Is it Trolling?

18 U.S.C. §922(g)4 says, who has been adjudicated as a mental defective or who has been committed to a mental institution is a prohibited person.

Trump went there. He suggested that people suffering from gender dysphoria are mentally ill.

If they are mentally ill then does 18 U.S.C. §922(g)4 apply?

Using the DSM-IV we see

There were situations where people with Gender Identity Disorder were classified as “mentally defective” under §922(g), but with the release of DSM-5, that is no longer possible, and it still requires an adjudication.

The trolling is because we now have Trump taking guns away from somebody, good from the left’s point of view while at the same time doing something to a member of a victim class, which is bad.

What’s a good leftist to do?

Noem v. Vasquez

In another win for the Trump Administration, the Supreme Court decided that the Constitution really does say that the President oversees the executive branch, not judges.

In —Marbury V. Madison, 5 U.S. 137 (1803) the Supreme Court defined who they were and what their job is. The gist of that decision is that the Supreme Court decides if a government action violates the Constitution. They gave themselves the power as the final arbitrator of what the law means.

Since that time there have been ongoing skirmishes between the branches as each branch attempts to wrest power from the other branches. In some cases it was one branch taking it from another branch to give to the third. Thus we have judges who think they can oversee immigration policy.

The left is playing one of their favorite games: redefining words. As I’ve said in the past, we can easily tell if the plain text of the Second Amendment covers the proposed conduct by looking to see if any of the usual suspects speaks up. If Giffords, Brady, or Everytown is involved, the plain text of the Second Amendment is implicated.

When an unmarked vehicle pulls up and 3 or 4 men jump out in full police gear wearing vests that say “POLICE” or “I.C.E.”, they know who it is. They aren’t unknown people. They are law enforcement officials.

They know damn well that it isn’t a kidnapping; it is an arrest. They know damn well that the officers are wearing face coverings because the left are violent. The left is willing to kill people to get their way.

The Court found that briefly detaining a person with reasonable suspicion is good enough. An I.C.E. agent can briefly detain a person they suspect of being a criminal illegal alien for reasonable suspicion. They must then release that person if they are not a criminal.

A person is not arrested if they are detained. They are not kidnapped. And they are not at any particular risk, unless they do something stupid..

I’m tired of reading about a “pastor” or “father” or “youth coach” that has been “kidnapped” by “masked men.” Reading just a few paragraphs in, it becomes obvious that the person in question was a criminal alien being arrested for deportation.

Freedom From Association

It has been pointed out that medical professionals making any statement suggesting they will discriminate in how they care for a patient is cause for dismissal.

The legal ramifications are so high that a medical facility can’t risk it. If some nurse says they are intentionally causing pain to a patient, that nurse must be fired. If they are not fired, the medical facility is ripe for a lawsuit, which they are likely to lose.

At this point many people who thought they were talking to like-minded people or who thought they were in the majority have reached the FO stage of the equation.

Businesses are finding that they have no customers. Employees are being shown the door and then finding out that they do not qualify for unemployment. FA and FO is happening all over the world.

In addition, people are speaking up in opposition to the vile, evil devils and finding that they are suddenly “Right wing extremists.”

They are being welcomed with milk and cookies and don’t understand how they got here.

Where is the violence coming from?

It is all in the definitions.

While there are multiple outlets reporting that there is more right-wing violence than left-wing violence, the singleton source leads back to the ADL.

Just a few observations. If the violence is anti-government, that is labeled as right-wing. Countless antifa thugs throwing firebombs at government buildings is “right-wing violence.” If charges are dropped, it wasn’t violence. Walking through the capitol is violence; burning cars is not.

The data is so corrupted that you can’t take it at face value.

Question Of The Week

Have you decided to go to red dots on your EDC?

Charlie made Turning Point USA, and I love it. It flows off the tongue, and it speaks to so many people. But it is religious, and not all of us are. Nor should we be! We are not a hegemony, and I don’t want us to be. It’s antithetical to the founding documents of our country.

So I suggest… “Perspective Forge.” It holds the idea Charlie had, when he asked, “change my mind,” but it also brings to mind the birth of things. A forge is where metal is strengthened, shaped, molded, and made better, and perhaps we can make a place where our country and/or our people can forge their own opinions, shaped and made better and stronger by questioning themselves and others in polite debate.

