A year ago, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/wapo-ordered-to-rehire-radical-hamas-defender-who-mocked-reaction-to-charlie-kirks-death?author=Hank+Berrien&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=0&amp;rowHeadline=Up+Next&amp;rowType=Up+Next&amp;title=WaPo+Ordered+To+Rehire+Radical+Hamas+Defender+Who+Mocked+Reaction+To+Charlie+Kirk%E2%80%99s+Death">Karen Attiah</a>, an untalented, narcissistic, racist, terror-sympathizing man-hater who loves the word “<a href="http://m">democracy</a>” more than life itself, was fired from her job as an opinion writer at The Washington Post. Her crimes against journalism? Lying, failing basic standards of accuracy, and posting egregious commentary about Charlie Kirk within hours of his assassination.
This week, after a year-long public tantrum, a private arbitrator forced the Post to take her back. Like a bad ex blackmailing you into getting back together.
Democracy Lives On…in the forced rehire of every Bluesky Karen who cannot accurately quote a dead man. On September 10, 2025, the same day Charlie Kirk was assassinated in front of thousands, Attiah posted this:
“Black women do not have the brain processing power to be taken seriously. You have to go steal a white person’s slot”. &#8211; <a href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!db2o!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe1e3c8f1-c515-4afa-9dd6-2d808ad9d2ee_1198x346.png">Charlie Kirk</a>
Kirk was not, of course, speaking about all black women. He was responding on a live show to Joy Reid, Michelle Obama, Sheila Jackson Lee, and Ketanji Brown Jackson, discussing their own affirmative-action status. He played the clip of Sheila Jackson Lee declaring from the House floor:
<blockquote>I rise today, as a clear recipient of affirmative action…particularly in higher education. I may have been admitted on affirmative action both in terms of being a woman, and a woman of color&#8230;</blockquote>
Kirk’s apt reply: “We know. You do not have the brain processing power to otherwise be taken really seriously. You had to go steal a white person&#8217;s slot to go be taken somewhat seriously.”
He was correct. Sheila Jackson Lee spent nearly 30 years as the low-competence representative for Texas’ 18th district (cough term limits cough) while compiling an impressive résumé of public gaffes. She confused Mars with the Moon. She announced that “today we have two Vietnams, side by side, North and South.” She claimed the Constitution is 400 years old. And in 2024, she informed high school students that the Moon is a planet “made up mostly of gases.” Somehow, this woman graduated from both Yale and the University of Virginia School of Law, where she obviously did not study the solar system.
But who has time for journalistic integrity these days? It’s far easier to ignore reality, post absurdly racist and defamatory misquotes, and then collapse into victimhood the moment consequences appear. Attiah used her vast brain-processing power to suggest Kirk was a violent white man, call the United States a “sick” country that “worships violence,” express solidarity with <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/wapo-columnist-celebrates-anti-jew-terrorism-as-exactly-what-decolonization-means">Hamas</a> terrorists who murder Israeli civilians, threaten <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/wapo-editor-white-women-lucky-were-not-calling-for-revenge">revenge</a> against white women, and lament that white America refuses to get rid of their guns while suggesting we <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/08/25/lgbtq-culture-wars-laura-ann-carleton/?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_campaign=wp_opinions&amp;utm_medium=social">arm the gays</a>. Because in her moral universe, selective political violence is practically a civil duty.
Speaking of violence, Karen Attiah wakes up and chooses it against men every day. She simply prefers to channel her white-male rage in the gym rather than in more creative outlets <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/shorts/85edf547-5650-4079-ad71-df022690f2bd?elementPosition=3&amp;row=10&amp;rowHeadline=Trending+Shorts&amp;rowType=Shorts+Carousel">such as the bathtub</a>, once <a href="https://freebeacon.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/karen-attiah-fitness.jpg">writing</a> that her fitness goals included “building legs strong enough to crush men’s hopes and dreams.”
It’s a wonder she’s forty and still single.
Apparently, that was the bulk of her brilliant output. Following her firing, a Post staffer anonymously <a href="https://freebeacon.com/media/wapo-fires-karen-attiah-radical-beefcake-columnist-who-praised-hamas/">observed</a> that “Karen Attiah wrote two columns in the last three months, and one was about her body-building regimen. I think the Post will be OK.” Speak for yourself, Anon. This past year has been terribly difficult for us body-building gurus who relied on the motivational mantras of Miss Crush-Men Karen in the opinion section of a political newspaper.
The most revealing part of this entire saga is the pure, distilled hypocrisy of how she handled her own termination. She was fired for a clear pattern of racist and hateful posts made in the hours after a public assassination; posts that generalized, distorted, and celebrated the dehumanization of a man who had just been murdered in front of the world. And under the leadership of a new, sane, and competent editor, Adam O’Neal, the Washington Post treated those posts as the misconduct they were.
Yet Attiah’s response was not reflection or even a mild course correction; it was victimhood word vomit. She immediately framed the firing itself as an act of racism and hate directed at her. In her narcissistic telling, the newspaper wasn’t enforcing basic standards of accuracy and civility; it was silencing a black woman for speaking uncomfortable truths. The same person who spent years diagnosing “whiteness” as a pathology and treating political violence as selectively acceptable suddenly discovered that accountability is only legitimate when it happens to other people. She got fired for being racist and hateful…then spent the next year insisting that the firing was racist and hateful.
And so the bad ex has clawed her way back into the house through arbitration, threats, and sheer force of grievance. This particular ex is the kind who would also find a way to soft-pedal Lindsay Clancy, treat the murder of her political foes as something closer to justice than tragedy, and who still manages to keep a soft spot in her heart for Hamas.
The Washington Post is now stuck with her and a fat couples-therapy bill, and the rest of us are stuck with more unsolicited columns about getting jacked in order to attack men.
This, we are told, is democracy in action: a forced reunion between an institution that tried to set a boundary and an activist who refuses to accept that boundaries apply to her. Everyone loses. Especially the photographer who had to take this <a href="https://freebeacon.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/attiah-post2.jpg">picture</a> during the breakup.
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The only winner is the grievance industrial complex, which has once again proven that if you scream “racist” and “Democracy is dying” loudly enough after being held accountable for actual racism, someone in a suit will eventually hand you your job back.
When in reality, the real “death of democracy” looks more like Anthony Fauci lying to the public for years and facing zero consequences while the rest of us lived under the rules he helped to invent. It looks like Kamala Harris being coronated as the Democratic nominee without ever winning a single primary vote. It looks like pollsters and operatives spinning up fake websites and misleading data operations designed to confuse the public and nudge election outcomes. And it looks like conservative TikTokers (myself included) who can’t post a single video without it being silently removed or suppressed under the ever-shifting excuse of “violating community guidelines,” guidelines that somehow never seem to apply equally in the other direction.
That is the actual erosion. Not a newspaper being ordered to rehire one of its most deranged and morally depraved columnists. Maybe Mr. O’Neal should mandate that she write with Professor Umbridge’s blood quill — I must not tell lies — until it finally sinks in.

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Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI)

