Left Coast Sports Babe

Hard to root for an unvaccinated Kirk Cousins. But against Aaron Rodgers who is both unvaccinated and lied about it…. #SKOL

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AP poll is out with Georgia #1, Ohio State #2, Alabama #3 and Cincinnati #4. Notre Dame is #5 You know many wanted to put the Fighting Irish higher than the Bearcats. Except Notre Dame’s only loss… was to Cincinnati.

Aaron Rodgers apparently was dealing with a serious toe injury during today’s Packers’ loss to the Vikings. So during his COVID week off Rodgers somehow didn’t have time to do his own research to fix the toe?

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Just saying. There are a whole lot of mediocre football teams in the NFL this season.

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Hell freezes over. I have to say something nice about the former coach of Cincinnati Bearcats He made original scholarship offer to now star QB Desmond Ridder which current coach Luke Fickell honored.

The former coach in question – who UC paid $1 million to go away? He’s now Senator Tommy Tuberville.

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SNL Weekend Update… Colin Jost talking about Rep. Matt Gaetz offering Kyle Rittenhouse an internship. “Because Gaetz has always supported teenagers willing to do terrible things.”

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I’m tired of hearing about Rittenhouse, but how frightening is it to see him smile & talk about the “correct verdict” after he went to an out-of-state protest and shot three people? This means he’d do it again.

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YouGov/ Economist poll: 51% of white women without college degrees polled said 2020 Presidential election was stolen, vs 29% of degree-holding white women. If you needed yet another reason why GOP is against helping w/ college costs & student debt. Education causes Democrats.

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Police are searching for a man who fled Atlanta Airport after accidentally firing a gun at the security checkpoint. When they find him can he claim self-defense from TSA?

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As Build Back Better, with a huge focus on care costs, now moves to the Senate – a question – “How can the economy work if it’s too expensive for women to work?

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Kevin McCarthy now claims what drove him to keep talking for eight hours was “so the American people could understand what’s in the bill.” Uh, the American people couldn’t even understand what was in one of McCarthy’s sentences.

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Governor Ron DeSantis, signing bills against vaccine-mandates “Nobody should lose their job due to heavy-handed COVID mandates, we had a responsibility to protect the livelihoods of the people of Florida…” Uh, how about the LIVES of the people of Florida? Over 61,000 now lost.

Detroit Free Press reported Wednesday that Michigan State was set to offer 10-year $95 millon contract to coach Mel Tucker.Today MSU lost 56-7 to Ohio State.

Uh, is the ink dry on that contract?

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So what’s the Power Five CFB playoff argument going to be next week now that “Cincinnati Bearcats’ wins haven’t been convincing enough” has to be at least temporarily retired?

(48-14 over SMU, and it was a shutout until late 4th quarter.)

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After UCLA’s Dorian Thompson-Robinson’s scored on a TD run today, fan wearing USC colors handed a UCLA hat & sharpie to him. The Bruins’ QB signed it and gave it back.

Thompson-Robinson was prompty assessed a 15 yard penalty for “unsportmanlike conduct.”

Was the ref auditioning for the No Fun League?

Fox News Headline “Embattled MLB star blasts media in Rittenhouse tweet after acquittal.” The tweet “Guess it’s important to know all facts before jumping to conclusions. Not everything written in media is true.” Trevor Bauer, whose sexual assault DEFENSE is “she asked for it.”

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Disney World caved to Governor Ron DeSantis and decided Florida Cast Members don’t have to be vaccinated. So many Americans may soon be nostalgic for the days when the worst thing you brought back from a Disney Vacation was an overpriced t-shirt.

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If you’re really mad about yesterday’s verdict in Kenosha and worried about upcoming SCOTUS decisions on abortion….it’s not too soon to pick a 2022 race, or several races. Local and state elections. Get involved. The democracy you save may be our own.

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Media giving far more attention to Rittenhouse case & verdict than Infrastucture bill being signed and Build Back Better passing the House. And we wonder why Biden’s approval ratings are low.

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Since conservatives are now so into the idea of self-defense, the next time a woman kills her husband/partner and says he was abusive, they’re going to celebrate her, right?

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After Alec Baldwin accidentally fatally shot someone, he was photographed looking horrified and distraught. Kyle Rittenhouse, who claims he was just trying to “help”, fatally shot someone and then ran and shot two more.

Dr. Saule Omarova, 55, emigrated to US from Moscow 30 years ago “with one suitcase and a fifty-dollar bill in my pocket. She got a PHD at Wisconsin & JD at Northwestern. And CNN headline is “Watch senator grill Biden nominee on Soviet upbringing.”

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Another CNN headline missing lede: “California Democratic Rep. Jackie Speier becomes latest high-profile Democrat not running for reelection.” As anyone in SF Bay Area knows headline should be “Jackie Speier retirement sets off feeding frenzy among local Dems to take her place.”

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Have friends in pharmaceutical industry who argue that some drugs, especially new drugs, need to be expensive to cover the cost of development. But regardless how you feel about that argument, there is NO excuse for expensive insulin.

Republicans claim their policies are what America wants. Democrats claim their policies are what America wants. So let’s pass the #FreedomToVoteAct and let actual Americans decide!

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So wonder how many GOP pundits and members of Congress lauding Kyle Rittenhouse as either a victim or a hero would be okay with him trying to date their daughters?

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I’m a white suburban woman and I’d sure as hell rather have Cory Booker in my neighborhood than Kyle Rittenhouse.

The Atlanta Falcons were shut out tonight! No, I didn’t watch the game. But as a Saints fan I like writing that sentence. #WhoDat

Antonio Brown has been accused of buying and using a fake COVID vaccine card. Since he’s one of Tom Brady’s favorite receivers, how hard will the NFL slap his hand?

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Governor Ron DeSantis made a special trip to Brandon, FL, a suburb of Tampa, to sign anti-vaccine mandate bills, just so he could troll Joe Biden with “Let’s Go Brandon” chants. On top of everything else, today’s GOP has the grace & maturity of badly-behaved 12 year old boys.