I am not the person to run this. I have so little time… But if someone wants to work with me, I can throw ideas at your wall. Like this:

A secular version of Turning Point USA, accepting everyone, leaving the choice of religion (or lack thereof) to the members. “Turning Point USA is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization founded in 2012 by Charlie Kirk. The organization’s mission is to identify, educate, train, and organize students to promote the principles of freedom, free markets, and limited government. (Union University)” Therefore, Perspective Forge’s mission would be to educate and organize people and enable them to debate while promoting the principles of freedom, free markets, and limited government.

And when I go and look up those three things (freedom, free market, and limited government), I run into some very interesting things. They are considered the hallmark of “classical liberalism.” Our Founding Fathers considered a free market to be one of the main ways to maintain freedom from tyranny (though they differed in how they get there). Safeguarding the right to acquire and own property was considered vitally important, as it shielded individuals from government overreach. James Madison called for the protection of one’s “faculties” (skills, talents, and abilities), which give rise to property rights, “the first object of government.” Whew. What that boils down to is that Madison thought that the government’s main purpose, first purpose, was to protect the skills and abilities of its constituents, so that they could excel in whatever “faculty” they liked. When government does that, he feels it automatically protects We The People from a rogue or tyrannical government. I’m not sure I totally understand that one, but the idea is interesting.

I would love to see this exist. I would love to participate in it. If nothing else, perhaps on Charlie’s Day (Wednesdays), I will ask everyone to “challenge my view” (rather than change my mind). I’ll pick a topic, and state my viewpoint on it, and you can join in the debate. Feel free to toss topics my way, because I’m not always great at thinking of good ones.

The First Amendment declares:

This is our protection from the state for religion, speech, distributing speech, gathering, and demanding changes from the state when the state harms us.

This is what the First Amendment to our Constitution says. We interpreted it first by looking at the plain text of the amendment, as it was understood in 1791. While the 14th Amendment incorporated the entire Constitution as amended for all states, the meaning of the First Amendment is fixed to 1791.

The language of the 14th Amendment was fixed in the 1860s, when it was ratified.

Once we determine if the plain text of the Constitution is implicated, the state bears the burden of proving that the current regulation, law, or action is supported by this Nation’s historical traditions of regulations.

While an exact match is not required, the regulation must match the what, how, and why of our Nation’s traditional regulations.

The first thing we note is that it is a restriction on Congress, the government, not the people. The 14th Amendment means that it is also a restriction on all local and state governments. It does not apply to people or companies.

This means that your employer can create a rule that says you cannot post anything about the company. They might have a rule that says you are always a representative of the company and that you must show good moral character.

The First Amendment has nothing to do with any rules your employer makes. There might be other laws or regulations that apply, but not your First Amendment protected rights.

While the common vernacular is “Freedom of Speech”, this phrase does not appear in the Constitution. Instead, it commands the government to not create a state religion nor to stop people from practicing their religion.

One of the things that the left yells is, “No right is absolute!” This is true. We have other protected rights; we have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. — U.S. Declaration of Independence

When there is a conflict between “life” and “religion,” the courts have found that the right to life supersedes the right to practice your religion as you wish. This is why we have freedom of religion, but human sacrifice is illegal. There are other crimes that are not protected by freedom of religion as well.

In general, the process is called “levels of scrutiny.” This is the process where the court first determines how much a regulation interferes with your protected right; based on that level, the court applies Strict, Intermediate, or Rational scrutiny.

Each level of scrutiny has a corresponding burden that the government must meet to justify that interference.

It is the same when we look at the freedom of speech, …abridging the freedom of speech…. We look at the meaning of “abridged” in 1791 to understand. We look to regulations on people’s speech in 1791 to find what are and are not allowed abridgements of speech.

While the left uses, “You can’t shout fire in a crowded theater.” This is not true. It is a lie.

It was stated as part of dicta by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., in Schenck v. United States, 1919. He then spent much of his later career trying to reverse this horrible opinion.

We know it is a lie because you most certainly are allowed to shout “fire” if the theater is on fire. Or if there is a legal need to move people to an exit.

