Republicans crossed a line after Charlie Kirk was killed

He's a white conservative mormon?  Well, then...
He needs compassion, prayer, and understanding

They are at war with us! Whether we want to accept it or not, they are at war with us! And what are we gonna do about it? How much political violence are we going to tolerate? And that’s the question we’re just gonna have to ask ourselves.

This can never happen again. It ends now, Greg’s right again. This is a turning point, and we know which direction we’re going. - Faux News Jesse Watters 

    Let me tell you something, a giant basket of deplorable Republicans fucking crossed a big line yesterday.  Oh?  This was a "turning point" Jesse Waters?  You're goddamned right it was...    

As the details of the alleged shooter emerge, and he's a young white male, heavily into guns, video games, and violent rightwing on-line culture the roiling rightwing internet has cooled.   One of the biggest things that's being glossed over here is it’s one thing for a shitweasel polemicist like Charlie Kirk to defame and endanger LGBTQ persons or slander Professors on his hit list, because he’s a private person he's dead (MAY HE REST IN PISS) but the Republican Party and numerous influential rightwing personalities moved directly into threatening to murder millions of innocent people over these past 2 days.

Drunk Sonofabitch should stick to bloody mary's

These fucking people were so bloodthirsty and so strident and so vehement that a fucking WAR was coming.  But, while you might brush that off as the state of Republican rhetoric since 2009 at least, the sitting fucking President, numerous active members of Congress, and media persons with large platforms wantonly and willfully slandered, demonized, and endangered broad swaths of innocent Americans.

And yes I know that part of this is white privilege on my part.  Trump's White ICE Knights have been terrorizing and abusing hispanic and latino communities across the Nation.  And, of course, I recall Just Despicable Vance and Traitor Trump demonizing an entire innocent community of Haitian emigres in Ohio last August.

And yes I know it was step-wise process over the last 50 years; from Nixon's forced resignation until Trump's second Presidential win and popular vote election.

But, that fucking piece of shit traitor did a Presidential announcement where he put people's lives at risk.  People with absolutely no connection to what happened to that piece of shit Kirk.  At least 6 Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) received bomb threats yesterday as the FBI and ATF fumbled around stopping uninvolved people and failing to identify the actual shooter.

These mother-fuckers better not think they can just shrug off what they said and wait for the next incident and act like they didn't say they wanted to round-up and put Democrats, Trans people, and numerous others into Death Camps.  Go Fuck yourselves.  

And these disgusting compliant corporate media collaborators showed they are firmly on the side of the fucking fascists;  What did they do?  Why they ran glowing hagiography pieces of that dead bigot Charlie Kirk.  They fired people who questioned or even just quoted Kirk's own comments.  And they dutifully ran with zero hesitation the absolute lie the shell casings were inscribed with Trans ideology messages.

I really do hope white people are upset and scared, because you'd better be.  Trump, Vance, Hegseth, Drunk Van Orden, Nancy Mace, Anna Luna and others are going to write a check your white candy asses are going to have to cash.

I'm not telling you to do anything.  

And I haven't even mentioned the war crime Trump and the DoD committed blowing up the Venezuelan boat and killing 11 innocent people.  Trump & MAGA have led the Nation into the abyss.  It didn’t happen overnight but here we are.  There are a lot of people, corporations, and organizations acting as though they will emerge from these next 3 and half years completely unscathed.  And perhaps they will;  Americans are too tired, too stressed, too overworked, too underpaid to delve deep into this abyss.  Trump is a symptom of the Republican's 50 year strangulation of the American Dream.  But, that's an abstraction, what's a reality is these fuckers in Office crossed a fucking line by threatening to murder millions of Americans and we are rapidly approaching that awful inflection point.

Trump and his cadre of miscreants better be really, really, really sure they want to keep going down this road because while they think this is July 1861 and Republicans will be able to have a Picnic at Bull Run while they watch ICE and the military round-up liberal squishes for execution, reality has a nasty liberal bias...

Republicans have their cause célèbre and threaten to murder millions after Charlie Kirk's "tragic" killing (Updated: The White Suspect is a Rightwinger)

Kirk died in the America Kirk wanted

ATTENDEE: Do you know how many transgender Americans have been mass shooters over the last 10 years? 

KIRK: Too many. [Applause]

ATTENDEE: In America, it’s five. Now, five is a lot, right, I’m going to give you — I’m going to give you some credit. Do you know how many mass shooters there have been in America over the last 10 years? 

KIRK: Counting or not counting gang violence?  <scene>

    It's strange how in the wake of Charlie Kirk's death, in service to his staunchly held pro-gun violence beliefs, we do not hear Republicans talking about how it's too soon to politicize a tragedy, or offering up the usual empty Thoughts & worthless Prayers, or blaming video games, or holding to what Charlie himself believed; his death was worth it for the precious and *holey* Second Amendment.

Instead like rabid ghouls Republicans rushed out to immediately make this a political story, to cast blame, and to threaten the most awful unrestrained violence against people who did not shoot Kirk;  

Republican congressman Drunken Van Orden of Wisconsin, " it happened because of the violent political rhetoric coming out of the left, being amplified by you people in the press."

Van Orden then advised Democrats in Congress to read history to see how the last civil war we started turned out.  Spoken exactly like a Lost Cause Revisionist Historian and to be crystal fucking clear, Americans defeated Van Orden's ideological forefathers in the battle and maneuver portion of the Civil War, which is why traitors like Derrick Van Orden turned to subversion and terrorism to defeat the United States of America.

