As the twig is bent, so grows the tree. The video you’re about to see is of Stephen Miller, aged 17. Now a lot of people are clapping back in the comments, “How can you judge somebody by what they said as a kid?” And granted, we all tend to be a-holes to some extent when we are teenagers. But who a person is in young adulthood and who they stay throughout life is an interesting character study for anybody who is a student of human nature. Personally, some of the attitudes I had as a 17-year-old are completely unchanged, my “core values” if you will. Other attitudes I had at the time, insecurities, fears, were those of youth and are usually called growing pains. But even a lot of those haven’t dropped by the wayside, entirely. Miller is now only 39 years old and the cruelty he smirkingly jokes about is now being visited on real live people.
Horrible kids turn into horrible adults. The writing was already on the wall there…way back then. (Facepalm)
— Michael Beckerman (@MMBeckerman) July 16, 2025
That was only twenty years ago. And just think about who you knew back in high school. How many of them have done a complete 180 from when you knew them? I can’t think of anybody. Certainly we’ve all lived to see people who might have been wallflowers find their niche and bloom. We’ve seen people who were the local hero stay in town and lead modest lives, while the quiet guy in the back of the room goes on to make millions. But I’ve never known anybody who was this vicious at that young age who suddenly became saintly.
It is frightening that this man is writing U.S. policy. Miller’s sadistic tendencies are in full bloom here. I’m sure he was the kid who pulled the wings off flies or killed ants with a magnifying glass — and thought it was all funny. If he killed animals, I don’t want to know about it.
Most serial killers started out killing small animals and talking this way when they were kids. This particular guy found his way to become the White House Deputy Chief of Staff. It does not speak well of us as a culture that this is the best we can put in that role, but then this is what comes of electing somebody like Donald Trump. As Anthony Scaramucci observed, “the fish rots from the head down.”
A direct, straight, and short line from this to Alligator Auschwitz.
Stephen Miller is a sick man, perhaps much more disturbed than Donald tRump. He played a somewhat background role in tRump 1.0 (although, remember he was the architect of the child separation policy, putting kids in cages). But before tRump was even elected to 2.0, Miller was heavily involved in the crafting of Project 2025. And now that Miller is Deputy Chief of Shenanigans for tRump, he has free rein to write and implement “policy” (congressional oversight and legal constraints be damned!). If we can infer anything from that video, besides that his high school classmates thought Miller was a complete joke, we can begin to comprehend what kind of mind is driving the masked thugs “disappearing” people off our streets and moving them to barbaric internment “camps” in third world countries like El Salvador, Eswatini, South Sudan, and the Florida Everglades. Miller lives and works in the shadows (would YOU put him front and center to do, say, Kakistocracy Karoline’s job???). Stephen Miller is to Donald tRump as Herman Goring was to Adolf Hitler, except Hitler was strong enough to think up the human abuses he perpetrated and pass them on to Goring. But tRump is more a con man than a hatchet man. He’s not going to get blood on his wittle hands. He’ll leave that to his underlings, to Homan and Musk and Miller and all the macho bros who dig cosplaying extreme combat skills dressed from head to foot in black, including black face mask, carrying more guns and ammo that three platoons of Seal Team Six forces tasked with taking out the Iranian Revolutionary Guard. Talk about overdressed! But I digress…
Miller is dangerous, creepy, white supremicist, racist, and an all-around disgusting person. But he has tRump’s ear, and no one knows what kind of sweet nothings Miller whispers into that ear, or what will be next on the tRumpian Turnpike. But Miller is one of many who ought to be investigated if (when) the Democrats take back the House and the Senate!
Good article, Ursula! 😃
like btk they found a job in which they can channel their proclivities rather than become serial killers.