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Moving on

May 1, 2025

Ottawa Senators tied Maple Leafs in the 3rd period until Toronto went ahead for good 3-2 with 5:39 left. Leafs improved to 2-13 (!) in potential series-clinching games since 2018. Wonder how many past & present Toronto fans figured Leafs would blow THIS 3-0 series lead?

(lived in Toronto 4 of 5 years between 1968 to 1973- when we moved there the Leafs were GOOD.)

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Entering the playoffs, apprarently more money had been wagered on the Los Angeles Lakers to win the Finals than on any other team at multiple sportsbooks. Thoughts and prayers.

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Anyone else ever think that when Donald has a chance to make any appointment he asks himself “Who is the worst person I can possibly choose?” and then picks them just to prove he can?

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Tommy Tuberville actually defending Pete Hegseth today on Senate floor. He’s attacking Democratic colleagues, “RINOs” & media who criticize Pete as wanting America to fail.. Your reminder that the last two universities who hired Coach Tubby paid him millions to go away.

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So now Waltz is the nominee for Ambassador to the United Nations. Yeah, I’m sure other countries will feel very confident dealing with a man who Fubared up US National Security so badly with Signalgate that he got fired.

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So did Trump nominate Mike Waltz for UN Ambassador to keep him from writing a tell-all book?

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Trump claims he deserves a “pass” on the GDP contracting because it’s Biden’s fault? But he also demands his cabinet cult praise him for the best 100 days ever in our country? Make it makes sense.

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Can we start calling it the Trump Cult Cabinet?

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Donald Trump fired Doug Emhoff, who is Jewish, along with other Biden appointees. from the the United States Holocaust Memorial Council. Who is Velveeta Voldemort going to replace Emhoff with, David Duke?

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So much gaslighting. When many Americans can’t afford to buy groceries due to tariffs will Trump claim it’s all part of his plan to have us lose weight?

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So in Trump world, some kids who would have had 30 dolls for Christmas now will get two. But those children whose parents’ could barely afford one doll will get zero. Trump Tariffs are a war on Christmas.

Trump is now vowing to defund PBS and NPR

A war on Easter with egg prices

A war on Christmas with tariffs on toys.

Now a war on Elmo and Cookie Monster?

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Americans, when you can’t afford to buy one doll this Christmas, let alone necessities, think of Thom Tillis (NC) Jon Husted (OH) Pete Ricketts (NE) Steve Daines (MT) Joni Ernst (IA) Dan Sullivan (AS) & other GOP Senators running in 2026 who wouldn’t vote against Trump tariffs.

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100 daze…

April 29, 2025

ICYMI, Jalen Hurts had “scheduling conflicts” and passed on the Philadelphia Eagles visit to the White House.

Hope he enjoyed washing his hair

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On Sunday, Los Angeles Lakers blew a 10 point lead starting the 4th quarter to lose to the MinnesotaTimberwolves.

Tuesday, Milwaukee Bucks with 7 point lead over Indiana Paces with 40 seconds to go. “Hold our beer”

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A fractious Canada was getting tired of Trudeau. Then jealous Trump picked a fight with Justin, who ended up resigning. Now Canada’s new PM, Harvard/ Oxford educated economist, has both a unified country AND a mandate. And Mark Carney will run rings around Donold. Karma, eh?

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Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney: “We are over the shock of the American betrayal, but we must never forget the lessons. We have to look out for ourselves and take care of each other.” How many other world leaders are thinking the same thing?

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Suppose Canadian PM Mark Carney is too much of a grown-up in his election victory speech to thank Governor Trump.

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So has Velveeta Voldemort accused the Canadian election of being stolen yet?

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Trump might think he’s running the world. He’s not even running Canada.

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Don’t think of it as 100 days into Donald’s presidency, think of it as only 1362 days left of his Presidency.

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So the biggliest baby called one of his pet billionaires Jeff Bezos to complain about Amazon adding a tariff surcharge and Bezos backed down. Again. Guess Jeff needs another tax cut to buy another yacht. Chaos up, corruption up, costs up.

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Donald thinks being called consequential is a complement. It isn’t –

Rolling Stone “Donald Trump’s first 100 days have been the most chaotic and consequential in modern political memory.”

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“I’d like to be Pope.” Not that it will happen. And his cult members will laugh it off as a joke. But Trump. Does. Not. Joke.


Then Lindsey Graham tweeted (yes, I checked it not satire.I was excited to hear that President Trump is open to the idea of being the next Pope. This would truly be a dark horse candidate, but I would ask the papal conclave and Catholic faithful to keep an open mind about this possibility!

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One of Trump’s executive orders directed Department of Transportation to include English literacy tests for US truckers. Anyone think Donald himself could pass that test?

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Still no word from Donald about the 11 people killed by a car driving into a crowd in Vancouver. And he never posted or talked about Florida State victims. But he had time to golf, and he has time to rant about polls

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And don’t forget, many people plan vacations months in advance with nonrefundable tickets so they couldn’t back out without losing them. Just wait until we see the numbers for summer….

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Heroes and zeroes

April 26, 2025

Non political weirdness for the night LA Dodgers, San Diego Padres and SF Giants, three of best records in baseball. All shut out Friday night. (By Pirates, Rays and Rangers.)

Imagine being Cam Ward, #1 pick in the NFL draft. And all the media is about the guy who HASN’T been drafted yet.

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So Donald took to social media to attack NFL owners for not picking Shedeur Sanders in the 1st round of the draft because Deion’s son has “PHENOMENAL GENES, and is all set for Greatness.” Now Shedeur hasn’t been drafted through THREE rounds. Almost as if #ETTD

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Although as he talks about “phenomenal genes” we should remember that many have pointed out that Barron Trump was turned down by Harvard.

I’m sure Trump’s vendetta against Harvard has nothing to do with that.

