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Controlling Your Crazies

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Party politics has always had this weird aspect where the party that had a better handle on controlling its own crazies, usually captured the middle and won elections. The DEMs have been imploding since about 2017, and today the whole party almost sounds fringe. If the GOP wants to avoid the same fate, they have work to do.

Don Kilmer @donkilmer
Posted on X, September 16, 2025

The context in which he said this is important. It was this post on X:

Interesting assertion by Kilmer. I had not thought of it that way. Even after thinking about it some, I’m not sure I agree. But as I think of myself as more of an observer of the two major parties than a member of either, I may not be a “normal” person. The Libertarian party platform is a far better match for my understanding of the U.S. constitution. But it has an asymptotic close to zero chance of getting someone into national office. Hence, “winning an election” is an alien concept to me.

It is true that the Democrats have been riding the crazy train for many years now and do seem to have imploded. But I don’t have to do much more than close my eyes and point at a random Republican to see more crazy than I want in a national office holder.

For example, I’m flabbergasted that the AG of the U.S. in the video above did not know that “hate speech” is not a legal thing. That was crazy talk.

The political left could not prosecute people for it and the Republicans have no legal authority to “go after” speech that is not inciting violence or threatening imminent danger of permanent injury or death. It took some significant blowback before she “clarified her remarks“:

Still, it is always good advice to control your crazies.

FYI, I made this post and put it in the queue about an hour before I read Rolf’s comment on the same topic.

I Had Enough of His Hatred

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As I expected, the number of data points and the error bands are narrowing with each passing day:

‘I had enough of his hatred’: Charlie Kirk suspect’s texts with roommate shed light on motive

Prosecutors shared new details about the attack in an information document – a formal accusation filed by a prosecutor – including the alleged text exchanges between Robinson and his roommate, which shed light on a possible motive.

On September 10, the roommate received a text from Robinson which said, “drop what you are doing, look under my keyboard,” according to the documents.

The note allegedly stated: “I had the opportunity to take out Charlie Kirk and I’m going to take it.”

Prosecutors shared the following text exchange that allegedly took place:

After reading the note, the roommate replied: “What?????????????? You’re joking, right????”

Robinson: I am still ok my love, but am stuck in orem for a little while longer yet. Shouldn’t be long until I can come home, but I gotta grab my rifle still. To be honest I had hoped to keep this secret till I died of old age. I am sorry to involve you.

Roommate: you weren’t the one who did it right????

Robinson: I am, I’m sorry

Roommate: I thought they caught the person?

Robinson: no, they grabbed some crazy old dude, then interrogated someone in similar clothing. I had planned to grab my rifle from my drop point shortly after, but most of that side of town got locked down. Its quiet, almost enough to get out, but theres one vehicle lingering.

Roommate: Why?

Robinson: Why did I do it?

Roommate: Yeah

Robinson: I had enough of his hatred. Some hate can’t be negotiated out. If I am able to grab my rifle unseen, I will have left no evidence. Going to attempt to retrieve it again, hopefully they have moved on. I haven’t seen anything about them finding it.

Roommate: How long have you been planning this?

Robinson: a bit over a week I believe. I can get close to it but there is a squad car parked right by it. I think they already swept that spot, but I don’t wanna chance it

Robinson: I’m wishing I had circled back and grabbed it as soon as I got to my vehicle. … I’m worried what my old man would do if I didn’t bring back grandpas rifle … idek if it had a serial number, but it wouldn’t trace to me. I worry about prints I had to leave it in a bush where I changed outfits. didn’t have the ability or time to bring it with. … I might have to abandon it and hope they don’t find prints. how the f*** will I explain losing it to my old man. …only thing I left was the rifle wrapped in a towel. … remember how I was engraving bullets? The f***in messages are mostly a big meme, if I see “notices bulge uwu” on fox new I might have a stroke alright im gonna have to leave it, that really f***ing sucks. …judging from today I’d say grandpas gun does just fine idk. I think that was a $2k scope ;-;

Robinson: delete this exchange

Robinson: my dad wants photos of the rifle … he says grandpa wants to know who has what, the feds released a photo of the rifle, and it is very unique. Hes calling me rn, not answering.

Robinson: since trump got into office [my dad] has been pretty diehard maga.

Robinson: Im gonna turn myself in willingly, one of my neighbors here is a deputy for the sheriff.

