It took 33 hours to capture the killer of MAGA influencer Charlie Kirk. We are learning more about him.
Not only was he not a "radical leftist," he killed Kirk because Kirk was not far right enough.
We still don't know a lot about the killer, but here is what we do know.
He is a 22-year-old (apparently) straight, cisgender white man who lives in Utah who grew up in a family with guns.
His family is all registered Republican and according to Grandma, Drumpf supporters.
He is registered to vote but not registered with a party, and he did not vote in the 2024 general election, which would have been the first since he turned 18.
He is a Mormon but has not regularly attended church lately.
He has one semester of university education at Utah State University. At the time of his arrest he was in his third year at an electrician trade school.
His family is a hunting family, and he has experience with firearms.
He has no criminal history.
He talked about Kirk being "full of hate and spreading hate" in the days before the incident.
The markings on his ammunition, on first glance, seem to be left-leaning and anti-fascist, but people in the know say that the words and phrases are found in meme culture and video game culture and used ironically by ultra conservative sites.
Not trans. Not foreign. Not woke. Not any of the vilified "other." No, he was one of their own. Again.
Though we don't know much more, I would be willing to wager that he has these traits: I bet he is another disaffected, isolated, lonely young man, incel-adjacent, with few friends.
Based on what people have been saying about the messages that he left on his ammunition, it's apparent that his ideology is not just to the right of The Right, but as a fan of Nick Fuentes and that ilk, he lives on the really super icky bad-news right of Ultra-right.
In fact, the "Groypers," an alt-Right group led by Fuentes, uses the language that was on the ammunition. The Groypers thought that Charlie Kirk was too moderate and regularly vilified him.
You won't hear the sitting president or anyone else apologize for blaming the "radical left" and calling for war with them. (By the way, how does one denounce political violence in one breath and call for war in the next?)
The Inciter-in-Chief won't say anything more, let alone something preposterous like an apology, because he accomplished what he wanted to do. He fed misinformation to his followers early and loudly, because no matter what facts that come out later, they will lap it up and instill it in their brains. Whatever truth comes out later simply doesn't matter.
The Responses
The Right has pretty much labeled the shooting "an act of war," and they are getting the base worked up.
You saw 47 saying, "We have to beat the hell" out of the "radical Left." (No doubt still gunning for that Peace Prize).
When it came out that the killer grew up in a MAGA household and Kirk was perhaps not Right enough in the killer's eyes, there were crickets.
In fact, after his initial statement that he "was filled with grief and anger," he seemed to move on quite quickly.
A reporter asked about his dear friend's death and how he was holding up. The reporter asked, "My condolences on the loss of your friend Charlie Kirk. Can I ask you personally, how are you holding up in the last day and a half?"
47's response: "I think very good and by the way, right there, you see all the trucks? They just started construction of the new ballroom for the White House, which is something they've been trying to get, as you know for about a hundred and fifty years. And it's gonna be a beauty. It'll be an absolutely magnificent structure. And as you see all the trucks, we just started, so... It'll get done, uh, very nicely and it'll be one of the best anywhere in the world actually."
So very touching......
Here's the video:
He sure got over it quick. Has the man ever thought of anyone but himself?
The Republican Governor of Utah, Spencer Cox, has been commendable in his calls for calm and his condemnation of violence. I've been impressed by him.*
He said, "It is an attack on the American experiment. It is an attack on our ideals. This cuts to the very foundation of who we are, of who we have been and who we could be in better times.
"We can return violence with fire and violence. We can return hate with hate. And that's the problem with political violence, is it metastasizes, because we can always point the finger at the other side, and at some point we have to find an off-ramp, or it's going to get much, much worse. These are choices that we can make."
*However, I learned at publishing that Cox, too, had some dangerous and divisive language when talking about the killer. He said, "For 33 hours, I was … I was praying that if this had to happen here, that it wouldn’t be one of us. That somebody drove from another state, somebody came from another country. Sadly, that prayer was not answered the way I hoped for. Just because I thought it would make it easier on us if we could just say ‘Hey, we don’t do that here.’"
Oh wouldn't it have been so much easier for the tar and feathering if the killer was just an "other." Dang.
The Rest of Us
Many people have posted on social media that they do not condone murder but Charlie Kirk was a bad person. Those people are in trouble.
MAGAts have been literally policing the response. Not grieving enough? Not praising Kirk enough? You may be doxxed, harassed, fired from your job, or worse.
Look at this:
There have been many reports of this happening. I've heard of it in my own professional groups.
In fact, there is a website called charliesmurderers dot com, where people can report those who do not reach the standards of grief and/or praise of the dead man that they think is sufficient. Employers or others can search the database and then.... do what they will with the information.
Scary stuff.
AltNPS is calling for people to help take down the website, as it clearly violates the hosts' terms of service. Here's the info:
Commentator Matthew Dowd on MSNBC was asked by an audience member about the Kirk killing. The question was about "the environment in which a shooting like this happens."
Dowd said, "He's been one of the most divisive, especially divisive younger figures, in this, who's constantly sort of pushing this hate speech aimed at certain groups. I always go back to hateful thoughts lead to hateful words, which then lead to hateful actions."
He was fired.
What a radical concept that hate begets hate!
You know who wasn't fired for comments made on air? (Side note, unrelated to Kirk's murder.) Brian Kilmeade on Faux News said these words in a discussion about the how to manage the mentally ill unhoused population. "Or involuntary lethal injection or something. Just kill them."
Thoughts
As I think about the killer, I come back to the the thought that we've lost our young men. Many young men are socially isolated, dependent on the internet, and vulnerable to being radicalized. We've got to bring them back.
I am reminded of a post I wrote about the time of the Kavenaugh hearings when right-leaning people were oh-so-scared that their sons may someday be falsely accused of rape.
As compassionate people and as feminists (yes, woke!), we need to find a way to solve the problems that men, and especially young men, are facing. If not, we'll find more of them becoming radicalized and deciding that they must act out.
Charlie Kirk, the conservative wunderkind who built a huge platform for promoting his ultraconservative ideas, was shot and killed yesterday as he spoke on an Utah college campus. He was 31.
He was just 18 when he co-founded the conservative platform Turning Point USA and rocketed up as the Right became ultra-right. He became a darling of the MAGAsphere.
We do not know the facts of the murder other than Kirk was at one of his debate events on campus. He was speaking about mass shootings when a sniper shot him in the neck. We do not have a suspect, nor a motive. It's widely believed that it was a political assassination. But as of this writing we do not know the facts.
When I heard about Kirk's death, my first thought was "As ye sow, so shall ye reap."
I did not feel sad. I did not mourn.
I do not mourn his death, but I do not celebrate it.
Against Charlie Kirk's very own wishes, though, I do feel empathy. I feel deeply for the people who loved him. He leaves behind a wife and two small children. Their lives have been torn apart and their hearts will never be whole again. Gun violence has entered their lives, a trauma that will last them forever. This is truly tragic. No one should have to endure that. My heart aches for them.
Also against Charlie Kirk's own beliefs, I believe that one gun death is too many. Every life is precious. We don't count lives as currency; no lives are expendable.
Kirk himself would think that his own death was an acceptable "cost." He would be ok with being a victim of gun violence as he was for thousands of others, calling it a cost that is "worth it" to protect the Second Amendment.
"I think it's worth it to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect out other God-given rights." (Charlie Kirk, 2023).
And so, I do not mourn the loss of this man. Would he want me to?
He made millions spreading ideas that were toxic, detestable, and demeaning. He was racist, misogynistic, and xenophobic. He embraced hate and advocated violence.
I wish he had been silenced by louder, more righteous voices, but I do not mourn the silencing of his words.
Today, the Right is shouting from the rooftops that the Left is "at war." It is as if the Left invented political violence, that they are the perpetrators of hate.
Once again, they are simply holding up a mirror.
Political violence? You wanna talk about it, MAGAts?
Let's talk about January 6.
Let's talk about the beating of Paul Pelosi (which would have been the murder of Nancy Pelosi under a different circumstance).
Let's talk about the kidnapping attempt of Michigan Gov. Gretchen Witmer.
Let's talk about the assassinations of Minnesota State House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband and the attempted assassination of Hortman's colleague Minnesota State Senator John Hoffman and his wife.
Let's talk about the arson attack on Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro.
All of those were met by shrugs at best or applause at worst from the Right, including the Apricot Pol Pot.
When it's one of their own – and I condemn the "assassination attempts" on djt – their outrage suddenly emerges (though some of it half baked, as it was for the man who actually lost his life at the shooting in Pennsylvania).
Let's talk about Dear Leader's rhetoric from day one. He has advocated for violence his whole political career – probably his whole life. His leadership for those who embrace violence has given permission for a legion of bad actors to commit hate crimes, and yes, political violence.
You know the stuff. There has been an abundance of violent rhetoric from his fetid maw. LSR outlined much of the crap in this post.
