Posted tagged ‘politics’

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.

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.)

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?

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?

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.

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.

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…

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?

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

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

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…..

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.”

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…..

Que Les Jeux Commencent

July 27, 2024

Let the games begin, in French.

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.

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.

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

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


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.)


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.

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.)

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…

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?

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

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

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

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…

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.

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..

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.

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.

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


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.


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

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

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

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.”

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

Will GOP call whoever he is a DEI hire?

Future tense.

July 21, 2024

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Someday when women’s basketball and the WNBA have the respect they deserve, many of us will tell our grandchildren and great-grandchildren we were so lucky as sports fans to be able to watch both Angel Reese and Caitlin Clark.

Bo Bichette will now miss “multiple weeks” due to a calf strain. So maybe SF Giants fans dreams of trading for the former All-Star shortstop won’t matter even if team falls out of the playoff picture this week.

Much of media these days becomes understandable once you realize the national media is all in for Donald Trump

Even those who he would arrest – if not on day 1- then early in his Presidency. They just see dollar signs of ratings & not how dictators have behaved in history.

Federal health officials said Friday that 2 people in the U.S. – Midwest and East Coat – have died and 28 people have been hospitalized from a multi-state outbreak of listeria linked to sliced deli meats . Well, it’s only science. Eat deli meat, own the libs!

Molly Ivins 1998 “You Got to Dance with Them What Brung You.” Ivins in 2005 on bankuptcy bill: “TX Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee offered amendment to protect victims of natural disasters after Katrina -voted down by GOP Hope Molly & Sheila tonight in heaven are raising hell

#VoteBlue

When 20 yr-old shot at Trump & killed rally goer, Democrats condemned attack & offered sympathy. When 20 yr-old in 2017 drove into peaceful protesters at Neo-Nazi rally, injuring 8 & killing Heather Heyer, GOP was quiet while Trump talked about “many fine people on both sides.”

So while media is nonstop now questioning Biden’s health why isn’t single major outlet questioning Trump’s health? Especially after the shooting. How badly was he hurt, could there be brain damage, PTSD? We don’t even know if Donald was hit by a bullet or shrapnel.

I get that money matters in politics.

. But Michael Bloomberg spent about a billion dollars to try to become President in 2020 because he didn’t think Democrats had a strong enough field.

How’d that work out?

How many people even remember he ran?

Wish media had spent half as much time earlier this year covering all of President BIden’s accomplishments as they are now spending covering the idea he should drop out of the race.

Admit, I don’t like Adam Schiff publicly coming out against President Biden.

But any Democrat hinking of voting for Steve Garvey over Adam Schiff over that is not just cutting off their nose to spite their face, they are cutting off their whole face.

Shouldn’t talking repeatedly about “the late great Hannibal Lecter” be proof that someone is not capable of serving as President?

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.

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

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.

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?


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

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.

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.

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?

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.”

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.


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.”

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?”

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

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?

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.

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


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

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?

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?


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.”

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?

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

Say hey

July 9, 2024

Great moment from celebration of life for Willie Mays, where former President Bill Clinton attended and told stories as a fan boy, was Barack Obama. appearing in a video, and talking about inviting Willie to ride with him on Air Force One on the way to the All-Star Game in St. Louis. “Everybody was just passing me by. ‘Can I get you something Mr. Mays?’

Heliot Ramos first was called up to play centerfield for SF Giants on May 8, two days after Willie Mays’ 93rd birthday. He went 1-4 with an RBI.

At the game at Rickwood Field he made a catch that would have made Willie proud.

Now the 24 year old centerfielder in 2024 has been named an MLB All-Star,

Former LA Dodger Raúl Mondesi ,accused of embezzling $5 million, was sentenced by Dominican court to 6 years 9 months in jail & fined $507,000 for corruption as mayor in city of San Cristobal.

Silly Mondesi. Had he just stayed in US he could have run for office as a Republican.

If you didn’t already love Lawrence O’Donnell –

Tonight in response to a dishonest NY Times story about a neurologist visiting the White House

“The NY Times is wrong.”

Why is that so hard for most pundits to say?

For example -Here the NY Times goes again: “Following Trump’s Lead, G.O.P. Adopts Platform Softening Stance on Abortion.”

Uh, the so-called “softened” stance GOP just adopted condemns, as Amy Klobuchar reminded us, “ONE THIRD of women of reproductive age (in US) to live under extreme & dangerous bans.”

