Posted tagged ‘donald-trump’

Unexpected..

September 21, 2025

Okay, who had the Indiana Fever making the WNBA playoffs without Caitlin Clark

And then upsetting the Atlanta Dream in round one.

And then winning game one of round two against the Las Vegas Aces?

Now all you liars put your hands down.

Meanwhile while the Mets have been in near free fall for weeks, who had the team most likely to catch them for the second wild card be the Cincinnati Reds?

And the New Orleans Saints are putting themselves in position to decide between drafting Arch Manning or LSU’s Garrett Nussmeier.

For years, Pac 12 college football games finished way too late for anyone on East Coast…

But Michigan State-USC, w/ 4th quarter starting after 11p Pacific time, finished too late for many fans on WEST Coast. (Have to wonder how Spartans were feeling after 2a their time too)


FBI didn’t randomly go after Tom Homan. “Investigation launched in Texas summer 2024 after “subject in separate investigation claimed Homan soliciting payments in exchange for awarding contracts should Trump win presidential election.” MSBNC has receipts.


And the $50,000 cash is what he took from FBI undercover agents. Wonder how much he took from others?

Wait, Donald now says he stopped the conflict between Cambodia and Armenia. For those who aren’t into geography – Distance between Cambodia and Armenia is approximately 4,188 miles. They don’t exactly have much to fight over.

Trump attack on liberals; “one part of our political community believes they have monopoly on truth, goodness & virtue, & concludes they also have a monopoly on power, thought & speech.” WTAF? Donald just got a COMEDIAN fired. He wants to shut up anyone who criticizes him.

-Somebody get grandpa a map.

Two white American men w/ histories of domestic violence killed five police officers responding to DV calls in the last month (UT & PA.) One white American man murdered Charlie Kirk. Why is only Kirk’s murder being ascribed to a “they?”

Meanwhile, while Big Beautiful Betrayal cut $187 billion from food stamps & CBO estimated 10% of those enrolled- about 4 million people- would lose at least some assistance, Trump’s USDA is now ending government’s annual report on hunger..

Pro life my ass.

For years, women have been told aspirin may be dangerous during pregnancy & to take Tylenol. Now, perhaps to placate his insane HHS Secretary RFK Jr, or to distract from the Epstein files, Trump is going to warn against Tylenol. Yet another way to make women suffer.

On top of the absurdity of pretending there’s a link between Tylenol and autism, Monday’s announcement will be just one more way that Trump team is attacking and scapegoating women. (While ignoring that older FATHERS have a higher chance of autistic children.)

As Trump mocks Biden’s cancer & calls him an SOB, reminder, when Donald was shot, Joe issued immediate statement saying he was grateful Trump was safe & “There’s no place in America for this kind of violence. We must unite as one nation to condemn it.”

We are not the same.

This is the way the world ends..

September 20, 2025

Not with a bang but a whimper

Sort of describes how the SF Giants season is ending.

(Let’s hope the same isn’t true for our democracy.)

Although, Clayton Kershaw gets a generous called strike three for his last pitch to SF Giants Rafael Devers, maybe his last start as a Los Angeles Dodger. Well, to be fair, if anyone’s earned it.

Still wish we could have seen Madbum take him deep one more time…

Just saying, these WNBA playoff early round games are a lot more interesting than most NBA playoff games.

So now the President who keeps demanding a Nobel Peace prize has a draft bill to start a drug trafficking war… which would authorize him to kill anyone he thinks MIGHT be involved with drug smuggling.

Okay then…

A third boat obliterated and alleged drug trafficker killed So is Trump just going to start blowing up random boats now to distract from the Epstein files?

Btw, Florida Judge Steven D. Merryday, who threw out Trump’s lawsuit against the NY Times, is a Republican appointed by George H.W. Bush, who supported Ron DeSantis in cases against COVID rules. NOT a liberal.

RFK Jr’s new vaccine advisers declined to recommend COVID vaccines “leaving the choice up to those who want a shot.” What’s next – seatbelts becoming optional again?

So how can anyone question if “The View” is really a news program, without doing the same for “The Five?” Asking for a country, and a GOP-led Congress, that knows better.

Sept 12, this quote talking about Charlie Kirk’s “senseless murder.”

“I’ve seen a lot of extraordinarily vile responses. Some people are cheering this, which is something I won’t ever understand.” The speaker?

Jimmy Kimmel during his monologue.

Seems like media ought to cover that too.

Amy Klobuchar has been making this point over and over.

Four Republicans would have kept RFK Jr from dismantling our HHS.

Four Republicans would have kept Kash Patel from dismantling the FBI.

Four Republicans would have kept Pete Hegseth out of DOD, or rather what he calls DOW.

She’s not saying it but I will. Many of the 53 Senators know better. What’s their excuse?

Coming up Aces

September 10, 2025


The Las Vegas Aces just activated Cheyenne Parker-Tyus. She is eligible for the last two games of the season and the postseason. Cheyenne missed the 1st 42 games of WNBA season because she gave birth to a son on July 1 . Weaker sex my ass.


In a divided country sometimes doesn’t seem like there’s anything Democrat and Republicans agree on. Except that the San Francisco 49ers made the right move by waiving Jake Moody.

Not sure what the MLB record is for stumbling into the playoffs.

But seeming like the New York Mets are looking to break it…

JD Vance “Does anyone honestly believe this sounds like Donald Trump”?

Mr. “grab them by the p**sy?” Mr. “I moved on her like a b*tch?” Mr. “If she wasn’t my daughter maybe I’d be dating her?” Since you asked, yes, it sounds EXACTLY like him.

This actually did age well.

The birthday book certainly puts a new possible spin on Putin’s reputed Trump “pee tapes.”

SCOTUS at least temporarily is allowing ICE to question & detain people based on factors like a person’s ethnicity or them speaking Spanish. FIFA, if you’re listening, not too late to move the World Cup and avoid a disaster.

