Left Coast Sports Babe

Two big leads lost late in three games. Who do the Indiana Pacers think they are? The NY Mets?

Whatever happens this season, the SF Giants at least won’t have fans turning off the game early.

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It’s less that Caitlin Clark’s Indiana Fever got their first WNBA win yesterday, against the LA Sparks.., with Clark’s late three being the dagger. But that millions of sports fans and media, actually cared. The #WNBA is for real.

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Washington Post Headline “Trump loudly heckled and booed at Libertarian National Convention.

NY Times “Trump Will Address the Libertarian Convention. Some Members Are Outraged.”

Waiting for them to say how this is bad for President Biden.

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Let’s sum it up for today’s GOP. To be considered as a possible VP candidate for the Republican candidate in 2024 election. You have to promise you won’t accept election results unless you win.

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RFK Jr actually compared wearing a mask to being a slave, and said he’d rather die of COVID than wear one.

So presume he doesn’t wear a seatbelt either?

Washington Post didn’t cover Alito’s upside down flag when they first learned about it in Jan 2021, because they decided it was just his wife’s doing. But Washington Post has no problem covering & amplifying Trump’s lies about Judge Merchan’s daughter.

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As insane as Donald Trump is sometimes, there’s a way in which his insistence he is winning every state makes sense. Because then when he loses in November he can scream “stolen” and get his cult members to try to overturn the election again.

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Can’t be coincidence that today’s Trump fundraising email is to launch his new MAGA flag.

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My father, a professor at Duke, passed away 4 years ago. We didn’t agree on much politically but he’d have appreciated logical falacy that Democrats’ Biden & Merchan are influenced by their adult children, but GOP judges Thomas & Alito pay no attention to their wives’ doings.

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Meanwhile, would President Biden get more attention for his accomplishments if he promised to talk about them in a press conference where he took no questions

The Giants win a game, the Giants win a game! #BeatLA

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SF Giants had signed Curt Casali to a one-year contract on Wednesday after all their recent injuries, including to three of their catchers.)

(Casali is less 2 years older than Buster Posey. Say, didn’t manager Bob Melvin used to catch? )

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SI reports that on May 24 Joe Buck is set to call his first MLB Game in three years, Cardinals-Cubs, with Chip Caray.

“I’ve really missed hearing Joe Buck calling a baseball game” said nobody.

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Am a San Antonio Spurs fan so haven’t been laser-focused on the NBA playoffs. But in a world where Red Sox-Yankees still dominates baseball, seems a bit odd that we are a game away from Boston-New York Eastern Conference final and sports media so far is strangely quiet.

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More trial news out of New York. We have a jury in the Senator Bob Menendez trial. I’m a Democrat, if he’s found guilty he should go to jail. See how easy that is?

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Florida Governor Ron DeathSantis just signed GOP legislation that will make climate change a lesser priority in Florida and largely disappear from state statutes.

Of course as Florida increasingly suffers from climate disasters DeSantis will demand more federal aid.

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Trump responds to backlash over Noem killing her dog: ‘We all have bad weeks.”

You know who wishes they had bad weeks these days? Cricket.

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After Don’s interview aired, Biden campaign statement, “At the Biden campaign, we are proudly anti-puppy-killing & don’t think those who murder puppies are ‘terrific.’”

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Many GOP Senators on Senate Floor Wednesday talking about National Police Week and memoralizing fallen officers.

For some reason none of them mentioned Brian Sicknick.

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Tuesday Biden hit Chinese electric vehicles & chips w/h higher tariffs.

Asked on Trump’s claim China now “eating our lunch” economically, Dark Brandon replied “He’s been feeding them for a long time.”

Little coverage in national media. Would it help if Joe insulted reporters?

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So will Donald Trump ask Hannibal Lecter to attend the first debate?

Media is all over former Maryland Governor Larry Hogan running for U.S. Senate and saying how bipartisan he supposedly is..

Has anyone asked Larry Hogan who he is voting for for President in November?

Tommy Tuberville says attending Trump trial was “‘Most depressing thing I’ve ever been in’ Did Coach Tubby forget about that 2008 36-0 Auburn loss to Alabama? (It was after that year Auburn paid him $5 million to go away)

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So would Senators J.D. Vance and Tommy Tuberville like to explain to their constituents how they are promoting family values by attending the trial of a man charged with election crimes over paying to cover up sex with a porn star?

