Day: September 12, 2025

Sorry Charlie

I read this post in Moderate Voice and wanted to share it with the IST readers….

I don’t wish death on anyone. I’ve scolded more than one friend for posting in my comments on Facebook death wishes for Donald Trump. I don’t do that, and I don’t think liberals or Democrats should do it either. Let the other side be vile. Half of the reason I don’t want political opponents dead is that I don’t wish bad things to anyone. ANYONE. The other reason is that MAGAts would martyr the hell out of it if something happened.

When someone, a Republican, shot at Trump at one of his hate rallies, it pissed me off. When a man with a gun was found waiting to shoot Trump at one of his shitty golf resorts, it pissed me off again. I was shouting at my TV, “You’re hurting us more than helping, f—ers!” Violence leads to more violence. This was followed by the murder of Democratic state legislators in Minnesota.

I don’t wish bad crap to happen to bad people, but when it does, I don’t go all thoughts-and-prayers about it. Even if I did care about those people, I know that thoughts and prayers don’t work. Even when their own are murdered by guns, the thoughts-and-prayers crowd never tries to find solutions other than suggesting stupid ideas like giving teachers guns.

SORRY CHARLIE

Then to give another side to this story….

There are so many words and cliches condemning the killing of Charles James Kirk, and none of the refrains are unique. “We need to dial back our discourse”, “we need to be tolerant of different opinions,” and “there is no room in American politics for political violence.” Are people blind to the realities that have been swirling all around us? The language has been violent. The discord has been great. There has been a consistent invitation to dine at the table of heated racist discussion posing as legitimate political speech.

The killing of Charlie Kirk fits within this arena of speech that is racist and hate-filled, but is designed to pose as rational and logical political speech. In his rhetoric and so-called debate style this 31-year-old evangelical firebrand of the right has stated that Black pilots were incompetent, Gays should be stoned, ironically he was opposed to gun control, abortion, LGBTQ rights, criticized the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Martin Luther King Jr., promoted Christian nationalism, advanced COVID-19 misinformation, made false claims of electoral fraud in 2020, and is a proponent of the Great Replacement conspiracy theory.

https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/09/11/the-killing-of-charles-james-kirk-violent-speech-leads-to-violence/

Words have consequences….while I do not condone this type of political expression I do see how we got to this spot in our history.

There is only so much hate that can be passed around before someone takes some sort of misguided action.

I will mourn but not for this guy…..I mourn for what has become of my country that use to be called ‘the beacon of freedom’.

This will probably be my last post on this incident unless something earth shaking comes out.

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

Should We or Not?

We all know that the US sank a boat with 11 people on it and there has been a debate ever since on why this action was taken.

Now word has come out that Donny and his gang of idiots are considering a direct assault on Venezuelan soil.

US President Donald Trump’s administration is considering launching military strikes on Venezuela, according to new reporting from independent journalist Ken Klippenstein.

Military sources on Tuesday told Klippenstein that the Trump administration is mulling an attack against Venezuela unless it cracks down on drug cartels that it claims are shipping fentanyl into the United States.

Contrary to the administration’s claims, according to the US Drug Enforcement Administration and other agencies, Venezuela plays virtually no role in fentanyl manufacturing and trafficking.

Klippenstein’s sources said the attack was likely to involve “shooting down Venezuelan military aircraft or by bombing Venezuelan military airfield,” and that the US Air Force has been rehearsing for such a mission in recent weeks.

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A leaked Department of Homeland Security memo obtained by Klippenstein gives clues as to why the administration is taking an aggressive military posture toward Venezuela.

Specifically, writes Klippenstein, the memo gives insight into the administration’s view that Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro is actually in charge of the Tren de Aragua cartel and is giving it orders to poison American citizens by getting them addicted to drugs.

However, Klippenstein cautions that this view of Maduro as the commander of an international drug cartel is not backed up by US intelligence agencies.

“A declassified assessment prepared by the National Intelligence Council concluded in April that the Maduro regime ‘probably does not have a policy of cooperating with TdA and is not directing TdA operations in the United States,'” he noted.

Klippenstein closed his report by likening the situation to the buildup to the 2003 Iraq War, but with fentanyl taking the place of “weapons of mass destruction” as the purported casus belli.

(commondreams.org)

This is just irresponsible BS….hopefully somewhere in that swirling mass of entropy we call government there will be a calmer head that can diffuse the stupidity.

Not likely but I can hope.

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”