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If only Facebook had put as much time and money into safety and security as they are spending on their current ad campaign to convince Americans that Congress shouldn’t come down too hard on them now….-

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Louisiana GOP Sen. John Kennedy attacked Soviet Union-born Dr. Saule Omarova saying “you used to be a member of a group called The Young Communists.”

Uh, one, it was REQUIRED for young people in the Soviet Union. Uh, if anyone knows about how much you can change from your youth… Kennedy is 69. Until John was 53 he was a Democrat.

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President Biden test driving an electric Hummer in Michigan yesterday didn’t get a lot of coverage. Of course, had he bumped the Hummer into so much as a traffic cone it would have been front page news.

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If GOP really thought Americans would hate Build Back Better, they’d let Democrats pass it and campaign against the bill in the 2022 elections. Period.

Kevin McCarthy thinks someone like Jimmy Stewart is going to play him in his wannabe remake of “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington?” More likely it will be an infomercial featuring Scott Baio.

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How many Republicans watching Kevin McCarthy tonight were suddenly terrified of the idea of a standing filibuster?

Tom Brady says his rudeness w/ press after Bucs loss to Washington was due to his “lack of perspective after losses” & joked on Instagram “Press conferences after loss are like co-workers emailing you before you’ve had coffee.”

Just as well Tom’s still playing and not retired coaching his kids’ sports teams.

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Brandon Belt today decided not to become a free agent and accepted an $18.4 million qualifying offer from San Francisco Giants. Well, yeah, a captain doesn’t abandon his crew.

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Matt Gaetz wants to hire Kyle Rittenhouse as a Congressional intern? Why stop there, why doesn’t Gaetz encourage his fellow GOP members of Congress to hire Rittenhouse as a bodyguard/medic for their daughters?

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Husband of Florida woman who died of COVID-19 while suing hospital to be treated with ivermectin is continuing her lawsuit “Every person in Florida has a constitutional right to choose what is done with their own body.” Would he like to also become a spokesman for NARAL?

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Can someone please teach Chris Christie how to knit so we can tell him to go home?

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Gosh, six months ago Maxine Waters just telling protesters to get more confrontational if Chauvin were acquitted was cause in McCarthy’s mind for censure. But sharing a video about KILLING a member of Congress…well, boys will be boys.

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Q-Anon Shaman sentenced to 41 months in prison. Got news for these folks. JFK Jr isn’t coming back. And Velveeta Voldemort was never going to pardon them.

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Conservative media: Driving across state lines to a protest while carrying an AR-15 to a protest = being a good boy. Walking in a neighborhood to buy Skittles while wearing a hoodie = being a dangerous thug.

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As Mike Lee complains that the vaccine mandate threatens Americans with being unemployable, is he also going to argue that laws threaten Americans with being unemployable? Because there is that question on most job applications – “Have you ever been arrested?”

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It’s basic math that paying workers more will cause prices to increase. So would GOP Senators complaining about inflation like to set an example for constituents by offering to reduce their own salaries?

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So did GOP House members say today that if any Democratic members want to post violent anime videos of themselves attacking one of their Republican colleagues or the Former Guy it’s no big deal?

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Dear media. As you post headlines about increasing COVID case counts and hospitalizations in various states, would you please include percentage of serious cases and deaths who are unvaccinated? Asking for Americans who are tired of COVIDiots.

Yes, this is a real sentence about the College Football Playoff rankings “The No. 3 Ducks remained one spot ahead of No. 4 Buckeyes, as committee apparently still gives a lot of weight to Oregon’s 35-28 victory at Ohio State on Sept. 11.”

So you mean with all the “strength of schedule” conjecture head to head competition is still worth something?

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So apparently starting Christmas Day, Staples Center will now be named Crypto. com Arena. Is Crypto.com, a Singapore based company, paying the $700 million naming rights deal in Bitcoin?

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SF Giants’ Gabe Kapler being chosen Manager of the Year was a vote not even Donald Trump would challenge..

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Stephen Colbert’s latest shared nickname for Velveeta Voldemort – “The Vanity Manatee.” Cute, but kind of insulting, to manatees.

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Would be a little less p*ssed off at the media’s Chris Christie redemption tour if the same media hadn’t told Hillary Clinton to “go home and knit.”

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New York ethics panel rescinds approval of Cuomo’s $5.1M pandemic book deal. Uh, New Jersey – anything you can do about Christie’s “Republican Rescue?” Not Cuomo fan but figure Chris Christie’s Trump support & Covid misinformation was at least as ethically unsound & more deadly.

We can argue about charges and the verdict all we want. This is a simple truth. If Kyle Rittenhouse had stayed home on Aug 25, 2020, most Americans wouldn’t remember the Kenosha protests over the shooting of Jacob Blake. And two men would still be alive.

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Rachel Maddow talking about Congressman Gary Palmer of Alabama the, FIRST Republican member of Congress claiming credit in press release to his constituents for Democratic infrastructure bill, a bill he voted against & called “terrible and reckless.”

Too soon to start pool on who in GOP will be 2nd?

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So since many GOP members of Congress still claim to be against the infrastructure bill, maybe it’s time for a new slogan: Republicans for Potholes!

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Democrats were supposed to bring people like Cory Booker to our neighborhoods.

Republicans want to bring more people like Kyle Rittenhouse to our neighborhoods.

I know what side I’M on!

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New Washington Post-ABC poll says Americans say by a roughly 2-to-1 margin that the Supreme Court should uphold Roe v. Wade. GOP is going to hear that and just figure they need to work harder to suppress votes

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So with DeJoy not fired yet, will this be the first Christmas that Black Friday will be too late to mail Christmas presents?

So SF 49ers, the same 4-5 NFL team who just beat 7-3 LA Rams by 21, lost last week to 8-2 Arizona Cardinals by 14, who themselves lost this week to 5-5 Carolina Panthers by 24. And rational people still bet on NFL football?!!

