This is the ultimate in mansplaining:  While introducing killer Kyle Rittenhouse–who for some reason has been dragging a dog with him everywhere–the unknown host at the Turning Point USA conference for “cuteservative” women called the Young Women’s Leadership Conference, tells the dozens of women in the hotel ballroom “what kind of man you should want to be attracted to,” and points to Rittenhouse as a prime example.

“I wanted to talk a lot about what kind of man you should be attracted to,” the host says before being distracted by dog.  “Men, your number one goal is to protect your family and to stand strong in the face of opposition from culture and evil and Kyle Rittenhouse is a man who does that.  God bless Kyle Rittenhouse.”

… ’cause obviously what Turning Point USA meant by a “Leadership Conference” was how to lead young women to do what the men tell them to do.

Multiple gunmen opened fire during closing time at a Chattanooga, Tennessee nightclub led to a stampede in the parking lot as scores of people fled on foot and in cars.  According to the Associated Press, three people were dead–one from injuries incurred by a car–and 14 people were shot.

Police were called to the club at around 2:40 a.m. Sunday for a report of a shooting.  When they arrived, they found dozens of people injured, some from the gunfire and some from the chaos of people trying to flee the shooting.  Two people who were killed died of gunshot wounds.

The shooting did not appear to be random and instead seems to have stemmed from an argument between people in the club.  Chattanooga Mayor Tim Kelly, an Independent, called on Congress to pass common-sense gun reforms to limit the distribution of high-powered guns and high-capacity magazines.

“They took a meeting they never should have taken, and they got played, and that’s the FBI’s fault,” former South Carolina Congressman and Tilda Swinton cosplayer Harold Watson “Trey” Gowdy III said on his Fox show.  “So, yes, somebody lost a trial this week, but it wasn’t John Durham.  It was the FBI.”

… except John Durham did lose the trial this week, badly.  After putting on a two-week case in which just one witness was called, the lawyers on Durham’s team were handed a complete vindication for the defendant in a head-spinningly fast six hours.  And the FBI agent “took the meeting”–which was actually a lunch–with a former co-worker who reportedly had information about suspicious interaction with a foreign government by a high-profile politician.  While nothing prosecutorial came out of that tip, isn’t foreign interference in US elections something we want the FBI to stop?

Russian President Vladimir Putin gave an ominous warning that the Russian military will target new, previously untouched places in Ukraine if Western nations give Ukraine long-range missiles capable of hitting deep into Russia, the Washington Post reports.

In published comments released prior to a recorded interview airing on Russian state television–in Russia, not Fox because it’s Sunday and Tucker Carlson has the night off–Putin seems to be reacting to a promise made by US President Joe Biden to provide Ukraine with missiles that can hit targets about 50 miles away.

Putin’s unclear threat may mean that he would order missiles to be aimed at civilian population centers or cities in the central part of Ukraine that have largely been sparred from attack.

“They know that my intention was to save our Constitutional Republic, period.  The End,” former Republican Georgia gubernatorial candidate, and woman who doesn’t understand what “period” means in a lot of contexts, Kandiss Taylor, who got just 3.4% of the primary votes, exclaims.  “I don’t want to be communist.  If we don’t have fair, legal elections, we are communist.  That is what this is.  We have to secure, in people’s hearts, that their vote is legal.  We have to secure that for them.  Right now, people are flailing around like fish out’ve warter [sic].  You ever had a fish, that you cawaught [sic] and you bring it to the bay [sic], and you take the hook out’ve its mouth, and you put it in the byucket [sic] and you miss the byucket [sic] and it falls on the ground and its just floppin’ around.  That is what’s happening in Georgia.  People are flopping around.  They don’t understand what’s goin’ oyn [sic].  If you think the people are goin’ ta vote in November, they’re not.”

Rudy Giuliani

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The arrest of Peter Navarro and the failure to arrest Biden and his son means we live in a Democrat police state.

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Would be pretty cool if this “Democrat Police State” would arrest Rudy himself finally, it’s been over a year now since he was raided by the FBI over the shit he pulled with Ukraine.

Poor James Craig.  At one point, he was the leading GOP candidate for the Party nomination for Michigan’s governor; now, he’s off the ballot after the Michigan Supreme Court upheld a lower court ruling that invalidated thousands of fraudulent signatures from his ballot petition.  Craig and four other Republican candidates contracted the same company to obtain the needed amount of signatures to be put on the primary ballot.  All five candidates’ petitions were nullified when state elections officials determined that thousands of the signatures on each set of petitions were faked.  But will that stop Craig from whining and claiming he was a victim not of fraud by a private company, but of abuse by the Democratic governor of the state, Gretchen Whitmer, who doesn’t actually have anything to do with the court’s decision?  Of course not.

