Posted on 11/12/2025 1:10:32 AM PST by Morgana
A Democrat furry is running to represent Michigan’s 7th district in the US House of Representatives. 36-year-old Samuel Smeltzer, who calls himself "Elyon Badger," has made numerous controversial statements on social media and has celebrated the assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk.
Smeltzer is an LGBTQ activist, small business owner, and Michigan Army National Guard veteran, according to his campaign webpage. He is running on a platform that includes universal healthcare, legalizing marijuana, building a high-speed railway system, and free public college and trade school.
On Bluesky, Smeltzer has advocated for rounding up "every single red hat wearing MAGA" and placing them in "hard labor camps for the rest of their lives," and has claimed that "Jesus was a communist" and "America deserved 9/11." On TikTok, he made a post advocating to "kill billionaires," citing headlines about SNAP benefits running out amid the government shutdown and a Tesla shareholder package approved for Elon Musk.
In the wake of Kirk’s assassination, Smeltzer made a number of posts calling him a "massive loser," writing in the hours after Kirk’s death "good things can happen," and "how can we defeat evil, if evil is mourned when it’s defeated?"
In an official campaign statement made in the wake of Kirk’s death, Smeltzer wrote, "Charlie Kirk was against cancel culture and was a free speech absolutist… The alleged shooter is an Alt Right Groyper that was radicalized by Nick Fuentes and his alleged primary motive for the shooting was because Charlie wasn’t right wing enough."
Smeltzer wrote that Kirk was a "white supremacist who preached stochastic terrorism, and now a second political assassination was done by a white male that was groomed in a gun loving Christian Conservative home into becoming a very well trained political assassin due to the failures of these Christian fathers and the rhetoric they espouse to their young children."
He went on to blame the "gun loving Conservatives Christians" for Kirk’s killing, adding, "their violent stupidity and ignorance needs to be publicly mocked at all opportunities, 'the left' has advocated for mental healthcare and gun control so again, for the 400th time 'its not the guns its the mental health' THEN GIVE ME HEALTHCARE because we on 'the left' tried our best to get these gun loving psychopaths therapy instead of range time."
Speaking with Michigan LGBTQ paper Between the Lines, Smeltzer said he was "leaning into the furry side of things" because "the Heritage Foundation has targeted the furry community." He added, "they’re going after queer spaces and organizations where we are allowed to express creative freedom."
The article continued, "The candidate has special animus for the Heritage Foundation and its Project 2025. He emphasizes the role of Michigan’s conservative Hillsdale College in planning the initiative, noting that Larry P. Arnn serves as both president of the college and as a trustee of the Heritage Foundation. Badger describes Arnn as a 'shadow person’ who is 'fucking up our America.’"
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Does anyone doubt that American fanatics on the Left would make it happen in the U.S. right now? All they need is a leader.
Anyone who does not vehemently support the radical Left agenda had better take note.
How many can you tag?
Meet the Gay Furry Socialist Dem Candidate
Who Celebrated Charlie Kirk’s Murder
and Loves 9/11
Story by Harold Hutchison
A candidate for the Democratic nomination in a competitive congressional district celebrated the assassination of Charlie Kirk and said the United States deserved the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack.
Samuel Smeltzer, an IT specialist who identifies as a honey badger and goes by the name “Elyon Badger,” has a history of violent posts on BlueSky, a left-leaning competitor to X, the Washington Free Beacon reported. He is running for the House of Representatives in Michigan’s Seventh Congressional District, currently represented by Republican Rep. Tom Barrett, according to the outlet.
Smeltzer, who has also praised the assassinations of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk and United HealthCare CEO Brian Thompson, once posted to BlueSky about being banned from X for saying the U.S. deserved the 9/11 attacks carried out by the Islamic group al-Qaeda.
(sorry, quick source)
This asshole was probably in elementary school on 9/11. Somebody or something has really worked him over since then and now it appears that he has his mind made up. I really don’t care if he ever gets the help he so desperately needs, just get him off the streets and into a warm straitjacket.
This thug will be endorsed by the state.
Since he’s running for Congress in Michigan, shouldn’t he change his furry persona to “ Elyson Wolverine?”
The 7th District encompasses Lansing, so he’ll likely get elected.....
In Omena Michigan they have had Dogs and horses elected mayor. If any state needs their rolls cleaned it is Michigan. The summer residents that die out of state vote for decades. Michigan is a corruption testing state for democrats. It should be unfunded.
Virginia and Michigan are similar in many ways the Democrats are flooding them with liberal immigrant populations to destroy America.
They are Detroit and Washington city-states. There are 21 House members and four Senators in the Washington city-state compared to two Senators in Detroit.
Hey moron, nothing is FREE! Someone will have to pay for it!!
I saw him in his costume, he should wear it. He'd make John Fetterman look like he dresses in a suit and tie, if he wore that costume to the house. He said he is proud of being a furry, so why not endorse the wearing of it to the house?
Of course, most of the Dems should wear clown outfits... 😀
As they empty NY and CA the democrats try to direct the migration to MI or VA. With good education and Healthcare.MI and VA will be the next senior citizen states replacing FL.
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