In pretty much every case, when pathological liars feel trapped — when they realize they’ve lost all of their credibility and their power — they don’t suddenly decide to become honest people. Instead, they simply continue lying. Think of Elizabeth Holmes after the collapse of Theranos — one of the most obvious, clear-cut cases of fraud imaginable. From prison, Holmes has refused to take any responsibility, even though she orchestrated the entire fraud. She still claims she’s a victim. There are about a million other examples, from Jussie Smollett to Bernie Madoff. The only way forward, in the liar’s mind, is to come up with even bigger lies. That’s all they really know how to do. The more desperate they become — the more trapped they feel — the more obvious their fraud becomes. 

At the moment, as a particularly depressing and financially insolvent “Pride Month” continues to trudge along, there is no greater illustration of this phenomenon than the so-called LGBT movement. These activists understand that they’ve been discredited. All of their narratives about alleged hate crimes — from Matthew Shepard onward — have collapsed under the slightest scrutiny. All of their claims about not having “equal rights” and “just wanting to live their own lives without bothering anyone” have fallen apart as well. That’s why “Pride Month” is dying. And in response, rather than engage in any introspection, LGBT activists have predictably decided to push yet another lie. And this one, even by their standards, is truly staggering — not just because it’s so grotesque and evil, but also because there are precisely zero sane people that would possibly be convinced by it.

I’m talking about the decision by LGBT activists to push a bizarre and obviously false narrative about the recent death of a 59-year-old actor named Jonathan Joss, who was well-known for voicing the role of John Redcorn in “King of the Hill.” He also appeared on “Parks and Recreation.” According to activists, as well as several media outlets, Joss was executed in front of his home by a homophobic bigot who had been tormenting him for a very long time in various ways. And, as proof of these extraordinary claims, the activists point to the following statement, which was posted on Facebook by someone identifying as Jonathan Joss’ husband. Here’s the relevant part of it. And as you read this, imagine you’re a detective arriving at the scene of this homicide, trying to figure out who’s telling the truth. And then imagine this is what an alleged witness tells you.

Even if you know nothing else about the case whatsoever, you can immediately see the problem: None of it makes any sense. It’s incoherent. It’s the kind of thing someone would write if they’ve lost their mind.

If you live in reality, you know that gay men living in San Antonio are not stalked for years by roving gangs of homophobes who taunt them with the skull of their dead dog, light their home on fire, and then shoot them. It’s not the kind of thing that happens, outside of the fevered imaginations of very delusional activists. It reads like a screenplay that was written by a demiqueer NYU student who’s high on meth. At no point should anyone have even pretended to take this statement seriously, for any reason. It discredits itself.

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But a lot of people did present this statement — as incoherent as it clearly is — as a serious, believable account by a first-hand witness. In the UK, the Independent ran this headline:

King of the Hill actor Jonathan Joss was killed in a ‘homophobic hate crime’ after ‘years of threats’, husband says.

So they’re leading with the statement from this alleged “husband,” without pushing back in any way. Outlets like Variety and MSNBC did the same thing. So did some very popular accounts on social media. The account “Discussing Film,” which has more than 2 million followers: 

Jonathan Joss, the voice of John Redcorn in ‘King of The Hill’, has sadly passed away at the age of 59 after being shot in a homophobic attack.

The pop culture site “Toon Hive” posted this report, which has more than 14 million views.

‘King of The Hill’ voice actor Jonathan Joss was murdered in a homophobic hate crime, his husband confirms.

Here’s another post with five million views:

They burned down his house, killed him and his husband’s dog, showed them the dead dogs skulls, called them homophobic slurs, and then shot them.

There were thousands more posts like this, all over the Internet, from X to Reddit to Facebook to Instagram and everywhere else. Here’s another post with hundreds of thousands of views: 

This is why the LGBTQ+ movement is necessary. This is why pride month is necessary. People shouldn’t fear stepping outside to check their mail just for loving somebody of the same sex. If you think otherwise, go f—- yourself.

So the LGBT community is unanimous: this was a homophobic hate crime. A gay man was executed in cold blood, simply for being gay. But if you look a little more closely at this situation — as in, if you spend five seconds looking into it — you’ll immediately find a few very fundamental problems with these claims.

