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Foul play?

July 5, 2026

T.S. Eliot had the best line on FIFA rescinding Balogun’s World Cup red card.

“The last temptation is the greatest treason. To do the right thing for the wrong reason.”

Even the Netherlands is going to be rooting for Belgium vs the USA now

Glad that Folarin Balogun can play but as Trump praises FIFA, Donald and his cult members are just going to ignore the fact that Balogun can only play for USMNT at all due to birthright citizenship??!!

Let’s be VERY clear, If Folarin Balogun,who is a US citizen only because his pregnant mother was not allowed to board a flight home to England, were a potential Nobel prize winning biochemist trying to cure cancer, then Trump would have gladly signed his deporation orders.

“Reflecting pool vandals” are this year’s “They’re eating the dogs and cats.”

GOP hasn’t paid a penalty with voters for their lies, yet, so they keep on telling them.

Random baseball thought

I get the difference between earned and unearned runs. But always seems a bit off when a run doesn’t count against a pitcher’s ERA when the error is his own.

Meanwhile, as Donald’s new favorite insult seems to be “communist,” – McCarthyism: the political practice of making unfair, unsubstantiated accusations of disloyalty or subversion—particularly regarding supposed communist sympathies—without regard for evidence.”

“Trumpism” will someday be a more derogatory noun.

MAGA claiming over 100,000 people in attendance tonight to watch Trump speak after 11p.

All of them rushed back through security after bad weather.

So it’s pretty clear, Donald absolutely doesn’t need a half billion dollar ballroom.

Just noticed

@Freedom250 claims in Twitter bio “Freedom 250 is a non-partisan organization delivering presidential-level celebrations for our nation’s 250th birthday.” Uh,

@America250 is bipartisan. Freedom 250 was established by Trump to override it. No lie too small.

To be fair, Donald Trump was the first President to preside over 5th of July fireworks!

Some GOP want to claim it was liberals dressed up as Nazis, who marched in DC on the 4th of July

Uh, NEWSNATION – which is to the right of Fox News – posted videos that show that Thomas Rousseau, Patriot Front’s leader was there and proudly leading the march.

So why the silence, NY Times and other MSM?

Next rounds

June 27, 2026

Dear Buster Posey

Do not ever trade Logan Webb.

Sincerely,

Remaining SF Giants fans who haven’t given up on the team for the forseeable future

(Logan threw 7 innings of 1 hit ball vs Atlanta and the bullpen didn’t blow it for a 5-0 win)

Meanwhile as a long time SF Giants fan who remembers games at Candlestick Park, can say definitively that the park had more fans on a Tuesday night against the Montreal Expos than Donald’s “Freedom 250” “Great American State Fair.”

Clearly many of the attendees managed to steal the invisibility cloaks from the leftist reflecting pool vandals?

In Saturday’s NHL draft, (admittedly it was the 7th round, the San Jose Sharks drafted 18 year old defenseman Alexander Karmanov. Who is 7 foot, 1 inch tall.

Is this Wemby effect transcending basketball?

The White House official social media account actually posted

·”America has always been, and always will be, ONE NATION UNDER GOD.’

Give me a break.

“The phrase “under God” was added to the U.S. Pledge of Allegiance on June 14, 1954, when President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed a bill into law. “

Eisenhower, however, would be appalled by this administration.

So the President of the United States, who thinks he should be “respected, does not know the difference between a passport for Americans and a visa for visitors. “Welcome, be good”

All I can say about Donald Trump’s proposed new passport is “Thank God I just got my passport renewed a few months ago.”

The US just struck Iran again.

Donald’s Nobel Peace prize campaign is going well ..

So clearly police probably have contact info for person who targeted Pete Buttigieg’s family with a false report & had him taken away from his kids overnight.


DOJ/FBI is arresting people over paint chips & putting their fingers in water; why hasn’t this person been taken into custody? Or at least been the subject of an investigation

Aftter the tragic earthquake, there is anger in Venezuela over lack of government help.

But isn’t the US effectively in charge of the country now? In May, Trump talked about making it the 51st state.

Let the games begin

June 13, 2026

Malik Tillman is a black man born in Germany.
Folarin Balogun is a black man born in Brooklyn to Nigerian parents. They moved to London when he was a baby.


Friday night Malik and Folain won a game for USNMT in the World Cup.

Immigrants don’t diminish America, they ARE America!

Not only are there and have their been tickets available on Stubhub for sane prices.. (under $400 for most first round games, under $700 for Turkey -Paraguay on Friday night) but also there is no problem finding hotel rooms. In Santa Clara/San Jose near the stadium they’re actually pretty standard prices. San Francisco is higher but many deluxe hotels under $1000 all week… cheaper than during most major conferences. #ETTD

Texas Tech Pres. Schovanec” acknowledged Brendan Sorsby “made a mistake” (but school is unwavering in its support of him.”

“A young man w/ dream & vision to pursue career. We felt not to have opportunity was unfair & unjust.”

Leaving aside that “a mistake” was thousands of bets, including some on his own team, is Schovanec standing by the Red Raiders guy for all the years Sorsby has devoted to the school?

He just TRANSFERRED to Texas Tech- After two years at Indiana then two at Cincinnati.