Robinson: you are all I worry about love

Roommate: I’m much more worried about you

Robinson: don’t talk to the media please. don’t take any interviews or make any comments. … if any police ask you questions ask for a lawyer and stay silent

The information document provides the most insight into the suspect’s alleged motive yet, and details how Robinson had “started to lean to the left,” according to his mother.

His mom told investigators that Robinson had become “more pro-gay and trans-rights orientated” in recent years and that he had began to date his roommate, “a biological male who was transitioning genders,” the document states.

It resulted in “discussions” with family members, “especially between Robinson and his father, who have very different political views.”

“In one conversation before the shooting, Robinson mentioned that Charlie Kirk would be holding an event at UVU, which Robinson said was a ‘stupid venue’ for the event,” the document states. “Robinson accused Kirk of spreading hate.”

As a manhunt was underway, Robinson’s parents recognized their son in the surveillance images circulated by the FBI. The suspect’s father believed the rifle used in the shooting matched a weapon that was given to his son as a gift.

He texted his son and asked him to send him a photo of the rifle, the document said. When Robinson did not respond, his father spoke to him over the phone where his son allegedly “implied that he planned to take his own life.”

His parents persuaded their son to meet at their home, where “Robinson implied he was the shooter and stated that he couldn’t go to jail and just wanted to end it,” prosecutors allege.

“When asked why he did it, Robinson explained there is too much evil and the guy [Charlie Kirk] spreads too much hate,” the document states.

“Too much evil and …. too much hate”? That is an interesting claim from Robinson. I have not spent more than a minute or two of listening to and/or reading Kirk’s works. But the evidence clearly shows Robinson has the unsurmountable lead on evil and hate in the Kirk v. Robinson contest.

Projection and insults is the best they have so it is not surprising as they are losing political power, they crank the dial up on the only tools they know how to use.

I would like to think that the error bands are tightening on the range of viable conspiracy theories. But my experience is the crazies can always escape the constraints of reality.

None of this is Agency

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I’m seeing a lot of us vs them rhetoric right now.

A man was shot and the timelines lit up with tribal chest beating.

There’s a sort of engineered frenzy that tells millions of strangers to feel attacked on cue and to answer with collective blame.

People graft their sense of self onto a mass identity because it is easier than standing alone. I get it. The group supplies ready-made meaning, ready-made enemies, and ready-made scripts for grief and anger.

When something happens to a figure near that group, the borrowed self experiences it as a personal wound. The nervous system fires as if family was hit. The algorithm notices, pours gasoline, and a person forgets they are a person.

They become a role. They perform the role loudly because the role rewards them with belonging. This is how the individual dissolves.

Parasocial attachment finishes the job. A commentator speaks into your head for years and your mind, built for villages, mistakes proximity for kinship. Suddenly the stranger is “ours,” and the event is “about me,” and the most primitive circuitry takes the wheel.

Outrage feels like virtue. Blanket blame feels like clarity. Calls for payback feel like strength. None of that is agency.

Power feeds on exactly this. Political machines live on attention, emotion, and fear. They need you sorted into blocs, preferably angry ones, because angry blocs are easy to mobilize and easy to tax.

The chant writes itself: “This proves everything I already believed!”

Notice how perfect that is. One incident becomes a voucher for every preloaded narrative. Nothing new is learned, but the leash is tightened.

The class that benefits is the same class that always benefits, and it is not you.

Dylan Allman @dylanmallman
Posted on X, September 10, 2025

I’ve always liked psychology and sociology.

This seems plausible.

The Meaning of I Couldn’t Care Less

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Context is everything. Watch and listen to this video and think about what the phrase “I couldn’t care less” is referring to.

The transcript of the important part is:

EARHARDT: We have radicals on the right as well. How do we fix this country?

TRUMP: I’ll tell you something that’s gonna get me in trouble but I couldn’t care less. The radicals on the right oftentimes are radical because they don’t want to see crime. The radicals on the left are the problem.

Those on the political left interpret this as President Trump does not want to fix the country. Or, one person I know think he was answering the question, “Who could fix this country?”

I interpret him as saying he couldn’t care less about getting in trouble for saying the following words.

I will grant that I can see it being misinterpreted you only hear the first sentence as the complete response to the question. But in the full context it seems very close to unambiguous. Is this just my bias?

Yet, I see instance after instance of emphasis on the first sentence:

Do they honestly believe that is a truthful interpretation of what he said? Are they all deliberately lying? I find both conclusions inconceivable.

