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Stumbling into the weekend

April 24, 2026

Dylan F*cking Harper. That is all. #Porvida

#GoSpursGo

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Meanwhile yes, the joys of multitasking with sports. This was a good Friday night to be a San Antonio Spurs as well as an SF Giants fan.

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(Adrian Houser, signed for $11 million a year, supposedly a bargain basement pick. Now 0-3 with a 7.36 ERA. How many of us would love to be that bad at our jobs for $11 million a year. Even one million a year.?)

So Trump wants Iran out of the World Cup and replaced with Italy.

Now as awful as Iran is, they didn’t start the war. Maybe FIFA should substitute Italy for the USA?

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All it needs is palm trees to look like a Florida motel pool….

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And now Velveeta Voldemort fell asleep on camera, again at one of his events.

it’s as if the Emperor was not only naked but stumbling disoriented through town.
GOP would be just smiling and admiring his dancing.

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Same meeting

Trump: Spirit were going to merge with People Express or one of them and Obama decided it was a bad idea. How did that work out? I think we just buy it.

Uh, People Express went out of business in 1987

Spirit Airlines started in 1992.

Another symptom of dementia, your memory goes but long term memory details linger longer.

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The last time Spirit Airlines was profitable was 2019

They have filed for bankruptcy twice in a year.

Maybe Trump wants the government to buy them because they remind him of his failed casinos. Or Trump Shuttle, which was never profitable either?

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Daily Mail headline

“Trump forced into humiliating retreat as probe into nemesis Fed chair Powell is dropped.”

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Fox News headline on same news:

Pirro closes investigation into Federal Reserve over building project

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Thom Tillis said he wouldn’t confirm a Trump nominee until DOJ dropped the sham investigation into Jerome Powell

And DOJ backed down..

See, Senate GOP, it can be done.

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Let’s put one simple condition on the US Government buying Spirit Airlines.

First Trump and his entire family and cabinet need to FLY on Spirit Airlines.

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And they’re off..

April 18, 2026

NBA playoffs got underway today. April 16.

This year’s playoffs were adjusted to end a little earlier than last year. Game 7, if it comes to that, would be June 19

So not quite boys of summer.

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SF Giants and Washington Nationals played a game that is giving many former Little League parents painful flashbacks. #sloppy

Walker blew the save but got a scoreless 10th after Nats loaded bases in with no outs,- and no score

How many bobbled balls, errors, missed opportunities, etc?

And just plain weirdness. Ever seen a shortstop field a ball with a runner at 1st, step on second too late, then throw to first to get one out.

Baseball is a funny game.

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Reported on Fox News – “FBI Director Kash Patel vows to sue The Atlantic over bombshell report.”

Apparently no one ever told Kash about discovery.

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Thinking of all the causes and elections moderate and liberal billionaires spend their money on, sure would have been nice if some of them had banded together to buy Twitter.

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Headline at “The Guardian”

“Middle East crisis live: ships report attacks as Iran closes strait of Hormuz; Trump says deal still possible”

Deal still POSSIBLE?

I thought he ended the war yesterday. Again

How many market manipulation cycles is he gonna have over Iran?

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Seeing more nonstop Tom Steyer commercials this weekend

But maybe if Steyer, who has only ever run for President and Governor wants to try his hand at actual government he could move to the East Bay and run for Eric Swalwell’s Congressional seat?

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Remind me of how many Senators voted to confirm Steven Witkoff and Jared Kushner as part of Trump’s cabinet?

So how many times will Trump claim to have ended the Iran war he started?

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Trump said US strikes “completely and totally obliterated” Iran’s key nuclear enrichment program.
In summer 2025.
And the Strait of Hormuz stayed open

So now Donald is saying same thing.
And is bragging about reopening the Strait.
And it’s only cost $50 billion & 13 US lives.

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Humiliating defeat for his endorsed “friend” in Hungary.

Not to mention many smaller defeats in special elections in the US

Is it just possible that people are now deserting Trump because he looks like a LOSER?”

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So media not even going to mention that Donald wrote in all caps on Truth Social, “IRAN HAS JUST ANNOUNCED THAT THE STRAIT OF IRAN IS FULLY OPEN AND READY FOR FULL PASSAGE.”

The Strait of Iran?

Leaving aside that it didn’t stay open,

If Biden had made that mistake it would be headline news

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Steve Bannon: “If we lose the midterms and we lose 2028, some in this room are going to prison, myself included.”

If you didn’t already have enough motivation to vote in November

Who knows whether the Butler assassination attempt was staged. But you don’t shut down an investigation if you want to quiet the questions. The scary thing – who doesn’t believe that Donald would be evil enough to try it?

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Stephen Colbert on Trump’s picture as Jesus (or Doctor Jesus?)

“Dude you can’t compare yourself to Jesus. For one thing, Jesus had a father who loved him”

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The Doordash Grandma testified before the House Ways and Means committee last year in Nevada & said she was from Nevada.

Now she says she’s from Arkansas.

If so, who paid for her travel – flights and lodging- to DC for her McDonald’s White House stunt?

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Scoreboard watching

April 10, 2026

Oakland/Vegas/Sacramento A’s ptichers combined to one hit the Yankees today to win 1-0

How long until the Dodgers just try to buy the As pitching staff

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Random fun sports comment:

Saw this MLB final score headline tonight from San Diego

Rockies 3 – Padres 7 – Final/12

How many sports can you see one line – and know EXACTLY how the game ended?

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Not sure how many know/remember but in July 1974, on House Judiciary Committee, 6 Republicans voted to impeach Nixon for obstruction of justice, 7 for abuse of power, 2 for contempt of Congress.

GOP members of Congress USED to have a backbone.

Must admit having Melania talk about Epstein to distract from the Epstein files is a heckuva flex.

-Is she trying to throw him under the bus first before he does it to her?

Small in the grand scheme of things but it is striking how bad Melania Trump, who has been in the US for decades, is still so bad at English. Especially as Donald has made attacks on immigrants, even legal immigrants, who don’t speak English well a cornerstone of his hateful rhetoric.

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Fox News Headline “Iran’s Supreme Leader urges Arab nations to abandon west in dire warning.”

Yeah, that sure confirms Trump’s Iran statement: “We’d have a different group of people & they are in control, but they’re much more moderate and, I think, much more reasonable.”

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If only we’d listened to Hillary…. I’d forgotten this part ofo one of her speeches . “So it really matters that Donald Trump says things that go against our deepest-held values. It matters when he says he’ll order our military to murder the families of suspected terrorists. During the raid to kill bin Laden, when every second counted, our SEALs took the time to move the women and children in the compound to safety. “

Trump and Hegseth had no problem killing women and children in their attacks on Iran.

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And now Trump is back fixated on Greenland – Remember Amy Klobuchar tweeting in August 2019 that the difference between Trump and Greenland is that Greenland is not for sale.

Like a woman who keeps saying no..

Donald takes that as a challenge. Predators are gonna predator.

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Turnarounds?

April 7, 2026

Daniel Susac, 7 hits and a walk in his first 9 AB

Patrick Bailey Pipp.?

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A day worried about a US President using nukes puts sports in perspective. But really really glad Wemby does not appear to be seriously injured. We need all the joy and fun we can get. (And the Spurs bandwagon is accepting riders.) #porvida

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So the Big Ten wins both men’s and women’s college basketball championships.

Still doesn’t make sense that one of those Big Ten teams is UCLA.

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Wondering what it will take.

If Trump wears a tan suit will Republicans finally turn on him?

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So is Trump going to demand a Peace Prize for not dropping nukes?

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And don’t forget that many consider women too emotional to be President.

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I’m so old I remember when Americans were the good guys trying to stop crazy dictators from destroying the rest of the world.

Donald Trump is treating most of the world like he’s a depraved child and we are neighborhood pets he is torturing for fun.

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Add to the list of questions the media needs to ask Speaker Mike Johnson

What does he think of Trump’s claim that HE took out Osama Bin Laden?

(Not to mention – did you see Dear Leader’s Easter tweet?)

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At this point it’s not just that he was threatening the death of a entire civilization.

It’s that most of us believe he’s crazy enough to do it.

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Amazing how many of the same media who took every verbal stumble Joe Biden, a lifelong stutterer, made as a sign of dementia, and yet listens to increasingly unhinged and nonsensical rants from Donald Trump and just shrugs.

CBS announced “Byron Allen’s ‘Comics Unleashed’ will replace late-night host Stephen Colbert.

Who else isn’t watching?