Hey Fox New viewers, especially women They won’t show you this, but this is how your leader Trump feels about women.

·”Things that take place in the home they call crime….If a man has a little fight with the wife, they say this is a crime.”

As Trump got a West Point group to cancel an award for Tom Hanks, who has done serious work on behalf of veterans, think it’s time for the Oscars to give Tom a lifetime achievement award. Not only would it be the right thing but #RATINGS

Donald pretended to be “brave” to meet his cabinet at a DC restaurant Trump doesn’t have the cojones to meet with Epstein victims.

The past, present & future of MAGA.

1. There’s no Epstein birthday card

2. Trump didn’t sign the birthday card.

3. The signature is a forgery

4. So what if he signed the card.

5. The girls were asking for it.

6. The girls should be punished for lying about Dear Leader. #Cult


So if he lied about signing a birthday card what else has he lied about?

Watching Trump use government to attack all his perceived enemies, increasingly wondering, are GOP members of Congress just political cowards

Or have Donald’s minions dug up dirt on most of them?

So some GOP politicians are claiming that a fraudster knew in 2003 – back when Trump was a Democrat- that Jeffrey Epstein would be convicted of horrific sex crimes & Donald would become a Republican President. And so they faked Trump’s signature? Two words Yeah. Right.

If he’s innocent, why didn’t Trump just say the Epstein birthday card was “locker room banter?”

John Thune and John Cornyn are wringing his hands over some of Trump’s nominees “having had to put their lives on hold” because of what he calls a Democratic blockade.

Funny, I missed GOP outrage when Tuberville blocked over 450 (!) military appointments.

ICYMI.

GOP/MAGA is fine with Russia bombing Ukraine into rubble; killing civillian women and children on a daily basis.

They are good with deporting Ukrainian refugees who may be killed when they return.

But when a Ukranian woman is murdered here, they profess outrage.

Diversions

September 4, 2025

Yeah, there are more important things, but one advantage of being a sports fan is that as scary as the world can be, you can still take pleasure in small things. Like the Dodgers being swept by the Pirates.

And the Dallas Cowboys losing…

Some talk about how the brawl in Colorado this week really bonded the SF Giants as a team. Believe it but as a woman sports fan have to laugh. Overgeneralization perhaps but women often bond over great conversation, men bond fighting together….

But okay SF Giants at a 4.6% chance of the postseason are now the 7th place team with the biggest chance to end up as the final wild card.


Sports broadcaster Kate Scott has been assigned to call Vikings-Steelers on Sept. 28 for Westwood One, the official network audio broadcast partner of the NFL. She will become the first female play-by-play announcer to call an NFL game.

Remember her from KNBR years ago. You go girl.

Exactly ONE year ago today. Sept 4, 2024. What a difference a year makes. Trump teases releasing Epstein client list if elected: ‘I’d certainly take a look at it’

It’s actually pretty simple. And need to keep saying this

If the Epstein Files didn’t have Trump’s name in them then Velveeta Voldemort would have them released and read nightly on Fox News to prove the accusations are a Democratic hoax.

New Ohio Senator Jon Husted praising Trump & attacking DC as having been crime-ridden. Cleveland is regularly on list of most dangerous cities in the US.

So why aren’t he & Gov. DeWine asking for National Guard in Ohio? Ohio, please fix your error & bring back Sherrod Brown.

On different note, bipartisan coalition who have introduced legislation to ban stock trading by members of Congress is something.

One of most unusual groups of legislators to ever share a dias: Led by RI Dem Seth Magazine & TX GOP Chip Roy. Including Anna Paulina Luna & AOC.

Surprise, Fox News did not covering the Epstein victims’ news conference.

Am all for severe penalties for drug dealers.. But Fox headline “Jaw-dropping footage shows moment U.S. missile vaporizes Venezuela ‘drug boat’ as Trump reveals 11 Tren de Aragua gang members were killed.” Besides due process issues do we trust Trump as to who IS a gang member?

Legislation passed on bipartisan basis in Congress to give gold medals to police officers who protected US Capitol on Jan. 6. 140 officers were injured, 15 hospitalized.

Where are GOP members of Congress who KNOW pardons were wrong and compensation for rioters is much worse?

So a trans person shoots kids in school and GOP wants to take guns away from all trans people.

An anti-vaxxer tries to shoot employees at CDC building and kills a police officer. By that logic shouldn’t we take guns away from all anti-vaxxers? For starters.

Lawrence O’Donnell points out something not getting enough attention: Today in RFK Jr’s hearing. Idaho GOP Senator Mike Crapo refused to put RFK Jr under oath… As if perjury would have stopped him, but still…

Trump administration today said it will drop Biden plan to require airlines to pay passengers cash compensation for airline caused flight delays. American, Delta and United all donated $1 million to Donald’s inaugural.

Chaos up, corruption up, costs up.

Has Donald even tried to fabricate an excuse why voting to release the Epstein Files would be a “hostile act?”

Many countries have the death penalty for drug smugglers. Singapore and Indonesia for examples. So by Trump logic, if Americans travel to either country and their government suspects them of drug trafficking they can just shoot them?


As Trump increasingly is using government to go after all his perceived enemies now wondering.. Are some of these members of Congress genuflecting before him because he has threatened to audit their taxes, financial records, mortgage records, etc and/or those of their families?

So the man who begs daily for a Nobel Peace Prize is renaming the Pentagon the Department of War… Okay then…

Good, bad, and really ugly

September 2, 2025

Biil Belichick’s UNC Tar Heels were beaten by TCU 48-14

“We’re better than what we were tonight… ” Belichick said. So he thinks his team should have only lost by two touchdowns?

Meanwhile, on Sunday, Justin Verlander threw 121 pitches, including 10 strikeouts, leaving with a 7-0 lead, after h five innings, which got him career win 265. As I’ve said before, at 42 , Justin remains one of the most competitive people alive.