NY Times has a headline story today “In the aging Senate, nobody wants to be the one to nudge President Biden aside.” Story uses phrase ” the president’s feeble candidacy.”

Why not “In GOP Senate, no one wants to nudge 2020 loser & aging convicted felon Donald Trump aside?”

Why isn’t media questioning Trump’s not doing public appearances since the debate as a possible sign of his exhaustion and being too old to run for President? Asking for a country.

And not just asking for OUR country

Media claims “stunning upset ” in French election. “Stunning upset” is easier than saying ‘We were wrong.”

Stephen Colbert with a truth the supposed actual media isn’t talking about. “In the debate, Trump proved demonstrably that he is a monster.”

And the in the so-called family values and so-called pro-life GOP, Republicans are strangely silent about both the release of Epstein files accusing Trump of raping a child, and Donald’s good friend Vladimir Putin bombing a children’s hospital in Kiev.

Is there ANYONE who cares what Van Jones thinks?

Leader angst

July 6, 2024

Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Tyler Glasnow last week was likely to be the starting pitcher for the MLB All-Star game.

He gave up five earned runs to the SF Giants in three innings on June 29, and five earned runs to the Milwaukee Brewers today, July 6. Did the Giants break him?

Meanwhile, the NY Yankees are 2-8 in their last 10 games and media tossing around words like “shocking sorry,” “brutal” “spiraling.”

The Yankees are still 54 and 36. Get out the teeny tiny pinstriped violins.

George Stephanopolous is the interviewer, but Dark Brandon Joe Biden has the question of the night: “Have you ever seen Donald Trump do anything for the benefit of someone else not him?


Since every accusation is a confession has anyone checked to see if Donald Trump had a medical emergency this afternoon?

So one of the attacks on President Biden is allegation that Joe, 81, has gone downhill in the last few months and is no longer fit to serve. On top of everything else, Donald Trump, with an unhealthy lifestyle. turns 81 in 2027… Does that mean GOP needs to replace him now?

Remember that Time magazine interview in APRIL 2024? “Do you think women should be able to get abortion pill mifepristone? Trump: “I’m not gonna say it yet. But I have pretty strong views on that. And I’ll be releasing it probably over the next week” We’re waiting.

This is a good day to remind people that Donald Trump fell asleep most days in the courtroom where he was on trial and it not only didn’t make headlines, but also none of the national media bring it up now while age is a topic of concern for candidates

Much of the USA is sweltering with hot weather records falling on a daily basis. Hurricane Beryl, one of earliest on record, is approaching Texas.

Meanwhile Project 2025 plans in their own words on US energy policy: “End the focus on climate change and green subsidies.”

Today Trump denied knowing about Project 2025. And “I wish them luck?” WTF? So the question in his case? Dementia or deception?

Going to repeat: If President Biden does take & pass a cognitive test, media reaction will not be “thanks for clearing that up,” but instead “well, will Joe take another test next week?” Lather, rinse, repeat. It will never be enough. MSM dreads another no-drama 4 years.

Meanwhile in Brazil: Ex-President Jair Bolsonaro, who Trump calls “great friend,” was indicted for money laundering & criminal association in connection w/ undeclared diamonds from Saudi Arabia, his 2nd indictment, so far.

Who had Brazil now showing USA how the rule of law works on their bingo card?

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.

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.

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.

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.

Why there is no satire.

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

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?

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..

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?

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.”

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.

‘m a single issue voter in 2024

And that issue is saving democracy.

#WeBackBidenHarris

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

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.

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.

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??

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.””

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.

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?

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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


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.

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.

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?

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?

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.

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.

Fairy tales

June 30, 2024

SF Giants never get love from ESPN.

So figured Giants improbable win over LA Dodgers with a 30 year old rookie Spencer Bivens who started pro-career in Paris making $500 a week & started 2023 in high-A ball wouldn’t be top story.

But cool that one of top Sportscenter stories WAS an WNBA game.

Bivens is such a cool story. His first pro contract in France in 2018 was for $500 a month.. With the MLB daily per diem for player for meals at $117.50, he’ll get more meal money from the SF Giants for a week on the road than he made in a month in France.

Dodgers star Tyler Glasgow came into yesterday’s game as a likely All-Star game starter.

SF Giants tagged him for 5 runs in 3 innings

Dodger star James Paxton came into today’s SF Giants game 7.1 with a 3.39 ERA. Giants have tagged him for 9 runs through 4 innings.

Baseball is a funny game.

