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Raskin pointed to alleged examples of censorship under Trump, concluding, “There’s a free speech crisis in America today. But there’s no free speech crisis in Britain.”
In a brief response, Jordan was ready with a sharp rejoinder: “The gentleman alleges there’s no free speech in America under Donald Trump while his staff member holds up countless articles criticizing the Trump administration.”
Farage opened his testimony with a strong dose of irony. “I’m delighted to reacquaint with the charming Mr. Raskin.”
“Delightful testimony you gave me earlier on with your speech,” he continued. “But hey, that’s fine, you can say what you like, I don’t care, because that’s what free speech is.”
Farage pointed to the U.K.’s recent arrest of an Irish comedian at Heathrow Airport for posting supposedly transphobic tweets. “This could happen to any American man or woman that goes to Heathrow that has said things online that the British government and the British police don’t like,” he said.
“At what point did we become North Korea? Well, I think the Irish comedy writer found that out two days ago at Heathrow Airport,” he concluded.
More from Ace of Spades: Nigel Farage Testifies to Congress About the End of Free Speech in the UK. “The [British] government is broke with crippling debt, yet they continue to spend billions to put up third-world murder hobos in four star restaurants and offer people free cars if they just claim they have some kind of ‘disability,’ which can be as minor as ’anxiety’ or ‘depression.’”
IT’S COME TO THIS: Black Comedian Paints Himself White, Goes to NASCAR, Doesn’t Find What He Expects.
Druski [whose real name is Andrew Desbordes] is getting justified kudos for his astonishingly convincing disguise, which he used to go to a NASCAR race and pose as a rambunctious Southern white guy, but the really impressive work here seems to have been done by his makeup artist (or more likely, makeup team). A clear cultural agenda mars the performance of Druski himself.
That Guy who is just Proud to be AMERICAN🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/Xcc5ZJypqz
— DRUSKI (@druski) September 2, 2025
Some people have asked if Druski’s act means that blackface is no longer the heinous crime it has been portrayed as being over the last few years, but the larger question is why it is culturally acceptable on the left to make fun of Southern white men but of no other group of people anywhere on the planet.
And it gets worse. The Post notes that at one point, the white redneck Druski “disgustedly spits at the feet of a black man walking past him while leaning against the hood of a car.” Nor is that all: “In another moment, he stops his truck beside a black man and asks him ‘You lost, boy?’ When the man tells him he’s going to the NASCAR race, Druski leans out the window, spits, and tell him to ‘find something safe to do, boy.’”
Now, this video shows Druski’s character interacting with a good many NASCAR fans, and yet Druski himself is the only one who is racist. The odds that any actual person doing any genuinely racist thing would have been included are only around 100%, and yet Druski can only show himself being racist toward black people, and only when no one else is around. He is apparently trying hard to show NASCAR fans, Southern white Americans, and patriots in general as a bunch of racists, but he can’t find anyone to flesh out the stereotype, so he has to do it himself.
Last year, the Hollywood Reporter noted: Ben Stiller on Why He Doubts ‘Tropic Thunder’ Could Get Made Today: “Edgier Comedy Is Just Harder to Do.”
Tropic Thunder, starring and directed by Stiller, also starred Robert Downey Jr., Jack Black, Jay Baruchel and Brandon T. Jackson. The film follows a group of egotistical actors making a big-budget war movie who are forced to become the soldiers they are portraying.
However, the Zoolander actor pointed to Downey’s now-controversial role as one of the reasons the movie likely wouldn’t get made today. The Oscar winner plays Kirk Lazarus, who undergoes “pigmentation alteration” surgery, as his character puts it, in order to play a Black soldier in a film.
“The idea of Robert playing that character who’s playing an African American character, I mean, incredibly dicey,” Stiller added. “Even at the time, of course, it was dicey too. The only reason we attempted it was I felt like the joke was very clear in terms of who that joke was on — actors trying to do anything to win awards. But now, in this environment, I don’t even know if I would have ventured to do it, to tell you the truth. I’m being honest.”
Over to you, Druski.