After Charlie was murdered, many people went on social media to express themselves. Some were grieving, and their pain came through. Others celebrated his death. Still others expressed their desire for others to be murdered, as Charlie was.

All of these statements are covered by the plain text of the First Amendment. As were the statements that a man cannot become a woman and that abortion is evil.

These are all examples of speech. They all fall within the plain text of the First Amendment.

We add one more example: people sharing these posts with others, including employers.

First, there are laws regulating speech. In particular, credible threats of violence are illegal. See 18 U.S.C. § 875 for example. §875 covers threats sent through interstate communications, such as X or Facebook.

But, people are being fired for what they said. Their speech is protected; that can’t be legal?

It is legal. You were allowed to speak freely when you said those vile, evil, disgusting things. You still have the freedom to speak as you whine about being fired. Your freedom of speech has not been abridged.

Here is the thing: we have the right to assemble peacefully. There is an ancillary right that has been put into case law, and that is the right to not assemble. In the same way that the state is forbidden from stopping you from associating with others, they can’t force you to associate with people.

Your employer has the right to not associate with you.

In addition, it is highly likely that your employment contract includes phrases that say you can’t harm the company’s reputation.

You might argue that this means that a company can fire somebody for being a “Nazi.”

You would be wrong. In general, you can’t be fired for your political beliefs. The left fought this battle and won.

While you can’t be fired for being a communist, you can be fired for disrupting the workplace. You can’t be fired for organizing; you can be fired for not showing up for work.

You can’t be fired for having conservative beliefs, and you can’t be fired because someone accuses you of being a Nazi or racist or a white supremacist.

So to all those whining leftists out there, upset that they were fired, you don’t have legal grounds to get your job back. Learn to code.

Vaccines are a hot topic right now. A lot of states are removing mandates about vaccines. It’s a topic that’s come up often between Chris and myself, as I struggle to come to terms with damage. Chris has said, and I suppose this is true (though I still struggle with it), that I believe most people are too stupid to make good decisions about vaccines.

I believe childhood vaccines are important. I have friends (now passed away, sadly) who couldn’t have kids because, as children, they’d had chicken pox that scarred their ovaries so badly that they weren’t capable of bearing children. Their adopted children were vaccinated; they all have kids of their own. Yes, we treated “common childhood diseases” as no big deal, but I don’t believe that was correct. It WAS a big deal, but we didn’t have a good way to deal with them.

As an example, when Ed Jenner discovered milk maids who’d had cow pox as youngsters didn’t get infected with smallpox, he came up with the general idea of vaccination. He gave pus from someone with smallpox to an 8 year old child, James Phipps. The child didn’t die; instead, he had a mild case, recovered, and went on to live a normal life. That whole thing led to us finding the vaccine for smallpox. At the time when Jenner did it, there was nothing better, and infecting Phipps with the disease in a controlled manner was the best he could do. Many people did it. You got sick, yes, but you didn’t die of it. I think that a lot of the “measles parties” and such were an extension of that desperation that caused Jenner to infect a healthy child with a deadly disease.

But we DO have vaccines now for measles, mumps, rubella, whooping cough, and others. I don’t think we’ve had a tetanus death in the United States in years, because of the vaccine. Shingles, HepA and B, Yellow Fever, Diphtheria, and others are all well controlled (though not eradicated) by vaccines. All these vaccines are well tested, with 40+ years of use and reporting behind them. The handful of severe reactions to them are noted, and reflected in information given to people getting the vaccines. The chances of getting a disease and having a severe reaction to it is much higher than the chance of having a severe reaction to the vaccines.

When I was growing up, I was taught that vaccines don’t make you immune. They boost your immunity, meaning they make it much less likely that you’ll get a disease, and if you do get it, it will be much more mild. This is what I’ve always believed. That’s what my immunologist friend told me during COVID, too. It’s why I like to get a flu shot when I can, because when I do get influenza, I get it very badly and it puts me out for weeks. If I’m vaccinated, my likelihood of getting the flu goes down exponentially (in fact, the years I got shots, there’s only twice that I did get the flu, and both times it was relatively mild, if bothersome). Not everyone has that reaction to the flu, and there are enough people that get the jab that it’s neither here nor there whether anyone gets it or not.

