Left Coast Sports Babe

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

Last one was in 1926…

"This one iiiiisssss…. OFF THE THE TOP OF THE WALL … AND IT RICOCHETS! AND IT'S ROLLING ON THE WARNING TRACK … "

ALL-TIMER of a Dave Flemming call on THE Sports Leader. pic.twitter.com/OwOS2kVoWf

— KNBR (@KNBR) July 9, 2025

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

The imposter didn’t praise Trump every sixty seconds?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

With everything going on in the Mideast right now might be accurate but perhaps not quite as funny to say “The Colorado Rockies have won three in a row. Let’s hope this isn’t a sign of the apocalypse.”

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Whole SF Giants team showed up to watch Rafael Devers’ introductory press conference. Alas felt too much like the hitters then just showed up to watch him bat during the game. 1 for 13 with RISP.

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Small nice thing. The WNBA is regularly now featured in the headlines and on Sportscenter.

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From my Twitter friend Sarah Ironside ” Good thing for Jim Jordan that trump is setting the world on fire. Maybe now no one will notice that the documentary about him covering up sexual abuse at Ohio State just came out on HBO Max.”

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Media paid little attention to Donald Trump’s comment at G7

“The UK is very well protected. You know why? Because I like them, That’s the ultimate protection.”

Heather Cox Richardson “Commenters often note Trump talks like mob boss, but rarely has his organized-crime style of governance been clearer…

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With everything going on in the word, Donald posted tonight to brag that he is putting two huge flag poles on the White House lawn.

Ther question, what flags will he raise? US flags? Russian flags? Trump flags?

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Senator John Cornyn claims it is urgent the Senate have hearings into former President Biden’s mental acuity….

At same time our current President is rage tweeting in middle of the night, name-calling other elected officials and contradicting himself on a daily basis…

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As former Senator Bob Menendez reports to prison after being convicted on bribery charges, too soon to start the pool on when Donald will pardon him in exchange for becoming a Republican?

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Not getting enough coverage why Mike Lee finally deleted tweets about MN assassinations He told a reporter that talking to Amy Klobuchar made difference “It was important to her I take it down. “We’re good friends. I took it down.” Reaching across aisle still matters.

(And yes, it’s sad he cared more about losing Klobuchar as a friend then the fact that two people were murdered – plus their dog – and two more were injured)

Bummer that Caitlin Clark has a quad injury and will be out at least two weeks.

But again cool that this is one of ESPN’s top 5 headlines “Fever fall to Mystics in first game without Caitlin Clark.

Wasn’t that long ago that many might have seen Fever and Mystics and figured it had something to do with COVID or some other disease and odd cure ideas.

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Need a reason to root for OKC in the NBA finals? Their superstar, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, SGA, is Canadian.

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Since the foreign students in USA, at Harvard and elsewhere, all have visas, the government already knows their names. And a lot more personal details. This is all performative.

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Trump: “Harvard wants to fight. They want to show how smart they are. And they’re getting their ass kicked.”

What does he think this is? A schoolyard fight between 12 year old boys at his fancy prep school?

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How long until David Hogg publicly says he’s become a Republican?

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How do you KNOW when a reporter at a Trump press conference nails something? When Velveeta Voldemort’s response is “that’s a nasty question.”

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Lost in the coverage of Donald’s outrage over TACO label is coveage of the fact he said he won young people by 37%.

Trump did NOT win young people by 37% He didn’t even win “young people.” While admittedly by less of a margin than Joe Biden, Kamala Harris did.

Dementia dementia dementia… Where’s the book – Orange Sin?

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If someone like Marco Rubio were in charge when his grandfather came to the United States, Marco himself would never have been born with a chance for US citizenship.

Hey fellow Democrats. Maybe if we want to protest Trump events we should put a “Trump Always Chickens Out” Taco Truck at every rally corner.

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So which restaurant will first offer the “Trump chicken TACO?” “Like nothing you’ve ever seen before, orange, fatty, supposed to be hot but slathered in Russian dressing.” And a lot more expensive than advertised.

At 8-42, the Rockies just finished the worst 50 games in MLB history since 1895.

Tonight, they knocked off the AL East leading NY Yankees 3-2.

Baseball is a funny game.

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Do any of these folks cheering Trump attacks on Harvard realize that he won’t stop at Harvard? It’ll be your alma-mater next. Or if you didn’t go to University, maybe the school with your favorite college football or basketball team.

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Hey MAGA. As Donald escalates his xenophobia to banning foreign college students, are you ready to kiss even red-state teams’ successes goodbye?

Florida just won national NCAA men’s basketball championship with Australian power forward , Nigerian center and Slovenian guard.

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WTAF? Trump now justifying his attacks on Harvard by alleging that it’s foreign students at Harvard who need “remedial math?” Man who bankrupted CASINOS and who thinks tariffs are not a tax says what?

