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Missed chances

January 31, 2024

Headline “Lions’ Dan Campbell under fire after gutsy fourth-down decisions fail. Detroit coach’s go-for-broke mentality cost his team in Sunday’s 34-31 loss to SF 49ers.” Uh, I don’t remember Campbell dropping easy catches and fumbling, and not downing great punt at the one.

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Buried lede on the story about the young Russian figure staker who helped her team win gold in 2022. but has now been disqualified, and served with four-year ban.

“Valieva will be ineligible to compete until December 2025, roughly two months BEFORE the 2026 Winter Olympics are scheduled to begin in Milan.”

We can do this all over again. As the US now gets the gold medal for 2022.. But isn’t it all Olympians dream to get their medals over 2 years after the games?

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Maybe President Biden should do a rally in Florida with both Taylor Swift and Mickey Mouse. GOP heads would explode.

Hey Velveeta Voldemort. Even your January 6 supporting buddy Senator MIKE LEE loves Taylor Swift. Back in Senate hearing into Ticketmaster’s monopoly practices he was quoting Swift songs, and saying how his daughter said if he didn’t do something she’d call Senator Klobuchar herself.

Donald, you’re gonna lose this battle worse than DeSantis lost and is losing to Disney.

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GOP Senator James Lankford is anti-choice, anti-voting rights, pro-Trump. But he said “GOP 4 months ago would not give funding for Ukraine, Israel, & the border bc we demanded changes in policy…now a few months later we’re like, “oh, just kidding.” So for that they censure him.

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Plenty of time to investigate how a drone was able to kill 3 American troops in Jordan. But some in GOP are already trying to blame Biden.

Has it occurred to them Tommy Tuberville’s nine month hold on military promotions sure didn’t help US readiness?

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Governor Tim Walz is doing a great job for Minnesota Senators Amy Klobuchar & Tina Smith are doing great job for Minnesota & Americans across country. Dean Phillips is missing votes for Minnesota & running a useless vanity campaign. Why is media giving HIM nonstop publicity?

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Although Taylor Swift is exactly Velveeta Voldemort’s type. Tall, slender, pretty, blonde. Like his first two wives, his daughter, E.Jean Carroll back in the day. Have to assume his hatred for her is partly personal, she’s made it very clear she finds him unattractive.

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Tina Fey and Amy Poehler were in SF and Oakland this weekend. As reported by Gabe Lehman of SFGate, this great line from Poelher about Donald’s $83 million judgment for defaming E. Jean Carroll

” We finally found something Trump won’t do for money: Shut the f—k up,”

Trump likes to brag of great relationships w/ Kim Jong Un, Putin, Orban, etc. If one of his dictator buddies let slip privately he knew of planned 2024 terrorist attack against USA what do we think Donald would do? Tell President Biden? Or let it happen so he could blame Joe?

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If Fire Chief were an elected office and today’s GOP were firefighters, they’d show up with your house ablaze and say “We’re going to let it burn until you vote for our guy.”

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At this point is there ANY good bipartisan deal that Congress could negotiate that Trump wouldn’t try to sabotage?

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Standing by her man

January 25, 2024

Approaching another NFL playoff weekend where Taylor Swift will get all sorts of hate for coverage media gives her supporting her boyfriend…

First, she’s not asking for coverage.

Second, imagine if she stayed home? Then haters would complain she didn’t really care about Kelce.

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So are some of these remaining star MLB free agents going to sign with a team by Spring Training? Or are they still hoping for an offer from the NL All-Star Dodgers?

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After winning the national championship with Michigan, Jim Harbaugh is leaving to be head coach of the Los Angeles Chargers. Now the question, with their coach gone, will the Wolverines still end up on probation or face a bowl ban?

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Give me a break on claim he’ll blacklist Nikki Haley donors. Somehow Trump got hold of our company e-mail list & I get about half dozen fundraising emails from him a DAY on my work email. He’ll take money from anyone. Hell, Velveeta Voldemort will beg for money from anyone.

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Mitch McConnell saying GOP won’t make deals on immigration, or maybe ANYTHING important because Trump tells them not to. Democrats should be running this in ads nonstop. Americans deserve leaders who govern, not those who refuse to do their jobs for fear of their loser leader.

Trump pressuring Senate GOP to reject ANY immigration deal: “If someone’s running for Pres. & trying to undermine governance, that’s bad,” LA Sen.Bill Cassidy, who is hardly a liberal:

Cassidy adds “Trying to defeat legislation, all in name of running for office? That’s irresponsible.”

Why is Bill a lone voice in GOP?

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Two smaller Washington Post headlines Wednesday:

– “Obamacare enrollment hits record level as Trump vows repeal.”

“Biden endorsed by United Auto Workers, shoring up union vote in automaking swing states.” Both BFD.

And yet both are below stories about Trump & Haley. #DoBetterMedia

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Another Washington Post headline – “Republican primary is over. Get ready for long, grim rematch.” Uh, Biden won pretty easily as New Hampshire write-in candidate.