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This NFL season definitely illustrates the “Any Given Sunday” axiom (Or Any Given Monday, or Any Given Thursday.) Except when the Detroit Lions are involved. Because they’re not going to beat anyone.

Rumors were that OBJ, who wants a Super Bowl ring, wanted to wait until after this week’s NFL games to decide who to sign with… So did he sign too soon. Or is he a reason the Rams’ chances are now worse?

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Aaron Rodgers said yesterday’s game “definitely got me a little misty.” Uh, since he’s not vaccinated is the Packers QB sure that mist isn’t “COVID brain fog?”

Patrick Leahy, who has been a Senator since 1974, will not run for re-election in 2022. So Bernie Sanders, at the age of 82, will finally no longer be the JUNIOR Senator from Vermont.

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So the next time someone gets arrested with loaded gun at TSA checkpoint will their defense be they were just trying to be available as an onboard volunteer medic?

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Marjorie Three Names tweeted yesterday “The AR-15 is one of the best guns ever made. It’s easy to hold, especially for women…Buy a gun, try an AR-15.” Wonder what she’d say if black women took her up on that?

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A simple question: If the situation was so dangerous on August 25, 2020 in Kenosha, how come the only three people shot all night were shot by Kyle Rittenhouse?

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If President Biden had a 95% approval rating, the media would be doing front page articles and “breaking news” stories interviewing those in the remaining 5%.

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“If our democracy falls, the rest of it is irrelevant.” Stacey Abrams knows it all comes down to voting rights.

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Any Republican who wants to take a principled stand against the bipartisan infrastructive bill still has time to submit a list of roads in their district they don’t think need to be fixed, and bridges they are okay with falling down…

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If you’re upset about the judge for Rittenhouse murder trial, before the next election, please do a little reading on the judicial candidates, including incumbents, on the ballot..

Yes, living in California isn’t perfect. On the other hand, it is November 14 and it is SNOWING in Green Bay.

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Well, the Detroit Lions, who tied the Pittsburgh Steelers Sunday 16-16, will not be the first team in NFL history to go 0-17. Did this call for a locker room celebration with some cans of generic beer?

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When even NFL Network and NBC call a “roughing the passer” penalty that led to a Titans’ touchdown questionable, and ESPN calls it the hit “slight,” New Orleans fans can nod and say, yeah, we’re paranoid at this point but the league really is out to get the Saints.

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And it won’t happen but Saints can’t find reliable place kicker for short-yardage situations. So how much would I love for them to try out Sarah Fuller, now soccer goalkeeper, who kicked in college for Vanderbilt. She couldn’t be much worse, & what a nice middle finger to NFL

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Apparently 12 now-former NYPD officers who didn’t want to get vaccinated have taken DeSantis’s $5,000 relocation bonus & moved to Florida. So if one of those cops pulls you over can you tell them you did your research & made a personal decision not to follow the speed limit?

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Velveeta Voldemort’s company apparently has a $375 million deal to sell his D.C. hotel lease. So soon the Trump name will be off the property. Wonder how much GOP would pay to get the Trump name off their party?

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If all these red state voting regulation changes aren’t about “some people not wanting some people to vote,” can someone name ONE law that makes it harder for rural white folks to vote? I’ll wait.

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Probably unpopular opinion but as a pragmatic progressive woman I can say there are few things that interest me less Sunday’s Twitter p*ssing match between Elon Musk and Bernie Sanders.

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Remember all that right-wing media hysteria when Hillary Clinton refused a congressional subpoena over Benghazi? Oh that’s right, she didn’t. Hillary testified for over 11 hours.

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Two polls, by Axios/Ipsos & Kaiser Family Foundation show 24-25 point gap between Democrats (68% and 65%) and Republicans (44% & 40%) getting their shots this year… for the flu! Dying to own the libs.

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On these supposed Biden shortages, my guilty soft drink pleasure is Diet Sunkist Orange. I have found 12 packs at our local Safeway exactly three times since March of 2020. And not in the last four months. So when did it become Joe’s fault?

Suppose as a Stanford football fan can at least thank the team for not giving us a tough decision this year – is COVID under control enough to risk attending a bowl game?

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Only consolation on how absymal Stanford’s football team has looked lately is that they still do have 2021 bragging rights on Oregon Ducks, a team who appears likely to make the CFB playoffs.

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New Orleans Saints were fined $500,000 & lost a draft pick after some players posted videos of ONE maskless locker room celebration when they beat Tom Brady’s Bucs 38-3 last year. Aaron Rodgers has been lying all year about his vaccine status, was fined $14,000 & is back Sunday.

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Ben Roethlisberger was placed on COVID-19 reserve list and will miss tomorrow’s game. Not that I can stand the guy but at least he’s vaccinated. Of course, we’ve watched NFL with Rodgers and since Big Ben is a star the league would probably let him back after a week anyway..

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Glenn Youngkin, talking about his election as VA Governor. Parents from all walks of life, from all backgrounds, said ‘My kids matter.’ And we said ‘yes they do!’” Now wait until he figures out 30 different parents have 30 different ideas on what their kids should be taught.

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Can anyone imagine if a Democratic politician’s 17 year old son or daughter had tried to vote illegally? Twice? #glennyoungkin

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Odell Beckham Jr. signed Thursday with the Rams, Friday Los Angeles WR Robert Woods tore his ACL in a “freak accident” in practice. So maybe karma isn’t a fan of OBJ’s attitude either?

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Okay, never got the Pumpkin Spice Latte gene. But watching SNL talk about Bud Light Seltzer Eggnog Flavor makes pumpkin-flavored coffee sound good by comparison.

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Every media outlet that quotes Chris Christie trying to reinvent himself as the anti Velveeta Voldemort should lead with “Despite being one of first major political figures to endorse Trump, Chris Christie is now trying to position himself as a GOP alternative for the future.

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Some anti-vaxxers wearing yellow stars to compare themselves to Jews during WWII. Otto Frank tried for 3 yrs starting in 1938 to emigrate to US w/ family including daughter Anne. But USA had anti-Jewish refugee sentiment then. Guessing these anti-vaxxers also anti-refugee now.