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I’m so old I remember when Trump criticized Biden over Hurricane Helene relief & lied that FEMA spent money helping immigrants & not North Carolina residents. He got NC electoral votes & now takes FEMA money from the state to pay for billionaire tax cuts and his military parade

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There is one reason Velveeta Voldemort is threatening 50% tariffs on the EU. They had the audacity to sign a rare minerals deal with Greenland.

The Independent and others are reporting that at Donald’s high priced crypto coin dinner the food was awful. “Spirit Airlines level” said one..“Worst food I’ve ever had at a Trump golf course,” TikTok personality Nick Pinto, who invested $300,000 in Trump family cryptocurrency, ..only good thing was bread & butter.”

So overpriced, overhyped crap. Sounds like a metaphor for his presidency.

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Bible says “it profit not a man to gain the whole world if he loses his soul.”. Meanwhile Jake Tapper sold his soul, (and trashed his ratings) in hopes of a bestseller and will have his books on the remainder shelf by summer.

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Former Republican member of Congress David Jolly of Florida goes there. “Donald Trump is increasingly unstable and arguably unwell.” Biden is no longer President and no longer has power. We need to focus on the threat to our country right now.

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We need a book about Trump’s decline and the coverup. Some REAL journalist want to write it? Got the title for you – “Orange Sin.”

Friday night Wilmer Flores won the game for SF Giants with 8 RBI’s on 3 home runs. (Giants won 9-1)

Tonight he Wilmer won the game with an RBI bases loaded walk.

Baseball is a very funny game.

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Flores has 42 RBIs, Judge now has 41.

Arson Judge: 2025 Salary $40,000,000

Wilmer Flores: 2025 Salary: $3,500,000

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Wilmer Flores now has seven career grand slams. To put this in perspective, Barry Bonds only had 11.

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Guess we’re not going to hear MAGA crow about Journalism after today’s race. #Preakness150

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There have been major wildfires in Minnesota Tornados did major damage and killed at least 27 people in Missouri and Kentucky

Meanwhile our President is ranting on line about Taylor Swift, Bruce Springstein & SCOTUS justices he himself appointed.

I miss Consoler-in-Chief Joe Biden.

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As New Jersey Transit engineers strike enters its second day, have to think Joe Biden, who loves trains and unions, would have brokered a deal by now.

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Donold also posted an AI video of himself performing Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believing.”

Journey is a San Francisco band who has already told one member not to perform for Trump. Lawsuit coming in 3.2.1….

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But both Amy Klobuchar and Pete Buttigieg have spoken up strongly in last week about Trump & his administration trying nonstop distraction. And media ignores their warnings and takes the bait.

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“So grandpa, why is USA no longer considered a world power? “Well, you see, sonny, we elected a mad tyrant bent on destroying our country from within but people and the media were too focused on the previous President being old…”

And then there’s the faux outrage on the seashells 8647 picture James Comey posted.

A meaning I remember of 86 from my waitress days is “sold out”

And after this week watching him kissing up to Mideast royalty in exchange for a plane & no doubt other promises, thinking millions of American can agree that Donald has definitely sold out

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FBI reportedly moving 1,500 personnel from D.C., closing storied headquarters

Kash Patel lives in Las Vegas. What’s he going to do? Demand the federal government build a new FBI headquarters on the Strip?

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Fox News never missed a chance to attack President Biden when the economy had so much as a hiccup. Now for the first time in history, Moody’s has downgraded the U.S. credit rating from Aaa to Aa1.

Fox News. Crickets.

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Really interesting that none of the three judges Trump appointed are backing him on his most egregious acts. (Alito, appointed by W. and Thomas, appointed by his dad, are Donald’s most steadfast disciples.)

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SNL season 50 finale tonight – James Austin Johnson as Trump in cold open “See you in the fall… if we still a country.”

MLB RBI leaders

Pete Alonso – 34 – 2025 salary $27 million

Teoscar Hernández -34 – 2025 salary $23.5 million

Aaron Judge – 34 – 2025 salary $40 million

Wilmer Flores – 33 – 2025 salary $3.5 million.

Best value in baseball #SFGiants

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There were times that it looked like Oklahoma City Thunder weren’t going to lose in the playoffs.

Now it looks like they might not lose again.

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All you need to know about how stretched out the NBA Playoff season is…. Golden State Warriors star Steph Curry has a hamstring injury and will be out at “least a week.” In a seven game series, if his injury lasts eight days, he will miss two more games.

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JD Vance actually “joked” that the USA would deport visitors who come here to watch the FIFA World Cup. As if soccer fans felt good about coming to the US as it is.

First he broke the National Championship trophy, now VP is breaking World Cup ticket sales,

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United Airlines, which has 65% of the flights at Newark, donated $1 million to Donald Trump’s inauguration… They must be so pleased.

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How much would we all like to be flies on the wall when Canadian PM Mark Carney gets home and into a private place to talk about his visit to Trump’s White House?