Wonder if he’d considering trying becoming a closer at 43?

Senator Bill Cassidy, MD, is countering arguments on Twitter against giving the Hepatitis B vaccine at birth. While I appreciate effort he is making, he has the Twitter reach (fewer than 100,000 followers) of tens of thousands of educated people. And uneducated people. But he had an actual VOTE on RFK Jr.

WTF? NY Times reports than Jan. 6 rioters now want COMPENSATION for their prosecutions. With a panel perhaps overseen by Jeanine Pirro!. So uh, how many of the over 140 officers injured on that date will be allowed to testify? Brian Sicknick would if he could.

Perhaps yet ANOTHER distraction from Epstein files But Donald, or a staffer writing for him, has announced that Rudy Giuliani, “will receive THE PRESIDENTIAL MEDAL OF FREEDOM, our Country’s highest civilian honor.” Your reminder that Giuliani has been permanently disbarred.


Anyone need more reason to despise RFK Jr? His 1st wife committed suicide, after finding journal of his adulteries. Her family wanted Mary buried near their home, RFK Jr won court case against them to bury her in Kennedy compound. Then had her MOVED further away from the main family.

NY Times headline: “Historians See Autocratic Playbook in Trump’s Attacks on Science” What was their first clue?

I’m so old I remember when Republicans wanted Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin to step down just because he wasn’t forthcoming about being in the hospital for treatment.

Turning the page

August 31, 2025

SF Giants had an up and down August.

Could have used a lefthanded hitter with 7 home runs and 13 RBI this month slugging .630.

The player with those states? Mike Yastrzemski

As former Yankee  Mark Teixeira runs for Congress, and many in DC realize Democrats thus might not win a Congressional baseball game for the foreseeable future…dear Gabe Kapler. You are a Democrat, maybe it’s time to give up on the coaching side for a while and run for office.


For a while there we were wondering…. Did Gavin’s tweets kill him?

And right on cue after Donald wasn’t seen in public for four days, Fox News jumps in with the headline “Bill Clinton’s health in question after he is seen with possible medical device…”

If he IS having a complicated medical procedure, your reminder, his administration wants to cut funding, for medical research AND take healthcare away from millions of Americans.

Marco Rubio was confirmed 99-0. Based on his record, Senators of both parties thought he would be one of Trump’s more reasonable choices. So some made an excusable mistake.

But based on HIS record Senators of both parties knew RFK Jr. was dangerously insane. No excuses.

Here’s four Republican Senators up for re-election who voted to confirm Robert Kennedy for HHS Secretary

Bill Cassidy, Susan Collins, John Husted, Dan Sullivan,

Husted, from Ohio, was appointed to take Sherrod Brown’s place. Ohio, you can correct this error by putting Sherrod back in the Senate

Just maybe it wasn’t a good idea to put a man who had part of his brain eaten by a worm in charge of our nation’s healthcare system.

Hey media, if you’re too scared or can’t get access to Donald, what about asking every GOP Senator when they return in September if they and their children are vaccinated. And for those under 65, ask particularly about COVID


As a friend said “We all have to make compromises in life. But we all have a line. Where is Marco Rubio’s line?”

Thinking like in Mean Girls “The limit does not exist.”

Trump just had DOT cancel $679 Million for offshore wind projects . It’s ALL retribution. In 2012, Trump went to Scotland in hopes of stopping wind turbines near his Aderdeen golf course “His opposition has become govt policy in world’s biggest economy.”

Hope springs eternal?

August 29, 2025

On a lighter note, not too many lighter notes lately, the SF Giants have now won 5 in a row and have a 1.2% chance of making the post season… so you’re saying there’s a chance.

With two home runs yesterday shouldn’t Willy Adames throw post-game Gatorade on himself?

Former MLB player Mark Teixeira is running for Congress and pledges “to work with Trump to “end radical work indoctrination” and secure the border. Teixeira’s grandfather emigrated from Guyana. Donald probably wouldn’t have let him in.

As RFK Jr continues his efforts to destroy the US healthcare system and Republicans stand idly by… I know most of them are old white men, but you’d think their kids and grandkids might matter to them.


Too soon to know for sure but seems like this latest mass shooter may have been posting his plans online- and the FBI was too busy going after Trump enemies to pay attention.

And whatever the Minneapolis shooter’s motive turns out to be, we know he was a deeply disturbed individual. And he had no problem getting at least three guns. Only in America.

Not much discussed w/ so much other insanity is Trump apparently has at least 1 cult member going through mortgage applications (& presumably other financial records) or people he doesn’t like in hope of finding something he can call a crime. Don’t think it can’t happen to you?

All you need to know about today’s GOP: they still haven’t hung the commemorative plaque to honor police who defended the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, a plaque mandated by Congress on a bipartisan basis in 2022. But they are fine with full military honors for Ashli Babbitt.

I’m sure Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy MD has done a lot of good in his medical career. But alas the single biggest thing Cassidy has done to affect our health in the USA is to cast the deciding vote for RFK Jr as HHS Secretary. And many people will die because of that.

Same MAGA screaming about “mental health” not guns being the problem had no problem with major Trump cuts to mental health programs. Including a $1 BILLION cut in funding for school mental health

Bad enough Trump fires everyone Biden or another Democrat appointed for not being crazy enough. And Donald’s is going after appointees from 1st term for not being crazy enough. But now his administration is firing their own RECENT appointees for not being crazy enough?

Slouching towards September…

August 21, 2025

Juan Soto says he believers the Mets are “100%” a playoff team.

He’s probably right. Because the NL currently has only SEVEN teams over .500

Stanford plays Hawaii on Saturday in both teams’ college football opener.

The game is scheduled for 130p Hawaii Standard Time, 730p on the East Coast. Might be one of the few game East Coast Cardinal fans might be able to stay up late enough to see. (Many games will start in California at 730p-8p)

Serious point. Many MLB players are black or Latino. In many cases English is not their first language. Washington Nationals have about 6 weeks of home games left in DC.