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Scary thought. If you knew nothing about what happened on the night of August 25, 2020 in Kenosha and read about it only on Fox News and conservative social media, you’d assume that Kyle Rittenhouse was a young and innocent victim, a hero even.

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A Republican party that thinks its policies are what a majority of Americans want has nothing to fear from voting rights. Period.

College Football Playoff Committee: We can’t rank teams like Cincinnati because of strength of schedule.

Also College Football Playoff Committee: Next week we will rank one-loss Alabama higher because they are taking on a nonconference powerhouse like 1-8 New Mexico State this weekend.

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But you REALLY know undefeated Cincinnati Bearcats get no respect when ESPN2 cuts away from game for World Cup qualifying match.

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Stephen Colbert compares not being vaccinated to wearing a Yankees cap to a Red Sox game at Fenway – “It’s not going to end well, and it’s your own damn fault.”

(vice versa works too.)

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Jon Gruden is suing NFL saying that the league “selectively leaked his private correspondence -(out of over 650,000 emails in an investigation into the Washington Football team) s to the Wall Street Journal and New York Times in order to harm Gruden’s reputation and force him out of his job,”

Translation “I’m a douchebag but I’m not the only one?”

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WTAF? – A Newsweek op-ed “America Has Moved on From COVID. Why Can’t Biden?” – by James Lynch “recent college graduate.” Uh, still over 1,000 Americans a day and about 760,000 have “moved on” permanently.

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A thought about US labor shortage. Years ago I knew number of undocumented immigrants working illegally in California. They hadn’t come via Southern border, but rather had overstayed visitor/student visas. White young men & women from England.

COVID stopped that and other countries’ “visitors” to US

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Per Washington Post -“Austria threatening to apply lockdown measures to unvaccinated Austrians to stem COVID surge. “’I don’t see why two-thirds should lose their freedom because one-third is dithering,’” Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg said. Shame we can’t do this in USA!

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If you want your 15 minutes of fame right now, a real good way is to be one of a very small minority of people getting fired over vaccine mandates. Of course, the resulting TV interview or news article might have to be played at your or a loved one’s funeral.

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Fox News headline “Kyle Rittenhouse mocked by Hollywood after tearful display on stand: ‘Terrible f—ing actor.” Gosh, missed Fox News outrage when Donald Trump Jr. sold T-shirts mocking Alec Baldwin for killing someone with a gun (unlike Rittenhouse), he didn’t know was loaded.

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Steve Bannon has been indicted by a Federal Grand Jury on two counts of contempt of Congress. If government arrests him and puts the perp walk on Pay-Per-View we could put a big dent in the cost of Build Back Better!

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If White House documents exonerated Velveeta Voldemort from wrong doing on January 6 he’d be having those documents read out loud nightly on Fox News.

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Aaron Rodgers’ father said yesterday he is “proud of the stance his son has taken on COVID-19 vaccines.” Okay, maybe it’s genetics and not CTE?

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Karen Pence doesn’t want her husband having dinner with another woman but she’s silent when his former boss said it was ok for rioters to shout “Hang Mike Pence.”

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Meanwhile, over in Fox News world, Kyle Rittenhouse’s mother complained to Hannity that Joe Biden “defamed” him, and that her son has “a lot of healing to do” and experiences nightmares. Anthony Huber and Joseph Rosenbaum will never have nightmares again.

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Amy Klobuchar on The Last Word, reminds us even GOP election officials are facing threats. One got letter in PA naming his young children, saying they would be “fatally shot.”

The result of these threats: “a democracy on fire.” Amy says threats to election workers should be federal crime. I agree.

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Apparently in Kansas, some anti-vaxxers are showing up to municipal meetings wearing yellow stars,

And most of them would have been protesting had the US offered to take in Jewish refugees trying to escape Europe in WWII.

Scott Boras whining about Braves – saying they got their World Series title as a result of other teams tanking:

“Rules allowed them to be less-than-.500 team at Aug. 1, add 4-5 players from teams that no longer wanted to compete..and at very little cost change entirety of their team & season.” Funny, Boras didn’t seem upset when Dodgers got Scherzer AND Trea Turner from Nats.

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Boras reps Scherzer but seriously is Boras stupid or does he think we are? = “We saw this unfold to the detriment of teams that create at vast expense, planning and intellect and won over 100 games….”

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Odell Beckham Jr, may not decide until after Sunday who to sign with, as he wants to see results of another week’s game.   ESPN reports he wants to spend  rest of this season with a playoff contender and in a winning environment.Uh, but wonder how many teams could have a “winning environment”  until OBJ and his attitude show up?

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Some folks still attacking Alec Baldwin for insufficient self-flagellation over accidentally killing someone with a gun he thought was loaded with blanks. Many of the same folks are filled with sympathy for Kyle Rittenhouse. Who at the very least knew he was firing real bullets.

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As Chris Christie gets his own series on CNN once again we see that the way to get airtime in politics has nothing to do with effectiveness and everything to do with creating drama.

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Wonder how many of folks screaming about inflation are the same folks screaming about stopping immigrants from taking American jobs? And same folks also against higher wages for workers? Guess like Elaine Chao they think poor Americans should work cheaply as a patriotic duty.

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Defense eyewitness today claims Kyle Rittenhouse last August “clearly attempts to de-escalate the situation, and he actually is successful.” If you consider people permanently de-escalated when they are dead.

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That same “eyewitness” in Kyle Rittenhouse is a guy named Drew Hernandez, who tweeted the night before shooting that BLM is a “terrorist organization” and just this week tweeted about a “skirmish” between vaccine mandate protesters and ANTIFA losers.” WTAF?

You KNOW if Aaron Rodgers were some average offensive lineman who lied about his vaccination status and broke protocols he’d be suspended for the season.

And if he were on a team like the Saints, his coach would probably have been suspended too.

