? Nothing. And we’ll all be sleeping better. 

And NFL players haven’t missed a paycheck yet…

In Florida, arrest warrants have been issued in South Florida for NY Giants CB DeAndre Baker and Seahawks CB Quinton Dunbar in connection to an armed robbery investigation. ESPN reports  the two were charged with stealing money and watches while armed with semi-automatic firearms.

I don’t just miss sports, I miss times when this would be the biggest story of the day.

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Got it. Trump strategy about COVID-19 losses is just to pretend they haven’t happened. So if baseball season ever gets started can we SF Giants fans just declare any game that doesn’t result in a win hasn’t happened either?

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Mall of America will reopen June 1. Do they have a coffin store?

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Seems likely Senator Richard Burr is guilty of insider trading. But Barr signed FBI warrant only after Burr’s intelligence committee said Russia interfered in 2016 committee. T.S. Eliot was right- “The last temptation is the greatest treason, to do the right thing, for the wrong reason.”

Ivanka Trump today said her dad “is tested on a daily basis – all those who come into contact with him are tested on a daily basis.” Wait, I thought “testing is overrated?”

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And uh, do Trump and Pence know that a daily COVID-19 test keeps you from getting coronavirus about as well as a daily pregnancy test keeps keeps you from getting pregnant?

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Kirsten Gillibrand was never close to my first choice in Democratic primary. But retroactive bonus points for this prescient statement in an early debate: July 31, 2019, “The first thing I’m going to do when I’m President will be to Clorox The Oval Office”

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Mar-A-Lago to partially reopen this weekend. Already hot and humid in Miami, so why? 1. Trump doesn’t want to refund dues? 2. Reopening gives Donald some excuse not to have his workers claim unemployment? 3. Trump can’t pretend he lives there if it stays closed? 4. All of above.

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Trump attacking Obama and Biden today “It was the greatest political crime in the history of our country.” Once again, Freud NAILS projection.

Trump tonight referred to his supporters as “Keyboard Warriors.”  Guess no one had him look up the definition

From Urban Dictionary –  “Person who, being unable to express anger through physical violence (owning to their physical weakness, lack of bravery & conviction in real life), instead manifests said emotions through text-based medium of internet”

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Even Dictionary.com ” Keyboard warrior”  – a person who makes abusive or aggressive posts on the Internet, typically one who conceals their true identity.

As the league begins to talk about playoffs.  Does anyone still remember who was leading the NBA 2019-2020 season?

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Meanwhile, the NFL considering a season with piped in crowd noise.  So what happens in Foxboro, where last year on several occasions Patriots fans booed. And that was before Tom Brady left.

Years from now will we ever have a better single name answer to “Define white male privilege?” than “Jared Kushner.”

Trump heading to Pennsylvania Thursday and another photo-op at a PPE factory. Will White House announce exactly how many workers and others Donald plans to put at risk this trip, especially by not wearing a mask.

#WTAF -got a “Trump 100” invitation?   Me.   “I’m pleased to present you w/ invitation to join Trump 100 Club. I’ve only selected 100 Patriots in the entire Nation to join this prestigious club & YOU are one of them.” So either Trump can’t count, or his fundraisers are REALLY stupid.

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Trump latest blame game focused on China. Whatever happened to the “We had great chemistry. I mean, we understand each other…” with President Xi? And that “beautiful chocolate cake?” Donald deals with some of these world leaders like he used to be married to them.

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Today Supreme Court of Wisconsin issued a 4-3 ruling that strikes down the state’s stay-at-home order. So they are saying for Wisconsin residents, including women,  it’s their health and their choice?

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So why is #SubpoenaObama trending? GOP thinks they’ll be able to convict him of spilling Dijon mustard on his tan suits?

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Okay then, GOP and presumably Trump want to “Subpoena Obama.”  Has it occurred to Donald how starved Americans are for leadership? Or how nostalgic millions of us are feeling? Televise hearings with Barack Obama and we’ll show you real RATINGS!

