Assisination Culture

 https://x.com/charliekirk11/status/1909391943802703899?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 "Assassination culture is spreading on the left. Forty-eight percent of liberals say it would be at least somewhat justified to murder Elon Musk. Fifty-five percent said the same about Donald Trump. In California, activists are naming ballot measures after Luigi Mangione. The left is being whipped into a violent frenzy. Any setback, whether losing an election or losing a court case, justifies a maximally violent response. This is the natural outgrowth of left-wing protest culture tolerating violence and mayhem for years on end. The cowardice of local prosecutors and school officials have turned the left into a ticking time bomb."
https://www.foxnews.com/us/new-bombshell-study-reveals-assassination-culture-spreading-left-under-president-trump

 When over 50% of a "mainstream" political party say that it is acceptable to kill the sitting president, and the minority stays silent, then that party should lose whatever legitimacy they might have had.  

https://networkcontagion.us/reports/4-7-25-ncri-assassination-culture-brief/

Something Different (Updated)

 This showed up on my FB this morning and I though it was good enough to quote.  

 

 I think that part of this question derives from the public/private expressions of outrage.  In the case of Charlie Kirk, the outrage is public because the killing was public.   I'd never heard the names of the MN legislators killed before they died, while Charlie was in my social feeds constantly.  Finally, I don't think that those on the left quite understand the effect that the outright glee at Charlie's killing has had.   It is similar to the response to the UHC CEO killing, in the sense that it is being justified and celebrated much more than the killing of an innocent should be, especially by those who claim to value diversity, inclusion, respect, nonviolence, and peaceful coexistence.   The silence when conservative SCOTUS justices were threatened and a softball practice attacked spoke loudly.  The glee is turned up to 11.  

 

FWIW, here it is.  

 

 

 

"Something I'm seeing since the tragic passing of Charlie Kirk that I'd like to share my thoughts on....

A constant question being asked in my "interweb feeds".... "Where was the outrage for Melissa Hortman and her husband? Where was the outrage for children killed at school? Where was the outrage for (insert any other life lost in tragic, preventable scenerios)?"

The implication? That the grief people feel now is somehow unjustified because it isn’t equal to grief for others.

Here’s the truth: outrage is human, not mathematical.

We don’t measure grief on a scoreboard.

It’s shaped by MANY things, and in this case it's being shaped by proximity, connection, visibility, and what we witness.

I still think those are valid questions that are being asked, however - because EVERYONE'S questions in times like this are valid... So, if I could give an answer it would be simply in the form of a request to consider these things:

1) CONNECTION changes EMOTION.

We always grieve harder when we feel connected.

I didn’t mourn my grandfather when he passed (we weren’t close). But my grandmother’s passing still breaks me 15 years later.

Just as an example, most of America had never heard of the Hortmans until tragedy struck. But Charlie Kirk - love him or hate him - was in our feeds daily. That presence makes his loss feel more personal, even if you never met him.

It’s the same reason we mourn a close friend differently than a stranger. Both lives matter equally, but one hits our hearts differently. It’s absolutely NOT that one life is worth more, it’s just that our CONNECTION to people shapes our emotions.

2) We WITNESSED IT.

This wasn’t just news.

Millions literally saw it happen.

The violent death of a public figure, in front of his family, replayed everywhere. That kind of trauma doesn’t just land in your head, it lands in your body. That absolutely changes everything about how it effects us.

Imagine getting a CALL that your loved one has passed, and compare that to WATCHING it happen. You would undoubtedly have a different reaction, process things differently, experience a set of emotions more viscerally. Your grief still exists in both situations, but very likely amplified in the one that leaves an image in your brain for forever.

3) IT'S BEING CELEBRATED.

I don’t recall people celebrating the deaths of Melissa Hortman and her husband, or schoolchildren who were supposed to be in a safe space.

But there are millions of comments celebrating Charlie’s. That alone fuels a heightened response. Social feeds are flooded with mockery and cheers. That intensifies the outrage.

No one grieving Charlie is saying his life was worth more than anyone else’s. But millions online are saying...even celebrating...that his life was worth less.

People aren’t “hypocrites” for reacting differently. Different circumstances create different emotions. That doesn’t mean one life is more valuable. It just means we’re human.

The real sickness is in the voices that cheer death, that devalue life, that call evil “justice.”

Grief isn’t math. We feel it differently depending on connection, visibility, and how tragedy unfolds.

But what should unite us all is this: violence is never ok, and celebrating it is poison to our humanity.

Pray for our nation.

Pray for the victims and families of ALL of these crimes.

Pray that hearts are softened and humanity restored. "

 

 

" 

When a Conversation Gets You Killed, We’ve Lost the Plot

By Aaron “Buck” Burnett | Program Director | KKOB

Let me say this as plainly as I can: we are in real trouble.

On Wednesday, Charlie Kirk was assassinated during a Q&A session at a university campus in Utah. Let that sink in. A political commentator was murdered—not in a warzone, not during a riot—but while speaking into a microphone and answering questions from people who disagreed with him.

He wasn’t inciting violence. He wasn’t calling for blood. He was doing exactly what we say we want in this country: talking. Debating. Showing up in person to engage, face-to-face, with folks who don’t see the world the way he does.

