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Storms ahead

September 26, 2024

As we approach the MLB postseason

If you are looking for a team to root for in the playoffs.

In the bottom 10 of MLB payrolls

21. Royals, $115,257,261

23. Brewers $105,833.094

24. Tigers $103,834,833

27. Orioles $94,520,400

28. Guardians $93,333,629

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OTOH

Top 5, Mets − $305,624,274

Yankees − $303,322,047

Dodgers − $249,823,654

Phillies − $243,476,617

Astros − $236,524,482

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-As an SF Giants fan whose team was at one point the worst in baseball hitting with RISP, must admit I felt for Minnesota Twins fans tonight. Winning run on 2nd and/or 3rd in 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th. And still managed to lose in 13 to the 100 loss Marlins.

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Stanford supposed to fly to South Carolina to play Clemson on Saturday. Since it’s all charter planes anyway for football teams why doesn’t Clemson just come to California? We have a perfectly good stadium and sunshine this weekend.

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For days forecasters have been saying Helene could be biggest hurricane EVER in parts of Florida, even inland. And reports are many people haven’t evacuated since hurricanes were never problem before. Maybe if Deathsantis hadn’t banned using term “climate change” in Florida.

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As Hurricane Helene bore down upon Florida, Joe Biden has already (2 days ago) approved federal disaster relief, unconditionally, without threats or attacks on a state that didn’t vote for him. It’s so nice having a President.

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(Got the the usual bots & trolls attacking me on social media for pointing out that Biden was helping Florida… many of them made comments like “well, it’s bare minimum,” or “how could you make it political.” Did they forget or not see that Trump says he will withhold disaster aid from California?)

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Reports from a couple Florida friends that Ron DeSantis didn’t make toll roads free today in Florida ahead of Hurricane Helene. If true, evacuees will have insult added to injury by having to pay for their escapes. And would be very on brand.

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Has FLORIDA RESIDENT Donald Trump said one positive thing or even written a message of hope for his state during one of their worst hurricanes ever?

(I’ll wait.)

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Fox News and other right wing media were all over Kamala Harris wearing an $800 pair of earrings at the DNC. For some reason they seem to have missed that Donald Trump is hawking $100,000 watches.

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Indicted by the Feds.

Eric Adams

Robert Menendez

Hunter Biden

Donald Trump.

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But tell me how Joe Biden has weaponized the DOJ against Republicans?

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Stephen Colbert on Pete Buttigieg playing J.D. Vance in debate prep for Tim Walz. “Must be difficult for Buttigieg to get into character.. since Vance has none.”

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Women lead

September 25, 2024

Former San Antonio Spurs asst coach Becky Hammon, a Gregg Popovich protege, interviewed repeatedly for NBA head coaching jobs. She never got an offer; whisper was she “wasn’t head coaching material.” Mark Davis paid her $1 million to coach the Las Vegas Aces.

Result, repeat WNBA championships.

And a first round sweep tonight.

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Los Angeles Dodgers, down 4-2 with two on, nobody out in bottom of the 9th, ground into game ending triple play (!) to lose to the San Diego Padres. No punch line. as an SF Giants fan I just like reporting that.

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Speaker Mike Johnson says GOP House will certify the election, “if it’s a free and fair election.” Translation. Republicans are only agreeing to accept the election results if they win.

Imagine, seriously, if sports fans said they would accept the outcome of games, only if THEIR teams won.

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On the Late Show, Stephen Colbert asked Canadian PM Justin Trudeau on Americans crossing border for lower drug prices. “We’re happy to try to help you out, but would be really easier if you guys had Universal Health Care.

If US only cared about health as much as gun rights.

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Trump bragging on how he will take care of women by eliminating their rights: “You will no longer have anxiety from all the problems our country has today… You will be protected, & will be your protector.” Trump isn’t running for President. He’s running for Stalker in Chief.

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But seriously wrap your head around this:

A candidate for President has been found guilty of sexual assault and denies dozens of accusations from others by saying things like “she would not be the chosen one.” That same candidate now calls himself “a protector of women.”

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Just saying for anyone who knows someone in Texas. Avote for Colin Allred is not only a vote to send Ted Cruz back to Texas, (or Canada)

It’s also a vote to keep Mitch McConnell’s GOP replacement from being Senate Majority Leader. And a vote to keep GOP from refusing to confirm judicial nominees even if Kamala Harris is elected.

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Anyone who knows the history of the Holocaust knows… It didn’t start with Nazi death camps. It started with serial numbers, registration, demonizing non-Aryans, punishing dissidents and political enemies…

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If you want to know how unhinged Trump’s latest speech today was don’t take my word for it. Go to Fox News website. They aren’t even mentioning it.

(not the first time either.)

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Mitch McConnell actually spoke today on the Senate floor about Democrats trying to destroy the legitimacy of the Supreme Court. Funeral services for satire are pending.

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Joe Manchin having hissy fit & won’t endorse Kamala Harris, because she supports ending filibuster to codify Roe V. Wade. “Shame on her. She knows the filibuster is the holy grail of democracy.” What will Manchin say if GOP takes back Senate & eliminates filibuster on day 1?

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So since Trump is promising everything else why hasn’t he said if he were President he’d Sharpie the hurricane away from Florida?

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And the first shall be last…

September 23, 2024

As a Saints fan in the San Francisco Bay area it was tough to watch New Orleans snatch defeat from the jaws of victory Sunday.

49ers. “Hold our beer.”

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Meanwhile the SF Giants have won six of seven and are making a late season push towards .500…. (damaging playoff hopes of other teams in the process.)

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As a New Orleans Saints fan still bitter about that NFC Championship loss to the Rams, nonetheless remember, Saints were up 17-0 in the first half before LA coach Sean McVay called for a successful fake punt… Did SF 49ers staff not remember it?

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Republicans saying “let the states decide” on Roe v Wade, are really saying “We are perfectly fine taking rights away from AMERICAN women and girls simply based on where they are born.”