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Karen Attiah

Washington Post

Woke Culture

Never interrupt your enemy when they&#8217;re making a mistake. And never, ever interrupt the Left when they’re being spectacularly, self-immolatingly stupid.
On Thursday, the New York Times published a piece that was supposed to manufacture outrage. Instead, it handed the entire country a gift-wrapped argument for deportation.
<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/20/nyregion/transgender-migrants-ice.html">“Trans Migrants in ICE Detention Are Losing Their Rights and Medical Care”</a>
Translation: Biological men who entered the country illegally, some with criminal records at home, some with criminal records here, who had been receiving taxpayer-funded cross-sex hormones, are now no longer receiving those hormones… and are being removed.
I’m struggling to locate the tragedy.
The Department of Homeland Security responded with this clarity:
<blockquote>[The NYT] is more concerned about us not providing hormone therapy for these criminals than the countless Americans who have been victimized by illegal aliens. To be clear: we are NOT wasting taxpayer dollars to provide hormone therapy to illegal aliens seeking to change their sex.</blockquote>
The national debt just crossed $40 trillion. Saving money by declining to medically cosplay for foreign criminals seems, to the average Joe, like basic adulting. But to the Times it is a human-rights crisis.
The article’s star is a 25-year-old Venezuelan illegal who had been living in New York, drawing hormones through a combination of Medicaid, city clinics, and the city’s $15 million gender-affirming care fund. The Left is currently having a collective nervous breakdown because this individual is now housed with other men and no longer receiving magical girl drops on the American taxpayer’s dime.
Woke 1.0 never left. It simply mutated into something uglier.
But the Times conveniently avoided answering some questions: How many of the hundreds of ICE facilities are still providing this care? How much have taxpayers already spent? Under Obama alone, hundreds of thousands of dollars went to hormone therapy for the small number of transgender detainees. Across the Obama and Biden years, when you include the much larger population free in sanctuary cities, the total for gender-related treatment for illegal immigrants climbs into the <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/investigations/4477659/doj-new-policy-save-tax-dollars-previously-spent-transgender-procedures/">tens of millions</a>.
This ridiculous reality is in large part why the Left lost so terribly in the 2024 elections: The Left is for “they.” Republicans are for you.
Yet progressives keep choosing the 10 percent side of every 90/10 issue. They will fight harder for free hormones for foreign sex offenders than they will for American women locked in the same prisons as biological males who identify as women — men who, according to multiple state and federal datasets, commit a wildly disproportionate share of sexual assaults inside women’s facilities. But if they want to continue to alienate voters and sane humans? Be our guest.
Meanwhile, the same outlets that weep for Camila Toro de Paula have little interest in Leah Kahare, the 29-year-old Massachusetts woman killed by an illegal alien from Brazil in a hit-and-run. Or the mother stabbed to death on a Great Falls jogging trail by a Salvadoran illegal. Or the 18-year-old illegal from El Salvador who racked up nine counts of assault and battery for groping underage girls at a Fairfax County high school. Those stories somehow never make the front page.
Instead, we are treated to the poignant declaration: “I want to be heard. Women like me have been disrespected enough. No more.”
Funny. I feel rather disrespected every time someone insists my tax dollars should underwrite estrogen regimens for criminals, that biological males belong in my locker rooms and sports, or that a man who started identifying as a woman last Tuesday possesses a deeper understanding of womanhood than I do.
Yes. That was an actual thing that was <a href="https://x.com/NotTheirScript/status/2087032954224521368/video/1">said</a>.
ICE is unpopular right now, thanks to a handful of high-profile deaths earlier this year — but it&#8217;s still operating quietly and effectively to keep Americans safe. The job is being <a href="https://x.com/bennyjohnson/status/2090188978003513669/video/1">done</a>. What&#8217;s in question is how the public perceives it.
Republicans win the messaging war on this the same way they win most political battles: by getting out of the way and letting the Left keep talking.
It’s a good thing to remove criminal illegal aliens from our nation who are slaughtering American citizens. It’s a good thing to save taxpayer dollars from going towards trans treatment for confused criminals. And it&#8217;s a good thing to let the Left keep marinating in a metastasized Woke 1 — curated by the most online, most anxious demographic in American politics (young liberal women, half of whom report a mental-health diagnosis) while they simultaneously romanticize mothers who kill their children and men who demand the rest of us pretend they are ladies.
That&#8217;s how you win the ICE battle. Just get out of the way, and let them make fools of themselves.
And if the gender-confused illegal aliens are shopping for a more affirming environment, I hear Gaza and Iran are doing wonders for women’s rights these days. According to the uniparty, anyway.

American Police Immigration

How To Win The ICE Battle

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)

Transgenders

Imagine inviting someone to a dinner party at your home who doesn&#8217;t know how to eat with cutlery, clean up after themselves, speak English, properly respect the hosts, or refrain from attacking your children, wife, or dog.
That would be stupid.
But ironically, that is exactly what the United Kingdom did, just on a much grander and more significant scale.
After allowing hundreds of thousands of migrants to flood their borders and nest within the walls of the U.K., fundamentally changing the fabric of their nation, sending sexual assault numbers skyrocketing, and leaving housing, policing, and legal systems groaning under the weight of it, the government&#8217;s fix is not tighter borders, stricter asylum vetting, or, say, enforcing the laws already on the books. That would make too much sense. Instead, they&#8217;re resorting to &#8220;How to Act in Britain&#8221; <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/understanding-behaviours-and-expectations-in-the-uk-a-guide-for-asylum-seekers/understanding-behaviours-and-expectations-in-the-uk-a-guide-for-asylum-seekers-accessible">pamphlets</a> for their former third-world arrivals.
It&#8217;s embarrassing beyond recognition.
The instruction manuals for the new arrivals include basic messaging that most of Western civilization absorbs by kindergarten — but that those arriving from elsewhere have no concept of at all.
Take the &#8220;novel&#8221; concept of gender equality:
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Yeah. Apparently, that&#8217;s something that now needs to be stated and plastered all over British creation, because though it&#8217;s something we take for granted every day, the Left seems to have forgotten that female rights didn&#8217;t magically appear overnight, nor do they exist in many other parts of the world. And importing those parts that largely view women as half-brained? Might not go over well with the ladies of Blighty.
It&#8217;s also funny to see that *snap* just like that, the Left remembered that differences between the two sexes do exist. Someone alert the WNBA.
There&#8217;s a section on domestic abuse, too.
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My favorite entry: please don&#8217;t confiscate your wife&#8217;s passport. In America, we&#8217;re still arguing over whether a woman who strangled her three kids to death mid-breakdown counts as a &#8220;victim&#8221;; meanwhile, the U.K. is now having to remind 19% of its population that a passport is a travel document, not a leash.
It&#8217;s giving “Not Without My Daughter,” except this time the sequel is government-issued pamphlets explaining that, no, in the U.K., you cannot confiscate your wife&#8217;s passport whenever you feel like it.
Naturally, there&#8217;s a section on sex and consent. Foreign nationals make up roughly 11% of the English population but account for somewhere between 14% and 22% of sexual-offense convictions, including close to a quarter of convictions for sexual assault on women and over one-fifth of adult rape convictions, per 2024 figures.
Bang-up job there, Europe.
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It might have helped to hand out the &#8220;please don&#8217;t sexually assault women&#8221; pamphlet before the Rape Gang Inquiry confirmed what everyone already knew: that as many as a quarter of a million young girls were systematically raped, trafficked, and abused over decades by organized networks of mostly Pakistani men, while police, councils, and social workers looked away, terrified of the word &#8220;racist.&#8221;
The government didn&#8217;t have too much to say about that, but hey: dial 999 if you need anything, ladies!
Finally, a public-decency primer for the newfound pommies:
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No unsolicited photos, no sexual comments, and no groping, please! Please! PLEASE! I&#8217;m honestly surprised there wasn&#8217;t a bonus module on saying &#8220;thank you&#8221; or a footnote clarifying that beheading people is generally frowned upon in polite society.
It&#8217;s easy to mock because it&#8217;s so incredibly insane; the nation that once exported liberty, rule of law, and women&#8217;s rights to half the globe is now reduced to begging its own dinner guests not to assault the hosts. But the insanity of it all is quite sad.
Between 2021 and 2024, as hundreds of thousands crossed the Channel to file asylum claims, sexual-offense convictions among foreign nationals rose 62%. Afghan nationals showed markedly elevated rates. Foreign nationals remain wildly overrepresented in England&#8217;s sex-offender population relative to their share of the general population.
The victims in all of this were largely young English women. You weren&#8217;t allowed to notice, lest you get labeled a bigoted Islamophobe. You also weren&#8217;t allowed to notice that the year Muhammad became the #1 boy name in England and Wales (and stayed there), thousands of those same young, white, British girls were still being treated as fair game by organized grooming networks. Or notice that old cities and towns once full of smiling faces and bright-eyed children were now draped in flags, burqas, and speakers sounding the call to prayer, lest you be called a bigot.
But now that everyone&#8217;s seeing it and can’t unsee it, the government is making a pathetic attempt at damage mitigation with &#8220;How to be an Englishman,&#8221; for dummies who couldn’t care less about how to be an Englishman.
It boils down to this: those illegally entering these established nations do not want to be like the English, or the Americans, or the Western man more broadly. They want to import their own ways, their own hierarchy of the sexes, their own rules about whose word carries force and whose body is available, and their own contempt for the soft, sentimental rules that Judeo-Christian civilization spent centuries building.
The Bible and the moral tradition that grew from it teach that every person, man or woman, bears the image of God, that the strong are commanded to protect the weak, that marriage is a covenant of mutual dignity, and that the stranger is still bound by the same moral law as the host. That is why the West abolished slavery, raised the status of women, and treated rape as a crime against the person rather than a property dispute. Large parts of the Islamic world, shaped by different scriptures and centuries of different practices, never underwent that transformation. In too many of the countries these arrivals come from, a woman&#8217;s testimony is worth half a man&#8217;s, her freedom of movement still depends on a male guardian, and &#8220;honor&#8221; can justify violence that Western courts call murder. The Home Office pamphlet is not inventing a problem; it is admitting, in the blandest bureaucratic prose possible, that the guests arrived with a different operating system.
So the dinner party continues. 
The hosts keep printing etiquette cards while the furniture is rearranged, the silverware disappears, and the children are no longer safe in their own home. A serious country would have locked the door. Instead, it keeps setting extra places and hoping the next pamphlet will finally do the trick.

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Immigration

U.K.

