'Hey Fascist! Catch!' Flyers Recruiting for the 'John Brown Club' Appear on Georgetown Campus

 

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Amy Curtis  | September 24, 2025 |  Townhall

The American Left, especially on college campuses, has no intention of turning down the temperature in the wake of the assassination of Charlie Kirk. At the University of North Carolina Wilmington (UNCW), clashes between conservative students and their Leftist classmates got so bad that the Chancellor issued a statement warning law enforcement would get involved.

Now at Georgetown, the "John Brown Club" is posting flyers featuring the slogan alleged Kirk assassin Tyler Robinson wrote on the bullets he carried - "Hey, Fascist! Catch!"

If you scan the QR code, it takes you to the sign-up page, where it says, "We're building a community that's done with ceremonial resistance and strongly worded letters. If you want to make a real change in your community, let us now below."

John Brown was a militant abolitionist who believed in the use of violence to end slavery. This led to Brown's involvement in the Pottawatomie Massacre in 1855, where he and a few other men dragged five unarmed men and boys from their homes. Believing those men and boys were pro-slavery, Brown and his group killed them. In 1859, Brown led a raid on a federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry in the hopes of sparking a slave uprising and establishing "an independent stronghold of formerly enslaved people in the Adirondack Mountains." The raid failed, and Brown was seriously wounded. Federal troops apprehended and tried Brown for treason. He was later hanged.

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Those who remember their history class will remember that the first person Brown killed was not a slave owner, but a free Black man named Haywood Shepherd.

The "John Brown Club" also has ties to Antifa.

Several people called on the FBI to investigate the flyers and the "John Brown Club."

In light of President Trump declaring Antifa a terrorist organization, and given the club's ties to Antifa, an investigation is more than warranted.

Some of the flyers are outside of a campus dormitory.

Others asked if Georgetown planned to take action to prevent violence on campus.

Townhall has reached out to Georgetown and the Department of Education for comment.

Joe Biden’s Time in the ‘Wide’ House

American Thinker 

It was a warm Wednesday morning when I pulled up to the restaurant to interview a man who had been in the news for many years. “Why this eatery?” I wondered before noticing the fading sign: senior breakfast special M-F. He waved at me when I entered. Ignoring the torn plastic upholstery, I slipped into the corner booth, eager to begin the interview.

Robin: Thank you for reaching out for an interview, but to be honest, I thought we would meet at a more upscale location.

Joe Biden: Well, this place has great senior prices during the week, and that means more money in my pocket for my library. Or to pay the electric bill.

Robin: Yes, it’s been in the news that you are not bringing in the money that you expected after leaving the White House.

Biden: Damn right, and that’s very wrong! It’s in the Constitution that after a president finishes serving, he is supposed to be paid insanely large speaking fees to say a few words while people eat chicken dinners.

Robin: Sir, you received a $10 million advance for your memoirs. The issue is that many people don’t think you can remember your four years in office.

Biden: Marlarkey! Everyone wants to hear what I have to say about being in the... Jill, where was I?

Jill Biden: You were in the White House.

Biden: That’s right, I was in the Wide House. By the way, who are you?

Robin: I am the editor of Patriot Neighbors, a free national weekly newsletter, and you called me asking for this interview.

Biden: Oh yeah, that’s right.

Waitress brings coffee.

Biden: Please pass the salt.

Robin: In your coffee?

Biden: Forget the salt, let’s talk about how I can make some money. Hunter has legal bills. Ashley just got divorced. My wife, Joan... no, I mean Jill, we owe $800,000 on our Delaware home. And our property taxes went up 20 percent this year.

Robin: With all due respect, sir, I never supported you and am not interested in providing suggestions on how you can make money now that you’re out of office.

Biden: You’re a dog face pony soldier! But that’s okay. I’ll get Hunter to make some paintings to sell on eBay.

Robin: Mr. President, you are not struggling like many Americans who suffered under your administration from inflation, crime, and illegal immigration. Between the presidency, vice presidency, and Senate, your pension is more than $400,000. Plus, you have a $10 million book deal... The fact is that people don’t want to hear you speak because you are quite forgetful.

