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Devil’s bargain

November 4, 2024

As a hard core sports fan who cares about politics I have said many times I’d rather have my team lose than lose an election. But okay new Orleans Saints, his is ridiculous. #WhoDat

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ESPN headline “Raiders, at league-worst 2-7 fire OC, two others.

Your move, Saints. #FireDennisAllen

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Herschel Walker, campaigning todayIt stops on Tuesday when we vote for my friend and your friend Donald Trump Jr… Donald Trump. Jonald J. Trump

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I know officially you can’t diagnose CTE while someone is still alive but….

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Amy Klobuchar summed it up for those of us Democrats who’ve thought all along we’d win… but “As someone said, I’m nauseously optimistic.”

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As Iowa appears to be heating up, could Harris Walz team get Pete Buttigieg & Amy Klobuchar to return to the state together for last-minute joint rally? Yes, they’re friends now. But imagine the ratings -if only from those remembering a few debates & expecting a cage match.

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Looking at the gender gap in ALL polls, does anyone doubt that if Trump were to be elected on Tuesday, he’d make it a priority to overturn the 19th Amendment?

It’s already begun. Last night on SNL Kamala Harris looked happy and relaxed. Trump can’t remember what state he’s in… and he’s saying he should have never left. He’s not even going to be invited back to the White House for an ex-Presidents event.

So MAGA are clutching their pearls over Kamala Harris on SNL for a few minutes, when Fox News is basically a Trump informercial every night?

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All you need to know about how great Kamala Harris’s SNL appearance tonight was is to go to right wing websites- including Fox News – and see how big mad they are about it.

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Has Trump claimed yet that SNL begged him to appear on their show last night?

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And with all the attention on Kamala many missed this candidate for SNL line of the night

When Donald Trump’ was having microphone issues… “Last time I hated a Mic this much I tried to have him killed.”

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“The last temptation is the greatest treason, to do the right thing for the wrong reason.” T. S. Eliot Whatever the reason, whether it’s conscience or $$,

@nytimes finally not both sidesing our choice on November 5. “Time to vote. Donald Trump is a threat to democracy — a case that New York Times editorial board has made repeatedly. Here’s why, in 110 words.

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Trump’s fundraising emails lately include a lot of “Two for the price of one” MAGA hats. Translation, he can’t give them away.

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Californian running for US Senate from Wisconsin Eric Hoyde doesn’t think kids should be able to stay on parents’ insurance til they’re 26

. Instead they should get jobs from rich parents? In 1987, just after graduating from college, Hovde & his dad, Donald, (who Reagan put on Fed Home Loan Bank Board) launched Hovde Financial..

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In 2016 Trump won PA by 46,435 votes He won WI by 22,177 votes He won MI by 10,704 votes About 79,000 votes total. Fewer than fit in some football stadiums. Don’t let ANYONE tell you your vote doesn’t matter.

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On November 5, we can elect a President who not only knows that Hannibal Lecter is a fictional character… but who knows that the real hero of that movie is Clarisse!

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Whatever happens Tuesday we will tell our children and grandchildren that we voted in the election with the biggest gender gap in history.

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Taking sides

October 28, 2024

Gregg Popovich -calling out Republcans who support Trump now “They’ve called him xenophob, a religious bigot, a racist,, unfit for office, on and on and on. Their words ― but they’re right there with him,”

“Do they not know that they have children and grandchildren, probably, that are gonna lose freedom if this guy is elected? I’m not talking about a policy, I’m talking about the idea of our country.”

Some ask why I am a San Antonio Spurs fan. I ask. “How can you not be?”

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Washington Comannders QB Jayden WIlliams threw a great “Hail Mary to win the game aganst the Bears today as time expired. A clean catch too.. (Google it if you haven’t seen it.

Chicago CB Tyrique Stevenson could be seen taunting fans seconds before— and he was late covering the play.

Mean b*tch karma hates bad sports.

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Haven’t been an SF 49ers fan since Eddie DeBartolo’s rape accusation and settlement . But I remember the uproad before 2019 NFL. draft when Bosa’s racist and homophobic social media posts emerged… He “apologized” as he knew SF wanted to draft him.

Now today after the 49ers beat the truly bad Dallas Cowboys, Bosa nterrupted and photobombed Brock Purdy’s post game interview with his MAGA hate show support for Trump.

On the same day Trump headlined one of the most racist rallies of the year in Madison Square Garden.

Will never root for the Cowboys. But Bosa doesn’t have a ring. And hope he never gets one.

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Puerto Rico is a beautiful island full of good American people Madison Square Garden today was an island of garbage.

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Credit where credit is due:

NY Times got a headlne right “Racist Remarks and Insults Mark Trump’s Madison Square Garden Rally.”

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Eric Adams defending Donald Trump tells you all you need to know about Eric Adams.