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Rachel Maddow has clip of Ohio Senate candidate Moreno saying it’s “a little crazy” for women over 50 to care about abortion. I’m 65. I care VERY much about reproductive rights. Bernie Moreno can go perform a sexual act upon himself that will not result in pregnancy.

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Donald Trump, who used to be friends with Oprah Winfrey decades ago, ranted yesterday “I couldn’t help but think this isn’t the real Oprah.” Trump used to be a Democrat. She could say the same about him.

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As neither Trump nor Vance will condemn Mark Robinson now, your reminder he’s PUBLICLY said some pretty awful things before now.

“Once a woman is pregnant it’s not her body anymore.” Homosexuality is “filth,” “It’s is time for us to get back and start reading some of those quotes” (from Hitler, Stalin etc..)

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Ana Navarro nails it. “Melania Trump being paid $237,500 for Mar-A-Lago speech, Donald selling selling cheap Christmas ornaments for $90… I find it incredibly tacky… preying on poor people to fund their luxury…turning Mar-A-Lago & campaign into the Home Shopping Network”

Trump today said that California has blackouts and brownouts every single day.

California voter here. Can’t remember the last time we lost power.

So no Donald, you’re confused, that would be Texas.

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.D Vance asked about Mark Robinson ” “I don’t not believe him, I don’t believe him—I just think that you have to let these things sometimes play out in the court of public opinion.” – So what kind of dressing goes with this word salad?

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As Mark Robinson continues to insist the credible allegations against him are false…

Wouldn’t we all want to know how many IT professionals who work for Republicans are getting the question today “How do you delete your browser history?

On Sept 18, Trump said that he planned to visit Springfield, Ohio in the next two weeks. Now he says he’s not going. So this was a “big beautiful healthcare plan” or “policy on mifepristone” kind of two weeks. He should have said he had the “concept” of a visit.

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Can we STOP this narrative that Americans know what a Donald Trump presidency would be like? We know what Trump’s FIRST term was like. When he had guardrails, staff around him who reined in his worst impulses. None of those people will be there to save us in a second term.

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Seriously GOP? They agreed to fund govt through Dec 20 in exchange for additional Secret Service funding. Also GOP; called on Secretary Mayorkas, since DHS oversees Secret Service, to shift resources to ease strain. So GOP can claim Dems don’t have enough agents on the border?

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JD Vance fundraising email:

“I’m going to ask you to make a small sacrifice for President Trump, one that I know he would absolutely make for you too.” “One that I know he would absolutely make for you too.?!

” How many comedy writers dream of writing a line as funny as that?

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From UK Times Magazine, quoting JD Vance in 2022. “I think what Trump should do, if i was giving him 1 piece of advice: fire every single mid-level bureaucrat, every civil servant in the administrative state, replace them with our people.” Saying the project 2025 part out loud.

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Think you don’t care about politics? I

f you or someone in your family works for the federal goverment, even in a nonpolitical roll, and Trump gets back in the White House, you will probably have to sign a loyalty oath to him or be fired. And yes, he’s saying this out loud.

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Race to the bottom

September 21, 2024

The Chicago White Sox now have the modern day American League record for losses – 119 – set by the 2003 Detroit Tigers. One more will tie the 120 losses by the 1962 expansion NY Mets.

Seven games left. It’s good to have achievable goals.

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So the Bears fans are great on social media, but tonight was an object lesson in why it’s never a smart idea for Stanford fans to root for Cal… They SHOULD have stopped that d*mn FSU chop. Too many penalties, missed red zone chances and 2 missed FGs.

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Trump says he won the debate against Kamala Harris. If he really thought he’d won the debate he’d be accepting the CNN debate, and asking for at least one more. Donald lost And HE KNOWS it.

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At Trump’s North Carolina Rally, he introduced his 5 year old granddaughter.

‘Her name is Carolina and she’s beautiful and she’s sweet and she doesn’t know how evil life is – she hasn’t experienced it yet.”

“How evil life is? About and in front of a 5 year old? Beyond weird.

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If you have a few seconds, go to http://JimJordan24.com

Sometimes I love American ingenuity.

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Almost impossible to do but by comparison –
J.D. Vance actually makes Ted Cruz look less weird.

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An AP story on early voting quoted a Trump voter in Minnesota saying “Not that I like him, but he’s a business person, and I like someone who can run a business,” Guessing Fox News hasn’t ever mentioned just how many businesses Trump has run into the ground.

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In 2020 in North Carolina, Democrat Cal Cunningham was leading in US Senate race against Republican Thom Tillis. Then Cal was caught sexting a woman and having an affair summer before election. He lost Some of the stupidest behavior for a would be NC leader in memory. Mark Robinson “hold my beer.”

While Kamala Harris accepted a CNN invitation for a second debate, today Trump said it was “too late” to have another debate. Translation = Donald doesn’t want to be embarrassed again on national television.

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Trump says he can’t do another debate with Harris because it’s too late, people are already voting. But Donald had no problem ramming through his SCOTUS pick after RBG died in Sept 2020,

When as Amy Klobuchar in a brilliant rant in the Judiciary committee against Ted Cruz said “people are voting right now.”

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Unpacked 12

September 19, 2024

So as the college football conference schedule gets into full swing- Stanford plays Friday in Syracuse… UCLA plays LSU, and USC plays Michigan… Can we blame Trump?

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JD Vance says of Haitians who immigrated legally to Ohio “I’m still gonna call them illegal aliens.” Imagine if any Democrat made that kind of statement about legal Immigrants from India – like Vance’s in-laws?

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Person with “self-trained bomb-detecting dog” accused of falsely reporting threat at Trump rally.

There was NO bomb threat at Trump’s rally.

But yes there have been bomb threats in Springfield Ohio due to Trump’s lies about immigrant

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In 2000, lawyer John Roberts, who assisted George W. in Bush v. Gore, ADOPTED his 2 children, a boy & girl born 5 months apart.

So by Sarah Sanders & J.D. Vance standards, he has “nothing” keeping him humble, & should barely have right to vote, let alone be SCOTUS Chief Justice

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As Senate GOP again blocked bill to guarantee access to IVF nationwide – Senate Whip John Thune says he ‘doesn’t know of any GOP not in favor of IVF, Mandate part, that’s a challenging issue….