Will players soon be told to stay home/in hotel rooms except for games, rather than risk being detained/ attacked by ICE on the street?

Gavin Newsom, talking about how Donald is creating a private army -$175 billion in bill for ICE, homeland security…

“He’s trying to rig elections, set up conditions to claim elections not won fair & square. Open your eyes to what is going on in United States of America in 2025.'”

Something that isn’t reported on enough. Unlike previous Presidents of both parties, Velveeta Voldemort doesn’t even go out to dinner in DC now that his hotel is closed.


Listening to Trump and his minions throwing out dishonest statistics on a regular basis, have to wonder how they decide on the numbers? Does Velveeta Voldemort throw ketchup bottles at a dart board?

GOP claimed to hate deficits, until they could increase them w/ billionaire tax cut.

GOP demanded Epstein files, untll Trump was named in them.

GOP supported Texas insane gerrymandering, until California retaliated with same tactics.

Almost as if GOP has no real principles.

But really, has a single Republican explained why they support Texas gerrymandering redistricting but not California’s retaliating? I’ll wait.

It’s official. California’s special election is ON for November 4th. The People of California will be able to cast their vote for a Congressional map.


California is letting our citizens decide. Texas doesn’t trust their citizens.

First it’s Bed Bath and Beyond, how long untll K-Mart says they won’t open new stores in California either?

Actual Donald quote from today

We are going to be regrassing your parks, new sprinklers systems. It will look like Trump national golf club.  Grass has a life. You know that? Grass has a life. We have a life, and grass has a life. The grass here died about 40 years ago

GOP now pushing “a driver who cannot sufficiently read or speak English is unqualified to drive a commercial motor vehicle in America.” But one can be president?!!

Is there ANYTHING Trump won’t do to distract from the fact that his name is in the Epstein files?

Slow down..

August 21, 2025

Meanwhile in Washington DC, NY Met (sigh) Tyler Rogers version of an immaculate inning.

Six pitches, all strikes, 83-86 MPH except for one 74 MPH slider. Three outs.

Don’t tell ICE, thinking most MLB hitters would say him being that effective throwing junk should be illegal.

SI.Com actually has this headline “College Football Preseason Bowl Projections.”

And if you care, you just might have too much time on your hands.

WTAF? Jeanine Pirro has announced she that Washington DC will no longer consider it a felony for civilians to carry shotguns and rifles in the city.

Allowing average people to carry guns in DC in a hot humid summer, when the city is full of National Guard… What could possibly go wrong.

(FWIW, many believe D.C.’s strict gun laws may have deterred some January 6 rioters from bringing firearms to the Capitol that day,

Jack White of “”Seven Nation Army” (yes, I don’t know their music either) called Trump’s Oval Office “gaudy” & “vulgar,” Trump Communication director Steven Cheung:

“Jack White is washed-up, has-been loser posting drivel on social media; He has ample time on his hands due to his stalled career.” Doesn’t that describe most PRO Trump celebrities?


Your reminder that for all Velveeta Voldemort and ICE Barbie claim that immigrants are freeloading off of hard working Americans, most of ICE arrests are of people when they are at WORK!!

Today’s effort for Trump to distract from skyrocketing inflation & Epstein files is trying to get rid of exhibits about slavery at Smithsonian. But he doesn’t have authority over Smithsonian. Congress does. Can’t wait to see GOP members of Congress defend slavery.

Dana Bash on CNN gives GOP Rep Tim Burchett platform to spout lies about DC being a cesspool… And probably won’t get much attention but Burchett used his time also to claim government was wrong about Lee Harvey Oswald being the only person who shot JFK in Dallas. It’s a cult.

Remember when Trump was trying to suppress COVID cases;”I like the numbers being where they are?” And when he fired BLS leader for numbers he didn’t like?

Now he claims Democratic cities lying about decreasing crime rates. Every accusation is a confession. #CookingTheBooks

With all the across the board inflation right now, not getting major headlines how bad beef prices are. Not like Americans like their steaks or hamburgers…

Did not have radioactive Walmart shrimp on my bingo card….

Louisiana, Tennessee & Ohio, all sending National Guard troops to DC. New Orleans, Memphis & Cleveland are regularly listed in most dangerous cities in US. Sure would be nice if GOP Governors actually cared less about pleasing Trump & more about protecting their OWN residents.

Every day there’s another outrageous stunt from Velveeta Voldemort… All of them have one thing in common. Donald is trying to distract us from the Epstein files. What’s he going to try tomorrow?

Good and bad sports:

August 17, 2025

After the Little League Classic today in Williamsport the Seattle Mariners and NY Mets followed the Little League tradition and had a handshake line.

But did they all get juice boxes and cookies?

MLB added extra wildcards to claim it keeps more teams feeling like they have postseason chance late into season.

As of Aug 17, top 6 teams in each league are so far ahead that only 1 NL team (Reds) & 3 AL teams (Royals, Guardians, Rangers) have even 10% chance of being wild cards.

The only Trump 2028 I want to see is Velveeta Voldemort being sentenced to 20 to 28 years…

Trump actually posted “President Zelenskky of Ukraine can end the war immediately, if he wants to, or he can continue to fight.” Putin and Russia started this war This is the political equivalent of Donald telling Zelenskyy “if rape is inevitable, lie back and enjoy it.”


After his Friday fiasco honoring Vladimir Putin can we nominate Donald Trump for the Noble Piece of Sh*t prize? The award could be presented at Four Seasons Landscaping.

How bad did the meeting with Putin go for Trump? Top headline on Fox News website tonight (no joke) “Former FBI boss Comey reveals Taylor Swift obsession in bizarre video attacking Trump” WTF?

California Democratic voter here.

Admittedly there are times I have found Gavin Newsom irritating in the extreme. But some of the traits that have driven me crazy over the years are so perfect for this moment.