Nancy ( . ) ( . ) Mace, screamed multiple times at everyone yesterday, eventually settling on the Democrats are too blame, "Democrats own what happened today.  I am devastated. My kids have called, panicking. All the kids of conservatives are panicking."

Woods movie script tells him he's a Hero

Right now, a lot of Corporate Media is white-washing Kirk's career and ignoring what vile polemicist, who repeatedly called for the violence against marginalized groups.  The Corporate Media is also chastising those who point out what a vile bigot and fascist Kirk was who routinely incited political violence including on Jan6th 2021.  Concurrently, the media is also ignoring violent promises of murder from Republicans and rightwingers.  There are literally thousands of examples from prominent rightwingers in the past two days.  Republicans have two emotions they seek to incite in their followers at all times Fear & Anger.

So, it's no surprise rightwingers immediately said the shooter was Trans, a group of innocent people whom Republicans have already conditioned their MAGA base to hate and loathe. 

Jason Chaffetz did so on Faux News, and then Steven Crowder and the Wall Street Journal teamed up yesterday morning to reveal Crowder had an email leak from a person who had seen the evidence that the Mauser rifle and bullets recovered were covered in Trans and Antifa markings.  Nancy Mace then reappeared to claim the Wall Street Journal reporting meant the shooter "was a tranny".  I was highly skeptical when the leak first came out but, would not have been surprised a clownish FBI & ATF run by Kash Patel would leak sensitive information pertaining to active investigation.  It's stunning but unsurprising how unprofessional a Field Office could become after Elon Musk and Big Balls got to fire the 25 year veteran Mehtab Syed from the Salt Lake City office with no explanation, other than she is a Muslim Lady and DEI.  Even worse the leak of Trans symbols carved on the ammo has now been retracted because it was clear it was standard markings on shell casings.  Something any rookie FBI or ATF agent should know...

Kash Patel has zero qualifications to run the FBI and this is apparent as he keeps claiming they've caught they guy before having to sheepishly admit they haven't and now he and Dan Ongo-Bongino went to the scene to do... to do what exactly?  Nothing but get in the way.  Bongino* and Patel are nothing more than Political Officers they don't have the requisite skill set to conduct an investigation and are there in a panic to yell at the agents on scene to motivate them.

But, while the various blame-casting might differ slightly the overall sentiment is the same;  We are going to indiscriminately murder millions of Americans.  

Republicans have been yearning, waiting, pleading for the chance to "use the guns" as one of Charlie Kirk's acolytes asked him in 2021 in Idaho.  A lot of Internet Bad Asses assume it will be a simple operation to round-up and liquidate millions of their ideological enemies; you know outspoken women, people with rainbow flags on their apparel, insufficiently deferential black people, snooty elitist Professors!  It will be easy to eradicate Liberal "Squishes".  Oh btw, did you know Kirk and his propaganda ministry Turning Points created a doxxing database called Professor Watchlist so his adherents could send death threats to those people for not teaching Trump's Truth?

But, the joy of being a Republican is having no memory and only caring about Deaths you can exploit and wave the bloody shirt at your followers.

Right now there's a lot of bloodthirsty rhetoric from rightwingers, but it's one thing to type some rant on Twitter or Threads but another to actually pick up a rifle and get to work.  Republicans don't have the stones to follow through, themselves, with their threats.  But, Stephen Miller hopes he can incite some unhinged rightwing mobs into violence and then give orders to other people in the massive Law Enforcement and US military apparatus to do the dirty work.

Update:

Trump went onto Fox Morning to announce the Charlie Kirk shooter was arrested.  This was another excuse for Trump to center himself as he has long known to treat everything like a reality tv show.  He scooped the official press conference.

Predictably the suspect wasn't caught by the work of the FBI/ATF/local authorities who must have fumbled the fingerprint pull and the firearms trace came back empty.

Now, sloppy police work aside; here's the kicker.  The suspect is a red-pilled Groyper follower of Nick Fuentes and is as rightwing as could be.  He's also the son of a Washington County Sheriff Deputy.  This comes on the revelation the white school shooter was a member of a white supremacist extreme on-line network.  

White people have been driven insane by the Faux News and broader Rightwing Propaganda Machine.

This, of course, will be no impediment to the Stephen Miller plan to round-up and liquidate members of the "Ideology".  And don't make me laugh at the thought any of these Republican members of Congress who inflamed the situation and used the most despicable bloodthirsty vile rhetoric at Innocent Fucking People will face even a scintilla of repercussion for their actions.

Charlie Kirk died the way he lived

Different when the barrel
points at you

 Will the shooting death of Charlie Kirk be the casus belli Republicans need to institute their campaign of widespread domestic terrorism and mass murder?

It's grimly ironic that Kirk's death is being treated as MAGA's 9/11 but, also emblematic of the time we live in with rising Authoritarianism and non-stop violent rhetoric from Republicans.

Democratic politicians and liberal pundits immediately responded to Kirk's death with somber calls to tone down the rhetoric and to condemn all political violence.  Republicans responded with declarations of War against millions of Left and Democratic organizations.

Bloodthirsty

Anna Paula Luna(tic) not her real name screamed at Democrats on the House Floor, Major Traitor Greene blamed Democrats for the shooting,  Elon Musk took to his platform to declare the left murderous,  Dirty Cop Clay Higgins vowed to use Congress to ban everyone who mocked Kirk's death from the Internet and Pedo DonOld Trump vowed to eradicate the radical leftist, whom he blamed for everything, and this is before the shooter has even been apprehended let alone anything about him learned.

