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  • Review: Bring Her Back (2025)

    This review contains spoilers.

    I’m going to start this review by saying that I’ve followed theRackaRacka guys on-and-off since their early YouTube days and I did not actually realize Bring Her Back was the Philippou brothers’ project until I sat down to write this review. I wanted to like this movie because so many horror pages and film critics recommend it as either a well-written story or one that is truly terrifying.

    Sometimes, the audience needs context or a bit of backstory. Not every movie needs to adhere to the Aristotelian unities or follow Chekhov’s rules to be successful or popular. But when your story involves a form of demonic possession not commonly shown in western media, and 75% of your lore is on reddit threads, the audience needs more than a few seconds of Russian home movie footage sprinkled throughout the 100-minute runtime to understand what we are watching and why we should care.

    I have too much to say about this one, so to stay focused I’m going to stick to four primary points: immersion, racism, misogyny, and ableism.

    “Bring Her Back: Official Trailer” from A24 (April 2025)

    Immersion

    This movie is not just the second installment in a multiverse series–BHB appears to be part of an ARG, or augmented-reality game. The film’s production team created a subreddit and multiple websites (blackangeltapes.net) with content to expand lore (thisisnotacult.xyz); unfortunately, said content contains information relevant to this film’s plot which could have fixed holes in the story and increased the film’s overall emotional impact. I do believe this film had potential, but the Philippous succumbed to the lure of tired tropes and easy shots which is odd considering how much effort has gone into worldbuilding.

    I enjoy ARGs and participated in a few when they first emerged on message forums in the 90s and early 00s, but I audibly groaned upon learning BHB is not only part of its own ARG, but is potentially linked to one of the most popular, Ash Vlogs or I Know Where She Is (IKWSI)–another Philippou project.

    If you would like a solid summary and analysis of IKWSI, check out glitchwitch dot jpg’s video breakdown. She also goes into detail about ARGs and how they are used in marketing.

    A screenshot from Ash Vlogs featuring the actress sitting on the bed with music posters on the wall behind her.

    How does all of that impact immersion? That’s the problem. It doesn’t unless you’re playing the game.

    Instead of weaving the story into a series of films, providing direct exposition, or introducing us to the characters from the IKWSI extended universe, the non-player audience is thrown into the middle of one story and the beginning of another, and once the two merge, neither are resolved.

    The final updates to IKWSI were posted in January 2019 which coincides with the Philippou brothers getting a greenlight on their first major studio production, Talk to Me (2022). Some fans and players appear satisfied with the references in the new films while others have expressed disappointment with the unresolved state of the original IKWSI game.

    Meticulous fans noticed similarities between the films and the original ARG, then combed through scene-by-scene and found a few easter eggs.

    A white person’s left forearm held palm-up and open with a red symbol drawn that looks like a stick figure human with two lines extending from the neck or head.

    This symbol appears on a surface in the Russian cult ritual tape that Laura watches.

    The official A24 store PomPom “Stuffed But Not Forgotten” T-Shirt featuring the dog with two party hats on her head and “Bring Her Back” spelled out in wooden toy blocks below.

    PomPom is a taxidermied Pomeranian that Laura keeps on a shelf in her home. On the ARG website, a person using the name PomPom posted several times to forums and an auction page asking questions about the VHS tape and the ritual.

    Black Angel Tapes is a fictional occult auction site on the dark web and is the apparent source for all of the cursed items, how-to cult rituals, and goings-on associated with the IKWSI universe.

    These bits of context would have increased my understanding of the film universe and left me with fewer questions like, why did this Australian social worker have a Russian cult VHS? Ah, a dark web auction. But how did she know about the ritual or that such a tape existed?

    If this is an attempt at mainstream or mainline horror, then the audience needs all relevant information presented during the film. Not on separate websites or encrypted with clues. If this is the Philippou brothers continuing their extended ARG, then it should be marketed that way and written accordingly. As it stands, BHB is not wholly one project, but half-attempts at two.

    Russophobia & Anti-Indigenous Exoticism

    I have been into creepy shit, the occult, and Indigenous oral histories my entire life and I had no idea what the hell this demon, “Tari,” was supposed to be or how it related to Russia. The Philippou brothers break from conventional western demonology several times, but we aren’t given the details necessary to understand why or what is happening.

