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Week of September 7, 2025
"Just kill 'em."
Ginger
9/7/20258 min read
Here goes...
1. Trump is continually trying to take credit of Biden’s infrastructure projects that he berated Biden for nonstop during Biden’s term. He insisted Republicans not vote for the infrastructure spending. And what, do his supporters actually think he’s responsible for these projects, or is it just more “owning the libs”? Presidents shouldn’t do this, and good people should not approve.
2.In this week’s version of “Why is JD Vance such an asshole?”. When he was told that extrajudicial killings are a war crime, The Vice President of the United States of America said “I don’t give a shit what you call it”. (Politico) This is referring to the military being sent to blow up a boat with 11 people onboard in the waters off of Venezuela. He said it was “the highest and best use of our military”. I can’t believe I’m agreeing with Rand Paul right now but his response was this…
“Maybe [the boat] was coming here. Maybe it wasn’t. But nobody’s even asking whether we need to prove that. We just blow them up,” he said, adding: “I got no love lost for these people. But at the same time, is this the new Coast Guard policy? ... Almost none of the boats we’ve interdicted does it end up with us blowing up the boat.”
“But I think what really ticked me off and got me going, was for someone to glorify the idea of killing people without any due process and saying he just didn’t give a shit what anybody who was going to criticize him was going to say. That to me was a disdain for human life and a disdain for processes.” (Politico)
And guess what folks, the boat was turning around when it was blown up! The equivalent of shooting someone in the back.(Reuters, The Guardian, CBS News) And because the thing was blown to smithereens there is no evidence. This. Is. Called. Murder. It’s why we have due process. It’s a war crime. For all we know, they were fishermen. Rubio said there are tapes of them talking, and that there were loads of drugs onboard but has provided absolutely no evidence. He admitted that the boat could have been intercepted (which is what they usually do) and searched, but they chose to just kill people instead. (NYT, CNN, India Today)
3. In which the US Department of Energy seems to forget that batteries exist.
4. 1. Meanwhile on Fox - Lawrence Jones offered this gem about the homeless (after a woman was tabbed by a mentally ill homeless person): “This is happening all across the country, and it’s not a money issue. They have given billions of dollars to mental health and the homeless population. A lot of them don’t want to take the program, a lot of them don’t want to get the help that is necessary. You can’t give them a choice. Either you take the resources that we’re going to give you, or you decide that you gotta be locked up in jail. That’s the way it has to be now.” And then Brian Kilmeade added “Or involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill ‘em.” And Lawrence Jones nods in agreement. (Kim Field, Rolling Stone, The Hill, Video here). Just, wow.
They don’t understand anything about the mentally ill, or its funding or services. Oh screw it, let’s just kill them
(Kilmeade later apologized, but come on, you have a viewership of millions. And really, that a thought like that occurs in your head at all, let alone spoken out loud tells us a lot. Also, other journalists have been fired this week simply for repeating Charlie Kirk’s own words. But on Fox things are different. )
Did you know that the Nazis called people who could not work, mostly the disabled, “useless eaters”, and used that sentiment as a justification to “just kill ‘em”. (American Holocaust Museum, Tale Avalon Project) )
5. West Point Naval Academy Alumni Association was going to honor Tom Hanks, a long-time veteran’s supporter. But Trump hates Hanks (of all people) and told them not to, so they didn’t. Apparently Hanks is too “woke” – you know, “cares about others”. He also supported Biden (unforgiveable apparently).
Before the award was cancelled, Alumni Association board chairman Robert McDonald said in a June press release about the award, that Tom Hanks has done more for the positive portrayal of the American service member, more for the caring of the American veteran, their caregivers and their family, and more for the American space program and all branches of government than many other Americans”. (Military.com)
6. Chicago, showing how they feel about Trump invading their city.
7. Remember this gem from last week – when Trump declared war on an American city? Actual treason, people. And also – so cringe.
Also, Kamala Harris predicted Trump would use military force against American citizens. This was not that much of a prediction though because Trump said it himself many times.