Trying to figure why I am so completely disgusted with both Steve Scalise and Rand Paul, who have taken their second chance at life and become bigger a**holes.”

Maybe it stems from this: In 1979 a white man in a wheelchair entered Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery and said “I’ve learned what suffering means in a way that was impossible. I think I can understand something of the pain that black people have come to endure. I know I contributed to that pain and I can only ask for your forgiveness.” The man was George Wallace.

Governor Greg Ducey says professional Sports can resume Saturday in Arizona.

Would the 26-39 Phoenix Suns qualify?

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You know the new normal has changed, when you get ESPN sports updates on your phone… from the KBO (Korean Baseball.)

Btw, the NC Dinos beat the KT Wiz. And I have no idea who either of those teams are.

#WomenForTrump was trending Tuesday night on Twitter.

 How to say this gently without being suspended on social mediar?

“Women For Trump” IMHO, is like “F*cking for Virginity.”

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Washington Post reporting that Mexico border town of Nogales is spraying all travelers crossing from US with a sanitation solution as a precaution against the virus.. Who needs a wall when Trump’s inaction has allowed America to become literally toxic?

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Don’t look now, but Iowa, Nebraska and South Dakota, all now over 400 per 100,000, are getting close to catching Michigan for COVID-19 cases per capita. No joke.

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Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale claiming “Joe Biden is a terrible candidate and people know it.” If so, why did Donald risk impeachment with Ukraine “quid pro quo” to keep Biden from becoming the nominee?

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Trump lawyer Jay Sekulow asking SCOTUS for “temporary presidential immunity.”

So how many people hypothetically WOULD Trump be allowed to shoot in the middle of 5th Avenue?

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And okay, I didn’t go to law school, but doesn’t “presidential immunity” mean that Trump also has to drop the BS accusations against Obama?

Special elections have historically low turnouts. So not much really to predict for November based on #CA25 & #WI07. But two things:

Hope for a blue Biden landslide.

Work like every precinct will come down to a single vote.

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So Trump’s attorneys are seriously arguing about “Distraction to the president?” If Donald is really worried about distraction why doesn’t he TURN OFF HIS BLEEPING TELEVISION?

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Wonder how many of Donald Trump’s waking hours are spent fuming?

One of my many favorite poetry lines over the years “Too long a sacrifice, Can make a stone of the heart”

W.B. Yeats, in Easter 1916, was talking about the long struggle for Irish independence and the history of British colonialism.

He wasn’t talking about not being able to get a haircut.

MLB is reportedly thinking of starting the 2020 season in July.  July?!  Or as SF Giants fans old enough to remember Candlestick Park call it “Winter.”

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On nonpolitical note,  MLB Monday listed the coolest players for each MLB team. For SFGiants, they choose  “Mike Yastrzemski, adding “”hope no Giants fans will be offended that this was probably most difficult team to find someone on in all of baseball.” Uh, did they forget Hunter Pence?  Maybe the “coolest” player in all of baseball?

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If Katie Miller had waited until she had symptoms, much if not most of the Trump White House would have been infected. So how does Trump say “Everyone who “needs” a test can have a test.

#RacistInChief is trending. This one may really take off, because for some of Trump’s base, they consider it a compliment.

If Democrats DO go to a virtual convention this August does that mean we might at least be spared endless media discussion on what Joe’s running mate wears?

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Yeah, as President, Barack Obama wore a tan suit. He would also, as President, absolutely have worn a mask.

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Sen. Bernie Sanders said today there is a “very, very slim” chance that he will run for president again. So his supporters are saying “there’s a chance.”

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Ooh, women reporters drive Trump off the stage. Well, a woman running with Joe Biden will drive Donald out of the White House in 175 days.

