loyal and patriotic citizens, please stand by for a message of the utmost importance from the President of the United States, Supreme Ruler of the Western Hemisphere, Lord-Emperor of the Sky Above and All the Planets, Friend to Diaper Nurses Everywhere, Conqueror Of Every War, God’s Own Avatar on Earth, Grand Renamer of Water and Land, and the Most Shameless Exploiter of Workers to Ever Shit Himself Raw In the Oval Bordello.
Happy Labor Day to all, including the Radical Left Lunatics, Communists, and Dumocrats who will do anything possible to destroy our Country. These Deranged People, after fighting for 10 years, should finally acknowledge that your Favorite President (ME!), knows how to WIN! They should be exhausted by now but, sadly, they’re not. They’re going to give it one last shot at ruining America, but we’re not going to let that happen. We’re going to win the Midterms, BIG, and SAVE AMERICA! President DONALD J. TRUMP
there it is. oh, thank goodness.
as you well know, it’s not really a holiday until Dear Leader officially acknowledges the HATERS and LOSERS (or in this case, the COMMUNISTS and the DUMOCRATS) and, by presidential fiat, invites them to participate, while also praising himself for his own imaginary accomplishments.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO DEAR LEADER’S PREENING, INFANTILE TANTRUM.
finally, now we can get this show on the road.
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Mad King Diaperload can fuck himself all the way to Alpha Centauri and back again.
this self-styled ‘friend of the working class’ is the last person in the world who should be allowed to preside over a national holiday celebrating workers.
Donny hasn’t done a single day’s labor in his soft, privileged life — and he has no appreciation or respect for those who have. he hires undocumented immigrants to build his fugly towers, and work at his vermin-infested golf motels. he then pays them sub-standard wages, or just flat-out stiffs them. has he ever once hired a unionized worker? oh, please.
and don’t forget that prior to slithering his way into the Oval Bordello, he was a racist game show host whose annoying catchphrase was all about how ‘you don’t get a job.’
now let’s look at Donny’s record as president. he loves to talk a good game about how super fucking pro-worker he is, but the reality is fuggedaboutit.
the Guardian has been all over that shit, in a long article posted yesterday.
In the year since last Labor Day, Trump has taken many actions that have hurt US workers and unions, with some labor experts saying they’ve been stunned at how anti-worker Trump has been.
In the months after Trump returned to office, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (Osha) cut workplace inspections by 20%, compared with Joe Biden’s last year in office. Even though Trump campaigned as a champion of coal miners, his administration has repeatedly delayed implementation of a rule to limit silica dust, which has afflicted and killed many coal miners with black lung. The United Mine Workers union has urgently called for “immediate enforcement” of the stalled silica dust rule.
as always with Donny and his Republican shitweasel enablers, it’s watch what they do, not what they say.
Donny has done everything within his power to make life worse for We the People — but here he is, imagining himself to be God’s gift to the American worker. oh, please. that’s such a cool story, Mister You’re Fired. tell it again — preferably while you’re fucking straight off into deep space.
hey, you know else can fuck himself to Alpha Centauri? Holy Mike Johnson — because he, too, fancies himself the Great Protector of the American Worker.
The American worker is WINNING again! This Labor Day, thanks to Republicans, hardworking Americans have more opportunities and can keep more of their own hard-earned money.
fact check: yeah, no.
For rural Americans, the economic landscape is defined by a massive gap between flat paychecks and a historic spike in out-of-pocket medical bills. Current nominal wage growth sits at a sluggish 3.1% to 3.5%, which is barely keeping pace with headline inflation of roughly 3.4%. However, healthcare costs are projected to surge by 6.5% to 11%, with rural marketplace premiums skyrocketing by over 107% due to the expiration of federal tax credits. * USAFacts +5
keep in mind that, as House Speaker, Holy Mike has rubber-stamped every single one of Donny’s anti-worker and anti-union initiatives — the cuts to OSHA, the loosening of rules to protect miners, and so on. Holy Mike is totally down with all of that shit.
let’s have another paragraph from that Guardian article.
Heidi Shierholz, president of the Economic Policy Institute, a progressive think tank, said she was stunned by some of Trump’s anti-worker actions, especially by his order last year chopping the minimum wage that federal contractors must pay their employees, to $13.30 an hour from $17.75. That move caused some workers to lose over $9,000 a year in pay.
This year, Trump rescinded a Biden-era regulation that made overtime pay available to more salaried workers. As a result, 4.3 million workers will no longer qualify for time-and-a-half overtime.
yeah, nothing says ‘we loves us some workers’ more than cutting their pay.
it bears repeating over and over and over: watch what these GOP shit-sticks do, not what they say.
here was Donny, three months ago, promising that US would be going great guns by Labor Day.
reporter: “how do you see the economy, Iran, by, say, Labor Day, September 7? where’s our country going to be?”