    Granted, I am not an expert on Slavic, “Russian,” or Indigenous peoples of Siberia, so I assumed this was a new one and did a little digging. That was how I found out the movie is an ARG, but I also learned the demon was made up for the story.

    Oh.

    That makes the appropriation of Russian cultural elements and the demon’s visual rendering worse, but maybe the brothers thought this would be more culturally sensitive. Doubt it. Doubt there was any second thought beyond the fact that some of the old Web 1.0 & 2.0 sites were hosted in Russia or eastern Europe.

    I’m not claiming that seedy occult dark web or Web 1.0/2.0 sites don’t exist, just that most folks I know from the Old Internet don’t jump to Russia when asked about haunted item auctions or demonic possession because the creepiest pages were usually German or Scandinavian while Russian pages were good for military history and international weapons sales. What made two Greek-Australians think, Russia?

    Because Russia is, but is not, Europe. They have dozens of cultures with their own cosmologies and oral traditions, and two diverging denominations of Christianity: Russian Orthodoxy and Catholicism. All denominations are eschatological and frame morality using binary up/down psycho(visual) schemas: good/evil, light/dark, white/black, god/devil, angel/demon, and so on.

    A core difference between great demon movies and the mediocre is the interpretation.

    It is therefore disappointing the brothers put so much work into ARG worldbuilding only to reduce their great evil to Red Scare tropes. There is nothing Slavic, Russian, or “eastern” inherent in the story or the demon itself, Tari conveniently speaks English, and we only see the demon’s form once for one brief moment.

    Wait a minute… something here looks familiar.

    Danny Philippou posing next to the Tari demon in a bathtub filled with blood.

    I am begging settler filmmakers and artists to imagine a new primal death spirit or forest god figure that isn’t a Spirit Halloween rip-off of Indigenous cultural figures like Deer Lady, W—o, and S—walkers.

    Russian forest spirits and demons do not look like the W—go.

    Look at this awesome snout:

    An illustration of Chort by Alexei Monzhaley

    Chort is one of the better-known Russian spirits of ancient Slavic origins, sometimes confused or conflated with Bies, but he is usually depicted like a faun or a hairier David Kessler. This means there are no ties to actual stories and the figure itself is culturally-interchangeable (i.e. culture-less).

    Reagan would love it.

    Misogyny

    Hag Horror, Hagsploitation, or Psycho-Biddy, is one of the oldest storytelling tropes in western oral traditions and art, but it endures because creators can rely on them being recognizable; they’re easy.

    A weathered old woman, wrinkled, and either very fat or very thin. A woman driven to madness. Her backstory will either be the spurned ex-lover, the grieving widow, the bereaved mother, or the vengeful spinster. She might have a mental illness, physical disability, or physical difference. Finally, she will behave like a domineering man and indulge in sins or vices like drinking.

    My Collage of Hags (Top-Left-to-Right): Faye Dunaway in Mommie Dearest (1981), Bette Davis in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962), Betsy Palmer in Friday the 13th (1980), Margaret Leighton in Great Expectations (1974), Kathy Bates in Misery (1990), Octavia Spencer in Ma (2019), Lorna Raver in Drag Me to Hell (2009), Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction (1987), Piper Laurie in Carrie (1976), and Judith Anna Roberts in Dead Silence (2007).

    The Philippou brothers stick to Haghorror’s roots by removing the antagonist from society, isolating her in the woods inside of a sort of haunted house, giving her one of the aforementioned backstories (the bereaved mother), and providing her two familiars (PomPom and Cathy). Bonus points for allying her with the demonic.

    Image still of Laura entering the garden shed. Her left hand is bloody.

    What interested me more than yet another grief-stricken woman “losing her mind” after the loss of a child narrative was the story about systemic failures by Child Protective Services. The real horror came from the siblings being ripped from their home, threatened with separation, groomed by a trusted care provider, and victimized. The practical effects horror feels like garnish.

    Plenty has been written about Haghorror and its return to cinema, so I’d rather direct y’all to some of that work. I don’t think it’s necessary to list each criticism because they aren’t unique to BHB–they’re characteristic of the genre.

