Posted on 09/16/2025 6:30:38 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
WASHINGTON, D.C. — As millions of Americans continued to mourn several days after the assassination of a prominent conservative leader, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi announced the plan to honor Charlie Kirk's legacy by doing the exact opposite of everything Charlie Kirk stood for.
Just six days after Kirk was killed at an event promoting free and open debate in the public square, Bondi appeared as an interview guest on an internet podcast to make a stern pledge to prosecute individuals who were deemed to have engaged in "hate speech."
"The best way to honor Charlie is by going against what he stood for," Bondi said in a subsequent social media post. "Charlie was a relentless warrior who fought for the freedom of speech and the open exchange of ideas. That's why I'm making it my mission to police what people say, identify speech I don't like, and take steps to hold the perpetrators criminally responsible. It's a philosophy that is not at all what Charlie would have wanted. And, in his memory, I'm going to make it a reality."
Despite immediate backlash among conservatives, staffers at the Department of Justice stood by the AG's pledge. "What better way to continue Charlie's legacy than by crumpling it up and throwing it in the trash?" said one DOJ insider. "We owe it to Charlie to just brush off everything he fought so hard for and adopt the type of agenda that he rejected throughout his life's work."
At publishing time, Bondi said she was confident that any precedent set for censoring and prosecuting "hate speech" would never, ever be turned around and used against conservatives in the future.
(Excerpt) Read more at babylonbee.com ...
Something from Nietzsche comes to mind: “Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
Wasn’t Blondi one of George Zimmerman’s persecutors, egged on by Medicare finagler Rick Scott, who was then FL governor?
She ain’t my choice as the chief of the Tone Police.
Indeed. IMO, Political speech of which the current government disapproves is MOST protected by the First Amendment.
The far left invented the idea of "hate speech".
Bondi has too many unforced errors. First the Epstein files debacle and now this. She appears to be unknowingly confusing hate speech with threats of violence that infringe on someone’s civil liberties such as Palestinians protesters blocking Jewish students from attending classes at Columbia or intimidating TPUSA members from holding a vigil for Charlie Kirk.
I think Pam is perfectly within her right you can’t tell blacks and Latinos aren’t welcome in my establishment and it’s protected under the first amendment.
That doesn't have anything to do with anything in the article.
How many Russia gate deep staters has legally Bondi charged?
I would but I’m blocked in X for “hate speech.”
Sad stuff
She delivered the hate speech remarks with bird hands
"Political speech of which the current government disapproves is MOST protected by the First Amendment."YES!
Yes, she was. She couldn’t accept the due process already afforded to Georg Zimmerman ie the police saw no cause to charge him and the local DA could find no cause to charge him but she inserted herself into it and force the DA to charge him.
In a very highly charged case, one that even the President weighed in against G. Zimmerman, a jury of his peers found him not guilty.
It’s a recurring Trump problem that those he appoints are a bunch of loyalist or donor hacks who aren’t conservative and don’t know what the proper stance should be. Any experienced strategist would avoid stepping on a rake with this “hate speech” framing.
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The Bee is usually so good. What happened?
Yes, Bondi sometimes sounds like she just fell out of the sticks-foot-in-mouth tree, hitting every branch on the way down.
She can’t seem to grasp the Trump vibe, but instead, only seems to be trying to echo what she thinks she’s heard.
It’s painful to hear.
This actually is very good satire. Funny, biting.
Bondi (Blondie) is getting what she deserves, no more and no less.
The White Hispanic hung in there, and was rightly acquitted.
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