An Arizona man has been charged with second degree murder and unlawful discharge of a weapon after he shot his wife twice after she woke him up at 3:30 in the morning and he picked up a loaded gun he had at his bedside, the Arizona Republic reports.

Thirty-six year-old “responsible gun owner” Christopher Hoopes claimed that in the early morning hours of May 24th, he was suddenly awoken by noise in the bedroom and reflexively reached for his loaded handgun and fired twice, striking his 25-year-old wife, Colleen, a popular local ballet dancer.

Security camera footage from a neighbor’s home recorded audio of the shooting, with two shots fired two seconds apart.  Both shots hit Colleen in the chest.  Christopher Hoopes called 9-1-1 after the shooting, and told police he was startled, groggy and disoriented when he discharged his handgun twice.

Christians facing actual persecution from evil terrorists were slaughtered while attending Sunday mass at a Catholic church in Southwestern Nigeria on Sunday, the AP reports. Further details were unavailable, but it’s probably a safe bet the scumbags were with Boko Haram, the ISIS-affiliated Islamic terrorist group that has killed thousands of Christian Nigerians over the last two decades of a bloody insurgency. Not “Woko Haram”, the made up nickname for “woke” leftists that have killed approximately zero Christian Americans over the last two decades of a markedly less bloody insurgency waged by right wingers aggrieved over Latino music, rainbow flags, movies and TV casting diverse actors, racists getting fired from their jobs, millennials eating avocado toast, and Trump losing the 2020 election, among other slights real and perceived. Mostly perceived.

Sources tell NBC News fat former President Trump is bored with playing checkers in Republican primaries and wants to start running again to lose the popular vote a third time as early as July 4th – a date that holds some special significance to people who like to apply a patina of “patriotism” to their fascist ambitions. One adviser who is still trying to get the Donald to wait until after the midterms says the question is “whether he can sort of suppress his excitement about a 2024 rematch and not, say, go ahead and put that statement out… and waits for a big event, a big speech to do it… he also wants to crowd out the rest of the field.” The urgency to squash the competition has been growing as former Vice President Mike Pence, formerly fat former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and subnational dictators Kristi Noem, Greg Abbott, and Ron DeSantis make more and more noise about running with or without the Donald making a comeback bid.

Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, the man who never met an abuse of power he did not like, topped former White House resident and future indictee Donald Trump in a straw poll at the Western Conservative Summit held in Colorado, Fox News reports.

The result of the straw poll demonstrates further the divide within the conservative movement between people who want to move on from the disastrous leadership of Trump, who led the Party down a path of conspiracy, authoritarianism and self-promotion, to follow the growing popularity of DeSantis, who will lead the Party down a different path of conspiracy, authoritarianism and self-promotion.

The Western Conservative Summit brings people from the western United States together for a conference that is not as popular, nor a whackadoodle, as the CPAC convention, which was held in Hungary this year because America First.

Odds are you don’t know who Ann Turner Cook is, but you’ve likely seen her picture.  Cook, the original Gerber Food baby, appearing on millions of jars of baby food sold around the world, died last week, the Associated Press reports.  She was 95.

“Many years before becoming an extraordinary mother, teacher and writer, her smile and expressive curiosity captured hearts everywhere and will continue to live on as a symbol for all babies,” Gerber announced on an Instagram post.

Cook was five months old when a neighbor made a charcoal sketch of her and submitted it to Gerber for a contest to find a marketing image.  She remained anonymous–with urban legends claiming the image was Mickey Rooney, Humphrey Bogart and Elizabeth Taylor–until Gerber made her identity public in the late 1970s.

A man who walked into a hospital in Los Angeles Friday night seeking help for extreme anxiety stabbed a doctor and two nurses before locking himself into a room at the hospital for four hours before being taken into custody by police, the Associated Press reports.

The hospital staff moved all the patients out of range of the man, meaning arm’s length because he only had one knife and not a gun that can kill people yards away.  The three people the disturbed man wounded were all hospitalized in stable condition with non-life-threatening injuries.  No one had to plan any funerals because the mentally ill patient only had a knife.

They’re not sending their best, the Gringo Hunters likely say.  They’re sending their rapist.  They’re sending their murderers.  They’re sending their pedophiles.  And that’s who this elite police unit tracks down:  fugitive Americans.