This man shouldn’t be in charge of an homeowner’s association, let alone be the US President.

So IF this ceasefire holds for a week or so, what country will Trump start a war with next to distract from the fact that there are credible allegations (and possible videos) of him raping children?

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Ceasefire “plan”reportedly includes allowing Iran & Oman to charge fees on ships transiting through Strait of Hormuz
Apparently Iran will use money raised for reconstruction.”

So we wasted billions, got 13 American soldiers killed & countless injured for THIS?

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New DHS Sec MarkWayne Mullen now questions if sanctuary cities should be allowed to process customs at international airports..

For starters, does he realize even DALLAS is being investigated by TX AG Ken Paxton as a sanctuary city.

Where exactly does he want planes to land?

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Not too much winning

April 5, 2026

Early days. But 10 games into the SF Giants 2026 season it’s a good spring also to be a San Antonio Spurs fan. Diversity helps in many ways. #Porvida

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SF Giants have scored 7 runs in their 7 losses…. 19 run in their 3 wins


I understand baseball is a streaky game but this is ridiculous.

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Meanwhile, I already really miss Tyler Rogers. IYKYK

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So with about 3-4s game left in in 82 game NBA season, we now know which 10 teams out of 30 will not be playing in the postseason.

And some wonder why some players may not take regular season seriously?

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Has Mike Johnson said he didn’t see Trump’s F-bomb tweet yet?

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ABC today reported “UCLA’s seniors have scored the last 170 points for the Bruins in March Madness.” Anyone watching men’s college basketball has to be thinking “seniors?”

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A few days again Donald said “U.S. “will not have anything to do with” what happens next in the strait…
That’s not for us. That’ll be for France. That’ll be for whoever’s using the strait.”

Today it’s “open the f*ckin strait.”

Does Trump even REMEMBER what he said last week?

Bought a Smithfield fully-cooked ham on sale. It’s shrinkwrapped in plastic, then wrapped in foil with plastic net bag around it.

Heating instructions say to “remove all packaging materials” before putting in the oven.”

If I didn’t already fear for our collective USA intelligence.

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Now, maybe JD Vance has no idea how unpopular he is.

Although considering his love for vacations maybe he realizes he won’t help Orban but hey, he and Usha will get a lavish taxpayer funded trip to Budapest.

I’m so old I remember when it was Easter weekend and if there was Presidential “news” at all it involved what the First Lady might be wearing to church.

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fundraising email just on Saturday.

Sent from Air Force One

Sat, Apr 4 at 12:39 PM

“RESPOND TO TRUMP. Right after I boarded Air Force One, I knew I had to get in contact with you.”

Uh, he’s not on Air Force One

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Not that I didn’t expect him to be crazy.

Didn’t expect all other Republicans falling at his feet.

Remember retired Senator Roy Blunt interviewed in later January 2025. He knew his former colleagues & said “for various reasons, some of Trump’s nominations would not be confirmed…”

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Serious question. Why does anyone care these days what John Fetterman thinks?

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So this one was too much for even Fox News to ignore.

Website headline:

“Trump issues profanity-laced threat against Iranian regime: ‘Open the f—– Strait'”

“Mommy, why can’t I say bad words if the President says them?”

Now down to just over 210 days before the midterms. 30 weeks.

Does Trump have a team focused on how to distract from his record, and the Epstein Files, until then?

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Great news that both American pilots who were shot down were rescued. But you can be happy about the rescue and still be mad about Trump unnecessarily having put them into harm’s way in the first place.

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20 minutes

April 2, 2026

Okay, does anyone believe that Donald Trump in his right mind would have abandoned a prime time stage with all networks agreeing to cover it in less than an hour

And yes, it was barely 20 minutes…

An eternity in sports. Nothing in speech time.

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Very few positive ways to spin tonight’s rambling wreck on Iran, where Donald looked & sounded really old.

IF smart people around Trump see his decline and want to push him out, then suggesting he should make that prime time speech might have been an opening salvo…

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When “sundown” trends this time of year, we should be thinking “Passover.”

Instead, how many millions of us figure it refers to the current President of the United States?

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If anyone’s plan was to drink everytime Trump lies tonight hhey probably passed out in the first five minutes…

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The #PresidentialAddress SHOULD be The Gardens Court in Palm Beach Gardens.

