Mad About...

First things first:

Happy birthday, John Kirk DeRitis. And party alert: Radio Free Phoenix 20th anniversary celebration at Rooster Country in Mesa, Sunday, Nov. 17, 2-7 p.m. BE THERE.

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Now then, the Schloss-Blog is mad about ...

...Kamala Harris not scaring me yet. Scare me, or Trump just might win.

Convince me that Trump is going to send the military to arrest me for a speeding ticket.

And let me rot in jail awaiting my hearing.

Scare me.

Scare me that Trump is going to let his police stop and search any assembly of people on a city street.

Anywhere.

Scare me so that I know what Trump will do as president will scare me, if you want to win.

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Kamala, your ads try to scare people that Trump's going to raise taxes, do away with Social Security and Medicare and ban abortions.

His ads try to scare you into thinking murderers are running around all over the country, illegally having migrated in (even though they didn't).

Which one scares you more, if you're susceptible to that?

Remember, you're running for president, he's running to stay out of jail.

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Or, alternately...

...remember "weird?" It worked. Get back to it. Be a little lighthearted. It gets under Trump's skin. Shows your sense of humor. Make me laugh, alternately. 

It just might be the knockout punch you're looking for. Bill Maher thinks so.

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The Schloss-Blog is also mad about ...

...The NY Giants, my NY Giants. They are pathetic. Never repaired the offensive line sufficiently to the point that Saquon Barkely walked. 

To Philadelphia. He walked.

Didn't pay him. Gotta' pay him - best running back in the game. Didn't pay him. You let him walk. Damn

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...mad about Donald Trump's ability to attract attention by not campaigning

Showing up at a closed-to-the-public McDonald's and doing brainless work. 

Or standing around and brainlessly swaying to music for 39 minutes at a campaign event. 

He is a pathological liar and is cognitively challenged, severely so.

But he's likely going to be the 47th president because Kamala is way too nice in campaigning. Gotta' hit him below the belt. 

You have no knockout punch, Kamala. Better find one.

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The Archdiocese of Los Angeles is paying $880 million to settle sex abuse charges. 

Scary!

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Some 18 or so million people have already voted.

18 million!!!

The race is already over. People already decided for whom they're going to vote.

A McDonald's fry station trainee might very well be our next president, even though he's a disgusting human being.

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Kamala, your messaging sucks. 

You keep running around the country telling the same old stories about working at McDonald's, caring for your mother and coming from a poor household.

Nobody cares.

Remind people that your administration solved COVID while Trump killed 1 million Americans by dismissing COVID. Remind them you created more jobs than any other administration while Trump lost more than any.

But you won't. You're using Biden's advisors and he was 7 points behind with them. You have not sustained your post-convention boost. 

Why?

Because your messaging sucks. I stand behind you with unwavering support. Now start scaring undecided voters and Nikki Haley voters into voting for you. 

I can't do it for you. Or else that music-swaying, cognitively challenged idiot just might win.

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Good night, Mra. Calabash. Here's to you, Kamala.

More Sunday night on my Radio Free Phoenix rock 'n' roll show.

Fighting Mad

 The Schloss-Blog is mad about ...

Kamala not reminding the U.S. that Trump killed 1 million Americans during COVID;

...or that Trump started us down the road toward unbound inflation with his dismissal of COVID and the subsequent product and supply shortages that ensued, and...

...Kamala not reminding us that Trump is a convicted felon, 

...Kamala not reminding us Trump has been found liable for sexual abuse;

...and defamation of character;

...and liable for business fraud;

...and has had six businesses go belly up (but you trust him on the economy);

...and lies more often than he tells the truth;

...and cheats on his wife with porn stars;

...and Playboy bunnies;

...and wants to grab women by the p___y;

...just walk up to them and grab them by the p___y.

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The Bears want a new lakefront stadium (the current 'new' one is a whole 20 years old, cost $632 million).

So how do you get a new multibillion-dollar stadium? You win.

How do you win? You get a pattycake schedule, which is just what the NFL gave the Bears, the league's way of showing its support for the new construction, which will be a moneymaker. Winning teams get new stadiums.

However, my college intramural team could beat the Bears schedule for the first half of the season.

But say hello to the new stadium on the lake. When the city and state get what they want in financial commitments from the Bears and the league, that is, then they'll sign off on it.

Just a matter of time. Sorry, Arlington Heights. But the old racetrack grounds are going to look good as a combination commercial/residential development.

Geez, I hope they keep that Starbucks I like on Euclid Avenue.

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James Carville, the election consultant guru, says the best communication is the kind  that moves you emotionally, scares you, perhaps.

C'mon, Kamala, scare me. Please.

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Will Donald Trump grant pardons to the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrectionists?

Already, six people to whom he granted clemency during his first term have been charged with crimes again.

Does that answer the question? Believe him when he says he'll do it, that he'll put hundreds of criminals back on the street.