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For those trying to excuse Trump’s arresting a judge.. Yes, criminals should not walk free. But if undocumented people can be arrested simply when they appear in courtroom, what happens if immigrants witness crime, robbery, assault, even murder? They won’t show up as witnesses.

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When Trump says “unlike every other President I took the cognitive test and I aced it 100%….” Your reminder. In general a cognitive test is not part of an average physical. A cognitive test is given to a patient suspected of having dementia or Alzheimers.

(and it’s not a test you “ace.” It’s more like pass-fail.”

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CNN reporting Trump now saying he said he would end war in 24 hours “in jest.”

Erin Burnett points out Trump said ‘I will end the Russia-Ukraine war in 24 hours’ “at least 53 times.”

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US Bureau of Economic Analysis says California made $4.1 trillion in GDP last year. Pushing the state past Japan to be the 4th largest economy in the world. If Trump keeps cutting funding to the state, maybe California should stop paying federal taxes? Just saying.

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Judges today, will they arrest journalists tomorrow?

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Donald refuses to say if Chinese President Xi has called him. Translation. Xi hasn’t called. He’s enjoying this.

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Has Trump pardoned George Santos yet?

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A loss is a loss?

April 22, 2025

Well, the SF Giants and Los Angeles Dodgers both gave up 11 runs to their opponents on Tuesday night.

The Giants lost 11-3, the Dodgers blew a 10-7 lead late and lost 11-10 in ten innings.

They count the same in the standings.

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Anyone else who remembers the original six NHL teams, or even when the league had about 20 teams, still have it feel a bit odd when you see a playoff game between Florida and Tampa??

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So does Elon Musk in returning to Tesla think his potential buyers will all forget that little side hustle he had as acting President?

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Two young men, one whose girlfriend had his ID, one whose mom had birth certificate, already mistakenly detained as undocumented immigrants. What makes anyone think Trump hasn’t already deported a US citizen. If someone is single & had no one to vouch for him, how would we know?

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Does anyone really think Pete Hegseth has only had two Signal chats with top secret information? And open note to any journalist who might have been included -Please come forward instead of saving it for a book.

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Another week, another allegation of incompetence. Has a single Republican who wanted Lloyd Austin to resign as DOD Secretary because he supposedly lost his department’s confidence by hiding his hospitalization, said one word about Pete Hegseth?

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Have no idea why Kristi Noem had $3,000 in her purse. But sure seems like right-wing media and GOP who want to give HER the benefit of the doubt, won’t do the same to anyone who is an immigrant or person of color.

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North Carolina, still recovering from Hurricane Helene, now has the added blow of losing the CDC disaster team who Trump/Musk laid off. President Biden would have kept that team in place Kamala Harris would have kept that team in place.

Elections have consequences.

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So did they need a conclave at the Vatican before the Pope’s funeral to decide if they really had to invite the President of the United States?

Why is it that hard to understand why Donald hates our country . IMHO the answer is not that hard. America rejected him once in 2020.

It’s ALL about revenge. He won’t live forever. But he hopes his destruction will be permanent..

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Huntington Beach is the Florida of California. -IYKYK

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Never say never

April 21, 2025

If you’re looking for mIracles… the Detroit Pistons snapped a 15 game NBA playoff streak dating back to May 2008.

How long ago was that?

Forget revenge against having a black President. Many Americans in May 2008 couldn’t yet imagine having a black President.

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And Not Catholic, not close to Catholic. But seems that, on the whole, Francis was a decent man.

At a time when we need more of them. RIP Pope.

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Not satire.

Velveeta Voldemort actually posted that “Melania and I will be going to the funeral of Pope Francis, in Rome. We look forward to being there.”

What kind of sick f*ck (leade) says publicly ‘we look forward to being” at a funeral.

(yes I am aware many Americans may say that in private.. 🙂

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Pope Francis died of a stroke and heart failure, the Vatican’s press office said in a statement today.

Yes, he was an old man who wasn’t in the greatest health. But can’t imagine meeting JD Vance was a stress-free experience.

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Has Donald demanded he be appointed Pope yet?

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At this point have to wonder how many journalists have been included on Pete Hegseth SiGNAL chats and have just decided to save it for their books?

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Amy Klobuchar said the US Supreme court should hold Trump administration officials in contempt if they continue to ignore court orders…

Dear Chief Justice Frankenstein/Roberts – i know it’s tough… but this is one way to go get your monster.

Also your reminder.

Trump chose Jerome Powell as chair of Federal Reserve.

As he appointed Chris Krebs.

As he appointed Christopher Wray at FBI

As he chose Mike Pence as VP. Sooner or later everyone ends up under the Trump bus.

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And besides doing his BFF’s Vlad’s bidding, some ask, why would Donald try to destroy America?

Because we rejected him, once. In 2020. And he knows it. Revenge is his number one motivation.

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Now reportedly Hegseth shared attack details in a second signal chat. If there’s two, there’s three. If there’s three there’s four. If there’s four, there’s more.

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Let’s not forget, Pete Hegseth was fired from not one but two veterans’ nonprofits over allegations of mismanagement. Btw, anyone talked to Senators Joni Ernst or Thom Tillis lately?

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When millions of Americans voted for lower prices, don’t think the stock market was what they had in mind. “Dow drops 1,200 points, S&P 500 loses 3% as Trump again attacks Powell and sows investor doubt.”

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It’s not over til it’s over

April 18, 2025

Why baseball is the best sport:

No clock

“Arizona, became just 3rd team over the past 50 seasons to lose a game in which it had a 10-run inning at any point.”

The Diamondbacks had their 10 run inning in the 8th, took an 11-7 lead to the bottom of the 8th. And lost… 13-11.

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I’m so old I remember when an 82 game season that allowed 16 of 30 teams into the NBA postseason was considered enough of a “play-in round.”

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Kilmar Abergo Garcia was wearing a KC Chiefs hat in his meeting with Chris Van Hollen today. So is ICE gonna start arresting and deporting Chiefs fans now too?