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Senator Lisa Murkowski from Alaska says she will not vote for Harris nor Trump.
“I want to vote for somebody and not against someone…I am going to be voting for someone and hopefully I will feel good about that, even knowing that that individual probably is not going to be in the winner’s column.”

So disappointing. Lisa has been one of the few Republicans I admire. So disappointed. Alaska elected her to make tough choices, and this one is not hard.

It’s not a dating app. It’s not even “do you wish there were other choices?” There is one choice. Democracy or dictatorship.

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100%. Voting in 2024 makes me think of Joni Mitchell’s Big Yellow Taxi “Don’t it always seem to go that you don’t know what you’ve gotten until it’s gone …”

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Decisions decisions

October 27, 2024

Expanded College Football Playoffs, were almost certainly designed to get more SEC teams into college football’s postseason. Or at least SEC and Big Ten plus top former Pac 12 schools.

Now you have undefeated BYU, Pittsburgh and Indiana.

.Oops. Karma and unintended consequences are good friends.

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So if you’re not a fan of either team in World Series what a dilemma?

Do you root for a sweep to make the revenue less for MLB which refuses to level the playing field?

Or do you decide as an SF Giants fan that Yankees in six is still the better outcome.

It’s not that the Washington Post endorsement was going to change many minds. It’s that candidate Trump told Bezos not to publish it and Jeff said “yes, sir.”

Imagine what Bezos will do if Trump becomes President again.

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SF Chronicle nailed it. “Timing of both papers’ decisions clearly indicates that it wasn’t the idea of endorsing a candidate that the publishers rejected, it was the plans to back Harris that prompted both papers’ sudden and surprising stances. If they’re worried about retaliation over a Harris endorsement from a future President Donald Trump, then saying so would be a reader service in itself. Or, if the reason behind the non-endorsements is that these owners actually do support Trump and want to deny Harris any advantage an endorsement might provide, they should have the courage to say so clearly.”

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They’re going to get rid of cows?” On top of everything else Dementia Donald’s rallies are turning into a bad sequel to Twister.

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Also has anyone noticed – even when the Los Angeles Times and Washington Post don’t endorse her, Kamala doesn’t threaten to put them out of business?

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Imagine if you were hiring for a job & you checked references with the candidate’s former coworkers; many of them told you he was awful and begged you “Please hire someone else.” And yet some Americans are still thinking they’d hire that guy for the most important job in USA

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Donald Trump fundraising email is ranting about “Kamala’s D-List Celebrity Rally.” Aww… someone is jealous. Bless his heart.

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Real steals

October 25, 2024

New Orleans Saints fans would like to welcome the Minnesota Vikings to the “scr*wed by the refs in favor of the Los Angeles Rams club.”

Am a San Antonio Spurs fan but it still feels really weird to see Klay Thompson play for the Dallas Mavericks.

Sometimes it’s hard to understand why Donald Trump is campaigning in various locations. Other times it’s easy. He ended up tonight in Las Vegas. So he could bill US Taxpayers inflated prices for Secret Service agents who had to stay at his Trump hotel in town.

Some of Trump’s most fervent supporters are now going after Bruce Springsteen and Taylor Swift. Both Bruce and Taylor will continue to have the ability to sell out concerts many times over. Maybe more so as some will pay more for a MAGA free zone.

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Hillary Clinton: “How we can be back here even entertaining the idea that someone who frankly makes Nixon looks like a lesser threat ?”

A phrase I never thought I’d say. Nixon WAS a lesser threat.

At a Vance Town Hall in Detroit, Trump actually called in to ask JD Vance: ‘How Brilliant Is Donald Trump?’

Would the wrong answer have gotten JD on the “to be hanged list?”

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As we learn more about the Trump supporter arrested for shooting a local Democratic office in Phoenix Arizona, three times – and allegedly planning a “mass casualty event” wondered how Fox News was spinning the story.

Surprise, ,they aren’t covering it. At all.

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Eric Hovde, a Laguna CA businessman running for U.S. Senate in Wisconsin, appeared on Fox News with the back ground of the Minneapolis Minnesota skyline.

Maybe someone should send Hovde a Minnesota Vikings jersey and send him out to campaig in Wisconsin.. That would be must see TV.

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Didn’t know that much about Independent Nebraska Senate candidate Dan Osborn But how do you not love someone quoting Robin Williams tonight on The Last Word “Politicians should be wearing NASCAR jackets with patches of their sponsors so we know how they’re going to vote

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Trump says if he is reelected he would fire special prosecutor Jack Smith “in two seconds.” So here’s Donald’s message to sum up: Vote for me so I can stay out of prison.

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J.D. Vance says everything John Kelly says about Trump “is not true.”

Uh, J.D. Vance now says many things he himself said about Trump are not true.

