Left Coast Sports Babe

The Chicago White Sox today, with a loss to the Detroit Tigers are now 39-121. A record number of losses.

If anyone has seen the White Sox play this year, the hardest thing to understand, how did they win 39 games

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Congratulations to Matt Chapman, winner of the SF Giants Willie Mac award. Well since Chapman signed a long term deal, one nice change this year is that the winner should be around for a while

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Don’t look now but Indiana, Illinois and Rutgers, all at 4-0, are on top of the Big 10 College Football Standings.

Getting to CFB playoffs means money for whole conference. No dog in this fight but my sense is ACC officials made call to get Miami – an ACC team – big payoff by maybe being in playoffs. Virginia Tech took one for the team, or rather the conference on overturned Hail Mary TD.

(and yes, ACC gets one team -their champion – in, but they have a chance for more, and seeding matters

My feeling on replay review. If it takes more than 2 minutes, the call stands. Period.

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Dear Republicans. When you have a “once in a lifetime storm” on a regular basis across the United States pretty safe to say, yes, climate change is real.

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Read a sad story about a guy in Cedar Key, Florida whose popular little bar was destroyed by Hurricane Helene.
“He said he has previously turned down offers of government aid, but this time is ready to accept whatever help he can get.”

Socialism is too often defined as aid given to anyone else.

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Rick Scott, on CNN talking about hurricane flooding. (Yes, he said it)

“In Florida, most of what you die from is water not wind. …Who knows what the reason is, but something is changing, massive storms, massive storm surge, we’ve got to figure this out.” Something? 2 words: CLIMATE CHANGE

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Have to wonder, how many people who ignored orders to evacuate during Hurricane Helene and still survived (often only with help from first responders) will decide they were right? Much like those who took invermectin and still survived COVID.

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Melania Trump said of the “mainstream media” “They only fueling a toxic atmosphere…This needs to stop. This needs to stop. The country needs to unite.”

MSM is fueling a toxic atmosphere?! If you didn’t already know Melania doesn’t attend nor listen to Donald’s speeches and rallies.

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If you’re struggling to control your appetite for food and don’t want to resort to drugs, may I suggest reading stories of how RFK Jr and Olivia Nuzzi had ‘incredible’ Facetime sex with each other?

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RIP Maggie Smith, 89 Loved her in so many things, but especially as the Dowager Countess in Downton Abbey “A woman of my age can face reality better than most men.” True at any age, really

Caitlin Clark and the Indiana Fever are out of the WNBA playoffs. But so many great players are still in. A’Ja Wilson, Napheesa Collier, Breanna Stewart. For starters. Keep watching!

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Don’t look now but the 38-120 Chicago White Sox are on a two game winning streak.

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As Trump keeps saying that everyone who won’t vote for him, Catholics, Jews, Seniors, etc, .. (so far) should have their head examined, your reminder that psychiatrists are almost universally agreed that Trump has Narcissistic Personality Disorder. .

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Mayor Eric Adams indicted on Federal charges in New York. He’s a Democrat. If he’s convicted he should go to jail. See how easy that is?

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The US Senate just passed legislation to continue to fund the government until Dec 20. 78-18 18 Republicans actually voted to shut everything down on Monday.

Why do so many in the GOP hate America?

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Last week Trump said that he’d “probably” meet President Zelensky. Now Donald said he wil not meet Zelensky Is there ANYTHING Trump says the truth about? Other than being a dictator on day one and punishing his enemies?

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Learned from Colin Allred today Texas has been red partly because it’s one of LOWEST turnout states in the country Only 60% of eligible voters turned out in 2020.

By comparison California had 68%, Minnesota had 80%.

If voters turn out this year, Democrats can defeat Ted Cruz.

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WTAF?

Mike Lee had unmitigated gall to oppose President Biden’s nominee to run Office of Government Ethics

because “we are too close to Presidential election & the term is 5 years.”

But Lee had no problem with ramming though lifetime SCOTUS nominee few weeks before 2020 election

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As Florida Governor Ron DeSantis warns people about Hurricane Helene, can someone ask him why he believes weather science about storms but not medical science about vaccines?

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Was at SF Giants game when they scored 13 runs on Wednesday night. Joked to a friend I hoped they hadn’t used up all their runs for the week. They haven’t scored another run since.

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Florida State, who had a legitimate claim to being BCS playoff eligible last year, is now 0-3 after falling to Memphis?! Well at least Seminoles fans should be glad to have Stanford and Cal in the ACC.