And for that, someone killed him.

This isn’t about whether you liked Charlie Kirk. That’s irrelevant. Agree with him, disagree with him—hell, think he’s dead wrong on every issue. Fine. That’s your right. But when we get to the point where people are gunned down for the crime of having an opinion, we’ve crossed a line we may not come back from.

We’ve become a culture where disagreement is treated as violence and actual violence is justified as some kind of moral response. People walk around like they're righteous vigilantes because someone dared to challenge their worldview. We’ve allowed emotional fragility to masquerade as courage and confusion to parade as justice.

What happened to us?

This country was built on the idea that we can argue, protest, debate, and even offend each other without fearing for our lives. We have the First Amendment for a reason. You don’t get to kill someone because they said something you didn’t like. That’s not activism—that’s terrorism.

Take the people who cheer this kind of thing—and yes, there are some—and drop them in Syria, or Russia, or China. In those countries, they don’t even need a reason. You say the wrong thing about the government, you vanish. You criticize the wrong leader, you wind up in a prison cell or a body bag. Over there, people dream of having the freedoms we’re squandering here.

And yet, here we are—a nation so spoiled by liberty that some now see free speech as a threat, and silencing others by force as noble.

Charlie Kirk showed up. He brought his voice, not a weapon. He opened the floor to questions. He didn’t demand silence or compliance. He didn’t shout down the opposition. He leaned in, welcomed the challenge, and gave people a shot at changing his mind. He died doing what more of us should be doing—talking across the aisle instead of screaming across it.

What happened Wednesday isn’t just a tragedy. It’s a warning.

We’ve reached a place where many Americans now view their political opponents not as wrong, but as evil. Not as misinformed, but as dangerous. And once you convince yourself that the person across from you is dangerous—then anything becomes justified, including murder.

This isn’t how democracies survive. This is how they collapse. Not with a bang, but with a slow cultural rot. With censorship disguised as safety. With cowardice disguised as conviction. With bullets replacing ballots. If we don’t turn this ship around—and soon—we’re going to find ourselves in a country that no longer resembles anything close to the America we inherited. And worse, our kids won’t know the difference. They’ll grow up thinking this is normal—that if someone disagrees with you, you destroy them. Not in the comment section. Not on a ballot. But in real life. That should scare the hell out of all of us.

We need to re-learn how to live with disagreement. We need to stop idolizing outrage and start rebuilding mutual respect, even when—especially when—we don’t see eye to eye. Because without that? We’re not a country. We’re just a powder keg with a flag on it.

Charlie Kirk should still be alive today. Not because he was right about everything, but because this is still supposed to be a country where you don’t get executed for speaking your mind. If we’ve lost that…We’ve lost the whole damn thing."

Land of 10K Frauds

 https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/kare-11-investigates-ethics-questions-emerge-over-sen-fateh-s-housing-bill-and-wife-s-company-ties/ar-AA1MdKcp?ocid=BingNewsSerp

https://kstp.com/kstp-news/top-news/lawmakers-want-deeper-look-into-taxpayer-funded-program-that-helps-vulnerable-minnesotans/

 https://www.kare11.com/article/news/investigations/kare-11-investigates-governor-halts-payments-to-50-providers-amid-housing-fraud-scandal-minnesota/89-00bcf15d-2872-45d7-8051-15a373b76ed7

 https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/75th-defendant-charged-in-feeding-our-future-fraud-case/ar-AA1LTKkL?ocid=BingNewsSerp

What in the hell is going on in the Tim Walz ruled state of MN?   We've had three major instances of massive fraud in government programs over the past 5 years.  What in the world is preventing the DFL controlled state government from preventing this fraud?   How much of the costs of this fraud will be borne by the tax payers on top of the ballooning budget?    As two of these frauds were committed primarily by Somali immigrants, one must wonder is there is something in Somali culture that accepts defrauding the government as acceptable, much like the Afghani and Pakistani cultures accept child rape and cousin marriage as normal?

Statistics

 This recent spate of shootings has brought out all sorts of "data" about "mass shootings" and "mass killings", and much of it pushed by the left seems skewed.   For example, how can a gang dispute over drugs or territory (which kills a few gang bangers) be categorized in the same way as the guy who ran down a bunch of people with a car in Wisconsin a few years ago.  Or how could a shooting on school grounds, or near a school, after hours which included no students be categorized as a "school shooting"?  

This isn't necessarily political, but I do think that we need to  look at how we categorize these incidents where there are a large number of victims.   Much like the inclusion of succeeds in "gun violence" numbers, which drastically inflates the numbers for political purposes, the inclusion of midnight drug shootings on school property, inflates the number of "school shootings".   

I understand that there is a huge anti-gun lobby which wants to ban guns (ir drastically restrict them) and will skew numbers however they need to  to achieve their goal.  I'd argue that having accurate data to base policy decisions on is critical to making better policy decisions.

For all the big talk by Walz about a special session to ban "assault rifles" the MN DFL will necer actually do anything.  Too many of their constituents use AR platform rifles to hunt, and we know from the data that rifles are used in a very small fraction of shootings.   It's all political rhetoric, and little or no action.   