The internet doesn&#8217;t like being called <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DcMobm6STj4/">weird</a>. I made the grave error Tuesday of calling certain corners of it exactly that, in light of their weirdness. Namely: women on TikTok participating in the <a href="https://x.com/LukaLev/status/2089696345539899636/video/1">&#8220;Same, Lindsay&#8221;</a> trend, posting videos of themselves crying, holding their babies, being mothers, implying they&#8217;re standing in the same shoes as Lindsay Clancy, the Massachusetts mother of three who in 2023 strangled her children — Cora (5), Dawson (3), and Callan (8 months) — with three separate exercise bands in the family&#8217;s basement, after sending her husband out to run errands.
&#8220;Same, Lindsay.&#8221; Because they feel for her. They get it. They&#8217;ve been there.
These women are racking up hundreds of thousands of likes for expressing sympathy with a child killer, theorizing about what &#8220;prompted&#8221; her, or floating conspiracies about who actually did the strangling.
<a href="https://x.com/dyingscribe/status/2088452216021467551">&#8220;You&#8217;ll never make me hate Lindsay Clancy.&#8221;</a> &#8220;Me when I had to ask the neighbor to bathe her because I thought I would drown her.&#8221; &#8220;NEW THEORY: He killed the kids.&#8221; &#8220;I had my first dream about little Cora, she was being SA&#8217;d by him (the father). <a href="https://x.com/GPMLLC/status/2088933970633253318">Hopefully Lindsay gets justice.&#8221;</a>
This is super weird, because she is on trial for murder; neither the defense nor the prosecution disputes that she did it. What they&#8217;re debating is punishment: prison or a psych ward.
Though the outcome is binary, the online reaction has splintered into half a dozen conclusions about a horrific, unimaginable tragedy: those who believe she committed cold-blooded, premeditated murder; those who believe she did it but isn&#8217;t criminally liable because she was in a state of psychosis; those who believe she did it but bears no fault at all, because the medical system and her husband failed her; and those who believe she didn&#8217;t do it at all, insisting the real culprit is her husband.
Let’s examine each.
The prosecution argues she wasn&#8217;t, beyond a shadow of a doubt, &#8220;crazy&#8221; — that she engaged in deliberate premeditation and rational planning before following through. They point to the fact that she functioned normally on the day of the murders, January 24, 2023: she took her daughter to the doctor, played with her kids in the snow, texted her husband to grab takeout and pick up her daughter&#8217;s MiraLax, placed a coherent phone order with the restaurant, and returned her husband&#8217;s call from CVS to answer a question about Cora&#8217;s medication. She also mapped the driving distance to the restaurant, prosecutors say, to calculate how much time she&#8217;d have. Her DNA was on each exercise band.
The defense argues she was in the grip of an acute mental break and can&#8217;t be held criminally liable. Her attorney said in his opening statement that she has bipolar disorder, that her medication made it worse, and that on the day she killed her children she heard a man&#8217;s voice telling her, &#8220;This is your last chance. Kill the children so you can kill yourself.&#8221; She kept a detailed list of every medication her doctors had prescribed and was on six antipsychotics at the time, including Seroquel, which can cause hallucinations. She also kept a diary documenting her insomnia, paranoia, and delusions, and had told her mother and husband beforehand that she&#8217;d had thoughts of killing her children.
Internet sleuths looked at all of that and said: IGNORE.
Instead, it&#8217;s become another episode of &#8220;let&#8217;s blame everyone but the perp.&#8221;
Begin with the group that claims &#8220;the husband did it.&#8221; The facts: Patrick Clancy left the house around 5:15 p.m. to pick up takeout and grab MiraLax from CVS. Surveillance footage shows him arriving at CVS at 5:32, walking to the pediatric aisle, and calling Lindsay to ask if the generic brand was okay. (A very &#8220;typical man&#8221; thing to do.) She didn&#8217;t answer; about a minute later she called back, answered his question, and hung up — he later testified she sounded busy. Patrick then left CVS and is seen on video walking into the restaurant, ThreeV, at 5:54 p.m. He went home, found the bodies, and called 911 at about 6:11 p.m. Some are claiming, absurdly, that Patrick did it — either by hiring a body double or by making sure he was caught on camera at CVS, sprinting home to commit the murders, changing his shoes, and sprinting back out to grab the food. I&#8217;ll concede his shoes look different between the two videos, and he may have changed them; that could be due to any number of things, including the fact that it was snowy and wet outside. Hello, Massachusetts in January. Everything else he&#8217;s wearing stays the same. No body double. Logistically, it would have been impossible for him to zoom home at 5:35, throw his wife out a window with no signs of struggle, strangle three children for four minutes each, and still make it back to the restaurant, eleven minutes away, by 5:54.
Unless he also has a secret time machine.
The Candace Owens-inspired camp also points to her body temperature: 82 degrees, hypothermic, when recorded at South Shore Hospital. How could that have happened?! She must have been pushed out the window at some unspecified point in time by her husband after 5:34 and before 5:54! Or, more plausibly, she cut her wrists and neck, jumped out a second-story window, landed in the snow, severely injured her spinal cord, and lost the ability to shiver, inducing poikilothermia, a condition where the body can&#8217;t regulate its own temperature. Add blood loss, the shock factor, and common sense, and suddenly the low reading isn&#8217;t mysterious at all.
Debunked.
But even if he didn&#8217;t do it, the theory goes, the medical system is to blame: the doctors, the hospitals, even the first responders all failed her. I&#8217;d concede that the cocktail of medications she was prescribed, and was taking, could have caused a reaction severe enough to make an unthinkable act feel rational in the moment. That&#8217;s tragic, and it&#8217;s something Lindsay, in her current lucid state, will have to live with for the rest of her life.
But in the noise surrounding this horror, the conversation isn&#8217;t really about the children, or about medication and overprescription. It&#8217;s about how the man in her life wronged her, and how postpartum struggles can spiral into atrocity.
Even Lindsay&#8217;s former coworker Susan Davison, a nurse, <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/unsealed-court-documents-reveal-dozens-100925404.html?guccounter=1&amp;guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGhlZnAuY29tLw&amp;guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAFARRfhT3yF1dz2w7BQMESITfqL24R5mYCAj75CglskLT30n7IhZKpaD8FrtyfbLc0oyMcQoT4SydhfQCBUoCeIM9spCyqq_qNciFsJpEfxe2_EAEM8Xwqq2qPZRm_XJoHAOGV0LyCiGHaDjpubQg4PpyVditb0CkmknJhxxuK_A">wrote in a letter</a> of support: &#8220;I could have been Lindsay. Any one of us could have been.&#8221;
Um, I couldn&#8217;t.
It&#8217;s evil. It&#8217;s the worst imaginable thing a person could do. It&#8217;s painful to think about the fight her eldest may have put up, the confusion on those little faces as the person they trusted most choked the light out of their eyes. To most of us, it&#8217;s unimaginable — which is exactly why so many people are trying to shove this case into a tidy box. She&#8217;s a murderer. She didn&#8217;t mean to. She&#8217;s the real victim.
But it isn&#8217;t that simple, and it&#8217;s weird that so many people are pretending it is.
It&#8217;s weird that her <a href="https://x.com/i/trending/2088991064514232368">GoFundMe</a> has raised almost $900,000 from “millions of women supporting [her] right now.”
It&#8217;s weird that women are simultaneously insisting that if only females ran the world we&#8217;d have peace and harmony, while also arguing that having a baby makes all of us crazy and unaccountable for our own actions.
It&#8217;s weird that we&#8217;re pretending mental illness doesn&#8217;t exist everywhere else — in lieutenant governors who fatally shoot their wives and themselves, in the homeless men who stab strangers on trains, in the young men who shoot CEOs in the back of the head, in the trans-identifying activists who cross the country to try to kill a treasury secretary.
It&#8217;s weird that feminists have grown so anti-men that they&#8217;ll ignore the basic facts of a case to protect a preferred narrative.
It’s weird that TikTokers are divining the true killer based on astrology charts.
It&#8217;s weird to joke about your own postpartum anxiety on TikTok in the same breath as a postpartum psychosis that left three breathing, innocent babies dead.
And I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s weird to point any of that out, or hope she goes away for a long, long time, because Cora, Dawson, and Callan don’t get a trend or a hashtag. They just don’t get anything, ever again, and it’s weird that we made it about everyone except them.

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I Called A Corner Of The Internet Weird. They Got Mad.