Looks like Boise State, Colorado State, Fresno State, and San Diego State will join Oregon State and Washington State in the Pac 12 for the 2026-27 year.

They could just call it the “State 12?”

Although, really, aren’t we just moving towards referring to all college football as the NFL minor leagues?

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Trump says he will not sell DJT shares, and the stock surged. So when Donald does unload his shares will he say he had the concept of not selling?

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Fox News headline: Melania Trump releases new video with ‘warning to all Americans’ ahead of $100 million lawsuit. (Donald wants DOJ to pay him $100 for damages during FBI raid.)

Yes, raid should be a warning. If you steal classified documents the FBI can raid ANYONE’s house.

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As much as we may snicker about Trump having a “concept of a plan,” he DOES have a plan. It’s Project 2025.

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Martha Stewart didn’t endorse in 2020. Now she is endorsing VP Harris. Because Kamala “doesn’t hate New York,” and she “doesn’t hate democracy.”

Weird note. For all that MLB keeps adding Wild Cards in hopes of getting more fan interest into baseball, it now 3 weeks until the end of the MLB season, 28 games to go… And in the American League after the division leaders and three wild card leaders, no other team has more than a SIX percent chance to make the postseason

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But I guess there is the drama of playoff positioning. And if the Chicago WHite Sox will equal the 1962 Mets for futility.

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Question of the day for Who Dat fans.

Are the New Orleans Sainst this good. Or are the Carolina Panther that bad?

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SF Chronicles’s Joe Garofoli today “State legislatures collectively passed 19,000 laws in the last election cycle, many of which affect the day-to-day issues that families face far more than those passed by Congress.” Take nothing for granted. Even in purple-blue states. Vote.

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From Marc Ragovin –

English soccer player Victor Adebojejo recently missed a game when a vigorous sneeze ended up hurting his back.  Medical experts say this is the world’s worst instance of a soft tissue injury

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Cal and ASU both made SEC teams (Auburn and Mississippi State) look bad Saturday. After USC beat LSU Thursday. Somewhere the ghost of the Pac 12 is laughing

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-If Barbara Bush were still alive she’d have told her son to get off his ass and endorse Kamala Harris.

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Among other things, Chuck Schumer said he’s urging House GOP to take up & pass Senate-approved bills to protect kids online- the Kids Online Safety Act & Children and Teens’ Online Privacy Protection Act. “Urging?” How about tellling them, “quit the nonstop theatre & govern?”

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Media did cover some of Trump’s insanely violent rhetoric tonight. But only in Heather Cox Richardson’s s substack did I read DonOld also slurred words, referred to Elon Musk as “Leon,” & forgot name of ND Gov, Doug Burgum, who was on his VP short list.

Evil & dementia are a bad cocktail.

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Not that Kamala Harris should lower herself to respond to DonOld Trump’s “no boxes during the debate” rant.

But how much would we love to see Kamala tell him “Fine, no girdles either.”

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Back in 1500s England, Henry VIII clearly was becoming an increasingly deluded tyrant. But many in search of power enabled him. A number of those acolytes ended up in pieces. – Literally.

There’s a reason GOP doesn’t want us to learn about history.

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If you don’t already love Tim Walz. At an LGBTQ+ advocacy dinner in DC Saturday Night

“It’s a fact of life some people are gay. But you know what’s not a fact of life? That our children need to be shot dead in schools.”

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CNN headline “Harris preps for showdown. Trump takes informal approach. Fixed it for them. “Harris preps for showdown. Trump does nothing but rant, try to sell merchandise, and play golf.”

On Apple TV just heard the SF Giants are hitting .195 with RISP since the All-Star Break.

Worst in baseball.

Yes, including the Chicago White Sox.

Does this team need a hitting coach or a psychologist?

(a friend suggests, an exorcist?)

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Look, I don’t claim to be an expert on this sort of thing, but saw several stories and social media posts about the field in Brazil for the Eagles-Packers game being slippery and not up to NFL standards.

And then Jordan Love late in the game as he is tackled gets what looks to be a serioust leg injury?

Not like the NFL would put $$$ for a foreign game over player safety… #sarcasm

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An English professional soccer player injured himself with a “pretty hefty sneeze.”

Funny, but these things are real. I remember being pregnant over 35 years ago with a bad cold and my ob-gyn told me to stay home from work and rest. She said it was possible to cough yourself into a miscarriage.

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Sunday night football on Friday? But actually are there any days in the week now that do not have football? Especially if you throw in the college game.

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Trump’s hush money sentencing has been delayed until after Nov 5election.

Much as I want to see Donald in jail, my sense is this isn’t a bad thing.