Biden: Marlarkey! Excuse me, who did you say you are?

Robin: Even Democrats don’t want to hear what you have to say, unless it’s to announce who was really running the White House during your administration.

Biden: So, you think people want to hear about Corn Pop?

Jill Biden: Joe, don’t put so much salt in your coffee.

Robin: Maybe you need to lower expectations concerning your library.

Biden: Attorney Joe Morgan donated nearly $1 million to my re-election campaign, but now says he wants his money back. I might follow through with his suggestion of making the presidential library into a bookmobile.

Robin: A bookmobile would be interesting. What cities would you take it to?

Biden: Chicago, Los Angeles, Baltimore, New York... You know, places where they like me.

Robin: It will cost more to make the bookmobile bulletproof.

Biden: Then I will only go to Republican cities where there is less crime.

Robin: What do you miss most since leaving office?

Biden: Sniffing women’s and children’s hair.

Jill Biden: Joe means helping women and children stay on Medicare.

Biden: I beat Medicare.

Robin: Will you be attending President Barack Obama’s presidential libraryopening in the spring of 2026 in Chicago?

Biden: Yes, Barney and I are best friends. His library cost $850 million. My bookmobile will cost a lot less.

Robin: Sir, any thoughts about President Trump’s time in office so far? Certainly, there must be some things that he has done that you support.

Biden: He needs to be more self-evident, by the, you know the, you know, the thing.

Robin: Well, your administration held state dinners. Don’t you agree that a new, privately funded ballroom that will hold 650 people enhances the White House?

Biden: We had state dinners? Was I there?

Robin: Yes, sir, you and Mrs. Biden hosted them. No one can beat Americans when it comes to holding state dinners at the White House.

Biden: And I also beat Medicare. There’s too much salt in this coffee.

Robin: In retrospect, do you think you did anything poorly?

Biden: Walking up the stairs.

Robin: Anything else?

Biden: Walking down the stairs.

Robin: Anything else?

Biden: Walking on the Wide House lawn.

Robin: What do you wish you did better?

Biden: Well, uh, I wish I did something about poor kids. You know, poor kids are just as smart as white kids.

Robin: Sir, that is racist!

Biden: Then you ain’t black!

Robin: I am white.

Biden: That’s what I just said. You ain’t black!

Robin: Anything else about your presidency?

Biden: Look, kid, I was under a lot of pressure being in the Wide House, working two hours a day, finding my autopen, and having to remember which side of the stage to exit. Don’t give me any marlarkey. I am sure the Secret Service is pointing to the side of the stage that Trump needs to exit.

Robin: Do you have any favorite foreign leader whom you enjoyed working with?

Biden: Zelenskyy! After all, the guy helped me, helped my entire family too...

Jill Biden: Joe, I think it’s time to wrap up this interview.

Robin: Any closing thoughts, Mr. President?

Biden: God save the queen, man.

Robin: Well, thank you for your time.

Biden: Who are you again?

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America Has a Stupidity Crisis

Townhall 

America has plenty of problems and faces many challenges, but none is more daunting than the fact that many of our fellow citizens are freaking idiots. This is a real handicap to the body politic, differently-abling us mentally when a viable constitutional republic requires a citizenry that does not contain a substantial fraction of citizens who are certifiable drooling halfwits. But America today has a lot of stupid people, and this is becoming a real problem. 

Now, let’s clarify exactly what we’re talking about here. We are talking about people who are unable to accumulate facts and evidence and then apply them meaningfully to basic rules or principles. That’s how intelligent people work. They must be able to gather information and then process it into something that makes sense. But far too many people fall short on the whole fact-gathering part. Now, there is a subtle distinction here that intelligent people will notice, which is that there is a difference between someone who is stupid and someone who is ignorant. Someone who is stupid can’t know things, while someone who is ignorant doesn’t know things. 

People are ignorant for several reasons. Some are self-made knuckleheads, anti-autodidacts who curate their empty heads. They suffer from a chronic lack of curiosity – they just don’t care about gathering new information, something that is itself connected with the kind of stupidity we’re talking about. Stand in a line at a supermarket, or watch people walking down the street, and their faces are staring at their phones while threads of spit collect at the corners of their slack jaws. They’ve got all human knowledge in the palm of their soft hands, yet not as if they’re challenging themselves with the thoughts of Burke or studying the history of Ancient Rome; most of them are filling their heads with mindless stimulation, often the ravings of fellow dipwads. Not dissimilar are the people who must have some constant stimulation, whether terrible music or terrible conversation that they inevitably have on speaker instead of with their iPhone pressed to their ear like people who aren’t freaking idiots. They need this because they have no internal monologue, and they can’t stand the silence because their brain generates nothing to fill the void.

Other people are ignorant precisely because they are educated. That’s not a typo. Many of us have multiple degrees, so we’re not fooled by the ridiculous credentialism of the allegedly educated class; higher education no longer correlates with a higher intelligence quotient. Marco Rubio’s reference to the famously college degree–free Charlie Kirk riffing on Marcus Aurelius was less a joke than an indictment of our garbage university system. If you were to poll 100 random college seniors at our most prestigious universities, 1 percent might know who the ancient emperor was, 50 percent would have no idea what you’re talking about, 40 percent would think he’s a rapper, and 10 percent would call you a transphobe.

The institutions that are supposed to fill empty heads with knowledge instead fill them with nonsense. Our education system is nothing of the sort. Instead, it’s a communist conformity factory that simultaneously provides sinecures for a bunch of professorial mediocrities who teach nothing of substance. In fact, if you look at pedagogical theory, it’s all against teaching anything that involves substance. They will tell you that they want to teach the students how to learn, which allows them to avoid being responsible for the students’ learning anything. In fact, as a group, teachers are among the dumbest people in society. Look at the roster of dummies with ed degrees who just exposed themselves over the last few weeks, cheering on the murder of Charlie Kirk by one of their fellow travelers. You’ll understand that the people standing in front of our classrooms should often be wearing dunce caps.

Then there are other people who do know things but can’t process them to save their lives. They look at facts and evidence, and they are unable to come to a sensible, meaningful conclusion. Look at the stupid people who insist on calling Donald Trump a literal Nazi. Now, they know there’s a thing called “Nazis,” and they know there’s a guy named Donald Trump, and they have some info about the characteristics of both, yet they somehow think the Venn diagram of the two is a circle. It’s objectively stupid to believe Donald Trump is a Nazi for many reasons, but the primary reason is that he’s not a Nazi. He’s not even close to being a Nazi. But there are stupid people out there who will insist to their dying breath that he’s the naziest Nazi whoever nazied. You know who else addresses big crowds? Do you know who else was a nationalist? You know who else breathed oxygen? Yeah, Hitler. All the pieces fit. Dur-hee.

Then there are those who feign idiocy, rather than having it thrust upon them by the cruelty of genetics or the betrayal of their teachers. These people are perhaps worse than those whose stupidity comes naturally because their stupidity is a choice, and a cynical one. 

Jessica Tarlov isn’t stupid; Joy Reid is stupid. Chris Murphy isn’t stupid; Mazie Hirono is stupid. Jasmine Crockett is not stupid; Eric Swalwell is stupid. There are a lot of smart people on the other side of the argument – they possess the kind of raw intelligence that allows them to function in a technologically advanced society, but their real problem is a lack of wisdom that makes them misunderstand the nature of both God and men, and therefore embrace foolish frivolities like socialism, feminism, and veganism. They’re not dumb in the classic sense that they are unable to do anything but attempt to force the square peg through the round hole. They are unwise at a minimum, but often outright liars. 

These people who lack wisdom and/or morals often exploit the half-wittedness of their fellow travelers. That’s why many times, when you’re listening to the regime media or perusing the Twitter machine, you’ll come across people who raise a question: Are they stupid, or do they think that the people they are talking to are stupid?

Exhibit A is the great “Was the trans furry-tapping pervert who wrote antifa crap on the bullets before murdering arguably the second most potent voice of conservatism in America aligned with the left?” controversy. If you’re pushing this freak as MAGA, and you are capable of reading a rotary clock, you are not stupid. You are a liar who thinks the people listening to you are stupid. 