    Ableism

    My complaints are largely unrelated to Sora Wong’s character, Piper, or the depiction of disability in the film. I was disappointed that so much care was put into crafting a narrative around Piper’s empowerment just to watch a Top 5 list of most tired disability-as-horror tropes affect those around her.

    Still image of Piper staring up out of a car window. Her eye is bruised.

    I am not sure if horror stories can be told without an element of ableism or trauma due to the nature and purpose of the genre, but balance is key. Are characters being tortured excessively without reason? Do the actual moments of gore or terror stem from witnessing disability, physical difference, or characters being placed into situations typically experienced by oppressively marginalized communities? Are kids or animals hurt just for shock value?

    There’s not even a scale for BHB. It’s all trauma, all despair, all the time. I wanted better for the kids. They deserved better.

    For example, I knew what was coming the moment Oliver/Tari entered the kitchen with Andy.

    A still image of Oliver/Tari placing a chef’s knife into his mouth.

    Pay close attention the next time you watch a zombie film or anything in which humans are depicted as deformed, decaying, or demonic/evil and you will find at least one example of a pronounced cleft lip. It’s shorthand for “inbred” or “monstrous.”

    In Red Dragon (2002), the killer is driven to madness because his mother, and others, abused him for having a cleft lip and palate. In Romero films, especially Dawn of the Dead (1978) and the Snyder/Gunn (2004) remake, you will find at least one split upper lip or similar facial difference in each large group of the undead.

    Don’t get me started on The Hills Have Eyes (1977; 2007).

    My Collage of Facial Difference (Top Left-to-Right): Fear the Walking Dead (2015), Red Dragon (2002), Insidious: The Last Key (2018), The Walking Dead (2010), Dawn of the Dead (2004), two images from The Hills Have Eyes (1977), and one from its 2006 re-make.
    Image still of a close-up showing Oliver/Tari’s face post-knife.

    Fallout is one of the few franchises that I think handles facial differences appropriately in relation to storytelling and the disability metaphor. Most NPCs in Fallout treat ghouls like garbage and discriminate against them within their communities while some take the savior approach and start charities or orphanages.

    While the stories still use facial difference as shorthand for “other,” the games force players to come to terms with their own unconscious biases as they encounter ghouls of varying personalities, with individual dreams and morals.

    The Ghoul in the Fallout (2024) TV series.
    John Hancock from Fallout 4 (2015).

    I guess I was just disappointed that “practical effects” body horror was used to demonize mental illness and use facial difference as shorthand for the grotesque. It’s tired. It’s hack.

    Final Thoughts

    There is nothing new in Bring Her Back and nothing is viewed from a different perspective or inverted to comment on society which makes no sense considering drug addiction, child abuse, etc. being major plot points.

    In fact, the best aspects of the film–systemic failure and Piper–are MacGuffins and are never allowed to develop, and the finale falls flat because unless you’re paying attention when Laura quickly comments on the cult ritual working on people who died recently, you might be left thinking the ending is ambiguous or there is something further supernatural going on. We don’t get any of that–we get a sad woman floating in a pool with a corpse.

    I don’t think the film is strong enough to stand on its own outside of the ARG and I don’t think the Philippou twins will establish themselves as triple threats (writer/director/producer) if they keep diminishing their work with lack of direction.

    If you want games, great. There is probably enough of a market to keep that independent work going on a YouTube channel or through various platforms, but I do not see ARG projects crossing into mainstream audiences because they require too much investment and they’re already restricted by generational interest and Internet community involvement.

  • We Don’t Need ‘The Savant’

    There is nothing glamorous about this type of research and making a TV show about it will only make the targets aware of presented strategies or techniques.


    Those white women who claimed to “infiltrate” groups to date white nationalists so they could go on TV aren’t researchers. They are white nationalists who want to encourage people to mimic their behavior because there’s always a chance it will lead to a new recruit. Or they are opportunistic grifters looking to make quick money off of interview tours while spewing false or misleading information.


    Chastain isn’t helping. This show wouldn’t help; it would give viewers the idea to venture into white nationalist spaces that anticipate and prepare for this wannabe spy bullshit.

