Meditations on ghouls

Might want to get them under control

Me, by way of Nightcafe AI. Art is not a strong suite of mine, so deal with it.

On Independence Day weekend of 2025 a monsoon hit the Texas Hill Country. In some places the rain raised the water levels of rivers by as much as eight to nine meters in less than an hour, driving flash floods that hit after dark.

In all, at least 135 people lost their lives, but the most grievous was Camp Mystic, a Christian girl’s camp, where at least 30 campers and counsellors lost their lives.

Let me reinforce that point: girl children between the ages of eight and seventeen were swept away by raging floodwaters, to be crushed and drowned.

Folks were still combing the wreckage, looking for the bodies of their daughters, when the callous, contemptuous, and cruel comments from the left side of the political spectrum started hitting social media.

And these comments weren’t from the booger-eating moron slice of the Left — this deliberate, indifferent cruelty was from paediatricians¹ (you know, the professional doctors who specialize in treating children between the ages of eight and seventeen), attorneys², pop stars³, and more — including politicians.

Of course, the booger-eating moron segment of the left was well represented: “Texas deserves every flood god has spoken and it hates Texas [laughing smiley]”; “Cry harder, Texas deserves it”; “That’s what god would have wanted, right republicans? Hahahaha my empathy for these red redneck reject states is ZERO. So **** em. I hope more come.”

All that vitriol, and worse — spewed forth by leftists and liberals while parents were still frantically searching for their daughters, were grieving over their dead children — we saw it. And we noted it.

Charlie Kirk — like him or dislike him — was willing to hold a dialogue with those on the other side of the political spectrum from him. He was right-wing, and he was willing to have conversation with those on the left-wing.

He was murdered by someone on the left-wing — yes, the alleged murderer was a leftist, I’ve read the charging instrument — and Charlie Kirk wasn’t even cold before left-wing doctors, teachers, attorneys, media personalities, therapists, professors, real estate agents, insurance agents, administrators, food service people, and service members didn’t just get callous, contemptuous, and cruel; but were gleefully laughing, dancing, singing, and ghoulishly posting evidence of such on social media, along with suggested kill lists of other conservative names, and wishes of suffering and death upon his grieving widow, kith,and kin.

Huh.

Now the conservatives are smacking back. Performative exhibitions of merriment and joy at the murder of another human being are getting the performers fired.

And we’re suddenly hearing: “We need to open a dialogue between the two political sides.” Respectfully — and there is very little bloody respect in these words, I’m here to tell you — why should the conservatives open a dialogue with folks whose ghouls dance giddily and merrily upon the drowned corpses of teenage girls … because their parents possibly voted for Donald Trump?

Tell me, do: why should conservatives open a dialogue with people whose ghouls so publicly and exuberantly celebrate the deaths of conservatives — whether the conservatives be a media personality, or eight-year-old girls who just happen to live in Texas — to the point that I worry about how they treat any suspected conservative in their care?

I should open a dialogue with people who — should Rita or I die — will caper mirthfully upon our bodies?

Conservatives should open a dialogue with the side that paints a bloody huge target on conservatives — using brushes dipped in “Nazi”, “fascist”, and other dehumanising epithets — and then cheers when a conservative who dares open a dialogue gets murdered?

Nah. I’m good.

I realise that you’re worried — and you’re probably correct to be so. Conservatives are angry, and — despite your hopes — the anger isn’t dying down. And the country probably does need a dialogue between the two sides.

Get your sodding ghouls under control, first. Teach them — loudly, publicly, firmly, and often — that this sort of behaviour is not to be tolerated in polite society.

Then I’ll think about a “dialogue”.

Now, if you’ll pardon me, there’s more ghouls I need to write articulate emails about.

Ian

1. Dr Christina Propst: “May all visitors, children, non-Maga voters and pets be safe and dry, Kerr county Maga voted to gut Fema. They deny climate change. May they get what they voted for. Bless their hearts.”

2. Ron Filipkowski: “The people in Texas voted for government services controlled by Donald Trump and Greg Abbott. This is exactly what they getting.”

3. Ricky Davila: “Fascist MAGA republicans cult move very fast when it comes to pushing forth their tax scam death bill that’ll devastate the lives of millions of Americans. Those who chose this deserve all the loss that’s coming …”