First the piece of content, then everyone hops on, makes it about them and puts their own meaning on it, and then all the players double down into another culture war, more content, clippable, meme-able, performative. Every now and then people remember that a tragedy has happened, and there's a bit of performative decorum. And then more content arrives in, and dopamine zings.
Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) rejected being responsible for promoting political violence with her rhetoric, insisting it is President Donald Trump and MAGA pushing a culture of violence following the killing of Charlie Kirk. Crockett joined The Breakfast Club radio show on Friday where she rejected accusations from the right and MAGA that Democrats' rhetoric promoted violence against Kirk.
Eight months ago, if you said that the second coming of MAGA would, in broad daylight, wheel the Confederacy back in, you would have been called an alarmist. It would have seemed like overblown anxieties typical of the antiracist wingnuts or the woke to say that those who sought to make America great again would, like the first MAGA movement, the Redeemers, attempt to re-stage slavery.
Kash Patel and Pam Bondi, in six months, will not be in the DOJ and at the FBI if these indictments haven't happenedperiod. That I can guarantee you. And I'm not saying they're villains yet; I'm not saying they are weak yet. I'm just telling you right now that the American people want action. They want indictments, they want justice, they want retribution for what these crooks have doneopen and shut, raged Jones on his online show.
Bondi's last appearance as a guest on Fox News was with Sean Hannity on June 30th, days before her DOJ and the FBI released a joint memo concluding that Jeffrey Epstein killed himself and did not keep a client list.
I gave the president my view of how to handle it. Pretty much what I told you guys. Don't talk about it. Get Bondi, the Justice Department, in a methodical way to explain what's going on.
I think the time has come for the administration to release all of the files regarding Jeffrey Epstein's investigation and prosecution. It's important that we protect the names of the victims.