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The day after

June 3, 2026

We are now about 24 hours after the polls closed in California.

Which means we’re about 2 weeks from ballots all being counted.

And of course Trump is pretending it is some sort of conspiracy. Ironic since he’s still trying to recount votes from 2020.

So go figure.

A guy named Victor somehow won a game for his team tonight.

And it wasn’t Wemby.

Victor Bericoto for the SF Giants with his first MLB home run in a 1-0 win against the Brewers.

Can media stop pretending it’s a big deal Spencer Pratt got about 30% of vote for Los Angeles mayor?

Heck, Steve Garvey, whose experience was simply being good at baseball (and who got two women pregnant while he was engaged to a third received 41% of the vote vs now Senator Adam Schiff.

Wait, I thought Trump says Kaitlin Collins never smiles. “

“I never see a smile on her face. I see her standing there with hatred in her eyes.”

So we shouldn’t share this picture, it would upset Donald.

We shouldn’t share this picture, it will upset him.

Oops.

Marco Rubio claims that Trump never falls asleep and by way of defense says Donald has called him at 2 a.m. and 5 a.m.
Not the flex he thinks it is: dementia patients often can’t sleep through the night and then can’t stay awake during the day.

60 Minutes deserves a better home. MSNow? PBS? Netflix? Who wants to start the bidding war. Oh, and f*ck CBS.

Amy Klobuchar speaking on the 40th anniversary of C-Span 2, notes that the presiding officer on June 2, 1986, their inaugural broadcast, was Senator Chuck Grassley-

(And he’d already been a Senator for five years.)

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to Senator Maggie Hassan today

“Except for inflation, the economic data is very strong.”

Except for that, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you like the play?

Donald had a closed to press dinner in what he calls “The Rose Garden Club.”

It’s a small detail in the grand scheme of things.

But it is NOT the bleeping “Rose Garden Club”

It is the “Rose Garden.”

In the American people’s White House. Not Velveeta Voldemort’s Club.

Will take probably serious two weeks for final results but Matt Mahan and Katie Porter both have conceded in the California Gubernatorial Primary.

They could have given those speeches last week… Or last month.

I’m trying to imagine what the $200 million Tom Steyer spent in the California primary could have done and could do in swing districts and purple states across the country.

If Tom were only able to put aside his ego to let others lead and be elected.

Hasan Piker made a last minute endorsement for Tom Steyer

If anyone needed another reason to vote for Xavier Becerra.

Steyer’s cost for funding his campaign is probably going to be record breaking.

But there’s also $35 million spent by Matt Mahan campaign for about 210,000 votes.

Even if Mahan gets up to about 250,000 that’s about $120 a vote.

And his campaign spent less per vote than Steyer.

Starry and not starry nights.

March 8, 2024

ESPN reports that Victor Wembanyama with a sprained right ankle is likely to sit vs the Golden State Warriors in SF.


That moment as a Spurs fan in the SF Bay Area that you’re really glad you didn’t decide to splurge to see San Antonio’s rookie phenom

Meanwhile, on a positive basketball note, the Big Ten women’s basketball tournament, in Minneapolis is sold out, for the first time ever.

And have to wonder, is this the first time more casual American sports fans can name a top woman’s college player before they can name a men’s NCAA basketball star?

Meanwhile at SOTU speech, I’m about 17 years younger than President Biden, and I wish I had his Dark Brandon energy.

President Biden references overturning Roe V. Wade. “With all due respect justices, women are not without electoral and political power. You’re about to find out how much.”

We may have a ketchup shortage in Florida with all the ketchup that must be being thrown against the wall tonight at Mar-A-Lago. Helluva SOTU speech, and the former reality TV host knows it.

Truly awful. Katie Britt has nerve to claim “Americans are dying” because of President Biden while her own party scuttled a border security bill. No mention of Americans dying from gun culture or from domestic violence. Those lives don’t matter to GOP.

And Katie Britt has nerve to talk about “our word is our bond” as Americans. Uh, if as a Republican Britt is not completely against reading, may I suggest reading the Afghan Adjustment Act? And about NATO, & about Putin & Ukraine. And a little history, starting with Hilter?

Ted Cruz spoke on Senate floor to honor Zeb Smith, fire chief who died fighting panhandle fire. & to ask for federal aid for Texas. Good speech but

1.Would it kill him to acknowledge Biden immediately offered federal assistance

2..Cruz voted no on federal aid for NJ after Sandy. And to Colorado after their fires.

New Alabama law temporarily shields IVF clinics from liability if embryos are damaged or destroyed. It doesn’t address if egg fertilized outside womb is a person. Uh, IF life begins at conception, then embryo IS a person. GOP doesn’t care about life. They care about control.

Meanwhile in California:

Didn’t vote for Barbara Lee, but admire her. “We’ll continue to mobilize voters throughout state & demand action for better California & not settle for 1/2 measures. I congratulate my colleague, Rep. Adam Schiff on his victory in advancing in this race.”

While Katie Porter claims her election loss was “rigged by billionaires.” It was an expensive primary campaign and both Porter and Schiff had serious money. Schiff’s ad’s didn’t attack Porter, they reminded voters Garvey was the top Republican, which boosted Garvey, and he ended up in 2nd place.

But with three Democrats running there was always a chance any GOP candidate could squeak into 2nd. Most of my Dem friends agree that Porter is being a sore loser.


But when a Republican loses and claims the election was rigged, most of his/her followers just fall in line and agree.

NY Times “Mitch McConnell Endorses Trump, Whom He Once Denounced.” I like Stephen Colbert’s line better ” Tortoise Endorses Hair.”