Internet culture

Lindsay Clancy

Ladies, what are we doing?
The internet is losing its ever-loving mind over the case of Lindsay Clancy, and it’s exposing how ridiculously lost we are as a populace.
The facts are straightforward and grotesque. In January 2023, Lindsay Clancy (née Musgrove), a Massachusetts mother of three, strangled her children — Cora (5), Dawson (3), and Callan (8 months) — to death with exercise bands in the basement of their Duxbury home. She had sent her then-husband Patrick out for takeout and a pharmacy run. While he was gone, she killed the kids, cut her own wrists and neck, overdosed, and jumped from a second-story window. She survived, paralyzed from the waist down. Patrick came home, found her in the snow, called 911, and discovered the bodies.
She had been drowning in severe postpartum anxiety, depression, insomnia, paranoia, and what defense lawyers call evolving psychosis (possibly bipolar disorder). She was on a heavy cocktail of psychiatric medications — reports count at least a dozen. She voluntarily checked into McLean Hospital and was discharged about three weeks before the killings. <a href="https://x.com/itskikidanger/status/2089395473912119435/video/1">Texts</a> and statements show she had told her mother and husband she was terrified, that the meds were making things worse, that she was having thoughts of harming the children, and that she wanted to be hospitalized. She also told people she desperately wanted to be a good mother and loved her kids.
Those kids are now dead, and she does not deny killing them.
But the trial now underway is not trying to answer “who did it?” but rather “was she criminally responsible?” If convicted of first-degree murder, she faces life without parole. If found not criminally responsible, she goes to a psychiatric facility, likely for the rest of her life. The prosecution must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that she was not so psychotic that she lacked the capacity to understand the wrongfulness of her actions. Given the documented history, the medications, and the command hallucinations she described (“This is your last chance… kill the children so you can kill yourself”), that will be a steep climb.
That is the actual issue: cold-blooded or just crazy?
But instead of debating that, the online morons and wine moms of the world are churning out conspiracies faster than they go through a bottle of cabernet.
As soon as the trial opened, TikTok “sleuths” and online true-crime addicts decided the real story was that Patrick did it and framed her. Never mind the video and phone records that put him at CVS. Never mind that she admitted it. Never mind that her own defense is not contesting the killings. The conspiracy version requires a body double at the pharmacy, a manufactured psychosis, or some elaborate staging after he supposedly pushed her out the window. Their evidence? It doesn’t exist. But he did remarry… to another brunette?! Case closed. Put him behind bars, girls.
Some of them are <a href="https://x.com/IfindRetards/status/2089543379621412873/video/1">hanging</a> out of two-story windows with dish soap, trying to “prove” the blood pattern doesn’t match a jump. Others are raising nearly a million dollars on GoFundMe for her parents’ legal and travel expenses. Gross. I suppose parents can support their daughter, but the same online crowd that floods money to the killer’s family is busy turning the husband into the villain and treating the woman who strangled three children as the real victim.
Lefties (and the online true-crime crowd) raising money and sympathy for alleged murderers — hmm, where have we seen this before? Luigi Mangione, Karmelo Anthony, Decarlos Brown Jr., etc. Why do they always have to be so weird? Can’t we just say that the children were the victims, they didn’t deserve to die, it’s disgusting, and a tragedy that she didn’t get the help she needed before succumbing to her demons? 
No, apparently they can’t. Instead, they invert the moral order and make the perpetrator the underdog.
This is how a certain corner of the culture operates now. Bad is good, good is bad. Postpartum depression (very common) gets collapsed into postpartum psychosis (very rare — about 1 in 1,000). Some women are publicly <a href="https://x.com/CollinRugg/status/2089061541903732894/video/1">announcing</a> they “see themselves in Lindsay” and that they were “only one step away” from the same act. Come again? Ladies, if you are one step away from strangling your toddlers for four minutes each because a voice told you to, get help immediately. That is not solidarity. That is a confession that something is deeply wrong.
It’s the same selective empathy that treats born children as tragic victims in one breath and disposable in another. The same people rushing to cast the woman who killed three living, breathing kids as the real victim are often the ones who shrug at far higher numbers of aborted children every year.
The day the Left is consistent on one single issue will be the day I get to retire.
Lindsay Clancy was clearly, severely mentally ill. I feel pity for the person who went through that nightmare of paranoia and command hallucinations. The medical system might not have done all it could; the medication pile-up looks reckless. But she still did it. The three children who used to speak, walk, crawl, and laugh are gone because of what she did. She is not the victim. The children are. Treating her as the central tragic figure while inventing conspiracies about her ex-husband is a form of soft denial, and a particularly ugly one when it comes wrapped in man-hating projection and online theater.
The real question is still the one the jury has to answer: was the psychosis so complete that she was not responsible?
Everything else — the body-double theories, the soap experiments, the reflexive blame-shifting — is just people refusing to look at a hard, ugly truth. A mother killed her children. Mental illness may explain it. It does not erase it. And turning the case into a soap opera about “the husband did it” helps no one, except maybe Candace Owens, who now has an idea for her next cash-cow series.

Nurse practitioner who treated Lindsay Clancy testifies about Duxbury mother’s desperation to improve amid postpartum struggles

The Wine Mom Delusion Of Turning Real Murder Into Internet Content

Let’s check in on the People’s Republic of New York City.
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Oh. An announcement of 2,000 free Broadway tickets for NYC public high school students, delivered in Mandarin. How thoughtful. How necessary. Never mind that our commander-in-chief signed an executive order making English the official language of these United States!
No need for the subtitles, Mr. Mayor. Maybe just get the kids a free Duolingo subscription instead. To each according to his needs.
The communist, terror-sympathizing tyrant of New York City will wave this off as a cute, harmless, inclusive gesture for the children, of course. But it&#8217;s more nefarious than that; it&#8217;s one more brick in his anti-American crusade to subvert every ideal this country was built on.
These &#8220;free&#8221; tickets, donated seats from producers who already sell out to tourists anyway, are just Mamdani&#8217;s latest chance to redistribute what he didn&#8217;t earn and call it &#8220;justice for the theater kids.&#8221; Every New Yorker should be able to afford Broadway, he says. Should they? I didn&#8217;t realize a night at the theater was a constitutional right. I thought I had a right to work hard, keep what I earn, and spend it how I choose, but apparently that one&#8217;s negotiable now.
This is peak Mamdani: a cutesy social post papering over a very expensive habit. Nothing he hands out is actually free.
His &#8220;free buses&#8221; would run the city $1.1 billion a year, and fares have gone up anyway. His &#8220;free childcare&#8221; plan is pegged at $6 billion, with outside estimates already creeping toward $9 billion, because they always do. (But trust him, sending your pride and joy off with a government employee to a park is so worth the tax hike.) His &#8220;free housing&#8221; push is set to produce 180 &#8220;affordable&#8221; units, for a finished price tag of $22 billion. (Somebody remind me why rent just hit a record $6,655 a month?) And don&#8217;t forget the pending Delivery Protection <a href="https://x.com/NYCMayor/status/2086883269610541325">Act</a>, which punishes Amazon subcontractors for the crime of subcontracting. Enjoy the higher delivery fee, Bezos Baddies.
The theater, the bus, the rent, the children — the mayoralty has deemed them a right and bequeathed you a bill.
Some may think I’m being too cynical about the Broadway Bash, but that’s because I know it’s bread and circuses. He has a plan, and he’s following it to the letter. He’s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/gotham-citys-bane-is-every-dsa-candidates-final-form">Bane</a> with a <a href="https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/nyc-mayor-zohran-mamdani-takes-124649047.jpg?resize=681,1024&amp;quality=75&amp;strip=all">bow tie</a>. At a 2021 Young Democratic Socialists of America conference, then-Assemblyman Mamdani was explicit: student debt cancellation was fine to campaign on, but socialists also need to organize around the less popular causes, like Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) — the campaign that would love to see Israel wiped off the map — and &#8220;the end goal of seizing the means of production.&#8221;
Where have I heard that one before…
The network around this Marxist mayor makes the rhetoric a lot less abstract. Neville Roy Singham, the Shanghai-based billionaire Marxist, has poured hundreds of millions into left-wing nonprofits that reliably echo Chinese Communist Party talking points, and his family has done campaign work for Mamdani. Singham himself, like plenty of Mamdani&#8217;s other allies, invokes Mao, calls Western capitalism &#8220;fascism,&#8221; and pushes a &#8220;new world order&#8221; narrative that quietly erases America&#8217;s role in defeating actual fascism in World War II.
Which is why a Marxist delivering a speech in Mandarin should unsettle you: China&#8217;s communist history is not abstract; it&#8217;s tangibly terrifying. The Great Leap Forward produced the deadliest famine on record. The Cultural Revolution delivered mass persecution and economic ruin. One-party rule continues today. Soft-power language outreach and redistributionist policy deserve a little more scrutiny when they&#8217;re coming from Maoists and more broadly from America-haters.
Mamdani speaks Mandarin to signal that you don&#8217;t need to assimilate to this oppressive, colonizing country! Stay as un-American as possible, in fact. He sure is. The Ugandan native released a video slamming America as a &#8220;nation of contradictions&#8221; on her birthday, from behind George Washington&#8217;s desk. He published a &#8220;target list&#8221; naming and addressing New York&#8217;s &#8220;100 worst landlords&#8221; alongside thousands of New Yorkers who own second homes in the city. He said the boots of the NYPD are laced by the IDF. His father wrote a book blaming 9/11 on the United States. He&#8217;s been photographed with an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 WTC bombing. And families of 9/11 victims have made clear they don&#8217;t want him anywhere near this year&#8217;s 25th anniversary ceremony.
He does not like it here, and he is trying to tear it down with a Marxist sandwich: promise something good, then say and do things that quietly wreck the place underneath it. 
To be fair, the champagne socialist also posted the ticket announcement in Spanish. They say he speaks seven languages. He must have picked that up somewhere between the $70,000-a-year progressive private school on the Upper West Side and the $50,000-plus-a-year liberal arts college in Maine. Thank goodness all that education is finally paying off in the public sector, where he does nothing but lecture, pose for photos, and redistribute other people&#8217;s money in the name of social welfare.
The polished videos, the permanent Joker smile, the quiet confidence that no one will connect the multilingual theater giveaways to the man who once called seizing the means of production an end goal.
Welcome to the CCP of NYC.