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Aaron Rodgers now saying he is uncertain about his future and could even retire. Or maybe Mr. “I do my own research” is hoping to work with RFK Jr. at HHS?

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How many times do we all need to hear this? Personally apologizing to the President of the United States should NEVER be a requirement for a state to receive federal funds, or a university to keep its tax exempt status.


I missed “It’s going to take some time” and “we’re going to have to go through some pain” from Trump and GOP on the 2024 campaign trail…

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Trump’s latest acting IRS commission has been fired, fewer than three days after being appointed.

Heck, Donald’s relationship with Stormy Daniels almost lasted longer than that

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And now Trump administration is blaming Harvard for their confrontation because they say the letter most recently send with unreasonable demands was a mistake and Harvard should have known that?

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Harvard Thursday: “We will continue to comply with the law. And we expect the administration to do the same.” Hello, 911, I’d like to report a major burn.

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Trump has done the impossible: Made Harvard into a courageous underdog.

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This White House is the gang that couldn’t shoot democracy straight…

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I really don’t like this documentary combined sequel to Dr. Strangelove and the Manchurian Candidate.

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Velveeta Voldemort wants the FDA to stop routine food safety inspections. And the GOP is silent. Once again Pro Life My Ass..

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Donald Trump appointed Jerome Powell as Federal Reserve Chair.

Donald Trump chose Christopher Wray to lead FBI.

Donald Trump put Christopher Krebs in charge of the new Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency. See the pattern?

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Very impressed with Senator Chris Van Hollen who got to see Kilmar Garcia. Have to wonder… did it help that he is a low-key white guy, who no one can accuse of being far-left or media-focused?

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A reminder. The Germans outsourced their worst concentration/death camps to Nazi Germany occupied Poland. Now Trump is outsourcing US concentration/death camps to US funded El Salvador.

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Again for those in the back:

Democrats believe in the rule of law Democrats DO also believe in due process. Which benefits all of us. If charges alone were enough to throw someone in jail or deport them, Biden could have sent Trump to prison or Moscow years ago.


The suspect in Thursday’s Florida State shooting is the son of a sheriff’s deputy. So a good guy with a gun until he wasn’t?

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Trump used the mother of a woman murdered by an immigrant in a photo op to somehow justify sending Kilmar Alberto Garcia to El Salvador.

Are we going to deport some children of sheriff’s deputies because one of them just killed two people at Florida State?

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Fumbled

April 15, 2025

We shouldn’t have trusted the national championship trophy in the hands of JD Vance.

Shouldn’t trust him with his hands on our democracy either.

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-On a rare bright note on a rough day. Paige Bueckers, as expected, was taken first in the WNBA draft.

Wasnt that long ago that many Americans, even sports fans, may not have realized the WNBA HAD a draft.

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Many have thought American democracy is unsinkable.. Tonight the night of April 14,/15 1912, after disregarding many ice warnings, the Titanic hit that iceberg. How many warnings do we need?

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When Hitler took power in January 1933 he started opening concentration camps. Dachau was one of the first. It wasn’t originally for Jews. It was for the mass imprisonment (& murder) of political opponents. Including journalists.

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

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Meanwhile, for those who despise elite universities.

Or those who still don’t think lack of due process wil happen to them… at least until a friend or family member is deported..

Donold still has crazy tariffs. About 60 percent of all imports sold in Walmart — were made in China.

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Remember Joe Biden calling Peter Doocy “stupid S.O.B?” under his breath, when he didn’t realize the mic was on? ” Right wing media lost their minds.

Even though Biden apologized to Doocy and Peter accepted it.

Trump says out loud to Kaitlin Collins that “CNN hates our country.” And “Let’s hear the question from this very low-rated anchor at CNN.”

Right-wing media cheers!

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Fox News headline “Senate DOGE leader (Joni Ernst) targets tax-dodging government workers.” Fine, can she include members of Congress?

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47 Democratic Senators can all express outrage.

213 Democratic Representatives can all express outrage.

Won’t matter. Republicans have the gavels. We need just a few of them to remember the oath they took to the constitution and this country.


“Homegrowns are next.”

All these people who say Democrats were fearmongering and the USA would never overturn Roe v. Wade now say Trump would never send U.S. Citizens to be imprisoned in a foreign counry.

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Math games

April 11, 2025

There are five teams within one game of each other for the last three guaranteed playoff sports and the top two spots in the play in tournament- with two games left in the regular season. And if you can figure out all the permutations, be glad you learned math before Trump guts education.

4Nuggets48-322
5Clippers48-322
6Warriors47-332
—PLAY-IN TOURNAMENT——
7Grizzlies47-332
8Timberwolves47-332

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The US base commander in Greenland, who spoke out against JD Vance, has been fired.

Her trangression? Having more cojones than most men.

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Rachel Maddow tonight talking of Avelo Airlines, budget carrier serving smaller airports that dropped many flights in order to use the planes to carry out Trump deportations. And we thought Southwest getting rid of “bags fly free” was the worst airline PR disaster of the year.

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Trump on his new $5 million gold card: “It’s a road to citizenship for people, essentially people of wealth, or for people of wealth pay for people of talent to get in.” Translation: old rich men who want young beautiful women can give them something better than a genius visa.

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Vanity Fair has an article “A Peek Inside Usha Vance’s “Very Lonely, Lonely World” Think I’ll pass on reading it. But thoughts and prayers.

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GOP Senate apoplectic that Schumer is slowed down the appointment of the new Chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff, Dan Caine, who was eventually confirmed 60-25 in the early hours of the morning.. They didn’t mind when Tommy Tuberville blocked hundreds of military appointments for 10 months..

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Democrats, with only 47 seats, can’t stop appointments. But they sure can keep some rich GOP Senators from enjoying their nights & weekends.

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Hope some of these rich white men in the GOP Senate don’t mind giving up nights and weekends.