” Translation, if voters put Republicans in control we’ll find a reason to ban IVF.

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Question of the day. J.D. Vance has admitting to having “created” the story about immigrants eating pets to get the media to pay attention. So what OTHER stories have J.D and Donald created where they haven’t been caught in the lie yet?

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Tommy Tuberville issued a statement saying that the Fed had no right to cut interest rates this close to an election and claims Jay Powell is just trying to “tip the election to Kamala Harris.”

No matter that lower interest rates benefit most Americans.

Coach Tuberville is a Senator who is supposed to be working for America. Instead he’s rooting for us to lose. What team is he on?

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Your reminder that while Fox News and other pundits are screaming about the need to provide more security to Donald Trump, that for the past few years are have also been complaining about spending taxpayer money to build a security fence around President Biden’s Delaware beach home.

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-Trump pretending he has nothing to do with Project 2025 is another of the Trump Vance created stories.

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Donald Trump Jr sent out an email with the headline –

“Agencies ignored red flags on Trump shooter.”

1. He didn’t actually shoot.

2. So now would his dad like to talk about gun control red flag laws?

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Donald Trump, who took away the SALT deduction in large part to punish blue states, now says he will bring it back if voters re-elect him. I believe the punchline to this bad joke is “You knew I was a snake when you picked me up.” #VoteBlue

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Who done dat?

September 16, 2024

“Just the way we expected Sunday’s game against the Cowboys to go” said no honest Saints fan.

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But for the residents of 49 states outside of Texas and maybe those in Houston too, that was a serious beat down of self-proclaimed “America’s Team” and Jerry Jones by the New Orleans Saints. 44-19. You’re welcome.

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WNBA playoffs start next Sunday.

Wonder if they will join the list of leagues whose playoffs outdraw at least early round playoffs for Major League Baseball?

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Philadelphia Inquirer with nominee for headline of the year!.

“Kristi Noem, who shot her dog, is stumping for Trump in Pa. after he claimed that immigrants are eating pets.”

Brittany Mahomes apparently is rethinking her support of Donald Trump after he posted “I hate Taylor Swift.” (Mahomes and Swift have become friends.)

I’m a Democrat, I believe in education. So hope Brittany has learned something. If not yet perhaps she should read up on what Trump and Vance are saying about people who aren’t white. and Brittany and Patrick do have mixed-race children.

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Washington Post out with a story saying that Secret Service warned Trump early in his Presidency that photographers could shoot long range pictures of him golfing, and that similarly, someone with a gun might be able to get access.

He didn’t want to stop golfing. Or close his clubs when he was on the premises. Secret Service COULD close off Trump’s clubs completely to the public. But Donald still doesn’t want this. He wants to be able to make lots of money from the public visiting his clubs. And he wants the adulation from rich acolytes.

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Louisiana requires 10 Commandments to be posted in public schools. Many GOP want them in all schools. How about posting them in the US Senate?

Starting with JD Vance’s office.

Number 9 -“You shall not give false witness against your neighbor.”

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Trump today blaming Biden and Harris saying “their rhetoric is causing me to be shot at…”

At the same his VP admits to making up stories that are harming innocent Haitians, Donald calling Biden & Harris “evil” and saying “I hate Taylor Swift.”

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Since the white man in Florida who apparently wanted to shoot at Trump was a convicted felon in possession of a firearm, is NOW a good time to talk about sensible gun control reform?


Candice Bergen at Emmy’s mentioned Dan Quayle criticizing TV show “Murphy Brown” after Murphy, unmarried & pregnant, decided to keep her baby.

“Today Republican candidate for vice president would never attack a woman for having kids. So as they say, my work here is done. Meow.”

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Finally saw the interview with J.D. Vance seriously sneering while he tells Dana Bash that he created the story about pets being eaten.

While he lied about the Haitians being there illegally…. (they are LEGAL migrants.) J.D. Vance really hates women

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Mitt Romney, who says he is not voting for Trump, was asked again about supporting Harris, Romney said: “I don’t have anything on that at this stage.”

So uh, Mitt, what would it take?

Why does media act so shocked that the suspect knew Trump would be golfing. Surely it’s obvious when his plane lands and/or when Donald is at Mar-A-Lago due to added security. And if he’s home during the day, if he’s not ranting on social media, he golfs.

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Worse and worser

September 12, 2024

Billionaire Chicago White Sox owner Jerry Reinsdorf, says”the “year has been very painful for all,” in a statement released today after the White Sox lost their 114th game.

And then did he get in his private plane and fly home?

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As the White Sox may break the 1962 Mets modern record for the most losses., here’s what Reinsdorf is probably really thinking… “Maybe no one will notice becauee I’m not John Fisher.”.

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Please do not adjust your set, yes, the SF Giants put up 13 runs on the first place Milwaukee Brewers Wednesday night in an 13-2 win.

(Giants fans hope this means the team doesn’t get shut out for the rest of the week.)


You think you have a tough job. Imagine being a Trump surrogate Wednesday morning.

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Trump is big mad over Taylor Swift endorsing Kamala Harris. “I actually like Mrs. Mahomes much better.”

How long until Donald says his daughter-in-law Lara Trump is a better singer?

Ohio Governor Mike DeWine, a conservative Republican, today rebutted the Haitians eating pets lie, and said he spoke to the mayor of Springfield, Ohio who said the rumor wasn’t true. So what happened? MAGAs on social media are attacking DeWine. It’s a cult.

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Heard a GOP pundit brush off the debate as “With Trump you know what you’re doing to get.” But wasn’t the whole point of GOP attacks on President Biden that Joe was getting older with cognitive decline. And DonOld Trump is a 78 year old man with an unhealthy lifestyle.

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‘This was my best debate ever. I thought it was very good.” Quote from Donald Trump after last night’s debate.

So is he somehow trying to avoid losing by proving that he’s too old to run for President.

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Seriously in the old Twitter days a comment like Elon Musk made to Taylor Swift would have gotten his account suspended.