More than ever, I just want to be left alone in my underground bunker in Idaho. People have gone nuts.

This Time the Biggest Legal Gun in the Nation is on Our Side

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We have the United States Department of Justice not only filing an amici brief on behalf of the challenges to the Illinois gun ban, they have asked for time to come in and argue the government’s position.

Todd Vandermyde
September 12, 2025
DOJ arguing against Illinois’ gun ban ‘monumental,’ advocate says

It is rare but not unheard of for the Feds to support the 2nd Amendment. See the DOJ amicus brief: Office of the Solicitor General | District of Columbia v. Heller – Amicus (Merits) | United States Department of Justice.

Still, it is definitely a worth celebrating when you find that you have the biggest legal gun in the nation on your side.

An End to Tiresome Speculation?

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Via Andy Ngo:

Charlie Kirk Assassin Suspect Appears to Have Killed for Antifa, Confirmed Rifle Cartridge Messages Show

At a Friday morning press conference announcing the arrest of 22-year-old Tyler Robinson in the assassination of Charlie Kirk, Utah Gov. Spencer Cox revealed new details about evidence collected at the scene of the shooting.

There had been confusion after the New York Times cited an unnamed law enforcement source countering reporting by The Wall Street Journal and Steven Crowder (via his ATF source) about Antifa and trans phrases on rifle cartridges. Gov. Cox’s remarks now confirm that Antifa phrases were indeed found.

According to Cox, one cartridge was inscribed with: “Hey fascist! Catch!” Another read: “Oh bella ciao, bella ciao, bella ciao, ciao, ciao.”

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The governor noted that other casings read: “If you read this you are gay lmao” and “Notices, bulges OWO what’s this?” The latter appears to be a reference to a furry online meme.

Cox’s clarification narrows the speculation: the casings bear clear Antifa references but, at this stage, do not appear to contain any direct mention of trans ideology.

Via MSN:

Tyler Robinson, 22, facing capital murder and weapons charges: Details emerge about alleged Charlie Kirk assassin

A suspect in the assassination of conservative activist and close Trump ally Charlie Kirk has been identified as 22-year-old Tyler Robinson, Utah Gov. Spencer Cox announced on Friday.

“We got him,” Cox said at a news conference to announce the arrest of Robinson who was taken into custody Thursday on suspicion of capital murder, weapons and obstruction offenses.

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The suspect is said to be listed as politically “unaffiliated,” although both his parents are believed to be Republicans.

Cox said the suspect arrived on the campus of Utah Valley University on Wednesday at 8:29 a.m. in a gray Dodge Challenger. He was wearing a plain maroon t-shirt, light shorts, and a black hat with a white logo, as seen in surveillance videos. He wore the same clothes when he was arrested on Thursday night.

Robinson was not a student at the Utah Valley University, where the shooting happened.

“He was living, and had lived for a long time, with his family in Washington County,” Cox said.

Utah voting information seen by The Independent shows his voter status is “inactive,” meaning he has not voted in the last two general elections or responded to notices sent by a county clerk. His party affiliation is listed as “unaffiliated.”

However, family members said Robinson had become “more political in recent years,” expressed negative views of Kirk and told family members he believed the Turning Point USA founder was “full of hate and spreading hate,” Cox said.

He revealed that the family member told investigators that at a recent family dinner, Robinson had mentioned Kirk’s upcoming Utah Valley event, and “they talked about why they didn’t like him and the viewpoints that he had.”

After the shooting, Cox said Robinson’s father recognized his son in photos that law enforcement released and reached out to a family friend, who happened to be a minster, to encourage Robinson to turn himself in.

My hope is this will end the tiresome speculation I have been reading in various places. It was obvious to me there was far too little information to make nearly all the conclusions asserted.

Years ago, I decided I did not have the time to correct everyone on the Internet, or even in the comments to my blog, that is wrong. Yes, many speculations were decent hypothesis, but as one of my physics professors once said, “We need lots of data with narrow error bands or else the theorists will drive trucks through them.” Decades later I still remember the three data points with error bands on the blackboard and the set of squiggly lines he drew through them.

We now have many more data points with much tighter error bands. The set of squiggly lines than can be fit through those error bands just became far fewer in number and significantly less squiggly.

But, as I have come to discover, people will vehemently believe what they want to believe. Or, as Paul Simon sang:

All lies and jest, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.

<heavy sigh>

Mistake or Intentional? Leftist Speech or False Flag?