When you hear hoofprints think horses not zebras And the explanation, that Donald was shaken because of something Vlad showed or told him Friday, especially with the rumours Putin has had something on Trump for years, is the simplest.

Fox News has spent weeks trying to convince us that a single late night brawl on a hot July night outside a nightclub was emblematic of a bigger problem in Cincinnati. So why aren’t they furious that Gov. Mike DeWine took OHIO National Guard troops and sent them… to Washington DC?!

Meanwhile, just outside DC, while so many genuflect, Mary Chapin Carpenter at Wolf Trap has changed her old lyric from wonderful “Stones in the Road” about children in the late 60s selling out as adults.

From “we doctor the receipt” to “And we don’t bow to kings.” Never liked her more.

But remember, every story written or broadcast about the absurdity of the National Guard and increased ICE action in Washington DC is a story not written or broadcast about the Epstein files.

Victories come in all sighs

August 13, 2025

Shohei Ohtani hit into a triple play and the Los Angeles Dodgers lost 7-6 to the Los Angeles Angels

And that’s probably the best headline SF Giants fans can hope for these days.

All of this insanity – Firing competent people Meeting with Putin on US soil. Putting police on the streets of Washington DC makes sense if you remember one thing

#TrumpisontheEpsteinList

Apparently Trump plans to pause monthly jobs reports. But don’t worry, he will start them up “in two weeks.”

This line from Karoline Leavitt : “The president is very honored and looks forward to hosting President Putin on American soil.” “Honored?” Uh, Putin is BANNED from visiting 125 countries.

So Kim Davis, who is trying to get SCOTUS to overturn gay marriage, has been married four times with four children by three different men. A real poster child for the sanctity of marriage.

Trump increasingly relying on lies & perception to become authoritarian. Don Delillo nailed it in “White Noise”

“For most people there are only two places in the world. Where they live and their TV set.” And when that TV set (or streaming equivalent) is tuned to Fox News…

As a California voter who hasn’t always supported our Governor, I admit until recently I was not familiar with Gavin Newsom’s troll game!

One of today’s tweets:

FINAL WARNING DONALD TRUMP — MAYBE THE MOST IMPORTANT WARNING IN HISTORY! STOP CHEATING OR CALIFORNIA WILL REDRAW THE MAPS. AND GUESS WHO WILL ANNOUNCE IT THIS WEEK? GAVIN NEWSOM (MANY SAY THE MOST LOVED & HANDSOME GOVERNOR) AND A VERY POWERFUL TEAM. DON’T MAKE US DO IT!!! THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.

Who says there’s no good news these days.

Sherrod Brown is running in 2026 to get back to the Senate.

Blazing speed

July 31, 2025

Mets are getting most unappreciated reliever in baseball in Tyler Rogers.. Just saying.

Only silver lining as a sad SF Giants fan is maybe we’ll get to see him blow away a Dodgers star in the post season wth 75 MPH heat

LA Dodgers’ Shohei Ohtani left his start today in Cincinnati in the 4th inning with cramping he blamed on heat (Temperature at first pitch was 90 degrees, with w/heat index near 100.) He hopes to make his next start.

Don’t suppose we can dream that billionaires might start caring about climate change if it starts injuring their half billion dollar investments.

Rubio defends his master’s sanctions (revoked visa, freezing US assets) on Brazilian judge because Donald doesn’t like him prosecuting his buddy.

“Let this be warning to those who would trample on fundamental rights of their countrymen; judicial robes cannot protect you.” So other countries can go after US judges now? Okay then.

If you’re anti-abortion but also anti-USAID, aid to starving children in Gaza, and in favor of cutting SNAP and school lunch, then maybe it’s time to drop the “pro-life” lie.

If the Epstein Files exonerated Donald, Fox News would be reading them on air 24-7.

Not that Jerome Powell is in the troll business but how much would I love to hear him say he’ll consider lowering interest rates “in two weeks.”

The new “Rose garden” is the literal personification of “pave paradise, put up a parking lot.

One Donald’s Stepford ladies must have damaged an expensive heel in the grass… The next Democratic President is going to have so much work to do to repair the White House, let alone our democracy.

Amy Klobuchar is talking about Trump’s EO to impose 50% tariffs on Brazil.

Why? (And Donald admits it! Because Brazil is prosecuting their ex-President Bolsonaro for trying to overturn his election loss.

So Americans pay more because Trump is mad his buddy is facing justice.

Media PAY ATTENTION.-


Happy to have ban on Congressional Stock trading.

But while GOP is chortling over naming it the Pelosi Act, per Money magazine top 2 SENATE traders in 2024…

Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., 202 trades – $5,531,500.

Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., 71 trades- $4,407,000

Good news that the evacuations went smoothly and the tsunami turned out not to be really damaging in Hawaii and the US West Coast

Bad news may be that many Americans may take the warning less seriously next time.

At long last

July 24, 2025

In non-political news, a miracle has occurred.

Justin Verlander has won a game in an SF Giants uniform.

Oddly enough, in May 2023 Verlander became the 21st pitcher in MLB history to win games against EVERY major league baseball team. Wonder what the odds were you could get that it would take 16 starts to get his first win for the SF Giants.

Probably about the same odds you could get that on July 24 the best records in MLB would belong to the Toronto Blue Jays and the Milwaukee Brewers.

Whatever Ghislaine Maxwell is bribed or threatened into saying now, remember, one of many reasons she is in prison is a conviction for perjury.

MAGA Mike Johnson on Ghislaine Maxwell. She’s “person who’s been sentenced to many years in prison for terrible, unspeakable, conspiratorial acts against innocent young people. She can’t be trusted to provide accurate testimony.”

Like when she says Trump is innocent to get pardon?

Cory Booker on Senate Floor yesterday reporting WSJ reported Donald Trump was told in May his name is in Epstein files. And that Emil Bove may have been involved in covering it up.

Some of these GOP Senators have daughters & granddaughters.. How do they sleep?