Trump is the sort of guy who when you play poker with him and he bluffs and loses with a pair of sixes, will upend the table and say the game is rigged.

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Over and out.

April 10, 2025

The Chicago White Sox were about to tie the game on a bases loaded single in the 9th inning today against the Cleveland Guardians. And then runner Mike Tauchman injured himself running around third and couldn’t make it to the plate. This might be one of the most White Sox losses ever.

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Meanwhile, Mike Yastremski, who hit a three run home run to help SF Giants win 5-4 on Sunday, said at the time, his 3 year old Quinley asked me for a home run,” Yastrzemski said over the weekend.

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Today Yaz admitted “Well, she asked me specifically for a triple, a home run and a splash hit.”

And he won the game with a 2-run splash hit in the 10th.

Maybe the SF Giants need to buy that girl a pony. Or something.

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Meanwhile in Colorado, 11 games in the 2-9 Rockies have a -33 run differential. Which means not only are they losing, they are losing by an average of 3 runs per game. Ouch.

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Wonder if any journalists were included on a SIGNAL chat about fake tariffs in order to manipulate the market.

If so, would be nice if they’d come out with it now instead of waiting to write a book.

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It’s not just that the rich got richer. But many working class people sold at a loss because they were terrified of losing what was left of their retirement savings.

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Trump’s wants the IRS’s division to go after rich tax cheats eliminated. But he wants the IRS to turn over confidential information to go after, for now, immigrants. How long until he tries to go after those who donate to liberal causes?

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Please folks. Forget 4D chess. Could some reporter on camera just ask Trump to name every piece on a chessboard?

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Trump White House to NBC News -they will not release list of countries that have so far reached out to start negotiating with U.S. over Trump’s so-called reciprocal tariffs. Translation – the list doesn’t exist.

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Trump is the arsonist who shows up to help firefighters and wants to be declared a hero.

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“President Trump is doing a masterful job of negotiating with other countries!?””

New Ohio Senator Bernie Moreno on Senate floor today. Ohio, not only did you vote out a great man in Sherrod Brown but you elected a sycophantic buffoon.

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Could some of this insanity with tariffs and changing on a daily basis be because Velveeta Voldemort was tired of his co-President Musk getting all the headlines?

As a Democrat I can say I think Nancy Pelosi was wrong not to outlaw Congressional stock trading. But think most Democrats now would vote to do it. Your move, Mike Johnson.

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Wrong turn

April 8, 2025


As the biggest payroll in baseball Los Angeles Dodgers appeared at the White House today while our stock market craters, would it be wrong as an SF Giants fan to hope #ETTD?

(And LA then did go out and lost to the the Nationals.)

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Donold couldn’t resist swipping at California’s Senators when the Los Angeles Dodgers visited today.

Imagine if when the 2016 Super Bowl Champions Denver Broncos came to the White House President Obama had taken the time to insult and refuse to acknowledge by name Colorado GOP Senator Cory Gardner.

But that wouldn’t have happened. because Barack is not a petty little b*tch.

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We are about 14 months away from the World Cup at this point. Leaving aside tourists wanting to go somewhere else, Why would any young man who isn’t blond hair and blue-eyed risk coming here?


At this point how many other countries would back Greenland or Canada in trying to annex the United States?

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Anyone remember Trump during the campaign talking about an economic revolution and the pain we’d all have to go through for his vision?

Me neither.

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Even as a political junkie I somehow missed the 2024 Trump campaign slogan “Sometimes you have to take medicine to fix something.”

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In 17th & 18th century England, wreckers took valuables from ships that ran aground in Devon & Cornwall. Some claimed that wreckers actually decoyed ships with lights to crash into the coast.

Those stories may be myths, but what Trump & his buddies are doing to wreck the US economy IS deliberate.

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A garment worker in Vietnam makes $200-300 a month.

Someone who makes shoes in China makes $400-600 a month

People who put together iPhones in China make about $3.00 a hour.

But yeah, tell me how we’re going to move manufacturing to the US.

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On Twitter, Maga trolls and bots posting near identical posts accusing Democrats of being pro slave labor in response to anyone pointing out how much less manufacturing salaries are overseas.

Yet in the US, Republicans want not to raise the minimum wage and make child labor legal.

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Amy Coney Barrett is an anti-choice conservative SCOTUS justice

But she is not apparently a monster.

So MAGA is big mad at her.

Seems sadly on brand.

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Why isn’t media hammering this point?

Could Trump demand El Salvador return innocent man? Perhaps not.

Could he ask? Yes. And why wouldn’t President of El Salvador do a favor for his good friend?

Donold wants to make all deportations, even of innocent people, irrevocable.

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GOP Rep. Darrell Issa, who got rich by bringing us car alarms, now has No Rogue Rulings Act (NORRA) act which would limit district court judges’ ability to issue orders blocking Trump policies nationwide. Funny, GOP didn’t mind when district judges blocked Biden policies.

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We’ve had recession and depressions. Can we start calling this a Trumpression?

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The market has circuit breakers. It is a shame the USA doesn’t have circuit breakers that would trigger an election.

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Good and bad seeds

April 4, 2025

As the men’s final four starts Friday night, not only has Cinderella left the building, the step sisters have gone with her. Four number one seeds left.

And this is largely because NIL money means top teams can just fill in their rosters by offering money to players from small market teams to join them.

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Remember those days when one-and-done made the NCAA feel like an NBA minor league?

Now the whole thing feels like major league baseball.

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And speaking of the Dodgers

Meanwhile over in baseball, the half billion dollar payroll Los Angeles Dodgers put Freddie Freeman on the IL after his ankle injury from falling in the shower. So what high-priced star from a small-market team will the Dodgers trade for to replace him?

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Remember how Trump ordered all federal employees back to office and said no more remote work? Then he hightails it out of DC Thursday after instituting Trump Tariff Tax, and after his Saudi golf event will be at his resort Friday. Though maybe he isn’t even pretending to work?