A Deeper Dive

 https://x.com/jayplemons/status/1966181262349226011?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 https://x.com/conceptualjames/status/1965964082395132096?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 "I've been trying to share a particular message for a couple of years now, and I can never quite find the words. I doubt I will tonight, but I have to try again because I watched my great friend get murdered over it today. We have a choice: catharsis or civilization. There's no other choice for us. We can have a civilization, where people are civilized enough to live, work, and trade with one another in a productive way, a safe way, a trustworthy enough way, or we can abandon it for the pursuit of letting the negative emotions of the past years, decade, or decades consume us. There's no other choice. If we choose catharsis, we let our emotions, our Pathos, get the better of us. We turn to our anger and look to give it more justifications. We turn to our frustration and seek an orgiastic release through whatever deeds vents it. We turn to our oppression, our rage, our despair, our fear, and we let it flow through us until the Pathos pours out and covers the land in what will eventually be fire and blood. Catharsis is tempting, and stepping into it will be libidinous, orgiastic, elevating, and divine, until we realize that it's the feast of demons upon everything we could have built and everything we could have passed on to our children and our posterity. Civilization is harder. It's bitter, in fact, in comparison to catharsis. It means swallowing hard and taking all those negative emotions and sublimating them into something productive, something that builds rather than makes us feel better. Civilization feels like injustice, in fact, even though it is the only basis for justice outside of Heaven and Hell, if they exist. If we choose civilization, we're allowed to be mad, but we must temper our anger into right action that builds something to leave a better world, which will dissolve it, of course. We're also allowed to be frustrated, but we must sublimate our frustration into the dedicated search for real and lasting solutions to our problems in a civilization worth living in and passing to our children. We are not allowed to despair, though, and we cannot persist in fear. We must have faith that swallowing and metabolizing all of our negativity to turn it into a flourishing society is possible and worth it, and faith will drive out fear and is the mortal enemy of despair. Civilization is not available on the wide path. It is the narrow path, at least so far as worldly life goes. Veer too far to one side or the other, or even for too long a moment forget your purpose or principles, and you lose the path, lose civilization, and lose everything worth having. Without civilization, though, we will find ourselves in a terror beyond our comprehension. Maybe it will be like the philosopher Thomas Hobbes described it in the wake of the terrible English Civil War, when civilization was nearly thrown aside. Violent, solitary or tribal, nasty, brutish, short, a wicked and selfish war of all against all. It looks like the favelas of Brazil. Maybe we'll end up conquered, fighting among ourselves while our enemies feast on our folly. Maybe we'll end up holding it together, for a little while anyway, under a tyrant who can, for a time, make it all stop and demand order. Maybe we all just end up learning Mandarin and get along mastering the ins and outs of social credit existence. Civilization is worth fighting for, and catharsis is the kind of momentary pleasure followed by pain that every virtue stands in opposition to. In a civilization we, and each of our children after us, can live as individuals, free to pursue our dreams in sufficient safety and opportunity to generate abundance. Catharsis will be a groupish disaster with all the allure and hangover of a drunken mosh pit. Again, I'm not expressing myself the way I see this issue in my mind. It's such an important message that I just can't get right, no matter how I try. What I will say is that, for any differences in the particulars my great friend Charlie Kirk and I have had, Charlie Kirk stood for, lived for, and acted to his dying breath for civilization. He was far too temperate and wise, even at 31, for catharsis. How can I be sure? Under strange circumstances once, I found myself out on a skiing boat on a lake with Charlie Kirk. Music was playing, we were having a good time enjoying the morning. Charlie, with his standard grin, bare chest in the sun, laughed a little and explained himself, "I had fun once, guys, and I hated it." Then he made our host change the music from something fun and hip to... classical. And we ran up and down the lake alongside all the other party boats listening to Bach, Vivaldi, and Stravinsky, not having fun even once and loving it. Charlie Kirk lived for civilization, and nothing remotely like catharsis would have been near his mind, heart, or soul, even in its darkest, most frustrated moments. Charlie wanted to win, but he wanted to win so that we can move away from evil and move away from cathartic, orgiastic destruction and toward civilizational order, where his family and children could grow up as strong, proud Americans. That's how I know that Charlie understood the choice I still cannot articulate. We have two options, and only two. They are catharsis and civilization. Charlie Kirk lived that we would have civilization. May Charlie Kirk not have died such that we spiral into catharsis and evil."

 

 

More good examples. (Updated)

 https://x.com/ronrule/status/1965970196713320909?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

https://x.com/mappy6984/status/1966207208728965274?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 https://x.com/thepearjoseph/status/1966164934339018926?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 https://x.com/emilio2763/status/1966185300306309512?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 https://x.com/sfmcguire79/status/1966109669350367616?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 https://x.com/buttonslives/status/1966167882364051653?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

This is the video of Trump reacting when he was blindsided by a journalist telling him about RBG's death.   Too bad more on the left can't be like this. 

 https://x.com/brad_cgz/status/1966029790428934367?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 https://x.com/the_politicrats/status/1966157909357899998?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 https://x.com/wallstreetapes/status/1966248322416656403?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 https://x.com/gotrice2024/status/1966205255730999400?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

This is Why the DFL Will be Negatively Impacted by the Kirk Murder

This is only a partial sample of the vile, gleeful, hatred, spewing from the ASPL after the Charlie Kirk murder.    THIS is why (at least partly) the DFL is likely going to lose support over the next couple of years.   In much the same way that the inability of the DFL to field a candidate that wasn't exponentially worse than Trump, (TWICE) played a significant part in both of Trump's wins, the celebration of the death of Kirk will push even more young people toward the right.  

 

 https://x.com/damonimani/status/1966269359439114528?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 https://x.com/thepatriotoasis/status/1966159460294169018?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 https://x.com/immeme0/status/1965993476111179891?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 https://x.com/realchrisrufo/status/1966204438894498168?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

https://notthebee.com/article/here-is-a-roundup-of-the-teachers-social-workers-firefighters-city-councilors-and-marines-who-are-celebrating-charlie-kirks-death?from_social=twitter&fbclid=IwRlRTSAMv-SFleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHt96g76YeHjVoyymqDR8VodNSM8_wt6QLMq3K5S8pox8__8i-S4vPEb5bGlK_aem_JdS3c2drPZ4Zo8HX6addhw

 https://x.com/babygravy9/status/1966066879249748076?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

https://x.com/rightscopee/status/1965951003234283880?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

https://x.com/catturd2/status/1965920796007936450?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 https://x.com/catturd2/status/1965920796007936450?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 https://x.com/derrickevans4wv/status/1966006080799941086?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 https://x.com/emilio2763/status/1965928301484192111?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 https://x.com/gunthereagleman/status/1965949390251766249?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

  https://x.com/johnbasham/status/1966008897522774133?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 https://x.com/scottpresler/status/1966020903801860546?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 https://x.com/thepatriotoasis/status/1966089175696048455?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 https://x.com/leftismforu/status/1966105570576113718?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 https://x.com/thepatriotoasis/status/1966107710908404169?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 https://x.com/carolmswain/status/1966105580260426209?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 https://x.com/0hour1__/status/1965904385009135829?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 https://x.com/camhigby/status/1966010237787496586?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 https://x.com/c_chief5/status/1965945104335884331?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 https://x.com/immeme0/status/1965958563454500953?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 https://x.com/truckdriverpleb/status/1965955476207878278?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 https://x.com/thestustustudio/status/1965987173791858865?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 https://x.com/mplpodcast305/status/1965939669276963059?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 https://x.com/mplpodcast305/status/1965939669276963059?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 https://x.com/derrickevans4wv/status/1965897930625396827?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 https://x.com/mplpodcast305/status/1965915962794012677?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 https://x.com/akafaceus/status/1965799586804670739?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1965871765281976701?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 https://x.com/_johnnymaga/status/1965862399099154807?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 https://x.com/the_jefferymead/status/1965885159334367390?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This

 

Violent Rhetoric

 https://nicholasdecker.substack.com/p/when-must-we-kill-them

" Evil has come to America."

Is the first line of the essay titled "When Must We Kill Them?".     

This essay was written during the FIRST Trump administration, and clearly doesn't take into account the peaceful transfer of power to the Biden administration and multiple national elections since.   

The answer to that question is obviously, only in the most extreme circumstances, if then.   Yet someone decided that Charlie Kirk was the evil that needed to be killed yesterday.  

If we had a similar essay from someone on the right, the hue and cry would be overwhelming from the ASPL.   The very existence of tiny groups the prefer to live in isolation as a protest against the governments regularly offered as proof of some vast conspiracy of right wing extremists preparing to overthrow the government.   That a couple of hundred unarmed and mostly peaceful people wandered around the Capitol for an hour or two is offered as if it's proof of a coup.  Hell they even had to invent mythical deaths to make the story juicer for those who indiscriminately buy whatever the MSM dishes up.

 

When one side refers to their poliitcal opponents as "evil". "NAZIs", "terrorists", "extremists" , and has spent years demonizing the other side, is it surprising when someone takes the hate filled rhetoric seriously?  There is a desperation for the guy that shot the MN legislators to be some "right wing extremist", and if there was convincing proof it would have been trumpeted from the MSM.   But there's not.  He was clearly mentally ill, hut he'd been appointed by two DFL governors as well as being a "conservative Christian".   Unfortunately for those who want it, it's just not conclusive at this time.   (Obviously, for many, they've made up their mind and won't be swayed no matter what.   I'm only talking to the same people who are open to actual evidence.)    Like it or not, the last few years of political violence have been mostly at the hands of the left.  Like it or not, the last few school shooters have been in the alphabet soup crowd.    

It's not the guns fault.  The author is right about the existence of evil.  He's wrong in thinking that it's only recently come to the US.  It's individuals choosing individual actions, sometimes driven by mental health problems.   Unfortunately, we've given up on involuntary treatment for the violent, dangerous, mentally ill, instead letting them roam the streets until they finally cross some line.  

 

 

Victimization

 https://www.kptv.com/2025/09/10/police-search-man-suspected-killing-elderly-couple-burning-their-home/

 https://x.com/unlimited_ls/status/1965588108470014160?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

Just more fine upstanding criminals free to victimize the innocent.   