UPDATE: There was cosplaying in DC as well today to spotlight the dystopian authoritarian hellscape that is Trump’s America:
RAVING AND DROOLING: Roger Waters Labels Ozzy Osbourne’s Career ‘Idiocy and Nonsense.’
Waters then brought Osbourne into the conversation: “… Or Ozzy Osbourne, who just died, bless him, in his, whatever that state that he was in his whole life, we’ll never know. Although, he was all over the TV for hundreds of years with his idiocy and nonsense.”
He didn’t stop there, moving on to attack Osbourne’s music: “The music, I have no idea, I couldn’t give a fuck. I don’t care about Black Sabbath, I never did, I have no interest in…. ‘Wahhhh!!!’ (spoken while sticking his tongue out and doing an impression that looked more like Gene Simmons than Osbourne) and biting the heads off chickens or whatever they do. I couldn’t care less.”
When informed that Osbourne (accidentally, it should have been noted) bit the head off a bat, not a chicken, the Pink Floyd legend was even more revolted: “Oh my God, that’s even worse, isn’t it? I don’t know, is it worse to bite the head off a bat or a chicken?”
In sharp contrast, David Gilmour is thoughtful and articulate in his nearly two-hour interview with musician/producer/YouTuber Rick Beato about his musical processes over the decades:
David [Ellison’s] offer for The Free Press is expected to be well above the site’s most recent $100 million valuation, but well below the $200 million figure that was recently floated in the Financial Times. (That was an absurd ask; The Free Press does $15 million in annual subscription revenue, and Bari’s politically charged content makes it hard to scale the advertising business. Plus, there’s no tech stack—it’s all on Substack.) Either way, it will land Weiss a king’s ransom just a little over five years after her dramatic departure from the Times. The deal is not done yet, of course, but, as a source with knowledge of the negotiations told me this afternoon, it is “on the 1-yard line.”
It’s Not Dan Rather’s Network Anymore…
As part of the deal, I am told David plans to give Bari a role at CBS News that would, among other things, task his fellow Millennial with guiding the editorial direction of the division. Bari’s avowedly pro-Israel and anti-woke worldview—not to mention her broadly shit-kicking anti-establishment disposition—would inevitably inspire blowback from various corners of the newsroom, and could dramatically change the editorial posture and reputation of one of the most storied, and certainly self-important, institutions in American journalism. For David, that’s likely part of the point.
If this actually happens, the meltdowns at CBS News will be astonishing to watch; recall the struggle sessions there last fall over Tony Dokoupil actually committing journalism in an interview with leftist Ta-Nehisi Coates.
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ROGER SIMON: Living Forever: Putin, Xi and Djokovic.
I woke up this morning to this NY Post (the only paper I bother with nowadays) article: “Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping ponder unsettling ambitions in rare hot-mic moment: ‘Achieve immortality’”. It tells us:
“The unnerving moment was caught as Putin and Xi walked alongside North Korea’s Kim Jong Un as the trio of tyrants viewed a military parade in Beijing marking the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II.
“‘Biotechnology is continuously developing,’ Putin’s translator could be heard saying on a livestream broadcast on Chinese state media.
“‘Human organs can be continuously transplanted. The longer you live, the younger you become, and [you can] even achieve immortality.’
“‘Some predict that in this century humans may live to 150 years old,” Xi’s translator responded, adding at another point: “Earlier, people rarely lived to 70, but these days at 70 years you are still a child.”
Oh, those dictators—what they chitchat about!
Well, actually. they chitchat about something most people of a “certain age” think about rather frequently, their morality, including yours truly who is about nine years the senior of these despots who are 72.
Nevertheless, the characterization “unnerving” above is arguably an understatement. The idea of Putin and Xi going on for another 80 years is anything but reassuring. Most of us wish they had never been around in the first place or, failing that, would disappear in the next ten minutes.
They’ve got the right idea — as Glenn noted in one of his Subtacks, Harvard aging researcher David Sinclair “doesn’t talk about immortality, but he did opine in a recent interview that the first person who will live to 150 is alive now. And in fact, with good luck, people reading this essay might live that long. More importantly, they might live that long in good health.” But given the events of 2020, who knows to what lengths Vlad and Xi’s scientists will go to achieve such goals?