It’s intensely cynical because they know what is true and what isn’t, and they don’t care. They figure if they can repeat a lie enough times, the dummies who listen to them are going to buy it even though it’s objective nonsense. This is often how the Democrats get their way. They feed their consumers something that they know is baloney, but they tell them it’s prime 45-day dry-aged ribeye. 

The problem for our country is that the government we aspire to cannot function if too many of our citizens are freaking nitwits. In a dictatorship, it doesn’t matter whether the people are smart or not. They’re just going to do what a dictator says. And that’s why the left likes stupid people. They’re more obedient. They don’t get uppity. They just want their EBT bread and electronic circuses, and they’re perfectly happy to be commanded. But Americans are not supposed to be like that. We’re supposed to be self-determining. Those who would be our bosses in other countries are supposed to be our subordinates here in America. To make America work, we can’t have so many idiots. And yet, we have far too many idiots. Perhaps, besides checking voter ID, we should also test voter IQ.

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President Trump Calls Out Democrats for Threatening to Shut Down Government

The Democrats are threatening to refuse to support a stopgap spending measure to extend federal spending. President Trump is calling them out and refusing to meet with them until they get serious about it.

After passing a clean CR in the House, Republicans in the Senate are pushing a “clean” seven-week continuing resolution, which they say will buy time for more negotiations on full-year spending bills and possibly an extension of expiring health insurance subsidies. Democrats, meanwhile, wrote an alternative four-week punt that tacks on a laundry list of other demands, including a permanent extension of the insurance subsidies.

Should the government shut down, Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought will determine which elements and agencies of the government are considered essential and which will be shuttered until the budget is extended.

President Donald Trump – “After reviewing the details of the unserious and ridiculous demands being made by the Minority Radical Left Democrats in return for their Votes to keep our thriving Country open, I have decided that no meeting with their Congressional Leaders could possibly be productive.

They are threatening to shut down the Government of the United States unless they can have over $1 Trillion Dollars in new spending to continue free healthcare for Illegal Aliens (A monumental cost!), force Taxpayers to fund Transgender surgery for minors, have dead people on the Medicaid roles, allow Illegal Alien Criminals to steal Billions of Dollars in American Taxpayer Benefits, try to force our Country to again open our Borders to Criminals and to the World, allow men to play in women’s sports, and essentially create Transgender operations for everybody.”

“These Radical Left Views and Policies is what allowed me to win the Presidential Election, including all seven Swing States, and the Popular Vote, IN A HISTORIC LANDSLIDE. There are consequences to losing Elections but based on their letter to me, the Democrats haven’t figured that out yet. They are trying to eliminate the popular $50 Billion Dollar Rural and Vulnerable Hospital Fund, which was passed with only Republican Votes, and proudly signed into Law by ME.

The Democrats in Congress seem to have totally lost their way. They obviously have no idea what it means to put America First or to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! All Congressional Democrats want to do is enact Radical Left Policies that nobody voted for — High Taxes, Open Borders, No Consequences for Violent Criminals, Men in Women’s Sports, Taxpayer funded “TRANSGENDER” surgery, and much more. Few people voted for what they represent, which would lead to the destruction of America.

Instead, people voted for COMMON SENSE, and that’s what the Republicans and your President, “DONALD J. TRUMP,” stand for. I look forward to meeting with them if they get serious about the future of our Nation. We must keep the Government open and legislate like true Patriots rather than hold American Citizens hostage, knowing that they want our now thriving Country closed.

I’ll be happy to meet with them if they agree to the Principles in this Letter. They must do their job! Otherwise, it will just be another long and brutal slog through their radicalized quicksand. To the Leaders of the Democrat Party, the ball is in your court. I look forward to meeting with you when you become realistic about the things that our Country stands for. DO THE RIGHT THING!”

DONALD J. TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

SCOTUS Tees Up Potential Takedown Of Progressives’ ‘Independent Agencies’ Theory

Humphrey’s Executor has had major negative implications for America’s separation of powers and the ability of presidents to fully exercise their Article II authority.