Positive Reaction

 https://x.com/imstevieknight/status/1965927540947825020?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 https://x.com/magadevildog/status/1965966489099604364?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 https://x.com/drewpavlou/status/1965985117228437750?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 https://x.com/_siakamassaquoi/status/1965878509710225823?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 https://x.com/brighamtomco/status/1965887762919469371?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 https://x.com/drjesstaylor/status/1965884165792088167?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 https://x.com/coldxman/status/1965896418511499672?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 https://x.com/thecriticaldri2/status/1965888970111561980?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 https://x.com/kdansky/status/1965887040010203358?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 

This is a sample of people who disagreed with Charlie Kirk, but who respected him, or at least had the decency to go against the grain of their political movement and take the high road.  I've seen much more than these few examples, and I appreciate them.    

 

 

 

RIP

 One of the most peaceful, respectful, reasonable, conservative and Christian voices of his generation was brutally shot today for simply holding event where those who disagreed with him were free to engage in respectful conversation.  

 The amount of glee coming from the left as well as the DFL refusal to take a moment of silence/prayer for Kirk is deeply disturbing.   

At this point, beyond the incivility of many on the left, this isn't and shouldn't be political right now.  I appreciate the accolades from those he'd interacted with who didn't agree with him.    

A Blind Pig/Broken Clock Moment

 https://x.com/modernxdad/status/1963842247054487637?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

Another example of Maher being "right".   

History

 https://x.com/nancyr pearcey/status/1964391963425161674?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

Food for Thought

 https://x.com/wesyang/status/1965304972557324504?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 

"There were many problems with BLM, but the most important was that the movement’s claims weren’t true. The claim that police are more of a danger to black people than black criminality is a danger to black people isn’t true. The claim that white people are a greater danger to black people than black people are a danger to white people isn’t true. The claim that leniency in law enforcement and criminal prosecution and incarceration will help black people more than they hurt black people isn’t true. The claim that living in a society that rejects white norms (punctuality, objectivity, scientific reason, literacy, nuclear families) will be better for nonwhite people isn’t true. None of it is true. Same with transgenderism. The claim that some men are women if they feel they are women or say they are women or feel so deeply that they are women that they will die if you don’t treat them as women isn’t true. The claim that if men threaten to kill themselves if you don’t let them into the ladies room or if you don’t use their preferred pronouns or if they put on a dress or cut off their penises that we are obliged to meet their demand for special privileges and call them rights isn’t true. The claim that there is a body of evidence proving that chemically castrating young children and cutting off healthy body parts is medically necessary and lifesaving isn’t true. None of those things makes anyone a woman. None of those feelings or acts confers any rights on anyone or any duties on anyone else. No amount of bullying, medical fraud, emotional blackmail, totalitarian surveillance, or state coercion will ever make any of it true. Let’s be done with all the falsehoods."

 https://x.com/wesyang/status/1965128527587737780?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 "1.) These are statistically rare events. There were 428 black-on-white stranger-on-stranger killings in 2019 -- 3 percent of all murders. 2.) They are far more common than the police killings of unarmed black men that became a national obsession in the 2010's. There were 12 killings of unarmed black men in 2019 as the Black Lives Matter movement ramped up to its crescendo. A narrative can easily be fashioned online by exploiting the "availability heuristic" that causes the subconscious mind to confound the vividness and memorability of events for their incidence. That is what right wing accounts focusing on the black-on-white stranger killings are doing. Which is of course what the whole of the media did from 2015-2020 for police killings of unarmed black men, culminating in a nationwide freakout that put American cities in flames and resulted in the deaths of 30 people. This created a pent up interest in re-establishing the salience of 2.), the goal of which is not a nationwide street freakout but simply the changing of prosecutorial polices that allow the catch and release of repeat violent offenders."

 

 

Education?

 https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/us/12th-grade-reading-skills-low-naep.html

 https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/09/us/student-testing-scores-drop-hnk

 

 https://x.com/matthewgburgess/status/1965442308612260145?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-economics-of-education-reform-k-12-students-learning-9fb6177a?gaa_at=eafs&gaa_n=ASWzDAiGZs4oDbe1u70VeUs7gCfoc6Wtl4UuRZ4kj8VZBtSYnOGTWFAlqzdn7go6NOY%3D&gaa_ts=68c185a4&gaa_sig=wx3RzAC3EZ8WdyARWAvUJIddxxDQONy1bs-cKvT8I2jJQ2efutD-vmP2E1Eb6Hxsq9xf9i8_ckbUgCHYi6ZhAQ%3D%3D

 "The tragedy is that we already know what works. High-dosage tutoring, extended learning time, relentless use of data and feedback, and refusing to accept the soft bigotry of low expectations—these aren’t theories. They’re proven." If K-12 education inequality isn't the top social justice issue in this country, it's got to be at least in the top three. There are so many things we can do to improve the situation, and many don't cost much money. We just need the political will."

What could possibly the a common thread that links crime, and poor education outcomes?