As to the shooting I watched it once so let me give my non-expert ballistics report;  Kirk caught one round in the front left neck (apparently), the claim circulating is the shooter was about 200+ yards away.  If, the shooter had a rifle zeroed for 100 yards the drop in bullet trajectory would correspond to the 6-8 inch drop if he was aiming for the head.  That's all I'll say about that.

But, in wake of his death the condemnation of political violence from centrists and Democrats morphed into effusive praise with claims of his brilliant political acumen and comparisons to MLK Jr.  The fucking New York Yankees held a moment of silence and remembrance with his fat fucking head on the Jumbotron.  What a fucking grotesque sham.  

I come not to praise him but to bury him.  Charlie Kirk was a despicable Racist and Nazi, he took immense glee in mocking Paul Pelosi, routinely dismissed the qualities of empathy, said dead school children is merely the price we have to pay for the 2nd Amendment, praised the US Navy blowing up a Venezuelan boat with 11 unidentified and innocent people on board, and tried to blame the assassination of Minnesota lawmaker Melissa Hortmann, her husband Mark, and their dog by a Trump-loving gunman on Governor Tim Walz.  His death came as he mocked gang violence and dismissed gun control.  Kirk is receiving large amount of empathy in death that he denied to large amounts of people in life.  I will give him the same amount of grace and sympathy he gave unto others.

Now, yesterday was dominated by a rush of rightwing propagandists calling for (literal) War, calling for the dismantling of the Democratic Party, calling for the rounding-up and imprisonment of leftists and liberals.  Chaya Raichik (Libs of TikTok) was bloodthirsty throughout the day.  These rightwing propagandists are performing the function of the old Soviets-style Political Officers,  Raichik you will recall even cosplayed as an ICE Officer complete with badge and federal beanie, going on raids.

These people however, have no fucking intention of every lacing up boots, grabbing a ruck, helmet, and rifle;  each of their calls is for others (under the auspices of Presidential Power) to do the dirty work, while they continue to incite from the safety of their phones and keyboards.

And everyone's who is caterwauling about rising Political Violence is merely demonstrating they are looking through blinders of white privilege.  State-sponsored "Political Violence" is already here and has been for months with Trump sending out his ICE White Knights to harass and detain brown people, now with the absolute backing of the Supreme Sinister Six.  Kirk himself absolutely endorsed "political violence" as he sent 80 buses packed with insurrectionists to DC for the Jan6th Terrorist Attack.

So, don't worry that Republicans will use this as a pretext to unleash the military or paramilitary law enforcement apparatus upon Us, they already did and they already planned too.  But, Republicans needs to be real, real, real, real, real sure they want to start ordering the "Day of the Rope" they have yearned for and dreamed about for years.  Because a lot of these cosplay internet tough guys think they can simply round-up and liquidate a bunch of liberal "squishes" need to make sure they don't put a stress test to the United States Military.

Anyway... Thoughts & Prayers... 

Additional:

As Kash Patel and the FBI flail away at this case, let us not forget that Charlie Kirk stated numerous times women of color got their jobs through DEI (i.e. Didn't Earn It).  So the former lead Field Agent in Salt Lake City, a Pakistani woman named, Mehtab Syed, incredibly qualified and highly regarded, with a string of excellent case work, was fired just a month ago with no rational given.

Update:

Conservative talk show host Steve Crowder obtained a description of the weapon from an unidentified person at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, he said in a post on X.

Now, rightwing media is running with "leaked" information from a source with direct knowledge claiming transgender and anti-fascist ideology was found on the bullets and or rifle.  You always knew Republicans were going to blame the Trans people for this, but I for one would think Senior FBI and ATF officials might be upset details of evidence was leaked immediately by someone involved in this case.  That sure would have been bad for me as a Police Officer.  And oh look who the source is for this, disgraced homophobic sex absuer Steven Crowder.  I assume he's trying to quicken his flagging MAGA talk show after the revelations of his disgusting behavior.

Republicans hate America: Mister Fascism goes to Washington D.C.

Besides jerking a hard dick
Boebert won't help Americans

As I was typing this;  Trump and his cadre of fascist flunkies began a Press Conference wherein they laid out their plan to usher in Fascism into the United States.  Traitor Trump rambled on with his fact-free verbal diarrhea blaming everything on Woke and the Radical Left or President Biden.  Just mounds of shitty gibberish.  But, what's clear by word and by deed is Fascism has come to the United States of America.

I was typing this:  Homelessness and the number of unhoused people shunted to the streets is a national disgrace for a Country which bills itself as the Greatest in the History of Mankind.  But, Donold Traitor Child Rapist Trump can always insert himself into any situation and make it worse.  Hence, Trump plans to round-up the homeless in DC and put them...  somewhere...

Where do you think that's going to be?  Don't elide the final step.  Don't allow yourself to be willfully ignorant of what Republicans plan to do and, let's be clear, are fucking doing right now.  Republicans are putting people into Concentration Camps.

Yes, yes, yes...  I know your Trump humping Uncle is going to laugh at you and chuckle, 'Hur dur dur!  TDS!!! TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME!!!'   

If the Capitol is dirty, the whole country is dirty...

This isn't just about Trump.  Doug Burgum, Pete Hegseth, Pam Bondi, and several other Republican low-life fascist goons gave speeches extolling their plan to round-up, rough-up, and relocate innocent people.  Fundamentally, Republicans hate America.  For the last 50 years Republicans have built a monumental self-deluding propaganda machine and now they are reaping what they have sown.  Republicans are a fully fascist organization which yearns to round-up and execute people.  There are many groups of people for whom they have a blistering white hot hatred and desire to eliminate.