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Okay. SF Giants manager Bob Melvin said Luis Matos will “get a good shot here” in center field with Jung Hoo Lee out.

Cue a rousing chorus of “I am not throwing away my shot” from Luis Matos. (Three run home run that at the time gave SF Giants a 3-1 lead.)

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Jimmy Carter is 99 years old and I’ll bet he wouldn’t confuse Donald Trump with Braves catcher Chadwick Tromp.

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Donald Trump was attacking President Jimmy Connors. How long until he starts ranting about Senator Chris Evert and DOT Secretary Pete Sampras?

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KC Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker attacked Biden in speech at Benedictine college for being Catholic but pro-abortion. As Trump courts evangelical voters while on trial for paying illegal hush money over sex with a porn-star & his Playboy bunny mistress.

NY Times & other major media love to write about young people being upset with Biden over Mideast. Shame they don’t have time or space to cover Trump’s regular promises to institute Muslim ban, arrest & deport pro-Palestine protesters & his absolute support for Netanyahu.

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New York Times/Siena College nationwide poll last month found that 31% of registered women voters think Trump respects women. Uh, what would Donald he have to do to convince them he doesn’t respect women? Sexually assault someone in the middle of Fifth Avenue?

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Maybe he just went about it wrong. If Bill Clinton had tried to pay hush money to Linda Tripp and others to cover up his affair with Monica Lewinsky would the GOP have supported him?

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Even Stan Barnes, an Arizona GOP strategist gets it on Kari Lake. “She regrettably, has been on record on all sides of abortion issue. And the 1 thing you cannot do in the pro-life, pro-choice argument as a political figure, is to be on more than 1 side.”

Ruben Gallego is an easy choice for Arizona

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Trump fundraising email. “The FILTHY BIDEN JUDGE could throw me in jail at any moment. So before I step back into that New York courtroom tomorrow & face possibility of LIFE IN PRISON, I need to know: Are there any final words you’d like to share with me?” Should we tell him?

Hunter Wendelstedt warned Aaron Boone after the Yankees manager claimed he missed an Oakland A batter swinging at a pitch: ” You got anything else to say, you’re gone.”

Next pitch, a fan behind the dugout yelled at the umpire and Wendestedt ejected Boone.

So Hunter is hard of hearing as well as maybe losing his eyesight.

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Reminds me of a story I read as a child, I think it was about Casey Stengel. When an umpire told his team to zip it and then someone from dugout yelled one more thing. Ump said “You’re out of here.” Stengel said who did you toss? Ump named the player. Casey said ‘Better yell louder than that, I sent him to AAA last week.”

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76ers blew game to Knicks after taking a five-point lead with 47.3 seconds to go.

Hold our beer, said Lakers, up 20 over Nuggets in the 3rd quarter.

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The lawyer for a known liar is basing his defense on calling the defendant’s previous lawyer a liar. Got it.

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Travel agent PSA Trump claims he cannot campaign due to trial. His NYC trial adjourned 1230p. He has 757 plane. Means several important states within 2 hour flight. NH, OH, PA, VA, NC – for starters If Donald weren’t so lazy he could campaign in one & be back tonight.

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Hey CNN, You’re talking this am about Donald Trump not taking opportunities to campaign (he has all afternoon and evening today, plus his own plane) while President Biden is out on the campaign trail. But you don’t COVER Joe Biden on the campaign trail.

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Ditto

No-name Dem Rep. from Minnesota (Dean Phillips) primaries Pres. Biden. Nonstop national coverage.

Senate leader & 2020 Presidential candidate (Amy Klobuchar) is top Biden surrogate again in 2024. and spent much of last weekend opening Biden-Harris field office in New Hampshire

-Crickets from major media.

World according to today’s GOP.

It is critically important that President’s son, who was never elected to office, and admits his mistakes, is former addict who used prostitutes.

But the former President paying off a porn star and paying to kill stories about his mistress – move along, nothing to see here.

Alina Habbas, trying to say Trump did nothing criminal in paying off a porn star. “You hire lawyers to solve problems, lawyers solve those problems. That’s it.” Shame Henry II didn’t have Alina around when he asked about Becket “Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?”

