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“Trump has been pissy about the late-night hosts because they’re constantly calling him on his bullshit instead of kissing his ass, and he vowed to get them thrown off the air.”
Your friend isn’t wrong, you know.
» Posted By Steve On 21/September/2025 @ 10:25 pm
From Heather Cox Richardson:
Since a gunman murdered right-wing activist Charlie Kirk at an outdoor event at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah, both social media circles and the political sphere have been alight with accusations that “the Left” was responsible for the shooting. Prominent right-wing social media accounts called the Democratic Party “a domestic terror organization” and declared “WAR.” Billionaire Elon Musk posted: “The Left is the party of murder.”
From the Oval Office, President Donald J. Trump blamed the shooting on “the radical left” and vowed to “find each and every one of those who contributed to this atrocity, and to other political violence, including the organizations that fund it and support it, as well as those who go after our judges, law enforcement officials, and everyone else who brings order to our country.”
Without any information about the shooter, the media got in on the game, with the Wall Street Journal reporting yesterday that “[a]mmunition engraved with transgender and antifascist ideology was found inside the rifle authorities believe was used in Kirk’s shooting.” Bomb threats targeted Democratic politicians—primarily Black politicians—and historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs).
Condemnation of the shooting was widespread. Perhaps eager to distance themselves from accusations that anyone who does not support MAGA endorses political violence, commenters portrayed Kirk as someone embracing the reasoned debate central to democracy, although he became famous by establishing a database designed to dox professors who expressed opinions he disliked so they would be silenced (I am included on this list).
Meanwhile, it was not clear the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) was up to the task of finding the killer. FBI director Kash Patel and deputy director Dan Bongino were both MAGA influencers without law enforcement experience when Trump put them in charge of the agency. Once there, they focused on purging the agency of those they considered insufficiently loyal to Trump or “DEI hires.” In early August, they forced out the leader of the Salt Lake City, Utah, field office, Mehtab Syed, a decorated female Pakistani American counterterrorism agent.
Meanwhile, David J. Bier of the Cato Institute reported that one in five FBI agents have been diverted from their jobs to conduct immigration raids with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and just hours before the shooting, three former top officials at the FBI filed a lawsuit against Patel, the FBI, Attorney General Pam Bondi, the Department of Justice, and the president accusing them of unlawfully politicizing the FBI, purging it of anyone who had ever worked on a criminal investigation of Trump. The lawsuit suggests Bongino had an “intense focus on [using] his social media profiles to change his followers’ perceptions of the FBI.”
As Quinta Jurecic reported today in The Atlantic, hours after the shooting, Patel’s personal social media account posted a picture of himself and Kirk; minutes later, Patel’s official FBI account posted that the shooter was already in custody and then, an hour and a half later, said the suspect had been released. Both Patel and Bongino appeared to be focused more on posting than on doing the work to find the shooter.
This morning, Trump announced on the Fox News Channel’s Fox & Friends that he had just heard “they have the person that they wanted.” That person turned out to be 22-year-old Utah native Tyler Robinson, who turned himself in to authorities after his father urged him to. Robinson’s parents are registered Republicans; he was not affiliated with a political party and was an inactive voter. Over the past years, Robinson’s mother posted a number of pictures of him and his brothers posing with guns.
Robinson had recently had a conversation with a family member about why they didn’t like Kirk’s viewpoints. Robinson appears to have admired the “Groypers,” led by Nick Fuentes, who complain that more mainstream organizations like Kirk’s Turning Point USA are not “pro-white” enough and have publicly harassed Kirk in the past.
Allison Gill of The Breakdown explained that the rumors the shooter had engraved anti-fascist rhetoric on some of the bullet casings found at the scene turned out to be a misunderstanding of terms from the video game Helldivers2. The claim that he had used “transgender ideology” was apparently a misreading of the headstamp “TRN” that marks ammunition as the product of Turkish manufacturer Turan.
Almost as soon as Robinson was identified, the tone of MAGA leader’s conversation about the shooting changed. Representative Nancy Mace (R-SC), who had used a slur to refer to the shooter as pro-transgender, posted on social media: “We know Charlie Kirk would want us to pray for such an evil, and lost individual like Tyler Robinson to find Jesus Christ. We will try to do the same.”
For his part, Trump seemed to have lost interest in Kirk even earlier. Yesterday evening, a reporter offered the president his condolences on the loss of his friend Kirk and asked Trump how he was holding up. The president answered, in full: “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 150 years, and it’s going to be a beauty. It’ll be an absolutely magnificent structure. And I just see all the trucks. We just started so it’ll get done very nicely and it’ll be one of the best anywhere in the world, actually. Thank you very much.”» Posted By Steve On 13/September/2025 @ 10:33 pm
Nobody said Tyler Robinson is a Republican. Every article I’ve seen states he comes from a Republican family, but that although he registered to vote, he didn’t sate a preferred party. Even his grandmother said in an interview that nobody in her family is a Democrat. I know it’s hard to admit that you and most of the right were wrong with this one, everyone jumped on the bandwagon seconds after the shooting but now that the facts are coming out, most of the internet has become eerily quiet except for those that despite the facts, still refuse to believe. Like you LOL. Sorry to disappoint, but he wasn’t a democrat, he wasn’t trans, he wasn’t an immigrant, or person of color. Just a screwed up white kid who disagreed with the message Kirk had. There are some theories he was affiliated with Nick Fuentes’ group but so far I haven’t seen anything factual on that, just theories and speculation.