 

B/MVMLTT (Updated)

 BVMLTT

This...

 https://x.com/endwokeness/status/1965497838252786028?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

Or this... 

 https://x.com/thomassowell/status/1965172041746661541?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 https://x.com/rightanglenews/status/1965805649390108777?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 https://x.com/bennyjohnson/status/1965800133477679560?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 

MVMLTT

 https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/two-minnesota-men-arrested-funding-and-directing-kidnappings-bombings-and-killings-overseas

 https://x.com/benonwine/status/1964251332048568519?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 https://x.com/fatima_khatun01/status/1964347143625265215?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 https://x.com/realmaalouf/status/1963724193637261782?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

When people tell you who they are and what they believe, listen to them.   

 

 

 

Crime Sucks

 https://www.ktvu.com/news/dacara-thompson-murder-investigation-hugo-hernandez-mendez-due-court-

 https://x.com/nancyrpearcey/status/1965520177518576099?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 https://x.com/amuse/status/1965461561239093373?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 https://x.com/thecjpearson/status/1965487353507524829?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 https://www.thetimes.com/uk/law/article/justice-jay-judge-77-haroon-aswat-8cd22b2ph

 https://x.com/cremieuxrecueil/status/1965504111589093875?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/on-black-violence-woke-lies-and-right?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true

 https://x.com/lauraloomer/status/1965257574355276016?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 https://www.postbulletin.com/news/local/rochester-man-given-180-days-in-jail-for-raping-juvenile-females

 https://x.com/swipewright/status/1965293615439372764?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 https://www.abc4.com/news/idaho/idaho-statement-candon-dahle-sentence

 https://reduxx.info/exclusive-trans-identified-male-convicted-of-domestic-violence-transferred-to-minnesota-womens-prison-assaults-female-inmate/

 https://abcnews.go.com/US/video/retired-auburn-university-professor-found-dead-alabama-park-125368071

 https://nypost.com/2025/07/07/us-news/logan-federicos-father-outraged-discovers-daughters-killer-should-have-been-arrested-years-ago/

 https://x.com/punishablepress/status/1964430350551015472?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 https://www.yahoo.com/news/videos/mather-childcare-center-daycare-worker-161017938.html

 

As we finally see some national coverage of the brutal murder in NC, it seems worthwhile to take a look at some things we're seeing both in the US and elsewhere.   We are seeing more and more brutal crimes committed by people who should have been is prison.  We are seeing sex offenders getting incredibly light sentences, and in the UK we see a judge freeing a terrorist mass murderer by wishing him well.   Data tells us that the vast majority of crimes are committed by a small fraction of the population, and that incarcerating those repeat criminals could lower crime over 75% (if I remember correctly).  Yet we have a whole industry of left wing DA's, judges, and elected officials (Mamdani) who are obsessed with decreasing the prison population by any means necessary.   The common threads that run through these crimes are leftist political initiatives, and fear of confronting the data about who commits the bulk of violent crime in the country.  The reality is that those that push these measures, and those that release violent/mentally ill criminals back on to the streets bear some of the responsibility for the actions of those they release.  As do those who harbor criminals in sanctuary cities and states. Add to that the fact that those who intervene to protect people, are now likely to be prosecuted and we're likely to see more examples of people sitting and watching horrific crimes be committed.  This could be the defining issue of the next two elections, as GOP ads will show DFL elected officials and MSM DFL shills complaining about the Trump's deployment of National Guard reducing crime, contrasted with lower income DC residents expressing appreciation.  We know how to solve much of the violent crime problem in the US, it's not particularly difficult.  It's a question of whether or not one side has the political will to do what's necessary.  

 

 

 

 

 

The Revered MSM (nationsl) Stays Silent on Crimes

 https://abc11.com/post/iryna-zarutska-woman-stabbed-death-charlotte-train-suspect-arrested-random-attack/17764197/

Last week a young woman who'd immigrated to the US to escape the war in Ukraine, was brutally stabbed on public transportation.  There is video of the whole incident and really no question of what happened.  

Strangely enough the killer is well known to the justice system because he's benefited from the revolving door  policies instituted by many DA's over the past decade or so.   He's only been arrested 14 times before this.  

Of course the national media (the revered MSM) is virtually silent in it's coverage of the crime.  When I googled this morning, there was not one story from any outlet that wasn't local.  

What's even more ironic is that if a random passenger had intervened to save this young woman, and injured or killed this violent thug, the passenger would likely face charges (a al Daniel Penny or the Brits who took down a passenger on public transport).   

In this case, the justice system and individual prosecutors and judges who  let this guy out, absolutely bear responsibility for this murder.  

 https://www.wvtm13.com/article/timeline-damien-mcdaniel-muder-charge-firefighter-arrest/63922775

In other news, a black mass murderer gets literally zero national media coverage.  Shocking.  

 

On a somewhat unrelated note, I finally figured something out.  

When most people have historically thought about what news is, we've thought that news is what happened.   It's the actual events "Man Bites Dog".    The event is newsworthy, regardless of the coverage.  Now we see a mindset that defines news as "what is covered in a few selected MSM outlets".  The difference is, I believe, that they focus on the coverage rather than the event.   If X isn't covered by the MSM, then (by definition) it's not news.  

 

 https://people.com/woman-shot-dead-suspected-home-invasion-father-breaks-down-tribute-11728877

One more that doesn't fit the narrative, and therefore isn't talked about.   

