In a not very large circle of relatives and friends there are those still wishing cancer upon Trump, some whose incurable TDS is eating them alive, a few who are still negative but moving toward “on the fence”, and a half-handful who’ve fully escaped TDS and are now actively rooting for the Good Guys. Expecting the Great Awakening to have affected more people by now has been the most frustrating part, by far, of the last 10 years. The Kirk assassination feels like it just might be the Turning Point we’ve counted on, but who knows at this point.
Like you I’d like to think we’re seeing light at the end of the tunnel, but I’ve lived in a household of dedicated Democrats for decades.
Logic and Reason will simply not penetrate the skulls of those addicted to the notion that you can create Heaven on Earth at gunpoint.
Our hopes lie in an educational environment not dominated by by the Left, and the natural turnover of the generations.
I fear this will not be the case however.
We’re getting too close to setting society in a perpetual political deadlock by way of the conquest of aging. Old people, even those returned to youth, will still be set in their ways.
Yes. This.
I’m 72, and I had an aunt that said she always voted Democrat “because her Daddy told her the Democrats were for the working man.” (Her daddy was born in the 1880’s.)
Lot’s of ancestor worship goes on here in the South…
September 13, 2025 at 12:25 pm
Oldarmourer
She probably still believes in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and fair and honest judges because her daddy told her so….
September 13, 2025 at 9:30 pm
Henry
But if you accept the Democrat doctrine of Halftime in America, where the parties “switched sides on the field” just after Jim Crow was ended, doesn’t that make Republicans the party of the working man now?
September 13, 2025 at 7:26 am
Raconteur Duck
Thank God I finished my coffee. That would have been a nose gusher!
The Dem / Repub labeling is not helping. We need to start labeling “civil” and “uncivil”. Uncivil behavior will not be tolerated. It will be punished and those who refuse to learn will be removed from society. We’ll call the detention facilities Charm Schools.
Along with this, the Reagan-era changes to public mental health treatment need to be reversed. Re-open the state Mental Hospitals, revive commitment without consent.
Those weren’t “Reagan era changes.” The emptying of the asylums was a movement that was started in the 60s under the belief that most people in institutions were either harmless loons like Henry P. Dowd in Harvey or loveable misfits like RP McMurphy in One Flew Over The Cuckoos nest and shouldn’t be in institutions. They started closing them in the 70s, and Reagan’s first budget had the last of the institutions closed by withdrawal of funding by Congress. When all those kooks were left out on the street and homelessness exploded, they blamed Reagan for a Democrat initiative that was 20 years in the making.
September 13, 2025 at 11:07 am
Red Metalhead
I’m 77 and this is what spurred the nationwide closing of mental hospitals. Taken from Factualamerica.com,
In 1972, Geraldo Rivera’s groundbreaking exposé of the Willowbrook State School on Staten Island shook the nation’s conscience. The young reporter’s hidden camera footage revealed appalling conditions at the facility for children with intellectual disabilities. Rivera’s investigative work brought to light shocking neglect, abuse, and deplorable living situations that had long been hidden from public view.
Rivera’s exposé of Willowbrook served as a powerful catalyst for change in the treatment of individuals with disabilities and institutional reform.
September 13, 2025 at 8:40 am
PCChaos
Reopening mental hospitals is a great step in getting folks off the streets to the assisted living facilities they need. Housing crazy people since the late 1700s = DC. Seriously, get folks back in covered housing and off the streets. Then make it compulsory to punch people in the gut when they attack people while dining. A face punch risks a hand injury. Arrest the public disorder gangs. And put them in gaols. In public. With a bucket of rotten vegetables nearby.
The Demonrat Party needs to be named as a terrorist organization, outlawed in the USA, and all active members expelled – preferably to a point halfway between Norfolk, VA, and Tenerife, Azores . . .
But…the apologists say he should not be locked away for one small mistake as he has such a bright future…
“This young man had his whole life ahead of him, but somehow, he lost sight of it! It appears he comes from a decent family. His father is in law enforcement, and his mother is a social worker! His father and mother are members of the Republican Party! The bottom line is that people hurt people, regardless of race, political party, etc…”
I called bullshit, “Idiotic apologists notwithstanding, the “bottom line” is that mental illness knows no family bounds and is immune from morality. Only one thing for these monsters, lock them up and throw away the key, but since the judiciary cannot be trusted, just kill them.”