    Source: “Jessica Chastain Criticizes AppleTV+ for ‘The Savant’ Delay” from The Hill on 2025 Sep. 24.

  • The Star-Spangled Tomboy Who Wants Our Kids

    Image still from an AMA promotion video. Erika is standing in a southwestern-style home wearing a star-spangled outfit. Her hair is long, flowing, and blond. Her lips are blood red. She is smiling and holding a "Tommy" gun.
    Caption: Image still from an AMA promotion video. Erika is standing in a southwestern-style home wearing a star-spangled outfit. Her hair is long, flowing, and blond. Her lips are blood red. She is smiling and holding a “Tommy” gun.

    Erika Kirk’s primary mission is to steal our kids. All of them.

    So who is she: Beauty Queen? NCAA Tomboy? Real Estate Investor? Boss Babe? In her own words, Erika is “the authentic entrepreneur and philanthropist who is making a difference and teaming up with [clients] and really being able to put them on a platform and expose them to other people.” Media frames her as the ideal U.S. conservative Christian housewife, mother, and “entrepreneur.”

    She is a conventionally-attractive, blond cis woman with a bubbly laugh, and until last week, she was virtually unknown outside of Arizona or the evangelical Christian sphere of influence. She interviews well with such an infectious veneered smile that you almost miss the bits of interviews that reveal Erika manages an “orphanage” project in partnership with the Antonio Placement Center in Constanta, Romania and claims the U.S. Marine Corps. is their co-sponsor; she also believes Christians need to adopt as many children as possible to build their army. I’ll let her explain again:

    “I really feel like the church needs to step-up… [and] get more involved with the foster care and the adoption side of things. I think that’s so unbelievably important; we make it so difficult here in the States to adopt. [The f]oster care system needs to be completely reworked. I mean, I would rather have 15 children in a Christian, loving home, living all together as brothers and sisters rather than having them sporadically spread apart, getting raised with, um, yeah.”

    I had to send out hard copy FOIA and relevant requests to multiple departments after hitting a wall with my research. The family’s initial money seems to appear from nowhere at the same time her parents began picking up Defense contracts. Everything points to drones, guns, and spy tech. I found Ellis Island immigration records for some of her family, but her mother Lori’s side of the family nearly scrubbed the Internet of all other information.

    Erika and her parents have been able to establish and incorporate multiple businesses (LLCs, specifically) without disclosing their explicit purpose due to Nevada and Arizona corporate regulations. All parties used boilerplate language for their mission statements which Erika once revealed in an interview, “I wanted to keep [the articles of incorporation] ambiguous enough where I was able to connect donors to organizations and non-profits that were transparent, that were boots-on-the-ground, that were making a difference.”

    The only information you can find for certain regarding Lori is that her corporation has current drone and surveillance technology systems contracts with the U.S. DHS, DoD, and the Marines. Oh, and that her position within the private sector seems to have introduced Erika to government figures early in life; she’s even buddies with Trump–on hugging terms.

    President Donald Trump embraces Erika Kirk at a memorial for conservative activist Charlie Kirk at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, on September 21. Photo Credit: AP
    President Donald Trump embraces Erika Kirk at a memorial for conservative activist Charlie Kirk at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, on September 21. Photo Credit: AP

    Donald Trump has multiple connections to Eastern Europe and was involved in a few scandals regarding his first marriage being “mail-order” and Melania being “paid for.” Both women came from the region (Czech Republic & Slovenia, respectively) and were tied to international bride trafficking rings that paired young Eastern European women, particularly Ukrainian and Russian girls, with wealthy men in the United Kingdom, United States, etc. Within the past few years, socialites and influencers like Andrew Tate, an associate of Kirk et al., moved operations to neighboring countries like Estonia, Latvia, and Romania to avoid increasing legal scrutiny and Russia’s constant acts of aggression that led to war in 2014.

    So where are the missing funds and children in Romania, I wonder.

    The girl-next-door Arizona blond schtick drops when she’s on-stage as Mrs. Erika Kirk and I think anyone who has looked at the news recently has caught at least one glimpse of her new pure white power suits. You’re asked to believe her claims that she has a Juris Doctorate and other credentials, but no records exist beyond her Bachelor’s at Regis University. She just started telling people that in interviews at some point. There is a record of her doing graduate work at (Falwell’s) Liberty University, but there is no thesis/dissertation available online and she just happened to wrap-up a doctorate in time to graduate and marry Charlie Kirk, who gave a commencement speech.