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As President Biden plans Friday to apologize for Indian boarding schools where hundreds of children died…. reminder of yet another reason to vote Harris Walz. Minnesota Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan would, if Walz becomes VP, be the first Native American Governor of a US State.

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Broken

October 23, 2024

Am a New Orleans Saints fan but also a San Antonio Spurs fan so don’t pay that much attention to the NBA Pelicans.

But long time Spurs star Dejounte Murray (who spent two years with the Atlanta Hawks) just had his season opening with the Pelicans. And fractured his hand. Murray will be out for a while.

Saints after a 2-0 start now have what feels like about half their starters injured.

Maybe New Orleans teams need to hire a voodoo queen?

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MLB wants to find Tampa Bay Rays a temporary home near Tampa at least the start of the 2025 season if roof damage to Tropicana Field from Hurricane Milton cannot be repaired in time.

Well, MLB already okayed the A’s playing in a minor league stadium, what’s one more tea

(Sadly, for we old fans of Les Expos, Montreal MIGHT have been an option. But the stadium is being renovated.)

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From Marc Ragovin :”In a newly unsealed recording, Stormy Daniels can be heard telling Donald Trump: “I knew Arnold Palmer. I played golf with Arnold Palmer. And you sir, are no Arnold Palmer.”

Former supposed moderate Republican Governor Chris Sinunu is smart enough not to be believe lie he is telling.which is that we we know how Trump would govern in his second term because we saw his first term

1. In his first term Trump had guardrails, people like John Kelly.

2. In his first term Trump was 70, now he’s a rapidly aging 78.

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Important reminder. Tonight’s CNN Town Hall with Kamala Harris was intended to be a second debate. But Donald Trump was too afraid or exhausted to show up.

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Four-star general leading U.S. Southern Command, responsible for American military operations in Central America, South America & Caribbean. Homeland Security Secretary CHOSEN by Trump who then hired him as Chief of State. That’s John Kelly. I’ll take his word over Donald’s.

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Your reminder, as Trump now calls FOUR STAR GENERAL John Kelly a “low-life,” that Donald as President not only hired him as his Department of Homeland Security Secretary, he then hired him as Chief of Staff.

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A dishonest ad campaign featuring three supposedly Jewish women voting for Trump deliberately mispronounces Kamala Harris’s name. It’s comma-la. They know this. No lie too small.

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Just what would it take for some of these so-called reasonable Republicans – Haley, Sinunu, Youngkin, etc – to switch their votes from Trump?

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Not even close

October 21, 2024

So after the Dodger -Yankees World Series, will the losing team go to a $500 million payroll this offseason to try win in 2025?

(Cleveland Guardians 2024 payroll $106,000,000. New York Yankees 2024 salaries for Aaron Judge, Juan Soto and Giancarlo Stanton, $103,000,000 And the Yankees have a lower overall payroll than the Mets and Dodgers, who are both over $300,000,000. MLB billionaire boys of summer club.)

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On top of all the other reasons to dislike USC football, the Trojans were the primary movers to destroy the Pac 12 by leaving for the Big 10. 3-4 start couldn’t happen to a nicer team.

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Tennessee, now 6-1, just upset Alabama, now 5-2 So how long until SEC starts talking about 2 or even 3 loss teams making the CFB playoffs?

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Cleveland Browns QB Deshaun Watson signed a five year deal with the Cleveland Browns in 2022, despite an 11-game suspension, after more than two dozen women accused him of sexual assault and inappropriate conduct during massage sessions.

And today he may have suffered a season-ending Achilles injury.

If you can’t say anything nice….

No comment.

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Antonio Brown appeared at Trump’s PA rally Saturday. Brown has been arrested multiple times on charges including sexual assault & domestic violence, says he has CTE and has declared bankruptcy. Yep, a perfect Donald surrogate.

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None of the six NLCS games between the Mets and the Dodgers was closer than 4 runs. Three of the Dodgers four wins were by 8 or more., and tonight’s Los Angeles series clincher was 10-5

Not sure about ratings yet, but the WNBA final, which went to OT, was a much better game.

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RIP. Phillp Zimbardo, 91. A fascinating man I was lucky enough to take a class from back in the day.

His prison experiment probably did as much as anything in the United States in my lifetime to show us how good people can be indoctrinated to do bad things.

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Trump showed up to watch Aaron Rodgers play tonight, a few months after Rodgers posted a picture of them together. And the Jets QB, despite being reunited with his former favorite receiver Davante Adams, had one of his worst games of 2024. Almost as if #ETTD

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Actual Trump fundraising email. “I just left McDonald’s. That was fun! I am first & only 2024 presidential nominee to work at McDonald’s.” Yet another lie.

Leaving aside that the restaurant was closed for him and all the “customers” were fake, Donald is obsessed with Kamala Harris having worked at McDonalds.

Sometimes dementia patients fixate on the weirdest things.