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we all deserve gun safety. Gun violence is too prevalent in America.

Washington State Democratic Party
September 10, 2025
Washington state elected officials react to fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk | The Daily Chronicle

This seemed a little off and I wanted to verify the exact details. As this was posted on Bluesk I had to create an account and search from probably close to an hour before I finally found it. The text searches did not find it because the words were in an image:

That is interesting. Do you see the difference? It still throws in the idea that the assassination is a gun problem rather than a people or rhetoric problem. But it is not the primary point.

The article was written by Paige Cornwell at the Seattle Times. But it was picked up and posted elsewhere:

No one, apparently, noticed the error in the quote.

If you haven’t noticed the difference, I’ll point it out for you. Ms. Cornwell substituted “we all deserve gun safety” for “we all deserve safety.”

Perhaps I am hypersensitive to the phrase “gun safety.” Or perhaps Ms. Cornwell mistyped the quote in a hurry to get the article finished. Or the Washington State Democrats changed their post after Cornwell grabbed the quote. But a case can be made she did this intentionally. Copilot could not find any history of reporting on gun ownership in any form and tends toward it being an inadvertent error.

I have sent Ms. Page an email about the error. If I get a response, I will edit this post.

In related news, there are both Democrats and the Republicans jumping to conclusions about the motive of the shooter without evidence to support their beliefs. Some Rs claim the Ds are terrorists and should be hunted down and held responsible. Some Ds claim it was a false flag operation to distract from Trump’s involvement with Epstein and/or to justify the creation of a fascist state.

Having just finished Gun Control in the Third Reich: Disarming the Jews and “Enemies of the State” (a good book, BTW), I can easily see the parallels to Nazis using political assassinations as justification for extermination of minorities/political-opponents. And, of course, the political left has a tendency to view violence as just another form of speech.

I’m going to wait for evidence before expressing an opinion. However, it is full speed ahead on getting the underground bunker in Idaho livable.

Update: It has been almost 24 hours since I sent her an email asking if it was intentional or not. I have not received a response.

Draw your own conclusions.

Negative Activity

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We are funding non-profits and public health to pass out foil, meth pipes, other paraphernalia – I question what harm is being reduced by that, by helping people get high?

Sara Nelson
Seattle City Council President
September 3, 2025
‘Bouts of negative activity’ lead to temporary closure of 3 Seattle parks

This was prompted by the city park department fencing off and temporarily closing three parks then saying:

We recognize that this park has been impacted by bouts of negative park activity, and we will continue to work to ensure that all parks are clean, safe, and welcoming.

I’m more that a little surprised that someone on the Seattle City Council would say something that reasonable. In contrast, the “negative park activity” statement is entirely in character with what I would expect.

The use of euphemisms and outright lie to gloss over gross acts of neglect and enablement which what one can only conclude are deliberate acts of societal destruction are what I have come to expect.

Perhaps times are changing, and City Council President Nelson can lead that change. Seattle used to be beautiful and safe. It would be nice if they can fix the damage done by all the leftist politics of the last several decades.

I am generally an optimist. But I suspect the Marxists who have been running Seattle into the ground still have a power base enabling the continuation of their destruction.

A Marxist Tell

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Gun makers are increasingly competing for a decreasing market share. That’s why you see this push for an aggressive deregulatory agenda … That’s what animates this attack on the NFA.

 Hudson Munoz
Executive director of Guns Down America
September 5, 2025
Inside the gun absolutists’ bold plot to repeal one of America’s strongest firearms laws

What you see is here is a very strong indicator of a Marxist. The attribution of something they see as bad in the world as due to “corporate greed”, “capitalism”, etc. You used to hear organizations like the Brady Campaign insist that gun manufactures were “flooding the streets” with guns.

It seems beyond their comprehension that markets drive the direction of corporations. Apparently, in their minds, people do not have free will or ability to decide for themselves what they want to spend their own money on. And that extends to people pushing legislators to pass, or repeal, laws that further the interests of individuals. Do they think corporations vote instead of individuals?

And if you doubt this organization has an evil agenda, check out this line from their website:

Gun violence can’t happen where there aren’t guns, and guns are not inevitable.

The organization is probably just one person, Igor Volsky, and is only of significance because it demonstrates the Marxist tell in how they frame the view of gun owners being allowed to purchase gun accessories with fewer restrictions.

Seriously Unconstitutional or Trolling?

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Gun owners already know what it’s like for the government to penalize them for crimes they did not commit.  We shouldn’t even consider such an extreme response to heinous act committed by one disturbed individual, much less implement it, no matter how horrible the crime. The deranged Minneapolis killer is no longer a threat to anybody, and we needn’t make scapegoats of others who had nothing to do with that outrage, just to create the impression something is being done.

The ironic aspect of this controversy is that some in the liberal media are suddenly supporting gun rights because somebody in the Trump administration is talking about restricting transgenders from exercising their Second Amendment rights. Perhaps they will learn something from this.

The government, no matter who is in charge, must understand that enumerated rights protected by the Constitution cannot be stripped away for what amounts to a publicity stunt. If we allow that to happen to one minority group, it could happen to another group, and then another, until the right becomes a distant memory, especially for those of us who have worked so hard to protect it. This is a bad idea, and it needs to go away immediately.

Alan Gottlieb
CCRKBA Chairman
September 5, 2025
CCRKBA: DOJ SHOULDN’T BAN GUNS FOR TRANS PEOPLE OVER INDIVIDUAL CRIMES | Citizens Committee For The Right To Keep And Bear Arms

Mark Smith has a different take, which I think is more likely. And I would not be surprised if Gottlieb also is inclined to believe Mark’s take but plays it straight to score points with the rights are for everyone concept.

The TL;DR; version from Mark is that Trump is trolling the political left to get them to proclaim gun rights are for people of all sexual orientation and the Trump administration is going to violate the constitutional rights of an oppressed minority.

Assuming Mark has the correct angle on this, I could see this causing a few heads to “explode”. If it doesn’t, it was still a good try.

Fear of Success?

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I think they are afraid that people will see what can be done if politicians commit to taking action and really want to make a difference. That’s really the only reason I can think of because otherwise, it makes no sense. And if you look at what Mayor Muriel Bowser has done in D.C. – she’s embraced it and it’s made a huge difference. I wish they would learn from her.

Jody Weis
Former head of the Chicago Police Department
September 2, 2025
‘Afraid’: Ex-Chicago police leader criticizes Dems for rejecting federal crime aid

There are other plausible explanations:

  • The politicians want people to be victims, so the politicians have that as an issue to campaign on. To be fair, this could be an implementation detail of the reason Weis is suggesting.
  • If successful, it will implicitly be giving credit to Republicans and diminish the likelihood of Democrats being returned to office.
  • They are sadists and enjoy seeing the death and destruction of others with no serious risk to themselves.
  • Trump Derangement Syndrome, TDS. We have an epidemic of it in this country.

And, of course, we should always consider embracing the healing power of AND.

Reality Versus Conspiracy Theories: Let the Games Begin!

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This will be interesting:

Epstein Files Drop: The Left’s Trump Smear Campaign Just Collapsed – PJ Media

Democrats and Republicans have spent weeks demanding the release of the Epstein files. Well, now they’ve got them. House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer confirmed that the long-awaited document dump is officially underway, pledging unprecedented transparency and accountability.

“Just to give a quick update: I think everyone knows who we’ve subpoenaed thus far in the initial batch,” Comer said. “We subpoenaed six former Attorneys General as well as Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton.”

Comer confirmed that the scope has since expanded to include former Labor Secretary Alex Acosta, who oversaw a controversial plea deal for Epstein years ago. “Acosta is coming in, I believe, September the 16th or 19th,” Comer said. “We’ve got that date down. I know that we’ll have a lot of questions for him with respect to an earlier Epstein prosecution that he was involved in when he was U.S. Attorney.”

The chairman also revealed that tens of thousands of pages of records are now in the committee’s possession. “We have the documents — the initial batch that had been sent by the White House. As you know, we also subpoenaed Pam Bondi for those documents. The White House is working with us — I want to publicly thank the White House for turning over so many documents thus far,” he explained.

“We’re in the process of uploading those documents for full transparency, so everyone in America can see them,” Comer said. “As quick as we can get them uploaded — as the Speaker said, there are 34,000 pages — we’re doing everything we can to get those uploaded. We want those to be public as soon as possible.”

I expect there are going to be a lot of people disappointed their most hated politician is not going to be caught with their pants down and a swarm of underage kids in bed with them.

And, furthermore, I expect some of those same people will claim the documents were “cleaned up.” It is just the way these things go. People are never satisfied with the evidence when they have had a lot of time to speculate. Of course, they could be right. And after all this time it will be virtually impossible to conclusively prove them wrong.