Just looked it up, less than 20 minutes from Mar-A-Lago and it’s rated one of the top nursing homes in the country.

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Very few positive ways to spin tonight’s rambling wreck on Iran, where Donald looked & sounded really old.

IF smart people around Trump see his decline and want to push him out, then suggesting he should make that prime time speech might have been an opening salvo…

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Donald’s now saying this Iran war is not a big deal because World War I and II, and other wars lasted years…

And his war is “nearing completion.”

I’m sure that’s a comfort to the military who will actually be facing death, and their families.

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So per the NY Times, President Trump has discussed firing Pam Bondi.

Not because she’s awful.

But because she’s not being awful enough.

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As Ron DeSantis tries to out-Trump Trump with Florida voter suppression law…which will probably be blocked anyway.

Does he realize how many Republicans vote by mail?

And how many have moved from other states & thus may have a harder time obtaining the proof of citizenship?

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As Don Jr. shared a headline “NATO didn’t show up — now Trump’s asking why we stay.”

Actually NATO’s Article 5 has been invoked exactly once, on America’s behalf. After 9-11

Putin must be so proud of his puppets.-

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All these MAGA type who are cheering Pete Hegseth’s decision not to investigate military helicopter pilots who did a fly by at Kid Rocks’ house.

I am sure they’d be equally sanguine about it if some liberal helicopter pilot does the same for Jane Fonda or Bruce Springsteen.

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Is it just possible that Wednesday’s lost and rambling speech by Donald Trump trying to justify his Iran war may go down in history as more damaging to his Presidency as Joe Biden’s 2024 debate performance was to his?

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Selection Sunday

March 15, 2026

So in 2026 does it mean the teams picked for the NCAA basketball tournament?

Or the next country Trump will attack to distract from the Epstein files.

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Allthough in the tournament, while there are few sure things, one sure thing is that even with the field expanded to 68 teams, there will always be fury from teams the selection committee decided were #69 or #70.

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One of many reasons to love sports As bad as the real world can get, for a few minutes or even an hour on any given day you can shut the rest of it out to focus on things like “nice shot,” or “please don’t blow this lead.” Or as a Spurs fan “Wow,Wemby is not human.” #porvida

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Just for fun, on 3/14 wish someone had asked Donald Trump on camera about Pi Day?

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Not that it will happen, but would make for interesting March Madness pools if playeers had to name at least one player on each team

Colin Jost on NBC SNL talking on how Trump claims USA supposedly won the Iran war on day one.
“Usually when a team wins they don’t stay on the field for three weeks

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Daily Mail headline:
“Chaos at PGA tour event as gunman shoots dead two & flees across course”

Story will fade fast. Why? Because it was domestic violence murder by a Floridian.

Most women victims are domestic violence. GOP doesn’t give a damn. Only women killed by immigrants.

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Wow. Fox News headline:

“Trump gives new order to countries that use world’s most important oil checkpoint.”

What he’s “ordering?”

“Countries of the World that receive Oil through the Hormuz Strait must take care of that passage & we will help.”

In other words – fix MY mess

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How many Americans are going to die in the Mideast because Donald needed to start a war to distract from the Epstein Files?

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President who demands Nobel Peace Prize has so far gotten at least 13 US servicemembers killed & hundreds injured in a war he can’t explain. Yet some still support him.

If it ever seemed unbelievable how Jim Jones got all those people to drink the Kool-Aid, we believe it now.

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Pete Hegseth actually said Friday about the US refueling plane crash: “Bad things can happen.”

I’m sure that’s very comforting to family and friends of the six service members killed in the crash

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But wonder why most Fox News viewers haven’t soured on Trump

Fox News webpage doesn’t have a single front page headline about the Strait of Hormuz.

But they find time for this:

Top bombshells in ‘MELANIA’ film as viewers call Amazon Prime hit a ‘masterpiece’

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Tough and not so tough

March 4, 2026

Turns out tha Team USA hockey star Hilary Knight ompeted in 2026 Winter Olympics with a torn MCL

Weaker sex my a**.

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With all eyes on Texas Ttuesday night would like to take a moment to say that whichever side of the aisle (or whatever side of your primary) you are on…

The San Antonio Spurs are currently a great diversion and a helluva lot of fun to watch. (Unless tonight you were a 76ers fan)

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GOP made mistake in Texas tonight

Very clear they’re trying to suppress vote.