Donny: “I think we’re gonna be in— very good shape. we’re in good shape right now.”
spoiler alert: we weren’t in ‘good shape’ three months ago, and we’re not in ‘very good shape’ right now. everything totally fucking sucks — unless you’re a plutocrat. those fuckers are doing just fine.
don’t-you-dare-call-it-a-war on Iran is still an unwinnable debacle. ICE remains a nest of lawless thugs. data centers are destroying our environment. the price of basic goods and services continue to soar. I don’t know what it’s like where you are, but here in the Hudson Valley, just yesterday I paid twenty cents more for a gallon of gas than I did two weeks ago.
but to hear Preznit Fuck-a-Doodle-Doo tell it, everything is awesome.
yeah, well — don’t listen to the word-adjacent noises that seep from his rancid anus-mouth. watch what he does.
oh, and in case you’re curious, here’s how a real president celebrates Labor Day.
I’ve said it my entire career: the middle class built America. And unions built the middle class. To every worker who’s ever punched a clock, worked a double, or walked a line for fair wages — and to everyone who stands up for them, at the bargaining table, in the statehouse, or on the shop floor: thank you. This country runs in large part because of you.
damn straight.
hey, remember that time when Barack HUSSEIN Obama saluted a Marine while holding a cup of coffee?
of course you remember. the entire wingnut outrage-industrial complex wouldn’t let you forget. they lost their fucking minds, and spent weeks afterwards calling for Obama to resign and be impeached, and then, for good measure, to be impeached and then resign a second time — and then imprisoned, for a skillionty years. that was how great a high crime and misdemeanor holding a coffee cup was.
how dare Obama disrespect our brave heroes like that!
yeah, well, I wonder if any of those wingnut howler monkeys will have anything to say about the how Dear Leader treated the Marines who brought him back to the White House yesterday afternoon.
holy shit, Commander Bone Spurs sure seems pissed off about something.
he angrily chops at the air with his freakishly undersized mitts, while apparently berating the Marine pilot for something. he then totters unsteadily off the copter, and blows off returning the salute of the two Marines standing guard.
do you think any of the worthless scribblers who ginned up a weeks-long manufactroversy over the Obama Coffee Cup Crime will have one word to say about our Fuckhead-in-Chief acting like the callous piece of unfit-for-office shit he is?
oh please, don’t make me laugh.
finally, let’s watch as New York City’s Islamocommunofascist Mayor Zohran Mamdani teaches John Fetterman a master class in How To Not Suck.
“what do New Yorkers think about [Mamdani]? they like the guy — and it’s not just that they like the guy. they like the guy a lot more than a year ago. take a look here: Mamdani’s rating in New York City. you know, a year ago was 44%. look where it was at the beginning of his term. it was 68%. look now, it’s 69%. there has been no drop. he is still on the honeymoon period. this is an extremely long honeymoon period. but Mamdani is still very popular, as he is implementing his agenda.”
now let’s compare those numbers to Fetterman’s.
“look at this shift. WOW! Fetterman’s approval rating — you go back to 2024, it was plus 70 points. by 2025, it was down 91 points, into negative territory — minus 21 points. you think that’s low? look at now. MINUS 50 POINTS. that is a — get this, if we do out math correctly, a ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY POINT DROPPEROO, from plus 70 points to minus 50 points. Pennsylvania Democrats absolutely despise John Fetterman at this point.”
fact check: it’s not just PA Dems who despise Fetterman right now — it’s all all of us. we fucking loathe him — with good reason.
it’s a no-brainer, and it’s that simple: do what you promised to do, and the people who voted for you will love you for it. crap all over the heads of your base, while you snuggle up to the opposition, and your numbers end up in the shitter.
oh hey, it’s time for some Daily Claudia.
here are two pics of Newborn Katie and her mom, from our Manhattan apartment in July 1991, a couple of months before we moved to the Westchester suburbs.
and I have always been a huge fan of this selfie, from April 26, 2005.
have a great Tuesday, everyone.
here’s your daily reminder that I can be found on Blue Sky at this link.
this is going to be my closing message for the foreseeable future:
practice self-care. do what you need to do to keep sane. if that means you need to disengage with my daily posts for a while, I get it. this community of ours will still be here when you return.
to all the people who have signed on in the days since the election, welcome aboard. settle in as we all try to deal with the shitfuckery that’s ahead of us.
we are all in this together, and we are all here for each other.
programming note: because OF COURSE I didn't see it until five minutes *after* I clicked 'send' on this piece, I've now added Joe Biden's labor day tweet to the post. it's not in the email, sorry, but it is on the web and in the app.
https://x.com/JoeBiden/status/2096966644870394260
"I’ve said it my entire career: the middle class built America. And unions built the middle class. To every worker who's ever punched a clock, worked a double, or walked a line for fair wages — and to everyone who stands up for them, at the bargaining table, in the statehouse, or on the shop floor: thank you. This country runs in large part because of you."
today in Shit That Happened While I Was Busy Writing This Shit—
Canada Imposes New Tariffs on U.S. Goods, as Trade War Intensifies
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/business/canada-tariffs-trump.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
ace job getting Canada to hate us, Donny. take a victory lap