Even w/ some liberals voting for Haley against Trump. Seems like Dems aren’t grim about Joe running for re-election at all.

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Bridget Ziegler, whose husband resigned as GOP chair after revelations about their 3-way sexual encounter, returned to DeSantis’s Disney Oversight board Imagining her now: ”Don’t want movies my children watch while I’m having sex w/ another woman to indicate being LGTBQ is ok.”

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Jon Stewart is returning to the Daily Show on Mondays only through the 2024 elections. Between Jon and Rachel Maddow think it’s now time for #TGIM – Thank God It’s Monday!

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Nothing personal but at this point I don’t give a flying fig newton who Susan Collins endorses in 2024.

Dean Phillips tweeted.

“A little known Congressman from Minnesota built a scrappy campaign with a passionate team just 10 weeks ago, and tonight earned 21% against an incumbent President with a 50 year head-start and the full force of a party behind him.”

Spare me. Little known member of Congress from Minnesota who did something that MATTERED in New Hampshire was Amy Klobuchar in 2020. Amy became a top Biden surrogate on campaign trail & powerful accomplished ally in Senate Dean, for all recent media attention you’ve done nothing!

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Oh father…

January 22, 2024

As the California Senate debate happened tonight..

Tonight Steve Garvey wouldn’t say if he’d vote for Biden or Trump.

So is he lying?

Stupid?

Or hit on the head with two many foul balls?

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Quotes from Steve Garvey in 1989 when he got 2 women pregnant & marrried a 3rd.

“I’ll live up to my moral obligations, which I feel strongly about because I’m Christian…”

“In both cases, I was led to believe that I wasn’t responsible for birth control.”

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Maybe time to revive this 35 year old joke based in fact:

What are the 3 most common questions asked in a Lamaze classwaiting room.

1. Is this your first?

2.When are you due?

3.Aren’t you Steve Garvey?

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Here’s the link for those who may have forgotten or are too young…

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-02-24-sp-332-story.html


So is Taylor Swift’s next song gonna be “wide right?”

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In Florida, GOP has been caught using ghost candidates in state races – vaguely progressive description for those “tired of politics as usual.” In some close 2020 races a “ghost” not campaigning took enough votes to give GOP win. Third parties don’t win, they spoil.

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Meanwhile – Now ex Presidential candidate Ron DeSantis was polling at best near 5% in New Hampshire. To put that in perspective, in NH in 2020, Ron wouldn’t have beaten top 5 Democrats Bernie Sanders, Pete Buttigieg, Amy Klobuchar, Liz Warren or Joe Biden. He’d have about tied Tom Steyer.

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NY Times headline “The Emasculation of Ron DeSantis by the Bully Donald Trump.” Uh, that implies that DeSantis was any sort of a real man before Trump started attacking him.

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Many Democrats dropped out of 2022 race and endorsed Joe Biden, but remained popular in their home states. A few improved their national profile. Deathsantis did neither. He’s term-limited out but appears to have squandered what good will he had even with many GOP in Florida.

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On the 51st anniversary of Roe v. Wade, can anyone imagine if somehow if SCOTUS now decided what state a man lived in affected his ability legally to procure Viagra?

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Winners and losers

January 21, 2024

Stanford’s Tara VanDerveer earns 1,202nd victory to tie Mike Krzyzewski’s record

This should be a bigger story. Hoping it will be when Tara breaks the record.

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WTF ESPN? This headline “Iowa’s Clark- fan collide after Ohio States upset win.”

Uh, Ohio State fans stormed the court after their upset win and one of them crashed into Caitlin Clark, knocking her to the ground in pain. Fortunately she says she’s not injured but it was “kind of scary.”

I know women’s college basketball gets short shift to the men’s game on many things, but security shouldn’t be one of them.

(and hey, I get storming the court in excitement, but players should have been able to leave the court first.)

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Ron Deathsantis has suspended his campaign and endorsed Donald Trump

” Uh, the primaries aren’t close to over. Shouldn’t Ron be forced to take his campaign to term?

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Asked if she would vow not to be Trump’s VP, Nikki Haley said yesterday being vice president is “off the table.” “Off the table” isn’t “Yes.”

And “I don’t want to be anyone’s vice president.” Of course if he asks she’ll say she didn’t want it but will do for good of country.

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Tim Scott and Nikki Haley still want to take all our rights away. They just would do it with a nice smile.

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Ron DeSantis now saying that Trump voters in Iowa had told him they would support him in four years. ‘They were coming up to me saying, “We want you in 2028, we love you, man,” Big strong men with tears in their eyes?

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Give whoever runs Joe Biden’s twitter account a raise.

This Tweet today “I don’t agree with Nikki Haley on everything, but we agree on this much: She is not Nancy Pelosi.”

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Wow while rambling about January 6th, a confused Trump repeatedly blamed Nikki Haley for January 6th and says Halely (not Nancy Pelosi) was in charge of security for the Capitol.