WTF? Texas Lt. Governor Dan Patrick says James Talarico is “going to Hell”:

“I’ve never seen so much blasphemy from anyone running for office… He’s going to Hell, for sure.”

Uh, how many of those 10 commandments has Ken Paxton broken?

Now, I know the date (Aug 4), because he’s a fellow Leo.
But guessing most Americans don’t know when Barack Obama’s birthday is….
Because Obama, as popular a two term President as he was, isn’t an egotistical a**hole who needs or needed to make his birthday an expensive circus all about him.

Marco Rubio yesterday compared JFK’s dream to put a man on the moon to Trump’s decision to put a UFC match on the White House lawn.

And the media basically shrugged and moved on..


If they had put taking Trump’s name off the Kennedy Center on television it would have gotten much better ratings than his UFC birthday cage fights.

Small excerpt from Donald’s batsh*t crazy rant on the Kennedy Center.

“People & companies who have given or will be giving millions of dollars to the Center were only willing to do so with name “Trump” on the building.”

Siri, tell me something that absolutely didn’t happen.

Let’s be very clear.

Donald didn’t have time to attend his son’s wedding.

He claimed he was too busy to go to see the USA opening match in the World Cup.

But he had time to order workers to put up curtains to hide his name being taken down.

As the games begin

June 10, 2026

USA probably is never going to be awarded an Olympics or World Cup again are we?

As an increasing number of stars now back out of the invitation to the UFC circus match at the White House, the Trump family – ie the Trump Organization headed by Donald and Eric, is selling gold coins priced as high as $12,000.

But don’t forget. Hunter Biden sold a few paintings.

Need another reason to root for the San Antonio Spurs?

Lip readers said during Game 3 Trump was considering returning to New York to present the Knicks with NBA championship trophy if they swept.

So Spurs win kept him back in DC

How furious is Trump really over Steve Hilton getting into the November election against Xavier Becerra? By beating out billionaire Tom Steyer for second.

Hilton just majorly messed up Donald’s dishonest claim that California elections are rigged.

So Tom Steyer spent about a quarter BILLION dollars in his run for Governor, only to finish third.

It’s a free country, but imagine what he could have done with that money.

MAGA bots and trolls are having a hard time with their James Talarico attacks. They can’t figure out if they’re supposed to call him another closeted gay politician or another Bill Clinton with women.

Not getting as much publicity as his failed concerts, but Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Adam Sandler, Jared Leto, & Mario Lopez have ALL declined invitations to attend Trump’s UFC White House birthday event.

Almost as if NOBODY wants to be seen with Donald.

I miss Stephen Colbert a lot.

But Jimmy Kimmel is growing on me.

After a montage of Trump promises on the war…

“This guy is about as close to a deal with Iran as he is to touching his toes right now.”

And about Donald attending Game 3 of the NBA Finals: “The first sitting President who shut down an entire city to take a nap in front of a sold out crowd.”

And the hits just keep on coming

June 5, 2026

SF Giants manage to lose 16-2 then 8-3 to the Milwaukee Brewers

Then they (barely) hold on to win 1-0 and (barely) hold on to win 12-9. In the same week

Baseball is a weird game.

Meanwhile Donald Trump has decided he will go to game 3 of the NBA finals, and while he says he is a Knicks fan he mentions none of their players but does mention Wemby as a great player

Now as a Spurs fan I must say this is one of the few times I actually agree with Donald.

But uh, Victor Wembanyama is FRENCH. How’s MAGA gonna take that

Short term memory is the first to go.

How close are we to having some reporter asking Trump about his favorite player on the Knicks now and Donald responding “Patrick Ewing”?

Trump seems so obsessed with attacking Kaitlin Collins these days you’d think she turned him down for a date.

Jimmy Kimmel pointed out tonight that one of six statements made at every meeting open to the press is his adminstration/cabinet praising Trump.

“Say what you will about Bill Clinton, when he had hid staff “bleep” him he didn’t make us watch.”

When old male cats get dementia some of them start spraying everywhere – due to combined confusion and a perceived need to marking terrority. Sounds like what Donald’s doing in DC with his signs and monuments. #TrumpPromenade

Trump seems so obsessed with attacking Kaitlin Collins these days you’d think she turned him down for a date.

So many posts about US Senate race & probable Democratic Candidate in Maine.

Can we start paying attention to OTHER races and candidates that matter?

These lesser known people in red states can WIN.

Mary Peltola
Josh Turek
Dan Osborn


Not to mention Sherrod Brown

Moving on up

April 28, 2026

NCAA just announced they will expand March Madness basketball tournament to 76 teams next year.

Can’t wait to see the first fans of teams ranked 77-80 scream that they were unfairly excluded.

Plenty of places to see it online, and if you haven’t you should. But Victor Wembanayama blocked and launched the ball so far tonight the basketball should be an honorary part of the Artemis mission.

As he gets indicted AGAIN by Donald’s DOJ James Comey has to wonder if he gave the most ungrateful man ever the Presidency.

Violence is wrong.

But Donald says after WHCA dinner “People came together. Democrats that truly can’t stand me were saying, ‘Sir, could I just shake your hand? I’m leaving & seeing people, high-level people saying, ‘Sir, great job.”