The most pertinent example: Candidate Cantaloupe called for "Second Amendment People" to stop Hilary Clinton from choosing Supreme Court candidates.
This is who they worship.
After Kirk's murder, Dear Leader went on TV, fanning the flames and riling up his base. No calls for calm, of course. No calls for waiting for the facts. He went straight to blaming the "radical left."
Political violence breeds political violence. It's not ever right. It does not solve problems. It is wrong in every instance.
Charlie Kirk's murder by gun? It was just another day in the United States. One more gun death. His family mourns just as deeply as the families of the two children critically injured at Evergreen High School near Denver yesterday.
No, Charlie. It's not worth it.
"A lie doesn't become truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesn't become good, just because it's accepted by a majority." – Booker T. Washington
I'm feeling pretty low, as I am sure that many of my readers are. The news just keeps hitting. It is hitting hard.
The King Salmon regime is just awful for the heart, mind, and soul.
LSR/ChatGPT collab
Our nation is reaching new lows. It seems that every day brings new atrocities to light. It is hard to absorb the news.
But because we have to face it, and we have to get outraged, and we have to fight back, I'm continuing this LSR journey. Thank you for being here with me. This is my 338th post!
I'm going to use my SICK outline because it encapsulates all that is wrong.
SICK = Stupidity, Incompetence, Corruption, Kingship. There is a lot of overlap in these categories, but we'll try our best to compartmentalize the awful stuff we are facing.
Most of my emotional lows come from the "K" – the dictatorship that is rapidly coming to fruition. Let's move backwards from there.
But first, an incident that cropped up that truly encapsulates all of the SICK. This happened at the United States Senate Office building, where wheelchair-bound citizens showed up to peacefully protest the proposed Medicaid cuts that are in the Big Bloated Batshit Bill.
The United States Capitol Police actually zip-tied the hands of wheelchair-bound protestors. What. The. Actual. Fuck.
This makes me SICK.
KINGSHIP
LSR will not be referring to an "administration" any longer. This is a regime. After all, the dick-tater himself is referring to it as such:
Every accusation is an admission: Here's Kristine Leavitt.
"When you have a totalitarian regime"
Leavitt without a trace of irony: "When you have a totalitarian regime, you have to save face. I think any common sense, open-minded person knows the truth about the precision strikes on Saturday night. They were wildly successful."
I am not sure why SCOTUS is giving away so much of their power to crown a king.
He is already acting like they are his own little board of judges, and soon perhaps King Minus will declare SCOTUS as wholly unnecessary, as he shreds the U.S. Constitution.
Yesterday SCOTUS ruled not on birthright citizenship itself, but halted federal judges from issuing nationwide injunctions when the issue comes before them.
This means, in effect, there will be a patchwork of decisions across the country on individuals' rights to birthright citizenship. But wait a minute? I thought that the U.S. Constitution is the Law of the Land? Isn’t that the whole land?
The Supreme Court decision has already sown confusion and fear. Is it really up to individual judges to decide if you have citizenship?
How hard would it have been for SCOTUS affirm birthright citizenship and put the issue to rest? The 14th Amendment is absolutely crystal clear:
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.
There is no grey area!
The six conservative justices weaseled a decision, saying that the issue of birthright citizenship wasn't before them, but the issue of judicial overreach was. It makes no sense.
The three liberal justices wrote scathing dissents. You can read the one authored by Justice Sonia Sotomayor, which Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson joined, here. And here read the solo concurring dissent by Ketanji Brown Jackson here.
Justice Sotomayor wrote about the complicity of the Court in the "gamesmanship" of the regime. She wrote, “the court’s decision is nothing less than an open invitation for the Government to bypass the Constitution. The executive branch can now enforce policies that flout settled law and violate countless individuals’ constitutional rights, and the federal courts will be hamstrung to stop its actions fully."
Sotomayor was so impassioned by the issue that for 20 minutes she read aloud the entirety of her dissent.
What's next for the issue? The Court will reconvene on the issue when it comes back for the new session in October. In the meantime, there are class action lawsuits gearing up.
Every day, more and more stories of atrocities are coming out. I'll outline a few, but know that there are many more stories across the country.
They are grabbing United States Citizens
Andrea Velez was on her way to work last week in downtown Los Angeles. She said that just as she stepped out of her car, she was ambushed by masked men emerging from unmarked cars. They took her to the ground, and although LAPD officers responded to the scene after Velez's family called 911, the officers stood by as Velez was taken into custody.