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Has any media outlet covering the anti-Israel student protests also including the rather important sidebar that Donald Trump has promised, besides his Muslim ban, to revoke student visas for protesters and DEPORT THEM? I’ll wait.-

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Okay who else saw Donald Mustard trending on Twitter today and thought Trump had run out of ketchup bottles?

LA Dodgers have 1/2 billion dollar payroll & will spend more before trade deadline to win.

But for non-Dodgers fans isn’t it fun right now their record is worse than both Milwaukee Brewers & Pittsburgh Pirates? Whose combined payroll is less even without Ohtani deferral. #BeatLA

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Meanwhile, in the most watched WNBA draft ever. (okay, until this year who knew WNBA televised their draft, Caitlin Clark went of course to the Indiana Pacers.

But then the Chicago Sky took both South Carolina center Kamilla Cardose and LSU’s Angel Reece.

Wonder how much Sky-Fever tickets will go for in 2024?

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CNN Breaking News headline “President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden have released a joint tax return that shows they made almost $620,000 in 2023.”

Fixed it for them

Wrong headline CNN. Fixed it for you.

“President Joe Biden & Dr. Jill Biden released their 2023 tax return. While former President Trump still refuses to release any tax returns..”

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And yes, your serious reminder at the end of April 15, tax day, that Donald Trump has still never released ANY of his tax returns.

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As Donald Trump whines about his hush money trial meaning he is not able to go to his son’s graduation can some reporter ask him in real time on camera what school Barron attends?

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Has anyone asked Barron Trump if he WANTS his father at his high school graduation?

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We shouldn’t repeat this but sounds like Donald Trump’s nap today lasted longer than what he paid Stormy Daniels for..

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. now says that Donald Trump asked him to be his running mate, and he declined. Clearly RFK Jr. has decided to challenge Trump for the votes of those who admire the biggest liars.

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Meanwhile, though it didn’t get the headlines. Few issues are more bipartisan than fairness in pricing and availability for concert/event tickets.

Senator Amy Klobuchar even has Mike Lee on her side against Ticketmaster’s monopoly. And now Biden’s DOJ has clearly beens listening as Ticketmaster will face federal antitrust lawsuit:…

Competence isn’t clickbait.

Thinking only four games into the MLB season and Houston Astros fans are missing Dusty Baker already.

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SF Giants gave Joey Bart plenty of chances. Having said that Bart might have been forgiven for smiling just a bit at the result from the man who took his roster spot today. Ugh.

“Joey Bart designated for assignment, RHP Daulton Jefferies added to 40-man roster.”

Jeffries was the SF Giants starting pitcher today. Gave up 9 runs, 6 earned, in 2 innings….

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The NCAA has announced 3-point lines in Portland for the regional women’s basketball tournament were “not the same distance.” They declined to say how far off.. And four games were played before it was announced.

SF Chronicle, however, reported that one was the correct distance of 22 feet, 1¾ inches that was adopted for the 2021-22 season, and the other was the old 3-point distance of 20 feet, 9½ inches. Over 16 inches difference.

If only the NCAA were an organization that could afford to hire people to get details right. #sarcasm

–https://www.sfchronicle.com/sports/college/article/impact-divergent-3-point-distances-portland-19378182.php

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Trump violates gag order in hush money case by REPEATED attacking judge’s daughter, with pictures which make her a MAGA target: Fox News headline is all about Nicole Wallace: “MSNBC host angrily throws her script during show in reaction to Trump calling out judge’s daughter.”

Republican Mark Esper, Trump’s former Sec of Defense told Bill Maher “There’s no way I’ll vote for Trump, but every day that Trump does something crazy, the door to voting for Biden opens a little bit more, and that’s where I’m at.” It’s a start.

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House and Senate on vacation for Easter. But has a single GOP member of Congress condemned Trump posting a picture of a kidnapped and bound President Biden. Getting tired of using the line – “I’ll wait.”

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CNN actually gets a headline right. This shouldn’t be that much of a shock. “Republicans slam Biden for proclaiming Transgender Day of Visibility on Easter, though it’s yearly observed on March 31.”

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So next year Easter, April 20, is on Hitler’s birthday. Waiting to see how GOP will blame President Biden for that too.

Who breathed a bigger sigh of relief when Caitlin Clark and the Hawkeyes came back to win tonight’s game and advance to the women’s Sweet Sixteen. Iowa fans? Or ESPN?

