A quick word about crowd size. Take a long shot. Photograph the group. We see them from Kamala’s campaign. Trump’s are mostly close in. They can crowd 50 people around a candidate and snap the picture and it looks like there’s a huge crowd. The only actual photo that matters is the long shot that captures most of the venue and the entire crowd. So, maybe that insisting (against all evidence, by the way) that he has the largest crowds, he could prove it with long shots.

It’s an obsession with him, isn’t it? One of the ways Kamala unmanned him during the debate was a simple mention of his crowd size – and how people leave his rallies early. The debate took place on Sep 10. Today is Sep 23 and he’s still trying to “correct the record” on the topic. It comes up everywhere he goes. He wants someone, anyone, to please believe him and not their lying eyes. Being behind in this race seems to have really confused him. He seemed to enjoy it more when he thought he was winning. Now he just seems…desperate.

Just send the photos, okay? SHOW us your large crowd sizes. It’s a simple solution. But the guy who pretends to have easy answers to any problem, hasn’t thought of THAT simple solution to prove he’s correct? Weird. Hey, maybe he knows that a long shot wouldn’t prove anything but he’s a liar…

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Trump says he won’t run for President again. I’ll bet. It’s got to be rough on his desperately narcissistic ego, losing election after election. Hell, even when he won the electoral vote, he lost the popular vote. People just don’t like him. Oh, AND, he’s a very old man. He seems to be in cognitive decline. HE describes his ramblings as “weaving” and calls it brilliant. It never seems brilliant, to me. It seems more…incoherent.

So, the next election will see him, already old and incapacitated, at 82 years old. America has already decided that seems too old, too out of touch. The thing is, I worry that the real reason nobody will have to vote for him in 2028 is because there won’t BE a vote in 2028. He has said as much. Vote for me this time and you’ll never have to vote again. But even if nobody voted for him this year, I expect him to fall back on his coup plan, and seize the Presidency with the help of the House of Representatives.

I’m not the only one aware of this plan of theirs, thank the gods. People know what’s in the wind. I’ve been watching for some action, some response from Dems on how they might go about stopping such an underhanded move. So far? Crickets. Nothing. Nada. Based on past Democratic actions, I’m concerned the Dems will win the election, then sit back with a deer-in-the-headlights look while the GOP just swoops in, throws the election to the house with fraudulent claims, and steals the thing.

The closest I’ve come to hearing anything that might resemble resistance is that a small group of House Republicans (I think seven of them) have vowed to vote in accordance with the actual election outcome. That would, theoretically, leave MAGA with too few votes to pull off their coup. IF they follow through. And even they have already hedged their comment by saying they’ll support the actual outcome AFTER all the trials and hearings have been completed.

I’m all for allowing challenges but these will be pretend challenges cons just make up. If the LAST election is any indicator, they’ll make up charges that won’t hold up in any court in the land, but press those charges over and over. That leaves MAGA with a lot of time to convince the loyalists someone is trying to steal the election. (It’s like these people never learn!)

It also leaves time for MAGA to pressure and threaten the seven into possible submission. I wish there was something more dependable on the horizon, but at this point, Republican “honor” is all we have available. Lord, have mercy…

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I watched ‘Real Time with Bill Maher’ this week. One of his guests was Bret Stephens, a writer for the New York Times. He said he’s waiting to hear some policy positions from Kamala and since he hasn’t, he just doesn’t know who he’ll vote for. Full disclosure? Stephens is a conservative. Of COURSE he can’t figure out who he’s going to vote for. He gets to choose between a Democrat (Heaven forfend!) and a dangerous and incoherent criminal moron (the comforting choice?) – and he just can’t decide.

The other guest that night, Stephanie Ruhle, pointed out to him that even if we don’t have policy details from Kamala at this point, we know exactly what Donald Trump wants to do to the country. I agree with Ruhle. Trump has a 900+ page agenda of exactly how he plans to dismantle America and turn it into Trumpistan. I don’t WANT to live in Trumpistan. We have an idea of who Kamala is but we know exactly who Trump is and I would rather risk Kamala than take a chance on Trump…

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Ooh, gods, not like that. Did you watch the 49ers? Through careful calculation and performance issues, they blew a 14 point lead – twice. They’ve managed to move themselves into dead LAST place in their division. This team is supposed to be the defending NFC Champions. Yeah, they’re dealing with injuries on offense. But it wasn’t the offense that failed yesterday. It was the defense – and it KEEPS being the defense.

The Niners have had a tough run facing their defense for the last four years. They had a brilliant Defensive Coordinator (DC) in Robert Saleh. But he got hired to be the head coach of the NY Jets. So, they replaced him with a guy named DeMeco Ryans. HE proved to be even better than Saleh was. For those two years, the Niners had the best defense in the game. But then Ryans was ALSO offered a head-coaching job, which he took.

That left the Niners looking for a new DC. They picked up a guy named Steve Wilks. Wilks may be good at the job somewhere but he wasn’t right for the role on the Niners. Andy Reid dismantled him in the Super Bowl the way Kamala dismantled Trump in the debate. So, he’s out, too. Now we’ve got a new guy, Nick Sorensen. Four Defensive Coordinators in four years.

It’s too early to tell how Sorensen is going to be, long-term. But so far, there hasn’t been much. Niner fans everywhere know the Niners have a weak secondary. Other teams can just throw the ball over the defense and score, almost at will. That’s not Sorensen’s fault. He just got here and the Niners defensive secondary has been sub-par for several years. But if the Niners can’t find an answer for their defense, they are destined to forever be also-rans.

I hope they figure it out soon. I would MUCH rather write about the Forty-Niners winning than losing. It’s just more fun…