8. From the NYT: "The Environmental Protection Agency moved on Friday to stop requiring thousands of polluting facilities to report the amount of heat-trapping greenhouse gases that they release into the air.” (Kim Field)
9. Leslie McGrath on Threads nails it:”They weren’t eating cats and dogs in Ohio. The cities in California weren’t being burned and looted. DC did not need the national guard. Immigrants are not voting in our elections. Our borders were never wide open. Tariffs aren’t paid by other countries. Trump was not an FBI informant to take down Epstein. Chicago and Boston are not hell holes. The true emergency is the military takeover of our country by our own president!”
10. Washington DC doesn’t much like a military takeover of their city either.
11. South Korea is a key ally of the US. It agreed in July to purchase $100 billion in U.S. energy and make a $350 billion investment in the U.S. Hyundai was building a manufacturing plant that was going to create 10,000 jobs for Americans. The plant is 80% completed with about 4 billion invested. But some white lady (Tori Branum, Republican congressional candidate in Georgia - also calls herself "MAGA Karen") saw people that didn’t look like her and assumed there were illegal aliens so she tipped off Ice and is quite proud of herself. . So of course, Federal agents raid the plant, arrest 475 workers, and put them in handcuffs and leg chains. (BBC) MAGA Karen continued to spread misinformation after th incident claiming, for example, that "Democrats love their slave labor". Just so embarrassingly dumb.
Hyundai and their employees were all following immigration laws. Noone was here illegally.
You’ll be shocked to learn that South Korea said FU and brought all of those folks back to South Korea. At last reporting (that I saw), they may or may not come back. (BBC, LA Times, MSNBC)
12. In my post for the week of July 13, I wrote this: Brace yourselves. I would not be including this in my list were it not for the fact that THE Wall Street Journal is reporting it. No possibility this is “fake news”. In the evidence in the Epstein files (obtained by DOJ) is a birthday album created by Ghislane Maxwell in 2003 for Epstein. In it is a birthday card written by Trump. In the card is a hand drawn picture of a naked women in which Trump’s signature is the pubic hair (I know, sorry, I’m just the messenger). Typed on the card is this message: “Happy Birthday — and may every day be another wonderful secret.”
Well, the birthday album has been turned over to the FBI and yes, in fact, that note, that Trump said didn’t exist, does exist. He now says, it’s not from him and someone forged his signature. So, 20 years ago, someone wrote this note, that Maxwell herself included it in the book, and what, forged Trump’s signature(?). Okay.
Nope, definitely not trump’s signature. Absolutely not.
By the way, the birthday book contains things far worse than that note. I’m choosing not to post about it.
13. Russia is TAUNTING NATO member Poland - through a series of actions in this week, including a major drone incursion and provocative military drills near the border. Russia has also used state media to mock the NATO response. (Newsweek, Council for Foreign Relations). It’s fine. Really, it’s fine. Everything is fine.
This was Trump’s message to the world.
Wut?
By the way, during a presidential debate between the two in Pennsylvania last year during the election campaign, Harris said Putin would be “sitting in Kyiv with his eyes on the rest of Europe, starting with Poland.”(London Economic Times). For his part Trump said 53 times that he would end the war in Ukraine on day one.
14. Remember when I told you the farm bankruptcy (and suicide) rate was at its highest under Trump’s first term? Well now it’s going up again in his second term? (LA Times, Bloomberg) Well, In 2023 and 2024 USAID purchased 1 million metric tons of grain from American farmers, valued at $2B. Not happening this year due to cuts to USAID. The program directly benefitted US farmers and helped feed 45 million poor people.. (Reuters, AgWeb)
15. The supreme court found Biden didn't have the authority as president to cut student loans without congress. Well, in their ongoing effort to make Trump a king, they appear to be entertaining are the idea that Trump has the authority to cut whole government programs and eliminate entire agencies unilaterally – even though the funding has been authorized by Congress as prescribed in THE CONSITUTION. The issue is not settled yet but just having this court entertain the idea is shocking.
16. This week Israel bombed Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, Tunisia (a Portuguese vessel) and Qatar. (Yahoo, CNN, WaPo).
17. I have a lot to say about Charlie Kirk and his death. But it is probably an essay, not a bullet item. So I’ll leave you with this excellent piece from World in Black, and this from Florida LGBTQ Democratic Caucus and this from Erin in the Morning, and this for further reading. To all of you who want to say every vile thing reported about him is “taKeN oUt of cOntExT”, bite me.
In the words of Thomas Jefferson in Hamilton, "So what did I miss?"