THAT’S WHAT XI SAID! ABC Gets Hot and Bothered By China’s Show of ‘Patriotism and Power.’
Since their parent company Disney was beholden to the Chinese Communist Party, even giving a “special thanks” to those carrying out a genocide against Uighurs in the credits of Mulan, ABC foreign correspondent Britt Clennett beclowned herself and the network during Wednesday’s Good Morning America. With prime seating in Tiananmen Square, Clennett had a huge smile on her face as she was overcome with awe at the military equipment and being able to lay her eyes on Chinese dictator Xi Jinping.
“Yeah, just a remarkable sight to see here in Beijing. China very much flexing its military muscle, with the latest generation of ballistic missiles and drones in a carefully choreographed parade designed to show its patriotism and power,” Clennett boasted to co-host Michael Strahan a head of the video portion of her report.
To be fair, it’s not all that surprising to see a Disney employee offering up such high praise to her CEO:
(Besides, I’m pretty sure CNN has the lock on sucking up to Pyongyang.)
SOMEBODY SET UP US THE BOMB: Rep. Jamie Raskin Says Trump Wants to Shrink the Size and Scope of Gov’t Just Like Stalin.
Jamie Raskin: President Trump's firing of bureaucrats makes him just like Joseph Stalin. pic.twitter.com/guctkAYKK9
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) September 3, 2025
Raskin knows that Stalin’s employee layoffs were rather more permanent in nature, but he doesn’t care.
Alas though, many years from now, Trump’s obit in the New York Times won’t be anywhere near as glowing as the encomium they wrote in 1953 for one of the 20th century’s most bloodthirsty tyrants: Stalin Rose From Czarist Oppression to Transform Russia Into Mighty Socialist State.
Related: Calling Trump ‘Hitler’ Has Done Permanent Damage to the Moral Realm. “The abuse of language is a fundamental characteristic of the Left. Leftists have done this not only to ‘Hitler,’ ‘Nazi’ and ‘fascist’ but to ‘genocide,’ ‘apartheid,’ ‘racist’ and virtually every other term connoting evil. It started with Stalin calling Trotsky a fascist and it continues to this day.”
GEHEN SIE WEITER, BÜRGER, HIER GIBT ES NICHTS ZU SEHEN! Six candidates for Germany’s AfD die before election.
TO BE FAIR, THEY ARE A BLESSING OF LIBERTY: David French Will Say Anything For A Paycheck.
The evil right-wing media just made up a totally fake controversy about Cracker Barrel, you see.
Every paragraph of French’s column is a strawman. Every claim is obviously false. He’s not even sort of describing surface-level reality. David French now gets paid to point at cows and say, “That’s definitely not a cow.” He’s a fabulist, and a talentless one. His sole value is that he gets to cosplay “conservative” while mindlessly doing all of the dumb leftist tropes, giving correct-thinking cadre the very small thrill of feeling righteous about the people they hate. He’s a professional reassurance artist: Yes, New York Times readers, people you disagree with are always wrong and never have a point about anything. Thanks, David, here’s a nickel.
So.
You must be blind and amnesiac, because French explains this about the “good jeans” thing with Sydney Sweeney, the other recent branding controversy that he discusses alongside the Cracker Barrel thing: “There was no actual groundswell of opposition to Sweeney.”
No, seriously: “There was no actual groundswell of opposition to Sweeney.” David French just wrote this sentence and got it published in The New York Times.
Right-wingers just made it all up, calculatedly stoking outrage about something that wasn’t even real: “But if there’s a conflict between telling the truth and stoking outrage, time and again, the right chooses outrage.” Read these paragraphs carefully, and watch how casually this man lies:
Exit quote: “This man is a shameful figure. He never so much as passes truth in the street. His schtick is too obvious now to pretend that he’s doing anything but a ‘real conservative’ minstrel show for pay. Imagine living that way.”
On the other hand, a lot of people in the Northeast Corridor have made an excellent living doing just that for decades:
(Classical reference in headline.)