So what’s Velveeta Voldemort going to do to distract from the fact that Donald is not going to be elected Pope?

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Trumps’s new surgeon general nominee is Casey Means who withdrew from her medical residency at age 30.

She is anti-vax, and thinks you can stay healthy by focusing on metabolic health and glucose testing?! And Laura Loomer got rid of the original nominee for being too pro-vaccine?

We’re living in a bad SNL skit.

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“Just heard about it….They’ve been fighting for many years, many decades actually… I just hope it ends quickly.” Donald Trump on India-Pakistan being on the brink of war… Do we feel safe yet?

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So how many more fighter jets have to fall off US aircraft carriers before even Republicans decide that DOD Secretary Pete Hegseth is really really bad at his job?

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Does Donald realize that calling California’s governor “Gavin Newscum” at a Press Conference is much more demeaning to him as President than it is to Newsom?

Former RFK Jr. running mate Nicole Shanahan: “I don’t know if RFK very clearly lied to me, or what is going on.”

He apparently promised her neither surgeon general nominee Casey Means nor her brother would be part of his administration.

Man who cheated on his ex-wife and his current wife and who has been disowned by his family might not be trustworthy? Who knew?

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?

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?

Yankees payroll $309.40 million

Tigers payroll $98 million, Royals, $122 million, Guardians $106 million

So yes, the New York Yankees payroll is almost as much as the THREE AL Central teams who made the playoffs. Combined.

Wonder how the Yankees would do vs an AL Central all star team

At a stressful time for our country, at least there are still some simple pleasures…. like watching Aaron Rodgers lose. on #MNF

(And the Dallas Cowboys, any day.)

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Here’s a bizarre stat: Three of four starting pitchers Monday in the ALCS and NLCS are former San Francisco Giants. (Rodon in 2022, Manaea in 2023, Cobb in 2024.)

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What is it with clueless MAGA types and sports. Dave McCormick, running against Senator Bob Casey in Pennsylvania, goes to a Phiadelphia tailgate and praises… the Steelers? Which is like going to San Francisco and praising the Dodgers.

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And this deserves more attention – Musk said he roots for the Steelers AND the Eagles? #heresy

Not just national races. Jon Tester’s Montana US Senate race remains tight, despite GOP candidate TIm Sheehy frequently having been caught lying.-( including about claiming his accidentally shooting himself on vacation as a gunshot wound inr Afghanistan), and making racist anti-Indigenous statements.

And not only does MT, with smaller population than San Diego, have 2 US Senate seats, each vote there counts about twice as a California vote in electoral college.

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This sounds like a bad joke. It isn’t. Trump is trying to sabotage Hurricane recovery. “Urgent message from U.S. Forest Service, part of the Hurricane Helene recovery efforts, indicated that National Guard troops encountered militia members claiming they were “hunting FEMA.”

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When almost all Trump supporters have to keep telling the media that Donald doesn’t mean what he says then he is clearly not saying sane things.

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Trump is now attacking pro-business Bloomberg news. But what should get more attention, Trump is also attacking that noted bastion of liberalism the Wall Street Journal….

As Trump now talks about wonderfu peacefull people – “peace and love” on January 6.

We have gone from “no lie too small” to “how big can I make the lie

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Fox News originally was touting Trump’s interview with Bloomberg in Chicago

. You know how bad the interview was for Donald when you go to the Fox News website and there’s no longer a word about it.

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I’m so old I remember nonstop headlines & media outrage that President Biden wasn’t releasing ENOUGH medical records. Joe had one bad debate.

Donald Trump has increasingly spewed angry nonsense. Where’s the outrage now that Trump won’t release any records?

Donald Trump today railed against what he described as “bad stories…. “We have to straighten out our press because we have a corrupt press. That’s the one we really have to straighten out.” Remember, Hitler sent journalists to Dachau before he sent Jews.

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Jake Tapper on Monday was fact checking VA Gov Youngkin as Glenn lies repeatedly that Trump has NOT threatened his political opponents: Youngkin refuses to accept Trump actual quotes: “Thing that’s tougher to handle are these lunatics that we have inside, like Adam Schiff.” It’s a cult.

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At 9:56 am day after his 30 minute dancing coma Trump tweeted “Kamala’s Medical Report is really bad. With all of the problems that she has, there is a real question as to whether or not she should be running for President! MY REPORT IS PERFECT – NO PROBLEMS!!” He. Is. Insane..

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If Trump were the Captain of the Titanic, his MAGA followers would not only exonerate him of all blame, they would demand he be given a medal for valiantly fighting the “woke” iceberg.

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Finally Interrupting insanity for facts: Per Bureau of Labor Statistics; USA lost 2.7 million jobs during Trump’s presidency. If the pandemic months are excluded, he added 6.7 million jobs. By contrast, 15.4 million jobs were added during Biden’s presidency. Democrats deliver!