(What he said – “Fine Taylor … you win … I will give you a child and guard your cats with my life,”

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Getting closer NY Times.. “During the debate, Donald Trump used a false charge to attack Kamala Harris for her support of abortion rights.” But “used a false charge” is ungainly & takes up four words. How about “Donald Trump LIED?”

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Gone guy

September 11, 2024

So not much good news tonight for the SF Giants, four hits, none with RISP in a 3-2 loss to the Milwaukee Brewers.

But ,tonight was the last night they apparently will ever wear the City Connect Orange Creamsicle uniforms. #Smallmercies IYKYK

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Iterrupt debate talk for some bipartisan outrage. Trader Joe’s is selling ‘Pumpkin Spice Chardonnay.” No joke

#JustSayNo

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Sen. John Cornyn, who knows better, whining today that Dems prioritizing confirming judges over Defense authorization bill. 1. If GOP didn’t demand performative votes Biden could get judges confirmed faster. 2. Where was Cornyn when Tuberville was holding up military promotions?

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1. It’s already illegal for noncitizens to vote. 2. Imagine if Dems announced plan to force rural white working class voters in red states to pay for certified copies of birth certificates NOW to vote in November. GOP would be livid. Some people don’t want some people to vote.

“I have the concepts of a plan.” What happened to the big beautiful healthcare plan Trump was going to unveil in two weeks?

Was a delegate to the California Democratic convention in San Francisco. When Tulsi Gabbard was a Democrat. Suffice it to say her speech was an indication of how well she’d do as Trump’s debate coach.

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Donald, tonight”I have nothing to do with Project 2025.” “I didn’t read it.” Well the second Trump statement is true.

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JD Vance went from a Never-Trumper to a supporter to a full on cult-member. And tonight in the debate Donald repaid his running mate for his loyalty. Asked about signing Vance’s statement Trump would sign an abortion ban, Donald said ‘I haven’t talked to J.D. about that…”

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Anyone got an “under the bus” tally for this year’s Trump campaign


Forget the have a beer test – which of these two candidates would you trust to to catsit your cat?

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Viktor Orban, the dictator President of Hungary is the leader Trump is using as a reference? WTAF?

So how many big strong men with tears in their eyes will Trump say “Sir You Won the Debate” tomorrow?

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f you don’t already love Minnesota Governor and future VP Tim Walz. “Trump can’t at nearly 80 years old do something I told my fourth graders. When you lose a game you go shake hands and congratulate the other person and move on.”

Tariffs are a sales tax. Tariffs are a sales tax. Tariffs are a sales tax.

Once again for those in the back. Tariffs are a sales tax.

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Yes, people have varying reasons for still being “Undecided” in November. But why do I feel a bit like we’re rewarding the kids in class who didn’t do their homework and now are scrambling to get it done at the last minute?

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Only real winners on Trump side of the debate -those who bet he wouldn’t mention “the late great Hannibal Lecter.”

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As someone who has long considered Ted Cruz the worst person in the Senate, I must confess I really underestimated the awfulness of J.D. Vance.

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Debate Eve.

September 10, 2024

So will Trump and his good buddy billionaire Jets owner Woody Johnson claim the SF 49ers stole tonight’s Monday Night Football game and try to start a riot at Levi’s Stadium?

Johnson actually before the game told a reporter than the game was the only reason to go to San Francisco..

The 49ers actually play in Santa Clara. But maybe Woody got lucky, went to SF by mistake, and missed the game?

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The Kamala Harris Donald Trump debate is tonight.

No doubt media will be armed with every thing Kamala Harris has ever said so they can explain to us how she said something contradictory to a position she had in a high school debate.

Whereas with Donald Trump, its as if they think factchecking is like trying to bail a sinking boat with a teacup, so why bother?

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People who simply signed a petition to put Amendment Four, abortion rights on the ballot are getting visits from Ron DeSantis’ “election police” Allegedly to check for fraud.

DESantis’s “election police” are accompanied by real police. (All at Taxpayer expense) Or should we call them Florida gestapo?

(And it’s not isolated – DeSantis’s secretary of state has ordered elections supervisors in at least four counties to review at least 36,000 petition forms that had already been verified months ago

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Hey folks. – As GOP talks about shutting down the government to stop nonciizens from voting:

1. GOP is lying about there being a problem with noncitizens voting.

2. Voting as a noncitizen is already illegal.

3. Passports are expensive. And a certified copy of your birthday certificate is at least $25-30.

4. Their sham bill, on top of everything else, is a poll tax. Why isn’t media covering this more?

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And as GOP lies that USA has problem with noncitizens voting, do they realize how difficult it can be to prove citizenship, espec. for older rural voters. You need passport or a CERTIFIED birth certificate. Guessing many red state voters don’t have or can’t find that proof.

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Can’t be said enough. All these people who are opposing Trump and endorsing Harris from Donald’s first administration…. are people he himself originally HIRED

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Brig. General Steve Anderson, who with other former senior military officials endorsed Kamala Harris, points out today that Donald Trump would not even be eligible to JOIN the military, let alone lead it. “How did the Nazis rise to power? Because good people didn’t speak up.”

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Meanwhile the Biden adminstration just finalized a rule requiring insurers to pay for mental health like they do physical ailments.


Wish this got more coverage

GOP always talks about mental health after mass shootings. But they don’t do a darn thing to help Americans get mental health care. Democrats get things DONE. But competence isn’t clickbait.

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Okay CNN, your headline writer actually nailed it for Monday am. Hope this is a trend: “Trump warms up for debate by threatening to jail election officials.”

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Au revoir Olympics

August 11, 2024

As the games move in 2028 to Los Angeles, a question. What excuse will NBC use for showing all the games on a tape-delay basis in the US?

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And Team USA hung on for a 67-66 victory today in the Gold medal game against France when France’s Gabby Williams hit a buzzer-beater at the end of the game, with her foot ON the three-point line, making it a two point shot.

Besides being happy forTteam USA winning the Gold, many of us can also be happy we don’t have to hear four years of “if they had only put Caitlin Clark on the team..”

