Patrick Goldstein

Patrick Goldstein is ex-LA Times columnist, recovering movie addict, baseball dad & lover of high school hoops, Miami politics, Chicago blues & Atlanta Braves

[Patrick Goldstein @patrickbigpix]

Even George Washington mandated that his Revolutionary War soldiers be vaccinated:

[Jake Tapper ��� @jaketapper]

NYT: A major flu outbreak has sickened nearly 160 troops at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas weeks after Defense Secretary Hegseth announced that U.S. troops would no longer be required to be vaccinated for the flu, defense officials said.

https://t.co/fFIt8Mhyzg

[Patrick Goldstein @patrickbigpix]

Sounds like JD Vance and Ilhan Omar are in total sync when it comes to Israel's survival:

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

Holy smokes!! 🔥🔥🔥

JD Vance to Israel opposing the MOU

"My response to them would be: What is your exact proposal? You’re a country of 9 million people. You can’t just kill your way out of solving every single national security problem that you have."

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Trump's war against the Reflecting Pool's algae bloom is going almost as well as the war against Iran: https://t.co/8Pb7RYReDx

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We’ve had 29 Secretaries of Defense but this is the first one who thought he’d look good in chain mail armor:

[The Conservative Alternative @OldeWorldOrder]

PETE HEGSETH: "Just like the Christian crusaders who pushed back the Muslim hordes in the 12th century, American Crusaders will need to muster the same courage against Islamists today."

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Apparently it was too much to ask for the San Francisco Giants to have its players wear special caps on Pride Night--at least for the unctuous Sen. Josh Hawley who's calling it a 'pattern of discrimination " against Christian players: https://t.co/RuUQ8JXxcY

[Patrick Goldstein @patrickbigpix]

Truly impressive how Howard Lutnick and Marco Rubio kept a straight face during Trump's farcical explanation for why he's giving billions to Iran:

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Trump on Iran: "The unfreezing -- we have taken a lot of their money. It's not our money. At a certain point in time, I guess we're gonna have to give it back."

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Hollywood loves the easy money from sequels and reboots, but it wants to market the films as--well--somehow different: https://t.co/CXipK6q922

[Patrick Goldstein @patrickbigpix]

JD Vance just blundered into the dreaded 'basket of deplorables' territory:

[Jon Favreau @jonfavs]

JD Vance, last night: “It doesn’t both me that Democrats disagree with our policies. It bothers me that they are just terrible people.”

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The way things are going with Trump's hapless campaign to turn the Reflecting Pool American flag blue maybe he should just decree that the flag be colored algae green:
https://t.co/cIo5bkbWl3

[Patrick Goldstein @patrickbigpix]

Susie Wiles told JD Vance he should do himself a favor and stop embarrassing himself by getting off Twitter. Looks like she was right:

[JD Vance @JDVance]

Trump won we don’t have to do this anymore

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What’s worth remembering about this supposedly idyllic Fenway Park scene is that during the entire 1950s the Red Sox never had a black player on their opening day roster:

[Steve Ferguson @lsferguson]

On opening day, the Red Sox and Fenway Park posted this video showing 1950's Boston. It had unintended consequences. It poignantly showed what we have lost as a culture. Will we ever get it back or is it gone for good?

[Patrick Goldstein @patrickbigpix]

Really depressing to see progressive media types pretending that when it comes to wealthy oligarchs there's no difference between Trump, Musk, Bezos and Barack Obama: https://t.co/2lSL6du5Vb

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Look who's talking:

[David J Harris Jr @DavidJHarrisJr]

Rep. Brandon Gill: "I think of James Talarico as a barely straight version of Pete Buttigieg. People in Washington love him, but he doesn’t work with the rest of the country."

Thoughts?

[Patrick Goldstein @patrickbigpix]

Labeling Karen Bass a Communist is almost as far-fetched as casting Kevin Sorbo as a debonair college professor:

[Kevin Sorbo @ksorbs]

L.A. voters now have to decide which woman to vote for as their mayor. One is a Communist and the other is a Communist.

[Patrick Goldstein @patrickbigpix]

You'd think at least one of Spencer Pratt's credulous supporters might wonder if he had such an incriminating recording why he didn't release it before he lost the primary instead of afterwards:

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 JUST IN: Spencer Pratt is now WINDING UP to unleash a RECORDING against Karen Bass or Nithya Raman that would force them to resign

Expose it all, @spencerpratt 🔥

"We have a recording of one of your candidates doing and saying something that would make her resign in shame. So Karen, Nithya, ask yourself, is it possible that one of your employees may have a recording of you doing or saying something that would force you to resign and disgrace?"

LFG!

[Patrick Goldstein @patrickbigpix]

Being on the campaign trail used to be a lot more improvisational:

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

Robert F. Kennedy stopping for a meal at a drive-in in Bluefield, West Virginia during the campaign for his brother John F. Kennedy to become the 1960 Democratic presidential nominee.

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Kinda hilarious fantasy projection when the only DOJ that’s ever been so nakedly weaponized against its political opposition is the one currently in power:

[Jarvis @jarvis_best]

Has the market priced in the fact that the next Dem president is going to assign 40% of the DOJ to the Jail Elon Musk Task Force?

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Remember how he laid waste to Gawker? Now Peter Thiel has a strange new weapon aimed at taking down investigative journalists: https://t.co/FZR6iNWHOo

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John Cornyn continuing a decade-long pattern of Republican office holders appearing shocked and surprised that that their servile behavior didn’t buy them a shred of loyalty:

[Andrew Desiderio @AndrewDesiderio]

Cornyn unchained

“There’s never going to be good enough for him, other than 100%, you know, slavish adherence to whatever he wants. But obviously that’s not what the senator’s role is supposed to be, especially in terms of checks and balances.” @hillhulse
https://t.co/6YXCudqG6S

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Kinda classic to see the same people who bitterly denounced anyone who criticized Charlie Kirk after his death now taking aim on a political columnist who they claim is just as reprehensible as a trio of assassinated terrorists:

[Mark Dubowitz @mdubowitz]

Ali Khamenei is gone. Yahya Sinwar is gone. Hassan Nasrallah is gone.

Now the most public advocate for the elimination of Israel may be Peter Beinart.

We’ll see how Mojtaba Khamenei and Erdogan evolve. For now, Peter is out front. Mazal Tov.