Pam Bondi somehow manages to unite the entire country against her with stunning display of stupidity

Pam Bondi misread the room… again.

Vowing vengeance for Charlie Kirk’s fatal shooting, the president and his most sinister lieutenants appear to be laying the groundwork for a crackdown on dissent. Despite missing Kirk’s Kennedy Center vigil to play golf, Tr*mp said Monday he wants to target “radical groups” and people who put up “millions and millions of dollars for agitation.”

Stephen Miller, his evil policy advisor, talked about dismantling left-wing “terrorist networks.” Meanwhile, JD Vance encouraged people to harass the employers of anybody seen “celebrating” in the wake of Kirk’s death.

Given the supercharged environment, the creeping specter of authoritarianism can feel inevitable. Yet in trying to rile up the bloodthirsty MAGA base, Bondi inadvertently united Americans of all political stripes around the central aspect of the First Amendment.

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Perhaps there are some unifying values we still share… maybe?

In a podcast interview with Katie Miller (Stephen Miller’s wife), Bondi pledged to prosecute certain types of speech. “There’s free speech and then there’s hate speech,” she said. “And there is no place, especially now, especially after what happened to Charlie, in our society…”

When Katie Miller asked if the U.S. Attorney General advocated for “putting cuffs on people” who propagate so-called hate speech, she doubled down.

“We will absolutely target you, go after you go, if you are targeting anyone with hate speech,” clarified Bondi.

Her rallying cry was met with widespread condemnation. MAGA trolls and liberal pundits alike excoriated the overmatched AG for disregarding the Constitution and Supreme Court precedent.

Time and again, the Supreme Court has ruled the government cannot suppress speech because it is offensive or discriminatory. The landmark case Brandenburg v. Ohio established that even speech advocating violence or criminal activity is protected under the First Amendment.

Not content to only trample speech, Bondi also promised to criminally charge hypothetical print job owners who don’t allow customers to print posters with Charlie Kirk’s picture.

“If you want to go and print posters with Charlie’s picture for a vigil, you have to let them do that,” she declared. “We can prosecute you for that. We have right now our civil rights unit looking at that.”

While there’s no record of print job owners turning away Charlie Kirk mourners, they would have the right to do so. Another landmark Supreme Court case, Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, affirms the right of private business owners to refuse certain services on First Amendment grounds.

The 2017 case involved cake shop owners who didn’t want to bake a wedding cake for a gay couple. We’re pretty sure we know where Bondi stood on that one…

People took it upon themselves to remind her.

Do we want to revisit Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission?— Tracee (@TraceeM) September 16, 2025

For members of the LGBTQ+ community, it’s not surprising to see Bondi melt. As Florida AG, she wilted under tough questioning from Anderson Cooper in the aftermath of Pulse.

When confronted over her anti-LGBTQ+ record, she had no answers.

A Pulse survivor said Tuesday it’s been cathartic to watch Bondi “being exposed.”

The president’s second choice for AG–she was nominated to the post after Matt Gaetz’s seedy relations with a 17-year-old came to light–Bondi is proving to be a weak link.

Her tenure has been littered with embarrassments, from her disastrous handling of the Epstein Files to overall managerial incompetence.

Playing cleanup, Bondi attempted to smooth over her comments Tuesday with a very long post on X.

Her argument was not very persuasive.

Maybe dunking on Pam Bondi is just what the country needs to rediscover its shared values.

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