The Devil is in the Details

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It’s easy to talk about “sensible gun control” when you don’t actually lay out what that means.

spf4000
August 31, 2025
What “Meaningful Gun Control” is this author talking about? : r/liberalgunowners

You see this all the time in various forms. People will make some statement or series of statements that sound good, but do not include details. It might be better roads and bridges but no details about how it will be paid for. It might be affordable housing but do not mention they intend to take money from other people to pay for the housing.

Politicians are great on broad stroke statements. But they either don’t understand details are important, or they are deliberately hiding the devil in the details of what they intend to do.

Be careful What You Wish For

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This is to all those people who claim Trump is a pedophile and demanding the release of the “Epstein Files” to confirm it. You should consider the following:

Is There Evidence That Donald Trump Is a Pedophile?

The internet is rife with accusations, insinuations, and conspiracy theories about public figures—none more polarizing than Donald J. Trump. Among the most serious claims is the allegation that Trump is a pedophile. This post examines the available evidence, legal history, and public associations that have fueled such speculation. Spoiler: the label is not supported by verified legal findings.

🧾 Legal Allegations Involving Minors

  • 1994 Lawsuit (Filed in 2016) A woman filed a civil suit alleging that Trump raped her when she was 13 years old at parties hosted by Jeffrey Epstein. The case was dropped before trial, and the claims were never substantiated in court. Trump’s legal team dismissed the suit as “unequivocally false” and politically motivated1.
  • Pageant Dressing Room Incidents Trump has been accused of walking in on teenage contestants during his ownership of beauty pageants. In a 2005 Howard Stern interview, Trump said:
  • General Sexual Misconduct Allegations Over 25 women have accused Trump of sexual misconduct ranging from groping to non-consensual kissing. These allegations span decades but do not involve minors1.

🧠 The Epstein Connection

Trump and Jeffrey Epstein were social acquaintances in the 1990s and early 2000s. Epstein, a convicted sex offender, was known for abusing underage girls. Trump was quoted in a 2002 New York Magazine profile saying:

“I’ve known Jeff for fifteen years. Terrific guy. He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.” Trump later claimed to have severed ties with Epstein long before his arrest2.

🗳️ Trump’s Political Affiliation Timeline During Epstein Contact

Trump’s relationship with Epstein spanned a period when Trump was not formally aligned with any major political party:

YearEventPolitical Affiliation
Late 1980s–1990sTrump and Epstein socialize at Mar-a-Lago and other elite events2 3Registered Democrat (1987–1999)
2000Trump and Melania photographed with Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell 2Reform Party (briefly ran for president)
2001–2008Trump continues public life and reality TV fame; Epstein charged in 2006Registered Democrat (2001–2008)
2009Trump switches to Republican PartyRepublican
2016Trump elected PresidentRepublican

Trump claimed in 2019 that he hadn’t spoken to Epstein in “15 years,” suggesting their last contact was around 20041 2. That would place their final interactions during Trump’s time as a registered Democrat.

📜 Court Documents and Public Records

Recent unsealed court documents from Epstein-related cases mention Trump in passing—primarily as someone who attended social events. Importantly, none of these documents accuse Trump of criminal behavior or involvement in Epstein’s trafficking network2.

🧩 Summary: What the Evidence Shows

  • No criminal charges or convictions link Trump to pedophilia.
  • One civil lawsuit alleged rape of a minor but was dropped and never adjudicated.
  • Trump’s past comments and behavior—especially around beauty pageants—have raised ethical concerns but not legal ones involving minors.
  • His association with Epstein remains a source of public suspicion, but no direct evidence implicates him in Epstein’s crimes.
  • During the period of documented contact with Epstein, Trump was mostly affiliated with the Democratic Party or politically unaffiliated.

🧠 Why This Matters

Accusations of pedophilia are among the most serious that can be leveled against anyone. In Trump’s case, the claims are largely speculative, rooted in unproven lawsuits and controversial associations. That doesn’t mean scrutiny isn’t warranted—but it does mean we should distinguish between verified facts and viral innuendo.

  1. The facts and timeline of Trump and Epstein’s falling out | PBS News
  2. Timeline of Trump and Epstein’s relationship, and what Trump has said about their falling out – ABC News
  3. Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump: a timeline | CBC News

By claiming that Trump is a pedophile, you are setting yourself up for trap. This trap could be sprung by the release of the files, if they exist, and discovering there is no evidence Trump had inappropriate relations with minors. Then what? You will claim the files were whitewashed by the Trump administration? And how do you defend against the claim that it was the Biden and/or Obama administration that added the incrimination evidence?

