HEALING: "One of yours killed Charlie," she said!

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2025

Megyn Kelly signs on with the storm: "I saw an interesting thing happen today."

So says Michael Corleone—the Al Pacino character—during the Cuba interlude in the 1974 feature film, The Godfather Part II

To watch the scene in which he says it, you can just click here.

He's referring to the determination displayed by a Cuban revolutionary as Castro is coming to power. He saw this man being shot to death by Cuban police in the final days before the fall of the Batista regime. 

Yesterday, we too "saw an interesting thing happen"—in this case, on yesterday's edition of The Five. We saw a startling display of Red American fury—what you might even call "the storm." 

That startling display is being ignored at Mediaite even as we sit here typing today.  We'll link you to yesterday's startling event in this afternoon's post. 

For now, we think it's important to spend another day contemplating recent examples of the strength of that tribal fury—in the strength of that storm.

In yesterday's report, we showed you the bulk of what Stephen Miller said at Sunday's memorial service for the late Charlie Kirk. At this point, we offer a subjective assessment:

We apologize for the length of the excerpt from Miller's speech. That said, judged by any pre-existing norm, it's shocking to think that this furious man sits at the right hand of the father:

MILLER (9/21/25): Hello, Turning Point. Hello, patriots. Hello to our fearless president, Donald J. Trump. 

And hello to millions of Americans all across this land who are gathered in sadness and sorrow to mourn Charlie Kirk, but also to dedicate ourselves to finishing his mission and achieving victory in his name.

[APPLAUSE] 

The day that Charlie died the angels wept. But those tears had been turned into fire in our hearts, and that fire burns with a righteous fury that our enemies cannot comprehend or understand. 

When I see Erika [Kirk] and her strength and her courage, I'm reminded of a famous expression:

The storm whispers to the warrior that you cannot withstand my strength. And the warrior whispers back, "I am the storm."

Erika is the storm. We are the storm. And our enemies cannot comprehend our strength, our determination, our resolve, our passion. Our lineage and our legacy hails back to Athens, to Rome, to Philadelphia, to Monticello. Our ancestors built the cities. They produced the art and architecture. They built the industry.

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We will prevail over the forces of wickedness and evil. They cannot imagine what they have awakened. They cannot conceive of the army that they have arisen in all of us because we stand for what is good, what is virtuous, what is noble. 

And to those trying to incite violence against us, those trying to foment hatred against us, what do you have? You have nothing. You are nothing. You are wickedness. You are jealousy. You are envy. You are hatred. You are nothing. You can build nothing. You can produce nothing. You can create nothing.

We are the ones who build. We are the ones who create. We are the ones who lift up humanity. 

You thought you could kill Charlie Kirk. You have made him immortal. You have immortalized Charlie Kirk. And now millions will carry on his legacy. And we will devote the rest of our lives to finishing the causes for which Charlie gave his last measure of devotion. You cannot defeat us. You cannot slow us. You cannot stop us. You cannot deter us.

We will carry Charlie and Erika in our heart every single day and fight that much harder because of what you did to us. You have no idea the dragon you have awakened. You have no idea how determined we will be to save the civilization, to save the West, to save this republic, because our children are strong and our grandchildren will be strong. And our children's children's children will be strong.

And what will you leave behind? Nothing. Nothing. To our enemies, you have nothing to give. You have nothing to offer. You have nothing to share but bitterness. We have beauty. We have light. We have goodness. We have determination. We have vision. We have strength. We built the world that we inhabit now, generation by generation.

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We will defeat the forces of darkness and evil. And we will stand every day for what is true, what is beautiful, what is good. And we will achieve victory for our children, for our families, for our civilization, and for every patriot who stands with us. 

God bless you. God bless Turning Point. God bless Erika. God bless the Kirk family. God bless our heroes. And God bless the United States of America. Thank you.

ANNOUNCER: Please welcome to the stage, Susie Wiles.

For what it's worth, we would guess that Miller's reference to "the storm" is a shoutout to QAnon—a shoutout to the tortured souls who would shoot up pizza parlors based on crazy reports.

We apologize for the length of that excerpt. But judged by any pre-existing norm, it defies comprehension to think that the furious man who delivered that speech sits at the right hand of the father. 

So too, we would say, with respect to Megyn Kelly. As we noted yesterday, she has explained why Red American forces DO NOT CARE if Tom Homan really did accept a bribe in the form of a big bag of cash.

Judged by any traditional norm, Kelly's post took the form of a remarkable screed. It was Kelly's response to the report about Homan's possible acceptance of a large bag of cash, a matter which was first report by MSNBC.

Did Homan possibly accept a sack of cash? "We DO NOT CARE," Kelly had initially posted. 