Non political NBA joy! Chris Paul, one of my favorite NBA players, has signed with my favorite coach Gregg Popovich. Paul is going to look really good in a San Antonio Spurs uniform passing the ball to Wemby!

Weird fact, LeBron James may be playing with his son Bronny next year, who is 20 years younger than he is. But Wemby is 19 years younger than Chris Paul.!

For that matter, Diana Taurasi and Caitlin Clark are about 20 years apart. And this picture is nice – game recognizes game.

Oklahoma Superintendent of Public Instruction says educators who refuse to teach students about the Bible could lose their teaching license. So they’re asking atheists to lie to their students. For starters.

And if they are going to teach the Bible, what about the Song of Solomon? Or the story of Lot’s daughters getting dad drunk so they could have sex with him and get pregnant? Or David and Bathsheba.

Been thinking: How many of us have had something important at work or involving being a parent or just an adult where we felt like crap & not at our best, but showed up anyway because it’s what you do

Just possible many Americans respect and empathize even more with President BIden now.

Does anyone think Donald Trump personally picked his 3 SCOTUS judges, or all his federal judge nominees? But to be fair, Presidents in general rely on their staffs & advisors for nominations. So we want Trump’or Biden’s staff to be making the next 4 years’ nominations?

SCOTUS Justice Samuel Alito was missing from the bench recently. Presumably he was ill. Since he ruled that judges know more than experts I trust he consulted a conservative judge friend rather than going to a doctor.

Many smart people who went to 3 years of law school & became judges last took a science class in high school. Now SCOTUS is saying judges know more on regulatory issues with food, water, air etc, than scientists with PhD’s? Vote blue at least to get judges who trust experts.

Biden ran against 26 Dems in 2020 primary. Pete Buttigieg & Amy Klobuchar endorsed Joe same day. At Dallas rally when Amy mentioned the debates,

Biden leaned into microphone & said, “all of which you won.”

Winning the Presidency is not about being the best debater, then or now.

For the NY Times it went downhill faster when President Biden wouldn’t grant them an interview. New NY Times motto: “All the News That’s Fit to be Petulant.”

Why isn’t today’s Maureen Dowd line on Biden getting more press?

“Got to know Biden in 1987 when he was running for president…I knocked him out of that race when I wrote about how he cloaked himself in the life of Neil Kinnock.”

She’s gleefull, and self aggrandizing about the idea of destroying Joe.

As many in national media behave like a bunch of sharks smelling blood in the water. remember -for them it’s about ratings and clicks. Their goals are not democracy’s goals.

RIP Cha cha

June 28, 2024

RIP Orlando Cepeda, 86, less than two weeks after Willie Mays, 93, passed away. Thinking baseball heaven has added enough SF Francisco Giants to their All-Star roster for a while.

(And if you want to honor Cepeda, the Cha Cha Bowl at Orlando’s Carribbean BBQ is one of the best things at Oracle Park.)

As the NBA draft concluded, kind of cool that more Americans probably know big names drafted in the WNBA than the NBA for 2024.

SCOTUS just ruled six-three that the judiciary, not experts who work in government agencies, should be in charge of making regulatory decisions.

So when those six get sick assume they will ask their fellow conservatives for medical advice rather than going to a doctor?


Nonpolitical rant: Summer started last week – And this week’s Safeway ad has “Early back to school sale.”

Asked about Trump’s iie that she was responsible for January 6, Nancy Pelosi responded “He thinks I planned my own assassination? He’s sicker than i thought.”

Madame Speaker Emeritus is, as always, badass.

Thinking back to 2016, remember media making big deal of Trump bringing Bill Clinton’s accusers to one of Donald’s debates w/ Hillary. They barely mention not only did Melania not bother to show up, but also Trump is a felon in part because jury said he DID have sex w/ porn star.

Buried lede in NY Times anti-Biden editorial. “It is a tragedy that Republicans themselves are not engaged in deeper soul-searching after Thursday’s debate. Mr. Trump’s own performance ought to be regarded as disqualifying.”

Remember, the NY Times, who now wants President Biden to step down, earlier this year wanted President Biden to sit down for an one-on-one interview but Joe refused…

They haven’t forgiven him…. Same as Maureen Dowd didn’t forgive Obama for blowing her off once.

All the news that’s fit to be petulant.

NY Times “Former President Trump’s attacks were frequently false, lacked context or were vague enough to be misleading.” Why is it so hard for them them to say these two words “Trump lies”?

