Gavin Newsom Tries to Take a Page Out of Trump's Playbook, but Gets Ended by Palisades Fire Victim

It seems every time Gav the Gov enters his office, California becomes a worse place to live. TD

RedState

"Hey Newsome [sic], your flawless streak of being right about everything must be absolutely draining! Solved the homeless crisis yet, or too busy jacking up taxes and gas prices to the stratosphere? Lockdowns nailed, surplus turned deficit like magic, and that missing fire fund money, poof! Care to share your divine genius with us mortals?"   Katie Jerkovich 

"California Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom embarrassingly tried to take a page out of President Donald Trump's playbook, but got completely destroyed by actor and Palisades fire victim Spencer Pratt.

"In a post from Newsom, not his high school press tweet team, the Governor wrote a post on X using all caps, trying to replicate one of Trump's signature styles for his social media posts. The post included a link to a website where people could purchase a red MAGA-style looking hat with a message that read, "Newsom was right about everything." . . .

"In response, "The Hills" star and Pacific Palisades resident reacted to the post, wanting to remind everyone of the loss their community experienced in the Palisades and Altadena fires that hit Southern California earlier this year, with a death toll that rose to 30.

"He also pointed out Newsom's failures prior to the disaster, like slashing funds to fight wildfires, and failure to have full water storage to fight blazes, all of which made things so much worse." . . . 

Satellite images show wildfires burning in Southern California – NBC Los Angeles

 " As a resident of the once-Golden State, the criticism of Newsom from the various folks on social media is right on target. From Newsom's insane authoritarian rule during the COVID-19 pandemic, making up his own rules and keeping our state locked down and schools closed longer than pretty much anyone else, to his massively cutting millions of dollars in funds to fight wildfires, this so-called leader is such a disgrace.

"Editor’s Note: The Democrat Party has never been less popular as voters reject its globalist agenda."

Antifa in America: The Truth Behind the Mask

FORGOTTEN HISTORY

"Antifa has become one of the most polarizing forces in modern American politics. Labelled by critics as a violent extremist group and by supporters as anti-fascist defenders, its true identity lies somewhere between the headlines and the chaos in the streets. But where did Antifa come from, and how did it rise to prominence in the 21st century? In this episode, we trace Antifa's ideological roots back to pre-WWII Europe, where militant resistance groups first confronted fascist movements. We explore how those ideals evolved over decades and crossed into the U.S., merging with elements of anarchism, socialism, and direct-action activism. The video examines major flashpoints—from Berkeley to Portland—and how Antifa’s decentralized structure complicates efforts to define or confront it. Through investigative reporting, protest footage, and historical context, we break down how Antifa operates, what it believes, and the implications of labeling it a domestic terror threat. Is Antifa a legitimate resistance to authoritarianism—or a threat to civil discourse and public safety? Watch to decide for yourself. Written and hosted by Colin D. Heaton. Forgotten History is a 10th Legion Pictures Production."

September 20, 2025 “I Believe that Creature is a Changeling”: Hillary Clinton and the Los[s] of Shame in American Politics

Jonathan Turley  

"There has to be some lingering residue of shame left; some modicum of decency in refraining from such raw hypocrisy at these moments. Yet, we seem to be living in an era of post-shame politics. The only thing missing is lawyer Joseph Welch:"

"Charlotte Bronte once wrote “I believe that creature is a changeling: she is a perfect cabinet of oddities.” No quote better captured the chilling curiosity that is Hillary Clinton. This week, Clinton (without any sign of shame or self-awareness) attacked others for seeking censorship and blacklisting political opponents through government and corporate collaboration. Clinton is one of the most anti-free speech figures in the United States and actively campaigned for the censorship of opponents. Today, my column in the Hill discusses the hypocrisy of many on the left this week after the suspension of late-night host Jimmy Kimmel. However, there is simply no one in the same class as Clinton in hitting hypocrisy’s rock bottom.

"This week, Clinton declared: “I think this is a very clear example of using the power of the state to suppress speech. It is a direct government action to try to intimidate employers, organizations, corporations, much of which we’ve already seen, to remove an opponent, even though it’s a comic.”

"For many in the free speech community, the statement led us to spit out our morning coffee.

"Clinton and her allies have long shown contempt for the intelligence of the voters, often denying facts or flipping positions while denying any inconsistencies. It was a record that produced not only polling as one of the least popular American politicians but also record lows in the public’s view of trustworthiness and authenticity. Clinton’s campaign routinely lied about major issues, including denying to the media that it funded the infamous Steele dossier.

