Divisive Hate Speech Enthusiasts Horst Wessel and Charlie Kirk are still dead.

The U.S. Senate unanimously passed Senate Resolution 391, condemning the assassination and honoring the slain Charlie Kirk.

Congress passed a “National Day of Remembrance” commemorating Kirk’s October 14th birthday. Kirk was an avid supporter of gun rights, espoused white supremacist and misogynist views, and thought that educated women ruin America.

It’s good to condemn murder. It might have been a good opportunity to condemn gun violence altogether. Maybe denounce the assassination of Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark. (I know she wasn’t a white supremacist like Kirk, or pseudo-President Stephen “Goebbels” Miller, but still, she was someone who dedicated her life to public service).

Perhaps condemn the shootings at Evergreen High School on the same day as Kirk? Did the deaths of 14 or more people at the hands of America’s new equivalent of the Nazi’s Secret Service -ICE matter to anyone at all? Maybe the estimated 10,000 plus moms, dads, sisters, and brothers who have died globally because of the Trump/Musk/SCOTUS withdrawal of USAID funding. Or the 176,000 estimated deaths through the end of this year if funding isn’t restored.

No, let’s commemorate the life of someone whose extremist and ill-conceived views of society have created more hate and division, representing two of the five key pillars supporting the Trump/SCOTUS//Project 2025/GOP agenda today. The others being cruelty, hypocrisy, and corruption.

State-Sponsored Hate Speech -Goebbels and Trump

Even as Erika Kirk steps in to advance her husband’s hate-filled and divisive cause at Turning Point USA, she addressed the memorial with calls for forgiveness.

Trump, the criminal-elect, eulogized Kirk as a tireless lover of America, not the salesman of hatred and division he was on campuses and in churches. Then Stephen “Goebbels” Miller took the mic, denouncing dissenters as “wicked,” “evil,” “nothings,” in a tirade that flirted openly with calls for mass violence and civil war.

Jimmy Kimmel is gone, sort of.

• Major media company Nexstar Media Group (and ABC affiliate) is seeking FCC approval for a multi-billion-dollar merger with another media company TEGNA, Inc.

  

  • The merger requires special approval and waivers from the FCC because of the threat to democracy when any media entity “owns” more than 39% of the national audience.

  • The Chairman of the FCC is Project 2025 contributor and Trump appointee, Brendan Carr.

  

  

• Jimmy Kimmel said, “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."

  • Trump’s FCC Chair and POS Carr called Kimmel’s quote “truly sick” and suggested there was a strong case for “action” against ABC.

• Jimmy Kimmel was suspended “indefinitely” by ABC.

• We, the people (or Antifa if you prefer), rapidly responded with a concerted campaign against Disney for appeasing the criminal elect and Brendan “Project 2025” Carr.

  • People dumped Disney, Hulu, and ESPN subscriptions, cancelled vacations at Disney properties, which punished Disney stock value.

    

    

• Jimmy Kimmel is back, sort of.

  • Disney/ABC relented and invited Kimmel to return to his late-night program, however …

    • Nexstar and Sinclair Broadcasting are continuing to show alternative programming in cities where they control the ABC broadcast.

• Celebrate this “sort-of” win but what many are not reporting …

  • If the Nexstar Media Group - TEGNA, Inc. merger is completed, Nexstar will cover 80% of broadcast television households in the United States.

  • Major media companies are lobbying to completely abolish the 39% household capacity rule. The rule was established in the Communications Act of 1934 in order to promote diversity of viewpoints and competition. There’s that “D” word again! (You didn’t know people were “Woke” in 1934, did you?)

  • Remembering that any meaningful attempt at democracy requires an educated, informed, and engaged society, placing so much media control into the hands of a few, the information pillar collapses, and with it, democracy is crushed underneath.

    

And while you were focused on Jimmy:

• The Epstein - Trump -Maxwell files and the Pam “Bribe Me” Bondi cover up -Despite cross-partisan support for release of records into the Epstein/Trump trafficking and abuse crimes, media coverage is tapering off. CNN analysts noted that the most recent releases were creating “an elaborate mirage of transparency”.

  

  

  

• On September 22, 2025, the criminal elect signed an order marking “Antifa” as a domestic terrorist organization.

  • Trump characterizes Antifa as "a militarist, anarchist enterprise that explicitly calls for the overthrow of the United States Government, law enforcement authorities, and our system of law.” The criminal elect then directed "all relevant executive departments and agencies" to "utilize all applicable authorities to investigate, disrupt, and dismantle any and all illegal operations — especially those involving terrorist actions — conducted by Antifa or any person claiming to act on behalf of Antifa," including investigating "those who fund such operations."

    

    • Will ICE be directed to begin detaining World War II veterans who fought fascist Nazi Germany from 1941-1945?

      

      

      

    • Fun puzzle! Fill in the blank:

      • If “Anti-fascists” are enemies of the State and the Trump Administration; the Trump Administration must be F______.

• A new war on drugs: Tylenol

  

• Corruption on steroids.

  • Trump crypto klepto

    

    

  • Pam “Bribe Me” Bondi and another impeachable offense by the criminal elect.

    

    

    

  • Tom Homan -Look, the AG takes “donations”, so why shouldn’t I take a big bag of cash from FBI agents investigating corruption?

    

    

    

  • Trump’s Big Beautiful New Plane/Ballroom/White House

    

    

    

• How many illegal attacks in international waters does it take to displace the Epstein/Trump/Maxwell Child Trafficking and Abuse Evidence?

  

• Putin says “Don’t forget about me!”

  

  

• Corrupt SCOTUS anoints the King. New and improved -not just with immunity! Ignore Congress! Ignore the Constitution! All Hail the criminal King Trump!

  • Fire anyone you want! You’re the king. The hell with the Constitution! The hell with Democracy! Democracy and the Constitution are clearly anti-fascist!

    

    

    

• The Billionaire Media will do whatever Trump wants in exchange for tax cuts and merger approvals.

  • Billionaires will order a minion to do a quick financial calculation:

    • If the wealth gained from tax cuts and federal contracts is greater than or equal to the wealth lost by boycotts and divestment -I’m with Trump!

    • Notably, some who are fascists and/or white supremacists are with Trump regardless.

• Trump addresses the UN while begging for someone, anyone, to invoke the 25th Amendment.

  

  • The escalator broke … Waaaaaah!

    

  • The teleprompter’s not working … Waaaaaah!

  • I’ve stopped wars on four planets and twelve continents, but no one will give me a trophy … Waaaaah!

    

  • The US is the hottest brand in the world! Not as hot as my crypto or my shoe sales, but you all suck, all your countries suck, you are buying into the climate hoax nonsense, but I alone rebuilt the United States from the ashes left to me by Hillary Clinton and her email server, but the press is still very mean to me … Waaaah!

• Shutdown Imminent (or … /etc/shutdown -g0 -y for my UNIX/nerd friends)

  • Here comes Schumer and Jeffries to pull another loss out of the jaws of defeat, and yet …

    

• Every GOP Member of Congress, every member of Trump’s sociopathic, incompetent, and alcoholic Cabinet who allows the criminal Trump to continue to weaken and destroy the United States while the criminal-elect becomes more unhinged daily (with his tiny orange fingers clutching the nuclear football) -you are all as guilty as he is, so GFY’s too.

  

  

  

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