If he were sentenced to jail, he’d not only appeal, DonOld would campaign on it & sell merchandise like he sold mug shot pictures.

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As insane as what Trump was saying this morning about women and his conviction for sexually assaulting E. Jean Carroll, is it just possible he’s trying to distract us from talking about Project 2025?

Everyone knows DonOld is a pig. Some don’t know he wants to destroy democracy.

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Donald Trump is now ranting about Kamala Harris’s height and saying she isn’t allowed to stand on a box. Ok then, if size matters, can we have both Harris AND Trump step on a scale before the debate?

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Don’t think these eight words from Donald Trump attacking a woman who accused him of sexual assault are getting enough attention.

“She would not have been the chosen one.”

That’s not just weird, it’s depraved.

Just wondering: Since today’s GOP is all about the rights of fetuses over women and guns over children. What happens when one of these school shooters murders a pregnant teacher?

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Liz Cheney is the principled conservative Nikki Haley’s supporters thought she was.

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Former VP Dick Cheney confirms he will be voting for Kamala Harris.

Maybe to prove it’s nothing personal Dick can offer to take J.D. Vance hunting?

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Donald Trump is now ranting about Kamala Harris’s height and saying she isn’t allowed to stand on a box during the debate.

Ok then, if size matters, can we have both Harris AND Trump step on a scale before the debate?

Matt Chapman, 31, just signed a six year $151 millon contract with the SF Giants. Based on the last six years, let’s hope it doesn’t mean he always gets Octobers off.

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SF Giants won today on a walk-off ground rule double. Which made them 2 for 14 with RISP.

Again, maybe we need to be realistic and call them Runners in Stranding Position.

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Many women have the experience of trying to fit into shoes that are too small for them. After tonight, Isaiah Likely might try to join them

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Dear NY Times and Washington Post.

You’re busy, but seem to be spending a lot of time rewriting the word salads in many Trump events.

Just print them verbatim.

We’ll take it from there.

Sincerely, Americans who can read

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Apparently Apalachee high school teachers had new security system- an ID badge w/ panic button to alert police to an active threat.

The new system almost certainly saved lives.

But how much money did it cost that could have been spent on say… equipment & books?

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We will never know how many lives were saved because parents bought their children what GOP considers “dangerous” books instead of guns for Christmas.

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Want to know just how bad J.D. Vance’s idea that people should rely on grandparents for childcare is…? Go to the Fox News website. You can’t find the quote anywhere. Nor DonOld’s world salad childcare answer.

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Only in America: The phrase “latest school shooting.”

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If anyone is still undecided on this Presidential election:

For her running mate Kamala Harris chose Tim Walz.

For his running mate Donald Trump chose J.D. Vance

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Trump actuallly just said “African-American & Hispanic-American jobs are under massive threat from “massive invasion at our border.” Leaving aside fact Trump ordered GOP to tank border bill. “African and Hispanic American” jobs? Would he like to spell out what those are?

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J.D. Vance actually said that parents who can’t afford childcare should have their grandparents watch the children? And while they’re together have Grandma and Grandpa and the kids eat cake?

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Hey media.

Since he thinks grandparents exist to provide childcare can someone ask J.D. Vance why HIS wife’s parents still live and work in San Diego, CA, while he and Usha are in Ohio?.

The Indiana Fever are in the playoffs.

And a year ago most Americans would have said “What?”

You don’t have to love Caitlin Clark to love what she’s done for women’s basketball.

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If Angel Reese’s Chicago Sky make the WNBA playoffs too… well, will they outdraw the NFL. Probably not. But maybe some college football games.

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Only silver lining to the SF Giants season at this point for those of us who are political people, we won’t be distracted from the election by the MLB postseason.

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Well, only those who have been verifiably paid by Russia need to be nervous. Guess that means at least a few Republicans will be sleeping soundly tonight.

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Find myself thinking of Jamie Raskin, who said initially on the January 6 committee that Liz Cheney was very supportive after his son died by suicide, and later that they became good friends.

He told Cheney “I can’t wait until you and I get back to disagreeing about everything.”

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The alleged Georgia high school shooter is a 14 year old male… 14??!!!

It’s the guns, stupid.

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I wish we lived in a country where we saw a random city trending and we assumed it was about anything but another mass shooting.

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Today is a horrible reminder that today’s GOP feels that it’s more urgent to keep books out of the hands of children than to keep guns out of the hands of children.

