It's OK to Not Bake a Cake or Provide Flowers to a Gay Wedding, But We'll Prosecute Anyone Who Doesn't Print Kirk Flyers

Attorney General Pam Bondi has threatened to prosecute a former private employee at Office Depot for refusing to print flyers for a Charlie Kirk vigil.
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“Businesses cannot discriminate,” Bondi said, referring to the Office Depot incident. “If you wanna go in and print posters with Charlie’s pictures on them for a vigil, you have to let them do that. We can prosecute you for that.”.

If Charlie Kirk had thrown a gay wedding and he couldn't get a cake, Bondi would have spun her head around in confusion as to whether or not she should be outraged.

Perfidity, Thy Name is "Republican"

Republican pols are pleading for calm in their official social media accounts and calling for violence in their personal accounts.

If you happen to follow Rep. Derrick Van Orden’s official account on X, you’d see his swift rejection of violence in response to last week’s horrific killing of right-wing political activist Charlie Kirk.
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But on his personal account, Van Orden is giving a different message: He’s inviting war against “these leftist scumbags” as retaliation for Kirk’s murder.

Mike Lee, Nancy Mace, Randy Fine, probably others, they're calling for nice-nice in public and violence in private.

And, of course, the Elderly Orange Dementia Case is being consistent in calling for hatred and violence.

Smashing These Down, Here

Truth:

One of the Good Guys Left

Robert Redford has died at age 89.

His last scene:

He lived for a time in a town where my family lived. He was a regular guy who didn't go around all full of himself.

Pissing Off Friends and Making Enemies

Noem's battery plant raid may have major repercussions. The Korean workers' stories of their barbaric treatment are being well-covered there.

Since the 330 workers arrested in an immigration raid at a Hyundai-LG battery plant under construction in Georgia returned to Korea on Friday, many have begun to speak out about the human rights violations they were subjected to during custody.

Testimonies made public on Sunday showed that the detention center failed to meet any of the UN Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners, also known as the Mandela Rules, when it came to hygiene, contact with the outside world, complaints regarding treatment, and providing information on circumstances.
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Hands bound to their waists, they had to bow their heads to lap up water to quench their thirst. When using the toilet, they were only given a piece of fabric to cover their lower bodies, as there were no private stalls. Almost no sunlight came in through the “window,” which was nothing more than a fist-sized hole in the wall, and they were only allowed to go outside for two hours a day to wander around a tiny yard.
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Early on in their incarceration, the workers were crammed into a temporary detention center, which was a room that could house 72 people. A worker’s account made public by Yonhap News Agency described the facility as having rows of bunk beds with moldy mattresses. Hygiene products such as toothpaste, toothbrushes and blankets appear only to have been provided on their second day of detention. Workers wrapped themselves in their towels to protect themselves from the chilly air. The stench in the water prevented many from quenching their thirst, and the only food the workers received came in the form of canned beans and toast.

The Administration is basically trying to apologize without having to apologize to South Korea for treating their citizens as though they were Hispanics. Trump delayed the repatriation of the Korean workers to try and persuade them to stay and continue working and, with one exception, they declined.

The Administration seems to be bent on making everybody in the world hate this country. After this, why would any foreign company set up an American plant when their installation crews would run the risk of being arrested by the mouthbreathers of the ICEstapo?

And Americans in South Korea might want to be careful about running afoul of the law.

The "Free Speech for Me, But Not for Thee" Party. (Updated)

Vice President JD Vance on Monday jumped onto the conservative movement demanding consequences for those who have cheered Charlie Kirk’s killing, calling on the public to turn in anyone who says distasteful things about the assassination of his friend and political ally.

Killing somebody for their political beliefs is wrong.

But it would be nice if that was an ideal followed by the dead guy, who celebrated the attempted murder of Paul Pelosi. I am absolutely sure that if the perp had found Nancy Pelosi at home and killed her, Kirk and his ilk would have been figuratively dancing in her blood in celebration. Just like Republicans celebrated the murders of Melissa and Mark Hortman.

It is becoming clearer and clearer after Kirk’s slaying that freedom of speech, like every other constitutional right, is one that is to be freely enjoyed only by straight, white, conservative, christian men.

In that, they are dishonoring the man they seek to honor:

And it is no coincidence that whenever the Feds began looking at domestic terrorism, they found out every time that the threat was coming from the Right and the Republicans made them shut down the programs/inquiries.

As Sen. Murphy warns, we may be in for some dark times. For the Right is doing its best to turn this killing into their Reichstag moment and use that to quash freedom for everyone else. And they are not shy about their aims.

And above all, Trump needs to distract people from the fact that he is prominently mentioned in the Epstein files.

300 Million Americans Died From Drug Overdoses Last Year, According to the Orange Blob

That's what he said, so now the question is whether or not he has all of his marbles.

President Donald Trump is causing more speculation about his health and cognitive ability after he claimed on Sunday that 300 million people died last year from drugs, despite the United States population only being 340 million, according to the 2020 U.S. Census.

Trump made the clearly incorrect claim after being asked by a reporter if the recent military strike against a Venezuelan boat, the administration claims was carrying drugs to the U.S., was illegal and would escalate tensions with the country.

"What's illegal are the drugs that were on the boat and the drugs that are being sent into our country, and the fact that 300 million people died last year from drugs, that's what's illegal," Trump said. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 80,400 people died from drug overdoses last year, down about 27% from 2023, when 110,000 people died.

Some time recently, someone mentioned the drug overdose statistics and the Dementia Patient-in-Chief confused the population of the country with the total of drug deaths.

It's becoming more and more apparent to the rest of the world that the United States has a president who is in severe mental decline. Look for China and Russia, among others, to take advantage of the blustering and befuddled bozo in the Oval Office.

Krasnov Keeps Gaslighting For His Master

President Donald Trump said Saturday he is “ready to do major Sanctions on Russia” once all NATO countries have started “to do the same thing” and pause their purchases of oil from Moscow.

Since Hungary in particular is both a NATO member and a de facto Russian ally, Trump knows that his conditions will never be met.

It should be clear to even the most casual observer by now that Trump is as much in Russia's corner on this, saying that Russia's flying drones into Poland might have been a mistake. Everyone else who isn't a Russian tool knows that was no mistake. But Trump takes his cues from his master and acts accordingly.

Your Sunday Morning Prop Noise

The Battle of Britain Airshow, 20205:

So Much For Freedom of Speech

This is a reminder that only conservatives can get say hateful things and then get away with laughing it off as "freedom of speech":

Following the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk this week, educators across the country have found themselves facing swift termination or potential discipline after allegedly sharing opinions on social media about the killing.

At least a dozen faculty and staff, from school board officials to classroom teachers, have been met with fallout over insensitive posts about Kirk’s death. In at least two instances, universities fired staff members entirely for posts deemed inappropriate.

Can't say bad things about a mouthy and dead clown who advocated for lynching and stoning people. And the "bad things" that people are being chastised for saying can be just reporting what the decedent had said inpublic. "He was respectful to those he disagreed with"-- in a pig's eye.

And this:

A friend of mine was on Charlie Kirk's "watch list" of Black professors. She received so many death and rape threats that her university offered her a security detail for the walk to class. This is Kirk's legacy. You would never know it from reading all of these legacy newspaper op-eds about him.

— Miles Howard (@milesperhoward.bsky.social) September 12, 2025 at 3:14 PM

Also funny how fast the Overly Made-Up Dementia Case went from demanding that leftists be killed to rambling about his new gilded ballroom.