"For the record, I have repeatedly criticized Administration statements from recently on free speech and some of the actions taken against critics as threatening to our core values of free speech. This has included threats to prosecute hate speech and flag burning despite countervailing precedent. However, the last person any of us in the free speech community wants to see in this fight is Hillary Clinton.

"As I have previously written, Clinton heralded the growing anti-free speech movement and noted that “there are people who are championing it, but it’s been a long and difficult road to getting anything done.” . . .More

California’s Newsom Copies Trump

"If Newsom and his fellow radical pro-criminal Democrats throughout the Golden State hadn’t allowed these plagues to overrun its major cities, Trump wouldn’t have to do it for them. Same for D.C., Baltimore and Chicago." American Liberty News

Uncle Paul's Parodies

Gavin Newsom's Press Office Copying Trump | Know Your Meme

"On August 19th, 2025, X user @EndWokeness posted photos of Gavin Newsom's Director of Communications, Izzy Gardon, and his Digital Director, Camille Harper Zapata, writing, "Gov. Gavin Newsom's tweets are written by these two."

A man with not one original idea
California’s Newsom Copies Trump to Avoid Fed Intervention - American Liberty News   "‘Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.’ You know President Trump is succeeding when his lefty wannabe nemesis, and 2028 presidential hopeful, Gavin Newsom, is shamelessly copying Trump’s playbook on fighting crime and homelessness.

Even as he rails against Trump’s anti-crime agenda, the copy-cat Democrat governor announced a new plan to deploy California Highway Patrol (CHP) “crime-suppression teams” across the state to prevent crime and promote public safety. 

"Not unlike Trump’s federal policing surge in D.C.

"Sounding like Trump using the feds in D.C., Newsom’s office said in a statement: “CHP officers assigned to crime-suppression teams will saturate high-crime areas, target repeat offenders and seize illicit weapons and narcotics.”

"Newsom’s announcement followed remarks at POLITICO’s California Summit, where he ridiculed the president’s “authoritarian tendencies.” 

"He has also later announced a new ‘SAFE’ task force to dismantle homeless encampments throughout the state, similar to Trump’s effort. Of course, Newsom claims his approach is different.

"“The President is doing things TO PEOPLE. California is doing it WITH PEOPLE,” Newsom wrote on social platform X.

"But slogans aren’t fact." . . .More

UPDATE: Gavin Newsom Tries to Take a Page Out of Trump's Playbook, but Gets Ended by Palisades Fire Victim 

"The saddest part about this is Newsom's complete grift. He is so unauthentic and unoriginal he can't even post his own thoughts. He has to appropriate the style and words of another immensely popular man (TRUMP) to feign relevance. What a fraud."

'GOING TO HELL' Trump goes scorched earth on ‘failing’ UN in speech blasting immigration, ‘world ending’ nukes & ‘sharia law’ in LONDON

 UK Sun  

"London has been so changed, they want to go to Sharia Law."

"His full throttle, assault of a speech left the assembly members gobsmacked as he warned world leaders ''your countries are going to hell''.

"The US president returned to the 80th UN General Assembly for the first time in five years - and shocked everyone with his fiery words.

"Trump touted America's role in bringing peace to seven conflicts since taking over the White House.

"He touched on one of his favourite topics in politics - immigration, telling assembly members it's time to end the ''failed experiment of open borders''.

"He said: "It's uncontrolled, your countries are being ruined.

"While criticising immigration in Europe, Trump took a dig at Sadiq Khan, calling him a "terrible mayor".

"He asserted, without any evidence, that London was heading towards "Sharia law", which is Islam's legal system.

"He said: "And I have to say, I look at London, where you have a terrible mayor, terrible, terrible mayor, and it's been so changed, so changed.

" 'Now they want to go to Sharia law, but you're in a different country. You can't do that." . . .

Is It Any Surprise This Is What Abbas Is Demanding From UK After It Recognizes Palestinian Statehood?  "BREAKING: Mahmoud Abbas Demands Reparations From UK After Its Recognition of Palestinian State" . . .

. . . Now legal experts have warned that it could also be a costly decision – because the new country would ask for eye-watering damages in compensation for land 'taken from the Palestinian people' when Britain relinquished control of the region after the Second World War.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, who has a long history of threatening to sue Britain, is demanding 'reparations in accordance with international law' based on the value of the land which was under British rule between 1917 and 1948. . . . 