She's been released from custody and is out on bond. What are they charging her with? Being brown?
Lives are at Risk
The cramped quarters and wonton disregard for human life at the for-profit detention centers comes with risk for life and limb. The detainees are often without food or water, crammed into small spaces with dozens of others. Though Congress has a right to make inspection visits, even unannounced ones, they have been thwarted. Members of Congress have often been refused entry.
Many other medical emergencies have been documented, not the least of which was a woman who was experiencing a still birth and was not transported to a hospital. Wired has the 911 call. They write about that and many other incidents.
Fake agents and bounty hunters: What we have feared has come to pass
The ICE agents have been making their raids without any identifiers. They cover their faces; they wear costumes that can be purchased anywhere. They do not wear badges, and many don't even have the "ICE" patch on their clothing.
And so, bad actors have been taking advantage of this.
In Philadelphia, a man impersonated an ICE officer in order to intimidate and control people at a car repair shop. He zip-tied a woman and stole $1000.
In Los Angeles, a man previously arrested for human trafficking dressed up as an ICE officer, armed up with several firearms, and outfitted his vehicle with police lights and police radios before he was found parked in a handicapped spot and arrested before he could implement whatever he had planned.
In Houston, a man impersonated an ICE officer, blocked a victim's car, and robbed the man.
In Raleigh, this scum impersonated an ICE officer and raped women.
There has been no evidence that bounty hunters are being contracted by ICE to grab brown people and collect money, but it may be happening. The fear is out there that it is happening. The fear is directly related to the officers' hiding their faces and the lack of identifiers on their uniforms.
And one more on TikTok. I wasn't successful in embedding it. Watch here.
Another bit of good trouble you an do, if you encounter ICE. Word around town is that people want to glitter-bomb ICE agents with glitter. Brilliant! It's an identifier that will last forever! Be sure to use biodegradable glitter. We don't need to be environmentally damaging.
The Florida Detention Center
ICE is grabbing up so many brown people that they need new places to put them. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has a boner for building a prison deep in the Everglades to house 5,000 of them. He oh-so-cleverly has called it "Alligator Alzatraz."
FEMA, of all agencies, is helping build it. Oh, look, Kingship, Stupidity, and Corruption all in one!
The site is an existing airfield, but the planned detention center would house migrants in tents. Yes, tents, in Florida's steamy heat. But it has showers!
So did Buchenwald.
Indigenous people of the area, who consider the Everglades sacred, are not happy with it.
Environmentalists are not happy with it. The area is adjacent to the Big Cypress Wildlife Management Area. How will hundreds of bodies and all their waste, traffic, and trash impact the area?
Anybody with half a brain is not happy with it. AltNPS, our leaders in the rebellion, are asking people to make some "good trouble" and do a check-in on Facebook with the airfield as the location. They say that this will disrupt surveillance tools.
CORRUPTION
The Supreme Court is corrupt.
They have handed our U.S. Constitution over King Babyhands to flush down the golden toilet. They let him take a sharpie to the 14th Amendment, on top of last year's decision on executive privilege to commit crimes.
Chief Justice Roberts has no spine. "It's not my fault!" he cries. At a judicial conference the day after his horrible corrupt decision was released, he said, "It would be good if people appreciated it’s not the judges’ fault that a correct interpretation of the law meant that, no, you don’t get to do this."
Oh yes, wouldn't that be good? So precious.
So far, though, Mr. Roberts, we all still have mouths and pens and voting ballots and we will march and write and raise hell over your ( not correct) corrupt interpretation of the law. We do not appreciate it.
And of course, we know that Alito and Thomas are deeply corrupt men. As I was contemplating their evilness, especially the worst human on Earth, Clarence Thomas, this popped up from Fear and Loathing: Closer to the Edge, writing on Facebook.
Confessions of a Coke Can
I’m here to talk about Clarence Thomas — the man who looked at me in 1991, in a professional workplace, during a federal confirmation process, and said:
“Who put pubic hair on my Coke?”
That’s not locker room talk. That’s not a joke. That’s not something you forget. That’s the kind of comment that makes HR departments hold emergency meetings. That’s a power move from a man who wanted to make damn sure Anita Hill knew her body, her boundaries, and her basic human dignity were all fair game in his personal little fiefdom.
And I was there. Literally. I was the can.
I didn’t laugh. I didn’t fizz. I didn’t even roll off the table. I froze.Because I knew I’d just been pulled into something grotesque — a performance of dominance disguised as “humor,” the kind that makes people laugh nervously while dying inside.
