'Nancy Mace's latest attempt to exploit Charlie Kirk's death fails' & other Wed/Thur news briefs

Nancy Mace

Trying again to raise her profile by exploiting Charlie Kirk's death, Rep. Nancy Mace began a war of words against another Congressional representative, Ilhan Omar, after misrepresenting what she said about Kirk's death. She also began a push to censure Omar. As you can see, by the top news brief, even other Republicans aren't buying her bull.

GOP defections sink effort to censure Rep. Ilhan Omar

Nancy Mace Pushes Ilhan Omar Censure, Suggests Deportation, Says ‘F**k Her’ 

Ilhan Omar slams Nancy Mace's attack on her for Kirk remarks. ‘You belong in rehab'

This and other things she has done to exploit Kirk's death proves that Mace is without a doubt, the sleaziest, most disgusting member of Congress. And that is INCLUDING Ted Cruz. She's like Alexis on 'Dynasty' without the beauty, style, intelligence, good fashion sense, taste, culture or basic decency (and that's saying a lot because Alexis had very little decency.) Mace is an attention-desperate, greedy, grasping monstrosity who would roll around in dogshit to get at least give minutes on Fox News. 

In other news:

House GOP Adds Anti-LGBTQ Amendments to Defense Bill: Republican amendments target Pride flags, transgender visibility, and military health care coverage - I'm beginning to think that they don't like us. 

Sens. Baldwin, Murkowski file bill to establish LGBTQ+ youth crisis line in law - Keep your fingers cross. Nice to see that we still have friends in Congress. 

GOP Rep. says we need to remove all trans people from streets & the internet - Ronny Jackson said that. That's the same guy embroiled in this: 

VA nominee Ronny Jackson dished out opioids, wrecked vehicle while drunk, colleagues say 

Seems to be that he is more of a danger than what he says trans people are.

Charlie Kirk's 'avengers' are making opportunistic fools of themselves

This post is not about Charlie Kirk.

Instead, it's about those who have taken it upon themselves to avenge his death, so to speak.  I'm talking about all of the folks who are issuing violent threat, doxxing people, putting up social media blacklists causing people to get fired for comments which can be construed as celebrating Kirk's death, and targeting groups they claim are celebrating Kirk's death.

I'm talking about people like Vice President J.D. Vance, Rep Nancy Mace, our Family Dollar Fuhrer Stephen Miller, Donald Trump himself, other right-wing Congressional leaders and assorted hysterically unhinged far-right social media influencers. These are the folks who claim that they want to "preserve Charlie Kirk's defense of free speech" by creating a reign of terror against speech.

Don't get me wrong because I understand the anger. A lot of folks got called out for making fun of George Floyd's murder. And some of those comments about Kirk have been distasteful. There can be an argument made about free speech and an opposite one made about the consequences of speech. 

But in truth, this situation with Kirk strikes me as opportunistic. With Floyd, people were angry at the barbaric way he died. People on the right came out with all sort vile claims about Floyd after his death. They claimed he was a woman beater and drug user. They, Charlie Kirk including, claimed that all the rage over his death was exaggerated.

But to a lot of people, how Floyd lived his life wasn't the point. It was the vulgar way he died.  The image of the Derek Chauvin with his knee callously on Floyd's neck put an enduring image to accompany claims made by Black Americans about police brutality.

In stark contrast, something incredibly distasteful is peeking out behind all the anger against those who have been accused of celebrating Kirk's murder. The threats of retribution, compiled social media blacklists, name calling and finger pointing seems to not be coming from a place of rage about Kirk's death, but a place of veiled disappointment that none of the groups Kirk targeted with his vitriol can be scapegoated for his murder.  

No "transgender mass shooter," no "criminally minded Black person," no "savage illegal."  When it came to who murdered Kirk, none of the tropes he exploited to dehumanize could be applied.  There was no "Charlie Kirk was right about these people and that's why he was murdered" narrative which could be created. The alleged perpetrator, Tyler Robinson, is a 22-year-old white man from a conservative Republican family. 

