Well, I’m glad to see some mainstream media finally shining a light on Trump’s intentions. The Guardian on Tuesday had a story called, ‘Trump and allies plant seeds for ‘chaos and discord’ if he loses, experts warn.’ It’s all about how the right is ALREADY whining about how unfair the election is going to be if Trump doesn’t win. In short, they’re already setting up their January coup. Note to MAGA: the fact that your guy loses doesn’t mean the election was rigged. Your guy sucks…

Do you think Trump knows he shouldn’t sit home on Labor Day and not campaign at some union hall or the like? Of course he knows. He’s just not bothering anymore. Now that the polls have swung in Kamala’s direction, he knows his last chance is the January coup, in which he’s simply installed by the House of Representatives after the election is fraudulently declared invalid due to unprovable errors and actions.

That’s why he’s not making efforts to pick up new voters any more. For one thing, he knows he can’t. For the other, he really needs to focus on keeping current MAGA confused and in a frenzy so when he says, “Lie!” they will. So HIS campaign stops are, increasingly, in areas he’s already expected to do well in.

At this point, virtually the ONLY way I can think of to stop them from doing this is if enough Republicans who still love America resign their seats in the House with immediate effect, but do so only when there’s not enough time to be replaced by other, more “loyal” MAGA. Such a move would give control of the House to Democrats and remove Mike Johnson as Speaker, eliminating the threat.

There may be some other route Americans can take to protect America but I don’t know what it might be and, try as I might, I haven’t heard a peep from officials about what they might do to stop it. You see, technically, the way their plan is drawn up, everything they do will be consistent with the Constitution and law. The only problem with it will be that it’s all based on a lie. The election will be fine. In fact, since they’ve been whining and crying about how unfair the election was in 2020, I suspect this will be the most scrutinized election in American history. But that won’t stop MAGA from lying. NOTHING stops MAGA from lying…

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I’m glad Unions are back in the conversation. They proved themselves to be important components of a healthy economy. Unions found themselves under serious attack back in the 1980’s. Reagan busting the Air Traffic Controllers Union set the stage for how to bust unions in general and companies have been attacking ever since, to the obvious detriment of the workers and society as a whole.

It will be tough, restoring Unions, to be sure. The One Percent don’t like unions because unions have bargaining power. FAR too many Americans have been convinced that unions are somehow bad for them and they should oppose them. It’s true, these are the same people who think Climate Change is fake and Trump is awesome, but there are a LOT of them and wrongheadedness in large numbers is difficult to overcome.

But at least the conversation is back. At last it seems like people are starting to know, again, things we knew before…

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Well, the NFL season is kicking off. Tonight, I mean. I’m looking forward to it. You’ll probably read about it here. For instance, the Kansas City Chiefs have won the last two Stupor Bowls. If they win it again this year, it’s called a “three-peat.” It’s a term I believe that was originally coined by Roger Craig of the San Francisco Forty-Niners when THAT team was playing to win a possible third straight. Spoiler alert: the Niners never got their chance. Ironically, Craig fumbled the football on the Niners last play and the NY Giants beat them with a field goal in the NFC Championship game.

I mention it because I’m not looking forward to a full season of “Ooh, can they do it?” It MUST be a through-line the networks will follow, though. Those guys have to talk for hours each week about football. Sure the game is complex but it still comes down to “get the most points.” So, they look for story lines they can carry through the season, and a Chiefs three-peat is definitely on that list. We’ll hear about it every time the Chiefs are on television – in between gratuitous shots of Taylor Swift – and we’ll hear about it during other games, too.

There’s a risk that every time I turn on a game this year, I’ll be reminded that the Chiefs beat the Forty-Niners in the last Stupid Bowel. Yeah, I remember. Thanks…