Sass Mootings

 https://x.com/seeracists/status/1962879606505263560?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 https://www.kctv5.com/2025/09/01/investigation-into-13th-grand-shooting-continues-police-identify-victims/

 

We all know about the Anunciation shooting in MN, although the carnage from the other mass shootings didn't quite fit the narrative and were not given much attention nationally.  

Now we get another mass shooting in KC  which gets some local coverage, but not national.  

 https://www.kmbc.com/article/kansas-city-hyde-park-apartment-mass-shooting-investigation/65986636

Then we get another mass shooting in KC which also gets no national coverage.  

It's almost like some mass shootings are more equal than others.   

 

Oh (shit) Canada II

 https://www.cp24.com/local/niagara/2025/09/01/niagara-police-charge-man-who-allegedly-broke-into-welland-home-sexually-assaulted-child/

 https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/article/man-accused-of-sexually-assaulting-a-child-in-welland-ont-had-previous-convictions-court-docs-show/

I know that this is Canada and they're batshit crazy up there, but still the fact that this guy was free to sexually assault anyone else, let alone a child, is simply a complete lack of respect for the victims of his crimes.   

Much like the MPLS shooter, It's likely that there will be a push not to "misgender him".  I have to wonder why, given that pretending that he's a woman screws up the "white men are evil" narrative.   

Hamas

 https://x.com/koshercockney/status/1962668995598803219?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

Just watch the video and compare it to the MSM propaganda and Dan's shtick.   

Discrimination?

 At one point in my life I spent over 10 years working for an organization that builds affordable housing (technically it's heavily subsidized housing, not really affordable).    In 2017 I was let go, along with almost everyone else who had my job who was in the same demographic category as I was.   We were all replaced by people in more favored demographics.   I'm sure that a commitment to "diversity" had anything to do with these moves.   It was probably that they could pay the new hires about half of the already low salaries of those who went away.

Fast forward to a couple of weeks ago.  A friend who still works there told me about a position that I was uniquely qualified for with a salary that was attractive.   After thinking about it, I applied.   I went through a phone interview, which went well and the feedback I got was positive.   Then silence for a couple of weeks, and a request from me for an update.   Well, in short, the update was that I somehow wasn't a good enough candidate to get an in person interview.  

I went in to this process knowing that I had three strikes against me.  1.  Old.  2. White.  3.  Christian.  I'd hoped that my unique qualifications might have balanced out these flaws, but I was apparently wrong.   I honestly thought that they'd string me along, go through an in person interview or two, before they dumped me.   

I suspect that whoever gets this position will be less qualified than me (pretty likely given the position), and will be a member of a "protected" demographic group.  

My question is whether or not it's worth consulting an employment law attorney to see if I even have a tiny chance of a claim.   

Censure or Expulsion?

 https://www.foxnews.com/media/kaine-sparks-backlash-after-calling-declaration-independences-god-given-rights-extremely-troubling

 "I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support, obey
and defend the Constitution of the United States and the
Constitution of this Commonwealth and that I will discharge the
duties of my office with fidelity."

How is it possible to "support, obey, and defend the Constitution" when someone who took this oath has no idea what it actually says?   If I remember right, Tim Kaine was someone who was considered for POTUS or VPOTUS at some point.   I guess this'll definitely put him at the top of the list for the next DFL candidate.    

Nothing to See Here, Except More Migrant Crime

 https://x.com/radioeuropes/status/1963550487296311678?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

 https://apnews.com/article/italy-viterbo-turkish-men-arrest-festival-98390747c5d2da8268aa061892e8d609

So, we're told that immigrants and Muslims aren't a problem.  Yet we have two Muslim immigrants planning to use a machine gun to shoot up a Christian festival.   Unlike the UK, it is likely that these fine, upstanding, gentlemen will actually be convicted and face an appropriate sentence.  None of the "I didn't know that the Italian culture frowns on mass murder." or "Cultural differences." bullshit.   

Oh (Shit) Canada

 https://x.com/breaking911/status/1963399874252025914?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

I mentioned this is a comment a couple of days ago, and just found the video.   This guy is absolutely insane.  The very thought that complying with someone who breaks into your home is the best policy cannot be described as anything but batshit crazy.   

“If you ever find yourself the victim of a home invasion, we are urging citizens not to take matters into your own hands...Don't engage...The best defense is to comply.”

This stupidity was in response to a home invasion during which a man was murdered.  I guess it makes sense on one level though. Subcontracting euthanasia to criminals does save the state run health service some money.

BM

 https://x.com/wallstreetapes/status/1963765938983260242?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

When Bill Maher is worried about things moving too far left, that should be a warning for  the rest of the left.  His point that moving the left further left, drives the center to the right makes a lot of sense, and likely explains the Trump win in the last election.   

What Really Causes...

 https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6057277/

 https://ifstudies.org/ifs-admin/resources/reports/ifs-strongerfamilies-final-1.pdf

 https://ifstudies.org/blog/school-shootings-fathers-divorce-family-structure

 https://winteryknight.com/2025/09/04/the-pipeline-from-divorce-to-school-shootings/

In an earlier comment Dan provided  a link to a single study that posited that violent behavior in the young was driven by things like illiteracy.  I noted that illiteracy and violence seem to be highly concentrated in urban areas controlled by the DFL and that the education system is also a wholly owned subsidiary of the DFL, and Dan ran away from the conversation.  