No one talks about Trump’s eyesight, but he does have glasses, which he never wears at news conferences. Is it just possible he first thought one of those women reporters he was calling on today was Korean-American dark-haired Chanel Rion of OANN?

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Here we go. With Trump spouting about “Obamagate”
“Terrible things happened.”
“You know what the crime is.”
Yeah, Barack Obama’s crime is being much more admired and beloved than Donald Trump will ever be.

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I love Michelle Obama & Barack regularly says he’s “married up,” but we only know about her because of him. A delightful change about 2020 Presidential race – six white men themselves became most known as candidate spouses. And most recognizable of them was Chasten Buttigieg.

Yes, Amy Klobuchar is my favorite. Yes, I’m voting for Joe Biden no matter who he picks as VP. Yes, I think articles claiming to have secret info on Biden’s pick are blowing smoke. Only person who may really know if Joe’s made up his mind is Jill & she’s not talking. 

Random thought. As NBA thinks about possibly trying to get 2019-2020 playoffs scheduled, your reminder that the 2020-21 preseason is suppose to start in about four and half  months.

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I’m so old I remember when people were wondering if the 2020 MLB season would be tainted by the Astros and Red Sox cheating scandal.

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The British Isles, including London, were bombed on a regular basis, sometimes nightly for 8 months between September 1940 to May 1941. And some Americans can’t handle less than 8 weeks without a haircut?

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May 10 saw lowest U.S. COVID-19 death toll since late March.
A sign we’ve turned the corner?
Or a sign that many states didn’t want to push America’s total over 80,000 on Mother’s Day?

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Georgia is reporting a decline in COVID-19 cases and deaths since they reopened.  I believe Georgia’s reports like I believe Kemp reported a fair election.

As Fauci and other experts connected with coronavirus task Force self-quarantine and thus have to testify before the Senate remotely, have considered one small mercy – it keeps them away from windows.

Another WTF moment – Trump fundraising email: “Tomorrow we are launching something HUGE – something we’ve never done before. All you have to do is contribute to get notified tomorrow when we UNLEASH our juggernaut” What I would donate for? A juggernaut resignation speech.

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As death toll in US approaches 80,000 pretty clear that Donald Trump considers the only real victim of COVID-19 to be himself.

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Looked at some of my favorite Twitter feeds Sunday, Joe Biden, Justin Trudeau, Barack Obama, Amy Klobuchar, Cory Booker……. All have lovely & loving tributes to their moms, with pictures.   Finally found the single tweet out of over 100 of Trump’s tweets ” “HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY” in all caps.

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So did Trump not wish “Happy Mother’s Day” to the various mothers of his children because he couldn’t remember who they are?

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I have lost count, and lost interest in counting, the number of Trump’s rant tweets Sunday.  (Well over 100)    But would anyone like to explain, exactly what work was Donald supposed to be doing at Camp David this Mother’s Day weekend?

RIP Mary Pratt, at 101. Former pitcher the last surviving member of the Rockford Peaches.  And and if there’s anyone left who hasn’t seen “League of their Own,” or if it’s been a while and you have kids who haven’t seen it… a great movie for during stay at home, or any time.

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Trump actually retweeted a few tweets praising Tony Gwynn, on what would have been Mr. Padre’s 60th birthday.  Of course, if Donald really wanted to honor Tony, he might have proposed some new regulations for smokeless tobacco?

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Can anyone imagine if this pandemic had happened ten years ago?  Before it was over  Brett Favre could have retired and unretired 5 times.

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Now 2:00am Sunday morning on East Coast. Positive thought for the night, pretty sure next year on May 9  President Biden will be wishing Dr. Jill Biden  a happy Mother’s Day!

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RIP Little Richard, 87. If you didn’t know who he was, you sure knew who he influenced. Which was basically everyone in rock and roll.

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Here’s a weird and random thought. Had he lived, Elvis would have been two years younger than Little Richard

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Feel badly for all those couples who had to postpone weddings this weekend. But maybe as snow fell in the Northeast, including in Central Park,  any New York bride who planned to wear a sleeveless dress outdoors doesn’t feel quite as disappointed today

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“The Hill” correspondent Reid Wilson pointed out tonight “that three of the four top scientists on the White House’s #COVID19 task force — NIH’s Fauci, CDC’s Redfield, FDA’s Hahn — are now in self quarantine after coming into contact with infected WH staffer. Only State’s Birx not in quarantine.”

So maybe those scarves are good for something?

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Sad thing, if Hillary Clinton were President, and had taken advice of scientists so US would be more like New Zealand or South Korea with this pandemic, MAGAers wouldn’t be praising her, but rather saying her success proved COVID-19 was a hoax.

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The special election for California district 25 is  largely vote-by-mail. Saturday Trump ranted on Twitter  about city of Lancaster opening an  in-person voting place.   Usually Trump rants about vote-by-mail. Almost as if Donald is less concerned with how you vote, than with WHO votes?

By the time Major League Baseball comes back, will anyone remember what the Astros and Red Sox got punished for?

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As theaters begin to reopen in some states, remember, what many of them made most of their money on was not the films themselves, but things like that jumbo shared bucket of popcorn. Oops.

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“Indecent Proposal”- 1993 – rich man offers couple $1 million to save dream home if wife will spend night w/ him. Now it’s “Indecent Proposal 2020” – GOP offers you chance to save democracy IF you risk your life to vote. Time for Senate to vote on Klobuchar-Wyden #VotebyMail bill

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The GOP District Attorney in Georgia who initially refused to prosecute killers of Ahmaud Arbery is up for re-election in November.   There is no Democrat running against her but an independent is trying to gather enough signatures to make the ballot.

If you needed any reminder, state & local elections matter.

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Of course stores can do mail only delivery but still felt sad today seeing bookstores classified as “nonessential.”. Books are essential. Period.

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If one of those amazing and wonderful WWII veterans who Donald Trump possibly exposed to COVID-19 today for a photo-op actually dies of coronavirus, do you think the White House would tell us?

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I try not to personally wish harm on anyone. But you have to admit two people at White House testing positive for COVID-19, a day after “National Prayer Day,” kind of makes you wonder whose prayers God might have been listening to.

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Katie Miller, the wife of Trump’s senior adviser Stephen Miller, has now tested positive for the coronavirus. So researchers will now get a high profile case to study possible inter-species transmission.

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And then, while news outlets understood that Katie Miller had tested positive, but kept it quiet out of concern for her privacy,  Trump just blurted it out at a meeting.

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To be fair, if someone asked Trump if he “violated HIPAA” Donald would almost certainly respond “Whatever she says, I barely knew the woman. And she wouldn’t have been my first choice.”

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You know Trump has been seriously stressed out by two cases of COVID-19 in the West Wing. He forgot to fire someone this week late on a Friday night.

A simple question – if Ivanka Trump’s personal assistant is teleworking then why did she need to be tested?

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If Trump thinks masks aren’t necessary and testing is “overrated,” then why doesn’t he show the American people by example and not have anyone around him masked or tested? Asking for a country.

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Would be funny if not so disgusting. Trump fundraising email. “We want all our top Trump supporters to be protected as states are starting to re-open for business. For next 12 hrs we’re offering 3 FREE face masks w/ any contribution of $20 or more.” No joke. #DoAsISayNotAsIdo

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers have been scheduled for  five prime-time games, the NFL’s maximum allowed.  Okay, can anyone, even Bucs fans remember five prime-time games in one season?

-But at least this should dispel any notion that the league treats Sir Brady differently?

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NCAA enforcement staff said Kansas’s men’sbasketball program, including coach Bill Self,  committed “egregious” and “severe” rules violations that “significantly undermine and threaten the NCAA Collegiate Model. The school is charged with five “Level 1” (the worst) violations.