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I don’t know how much I can speak “from behind enemy lines” at this point. I’m no longer there. As of this week, I’ve pretty much slammed the door shut on the faces of those who would like to see me dead or silenced or have my rights ripped from me at gunpoint. The scales have fallen from my eyes, and all that crap. I’ve also stood up, and for those who ask, I’m no longer hedging about my political stance.

I am not “announcing” that I’m conservative. That’s for a few reasons. First and foremost, politics is not my main pursuit in life. In that, I am definitely NOT Charlie. I write cookbooks, vampire novels, and fantasy stuff. I don’t want to make a career out of political writing or talk. That’s not where I’m called, and I know Charlie would understand that you have to follow your own calling, not someone else’s. On the other hand, I write here, and it’s very important to me, and so I also have to follow Charlie’s lead in my style of communication. Second, I’ve never liked people who led conversations with, “I’m a liberal” or “I’m gay.” Good for you Karen, whatever. I want to know WHO you are, not what you are. Therefore, it would be disingenuous for me to lead in a similar way.

However, I am also not hiding anymore. I posted stuff about Charlie. I have made it clear that if people think bullets are a good answer to words, I will both report them to the authorities, and block them. I don’t need that kind of crap in my life. So it’s becoming obvious, at least from a leftist viewpoint, that I am indeed conservative.

I maintain… only in a crazy world would I be considered conservative. I’m polyamorous, pansexual, kinky, pagan… these are not hallmarks of conservatism. I do believe in being fiscally conservative, though, along with smaller government (possibly moreso than many of you reading this), traditional values (to a point… I don’t care who makes up a family, so long as there are at least two adults involved in every child’s life, and if they’re same sex, no biggie, and if there’s 3 or more, no biggie, etc), and individual liberty (your right to freedom ends at my nose, and vice versa). There are some points I’ve always been conservative about, at least since I became a functioning adult (which didn’t happen until I was in my 30s, but there you go). Other things I cling to, because they feel right to me, and they meet my spiritual and religious morals and ethics.

Still, I find myself asking all the time now, what would Charlie say?

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I know what I want to do, I am just not able to do it justice currently.

What is Charlie’s Voice?

This is taking up Charlie’s bloody microphone, not in hate, but in love and compassion.

It is being willing to listen to people ask questions and addressing them honestly with the truth and compassion. It is being willing to stand up for what is right but without acting out.

As one person put it, WWCD, What Would Charlie Do?

Since I believe that Charlie lived by WWJD, this is not meant to be a slight to any Christian; it is expanding on those ideals.

His voice is strong and positive.

But how did he convince people?

From what I have seen and read, his strongest point was to give people a smaller concept to grasp and think on. To personalize it. Instead of talking about weaponized lawfare, he talks in terms of a single person. Do you purchase things with credit? How do you pay for those things? How do you record those payments?

It is about getting the person to have something personal to work with.

So many of the big lies are so big that people can’t wrap their heads around them.

One I’ve heard recently is “Trump is a pedophile.”  Now the logic is a bit twisted, but I think it goes something like this: Trump’s DOJ took Epstein to court and got him convicted.  But because the court didn’t release the names of the people involved with Epstein’s crimes, Trump must be one of those people. Now the Biden administration couldn’t release the Epstein files because Trump had the records sealed. Now that Trump is attempting to get the files released, but it hasn’t happened yet, he must be on the list as a pedophile. Q.E.D. Trump is a pedophile.

On the other hand, Biden isn’t a disgusting pedophile, even if his daughter Ashley wrote about her father taking showers with her at inappropriate ages, because Biden is a kind man, while we know that Trump is a criminal.

Trump having material protected and guarded by the Secret Service, which he had the legal right to have, is proof of criminality.  Biden having classified material stored in open boxes in his garage is not proof of criminality. Even though Biden never had the authority to remove those classified documents from their proper locations.

It is hard to follow the logic. But it is there, you just have to tease it out.

