Thursday, September 11, 2025:  A Predictable Tragedy

Does the assassination Charlie Kirk prove his points on the Second Amendment?

"You will never live in a society when you have an armed citizenry and you won't have a single gun death. That is nonsense. It's drivel. But I am, I, I — I think it's worth it. I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights. That is a prudent deal. It is rational. Nobody talks like this. They live in a complete alternate universe"

According to a Snopes fact check, Kirk made this statement during an April 5, 2023, TPUSA Faith event that took place on the Salt Lake City campus of Awaken Church. The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine hosts an archived YouTube video (unavailable on YouTube's website) showing the entire event. The quote begins at the 1:16:21 mark. Meanwhile, the PodBean account for the Awaken Church also hosts the audio from the same function, with the quote occurring at the 41:30 mark.

Kirk believed "The Second Amendment is there, God forbid, so that you can defend yourself against a tyrannical government."
So here is my problem. Kirk played an integral role in the forming of the tyrannical Trump government – one that disregards every law designed to reign in executive overreach and sends armed troops into our cities to use against American citizens. So what if the shooter saw this as defending us against Trump and his tyranny. If so, then Kirk was correct in his interpretation of the "right to bear arms" and would that make the shooter a villain or a hero?

Like a broken record, Trump once again blames the "radical left". If a drain backed up in the Whitehouse, I am sure Trump would blame the "radical left". Trump, the coward who promotes violence against our government, sends the military into our cities, and cuts of foreign aid that will ultimately kill hundreds of thousands. Sadly, the MAGA folks continue to buy his bullshit. The facts surrounding the political based gun violence of late do not support Trump's blame game and there is real likelihood that the shooter in the Kirk case will turn out to be some screwed up young male who wants to become infamous.


Wednesday, September 10, 2025:  Epstein et al
I hope that someday a good percentage of the MAGA base will emerge from their Trump stupor and realize that there is no "deep state" in the Federal Government, only loyal civil servants and that the real bogeymen are a bunch of rich SOBs in the private sector. This fiction of a deep state was created to take the focus off the true enemy of the people – the rich and powerful.

I believe that the pursuit of the Epstein files is a legitimate attempt by MAGA and others to find the real evil that exists in this world. Hopefully the files will help the MAGA faithful realize that it is not the hardworking federal employees they should be after, but rather the rich, the powerful, the corporations, and the banks. They are the real enemy of the people. I am sure that if the list of Epstein's clients ever comes out, it will consist mostly of men who fall in the top .01% club. Men who have enough money to buy off anyone who they see as a threat to their riches and their perverted lifestyle.

Oh, and there is a reason your favorite boy is fighting tooth and nail to keep the Epstein files under wraps. Think about it.


Monday, September 1, 2025:  MAGA - Soccer Balls And Laser Lights
Have you ever watched a group of 5 and 6 year old kids playing soccer or a cat chasing a laser light? Basically, it amounts to "wherever the ball or laser light goes, they go". It is not much different than watching the MAGA folks chase the latest "woke grievance" proffered up by the right wing media and pundits – In this case, The Cracker Barrel Logo.

A short time after Cracker Barrel announced its new logo, a cohort of right-wing voices decided that it was, wait a minute… "woke". Those voices never really explained how a plain logo with the restaurant's name was woke, but the accusation was made, the MAGA mob was mobilized, and word went out: "The Barrel must be broken." Like a gaggle of 5 year old kids chasing a soccer ball or a cat chasing a laser light, they went at Cracker Barrel with a vengeance.

To quote David French, "The process of stoking (MAGA) outrage has another effect: It crowds out the news cycle. Most Democrats I know would be shocked at how little the average Republican knows about Trump's actual conduct and his actual wrongdoing. Republicans can, however, cite chapter and verse about left-wing outrages and left-wing overreactions to Trump. That creates a reality where they simply can't conceive of how any reasonable, rational person would vote Democratic or oppose the president and his policies."

So as our once great country goes down the tubes, the MAGA crowd spends its time chasing woke soccer balls and Fox news laser lights.