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Fox News Headline “Trump vows to ‘heal our world’ after fatal Georgia school shooting: ‘It’s a sick and angry world for a lot of reasons,’ Trump said” What headline didn’t say. Then DonOld started another sick and angry rant…

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Liz Cheney just announced she is voting for Kamala Harris. I agree with Liz on almost nothing. But she has more cojones than most GOP men. #ThankYouLiz

Do we know 100% that sensible gun control reforms will work? No. But we already know 100% that “thoughts and prayers” don’t work.

The WNBA playoffs start in about three weeks.

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Wonder if this year they might have better ratings than the MLB playoffs?

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The Chicago White Sox are now 31-109

Even mor amazingly, they have a NEGATIVE 310 run differential…. yes, that is more than 2 runs PER game

(as maddening as SF Giants have been, they are only -21 -of course losing a lot of one run games is especially maddening.

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Hey Congress. Looking for a bipartisan issue? Check out what Uber and Lyft are doing to drivers. Have an Uber ride today for $43. Driver getting $18. He says Lyft is as bad

Are they using an algorithm? Or just oligopoly greed.

If Trump’s story about Arlington National Cemetery was true, he would have released the video.

Lara Trump’s music video is so criminally bad it should almost be added to the Trump family’s list of felonie

My father, a political science professor, always told me as a child – “Presidential campaigns don’t really begin for most people until Labor Day.” So what is Donald Trump this week starting Labor Day? Nothing.

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Remembering when Joe Biden was still running for re-election. If he stayed out of public eye for more than 24 hours media would howl he was too old and decrepit to be running for President.

Trump is taking the week off…to golf? Or to rest up? Or fling ketchup bottles?

Amy Klobuchar w/ Alex Wagner about innocent people who believe Trump’s lies on Democrats executing babies after birth. “They keep hearing it, they think it’s true, it’s just NOT true. That’s murder

Sadly Amy’s right, if you only get news from right-wing media/social media, you just hear lies.

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Also Klobuchar, = warning women in Florida about Donald’s Project plans “2025 is not the number of Trump’s felony indictments…”

(She didn’t add. “Yet.”)

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Interrupt the usual snark for PSA: Republicans want us to think government doesn’t work. They want us to think voting doesn’t matter. But if we elect Harris Walz & a blue House and Senate, Democrats can get a lot done that will benefit average Americans, not just billionaires.

Well Stanford in the ACC is starting out well. Now, to be fair, this is a nonconference game next week against Cal Poly.

But from Stanford Football ticket sales “Fans can now score $4 tickets in select sections for our 4 PM PT kick against Cal Poly on Saturday, Sept. 7”

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As an SF Giants fan this is basically all we have to look forward to in the 2024 postseason.

Dreading October? Los Angeles Dodgers close in on their postseason wall

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mlb/columnist/bob-nightengale/2024/09/01/dodgers-mlb-playoffs-october-standings/75032048007/

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Is it just possible that Donald Trump keeps doubling down on his sacrilege at Arlington National Cemetery to keep the heat and headlines off of his support of Project 2025

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As more and more clips of JD Vance exposing his misogynistic views come to light, forget Tim Ryan’s people not doing opposition research, why did actual JOURNALISTS not find some of these speeches when Vance ran for U.S. Senate?

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I remember when journalists all wanted to be Woodward and Bernstein. Though come to think of it, Bob Woodward in 2020 sat on Covid being airborne for book sales.

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If you ran a company and were looking for a new CEO. Would you consider hiring a 78-yr old increasingly addled former CEO, fired from his last job, with a history of bankruptcies, 34 felony convictions and a history of blaming EVERYONE but himself for his failures?

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Could some journalist please ask JD Vance on camera what he thinks of Tim Scott and Lindsey Graham not having children?

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Tim Kaine (on Fox News Sunday) should have gotten more attention than Tom Cotton.

Asked on Harris’s immigration proposals: “Congress really bears lion’s share of responsibility, three times since I’ve been in Senate, we’ve done bipartisan border security deals,. GOP killed each bill those three times”

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NY Times headline “How Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Unlikely Partnership Took Shape.”” What’s “unlikely” about two extreme narcisssists who seem to be motivated only by attention finding each other?

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Even William Hung is thinking about Lara Trump’s singing career: “Girl give it up.”

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Trump is claiming in a fundraising email today that “MARXIST Kamala’s weaponized DOJ had me indicted AGAIN.” Uh, this is the same man who lies regularly that Harris is stupid. But somehow she took over & now runs the DOJ as Vice President?

Kamala Harris didn’t quite spell it out like this. But, she knows, Tabasco is a food group. Fight me.