Narcan Weaponized: Homeless San Francisco Residents Turning Lifesaver Into Tool of Harm – by Tyler Durden, 14Sep2025
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/narcan-weaponized-homeless-san-francisco-residents-turning-lifesaver-tool-harm

Alleged bomb plot near Charlie Kirk assassination lands Pakistani native and son with terrorism charges – by Joseph MacKinnon, 15Sep2025
https://www.theblaze.com/news/pakistani-native-and-son-face-terrorism-charges-after-explosive-device-found-under-news-van-in-utah

Patel Reveals Shocking Note Left by Kirk’s Assassin, Debunks Claims He Wasn’t Driven by Leftist Ideology – By Rusty Weiss, 15Sep2025
https://redstate.com/rusty-weiss/2025/09/15/patel-reveals-eerie-note-left-by-kirks-assassin-debunks-claims-he-wasnt-driven-by-left-wing-ideology-n2193956

Democrats Get Amnesia on Party’s History of Political Violence – by David Catron, 15Sept2025
https://amac.us/newsline/politics/democrats-get-amnesia-on-partys-history-of-political-violence/

This Kind of Rhetoric Is the Problem: Crockett Compares ICE to ‘Slave Patrols’ as Violence Escalates – by Jason Cohen, 12Sep2025
https://www.westernjournal.com/kind-rhetoric-problem-crockett-compares-ice-slave-patrols-violence-escalates/
(Apparently, she is desperately trying for a seat at the DNC table, since she would have to run in a competitive district now – jlr)

Trump Threatens to Declare National Emergency After DC Mayor Caves to ‘Pressure from the Radical Left’ – By V. Saxena, 15Sept2025
https://www.westernjournal.com/trump-threatens-declare-national-emergency-dc-mayor-caves-pressure-radical-left/
… D.C. Mayor Bowser suddenly changed her tune and announced last week that the city’s police would no longer work with federal immigration authorities…

DNA Evidence Links Tyler Robinson to Charlie Kirk Assassination, Confirming Political Motive – By Noah Stanton, 15Sep2025
https://istandforfreedom.com/dna-evidence-kirk-robinson
…I can report today that the DNA hits from the towel that was wrapped around the firearm and the DNA on the screwdriver are positively processed for the suspect in custody…

Where do we go from here? We go smart. – by Ian, 15Sep2025
https://thelawdogfiles.substack.com/p/where-do-we-go-from-here
…Your public persona needs to become “Polite, but prepared”…Do not go looking for trouble — trouble may come looking for you, and by all means deal with it, but do not go looking for it…Seek training. Training in fighting, in weapons, in first aid, in preparedness…If you’re physically fit, get fitter…Stop supporting the idiots…If your local school has a teacher being stupid — write the school an open letter — be cold, courteous, calm, and come correct with your facts — and pull your children and your funding…Legacy Media is not your friend…Stop tolerating idiot politicians…You want to see things change? Get them in the wallet. Take away their prestige. Send them into the obscurity of retirement…

Stephen Miller’s Wife Responds After Leftists Try to Intimidate Them in Their Own Neighborhood – by Nick Givas, 15Sep2025
https://www.westernjournal.com/stephen-millers-wife-responds-leftists-try-intimidate-neighborhood
Katie Miller responded with a video of her washing the messages away, and a post that read: “To the ‘Tolerant Left’ who spent their day trying to intimidate us in the house where we have three young children: We will not back down. We will not cower in fear. We will double down. Always, For Charlie.”

College Cancels Charlie Kirk Vigil Over ‘Credible’ Threat – by Jack Davis, 15Sep2025
https://www.westernjournal.com/college-cancels-charlie-kirk-vigil-credible-threat/
A post from one Bowdoin student suggested he did not buy the official college explanation

This Is The Most Evil Reaction To Charlie Kirk’s Assassination That I Have Seen – by Michael Snyder, 15Sep2025
https://michaeltsnyder.substack.com/p/this-is-the-most-evil-reaction-to
video – 00:01:23 – https://youtu.be/KV3mSyetVdc

You People Need to Watch Your Tone When We Shoot You – ny Chris Bray, 15Sep2025
https://chrisbray.substack.com/p/you-people-need-to-watch-your-tone

Man Arrested for Vandalizing Charlie Kirk Memorial While Wearing Same Shirt as Alleged Assassin – By Noah Stanton, 15Sep2025
https://istandforfreedom.com/man-vandalizing-memorial-shirt/

Suicide Pacts forming in Youth Social Media Groups – Discord, Reddit, TikTok – by Sarah Westall, 15Sep2025
https://sarahwestall.substack.com/p/suicide-pacts-forming-in-youth-social

And with that, we end the discussion – by Miguel Gonzalez, 16Sep2025
https://miguelgg.substack.com/p/and-with-that-we-end-the-discussion
(Ah yep – jlr)

You are not in the same country anymore – and found out the spicy way. – by Miguel Gonzalez, 16Sep2025
https://miguelgg.substack.com/p/you-are-not-in-the-same-country-anymore
We are done giving you a participation trophy and immunity for bad behavior against us.
embedded video – 00:03:07
And the fact he had to hide behind skirts tells you all you need to know.