(And I love Caitlin Clark. But yeah, enough.)

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So has Donald Trump said yet if he had competed how many Olympic medals he would have won?

Meanwhie, while SF Giants have been winning dramatic late inning games lately, since the All-Star break they’ve been hitting .192 with RISP, (runners in scoring position) ahead of only the Chicago White Sox at .179.

.192? Though perhaps I speak for other SF Giants fans when I say “Really, that high?”

(they were 3-for-14 with runners in scoring position Sunday)

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Trump now claiming in his fundraising email: 24 HOURS UNTIL THE INTERVIEW OF THE CENTURY (with Elon Musk) Not only will this not be the interview of the century, with Rachel Maddow on Monday it won’t even be the interview of the night.

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Trump is more done than an overcooked steak he puts ketchup on at Mar-A-Lago #TrumpIsDone

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Death of irony alert for day: J.D. Vance attacks Kamala Harris & Tim Walz “they’re name-calling instead of actually telling the American people how they’re going to make their lives better.” Could SOME so-called journalist ask JD how he feels about Trump’s nicknames for rivals?

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Death of irony alert for day:

J.D. Vance attacks Kamala Harris & Tim Walz “they’re name-calling instead of actually telling the American people how they’re going to make their lives better.”

Some statements don’t even need a punchline.

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Since Fox News is asking ‘Who is Tim Walz?” why don’t we let Minnesotans answer question? Which they did in 2022. Walz won re-election by 7.7 %, larger margin than Joe Biden won state by in 2020. They know him, they trust him, they know Walz gets stuff done – with a smile.

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GOP loves to claim they support our troops.

But if you DO join the military. They’ll hold up your promotions to make political points. They’ll fight against your veterans’ benefits. And if you go into politics as a Dem, they’ll find a way to attack you over your service.

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Da pain, da plane

August 10, 2024

When you go from trying to jinx a no-hitter into the 7th to cheering a walk-off win in the 9th… you must be a 2024 SF Giants fan.

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Just told a friend I have known since our sons played little league together that our Little League coach would have benched Camilo Doval and told him to get his head in the game.

Looks like SF Giants agreed with me.

(SF Giants sent their closer, an All-Star in 2023, who has DEFINITELY not had his head in the game, to AAA to work on stuff.)

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Look, I try to avoid gender stereotypes but when you hear that two heavily favored USA relay teams competed for Olympic gold today in Paris, one won and the other got DQ’ed because they couldn’t work together simply to pass a baton… Why do I think that most people would correctly guess the DQ’ed team was the men?

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Will someone explain to me how the sex-obsessed GOP can decide high school boys can’t handle being in a bathroom with tampons, but they can handle those same bathrooms having urinals where they all can check out & compare each other’s junk?

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Some are freaked out about idea of boys seeing tampons in their high school bathroom. Though surely boys aren’t as clueless as my high school days? Classmate told me about her date from hell with guy, no joke, who thought Carrie had cut herself in that movie shower scene.

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WTAF? Now Donald is threatening to sue the NY Times because he says he has flight logs for his fantasy helicopter trip with Willie Brown. I am sure Trump will release those flight logs when he releases his big beautiful health care plan.

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Trump’s plane today did have to make a landing for mechanical reasons in Billings, Mountain, about 150 miles from Bozeman. And if that isn’t some sorrt of metaphor for his entire campaign I don’t know what is…

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Trump is now fundraising off of pins with his mugshot on them. Maybe Donald’s doing a clearance sale because he realizes the next picture might be him actually behind bars?

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DonOld’s act is getting tired, and the crowds are falling off. Is this finally going to be the final season of Presidential Apprentice?

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Washington Post thought they needed a whole article on pronouncing Kamala Harris’s name?!! It’s Comma-la. You’re welcome.

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NY Times is so all in for Trump.

Headline “Fact-Checking Claims About Tim Walz’s Record. Only if you click do you see 2nd line “Republicans have leveled inaccurate or misleading attacks on Mr. Walz’s response to protests in summer of 2020, his positions on immigration “, etc…..

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Don’t listen to people who don’t know Tim Walz. Listen to Minnesotans who know him. And as Amy Klobuchar who campaigned with him wrote in “The Joy of Politics” about 2022 – “Our Governor Tim Walz & the rest of our statewide ticket won. We flipped state Senate & won the House.”

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NY Times so all in for Trump.

Headline “Fact-Checking Claims About Tim Walz’s Record. Only if you click do you see 2nd line “Republicans have leveled inaccurate or misleading attacks on Mr. Walz’s response to protests in summer of 2020, his positions on immigration “, etc…..

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Que Les Jeux Commencent

July 27, 2024

Let the games begin, in French.

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If you have BBC feed in the US… they SO beat US networks with Olympic coverage And no commercials on the opening ceremony.

It was a month ago tomorrow that President Biden debated Donald Trump. Sometimes life comes at you fast.

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The WNBA All-Star Game in Phoenix drew a record number of viewers on Saturday, crushing the old mark set 21 years ago.

In all, 3.44 million people watched the game on ABC, topping the previous record of 1.44 million viewers in 2003, which featured Dawn Staley, Sheryl Swoopes, Cynthia Cooper, Lisa Leslie and Sue Bird.

You go girls.

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Michelle and Barack Obama endorsed Kamala Harris for President. So another day where the headlines aren’t about the old guy.

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Early days. But 2024 could go down in history as the year we both saved democracy and proved how useless media pundits are.

The British have a way with words… And there’s a British phrase that comes to mind that sums up J.D. Vance perfectly: Insufferable prat

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SF Chronicle Sportswriter, Ann Killion

“GOP: women must bear children to have positions of power. Also GOP: women who bear children must stay home with them. See how that works?”

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As J.D. Vance doubles down on attacking women without children. your reminder GOP is also anti-welfare, anti-free healthcare and wants to cut food stamp benefits. Not to mention school lunches. (And many of them are anti-childcare too.)