Seriously many MAGA were happy to demonize all trans kids to follow Dear Leader in his outrage over a small numberof trans athletes competing in sporting events – because “we have to protect girls.”

But when it comes to young girls being raped and Donald possibly being involved. Move along nothing to see here… not even “thoughts and prayers” for the victims

As Russia gains ground on Ukraine, Senate planned July vote on sanctions, w/ 83 Senators on board on a bipartisan basis.

But now GOP stepping back because Velveeta Voldemort says he will impose tariffs if Putin doesn’t agree to a cease fire…in 50 days!

Fools or complicit?

Latest Trump fundraising lie to deflect from Epstein files.

That Obama committed “the crime of the century” – Wait, I thought Biden’s autopen was the “crime of the century?” This is so confusing

-NY Times headline

“F.C.C. Approves Skydance’s $8 Billion Merger With Paramount

The agency said the deal was approved after assurances that the new company would commit to unbiased journalism.”

Fixed it for them.

“And would fire Stephen Colbert.”

So today’s question:

All these Republican Senators voting for things and nominees they KNOW are wrong.

Are they truly believers in a cult, or are they just too scared/craven to do the right thing? Asking for a country?

No wonder MAGA politicians are rushing to post tributes to Hulk Hogan. They don’t have many real celebrities on their side and they just lost one

Dana Carvey regularly spoofed George H.W. Bush on SNL.

And Bush actually invited him to the White House.

Wasn’t a fan of George H.W’s policies. But..

I miss having a President with a sense of humor.

I miss having a President:

Numbers and other games.

July 23, 2025

No detail he won’t lie about? (while bragging about attending in 2024.)

“If you took an Alabama-LSU football game that holds 128,000 people… if you took that & doubled it, that’s what used to flow into our country on a daily basis.” Alabama-LSU game, a sellout, held 102,283.

SF Giants have two starting pitchers on the All-Star team and Landen Roupp turns in the ace performance they desperately needed. Just like we all expected.

Imagine your job required you to do something tough but necessary & instead of doing it you just went on vacation weeks early without finishing your other work.

That’s what MAGA Mike Johnson has done with the House because he doesn’t want a vote to release the Epstein files.

Minnesota State Senator Bruce Anderson, 75, passed away suddenly

Didn’t know him but among those posting thoughtful condolences, Gov. Tim Walz, Lt. Gov Peggy Flanagan, Senator Amy Klobuchar. Anderson was a Republican.

Miss the days when bipartisan kindness wasn’t surprising.

One of today’s “breaking news” “Former lawyer for Jeffrey Epstein, Roy Black has died.

Now, Black was 80. But I can’t be the only one whose first reaction was “did he fall out of a window?

As a Democrat, I’ve sadly accepted that Bill Clinton, who I’ve supporteds since 1991, could be on Epstein’s list. Not quite getting all these GOP who are willing to do ANYTHING not to release list to protect Donald Trump. Beginning to wonder how many are protecting themselves?

President Obamas office sums it up.

“Nothing in document issued last week undercuts conclusion Russia worked to influence 2016 presidential election but didn’t successfully manipulate any votes. Findings affirmed in 2020 report by bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee, led by Chair Marco Rubio”

Would any reporter dare to ask Marco Rubio about that report?

George H.W. Bush invited SNL’s Dana Carvey “wouldn’t be prudent” to perform his impersonation at the White House.

Donald Trump got Stephen Colbert fired. Petty scared little man.

Donald talking about trade and foreign visits: “I’ve been invited by a lot of people.” And he’ll tell us who in about two weeks?

Trump told Mike Johnson to send House home early so they wouldn’t have to vote on Epstein files. But he wants Senate in session in August to confirm his judges. So to save Senate vacations, we just need bipartisan resolution to release Epstein files. Problem solved.

Amy Klobuchar gets it: With Lawrence O’Donnell tonight as she did with Jake Tapper Amy talks about corruption with Trump & Epstein files. But pivots to broken promises on prices. Inflation is bad & getting worse, ACA premiums go up this year. Chaos, corruption & COSTS all up.

You say it’s your birthday…

July 18, 2025

MLB on July 16

“There are no games scheduled today”

Montreal Expos twitter account “How you feel today is how we’ve felt for the last 7,591 days”

From a social media friend from London today:

It’s less what he said, it’s more that Donald cared enough about ANYONE to send a 50th birthday card.

Remember, he said he didn’t even have time to do anything for Melania other than dinner on Air Force One.

Wall Street Journal I owe you an apology, I was not familiar with your game….

(Seriously, might be a good time to support a newspaper with actual cojones by subscribing..)

Inflation rate jumped in June.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt is pretending it’s good news and that prices are falling. Who you gonna believe, me or your lying bank account?


Random question. Donald he drinks Diet Coke, how would he know that Mexican Coca-Cola (which uses real sugar) is better?

Something else about the Rescissions act. If this is now precedent, means that if Democrats take the House and Senate next year, they can take back any money Trump makes GOP authorize spending for this year!

The Rescissions Act takes back money that Democrats and Republicans agreed to on a bipartisan basis. Republicans need 60 votes to pass their next budget. So why should GOP expect ANY cooperation in 2025 from Dems now that they are destroying the deal they agreed to last year?

One of the saddest things about 2025. We knew how evil Donald Trump was. We didn’t know how gutless Congressional Republicans are.

JD Vance badmouthed Disney as “woke” and “declaring war on America’s children.” But he took his kids to Disneyland. As JD cast the deciding vote to allow Trump’s efforts to defund PBS to proceed, will Vance now get his kids bootleg feeds of Sesame Street?

In 1543, Henry VIII made it a crime for most English people to read the Bible in English. The point was to avoid questioning of the King’s interpretation of Scripture, or indeed questioning of him period. Sound familiar with Donald cutting education & public broadcasting?