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Packers QB Aaron Rodgers was fined $14,650 over his lies about being vaccinated for COVID. Well, all Aaron did was put his teammates, Green Bay staff and their families at risk: It’s a good thing Rodgers didn’t do something really serious, like wear the wrong color socks.

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An important detail on Aaron Rodgers: NFL does not have vaccine mandate. League does have rule about telling the truth. There are protocols for unvaccinated players. Rodgers was unvaccinated, lied, and acted like he was vaccinated. That’s VERY different.

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So yeah, one-loss OSU is ahead of undefeated Cincinnati in College Football Playing Rankings. Put it down to Big Ten bias…

But Michigan is ahead of Michigan State?! If only there were some on the field comparables. Oh wait, never mind.

(for those who don’t follow college football, MSU beat Michigan 37-33 a couple weeks ago.)

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Sad news, Brian Williams is retiring. Sadder news, Chuck Todd isn’t retiring.

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Since trains are part of Biden and Democrats infrastructure bill, how long until Ted Cruz picks a fight with Thomas the Tank Engine?

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A federal judge ruled that United Airlines’ vaccine mandate for employees can stand. So where are all the Republicans applauding a corporation’s ability to make choices based on their beliefs?

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Velveeta Voldemort has lashed out at GOP House members who backed infrastructure bill: Possible Democratic campaign ad – Trump wants your bridges to fall down.

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Not sure who will be the first to be arrested for defying a subpoena from the January 6 committee but put their perp walk on Pay Per View and we could go a long way towards paying for Build Back Better.

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Fox News is all over Barack Obama mistakenly using “Emerald Isles” as a nickname for Scotland at COP 26. Funny, I missed their outrage when Velveeta Voldemort called Ireland part of the UK.

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For those with friends or family who are anti-vaccine, remind or tell them that Fox News pundits and folks like Ted Cruz ARE vaccinated. They aren’t stupid. They just think we are.

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Terrifying to think in this country there are actually people who thought George Floyd deserved to die for passing a counterfeit $20, but Kyle Rittenhouse should walk free for killing two people.

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Reminder. Even if you believe that a kid with a military style assault weapon didn’t realize how much damage it could do, Kyle Rittenhouse didn’t drop the gun crying and in shock when he killed a man. He ran, kept shooting, killed someone else and injured a third person.

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On Late Show, Stephen Colbert brings up Ted Cruz’s starting a feud with Sesame Street over Big Bird simply tweeting about being vaccinated. “Senator Cruz, how should I put this – This show is brought to you tonight by the letters F and U.”

Da Saints would like to thank Da Bears for putting on maybe a more even impressive display of putting together a stirring comeback and then managing to blow it in the last minute. And in prime-time on Monday Night Football even!

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Interesting – many of Dodgers fans’ Twitter posts all season called for Dave Roberts to be fired because of how he was managing the bullpen & lineup. Tonight they’re bitching he wasn’t nominated for Manager of the year.

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Apparently NFL teams employ psychologists to help them evaluate draft picks’ readiness for being mature and able to handle the stress and temptations of being a professional football player. Seems like the Raiders need to re-evaluate their evaluator.

(One top 2020 draft pick charged with felony DUI resulting in death, another cut after he was filmed threatening woman with a gun.)

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Lots of punts yesterday by Green Bay against the Chiefs with Aaron Rodgers out due to COVID. None as bad a punt as State Farm

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So State Farm is fine with Aaron Rodgers’ lies. Wonder what their response would be to someone with a “Good Driver” discount filing a claim if it turned out they had multiple accidents & tickets but said “Well, I consider myself a good driver.”

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So how long until some Republican goes after Kermit the Frog? Because isn’t singing “It’s not easy being green” clearly some color-based racism?

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So after four years of promises and nothing done, Democrats in their first year get a major infrastructure bill passed. And the CNN Monday headlines are all about Biden’s negative poll numbers. The media would both sides a mobius strip.

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Xfinitywas down tonight for over an hour. No TV no internet. And I survived. Hade my beloved and ancient Blackberry Key One. But I challenge anyone who claims broadband access isn’t a necessary part of infrastructure to try suddenly being without it.

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Trying to wrap my head around what would have happened if Hillary Clinton had her campaign staff call electors to tell them to overturn the 2016 election.

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WTAF? Terry McAuliffe lost VA election in part because of stupid statement to parents. Can Dems use this line Josh Hawley said to men when he runs for re-election? “Spending your time on video games, watching porn online.. is not good for you, your family, or this country.”

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So with all the pressing issues facing our country right now has anyone in GOP attacked Bert and Ernie’s living arrangements this week yet?

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Elaine Chao:”5 million people left workforce & because of COVID, some retired early, some decided not to come back. Going to need these workers to do their patriotic duty to come back & help economy. Can we start referring to Elaine & husband Mitch as “Lord & Lady Douchbag?”

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Pete Buttigieg, talking about family leave. “It’s not time off, it’s time to do work. Good work, joyful work…” And as anyone who’s ever taken care of a newborn knows… HARD work.

For all the media has been obsessed all week with how pollsters predicted what turned out to be a close New Jersey Gubernatorial race would be a blowout, don’t think the pollsters messed up any worse than oddsmakers for Sunday’s NFL games.

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Bounties on other players, which could result in injury, were enough cause for NFL to punish Saints with fines, suspensions and loss of draft picks. So why should lying about a QB’s vaccine status, which could result in illness and/or death, not be cause for the same?

On a positive if bittersweet note thinking back on Buster Posey’s retirement last week: Buster hasn’t just been HOF talent as catcher & team leader, he’s one of few people in any field who was honest in saying they were retiring to spend time with their family. #SFGiants

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Instead of Joe Rogan, Aaron Rodgers would have even gotten better advice on COVID-19 from Jake from State Farm.

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Not sure how the infrastructive bill money will be allocated but seems fair that since many in the GOP think it’s a socialist waste of money that they voluntarily put water, roads and bridges in their districts last.