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Dn’t think Fox News viewers live in an alternate reality? This is top Fox headline tonight ” “Trump echoes Reagan in swing state as workers take rally stage to praise ‘greatest president’” Not a word about Donald discussing Arnold Palmer’s junk, for starters.

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Mitch McConnell to Politico “Whatever I may have said about President Trump pales in comparison to what JD Vance, Lindsey Graham,& others have said about him, but we are all on the same team now.” Siri, what is a self-own?

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Last night Fox News actually cut away from Trump’s rally and switched to Kamala Harris’s rally. Maybe it’s even occuring to Fox News that Kamala brings them better ratings than Trump, whose rants are increasingly boring

Another Fox News alternate reality headline. “Trump has survived multiple assassination attempts & continues to attend football games.” Fixed it “Trump ducks MSM interviews but demands $$$ Secret Service projection for photo ops at games where he comes late & leaves early.”

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Not close

October 16, 2024

Well, if you’re not watching the Dodgers -Mets NLCS because you don’t really like either team (or don’t like the idea of $300 million plus payrolls,) you haven’t exactly missed close exiting baseball games.

(Dodgers win 9-0 and 8-0, Mets win 7-3)

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Meanwhile, I’m a Las Vegas Aces fan, but if you gave up watching the WNBA when Caitlin Clark’s Indiana Fever were eliminated, you’re really missing out!

(Sabrina Ionescu won the game for NY Liberty against the Minnesota Lynx with a shot that would have made Clark, or Steph Curry, proud.)

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In Trump world, a woman or girl’s death only warrants “Say Her Name” if she is murdered by an undocumented immigrant.

But if a woman like Amber Thurman dies because Trump SCOTUS nominees overturned abortion rights, then it’s a joking matter.

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There is no bottom.

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Since Stormy Daniels is back in the news with an another alleged Trump attempt to pay her hush money, what could Donald possibly care now about her not sharing?

Pictures?

One of the stupidest arguments defending almost any Trump threat.

“He didn’t do ‘fill-in-the-blank” his 1st term, why would anyone think he’d do it in a 2nd”

Because in his 1st term Trump had sane people to stop him. And Donald didn’t have a slavish SCOTUS to make him a king.

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Nancy Mace on CNN. “To my knowledge no one in Ohio has been threatened because of something Trump has said… I haven’t seen that.” Even Stevie Wonder could see that Haitian legal immigrants have been threatened in Ohio because of Trump.

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Kamala Harris ‘s best line with Fox News. “This is a democracy. And the President of the United States should be able to handle criticism without saying he’d lock people up for doing it.”

After Kamala Harris’s strong interview with Bret Baier, how long until NY Times attacks Kamala Harris for daring to answer Fox News questions with complete sentences and no music?

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From the NY Times… “Three billionaires — Elon Musk, Miriam Adelson and Dick Uihlein — put a combined $220 million into groups supporting former President Donald J. Trump in July, August and September,” Yeah, Don’s a real man of the people.

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An old but perhaps apocryphal story of Henry VIII. When his third wife Jane Seymour was in labor with their son Edward, doctors told him they might be only able to save her or the baby. His response “The child, the child, other wives can easily be found.

Sound familiar?

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Texas Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett is a rock star.

“Everyone has an issue. If I have you for 5 seconds, I’d say, whatever your most important issue is, google Project 2025 and see what it says about it. If you like what Project 2025 says, vote for the Orange one. If not, vote for Harris-Walz.”

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Dear American women.

If you don’t think you have time to vote this November, then you certainly don’t have time to plan an escape trip out of your state for critical reproductive care.

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Money talks, and walks, and hits.

October 16, 2024

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!

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A day late

October 16, 2024

9-0 for the Los Angeles Dodgers over the NY Mets in game to some makes the NLCS feel like it’s over.

Remembering when a certain series felt like it was over after a 16-4 game.

Yep, game five, World Series. SF Giants vs the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim in 2002.

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Meanwhile, David McCormick, who is running for US Senate in Pennsylvania while living in oonnecticut, went to an NFL tailgate ih Philadelphia. Then posted pictures talking about cheering on … the Steelers.

This is like going to a fundraiser Sunday in San Francisco and talking about how you were rooting tonight for the Dodgers.
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Sure looking like it may have been not that the New Orleans Saints were that good. But that the Dallas Cowboys are that bad. #WhoDat

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Trump scary quote getting attention about “people from within, we have some very bad people, sick people, radical left lunatics. And it should be easily handled by National Guard, or if really necessary, by the military,”

Buts even scarier. Who does he single out? “thing that’s tougher to handle are these lunatics that we have inside, like Adam Schiff.”

Whatever you think of Schiff, even most Republicans wouldn’t call him a “radical left lunatic.”