The  Federalist 

The U.S. Supreme Court is signaling that it may be finally ready to put the kibosh on longstanding precedent used by left-wing progressives to cripple America’s separation of powers.

On Monday, the high court granted a request from the Trump administration to temporarily pause a lower court injunction by a Biden-appointed district judge. That edict attempted to block President Trump from firing Rebecca Slaughter, a Democrat member of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).

What was particularly notable about the Supreme Court’s order is the revelation that the justices will be considering the merits of the case, with oral arguments tentatively scheduled for December. The high court specifically instructed both parties to file briefs addressing two key questions: 1) “Whether the statutory removal protections for members of the Federal Trade Commission violate the separation of powers and, if so, whether [Humphrey’s Executor v. United States] … should be overruled,” and 2) “Whether a federal court may prevent a person’s removal from public office, either through relief at equity or at law.”

While likely not as well-known as other past SCOTUS decisions, Humphrey’s Executor has had major negative implications for America’s separation of powers and the ability of presidents to fully exercise their Article II authority.

The case first came to fruition in the early 1930s after Republican President Herbert Hoover appointed William Humphrey to serve as a member of the FTC for a full seven-year term. Upon taking office, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, a Democrat, sought Humphrey’s resignation due to the fact that the latter was a conservative.

When Humphrey declined to do so, Roosevelt fired him. According to Oyez, the FTC Act, which was passed by Congress, “only allowed a president to remove a commissioner for ‘inefficiency, neglect of duty, or malfeasance in office.'”

While Humphrey passed away shortly after his firing, his executor filed suit to challenge Humphrey’s dismissal and recover his salary. The case ultimately made its way to the Supreme Court, which aimed to address the question of whether provisions of the FTC Act unconstitutionally encroached upon the president’s Article II powers.

In its 1935 decision, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled against Roosevelt, arguing that Humphrey’s termination lacked justification and that the FTC Act was constitutional. As summarized by Oyez, the high court “reasoned that the Constitution had never given ‘illimitable power of removal’ to the president,” and established the precedent that so-called “independent agencies” like the FTC were different than other federal departments because Congress created them “to perform quasi-legislative and judicial functions.”

As The Heritage Foundation’s Hans van Spakovsky recently observed, the decision “was pure poppycock” given that “the FTC, with its authority to promulgate regulations that have the authority of law and its power to pursue individuals it believes have engaged in unfair or deceptive practices, is engaging in the very essence of an executive function.” Furthermore, “[i]t is the president,” he added, “who is designated in Section 3 of Article II with the responsibility to ‘take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed.'”

In addition to stripping the president of key Article II powers, the Supreme Court’s Humphrey’s Executor ruling also helped birth what has now become known as the administrative state. Comprised in large part of these so-called “independent agencies,” this de facto fourth branch of government has effectively been allowed to operate outside of the confines of the Constitution for decades.

As lawyer Mark Pinkert previously noted in these pages, one of the biggest flaws in Humphrey’s Executor was the justices’ underlying assumption that “agency officials will act as ‘nonpartisan’ experts, impervious to politics,” and that “the longer that these officials served in Washington, D.C., the more expertise they would garner and, in turn, the less political they would become.”

“This idea of completely apolitical, objective actors in government is plainly wrong. From Plato to Aaron Sorkin’s ‘The West Wing,’ thinkers have fantasized about benevolent tyrants and philosopher kings ruling over the masses in their best interests,” Pinkert wrote. “But has it ever worked in practice? The Supreme Court offered no empirical, sociological, psychological, or historical support for its assertions in Humphrey’s Executor. It simply told the people to believe that powerful bureaucrats could remain entirely impartial, and that they would act only for the common good.”

While the Supreme Court has slowly chipped away at the power of the administrative state since Humphrey’s Executor, it has never fully revoked the precedent it established in the case. That is, until maybe now.

By agreeing to take up the dispute between Slaughter and the Trump administration and asking both parties to address Humphrey’s constitutionality, it appears there are enough justices open to righting the court’s previous wrong. For the sake of America’s constitutional order, let’s hope that they do.