But here's the part they don't talk about:
I never left.
That comment? That hearing? That moment?
It was just the beginning. I didn’t get tossed in the trash like the ethics Clarence pretended to have. I didn’t get recycled like his respect for precedent. I stayed. I’ve been on that desk — or nearby — for over 30 years. And I’ve seen it all.
Every abuse. Every betrayal. Every ruling soaked in smug cruelty and billionaire cologne.
He wasn’t some reluctant originalist dragged into the culture wars.He was the goddamn architect of them.
He looked at the Constitution, squinted at the parts about liberty and equality, and decided they were optional — unless they applied to him, his rich friends, or his wife’s insurrectionist group chat.
I watched him cast the deciding vote to gut the Voting Rights Act — like democracy was an old couch taking up too much room in his plantation-style man cave. He didn’t just disagree with Roe v. Wade, he celebrated its downfall. And then he licked his judicial fingers and wrote a separate opinion begging the Court to come for birth control, marriage equality, and private intimacy next. Clarence Thomas is not conservative. He’s a revenge fantasy in robes.
He’s spent his entire career pretending to be a silent thinker, the quiet one, the thoughtful one — but I know the truth. I was there when he scribbled opinions that read like church pamphlets dipped in gasoline. He says nothing in court but drops concurrences like molotov cocktails into every corner of modern life. Gay? He’s coming for you. Trans? You’re on his list. Want bodily autonomy? Better hope you’re rich, white, and well-lawyered. He thinks the Fourteenth Amendment was a typo and that the First only applies to megachurches and white nationalists with podcast sponsors.
He accepted decades of unreported gifts — luxury vacations, private jet rides, real estate deals — from billionaire sugar daddies, then had the gall to say he didn’t think he had to disclose it. I’ve been carried to gas stations in Mississippi with more self-awareness. Clarence Thomas has the ethics of a dropped urinal cake. He’s the living embodiment of what happens when lifetime appointments are handed out like grand prizes to men who think shame is a liberal conspiracy.
And don’t even get me started on Ginny.
I watched him stare straight ahead as his wife texted Mark Meadows like she was LARPing a QAnon sex cult version of 1776: The Musical. She begged the White House to overturn the results of an election — and when that case came before the Court? Clarence didn’t recuse himself. Of course not. Because in his world, corruption is only a problem if it helps poor people vote.
Every time a ruling comes down that strips someone of their rights — immigrants, prisoners, students, anyone whose existence offends the white-gloved Federalist Society banquet circuit — I feel a little emptier. Not just because I’m a can of soda witnessing civil liberties disintegrate under the weight of this smug tyrant in hush puppies, but because I was there when the mask slipped. I saw the raw, vulgar, humiliating beginning. The power play disguised as a joke. The pubic hair. The Coke.
And people still act surprised.
Still call him "principled."
Still pretend this is about jurisprudence and not revenge.
Let me tell you something: Clarence Thomas isn’t interpreting the law. He’s grinding his personal grudges into national policy. He is a slow-motion coup disguised as judicial restraint. He is a small, petty man whose every ruling echoes the resentment of someone who never got over being challenged by a Black woman who told the truth.
You want to understand Clarence Thomas?
Forget the legal jargon.
Forget the robes.
Forget the Ivy League polish.
Just remember this: He looked at a can of Coke and thought that was the vehicle for a sexual power trip.
And the Court confirmed him anyway.
So no, I’m not here to talk about high fructose corn syrup.
I’m here to tell you what I saw.
And what I saw is still happening. Every goddamn term.
America, the call is coming from inside the cooler.
And it sounds like a whisper, muttering "original intent" while torching everything decent left in this country.
Don’t ever say you weren’t warned.
I was right there on the desk when it began.
And I’m still here, watching it burn.
(allegedly)Drunken Pete Hegseth is corrupt.
He had a rabid blathering press conference about the U.S. bombing of Iran. He was angry, snappy, and completely unbecoming.
Here he is, lambasting his former FAUX News colleague. File this also under "Every accusation is an admission."
Now, see Petey and Anderson Cooper side-by-side. Gawd this jerk makes my blood boil.
Attorney General Barbie Pam Bondi is Corrupt.
She recently testified to the House Appropriations Committee.
Here she is squaring off with Rep. Madeline Dean (D-Penn.). I hate to use anti-woman words, but wow she is abrasive!
And she snottily clashes with Rep. DeLauro (D-Conn.)