So aside from trying to whitewash all of the vulgar aspects of Kirk's comments and attempting to make Robinson out to be an innocent victim of "leftist indoctrination" (not to mention hanging on to a story about his alleged transgender roommate/lover/or what have you), self-anointed avengers of Charlie Kirk decided to rally around attacking the only folks they can   - those who they claim celebrated his murder. 

None of these people, as distasteful some of their comments were - had anything to do with Kirk's death, but they serve a purpose. Charlie Kirk's avengers want to create a nationwide revolution around his murder but the very thing they lack is a suitable scapegoat. Regardless of the way he lived, Floyd's death spurred genuine anger about police brutality.  Kirk's death is spurring genuine anger too, but it's not in the direction his so-called avengers can exploit. So, until a more suitable scapegoat comes along, the folks accused of celebrating Kirk's death are suitable distractions to channel the crowd rage.

 And if a more suitable scapegoat doesn't come along, don't be surprised if Charlie Kirk's 'avengers' attempt to create one.

Charlie Kirk assassination proves how spiritually rotten Nancy Mace's soul is

Usually when I wrote a post about the exploits of someone who wants to eliminate our equality, some of y'all say "we're not surprised " when you read it. However, I am a firm believer of putting things down for "receipt keeping" or memory storage. We cannot become so desensitized to the enemies of our equality that we lose the desire to point out their hypocrisies and morally rotten nature.

 This evening, I spotlight Nancy Mace (again.) If there was a prize for duplicitous behavior in the aftermath of Charlie Kirk's assassination, Mace would be a top contender. The tweet below is her statements when there was a claim (now unproven) that the bullets used in the murder has "pro-trans ideology" etched on them.

Nancy Mace today: “It sounds like the shooter was a tranny, or pro-tranny.”

Law enforcement tonight: We have idea who the shooter is. pic.twitter.com/bJptJvnJmT

— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) September 12, 2025

Now that a 22-year-old white male, Tyler Robinson, from a wealthy conservative Republican family has been arrested for the murder, Mace transformed herself from an avenging angel with the flaming sword to St. Bernadette:

We know Charlie Kirk would want us to pray for such an evil, and lost individual like Tyler Robinson to find Jesus Christ.

We will try to do the same.

— Rep. Nancy Mace (@RepNancyMace) September 12, 2025

A little advice, Nancy dear.  Perhaps you should worry less about Tyler Robinson finding Jesus and start looking for Him yourself.  If someone looked up the phrase "split hell wide open" in the dictionary, they'd find your Congressional photo. 

I'd wager that at this point, your soul is so rotten that the devil himself wouldn't claim it.

A message from me to all of the Charlie Kirk whitewashers. Stop being hypocrites.

Can certain people on the so-called left please get off of their soapboxes until all of the facts about Charlie Kirk's assassination come in. I understand your sentiment and agree with the fact that violence is wrong, and political violence is abominable but over the last few days after that awful event, some of y'all have been getting on my damn nerves with your jockeying for position in terms of who can decry Kirk's murder the best.

Yes, murdering someone simply because you don't agree with their opinion is awful, but this need for so many of y'all to jump on your pedestals and decry the alleged motives behind Kirk's murder before we even KNOW the motive is bordering on parody. It's the same as people auditioning for a musical singing the same song, as if their version would somehow make the song sound different and awe-inspiring.

And I have a more pressing problem with some of you seeking to whitewash Charlie Kirk's legacy. When he was alive, a lot of you condemned his words and his actions and the negative effect they had on our political discourse.   Now after his death, you're minimizing his words and actions to so-called differences of opinion.  Why are some of you being hypocrites.

People may not like what I say, but I can honestly say that my opinion of Charlie Kirk hasn't changed an iota.  He was a lying sleazebag demagogue. He was a bully who targeted people who could NOT fight him back. His "debates" were rigged circuses with the dignity and humanity of the groups he demeaned treated like some trophy for whoever's verbal technique was the best.  But he did NOT deserve to be murdered. And I grieve for his wife and children. 