First of all, here’s a picture of Jonathan’s alleged “husband,” on the left:

Jonathan Joss/Facebook

Admittedly, like Ketanji Brown Jackson, I’m no biologist. But that looks a lot like a woman who claims to be a man. And indeed, this particular woman has a trans flag on her Facebook profile. In other words, there’s no “husband” involved here. And as much as we all recognize that definitions and facts aren’t really important to the LGBT movement, this seems like a big issue for their narrative that this was a “homophobic attack.”

And given that little detail, you might be wondering: Who exactly is this woman? How credible is her story, exactly? She married Joss just a few months ago, on Valentine’s Day of this year. They hadn’t known each other for very long before that. And now, this woman is claiming to know that, for years, Joss has been tormented by the neighbors, who supposedly torched their home.

But the opposite is true. She’s completely inverting reality. Here’s a report from a local news station just a few months ago, shortly after the house fire:

Joss said he left the house to go eat earlier on Thursday and thought he had turned everything off. He said he had been using a propane heater in the home for warmth. ‘Mistakes happen, man. And it’s my fault for, I guess, leaving something on,,’ Joss said. ‘Or if somebody came in and did something, who knows?’

Well, that’s a helpful bit of context that was strangely missing from the post that Joss’ alleged “husband” wrote on Facebook. She suggests that homophobes burned down his house, but she leaves out the fact that Joss admitted he had been using a propane heater for warmth, and also admitted that he had made a “mistake” because he might have left it on. (She also leaves out the fact that the local utility company had cut the power to the house, and that it was slated for demolition — more on that later). In any event, essentially he’s acknowledging that, yes, he burned his own house down. And that’s not all the information that Joss’ alleged husband left out. Watch:

Yes, according to the neighbors, Joss would scream at passing cars. He would regularly harass innocent people in the community. He would act, in other words, a lot like an unstable meth addict with mental health issues.

And that’s just the beginning. Here’s a report from the local station WFAA, which has more details from the day Joss died:

Neighbors [said that Joss] was at the site Sunday night checking his mail, which he did regularly, when something went terribly wrong. A video shared by a neighbor who was present shows a man, who they identified as Joss, pacing up and down the street with a pitchfork and screaming. The neighbors say it was common behavior over the years for Joss to scream while carrying weapons, and even though they say they didn’t like it, several neighbors said they were surprised when a man who lives just 50 yards away responded to the situation with a gun around 6 p.m. Sunday.

It’s worth repeating this line: “The neighbors say it was common behavior over the years for Joss to scream while carrying weapons.” And on the night he was killed, Joss was “pacing up and down with a pitchfork and screaming.” Again, none of this made it into the “husband’s” account of events. Instead, we’re supposed to believe that Joss was just minding his own business, checking the mail, when someone shot him for no reason, other than the fact he’s gay, even though he’s in a relationship with a woman.

If that sounds a little hard to believe, it gets even worse. Let’s continue reading from the local news report:

Many neighbors said Joss and Alvarez had a long history of trouble. They say both men have been showing weapons and trading threats for years. … The feud took many forms, ‘Weapons, everything, gun shootings at all times of night,’ [one neighbor] said, adding the men didn’t shoot at each other. ‘No, just shooting rounds at their own property and stuff. You could just hear the multiple rounds just blowing off on both ends, both ends and he would be yelling a lot.’

So there was just some casual gunfire, on both sides of this dispute. It was a regular thing, apparently. And it was a conflict that Joss was obviously participating in. According to various news reports, police had been called to the Joss residence more than 60 times so far this year alone, for a variety of reasons — from welfare checks to reports of shootings and fires. Callers reported that Joss had been carrying crossbows and pointing them at people, which led police to confiscate the weapon last summer.

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Also, it’s emerged that neither Joss nor his alleged “husband” actually owned the home that burned down. In fact, the property was slated for demolition before it mysteriously burned down. From Fox San Antonio:

City officials saying that the home Joss and his husband had lived in was slated for demolition well before the fire in January of 2025. Records from the City of San Antonio’s Dangerous Assessment Response Team (DART) indicated that neither Joss nor his husband owned the property. According to city officials, after several reports of theft and mental health concerns, the DART Team got involved. After inspecting the property, the building was brought before the Building Standards Board, which ordered its demolition. DART then gave the couple a notice to vacate. The homeowner consented to the demolition of the home, and services were disconnected from the property in October of 2024. Officials say the home then sat on a list of homes to be demolished, before a fire on January 23, 2025, destroyed most of the structure, killing at least one dog in the blaze.