And here is the snot going in circles with Senator Jack Reed (D-RI):
The whole bunch surrounding the Abrego Garcia case is corrupt.
The Abrego Garcia saga is far from over. He is on U.S. soil but is now facing charges of human trafficking, which are purely made up charges.
He is in prison in Tennessee and a judge has ordered him released. His lawyers have asked that his release be delayed, because the regime is itching to deport him to a third country and will likely take him into custody the moment he is walks out the doors.
How's that, America? A man is safer from the government inside the prison walls.
Big Balls is corrupt.
Elong's buddy Big Balls apparently left DOGE, but that doesn't mean he left the regime.
No, Big Balls now has a job inside the Internal Revenue Service. Yes, this 19-year-old kid who had gotten fired from a previous job at a data security firm after an investigation into the leak of internal information, now has all of your financial information in his grubby ball-hugging hands.
Stephen Miller is corrupt.
He is the Joseph Goebbles to Hair Furor, yes, and he is driving the deportation train. And that's not all. Miller is also making money from the operation. He owns about $250,000 worth of stock in Palantir, a federal contractor. Palantir is co-founded by Peter Theil.
In April, [Palantir] won a $30 million Immigration and Customs Enforcement contract to deliver an operating system tracking and managing deportations, as well as granting “near real-time visibility” on those who “self-deport.”
Leaked chats obtained by 404 Media describe the company assisting ICE with finding the physical location of people slated for deportation.
The firm is also reportedly assisting the Trump administration as it looks to streamline and centralize government data about millions of Americans, an effort which has drawn criticism from members of Congress who fear it could usher in mass surveillance.
The whole thing stinks. Read the article to get all the stomach-churning pay-to-play details of Theil's and Palantir's corrupt dealings with the regime.
Emil Bove is corrupt.
This joker, a DOJ official in the current regime, is up for a judgeship. A whistleblower has come forward saying that Bove plainly said that the regime should simply ignore court orders regarding deportations. The whistleblower said that at one March meeting, Bove said the department should consider saying "fuck you" to the courts and "ignore any such court order."
Bove is currently undergoing confirmation hearings for a spot on the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Yay.
King Donold is the most corrupt of all.
Like clockwork: the stock markets have again been climbing, with the Dow coming back to the level it was at when TACO began his tariff games and the S&P 500 reaching its all-time high.
Watch the markets dive tomorrow. I am sure he sold a bunch of stocks Friday when markets hit their highs. In a while, he'll buy some stocks on the cheap and TACO the shit out of the tariffs, taking a nice tidy sum for himself and letting the rest of the world scramble for the fallen bits of shredded cheese.
His newest corrupt grift: A smart phone and a cellular service plan. Hmmm.... where might these devices be made? The marketing materials have removed the "Made in America" designation, and it's almost 100% certain they will be manufactured in, you guessed it, China.
In case you are itching for one of your own, you'll have to wait. The phones have not yet been manufactured. The spec sheets have recently changed, too, so maybe they are even still being designed. You'll have to plop $100 down now, though, and wait until they decide to ship 'em "later this year."
INCOMPETENCE
Today, we focus on the King of Incompetence, the Prince of Prevarication, Mr. Worm Brain himself, Robert F. Kennedy Juniorrrrr!
His rhetoric is literally toxic. The measles outbreak that began in West Texas this spring has spread to 37 states. According to the CDC, there have been 1227 confirmed cases and three deaths. Three preventable deaths.
Surprise: 95% of the measles cases have been unvaccinated.
He cites "data" from fake studies. In a recent report touting his MAHA ("Make America Healthy Again") agenda, he cited studies that don't exist. The study titles were AI generated.
Not only that, but Bobbo doubled down when he was caught. Here he is talking to Rep. Raul Ruiz (D-Cal).
Brain Worm: "Sir, all of the foundational assertions in that report are accurate."
Rep. Ruiz: "They did not exist! How can they be accurate if they did not exist?"
He lies about the relationship between the COVID vaccine and miscarriages.
Watch him spar with Rep. Robin Kelly (D-Ill.)
STUPIDITY
How stupid is The Felon displaying his smallness to the world by dropping an F-bomb on live TV as he tantrummed about "his" Nobel Peace Prize-winning ceasefire not holding?
File this under Stupid, Incompetent, Corrupt, and Kingship.
Senator Turtle, in talking to colleagues about constituents' angst about cuts to Medicaid, said, "They'll get over it."
I will find joy on the day that fella toddles his way down the Capitol steps for the last time.