President Biden was a childhood stutterer and has made verbal gaffes since he was a young man. He usually, however, corrects himse. But imagine if Joe Biden had said something half as insane about January 6.·

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Trump loves to praise January 6 insurrectionists as “peaceful protesters.

But Donald kicked a man who called him a dictator out of his rally last night & would have had him locked up if he could. Velveeta Voldemort might be thinnest skinned man US has ever had in White House

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Apparently Vladimir Putin now is questioning whether Russia should take back Alaska? Lisa Murkowski has a backbone, Dan Sullivan maybe. Would like to see either of them asked about this. And if they endorse Putin’s puppet?

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Three years ago this weekend, Inauguration morning. Ready for repeat in 2025. Except Deb Fischeras new ranking member of the Senate Rules committee, will be walking next to Amy Klobuchar up the Capitol steps.

(And another call out to retired Senator Roy Blunt. Many Republicans would not have been so gracious in helping Biden’s inauguration happen. There were serious doubts between COVID and after January 6 as to whether it could happen publicly.)

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Cold comfort

January 17, 2024

Jerry Jones is a Trump supporter. Has the Cowboys owner filed to overturn the score of the Dallas game against the Green Bay Packers yet?

Donald Trump got 56,260 total votes Monday night in Iowa.

To put this in perspective, 70,040 fans showed up in worse conditions in Buffalo for a football game. #BillsMafia

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Rachel Maddow is a Stanford University graduate with a PhD from Oxford. Sean Hannity didn’t graduate from NYU and has an honorary degree from Liberty University. And Hannity called Maddow a “make believe journalist.” Wow. Is Sean auditioning to host SNL?

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Nikki Haley, 3rd in Iowa, pulled out of next GOP debate next week with Ron DeSantis, saying her next debate will only be with Donald Trump or with Joe Biden

Ron DeSantis fired back. “The reality is that she is not running for the nomination, she’s running to be Trump’s VP.”

I cannot stand DeSantis, but even a stopped clock…

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Meanwhile Shouldn’t Dean Phillips’ 15 minutes be over? #DropOutDean

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And in Florida, where Governor DeSants hasn’t been for most of the last year, Democrat Tom Keen flipped what had been a Republican seat in Central Florida in a special election held Tuesday for state House District 35. 

Wait, what? Just saw this tonight. “Bipartisan tax deal to expand child tax credit.” From Dem Sen. Ron Wyden & GOP Rep. Jason Smith -“Tax Relief for American Families & Workers Act of 2024.”” Seems like much bigger deal than circus in Iowa.

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Love local newspapers, but some papers we only want short-term, for vacations, politics, sports, etc. Wish there was option, $5-10-25 dollars or so to sign up for month, without automatic renewal which can be maddening.. I for one would be happy to give local paper that money.

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Number$ game

January 12, 2024

NFL Playoffs don’t start until this weekend and many fans who will be unable to watch the game are angry and wondering how the NFL could have possibly sold the Dolphins-Chiefs game to Peacock.

Uh, if the NFL thought they could get away with in they’d put all the playoffs on pay per view!

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Of all three major football coaches who suddenly exited this week, Nick Saban, Pete Carroll and Bill Belichick, who’d have guessed without looking it up that Belichick, 71, was the youngest..

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Politico headline “Dems rip Biden for launching Houthi strikes without congressional approval.

Uh, so far what I’ve seen is a few far-left Democrats ripping Biden. Not Democrats in general. Thinking most of them support our President.

But with Congress off for MLK weekend, media needs clickbait.

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Almost all polls show Trump has huge lead & his GOP base/cult won’t vote for anyone else, even if he’s convicted & jailed. This doesn’t stop national media from nonstop GOP primary coverage while ignoring Joe Biden & Democrats’ real accomplishments.

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Understand why Fox News etc don’t say it. But why aren’t CNN, ABC, CBS etc covering Hunter Biden story saying this simple sentence” “Hunter Biden is being held in contempt only because he wants to testify to the House not under cover of darkness but publicly on the record.”

(apparently MSNBC is saying it. Finally)

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As a U.S. led coalition has struck Iran-backed Houthi militants in Yemen, one thought: I am SO glad President Biden is our Commander in Chief now.

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So Hunter Biden paid back all his back taxes, but he is facing felony charges. Republicans want him locked up. Donald Trump brags about avoiding taxes and the Trump Corp was found guilty on fraud charges. Republicans want him back in the White House.

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There are so many people now, not just politicians, but election workers, judges, lawyers, etc who need security because Donald Trump has attacked them with vitriol and lies. How long until one of Velveeta Voldemort’s outbursts gets someone killed?

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It’s not just that GOP has a razor thin majority in the House, it’s that they are letting a handful of right-wing crazies from deep red districts run the country.

Want change? Or just sanity? Vote Blue in every 2024 election!

(Not that Democrats don’t have crazies, but they aren’t running the party.)

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