No one is safe
A lesson for right-wing men
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This is my comedy Substack, and sometimes the only thing standing between despair and action is the ability to laugh at the unbearable. We laugh to forget our pain, to keep our minds awake and the work possible.
This post is morbid.
It’s focused on brutal ICE violence.
My messages for this Substack come from a satirical profile where I play a conservative. On that feed, I see the unfiltered truth of what right-wing minds believe. There is a hollowness there. A readiness for harm and an absence of grief when the violence they cheer takes a life.
The murder of Renee Good gave their cruelty a public stage.
Renee was married to a woman, if that isn’t clear by Jim’s “unnatural life” comment. Three holes. Another three holes. Bullet holes for Jim put his penis in to fuck her bleeding wounds. This is right-wing men. He was not alone.
Reading their comments I wondered if anything could make them care.
“One of their own,” perhaps.
I messaged these men privately and, when I could, commented on their public posts to make sure the message reached them.
Remember what Jim wrote as you read what I said to him.
Part One: Jim
No. I did not go too far. What these men advocate for does not stay theoretical. Their words become policy. Their policy becomes force.
Many of the men I contacted never responded. Others blocked me immediately or accused me of being a scammer. Some responded to clarify that the person I mentioned was right next to them and, not dead.
And then there was David.
David also responded to Renee’s death with a mix of homophobia, sexualized mockery, and deliberately crude jokes.
Part Two: David
In this one David will mention that I remember him. I don’t actually know him. He has never been in one of my posts before, but he has messaged me previously.
Is this a win? Maybe it’s progress of a sort, but he’s still comfortable with violence, so long as it’s directed at “illegal” immigrants. I’m not interested in progress that only applies to people like me. I don’t want ICE to be allowed to harm anyone.
Maybe nothing shifted at all. But for a moment, these men felt what it would mean if the violence reached their own child. For that moment, the distance collapsed.
A note on names and redactions:
It’s not that I don’t understand the urge to know exactly who these men are. I do. But publishing full names puts me in the position of inviting retaliation and legal trouble. Across platforms, I have more than 350,000 followers. Directing that many people toward a single individual puts me at risk.
If you want to block or mock these men, you don’t need my help. Scroll any comment section and you’ll find men just like Jim and David everywhere. Sometimes what these men say is bad enough that others besides me do need to get involved. When someone is an actual threat, I go through the real channels, families, workplaces, even the FBI when necessary.
The work is larger than one man. The goal is not a momentary brigade against a single MAGA asshole. It’s exposure of a pattern that exists by the millions.
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By the way, as an American I have to start every conversation with how are you. Then we both say fine or good without giving a fuck what the other person says. Then we can move on. It’s our culture.
For another dad his child’s name only lives in his mouth in his cries of dismay while the state speaks in verbs that refuse to carry blood or fear or love. His grief comes tangled with rage, because this death had uniforms that walk away intact. He is left holding memory against power, knowing exactly who took his child and watching them insist it was necessary.
Writing that made me so emotional.♥️