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State of Thursday: FOOLISH, LAME AND INCREDIBLY DANGEROUS

In all of human history, lame idiots have never been more powerful, more numerous and more dangerous

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Geoffrey Ingersoll
Jan 22, 2026
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(A bloodied ICE supporter tries to avoid a crowd of anti-ICE protesters after he and two other ICE supporters were attacked by a flag pole. Photo ROBERTO SCHMIDT / Contributor / Getty Images)

Greetings, Dear Reader,

I keep saying I need to keep these short and they end up whatever they end up anyway, so I’m not going to say it this time.

Welcome back to SOTD, where I strip the euphemism and misdirection off the day’s news and give it to you straight, straight; no ice, no mixer. (My editor is going to change the comma before ice and mixer to a semicolon, watch.)

Perhaps my grammar and punctuation aren’t what they used to be.

You know what else?


FOOLISH, LAME AND INCREDIBLY DANGEROUS

It’s always a little tempting to use the lowest common denominator in each political spectrum as a cudgel. The retort, often enough, is that they are not representative of the whole.

While I don’t think all ~150 million people on the American political left are TikTok-brain-addled doofuses, I do believe the doofuses have effectively taken over. Think of ISIS post-U.S. Iraq withdrawal. Most Muslims in Iraq were not trying to cut each other’s hands off for smoking, but a very particular group was. That particular group managed to achieve a monopoly on both policy and summary acts of violence.

Sound familiar?

The new attorney general of Virginia, Jay Jones, the guy who openly wished for GOP children to die in a hail of gunfire so he could better justify abolishing the Second Amendment, can’t stop making mistakes. He issued his first press release since taking office, a review of the legality of Spanberger’s intent to gerrymander Virginia into oblivion, and he forgot to remove his Republican predecessor’s letterhead.

(I’ll save you the reading on that one. He thinks gerrymandering Virginia is totally legit!)

Jones followed that up by withdrawing from a federal consent decree that barred illegal aliens from eligibility for in-state tuition. That’s dumb and will act as a magnet for lawbreakers, but dumber yet is that in the graphic he posted for the announcement (now deleted), he misspelled the word “attorney.”

They really are not sending their best.

Virginia Delegate Jessica Anderson just introduced a one-page bill banning the government from making sure that nonprofits are actually legitimate before sending them taxpayer money. People are calling it the “fraud is legal now” bill.

These are Democrat officials. People in leadership positions. They can’t spell their own vocations, and they don’t know what a woman is. Worse yet, when they get power, they burn the ladder behind them and then start removing mandatory sentences for rapists and pedophiles.

If you can believe it, checking in on the bottom of the heap is even more insane.

The crypt keeper here did what liberals do now and sat by himself in his bedroom and told his phone that he intended to shoot and kill any ICE agents who knocked on his door.

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This Wiccan-in-training decided she was going to “weave collective light for Palestine.” She did this little dance by herself as well and then posted it.

Liberal influencer and dumpy-looking turd Will Stancil is getting made fun of quite a bit for this photo of him next to his Honda blowing a rape whistle as ICE serves a warrant.

I’d be willing to bet this lady is either blowing a rape whistle at ICE right now or planning to in the near future.

Would anyone be shocked if she uploaded a video of herself, by herself in her car, screaming and crying? No, probably not. And yes, I do think this is representative of the most powerful and coercive elements of the political left. Screaming in your car by yourself over Renee Good and then posting it for likes is just Wednesday in these parts.

This is not isolated. It’s not a fringe case. These sorts are mainstream. They aren’t just relegated to practicing Wicca in their converted-for-rituals guest rooms. They’re pitching new laws in Virginia. They want to run the country!

And because America is a global trendsetter, they’ve also metastasized.

Britain’s health service officially endorsed procreation with first cousins. They likely did so in large part due to pressure to be “tolerant” toward a huge population of inbred Third Worlders they allowed into the country.

What could go wrong?! Trust the science!

Needless to say, these people are foolish and unbelievably lame. Unfortunately, they’re also incredibly dangerous. The mix of delusion and self-righteousness drives their IQ-deficient hordes into frenzied states of summary violence, which their officials either encourage or aggressively don’t discourage.

If the mostly peacefuls don’t get you, then maybe a drunk illegal will cross the double yellows and send you to your maker. Maybe he’s driving a semi. Maybe he got a CDL from Newsom in California. Maybe he’s already been booked on three misdemeanor battery charges, and the liberal judge risks her entire career to help him escape deportation.

That last one isn’t a hypothetical — it actually happened.

You see where I’m going with this, Dear Reader. In all of human history, lame idiots have never been more powerful, more numerous and more dangerous.

Be safe out there.


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