Don't let him.

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Did you see Trump's sway session to the music for 39 minutes instead of taking more questions at a town hall?

He is cognitively impaired and afraid of himself, afraid of losing, afraid of going to jail.

Yikes!

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Good night, Mrs. Calabash. Here's to you, Kamala.

More Sunday night on my Radio Free Phoenix rock 'n' roll show.

 

Why War? NY Times says Netanyahu, Hamas Want It

The Schloss-Blog needs to hear the Kamala campaign saying:

**Trump insulted Detroit - in Detroit (she did, finally!).

**Trump insulted Blacks, at the National Association of Black Journalists

**Trump insulted parents, especially women, with his empty, heartless comment on child care at the New York Economic Club

**Trump insults all immigrants and will deport all of them - ALL OF THEM - even the legal ones and especially the ones from his so-called "sh_thole" countries.

**Trump and Vance lie pathologically: about immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, and Aurora, Colorado. About FEMA's response to Hurricane Milton.

**Trump has a "concept" on healthcare - he's had it since 2015.

Let him have it, between the eyes, right to the jaw. C'mon Kamala.

Kamala, the most-effective ads are the ones like the "liar" messages Ruben Gallego uses against Kari Lake, with real voters speaking out loud about her outlandish positions on abortion and that she won the gubernatorial election (she didn't). Two years later, she's still suing to be appointed governor of Arizona. Meanwhile, she already lost a defamation suit filed against her by the Maricopa County Recorder, whom she accused of dishonesty and fraud in that 2022 election.

Remember, Kamala, you are running for president. Trump is running for his life, to stay out of prison, possibly for the rest of his natural life, and will do anything, ANYTHING. You, Kamala, are running to save our lives. Will you do anything ... to save my life, our lives? You should. What are you waiting for?

Kamala needs a 'knockout punch" to solidify her campaign, clinch victory. Maybe Trump will give her one with his violent, out-of-control rhetoric. Trump's negative ads about you are leaving you with a black eye. When are you gonna' give him one?

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Meanwhile, the war in Gaza rumbles on, for several reasons, but mainly because: Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has set unreasonable paramters for victory, virtually unreachable. Hamas, on the other hand, just wants to survive and keep fighting and getting sympathy.

And while Israel tries to seek out and kill Hamas leaders, they allegedly hide out among the general population and with the surviving hostages, making it that much more difficult for the Israelis to accomplish their goals. 

It's time for the United States to step in and end this. Somehow.

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Border crossings and inflation are at levels as low as they've been at in many years. And the stock market is at record highs.

The economy is good. Trump's record with business sucks and leaves a trail of bankruptcies  in its wake.

Yet, polls show he's most trusted to handle the economy and immigration.

It's deplorable.

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Good night, Mrs. Calabash. Here's to you, Jordan and Erin.

More Sunday night on my Radio Free Phoenix rock 'n' roll show.

War

The Schloss-Blog is concerned that we'll be going to war, along with Israel, against Iran, which vastly outnumbers and out-weapons Israel, even though the Israelis are the far superior fighting force.

When Hezbollah invades, when Iran declares war after Israel's next retaliatory attack, how will Israel offset Iran's advantages in numbers?

With the help of the United States. At first, it will be our planes and missiles fired from the sea. But how long, if war breaks out between Israel and Iran, before U.S troops are on the ground?

And with Donald Trump in the White House, Netanyahu has a green light to go full scale, accompanied by what he knows will be Trump's permission and promise to commit to combat.

Trump says he wants to stop the killing. But ultimately, he'll sacrifice American lives in the Middle East and destroy what relationships we have with the Arab world.

Meanwhile though, Antony Blinken will shuttle around the Middle East, campaigning for peace, but how did that work out between Russia and Ukraine? Between Israel and Hamas? 

And where are the hostages? Dead or dying. And while we campaign for peace and humantarian aid, we feed the "good guys" with the weapons they need to hold off the "bad guys," aka terrorists and invaders.

As we should. Right? They're terrorists, right? Yes, they are.

Is this any way to conduct a ceasefire negotiation?

Above all though, remember - Hamas is the bad guys here. Bad guys need to be gotten rid of.

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Did anyone notice that Donald Trump lost a debate to someone he says is "mentally disabled?"

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And in sports...

The Knicks got Karl-Anthony Towns.

Yes!!!

Stephen A. Smith will be happy - he wanted the Knicks to get rid of Julius Randle.

This trade makes me a little sad. There was a time when any major move by the Knicks would've prompted an immediate phone call from bestie Gary Kruh, with whom I grew up in Brooklyn. We would've lamented or cheered long distance for hours over such a move.

Or over getting Mikal Bridges. Or over the secret weapon throw-in in the Towns' trade - draft rights to James Nnaji.

We would've discussed the plusses and minuses for hours.