Understand this is a test-run;  similar to the deployment of National Guard and U.S. Marines to Los Angeles, this will gauge reaction.  And as we saw with the reaction to "Alligator Alcatraz", the modern day Dachau (i.e. the first and originally a prisoner and political gulag), white people will celebrate the brutal mistreatment of the homeless in DC as well as the black youth Trump and Drunken Jeanine Pirro specifically called out for police brutality.  Trump also denigrated Chicago, declared he would simply end the Cash Bail Law by Imperial Fiat, attacked Governor J.B. Pritzker and hinted at his plan to enact the military occupation in Chicago, New York City, Oakland, and Baltimore .  You can expect Troops in every large Democratic city by the election next year because occupying and brutalizing and cowing large cities into obedience is the final step into Trump and the Republicans winning elections in 2026. 

Fascism is here.  Be brave if you can but don't delude yourself that it isn't happening...

Additional:

Don't expect the Police (Municipal, County, or State) to come to your aid if you're targeted by this Regime.  Most Police Officers and Deputies have been champing at the bit to emulate their daddies and grand-pappies and just beat the shit out of people.  And those Police who don't want too will go along out of Fear of the Thin Blue Line or the loss of their promised pension and retirement.  And of course the NRA, Oathbreakers, Alex Jones, or Texass Governor Greg Abbot who endlessly warned about Federal Government Tyranny were simply lying because they whole-heartedly support this and much more draconian actions from Trump et al.

ICE Agents caught "TestiLying"

         If you don't know the term "testilying" you might be more familiar with the word perjury.  Well, it's not just a problem with members of the Thin Blue Line, Federal Law Enforcement under Trump just like under all Republican administrations just flat out lies;

US immigration officers made false and misleading statements in their reports about several Los Angeles protesters they arrested during the massive demonstrations that rocked the city in June, according to federal law enforcement files obtained by the Guardian.

The officers’ testimony was cited in at least five cases filed by the US Department of Justice amid the unrest. The justice department has charged at least 26 people with “assaulting” and “impeding” federal officers and other crimes during the protests over immigration raids. Prosecutors, however, have since been forced to dismiss at least eight of those felonies, many of them which relied on officers’ inaccurate reports, court records show.

The justice department has also dismissed at least three felony assault cases it brought against Angelenos accused of interfering with arrests during recent immigration raids, the documents show.

Apparently, the lies from Department of Homeland Security and ICE are so ubiquitous, so outrageous that Grand Juries are refusing to return indictments.

So, this isn't a new phenomenon.  There is a whole cottage industry which has grown up around Police Departments to specifically train officers on how to massage their reports and how to couch their testimony as to obfuscate and distort the incident and interaction with the Police in a way which makes the, usually indefensible, defensible.

You're probably aware of the euphemistic language Police Officers use in their reports, I assisted him to the ground instead of I threw him down, the suspect made furtive movements around his waistband to mean I shot the unarmed person because I thought he had a gun.

Now... don't expect Faux News or Rightwing propagandists or those staunch 2A and State's Rights advocates to call out the Federal Government because this... is... what... they... have... always... fucking... wanted...  The awesome power of the State turned against their Enemies.  All those accusations, as they say, were admissions of what Conservatives would immediately do with federal law enforcement power.

When Republicans decried Two-Tiered Justice what they meant was they believe in it, Republicans absolutely believe in the Unequal Application of Law&Order and Due Process.  The Law is meant to protect them and bind you...

Coupled with Traitor Trump's desire to have President Obama arrested to distract from Donold's multiple instances of raping children along with his best buddy Jeffrey Epstein and his plan to use the military to round-up homeless people are stick them in concentration camps, we are rapidly approaching an inflection point where Republicans will outright order many Americans executed.

Trump orders the US Government to round-up homeless people and get rid of them

        Traitor trump released another of his vomit inducing executive orders; this one aimed removing homeless people from American cities. Everyone should have known this was coming,  Trump talked openly about removing unhoused and homeless people in LA into vague camps outside the city.

Even with the expanded funding and aggressive recruiting, ICE is currently to occupied with rounding-up grandmothers and innocent people for internment into the Concentration Camps in Florida.  And local Police Departments aren't going to be able to accomplish this along with all their other day-to-day duties.

So, Trump is going to order the United States Military to accomplish this task.  A Standing Army has always been a threat to peace and liberty.  However, the deployment to Los Angeles of National Guardsmen and active-duty U.S. Marines was the 'Proof of Concept' Republicans needed to act upon Trump's Executive Order.

Let's be clear about couple of things about Trump's bullshit order;  There is no chance anything good will come of this,  Trump (and Republicans) don't want to set up a Federal assistance program to help the Unhoused.  There will not be any vast array of the social services homeless people need;  no counseling, no addiction therapy, no treatment for the mentally ill, no medications or god-forbid vaccines, no quality food program, no protection from rapacious predators.  Fucking Republicans just slashed Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security.  Do you think they would ever give food, medicine and housing to "bums"?  This is designed to appeal to mean and nasty white people who look down on and are angered by the sight of homeless people.