» Posted By Steve On 13/September/2025 @ 10:18 pm
Hope everything is ok, and hopefully you can shed a little light on what’s going on so your faithful readers aren’t completely in the dark.
» Posted By Steve On 30/June/2025 @ 9:47 pm
It’s your blog but from a reader, please stick to blogging about your walks, drinking, and eating and stay away from subjects where the only info you’ve read is on far-right sites. Not even sure why you’re bothering since you have zero skin in the game, living in a foreign country.
CLAIM: Calling the Select Committee to Investigate the Jan. 6th Attack on the United States Capitol the “Unselect Committee of political thugs,” Trump alleged that then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi “turned down the offer of 10,000 soldiers” on Jan. 6, 2021 and that she was “in charge of security at the Capitol.”
THE FACTS: Trump has frequently claimed Pelosi rejected his offer to send National Guard troops to the Capitol on Jan. 6. While he was involved in discussions in the days prior to Jan. 6 about whether the National Guard would be called ahead of the joint session, he issued no such order or formal request before or during the rioting, and the guard’s arrival was delayed for hours as Pentagon officials deliberated over how to proceed.
In a 2022 interview with the Democratic-led House committee that investigated the attack, Christopher Miller, the acting defense secretary at that time, confirmed that there was no order from the president.
Pelosi did not direct the National Guard. However, as the Capitol came under attack, she and then-Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell called for military assistance, including from the National Guard.
The Capitol Police Board makes the decision on whether to call National Guard troops to the Capitol. It is made up of the House Sergeant at Arms, the Senate Sergeant at Arms and the Architect of the Capitol. The board decided not to call the guard ahead of the insurrection but did eventually request assistance after the rioting had already begun, and the troops arrived several hours later.
» Posted By Steve On 24/January/2025 @ 10:25 pm
I’m curious, what were the differences between 2016-2020 and 2020-2024?
What, exactly, did Trump do during his first 4 years? Pretty much nothing. Most of what was there was handed to him by Obama. Oh right, that wall he never finished, the one Mexico is paying for. Or that health plan he promised to replace Obama care. LOL
Drill baby drill? You do realize the US is pumping record amounts of oil already, right?
This article should be mandatory reading so that people will understand why gas prices were so low in 2020 (hint – Covid). And here are the official prices of gas for the start of each month in the U.S. in 2019 (from the U.S. Energy Information Administration):
Jan – $2.23
Feb – $2.25
Mar – $2.42
Apr – $2.69
May – $2.89
Jun – $2.80
Jul – $2.71
Aug – $2.68
Sep – $2.53
Oct – $2.64
Nov – $2.60
Dec – $2.57
https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2020/article/from-the-barrel-to-the-pump.htm#:~:text=Prices%20dropped%20precipitously%20in%20March,in%20the%20intraday%20futures%20market» Posted By Steve On 07/November/2024 @ 10:00 pm
On the other hand, I don’t understand how anyone could vote for someone who
– Openly bragged about grabbing women’s p*ssies
– Told New York Magazine in 1992 that when it comes to women, “You have to treat them like sh*t”
– Sexually assaulted at least one woman we know about
– Committed adultery
– Mocked a disabled reporter in front of a crowd
– Paid a porn star hush money to keep their affair quiet
– January 6th
– The attempt to overturn the 2020 election
– Totally & miserably failed with response to Covid-19
– Family separation at the border
– Withheld aid to Ukraine unless they dug up dirt on Hunter Biden
– Constant hateful rhetoric which stoked white nationalism
– On Sen John McCain: “He’s not a war hero, he’s a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren’t captured, OK? I hate to tell you.”
– The classified documents case and discussing classified information with civilians (for which anyone, anyone else, would be in jail. Period.)
– Called service members suckers and losersAnd those are just a few.
» Posted By Steve On 01/September/2024 @ 10:11 pm
Hmm he’s been making daily posts on his blog unless those are pre-dated posts? I see posts from 8/12 going back almost daily all month.
» Posted By Steve On 13/August/2024 @ 10:42 am
Have there been Congressional and/or Justice Department investigations into past elections? If not, why not? Again, just because one man, Trump says it’s so, doesn’t make it so. You have to have facts. Evidence. Witnesses. Video. FACTS. And so far, aside from Trump’s rantings, there ain’t none. Not. One. Single. One.
» Posted By Steve On 14/January/2021 @ 12:51 pm
«« Back To Stats PageI don’t comment often, think I’ve only left one other comment prior to this one but…
To this day, there still hasn’t been one single, verified, factual, proven instance of voter fraud (by the Dem side, that is). Remember, just because Trump says it’s so, doesn’t make it so, no matter how bad you want to believe him, Giuliani, Powell, or Lin.
IMHO, Biden won because most people voted against Trump, and rightly so.» Posted By Steve On 10/January/2021 @ 10:58 pm