I’ve written this article to try to collate the information I’ve gathered on the present state of the UK as an American observer. I am someone who, I like to believe, generally avoids the hysteric tendencies that are so common to online politics. That being said, it is very difficult for me to look at the situation I have laid out for you above and not be deeply perturbed.
I do not know what is going to happen in the United Kingdom in the next few years, but I am very confident that the present system will not last. Something will surely give, and when it does each piece of the situation I have just laid out for you will metastasize in rapid fashion, throwing one of the most clownish and intolerable political castes that presently exist anywhere on the planet into a nightmarish situation that far more competent men would barely be able to navigate successfully.
This all being said, with the magnitude of the rot laid bare it is almost impossible to not be bullish in a certain sense. If the core Anglo-Saxon population of the UK can last this long under such degraded and perverse conditions, if they can maintain a functional society in the face of such dysfunction, then it is hard to imagine what they will be able to do once the boot is taken off their necks.
Read the whole thing.
Earlier: America’s obsession with British decline.
UPDATE: Sure, comedy writers are being arrested for speaking out against the trans mob, and migration is out of control, and bringing with it a whole host of concomitant evils such as grooming gangs, acid attacks, stabbings, and immigrant-only hotels. But finally, Starmer has triangulated on the only way to bring order back to Old Blighty — banning Red Bull:
AND THEN BATMAN SHOUTED, GOTHAM CITY IS MAGA COUNTRY! Jeffrey Wright Slams Backlash to Him Playing Commissioner Gordon in ‘The Batman’ as ‘F–ing Racist and Stupid’: ‘It’s Absent All Logic.’
Ever since Lady Ghostbusters in 2016, Hollywood has attempted to gin up controversy by pitting fans against fans, and promoting inferior movies by screaming sexism! or racism! But in this case, there was no backlash to Wright playing Commissioner Gordon, nor was there any controversy over Wright playing Felix Leiter in the Daniel Craig James Bond movies. The only controversy over Robert Pattinson’s The Batman that I saw was, as John Nolte wrote in 2022, we’ve seen all this, “Many Times Before.”
We’ve also seen Wright’s attempt to gin up controversy before, but in the past, it actually existed on social media:
FIVE TIMES CBS WAS CAUGHT DECEPTIVELY EDITING INTERVIEWS WITH POLITICIANS: Why Can’t CBS Stop Deceptively Editing Interviews?
Yet again, the propagandists at CBS have found themselves in the midst of another deceptive editing scandal. On Sunday, the network was caught editing out the substantive portion of one of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s responses to a question on Face the Nation.
But this incident is just the latest in CBS’s lengthy record of journalistic malfeasance. Let’s look back at some of the worst cases.
Related: They Shoot Cats, Don’t They?
FIFTH CIRCUIT RULES AGAINST TRUMP ADMIN ON ITS USE OF AEA TO REMOVE TDA MEMBERS:
Late Tuesday evening, the 5th Circuit handed down its decision in the case now styled W.M.M. v. Trump (previously styled as A.A.R.P. v. Trump) regarding the Trump administration’s use of the Alien Enemies Act (AEA) to remove purported Tren de Aragua (TdA) members from the U.S. To cut to the chase, the court held that the administration improperly invoked the AEA to justify removing the purported TdA members because “we find no invasion or predatory incursion.”
This case has had a complicated procedural history that’s involved several notable decisions and a foray to the Supreme Court, which resulted in a surprising Easter weekend ruling that sent the case back to the 5th Circuit to determine two things:
(1) all the normal preliminary injunction factors, including likelihood of success on the merits, as to the named [Petitioners’] underlying habeas claims that the AEA does not authorize their removal pursuant to the President’s March 14, 2025, Proclamation, and (2) the issue of what notice is due, as to the putative class’s due process claims against summary removal.
Note that the following is still satire — at least for the moment:
CHARLES COOKE: England’s Arrest of Graham Linehan Was an Act of Calculated Tyranny.