We were devout Knicks fans - along with Keith Corbin, we went to Knicks playoff games, stood in long lines for tickets, rode New York subways late at night on the way home and even went to Bill Bradley's first game as a member of the Knicks at the old Madison Square Garden.

Gary's been gone for 15 years now. Somewhere though, he's smiling.

R.I.P. And let's go Knicks.

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One last sports and entertainment note: within a couple of days of each other, the sports world lost Pete Rose and Dikembe Mutombo and then we lsot entertainment superstar Kris Kristofferson.

Sadly, Pete Rose, I'll bet, will be enshrined now into MLB's Hall of Fame.

You watch.

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Good night, Mrs. Calabash. Here's to you, Sharon Kelley.

More Sunday night on my Radio Free Phoenix rock 'n' roll show.

Tramp

Here's what the Schloss-Blog is taking note of politically:

Trump is only trusted on the economy because of "The Apprentice." Kamala, where's that ad? In actuality, he's a failure; all those bankruptcies. And Trump media might be next. It's teetering, and if Trump sells his shares, cashes out, he'd be taking and leaving many of his friends and investors screwed. Kamala, where's that ad?

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Trump said in the 2016 campaign that he'd be in the office, "working (his) ass off," not playing golf all the time, like he accused Obama of doing. So, he played golf for just about a full one year of his presidency, 307 times, 25% of the time he was in office. The rest of the time, he never came out of his living quarters until about 11 a.m. everyday and just walked around the White House, seeing what channels the TVs were on and ordering them onto Fox News if they were on MSNBC or CNN. He never took his Presidential Daily Briefings seriously. Kamala, where's that ad?

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Trump and Vance keep saying that Haitians are eating people's pet dogs and cats in Springfield, Ohio. So far, it has caused bomb threats around town and general animosity and outright hatred toward that legal, hardworking community. Trump and Vance are racists. Kamala, where's that ad?

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We all know he's a convicted felon. For now, at least. Sexual abuser.  In other words, he's a pig. Kamala, where's that ad?

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Trump repeatedly dismissed COVID, including his famous it's at 15, going down to zero reference. What happened? It mushroomed into a mega-person death machine, killing more than a million Americans, bootstrapping the economy and backing up ports around the country. It left stores with shortages of goods and Americans subsequently paying ridiculous prices for goods and services. In other words, it was Trump, who so many Americans say they trust with the economy who sank the economy. Kamala, where's that ad?

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So, are you better off than you were four years ago? Trump says COVID knocked him off course. Of course, he failed to deal with it either, so, no wonder. The economy is doing better now than it was doing pre-pandemic. Yet, polls show pretty much consistently that Trump, with all his failures, is trusted more on handling the economy than Kamala is. It is, according to many, because of his reality-show reputation on "The Apprentice." 

But "The Apprentice" is not the economy and now comes new polling showing Kamala shortening the gap between her and Trump on handling the economy. This is especially as Kamala can hang her hat on people's confidence in the economy, in their own buying power, in their real wage growth, which has outpaced inflation for a year-and-a-half now and the stock market, which has posted record gains everyday as it pads people's retirements.

America is not a game show and Trump is a business failure, disinterested in running America and poised to ruin the economy, as studies by Penn-Wharton and Goldman Sachs reveal without exception. Trump's tariffs will blow the roof off inflation and kill America's pocketbooks disastrously.

And now comes new polling that Kamala, not Trump, will handle the economy better going forward. Yeah, Kamala. 

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Yet, Trump keeps on lying. And lying. He'll say anything to stay out of prison, which is the only reason he's running for president.

In his Aug. 8 news conference at Mar-a-Lago, he lied 162 times. In one hour.

And made outright 32 false claims in his April interviews with Time Magazine.

In a speech to the National Guard Association of the United States, he claimed he created the Veterans Choice healthcare program.

No, Obama did that. Trump extended it though.

He claimed China will pay the preposterous tariffs he's proposing.

Nope, consumers pay that.

It's an endless list, right down to Haitians eating cats and dogs. It's gotten so bad, Haitians have filed criminal charges against him.

Will he get arrested when he shows up there, as he's promised to do.

Hopefully.

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Bottom line, minstream media gives Trump a pass on lies. Stories should always start with,"Trump lied," regardless of the topic (economy, forgeign policy, immigration). Then tell the story. Bjut they never do...

The economy is great and getting better (hiring, jobs, GDP, inflation, wages). Kamala, where's that ad?

In other words, Kamala, your messaging needs freshening.

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On another note: The National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS) is reporting that 12 prep players have died this year due to football injuries.

Twelve!

The Association told The Daily Herald of Illinois that "it's something to be concerned about" but it's also "probably the safest it's ever been."

Twelve dead is not safe enough for me and this is my 50th year covering high school football.

Not safe enough...

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Good night, Mrs. Calabash. Here's to you, Erin - congrats on your surfing adventure.

More Sunday night on my Radio Free Phoenix rock 'n' roll show.