If you needed reminder that far more important than Biden having bad night are 200+ judges Joe & Dems have gotten confirmed:

Supreme Court overturns 1984 Chevron precedent, curbing power of federal government. Want more Biden judges? Or more judges like Alito & Aileen Cannon?

President Biden will not be on the ballot in 2028

Donald Trump will not be on the ballot in 2028

Whoever is elected President in November, however, will appoint federal judges between now and 2028 who will have lifetime appointments. Vote accordingly.

Debatable and undebatable.

June 27, 2024

Sigh, who else saw Luke Jackson coming in the 10th and thought “game over?” #SFGiants

Can anyone imagine if SCOTUS were asked to rule on treating a medical emergency of a man taking Viagra and having an “erection lasting more than four hours”? They’d have a decision in mens’ favor within four hours

Yes, President Biden had a raspy voice and seemed like he had a bad cold. Not his best performance. But Washington Post headline. “Biden struggles. Trump deflects questions.” Should have at the least been “Biden struggles, Trump lies.”

A CNN exec in the control room reportedly said “We are very proud of Jake and Dana. Our job was to make sure candidates were heard so voters can make informed decisions and we are pleased we were able to do that.”

Has someone drug tested CNN executives?

Now I REALLY wish Dana Bash had skipped the debate to announce the women’s Congressional Softball Game as she usually has done last night… She’s good at it, far better than her softball performance as a CNN moderator tonight.

President Biden says Trump has the morals of an alley cat. Okay, Joe’s first lie of the night. Alley-cats have far better morals than Donald Trump.

Can someone remind Donald Trump please during this campaign that the people he is now bragging about firing, he HIRED IN THE FIRST PLACE?

NY Times “Facing Trump’s Misleading Attacks, Biden Appears Shaky at Times.” They have no problem attacking Biden but can’t say “Facing Trump’s LIES?”

But hey, anyone still on fence about voting in November?

Presidents appoint Federal Justices beyond SCOTUS. Biden has now gotten over 200 judges confirmed & would get probably that many confirmed in 2nd term with a blue Senate. Want more Biden judges? Or judges like Aileen Cannon?

President Biden stutters & at times sounds old.

Joe’s been a great president and surrounds himself with a strong staff & Dem leaders who he trusts and relies on for advice & counsel

Trump blusters & lies at top of his voice. He listens only to himself. The choice isn’t hard.

Slow and slower

June 25, 2024

For all MLB focuses on analytics, SF Giants right-handed submarine pitcher Tyler Rogers leads the league in appearances and is on pace for 82 appearances in 2024. His ERA is under 3 and would be lower except for two appearances where everything seemed to fall in.

And the speed of the pitches he threw today for outs in a 1-2-3 8th – 82, 73, 73

And while we’re on the subject of SF Giants pitchers… You can’t always pick out faces in a crowded team shot. No one has any problem picking out Sean Hjelle!

(hint, for the uninitiated, he’s 6’11)

Some conservatives now want to eliminate no-fault divorce. Which is something many women use to escape bad and even abusive marriages. (It’s difficult and expensive to prove physical cruelty, etc)

Meanwhile. Marge Three Names is divorced, Lauren Boebert is divorced, Mitch McConnell divorced his first wife, and, Tommy Tuberville divorced his high school sweetheart to marry his current wife. For starters.

Rep. Lauren Boebert, who moved to one of more conservative districts in CO, won her primary & will probably be back in House for 2 more years. If anyone SHOULD resign to spend more time w/ her family. (Her son’s trial for 22 charges inc. 4 felony theft counts stars this summer.)

Lauren Boebert & Marge Three Names are disgraces to Congress.

But both are in DEEP red districts. Much as I’d like to see them gone, a cat could win their district w/ R by its name.

Other non-marquee races are winnable.

If we turn house blue – those two women matter less.

Donate accordingly.

Family values update: Jill BIden flew back and forth from France to be at Hunter Biden’s side during his trial, and Joe flew to be with his son as soon as he could. Lauren Boebert attended Trump’s trial but not any of her son’s felony theft hearings.

President Biden has declared a major disaster & pledged federal funding for S. Dakota, Iowa & Minnesota, where almost 3 million people have been affected by recent storms & flooding. Joe offered aid equally, without attacks, whether or not the state voted for him. What a concept.

Fox News finds space to headline for every murder where suspect(s) are immigrants. But last weekend’s mass shooting by a white man is already gone from their website.

And nothing about the nurse who was a heroic victim. Even though she was a young white mother.

. It’s the guns, stupid. Callie Weems #SayHerName

Sweet home Alabama.