“Sir” is code for “this did not happen.”

Wrap your head around this one:

GOP Senators insisted President Biden didn’t have power to forgive some student loan debt.

Also GOP Senators, President Trump has power to start war, put his likeness on currency, buildings & withhold billions appropriated by Congress.


Every minute media spends talking about Comey and what DOJ wants to turn into Seashellgate is a minute we aren’t talking about Trump being in the Epstein files.

Fortunately just got my passport renewed about a month ago.

Paid to expedite it.

Will Americans now have a option to pay not to see Velveeta Voldemort’s faceon their passports?

Will someone explain to me how even a fortified bunker ballroom will protect Donald Trump from the awful damage he apparently suffers from late night comedians’ jokes?

As the US prepares to take stakes in struggling discount airlines am sure a man who managed to bankrupt casinos will do just fine in the highly competitive airline industry.

So at least some GOP Senators think that while taxpayers can’t afford healthcare subsidies for Americans we can afford to subsidize a hideously huge ballroom for Donald and his rich donors and friends

As ballots are mailed out NEXT WEEK, a major issue for me with Tom Steyer is his trying to do what hasn’t been done for a major race in California – buying an election.

Rick Scott & Bernie Moreno both started out largely self-funded. Eric Hovde came close to winning a Senate seat in Wisconsin

If Steyer wins, even if he isn’t awful, now many other multi-millionaires and billionaires will feel emboldened to buy their own elected office?

Raining and reigning.

April 21, 2026

Still early in the MLB season, but how about these stats?

4-1, 2.28 ERA

And who’d expect they’d belong to Landen Roupp?

(Yes, he has 4 of the 10 SF Giants wins.)

So is tonight a sign that things are improving? Or will it be the high water mark of the SF Giants season? #BeatLA

When the SF Giants were up 3-1 in bottom six and it started raining, how many Giants fans hoped for a downpour to call the game?

Sucks that Wemby has a concussion. But hoping he’ll be back within a week.

Although actually Spurs were ahead of the Portland Trail Blazers in game 2 until Harrison Barnes and Dylan Harper also got hurt.

“Trump says the U.S. will extend its ceasefire with Iran at Pakistan’s request”

Well, it is TACO Tuesday

Have seen Democratic and Republican administrations.

Never seen ANY administration so incapable of talking about their own accomplishments, whether legitimate or not, without bashing their predecessor(s).

Is Biden and Obama bashing mandatory in every Cabinet member’s speeches?


“Five months. I would have won Vietnam, very quickly. I would have, if I were president. I would have won Iraq in the same amount of time”

Cadet Bone Spurs is speaking.

Kevin Warsh, Trump’s nominee as Fed chair, has said that he will be an “independent actor, not beholden to the President.”

If that’s true he won’t last a Scaramucci

Your reminder that no one was interested in redistricting for the 2026 election until Velveeta Voldemort ordered Texas to get him more GOP congressional seats.

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A Twitter friend shouted out the Atlantic reporters for posting their story about Kash Patel instead of waiting to put it in a book.

Amen.

Et Tu Bob Woodward?

(How many died because he sat on Donald’s admission that they KNEW Covid was airborne?)

As Xavier Becerra surges & Dem Gubernatorial prospects in California seem better, thinking again of friend’s idea:

She thought Swalwell allegations just after he became frontrunner maybe weren’t leaked by GOP but by Democrats worried they’d come out in May, or worse, October.

So Lori Chavez-Deremer is out as Labor Secretary.

Guess in the Trump administrations you can get away with drinking and misconduct allegations only if you’re male.

Have no problem with Sade in the Rock and Rock Hall of Fame.

But again and not for the last time, Carpenters should be in there too.

Not just for all the hits, but how influential their music and arrangements turned out to be.

And Karen had one of the best voices, EVER.

Difficulties

April 15, 2026

In all seriousness, even when the SF Giants trade for or sign good hitters, they seem to forget how to hit when they come to San Francisco.

Aren’t there ANY good hitting coaches out there?

Meanwhile the first win or go home play in game tonight between Miami Heat and Charlotte Hornets, and with 46 seconds to go in a tight overtime game, the Amazon Prime broadcast shows

For a good couple minutes or more (at least there was a timeout) returning 26 seconds left in the game.

Almost as if letting billionaire Jeff Bezos’ streaming service instead of an experienced network carry an important game was a bad idea.

Metaphor for what’s going on in our country?

Pretty stunning to hear GOP Senator John Cornyn talk about defunding (not even renaming it) anything connected with Cesar Chavez because you can’t have a predator associated with a monument.

Uh. He does realize Trump was actually CONVICTED of sexual assault by a jury?

Is there a smugger and less charismatic person in US politics than JD Vance?

Oh please oh please can someone ask Trump about Eric Swalwell and sexual assault allegations on camera?

As big of a mess as the Eric Swalwell situation is, it could be much worse for Democrats.

Imagine if these allegations came out in mid May. Or worse, mid-October?

“Be careful.’ Vance issues warning to Pope Leo when discussing theology”

So man who was an atheist until he converted to Catholicism 6 1/2 years ago is now WARNING the Pope?

Very on brand for the most narcissistic adminstration in history.