Queer Terror; The violence towards conservatives may be part of a broader terror network

"Far leftists, including trans militants, held positions in some security agencies from which they’ve been largely purged by Trump." Martin Arostegui

Trans Team USA Cyclist Claims World is ‘Better’ After Charlie Kirk’s Assassination   "A transgender member of the U.S. Olympic cycling team is taking heat for having posted multiple social media comments celebrating the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

"Chelsea Wolfe was reportedly an alternate cyclist for the USA’s women’s BMX team at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021. Wolfe is a male who claims to have transitioned to a woman and has a history of controversial statements.

"But now he is raising eyebrows for the hate directed at Charlie Kirk, according to the Daily Mail." . . .

Queer Terror; The violence towards conservatives may be part of a broader terror network  "The FBI is investigating leads indicating that the assassin of conservative leader Charlie Kirk at a Utah college campus last week forms part of a far-left terrorist network that could have connections with Cuba and China.

"His violent radicalization in Marxist transgender ideology fits a pattern of recent attacks across the country linked to an outcrop of groups such as Armed Queers (AQ), which recruit online, engage in paramilitary training at gun ranges of a new organization with chapters in all 50 states called Socialist Rifle Association, and seem closely tied with ANTIFA.

"Current investigations are focusing on the AQ Salt Lake City chapter, which held a 2024 protest event in the city’s suburb where Kirk’s assassin, Tyler Robinson, was shacked up with a lover transitioning from male to female. The AQ-SLC logo was inscribed on shell casings found at Robinson’s sniper position. The group has scrubbed all its social media postings since his arrest. (RELATED: Away With the Absurdity That the Left and the Right Are Equally Vicious)

"Analyst Tony Seruga, through sources in the FBI, says that federal investigators, based on GPS data, believe that there could have been at least a dozen other individuals involved in Kirk’s assassination, which appears to be the latest and most serious in a series of hits by AQ and other far-left terror cells using high-powered weapons and military type tactics.

"The Trump administration has vowed to break up the “far left terror network,” allocating $58 million to beef up security around the president and his top officials to counter the heightened threat. Congress is expected to vote more money for the protection of its members, who might also be vulnerable to assault." . . .

After Charlie Kirk’s murder, the Democrats revel in two minutes of hate and attack the Second Amendment  "We knew that the left’s response to Charlie Kirk’s assassination would be ugly, but it was uglier than anyone could have predicted and infinitely more stupid, too. It was uglier because hordes of people celebrated the death of a young father because they disagreed with his ideas, and it was stupid because of how they approached the gun control arguments that always arise when someone, anyone, gets shot." . . .

. . . "If you hate murder, as Charlie did, you don’t disarm good people; instead, you punish bad ones and institutionalize crazy ones. What you don’t do is what leftists have done in America for decades: Abandon the rule of law and encourage the evil and the crazy to think they’ve got the right to kill." . . .

UPDATE: Over half of liberals call Kirk assassination ‘understandable’   "More than half of the nation’s liberal voters and 40% of Democrats believe that the assassination of Charlie Kirk was “understandable,” the latest evidence that the killing has revealed a massive partisan divide in America.

"In the latest Rasmussen Reports survey shared with Washington Secrets on Tuesday, 54% of liberal voters believe that Kirk, the cofounder of youth voting mobilizer Turning Point USA, spouted hate, so his killing was not surprising.

“Charlie Kirk was speaking hateful words and his murder was tragic but understandable,” said 54% of liberals and nearly half of Democrats, a group Rasmussen pollster Mark Mitchell described as voters for losing 2024 presidential candidate Kamala Harris.

"Overall, most voters said that they believe Kirk was more of a uniter and agreed with the opposite view. Rasmussen said that 62% agreed with this characterization of Kirk: “Charlie Kirk was peacefully and respectfully debating people and it is a tragedy that he was murdered.”  

Why Our Systems Collapse

"When merit is replaced with ideology, fires rage unchecked, killers walk free, and fragile systems collapse—leaving lives and cities in ruin."

 Victor Davis Hanson  

"The final tragic irony is that all of the above derive from racial and ethnic essentialism and chauvinism, masked as victimhood, ensuring critics are recast as victimizers."

"America has a lot of built-in safety backups and redundancies.

But every once in a while, when tradition, science, time-tested protocols, and common sense are ignored, a fragile system utterly collapses.

"Usually, an iconic event reveals how vulnerable the entire country has become, and predictably occurs when suicidal ideologies and nihilism, in perfect-storm fashion, wreak havoc.