    She comes from a mixed Swedish, Lebanese, and Italian Catholic background–something she does not like to talk about; in fact, Erika insults Catholicism throughout every major interview or podcast in which she appears because as an evangelical convert, she must feel shame and disdain toward the Church. You can see the pain in her eyes when she talks about it…

    Just like you can see the pain on her face when she is asked about being a “tomboy” or “gym rat.” Erika wanted to be a professional basketball player when she grew up, but somewhere along the way, Jerry Falwell and the inner evangelical circles decided she would become their next Tammy Faye Bakker once married off to an appropriate man (Kirk). She never wanted to do pageants, but now she’s stuck in trad wife mode and it’s ironic as hell considering how she feels about trans folks. Sounds like gender dysphoria to me.

    Despite sounding like a woman in charge, Erika claims that feminists lie about how bad things are because “traditional” women like her managed success, yet as anti-woman and “DEI” as she claims to be, her mom had no problem applying for loans as a “Woman or Minority-Owned Business” and Erika followed suit with Everyday Heroes Like You, Proclaim Streetwear, Biblein365, and will most likely do soon with TPUSA.

    There’s actually a reason Erika was unanimously voted the organization’s new President and it wasn’t her entrepreneurial spirit–it’s her rhetorical command over audiences. Some critics claimed she wasn’t mourning deeply enough during her first public statements following the shooting and that sparked rumors about her having Charlie, “taken out,” but at the time of writing, it is more plausible that Nick Fuentes or another political rival was behind the assassination. The performance was for her own base, not critics. We should concern ourselves with the dogwhistles and blatant calls-to-violence within her statement:

    “The evildoers responsible for my husband’s assassination have no idea what they have done. They killed Charlie because he preached the message of patriotism, faith, and of God’s merciful love, but they should all know this: if you thought that my husband’s mission was powerful before–you have no idea. You have no idea what you have unleashed across this entire country, and this world, you have no idea. You have no idea the fire that you have ignited within this wife; the cries of this widow will echo around the world like a battle cry. To everyone listening tonight across America: the movement my husband built will not die, it won’t. I refuse to let that happen… all of us will refuse to let that happen, no one will ever forget my husband’s name and I will make sure of it. [The movement] will become stronger, bolder, louder, and greater than ever; my husband’s mission will not end, not even for a moment.”

    Watch Erika Frantzve Kirk’s full statement to the press following Charlie Kirk’s murder: Click Here

    This woman is dangerous and her family is connected to powerful people. Like Falwell and the other Southern Baptist fundamentalists who believe the Bible, in Kirk’s case the Adam Clarke Bible, is an infallible directive from God. Erika Kirk and their flock believe the world will come to an apocalyptic end and they’re all putting a foot on the scale to make it happen. Our children are at risk of indoctrination and radicalization; our school campuses are spiritual battlegrounds whether or not we are interested or even believe because, “that’s where God was calling [her] to be… a light in a dark place” on the, “darkest campuses.” Erika believes it is her mission to “[c]halleng[e] the millennial generation to read the Bible cover-to-cover […] because there’s nothing more powerful than being able to know scripture and being able to use the word of god in a way to protect you and in a way to guide yourself through this spiritual warfare battle that we’re in.”

    These plans are not new. They were put into motion in the 1930s as the New Religious Right took shape and due to U.S. civilian complacency, struggling to survive as capitalism fails, and constant media distraction we have truly reached a “Turning Point.” Will we accept christofascism and revert to a feudal, industri-agrarian society in which we serve our technocratic masters? Because that’s what these people believe–Jesus is Lord and we are his slaves. They believe god is commanding them to force conversion and bring in as many children as possible before the apocalypse, and the only way to salvation is through their pockets.