Officially known as the International Liaison Unit, the Gringo Hunters are ten men and two women responsible for hunting down a slew of criminals who fled to Mexico to avoid American justice.  In the 20 years of its existence, the unit has captured and deported to the United States more than 1,600 wanted individuals.

As the Washington Post explains, the unit doesn’t fulfill extradition orders from the American government.  Instead, it relies on information from the FBI and other US law enforcement agencies which get tips on a fugitive. 

It’s possibly a conspiracy that goes all the way to the top – or it could be filled with holes. Nobody knows – unless they were able to find out the real reason with a simple Google search. The truth is out there, munchkins.

Douglas Uhde, the man accused of killing a retired Wisconsin judge on Friday, had a list of other targets including the name of Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and Democratic governors Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan and Tony Evers of Wisconsin, Reuters reports.

John Roemer, the retired judge, was shot and killed at his home by Uhde, who went down to the basement of the judge’s and shot himself.  Uhde survived and is currently in critical condition at a local hospital.

Roemer sentenced Uhde in a 2005 armed burglary case in which Uhde pleaded no contest.  Uhde received a six year sentence and nine years supervised release.  There were twelve other people on the list, most of whom were connected to the case in some way.

Police have linked a convicted murderer who escaped from a Texas correction van and murdered the driver to the murders of a Centerville, Texas man and his four grandsons, aged 11 to 18, before taking the man’s assault rifle and handgun, USA Today reports.

Gonzalo Lopez was killed in a Thursday shootout with law enforcement officers after escaping from a Texas Department of Criminal Justice van that had one door on May 12th.  Lopez overpowered the guard/driver after getting free from his restraints and breaking out of a caged area on the van.  The van was transporting Lopez and 15 other prisoners between Dallas and Houston.

Lopez was on the loose for three weeks, as Texas officials searched for him throughout central Texas.  An enforcer for the Mexican Mafia, Lopez was convicted of murder and attempted murder.  In 2005, he murdered a man who owed the La Mana drug cartel $40,000, and he then engaged in a shootout with law enforcement officials before being captured and convicted.

Restaurant chain Pizza Hut has been getting some undeserved scorn from conservatives for resurrecting their “Book It!” promotion that rewards children for reading books by gifting them a free personal pan pizza after finishing a certain number of books.  And while conservatives regularly undermine attempts at intellectual improvement and reading, this time, they’re outraged(!) about a children’s book called “Big Wig.”

According to PennLive, conservatives have pushed Pizza Hut to trend on Twitter thanks to thousands of posts labeling the restaurant chain “woke” because “Big Wig” is about a boy who dresses like a woman to win a neighborhood costume contest.

“When a child dresses in drag to compete in a neighborhood costume competition, he becomes B.B. Bedazzle!” Simon and Shuster noted in its blurb for the book. “A key part of B.B. Bedazzle’s ensemble is a wig called Wig. Together they are an unstoppable drag queen team! But Wig feels inadequate compared to the other, bigger wigs. When Wig flies off B.B.’s head, she goes from kid-to-kid instilling confidence and inspiring dreams in those who wear her.”

Talking points distributed by the GOP, conservative organizations and anti-gun control groups told their members to essentially avoid talking about guns or how they were used to murder 21 people in an Uvalde, Texas elementary school and deflect to virtually anything else, reports Rolling Stone.

One Republican Senate candidate was advised, “Ignore guns, talk inflation” because of the overwhelming public support for efforts to keep guns out of the hands of mentally ill people as well as to strengthen gun control measures.  The RNC circulated a talking point memo advising people to “thank…the members of law enforcement who responded to the scene and killed the shooter” even though local law enforcement waited more than 80 minutes to storm the classroom, allowing the shooter to kill more victims and students called 9-1-1 for help.

The weekly roundup of GOP talking points for the weekend, known as “Pundit Prep” for people making television appearances, completely avoided discussing Uvalde and gun control, advising readers to talk about literally anything than gun control or the mass murder.

The Abbott Nutrition factory in Sturgis, Michigan shut down due to its links to the death of two children has reopened after the company put into place policies as part of a consent decree with the federal government, the Washington Post reports.

The reopening of the plant, which produces most of the baby formula Similac and other specialty baby formulas for infants with specific dietary issues, will greatly ease the baby formula shortage many parts of the United States are experiencing.

Two children died and at least two others were sickened by a bacterial infection; all four children used formula from the plant.  Upon inspection of the plant, inspectors did not find the source of that specific bacteria, but they found other bacteria and overall unhygienic conditions at the plant and ordered it shut down.