Here’s the thing: Kyle Rittenhouse is a middle school dropout. His only option is to shill for the companies that are trading on the conservative gundamentalist Right that sees him as their poster boy.

But often, those types of personalities, just because of their controversial natures and stances, are often shunned by payment processing companies. Those people are a liability.

It’s kind of like how marijuana retailers in my state (where it’s legal) don’t take credit cards, because credit card companies are loath to work with something that’s still federally illegal.

Not that I’d know, I mean.

But the recent tour Kyle has been on, the protests against him, the fact that his jury in trial where he was acquitted consisted of eleven white people and one person of color, make him the same kind of liability.

And he’s recently become a fan of using the word “woke” — an AAVE term meaning someone who is aware of social injustice and wants to change it — as an insult.

So his recent X post, in which he declared his new joint venture with payment processor Patriot Pay, an “anti-woke” (in the pejorative sense) company, honestly comes as no surprise. He’s young, he can’t get a job, he’s already an emblem for Republicans; Why not just shill for all the Republican companies you can for a paycheck, right?

It’s ironic that he uses the word “cancelled” [sic, unless he was British] in his post. The people most concerned with being “canceled” and who call others “snowflake” the most are always the people first to boycott a company if they do anything they consider “woke.”

Burning Nike gear for partnering with Colin Kaepernick. Dumping out can after can of Bud Lite for partnering with a trans woman. How are these things any different than what Kyle rants about here?

And make no mistake, the partnership is official. The CEO of Patriot Pay has posted on social media about Kyle’s partnership with them. They take pride in enabling the people who are most offensive to society at large to take money from the few who agree with them.

And get a cut, of course.

So why did I join Patriot Pay?

Here’s my payment processor nightmare story…

In 2020 I was maliciously prosecuted by a rogue Assistant District Attorney for defending my life.

I was attacked, put on trial, and acquitted.

Behind the scenes we were shut down by multiple…

— Kyle Rittenhouse (@ThisIsKyleR) April 18, 2024

Kyle’s full tweet read, “So why did I join Patriot Pay? Here’s my payment processor nightmare story…In 2020 I was maliciously prosecuted by a rogue Assistant District Attorney for defending my life. I was attacked, put on trial, and acquitted. Behind the scenes we were shut down by multiple payment processors to raise funds to cover my legal expenses. DENIED, CANCELLED, DEPLATFORMED. I was stuck and the expenses were compounding. There are too many woke payment processors out there and their agenda CAN control your business.

Whether you are running a business, accepting donations, or crowd funding. No American should live in fear of being deplatformed by a payment processor. This is why I partnered with Patriot Pay – a payment processor for conservative-business owners. With Patriot Pay you will never be cancelled or deplatformed for being a patriot. Join me in the fight against woke payment processors.”

Kyle’s story is exactly why Patriot Pay is THE best payment option for conservative business owners.

I hear stories like this from patriot business owners every single day.

Ditch your woke payment processor and join Patriot Pay

Learn more 👇🏻 https://t.co/ajdTQnZocl

— Derek Matthews, Ph.D. (@dmatthewsphd) April 18, 2024

“Patriots” don’t cross state lines to JOIN a protest in hopes of using the gun they illegally possessed to kill some protesters. “Patriots” don’t use a term for being kind as an insult.