United & American Airlines both often have high prices at airports where they have majority of flights (For examples, SFO & Dulles for UA, Dallas & Charlotte for AA.)

And UA CEO Scott Kirby reportedly floated idea of UA-AA merger to Trump in Feb?

Heaven help consumers.

Serious thought on Doordash.

Leaving aside idiocy w/ Trump photo op, if you want to support local businesses, they keep much more of what you pay if you can pick food up.

Apps take a hefty fee. (15-30%!!) And restaurants often have to cover food costs if a client complains about anything.

It comes with the terrority…

April 1, 2026

Headlne after listening to Nathan Lane talking about “Death of a Salesman”

And meanwhile, a week into 162 game season, most MLB teams can dream.

Well, okay, not the As. Marlins, White Sox, but you get the point.

Meanwhile, for at least a night, SF Giants fans remembered that baseball could be FUN.

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Tiger Woods just announced he’s stepping away from golf to seek treatment and focus on his health.

Hoping this means he’s also stepping away from driving, before he kills someone.

Donald is so obsessed on his White House ballroom almost beginning to wonder if he views it as his future memorial and tomb?

When Trump is finally gone from the White House will any phrase have been so degraded in general popular usages as “two weeks?”

As Donald keeps threatening to cut off Federal money to states who don’t obey his mad demands, at what point does it occur to state governments that the Feds get that money FROM states. Mostly blue states.

Hey MAGA

Would like to interrupt your “liberal judge bashing” for a simple fact:

The judge who blocked Trump’s “ballroom,” Richard J. Leon was appointed in 2002 by President George W.Bush.

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Trump telling European allies that the closed Strait of Hormuz is saying something Europe needs to fix is like an arsonist lobbing a flame grenade into their neighbor’s yard and then saying the resulting fire is not their problem.

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I don’t care if Kristi Noem’s husband wears women’s clothing.

I do care that the President of the United States has been credibly accused of being a rapist pedophile.

Psst… every news story on Trump’s abominable planned future library is a news story not focusing on his even more abominable presence in the Epstein files…

In Jan 2026, United Airlines “fuel surcharge” for business class ticket to Europe from SFO was $2130.00
Late Feb it was $2150.00
When war started it jumped to $2700.
Today it’s $2805
How long until $3K
If Trump’s war ever ends, how slowly will “fuel surcharge” go down? If ever

And yes, similiar level increases are happening even for the lowest fares.

CNN paid Trump pundit Scott Jennings today

“I simply cannot understand why people are so angry about a ballroom that future Presidents will enjoy and is 100% privately funded. President Trump could save a kitten from a tree and it would still be a scandal.”

As if Donald would save a kitten from anything? Heck, he’d probably run over a kitten who had the audacity to run in front of his golf cart on a Trump course.

If you’re reading this

March 19, 2026

Hope you have your brackets finished…

Now back to the usual reality and snark.

Congratulations Team Venezuela for winning the World Baseball Classic.

So is Donald Trump going to invite the team to the White House or deport them?

A simple question: Whatever you feel about transgender people competing in sports WTF does it have to do with voting?

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Good news in that projected salary cap under pending WNBA collective bargaining agreement is set to exceed $10 million per team.
Though for random comparison, LA Dodgers will pay $10 million or over to at least 14 individual members of their 2026 team.

If noncitizens’ voting was actually a problem instead of a lie to suppress votes, then GOP would be presenting examples of fraudulent voting on a daily basis.

Period.

If House GOP really is serious about the Deporting Fraudsters Act why didn’t they say a word when Trump pardoned convicted Canadian Binance founder Changpeng Zhao or Venezuelan billionaire Julio Herrera Velutini?

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State TV aka Fox News headlines on March 17

“GOP triggers marathon Senate fight to expose Dems’ opposition to Trump-backed voter ID bill
GOP launches doomed floor takeover to put Democrats on record against SAVE America Act”

So they KNOW it’s doomed.

But Dear Leader wants the show.

Something else that isn’t mentioned enough about the SAVE America Act.

Military ID’s aren’t good enough for proof of citizenship.

So Donald is willing to have our service men and women die for him. But not to protect their right to vote.

Oklahoma GOP Sen. James Lankford talking about SAVE America Act “can I just say, I personally believe what saves America is if more Americans had a personal relationship w/ Jesus Christ.”

So he’s telling Jews, Muslims, Buddhist, Atheists etc they aren’t Americans?

Jesus wept

On top of everything else, Donald Trump’s bringing a bust of Winston Churchill into the Oval Office for the IRISH Prime Minister is rather reminiscent of that commercial with the kid showing up in a Duke sweatshirt to visit his UNC girlfriend’s family.

Trump says “Iran was “two weeks” from a nuclear weapon like Donald has been “two weeks” from unveiling his heathcare plan.

And the lies just keep on coming.

He did NOT win in a landslide.

BBC is not fake news.

Trump is NOT popular now.

What’s tomorrow?

Imperfetto….

March 11, 2026

Italy beat Team USA 8-6 in the WBC pool play Tuesday night,, one of the biggest upsets in the tournament’s 20-year history,

Many weird rules but it means team USA has a chance of being eliminated in the first round.

A journeyman pitcher, Michael Lorenzen pitched 4 1/3 shutout innings ..

