The Schloss-Blog has noted that Donald Trump is not ending 2025 as strongly as he would've liked. But before we get to that, we have to to say that ESPN gambling guru Joe Fortenbaugh is da' bomb.
Mr. Handicapper does impeccable research, incredibly detailed, and usually nails it, regardless of the sport, while keeping the guys (and gals) around the tables on Get Up and First Take in stitches with his sharp wit. There's also Erin Dolan, who can do all that on looks alone, but is just as capable on handicapping every aspect of every game.
The play on which Fortenbaugh sold me for good though was particularly wicked (get the play on words, huh?). Anyway, before the Bears beat the Packers last weekend, he noted that the Packers were coming off a game at Denver, which they lost, and that teams coming off games at Denver, five times out of six preceding the Packers visit to Soldier Field, lost their next game after getting beaten up by the brutally tough Broncos.
The Packers, ahead all the way, lost to the Bears in overtime.
So, gaming? Look up Joe Fortenbaugh's parlay for that week, regardless of the sport. Erin Dolan's too.
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Hasn't been a good week for donald Trump:
**The drip, drip, drip of the Epstein Files drop, drop, drop has been nauseating. Trump's 150 long-winded, crude, language-challenged posts on Truth Social on Christmas Day were not only hardly presidential but were so unhinged as to make anyone - and everyone - want to question his sanity.
They also showed clearly that he is scared to death of the drop, scared of the content, scared of the perception of what the heavily redacted, long-delayed files will reveal.
Like, that he is in up to his crinkly skinned neck.
**One of the few times the Supreme Court has let Trump down by not overturning other federal courts was this past week, when the 'Supremes' said the president couldn't send the National Guard into Illinois (Chicago specifically) to allegedly protect ICE while performing its illicitly brutal immigration enforcement activity.
The majority said “...the Government has failed to identify a source of authority that would allow the military to execute the laws in Illinois.”
In other words, Trump didn't prove his case and local law enforcement was sufficient.
Gorsuch, Alito and Thomas, the latter two who kiss Trump's ass, dissented.
Surprise!
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Trump also pardoned the president of Honduras, a convicted drug-trafficker, who smuggled enough cocaine into the United States to eliminate the population of Montana, meanwhile, destroying tourist boats out of Venezuela and killing all aboard, regardless of status, without gaining access to the cargo nor capturing and questioning those piloting these allegedly drug-laden vessels..
Yeah, that all makes sense.
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Meanwhile...
**Trump says affordability is a "Democratic hoax." The vast majority of Americans say otherwise.
**ESPN, unless it's a live sporting event, sucks. Especially if it includes Stephen A. Smith.
**CBS, once the Tiffany Network, just had its luster scraped off by new chief Bari Weiss, who shot down a thoroughly reported piece on deportation and a prison from Hell in El Salvador. The move makes Ms Weiss strongly appear to be a puppet of the Trump administration.
**Is David Kelce retiring? The Kansas City Chiefs Hall of Fame-bound tight end just might have played his last home game on Thursday in the team's loss to Denver. Would you retire if you had Taylor Swift waiting?
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Good night, Mrs. Calabash. Here's to you, Karla Kaelin and Wayne Ziemer (great party).
Happy and healthy new year to you all.
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