"The media, academia, the bureaucracy, and higher education can mask the dangers of their political agendas—at least until their sheer incompetence or toxicity can no longer be hidden or excused, and a predictable disaster ensues.

"Take the January 4-5, 2025, Pacific Palisades fire that destroyed an entire historic neighborhood of Los Angeles. The embers had not even cooled when we were lectured that “climate change” was responsible for the historically predictable annual autumn and early winter Santa Ana winds that whip up horrific fires before the first winter rains arrive—a phenomenon documented for over two centuries.

"The media, in reporting the conflagration, downplayed human culpability. But over the next few weeks, outraged former homeowners and independent journalists began cataloging the real symptoms of a total system failure that turned the normal end-of-year fire season into a catastrophic inferno.

"A lot of things had to go wrong to utterly destroy an ancient, coveted neighborhood. But DEI managed to do all of that with ease.

Gav the Gov

"First, we learned that the incompetent mayor, Karen Bass, had cut the fire budget. Then, despite warnings of dry hillsides, underfunded fire protection, and predicted high winds, Bass was nowhere to be seen during the most dangerous weeks of the year.

"Why? She was junketing in Ghana, an African nation rarely considered vital to the running of the third-largest city in the United States.

"The now-convicted felon, Deputy Mayor Brian Thompson, was under house arrest for phoning in a bomb threat to the city hall. So a mayoral apparatus did not exist.

"Next, the clueless and vastly overpaid Janisse Quiñones, the CEO and Chief Engineer of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, was likely hired based on diversity, equity, and inclusion criteria despite a prior uninspiring record in her administrative roles at PG&E. She was utterly unprepared for the fire.

"When the fires swept in, a key reservoir that might have saved the community had been bone dry for months while under superficial repair. Dozens of fire hydrants were nonfunctional.

"Unhinged environmental mandates had prevented homeowners from clearing nearby combustible brush on the hillside, the proverbial fuel of the Santa Ana wind-powered fires." . . .More

Jasmine Crockett mocks young American woman raped, strangled, and murdered by an MS-13 gang-banger as a ‘random dead person’

Crockett's words likely appeal to the types of Maxine Waters, Al Green, The View "ladies", Cory Booker, and everyone at MSNBC, plus all who voted her into office.

Olivia Murray  

"I’m old enough to remember when Biden “won” and the Democrats celebrated the shift as “decency” restored, and when the left browbeat the American public to elect more women to positions of power for the sake of “empathy” and “civility” in lawmaking—so much for that!"

"Jasmine Crockett is the gift that keeps on giving.

During a recent debate over proposed new legislation that would require the Department of Health and Human Services “to consider additional information when it makes placement determinations for unaccompanied alien children” now in the U.S., like checking the “child” for “gang-related markings or tattoos” and making sure that he or she doesn’t already have a “history of gang-related arrests” or a criminal record, which seem like completely reasonable parameters, Crockett decided it was politically expedient to die on the hill against the bill because it was named after “a random dead person.”

In fact, the bill, named the Kayla Hamilton Act, was not named after “a random dead person,” but a young American woman who was tied up, raped, strangled, and murdered by a teenaged MS-13 gang-banger names Walter Javier Martinez who came in under Joe Biden’s watch in March of 2022.  Here’s a snippet of Crockett’s outrage:  . . .

Warning over life-threatening signs of stroke that are easily missed

 UK Daily Mail   

"Stroke patients are dying or suffering life-long disabilities because people typically wait an hour and a half before dialling 999, the NHS has warned.

"Health bosses say tens of thousands more victims could be saved or make a fuller recovery if the public called for an ambulance at the first sign of symptoms.

"NHS England is today launching the first major update to its 'Act FAST' stroke awareness campaign since 2009.

"It encourages people to act immediately if anyone experiences one of the three common symptoms, including struggling to smile, struggling to raise an arm or slurring their words." . . .

"The NHS says rapid diagnosis and treatment is 'critical' as stoke victims may lose around 2million brain cells a minute, with delays contributing to greater harm and hampering recovery."...

Full article..

THE CAUSES OF STROKE; Daily Mail Online

"There are two major kinds of stroke:" 

1. ISCHEMIC STROKE 

An ischemic stroke - which accounts for 80 per cent of strokes - occurs when there is a blockage in a blood vessel that prevents blood from reaching part of the brain.

2. HEMORRHAGIC STROKE 

The more rare, a hemorrhagic stroke, occurs when a blood vessel bursts, flooding part of the brain with too much blood while depriving other areas of adequate blood supply.