So with March Madness canceled this year will the #1 ranked Jayhawks be the first team to vacate a championship they didn’t even win?

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Baltimore Ravens Earl Thomas’s wife was arrested for pointing a gun at his head after she caught him in a three-way with a woman and Earl’s brother.

Darn, I miss the days when this would have been one of the biggest headlines of the week.

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So since Megyn Kelly has done an interview with Tara Reade anyone got a copy of the schedule of the 25 next interviews she is doing with all Trumps accusers?

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Texas Supreme Court orders the release of Shelley Luther, who’d been sentenced to 7 days in jail for keeping her hair salon open in defiance of a state order. So they’re saying it’s her health and women can make their own choices. Got it.

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I’m so old that I remember when GOP wanted to remove an Attorney General from office just for having a private conversation with a former president in her plane on the tarmac. #LorettaLynch #BillClinton

Bill Barr today asked how history would remember him dropping Flynn case: “History is written by the winners, so it largely depends on who is writing the history.” There’s a reason Trump hates history.

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Folks, I want Bill Barr out of office as much as anyone. But doesn’t matter how many people sign the petition – he’s NOT going to resign. We win the White House, Flip the Senate, and then President Biden can put a decent woman, or man, in Barr’s place.

So how many men and women in jail are now calling their lawyers to demand a new trial because pleading guilty is no longer an admission of actually being guilty?

Judge Sullivan does have discretion regarding Barr and DOJ’s attempt to kill Flynn case, although apparently it would be highly unusual. Since we passed “highly unusual” a while ago, can someone please keep Emmet G. Sullivan away from windows?

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Per Rachel Maddow – , we don’t even have all test results from many Midwestern states especially meatpacking plants:

Per Washington Post – even without those numbers, Three states newly in top 15, & bidding to crack top 10 for cases per capita. – South Dakota, Iowa, Nebraska

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Lost in this week’s craziness was Trump’s veto of the War Powers Resolution passed by the House and Senate. Wonder if Donald figures the way he’s screwed up Coronavirus he may need to wag a really big dog.

ESPN reports that, MLB expects to offer a return-to-play proposal to the MLB Players Association within a week. The current best hope is some spring training in June, and actual games in July.

Or at least maybe taking away headlines from NFL for a week?

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One of the stranger non-Coronavirus, non-political semi-sports entences of 2020 that I vaguely somehow now understand is “People think the rhino is Barry Zito.”

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RBG, 87, arguing to protect women’s right to birth control from her hospital bed. And there’re still people who call themselves liberal who won’t vote for Biden because he’s not “progressive” enough. If you don’t like Biden-Trump choice, how about RBG-Kavanaugh choice? 

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Trump now says the Coronavirus task force will “continue on indefinitely” but “we may add or subtract people ….” Speaking of which, Donald’s not mentioning the 71,000 people who’ve been permanently subtracted.

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Among the businesses allowed to reopen on Friday in Iowa are… tanning facilities?! Guess Governor Reynolds figures, if you’re willing to risk COVID, you might as well also be able to risk skin cancer?

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Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds praising Dear Leader today at White House “The partnership and collaboration as we went through this pandemic has been incredible.” “WENT” through? Once again time for the question, evil or stupid?

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Someone asked new White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McNany who are world leaders who have praised Trump’s Coronavirus response, and she says she won’t reveal confidential information. Translation – none of them.

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Fox reports Texas Lt. Gov Dan Patrick vowed to pay fines for a woman sent to jail because she kept her hair salon open, & volunteered to go under house arrest on condition she be freed. Uh, instead of house arrest why doesn’t Patrick volunteer to visit a COVID ICU ward?

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A so-called “pro-life” Trump supporter proudly saying “you can call me a Grandma killer,” because she doesn’t want to stop going to museums and zoos, just about sums up what Hillary meant by “deplorables.”