One of the reasons baseball is the greatest game – all the money and loaded lineups in the world can’t overcome any pitcher who gets in a grove.

With 83 points tonight for the Miami Heat, Bam Adebayo passed Kobe Bryant for second-highest-scoring game in NBA history.

Should NBA records against the Wizards have an asterisk?


Kansas Senator. Roger Marshall on high gas prices: “Freedom is not free. Americans are gonna have to make some sacrifices.”

Roger Marshall’s net worth? About 6 milllion dollars.

Can media stop asking how far Donald Trump would go to stop a free and fair election in 2026?

We already know how far he went on January 6 to overturn a free and fair election in 2020.

As the number of injured service men and women in Trump’s Iran war grows and still may be understated, anyone else remember this?

When in 2024 he described Traumatic brain injuries sustained by US Troops in Iraq during his first term as a “headache?”

How mad will air travelers be at Trump’s war?

So WTF do sports and trangender rights have to do with protections?

It’s the SAVE Donald’s Ass Act

Rumors that Iran is activating “sleeper cells” around the world, putting Americans everywhere at first

And what is Kash Patel doing at the FBI to keep us safe?

He just subpoenaed records from the discredited “Cyber Ninjas” audit of Arizona’s 2020 election.

As GOP blames Democrats for airport lines, need to inform, or remind Americans..

Democrats HAVE a bill to fully fund TSA and FEMA.

GOP just insists they need to give money to DHS and ICE too…

This after more stories of Kristie Noem’s mismanagement of taxpayer dollars.

Apparently the “Trump Organization” is trying to trademark “America 250″‘ to brand their products.

And their point is?

The Trump name in the USA by July 4 is likely to be as popular as that of Benedict Arnold.

During her most recent appearance before Congress on the Epstein FIles, Pam Bondi loudly responded that the lack of indictments didn’t matter because “The DOW is over 50,000.”

That is aging well…


Price for new premium economy ticket today I just issued

San Diego London roundtrip

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FARE USD 430.00 TAX 11.20AY TAX 46.80US TAX 3.84XA TAX 13.50XF TAX 7.00XY TAX 7.39YC TAX 327.10GB TAX 68.10UB TAX 1200.00YQ

$2140.93 total. 1200.00YQ is fuel surcharge.

Notes, mostly not light but…

March 1, 2026

Yes, sports is a distraction from real life

But sometimes as with SNL tonight it’s a pretty good one..

“Don’t worry, we saw your show..
(Heated Rivalry)

It was going to be
just us but we thought we’d invite the guys too…we thought we’d give them a little moment to shine.”

SNL for a gold medal monologue.

RIP Neil Sedaka, 86

For anyone who grew up in 60-70s.
Even if you didn’t know they were his songs, you know his songs..(yes, some were earworms)

“Breaking up is Hard to Do”
“Love Will Keep Us Together

Always liked “Solitaire” actually – he at one time opened for Carpenters.

“Maybe we’ll have a friendly takeover of Cuba?”

Possible translation, at this point Greenland and Canada aren’t distracting enough from the Epstein files.

Other possible translation. His dementia is advancing quickly.

And now we’re onto…

“Operation Distract from the Epstein Files”

So will all these MAGA trolls celebrating Dear Leader’s war be at US military recruiting offices Monday to sign up?

JD Vance said there is “no chance” the USA will end up in an extended war with Iran.

Guess “No chance” is JD’s version of “Mission Accomplished?”

“The lives of American heroes may be lost, and we may have casualties – that often happens in war.”

And how many of these lost lives will come from middle and working class families who just thought they were voting for lower prices?

Before he bombed Iran, Trump, still upset about tariffs, actually asked SCOTUS on Truth Social today “Is a Rehearing or Readjucation of this case possible?”

Millions of Americans are now wondering “Is a Rehearing or Readjudication of the Presidential Absolute Immunity case possible?”

So has anyone leaked a Hegseth SIGNAL chat about the war yet?

Things Trump says we don’t have money for.

FEMA
Healthcare subsidies
SNAP benefits
Veterans benefits

Things Trump says we do have money for

Regime change abroad
Kristi Noem’s private love-nest jet
Kash Patel’s junkets & FBI teams to protect his girlfriend.
His ugly ballroom

Bumper sticker I want “Don’t blame me, I voted for the women.”

Today is another reminder that with “Sleepy Joe” Americans could sleep at night.

State of the sleep deprived…?

February 25, 2026

Is it just possible Trump delivered the longest SOTU speech ever because he’s worried about making it to the next one?

Lawrence O’Donnell “The biggest applause tonight was for a goalie. Not the President.”

We should not share this. It will really incense Donald Trump.

Oops.

Trump did give Team USA goalie Connor Hellebuyck the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Besides dissing the women’s Gold Medal winning team, he hasn’t even mentioned Gold Medal figure skater Alysa Liu

Bill Clinton was a great speaker back in the day, though he needed an editor.

Fox News tonight “record-breaking speech” &
“Trump shatters Clinton’s 26-year-old record.”

So they’re BRAGGING?

Donald almost 2 hr speech broke Clinton’s too-long 2000 speech by 20 minutes…

How quickly did members of Congress rush out after that SOTUS ended?