Off topic. I was just watching Chuck Holton and he showed videos of the so-called shooter of Charlie Kirk walking to the site and then leaving, running across a roof top and dropping down to the ground. The interesting point is: there Is NO rifle. From a number of sources people have commented that the so-called found wrapped in a towel Mauser in woods, can NOT be be easily disassembled or reassembled since they have had similar models. What happened to the rifle he had on the roof as he didn’t have it leaving? Is the media or government throwing us a rubber bone?
He runs to the roof edge with a dark bag in his hand. He pops the bag into the gutter so he can use both hands to navigate the edge and re-orient himself downwards on the wall. Then he picks the bag out of the gutter and drops to the ground. Just watch more closely.
I have been building super-accurate hunting rifles from military Mausers for 40+ years. An original condition military spec Mauser is difficult to disassemble/reassemble. One that’s been restocked and scoped can be broken down into concealable parts with nothing but a screwdriver in less than two minutes, and reassembled in about the same time without affecting its accuracy at all. Until detailed pictures of the weapon that was “found” are published, I’ll reserve judgement as to whether or not it was the actual one used in the shooting. The rifles I build have no problem keeping three shots inside a half dollar at 200 yards when used by a competent deer hunter- – – -and they are much more accurate in the hands of an experienced long range target shooter.
Canada should do this, too. They already have a minister whose job it is to persuade citizens to kill themselves, and I understand that AIs are already excellent at this.
Sorry guys, I don’t buy Any of those it’s in the bag/trouser stories Even my old Arisaka Type 99 was too long without stock, approximately the same as the Mauser to fit in that floppy bag. There are a few more weird things about the whole “story” we are getting. The kid just simply doesn’t strike me as a shooter. Patsy, yes. AND I would like to know much more detail of the “Story”.
One last thing to show why I am skeptical.
Breanna Morello
@BreannaMorello
SHOCKING
FBI agents delayed showing a photo of the Charlie Kirk assassination suspect to their boss, Director Kashyap Patel, for 12 hours, according to the NYT.
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I wish…
In Austin it’s more like being in Beijing in 1965.
“No soup for you!” would be the least of your problems.
clear ether
eon
Well, we all know Autin isn’t part of Texas, so….
In a not very large circle of relatives and friends there are those still wishing cancer upon Trump, some whose incurable TDS is eating them alive, a few who are still negative but moving toward “on the fence”, and a half-handful who’ve fully escaped TDS and are now actively rooting for the Good Guys. Expecting the Great Awakening to have affected more people by now has been the most frustrating part, by far, of the last 10 years. The Kirk assassination feels like it just might be the Turning Point we’ve counted on, but who knows at this point.
Like you I’d like to think we’re seeing light at the end of the tunnel, but I’ve lived in a household of dedicated Democrats for decades.
Logic and Reason will simply not penetrate the skulls of those addicted to the notion that you can create Heaven on Earth at gunpoint.
Our hopes lie in an educational environment not dominated by by the Left, and the natural turnover of the generations.
I fear this will not be the case however.
We’re getting too close to setting society in a perpetual political deadlock by way of the conquest of aging. Old people, even those returned to youth, will still be set in their ways.
Yes. This.
I’m 72, and I had an aunt that said she always voted Democrat “because her Daddy told her the Democrats were for the working man.” (Her daddy was born in the 1880’s.)
Lot’s of ancestor worship goes on here in the South…
She probably still believes in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and fair and honest judges because her daddy told her so….
But if you accept the Democrat doctrine of Halftime in America, where the parties “switched sides on the field” just after Jim Crow was ended, doesn’t that make Republicans the party of the working man now?
Thank God I finished my coffee. That would have been a nose gusher!
The Dem / Repub labeling is not helping. We need to start labeling “civil” and “uncivil”. Uncivil behavior will not be tolerated. It will be punished and those who refuse to learn will be removed from society. We’ll call the detention facilities Charm Schools.
Along with this, the Reagan-era changes to public mental health treatment need to be reversed. Re-open the state Mental Hospitals, revive commitment without consent.
Those weren’t “Reagan era changes.” The emptying of the asylums was a movement that was started in the 60s under the belief that most people in institutions were either harmless loons like Henry P. Dowd in Harvey or loveable misfits like RP McMurphy in One Flew Over The Cuckoos nest and shouldn’t be in institutions. They started closing them in the 70s, and Reagan’s first budget had the last of the institutions closed by withdrawal of funding by Congress. When all those kooks were left out on the street and homelessness exploded, they blamed Reagan for a Democrat initiative that was 20 years in the making.