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Welcome To The CCP Of NYC

Communism

Mayor Zohran Mamdani

Picture this: a father idles at the airport curb, his daughter beside him. Before she steps out into the next chapter — college, adulthood, the real world — he chokes out with tears brimming, &#8220;I&#8217;ll see you at Thanksgiving.” She smiles and thanks him for everything.
Then the honking starts.
A white Toyota pickup pulls up. AK-47s strapped to chests, masks on, beards long. &#8220;Dad, it&#8217;s just ISIS,&#8221; she says, tossing her luggage in the truck bed, climbing into the terror Toyota. &#8220;Death to America,&#8221; the ringleader whispers to Dad. She beams back compassionately. The squadron peels off, yodeling, cheering, and firing rounds into the sky.
&#8220;ISIS has got it from here, Dad.&#8221;
A <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_L2fazw5Y9k">Saturday Night Live</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_L2fazw5Y9k">sketch</a> from 2015? Or a Tuesday on America&#8217;s most prestigious campuses?
Both.
Eleven years ago, the skit mocked moronic parents and willful idiots. It was satire then. It isn’t anymore. 
 
Now it’s an accurate description of what&#8217;s unfolding on college campuses right now: young, liberal, mostly white, mostly female students, cheerfully indoctrinated into their own demise. And instead of shunning these people, we&#8217;re handing them megaphones and positions of power.
I know we’re all sick and tired of hearing about Abdul El-Sayed, the terror-sympathizing, Sharia-loving, Lenin-like Michigan Senate nominee, so let&#8217;s give the floor to his half-sister, <a href="https://lgbtqreligiousarchives.org/profiles/eman-abdelhadi">Eman Abdelhadi</a>. A radical artist (they’re all artists) and now-professor at the University of Chicago, she’s unironically living out the SNL sketch, minus the cuteness.
She was an anchor baby: born in Columbia, Missouri, to an Egyptian mother and Palestinian father, then flown straight back to the Middle East, where she grew up shuttling between Egypt and Saudi Arabia. When the family moved back to the States at age nine, she did the opposite of assimilate. Her household didn’t allow for English and was strictly revivalist Muslim; a movement built on returning to the Quran with an &#8220;all or nothing&#8221; reading of the faith.
Translation: Everything she lives, breathes, and dies by is wholly incompatible with Western civilization.
Her household, by her own account, was &#8220;rooted in anti-imperial ethics.&#8221; Which is a nicer way of saying they despised America. She said the Second Intifada inspired her first protest for Palestine; the period when Palestinians deliberately bombed, shot, and murdered Israeli civilians after Palestine walked away from a peace deal.
It takes five seconds of research to know she&#8217;s clearly on the wrong side of that argument. But I have a feeling she&#8217;s never spent the five seconds, and never will.
Because she views the world through the lens of backward victimhood. What do I mean? Well, she’s still mad at America for giving her family funny looks after 9/11, saying she &#8220;did not feel safe to leave the house for several weeks.”
Oh! I was in my mother&#8217;s womb when 19 al-Qaeda hijackers flew planes into American targets and killed 2,977 people…but on behalf of all of us colonizers, we’re deeply sorry that “revivalist Islamists” caught a few side-eyes in the aftermath. For your troubles, we promise to tear down every American institution, import the third world, and let it replace what’s left!
I&#8217;m being tongue-in-cheek. She is not. On <a href="https://x.com/bennyjohnson/status/2088027974134059023">social media</a>, she&#8217;s said she wants &#8220;the whole world to rise against US empire,&#8221; hopes &#8220;all the empires fall,&#8221; called America &#8220;a pretty evil place that hates indigenous, Black, brown, trans, queer and poor people,&#8221; mocked people for &#8220;celebrat[ing] the transfer of stolen land from one colonizer to another. #July4th,&#8221; and says we can&#8217;t have nice things under settler colonialism — which is why she skips Thanksgiving.
She doesn&#8217;t just hate America. She <a href="https://x.com/C_3C_3/status/2088078454356914199">hates white people</a>, categorically. Some of her greatest hits: &#8220;The most offensive thing about the fascist demo is all the white ppl trying to dance. Smh.&#8221; &#8220;White Supremacy, historically, is the bloodiest ideology of terror that&#8217;s ever plagued this earth.&#8221; (It&#8217;s actually the Islamic conquests, but who&#8217;s counting.) And: &#8220;White people talking about entitlements, but apparently referencing people of color trying to survivve. Irony lost on all.&#8221; She spelled &#8220;survive&#8221; wrong. Some ironies write themselves.
She cheered the murder of innocents. On October 7, she called for a violent student uprising, writing: &#8220;Let Palestine break this country wide open. Long live the student intifada&#8221; (that&#8217;s violence against non-Muslims, which we are all too familiar with now), then posted a celebration video opening with <a href="https://x.com/LeeKuanYimby/status/2088046646651224454">&#8220;I wanna start by saying Allahu Akbar.&#8221;</a>
Hm. Where have we heard that one before?
This gem of a woman was arrested in October 2025 and hit with two felony counts of aggravated battery on a government employee, plus two misdemeanor counts of resisting arrest, after spitting on an Illinois state trooper during a riot at an ICE facility outside Chicago.
Not great, Bob.
And she&#8217;s still on the University of Chicago payroll even after being caught on <a href="https://x.com/thestustustudio/status/1941958171389538635/video/1">tape</a> saying: &#8220;F*ck the University of Chicago, it&#8217;s evil, it&#8217;s a colonial landlord.” But she needs the colonial landlord, because though her movement has already convinced the American populace to be “sympathetic to Palestine,” she says they still lack power. And the university gives her the perfect platform to seize that power, “organize, and build.”
This is who your daughter meets and gets corrupted by when you ship your little bunny off to the $80,000-a-year institution to learn life skills. This is why she comes home for the “colonizing holiday” of Thanksgiving, having learned nothing except how to hate herself and her country, spitballing semantics that never add up to a coherent point.
My toxic trait is thinking that if I got one week with Abdelhadi, I could fix her. Take her to church, do her nails, wash her hair, get her outside to touch grass, sit her down with an elderly veteran, hand her a baby, take her to a football game, put her to work on a farm. I genuinely believe it would make this decrepit, vile dirtbag marginally less so.
So how does someone get this far gone in the first place?
Simple. We imported the third world, let them weaponize our empathy against us, funded their grievances, then handed the most radical exports among them the keys to our institutions. All while congratulating ourselves for our boundless compassion.
For decades, America flung open the doors to mass immigration from cultures that explicitly reject Western norms; revivalist Islam; anti-imperial grievance politics; the whole package. Then subsidized the universities, NGOs, and media ecosystems that turned those immigrants’ children into professional agitators. We funded the Middle East studies departments, the “decolonization” curricula, and the endless stream of soft-power grants that reframed jihadist violence as “resistance” and American success as original sin.
Meanwhile, the same people who demand we feel their pain after 9/11 weaponize that empathy right back at us: cry Islamophobia the second anyone notices the incompatibility, demand safe spaces while cheering &#8220;intifadas,&#8221; and accuse the host society of fascism for enforcing its own borders or laws. That is how you end up with a professor who grew up straddling Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Missouri, now collecting a six-figure salary at one of America’s elite universities to teach students that the country that gave her family asylum is an “evil empire” that must be broken open.
I think liberals are masochists. It’s the only theory that fits.
They didn’t just import people; they imported an ideology that treats our civilization as Satan incarnate. And now we’re supposed to act shocked that this new generation of idiots is cheering the murder of innocents and spitting on cops?
These elite, stuffy, highly educated theatre kids claim to have knowledge. But they lack wisdom, which is the ability to exercise good judgment. Why? Because they don’t fear the Lord. They only fear capitalism and white people. That’s the whole hierarchy.
So, oddly enough, SNL called it. Dad waves through tears. Daughter climbs into the white Toyota. The squadron zooms off, yodeling, firing into the air. Only this time, &#8220;ISIS&#8221; isn&#8217;t a punchline from 2015. It&#8217;s the faculty lounge, the student union, the tenured radical still drawing a paycheck while calling for the country to be broken wide open.
ISIS has got it from here, Dad.

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The Ivy League ISIS Has Got It From Here, Dad!

