Mourning in America

 This just in:  A student at Texas Tech has been expelled and arrested for performing a mocking dance with the words "Fuck y'all, yo homie dead."  It is not clear what she was charged with, as I'm fairly sure bad taste is not illegal in Texas, but being arrested is better than just being disappeared.  Greg Abbott couldn't wait to share the news.

So we've reached that stage.  Karen Attiah was fired from her job as a Washington Post columnist, but she should have expected it.  She wrote, "I wish I had hope for gun control and that I could believe 'political violence has no place in this country.'  But we live in a country that accepts white children being massacred by gun violence.  Not just accepts, but worships violence."

Not very incendiary compared to my rage-post on Saturday, and probably a reference to the already forgotten Minneapolis school shooting.  But nothing will do, it seems, except full-throated Kirkolatry and calls for the immediate public burning of the alleged shooter.

Mistah Kurtz, he cancelled!  Howard Kurtz was heard to say "Charlie was not a saint" and that was all it took for Fox News to kill his MediaBuzz after twelve years.  It says he will remain as a commentator once the torches are extinguished and the pitchforks returned to the toolsheds.  Kurtz also said, "It's not unique to one side or one party," meaning violence, and that's just unacceptable.

The reliably pathetic Lindsey Graham characterized the murder as "an attack on a political movement" and wants to repeal Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act which shields internet companies from being sued over their users' posts.  Like the Nazis who post on X, but not really, right, Lindsey?  Mark Kelly was also on NBC asking that all media stop running video of the shooting, mostly because it was so traumatizing for his wife Gaby Giffords.  I'm sure it was, and I'm also sure it was good for viewers to be reminded of the attempt on Giffords, inundated as we have been with cries that "only the left" resorts to violence.

Look, there's one now.  Lisa McClain (Fascist-MI) told a MAGA mob, "One side holds a vigil and the other side stokes the flames and burns cities."  Damn, was Seattle burned down again?  "It's really simple to see the contrast in America between good and evil, right and wrong, and the Republican Party and the Democrats."  Yes, the name-calling must stop.  Or else.

Now that it's good versus evil, the only remaining question is who gets to decide.  God made his choice when he saved Trump and allowed a volunteer firefighter to die in his place, so as the bumper sticker says, that settles it.  And because you can never have enough Epstein distractions, Trump is again proposing that George Soros be imprisoned for being "a bad guy."  He wants a RICO prosecution because funding progressive causes is indistinguishable from running a Mafia family, OK?  If a young woman in Lubbock can be arrested for performing a silly dance, no one is safe.  We must just hope that Jeanine Pirro gets the case.

Even his distractions need distractions.  Last week the ICEstapo rocked up to a Hyundai plant in Ellabell, near Savannah, and grabbed 475 Korean workers for being Korean, as usual not wasting time by checking their ID.  The plant makes batteries for electric vehicles and was supposed to be training Americans in the work.  After the customary abuse the Koreans were re-patriated and all but one decided they had had enough of America.  Trump the great deal maker is assuring them that foreign workers are welcome and "I don't want to frighten off or disincentivize investment."  If he meant it, Noem would already be gone.  President Lee Jae Myung replied that South Korean companies "can't help but question if setting up a plant in the US is worth the potential risks."  Nice work, Donnie.

Gun-happy Utah is reviewing a recent law, HB 128, which allows people with permits to carry firearms openly on college campuses.  I'm glad Charlie Kirk didn't live to see this betrayal of the Second Amendment he loved so much.  Just in case, some people in the state are ready to go old school -- two men were arrested after a bomb was discovered under a news media vehicle in Salt Lake City.  It was primed but failed to explode.  

MAGA is holding Kirk vigils all over the country, from the Capitol, where Holy Mike will lead the speaking in tongues, to State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona.  Yesterday's Prayers-a-palooza at the Kennedy Center drew a mixture of the great and the bad, from Supreme Court justices to Kennedy and Biff the Brain Worm.  (Trump was unavoidably detained by golf but promises to make the funeral.)  It may be the only time the Center sees a crowd until 2029:   Ticket sales are down by as much as 80 percent.  Performances by Stuttgart Ballet in October are on a "What time does it start?" - "What time can you get here?" basis.  ETTD

When Trump visits the UK he will have an opportunity to watch his favorite president (HIM!) on Channel 4.  They are broadcasting Trump v The Truth, billed as "the longest uninterrupted reel of untruths," more than a hundred lies with text-based fact checks to show CNN, et al., how it's done.  Only a hundred?  Watch for it on YouTube.

Farmers in northern Pennsylvania, 75 percent of whom chose the felon over the prosecutor last year, are experiencing buyer's remorse.  They're desperate for help and blame the labor shortage on ICEstapo raids.  "We need people to do the jobs Americans are too spoiled to do," complained one.  Even if they eat your dogs and cats?

From sea to shining sea, Americans with one voice cry:

RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES!