Charles James Kirk was a man of words. Let us remember some of them.

 

On the attempted assassination of Rep. Pelosi and vicious attack on her husband.

 https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/charlie-kirk-bail-out-alleged-paul-pelosi-attacker-1234621493/

 “Why has he not been bailed out?” Kirk said Monday on his podcast of the man who allegedly beat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi‘s husband Paul with a hammer last Friday. “By the way, if some amazing patriot out there in San Francisco or the Bay Area wants to really be a midterm hero, someone should go and bail this guy out, I bet his bail’s like thirty or forty thousand bucks.” With a smirk, he added: “Bail him out and then go ask him some questions.”

 

 

On Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights Act of 1960.

https://www.wired.com/story/charlie-kirk-tpusa-mlk-civil-rights-act/

 “MLK was awful,” Kirk said. “He’s not a good person. He said one good thing he actually didn’t believe.”
“I have a very, very radical view on this, but I can defend it, and I’ve thought about it,” Kirk said at America Fest. “We made a huge mistake when we passed the Civil Rights Act in the 1960s.”“We’re gonna be hitting him next week,” Kirk said on his podcast this week. “Yeah, on the day of the Iowa caucus, it’s MLK Day. We’re gonna do the thing you’re not supposed to do. We’re gonna tell the truth about MLK Jr. You better tune in next week. Blake has already been preparing. It’s gonna be great.”

 NOTE:  “Blake” is an apparent reference to Blake Neff, a producer of The Charlie Kirk Show. In 2020, Neff resigned from his job at Fox News as Tucker Carlson’s top writer after CNN revealed he had been making racist posts under a pseudonym. Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott called Neff’s posts “abhorrent.”

 

On the necessity of gun violence to maintain 2nd Amendment. Seriously. That’s what he said.

https://www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk/charlie-kirk-its-worth-have-cost-unfortunately-some-gun-deaths-every-single-year-so-we

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 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.

 

 On murdering gay people.

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/charlie-kirk-political-views-guns-lgbt-trump-b2824580.html

He also lashed out at the gay community, saying that the Bible verse Leviticus 20:13, which calls for the execution of homosexuals, serves as “God’s perfect law when it comes to sexual matters.”

 Leviticus 20:13;  King James Version

 If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.

 

 

The National Guard, in measuring public sentiment about President Donald Trump’s federal takeover of Washington, D.C., has assessed that its mission is perceived as “leveraging fear,” driving a “wedge between citizens and the military,” and promoting a sense of “shame” among some troops and veterans, according to internal documents reviewed by The Washington Post.

The assessments, which have not been previously reported, underscore how domestic mobilizations that are rooted in politics risk damaging Americans’ confidence in the men and women who serve their communities in times of crisis. The documents reveal, too, with a rare candor in some cases, that military officials have been kept apprised that their mission is viewed by a segment of society as wasteful, counterproductive and a threat to long-standing precedent stipulating that U.S. soldiers — with rare exception — are to be kept out of domestic law enforcement matters.

Trump has said the activation of more than 2,300 National Guard troops was necessary to reduce crime in the nation’s capital, though data maintained by the D.C. police indicates an appreciable decline was underway long before his August declaration of an “emergency.” In the weeks since, the Guard has spotlighted troops’ work assisting the police and “beautifying” the city by laying mulch and picking up trash, part of a daily disclosure to the news media generated by Joint Task Force D.C., the military command overseeing the deployment.

Not for public consumption, however, is an internal “media roll up” that analyzes the tone of news stories and social media posts about the National Guard’s presence and activities in Washington. Government media relations personnel routinely produce such assessments and provide summaries to senior leaders for their awareness. They stop short of drawing conclusions about the sentiments being raised.

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/national-guard-documents-show-public-fear-troops-shame-over-d-c-presence/ar-AA1MfR7D

House Democrats on Monday released a screenshot of a letter signed by President Donald Trump, which was included in a collection of notes sent to notorious sex offender Jeffrey Epstein for his 50th birthday in 2003.

The letter features a conversation between Trump and Epstein inside an apparently hand-drawn outline of a woman’s torso. Trump’s signature is located just below the hips of the drawing.

“HERE IT IS: We got Trump’s birthday note to Jeffrey Epstein that the President said doesn’t exist,” the X account for the House Oversight Committee’s Democratic minority wrote in a post revealing the letter. CNBC has requested comment from a spokesman for Trump’s legal team. The White House did not immediately respond to CNBC’s request for comment.

The screenshot released Monday afternoon reveals the letter exactly as it was described in a mid-July report from The Wall Street Journal, which first uncovered the existence of the “bawdy” message.

Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/08/trump-epstein-birthday-book-oversight.html

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https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/09/eric-schmitt-white-nationalism-national-conservatism-conference.html

What is an American?” This was the question Senator Eric Schmitt (R, MO) posed at the fifth annual National Conservatism Conference in Washington. His answer is that the nation is fundamentally not based on the idea of equality or freedom or any other ideal. Nor is it accessible to people of all races and religions. It is fundamentally, he told an assembled crowd, a white homeland.

The white Europeans who settled America and conquered the West “believed they were forging a nation—a homeland for themselves and their descendants,” he said. “They fought, they bled, they struggled, they died for us. They built this country for us. America, in all its glory, is their gift to us, handed down across the generations. It belongs to us. It’s our birthright, our heritage, our destiny. If America is everything and everyone, then it is nothing and no one at all. But we know that’s not true. America is not a ‘universal nation.’ ”

The implications of this vision are serious. This is a repudiation of our Constitution and the core of a national identity that includes all its citizens. It means that to be American is not about citizenship at all. “What is an American?” Schmitt asked. It is a white person. America is a white homeland that organically binds together white people of the past, present and future. And its policies must be guided for their benefit if they are to succeed.

“A strong, sovereign nation—not just an idea but a home, belonging to a people bound together by a common past and a shared destiny.”

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And there you have it, folks — America is NOT a land where “all men are created equal” — we are a “white homeland” and we should act like it.

Trump’s next move will be to rename the US Army “Die Wehrmacht” and the US Air Force “Die Luftwaffe.”

 

On second thought, no, no moment of silence.  FAFO.

This story is a bit confusing but here’s what I can piece together.

Yet another pardoned Jan 6er commits more crimes, arrested. 

 Trump’s pardons of the J6 criminals did nothing but return criminals to our streets.

Robert Keith Packer, 60, was arrested on Thursday “following an investigation into an animal-related incident” that had occurred on Monday in Newport News, a city spokesperson said.

Packer was charged with one count of animal attack resulting from owner’s disregard for human life, a felony, the spokesperson said. He was also charged with attacking while at large and no city license, both misdemeanors.

“As part of the investigation, authorities seized one adult dog, six 11-week-old puppies, four live rabbits, and one deceased rabbit from the property,” the spokesperson said.

Police told Newport News ABC affiliate WVEC that four people were taken to the hospital with dog bites stemming from the attack.  Packer’s neighbors told police that his dogs have been terrorizing the neighborhood for several months and that he does nothing to stop the dogs from attacking people.

Federal prosecutors in the Jan. 6 case said that Packer has been a “habitual criminal offender for 25 years with 21 convictions for mostly drunk driving, but also for larceny, drug possession, and forgery.” He was incarcerated for several previous offenses, they said.

 

Blue-collar workers f####d around when they voted for Donald Trump in 2024. Now, they’re finding out.

Voters without college degrees backed Trump over then-Vice President Kamala Harris by 14 points, according to exit polling. Yet August’s jobs report showed that industries whose workers often do not possess college degrees have lost jobs, in part thanks to Trump’s nonsensical trade policy.

The jobs report showed that the mining industry—which Trump has touted he is saving—lost 6,000 jobs in August.

Meanwhile, the construction industry—hit hard by tariffs and the rising price of materials—lost 7,000 jobs. And truck transportation lost 900 jobs.

However, aside from the government—which took a massive hit thanks to now-former co-President Elon Musk’s destructive Department of Government Efficiency cuts—no industry has done worse than manufacturing.

In his inaugural address, Trump promised to restore the American manufacturing sector, declaring that, “America will be a manufacturing nation once again.”

Yet manufacturing lost a whopping 12,000 jobs in August. Altogether, the manufacturing industry has lost 78,000 jobs in 2025, a massive contraction.

Ultimately, the only industry doing okay right now is health care, which accounts for virtually all of the job growth over the last four months. But that’s about to take a hit, too, as the GOP’s “One Big, Beautiful Bill” cuts billions from Medicaid that will cause millions to lose their coverage and leave rural hospitals and long-term health care facilities in trouble.

If you thought the Trump administration cared, however, well, you’d be wrong. Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer went on Fox Business to deny that Trump’s tariffs are wreaking havoc on the economy.

“Tariffs are working,” she said, even though the data shows they clearly are not.

“Unemployment is still holding steady,” she added, even though unemployment is now the highest it’s been since 2021 and federal jobs data shows that there are now more job seekers than job openings. “Statistically, it’s nonexistent.”  (Someone needs to tell this billionaire asshole that when you lose a job, or can’t find one, statistics are the last thing you worry about.)