Most of us only move that fast when the dentist says ‘you’re done now.”

Trump “We will insure that members of Congress cannot profit from insider trading information.”

Members of my cabinet, however, and my family, who are already rich, will continue to get much richer.

Anyone else notice how almost gleeful Donald Trump sounds during SOTU when graphically describing wounds suffered by soldiers or victims?

Rachel Maddow called it “violently pornographic riffing?

Whistleblower now saying after Brown University mass shooting FBI Director Patel was in Florida using FBI plane to visit parents.
So FBI eam couldn’t get to Providence promptly.
And MIT professor was shot 2 days later.
Kash isn’t just spending taxpayer $$, he’s making us less safe.

Trump’s real State of the Union Message on the economy:

“Who are you going to believe? Me or your lying receipts?”

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Senate leader Thune, attacking Dems efforts for ICE accountability: “GOP are not going to do anything that makes it more dangerous for law enforcement to do their job.”

Anything? Except shrug it off when Trump PARDONED felons who actually attacked law enforcement on January 6.

Meanwhile, the US Ambassador to France, Charles Kushner, has managed to seriously offend the French with both provocative comments AND not showing up to summonses to explain those comments. So he’s been banned temporarily at least from speaking to French officials.

Kushner isn’t just father of Ivanka’s husband.
He’s convicted felon who was angry at his sister for testifying against him…so he hired prostitute to seduce her husband & record it on video.
Then he sent video to his sister.
Worst of the worst.

Missed chances

February 24, 2026

Announcers talking about how Spurs play in unison, that as good as Wemby is, often there’s different star/top scorer every night. They’re right. Makes San Antonio fun, unless you’re playing them. Miss seeing Coach Pop on sidelines but know he’s proud of this team.

USA Women’s Gold Medal Hockey team declined an invitation to the Trump’s State of the Union Tuesday due to “scheduling conflicts.”

So are they doing their nails or washing their hair?

Meanwhile, had it not been for Canadian player Nathan’ MacKinnon’s missing a wide open net in the third period, the Canadians probably would have won the Gold Medal in regulation.

Now Trump still might not have called the US Women’s team.

But wonder what insults he’d have called the men’s team had they ended up with silver, Other than his favorite “suckers and losers?”

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Have said this before, but my mom had dementia in her 70s.

She started out sounding reasonable but what she said was increasingly fantasies. Lots of paranoia – “the staff is eating my candy” (she was eating her denture tablets so they took them away.)


Got more & more nonsensical. And she’d get angry when challenged…


Sound familiar?

Orlando Sentinel with the wrong headline on upcoming State of the Union”

“Trump’s big speech will be delivered to a changed nation and a Congress he has sidelined.

What they don’t say, Congress hasn’t just BEEN sidelined. They have sidelined themselves.

And reminder, every one of these horrible Cabinet members were confirmed by GOP-led Senate.

Another issue w/ SAVE act.

What happens if you need passport to be renewed & it’s delayed around Election Day.

Frequent intl travelers can have narrow window to renew passport between trips. sometimes it takes longer than others.

Wouldn’t shock me if Trump slowed things down.

So with Trump promising/threatening long State of the Union tomorrow – and he rambled for 1 hour and 40 minutes last year- will Donald have the doors locked to prevent attendees leaving?

Staying away

February 21, 2026

Apparently Trump had planned, then canceled a trip to the Olympics for the gold medal hockey

The coward didn’t want to be booed.

Great news for the Olympics. It would have caused security nightmares and no one wants to see him.

(Or it it possible he wouldn’t go because they wouldn’t give him a medal?

He still haan’t made any statements of congratulations. Only attacks on athletes he thinks weren’t respectful to hi.

I do hope Governors honor our athletes, even if Americans’ mad king won.td

Look, I get it, opposing Trump & his policies can be scary

But Donald is NOT popular with most of US now, and GOP Senators have the option of taxpayer funded security.

You’d think some of them would have as much courage as a Minneapolis woman in a bathrobe.

Amy Klobuchar on MSN on SCOTUS tariff decision. “Public is so mad at Trump right now, with cost, chaos, and corruption up. Maybe he needs to rethink what he’s doing. The Supreme Court has given him a gift.”

Amy’s right, but that would require Donald admitting he made a mistake.

Trump is demanding Netflix fire Susan Rice as a board member

If they cave to Donald’s demonic demands he’ll just ask for more.

And Donald will still favor Paramount as they try to upset Netlix’s deal to take over Warner Brothers / Discovery

What did she say? that corporations, media companies, law firms and universities that “take a knee” to Trump should not expect Democrats to “forgive and forget.”

“It’s not going to end well for them,…hey’re going to be held accountable by those who come in opposition to Trump and win at the ballot box,

Accountability is not in Trump’s vocabulary.

WTAF?
Rep. Lauren Boebert criticized CO sex education programs for teaching young children about gender identity & self-pleasure. She advocated for 10 Commandments in schools.
Boebert had son at 18, he had son at 18. (And Tyler has been arrested for child endangerment. Twice.)

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Meanwhile in Texas, Rep Tony Gonzales is under investigation for an alleged affair

He’s married father of 6, running for re-election. And Texas GOP is fine with it.

The woman staffer in question told people about it, and died by suicide – setting herself on fire last September

Family values

Rumors and rumours…

February 19, 2026

Despite Twitter rumors, the Seattle Seahawks have NOT issued a public statement on if they are or not not going to the White House.

Meanwhile, in 257 days, we have midterms. We can make the occupant of the White House less important.

CNN tightening rules on staff promoting their own books on air after Jake Tapper’s “Original Sin.”

Nice job of closing barn door behind the horse.

But wonder, with CNN now currying favor with White House, does one of their staff have a blistering book coming out on Trump?

Trump on Herschel Walker today

“Now he’s ambassador to the Bahamas. I don’t know. Bahamas. Bermuda. Is he Bahamas? Whatever. It’s a nice place.”

So Donald is saying not only is he not capable of running the country, he’s not even capable of being a decent travel agent.

So would either Senator Majority Leader John Thune or House Speaker Mike Johnson like to remind Americans of when Congress voted to authorize war with Iran?

I’ll wait.

So if Trump decides NOT to go to war with Iran will he declare again that he should have the Nobel Peace Prize?


US EPA plans to loosen mercury rules for coal plants this week

What’s next? MAGA – Make Asbetos Great Again

As DHS plans to go after naturalized citizens who registered to vote before they were actually able to vote…

Anyone who’s ever done voter registration with teenager knows- you are allowed to register early at 17. It’s not a crime. As long as you are eligible on election day.

Trump on Herschel Walker today

“Now he’s ambassador to the Bahamas. I don’t know. Bahamas. Bermuda. Is he Bahamas? Whatever. It’s a nice place.”

So Donald is saying not only is he not capable of running the country, he’s not even capable of being a decent travel agent.


What’s particularly funny, neither the Bahamas nor Bermuda are in the Caribbean Sea… And they are about as different as island destinations near the US can be…

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If there’s GOP member of Congress or Trump’s administration who feels slighted by Stephen Colbert perhaps he/she should reach out for an interview.

Pretty sure Colbert will find room for them. (Most are cowering from their own constituents and/or non-right wing outlets.)

Hoops and rings

February 16, 2026

The real MVP of today’s NBA All-Star game(s) Sunday – Victor Wembanyama. Because Wemby decided to show up and play hard, everyone played hard.

Also at the NBA All-Star Game, Barack Obama, sitting courtside, not in a suite, caught a ball that flew out of bounds and was heading towards Michelle.

How cool is this?

Can anyone imagine the current inhabitant of the White House:

  1. – catching the ball? 2. Trying to protect his wife?

I miss President Obama.

And the current inhabitant of the White House, while he’s attacked those he perceives as having criticized HIM, hasn’t yet congratulated a single USA Olympic medalist.

Although on a nonpolitical Olympics thought, my friend Marc Ragovin – A Norwegian biathlete who won a bronze medal admitted to cheating on his girlfriend in a post-event interview.  

Making him the first biathlete to shoot himself in the foot.  

Trump pardoned five former NFL players for crimes including drug trafficking.


Meanwhile another U.S. military strike blew up a boat and killed three people allegedly for drug trafficking in the Caribbean Sea on Friday. When you’re an NFL star (or a big donor) they let you do it?

Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear sums up Trump’s petty behavior on the Governor’s dinner perfectly.


“He has taken annual bipartisan tradition & he’s turned it into his own 12-year-old birthday party, where he’s going to invite some people & not invite others. “Everybody but Billy is invited”

So many guesses as to why Trump prioritized terrorizing Minneapolis.

It could be as simple as Minnesota Governor Tim Walz calling Donald “Weird.”

Minnesota Star Tribune reports -At least 5 Minnesota shootings in which initial descriptions by ICE were later contradicted by video evidence…

How many shootings & injuries happened without video evidence?

You heard it here first

February 7, 2026

Shaquille O’Neal tonight “San Antonio will beat OKC in the Western Conference finals.”

Has Trump demanded the Olympics give him a gold medal yet?

Meanwhile F-22s were pulled from the Super Bowl flyover for “operational reasons.”

So is Velveeta Voldemort going to start another war or just pouting that no one wants him at the Super Bowl?

And your reminder – Donald is not making an easy 5 HOUR flight on Air Force One to the Super Bowl because he is afraid of being booed at a record level for a President.

As most of the world covers right-wing social media & Fox News are ignoring how much JD Vance was booed at the Olympics opening ceremonies,

Have to figure GOP is thrilled and relieved Donald Trump won’t be at the Super Bowl.

Donald Trump on posting his racist video against the Obamas responds with one of his mantras

“I didn’t make a mistake.”

“I never lost anything, I never make a mistake….”

America made the biggliest mistake twice in 2016 and 2024

Really loved Timothy Busfield’s character reporter Danny Concannon on “The West Wing.” (who ended up marrying CJ)

Today Busfeld was indicted on child sex abuse charges by New Mexico grand jury.

Sad, but if he’s found guilty he should rot in jail.

See how easy that is?

If you’re not in a cult.

All this MAGA outrage is probably going to get a lot of boomers and Gen Xers who might have skipped the halftime show to tune in to see what the Bad Bunny fuss is about.