The screaming… – by OldNFO, 16Sep2025
https://oldnfo.substack.com/p/the-screaming
Is epic as lefties lose their jobs after celebrating Charlie Kirk’s death. What the lefties don’t seem to understand is that freedom of speech is NOT being quashed. What is happening is people are being held ACCOUNTABLE for what they are saying… There is a huge difference between the two. And they are throwing hissy fits about being ‘cancelled’, but had no problems with it or people losing jobs when they did it to others. No, we’re not going to play the ‘whataboutism’ game, or the moral equivalency game either… Those ships have ‘sailed’…
Accountability- It goes both ways now… Trust me, this is a LOT better that the other options available to us. Start teaching civics again, and teach people how to actually TALK to each other, not AT each other.

Charlie Kirk hater goes nuclear on supporter of slain activist — then pays price after allegedly unleashing physical attacks –
by Dave Urbanski, 15Sep2025
https://www.theblaze.com/news/charlie-kirk-hater-goes-nuclear-on-supporter-of-slain-activist-then-pays-price-after-allegedly-unleashing-physical-attacks
… the female in question as 18-year-old Camryn Giselle Booker, a Texas Tech University student…reports of Booker’s expulsion from Texas Tech
BUT WAIT ! There’s MORE
‘FAFO’: Texas Tech Student Who ‘Danced On Kirk’s Grave’ Arrested, Expelled After Aggressive Confrontation – by Tyler Durden, 15Sep2025
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/fafo-texas-tech-student-who-danced-kirks-grave-arrested-expelled-after-aggressive
Texas Tech University told Newsweek in a statement that the “referenced individual is no longer enrolled at Texas Tech University.”…”Any behavior that denigrates victims of violence is reprehensible, has no place on our campus, and is not aligned with our values,”

Be Careful of the Cornered Democrat Rat – By Patrick Totty, 16Sep2025
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/09/be_careful_of_the_cornered_democratic_rat.html
What’s going to happen now will be actions and counter-actions that move us closer to, God forbid, a hot civil war…It should be obvious to the leftist proponents of violence that they are roosters who think they have the power to summon the dawn. They have no idea of what they are about to stupidly bring down upon themselves

Iryna Zarutska, Charlie Kirk, and the Democrat Party – By Steve McCann, 16Sep2025
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/09/iryna_zarutska_charlie_kirk_and_the_democrat_party.html
The current iteration of the Democrat Party is the greatest threat to the United States in its history…Three recent events have underscored the catastrophic erosion of the foundational tenets of the United States and the anti-Americanism of the Democrat Party. The first is the brutal murder of a young woman in Charlotte, N.C., Iryna Zarutska. The second, the assassination of Charlie Kirk. The third, sitting Democrat senator Tim Kaine’s declaration reflecting a fundamental belief within the current Democrat Party that the government is the source and, thus, the final arbiter of all human rights.

‘See What You Made Me Do?’ – By Kevin Finn, 16Sep2025
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/09/see_what_you_made_me_do.html
…Where have we seen this type of behavior before? Well, we saw it in L.A. in 1992 and again last June. We saw it in Ferguson in 2014, and we saw it there again ten years later. We saw it in hundreds of U.S. cities in 2020. We’re seeing it now as leftists blame Kirk for inciting his own execution…

We all knew political murder was coming home – by Christopher Bedford, 16Sep2025
https://www.theblaze.com/columns/opinion/we-all-knew-political-murder-was-coming-home
I can’t tell you why it came as such a shock, because we all know one thing more: It was bound to happen. They told us so.
(The LEFT wants us dead. They tell us so in those specific words. Believe what they say. Take them at face value. – jlr)
https://areaocho.com/they-want-you-dead-2/ – –

‘Trump next please’: Democrats on Bluesky call for MORE political violence – BlazeTV Staff, 16Sep2025
https://www.theblaze.com/shows/blaze-news-tonight/trump-next-please-democrats-on-bluesky-call-for-more-political-violence
Posts targeting Trump, Joe Rogan, Matt Walsh, and others reveal the left’s disgusting bloodlust in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s murder…If you used the Bluesky app in the past couple of days, it would be hard not to notice just how bloodthirsty the Democratic Party has become — especially in the wake of the assassination of the right’s beloved Charlie Kirk.

