Day 236: Tyranny in the Making: From Grievance Theater to National Guard Tactics

Donny’s Free Speech Crackdown — Now With Extra Hypocrisy

After the killing of Charlie Kirk, Donny did what Donny always does: grab the nearest microphone, point at the left, and start screaming. On Fox & Friends, he solemnly declared that the “radical left” is to blame for political violence in America. This, from the same guy who once told his followers to “knock the crap out of” protesters and led a coup cosplay on January 6. Cool heads and lowered emotions? Not exactly Donny’s brand.

"The radical left" is now just "the left" according to Donny. If you don't agree with Donny you're a radical lunatic. And if someone on the right is killed in an act of political violence - the entire left is to blame for their incendiary radical rhetoric. No irony.

The problem, of course, is reality. The shooter, Tyler Robinson, wasn’t some Antifa boogeyman or woke TikToker. The initial finger pointing is now being undermined by actual evidence. Donny’s response? Crickets. No apology. No correction. Just more grievance theater about trans rights, open borders, and how it’s always the left’s fault when his people go rogue.

The Republicans - always the first to shout how strongly they believe in Freedom of Speech are of course now cracking down on it. Not their own, naturally, but anyone online who dares to express the wrong opinion about Kirk’s death. The State Department is even threatening foreigners with punishment if they “make light” of Kirk. Because nothing says land of the free like silencing people over a dead culture warrior.

So here we are again: Donny lighting the match, blaming his enemies for the flames, and then posing as the firefighter. He fuels the division, profits off the chaos, and calls it leadership. The only thing more predictable than his finger-pointing is the media’s willingness to play along.

And all of this serves as a convenient distraction from the Epstein files, that the GOP quietly voted not to release whilst Kirk's murder dominated the new cycle.

Stephen Miller's Excitement at Opportunity to Decimate the Left

Let's face it, Charlie Kirk's assassination is the first school shooting Republicans have actually ever actually cared about.

Sociopath Stephen Miller could barely contain his glee at the “opportunity” handed to him by it. He's practically gleeful. This is the guy who writes like a 19th-century Dracula villain and tweets like he’s auditioning for a job at Infowars.

And sure enough, the minute Kirk’s death hit the headlines, Miller went full Miller. On X, he poured out a thousand words of apocalyptic bile about a “soulless ideology” that supposedly “hates everything that is good, righteous and beautiful.” Translation: college kids posting memes.

The rant read like bad fan fiction of The Handmaid’s Tale, except Miller seems to think he’s the hero. According to him, “millions” of Americans — teachers, doctors, therapists, hell, probably your grandma, are secretly cheering on assassinations and plotting to destroy civilization. The man sees enemies in every corner of American life, and you get the sense he likes it that way.

But don’t think that was enough. On Fox News, Miller took it further, practically foaming at the mouth, vowing retribution against “domestic terrorists spreading this evil hate.” The shooter’s MAGA ties? Irrelevant. The facts? Inconvenient. For Miller, Kirk’s death isn’t a tragedy — it’s a political branding exercise, a chance to weaponize grief and fear in service of his lifelong project: demonizing anyone who doesn’t fit into his tiny, twisted definition of America.

This is Miller at his most transparent: treating bloodshed as a marketing opportunity, spouting biblical-sounding nonsense to justify authoritarian crackdowns. He’s less a policymaker than the White House’s resident cult poet — scribbling manifestos designed to inflame, divide, and dehumanize.

And yet, this isn’t fringe. This is official White House rhetoric. That should scare the hell out of everyone.

Donny’s Traveling Police State: Now Featuring Memphis

The Don has a new tour stop: Memphis. Fresh off his unconstitutional police takeover in D.C., he’s announced he’s shipping in the National Guard to “fix” Tennessee’s largest city. Because nothing says law and order like turning every American downtown into Baghdad circa 2003.

Trump boasted, “We’re going to Memphis. Memphis is deeply troubled. The mayor is happy … We’re going to fix that just like we did Washington.” Right — because Washington definitely needed to be “fixed” by declaring martial law while crime rates were dropping.