Now we see a strong correlation between another sacred cow of the ASPL, divorce.   It seems that if one looks a the actual evidence that a case could be made the liberal/DFL policies are a (if not the) driver of a significant amount of the violence that plagues our blue, urban areas.    I'd never suggest that there aren't other possible causes, but I can't ignore the whole smoke/fire thing.  

I can almost guarantee that inanimate objects are not the cause of any of these things.   

Vigilantism?

 https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/06/19/asylum-seeker-blames-rape-girl-on-cultural-differences/

 https://x.com/realdonkeith/status/1962900120988500218?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

Again, what kind of "culture" believes that it appropriate to rape a 15 year old girl?   Given that this particular culture does seem to find raping 15 year old girls acceptable, why in the name of God would any other culture want to be infected with this behavior?   What possible benefit does the UK derive from importing people from a culture that believes that rape of children is normal and acceptable, and which believes that intermarriage between 1st cousins is a good thing?   Why do liberals insist on importing these animals, and then protecting them from the natural results of their actions?  Vigilantism is sounding better and better.   

Conventional Wisdom Lies

 https://x.com/realMaalouf/status/1962197451206545737

There are hundreds of mosques in places like NY, Philadelphia, Detroit, and London, yet for some reason thousands of Muslims feel the need to  block streets and public places to pray.   Meanwhile the ASPL insists that "right wing Christian nationalism" is our biggest problem.  

The ASPL is Kind of Stupid

  https://x.com/matt_vanswol/status/1963196719497162935

 

"I have been struggling to comprehend why leftists are defending radical Muslims. They are essentially antithetical to everything the woke stand for and it made no sense at all. Then... it dawned on me.

 When I say "antithetical" I mean truly POLAR OPPOSITES. a) Woke ideology: gender fluidity, LGBTQ+ affirmation, secularism. b) Islamist extremism: fixed binaries, compulsory modesty, theocracy. They are quite literally the FURTHEST each side could get from each other...

 I could go on and on... a) Woke = speech codes to protect feelings. b) Islamist extremism = blasphemy laws with prison a) Woke: “all religions oppress,” b) Islamist extremism: religious supremacy in everything ...so why the strange bedfellows?

 Then it dawned on me that two have literally nothing in common... other than a common enemy: The enemy: Western Civilization I can think of no other explanation than that both sides will tolerate each other's inherent worldview contradictions to gain power and destroy the West.

 Why do both sides “hate the West”? I believe the short answer is: the West’s core values. Free speech, freedom of religion, equality under the law, free market choice, etc. All of these are a wall against any movement that wants total moral control... ...which BOTH sides do

 In America, no one gets a monopoly on truth or power. We have elections. We have free speech. For the Leftists who want a cultural revolution...or Islamists who want sharia rule...that’s an existential crisis. The West must be destroyed for the movement to survive.

 They have different scriptures, but essentially the same structure: Both sides treat disagreement as a sin... both have speech codes, taboos, purity tests, and "prophets". Both believe that ends-justify-means in this alliance. But...the alliance is temporary.

 Between the two, the Islamists will win.. and the VERY FIRST people outlawed will be the very same liberal activists who defended them. Woke will not win because they have no children... but if they did, they’ll ban Islamists’ speech. Oh the irony, One side wants drag queen story hour for kids... the other side wants the de*th penalty for it.

 They cannot coexist. They can only band together long enough to weaken the West’s foundations and destroy it together.

 ...and my concern is the we are letting them...

Trump won the popular vote.

There is a silent majority.

That silent majority assumed the norms and institutions would always hold.

But they absolutely won’t.

When normal people check out, the zealots check in..

Silence is asymmetric.

The Leftists and the radical Islamists treat your politeness as PERMISSION TO KEEP GOING.

To push harder.

The silent majority doesn't want to offend... so the quiet voids sounds a lot like "a consensus" and they rewrite the rules accordingly.

It's why so many people, I think, come up to me and say "I agree with all of this... but I cannot say a thing."

They whisper it.

They know they will be punished.

Self-censorship has seemed to metastasize.

People are not, and will not, tell the truth in public.

A free society can’t survive that.

But eventually it won't be just you.

This will reach your kids.

Curricula, hiring, scholarships, speech codes... rules that decide what they learn and how.

Neutral rules NEED US TO DEFEND THEM.

They won't defend themselves.

The silent majority needs to get loud, or we are going to lose everything.

It's now or never."

This is one of the most insane quasi-political/social alliances I've ever seen.   One side stupidly clings to the other in the name of diversity, while the other side allows this to happen in the name of eradication.  The best example of this is the "Queers for Palestine" morons.  They stupidly act as if the "palestinians" care about their support, completely unaware that the"palestinians" would summarily kill them for their perversion.  If you needed more evidence of the stupidity of the left, this "marriage" of ASPL and EuroLeft, with Islam is it.   The freaking Euro Leftists are literally importing the very people who'll destroy their countries, and doing so happily.   Unaware that they'll be the first to go.  

Trump won the popular vote. There is a silent majority. That silent majority assumed the norms and institutions would always hold. But they absolutely won’t. When normal people check out, the zealots check in...