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Happy Thursday, dear Kruiser Morning Briefing friends. Cortezryk was never able to adequately explain why he thought a Crisco Slip ‘N Slide would be a good idea.
This is going to be a quick one today, mostly because I know my limitations when it comes to dealing with the Democrats and their vile behavior in the face of the kind of tragedy that we saw in Minneapolis yesterday. I’ve also already written two columns about it, one that’s in the links below and one that’s scheduled to post after I publish this.
We are once again dealing with law enforcement who are mystified as to the motive of the homicidal maniac, which my friend Matt Vespa wrote about over at Townhall. Here in the 21st century, an unclear motive in these tragedies is code for “The conservatives’ suspicions are correct but we refuse to admit that they’re right AGAIN.”
It also means that the killer was an anointed member of one of the Democrats’ pet victim groups.
For the longest time, it was the Jihadis who were most often pulling the trigger (or using pressure cooker bombs). Feds and local law enforcement repeatedly acted like a murderer who yelled “Allahu Akbar!” just before the killing started was going to end up being an Irish-American Catholic who’d been registered Republican for 20 years.
Now we’re seeing a new frightening pattern emerging, which my friend (and our new head honcho) Chris Queen wrote about just as information about the Minneapolis shooter was coming in:
However, if Westman is transgender, this shooting has parallels to other shootings involving transgender individuals. The most notorious of these shootings was the 2023 Covenant School shooting in Nashville, in which Audrey Hale, a woman who identified as a man, killed three 9-year-old students and three adults.
The Democrats never want to have the “rhetoric” discussion once it’s obvious that a killer is from their protected victimhood class. Blaming rhetoric is only on the table for the few brief hours after a mass shooting when Dems and their flying monkeys in the mainstream media are hoping that they’ll find a MAGA tattoo on the killer and their fantasy about a domestic terror attack from a white Republican will finally have come true.
Yes, they’re hoping for one of those. Never let a crisis go to waste, and all that.
Here are some thoughts on rhetoric. The Democrats and their online troll minions can’t wait to disparage people of faith after a shooting. Their go-to line is “thoughts and prayers aren’t working.” They’ve been openly mocking religious people like this for a very long time. Now we’ve got transgender guys shooting up parochial schools. I can play connect-the-dots here.
A huge component of the Democrats’ politics of victimhood brand is convincing the “victims” that Republicans hate them. It’s how the Dems hope to keep entire voting blocs in their thrall. That isn’t working as well for them anymore. Despite their mentally unhinged demonization of President Trump, he continues to draw voters from formerly reliable Dem constituencies who finally realize what the Democrats’ game is.
When they’re not trying to spin up Jihadis and transgender people by screaming “Islamophobia!” and “Transphobia!” all the time, they’re calling us Nazis. They’re the ones who are vehemently antisemitic, but we’re the Nazis, go figure. As a headline of Matt’s said yesterday. “The Radical Left Is Still Trying to Get Trump Assassinated.”
They’d actually like to get us all. This is something that my good friend and Townhall colleague Kurt Schlichter tweeted Wednesday night:
I keep telling you the Democrats want to murder you https://t.co/NHsglTFVVb
— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) August 28, 2025
I haven’t been carrying when I go to Mass on Sundays. That’s going to change now.
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