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Trump yesterday at this rally “You have to get out and vote. You won’t have to do it anymore. Four years, it will be fixed, it will be fine. You won’t have to vote anymore.. In four years, you won’t have to vote again.”

Tou aren’t sure about voting in 2024. Russia has basically eliminated voting. Trump wants to do the same in the USA. “Don’t it always seem to go, that you don’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone…”

For San Antonio Spurs fans especially. Look who was one of the last to carry the Olympic torch towards the cauldron.

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Dew what?

July 24, 2024

Tampa Bay Rays shortstop Taylor Walls pumped his fist and shouted “Fight Fight Fight” after hitting a double last weekend, but said today it was not intended as an endorsement of the Republican presidential candidate and added he was unlikely to do it again.

Somebody told Walls that in 2020 even though Florida went red, the Tampa Bay Area voted for Biden by 7 points?

(And as a friend pointed out, Walls is hitting .160.)

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Uh, not that it matters when you can’t hit, but WHY did SF Giants have their starter Jordan Hicks pitch to Shohei Ohtani for the third time – with two-outs, runners on base but a base open? More than beginning to see why Bob Melvin washed out with the San Diego Padres…

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Am a longtime diet soda gal – I loved Tab back in the day, and have joked I’d drink anything sugar-free..

JD Vance said he’ll be called racist for liking Diet Mountain Dew.

Will say, while I am white, is there anyone of any race who really likes Diet Mountain Dew?

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JD Vance is ranting in a Trump fundraising email about “shadow billionaires” raising money for Kamala Harris. Funeral services for irony are pending.

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Mitch Landrieu nails it: “Some think VP Harris w/ all her years in many elected offices isn’t as qualified as J.D Vance who’s had ONE office, for less than 600 days… Who is the “We” in “We the people?” Some think if you’re a woman or person of color it’s never enough

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Despite a fake Twitter post to the contrary,

Jimmy Carter is still alive. I remain convinced his goal is to live long enough to vote in November. As it turns out, for a candidate who will be our first woman President

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Estimates are that between 25-35 percent of American households own at least one cat. Was it really a good idea for JD Vance to refer to “childless cat ladies?”

And not like older women, with or without children, or husbands, vote or anything…

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Chuck Schumer, 73, is finally getting around to endorsing Kamala Harris for President.

We have an election to win, and a democracy to save. But once we have our first woman President, maybe our next US barrier to break will be having our first woman Senate Majority Leader.

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Countdown

July 23, 2024

104 days until the eleciton.

But only 4 days until the Paris Olympics start

When once again, Americans become arm-chair experts on sports they see once every four years..

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Rich people’s trash is different.

James Paxton, 8-2,, with a 4.43 ERA, one of the Dodgers’ steadiest pitchers, -only he and Gavin Stone haven’t missed a turn, , was DFA’d by Los Angeles,

Dodgers were paying Paxton $7 million. But hey, at the trade deadline they’ll only probably pick up another few $20-30 million guys and defer their contracts a decade or two.

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Nonpolitical rant.

Worst travel weekend of year; travel agents worked nonstop to get people to destinations after airline computer meltdown. Many airlines compensating travelers for delays w/ future travel vouchers. WHICH CANNOT BE USED BY TRAVEL AGENTS. Only for direct bookings.

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Kamala Harris – “As Attorney General in California, I took on perpetrators of all kinds.

Predators who abused women Fraudsters who ripped off consumers

Cheaters who broke rules for their own gain

Hear me when I say, I know Donald Trump’s type.” #MicDrop

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All you need to know about how well Kamala Harris’s campaign for President has started out is to go to right-wing media websites and see how apoplectic they are.

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Rachel Maddow is reporting that Trump’s camp is second guessing J.D. Vance as V.P pick. Thoughts and prayers.

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So if/when Trump loses the election in November will he blame Don Jr. for pushing J.D. Vance as his running mate?

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Has Donald Trump said yet that if re-elected he will give “the late great Hannibal Lecter” a posthumous Congressional Medal of Honor?

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Now I know Sir Anthony Hopkins is British & can’t vote in USA.

But would be really fun for the man who won an Oscar playing Hannibal Lecter to do a commercial for Kamala Harris… “If I could vote in US, I’d vote for the person who knows I played a FICTIONAL character.”

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Looks like Kamala Harris feels like she has to pick a white male running. mate.

Will GOP call whoever he is a DEI hire?

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Baseball is back Friday!

July 19, 2024

Thursday was one of those nights when many millions of Americans were wishing there was even a boring baseball game on television.

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So if this was the “unity” speech what the heck was in the speech that Donald Trump originally meant to give tonight at the RNC

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If you had “like nobody’s ever seen” on your Trump RNC drinking card Thursday night, I hope you drank lots of water and took a couple aspirin before going to bed.

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Wait, Donald Trump said “Kim Jong Un, I think he misses me”

I guess he’s jealous of the North Korea dictator now being BFF with Putin?

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Howard Dean sums up the chattering class right now re President Biden. “Those who say don’t know, those who know, don’t say.”

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The only doctor who has publicly said anything about Donald Trump’s injury is the man Donald calls “Dr. Ronny Johnson.” And Ronny JACKSON also has said Trump is 6’3″ and 239 pounds.

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Donald Trump says that J.D. Vance reminds him of a young Abraham Lincoln. Where’s Will Smith when you need him? “Take Abraham Lincoln’s name out of your bleeping mouth.”

Since the GOP is now an anti-vax party that pretends COVID is either a nothingburger or a hoax, maybe in the spirit of Joe Biden should show up at the RNC and shake everyone’s hand.

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Needs to be said repeatedly. As much as Trump is profiting off the image of him standing up after being shot at, that act of bravado, before we knew if there were other shooters etc, not only put himself but also Secret Service agents at risk .

Oklahoma Senator MarkWayne Mullin “When you go to McDonald’s and buy three meals you spend $50.” WTF is he buying at McDonald’s?

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ICYMI, JD Vance was asked if a woman who was the victim of rape or incest should be forced to carry a child to term.” “We believe that women and young boys in the womb should have the right to life. Two wrongs don’t make a right.”