Eman Abdelhadi

Some have been warning of the red-green alliance for years. And unfortunately my friends, it&#8217;s here, and it&#8217;s running for U.S. Senate in Michigan.
I present to you: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-abdul-el-sayed-tells-film-crew-to-hide-his-qurans-from-shot?row=1&amp;elementPosition=1&amp;rowType=Web+Search+Overlay">Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed</a>. Capitalist, if you ask him. Full-blown communist with an Islamist streak, if you judge by literally everything he&#8217;s said on tape in the last five seconds.
He embodies the exact red-green alliance that author and activist <a href="https://archive.ph/6cYAA">Ayaan</a> Hirsi Ali has spent two decades explaining, and she&#8217;s about as qualified on this issue as a person gets. Born in Somalia, she survived genital mutilation arranged by her own grandmother while her father sat in prison for political dissent. She fled an arranged marriage, renounced Islam, and has lived under death threats ever since she exposed the truth about the clan.
Her argument, boiled down, is that the “red” are the communists, Marxists, and far-left revolutionaries; the “green” are the Islamists. Their agendas could not be more opposed on paper; one waves rainbow flags, the other stones people for wearing them. One wants a theocracy, the other wants to abolish God along with the bourgeoisie. But they’ve discovered a shared hatred of the West, individual liberty, and the American experiment itself. As Hirsi Ali puts it, it’s a watermelon: green on the outside, red on the inside. They tolerate each other’s contradictions because both want to hollow out the liberal order that protects the rest of us.
Isn’t that sweet?
The poster boy of this phenomenon is El-Sayed. He spent his primary campaign insisting he wasn’t a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/gotham-citys-bane-is-every-dsa-candidates-final-form">democratic socialist</a>, just a capitalist who hates capitalism. But on the “Head in the Office” podcast, when asked whether he backed Bernie Sanders’ plan for public ownership of AI companies, El-Sayed didn’t just agree; he one-upped the octogenarian communist: “I want to actually take it a step further… we need some system of public control.&#8221;
Ahh. So he’s Lenin in a keffiyeh.
We should have known. The America-hater is best friends and campaign partners with Twitch’s own Marxist nepo-baby, <a href="https://x.com/ItsAllPoliticss/status/2087519475759280143/video/1">Hasan Piker</a>, who this week helpfully clarified where he stands on the founding documentation of this country: &#8220;F*ck the Constitution. I wipe my a** with the Constitution. It&#8217;s a f*cking piece of paper. Motherf*ck the Constitution and motherf*ck this country.&#8221;
Charming.
I take it that neither of them cares too much about the Fourth or Fifth Amendments, which prevent the government from taking or searching your property without due process.
Why anyone’s still trying to reheat this plate of Lenin leftovers is beyond me. Because the Lenin leftovers don’t taste good, and they never did. His war communism produced famine. Stalin’s collectivization starved millions in the Holodomor. Mao’s Great Leap Forward delivered the deadliest famine in human history. Venezuela’s “21st-century socialism” turned an oil-rich nation into a basket case of empty shelves and mass emigration. America tried something new and created a process; the American Dream: you work hard, keep what you earn, and hand something better to your kids. Communism&#8217;s opening move, every single time, is demanding that dream belongs to the state. Comrade El-Sayed and his red half of the watermelon wish to crush your engine of mobility, in the name of equity.
Then comes the fruit’s green shell. Islam. El-Sayed has described following Sharia Law as a personal “obligation” until the day he dies. He has opposed bans on Sharia in American courts, arguing that the forces pushing such measures are the same ones responsible for the Trail of Tears, the Tulsa massacre, and even the Oklahoma City bombing. Which is quite an impressive list of historical evils to pin on people who simply prefer one legal system rooted in the Constitution.
Then there was that endearing time when El-Sayed declined to comment publicly on the death of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, explaining there &#8220;are a lot of people in Dearborn who are sad.&#8221; His voters mourned the world’s deadliest theocrat. In the name of Allah.
Fabulous.
His campaign security official, Jordan Domingue, a Marine who protected him for years across campaigns, saw this Arabic on the wall, resigned, and publicly warned that El-Sayed holds extreme Islamist-adjacent views, shows sympathy for positions that soft-pedal terrorist groups, and harbors deep anti-American sentiment. Domingue described the Senate-hopeful as a chameleon who practices strategic ambiguity, especially when speaking about Iran’s regime or its proxies. Add a Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing this month where a counterterrorism analyst testified that El-Sayed’s family ties and campaign associations connect back to Muslim Brotherhood-linked networks and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), and you get the green.
This is the marriage Hirsi Ali warned about: illiberalism dressed up in liberal language, using tolerance as the crowbar to pry open the door for something considerably less tolerant.
The result is gradual normalization through amplified Islamic calls to prayer at 3:30 a.m. and school teachers who are suspended and driven into hiding for showing a historical Muhammad cartoon in a lesson on free speech, and Islamic <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/one-of-americas-busiest-airports-is-about-to-get-islamic-foot-washing-stations-in-bathrooms?topStoryPosition=undefined&amp;author=Leona+Salinas&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=3&amp;row=1&amp;rowHeadline=Top+Stories&amp;rowType=Top+Stories&amp;title=One+Of+America%E2%80%99s+Busiest+Airports+Is+About+To+Get+Islamic+Foot+Washing+Stations+In+Bathrooms">foot washing stations</a> in airports, all while anyone who objects gets the &#8220;bigot&#8221; label slapped on before the next Adhan sounds.
The common enemy, liberal democracy, loses ground one Islamophobia accusation at a time. 

That’s the playbook, and El-Sayed is running it. Sure, he&#8217;s not technically a card-carrying DSA member. That&#8217;s the loophole he&#8217;s counting on. But when you don&#8217;t believe in shared truth, when words are just tools and the Constitution is something you wipe your backside with, you get to call yourself a capitalist on Tuesday and a Jihai revolutionary on Wednesday. If you don’t pay close enough attention, you won’t notice the wicked watermelon until it’s too late.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali survived the real thing to warn us what it looks like when it&#8217;s coming. Michigan, consider yourselves warned.

Democratic Senate Candidate Abdul El-Sayed Campaigns In Michigan Ahead Of Primary

Comrade El-Sayed’s Illiberal Alliance Looks Like Lenin In A Keffiyeh

Abdul El-Sayed

You need ice for that burn?
This is what you can say to the Democratic Socialists of America this week, who were torched online and at the ballot box. If this is a preview of the midterms, where races that the Left still thinks are theirs to lose, Republicans should be praying these socialists keep running. And keep losing.
The Bolshevik beatdown hit a boiling point Tuesday night, when Wisconsin&#8217;s Democratic gubernatorial primary handed one of the DSA&#8217;s favorite comrades a gut-punch. Francesca Hong, the DSA darling, Thanksgiving abolitionist, and perpetually aggrieved revolutionary, entered Election Day as the runaway favorite, up more than 20 points in the final poll. Then, presumably because the DSA overlords Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez didn’t endorse her and she’s white-adjacent, she lost to Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley by 3,000 votes.
The communists will have to wait a few more years before their revolution plagues Wisconsin.
But it says something about Wisconsin&#8217;s Democratic primary voters that, by the narrowest of margins, they chose the guy who merely looks like a moderate over his anti-American, anti-cop, anti-border, anti-prison alternative.
Hong wasn’t the only self-inflicted wound this week. Over in Michigan, newly minted Democratic Terror Sympathizing Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed got caught scrubbing his own very, very radical paper trail. I know — totally shocking that a guy who campaigns with the “America deserved 9/11” dude would also have some skeletons in his armoire.
CNN&#8217;s KFile found he&#8217;d quietly deleted or privatized close to a hundred old videos and posts: defending &#8220;defund the police,&#8221; of course; explaining why &#8220;fireworks suck&#8221; and Americans should find another way to celebrate the Fourth of July, obviously; and floating the ingenious idea of swapping the Second Amendment for a constitutional &#8220;right to have health care.&#8221; Why didn&#8217;t we think of this sooner? Hand over your guns, and in exchange, we&#8217;ll force you to cover everyone else&#8217;s copays. Seems fair.
His campaign&#8217;s defense is that these were just old &#8220;Woke 1&#8221; takes that &#8220;don&#8217;t reflect his beliefs today.&#8221; How convenient that Democrats have simply decided you&#8217;re not allowed to remember what they said five minutes ago. I swear, the Left is like a toxic, manipulative ex that will drive you mad with all their backpedaling nonsense.
Speaking of professional gaslighters: AOC spent the weekend simultaneously denouncing her silly old ways while still arming the very ideology she pretends to have outgrown. The 36-year-old, who&#8217;s dragged the media through an absolute rollercoaster this week, kicked things off on ABC&#8217;s Sunday show, &#8220;This Week,&#8221; with a banger: &#8220;Woke 1 was crazy.&#8221; Sorry for amplifying defund-the-police rhetoric, racial essentialism, and maximalist identity politics that produced billions in property damage and a homicide spike! Didn&#8217;t mean it. Also, let&#8217;s run it back on steroids.
Then &#8220;This Week&#8221; co-anchor Jonathan Karl asked her, point blank, if she&#8217;s still a DSA member. Her answer: &#8220;Of the New York City chapter.&#8221; Only of the New York City chapter. Ah. As if DSA is a gym with regional pricing tiers and she just hasn&#8217;t upgraded to the national plan. It&#8217;s not how membership in a national organization works, but it&#8217;s a great way to keep the socialist card in her wallet for a rainy day while telling swing voters she&#8217;s basically Joe Manchin now.
Granted, she&#8217;s doing all this while going through a very public breakup. TMZ confirmed Monday that AOC and her fiancé of four years, Riley Roberts, split roughly two years ago (a fact she conveniently left out while documenting her egg-freezing journey in a series of Instagram stories over the weekend). Welcome to 2026, where you log onto social media hoping for cute animal videos and instead get a sitting congresswoman narrating her hormone injections, because &#8220;girl power.&#8221;
Sigh.
Don&#8217;t let the workout clips, the daily rants, or the day-in-the-life-of-an-egg-freezer content distract you. AOC is a Marxist in waiting, a Bolshevik hiding in the rough, waiting to pounce on the mensheviks the second it&#8217;s politically convenient. Welcome to Woke 2.
Socialists had a bad week, no question. Hong&#8217;s collapse in a key battleground and El-Sayed&#8217;s frantic delete-sesh expose the limits of purity-test politics outside deep-blue enclaves; primary voters, even Democratic ones, apparently aren&#8217;t completely buying what the DSA is selling. But that doesn&#8217;t mean the DSA is gone. Democrats are still riding shotgun on the socialist train, hurtling toward the cliff. The infrastructure, the online energy, the donor networks, and the habit of nominating people who hate this country more than Hitler, remain intact. One narrow loss and a few scrubbed posts can’t undo an institutional capture that’s been poisoning America for years.
The socialist burn is slow, and socialists themselves know this. In 1927, commie Norman Thomas predicted Americans would never vote for socialism outright, but that under the name of &#8220;liberalism,&#8221; they&#8217;d adopt every fragment of the socialist program without noticing. This is the DSA strategy in a nutshell. And it’s exactly why Republicans should keep pointing at the anti-American record and the failed policies now, while the burn is still fresh.
Because this week, at least, the revolution needs some ice.

