GROSS INJUSTICE IS RAMPANT

TRUMP’S MOB ACTIVITIES CONTINUE. Joseph Gedeon reports, “U.S. Justice Department Removes Study Finding Far-Right Extremists Commit ‘Far More’ Violence,” The Guardian, September 17, 2025. And Andy Borowitz writes “Trump’s War on Laughter Will Bite Him in the Ass,” The Borowitz Report, September 18, 2025. 

Here are tidbits gleaned from these and other sources, together with my own reactions to the chaos following the horrific killing of Charles Kirk.

Who Was Charles Kirk? I confess that Kirk and I traveled in different political circles. Here, though, are quotes of his beliefs from The Guardian: “If I see a Black pilot, I’m going to be like, boy, I hope he’s qualified.” About Joy Reid, Michelle Obama, Sheila Jackson Lee and Ketanji Brown Jackson: “You do not have the brain processing power to otherwise be taken really seriously. You had to go steal a white person’s slot to go be taken somewhat seriously.” “If I’m dealing with somebody in customer service who’s a moronic Black woman, I wonder is she there because of her excellence, or is she there because of affirmative action?”

On gender, feminism, and reproductive rights: “Reject feminism. Submit to your husband, Taylor. You’re not in charge.” And “We need to have a Nuremberg-style trial for every gender-affirming clinic doctor. We need it immediately.” 

On immigration: “The great replacement strategy, which is well under way every single day in our southern border, is a strategy to replace white rural America with something different.” On Islam: “Islam is the sword the left is using to slit the throat of America.” On religion: “There is no separation of church and state. It’s a fabrication, it’s a fiction, it’s not in the constitution. It’s made up by secular humanists.”

Ashley Ahn and Maxine Joselow offered “Where Charlie Kirk Stood on Key Political Issues,” The New York Times, September 11, 2025: They write, “Mr. Kirk appealed to conservative Christians who feared the growing acceptance of the L.G.B.T.Q. community in the United States. He was critical of gay and transgender rights and the separation of church and state. He encouraged students and parents to report professors whom they suspected of embracing what some on the right refer to as gender ideology.”

Ahn and Joselow continue, “Mr. Kirk believed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was a destructive force in American politics, calling its passage a ‘mistake’ that he said has been turned into ‘an anti-white weapon.’ ” 

’Nuff said. White-supremacist/misogynist/right-wing Charles Kirk and I had decidedly different beliefs.

Jimmy Kimmel’s One-Liner. In his Monday night monologue, Kimmel said: “The MAGA Gang [is] desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it.”

Compare the tenor of this quip with the Kirk quotes above, particularly in light of Trump’s comments about blaming the “radical left” for political violence in the United States.

Whence the Violence? Joseph Gedeon writes in The Guardian, “The US justice department has scrubbed a study from its website concluding that far-right extremists have killed far more Americans than any other domestic terrorist group, just days after a gunman fatally shot the prominent conservative activist Charlie Kirk.”

Where’s the Report? “The report, now archived, titled What NIJ Research Tells Us About Domestic Terrorism, vanished from the Department of Justice website between 11 and 12 September, according to Jason Paladino, an independent investigative reporter who first wrote the story….

“Where the report once appeared,” Gedeon recounts, “the justice department wrote it was ‘reviewing its websites and materials in accordance with recent executive orders,’ according to 404Media, though the page is now unavailable.”

As of today, the report itself can still be accessed through the archive. It notes, “Since 1990, far-right extremists have committed far more ideologically motivated homicides than far-left or radical Islamist extremists, including 227 events that took more than 520 lives.[1] In this same period, far-left extremists committed 42 ideologically motivated attacks that took 78 lives.”

Gedeon recounts, “… the findings align with independent research from the Center for Strategic and International Studies, which analyzed 893 terrorist plots between 1994 and 2020. That study concluded: ‘Rightwing attacks and plots account for the majority of all terrorist incidents in the United States since 1994.’ ”

Borowitz Responds. Andy Borowitz writes with his usual succinct elegance, “Donald J. Trump got a podiatrist’s note to avoid the Vietnam War, but he’s all in on the War on Laughter. In July, he applauded CBS’s cancellation of Stephen Colbert. Last night, he crowed about ABC yanking Jimmy Kimmel, and warned Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers that they could be next.”

“Soon,” Andy says, “the only comedian left on TV will be Karoline Leavitt.”

An Autocrat’s Nobel?? Borowitz recounts, “Trump’s attempt to silence those who mock him is straight out of the autocrat’s playbook—and while he has never demonstrated an ability to read, perhaps Stephen Miller reads it to him softly when he tucks him in at night. But if Trump thinks trampling on free speech will serve him well, he hasn’t thought this through.”

“By gagging his critics,” Borowitz reasons, “he’s destroying his chance at the one thing he values even more than Emirati crypto billions: the Nobel Peace Prize. You see, the Nobel folks really like free speech.” 

“And since it bears repeating,” Andy concludes, “let me say what I said earlier this week: as the quislings in corporate media continue to bend their knee to our senile wannabe dictator, I have never been more grateful that I don’t work for one of these craven companies. I work for you. Onward.”

Thanks for being part of this, Andy. I work for SimanaitisSays, a non-profit retirement hobby, and I share your views. ds 

© Dennis Simanaitis, SimanaitisSays.com, 2025