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For all those who cheer at the idea of privatizing social security… How’s your 401K doing today?

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If your 401k is invested in a stock market index, you lost about 5% of it Thursday. And it’s down about 8% since President Biden left office. Are we great yet?

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“Lululemon produces around 3.5 percent of its goods in the US.” You never know what might be the tipping point for suburban women who voted for Trump to regret their decision….

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Agriculture Secretary Rollins -We understand there may be a “A short time of uncertainty.” Well the Great Depression “only” lasted 10 years.

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So supposedly because a few trans girls play sports in Maine and because Governor Janet Mills won’t apologize to Donold, Trump has decided to freeze social security contracts and child nutrition for the whole state. Pro life my ass.

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Remember being in college and couldn’t imagine how Jim Jones got 900 people to drink cyanide-laced Kool-Aid. I don’t wonder anymore. Cults are cults.

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The best of teams the worst of teams.

April 3, 2025

Dodgers are now 8-0 after a comeback win against the lowly (0-7) Atlanta Braves.

Max Muncy “It feels like this clubhouse is carrying a little bit of the attitude we had last year that we’re never out of a game and we’re resilient, and we’ve been carrying it into this season… the guys don’t give up. Bad things have happened, and no one’s really been down or out.”

“Resilence?””

Because we know that our competitive balance tax payroll will be estimated $393.75 million?? Before trades.

(about as much as the bottom five MLB payroll team put together)

Meanwhile, speaking of the bottom teams.

The former Oakland As , and probably future Las Vegas As just finished their home opening series against the Cubs.

They lost three games 3-18, 4-7 and 2-10.

It’s a minor league ballpark. And they are doing their best to play like a minor league team.

On the other hand, the team refused to put “Sacramento” in their name. Which these days the city of Sacramento has to feel pretty good about. At least their AAA team (the rivercats) is respectable.

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Amy Klobuchar tonight w/ Lawrence O’Donnell “tourism is down 70% from Canada.” “People are pissed off.” Sen. Klobuchar doesn’t usually use that phrase, but Canadians don’t normally get that pissed off.

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Wonder why Fox News viewers act brainwashed? Donald Trump wandered off the stage today and had to be reminded to sign his tariff executive orders.

What’s the Fox headline? “Top Biden aide describes ‘out of it’ president before Trump debate.”

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Well well Yes the House is recalcitrant at best. But four GOP Senators actually stood up to Trump on tariffs on Canada.

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So the President’s top campaign donor may be leaving DOGE and Donold’s inner circle. Would we say Elon’s being thrown not under the bus but under the Cybertruck?

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People do sometimes vote for higher taxes to get a fairer systems. And I get it, if you’re comfortably off it’s easier. But many Trump voters voted purely for their own self-interest. They’re about to find out “A tariff is a tax.” is not just a Democratic talking point.

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Meanwhile, coming soon to the GOP House Circus – new representative Randy Fine. Who won a Florida deep red district by about half the margin Trump had.

GOP Ron DeSantis said he nominated Fine for FAU president because “he repelled people in the (GOP led) state legislature. They wanted to get him out of the legislature, so they asked me to put him up for Florida Atlantic president”

Pass the popcorn.

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Standings

March 30, 2025

Two games into the season, the Chicago White Sox, at 1-1, are tied for the lead in the AL Central. High watermark of 2025?

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After the NHL worst San Jose Sharks lost 6-1 to the NY Rangers, the Rangers team bus apparently backed into Macklin Celebrini’s car in the parking lot.

Talk about a metaphor for the season.

Alysa Liu, a 19 year old who has already retired and come back, makes me feel old. But her winning the Figure Skating World Championship to the music of Donna Summer (MacArthur Park) makes me feel young!

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Velveeta Voldemort even wants to attack what he perceives as wokeness at the Smithsonian National Zoo. What’s he going to do at the zoo? Have Jr lead monthly hunting days?

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Trump won Stefanik’s district by 30 percentage points last November. So if things are going as well as DonOld claims, why is he worried about losing Elise’s seat?

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RFK Jr. claimed “COVID was disease that attacked the sick, as w/ all infectious diseases.” Per NY Times 2021 study of Covid mortality in 560,000 people found roughly 30% of Covid deaths occurred in patients w/o underlying diseases. And does RFK Jr consider being over 65 “sick?

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I guess we were warned. Amy Klobuchar in 2020 on Trump. “He blames everyone for everything that happened: Obama, head of Federal Reserve, generals… He blames entire kingdom of Denmark. Who does that? He recently went after prime minister of Canada…

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J.D. Vance says he went with his wife Usha to “check out what’s goin’ on with the security there of Greenland.” Based on the Signal debacle this week how long until Greenland sends visitors to see whats going on with the security of the USA?

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One of the troll message about Social Security these day that we should all have been able to do our own investing. Rather ironic as the stock market is falling today and is down about 5% this year since DonOld took office.

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Learned something from the twitter bot troll farm today. Trump’s biggest campaign donor’s latest big lie is telling Americans that Social Security is about to fall apart. So when DOGE destroys it they can shrug & say, would have happened anyway.

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Colin Jost mocked the Signal cluster f*ck by referencing “my Aunt Janice’s texting skills.” As a semi-luddite who is several people’s aunt want to say there is no way I – or most of my friends who are aunts -would be anywhere near that stupid while texting.

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Does anyone else think Trump might drop all his tariffs if someone figures out how to give him a Medal of Honor and Five Stars to wear on his blazer in advance of Liberation Day?

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Another close call near National Airport, between Air Force plane & Delta plane. Crickets on Fox News.

Also not mentioned on Fox, 4 US soldiers missing & presumed dead in Lithuania.

And they’ve moved on from Signal debacle.

Nor do they hear about Pete Hegseth bringing his wife to meetings involving sensitive information with foreign diplomats.