But by pulling stupid stunts like changing voting locations & not posting them, they gave Democrats advance warning there’ll be dirty tricks in November.

Voters now KNOW to vote as early as possible.

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Dear Pam Bondi :

You said we should not be talking about Epstein because the Dow was over 50k It’s now at 48,500

So what time tomorrow will you be releasing more unredacted Epstein files?

So Rubio is now saying Trump had to attack because Netanyahu was going to attack.?

Forget USA making Canada the 51st state.

The USA apparently has now become Israel’s seventh administrative district..

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Today Trump said “I had a feeling” Iran would attack first.

Amazed he didn’t say, “Big strong men with tears in their eyes told me to start a war…”

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Wait, Trump claims he “obliterated” Iran’s nuclear weapons program last summer

And now he claims they were ‘one month from a nuclear weapon.’

Impressive recovery if true..

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A tale of 2 states in headlines.

NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani & Governor Kathy Hochul Announce 2,000 Free Child Care Seats for 2-Year-Olds Starting Fall 2026

‘Florida Surgeon General Announces End to School Vaccine Requirements for Children”

DEMOCRATS actually care about life.

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Thom Tillis to Kristi Noem

“I read your book
I train dogs, you’re a farmer & should know better.
14 month old dog is basically a teenager in dog years
You decided to kill that dog because you hadn’t invested appropriate time to train it. Then you had audacity to brag about it.”

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Glad he’s stepping up. Shame Senator Tillis didn’t find his spine earlier when he had a chance to vote again Noem, and Hegseth.

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WTAF?

Now Speaker Mike Johnson says Trump’s preemptive strike on Iran stopped ‘staggering’ US casualties.

Does he mean that Trump and Republicans hope to stop “staggering” GOP casualties in the midterm?

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While the British government is sending planes to rescue their citizens, U.S is saying U.S. citizens should immediately leave the 12 MidEast countries… “using available commercial travel”

Uh, WHAT available commercial travel?

So many canceled flights…

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While the US government, well, Trump is talking about his ballroom and statues.

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World’s busiest airport for international travel? Dubai

It handles 95 million passengers a year. Major connecting hub, even for Americans, to Africa, Asia, etc.

Popular with business & leisure travelers. Now it’s closed indefinitely. Add airline travel to the #ETTD list.

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Pete Hegseth this morning, on comparisons to Iraq,

“Our generation knows better and so does this President.”

And he said it with a straight face.

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So are we going to need a bingo card for all the various rationales Trump is throwing out here as to WHY he needed to bomb Iran?

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Questions questions?

June 23, 2025

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Have to wonder, did we bomb Iran because someone called Trump TACO?

Or because he’s still pouting over no one showing up at his birthday party?

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Ratings for NBA finals through game seven were historically bad. First six games “far averaged about the same audience as the 2023 Rangers-Diamondbacks World Series — an infamously low-rated matchup that averaged 9.11 million for its full five-game run ?

Maybe one thing that could help? Stop separating the games by 3 days each? (Feels like longer) Wonder how many fans have their interest piqued by a game, and then can’t even remember when the next game is?

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Max Scherzer, 40, who hasn’t pitched since he started a game in March, is supposed to come off the 60 day IL to start for Toronto Blue Jays next week. Will Maxd get his first 2025 win before SF Giants’ Justin Verlander, 42

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Am reminded of a sign I saw as a child at a Vietnam war protest in Toronto: “Bombing for peace is like f*cking for virginity.”

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The same MAGA who think Padilla should get over being called Jose by JD Vance lost their minds over TACO Trump.

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Top Democrats in Gang of Eight (House & Senate leaders & ranking members House Senate Intelligence Committee), were not briefed before Trump bombed Iran – but all 4 Republicans were. All Eight are supposed to be notified. It’s a law.

SHOULD infuriate people on bipartisan basis. Will it?

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United Kingdom says while they were not involved in bombing Iran, ministers confirm govt was informed before strikes happened. So Trump told Great Britain in advance, but no Democratic member of USA’s own Gang of Eight, as he is required to do. This should be a bigger story.

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While Trump is living out his mad King fantasies with Iran, the Big Beautiful Betrayal is still alive in the Senate. Four GOP Senators need to step up and say no to the insanity.

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