Homelessness has always been seen as a moral failing (laziness, drug use) by the unhoused and essentially been treated as a problem of aesthetics.  City layouts and architecture was designed to discourage unhoused people from staying and the encourage the flow of bodies.  Think about all those park benches you've seen which have humps or bars in the middle to stop anyone from laying down.  Or the concrete ledges on streets angled, inclined or with impediments to accomplish the same effect.

Listen to Faux News broadcasts dehumanizing and belittling homeless people or Traitor trump's vicious slander of the homeless.

Trump himself has always had a Brutalist aesthetic towards Cities;  he wants them gleaming and sterile, devoid of humanity, just stark edifices of steel, glass, and concrete spotless and static.  Like the Nazi wonder city models he grew up idolizing before he embarked on his career as a Real Estate Tyrant using eminent domain to kick little old ladies out of their homes so he can build his gaudy Casinos.

Now, Trump has the awesome power of the entire Government at his command and willing and complaint partners in the entire Republican Party, the 6 Supreme Injustices, and a servile Corporate Media who adores him.

Much of this has been accomplished by the Two-Santa Theory as elaborated by Them Hartmann, wherein Republicans spend outrageously thus raising the Debt, while also cutting taxes on the Rich.  When Democrats regain the White House or Congress and propose a liberal agenda, Drunken Tom Boehner declares "We're Broke!" And Democrats are then called upon by the Corporate Media to be responsible and reach across the aisle and cut spending and reduce the debt.

But also by steadily lowering taxes on Corporations and the Ultra-Wealthy, Republicans have pushed the financial burden onto Middle America and the Working Class.  Trump raised my taxes during his vile first term.  This is all by design as people have felt the tax crunch they've responded with two-income households, longer working years, the so-called gig economy, get-rich quick schemes, and other methods to attempt to stay above water as Republicans try to drown them.  

This coincides with the Republicans grand plan, from Ronnie Raygun through the current vicious BBB of eliminating the merger US social safety.

Most Americans, are a bad 6 months from being homeless themselves.  Couple this with the emotional burden helping people takes to help people and you have the perfect Republican receipe for a Coarsened United States which doesn't want money to go towards the homeless at all.  But, Republicans have been teaching Americans they can not rely on help from the Government and anyway Joe Biden or Barack Obama gave all your government money to Trans athletes or 'Mexicans' from Guatemala to replace you anyway.

Most white peoples response to homelessness is either revulsion or good intended but incorrect attempts at assistance.  In both cases they invariably call 911 and expect the Police to handle the situation.  I would like to believe most Americans, who have been taught for decades now that Police are "the helpers" are calling 911 because the believe and expect Police to have a huge cache of assistance they can provide and not because they demand the Police remove the homeless from their sight.

But, this is a Nation which has tried to elect Donold Traitor Trump to the Presidency 3 times.  And now the Executive Branch has released another one of his highly propagandized Executive Orders which has been tailor-made to push the Fear & Anger buttons in the rightwing brain.

The coarsening of America has been a Republican project going on decades.  While most of the worst aspects of the Right's Agenda have come about in the last 50 years when Republicans decided after Nixon's resignation they would never put the welfare of the Nation ahead of their Party, the Reactionary framework is a counter-revolution to the New Deal and has only intensified in response to each successive Democratic Administration.

Roughly, Republicans want Americans to know they have no friend in Government (large and small) and the Federal Government specifically will never help them.  Look at the response of Homeland Security and FEMA under Kristi Noem, absolutely abandoned Texans in need, didn't bother to pick up phone cams, and declared their response the Greatest in American History.

The Republican Party response after the New Deal was to declare every Governmental function "Communism" or "Socialism" and to attack while out of office and to undermine it from within when in office.  Republicans believe their are only two legitimate uses of the Federal Government;  to quash domestic dissent at home with a robust Law Enforcement Apparatus and to use the vast Military-Industrial-Complex abroad to threaten and open up foreign markets for exploitation.  Everything else is "Unconstitutional". 

So, the coarsening of America continues.  Trump is going to order the homeless rounded up and put into refugee camps.  And the things that will happen will be a vicious evil stain on this Nation.

WDCB and Republicans defunding of the Arts

        I know everyone is aghast at Traitor trump and the House Republicans demand the Kennedy Opera Center be renamed The First Lady Melania I Don't Care I'm a Child Rapist, Do U Trump Opera House.

Rapist Donold has always felt slighted he was looked down upon by the New York and American elite as a gauche nouveau riche clown and getting those people back now that he has power is one of his prime motivators.

But, it's always been a category error to believe Trump is any different than the Republican Party in his goals and ideas.  Trump often acts as a bog-standard Reactionary troglodyte in wanting to smash culture, especially counter-culture, intelligentsia and the Arts.

Republicans hate the Arts for the same reason they hate Universities and Cities; the Arts are full of people who are creative, interesting, cosmopolitan, and unimpressed with Republicans lies and agitprop and unswayed by the NeoFascist society Republicans are creating.

So, like expertise; learning, culture, the Arts must go!

WDCB, broadcasting out of the College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn, Illinois is a Jazz (and late night Blues) station which has been going strong for over 40 years, 

Forty years ago, a small radio station in west suburbia began broadcasting a motley mix of classical music, news and educational programs for a limited number of hours each day.

Today, WDCB-FM 90.9 stands as the leading jazz station in the Chicago area, having unflinchingly championed the music while bigger outlets — most notably, WBEZ-FM 91.5 — have abandoned it.

Well, their Federal Grant was just sliced by the BBB.

WDCB is losing a little less than $130,000 dollars in Federal Funding, just 8% of their overall budget and a fraction of what some of the other stations in Illinois and Missouri are losing.  

