So a small town newspaper in Whitesburg, Kentucky decided that their reader submission section was the perfect place to publish what can only be described as the most unhinged things ever committed to newsprint. The Mountain Eagle, as USA Journal reported, ran submissions in their "Speak Your Piece" column that included explicit calls for violence against the president, his administration, and federal law enforcement officers. And no, this wasn't some rogue bot or a website glitch. An actual human editor read these words and thought, "Yeah, let's run with that."
One charming reader suggested burying administration officials "10 feet deep in concrete and Quicklime" and then encouraged folks to "start hunting down the rest of the cultists." You know, just casual Wednesday afternoon reading material for rural Kentucky. Another gem, tucked behind the paper's online paywall like some kind of exclusive premium violence content, urged readers to kill federal agents at polling places on Election Day with the words, "No argument, no discussion, just put them down." Imagine paying a subscription fee to access that content. What a deal.
The Libs of TikTok account flagged the submissions on July 23, 2026, bringing national attention to what might otherwise have remained the most disturbing small town newspaper feature since somebody's grandma submitted a casserole recipe that called for an entire stick of butter per serving.
Now here is where the comedy writes itself, except nobody is laughing. Remember back in 2013 when a rodeo clown wore an Obama mask and the media treated it like an international incident? That guy lost his entire career. Meanwhile, a printed newspaper is literally platforming fantasies about killing federal agents, and the mainstream press response has been roughly equivalent to a collective shrug emoji.
The stakes here are tragically real. Kerry Sheron, a 69 year old veteran in California, was fatally beaten on Memorial Day. He had Trump flags and signs displayed at his home. His wife believes the attack by a 32 year old assailant was politically motivated. Language calling supporters "cultists" who need to be "hunted" does not exist in some harmless rhetorical vacuum.
Social media commenters pointed out something worth considering. The declining number of Trump signs in neighborhoods across America is not necessarily a polling indicator. People are legitimately scared to publicly express their political views because they have watched what can happen to those who do. That is not a healthy democracy. That is a population doing risk assessment before putting a yard sign up.
Let's be crystal clear about what happened here. This was not an open forum or an unmoderated comment section. "Speak Your Piece" is a curated editorial feature. Every single submission that lands on that printed page passes through an editor's hands. Someone at the Mountain Eagle actively chose to give these violent fantasies the legitimacy of print publication. That is an editorial decision, and editorial decisions have consequences, or at least they should.
Multiple commenters online called for the Department of Justice to take a long, hard look at what was published. Whether or not that happens remains to be seen, but one thing is certain: if a conservative newspaper had printed anything remotely similar about the other side, we would already be on day four of wall to wall cable news coverage and somebody would have lost their job.
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