Remember Kirk Bangstad? The Minocqua Brewing Company owner who offered free beer the day someone assassinates the President of the United States? The guy who watched a shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner and said “we almost got #freebeerday”? Well, he’s back. And somehow — *somehow* — he managed to top himself. This time he posted a Secret Service agent’s personal cell phone number on Facebook and told his followers to call and harass the man.

That’s right, folks. A brewery owner in Wisconsin is now running counterintelligence operations against federal law enforcement from behind a keyboard sticky with craft IPA residue. We truly live in the greatest timeline.

Here’s how we got here. After the assassination attempt at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner last Saturday — you know, the one where someone actually shot at people near the President — our pal Bangstad hopped on social media to share his disappointment that the shooter missed. His exact words: “Either a brother or sister in the Resistance needs to work on their marksmanship or he faked another assassination to get a positive news cycle.” Real classy stuff from a guy who sells overpriced lagers to tourists.

Naturally, the Secret Service had some follow-up questions. An agent reached out to Bangstad on Thursday, as federal law enforcement tends to do when you publicly cheer on assassination attempts against a sitting president. Normal people would hire a lawyer, shut their mouths, and count their blessings that they weren’t already in handcuffs.

Kirk Bangstad is not normal people.

Instead of cooperating — or at minimum, not making things catastrophically worse — Bangstad posted the agent’s personal cell phone number and a transcription of the agent’s voicemail to his Facebook page. Then he told his followers to “call this number and ask this Secret Service agent to stand down and honor his oath to his country.” He essentially sicced a mob of internet randos on a federal agent whose job is to protect the President from people who… well, from people exactly like Kirk Bangstad’s fan base.

Now here’s where it gets fun. There’s this little federal statute called 18 U.S. Code § 119 — the Protecting Law Enforcement from Doxxing Act. It says that publicly disclosing restricted personal information about a law enforcement officer with intent to threaten, intimidate, or incite violence is a federal crime punishable by up to five years in prison. Five years. In federal prison. For doing exactly what Kirk Bangstad just did on Facebook for the whole world to see.

We’re not lawyers here. But when you post a Secret Service agent’s phone number and tell people to pressure him into backing off an investigation into your assassination-adjacent commentary, that’s not exactly a gray area. That’s the kind of thing prosecutors frame and hang on the wall of their office.

And because no Bangstad story is complete without a paranoid cherry on top, he reportedly sent an email to his supporters before speaking with investigators in which he emphasized that he was “of sound mind and body.” You know, the kind of thing perfectly stable, definitely-not-losing-it people always feel the need to clarify.

Let’s zoom out for a second. This is a man who runs a brewery in northern Wisconsin. His primary skill set involves hops, yeast, and barley. And yet he has now, on multiple occasions, publicly celebrated or encouraged political violence, mocked assassination attempts, taunted federal investigators, and doxxed a Secret Service agent. At what point does someone in his life — a friend, a lawyer, a bartender, anyone — grab him by the shoulders and say, “Kirk, buddy, stop posting”?

The answer, apparently, is never. Because Kirk Bangstad is what happens when Trump Derangement Syndrome metastasizes past the brain and into the posting fingers. He’s not a political activist. He’s not a resistance hero. He’s a small-town beer merchant who has apparently decided that federal prison sounds like a fun adventure.

Meanwhile, we get to enjoy the spectacle. The same crowd that spent four years screaming about “threats to democracy” and “political violence” has produced a guy who literally cheers when someone shoots at the President and then retaliates against the federal agents investigating him. The Left doesn’t have a hypocrisy problem — they have a hypocrisy *lifestyle*.

Here’s the thing we keep coming back to with Bangstad: this isn’t courage. Posting a federal agent’s phone number from behind a screen isn’t brave. It’s the behavior of a man who thinks the rules don’t apply to him because he has the right politics. He watched someone try to murder people near the President and his first instinct was to crack a beer joke. His second instinct was to attack the people investigating him for the first instinct.

The Secret Service and the FBI are reportedly already investigating. And if 18 U.S. Code § 119 means what it says — and it does — Kirk Bangstad just handed prosecutors their easiest case of the year. Publicly posted evidence. Clear intent. A federal agent’s personal information broadcast to thousands of followers with an explicit call to action.

So here’s to you, Kirk. You wanted to be famous. You wanted to be the face of “the Resistance.” Congratulations. You might just get to be the face of a federal indictment instead. And unlike your beer, that’s something people will actually remember.