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This Week Was A Gut-Punch To The Socialists

Democratic Socialists Of America

Francesca Hong

Should We Be Afraid Of Hasan Piker? No, that gives the Twitch streamer too much power. But would I rather share a cave with a colony of rabid bats than share a room with him? Absolutely. Every single time.
Last week Rolling Stone dropped a pure fluff soufflé on Hasan Piker, the China-smitten communist creature who despises this country and everything capitalism built. No surprise, given the magazine&#8217;s track record. It&#8217;s spent years glazing up characters like Sean &#8220;Puffy&#8221; Combs, the alleged sex trafficker; Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the Boston Marathon Bomber; and Charles Manson, the cult leader. At this point, you can trust anyone Rolling Stone tarnishes. The second they run a glowing profile? Run.
The <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/hasan-piker-twitch-stream-midterms-1235604577/">title</a>: “Why Is Everyone Scared of Hasan Piker?”
Subtitle: His incendiary clips about Israel have drawn fire from both sides of the aisle. But what he wants, he insists, is simply to make people listen.
Aww. He just wants to be heard. Like a loud little boy on the playground demanding the other kids stop playing and admire his tantrum.
Right at the top sits this gem of subtext: “Piker is a matinee-handsome progressive icon who’s uniquely talented at translating radical-left politics for Gen Z bros.”
Matinee-handsome? Like Cary Grant or Rock Hudson — the golden-age heartthrobs? Curious choice of photo, then. The one they ran looks more like a graying, hirsute Scooby-Doo villain whose glasses somehow managed to stay crooked through the entire photoshoot. But perhaps “matinee” now just means “owns a ring light.” I digress.
What’s unnerving is not the male author’s thirsty prose about Piker’s jawline. It’s how the broader Left has stopped merely tolerating his anti-American rhetoric, destructive policies, and would-be dictator cosplay, and started glamorizing them.
Hasan Piker is a poison that progressives and their pet Politburos are happily chugging by the gallon.
We came so close to an America-free Hasan. He’s the textbook anchor-baby product. Neither parent was a citizen when he was born in New Jersey, and after his birth the family immediately packed up and returned to Turkey, where he grew up. Summers brought him back to visit non-citizen grandparents, where the only things that impressed him about the United States were the Oreo flavors and free refills. He “f*cking hates the government,” yet happily enrolled at the University of Miami to party, club, and tank his grades before transferring to Rutgers. Then the family connection came in clutch, securing him a job at uncle Cenk’s radical outfit &#8220;The Young Turks.&#8221; Talking into a camera for 14 hours a day turned into a multi-million-dollar annual haul, a lavish L.A. townhouse, a Mercedes, and a full-time career dedicated to dismantling the very country that handed him the keys.
Consider this a living refutation of birthright tourism. Look what it let in the door.
Hasan Piker’s favorite flag is Hezbollah’s — the terrorist group responsible for the brutal deaths of hundreds of American service members. He has declared Hamas — the Sunni terrorists who murdered more than 1,200 Israeli civilians and over 40 Americans on October 7 and have killed U.S. citizens in multiple bombings — “a thousand times better than Israel.” Both groups view America as the Great Satan. So, apparently, does Piker, who once announced that America “deserved” 9/11 and that <a href="https://x.com/Tectone/status/2086115837589459365/video/1">American soldiers are simply cattle to Iran, who deserve to be shot at.</a>
Remember, this clown campaigns with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Sen. Bernie Sanders, and Mayor Zohran Mamdani. The Avengers, if the Avengers hated the good guys and loved the villains.
Speaking of which, this self-described Marxist is in love with China and one of its most murderous tyrants, Mao Zedong — a man responsible for tens of millions of deaths. Piker calls his deadly idol &#8220;one of the great leaders of this world&#8221; who &#8220;changed the entire universe,&#8221; cosplays the look in identical Zhongshan suits, and pays tribute to his cherished dictator by hanging the CCP flag, samurai swords, and revolutionary art in his recording studio.
I hear China is lovely this time of year. He should go. Permanently.
He will not, of course, because the capitalist in him is doing too well. Behold the delicious paradox of the self-proclaimed Marxist who loathes America and capitalism yet runs a wildly profitable one-man content empire built entirely on private platforms, voluntary subscriptions, and the exact surplus extraction he spends every stream denouncing. He owns the cameras, the brand, the schedule, and the equity. His mostly young audience funds the lifestyle.
What a bigoted oligarch!
Piker has said, on this content empire, that he would love to see “capitalist motherf*ckers bleed out in the streets” — yet somehow that revolutionary bloodlust never reaches his own father, a former vice president of a multi-billion-dollar Turkish conglomerate, or himself. He excuses their wealth because he “advocates for the poor.” Does he? He has written checks for Turkish-Syrian earthquake relief and Palestinian fundraisers, of course, but America’s own impoverished? That would be silly.
Classic Marxist millionaire. Endlessly eager to tell the government how to spend your money, allergic to practicing any of it himself.
He could liquidate the $5,000 designer fits, the $10,000 dual-sport motorcycle, the Cartier frames, or the multi-million-dollar gated L.A. mansion he bragged about in the Rolling Stone piece. Instead, he preaches revolution from behind the high shrubs, daydreaming aloud about “impoverishing the white middle class” (which his Marxist policies would accomplish with ruthless efficiency).
He won’t discriminate on class alone; he’s targeting race as well. He has voiced a desire to “destroy the white race, b*tch.” And black Americans fare no better in his worldview; he has declared he “doesn’t give a f*ck what black people care about” and suggested they should “suck” him where the sun don’t shine. He also cheered that “we want more immigrants to come into your countries and then they’re gonna f*ck your sisters and then your daughters.”
Sheesh. A real peach, isn’t he? The kind we should priority ship overnight to Cuba so he can finally live out the revolutionary he masquerades as.
All this dirtbag offers is performative virtue. A pathetic nerd who has never built anything except a personal brand, pays almost no one beyond a lone producer, supports no dependents, or has never created any real jobs. He simply harvests America’s free markets, complains about America nonstop, and helps elevate candidates who share the same contempt. From each according to his ability. Right Marxy? Well, his ability is limited. His capacity for damage is not.
Though he imagines himself a brilliant trailblazer finally cracking the socialist code, he is neither unique nor special. He is the latest iteration of the young, privileged, rich socialist idealist who has helped midwife communist disasters for a century. Like the privileged students and intellectuals of 1917 Petrograd or the campus-bred Red Guards of Mao’s Cultural Revolution, he grew up with family advantages, enjoyed the consumer abundance and educational opportunities of a free-market society, then turned that platform into a lucrative personal brand while preaching the abolition of the very system that made him wealthy.
He controls his own means of production yet spends his days radicalizing Gen Z listeners against private property, capitalism, and America itself. And he’s gaining popularity, just like the Bolsheviks did with their lies. History is unambiguous about what follows: once the romantic phase demoralizes the existing order and captures the institutions, the hard men take over, the purges begin, and the gulags fill with both the original class enemies and plenty of the useful idealists who thought they were constructing utopia.
Piker’s mansion, nicotine pouches, and multi-million-dollar streams offer no immunity. They are merely the modern comforts of the useful idiot who opens the door and discovers the revolution has no further need of him or his dog.
This is the man Rolling Stone is platforming.
This is the man Democrats are campaigning alongside.
This is the awkward, foul-mouthed terrorist sympathizer the Left is now calling “Eugene Debs who deadlifts.” Barf.
This is why birth tourism should be ended. 
Piker is “pushing towards his vision” for the future “with a little pickaxe,” “Mining away in his cave.” Democrats are supplying him with TNT. When the whole mountain collapses on them, at least the rest of us will get to say we told you so.