The end result is that you now have just added another data point to the claim you are just slinging mud again.

Assuming your claims are validated then what? You just added another high-profile Democrat, such as Bill Clinton, to the list.

This is What They Think of Republicans.

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You are supposed to fight terrorist. Republicans are legit terrorist. Look up the definition of the word. Would you not fight SHitler?

Mike @xxdaddycoolxx91
Posted on X, September 16, 2024

See also: The Immortal on X: “@libsoftiktok 2.5 minutes of Democrats explicitly calling for using political vioIence. They own this. https://t.co/B1T8RfTJ3u” / X.

Via Greg Price on X: “The Trump campaign broke out every single receipt in the world. https://t.co/e5M3wd4Bm8” / X:

This is what they think of Republicans.

It should come as no surprise to anyone that President Trump does not have much respect for anything Democrats say or think about him. Which, of course, inflames them even more.

It is difficult to back down from this level of rhetoric.

Prepare appropriately.

Planning for Nuclear Warfare

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A chilling Cold War-era map has surfaced, providing a stark outlook for the United States post-nuclear warfare, with predictions indicating that up to 75% of the population could die from radiation in the most affected states. The world’s nuclear-armed countries include the US, UK, France, Russia, and China, as well as Pakistan, India, and North Korea.

Joshua Taylor & Laura Colgan
October 11, 2024
Nuclear map shows states where 75% of Americans would die if WW3 broke out

This doesn’t include the wild cards of North Korea and Iran.

Prepare appropriately.

On a related note, my underground bunker in Idaho now has electricity and running water. No ventilation or toilet, but it is close to being habitable.

They Know we are not a Criminal Threat

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While we acknowledge more guns pose a greater threat to our communities, CPL holders tend to be responsible gun owners.

Renée Hopkins
CEO of the Washington-based Alliance for Gun Responsibility
July 21, 2025
More Washingtonians than ever have a concealed carry license

In response, Dave Workman said: Somebody Finally Admits It!

At the highest levels the anti-gun people know CPL gun owners are not a threat to society. But they want us disarmed anyway.

Respond appropriately.

There is a Better Way and Everyone Wins

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It is said Donald Trump has a near-magical ability to make Democrats do insanely self-destructive things. They’re doing it to themselves. Trump doesn’t have to apply clumsy reverse psychology, their self-imposed Trump Derangement Syndrome and their raging hatred of America and Normal Americans makes them reflexively, loudly and irrationally, oppose anything he says or does and anything they imagine he might be thinking of saying or doing.

In only eight months, we’ve watched Democrats maniacally defend:

*Illegal immigration
*Hamas
*Islamic terrorists in general
*Violent domestic criminals
*Antisemitism
*Pedophiles
*Democrat legislators fleeing votes to “defend democracy”
*Mentally ill men in women’s sports, locker rooms and bathrooms
*Ignoring and damaging the Constitution
*Rampant violent crime in Washington, DC, including “gun violence”

And the list goes on and on.

Mike McDaniel
August 22, 2025
Brady United chooses DC criminals, politicians – American Thinker

I think the problem is that they are emotionally driven. They have bought into all the terrible things they have been told about President Trump and reflexively oppose anything he supposedly is in favor of.

I suspect this is rather common in people. I remember growing up and people would respond in the same sort of manner to anything related to Hitler. Yes, Hitler had primary responsibility the deaths of millions of innocent people. Yes, he deserves to be considered one of the all-time evil people of history. But he gave political support to the Volkswagen Beetle and the Autobahn. It doesn’t reduce the severity of his crimes, but I don’t see the problem with saying those were praiseworthy projects.

The same sort of thing happened to me early 1990s. I was living in Sandpoint Idaho at the time. There was a big deal about something the Aryan Nation wanted to do or was doing locally or in the nearby Hayden Lake area. There was a big meeting of the Sandpoint locals to oppose whatever it was they wanted to do. I went to the meeting.

Various people talked about how terrible the Aryan Nation people were and what they stood for. There were a handful of people from the Aryan Nation group there and wanted to talk. After bit of discussion one of the Aryan Nation people was given a few minutes to say some things. He said they were advocating for equal treatment of white people. For example, there was a case where a black person severely injured (or killed? I don’t remember for certain) a white person and because of the numerous racial epithets used at the time of the attack it was clear it was a racially motivated. But the prosecutors would not go for it and the perp got of far easier than had a white person committed the same crime against a black person.