Now see, how hard is that? I can decry his murder, show sympathy for his family and STILL call him out for what he was. Why can't some of you?

And let's be really honest here. Some people's desire to whitewash Charlie Kirk's life's is commensurate to how "delusionally white" and/or "straight-acting" they are. They get to pretend that they can be observers of the entire thing and not involved. Those of us who aren't in those categories can't get away with that. We can't feign sitting on a distant perch and observing. We deal with the effects of not only Kirk's demagoguery, but the demagoguery of those like him. We see it every day and feel it every day and unlike many, we can't pretend it doesn't exist or minimize it as a simple difference of opinion.

Just as Charlie Kirk did not deserve his fate, our lives, dignity, and worth as human beings shouldn't be up for debate or treated like a prize.  And the attacks on our lives, dignity, and worth as human beings shouldn't be minimized as a simple difference of opinion for any reason. Ever.

Nancy Mace loses it after being confronted about her 'gender-affirming care'' & other Wed/Thur news briefs

Editor's note - Charlie Kirk was assassinated today. He was a homophobic, racist bully and an all-around terrible human being, but he didn't deserve to die the way he did. As of now, we don't know who did it. I can only hope that this country takes a lesson from what happened today about our rhetoric, the people we elect, and those we choose as our leaders. Pray for Mr. Kirk's family, especially his widow and two children.

SC Rep Nancy Mace gets made to look the fool again.

Nancy Mace Loses It After Colleague Calls Out Boob Jobs, Botox By Colleagues on House Floor: ‘Absolutely Ridiculous!’ - Get her! 

Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) lost it in the House on Wednesday after a Democrat lawmaker called out her colleagues for getting “boob jobs” and “botox,” labelling such cosmetic surgery as “gender-affirming care.” 

LGBTQ+ people are more accepted than we were decades ago, and that changes everything -It's easy to forget that LGBTQ people have come a long way from where we had been. Never stop moving forward even if sometimes you have to move slow. 

Trump's Justice Department indicts LGBTQ+ rights lawyer in judge-shopping inquiry - Trump's ridiculous weaponization of the Justice Department continues.

British group fights for trans kids - This is a wonderful article because when it comes to Britain and the trans community, a lot of stuff heard is negative. This is completely different from all of that. 

 Trans athlete says ‘I’m just a normal kid’ as teams forfeit and some teammates refuse to play - When people stop speculating and simply start playing, they will see that they have nothing to fear from trans athletes.

Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters celebrate 19 years of LGBTQ hellraising and receipt keeping

Alvin A. McEwen, blogmaster of Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters celebrates his blog's 19th anniversary (after apparently watching too many scenes of Diahann Carroll in 'Dynasty.')

On Saturday, this blog celebrated a milestone of 19 years in existence. 

Nineteen wonderful, glorious years of raising LGBTQ hell and receipt-keeping, or to put it in a politer term, calling out anti-LGBTQ propaganda and lies. 

Who would've thought that a project I launched in 2006 (out of anger and frustration of how I was treated as a gay man in college and how the LGBTQ community is generally mistreated) has lasted so long and has made a rather nice impact (with over 13 million hits, gaining national attention several times and winning a GLAAD Media Award on top of seven nominations.)

 It's an enormous thing to consider because this blog is history - a precise catalogue of how bigoted groups and personalities attempt to wreck our lives via lies about how we are supposedly recruiting kids and putting Christians in jail (amongst numerous other fabrications.)

It's a history of almost every anti-LGBTQ industry lie, and tactic used against us, a place to spotlight the liars, mourn our losses and celebrate our victories. And it's a reminder of how time is on our side by taking note of when people like Jerry Falwell, Anita Bryant, and James Dobson say goodbye to the world while we continue to remain standing undefeated in pride.

But one thing I have learned is how there is no such thing as a happy ending, per se.

 The old saying that eternal vigilance is the price of liberty is very true here. While we have won many battles such as marriage equality, backlashes are always sure to come behind progress. One could say that right now, we are in the middle of one with the Trump Administration in office again and for a second time aiming to make us as invisible as they can, starting by openly targeting our trans brothers and sisters. 