Then, responding to MSNBC's report, she added this lengthy post:

KELLY (9/20/25): We don’t trust you. We don’t trust the work of your president’s DOJ. We don’t trust the work of your president’s FBI. 

You indicted our presidential candidate 4x with made-up BS charges trying to put him in jail for life. You changed laws so he could be civilly sued by a woman who didn’t even remember what year her alleged “rape” by him was. 

You let an AG who ran for office promising to “get Trump” try to bankrupt him on a claim so specious even the NY appellate court scoffed at it & had to reverse the damage award. 

One of yours killed Charlie and then you laughed at our pain, protested our vigils & said Charlie was to blame and in hell. You lied about the killer’s motives & said he was MAGA when you knew he wasn’t. You put us all in danger by not admitting the truth and then not relenting on the lies you tell about us. You cried endless tears for Jimmy Kimmel but none for Charlie.

You gleefully cancelled all of us for five+ years and danced when we suffered. You censored us & ruined careers of distinguished doctors & others who dared to say the truth during Covid and George Floyd. You cost our children years of learning during lockdowns and endangered them with deadly myocarditis by burying the risk disclosures and never apologized or owned it.

Your govt tried to strong arm Fox into firing Tucker bc of his J6 coverage and you said not a peep about the first amendment.

You changed Title IX with the stroke of a pen, without consent, and endangered and hurt our defenseless daughters. You sterilized and cut off the healthy body parts of children & want to keep doing it.

You lied about a near-vegetative president being fine with the nuclear codes. 

You (personally) had Doug Emhoff on as the scandal of his alleged woman abuse and cheating broke and you didn’t ask him ONE Q about it, then tried to tell us you care about women. 

You opened the border and let in ten+ million illegals who killed Laken Riley and 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray after they sexually assaulted her and threw her off a bridge, along with the countless other innocents they rape, murder and molest to this day.

So no, we don’t care what you say about Tom Homan. We do not trust you. We only care about defeating you.

"We only care about defeating you," Megyn Kelly said. 

Did Homan accept a big sack of cash? We DO NOT CARE, Kelly had already said. 

Presumably addressing Blue America (or its elites), she now referred to President Biden as "your president," not hers or that of her tribe. She said that "one of yours" killed Charlie Hurt, and that "you then laughed at our pain."

The sense of grievance was remarkably strong. "You danced when we suffered," the aggrieved multimillionaire said. 

In effect, this was a statement of tribal secession. Tied to Miller's astonishing speech, attention must be paid.

That said, attention is only tangentially being paid within the ranks of Blue America. It's astonishing to think that a person like Miller sits at the right hand of the father—but major organs in Blue America continue to avert their gaze as remarkable war cries keep emerging from within the ranks of "the storm."

Like Miller, Kelly offered a lengthy list of complaints—and her sense of grievance was strong.

In our view, quite a few of her grievances have a reasonable basis in fact. Some of her grievances strike us as remarkably silly, but others among them do not.

In the case of Miller, the problem is the undisguised madness. In Kelly's case, the problem isn't a lack of reasonable complaints. The problem is the massive mountain of self-pity, joined to the wholly unregulated whirlwind of anger within this part of the storm.

Tomorrow, we'll look at some of Kelly's grievances, some of which are unmistakably justified. As we do, we'll show you the ways our elites in Blue America keep whistling past the graveyard as they avert their gaze from the ways we Blues have worked to earn our way out.

Furious players like Miller and Kelly are part of a gathering storm. We Blues remain remarkably feckless and uncomprehending, or so it will say right here.

"I saw an interesting thing happen today." 

So Michael Corleone said—and within the context of the film, Batista was gone by that night.

"The sunshine of the prairie summer and fall months would come sifting down with healing and strength?"

That's what Sandburg said, near the end of Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years. We see few signs of healing here, given the state of our Blue cluelessness in the face of their furious storm.

This afternoon: We saw "the storm" as it blew through The Five

Tomorrow: "Ignorant / uneducated," one of our major stars said


39 comments:

  1. Hegseth has summoned hundreds of admirals and generals to a meeting next week. He didn’t say what it’s all about.

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  2. Bob said “Charlie Hurt”.

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  3. Poor Bob misses the point of those two speeches. They’re saying we’re on a crisis that demands very strong POLITICAL action. If the Republicans maintain that passion, they will have a lot of electoral success.

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    1. Hard to see what Kelly is saying with all that blood pouring out of her vagina all the time.

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    2. Now that she is old it smells like Joy Behar's vinegar vagina secretions.

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    3. Poor Bob misses the point of those two speeches. They’re saying Sieg Heils!

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    4. The word POLITICAL doesn't appear in his speech. Poor David is missing the point, which is to create the US vs THEM dynamic. Where "US" are the righteous creators and "THEM" are the destructive forces of EVIL. Your shallow, banal read of the situation never fails.