White House excluding Democratic governors from its annual governors meeting.

Donald is still mad at Maine Governor Janet Mills for challenging him publicly last year

Biggliest baby ever.

Agree with Jasmine Crockett, who has reason to be furious about Trump’s racist Obama meme.
Jasmine says, Yes, it’s awful, but we’ve KNOWN he’s racist. He’s also REALLY good at distraction. And right now he’s distracting from the Epstein files & allegations of raping little girls

So let’s get this straight.

A racist meme with the Obamas suddenly offends Republicans.

But they had no problem with Donald’s birth certificate lies.
Or JD Vance’s “they’re eating the dogs and cats” lies.
Or Trump’s demonizing entire population of Somalis.

If the hood fits…

So Trump is now blaming a staffer for the racist meme he posted about the Obamas..

But what does President Stephen Miller say?

He wants to deport Liam because the little boy made him look bad. It’s that simple.

Chuck Schumer calls Trump claim Dem leader suggested renaming Penn Station after him ‘absolute lie’


Anyone following me knows I’m not huge Schumer fan. Wish he’d given Senate leadership to Amy Klobuchar.

But Chuck has more 100 % than integrity than Donald.





Cats know

January 30, 2026

Starry likes Amy Klobuchar’s voice. She is a good judge of character.

“It’s been the most difficult time & year. Doesn’t mean that we just look away & look down & say I’ve had it. I think it means the opposite. You stand your ground, you get involved & you never give up…”.

Meanwhile back in the assisted living home that the White House has become, Donald posted dozens of insane things last night. Including that Barack Obama had manufactured evidence against him and his “landslide victory” in 2016, to help steal the 2020 election.

Donald is beyond insane.

If Barack Obama were both that all powerful and that evil, don’t you think he’d have figured out a way to rig the election for Hillary Clinton?

Formerly sane conservative Representative Tom Emmer of Minnesota claimed on Fox that most protestors in Minnesota are from out of state…

As if most people from out of state could handle the cold…

Melania calls her husband “the unifier President”

Apparently now his pressing Jeff Bezos on a vanity project has unified Americans in agreeing on the biggest flop movie of all time.

Melania this morning in an interview about the demands of parenting “You need to be there for a child nonstop, especially when they need you, especially at that age that Barron is.”

  1. Barron is 19.
  2. He didn’t even show up for his mom’s movie tonight.

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As Trump prepares to name a new Fed chair and continually attacks Jerome Powell, it’s useful to remember who appointed Chairman Powell in the first place.

Susan Collins says today that ICE has ended enhanced operations in Maine.

And how troubled will she be when she finds out Donald has lied to her?

Or did it just occur to Trump that GOP is about to lose another Senate seat?

Strong man

January 29, 2026

Victor Wembanyama’s full comments today on the shooting of another civilian by federal agents in Minneapolis:

PR (Spurs Public Relations) has tried. but I’m not going to sit here and give some politcally correct . Every day I see the news and I’m horrified. I think it’s crazy that some people might make it seem like or make it sound like it’s acceptable, like the murder of civilians is acceptable….. It’s terrible. I know I’m a foreigner, but I live in this counrtry and I am concerned.”

Then Wemby went out and led the Spurs to a big comeback win over the Houston Rockets. (28 pts, 16 rebounds, 5 blocks.)

Hope Gregg Popovich was watching the comments and his play.

Trump is bragging that he will give every U.S Citizen child now born in the US $1000 in a “Trump account.”

$1000 won’t even cover a month of infant child care in the US.

It’s a scary time to be a person of color in the United States

But for someone looking for a safe space for a couple hours, maybe buy a theater ticket to the Melania movie. No one will be in there.

In case it’s a matter of not learning geography, here’s a map for DHS/ICE

Note the Southern Border. Minnesota is far enough but of the lower 48 no state is further than Maine.

Life in right-wing bubble:
Daily Mail headline today

“”Shameful past of madman who squirted Ilhan Omar with syringe, as his lengthy rap sheet & VERY woke children are revealed
Andy Kazmierczak, 55, is a MAGA faithful w/ liberal children & lengthy rap sheet.”

The man regularly posted pro-Trump stuff on social media, but so i’s his KIDS’ fault?

Louisiana Senator GOP John Kennedy says of immigrants “no one is above the law.”

Could some reporter ask Kennedy how we’ve missed his outrage over all the million and billion dollar fraudsters who Donald has pardoned?

Melania actually said today on Fox News of her husband “He’s a unifier not just here in the United States.”

This is true, he has unified most of the free world against the United States of America.

Meanwhile, forget undocumented immigrants, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said state would investigate public agencies & universities that employ those with H-1B visas.

Well this ought to be great for the Texas tech industry

Now some have seized on a video of Alex Pretti kicking out an ICE tail light after Renee Good’s death as justification for his being shot to death.

So car damage is a capital offense?

Unless you’re MAGA.

Then you can be armed with a knife trying to break into House Chambers at the US Capitol and when you get shot resisting police orders you become a martyr.

Some days it feels like there is no good news.

But today.

  1. Wordle in 1.
  2. Adam Kinzinger started following me
  3. San Antonio Spurs come back from down 16 to beat the Houston Rockets.

Small and not so small mercies.