September 1, 2025: It had to happen; but this is clearly going to be the month that conspiracy thinking catches up to that purveyor of complete nonsense, Donald J. Trump. The guy who said he could and would prove Obama was born in Narnia. The guy who says the 2020 election was stolen. Now the Q Anon crowd is turning. First, they want to know who killed Jeffrey Epstein. Second, who helped Epstein and his main procurer, Ghislaine Maxwell, abuse all those hundreds of young women and girls?
(Okay, to be fair, this blogger wants to know those answers, too.)
But there’s more. With concerns rising, regarding the president’s health, the kooks are out to play. Trump, they claim, is DEAD. Or: He’s sick and has only months to live; and he’s being played by a BODY DOUBLE.
Also
being played
by a DOUBLE? Yeah. Melania.
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This Labor Day, we can also report that President Trump, by executive order, has wiped out all collective bargaining rights for 400,000 federal workers at the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Eventually,
more than a million government workers will be affected. Almost as if Donald
doesn’t give a shit about ordinary workers.
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9/3/25: Exciting news out of Florida, where Dr. Joseph A. Ladapo, the state’s surgeon general has come out against “slavery.” Yes, and with Governor Ron DeSantis standing by his side!
Finally, we have Republicans willing to admit that slavery was horrible and…
Oh, wait. Not that slavery. Dr. Ladapo was talking about vaccination mandates. Which Florida is going to end. All mandates. Even the ones requiring schoolchildren to be vaccinated for mumps, and measles, and rubella, and… smallpox, too?
Polio vaccines? Bah. Who needs ’em!
Public health experts around the world have credited decades of vaccine mandates “with limiting the spread of infectious diseases.”
Not Ladapo (or the governor).
“Who am I to tell you what your child should put in their body?” he asked, to applause, during an event on Wednesday in Valrico. “Your body is a gift from God.” Well, Team DeSantis wasn’t going to mess with that gift, if you wanted measles. Dr. Ladapo and his friends were going to work to end all mandates. “Every last one of them is wrong and drips with disdain and slavery,” he insisted.
So, for fun, let’s go back to 1900, when most of the vaccines we now require for children were unknown.
Boy, it must have been great in those days to have all that freedom to get infected and live long, happy lives, maybe even with a deformed left leg, because you got polio when you were eleven.
Yes, the
average person in those days, in this
country, could expect to live to 47.3, with that low
number greatly affected by childhood deaths from diseases we now can make preventable.
But not in Florida. For fun, you can look at graphs and see that life
expectancy has gradually increased since, with a dip during World War II, and a
huge decline, in 1918-1919, during the Spanish Flu pandemic.
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9/4/25: Some blind dates go well, and some go bad, as this blogger still remembers from his high school days, when he had the social skills, regarding the ladies, of a pumpkin. But Joseph Schnitt’s blind date will go down as one of the worst.
Poor Joe, who works for the Trump Department of Justice. was tricked by his date into talking about the Epstein files – which Donald Trump, Joe’s boss now insists are a “Democratic hoax.” Joe wanted to let his date know that Donald has nothing to fear if the files were released because he was an innocent man…
Oh, fuck no. I’m joking.
Joe told his lady friend (who secretly recorded him) that the folks at DOJ would “redact every Republican or conservative person in those files, leave all the liberal, Democratic people in those files, and have a very slanted version of it come out.”
He also assured the young woman that Ghislaine Maxwell had been moved to a cushy new jail because “they’re offering her something to keep her mouth shut.”
He then offered this juicy detail: “Second-in-command [Dan Bongino] at the FBI has been causing problems, because he’s like, ‘No, these [Epstein Files] have to be released… Bondi wants whatever Trump wants. Internally there’s a lot of conflict.”
RELEASE EVERYTHING, YOU SCUMBAGS!
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Job numbers suck.
9/5/25: How are we doing on jobs reports, now that Donald Dumpling has fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and put a new person in charge?
In August, the U.S. added a “robust” 22,000 jobs to the economy, and the unemployment rate ticked up to 4.3%.
Even worse, the final revision for June showed that the U.S. lost 13,000 jobs, the first month of job losses since December 2020, when Donald last held office. The good news, if any? Not much. But the July number did rise by six thousand.
FUN FACT: President Trump has claimed, as recently as July, that in five states gasoline prices were down to $1.99 per gallon.
AAA keeps
reporting that his claim was and remains nonsense:
FUN FACT #2: What is down? Well, tourism to the United States is down for sure. Travel experts estimate that three million fewer visitors will come here this year – mostly because they fear they’ll get arrested by ICE agents and sent to Uganda.
Canadians are staying away in droves and herds and coffee klatches, apparently repelled by Trump’s insults of their nation and his suggestion that they become the 51st state and change their country’s name to “Even Farther North Dakota” and get two entire U.S. senators. According to experts the U.S. will be the only country, out of 184 nations reporting, to see a decline in tourism this year.
Even worse, when Joe Biden left office, it was estimated that tourism to the U.S. in 2025 would increase by 9 percent, not decrease (so far) by 8.2 percent.
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