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    5. It's step #8 in "Fascism for Dummies." Like fascist dummy David.

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    6. What “political” action is being suggested, DiC? You and the GOP have blamed the entire “left” for Kirk’s killing.

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    1. The storm has passed, everything is in ruins.

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  5. This blog is irrelevant.

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  6. The Bureau of Economic Analysis released its third and final estimate of second-quarter growth, and the results blew through the doomsday chatter from the left. The economy expanded at a robust annualized rate of 3.8% from April through June, far above the 3.3% forecast and higher than the initial estimate of 3.0%.

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    1. Those numbers are lies.

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    2. "Those numbers are lies."

      Ha-ha. That's what we get when no idiot-Democrat talking point have been produced yet: bare-bones bullshit. Thanks for the laughs.

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    3. Those number may or may not be lies. We have no way of knowing since they come from the Trump administration.

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    4. Fascist David cheers on fascists firing experts; in shock when non-fascist question new numbers friendly to regime. It's what fascists do David. Go Google 10 Steps fascists take when assuming power and get back to us. The list I read had Unreality as Step #4.

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    5. Well that is great news since food, energy and housing prices are all up.

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  7. "Schumer, please don't throw me into the briar patch."
    White House to Pursue Mass Firings if Government Shuts Down
    Office of Management and Budget director says reductions in employee counts will be permanent if a deal isn’t reached.
    The new memo sent by Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought sharply raises the stakes for funding talks and increases the pressure on Senate Democrats, who are demanding that Republicans restore hundreds of billions of dollars in healthcare spending as a condition of their support for keeping the government funded.

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    1. It's your tree, fuckface, you're sitting in it.

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    2. David no fair calling us fascists, rooting for the fascists. You really think these jokers aren't coming for "your" Social Security and Medicare as promised? As promised David? But as long as browns and white trash suffer more than you it's all good right David?

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    3. David if truly concerned about foreign aid being wasteful spending, could David explain why it is OK to bail out Argentina's autocrat asshole leader? You won't cause the only reason is he jumped around with Elon and a chainsaw. You movement sucks, your leader can't talk anymore.

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    4. 4:09 makes an excellent point. The extraordinary crisis of the deficit looms before us, requiring cuts and firings almost daily, yet Trump throws $20 billion out the window by 'loaning' it to the financial sinkhole of Argentina. Because he's pals with the president.

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  8. "We apologize for the length of the excerpt from Miller's speech."

    It's nice that you have read it, Bob, and you're aware now of you being the force of darkness and evil.

    Other than that, while I don't really care about who said what, and can't share your faux outrage, thanks for your squealing. I love it. It's very nice, very optimistic.

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    1. You're awful chirpy today, trumptard. New boner medicine?

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    2. They're buzzy from getting their world war and civil war at the same time.

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  9. We are the ones who build. We are the ones who create. We are the ones who lift up humanity.

    This is thick with irony, as people like Miller or Trump or the rest of the degenerates of that administration never built anything.

    Further irony comes from the fact that Stephen Miller's ancestors -- and mine -- were prevented from fully participating in the society, until the forces of liberal democracy changed the society. Miller doesn't understand that. He thinks that embracing toxic Christianity will save him. It won't. The society that he wants to build -- and may very well succeed -- will have no place for him. He's too stupid, too ignorant, too disconnected from the fabric of humanity to discern it.

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    1. Christianity built Western civilization including all of the moral legal principles you think you were born knowing but which in no way are natural to you. You leftists are backward savages, stupid ones. Christians are builders, thinkers, moral reasoners, and moral actors. We beat back the destruction and hate that is endemic to leftism.

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    2. Trump cheats at golf.

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    3. Christianity hobbled knowledge and produced the Dark Ages during which progress was stifled by the Church. It was only after the Plague and the crusades rediscovered Greek and Roman libraries that our civilization returned to prosperity, built upon previous learning to develop the scientific method, testing of hypotheses using empirical data (thank you Newton), advanced mathematics to aid astronomy and physics, explored and observed nature sufficiently to develop biology and medicine. This came from opposing the Church, not following it. The Renaissance and the Enlightenment were responsible for technological progress, improvements in agriculture, manufacturing, vaccines, electrical power and steam power, exploration of the globe. People who think Christianity helped advance knowledge instead of stifling it don't know their own history.

      Christianity does not even have moral contributions given its propensity to burn women as witches, torture people into converting, brutal punishment of minor crimes, and even modern failures such as its aid to the Nazis and its helping them to escape after Hitler committed suicide. I admire efforts like Mother Cabrini's who built hospitals and schools and helped lift immigrants out of poverty in America, the the church failed the Irish during the potato famine and it's own followers have dragged their heels as the current pope tries to lead his followers out of the darkness of intolerance and child abuse.