Instead of right-wing groups with their fake studies and phone talking heads which I took on so often, we've got shrill social media influencers working in tandem with the Trump Administration while passing along doctored footage whose purpose is to exploit hidden prejudices about our general culture, even from those who claim to support us.

All of this has left many of us in a sad quandary. If we aren't preparing ourselves for devasting losses which haven't even happened as of yet, we are blaming trans people and the "queer" community for what's going on. 

Some of us have deluded ourselves into thinking that our enemies decided that if they can't defeat us, then they will simply live with us. But then trans men, women, and kids simply leading their lives or drag queens simply reading to kids gave them new purpose.

At least that's the common narrative. And it's a stupid, self-defeating narrative.

When I began this blog, I was in my 30's. I'm in my 50's, now. I move slower, have to motivate myself more, my hands hurt probably from arthritis (sometimes it hurts to make a fist), and I have less time for empty long-winded diversions than I used to have.

Folks can easily allow themselves to get caught up in the fear and the pointing of fingers at their own people, but I don't because of something I've always known. No group has ever won any battle by cowering in fear or performing circular firing squads on each other.

We aren't the enemy to each other. 

Instead of quaking in our shoes or attacking each other, we should be putting the attention on those who have made it their goal from day one to make our lives miserable. We're talking about people who will malign and distort just about every aspect of our lives. What they did to us decades ago with images like this:

are the same images they continue to inflict upon us now, but with a slight alteration:

The lies never change, but the targets do. In the end, it's all bullshit and our entire community would do well to recognize it instead of inhaling it.

That's how we win.

Whatever the case may be, I will continue to do what I do. And hopefully do it well by your standards. I've got hope, I've got optimism and most of all,

I've got attitude.

Editor's note - look to your right to see archives of past posts I've published. And if you can't find what you're looking for there, use the search engine above the letterhead. There are over 10,000 published posts on this blog.

'Trump DOJ reportedly looking to ban trans Americans from owning guns' & other Thur/Fri news briefs

Trump DOJ Reportedly Looking to Ban Trans Americans From Owning Guns​ - I am NOT a fan of guns, but I do understand the need of them for the sake of protection. But this goes BEYOND gun ownership. This is yet another instance in which the Trump administration is scapegoating trans people in an attempt to distract its base. Regardless of how anyone feels about trans people or trans rights, we need to recognize and call out the Trump Administration's eagerness to openly wage war against this group of Americans. 

Trans Americans aren't the bullies or the problem. The Trump Administration is. And from some of the responses I've been reading, a lot of pro-gun folks aren't happy with this. They feel that if trans people can be banned from owning guns, it would make things easier to ban other groups from owning guns. 

From the article:

 

The DOJ is reportedly looking at ways to designate transgender people as mentally ill and therefore ineligible to exercise their Second Amendment rights, one Justice official told CNN. 

“The vast majority of mass attacks in the US have no connection to transgender people,” the report stated, “Still, after the deadly shooting last week, some conservative allies of the president quickly claimed that gender dysphoria – the psychological distress and discomfort some people feel when there’s a difference between their sex assigned at birth and their gender identity – is a mental illness that should bar citizens from purchasing a firearm.” 

A 2023 report by the U.S. Secret Service National Threat Association Center found that from 2016 to 2020, 96% of shooters were men, 3% women, and 2% transgender. 

Trump administration agrees to restore federal health data and websites in lawsuit settlement - Wonderful news. When you fight tyrants, you win. 

Tucker Carlson wants to ask Pete Buttigieg “very specific questions about gay sex” - Uh hell no. Every level and angle of this narrative makes me ill. 

‘Don’t freak out just yet’: How LGBTQ couples can plan ahead in case marriage equality is overturned - Write this down, folks. An ounce of prevention . . . 

  How the Supreme Court’s conversion therapy case could reshape LGBTQ+ protections across America - Not to mention how far the court is willing go to in a direction which weaponizes the idea of "religious freedom."