A motherlode of stupidity is no way to run the country, but when it involves a racist incel planning to shoot up a Hindu temple, it sure can come in handy.
When 19-year-old Alexandros Paporakis, a cashier at Taco Bell, visited the Sri Venkateswara Swami Balaji Temple in Aurora, Illinois, last Sunday (October 11), he tried to shoot a random worshipper from his car, but his gun jammed.
Like many young, male incels these days, he was so filled with Apartheid TwitterX hate fuel that he felt confident enough to call a coworker at Taco Bell and tell him that, although he had failed, he’d try again.
He then sent his coworker a video of the gun that jammed, an AR-15. He intended to go inside the busy temple and massacre worshippers, according to local police, but when the gun jammed, he fled the scene. He said to his coworker that the man he wanted to shoot was “certainly saved by his God today.”1
This was in the wake of spending several hate-fueled days at Taco Bell telling coworkers that he couldn’t wait to kill Indian people, and that “it” would happen soon.
The Taco Bell coworkers, who live in a multi-ethnic city and were doubtless not pleased to hear of the Musk fanboi’s plans, alerted authorities, who then paid a visit to his home.
Receiving no cooperation from his mother, they found enough military equipment to fill Rambo’s apartment (or Sly Stallone’s $35 million Palm Beach, Florida waterfront estate), along with an eight-page manifesto full of hatred towards Jews, Blacks and people from India.
I should mention here that I used to toil in Aurora as a route driver, and I have strong affection for that river town about 40 miles west of Chicago. I am sure that there was not a substantial Indian population at that time, because I’d remember chomping on lots of delicious Indian food. After I left the Chicago area, South Asians began migrating to Aurora. I would have loved that for a lot of reasons.
The incel’s diatribe stated he wanted to kill as many “subhumans” as possible, not, perhaps, understanding that he, along with the TwitterX master of ceremonies, Elon Musk, are subhumans who would best serve the planet by retreating into subterranean caves for a few hundred thousand years, where they can live the life of Morlocks.
Why am I bringing Musk into this?
The Center for the Study of Organized Hate tells us that the number of South Asian hate messages on Apartheid TwitterX increased 240% from January 2024 to June 2026.2
Anybody notice anything about that time period?
The group Stop AAPI Hate has documented a huge spike in physical threats to go along with that.3
TwitterX is a hate platform. It is fueled by Elon Musk’s consistent, well-documented racism. He posts dozens of hate-filled screeds per day when he’s jacked up on ketamine or obsessing about filling the planet with more white Musk babies.
Unfortunately, the U.S. government is now a hate platform, too. According to reporting by the New York Times:4
As part of the rollout of a new tip line to report truckers suspected of fraud, the Department of Homeland Security posted an image on Sept. 9 of a “Transformers” character facing off with a Sikh man, along with the words: “America for Americans. Get off our roads. You don’t know how to drive Mr. Singh.”
DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin, at your service. I think we were better off with the dog killer, but that’s a separate post.
The temple’s Executive Director, Sravya Tadepall, said that the growing unease of South Asians under the hate cult that runs the White House is validated by events like the incel’s foiled plot. “Anti-Hindu and anti-Indian hate are escalating to a point of putting our community in danger,” she said.
Aurora Alderwoman Shweta Baid, who became the first Aurora Indian-American alderwoman five years ago, says her family worships there. U.S. Congressional Representative Raja Krishnamoorthi and his family were there on Sunday.
They might all be dead, but not for a few folks working at Taco Bell who finally had enough of the incel’s rants and contacted police. They arrested him this weekend.
We often ask ourselves what’s wrong with this country. Although there is plenty wrong, and plenty of diseased, craven minds out there who don’t need encouragement, keep in mind the boost they receive from the current regime and from the world’s largest “Listen to Me!” social media platform, one that happens to be owned by an active racist.
Midterms are coming. Accountability begins soon.
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Footnotes
Zalusky, Steve, and Madhu Krishnamurthy. “How Authorities Say a Jammed Gun and Taco Bell Workers Prevented a Possible Mass Shooting at an Aurora Temple.” Chicago Tribune, October 15, 2026. https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/10/15/raja-krishnamoorthi-aurora-temple/.
Center for the Study of Organized Hate. “New Report: Anti-South Asian Hate Surges 240% from January 2024 to June 2026 - Center for the Study of Organized Hate,” September 28, 2026. https://www.csohate.org/press-releases/anti-south-asian-hate-united-states-2026/.
Hate, Stop AAPI. “The State of Anti-South Asian Hate.” Stop AAPI Hate Action, September 3, 2026. https://stopaapihate.org/2026/09/03/the-state-of-anti-south-asian-hate/.
Qin, Amy. “South Asians Face Surging Racism in America.” nytimes. The New York Times, September 24, 2026.
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