      This is why each year there are fewer "Christians" in our country. The desperation of the Church as it tries to push Trump toward helping them revive their flock is futile because Trump is as heathen and debauched as it is possible for a man to be these days.

      A picture of the modern church must include those abandoned girl campers whose Church camp cabins were flooded because the Church didn't warn them to leave in time to avoid being swept away, and the Lord didn't save them. It turns out that abolishing the weather monitoring jobs that would have warned all on that TX floodplain wasn't a good idea after all. The Church did nothing to prevent disaster or fill in for the missing workers, and it didn't protect the girls entrusted to its care by their religious parents.

      That is emblematic of today's politicized Church, but perhaps less so of the activist churches on the left, who have taken their duty to include rescuing immigrants and those in need, not just appearing at Prayer Breakfasts and collecting money from a president who doesn't give a damn what happens to his followers.

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    4. Thanks, Anon@4:05. It's concise and to the point.

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    5. Right wingers have so perverted their religion that they seriously believe that a magazine stunt paying witches to put a curse on Kirk was possibly effective. Erika Kirk and Jack Posobiec took the bait to the point of praying about it. Superstitution is not religion. The right should be ashamed of this behavior in the name of piety.

      I find it wrong, morally evil, that the right wing takes advantage of the ignorance of its followers like this, bilking them of money and preaching garbage because they don't seem to know what is real and what is nonsense. It is wrong to use religion to manipulate and control people.

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  10. Why is there no reaction to our beloved President's hanging Autopen's portrait in WH, Bob?

    What, no outrage? No ritualistic inquiry of "what's wrong with him?!!" No nothin'? Wtf, Bob?

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    1. It makes me more sanguine about AI to know that schoolchildren three generations from now will think the 46th president of the US was President Autopen.

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    2. It is sad that Trump feels he must keep feeding his followers nonsense like this, to keep them interested in supporting him. This is petty and stupid. Not worthy of a president, obviously, and it does nothing to hurt Biden's feelings or anyone else on the left.

      After Trump is finished stomping on our national traditions, maybe they will use the 25th Amendment to remove him and we can restore the presidency to its usual dignity.

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  11. Somerby reduces the right wings "storm" to Gutfeld's fury, the tantrum thrown by immature men who are not getting the attention they think they deserve. For Q-Anon, the storm is much more than fury, and much more than Miller's White Supremacist paradise:

    "On the far right, particularly within the QAnon conspiracy theory, "the storm" refers to an apocalyptic reckoning in which former President Donald Trump will defeat a "deep state" cabal of Satan-worshipping, cannibalistic pedophiles. This event, also called "the Great Awakening," is said to lead to a new utopia."

    The storm is, of course, considerably undermined by Trump's relationship with Epstein, which makes him far from a suitable person to be attacking pedophiles (when he and Epstein are what they claim to be attacking). This leaves Q-Anon in an embarrassing position, if they keep supporting Trump. Trump's worsening dementia undermines the figure of a conquering angel too. He mostly comes across now as a querulous old man full of petty grievances.

    More and more, it seems like Somerby doesn't care how the right thinks about things and how they use their words, but he has his own agenda of attacking the left, his own petty slights (because they never took his editorials seriously and no one would publish his book on Al Gore) and his own targets of hate.

    Stephen Miller is a Nazi, not just a fascist. It is time to say so out loud. That Somerby thinks references to the Godfather will make his essay interesting, but he forgets that Michael Corleone was never furious, always calm and even cold in his position. The fury of Miller and other Republicans is weakness compared to The Godfather's ominous wielding of his power. There is no valid comparison there, no matter how often Somerby repeats the word "interesting." This essay says nothing coherent and does not hang together at all. Somerby jumped the shark long ago and today just sounds pathetic, describing right wing anger that he wants to hold the left accountable for. Somerby needs to stop now. He is embarrassing himself.

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  12. Digby has a far better description of right wing fury and its beliefs about the left, written by Zack Beauchamp:

    https://digbysblog.net/2025/09/24/the-best-thing-i-read-today/

    This is what Somerby would be writing if he were mentally competent and sincerely interested in explaining what the right is thinking, why they are so furious over Kirk's death and what they want to see happen now. There is good commentary on the internet but not here.

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  13. Megyn Kelly and Charlie Kirk are and were both big time media players (whores), playing at the top levels of power. They knew each other. I think for Kelly, the dramatic and extremely violent death of Kirk may have been traumatizing. I think this is true of a lot of those media players at that same high level. Because their reaction has been bat shit crazy like Kelly's here. She's not reporting the story objectively. She's a part of the story. She's friends with the guy and having to deal with the shock of his brutally violent assassination. Her reaction and others has been unbelievably crazy. I think they are probably still traumatized and in shock over it. But when you listen to and read her, she's not objective. It's not an objective opinion because she's a part of the story.

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