Officials say 54 people in Milwaukee County alone who voted in person on April 7 have tested positive for the coronavirus.
“How many deaths will it take till he knows, that too many people have died?”
Mitch McConnell – call for a damn vote on the  #VoteByMail bill.

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If there were no easy rapid COVID-19 test that Trump has access to every single day, does anyone think he’d be doing these vanity events on a regular basis?

On COVID Trump has zero shame.

Sad numbers become just a game.

For as people die

Don will just turn and lie

Then choose a new person to blame

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No joke, but since there’s no real baseball today. –  happy  89th Birthday Willie Mays.

You think you’re having a bad day at work. Imagine being a Wendy’s worker when you run out of hamburgers and it’s nonstop “Where’s the Beef” jokes?

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On Twitter tonight, there was a serious debate about the merits, or non-merits, of Fritos.   I  miss the days when that  debate  would have been the most contentious thing on social media. But I’m having serious chili cheese Fritos flashbacks.  And now I want some.

Ousted vaccine director Dr. Rick Bright today formally filed an extensive whistleblower complaint. I hope he stays away from windows.

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Again, ANYONE thinking of casting a protest vote this November. Four words: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Four more words in an acronym: GTFU

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Kellyanne said Trump is the “healthcare” President. Like Hoover was the stock market President?

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Trump claims in ABC interview that he doesn’t sleep at night. But of course he does. Upside down, hanging from a branch.

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Trump – “Will some people be affected badly? Yes. But we have to get our country open, and we have to get it open soon.” Guessing he figures those affected badly won’t complain too much, because they will be like, you know, dead.

Trump tweeting about his great testing “miracle” compared to other countries. Is that like “One day, it’s like a miracle, it will disappear?” Asking for a tired, and sick, country. #WhereAreTheDamnTests

If whoever at the Honeywell plant played “Live and Let Die” while Trump was visiting gets fired over it, guessing he/she won’t have a shortage of job offers.

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While Trump was visiting someone at Honeywell plant played “Live and Let Die” over loudspeakers. Donald’s next trip this week is to Ohio. Too late for “Ohio” since Kent State anniversary was Monday, but- “You’re So Vain, ” “Fool on the Hill,” “Psycho Killer…?” Ideas welcome.

Florida “now allowing eateries, stores, museums & other businesses in 64 counties to welcome customers at 25% capacity.” So since that’s business as usual what time this weekend is the Marlins game?

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You know it’s been too much politics and too little sports when you see NC Dinos trending on Twitter, and instead of realizing they’re a South Korean baseball team you think it’s North Carolina Democrats acting like Republicans.

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And yes, the VP race is the only game in town… and look, not a big believer in polls anyway, but with recent CBS poll showing most Democrats prefer Elizabeth Warren as Joe Biden’s running mate, wouldn’t you think if Dems really felt that way more of them would have voted Warren (or Sanders) in the Primary?

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In the “small mercies” department, just guessing that tomorrow USA will set one good record – lowest number in recent memory of DUI arrests and death on Cinco De Mayo.

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Another small mercy I didn’t see coming.  After CNN interview with Anderson Cooper, Ohio Governor Mike DeWine  a longtime opponent of LGBTQ rights, on Monday night gave Anderson an unsolicited, and seemingly heartfelt  “Congratulations on the baby. It’s a great thing.”

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Trump is now attacking Joe Biden in fundraising emails as a “BIG GOVERNMENT SOCIALIST.” Seriously? But hey, maybe Donald should use that phrase on Twitter, might get Joe a few more Bernie Sanders supporter votes.

Wild tweet storm at 1am from Donald Trump, attacking all the Republicans he perceives to be against him.

“Hello, Washington DC 911 – I wish to report an elderly man in distress. Possible OD?

I fully expect President Biden to have a verbal gaffe, or two, every week. But pretty darn sure he won’t be calling his political opponents “LOSERS” & “deranged losers,” and  “Moonface.”