NY Times poll of Latino voters including immigrants found many don’t believe Trump is referring to people like them when he talks about immigrants. Got news for them; only immigrants safe under Trump’s proposed deportations are white men & beautiful women who will marry old men

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Speaker Mike Johnson says that there was a peaceful transfer of power despite January 6.

Try telling a police officer that it was fine that you were driving drunk or driving 100 mph because you didn’t actually crash.

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President Biden was in Florida today. A state probably as likely to vote for Harris as California is to vote for Trump. Joe announced additional $612 million to support communities unplaced by recent hurricanes. No insults, no threats. It’s so nice having a real President.

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ETTD?

October 12, 2024

The Detroit Tigers were doing great until Donald Trump came to town.

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Undefeated Penn State needed a 14 point rally and a Trojans missed FG in OT to hold on against USC. Previously undefeated Ohio State lost to Oregon

Wonder how the Big Ten feels these days about adding four West Coast schools..

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Tom Brady, 47, is expected to be approved now as a minority owner of the Oakland Raiders. Wonder if owning a piece of the team will entitle him to play in a few fourth quarters?

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Wrap your head around this. Donald Trump attacks Kamala Harris because as a loyal VP she said she wouldn’t have done anything differently than President Biden. Meanwhile Donald’s own running mate is too scared just to tell the truth that Trump lost the 2020 election.

Why are we surprised that J.D. Vance refuses to say President Biden won the election? You KNOW it was the first question on Velveeta Voldemort’s VP vetting list.

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Thinking these days John McCain would be almost as disappointed in his daughter as he would be of Lindsey Graham.

Right wing media loves to dredge up decades-old comments/behavior from politicians.

Fox News et al, you missed one. “I hate the police. Given the number of negative experiences I’ve had in the past few years, I can’t imagine what a black guy goes through.” J.D. Vance, an email to a friend, 2014

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‘Chris Christie ” there’s no question that inside my party in particular, there is no longer the water’s edge. Everything is politicized. And when you add to it not only Trump’s willingness but seeming inability to avoid lying about everything — the combination of the two are toxic to the political environment generally, but they are really toxic to the human environment in a disaster.”

So uh Chris, why not endorse Kamala?

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Four days since the story broke (and was confirmed by the Kremlin), that Donald Trump sent scarce COVID testing machines in early 2020 to Vladmir Putin.

It’s not that Fox News is trying to put a positive spin on the story. They haven’t even mentioned the story.

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It’s never over

October 10, 2024

If you stopped watching the WNBA after Caitlin Clark’s Indiana Fever were eliminated, you’re missing some really good basketball. The Minnesota Linx were down 15 (!)with less than five minutes remaining in regulation, and won in OT.

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The miuch disliked Pohlad family is selling the Minnesota Twins.

Don’t follow the Minnesota Twins closely but gather this is good news for Twins fans. Now if A’s owner John Fisher will do the same thing.

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onald Trump shows up in Detroit, tells many lies, including about how bad the city is, and the Tigers lose a lead late in a potential series clinching ALDS game. Almost as if #ETTD

Soo many lies going around about FEMA response, amplified by Donald Trump.

Fox News, watched by many GOP, if they actually cared about life, could debunk lies for their viewers & readers. But they don’t.

Fox would rather have people die than have FEMA & Biden-Harris look good.

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Meanwhile, ICYMI with Hurricane Milton, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is SUING television stations for airing a paid ad for the abortion amendment on the November ballot he dislikes. If you wanted an idea of what life would be like with Trump back in the White House, watch Florida.

There’s a recall over listeria of almost 10 million pounds of BrucePac, ready-to-eat meat and poultry products.

But come on, it’s only science. Waiting for Trump to tell his followers eat recalled meat, own the libs

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Great Dark Brandon energy from Joe Biden today, when asked if he’d talked to Trump “Are you kidding me? Trump, get a life man, help these people.” Asked on holding Donald accountable. “The public will hold him accountable & YOU press, hold him accountable. You know the truth.”

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Barack Obama on Trump, who is claiming now he will be women’s “protector.” “I’ll tell you how he protected you. He picked three judges who overturned Roe V. Wade.” Nailed it.

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Give me a bleeping break.

Ron DeathSantis claims he won’t speak to Kamala Harris because as VP and a candidate she has “no role” with hurricane relief. But this morning CANDIDATE Trump released a video bragging that he’s been talking to the Florida Governor. No lie too small.

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Under water

October 10, 2024

First year since 2018 that the Tampa Bay Rays were not in the postseason.

Good timing. Since Tropicana Field is now missing a roof.

(And it’s a different Bay… but there is an empty MLB stadium about 2500 miles west that might be a bit of a dump but may be a lot more usuable for 2025..)

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Meanwhile, Fox Sports announcers with the “keen grasp of the obvious” award after the Cleveland Guardians have been shut out twice in a row by the Detroit Tigers in the ALDS.

“They have to find a way to score some runs tomorrow.”