My partner and I donate to WDCB because we listen almost every morning and leave the station on for our dogs to listen to whenever we're out of the house.  Never forget Republicans hate the Arts;  they don't produce anything of artistic merit, they don't pay artists for their work (Trump and his family of thieves always misappropriates musicians work for his Rallies but, using Artists work without their permission is a Republican tradition) and look at how the on-line fascist right is embracing AI produced schlock as the preferred aesthetic for the Modern Fash.

In a statement, WDCB assured its' listeners they were prepared for this moment,

The good news at WDCB is that our operations are stable and we are in a solid financial position. I want to personally assure you that thanks to our careful spending and generous support from our listeners, WDCB is well prepared for this moment. We’re here! We’re solid! And we’re not going anywhere! But it will be a challenge, and we’ll be asking for your continued help to ensure our future stability.

Trump and Epstein raped the same little girls and very shortly Republicans will say, "So... Fucking... What?"

This trash is irredeemable and must be destroyed

It was always going to be this way.

Traitor Trump is going through ridiculous lengths to defeat the release of the Epstein/Trump Child Rape Files.  And his and the Republican Party's more and more convoluted antics confirm whatever is in those files is so reprehensible and so over-the-top evil that Trump fears even his hold on the MAGA Cult might be threatened.

Traitor Trump shouldn't worry though because rightwingers were always going to excuse his rape of women and children.  

Always.

I believed it would be some combination of; these Epstein Files are faked (which we've seemingly seen confirmed by rightwing reaction to the Wall Street Journal story on Trump's fan letter to Jeffrey Epstein) and 'Well we must excuse a Great Man because a great man will have great appetites.'  But, chief amongst all the excuses MAGA was going to adopt with reference to Trump raping multiple little children as well as women was going to be a giant I don't care... 

Ignorance was always going to be the United States’ downfall.  Republicans have combined and cultivated an active ignorance with violent stupidity amongst their voting base.  

All that matter is OwnTheLibs All the time

The Peoples' House?
Or
The Pedophile's House?

Republicans also cultivated the #QAnon and Elite child pedophile cabal conspiracies in order to slander all Democrats because the Democratic Party tends to defend LGBTQ persons.  But, now the beast they bred is outside of their control.  And the Epstein Files are the Holy Grail.  

But, therein lies the rub... Donald Trump was the best friend, co-conspirator, and long time offender with Jeffrey Epstein.  So, it appears when Pam Bondi got a hold of the Trump/Epstein Files and set a team of 1000 FBI agents to scrub the reams of documents and other evidence of references to Traitor Trump it turned out to be a Sisyphean task and thus impossible.  So in response;

• Trump has declared Jeffrey Epstein a "Democrat Hoax" - (of course, it's always elided over that Bill Barr visited Epstein and most certainly ordered him killed for Trump)
• Pam Bondi and Kash Patel declared there to be No Epstein Client List
• Traitor tump directed Tulsi Gabbard to find a black person to blame for his Child Raping
• Traitor trump has reached out to his co-pimp and co-rapist Ghislaine Maxwell to tell her if she blames everything on Bill Clinton he'll give her a Presidential Pardon
• And Republicans have decided to shut down the House of Representatives for the next 6 weeks to protect Trump

I can not imagine what is in these Files but, Traitor trump knows there is something so damning and so irrefutable he can not let it out.  But, fret not the Corporate Media, especially The Fucking New York Times, after speaking with Steve Bannon, is reassuring MAGA that actually Trump is winning on the "Epstein issue"and actually Trump and MAGA is stronger having gone through the Epstein crucible.

Additional:

Another criminally undercovered component of this criminal conspiracy by the complicit Corporate Media is the Republican effort to stymie and cover-up the money laundering by Jeffrey Epstein.  Republican Senators are continuing to use their political power to defeat Democratic Senator Ron Wyden's subpoenas and investigation into the billions of dollars Epstein's accounts moved around the world.

Treasury’s Epstein file details 4,725 wire transfers adding up to nearly $1.1 billion flowing in and out of just ONE of Epstein’s bank accounts.  Hundreds of millions more flowed through other accounts -- that’s even more to investigate.  The file shows Epstein used multiple Russian banks, which are now under sanctions, to process payments related to sex trafficking. 

Drunk Van Orden demands Governor Tony Evers and Congressman Mark Pocan stop him before he kills again.

Derrick Van Orden is a sloppy mean drunk. He's one of those alcoholics that gets few drinks into his big belly and becomes angry, red-faced, and lashes out at everyone.

After Drunken Van Orden voted for the murderous BBB on July 4th he frantically begged Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers to sign the Wisconsin State budget for the next 3 fiscal years in order that the BBB didn't destroy the rural hospitals Van Orden just defunded; 

I cannot emphasize enough the importance of signing the proposed state budget into law without delay. As you are aware, timely enactment is especially critical this year due to the proposed increase in the state provider tax, which must be effectuated before the anticipated signing of the One, Big, Beautiful Bill on or around July 4, 2025, Delaying the state budget enactment risks losing vital opportunities for the state’s healthcare system and the Wisconsinites who rely on it. Healthcare and rural healthcare, in particular, is vital to us in Wisconsin. ” Rep. Van Orden stated in the letter.

It used to be Republicans would take credit for things they voted against as when disgraced closeted Illinois Republican Aaron Schock took credit for President Obama's American Reinvestment Act, after voting against the ARA, and then having President Obama's name removed from all the signs of all the projects funded by the ARA to keep Republican constituents in his district and elsewhere ignorant of who passes laws to help them.