It can be the result of an AVM, or arteriovenous malformation (an abnormal cluster of blood vessels), in the brain.

Thirty percent of subarachnoid hemorrhage sufferers die before reaching the hospital. A further 25 per cent die within 24 hours. And 40 per cent of survivors die within a week.

RISK FACTORS

"Age, high blood pressure, smoking, obesity, sedentary lifestyle, diabetes, atrial fibrillation, family history, and history of a previous stroke or TIA (a mini stroke) are all risk factors for having a stroke." . . .

Nazi Rally Inspires Millions To Forgive And Love Their Enemies

 Babylon Bee Parody

"GLENDALE, AZ — Revival seems poised to sweep around the globe, as an enormous Nazi rally held at State Farm Stadium reportedly inspired millions of people throughout the world to forgive and love their enemies.

"The worldwide stirring of forgiveness resulted from the unprecedented Nazi gathering, as hundreds of thousands of bigoted, fascist attendees met to use their evil hatred to spread a message of love and salvation from sin.

" 'This horrifying event is flooding the world with love," said one stunned journalist who was present at the rally. "In an unexpected consequence, these hundreds of thousands of Nazis have shown mankind how to turn away from hate and choose to offer forgiveness to their enemies. The danger here cannot be overstated."

"Video clips of the rally, filled with Christian worship music, quotes from the Bible, and urgent pleas for people to repent of their sins and turn to Jesus Christ for salvation and peace, quickly went viral on social media, with accompanying content warnings to notify users of the graphic words and images.

" 'Everyone should be aware that these Nazis are — by their own admission — out to ‘conquer the world,'" said one outraged social media user. "They keep talking about their leader who supposedly died and came back to life, and is now apparently saving people from their sins and giving them the ability to love and forgive their enemies. Terrible, horrifying stuff."

"At publishing time, concerned Democrats were asking television networks and social media platforms to remove all videos from the event to prevent further Nazi radicalization."

Erika Kirk's Powerful Public Proclamation of Forgiveness for Husband's Killer Radiates Christian Grace

Here's What a Leftist Protester Told a Pregnant Woman Outside of Charlie Kirk's Memorial Service   . . . "In the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk assassination, Republicans, including those in the Trump administration, have blamed the Democrats for inciting political violence and then doubling down on it. They have called Trump and his supporters, "Nazi's," "fascists," "bigots," "racists," and many more, which has made it seem as though political violence against them is justified. This poster is yet another example of that rhetoric and how the Democrat party views its opposition." 

This is no longer our ancestor's -Truman and Roosevelt's - party

Even when they supported secession and slavery in the 1800s they were less evil than today. TD

‘Oh my god, look at all this security; it’s going to cost so much money.’  Yes, because the president is there, and you people shot and killed one of us. Absolute morons" Matt Vespa 

Charlie Kirk’s Death and the Left’s "Hate-Free World" 

"By nightfall, vigils combined signs declaring SILENCE IS VIOLENCE with signs declaring SPEECH IS MURDER. As some observers noted the contradiction, fact-checkers rated this "problematic but true.' "

"The nation’s leading advocates of empathy clarified Wednesday that free speech remains absolutely sacred, provided the people they disagree with are done talking forever.

" 'Democracy depends on robust debate," said an adjunct professor of Nonviolence, pausing to like a post labeled DING DONG above a photo of the deceased. "Which is why it’s crucial that certain voices stop speaking. Only then can the conversation begin. So really, this was a community de-escalation." She teaches Conflict Resolution 101.

"On social media, guidance counselors, DEI directors, and assorted compassion professionals posted confetti emojis while celebrating the removal of a man they couldn’t out-argue. Pastel graphics reading LOVE WINS were interspersed with threads about how debate is inherently violent unless everyone agrees first. When asked if cheering a murder might itself be hateful, many replied, "Wow. So you’re anti-free-speech now?"

"In a televised roundtable titled "When Speech Pulls the Trigger," experts agreed the solution is "more dialogue," immediately followed by a list of topics that cannot be discussed. Viewers who noted the contradiction were reminded that noticing contradictions is a form of aggression." . . .More at The Peoples Cube

 Democrats, Tell Your Perverted Allies to Stop Murdering People  "There’s a famous clip of the late, great Andrew Breitbart confronting a crowd of leftist weirdos, losers, and mutations – but I repeat myself – and shouting “Stop raping people!” Leftists were, in fact, raping people, just as leftists are now, in fact, murdering people – specifically us conservatives. The biggest free speech atrocity in recent memory is not the sidelining of some late-night leftist hack who is as funny as an anal abscess; it's a leftist shooting Charlie Kirk. A Democrat ally killed him to shut him up, and thereby shut us up, and many Democrats cheered. That’s the point. That’s the narrative, and we have to remember it, highlight it, and never let anyone forget it." . . . More...