It was clear to me that by accepting and rectifying the valid points, including letting them talk without a debate about it, they could take a lot of “wind out of their sails.” Without stories to tell of all the discrimination against white people they would have a much more difficult time recruiting new members and probably keeping existing members. That was not the consensus of the general population. “White Supremist bad. Everything they want must be opposed.”, seemed to be the attitude.

It is a something more general than just the three examples of Trump, Hitler, and the Aryan Nations. I see it done by Republican/Conservatives too.

If those examples are not enough to demonstrate the pervasiveness of the phenomena, think about loyalty to sports teams. People get in fights and even riots in opposition to the “other” teams.

The emotional content of belonging to a tribe and opposing competing tribes probably was a huge evolutionary advantage. But that doesn’t mean it is universally good behavior. Sometimes adopting some ideas, customs, technology, or team plays of your most hated enemy is to your advantage.

I believe this failure to accept the opposition has some good ideas is how the Democrats came to this: Democrats facing crisis as more than 2M voters leave party in four years.

By taking a vocal stand on fairly central issues Trump, in effect, “forced” the Democrats into crazy territory. The Democrats did not have to go there. They could have agreed on the issues that made sense, and perhaps even legislatively killed that issue before the election. This would have taken “the wind out of Trump’s sail.” But they are too emotionally driven and had to double down on the crazy view of those issues. The end result was they were left in crazy town while the Republicans went to Washington D.C. Now, the Republicans get to implement their reasonable ideas as well as their crazy ones in questionable ways.

Another example of Democrat craziness in this regard is vehement opposition to “cultural appropriation.” White people singing rap songs is bad? But people of color using technology created by white people, say the iPhone (Steve Jobs), electricity (Thomas Edison, George Westinghouse, and Nikola Telsa), airplanes (the Wright Brothers), and mass-produced cars (Henry Ford) is okay? People are finally starting to realize they are talking crazy talk.

A similar thing happens in engineering with, “Not invented here syndrome.” People have a reasonably good idea and don’t look around to see if they can get an off the shelf implementation of something at least “good enough” if not better. Or don’t want to use code that someone else wrote.

Here is my approach to faster social, political, and technological evolution. Stop, think, and when appropriate adopt the ideas of others. Give credit where credit is due and advance the ball down the field with your adaptation of a good idea. Everyone wins.

Dust in the Dustbin

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Today, March for Our Lives is in disarray. Funding shortfalls and a rift between its board and younger staffers… have strained the organization. And a recently filed federal lawsuit accuses the board of racism and retaliation.

On March 20 of this year, just before the seven-year anniversary of its celebrated rallies, MFOL terminated 13 of its 16 full-time employees.

Firearms Policy Coalition @gunpolicy
Posted on X, August 20, 2025

See also: Inside the Chaos at March for Our Lives.

As I said the other day, our recent progress has to be putting pressure on donations.

At this point MFOLs has to be rendered powerless to cause us any damage. I think it is extremely unlikely they will recover. They are just dust in the dustbin of history.

Peace For Our Time?

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My personal belief is that history shows that this war of aggression, which is part of a wider Putin aspiration to restore the old Russian Empire and achieve dominance in Europe, can only be resolved by a Russian defeat that would lead to real deterrence. But that is not what is on offer.

The next few days and hours will write the future for our children and grandchildren. The future defeat of the West, which is what is coming down the line as the result of a bad peace deal, would not see a repeat of the Holocaust. It would see a new Russian dominated Europe. The people with most to fear would be the blue-haired protesters on our campuses and in our streets, as well as the LGBTQ+ community who would certainly cease to exist. A newly dominant Russia would and could not tolerate such diversity and certainly not any form of dissent.

Tim Collins
Former British Army officer who served with the SAS and as commander of the Royal Irish
August 19, 2025
Putin could never afford to take the Ukrainian land he wants. He must not get it for free

I don’t see Putin accepting any deal that gives him anything less or equal to what he expects to be able to take in the next year.

And if the response of countries like Finland and Sweden (who joined NATA in response to the war) are an accurate assessment of Putin’s intentions, making such a deal will go down in history like Chamberlain’s “Peace for our time” deal did.

Prepare appropriately.

I’m aggressively pushing for the completion of my underground bunker in Idaho.