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USKyle Rittenhouse hospitalized following bite from venomous spider - “The communists couldn’t take me out and i’ll be damned if I let a brown recluse take me out,” said the gunman who opened fire in Kenosha, Wisconsin on Aug. 5, 2020.
By David K. Li
May 7, 2026, 2:42 PM UTC / Updated May 7, 2026, 3:44 PM UTC
Kyle Rittenhouse at an event titled "Defend our 2A: Michigan's Right for Self Preservation," in Ionia, Mich., in 2023.Nick King / Lansing State Journal via USA Today Network file
Kyle Rittenhouse, who gained fame for opening fire at a 2020 civil rights rally in Wisconsin, was hospitalized after he was bitten by a venomous spider, the noted firearms enthusiast said Wednesday.
Rittenhouse, 23, told his 100,000 followers on X that he fell victim to a brown recluse, posting pictures of himself in a hospital bed strapped to monitors with one close-up shot of the bite mark.
Others came at him with body-shaming ridicule and the shirtless, stout Rittenhouse didn’t appear to respond to those online attacks.
The 23-year-old became a household name in late summer 2020 after he fatally shot two men and wounded a third during civil unrest in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
Rittenhouse, then a 17-year-old resident of Antioch, Illinois, came to Kenosha with an AR-15-style rifle and first aid supplies, saying he was there to protect property and render any medical care.
Rittenhouse became an overnight folk hero to gun rights advocates and he’s leaned into that fame.
He’s now chief firearms instructor and director of partnerships for Texas Gun Rights, which bills itself as the “largest no-compromise gun rights organization in” the Lone Star state.
"And walked free because it turned out? Those he shot were trying to kill him and admitted it on the stand at trial. Why were they trying to kill him? Because he put out an arson fire they set in the hopes it would burn down a city block"
You don't hate journos enough.
That said? The Brown Recluse is no joke.
The ol' Boy Scout Manual had it listed in the "Stop laughing you juvenile fucktard who's barely stopped pooping their own pants and PAY ATTENTION! This shit WILL kill you and YOU won't be laughing about it as you die in agony" section.
I got bit on the foot as a kid by one of those. Didn't go to the doctor until a couple of weeks in and I was sent home with some sorta sulfur medicine. I wonder why he needed a hospital stay for it.
The ol' Boy Scout Manual had it listed in the "Stop laughing you juvenile fucktard who's barely stopped pooping their own pants and PAY ATTENTION! This shit WILL kill you and YOU won't be laughing about it as you die in agony" section.
Yes, because to children and the elderly the brown recluse (and the black widow) can be deadly... not as much for full-grown adults. The biggest threat from a brown recluse isn't so much the necrotoxin but the possible coinfections that result from it. In any case he got prompt hospital treatment so he'll be fine.
Remember: This is America, not Kangaroo Country. We have real hospitals with real medicine to treat really innocuous (but technically poisonous) spiders ... as opposed to Kangaroo Country where everything is trying to kill you, and the nearest relative of the black widow is deadly even to adults. Anime got one thing right ... we should glass Australia.
I realize political grifting is the only life path left open to him in Clown World, but this stuff designed to appeal to Boomercons is so embarrassing.
What an insane way to phrase "was attacked by 3 separate rioting Antifags, who all turned out to have priors for weapons charges, choking women, or raping 9 year old boys"
(Grosskreutz, Huber, and Rosenbaum, respectively)
My friend got bit by a brown recluse years ago, he ended up with a pretty gnarly hole in his leg from it thanks to the combination of the necrotoxins and infection
I realize political grifting is the only life path left open to him in Clown World, but this stuff designed to appeal to Boomercons is so embarrassing.
So they got him at the after-game party by basically turning his name to mud so he could never get a fair shake from any institution.
There's nothing left for him to do but become a bunker water filter-tier businessman, which the left thinks is a good start, but, there's still a long ways to go before he ODs on fent in a refrigerator box, the only "just" outcome for him as far as they're concerned.
It's not all his fault.
And we should honor his service.
Yes, his life has been permanently hobbled.
And for that sacrifice? No one has attempted a peaceful but fiery civil rights gathering since.....
I realize political grifting is the only life path left open to him in Clown World, but this stuff designed to appeal to Boomercons is so embarrassing.
He has leaned into the activism, which isn't inherently a bad thing. You gotta pay the bills somehow. But you really can 't blame him for news outlets turning his random tweets into news stories.
What an insane way to phrase "was attacked by 3 separate rioting Antifags, who all turned out to have priors for weapons charges, choking women, or raping 9 year old boys"
(Grosskreutz, Huber, and Rosenbaum, respectively)
To this day it still makes me laugh that Kyle Rittenhouse shot two leftists and one of them was a literal child molester and the other was a wife beater.
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