It wil take days if not weeks to understand scope of devastation from Hurricane Milton, but a sad reminder- the Gulf of Mexico’s water is abnormally warm right now, which means we are likely to get more major hurricanes this year. Science doesn’t care if you believe in it or not.

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Tropicana Las Vegas imploded at 230a Oct 9.. Used to love their $5 blackjack (for us who don’t gamble seriously) & great Comedy Club/Laugh Factory. But having Trop imploded in middle of night, when few are awake/paying attention, seems appropriate for John Fisher’s As

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Wonder how many of these videos and interviews of people staying put for Hurricane Milton will be played at their memorial services?

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Ron DeSantis as Milton approached: “If you’re hearing something that’s just outrageous, just know in the state of Florida, none of that stuff would ever fly, so you don’t have to worry about that.” If this weren’t such a potential tragic hurricane that statement would be funny.

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Yes, understand Hurricane Milton is top story right now.

@FoxNews nonetheless found space on website front page for Donald’s supposed plan to have rally at MSG. Fox hasn’t managed to find space to cover Trump’s giving COVID machines to Vladimir Putin. We’re waiting.

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Whether you believe in God, Mother Nature and/or Karma, one or all of them seem to believe that Ron DeSantis deleting climate change from every Florida state document and law was a REALLY bad idea.

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Most Florida airports have shut down and almost the entire state is dealing withsevere weather. Tone deaf award, again, for the day goes to Donald Trump with his latest fundraising email. “YOU’RE INVITED TO MAR-A-LAGO!”

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On the brink?

October 9, 2024

Really Fox Sports? Before the Los Angeles Dodgers-San Diego Padres game. “It has become the most heated rivalry in baseball.” San Francisco Giants fans along with Boston Red Sox- New York Yankees fans would like a word.

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Meanwhile NY Mets starter Sean Menaea goes 7 innings with only one run to help leads the Mets to a victory over the Philadelphia Phillies.

If only the SF Giants had a pitcher like that.

Oh wait, never mind. They had Menaea in 2023. 37 appearances, ten starts, and many of them as an “opener.”

Analytics suck.

The Minnesota Lynx are going to the WNBA finals. The Minnesota Vikings are 5-0

Maybe some of my Minnesota friends are right, the Twins complete collapse out of the MLB playoff race was the price the local fanbase pays for their other successes?

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Mitt Romney says he does not want Donald Trump to win the election, but he would not endorse Kamala Harris, saying he wants “to continue to have a voice in the Republican Party.” Uh, Mitt has a voice now in the GOP, he’s just cowardly not using it.

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After revelations of several phone calls at least between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin after Donald left office, including in 2024. Tim Walz today “I can guarantee you that Kamala Harris and I do not have dictators on speed dial.”

Michael de Adder was fired in Halifax Nova Scotia, for this cartoon. Think we owe it to him to make it go viral in Canada and in the United States.

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Make it make sense: Ron DeSantis says that he’s not answering Kamala’s because as Vice President Harris has had “no role” as in hurricane response for 3 1/2 years But GOP now attacking Harris as actually being the one in charge for everything they dislike over last 3 1/2 years.

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Want to imagine what USA would be like under a second Trump administration? T

Take a look at Florida. Where free speech that the governor doesn’t like is a crime.

Ron DeSantis’ administration is threatening to prosecute the media for airing pro-choice ads. Wish this was a joke.

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Nowhere lower to go

October 6, 2024

Alabama’s loss to Vanderbil Saturday was the most embarrassing thing to happen to the state since they elected Tommy Tuberville.

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40 cars started NASCAR race at Talladega Sunday. A late crash involving 28 of them wiped out most of the field.

Has Trump blamed this on Democrat yet?

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As MLB division series started this weekend:. Tigers, Royals & Guardians payrolls total about $298 million between them. Which means all 3 of them together pay their teams less than NY Mets. (not to mention 1/2 billion $ payroll Dodgers would have if they couldn’t play accounting games.)

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I am not a Cal fan but that was targeting last night. Second week in a row that Miami gets a gift from ACC officials.

I really don’t care what Melania Trump says at this point, do u?

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National Hurricane Center warns that a tropical storm -Melvin – in the Gulf of Mexico could become a major hurricane & hit West Coast of Florida late this week.

Meanwhile, reminder that as Marge 3 Names says Democrats control weather- not a single major storm has hit Mar-A-Lago.

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Trump told GOP to tank their own bipartisan border bill so things wouldn’t improve before the election Now has he told Speaker Mike Johnson, whose GOP wouldn’t vote for supplemental FEMA funding, not to call House back in session so more people will suffer before election?

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All votes count equally. But media spending most of their energy on “undecideds” at this point is like teachers paying most of their attention to kids who don’t do their homework until the night before.