    They’re already moving on from Charlie despite Erika’s tearful word. As Proclaim x Biblein365 Pastor James Kaddis declared the morning after the murder, “I’m not thankful for the terrible thing that happened, but I am thankful for what the Lord is doing with it. Erika is an amazing woman; God is gonna use her in ways you can’t even imagine. I know more than most. God is gonna use those precious babies and God is going to do something with our nation that could have never been done had it not been for the life of Charlie.” They made their move.

    So what are we gonna do?

    *

    I couldn’t fit this quote into the essay, but it’s important enough that I want to append it for y’all:

    “I never went to the kids’ portion of church; I was always with her in the adult portion and I remember every time when the tithing portion of the church came up she would always write a check… every Sunday. One day she just told me, ‘Erika, it’s not our money. It’s not ours. God has blessed us and he has blessed us to be a blessing to other people and I’m a steward of this,’ and she was like, ‘it all comes back.’ And that is something that I think God knew I needed to hear at a very young age because it stuck with me even when I was living in Manhattan and understanding that this money is not mine and everything that comes through my bank account is for the Lord and tithing is one of the most–I tell ya what, tithing is a very interesting thing because when you do tithe you see the Lord’s hand and blessing in your life in things that will manifest that you would have never expected for.”

    Erika’s Post-Charlie Estimated Net Worth: $14 million USD

  • Hey Folks!

    For y’all new to my content, I post longform essays to Facebook and my personal blog. I don’t paywall anything, require subscriptions, accounts, etc. (unless you want to comment here on the blog).

    I will have the Lessons and Portfolio pages back up soon.

    Unsurprised Courage meme with text at top and bottom that reads, "MFW the 20th century German guy I'm researching turns out to be a fucking Nazi."
    Unsurprised Courage meme with text at top and bottom that reads, “MFW the 20th century German guy I’m researching turns out to be a fucking Nazi.”

  • The Turning Point

    Erika Frantzve was chosen by Jerry Falwell and married off to Charlie Kirk. They believe in a 4 turning cycle in which the world will end in biblical apocalypse once they past the “turning point.”

    Charlie’s murder is being hailed as that “turning point.”

    photo of Erika Frantzve from a gun manufacturing promo video. she is wearing a red, white, & blue star-spangled western outfit and has a rifle raised, looking down the sight.
    Photo of Erika Frantzve from a gun manufacturing promo video. She is wearing a red, white, & blue star-spangled western outfit and has a rifle raised, looking down the sight.

    I wish y’all would take christofascists seriously instead of making fun of their religion. We get it. You don’t believe in god and think it’s funny these people are so deeply fundamentalist. But they’re also some of the wealthiest people on the planet with connections to the most powerful warmongers.

    I said after J6 that things would only escalate and we are seeing the next phase of the fascist plan begin. Shut the fuck up about Project 2025. Shut the fuck up about Trump because he only does what he’s told.

    Groypers hated Charlie Kirk because they thought he betrayed them and their movement. Fuentes claims he was almost assassinated in December by someone from the opposing faction. Now Charlie is dead and a radicalized white man is being used as a patsy for the complete and total christofascist takeover of the US.

    I thought Donald Jr. would take over for his dad and we would see a dynasty, but something happened to force the evangelical hand. Honestly, I don’t like that the alleged shooter is Mormon because the LDS Church has trillions of dollars and connections in every colonial empire, including Israel. All of the major religious and political figures can be connected within just a step or two.

    The Kirk ministries pastors are bringing Israeli propagandists onto their daily prayer livestreams, parents are testifying before the government about how AI chatbots specifically made their sons “hate god” and “turn away from the light.” This predates the 7 Mountains Mandate that some folks are discussing–that was just one recruitment branch of the larger movement that preaches the same exact shit Falwell started.

    These people are calling for a spiritual war and have convinced their congregations that we are their biblical enemies; we are demons, the darkness, evil, subhuman, and if they cannot “bring [us] to Christ,” they believe heretics must be destroyed. Pastor James Kaddis proclaimed, “Charlie died to save a whole generation.”

    Charlie was truly a moderate compared to the Neo-Nazis who established themselves in the US during Operation Paperclip and the religious extremists who originally invaded Turtle Island. There’s a reason Erika Frantzve Kirk wants to take over the adoption/foster care and education systems. It is no coincidence that Kirk’s pastor is also a real estate LLC, the Trump administration just made another deal with Blackrock, US cities are starting to build factory towns, and the empire is establishing larger labor imprisonment camps.