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Whoever “your” NFL team is, it’s almost always a good day whenever the Cowboys lose

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Not a fan of “The Squad,” but Nancy Pelosi knew EXACTLY how many votes she needed to pass Infrastructure bill. If she had needed votes, Madam Speaker would have gotten them to vote yes. But she let them please their bases. Media won’t tell you that. Discord is better clickbait.

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Things GOP will tell you aren’t dangerous: aging roads and bridges, lead pipes, dirty water, not having internet.

Things GOP will tell you are dangerous: Masks and vaccines. #InfrastructureWeek

Florida Gators now 4-5 & ESPN resports coach Dan Mullen said between 20-30 players missed practice during the week because they had the flu. So is Ron DeSantis’s anti-vax attitude keeping folks in Florida from getting flu shots now too?

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So two defensive stands by Cincinnati Bearcats in the last 2 minutes, one with Tulsa at the 11, one at the 3, and they hang on to win 28-20 to remain undefeated. Headline on this one “S*ck it, College Football Playoff committee!”

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Someone brought a sign to ESPN Gameday in Cincinnati – We could beat the Bengals and they wouldn’t let us in the College Football Playoff.

Now that seems like a bit of a stretch. If the Bearcats beat the Bengals that would probably count as a quality win.

Beating say, the Detroit Lions, however, might hurt Cincinnati’s strength of schedule.

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Reportedly Packers QB Aaron Rodgers is ‘furious’ over leak that revealed he is unvaccinated. Wonder how furious his teammates and opponents are to know they’ve been playing with and against an unvaccinated liar?

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So Big Bird is trending because he flew south for the winter during a terrible storm and abandoned his constituents for a vacation? Oh wait, sorry, that was Ted Cruz.

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Colin Jost nails it on Weekend Update on SNL about Velveeta Voldemort doing the Tomahawk Chop at Atlanta Braves World Series game – “Native American groups said they found it extremely offensive to see their culture associated with someone who can’t even run a casino.”

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So has a single Republican demanded that Glenn Youngkin’s underage son face penalties or even jail time for trying to vote illegally – twice? I’ll wait.

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As beloved as he was in Green Bay, Brett Favre has burned a lot of bridges by signing w/ the Vikings, sending unwanted d*ck pics to a reporter, & reportedly receiving about $1 million from state of Mississippi for speeches he didn’t give. “Hold my beer” – Aaron Rodgers.

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So if Cynthia Mason, a black woman in Texas,, was sentenced to 5 years in prison for accidentally voting illegally how long should Glenn Youngkin”s son get?

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Remembering that season I watched random parts of the Bachelorette and discovered Jordan Rodgers and his family were basically estranged from his brother Aaron. Wondered, okay, families are complicated, whose fault is it? Thinking we got the answer this week.

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So would Republicans angry at their own members for passing Biden’s infrastucture bill please submit lists of bridges & roads in their districts they don’t want to be fixed or repaired?

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There’ve always been anti-vaxxers. On the fringes of both parties. A small number of them even protest every year at California State Democratic convention. Big difference is that now media thinks they’re great for ratings and clickbait.

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Ron DeSantis’s latest lie – “How many places that are deep blue are well governed in this country? Can you name me some?” California says “Hi.” (And don’t just take my word for it, take the word of state voters who just voted 61.9% to 31.8% to keep our Democratic governor.”)

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So has Velveeta Voldemort tried to take credit for infrastructure week yet?

A Los Angeles area principal apologized after their high school, Inglewood, beat opponent, Morningside, in football,.106 to nothing.

Wonder how many SEC coaches wondered if they could put Morningside on their schedule.

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Give Aaron Rodgers credit. He’s doing his part to make sure Tom Brady doesn’t get the NFL fan “QB we most love to hate” award.

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Buster Posey in his retirement speech. “Most 34 year old olds are probably experiencing some back pain getting out of bed.” And a whole lot of Giants fans old enough to be his parents or grandparents are just chuckling..

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The Dodgers tweeted out a nice statement honoring Buster Posey as he retired yesterday.

Bet they wish he’d done it a year earlier.

(And yes, I know LA beat the SF Giants in the playoffs. But that long pennant race, the Wild Card game, and then all the pitching gyrations in a five game NLDS clearly took it out of LA and made it easier for the Braves to beat them.)

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Most common PED excuse with pro athletes “I didn’t know what was in the supplement.”. And some of these clowns are afraid of a now well-tested vaccine?

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Wait, JD Vance, running for Ohio Senate as outsider & working class supporter tweeted “Want to have dinner w/ me & Peter Thiel? Donate $10,800 by tomorrow I’ll send you the details,” Because nothing says working class supporter like hawking expensive dinners w/ a billionaire?

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If GOP is so sure Build Back Better would be unpopular why don’t they just let Democrats pass it, then run on repealing the bill in 2022?

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Virginia results – 50.9% Youngkin – 48.4% McAuliffe. New Jersey results. 50.58% Murphy – 48.67% Ciattarelli. Guess which loser is challenging election results? For a party is making education a top issue, concept of learning to be a good sport appears to be beyond GOP.

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Know many Democrats are annoyed at Joe Manchin. But imagine (& I’m NOT morals police), if Cal Cunningham in North Carolina could’ve thought w/ his “upper brain” while campaigning & at least just held off sexting a woman not his wife until after election.

51 Senate seats would be nice right now.

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Dear media including CNN: All these stories now about people struggling with inflation.

Where were all the stories of people who were able to buy food and stay in their homes after the Biden/Democratic stimulus was passed

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Colin Powell’s funeral, with George & Laura Bush, Hillary Clinton (Bill still recovering), Barack & Michelle Obama, as well as Joe and Jill Biden in attendance, is a nice bipartisan moment. Sometimes easy to forget we used to have bipartisan moments.

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While I’m wishing Aaron Rodgers a fully recovery, because no one should die just for being stupid, must confess as a Stanford grad it is amusing to see an unvaccinated Cal grad who clearly learned so little about science.