The nature of his arrest renders the contrast as clear as it could possibly be. Yesterday, Linehan was in the United States — living his life, sharing his opinions, enjoying his independence. Today, he is in England — under observation, subject to surveillance, at liberty only if he vows not to speak where people might hear. This is not, I’m afraid to say, one of those questions of taste: In this matter, America has got it right, and England has got it wrong. What was done to Graham Linehan was an act of calculated tyranny of the sort to which the British have become far too accustomed in recent decades. In other circumstances, they would be likely able to see this. Were an Englishman to fly to Russia and be arrested for making jokes or pointed comments, the contours would at once seem familiar. But with transgenderism as the topic, “hate” as the justification, and the United States as the foil, a myopia descends.
I cannot quite put my finger on why, but, all in all, it seems to me wholly appropriate that, immediately after Linehan was arrested for speaking, he was taken to an NHS-run hospital to recover. That, evidently, is the new British mode. In the year 2025, Britain has a parliament that can meet to help you kill yourself, but not to protect your speech; an exchequer that can pluck the population’s feathers from 9,000 different angles, but that has no interest in generating wealth; and a network of police forces that are incapable of solving the most sordid crimes imaginable, but that are sufficiently well-staffed to guarantee that if an outspoken Irish comedian steps off a plane from Arizona, he will be met by enough lawmen to fill a small office. During the worst days of Covid-19, the British government instructed the population to sacrifice every last human desire it had to ensure the survival and comfort of their state-provided nurses. Mercifully, that virus has mostly disappeared. Regrettably, it has been replaced by another one — and, this time, there is no antidote available but sustained mass revolt.
And one way or another, it’s coming.
MATT MARGOLIS: We Should Be Very Afraid of What’s Happening in the Democratic Party.
The Democratic Party is quietly undergoing a seismic shift that should alarm anyone who still values political sanity in America. The party is transitioning into something younger, even more extreme, radical, and dangerous than what we’ve already endured. The old guard may have been misguided, but what’s coming next promises to be far worse for America.
The latest casualty is none other than Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.), the Manhattan congressman who just announced his retirement after more than three decades of loyal service to the left’s cause. His exit is just one sign of a dangerous purge inside the party, replacing seasoned lawmakers with a new breed of radical agitators who openly reject America’s political traditions.
This isn’t youthful idealism; it’s a calculated assault on the foundations of our democracy, driven by socialists who see the system itself as illegitimate. What Democrats are dressing up as “change” is in reality a hostile takeover by extremists bent on tearing everything down and remaking the country in their own warped image. And if they succeed, the America that follows will be unrecognizable and far worse for it.
“I do not believe that the solution to our problem is simply to elect the right people,” Friedman once said. “The important thing is to establish a political climate of opinion which will make it politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing. Unless it is politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing, the right people will not do the right thing either, or if they try, they will shortly be out of office.”
I started to say that when Friedman said that, there were many more grownups in Washington. But Friedman apparently first uttered that quote in 1975 or thereabouts, shortly after furious Democrats and their media staged a coup d’état against Richard Nixon. Plus ça change.
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OCEANS ARE NOW BATTLEFIELDS – IN THE WAR ON DRUGS: Trump Reveals U.S. Military ‘Shot Out’ a Venezuelan ‘Drug-Carrying Boat.’
https://t.co/o5xOQ6HRFg pic.twitter.com/s9ktAlDQUi
— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) September 2, 2025
September 2, 2025
AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD ONCE AGAIN DOING STRAIGHT-UP REPORTAGE:
English Bobbies Race Past 5 Stabbings To Tackle Offensive Social Media Poster https://t.co/iO2E31LGc3 pic.twitter.com/0hYwTHnnoM
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) September 2, 2025
THAT’S THE CHICAGO WAY — BUT IT DOESN’T HAVE TO BE:
The acceptance of disorder in the US, including levels of violence in poor neighborhoods that's near top across the world, is simply stunning.
We don't have to live like this, but because most of it happens to poor people, out of sight of an incurious media, we do https://t.co/mIumGn4yai
— Chris Arnade 🐢🐱🚌 (@Chris_arnade) September 2, 2025
In contrast:
The corner with the post office museum is BUM-FREE (Washingtonians will understand how crazy this is)
— Inez Stepman ⚪️🔴⚪️ (@InezFeltscher) September 2, 2025
Is Chicago next?