Drunk Tweetin'
Drunk Congressman

In many respects, Drunk Van Orden is continuing this classic Republican tradition but, another way he is emulating all the asshole Republicans past and present is to use the You're Mentally Ill get Help hur-dur-dur insult.

Drunken Van Orden continued his liquor-fueled tirade on camera against Wisconsin Congressman Mark Pocan because this is what Republicans do now. 

Drunk Van Orden was an erstwhile Officer in the United States Navy yet he attended the Jan 6th Insurrection though he's always claimed not to have entered the Capitol building (I'm certain he feels sheepish now since the Jan6th Coup is a badge of honor amongst the Right).  He's a disgrace to the Naval Services but, more importantly he's emblematic of the modern Republican; a mean-spirited troll who not only doesn't care to have any decorum or manners but is actively rewarded by his voters for being a trollish asshole even as he votes to kill them.

Wisconsin 3rd:
90.0% white and sparsely populated
Voted to kill themselves

Drunk Van Orden's 3rd district is the south western half of Wisconsin;  while it does include Eau Claire and La Crosse, it's the really rural Driftless region with rivers and farmland, he won in 2024 with 212,000 votes to Rebecca Cooke's 200,000.  His voters and the residents on Wisconsin rely on the widely spaced out Aspirus hospitals receiving Medicaid money yet, they've continually voted for the ilk like Van Orden who cut Medicaid.   

President Biden vowed to help all Americans, and passed the Infrastructure bill specifically to bring things like broadband to underserved rural rightwing communities, those people turned around and told President Biden fuck you we want fascism and voted for traitor trump, and a Republican House and Senate.

This is not a messaging problem for the Democrats.  It is partially a Media problem, especially since the Media has made their job to lie for Republicans and lie about Democrats.  But, white people are so propagandized as to be wholly unable to differentiate reality from fiction.  I don't know how to overcome Republican perfidy and the self-radicalization whites actively seek out by democratic means, when White People continually vote to immolate themselves.

Fundamentally, Republicans hate America: ICE and Republicans piss on America both literally and figuratively

        A group of armed, masked men show up at your school, demanding entry and claiming to be ICE.  Do you let them in?  Well, if you don't ICE might just openly piss in your school parking lot in broad daylight.

More than 20 years ago, one of my early FTO told me don't piss in school parking lots when you're on patrol because there will be cameras...  Until the identity of these masked men is revealed my contention remains they are not sworn Law Enforcement and Stephen Miller, Tom Homan, et al hit upon the idea of not having sworn Officers in order to avoid Constitutional Protections.  To wit Head Like a Thumb Tom Homan spoke on Fox & Friends declaring ICE to be able to break the 4th Amendment as they saw fit;

"Look, people need to understand, ICE officers and Border Patrol don’t need probable cause to walk up to somebody, briefly detain them, and question them."

Or piss outside in the schoolyard!  ICE Agents will ignore the plain language of the 4th Amendment, as well as, ignoring repeated SCTOUS decisions concerning Terry Stops and simply pick out brown people for arrest.   Homan went on to declare this will be based on physical appearance, occupation, and location.  Most news stories about Homan's unconstitutional comments omit the reference to Home Depot. And why does Homan mention Home Depot because hispanic laborers do construction and landscaping (as well as a lot of Eastern European immigrants but, ICE isn't grabbing them now are they?) which is work which young white men and Republicans won't, can't, and don't do.  

This is all because White People have been stewing in Reactionary agitprop for decades and Republicans decided 2020 was the greatest disaster to every befall white people (the only people every discriminated against) and they will have their Revenge in this Life or the Next.

ICE is going to be an enormous problem for the United States going forward.  By expanding it fifty-fold with this new Bullshit Reactionary Budget, Trump and the Republicans are going to create an internal Paramilitary Army.  And I believe on purpose.  Because, any attempts by Democrats to curtail ICE (or god-forbid disband ICE) is going to be met with the implicit and probably explicit threat of creating a Freikorps of even angrier armed violent white men who will need very little encouragement from Faux News, Ben Shapiro, and Alex Jones to overthrow any Democratic President or Congress.

Besides the historical parallels of the Roman Empire's Praetorian Guard or the Post-WW1 disaffected German military;  this partially what happened in Iraq, when the Coalition Provisional Authority first official order for the de-Ba'athification of the Nation was disbanding the Army and firing all senior Iraqi officials.  This immediately created a force of disgruntled and now impoverished men with at least some military training and access to mines, bombs, and other weapons.  Hence, the Insurgency began which accounted for the majority of the deaths and injuries of U.S. service members.  

Going forward, the United States will simply slide more towards an un-democratic Nation until as I said the white peoples fascist fever breaks or the Nation does.

Additional:

The Law Protects Us
And Binds You...

2020 was the finally breaking point for white people.  In response, Republicans and white people said FUCK AMERICA GIVE US FASCISM!,

In August 2024, 

Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman signed a law banning wearing face coverings in public at a news conference Wednesday morning. Nassau County covers part of Long Island, just east of New York City.  Blakeman said, "This is not an abridgment of anybody’s rights. Nobody has a constitutional right to hide their identity in public."

One year later...

 

Nassau County Executive Blakeman signs order supporting use of masks by law enforcement

There have been a lot of succinct definitions of Fascism but one of the most pertinent is the Unequal Application of Laws...