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Oddly, in 2018 “Rodgers’ commitment to end childhood cancer and blood disorders earned the Packers quarterback an honorary doctorate of humanities degree from the Medical College of Wisconsin”

So he believes in curing cancer but not vaccines? Has someone checked Rodgers for cumulative concussions?

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Per ESPN, Aaron Rodgers, who now has COVID-19, “pursued an alternative treatment” and “then petitioned the NFL to recognize him as vaccinated. The NFL refused.”

Hmm, so Rodgers has COVID but is he at least dewormed?

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Matt Cain on KNBR with his favorite Buster Posey story: Posey calls time and goes out to the mound to ask Madison Bumgarner “What do you want to throw here.” And Madbum response “I dunno, you’re smarter than me, you call it.” #SFGiants

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All this handwringing about how deep blue” New Jersey is and how bad it was that Murphy barely won. The last time a Democratic Governor was re-elected in New Jersey was 1977.

But the last Governor re-elected in New Jersey period was Chris Christie.

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Lisa Murkowski voted to open debate on the John Lewis Voting Rights Act. Good for her. But sorry that this very small step is now almost heroic by GOP standards.

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Meanwhile Susan Collins has voted against opening debate on the John Lewis Voting Act. Will her reason be that she was “very concerned” or “very troubled?”-

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We laugh when Rachel Maddow talks about the hundreds of Q-Anon members in Dealey Plaza who believe Velveeta Voldemort is a biological cousin of JFK Jr. But don’t forget – most of these people vote!

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Watched Maddow tonight also cover GOP’s Lauren Witzke claiming she won Chris Coons’ Senate Seat in Delaware & demanding state troopers help her “reclaim” seat.

Coons won the last eelection 291,804 to 186,054 votes.

What Rachel calls “weird humming noise in background” sounds a lot like batsh*t crazy sedition.

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GOP Senator Mike Lee, “I support the vaccine, I’ve been vaccinated, but this mandate is doing serious harm to our economy.” Like saying “I support speed limits, I follow speed limits, but ticketing trucks driving 100 mph does serious harm to our economy by slowing drivers down.”

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Rick Scott complains TSA & government have no right to show proof of vaccination or to make travelers wear masks. Guess Scott figures it could lead to passengers having to take off shoes, remove metal from pockets, limit liquids in carry-on & gasp, even show ID to board planes..

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Facebook running regular commercials saying how much they care about safety and some regulation, even updating of section 230. Translation: Facebook didn’t care, they don’t care, but they are REALLY scared of the bipartisan coalition of Senators ready to rein them in.

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Senator Klobuchar introducing her bipartisan bill – “American Innovation & Choice Online Act” w/ Grassley, Durbin, Graham, Blumenthal, Hirono, Kennedy, Booker, Lummis, Warner & Hawley. Not only should bill pass but Amy should get Presidential medal for working w/ Josh Hawley.

Listening to Chuck Grassley repeatedly praise Amy Klobuchar for her work leading the “American Innovation and Choice Online Act,” was both lovely and a sad reminder that there was a time Senators used to work across the aisle regularly.

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-“It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone. You count on it, rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops.

A. Bartlett Giamatti.

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Pitchers and catchers report in 103 days.

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As I mentioned two days ago, whatever happened in game 6 of this World Series, there’s was a major piece of good news after game 5. At least there was zero chance of hearing a celebratory crowd in the ballpark doing the Chop.

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Clearly more important things to worry about. But University of Cincinnati, #2 in country, today ranked #6 by College Football Playoff committee, on strength of schedule. While Alabama, who lost to 6-2 Texas A&M and Oregon who lost to 3-5 Stanford, are in top 4. Power 5 bias.

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GOP loves to beat the inflation drum, especially on food prices, and blame it on Democrats’ stimulus plan. And media lets them do it. How about a reminder that without the stimulus plan many Americans wouldn’t have been able to afford food at all?

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Newly elected Lt. Gov of Virginia, Winsome Sears, not only had a campaign poster of her holding an assault style rife, but also she has expressed support for a Texas style abortion ban. Wonder how many suburban Virginia women figure they can just drive to DC?

84% in, and right now with over 2.3 million votes cast, the NJ Governor’s race is separated by 565 votes. Wonder how many New Jersey residents stayed home thinking their vote didn’t matter?

So according to GOP precedent right now when can we expect Terry McAuliffe is going to call Virginia’s election officials and demand they find him more votes?

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Listening to Glenn Youngkin’s victory speech….lots of optimistic platitudes, not so many specifics. But to be fair, not nasty. One major note – Youngkin did NOT thank Velveeta Voldemort. “RINO” attacks from The Former Guy in 3.2.1..

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So as Youngkin says he’s going to give parents a choice in where their kids go to school can’t wait to see what happens if a lot of parents of color decide they want their kids to go to nice white suburban schools.

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Two facts that explain almost all media coverage of politics right now.

1. Media has decided the only way to get ratings now is gloom and doom

. 2. See Fact 1.

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So wonder what these GOP parents who think their children are too fragile to read or hear anything potentially vulgar or upsetting tell the kids when they ask “So what does ‘let’s go Brandon” mean?

Wonder how many sports fans who say they can’t root for the Houston Astros because they cheated also are big fans of Tom Brady.

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If anyone on the New Orleans Saints had tackled Tom Brady with a horse collar tackle that resulted in a torn ACL, NFL would have suspended the entire team for the remainder of the season.

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Acting GM Zack Scott, arrested on DUI charges in Aug, will not return to NY Mets. Thinking if Mets hadn’t done deep dive from 1st place Aug 6 to out of playoff contention. Scott would have announced stint in rehab & team would have announced their full support of him for 2022.

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Rachel Maddow covers how Biden administration Elizabeth Prelogar, US Soliciter General, brilliantly argued against Texas abortion law. For example, if allowed, California could add a bounty for anyone turning someone in who violates state’s gun laws.

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Grand total of 34 NYPD cops went on unpaid leave over the vaccine mandate today. Assuming at least 30 of the 34 will be profiled in the NYTimes.