🚨 BREAKING — TRUMP ON NATIONAL GUARD DEPLOYMENT TO CHICAGO: "WE'RE GOING IN." 🔥
"This isn't a political thing. I have an obligation. When 20 people are KlLLED over the last 2½ weeks and 75 are shot with bullets … we're going in…"
Chicago will be LIBERATED! 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/6H2LIxmdC0
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) September 2, 2025
That sounds great. Why is Chicago’s mayor sounding like a German gauleiter when he hears the yanks are coming? After Violent Labor Day Weekend, Chicago’s Mayor Calls for Uprising Against Trump Administration.
DISPATCHES FROM PALLYWOOD:
At some point you have to ask if the atrocities are so numerous, why so many fake videos are needed.
— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) September 2, 2025
JEFFREY BLEHAR: Something Wicked Is Being Loosed in an Online World.
The starting point here is mental illness. But the ending point is the online sump into which mental illness now collects itself, like a malarial pool, cross-fertilizing into ever more virulent strains of social disease. Our modern world is breeding nihilistic evil, even as it lets age-old demons loose. The killer’s (apparently semi-renounced) transgender identity is relevant, but only as a symptom of a much broader, and darker, underlying problem facing America.
Others are less philosophical about such things, however, and just couldn’t help themselves. So I’ll chime in only to point out what a malevolent ghoul the Democratic Party’s self-appointed national mascot Gavin Newsom has become in his pursuit of the spotlight. Newsom let it be known a week or so ago that he had actually hired a spicy young social-media whippersnapper to write and post his recent Twitter/X material. And I had to laugh, because it was a transparent attempt to disclaim personal responsibility for his account’s contents, disguised as “sharing the credit.”
Perhaps he was trying to get ahead of the game. Because last week, in response to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt defending the value of prayer as a reaction to the atrocity, Gavin Newsom (or “Gavin Newsom”) felt compelled to respond on Twitter by mocking the idea of prayer itself as utterly worthless: “These children were literally praying as they got shot at.” (Left implied: “Fat lot of good it did them, or will do you.”)
I now understand why the staffer who purportedly writes Gavin’s tweets is paid for her work: She captures his “voice” with such eerie perfection. Because that right there is the true Gavin Newsom, his spirit in one rotten sentence. The callow glibness, the contemptuously dismissive tone, the clangingly materialist hollowness: Either Newsom wrote that tweet himself (and I suspect he did), or this lady deserves a raise for being an incredibly gifted impersonator.
Newsom, of course, is chasing controversy, and what disgusts me the most is that he may be onto something, however cynical his calculus. He has a sufficient left-wing base already prepared to back him on this specific case for the simple reason that it beats having a long and unpleasant discussion about the nexus between transgenderism and mental illness. And all the while, as this mindless political thrum carries on in the background, my thoughts instead turn to even darker quarters, those more indebted to W. B. Yeats than Gavin Newsom.
I fear we are on the verge of a great societal breakdown — one right out of the late Sixties and early Seventies — and we are not prepared for it. Something wicked this way comes. The atrocity in Minneapolis is but one articulated edge in a far larger fractal pattern of violence and madness creeping across our landscape. Once the progress was imperceptibly slow, but technology has proven to be the accelerant. The threat is pre-political, generational, and perhaps even civilizational. The worst are full of passionate intensity. Things are falling apart, crumbling at both the margins and the center of our societal self-conception.
The “great societal breakdown” has already happened; recall the numerous riots of the Obama era, and as leftist William F. Buckley biographer Sam Tanenhaus recently noted, “I think the year 2020 is one that’s going to reverberate in our history for a long time. It feels to me a little bit like 1968, one of those watershed years of violence and militarism, militancy. And we know how a lot of liberal publications, including my former publication, The New York Times, treated what were serious uprisings in some of the major cities in this country, rather what they didn’t report about them.”
Anti-journalism to obfuscate reality, in other words. Which has spread to numerous otherwise seemingly disparate topics:
NEW CIVILITY WATCH: Sick: Tim Walz Publicly Roots for Trump’s Death in Shocking Video.
