Okay, help me out, here. I mean, make this make sense. By now, we all know about Donny’s murder spree on so-called “Venezuelan drug runners,” likely really just fishermen. Team Evil sees a boat in the Caribbean and they blow it up, insisting the boat was full of drugs and drug runners from Venezuela. Normally, those attacks kill everyone aboard, but not the most recent attack, as of this writing.

In the most recent attack, two of the four people aboard survived. I see, this morning, that the US is going to “repatriate” the two “to their home countries of Columbia and Ecuador for prosecution and punishment.” Great. He randomly attacks boats out fishing or on a pleasure trip, killing everyone aboard because he wants to pretend he’s being tough on drugs, then finds out he accidentally killed people from Columbia and Ecuador? Now Columbia and Ecuador have to be dragged into this just because the Drumpfster can’t confess error?

He has yet to offer any evidence of his claims beyond his well-known prevaricating mouth, but this has been an effort to ramp up MAGA anger at Venezuela, for some reason. Discovering his most recent victims were from Columbia and Ecuador just adds to the confusion. I don’t know why he’s not going to prosecute them here, but I guess it’s because there’s no evidence. Even if there had been, he blew it up.

So let’s sum up, shall we? He kills a bunch of people on boats, insisting they’re dangerous and evil drug runners. He actually captures two of the dangerous and evil drug runners. Now he’s sending those same dangerous and evil drug runners back to their home countries – specifically, NOT Venezuela – and just… setting them free? That doesn’t seem like a very effective drug-battling strategy, if you ask me…

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Remember all the way back to, um, Saturday? When Americans held their ‘No Kings’ protest and the President of the United States decided to bomb the US in an attempt to intimidate protestors that didn’t intimidate protestors at all? Yeah, that time. The US fired artillery shells across I-5, claiming they were celebrating the 250th anniversary of the Marines, which occurs on November 10 so why wouldn’t you recognize it on October 18?

The military insisted it would be perfectly safe. GOP Representative Darrell Issa, who represents a district east of the base, called it “a spiteful publicity stunt” by Newsom. In a statement to the New York Times on Saturday, a spokesperson for Just Dumb Vance, William Martin, said Newsom misled the public about the safety risk.

That seems… less than supportive of Gavin Newsom’s call to close the highway for awhile during the live-firing-across-a-highway exercise. Newsom said it wasn’t just wrong – it was dangerous. He added that the President – or in this case, trump – “…using our military to intimidate people you disagree with isn’t strength – it’s reckless, it’s disrespectful, and it’s beneath the office he holds.” So who was right?

Well, this morning, there’s a report that one of the oh-so-safe artillery shells exploded early – right over the highway, in fact. Shrapnel rained down on a Highway Patrol car and a motorcycle that were part of JD Vance’s detail. Fortunately, nobody was hurt – because Newsom had closed the highway. It WAS a stupid and dangerous stunt and there WAS a problem that could have hurt or killed people. Gavin was right. Team Evil was wrong – again!

And STILL, ‘No Kings’ came off without a hitch, supported by millions of Americans nationwide…

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Well, the Niners sure served up a game yesterday, didn’t they? They’re not exactly inspiring confidence during the week as we hear report after report about injuries. This guy’s hurt. That guy’s out. What happened? Who’s next? The reports leave the fans feeling like the team will hobble out on walkers and do the best they can. Then they come out and beat the Atlanta Falcons 20-10. It was… convincing…

Christian McCaffrey came out and played so well he looked like, well, like Christian McCaffrey in his prime. McCaffrey has been struggling this season. Apparently, the Niners finally changed their run scheme and McCaffrey, um… ran with it. My first thought was, “Why didn’t they do that sooner?” But the reality is, you get it when you get it and I’m glad they got it now.

On the other side of the ball, we all thought the defense was going to collapse after the loss of Fred Warner and Nick Bosa. Well, that’s what we get for thinking, isn’t it? The defense looked sharp and tight and played very well. Very well, indeed. No, they weren’t perfect but they were very good. As I watched the replacements command the field, I thought, “Hey, Bosa and Warner once played their first down in the NFL, too.” Maybe the replacements are just as good. We’ll see.

Last season, we Niner fans were burned so often by our kicker, we seem to have PTSD. The kicker comes on to the field, Niner fans groan, “Oh, no.” But that was our LAST kicker, whose name I will not mention. Our current kicker, Eddy Piñeiro, has been perfect on field goals and only missed one kick all season. We fans need to get over ourselves.

And, listen. I’m a Brock Purdy fan. I’ve been a Brock Purdy fan since he exploded onto the scene. He’s a very good player. But Mac Jones is better. He’s making better reads. He makes them faster. He’s got very good accuracy and zip on the ball. He has a deep ball Purdy lacks. In fact, the only thing I think Purdy has on Jones is his ability to move. Jones isn’t a statue, but he’s not as mobile as Purdy.

It’s still Purdy’s job, of course. He JUST got the fat payday. The Niners are on the hook for that money now and they’re not going to let Purdy go and absorb that loss. But it says something that the deciding factor is the money and not the on-field performance. If it was strictly on-field performance, I’d say Mac Jones has the edge.

I say again, Purdy doesn’t suck. I’m not going be too upset that we end up with him under center. But I’m going to be sad to see Jones take his talents to another team next season. I actually and honestly think he’s the better Quarterback…