We are governed by terrorists

Since the initial reactions from so-called Republicans to the murder of MAGA podcaster and influencer Charlie Kirk, which were irresponsible and inflammatory (with the notable exception of Utah Governor Cox's statements), we have learned that (a) the killer was not, in fact, motivated by liberal ideology, contradicting those initial Republican reactions; and (b) that those same Republicans have no problem gaslighting anyone who will listen about the murder and are enthusiastically weaponizing it for their own purposes.

OK, so (b) isn't exactly something we learned over the past few days. None of that was surprising in the least.

Just today we have had the alleged President, Vice-President, and White House Deputy Chief of Staff go on television/Internet video and go full-on fascist to conduct stochastic terrorism. The U.S. government murdered another three Venezuelans on the open sea, bringing the total number of Venezuelans who may OR MAY NOT have been engaged in something illegal to be murdered by "President" Convicted Felon's regime on the open sea to 14. Republican propagandists not holding White House titles went on TV/Internet video to claim, with evidence pointing undeniably to the contrary, that the killing of Charlie Kirk was a political hit by left-wing activists and thus outrageous and all sorts of hellfire should be brought to bear against opponents of the regime but the overtly political murders and attempted murders of Minnesota state legislators earlier this year by MAGA terrorists were "bullshit" examples of political violence. Greg Gutfled, blowhard of rage and toxic masculinity personified, even went on to say that as far as examples of Republican-committed violence are concerned, "we don't care." Further, that "there is no cognitive dissonance on our side," despite his having just articulated on cable television that he embraces and even willfully expands his own cognitive dissonance.

All of these people—the tyrant-in-chief, the VP, Deputy COS Nosferato McGoebbels, Gutfled, and the others spewing this venom—are quite blatantly trying to weaponize psychological projection to a degree heretofore untried in the history of the world.

JD Vance today: "We [Republicans] don't believe in political violence, but we do believe in civility." Blatant lies, both parts, and said in support of his call for people who hear others say anything negative about Charlie Kirk to "call their employers," presumably to try and get them fired. Vance propagated the lies that a "lunatic" left-wing (read: "Democratic") movement is celebrating Charlie Kirk's murder with such outrage that it was no doubt convincing to the easily-conned MAGA base, many of whom have shown their willingness to, well, be violent, often with firearms. He implored his audience to outrage over the fact that some entities that have contributed to Democratic campaigns, who in his logic are by implication if not outright accusation "celebrating" political murders, get Federal tax incentives in various ways and are thus subsidized by the public and isn't that disgusting. EVEN IF THAT WERE TRUE, it would pale in comparison to the funds right-wing groups and corporate entities receive in Federal subsidies, not to mention that fact that this entire fascist regime—with its extrajudicial murders on the high seas, abductions and horrors as standard immigration policy, illegal military invasions of American cities, devastations of public health, and scores of other pro-death actions—is being paid for by you and me.

The tyrant-in-chief today, talking about "the radical left," which is his code for Democrats: "[They] cause tremendous violence, and seem to do it in a bigger way [than Republicans], they cause a lot of problems for this country, I really think they hate our country." I challenge this asshole to name even one instance of "tremendous violence" carried out by "the left" in the US over the last several decades. He'd say the incident last year when he was shot at during a campaign rally was one, but the culprit then was, in fact, a registered Republican with a history of anti-semitic and anti-immigrant statements and whose motive is unclear, with as much likelihood on the theory that he was going for mass-shooter mayhem and the rally was a convenient high-density event to target than any other hypothetical motive. There was the UnitedHealth CEO being murdered, but whether or not that was "leftist ideology" depends on how generous your terminology is. If he could manage to reference anything else without lying, he'd probably have to cite anarchist vandalism or incidents that were prompted by violent escalations from law enforcement during protests.

The tyrant-in-chief also said today that the transgender flag represents "violence." Maybe it does to the people inclined to commit violence against the trans community. But they don't need a flag for that. He also said that police should be allowed to "do whatever [they] want" no matter how violent in response to "agitators" shouting things.

THESE ARE THE VIOLENT PEOPLE. The regime. The Republican party. The right-wing blowhards.

Sigh. I'm not saying anything here most of you don't already know. But I had to vent.

Now I go to umpire softball, where hopefully nobody thinks it's OK to incite terror and murder.