    This started in the 1930s when the US populace almost succeeded in establishing a larger socialist legislative presence. The US chose the fascists. Wasting time arguing whataboutisms isn’t going to change their followers’ minds because this is a spiritual war. It’s irrelevant whether or not the leaders are actually religious because their followers believe without question and if anyone starts getting suspicious or suggests an alternative path… they’re eliminated.

    The US fascist base is splitting between the genuinely pious, the corpo opportunists, the Nazis demanding race war, and the willfully ignorant waiting to pick a side. They have no loyalty to one another or shared cause besides white supremacy which makes them unstable and their individual actions unpredictable.

    Keep laughing because we should always laugh at fascism, but don’t ever let them catch you off guard.

  • Charlie Kirk & the Great American Awakening

    This is the first video in a short series where I break down and explain recent events surrounding the assassination of Charlie Kirk. My phone died during recording, so apologies for the abrupt ending.

  • Starting Fresh

    I completely scrapped the original site because it was too crowded and hard to read/use on different devices.

    Please be patient while I finish reloading content onto the site and let me know if you find any broken links or issues. Mvto (Thanks)!

  • Lalo Nailed It

    This cartoon underlines one of the dividing ideologies between fascist groups in the US.

    Some white nationalists are fine using non-whites, even marrying them or having mixed children, because they maintain all power within the hierarchy.

    But others, like AB, Knights Templar, and groypers, believe all non-whites are sub-human and must not be collaborated with, relied upon, etc.

    To the MAGA base, this statement is funny because they’re racist in general or hate Patel: “Haha stupid man said this ridiculous thing.”

    To extremist white nationalists, Patel declaring himself aligned with Valhalla is funny because it’s an ideological impossibility: “A sub-human thinks he could get into Valhalla.”

    A black & white political cartoon by Lalo Alcaraz from 17 September 2025. The building is a typical federal brownstone like many in DC with a sign out front that reads, “Valhalla: Norse Warrior Paradise.” A caricature of Kash Patel dressed as a stereotypical “viking” leaning against the door with one hand raised to bear his weight and a sword in the other. His booty is labeled with his name. The door reads, “Whites Only.” At the bottom of the image it says, “Apologies to Gary Larson.”

    Check out Lalo’s website by Clicking Here.

    Read his comics here: GoComics

  • Pro-Tip

    If your most educated citizens are telling you someone was a white nationalist incendiary who preyed on students then fucking listen to us.


    There isn’t just a teacher shortage in the US–there’s a crisis. Remember how Bush started No Child Left Behind to funnel children into the US military or prison? Where do you think this manufactured crisis and sudden crackdown on education is heading… the christofascists and Neo-Nazis are coming for our children.

    From the article:

    “NPR has compiled a list from news reports of 33 people who have lost their jobs or are under investigations over their posts as of Friday. Most were public school teachers, with at least 21 educators in school districts across the country fired, put on administrative leave or placed under investigation by their employers. Firefighters, members of the military, a sports reporter, an employee of the Carolina Panthers and a city council official in Indiana have faced similar treatment or calls to resign.”

    Source: “Charlie Kirk Critics are being Targeted Online and Losing Jobs” from NPR, 13 September 2025.

  • Pro-Tip:

    If your most educated citizens are telling you someone was a white nationalist incendiary who preyed on students then fucking listen to us.


    There isn’t just a teacher shortage in the US–there’s a crisis. Remember how Bush started No Child Left Behind to funnel children into the US military or prison? Where do you think this manufactured crisis and sudden crackdown on education is heading… the christofascists and Neo-Nazis are coming for our children.


    “NPR has compiled a list from news reports of 33 people who have lost their jobs or are under investigations over their posts as of Friday. Most were public school teachers, with at least 21 educators in school districts across the country fired, put on administrative leave or placed under investigation by their employers. Firefighters, members of the military, a sports reporter, an employee of the Carolina Panthers and a city council official in Indiana have faced similar treatment or calls to resign.”

    Source: “Kirk Critics are being Targeted Online” from NPR, 13 September 2025.

    Originally posted to Facebook: 13 September 2025