I’m 77 and this is what spurred the nationwide closing of mental hospitals. Taken from Factualamerica.com,
In 1972, Geraldo Rivera’s groundbreaking exposé of the Willowbrook State School on Staten Island shook the nation’s conscience. The young reporter’s hidden camera footage revealed appalling conditions at the facility for children with intellectual disabilities. Rivera’s investigative work brought to light shocking neglect, abuse, and deplorable living situations that had long been hidden from public view.
Rivera’s exposé of Willowbrook served as a powerful catalyst for change in the treatment of individuals with disabilities and institutional reform.
Reopening mental hospitals is a great step in getting folks off the streets to the assisted living facilities they need. Housing crazy people since the late 1700s = DC. Seriously, get folks back in covered housing and off the streets. Then make it compulsory to punch people in the gut when they attack people while dining. A face punch risks a hand injury. Arrest the public disorder gangs. And put them in gaols. In public. With a bucket of rotten vegetables nearby.
The problem is that the psychiatric profession is essentially a wholly-owned subsidiary of the progressives.
Meaning, they would be able to lock up anyone they define as “insane” for…not being a progressive.
As in the USSR, you would be defined as a “mentally sick criminal” and subject to the full panoply of “mental health treatments”.
Being treated like Alexander Solzhenitsyn sounds very noble and romantic- until it happens to you.
clear ether
eon
“The Dem/Repub labeling is not helping”
How about humans and morlocks?
This may be one of your finest on point panels.
The Demonrat Party needs to be named as a terrorist organization, outlawed in the USA, and all active members expelled – preferably to a point halfway between Norfolk, VA, and Tenerife, Azores . . .
But…the apologists say he should not be locked away for one small mistake as he has such a bright future…
“This young man had his whole life ahead of him, but somehow, he lost sight of it! It appears he comes from a decent family. His father is in law enforcement, and his mother is a social worker! His father and mother are members of the Republican Party! The bottom line is that people hurt people, regardless of race, political party, etc…”
I called bullshit, “Idiotic apologists notwithstanding, the “bottom line” is that mental illness knows no family bounds and is immune from morality. Only one thing for these monsters, lock them up and throw away the key, but since the judiciary cannot be trusted, just kill them.”
Off topic. I was just watching Chuck Holton and he showed videos of the so-called shooter of Charlie Kirk walking to the site and then leaving, running across a roof top and dropping down to the ground. The interesting point is: there Is NO rifle. From a number of sources people have commented that the so-called found wrapped in a towel Mauser in woods, can NOT be be easily disassembled or reassembled since they have had similar models. What happened to the rifle he had on the roof as he didn’t have it leaving? Is the media or government throwing us a rubber bone?
He runs to the roof edge with a dark bag in his hand. He pops the bag into the gutter so he can use both hands to navigate the edge and re-orient himself downwards on the wall. Then he picks the bag out of the gutter and drops to the ground. Just watch more closely.
Appears from other pictures that he “concealed” the gun down the leg of his pants while he was in motion.
I have been building super-accurate hunting rifles from military Mausers for 40+ years. An original condition military spec Mauser is difficult to disassemble/reassemble. One that’s been restocked and scoped can be broken down into concealable parts with nothing but a screwdriver in less than two minutes, and reassembled in about the same time without affecting its accuracy at all. Until detailed pictures of the weapon that was “found” are published, I’ll reserve judgement as to whether or not it was the actual one used in the shooting. The rifles I build have no problem keeping three shots inside a half dollar at 200 yards when used by a competent deer hunter- – – -and they are much more accurate in the hands of an experienced long range target shooter.
Off topic too: Something to look forward to. https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/09/creepy-albania-appoints-ai-minister-as-part-government/
Canada should do this, too. They already have a minister whose job it is to persuade citizens to kill themselves, and I understand that AIs are already excellent at this.
Excellent toon. Thanks.
That looks just like our old Dairy Queen before it burned down several years ago!
Sorry guys, I don’t buy Any of those it’s in the bag/trouser stories Even my old Arisaka Type 99 was too long without stock, approximately the same as the Mauser to fit in that floppy bag. There are a few more weird things about the whole “story” we are getting. The kid just simply doesn’t strike me as a shooter. Patsy, yes. AND I would like to know much more detail of the “Story”.
There is this: https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2025/09/13/parents-gun-enthusiasm-fueled-shooters-obsession-before-charlie-kirk-assassination-n2663291
And yes, the FBI still wears a Mickey Mouse watch apparently: https://x.com/BreannaMorello/status/1966853749181190467
One last thing to show why I am skeptical.
Breanna Morello
@BreannaMorello
SHOCKING
FBI agents delayed showing a photo of the Charlie Kirk assassination suspect to their boss, Director Kashyap Patel, for 12 hours, according to the NYT.