Fox doesn’t think their viewers can handle the truth

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As Musk tries to bribe Wisconsin voters with $100 payouts and a million dollar bonus for a few, your reminder that in Georgia GOP outlawed handing water to anyone waiting in line to vote.

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If I were in Wisconsin and a South Africian billionaire was trying to buy our election, I’d be pretty cheesed off.

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Busted

March 27, 2025

SF Giants are undefeated in the Buster Posey ownership era.

Arkansas blew a 16 point lead midway through the 2nd half and a 6 point leaded with 1 minute and 15 seconds left and the ball, to lose to Texas Tech in OT 85-83

This is the most embarrassing thing to happen to Arkansas since they elected Sarah Huckabee Sanders governor.

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No team lower than a 3 seed into the first half of the Elite Eight. No double digit seed left with 12 teams to go. Cinderella left early to beat the rush.

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For all the focus on Elise Stefanik, Trump plucked Mike Waltz out of a GOP Congressional Seat in Florida. While it’s a red district special election polls are now closer than expected & Waltz appears to be idiot who put reporter into war planning Signal chat.

Maybe GOP should have gotten Elise confirmed & left Waltz in Florida.

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Can’t be said enough. If Trump thought his and DOGE policies were popular he wouldn’t be worried about a special election in New York. Heck, he’d have a handpicked crony already endorsed for Stefanik’s seat.

Elise Stefanik gave up her House leadership position for nothing. Thoughts and prayers.

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Velveeta Voldemort today says he ‘always thought’ Waltz was responsible for Signal chat scandal.

1. He didn’t know what Signal was.

2. He can’t admit he made a major error in picking Hegseth.

3. So we know the next person to be thrown under the Trump bus.

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Next time if you or anyone you know overdraws their checking account by a few dollars and gets charged a $35 fee, thank Republicans. They just voted to overturn a Biden CFPB rule to cap such fees at $5

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JD and Usha Vance have now scrapped all pretense of their upcoming visit to Greenland being about culture and tourism as they will be kept away from residents. Give Trump credit. He’s the first US President to get America hated by Canada, Denmark and Greenland.

Four soldiers are still missing and presumed dead in Lithuania. At his press conference yesterday Trump had no clue anything had happened. And if you get news from Fox News you won’t see a word about it.

I’m 65, started paying into social security when I was 15. How about everyone else? PS – It’s not a ponzi scheme, it’s OUR money

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Seeing some of these social security stories from many of us who’ve been paying in since we were teens reminds me of guy I dated ONCE Freshman year.

He was going to go skiing at Christmas, asked what I was doing. Said I was going home, would see friends but would do a lot of waitressing. His response “Why? Just ask mom & dad for money.” Wonder how many of these DOGE types who want to slash social security ever had a job in high school?

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And the madness begins.

March 21, 2025

Wonder if more people would vote if we could somehow put candidates into brackets before the primaries and have online and office pools.

Thought for the morning: May our troubles last as long as our perfect brackets.

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So has Donald Trump already announced that he had a perfect March Madness bracket and won the White House pool?

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Donald Trump’s response to losing ANYTHING, from an election to a court case, is to accuse the other side of cheating or being “crooked” He can’t even accept losing in golf. Imagine rooting for a sports team that declares themselves undefeated & all losses to be illegal.

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Point of fact… Judge Boasberg, who Velveeta Voldemort, Leon and the right wing call a“Democrat activist,” was originally appointed by President George W. Bush. Yeah, the same as MAGA’s beloved SCOTUS judge Alito.

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Rachel Maddow covering Trump publishing unredacted papers on JFK Assassination. Redacted parts turned out to be personal details including social security numbers & birthdates for everyone involved. Many were young at time & are still alive. The “King” is a clown Prince.

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In Georgia, Republicans stopped people from offering WATER to people waiting in line to vote because they considered it buying votes. Elon Musk’s PAC is now offering $100 to Wisconsin voters to sign a petition against “activist judges.”

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So much insanity nonstop things like this barely make news: “Administration quietly rescinded order blocking major Dominican sugar producer w/ ties to Trump from shipping sugar to USA because of allegations of forced labor at company.” Donold wants a servant class here too.

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Apparently Minnesota Senate GOP will move to expel Sen. Justin Eichorn after his arrest for allegedly seeking sex from a 16 year old girl. So yes, Virginia, there are still Republicans with SOME scruples.

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Minnesota State Senator Justin Eichorn, who wanted to classify “Trump Derangement Syndrome” as a mental illness, has now resigned after being arrested for soliciting a 16 year old girl for sex.

Wonder if Donald will pardon him and offer Eichorn a job?

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Dart board dart board, who’s got a dartboard?

March 16, 2025

So uh, why is UNC in the tournament, other than they are UNC?

This year many picks will be as arbitrary as DOGE firing.

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I’ll do some guessing. But it’s clearly time for another cat bracket.

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Remember when Putin in 2019 scored 9 goals in a Russia hockey exhibtion?

Trump’s winning his own golf club championship is like that.

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MD Governor Wes Moore last night at Gridiron Dinner referencing the infamous Trump, Zelenskky, Vance, Rubio Oval Office meeting “Speaking of couches, “I hear JD Vance was supposed to be here tonight. But I heard he pulled out at the last minute.”

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Attacking Habitat for Humanity is pure and simple Velveeta Voldemort’s revenge on Jimmy Carter for being beloved. It all makes sense if you view everything through the lens of petty revenge.

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Many diseases that used to be fatal are curable now. Treatment for cancers have been improving by leaps and bounds. And for much of that we thank NIH & university research. Now Muskrat wants to put brakes on. Does he think cancer and other diseases don’t affect rich people

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So if you and your family are not powerful, you can be completely innocent and get deported this and never allowed back in the country. Unlike the Tate brothers who are guilty but well connected.

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Media in general is not reporting on anti-Trump, anti-DOGE protests.

Fox News in particular is not reporting on death toll from storms this weekend, now over 40, all in red states. While DOGE cuts NOAA/National Weather Service. I wonder why?