June 20, 2024

Rough night for SF Giants who lost 6-5 to the St. Louis Cardinals at Rickwood Field in Birmingham, when starting pitcher Keaton Winn gave up 5 runs in 2 innings

But a great tribute night. (Retired pitcher CC Sabathia, 43, on hand for the game, might have been a better starter.)

On a brighter note, Willie Mays has to be smiling that Heliot Ramos, 24, a home-grown rookie, now playing center field for the SF Giants, hitt a three-run home run for the SF Giants. #ByeByeBaby

Has MLB considered having the Oakland As play some games next year at Rickwood Field in Burmingham? The stadium holds 10,800. Far more than the As draw most home games.

Los Angeles Lakers hired J.J. Redick,, who has never coached before, as their next head coach on a four year deal.

So maybe J.J. figures he can learn the job for the first year or two as Lebron James’ assistant coach?

Had people ask how I could support former Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards, who is VERY anti-choice. Wasn’t easy, but Bel Edwards is a Catholic who does support welfare. And as I said and we see now, the alternative is much worse. – Governor Jeff Landry is the man who just signed the bill saying schools and universities must post the 10 commandments.

Still want to know as a Saints fan… will the Ten Commandments need to be posted in the New Orleans Superdome? Most home games ARE played on the Sabbath.

Buried lede – Orlando Sentinel story – Disney employees sue over canceled relocation to Lake Nona campus

“After Disney reversed plans, home prices in Orlando area fell..Since 2022, home prices in LA have climbed.” Wait, thought DeSantis claimed everyone wants to move to Florida. –

Wonder how many pregnancies result after men use Viagra? If the Comstock Act were applied to mailing erectile dysfunction drugs, men in Congress would have repealed it years ago.

In 2000, SCOTUS decided Bush v. Gore in 4 days. Now it’s been about 115 days just on Trump’s claim of absolute immunity. Three of these judges were appointed by Donald. They don’t need a ruling to be their quid pro quo. A delay is working just fine.

Not just that the story has leaked how other (conservative) judges advised Judge Aileen Cannon not to take the Trump classified document case. But that these conservative judges are so upset by how bad and biased Cannon is, that they talked to people who would leak the story.

Trump VP running mate wanna-be J.D. Vance – “I’m extremely skeptical that Mike Pence’s life was ever in danger.” Translation “I want to be President badly and I’ve convinced myself Donald would never turn on me like he’s turned on everyone else eventually.”

As much as we complain now about SCOTUS and Aileen Cannon, there isn’t much we can do about current judges with lifetime appointments. What we CAN do! Vote Blue in November so President Joe Biden will keep appointing new judges, & a Democratic Senate will keep confirming them

Donald Trump repeatedly says things to remind us he is terrified of sharks.

Would it be against the debate rules next Thursday if President Joe Biden decides to make his walk-out music the theme from Jaws?

Perseverance…

June 16, 2024

If you didn’t read the story of pitcher Spencer Bivens, 29 years old and now 1-0 with the SF Giants, it’s worth a few minutes. Even if he never wins another game. Story is from 2022… which means he’s kept the dream alive 2 more years.

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/3898494/2022/11/15/san-francisco-giants-spencer-bivens

Lots of parity in MLB this season, where in the National League only the Marlins and Rockies are realistically out of the Wild Card race at least.

And there there are the Chicago White Sox. 19 and 54, with after 73 games a minus 155 run differential.

Almost enough to have baseball fans long for English soccer where relegation down a level is a possibility. …

Actually like Mookie Betts even if I dislike the Dodgers. But for all these headlines about what a blow it is to Los Angeles to lose their star with a fractured wrist, have to assume the Dodgers willl just find a small-market team to trade them a star with a big contact and rewriite the contract to give that player a huge deferred salary

Thinking my Los Angeles friends may not love this Adam Schiff fundraising email for US Senate from California against Steve Garvey. But we in the SF Bay Area approve: “Once a dodger, always a dodger, and not in a good way…” #BeatLA

North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum this morning talking about Trump -“This guy is tireless, he’s committed, he’s smart, he’s funny.” After statements like that, how does Burgum get the boot-polish off his tongue?


Uh, absolute top story on front page for New York Times on Saturday was headlined: “One week that revealed the struggles of the anti-abortion movment.”

Almost as if the NY Times is sympathizing with the anti-choice movement taking away women’s rights and putting women’s lives at risk.