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Another reason to cheer for Caitlin Clark, she’s proved if your heart takes you somewhere in college basketball, doesn’t have to be of 1 biggest name schools. If you’re good enough, you & school will be big names. More know Caitlin’s name than any man in college basketball.

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Actually, the stars in men’s basketball have become the coaches. At least the names most of us remember.

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Why in the world would NBC think they need to give MORE airtime to an election denier? Like most of cable news they already give too much airline to the #1 election denier – Donald Trump

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If President Biden announced he had cured cancer increasingly convinced that “Breaking News” on cable TV would be coverage of Donald Trump’s (dishonest) reaction to that news.

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Donald Trump whines that you can’t have a trial in the middle of an election – “not fair.” So why hasn’t he told his House GOP cult members to knock off their election year impeachment efforts against President Biden?

Sen. Raphael Warnock was on Face the Nation talking voting rights & defending Joe Biden’s accomplishments -including “Black wealth is up 60%… black unemployment is at all time low…” He got zero headlines. Whereas NBC platforming an election denier…..Competence isn’t clickbait.

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WTF? Marco Rubio tried to defend Trump on immunity for conduct while in office, but conceded “Donald couldn’t “go out & basically kill staff overnight inside White House” which Rubio called “absurd” hypothetical.

Right, Donald wouldn’t hang Mike Pence himself, he’d outsource it.

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Donald Trump claims that dealing with a trial in court will keep him from campaigning. But President Biden is capable of running the country while also campaigning. Joe is up to the job, but clearly Donald is too old to be President.

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You know how brilliant Joe Biden’s response to Donald Trump’s dishonest bragging about golf- “Congratulations Donald, quite an accomplishment,” was by the number of MAGAs today who say President Biden doesn’t run his own Twitter account.

President Biden’s tweet congratulating Trump continues to go viral & clearly got under Donald’s skin. Joe needs more snarky nice surrogates.

Fortunately Amy Klobuchar supports Joe & is up to task. Remember this from Trump’s illege RNC speech on White House South Lawn?

“@amyklobuchar

·Aug 27, 2020

Get off our lawn.”

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Did not have Chuck Todd as one of the first voices of reason attacking NBC News on my 2024 Batsh*t Bingo card.

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Rachel Maddow tonight talks about how radical people have wanted to take over American democracy before. “What has always been fringe project before now” has support of major party-GOP. And it could win. Because people in so-called normal politics have laundered it. Nailed it.

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“Want to associate myself with my NBC-MSNBC colleagues who’ve have voiced loud & principled objection to company putting someone on payroll who’s part of ongoing project to get rid of our system of govt. She’s still trying to convince us elections are fraudulent.” Rachel Maddow

It’s that time of year when millions of Americans are outraged over some teams not making March Madness, at the same time they can’t name a single player on those teams. #SelectionSunday

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Oklahoma, Indiana State, Seton Hall and Pittsburgh were the first four teams left out of March Madness. And Oklahoma, Pittsburgh plus St. John’s declined invitations to the NIT tournament.

Is NIT now officially the tournament of chopped liver?

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Know Scott Boras is supposed to be a super agent.

But it seems like only yesterday Blake Snell was asking for 9 years and $270 million

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Putin apparently has won the Russian “election” with 87.8% of the votes. The other 12.2% presumably will be dying soon of “natural causes.”

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So apparently RFK Jr is considering Nicole Shanahan, as his running mate. Nicole is the very rich 2nd ex-wife of Sergey Brin, who he divorced after she allegedly had an affair with Elon Musk.

Feel like I lost IQ points just writing this sentence.

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So if you found out a while back that your “English-Irish” heritage was really Ulster Protestant – orange – is it cultural appropriation or worse to wear green on St Patrick’s Day? Asking for a friend.

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NY Times ignores former VP Mike Pence saying he won’t endorse Trump. But they had no problem giving previously unknown congressman Dean Phillips headlines for criticizing Biden.

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I just wish the NY Times would give as much coverage to Mike Pence not endorsing Donald Trump as they give to random people in diners who claim to be disillusioned with President Biden.

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NY Times headline “How Trump Is Scrambling to Raise Cash – “Former president facing converging financial crunches as he & GOP confront shortfall against Pres. Biden & Dems. Way buried lede -part of cash crunch is over $500 million in bonds needed from the TWO court findings against Donald..

Speaker Mike Johnson on GOP bashing each other in primaries. “I told them to cool it. I’m vehemently opposed to member-on-member action in primaries. It’s not productive, it causes division & we should not be engaging in that.” Has he listened to Orange Jesus Trump lately?

Many MAGAs routinely say that Donald Trump didn’t really mean what he was saying, it was a joke, slip of the tongue, whatever. But if Joe Biden ever so much as stumbles on a word, or utters a gramatically imperfect sentence, it’s grounds for declaring him unfit.

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Can anyone imagine if President Biden was the one who said he had beaten Barack Obama?

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Nasty GOP primary for US Senate in Ohio gets nastier as Trump-Backed MAGA candidate Moreno is linked to gay hookup site., He says it was a prank.

Personally don’t care if he’s gay or not, except that he’s anti LGBTQ rights.

But Ohio has a better option than all 3 GOP running. Re-elect Sherrod Brown. Effective no drama Senator who cares about Ohio.

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Peak bloom for Cherry Blossoms in Washington DC – March 17 – was not only the 2nd earliest on record – it was three days before the over 3-week-long Cherry Blossom Festival even started. But sure,there’s no climate change. #sarcasm

Media headlines all Biden’s verbal stumbles, but not his Gridiron quotes.

But love these Dark Brandon lines. “Expectations were so low, I just had to show up & remember who the president is.” “One candidate’s too old & mentally unfit to be president, The other guy’s me.”

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Saw Jacksonville Beach trending and hoped it was just stupid spring break behavior. Nope, another active shooter. Not quite a mass shooting for now as only three were shot.

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It’s the guns, stupid.

Some US media reporting on Biden’s 81% in Michigan vs Trump’s 68% reminds me of an old Soviet Union joke:

A USA car beat a Russia car in a match race. Pravda headline “In race today Russian car came in second. The American car came in next to last.”

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Wait, according to Stephen Colbert, Trump says he doesn’t have to post bond “because he’s too rich?” Uh, wasn’t Donald’s conviction for lying and overinflating his assets?

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Has any reporter asked a Democrat voting uncommitted in Michigan over Biden not magically getting a ceasefire in Gaza if they really want to return to a President who will reinstitute a Muslim band, plus arrest and even deport protesters?

I’m waiting,

WTF Washington Post headline:

“Biden wins MI primary but faces notable showing by ‘uncommitted. On GOP side, former president Donald Trump continued sweep of early primary contests.”

President Biden – 81.2%, “uncommitted” 13% Trump -68%, Haley 26.7%

Thinking Jeff Bezos really wants his tax cuts?

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“House Speaker Mike Johnson said he hoped Congress could avert government shutdown. “We have been working in good faith around-the-clock every single day for months and weeks.” Uh, two weeks ago MAGA Mike sent House home for two week vacation. Does he think we’re that stupid?

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Meanwhile in Hawaii, a tourist claiming he wanted to see the sunrise, drove his rental SUV off a cliff on the Big Island – in an area rental car companies tell you not to drive due to poor road conditions and lack of cell service.

He survived with minor injuries.

Thinking someone is lucky to be alive.

And someone is about to learn about those waivers with rental car insurance.

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Louisiana Senator John Kennedy talking today about how teenage children are not mature enough to make decisions on gender-affirming care. But he and most of GOP have no problem with saying children are mature enough to become parents if they get pregnant -even by rape or incest.

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Mitch McConnell & John Thune, two top-ranked GOP leaders, today yielded to conservatives to call for all Senate to conduct a full trial of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.

Maybe Majority Leader Chuck Schumer should schedule trial for nights and weekends.

Play stupid games win stupid prizes.

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Trump lawyer badgering Terrence Bradley over him saying Nathan Wade only told him once about dating Fani Willis.

Speaking as a woman who has often talked & joked with others about how little men talk to male friends about anything personal, why is that statement controversial?

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From Seth Meyers’ question on his age: “Other guy – he’s about as old as I am, but he can’t remember his wife’s name,” President Biden said, referring to appearance where Trump referred to Melania as “Mercedes.” Can anyone imagine if Joe stumbled over Jill’s name?