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President Biden helped all 50 states, even if they didn’t vote for him, without blame. Where is Donold, who attacked California, on these horrific fires in Oklahoma?

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Donald Trump won in 2024. But his entire second term focus seems to be revenge against America for not voting for him in 2020.

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So it takes a special kind of chutzpah to tell a sovereign country – Denmark = you want to take their terrority – Greenland, but, by the way, will you sell us eggs? What’s next? Will Trump ask for eggs from Canada?

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Nothing official – but some Canadians have a plan to stop Trump’s tariff insanity: Block a certain website in the US – Canadian-owned Pornhub.

Talk about hitting below the belt.

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Headline:- “Did Southwest make a big mistake?” My feeling on charging for bags, .Yes. Mistake made because Elliott Investment Management, Florida hedge fund now has 11% stake in airline. They will destroy Southwest & sell pieces for parts. As hedge funds do to companies.

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Name change?

March 14, 2025

So it’s selection Sunday for the NCAA basketball tournament.”

Maybe they should consider a name change. At this point they could get sued by Trump’s DOJ for using the term “March Madness.

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Silver lining of the week. We learned which Democrats are not afraid of Donald Trump.

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Did not have on any bingo card that on a day in March of 2025 the only person praising Chuck Schumer would be Velveeta Voldemort.

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It’s not that Schumer wasn’t right that a shutdown would give President Musk and Clown Prince Trump the power to do whatever they want with government.

But how much different is that from what they are doing now?

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They really are a family of dicks, aren’t they?

Donald Trump Very Senior posts on Truth Socia “praising” Chuck Schumer. While Jr. sends emails under his “Win.donjr” account headlined “Schumer caves.”

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Small thing but Velveeta Voldemort said proposed 200% tariffs on European wine would be “great for Wine & Champagne businesses in US.”

There IS no “Champagne” business in US. Champagne comes from Champagne region in France. Everything else, even in France, is sparkling wine.

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This is rich.

GOP Rep. Andy Biggs claims Republicans are concerns that ActBlue’s verification policies” could potentially allow foreign actors in countries like China, Venezuela and Russia to influence elections.” Wonder what President Musk thinks of the allegations.

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Wouldn’t we all want to be a fly on the wall listening to private conversations of people like the Irish PM or NATO Secretary General after they have to sit through the angry braggadocious ramblings of Velveeta Voldemort at their “joint” press conferences.

Velveeta Voldemort is not going to annex Greenland.

He’s not going to annex Canada. He’s not going to annex the Panama Canal.

The only country he’s illegally taking over is the United States.

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Current Democratic Senate Leader: Chuck Schumer, 74

Current #2 – Dick Durbin, 80

Current #3 – Amy Klobuchar, 64

Current #4 – Cory Booker, 55.

Who else thinks maybe it’s time to have the white men step aside for real fighters?

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CNN “Trump’s public airing of grievances at DOJ was unprecedented.” It’s only 53 days into his 2nd term….. how long until Velveeta Voldemort tops it?

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President Musk has 14 children at least by several different women? Where are the other 13 while he trots his current preferred mini-me around with Trump?

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Countdown to madness

March 10, 2025

We are now a week from “Selection Sunday.”

Last year 245 million Americans were eligible to vote and about 90 million stayed home. Wonder if we could put elections somehow into brackets you could bet on if more people would turn out?

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One of the top bot/troll responses on Twitter to anything is attacking Democrats over trans women and girls in sports. Leaving aside that the number of trans women athletes is tiny… how many of these clowns, if they are real, actually watch women’s sports?

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Hmm.. Per Wikipedia, new Canadian PM Mark Carney “completed the 2015 London Marathon in 03:45:22, which was 17 minutes faster than his time at the 2011 Ottawa Marathon.” Think he should ask DonOld to discuss policy with him on a hike!

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As federal workers are forced to return to work, many have been dealing with childcare/petcare issues. Kind & easy way to help them would be to allow well-behaved pets in the office.

But only the lapdogs allowed in Washington DC offices now are Republican members of Congress.

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So when is DonOld Trump going to try to eliminate the department of TRANSportation?

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So, I missed the part of Trump campaign’s where he told Americans to expect a ‘little disturbance’ from his tariff plan & warned there would be a “detox period” as the economy shifts away from government spending – along with a possible recession.

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SNL last night? “Trump” told “Elon” that he wasn’t the boss And Mike Myers as Musk said “I gave you $300 million” Ok you’re the boss.”

Truth

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As insanity spews daily, hard to believe now that for four years about the only regular “Breaking News” media could come up with out of the White House was “Joe Biden is old.’

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Although Fox News regularly complained that Joe Biden was “vacationing” when he visited his home or beach house in Delaware. Crickets on DonOld’s regular multi-million dollar taxpayer paid weekends to golf at Mar-A-Lago. (Six of seven weekends so far.)

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On Democrats needing 1 message:

Many of our best leaders have different styles. And appeal to different voters.

Women for example: AOC & Jasmine Crockett are great

Elissa Slotkin & Amy Klobuchar are great too. It’s a big tent. Think we win nationally w/ an inclusive tent.

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How long until we start referring to the second Trump term as the Fourth Reich?

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That Mike Myers impersonation of Leon as a crazy person looks better all the time. Now Muskrat is claiming George Soros & LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman are funding ‘protests’ against Tesla. As opposed to obvious truth: Much of the US and most of the free world now hates him.

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Donold threatens grants to 10 Universities due to pro-Palestine protests/encampments: Columbia, GWU, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, NYU, Northwestern, UCLA, Berkeley,U Minn & USC.

Universites not on his on list despite major protests/encampments of their own?

Wisconsin, Indiana, Texas, Arizona St, Michigan….. I wonder why.

On Democrats needing one message:

The Presidential election isn’t until 2028.

Until then, many of our best leaders have different styles. And appeal to different voters.