Political Violence in America is Not a “Both Sides” Problem – by Adam Johnston,16sep2025
https://amac.us/newsline/politics/political-violence-in-america-is-not-a-both-sides-problem/
America has never been a stranger to political violence, but the assassination of Charlie Kirk is something new and terrifying: a deliberate, targeted strike fueled by over a decade of left-wing radicalization by the mainstream media, online echo chambers, and some radical voices within the Democrat Party itself… 38 percent of respondents said it would be at least “somewhat justified” to murder Donald Trump, and 31 percent said the same about Elon Musk, which is troubling enough as is. But when only accounting for left-leaning respondents, support for political murder rose to a staggering 55 percent for Trump and 48 percent for Musk.

The politics of the “perfect” yard – Why messy abundance is punished, curated rewilding is celebrated, and conformity still rules the ground beneath us. – by Collapse Life, 16Sep2025
https://www.collapselife.com/p/the-politics-of-the-perfect-yard
…Lawns, it turns out, have never been neutral. In fact, they are among the most enduring tools of conformity in the modern world. In Britain, the manicured lawn began as an aristocratic display of wealth, a way to show that your fortunes were so vast you could hire an army of laborers to scythe the grass just for show, with no thought to productive cultivation…

Lyrics

“Friends” are falling away like dead leaves. I’m trying to take my cue from the falling autumn leaves… it’s okay to let go of the past, and sometimes it can be beautiful.

One of the rough ones happened this morning. Opening up FaceBook to do some author stuff, and I run into someone I thought was a friend, posting up the entire of the “ciao bella” song that Kirk’s shooter had on one of his bullets. Just that, just the words of the song and nothing more. I realized that’s basically a threat right now. I didn’t hesitate to delete and then block him, but it hurt.

Another wasn’t Charlie specific. A very old friend (r/l tho we don’t get to see each other very often and interact more online) posted about “why can’t they learn that their stupid 2A stuff isn’t as important as the kids that were just killed?!” I admit… I hesitated. I thought long and hard. She didn’t threaten anyone directly. But then again, she IS threatening. When someone is telling me that my protected Constitutional rights are “not as important,” you’re giving someone tacit permission to use weapons to take my rights away. And that’s not directly violence, but it’s definitely the precursor to it. And so I deleted and blocked her, too.

When Charlie got shot, I ran out of fucks to give. There are no more chances. I don’t care if you’re liberal, but if you glorify the death of someone (and that includes schoolkids) then I don’t need you as my friend. If you want to have the government take away my personal rights, then you obviously don’t want to be my friend.

On the other side of that line, though, other things are happening. A friend’s wife, who I’ve known online for a while but never really met, introduced herself at a wedding I attended on Sunday. She took me aside and said she wanted to make sure I was okay, because she knew so many people who were hurting over Charlie. She calls herself a liberal, but said she’s been desperate for a conservative friend who is willing to talk and listen and debate (gently). We’re going to get together and have some chats, and go over some ideas and such. There are some parts of conservatism that I consider myself qualified to speak on (1A and 2A, for instance), and others where I will likely reach out to friends for help. I explained that I’m squeaky brand new… and that I’m also only conservative right now (imo) because the mid-line has moved so far left because of leftist stupidity, and that in any sane world, I’d be considered slightly left of center, a moderate. It was a good conversation.

It was also good to show up at a wedding, escorted by my boyfriend (who was packing), only to find myself surrounded by a handful of people who were also packing, and one who was very much open carrying a beautiful 9mm. I complimented him on both his sidearm and his holster (which was very nice), and he smiled and said in times like these, it doesn’t pay to be unarmed. It felt good.