BREAKING NEWS: This just in to the Schloss-Blog: National Guard troops deployed in Portland around NBA Trailblazers facility after head coach is indicted, arrested in gambling scandal. Trump calls this proof of severe unrest and the city being on fire, even though the team has been ICE cold. More on this as it becomes available, but Portland-area minorities are being advised by their ethnic monitoring groups to be incognito at Blazers games, blend in with their white friends, or not go at all.
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The Schloss-Blog says coaches who say "they play to win the game" are lying. They play not to lose at the end of close games - when they're ahead and time is running out.
Play-calling gets conservative (run the ball, run the clock). Except that never works. The other team calls its timeouts and preserves enough time to come back and win (see, Bears-Commanders, MNF).
I'm tired of ESPN showing the video of Herm Edwards emphasizing to a reporter, "You play to win the game!"
No, Herm, you play not to lose. Every coach knows it, fearing fan and media backlash otherwise, instead of ... gadzooks ... playing to win the game.
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Meanwhile, Trump is so hotly in pursuit already of next year's Nobel Peace Prize that he's killing as many people as he can in the Caribbean.
In fact, after blowing up a boat from Colombia, the fifth he has had destroyed for allegedly carrying drugs, he's now talking about land strikes in - Venezuela.
He's up to 10 ships destroyed, 43 killed, along what the Secretary of War(?) calls a known drug-trafficking route.
This can't sit well with our South American economic partners. In fact, it already hasn't - Trump's tariffs have China buying all of its soybeans from South American growers rather than U.S. exporters.
U.S soybean farmers are about to snap thanks to Trump's tariffs keeping them out of China, which has turned to South America for soybeans. U.S. farmers are losing a lot of money, a lot of business. And Trump just gave Argentina $40 billion to help bail out their economy as they steal soybean business away from American farmers.
Thank you, Mr. America First Trump.
So, just to be clear, while losing all of U.S. farmers' soybean business to South America, Trump is shooting South American countries' boats out of the water in the Caribbean, and the Pacific, alleging that they're carrying drugs without offering any proof thereof. Yes, he's sinking their ships and killing people aboard as well.
Peace Prize, huh? He's going to end up with a piece of a prize shoved up his ass by U.S. farmers instead.
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Seen the picture of Trump in Time Magazine? In their cover story on him, they used a mug shot taken from an angle looking up at him, revealing his loose neck flesh, receding hairline and true skin color.
It ain't pretty and he don't like it.
That's alright. Fewer and fewer people like him too.
His approval ratings for everything from the economy to tariffs to immigration enforcement have him in quite a hole. And let's not the East Wing, what's left of it, as Trump erects a 90,000-square-foot ballroom, dedicated to himself, a sure sign he intendeds to serve a third term when he declares a national emergency (Portland Trailblazers' coach go fired).
And his attempts to have the most Red States redistrict to eliminate Black and other minority Democratic seats likely won't go into effect until after next year's midterms elections, costing Republicans enough seats to lose the House and be threatened in the Senate.
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So much of what Democratic states and cities are suing Trump for may be moot - SCOTUS may hand Trump defeats in a lot of cases, likely will, in fact, but, Justice Amy Coney Barrett says that SCOTUS has no way to enforce those rulings.
America may be moot, unless Democrats take back the House, at the very least.
At least James Comey, John Bolton and Leticia James will kick Trump's ass in court, right?
Right?
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Fabulous turn out for the "No Kings" rally in Scottsdale last week. It was a serious clown show of costumes and messaging that left no doubt that Arizonans do not view Trump and his policies favorably. They are sick of his weaponizing the government, sick of his tariffs, sick of his inflation and sick of his use of ICE and/or the military in U.S. cities, especially ICE and the National Guard in cities with Black Mayors in Blue States. Trump is a piece of sh_t.
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Good night, Mrs. Calabash. Here's to you, Emily Capdevielle.
More Sunday night on my Radio Free Phoenix (radiofreephoenix.com) rock 'n' roll show.
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