Again, these are not facts that suggest Joss and his “husband” were living the most stable life, or that they were being tormented by random mysterious homophobes. It looks a lot like they’re unstable people.

Then there’s this Facebook post, from a different neighbor, describing her experiences with Joss.

If you are having trouble reading that, it states:

I lived across this man for years. He started gun fights constantly and he burnt his own house down trying to make a meth lab inside. He constantly threatened his surrounding neighbors and played victim when cops came. He used to throw bricks through my window and tore several of our mailboxes down. … And no one on that block ever yelled homophobic slurs at him. It’s all a lie from his ‘husband’ for sympathy.”

These multiple, independent accounts are believable, in part, because of Joss’ public behavior. In fact, just two days before his death, Joss crashed an event for the “King of the Hill Revival” at the Paramount Theater in Austin. And he had to be escorted out by security.

According to People Magazine:

While the panel was in full swing, Joss stood up and approached the microphone set up for the Q&A portion of the event, which had not begun yet. … The onlooker says security guards came out at this time. .. The eyewitness says audience members ‘laughed nervously in the crowd’ and that King of the Hill co-creators Mike Judge and Greg Daniels didn’t seem alarmed while others appeared ‘a bit worried or uncomfortable.’

Here’s part of the footage of what took place. It was shot by an attendee, using the name Brandon BrokenHeart on Facebook:

He’s obviously falling apart, personally and professionally. He thought these people snubbed him by not inviting him onto the stage. So he interrupts them while they’re speaking. He shuts the whole event down. He veers between a joking demeanor and being dead-serious as he rants incoherently about ten different topics. For example, he says that his house was burned down because he’s gay, which is completely different from what he said a few weeks ago, when he acknowledged he may have caused the fire himself. And meanwhile, everyone in the room is nervously hoping he’s not going to become violent, because he’s acting like a schizophrenic.

Two days later, what do you know? The neighbors say he was acting like a meth head, screaming at random people while carrying a pitchfork. To be clear, I don’t know exactly why he was shot. No one does, at this point. We can’t say whether Joss was threatening anyone, or whether the shooting was justified. But the balance of the evidence overwhelmingly suggests that he wasn’t minding his own business and “checking the mail” when, out of nowhere, he was executed for being in a gay relationship, as the media and LGBT activists are claiming. There are about a million reasons why that claim isn’t convincing — starting with the fact that he wasn’t even in a gay relationship, as well as the fact he’s repeatedly acted like a lunatic in public, and the fact that the “source” is a trans-identifying woman with every incentive to play the victim.

And indeed, San Antonio police — who have access to all of the available evidence — have come to the same conclusion.

Here’s what they wrote.

SAPD Homicide is currently investigating the murder of Mr. Jonathan Joss. Despite online claims of this being a hate crime, currently the investigation has found no evidence to indicate that Mr. Joss’s murder was related to his sexual orientation.

Because reality doesn’t matter to these people, this statement hasn’t convinced LGBT activists to stop claiming that Jonathan Joss was executed for being gay. Nor have any of the other facts I just outlined. They still won’t admit that Matthew Shepard was killed 30 years ago because of a meth deal gone bad, not because he was gay. (In fact, one of Sheppard’s killers was a man he’d occasionally had sex with). Every single one of these hate crime hoaxes, going back 30 years, has been a fraud. This is just the latest example of a trend we’ve all seen for decades now.

If anything’s changing, it’s that the hoaxes are becoming far more incoherent, lazy and unconvincing. You only see lies that are this transparent and desperate from people who are losing — and who know they’re losing. Desperate to find some justification for “Pride Month” and the LGBT movement in general, these pathological liars are deliberately attempting to exploit the very predictable and tragic death of an unstable, drugged-out voice actor, all under the guise of compassion and “social justice.” It is a fraud. Their entire movement is a fraud. And the more they pretend otherwise — the more they pretend to care about Jonathan Joss, and the more they pretend to be terrified of phantom homophobic gangs that randomly stalk and torment gay men in San Antonio — the more obvious it is, how truly powerless and pathetic these people have become.