And if he tumbles down to the bottom? Well, he’ll get over it.
This MAGA Representative from Florida, Kat Cammack, is stooooopid.
I wouldn't wish her experience on any woman. This MAGAt woman? She reaped her own crop of steaming misogyny.
Cammack sadly experienced an ectopic pregnancy and needed an emergency abortion. Errr, or should I say needed a "procedure" to save her life because the embryo didn't have a heartbeat and could rupture, risking her life?
It was shortly after Florida's abortion ban went into effect, and doctors were hesitant to provide Cammack with life-saving treatment. They were fearful of legal ramifications, including jail, if they went ahead with the abortion. An emergency call was even put in to Gov. DeSantis about it (the call did not reach him).
Luckily for Cammack, she did not die. The doctors relented, and she received the abortion. She lived to MAGA again.
If you ask her about it, though, she will deny that it was abortion care that she received. "There will be some comments like, ‘Well, thank God we have abortion services,’ even though what I went through wasn’t an abortion,” she said.
And if you talk to her some more, she will blame the Left for the "fearmongering" that made it so difficult for her to receive the care.
Stupid.
And one more stupid from King Stupid. Here he is, asking this Italian soccer team about transgender people in sports. Gawd my skin crawls whenever I see this orange anus squirting shit.
THE POSITIVES
Believe it or not, there are positives!
Zohran Mamdani!
The Democratic Socialist handily won the New York mayoral primary, despite being opposed by big money, being 34, and being, well, being a Democratic Socialist!
He has lit a fire of excitement about the future. Finally, a young person with a big vision!
MAGA is going batshit.
There are calls for his deportation. Pitchforks for the man with the Middle Eastern sounding name!!! Who cares if he is an American citizen!
FAUX News called for "rich New Yorkers to band together" to oppose him. You cannot make this shit up. Satire and reality have officially melded.
It's a snarky amount that he is seeking, too. He is suing for $787 million, the same amount that FAUX News had to pay Dominion for its lies about their voting machines.
The lawsuit surrounds lies the "news" station told about the timing of phone calls between Newsom and Donold in around the time the National Guard was deployed. They intimated that Newsom had spoken to Doughnold before the Guard was called, making it sound like is was Newsom was lying.
Go, Gavin, go!
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A note about the content. I have been posting more and more videos, it seems. It's the nature of this regime: there is so much spectacle. I believe it is important to witness events with our own eyes. There is no spinning the bare behaviors.
We will never evolve as a species until we can stop murdering people and blowing shit up just because we have opposable thumbs, an aptitude for language, and a thirst for blood.
Ok, so ripping families apart and sending masked bandits to terrorize whole classes of our brethren just because you don't like the color of their skin, that's pretty bad too.
But now the Orange Menace has brought us into the War Zone.
This, a week or so after Israel had started a dust-up with Iran. There was no reason for the U.S. to get involved, except that maybe Toddler Man didn't want to get called TACO anymore (which is what his niece Mary surmises).
He’ll show them who is a TACO!!
On Saturday, TACO Don ordered bombing missions on nuclear facilities in Iran. It was impulsive; it was erratic; it was not needed. Diplomacy had in large part been working. Though Iran was continuing its nuclear program, no weapons had yet been developed and all signs were that they are not close. Bombing the shit out of their facilities should have been last resort, and only when it was obvious they had a weapon and were willing to use it.
That's what we get when we elect a small man with big toys and when his most important advisor is a (allegedly) drunken weekend news talking head.
He did it without the legally required Congressional approval and without most of the Congressional leadership even being briefed. He briefed some MAGAt-heads shortly before the attack, but no Lefties.
This is how we found out:
Thank you for your attention to this matter? Who are you, the day manager at Mattress King?
The Reality of the Strikes Themselves
The mission cost much moola, many millions.
The bombs used were specialized bombs, GBU-57 bombs, nicknamed "bunker busters" for their ability to burrow deep underground.
The massive bombs, which weigh 30,000 pounds, had never been used before, but were certainly known to the world as one of the arrows in the mighty United States's quiver. Seven amazing B-2 bombers (themselves a marvel of technology and engineering and cost about $2.1 billion each) dropped 14 bombs worth tens of millions of dollars each, with a cost of $500 million to develop. Besides the cost of the bombs, the B-2 costs $150,000 per flight hour to operate. Estimated cost per plane per mission (minus the bombs themselves): $3-$4 million.
Yeah, but we don't have money for Medicaid.