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Even conservative Politico: “Johnson won’t condemn Eric Trump comments blaming Dems for assassination tries.” Never noticed MAGA Mike complaining when Donald calls Harris “evil” and saying “she should be impeached and prosecuted for her actions.”

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So Kamala Harris repeated “32 days… 32 days before the election” when her teleprompter went out. I guess MAGAs think she should have rambled about Hannibal Lecter, windmill cancer and water-free bathrooms to sound Presidential?

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The VP debate is over and J.D. Vance has done his moderate act in front of millions of viewers he hopes are gullible. Today after the Butler, PA rally, Vance confirms a Trump-Vance administration would defund Planned Parenthood..

It’s great living in a state that actually wants all eligible voters to vote. “This is a message from the California Secretary of State on behalf of County of Santa Clara Registrar of Voters. Your ballot for the upcoming November 5, 2024, General Election has been mailed to you.’

Michael Che on SNL’s Weekend Update: “Donald Trump refused to release his medical records I bet I know what he’s hiding. But I’m not allowed “dementia it.”

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Worth watching

October 5, 2024

WNBA ratings wtthout Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese have been lower for the semi-final playoff rounds than the first round with Clark,, though the NY Liberty and the LV Aces’ first game had more viewers than any of last season’s finals games

Hoping people keep tuning in. There are some seriously impressive women still playing

(And playing more of a team game than many if not most NBA teams.)

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So close

October 4, 2024

Mets -Brewers game for a while was a painful reminder of the season for SF Giants fans because no team could get a hit with RISP. Then Brewers took 2-0 lead (from back to back home runs) in the 7th into the 9th, and SFGiants fans got flashbacks to Camilo Doval.

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Mets have the highest payroll in MLB (with the help of Ohtani’s creative math in Los Angeles.)

Dodgers and Phillies are 4th and 5th in the top five (others are Astros & Yankees.) Padres are 15th.

Meanwhile in AL, other than NY, remaining playoff teams are Royals, 20th, Guardians, 23rd, Tigers 26th.

In case you want to root for teams who will not or cannot buy a title.

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For some reason, Fox News not only did not cover Liz Cheney’s speech endorsing Kamala Harris, but also after regular commentary trying to blame Biden and Harris for the port strike, is not covering on their website tonight that the ILA has reached an agreement to go back to work.

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North Carolina Republicans won state legislature in 2010 & have gerrymandered it to keep control. They regularly pass bills against building and environmental regularations (along with bills against abortion and voting rights. Just one month ago, Govenor Roy Cooper vetoed their “building code regulatory reform bill” over safety concerns. But lawmakers overrode it.

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Bruce Springsteen has endorsed Kamala Harris and Tim Walz. The Boss has spoken.

Your move, Chris Christie.

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Susan Rice great tonight on with Lawrence O’Donnell calls Donald Trump a “surrender monkey” and calls him America’s Neville Chamberlain.

Not quite true though. Neville Chamberlain did some good things in his life.

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Well give Trump credit for accomplishing one thing most of us thought was impossible Kamala Harris saying “Can we hear it for Liz Cheney?”

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Liz Cheney talking about her childhood as a young Republican: “I was a Republican even before Donald Trump started spray-tanning.”

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For all that Trump complains about the evidence Jack Smith released about a month before the election, remember this: If Donald hadn’t been fighting to delay the trial for years, it would have been over by now

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Trump saying today in Michigian ” if I thought I lost I wouldn’t be doing it – running- again. If I thought I lost I’d be on the beaches of Monte Carlo or something…” “Beaches of Monte Carlo? – A real man of the people.

(and ask any travel agent. Many reasons to go to Monte Carlo… wouldn’t put beaches in the top ten.)

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Any airtime or stories about Melania Trump now are just distractions from the fact her husband violently tried to overthrow the 2020 election. Period.

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CNN piece today questioning the “Republicans for Harris” campaigning Democrats are doing, including with Liz Cheney, and saying, GOP isn’t doing the same with “Democrats for Trump.” Maybe because there basically AREN’T any Democrats for Trump, .

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Falling

October 3, 2024

Four wild card series in Major League Baseball, three of them ended up in sweeps.

So baseball fans go from four games a day, to one game Thursday, and nothing Friday until the ALDS and NLDS start Saturday.

A warning we are less than month away from, as A. Bartlett Giamatti wrote “The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone..

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ESPN reports, “two NFL teams high on Davante Adams’ wish list of places to land if he’s traded — if not at the very top — are the NY Jets and New Orleans Saints.”

The Saints have Derek Carr, Adams’ former teammate at Fresno State and with the Raiders.. Davante Adams is a Palo Alto High School graduate )across the street from Stanford) Maybe Adams could get over Aaron Rodgers being a Cal guy, but hope he’s smart enough not to want to play for someone so anti-science.

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How much must it be infuriating Trump, that for all the lies J.D. Vance told, he came off as smarter and more likable than Donald?