Republicans worship Moloch and sacrifice children: Noem and Trump purposefully drowned Children in Texas to Own the Libs

        Fundamentally, the Republican Party hates the United States of America and the American citizenry .  Consequently, with such hatred for Americans their fury at immigrants is genocidal.

Magamorphic Kristi Noem's FEMA:
 No handouts
No hand-ups
Just hand jobs

But, as more details emerge about the criminally negligent and deliberate willful indifference the Trump administration has shown towards the response to the Texas flood disaster it illustrates yet again how Trump and the MAGA movement is far more interested in Optics than actual results.

Kristi Noem, who is more interested in her outfits and her latest injection of face-filler, personally stopped FEMA response for days to Texas.

Noem didn’t authorize FEMA’s deployment of Urban Search and Rescue teams until Monday, more than 72 hours after the flooding began, multiple sources told CNN.

Traitor Trump took a press conference where he lashed out a reporter for asking why the Federal Republican response was so slow and cost people their lives.  

Flanked by his Jeffrey Epstein co-criminal Melanoma Trump, bedecked in her most chic disaster safari wear, and a ghoulishly smiling Greg Abbott, Trump responded, "Only an evil person would ask a question like that."  Traitor also used one of his go to tells when he doesn't know something by claiming, "Nobody has any idea how and why a thing like this could happen."

As always with Republicans all they care about is the immediate, the now.  If they can win the messaging war, if they can lie, defame, obfuscate, and bullshit their way through for another two weeks at most, well then the next Republican created catastrophe will be upon us and the Corporate Media won't talk about their previous crimes and scandals and their reactionary MAGA morons won't care.  So, Republicans will tell whatever lies they need to at a press conference.  They will look at the matter very strongly;  knowing they will get press coverage of them saying they will do this or that or everything is great and wow what a job without pushback and without fear of consequences.

As always Republicans know their MAGA moron base and their compliant Corporate Media allies will equate words with deeds and Republican empty promises with action.

Republican officials and residents in Kerr County, Texas continually declined Federal monies for more advanced early warning systems and other flood prevention infrastructure because it came from the "Biden Crime Family"...  The residents of Kerr County, Texas voted overwhelmingly for Trump and for Republicans despite them continually shitting on them.  I don't know how to democratically overcome a voter base which votes for their own immolation.  But, until we do Republicans will continue to sacrifice children to their Moloch.

Like a Good Neighbor, State Farm and the Coming Collapse of the Insurance Industry, is There!

        As a result of the increasing climate change catastrophe Illinois-based insurance company State Farm is raising rates...  on Illinois Homeowners. From the Chicago Tribune reporting, 

State Farm is raising homeowners insurance rates in Illinois by a whopping 27.2% beginning Aug. 15, according to a filing with the state last month. The rate hike, one of the largest in the state’s history, will affect nearly 1.5 million policyholders. New policyholders will pay the higher rates as of July 15.

In its filing, Bloomington-based State Farm said the rate increase is driven by catastrophic losses related to extreme weather events in Illinois.

In February, Northbrook-based Allstate raised homeowners insurance rates by 14.3% for nearly 248,000 Illinois customers, as the broader insurance industry struggles to keep up with the increasing frequency of extreme weather events across the country.

State Farm, for example, has received nearly 13,000 claims and paid out more than $4.2 billion to California homeowners who suffered losses during the devastating wildfires that raged across the Los Angeles area in January, according to an update posted this week on its website.

In 2024, Allstate raised homeowners insurance rates in Illinois by 12.7%, while State Farm implemented a 12.3% increase.

Homeowners insurance rates have been spiking across the country, increasing 40.4% over the past six years, according to LendingTree’s “State of Home Insurance” report for 2025, published in June. Illinois had the seventh highest increase among states, rising 59.5% between 2019 and 2024. 

    My first reaction is once again Democratically run states are being taxed to pay for the profligate and irresponsible political and economic policies of Republicans as well as their dogmatic ideological insistence Climate Change isn't Real.  Fortunately, this also appears to be the understanding of my excellent Governor J.B. Pritzker as well,

“These increases are predicated on catastrophe loss numbers that are entirely inconsistent with the Illinois Department of Insurance’s own analysis – indicating that State Farm is shifting out-of-state costs onto the homeowners in our state,” Pritzker said. “Hard-working Illinoisans should not be paying more to protect beach houses in Florida.”

    The thing is while the Republicans and their paid propagandists keep lying about climate change in order to maintain political power, in the real world of farming, the United States Navy, and the Insurance Industry it is known to be real, it's happening now, and it's going to be already disastrous, both financially and more importantly fatally as the Texas floods just demonstrated.

    But, Republicans are certain to continue to deny climate change and continue to govern their states as though the effects are not happening; thus, A House divided can not stand and all that... 

    Of course, the Republicans in office pushing their bullshit murderous climate change denialist policies feel absolutely confident they will never face the consequences and with their mindless drones having been totally conditioned even when the collapse comes, this is assuredly true and most likely Faux News and white people will blame Democrats, Trans people, and immigrants just as they've been programmed to do.

    In Florida, the Homeowner's Insurance Market is teetering on the brink of total failure, due mainly to Republican mismanagement of the state so when the next big hurricane hits resulting in billions of flood and wind damage, Republicans are going to do what they always do; steal money from Democratic states to pay off the debts they incurred in their states due to their profligate and perfidious criminal negligence and malfeasance.  Traitor trump will assuredly bail out Florida after taking his 20% commission and proclaiming himself the Greatest President Ever, just like he's about do in Texas.