Over the Labor Day weekend, former vice-presidential candidate Gov. Tim Walz (D-Minn.) demonstrated a disturbing interest in Trump’s health, proving that some on the left are willing to gloat over even the most absurd, unfounded rumors about Trump.
“You get up in the morning and you doom-scroll through things, and — although, I will say this: The last few days, you woke up thinking there might be news. Just saying. Just saying. There will be news sometime, just so you know. There will be news,” he said, dripping with an almost giddy anticipation.
Governor Walz over the weekend discussing the possibility of Trumps death and implying “There will be news.” pic.twitter.com/L6Gn2YDvoG
— MN Republicans Northland Edition (@MNHD3BGOP) September 2, 2025
In other words, Walz was caught up in the frenzy of false information and publicly rooting for bad news about the U.S. president with an enthusiasm that should shame any decent public figure. The governor’s manifest delight exemplifies how despicable it is to weaponize baseless rumors and cheer for someone’s potential misfortune or death.
Walz’s public comments betrayed a disturbing glee in the chaos. It is profoundly sick when a politician appears to revel in the speculation of a political opponent’s death. The spectacle was nothing short of a public debasement, a cynical joyride at the expense of common decency.
How odd; Michelle Obama assured me that “when they go low, we go high.”
Related: Wishing Trump dead only makes him stronger.
If history is any guide, you don’t want to live through the death of a sitting President. We’ve built the system to accommodate for it, but it creates chaos, instability, and figurative if not literal violence. Do people really think that Trump won’t leave office after his term is over? He’ll be 82. He’s going to leave. Just like the weather in Chicago, if you don’t like the President, wait a minute.
But people also need to realize that their hatred of Donald Trump doesn’t kill him. It makes him stronger. A more spiteful man has never lived, and he’ll live forever just to spite them.
When he does die, someday, in the far future, some people will mourn, some people will celebrate, but most people’s lives will just go on as if Trump never existed. He’s not your enemy, he’s not your savior. He’s just a President looking for an electorate to love him.
And they will! After he leaves office, the proverbial strange new respect Trump will garner from the left to attack whoever is the current Republican president or presidential candidate will be astounding to watch.
GRAHAM LINEHAN: I was arrested for insulting the trans mob.
At Heathrow police station, my belt, bag, and devices were confiscated. Then I was shown into a small green-tiled cell with a bunk, a silver toilet in the corner and a message from Crimestoppers on the ceiling next to a concave mirror that was presumably there to make you reflect on your life choices.
By some miracle – probably because I hadn’t slept on the flight – I managed to doze off. After the premier economy seat in which I’d just spent ten hours, it was actually a relief to stretch out. That passed the time, though I kept waking up wondering if it was all actually happening.
Later, during the interview itself, the tone shifted. The officer conducting it asked about each of the terrible tweets in turn, with the sort of earnest intensity usually reserved for discussing something serious like… oh, I dunno – crime? I explained that the ‘punch’ tweet was a serious point made with a joke. Men who enter women’s spaces are abusers and they need to be challenged every time. The ‘punch in the bollocks’ bit was about the height difference between men and women, the bollocks being closer to punch level for a woman defending her rights and certainly not a call to violence. (Not one of my best as one of the female officers said, ‘We’re not that small’).
He mentioned ‘trans people’. I asked him what he meant by the phrase. ‘People who feel their gender is different than what was assigned at birth.’ I said: ‘Assigned at birth? Our sex isn’t assigned.’ He called it semantics, I told him he was using activist language. The damage Stonewall has done to the UK police force will take years to mend.
Eventually, a nurse came to check on me and found my blood pressure was over 200 – stroke territory. The stress of being arrested for jokes was literally threatening my life. So I was escorted to A&E, where I write this now after spending about eight hours under observation.
The doctors suggested the high blood pressure was stress-related, combined with long-haul travel and lack of movement. I feel it may also have been a contributing factor that I have now spent eight years being targeted by trans activists working in tandem with police in a dedicated, persistent harassment campaign because I refuse to believe that lesbians have cocks.
Read the whole thing.