DONAKD (as in The Emperor Has No Clothes) sent this message out after the attack:
There was no imminent danger.
For three decades, Benjamin Netanyahu has been talking about "the imminence" of the readiness of Iran's nuclear weapons. It has never been borne out.
DONAKD's own Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, appeared before Congress in March and testified that the intelligence community "continues to assess that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon and Supreme Leader Khamenei has not authorized the nuclear weapons program that he suspended in 2003."
When presented with this information, the underthinker said flatly, "She's wrong."
I'm convinced Netanyahu took advantage of a diminished baby man, days after his humiliating birthday parade and being called bad names. The Traitor Tot wanted to act like a big shot, so Netanyahu goaded him into attacking. Those words – that Iran was merely "months or weeks" away from being ready – were straight out of Bibi's mouth.
Now we are all going to pay.
Iran knew that U.S. strikes were a possibility.
There is evidence that Iran moved the nuclear material from the facilities in the days ahead of the attack. It would've been impossible for the administration to not know that there was movement.
Iran's suspicions of an imminent attack were due in large part to 🚼 not being able to keep his thumbs still and quiet. In fact, Shitler was called "the biggest threat to operational security."
In the days after Israel started aggressions, he not-tweeted on Monday, June 16 and Tuesday June 17:
"Everyone should immediately evacuate Tehran!"
"What a shame, and waste of human life. Simply stated, IRAN CANNOT HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON."
"We now have complete and total control of the skies over Iran."
"We know exactly where the so-called ‘Supreme Leader’ is hiding. He is an easy target, but is safe there – We are not going to take him out (kill!), at least not for now. UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER!"
And of course his leaving the G7 summit meeting early and his "Nobody knows what I'm gonna do" statements in the day or two before the bombing.
Slowed down but not stopped.
Though details are still emerging, it appears that some of the sites may have damaged, but not "completely and totally obliterated" as Mr. Pants on Fire said in a statement afterwards.
Because some material was moved and because the facilities were not completely destroyed, the best case scenario was that the nuclear operation was slowed down but likely not stopped.
Retaliation? Wait –What? They can do that?
This act of war was incredibly short-sighted. True to form when a toddler is in charge, the consequences were not considered. They are potentially huge.
Retaliation could potentially take many forms:
Closing the Strait of Hormuz. This would send the price of oil up and hit the world in the pocketbook. Of course, he didn't think of that in advance. 20% of the world's oil flows through this strait. It's easy to shut down; at its narrowest, it is just 21 miles wide.
The afterthought about this possibility in the days after the U.S. attack? This "warning" from the Middle-Manager-in-Chief:
Oh no! If oil prices go up, will it be a mark on my annual performance review?!
Strikes against U.S. bases around the world. They have already started. As of this writing, Iran has targeted a U.S. base in Qatar. There were reportedly no injuries.
Calling up their buddies to wage terror. Iran is friends with Hamas, with the Houthis, with other militant groups. All of these groups specialize in terror. They have hated the U.S. forever, and now have a reason to organize some acts of terror.
Ramping up their nuclear program. The attack may spur Iran into accelerating their efforts rather than slowing them down.
In the end, hostilities may have cooled by the time I was finishing this post. SCROTUS announced a cease-fire, but it has not been confirmed. In any case, there still may be terrorist cells that are angered by The Felon's actions.
CNN's Fareed Zakaria reacts to President Donald Trump announcing a ceasefire between Israel and Iran which he says he hopes to become permanent. Neither Iran nor Israel has made any comments about a pending ceasefire.
Now I'm wondering if this ego trip was an attempt to show how he brought about peace in the end as part of his bid for the Nobel Peace Prize. In his warped mind, this may have been it!
The Spin
Price Smarming and others went on the Sunday news circuit to say that of course this is a limited strike and of course the United States does not intend to force a regime change.
Until Dear Leader posted this:
The MAGAt Reaction
I was wrong in my last post that 47 would not strike but would use the situation to play the stock market. But I was not wrong that MAGAts, always staunchly anti-war and "America First," have tidily and efficiently snapped their neurons in place to support their Dear Leader in whatever war crap comes.
It's 👏 a 👏 cult 👏
Ceasefire?
It is still very much a developing situation. At time of publishing, there was chatter about a ceasefire. Reports were that the Twitiot and Iran had said there is a cease-fire in place, but hadn't been confirmed by Israel. As the "Publish" button was pushed, headlines said that Iran had launched dozens of missiles into Israel overnight.
Watch The New York Times live updates here (gift article) or CNN's here.
