Just picked up some books yesterday on Whitewater. Under Bill Clinton, Whitewater was a scandal. Under Donald Trump it would be just another day at the office.

Watching repeats of the classic TV western The Rifleman. Chuck Conners said in one episode that everyone is welcome in America, then in the next he wouldn't let his son have a rifle. WHEN DID 1957 RIFLEMAN GET SO WOKE

The Republican candidate for Virginia governor is accusing the Democratic candidate of "Letting men get dressed in front of little girls" while Repubs are hiding files about men who got dressed in front of little girls.

To the owners of Tylenol I say - If you really want your product to stop causing autism, all you have to do is make a hefty multimillion dollar donation to Trump, and from that moment on he'll tell everyone how great your product is for pregnant women.

MAGAS: Loud bullies on the surface, cowards when seriously challenged. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Has Alex Jones claimed yet that Charlie Kirk was a "crisis actor"? No? OK, just checking.

Signal boost: Last week Trump sued the publisher of Lucky Loser (which came out last year) - the book chronicles how Trump "squandered his father's fortune and created the illusion of success". www.goodreads.com/book/show/20...

As of late last week I've crossed the border from Charlie Kirk supporters telling me they never read / didn't know he had a Twitterx account, to them telling me when I quote his tweets that they have no intention of reading his tweets.

I'm guessing that Tylenol owner Kenvue just hadn't contributed enough money to Trump by some secret deadline.

Did it appear to anyone else like Erika Kirk was the only one at yesterday's memorial who expressed any genuine grief, rather than just anger, vengeance, and screamed talking points? For everyone else it suddenly seemed like Charlie Kirk had been Trump's secret and now-lost successor.

So I guess Tom Homan was also an "FBI informant"?

I suspect a lot of the ceremony around Kirk is an attempt to leverage Christian nationalist symbology in order to convey the messianic fervor of MAGA from Trump to Vance.

I'm old enough to remember Rush Limbaugh claiming on his radio show that hate speech was just a made-up liberal thing.

"Good night, Donald. Good work. Sleep well. I'll most likely kill you in the morning."

"We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them, and doing everything they can to score political points from it." -Jimmy Kimmel

So is there anyone out there who could run Jimmy Kimmel that *isn't* waiting on approval for something from the FCC?

Hey racists: In my home state of Virginia back in the early 20th century, some rich white people formed the "Anglo-Saxon Club" because they thought KKK members were white trash. Some things never change, just so you know.

*Two men found lynched in Mississippi* MAGAs: Whatever. *One of them was white* MAGAs: WHAT??!!!! ANTIFA!!!! *The white man was homeless* MAGAs: Never mind.

I've got to say to MAGAs pointing out how Democrats didn't release the Epstein files when Biden was president that "We don't think Republicans should do it because Democrats didn't do it first" is kind of a weird take all things considered.

I suspect Musk has ordered his engineers to tweak Twitterx's algorithm in a severe anti-left way. The left-wing folks I follow there who typically have hundreds or thousands of comments (many if not most from right-wingers) tonight mostly have single digits to dozens.

Seems to me the quickest and surest way to get the Trump administration to stop going after people who criticize Charlie Kirk is to make sure that Kirk and not Trump gets the Nobel Peace Prize.

This is the mechanism Trump will use to start shutting down dissent. Anybody can be “Antifa”. It’s not a formal group with membership cards and such. He will use this to start trying to shut down every org in the country that supports open society and liberal democracy.

The remarks weren’t “about Charlie Kirk,” they were about how this administration is using Kirk’s death as an excuse to shut down critics … and they responded by proving him completely correct.

Today marks the one-week anniversary of the Trump administration starting to hope that it got a Reichstag Fire.

I made this in jest because I’m finding it hard to believe that a text message exchange would sound like a Jane Austen novel written by a cop. Completely Believable Text Message Theater - sound up.

Let's rename RFK Stadium to RFK Jr. Stadium and fill it with football players who've never actually played football but have done their own research on the sport.

"Don't trust experts." -Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the Unabomber

There's something of an uproar today about Trump claiming that he didn't know who Melissa Hortman was. Just a reminder that after Hortman was assassinated three months ago Trump definitely knew who she was, because he said calling her family with condolences would be a waste of time.

I've got to admit that I totally love the fact of how Trump is quoting anti-capitalists who've argued for decades that capitalism is too focused on the short term.

Another day, another Charlie Kirk supporter attacking me for quoting Kirk's tweets despite their admitting that 5 minutes ago they didn't even know Kirk wrote tweets.

A lot of people in my area defending firings over Charlie Kirk comments by finally realizing "Freedom of Speech only protects you from government censorship, not from your employer" are the same ones who got mad over firings for not masking up during Covid because "No mask is Freedom of Speech!"

Funny how MAGAs say "If there's a civil war we'll win 'cause we have all the guns", yet every time there's a mass shooting they claim the shooter is a liberal.

I was just looking over Charlie Kirk's Professor Watchlist, and something struck me: Just how few professors are on it, even at large schools. If American colleges are hotbeds of "radical left" professors, shouldn't the Watchlist include a whole lot more of them?

I don't know if this is related to the DOGE cuts or not, but I spent part of this weekend trying to call the IRS, and I kept getting recordings that due to extremely heavy call volume they couldn't help me with the subject matter I was calling about.

The governor of Utah is predictably trying to claim despite all evidence so far that Charlie Kirk's shooter is a leftist. Left of Attila the Hun, maybe.

MAGAs are saying Kirk was shot over his voice. Kirk advocated for releasing the Epstein files. So let's honor Charlie Kirk's memory by releasing the Epstein files.

So it turns out that when MAGAs post "Why doesn't the government shut down Bluesky?", the answer they do NOT want to hear is "Because Charlie Kirk advocated for free speech".

Oh look, maybe in this one instance RFK Jr. was right about video games.

I'm amazed but not surprised at how many MAGAs on social media are claiming that anyone not deifying Kirk is "celebrating" his murder.

MAGAs over on Facebook have been responding to these with "All lies!" and "Out of context!" So I'm asking them now to tell me which of these they themselves disagree with. No responses yet.

There's been a huge crossover on social media today between MAGAs who've said "I agree with everything Charlie Kirk believed" and those who respond to people posting exact quotes from Charlie Kirk with "All lies".

The only "full transparency" Trump is interested in is young women without clothing.

Has Trump claimed yet that Charlie Kirk was killed under the Biden administration?

A lot of right-wing folks on social media are super angry right now over how many people are posting exact quotes from Charlie Kirk.

the complaint is basically that unidentified people are reacting to Charlie Kirk dying like Charlie Kirk would

Here in Virginia the Republican candidate for governor just started attacking the Democratic candidate for supposedly being soft on sexual predators, which is wild considering how hard Republicans are trying to protect a certain current chief executive.

Just like how they did after the assassination attempt against Trump, get ready for MAGAs to lie through their teeth and say things like "Funny how libs didn't push for gun control after Charlie Kirk was shot".