Women for example: AOC & Jasmine Crockett are great Elissa Slotkin & Amy Klobuchar are great too. It’s a big tent. Think we win nationally w/ an inclusive tent

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The heat is on

March 8, 2025

The formerly Oakland now Sacramento A’s announced a three-year agreement Friday with Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority as its official travel partner. A’s players will wear a patch with Las Vegas’ official logo on their left sleeves to remind fans of their upcoming movie in 2028

When it’s 100 degrees in Sacramento this summer am sure baseball fans will be thrilled to imagine that eventually they can travel to watch their team in Las Vegas where it can get to over 110.

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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent defended tariffs, arguing that “access to cheap goods is not the essence of the American Dream.”

Scott Bessent’s estimated net worth, over $500 million.

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Apparently MAGA unhappy that Amy Coney Barrett has shown signs of independence from Trump are pointing to a story that she had someone from Hamilton sing songs at Ketanji Brown Jackson’s welcome party as proof that Barrett is not a “real” conservative.

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How many MAGA know that Scalia and RBG were good friends and went to the opera together?

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DonOld reportedly considering moving 35,000 US troops from Germany to Hungary.

The same Hungary that is no longer considered a democracy. Putin must be so proud.

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Military now is apparently going to remove pictures of the Enola Gay for violating DEI rules –

Because the plane has “Gay” in its name.

This would be funny if it weren’t our democracy we’re talking about.

What’s now, getting rid of “My Old Kentucky Home?” “It’s summer, the people are gay.” Or “Deck the Halls?” “Don we now our gay apparel.”

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If MAGA is so upset about culling chickens with bird flu maybe these chicken farmers ought to sell the dead birds with bird flu to them to eat. The problem could work itself out

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When Palo Alto had a major controversy over traffic near downtown, a wise man said “Traffic is anyone but me driving on my block.” Government spending is like that for MAGA “Wasteful spending” is any government spending that doesn’t directly benefit ME.

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Stunning to see how many Americans (along w/ bots) now view DOGE hackers as heroes. Will be interesting to see how they feel when repercussions from breaking things affect them personally. Thinking tax refunds, national park vacations, social security checks will start it out.

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Per NY Times. DOT Secretary Sean Duffy “said the young staff of Mr. Musk’s team was trying to lay off air traffic controllers. What am I supposed to do? I have multiple plane crashes to deal with now, and your people want me to fire air traffic controllers?”

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Trump apparently plans on another travel ban that will include his former list of Cuba, Iran, Libya, North Korea, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Venezuela and Yemen. Uh, as Donald has alienated most of the free world aren’t many of those countries still the only friends he has left?

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So Donald is now attacking the trade deal he claims he himself negotiated with Mexico and Canada. Begging the question? Is it being an evil liar? Or is it dementia?

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Stephen Colbert: “Millions of young people cannot stand Elon Musk. And those are just his kids.”

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Seemed relevant today.

“Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.”

Especially as the falconer has probably been fired & rehired twice already since January 20.

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WTAF? Troy Edgar, Trump’s choice for DHS Deputy Secretary, talked movingly during confirmation hearing of his wife who fled Iran after Shah was overthrown.

And part of his job at DHS will be to deport similar legal refugees who fled Ukraine, Afghanistan, Haiti, etc.

Make it make sense.

Donald has said he will create a new agency called the External Revenue Service to collect tariffs and there’s been talk he wants it to replace the IRS.

Yeah, that’s going to work real well when he changes his mind every other day on tariffs.

So has President Musk told Trump he can sign a (meaningless) Executive order every day to keep Donold busy?

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Bring her back?

February 24, 2025

San Antonio Spurs blew 17 pt lead & lost to lowly New Orleans Pelicans by 18.

Gregg Popovich’s health comes first & it makes no sense for him to return in 2025.

But if Pop can’t come back next season, maybe time to see how much $$ to hire Becky Hammon back from WNBA to coach.

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Two amusing sidelights of this week.

1. Some of the MAGA cult on social media views cheering for team Canada in a tournament hockey game as being an actual traitor to the US.

2. A whole lot of men think a woman cannot possibly know anything about sports. Wrong on both counts.

Carry on.

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Pope Francis is now in critical condition. If he passes away will Trump demand he be named Pope next?

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Love this line from Senator Chris Murphy “My 16-yr-old son for the 1st time, he said to me, ‘What’s going on? My friends are seeing your stuff. I’m showing up on a 16-yr-old’s TikTok feed.”

(had a nice reminder of when John McCain went on SNL, because he said it impressed his teenage daughter)

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As crazy FBI director Kash Patel looks to be joined by crazier deputy Dan Bongino, the GOP Senators own this. MANY of them knew better.

And if cowardice made them vote yes on Patel and Bondi, what makes them think eventually they won’t end up under the bus like Bolton, Pence, Sessions etc.

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Fox News headline: “Former world leader explains why ‘people are envious of what’s happening in the US.”

The former world leader is former British PM Liz Truss, who lasted in the job 45 days.

I’d rather hear what the head of lettuce thinks.

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Leaving everything else aside, I can’t be the only person who looks at Donald Trump orange circles ending around the eyes and ears, and thinks “his makeup person really hates him.”

The USA used to be a shining example Now we’re an object lesson.

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It all makes sense if you consider maybe the main purpose of some of Musk and Trump’s outrageous actions is two jealous insecure men trying to steal headlines from each other.

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Per NBC News, terminated FAA employees were not controllers, but support staff- “maintenance mechanics, aeronautical information specialists, plus, aviation safety, management & program assistants.” What could go wrong? Well, Musk with SpaceEx brags about learning from crashes.

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DonOld Trump email to President Musk

Subject: What I did last week 5 bullet points 1. I golfed

2.I golfed

3.I golfed

4. I rode around the track at Daytona

5. I followed Putin’s orders.

Do I get a diet coke and a Big Mac?

Love, Donny

Ps. Can I still be King?

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