Long-winded way of saying “Yes.”

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Also JD Vance actually said last week ” I was talking with/ friend about 1st truly Islamist country that will get a nuclear weapon, maybe Iran, maybe Pakistan already kind of counts? We sort of finally decided maybe it’s actually the U.K., since Labour just took over.” Stay classy.

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A 20 yr old man just tried to assassinate the former President of the United States. So 8th Circuit Court of Appeal, where 9 of 11 judges are GOP, responds today by striking down Minnesota’s ban on 18-20 yr olds openly carrying handguns. Once again four words. Pro Life My Ass.

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Meanwhile the more comes out the worse the lapses sound. President Biden’s dog Commander reportedly bit Secret Service agents 24 times. Think maybe Republicans owe Commander an apology

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RIP Bob Newhart. Always loved this quote: People with a sense of humor tend to be less egocentric and more realistic in their view of the world and more humble in moments of success and less defeated in times of travail.

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Break time

July 17, 2024

Love Logan Webb. But any SF Giants fan knows if he’s going to have a bad inning it would be his first inning. Which (and it’s not hindsight if you say it up front) makes him a bad pitcher to put in an All-Star game.

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MLB commissioner Rob Manfred said baseball may test robot umps with automated balls-strikes for 2025 spring training, but won’t commit to any changes, saying that the league has “technical issues surrounding the definition of the strike zone” that need to be ironed out.

In the meantime, not even a limited challenge system?

Most teams in baseball are within in a few games of a wild card berth this season. What are the odds that one of them misses the postseason due to a missed strikeout or walk?

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National media has tied themselves into knots trying to both sides GOP & Dems.,

And now they are claiming GOP is all about unity and dialing things down.

So here’s election-denier Kari Lake at RNC, who starts out saying she loves everyone. “Except you in the fake news. You guys out there in the fake news have worn out your welcome.”

Very classy Kari.

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President Dark Brandon Biden quoting Harry Truman “I’ve never given anyone hell. I’ve just told the truth and they thought it was hell.”

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Elon Musk says he’s moving Twitter & SpaceX to Texas because new CA law simply prohibits forcing educators to notify families if student’s gender identity changes. He claims move is to “protect children.” In Texas a 10 yr old child rape victim has to carry pregnancy to term.

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And while we’re at it, on Musk’s declaration that he is moving Twitter and SpaceX from California to Texas to protect children – one more word: Uvalde.

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Btw, anyone told Musk that, for starters, 300,000 people in Houston were still without power Tuesday.?

Elon Musk also becomes the latest billionaire spending a fortune (apparently $45 million a month just to one PAC) to elect Trump… Isn’t it time for the media to stop talking about Trump as a populist? It’s ALL about the tax cuts.

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President Biden said since COVID hit US has added 1,000 more billionaires. They’re paying about 8% in taxes. Joe Biden wants them to pay 25%. Many billionaires don’t want to pay a penny more than they’re paying. That’s why they’re buying media and trying to buy this election.

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Going going gone

July 16, 2024

Is the All-Star Game Home Run Derby becoming the equivalent of the NBA slam dunk contest? As in “nobody cares anymore?”

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Although apparently home runs today got out of Globe Life Field faster than Trump dropped his pledge to tone it down

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Reports now that people at Trump rally first pointed out the gunman to law enforcement as early as 30 minutes before he opened fire.

If all those good guys with guns couldn’t stop him, would someone like to explain to me what good it would do to arm teachers?

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Tonight Joe Biden showed us again while he should be re-elected as President. While Lester Holt showed us that he really wants to be the next Chuck Todd.

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Love this line from Mitt Romney in his book “I don’t know that I can disrespect someone more than J. D. Vance.”

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Biden campaign says JD Vance will bend over backwards for Trump. Was “backwards’ really necessary?

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A little talked about detail.

Of all the reasons Donald Trump may have picked J.D. Vance:

Don’t underestimate the fact that at 5’7″ he was the shortest on the short list. So Vance makes Trump look taller.

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J.D. Vance’s wife, Usha Chilukuri Vance, the daughter of East Indian immigrants , seems like a smart impressive woman. She is also a practicing Hindu.

Wonder how she feels about the 10 Commandments in public schools?

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Mitch McConnell stole two SCOTUS seats to set up the ruling for Donald Trump, and rammed through lame-duck judge appointments to get Aileen Cannon as a federal judge. And Mitch was booed at RNC convention for not being crazy right wing enough.

‘As over 300,000 people are still without power in Houston, : Texas Gov. Abbott gives utility company Centerpoint a deadline to fix power outages?

Or what, Abbott will be very very angry?

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At this point I’m putting as much faith in “unnamed senior Democrats” as I am in “big strong men with tears in their eyes.”

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I’ve heard from friends who are lawyers that passing the bar is very very hard.

Not sure though, if Aileen Cannon passed it, how hard can it be?

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If Trump is elected in November, he’s going to nominate more judges like Aileen Cannon.

And if Republicans take the Senate, they’ll confirm them. #VoteBlue

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Like Father like son?

July 3, 2024

ESPN headline “”LeBron James staying with Lakers.”

Okay, wouldn’t it have been a headline only if he hadn’t? Sorry Bronny, you’re on your own.

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At Dodger Stadium, former Los Angeles Dodgers’ closer Eric Gagne throw a strike Wednesday night from the mound on the 20th anniversary of recording his 84th consecutive save.

Now I enjoyed the Gagne-Bonds matchups as much as anyone. But your reminder, Gagne wasn’t the only pitcher Bonds’ faced who was using steroids back in the day. To put it mildly.

MLB, however, wants to pretend if they keep a few people out of the Hall of Fame, the steroid era didn’t exist.

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Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts “We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.”

If the “left” allows it to be…

Like Jan. 6?

Well, I guess hanging Mike Pence wouldn’t have involved actual blood.

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Saw Bill Clinton in 1991. Since then have seen every Democratic president(and former President Carter) plus over 30 candidates speak in person. Biden even in 2009 was lousy speaker. But governing is about doing the job & more importantly, hiring good people to support you. Joe hires & trusts, great people.