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While Democrats are focused on GOTV in Virginia, these numbers bear repeating – 169,638 to 169,305 – 433 votes.

How much Mike Garcia (R) beat Christy Smith (D) by in CA Congressional District 25 in 2020.

Even in states like California that support voting rights we need to VOTE.

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This is such a small thing… but as a woman I find myself irrationally annoyed every time I hear Amy Comey Barrett talk in that breathless little girl voice. But, onwards.

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Apparently the Former Guy is selling “Let’s Go Brandon” t-shirts for $45 on his website. $45! So forget what the phrase means about Joe Biden. Having you spend $45 for a childish t-shirt says Trump thinks you’re f*cking stupid.

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James Carville, criticizing WH communication AND media. “All we talk about is inflation, we don’t talk about wage growth, increased power workers have, how we’re poised for a really good recovery..There’s a lot of good news in this economy & we’re not getting it out.” He’s right.

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Seeing well-deserved ire directed at Josh Hawley after he claimed having their masculinity attacked pushes men into watching porn and playing video games.

Josh was elected in part because Claire McCaskill is moderate/conservative red-state Democrat – not all that different politically than Manchin – & many in party didn’t put money or effort into supporting her.

Claire was a million times better.

Litmus tests belong in labs

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There are 48 Democratic Senators who would be happy to go on television and give interviews about why they support the Build Back Better agenda. So media, stop being lazy and drama-focused by just covering the two who have issues with it.

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All you need to know about today’s GOP: They’re fine w/ judge not allowing people Kyle Rittenhouse fatally shot in Aug to be called “victims.” But they’re also fine w/ St. Louis homeowner who pointed weapon at peaceful BLM protesters in July calling himself “a victim of a mob.”

Even if the Braves end up winning World Series at the least I just wanted Astros to win tonight. So my last memories of baseball before this winter don’t involve that bleeping Chop.

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Thinking there might have been about as many people who thought Trevor Siemian would have beaten Tom Brady this year as thought the SF Giants would have won 107 games. Sometimes I love sports.

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Read in SF Chronicle that last night when the Astros’ Jose Altuve came to the plate, just before he hit a home run 434 feet, the organist at Truist Field played “It’s a Small World.” Stay classy Braves.

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As the World Series returns to Houston, this is your voting rights reminder for the night. Houston is in Harris County, Texas, population 4.7 MILLION.

Harris County went for Biden over Trump 56% to 43%

And GOP wants 1 drop box for the entire county. #FreedomToVoteAct

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New Detroit Lions slogan for opponents “Better than a bye-week.”

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For anyone who says it doesn’t matter that Donald Trump has endorsed Glenn Youngkin because Youngkin is a nice independent kind of guy I challenge you to name ONE person Velveeta Voldemort has endorsed who turned out to be an nice independent kind of elected official.

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McAuliffe has a good track record as Governor. Youngkin hasn’t even been on a city council. Haven’t Americans learned enough about putting amateurs in charge?

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Random question. Tickets to World Series in Atlanta, even the cheap seats, were going for $1,000 and up last night. So who paid for Velveeta Voldemort’s suite last night for game 4?

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Presume Chasten was in charge of the costumes but they dressed up their babies as ‘infrastructure’ – ie traffic cones.

So if Chasten and Pete Buttigieg bring their twins, dressed as traffic cones, to a briefing covering what’s in Biden’s Build Back Better bill will the media show up and cover the whole thing?

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In a NY Times story, read that New York City’s vaccination rate among workers affected by city’s mandate rose to 83% at end of day Oct 29, up from 71 % on Oct. 19, day before the requirement was announced. Why isn’t that 83% the headline, instead of the minority holdouts?

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I understand why big Pharma is running ads against allowing Medicare to negotiate drug prices. For them it’s strictly about profit. I’m still waiting for Senators who oppose this overwhelming popular change to explain why THEY are against it.

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Look, I don’t love Manchin or Sinema. But so much social media hate saying THEY’RE the ones blocking everything good in Senate?

Uh, there are 50 GOP Senators, some who claim to be moderate, who are marching in goose step behind Mitch McConnell on everything important. #VoteBlueIn22

After watching World Series Game 4, am again trying to wrap my head around what would have happened if Bruce Bochy had ever suggested to Madison Bumgarner he was going to use an opener in one of Madbum’s World Series games. #SFGiants

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BYU came back to beat University of Virginia 66 to 49. But Virginia was leading 42 to 38 at halftime.

Did the defenses start out practicing social distancing?.

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Velveeta Voldemort claims he was invited to World Series. And Hershel Walker was in his suite.

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The Former Guy thanked MLB commissioner Rob Manfred for invitation. Manfred – “we have always tried to be apolitical.”

Wonder if MLB offered tickets to Senator Reverend Rafael Warnock?

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Interesting fact in case you’re watching fans as the crowd does “The Chop” tonight during World Series Game 4. Atlanta Demographics Black 50.95% White: 40.90% Are there 50 black people total in the stands?

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So not sure how much the Former Guy might have paid the Former First Lady for her appearance tonight but she clearly didn’t think it was enough.

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As cameras panned Truist Field for Mastercard’s #StandUpToCancer moment, wonder why they aren’t showing the Former Guy. Maybe because Donald wouldn’t stand up for anyone but himself?

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Is there any chant in sports more obnoxious than “The Chop?” #WorldSeries

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GOP – let’s attack Democrats by alleging Americans are turning down good jobs just to keep getting benefits.Also GOP – let’s praise other Americans leaving good jobs just to keep “owning the libs” by not getting vaccinated.

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Speaking of parents telling schools what to teach, I remember in my high school American history class, teacher, an ex-Marine & a parent, telling me Richard Nixon had done nothing wrong with Watergate. So how do you decide which parents get to decide?

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Kyrie Irving is a parent. Kyrie Irving is not only anti-vaxx but also he believes the earth is flat. So should he have a say in his child’s science education?

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Gloria Steinum was right. “‘If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.” But also, if men were responsible for child care, paid family leave would be a sacrament.