Asked a wise reporter decades ago why a politician – would be engaged in a coverup that no one believed and that was hurting him politically: He said, simple, if the truth is actually worse than he thinks people imagine it is.

If Fed Chair Jerome Powell is a “terrible Fed chair” can we fire the idiot who appointed him?”

This isn’t hard: Donald NEVER releases anything negative about his own health. He won’t even release the truth about his height and weight. Admitting an illness to distract from Epstein files must mean the files are very bad indeed.

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Starter stars and not stars….

July 15, 2025

An All-Star game decided by a home run derby may seem weird.

But how much more weird than an actual game decided by how fast a random player is who is put on second base with no outs.

For those who wondered why players like Judge and Ohtani weren’t in the Home Run extra inning competition, apparently they had left the stadium when their innings were over…. presumably on the way to their vacations. .

Don’t get me wrong, love SF Giants’ Randy Rodriguez too. But really would have loved to see Tyler Rogers in that 1st & 2nd nobody out situation in 7th vs Brent Rooker. (When Rooker hit a 3 run home run). Maybe he rolls over on 75 MPH curve.

(Rooker is 0-2 against Rogers in 2025. 2 fly outs.) #MLBAllStarGame

Mississippi Senator Roger Wicker says he is very concerned & troubled about rescission bill with cruel cuts Trump wants, but he’ll vote for it anyway.

Wicker is 74 years old. Presume he’s not that ambitious beyond US Senate. So why is he selling out children around the world & here in USA

Conservative pundit Larry Kudlow claims that while inflation is up airfare and hotel/motel prices are down.

IF airline fares and hotel/motel prices are actually down…then the reason for that is that they can’t fill their seats/rooms Which makes sense, inbound travel is falling off a cliff and wonder how many Americans have decided they can’t afford to travel?

Lisa Murkowski at least wasa no vote on rescissions bill.

Will never get over her yes vote on Big Beautiful Betrayal, but Lisa was right now.

“We need to be doing more as Senators, with our constitutional authorities, the power of the purse….” Understatement of the year.

(now if she can talk to at least one of her colleagues for the final vote)

Fellow Democrats:

These numbers are votes for Pennsylvania US Senate in 2024.

3,399,295

3,384,180

About 15,000 votes gave McCormick win over Bob Casey.

Casey would have voted against rescissions etc. Forget NY Mayor race – FOCUS on 2026 US Senate races. (And the House)

Trump now claims Epstein files are fake.

Which would require us to believe:

1. Every one of those underage rape victims is lying,

2. Ghislaine Maxwell is in prison for nothing.

If you’re GOP Senator wringing hands over the need to cut $9 billion to ALREADY approved foreign aid and NPR/PBS funding because of the national debt.

But you also voted to add trillions to national debt for tax cuts for billionaires. May I respectfully suggest you STFU?

The only verb and noun in all of Donald Trump’s sentences now are “blame Biden.”

Allons enfants

July 15, 2025

Has Donald Trump announced yet that if he had only had time to go to Atlanta tonight he would have won the Home Run Derby?

ESPN rarely covers major league baseball

Today’s crazy weird split screen coverage of the Home Run Derby reminds serious baseball fans why it’s a good thing ESPN rarely covers Major L eague Bbaseball.


71% of the US GDP comes from Blue counties. No wonder today’s GOP hates math.

The markets didn’t even fall today on Trump’s newly announced potential tariffs. If you needed any more proof of the accuracy of TACO!!

Now Trump says he is putting 17% tariffs on Mexican tomatoes.

Although the US already needs to import 70% of tomatoes from Mexico. We can’t produce enough to meet our own demands.

This BEFORE Trump’s ICE started deporting as many farmworkers as possible.

How much would I have liked some reporter to ask Velveeta Voldemort Monday on camera in the Oval Office about Bastille Day.

50 days is Trump talk for “by then either Americans will have forgotten about Ukraine or Putin will have razed Ukraine to the ground.”

As Tom Homan says ICE agents are trained and “reasonable suspicion” is enough to detain someone, two questions. 1. How are they trained?

2. And who are these masked agents? Police officers, who face danger every day, do not wear mask.s

Something else about Vance’s Disney visit (wonder how much it cost taxpayers btw, with all the security.) In 2022, Vance called Disney ‘woke’ and accused them of ‘declaring war on America’s children’.

2 women fatally shot & state trooper injured by man with long criminal history & domestic violence restraining order against him. Fox News would be all over it. Except now deceased suspect was white American. So story has vanished.

Say THEIR names Beverly Gumm & Christina Combs

Don’t leave early…

July 9, 2025

One of the all-time calls. But hey, how often do you get to call a catcher hitting a walkoff inside the park home run

Last one was in 1926…

Apparently a Marco Rubio impostor is using AI voice to call high-level government officials. How did they know it was fake?

The imposter didn’t praise Trump every sixty seconds?

SCOTUS today overrode lower court orders freezing Trump’s massive federal workforce layoff plans.

If you think Donald’s approval rating is low NOW, wait until he lays off hundreds of thousands. Will affect not just them but businesses where they spend $$ & services they provide.

Actually today while workng watched most of Trump cabinet meeting ias background noise

Challenge ANYONE to watch Donald in action at these meetings & tell me he’s in his right mind.

Even Fox cut away as he ends by bragging about his White House decorating, finding trophies etc, “Sometimes I like frames better than the pictures.”

How many times in a year do we need to have “one in a lifetime” weather events before some people acknowledge that climate change is real?

Wonder if we could offer Donald Trump a Nobel Peace Prize in exchange for resigning?


Does Donald have some sort of a dart board in the basement where he throws darts to figure out his next tariff move?

Hurricane season has barely gotten started. So will Trump claim DOGE cuts at NOAA and NWS etc, aren’t going to affect anything that goes wrong when those storms hit too?

Keep seeing Twitter attacks on immigrants who have been in US decades & have some minor infraction on their record as teenagers

Wondering how many of these trolls have ever say, drank underage, hunted/fished without a license, paid or received cash they didn’t report, etc?

