Stephen Miller, 'sexual matador'

I'm not sure his wife understands how apt the metaphor is.

Stephen Miller. NSFW.

I want to start by saying I was not chosen for the rapture on Tuesday, despite spending most of the day supine on my sofa begging aloud to be yeeted into another dimension. No, I was left here in both body and soul to endure another unhinged week of news that almost didn’t feel real, including RFK Jr. blaming autism on women while sounding like a backfiring car, Trump being unable to pronounce “acetaminophen,” Trump telling the entire world in a UN speech that “your countries are going to hell,” Trump trying to change the entire childhood vaccine schedule with single a Truth Social post, Kash Patel trying to convince us the Dallas shooter wrote “anti-ICE” on a bullet in what looks like ballpoint pen, and Stephen Miller’s wife calling him a “sexual matador” on Fox News.

I want to talk about that last bit, first. Because it really is funny to compare your husband, sexually, to the guy in embroidered tights who waves his red cape around and dodges a charging bull until the bull is slowly tortured to death. Is Katie supposed to be the bull in this scenario, charging at her dodgy man to no avail? I think perhaps that we are all the bull to Stephen Miller’s matador—because he is, when you think about it, a walking red flag who’s trying to distract us and piss us off until we die by some deadly blow from this government that we didn’t see coming.

Here’s the clip, in case you missed it, of Katie saying her husband "gets her going” in the morning with little speeches about how he’s going to crush the left (which sounds like every woman’s wet dream, indeed).

Considering that Miller is the person actually running the country right now while Trump golfs, rage tweets, and humilitates himself on the global stage, let’s take a more serious look at what our sexual matador has been up to. Internationally, Miller is pressuring the military to attack random fishing boats in the Caribbean and murder all the civilians on board as part of our supposed “war on drugs.” It’s unclear whether any of these boats we’ve sunk off the coast of Venezuela were actually carrying any drugs, because this administration has provided zero evidence suggesting they were. But Trump and J.D. Vance have been openly bragging about how funny they think it is that there are no boats in the sea anymore because fishermen are too afraid of being randomly bombed by the U.S. government.

Murdering unarmed civilians in the Caribbean, of course, flagrantly violates international law. But Stephen Miller doesn’t care about what the law says—he just wants to test whether anyone is going to try to enforce it. If no one actually stops us from sinking civilian boats, who cares if makes us global supervillains? Per former Trump official Miles Taylor’s book, Miller has been trying to push the military to drone strike unarmed civilians in international waters since 2018:

Meanwhile on the domestic front, Miller is trying to use Charlie Kirk’s murder to shut down and prosecute every aspect of the American left. Trump signed an executive order this week designating antifa as a domestic terrorist organization and allowing the full power of the federal government to go after (broadly defined) liberal “extremists” and those anyone who funds them. As my friend Chris Mathias, who’s writing a book on antifa, wrote for MSNBC this week, antifa isn’t an actual organization: “There is no legal statute with which to declare antifa a ‘major terrorist organization.’ Nor does antifa have a network of rich, shadowy benefactors who can be unmasked.”

“This burgeoning 2025 anti-antifa panic feels like it has the potential to turn into a real, unchecked campaign of persecution,” he writes. “A state crackdown that won’t be limited to the vanishingly small number of citizens who belong to antifa groups, but to the American left writ large.”

Trump is already blustering about investigating and prosecuting all major Democratic donors and the groups they fund, starting with George Soros. And Stephen Miller is over on X setting up the idea that even using the word “fascist” or “authoritarian” to describe his administration is terroristic language that incites violence—and is therefore prosecutable.

Nevermind that Miller was using the very same language to describe Biden’s administration in September of 2022. I suppose there are no reporters in the White House anymore to ask him what the difference is between what he says here and what Gavin Newsom said there.

But the administration is going to continue to milk this Kirk murder for as much political juice as they can get at it—for as big a power grab as possible—by elevating him to some kind of Christlike figure in the public imagination whose assassination demands a full revolution. A few Republicans in Congress are actually trying to get Kirk’s face on U.S. currency, despite his head probably being too big to fit on a coin, and right-wing outlets want us to believe that Kirk had some kind of miracle neck that stopped a bullet in its tracks and saved the people behind him.

This all works in Miller’s favor. Start blending the fascist speak in with the faux-religious fervor around Kirk’s martyrdom, and eventually people are saying “hallelujah” and raising praise hands in the air to the president vowing to crush his political enemies in the middle of a eulogy.