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Rolling Stone Hearts Pompous Piker And His Claptrap Commie Imagemaxxing

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Hasan Piker

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I’d imagine the hardest part of being a Democratic Socialist of America in 2026 is that they adore the sound of their own voices. Voices captured by cameras that trap every syllable in amber like prehistoric bugs, forever available for public dissection.
They can’t outrun their rhetoric. It always circles back, grinning.
For Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, she’s perpetually being strangled by her own airtight logic. In 2019, she warned that climate change would end the world in twelve years if we didn’t act. Yet this week she cheerfully announced she was freezing her eggs, apparently convinced she has all the time in the world, as she puts biology on pause to run for president. She insists socialists have abandoned obscure rhetoric…while remaining a proud DSA member in the same company as candidates who treat the American flag like toilet paper, excuse the 9/11 attacks, and brag about dismantling the Western empire. In 2021, she huffed that “woke” was just a nasty little euphemism for civil rights, and how dare anyone sneer at it, you racist. This week she coyly admitted that Woke 1 was “crazy,” a silly phase of goofy things she didn’t really mean.
If Woke 1.0 was merely crazy, Woke 2.0 might just spark World War Eleven. (Ask Ilhan Omar how many of those we&#8217;ve had.)
AOC can switch accents, ideologies, and positions with the restless flair of a chameleon on Adderall, but we cannot let her memory-hole what she said and did during Woke One. It was genuinely insane and destructive. Pretending otherwise isn’t evolution; it’s gaslighting with better lighting.
In 2020, she insisted that New York Police Department’s billion-dollar cuts didn’t go nearly far enough. A defunded-police society, she explained, looked like a white affluent suburb. Any criticism of the movement? Pure racial resentment. That same movement delivered the costliest and deadliest riots in modern American history: roughly two billion dollars in insured damage, a 30% spike in U.S. homicides, police resignations that skyrocketed and never fully recovered, and tens of millions of dollars of bail funds sponsored by leftist organizations and cheered on by AOC and her playmates that freed murderers, sexual offenders, and other violent criminals.
And it wasn’t only Defund. She worked overtime to inject DEI into every institution within rhetorical reach. She repeatedly described white supremacy as a “virus” — often subconscious, often dormant — in the nation and in ordinary individuals. She argued COVID relief should be written, “with a lens of reparations.” She became a key amplifier of the post-George Floyd worldview that filtered everything through systemic oppression and dismissed color-blind equal treatment as naïve or worse. The result was a surge of corporate DEI roles, mandatory diversity statements, staffing quotas, and federal equity mandates. Meanwhile, perceptions of race relations hit multi-decade lows, and workplace fairness concerns climbed as more people grew skeptical that preferential DEI processes still tracked pure merit.
In 2021, the woman spat all over capitalism by wearing a dress dripping with the bloody slogan “Tax the Rich,” to a Met Gala where tickets cost more than some Americans make in a year. Egg-freezing isn&#8217;t cheap either. Tax the rich, just the other rich, apparently.
Her rhetoric poured gasoline on those ideological fires. Watching her now try to laugh it off as youthful exuberance is not charming. It’s nauseating.
Especially since nothing has actually changed for the candidates around her. They’re talking crazier than ever, and more of them keep crawling out of the woodwork every week.
In the very same interview where AOC smiled, waved, and tried to reframe 2020 as a rebellious teenage phase rather than a national disgrace, she openly confirmed that she remains a member of the New York City DSA chapter. That same chapter wants police, prisons, the Senate, the presidency, borders, and the Department of Defense abolished outright. It has produced candidates who flirt with Sharia law in America, campaign alongside people who claim America “deserved” 9/11, and argue that Thanksgiving should be canceled because it’s racist.
Obviously.
Woke 1.0 may be over, but only because the Left has graduated to Woke Two: the sequel where despising America is the new patriotism, where Planned Parenthood rebrands abortion as gender-affirming care, where it’s chic to post videos of yourself injecting your ovaries with hormones on Instagram to stop the clock, where the WNBA doesn&#8217;t know what the &#8220;W&#8221; stands for, where capitalism is the bane of your existence, and where leading Democratic candidates are open terror sympathizers eager to dismantle the country from the inside.
AOC is trying to gaslight us into seeing her as a moderate communist who only hates America a little (some consultant must have whispered that she needs to chill if she wants a national stage). Her comrades, however, are not moderating. They are radicalizing at speed. They’re devouring the remains of the moderate Democratic Party for breakfast, hosting LGBTQ parties at mosques for lunch, and canceling dinner altogether because the nuclear family is apparently a white-supremacist construct.
They are losing their ever-loving minds. And it’s still hurting America, just as the rhetoric did in 2020.
It almost makes me nostalgic for Woke One. Hopefully, by the time AOC is ready to thaw those eggs at the ripe age of seventy-five, Woke Wars I through XI will all be ancient history. Maybe then we’ll finally return to common sense, nostalgic suburbia, and an Overton window that isn’t stretched to the breaking point by people who proudly cried woke wolf.

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Don’t Let AOC Memory-Hole ‘Woke 1.0’

Happy Friday, folks. Let&#8217;s talk about the most accidentally prophetic screenplay in Hollywood history, shall we?
Somehow, someway, Christopher Nolan got his hands on a time machine, took one look at America&#8217;s political future, and built an entire trilogy to warn us about it. I rewatched &#8220;The Dark Knight Rises&#8221; last weekend and dang-near slid off my couch during Bane&#8217;s Blackgate Prison speech.
To set the scene: the bombs have gone off. The police are buried alive under Gotham, sealed in like a city-sized panic room without an exit hatch. Every prisoner in Blackgate has just been handed a rifle and a grudge. The football players have sunk into the earth, America&#8217;s favorite sport swallowed whole. Bane climbs onto the wreckage of the city he just hollowed out, and he starts preaching:
<blockquote>We take Gotham from the corrupt! The rich! The oppressors of generations who have kept you down with myths of opportunity, and we give it back to you… the people. Gotham is yours. None shall interfere. Do as you please. Start by … freeing the oppressed! Step forward those who would serve. For an army will be raised. The powerful will be ripped from their decadent nests, and cast out into the cold world that we know and endure. Courts will be convened. Spoils will be enjoyed. Blood will be shed.</blockquote>
I mean, come on. Put a claw mask over Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, Hasan Piker, Michigan U.S. Senate nominee <a href="https://x.com/theblaze/status/2085031755669471487/video/1">Abdul(etc) </a>El-Sayed, Colorado congressional nominee Melat Kiros, and Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate Francesca Hong, and you genuinely cannot tell the difference.
Bane isn&#8217;t a comic book villain. He&#8217;s every DSA candidate&#8217;s final form, minus the gym membership.
The monster who hijacked and crashed a CIA plane with no survivors, stormed the stock exchange, and held a city hostage with a nuclear bomb spends his big speech insisting that capitalism has failed us, that oppressors have oppressed for generations, and that he alone can hand control back to the people, while the crowd claws over each other and the city burns. As the stadium disintegrates, Bane lays out his class-based populist playbook: seize the institutions, redistribute by force, and claim moral legitimacy while preparing total annihilation.
I don&#8217;t know how he did it, but Nolan clearly cracked open the Democratic Psychos of America platform mid-time-travel and decided it made a better villain origin story than a legitimate governing philosophy.
The echoes are enough to make you sick.
The DSA calls it putting &#8220;people before profit&#8221; (never mind that it polls abysmally with the poor, working-class voters they claim to speak for). Bane sneers at the “myths of opportunity.” Both regurgitate the same lie: that the American Dream and free markets were built to keep people down.
The DSA calls it &#8220;taxing the rich&#8221; (or eating the rich, if they&#8217;re feeling ravenous). Bane calls it ripping richies from their decadent nests and enjoying the spoils. How inspiring.
The DSA relishes the idea of ending mass incarceration. Bane&#8217;s opening act as a monstrous dictator was storming Blackgate and declaring the prisoners the true oppressed, then convening kangaroo courts where being a capitalist, a cop, or a creator is itself the crime. Bane-style justice looks a lot like sending the good guys out onto thin ice to die.
They dress it up in the flowery language of &#8220;returning power to ordinary people,&#8221; delivered through a mask or with a smarmy Joker smile. But what the Bane Bolsheviks actually want, and fully intend to bring to fruition, is a communist society: classless, stateless, moneyless, and full of fear, chaos, and pain.
Once you gulp down the black pill and accept that the existing order is irredeemably corrupt and must be replaced by the proletariat, the road forks toward exactly one destination: strongmen, emergency powers, and &#8220;purification,&#8221; dressed up however the decade demands.
You can clearly see in the film how hope gets weaponized. You can also just read a history book and see the same thing (but kids don’t do that nowadays). The French Revolution, the Bolshevik uprising, Mao&#8217;s Great Leap Forward, and the Cultural Revolution all followed the same pattern. They sell like sex and then kill like an STD.
Luckily, every previous socialist uprising of this intensity has eventually been throttled by people smarter and sturdier than the tyrants selling them, whether that was the Soviet Union collapsing under its own weight, the Khmer Rouge finally meeting its match, or the long, grinding resistance that kept Western democracies from going the same way. In the movie, Batman beats Bane, and Gotham chooses to save itself instead of accepting annihilation. But it&#8217;s a constant choice, one we make over and over, because full-blown tyranny is always just one bad election away.
Doing the harder thing, working, following the law, building instead of burning, choosing gratitude over grievance — those things have never been the easy sell; it&#8217;s not supposed to be. We&#8217;re at one of those pivotal moments again: let the stadium collapse under us, or stand up to the Banes of our own era and choose to be great again.
For now, we can find peace in knowing Bane was jacked, built like a tank on roids. Our homegrown revolutionary wannabes, by contrast, are weighing in at 135 pounds of pure nonbinary fluff, more likely to pull a hamstring storming aluminum barricades than an empire.
If we play our cards right, the business-minded, Christian Bale-esque builders, the Batmans of the world, won’t even need to break a sweat.
Turns out Nolan never needed a time machine. He just needed C-SPAN, a couple of DSA press releases, and some old tweets to cast the perfect villain.

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