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Why there is no satire.

Some in media are questioning why President Biden has his family including his son advising him right now.

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So, yeah, Biden had a bad 90 minutes one night. While it wasn’t televised, Trump apparently fell asleep at his own trial almost every single day. Did a single pundit call for him to drop out?

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Since media now obsessing about President Biden and teleprompters, this would be a good time for that same media to remind Americans that when Trump doesn’t have a teleprompter he starts talking about sharks and windmills and showers..

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Hurricane Beryl is now expected to hit Texas and other states. So will Donald Trump say if he were President he’d just Sharpie it away?

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I like Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre. But can’t be the only one who thinks this would be a good time for C.J. Cregg in the press room.

From a facebook friend, more to add to the reading list for Oklahoma children

Ezekiel 23:20 “There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses.”

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Forget harder questions, for starters I’d love just to hear a reporter ask Donald Trump just to talk about what he thinks happened on the Fourth of July.

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‘m a single issue voter in 2024

And that issue is saving democracy.

#WeBackBidenHarris

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Stars of the show

July 2, 2024

Top story on ESPN.com tonight –

WNBA All-Star Roster confirmed – Snubs and top questions:

Okay, before this year how many casual sports fan even knew the WNBA even had an All-Star game

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Caitlin Clark is good at basketball.

The defending WNBA champs Las Vegas Aces are VERY good at basketball.

The Aces blew open a close game today in Las Vegas in the 4th quarter and won 88-69.

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For those feeling discouraged about voting in November, and thinking it doesn’t matter.

If our votes didn’t matter so much GOP wouldn’t be trying so hard to stop Democrats from voting.

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Buried lede from NY Times today in a story about possible GOP VP candidates. “Mr. Trump has no public events this week.” So uh, shouldn’t it be a headline about how maybe the debate tired him out too much, and Donald just doesn’t have the stamina he used to??

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Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre is asked at White House Press Conference “You might not want to answer this, but”Does Biden have Alzheimer’s, any form of dementia or a degenerative illness that causes lapses?

“It’s a no. And I hope you’re asking the other guy the same exact question.””

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Nancy Pelosi recommended this morning that President Biden sit down for interviews with “serious journalists.” One thing after these last few days that I would like to ask the our great Speaker Emeritus – just how many “serious” MSM journalists do we have left?


In all seriousness, imagine if SCOTUS ruled that a President was basically a King with Bill Clinton in the White House. Or Barack Obama. Republicans would be calling for burning the Supreme Court building down.

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Why there is no satire.

Donald Trump Jr. is reposting a Vanity Fair story of a woman who worked as babysitter for RFK Jr. in late 1990s and who has now come forward with allegations of sexual assault. So does he think his dad should pick RFK Jr as a running mate?

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CNN and other MSM attacking President Biden and seem gleeful about the idea of pushing him out over the debate…. One thing they don’t say: if Joe did step down, it would take them less than 24 hours to start attacking Kamala Harris or whoever else became Democratic nominee.

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So GOP has ordered the Bible in every classroom in Oklahoma.

Okay kids, check out Genesis 19:30-35 “That night they got their father to drink wine, and the older daughter went in and slept with him….. Both of Lot’s daughters became pregnant by their father.”

Or this – Genesis 19:7-8, Lot “I beg you, my brothers, do not act so wickedly. Behold, I have two daughters who have not known man; let me bring them out to you, and do to them as you please; only do nothing to these men, for they have come under the shelter of my roof.”

And2 Samuel 11 King David saw a woman bathing. The woman was very beautiful…Bathsheba the wife of Uriah.  David sent messengers to get her. She came to him, and he slept with her. The woman conceived and sent word to David, saying, “I am pregnant.” (And then he sent her husband to get killed in battle.)

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Hey media. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed bill in April that prevents local governments from requiring heat-exposure protections for workers.

Why don’t you ask Donald Trump if he agrees with President Biden- who is ordering heat protection for workers, or Deathsantis?


Stormy Daniels to Rachel Maddow: “I’m not a hero, I just told the truth.

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Monday mourning

July 2, 2024

Monday – Another day without a starting pitcher named for the SF Giants, now missing most of their starting rotation on the IL.

Today they had the excuse of an off day

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Happy Canada Day to our neighbors to the north. Have to figure Canadians were thrilled that government offices were closed today so they weren’t overloaded with questions from Americans about immigration.

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CNN’s Jake Tapper just said Joe Biden should have 2 hour press conference to prove his fitness to be President with freewheeling & no doubt some hostile questions.

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Uh, Tapper just presided over 90 minute debate where he didn’t challenge/question Trump on even the most egregious lies.

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Not that it will change anything now but would really love an apology from EVERYONE who in 2016 said there was no difference between voting for Hillary Clinton and voting for Donald Trump. Yes, I am talking to you hardcore Bernie supporters.

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CNN is actually bragging about their debate “An unprecedented debate as only CNN could do it.” This is like Norfolk Southern bragging about their Ohio train wreck.

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Media – Bad debate night means Joe Biden is unqualified to be president. Also media: Donald Trump ranting about windmill cancer & showers & sharks & saying Liz Cheney is guilty of treason is just a shrug. Time to ask if MSM has officially joined the cult?

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I support President BIden. He has been a good president & he is a decent man.

But has it occurred to GOP & SCOTUS that if somehow they get Joe to step down, whoever replaces him as the Democratic nominee might take a much less restrained view of absolute Presidential immunity?

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As awful as today’s SCOTUS decision was, how many people may finally be shocked out of their complacency by Trump’s nonstop ranting about what he intends to do with unlimited power and who he intends to go after.

Anyone who knows anything about history, or has ever dealt with a two year old, knows that it’s not a good idea to give a tyrant free reign.

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Russia has 2-term limits for President.

Putin has been in power for over 20 years & Vlad has adjusted rules to keep himself in power through 2036. It’s now ILLEGAL to vote against him

Anyone think Trump if elected in 2024 won’t try to do same in US?

This SCOTUS sure wouldn’t stop him.

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