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If you care more about what month in 1989 Tim Walz was in China, than you do about J.D. Vance lying about LEGAL immigrants not only being illegal but also eating Americans’ pets…you just might be a cult member. Or on staff at Axios, and other US media.

Tim Walz may not be a great debater, but he came off as a guy you’d want to have a beer with.

J.D. Vance is the man who if he sits down next to you at the bar, you cover your drink if you leave for the ladies’ room.

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Nancy Pelosi on the subject of reproductive freedom “I had 5 children in 6 years…it’s wonderful for me but not for me to decide what other people should do, nor is it up to Trump and Vance….”

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“I’m really grateful to Mike Pence.” Cassidy Hutchinson tonight on “The Last Word.”

A sentence millions of Americans, including me, never expected to agree with.

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Lara Trump on Donald insulting the intelligence of Kamala Harris and Tim Walz. “This is Donald Trump… And obviously, he’s kind of joking around there with the crowd at a Trump rally when he says those things.” Trump. Does. Not. Joke.

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Make them riot” “Do it!!” – Why are those two sentences not front page headlines?

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And the last word shall be first

October 2, 2024

Jasmine Crockett on how J.D Vance says Republicans need to talk about reproductive rights the right way.

“The problem isn’t how you talk about it. The problem is what you’ve done about it.”

#Bam

Molly Ivins would have loved Jasmine Crockett.

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Amy Klobuchar on J.D. Vance saying “my heart goes out”, including to a woman bleeding out on a hospital floor after Roe V. Wade was overturned. “Your heart may go out, but your policies are heartless.”

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Asked about Trump & Jan 6. J.D. Vance responded” “We’re focused on the future.” Reminds me of Mark McGwire back in steroid days “I’m not here to talk about the past.” Except with McGwire it was just home run record being broken. With Trump on Jan 6, it was our democracy that almost fell.

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The gender gap was already historic in this election. What’s the record for the lowest percentage of women voting for a Presidential ticket? J.D. Vance is helping Trump-Vance aim for that record.

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“We’re not pro-abortion, we’re pro-women.” I love Tim Walz

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Walz talking how Trump on Roe v. Wade and reproductive rights said that the states will decide. “That’s not how this works.” Exactly. In the UNITED States of America, your zip code should not determine your rights .

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Vance keeps talking about what a great job he claimed Donald Trump did. Once more for those in the back: And in language the former Apprentice host would get. American voters said to “Donald Trump – you’re fired.”

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J.D. Vance – “More security in schools is the answer.” That worked out so well in Uvalde.

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Tim Walz talking about how Trump has scuttled the border bill and ordered Republicans not to pass any legislation, even bipartisan legislation, that is good for this country. “What would Donald Trump talk about if we actually did some of these things?” Minnesota Nice Nailed It.

Can someone ask one of his surrogates a simple question. Do you honestly believe Donald Trump is currently in his right mind?

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Trump saved Obamacare like he will protect women.

Folks, this isn’t hard. J.D. Vance claimed he hated Trump Now he claims he loves Trump. J.D. Vance claimed he’s 100% anti-abortion. Now he claims his heart goes out to women. J.D. Vance cares about power. If you care about your rights, vote Harris-Walz.

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If Trump supporters had hanged Mike Pence, J.D. Vance would say his heart goes out to Pence’s family… But he’d still have accepted being Donald’s running mate. And he’d still have said Trump did nothing wrong on January 6.-

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As Vance talks about Americans wanting better leadership in the White House, does he think we forgot that we already know what it’s like to have Trump in the White House? And we fired him.

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And let’s not forget. J.D. Vance doesn’t want to talk details about implementing mass deportation. He was asked twice.

He knows his boss’s plan is cruel and impossible. He also knows how many Republicans count on staffing their businesses and homes with cheap immigrant labor.

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President Biden will fly over Asheville to survey the damage because Mayor doesn’t want to shut only the open road from airport down to accommodate his motorcade. We know Trump if he were President in an election year would insist on the photo op.

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As Iran launches a missile attack on Israel, your reminder, dictators across the world want Donald Trump in charge of the United States. Because he will tell them, as he has told Russia, to do “whatever the hell you want.”

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Orioles 1-5 with RISP in scoring position. In a 1-0 loss in the first game of the AL Wild Card series against the Kansas City Royals. And that one hit only got a runner at second to third.

Baltimore colors are orange and black. Felt a bit too famiilar for SF Giants fans.

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Hey Detroit Tigers fans. You can borrow the terms “Torture” and “Laugher” for the duration of your 2024 postseason. Sincerely, SF Giants fans who empathize.

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Imagine if before baseball playoffs or major sporting event or even a reality television competition, one team or contestant constantly claimed they would win and if they lost it was cheating & they wouldn’t accept it.

We’d change the channel.

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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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