Left Coast Sports Babe

WTF? ESPN reports Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin today discussed NHL-KHL hockey games. (KHL is the Russian hockey league.)

Just Say Nyet.

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This was the 1972 Summit Series. Anyone in Canada at the time remembers it.

Now much of American knows what it feels like to be aligned with Team Canada against Russia

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Elon Musk gave an interview tonight from the White House lawn. Ah for the days when the Secret Service stopped dangerous people from entering the grounds.

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Legacy media is failing us. Democrats ARE speaking out. But none of us have time to amplify them all.

Challenge for my fellow Dems.

Pick few politicians you respect.

Even better if they’re not the most well known.

Amplify what they say and do.

Together we can be the media!

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Rachel Maddow points out that Trump is talking about Canada the way Putin talks about Ukraine….

Even the 49.8% percent of people who voted for Velveeta Voldemort probably didn’t imagine this.

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California Rep. Eric Swalwell: “Donald Trump promised to bring prices down on Day 1.

It’s been 58 days, & he’s found time to go to Super Bowl & Daytona 500. How many times do you think he’s actually stepped foot in a grocery store?”

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Chief Justice John Roberts. “For now than two centuries it has been established that impeachment is not an appropriate response to disagreement concerning a judicial decision.” Dr. Frankenstein is not happy with his monster.

So how long until Trump says to impeach SCOTUS Chief Justice John Roberts?

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Rachel Maddow had a video of the “Piedmont Raging Grannies” – yes, actual little old ladies – mocking Thom Tillis in song and it might be the best thing I’ve seen all week.

Link from a Twitter pal –

And finally, if you hadn’t heard that MAGA GOP Minnesota State Senator Justin Eichorn was arrested for allegedly trying to solicit a 16 year old girl for sex…. well you have something in coming with Fox News viewers.

Apparently protecting girls and women doesn’t include protecting them from white Republican “family values” men – Eichorn is married and has young children.

Four weeks to MLB Opening day. Look forward to the day when we can boo multimillionaires and billionaires, who instead of destroying our country, just play for the Dodgers.

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In an introductory weekly call newly confirmed FBI director Kash Patel indicated he wanted to “spend more time in Nevada, where he lives, and the West Coast.” So ”return to work for thee but not for me?”

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Susan Collins isn’t thrilled with Musk “It would be better to allow Cabinet secretaries to carefully review their departments and then make surgical, strategic decisions on what programs and people should be cut and then come back to Congress for approval.”

Uh, does she remember who some of these secretaries are that she voted to confirm?

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Why did UK PM Kier Starmer meet with Donald Trump today? Was President Musk not available?

If what President Musk and DOGE were doing was really good for the country, and popular, Republican members of Congress would have introduced these changes as legislation to get the credit.

-Meanwhile as USA Today reports – Elon Musk falsely accuses Verizon of putting US air safety at ‘serious risk’

Apparently Verizon has the newest contract, but as they responded- “To be clear, the FAA systems currently in place are run by L3Harris and not Verizon. We are at the beginning of a multi-year contract to replace antiquated, legacy systems. Our teams have been working with the FAA’s technology teams and our solution stands ready to be deployed.”

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Many GOP claim supposedly protecting girls by keeping trans kids out of USA bathrooms was a top reason for electing Trump. Same GOP about Trump getting sex-trafficking Tate brothers released back into US. Crickets.

Make it make sense.

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Media keeps saying Dems need better messaging. Trump posts ANYTHING and GOP/conservatives respond “this is wonderful, this is great…” Democratic post anything and Dems/liberals/progressives respond “why aren’t you doing or saying this instead?”

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Amy Klobuchar today reminded us how many things we take for granted came out of HHS funded research. For example -(which I didn’t know). “The Pacemaker didnt just come out of one minnesota company, came out of a lot of ideas, universities, people doing clinical trials, a devotion by our country to moving forward.”

Commissioner Roger Goodell says NFL is ‘better’ because of diversity efforts. DonOld won’t like that statement

So did Goodell figure this is his guaranteed way of getting Trump to stay in Florida for the weekend and avoid wanting to come to the Super Bowl?

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And yes, for all the damage he has done, or more to the point, let President Non-Elect Musk do, Trump spends his weekends in Florida. At a cost of millions per weekend to taxpayers.