Manchin Believes the Democratic Party Is 'Getting Worse, Not Better.' Here's Why.

. . . "Manchin’s remarks came during an interview with CNN’s Kasie Hunt, when the host asked for his reaction to her statement, which condemned political violence but criticized the late Turning Point USA founder, misrepresenting his position on the Civil Rights Act and ignoring the context in which his comments about Paul Pelosi’s attacker were made.

“ 'First of all, I just saw a little while ago, and I was stunned, Kasie. I really was,” Manchin told Hunt. “This is not the place and the time for that at all. If the Democrats — if AOC and the far Left, the extreme Left I want to say — believe that’s where the party, the Democratic Party, is today, then that’ll tell you why you lost people like me, and an awful lot.

" 'And let me tell you what you’ve lost since the last election," he continued, "they’ve been doing their national tour and thinking, boy, that’s something, we’re really getting into something. The Democratic Party has lost more than 160,000 Democrats that have basically left the party since the November election. So if that’s the way the Democrat Party is going, it’s getting worse, not better.” . . .

AOC Accuses Charlie Kirk of Racism, Antisemitism, Before Voting Against Resolution to Honor Him

(RELATED: Jasmine Crockett Justifies Calling Trump ‘Wannabe Hitler’ After Charlie Kirk Assassination)

Jasmine Crockett Compares Charlie Kirk To ‘Confederate Relics’ On CNN: ‘I‘m Not Honoring That’

"Moreover, some liberals and left-leaning outlets have made false claims about Kirk and misquoted him to portray him as a bigot."

It Is AOC Who is "Uneducated" and "Ignorant" About Charlie Kirk

She knew nothing about him and decided to condemn him in Congress anyway.

Sasha Stone  

"Let this be the beginning of making sure they don’t lie about him out of a lack of “education” or “ignorance.” I hope you enjoy the video."

"If Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez plans to run for president in 2028, she’s just made the biggest mistake of her political career. That speech of hers will be written in ink, and it will haunt her for years to come. Why? Because she didn’t know the first thing about Charlie Kirk, and everyone who watched her give that speech knows she’s either ignorant or lying.

"We know that on the Left, they do not believe in any kind of presumption of innocence when it comes to words. Words are harm. Words are violence. Most of all, words define who you are. They found some words Charlie Kirk may have said one time, but they strip them of context and refuse to confront the whole human being. But that’s what they do, right? That’s why so many of us have fled.

"AOC’s attempt at a posthumous cancellation of Kirk made her look ridiculous. I don’t know if she realizes it yet, but she will one day. George Floyd’s death was the very thing the Left feared showing up in real life. We know what came after. But with Charlie Kirk’s assassination by a guy who didn’t like his words, it was on an entirely different level.

"George Floyd, like Melissa Hortman, served as a symbol of the Left’s view of a country full of bad people, “racists” and “misogynists.” Who they really were didn’t matter.

"Charlie Kirk was everywhere. We saw him speaking to us on YouTube, on TikTok, on X, on podcasts. He was on Bill Maher. He was on South Park. He was leading a massive movement of young people who were excited about changing the world. The algorithms didn’t know he died. Our brains and our hearts somehow had to process someone who was so close and yet no longer with us.

"I’m writing a longer piece about the Democratic Party and its failure to meet the moment, but in honor of the memorial for Charlie Kirk on Sunday, I thought I would put together a video montage of clips and various voices to give Ms. Ocasio-Cortez a better idea of who Charlie Kirk really was.

"The truth is that they’re all bitter and jealous of what Charlie Kirk was doing. No Democrat ever would or could. They don’t debate. They shut you down. They shut you out. They shut you up. I’ve never talked to a Democrat who ever wanted to listen. They start to glitch out if you try. They’ll hang up, or they’ll start hurling insults, or they’ll walk away." . . .

Sasha Stone; Writer/publisher. I get political on Free Thinking Through the Fourth Turning. My 22 year-long podcast memoir on covering the Oscar race is Gold Tripping. Mailing Address: 4804 Laurel Canyon Blvd. #707 Valley Village CA 91607