Charlie Kirk fed that machine. He built his fortune on that machine. And today, that machine took his life.

The machine reminds us that we are the real Americans and that "they" (there's always a "they") are determined to destroy everything we hold dear. The machine doesn't actually drive policy- that's not its goal. It drives people to polarization.

Believing that a Republican career prosecutor would do anything other than fuck us over was never a realistic expectation.

My grandmother got me one of these for my birthday a few years ago.

I take it out every now and then, just to put the neighborhood on notice.

Wasn't John Brown white?

Meanwhile:

The last time I went to Rendezvous, my wife looked up at me after I finished my ribs and said, "I'm not sure you stopped to breathe."

I used to feel this way about the people I went to church with.

I was mistaken; they were always broken, and I chose not to see it.