One problem with the media being so in the tank for Trump these days. It feeds into Donald’s narrative that he is going to win and if he doesn’t that the election is rigged. Not like Velveeta Voldemort needs any more ammunition to try again to overturn an election.

Trump fundraising email from this weekend

Sat, Jun 15 at 6:54 PM “You still awake? MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! I CAN’T GO TO BED UNTIL I HEAR FROM YOU!” Note the time stamp. It’s not even 10:00 PM in Florida. Donald is telling us he’s too tired and old to be President.

And the same weekend Trump said at a rally of President Biden “”I think he should take a cognitive test like I did. I took a cognitive test and I aced it. Doc Ronny. Doc Ronny Johnson. Does everyone know Ronny Johnson, congressman from Texas? He was the White House doctor, and he said I was the healthiest president…

Yes, ICYMI, Trump bragged about passing a cognitive test and forgot the name of the doctor – Ronny Jackson -who gave it to him.

Admit I clicked on story about President Biden’s dog Commander biting Secret Service agent, though thought dog was no longer at White House. Was right. Commander isn’t in DC now. These are newly released records from Sept 2023. Yet it made headlines. Competence isn’t clickbait.

Just a number…

June 12, 2024

RIP Jerry West, 86.

He was one of my first favorite NBA players when I was a little kid and used to spend a couple weeks at Christmas with grandparents in Ridgecrest, CA. Lakers games were regularly on TV. But how could have he have possibly been 86 years old. ?

Something having nothing to do with Caitlin Clark nor Angel Reese that may help the WNBA: We appear to be one game, at most two, away from the end of the league’s major professional spring competition – the NBA playoffs.

From Marc Ragovin -“A recent study casts doubt on the longstanding theory that repeated failures are learning experiences that ultimately lead to success. The study participants?: The Toronto Maple Leafs.”

Waiting for the first Republican who has been celebrating Hunter Biden’s conviction to introduce legislation for drug testing at point of sale for all gun buyers.


‘Life-threatening’ flooding in South Florida as severe rains continue to fall

Meanwhile, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis just signed legislation he pushed to delete Climate Change from Florida policy. Science doesn’t care if you believe in it or not.

As hundreds of flights have been canceled and much of south Florida is under water, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has declared an emergency for Broward, Collier, Lee, Miami-Dade, and Sarasota counties.

Isn’t it nice at least to know that if things get worse, President Biden will step in offering federal aid without recriminations?


In North Dakota voters said 81 is too old to serve in Congress. Have they talked to nearby Iowa, who just re-elected Senator Chuck Grassley, now 90?

So is Sen.Grassley, 90, suffering from dementia or is he just a shill? “In our constitutional system, you gotta rely on what judges & juries decide. Sorry for Biden family but people decide what justice is” Asked if that applies to Trump “it’s an entirely different situation,”

If President Biden seemed as disconnected from his son Hunter as Donald Trump seems from all his children not named Ivanka pretty sure Hunter would never have been prosecuted.

So Trump is terrified of sharks. How much do I want some Democrats to show up outside his rallies playing the theme from Jaws?

Trump fundraising email of day has video message full of angry lies calling his trial a “rigged case,” with Donald saying “we’re going to do something about it. Very big.”

Uh, gag order aside, that sounds like a threat. DOJ, if you’re listening.

Of all issues GOP think Americans care about, would someone in do-nothing House like to explain how “holding Merrick Garland in contempt for not releasing audio tapes of interviews with Pres. Biden even GOP special counsel said showed no crime?” is high on that list? I’ll wait.

The biggest problem with Republican Larry Hogan, who was a semi-moderate Governor, running for U.S. Senate from Maryland.

Republican party leadership now demands absolute loyalty for anyone who wants committee assignments etc. Hogan would be a reliable GOP vote for whatever Mitch’s successor tells him to do. If you want a voice for Maryland, vote Angela Alsobrooks.

Senator Chris Coons “The highest court in the land should not have the lowest ethical standards.” How is this controversial?

Meanwhile, Sen. Lindsey Graham is blocking effort by Senate Democrats to unanimously pass a Supreme Court ethics. When John McCain died he took Lindsey’s soul with him.

Some hate-filled right-wingers claim Jill Biden isn’t Hunter’s mom because she isn’t his biological mother? Has anyone pointed out that one of many anti-choice lies about abortion is all fetuses could be adopted if brought to term? But now adopters aren’t parents?

Some Republicans, including Speaker Johnson,want to make America all about the Bible

So has a single Republican attacking President Biden over Hunter read Luke 15:11-32? (the story of the prodigal son)