Brooke Rollins claims that “34 million able-bodied Americans on Medicaid will be able to replace agricultural workers… 22 million people on Medicaid are 50 and over. We’re gonna put Grandma to work picking fruit? Got it.

Almost Going fourth

July 4, 2025

SF Giants won tonight in Arizona 7-2.

Robbie Ray pitched a complete game.

Wait, it’s possible to have a Giants game that ISN’T torture?

Former middleweight boxing champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr has been detained by ICE for an expedited deportation.to Mexico.

Now, not a boxing fan, and Chavez Jr doesn’t seem like a nice guy. But seems like his greatest crime might not be just being brown, but not being a Trump supporter.


Reporter asked GOP Rep Troy Nehls “You’re not worried at all that Americans may lose their health care? Nehls “Just some Americans that aren’t Americans”-

So poor people aren’t American huh? Well, at least they are using their outside voices and not concealing their hate.

“Alligator Alcatraz” has already flooded with a summer rainstorm.

While it’s easy to laugh at the incompetence this means in a hurricane people are likely to die.

Trump today in Iowa described certain bankers as “shylocks”

So by the standards he set for anti-semitism with Harvard etc, Velveeta Voldemort should fire himself.

Two starter devils in details on “no tax on tips.”

One, it’s capped at $25,000 But two, low income workers often don’t pay federal income tax.

And under $48,000 ,marginal rate is only 12%. Exemption, however, does NOT apply to social security/Medicare taxes. FICA taxes total 7.65%

“Some folks in this town go to church and they pray – P-R-A-Y – on Sunday And they come to Congress and prey – P-R-E-Y – on the American people.” Democratic House Leader Hakeem Jeffries.

Donald today called former North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum the the Secretary of Energy and the former Governor of North Carolina

Can anyone imagine if Joe Biden had referred to North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper as the Governor of North Dakota? And Burgum is Secretary of the Interior, not Secretary of Energy.

As if we don’t now have enough problems getting tourists to come to USA. Tonight, Donald issued new executive order calling for Interior Department to raise entry fees to national parks for foreigners. In 2024, international visitors spent $253.9 billion in USA!

Creaking toward daylight..

July 3, 2025

Camilo Doval Last four appearances:

6/27 – 1 inning, no runs.

6/25 – 0.2 innings, 4 runs, 3 earned.

6/21 – 1 inning, 2 earned runs.

7/2 – 2 innings, 2 earned runs, blown save and the win. Watching baseball is supposed to be fun, right? #SFGiants

Fox News still hasn’t covered seriously disappointing jobs report on their website But they have time to deceptively headline a transgender woman winning one of NINE categories (grouped by age) in Lyons Masters Cycling race yesterday.(She won the 55-59 year old group as it turns out. So not exactly a trendy teenager) Making the event sound like the Olympics

“Women cyclists speak out against USA Cycling after losing race to biological male” (The 2nd and 7th finishers complained.)

Stephen Miller leading a federal complaint against the Los Angeles Dodgers over the team’s diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) practices.

Oh damn, and on top of all the other bad things Miller has done as a SF Giants fans now I have to back the Dodgers?


The Big Beautiful Betrayal is incredibly unpopular and that’s before people realize how bad it is. And Trump’s popularity is already underwater. So why not vote “no” as his endorsement may actually hurt in 2026?

The Florida GOP is actually selling “Alligator Alcatraz” merchandise, incuding women’s t-shirts.

If this were an SNL skit it would be attacked as despicable and over the top.

Which I suppose kind of sums up Florida GOP

Trump on Alligator Alcatraz. “It is not a place I want to go hiking any time soon.”

As if Velveeta Voldemort hikes anywhere, ever. Even when he’s golfing he can’t even go more than a few feet without his cart.

Difference between being Senator for your state & being national leader:

Lisa Murkowski sold out 49 states to get goodies for Alaska in Big Beautiful Betrayal.

Amy Klobuchar fights for Minnesota where 80% live in urban areas, but also for her rural voters & others in red states.

Yes, this is a real USA Today headline

“Kim Kardashian reveals ‘we all cried’ at Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez’s wedding.” The only ones who should have cried is are those who will suffer due to Big Beautiful Betrayal GOP tax cuts.

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After the Senate approved the Big Beautiful Betrayal, they closed with a prayer from the Senate chaplain

Two lines “Help them to walk with forgiveness… Help them to walk with courage.”. They’re going to need the first because they didn’t show the second…

Karoline Leavitt, as Trump adds expensive cologne to the list of products he hawks: “I think it’s frankly ridiculous to insinuate this President is profiting off his presidency.” Begs the question, is Press Secetary lying, or just a truly deluded cult member?

DOJ wants to “prioritize” denaturalization Translation, taking citizenship away from Americans they don’t like. For now, foreign-born citizens.

For now. If you’re not afraid you’re not paying attention.

If Trump was really proud of and confident in his big beautiful betrayal bill he’d have had the votes at noon so he could have a big beautiful press conference afterwards before his nap.

Trump will turn on everyone sooner or later. Wonder why more wavering Republicans don’t decide to vote their consciences, save their souls, and avoid the wait.

Per Time: “The Senate bill puts $100 billion into ICE & border enforcement, including $$$ to hire 10.000 new agents: $45 billion for detention facilities, $46 billion for border wall & $14 billion for deportation ops.”

This isn’t Donald’s short term project, it’s a permanent secret police force.

For Donald, not only is no lie too small, but he keeps doubling down on them. Velveeta Voldemort has been increasing number of states where he says gas is under $2 a gallon, from 2, to 3 to 5… Cheapest gas in US is Louisiana. New Orleans gas is now about $2.79.

John McCain would have voted no Mitt Romney would have voted no. Rob Portman would have voted no. I miss principled Republicans. Heck, I even miss Joe Manchin.