This is Donny’s favorite game: pick a Democratic-led city, label it a “hellhole,” and send in troops like he’s playing Risk with actual human beings. Los Angeles, Chicago, New Orleans — all on his bingo card. The strategy isn’t about crime (which in Memphis, like many cities, has been declining). It’s about optics: soldiers on street corners make Donny feel like the tough guy his bone spurs never let him be.

And let’s be honest: the “hostile agitators” Donny keeps whining about are just people holding signs that hurt his feelings. When he hears “Memphis blues,” he assumes it’s an Antifa band.

Local leaders didn’t ask for this. Communities don’t want it. But Donny doesn’t care. He’s building a national police force with himself as commander-in-chief — something Judge Breyer just ruled flat-out illegal in Los Angeles. For Donny, illegality is the point. Breaking the law is his love language.

So brace yourselves, Memphis. The circus is coming to town — except the clowns are armed, and the ringmaster thinks federalism is something you put on a bagel.

Donny’s Energy Prophet: Fusion, Fracking, and Fantasy

According to The Don’s Energy Secretary Chris Wright, you can stop worrying about climate change because, get this - AI is going to solve nuclear fusion within five years. Yep. Forget the decades of failed experiments, billions wasted, and physicists warning that fusion is still a generation away. Wright says it’s practically ready to roll onto your power grid before you finish paying off your student loans.

This revelation will no doubt come as a shock to… literally every scientist alive. But who needs science when you’ve got vibes and AI? Will we have flying cars and bases on mars then too? Chris Wright is free to peddle this total fantasy because he's a fucking clown serving a clown.

Of course, Wright wasn’t content to stop at rewriting the laws of physics. He also told Britain to get back into fracking, because nothing screams “21st-century energy policy” like setting fire to the water supply. And just in case you were wondering why Donny’s administration gutted renewable energy subsidies, Wright had the answer: solar and wind had “enough help already.” Apparently, after 25–30 years of support, renewables should “walk on their own.” Oil and gas, meanwhile, still get corporate welfare like it’s their birthright.

He also doubled down on the administration’s July climate report—aka the “sea level rise is fake and CO2 makes plants happy” manifesto—that 85 international scientists politely described as “garbage.” Wright dismissed them as the real cherry-pickers, because apparently the scientific method is just radical leftist trickery.

Oh, and if you’re worried about NOAA losing funding for satellites that monitor climate change? Don’t be. Wright says those are just “rumors.” Translation: they’re absolutely on the chopping block. But don’t worry—fusion-powered AI sun machines are going to save us all. Eventually. Generations from now. Maybe.

So to recap: Donny’s energy doctrine is a cocktail of denial, distraction, and delusion. Fusion in five years, fracking forever, and climate science only if it flatters Big Oil. Or as Wright might put it: real science.

Donny’s Campus Snitch Files

In a move that screams Big Brother louder than a surveillance drone, UC Berkeley just handed over the names of 160 students, faculty, and staff to Donny’s goons. Their crime? Being caught in the administration’s endlessly flexible definition of “anti-Semitism,” which Donny now deploys the way a toddler deploys glitter—everywhere, and without purpose.

Berkeley, once the poster child for free speech, apparently decided that academic freedom is overrated when the White House comes knocking. Instead of telling Donny to shove it, they dutifully passed along the names and sent out neat little notices informing people they’re now part of a federal dossier. Nothing says higher learning like volunteering as a snitch.

This is just the latest chapter in Donny’s war on academia:

• Threatening to yank funding over pro-Palestinian protests.
• Demanding universities cough up admissions data like he’s auditing a mob front.
• Deporting foreign students for daring to open their mouths about Palestine.

Free speech? Under Donny, it’s a privilege—and one revoked faster than you can say “First Amendment.”

And Berkeley? Well, at least they’re consistent. This is the same institution that rolled over earlier this year, agreeing to cap foreign enrollment and hand over student lists like it was running a loyalty program for authoritarians.

The message is clear: toe the line or find your name in a government file. Academic freedom? Dead. Free speech? Optional. Compliance? Mandatory. Donny doesn’t just want control of the classroom—he wants to own the syllabus.