While GOP complained that Biden went to his Delaware beach house…

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Senator Bill Cassidy says he’s “struggling” with RFK Jr.s nomination. Cassidy is a doctor. He is a Christian. . He knows the right thing to do. And yes he is up for re-election. But “What good does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul?”

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Tump could have negotiated quietly with Canada and Mexico and avoided panic and rage over his proposed tariffs. But he didn’t. And for now all he got was stuff Canada and Mexico were already doing.

Is DonOld upset that President Non-Elect Musk was getting all the attention.

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Jamie Raskin sums it up: “We don’t have a fourth branch of Government called Elon Musk.

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Brian Schatz gave very long & impassionated speech on Senate Floor about Trump & Musk trying to be un-elected Kings, he spoke for over an hour..

After losing election “expecting policies, I was absolutely going to hate…that’s way the ball bounces.” But “This is not the ball bouncing a certain way. This is someone deciding they’re in charge of US govt & don’t care what the law is.”

“We are no longer arguing if they are doing Project 2025. They’re doing it.” Jimmy Stewart/Mr. Smith vibes….

Same media who claims Democrats need to speak up.. crickets.

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Trump administation, already trying to deport foreign students who participated in pro-Palestine protests, now investigating Columbia, Cal, Minnesota, Northwestern & Portland State for allowing protests

Muslims who voted against Kamala -welcome to the face-eating leopards club.

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Meanwhile, while President NonElect Leon and DonOld claim it’s about cost savings, their performance deportation of immigrants costs several times more per person than if they had booked them all first class flights.

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Critical fact think many of my fellow liberals miss:

Right now urgent priority is convincing a few GOP Senators to vote “no” on Trump’s worst cabinet nominees. GOP has 53 votes.

If we can’t reach across aisle to convince them DonOld gets ALL his choices confirmed.

The Golden State Warriors lost by 51 to the Memphis Grizzlies tonight.

And they still didn’t have as embarassing a day as Donald Trump and President Musk.

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As much as New Orleans Saints fans sometimes miss Sean Payton, the Broncos loss to the Chargers after Denver had a 24-13 lead midway through the third quarter reminds us why Saints might have let him go.

Lawrence O’Donnell tonight “We are watching live coverage of the total collapse of the Elon Musk Donald Trump partnership in government in the House.”.” Schadenfreude is bad, right? Oh who am I kidding?

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This Musk-Trump fiasco, before they are even inaugurated, is as if an NFL team was leading by 3, with a few seconds to go & the QB, instead of taking a knee, decided to go for long pass to pad his stats…which got intercepted & run back by the opponent for a game winning TD

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-President Musk and VP Trump’s new budget bill went up in flames faster than some Tesla cybertrucks after a crash.

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Here’s a thought. DC hotel prices, normally $2000 & up for inaugurals with 4 night minimums are in freefall for Jan 19-20. Now Washington Hilton, for example, is $700 a night. Does Donald want to shut down government to distract from the fact that people aren’t showing up?

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Elon Musk bought Twitter for $44 billion. Twitter/X is now worth under $10 billion This is the stable genius that many Republicans are fine with as the real President of our Country?

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Hey Trump voters, when you have to cancel a family Christmas vacation to a national park, or miss a plane due to TSA shortages, or don’t get paid until the end of January… Hope it was worth making that statement of not voting for a black woman.

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And the Musk-Trump bill that failed didn’t just cut millions for pediatric cancer research. They cut the “Take it Down Act” -which criminalizes taking regular pictures & using AI to put a person’s head on a naked body, possibly engaging in sex.

A bill so needed for children that it passed unanimously in the US Senate after Amy Klobuchar & Ted Cruz actually joined forces to lead it.

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Give me a bleeping break! Senator Mike Lee trying to hold up noncontroversial nominees because President-Elect “has asked we hold off on confirming any Presidential nominees until he takes office.” Same Lee who supported Amy Coney Barrett for SCOTUS while US was voting for Biden in 2020!

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For my nerd English literature fan readers:

Trump thinks he’s a King. The King he’s closest to being is King Lear. “He that loves to be flattered is worthy of the flatterer.”