Short Shot Tony: When to Shoot Them in the Dick

 

Dad Saves America: The Jacobin Left and the Shattering of the Overton Window

Mike Benz on Russiagate, Free Speech, and the "Critical Infrastructure" Hoax

GOVERNTMENT SHUTDOWN LOOMS

'Racist' Has Lost Its Bite (Coming From The Left)

It's now basically a joke when the left calls someone racist.

I mean, at some point it had to.

As others have noted, now 'racist' (and the rest of the Standard Litany) just means: Someone who won an argument against a leftist...

In fact, when they trot out one of their "-isms" or "-pobia"s, everybody should just cheer and declare it an admission of defeat. Just ridicule the shit out of them every time they do it...which is, of course, every time.

Math Teacher Training Emphasizes "Social Justice," Not Math

No surprise.

Blehar: The Chicago Teacher's Union is Exactly Who You Thought They Were

LOL "Rest in power" is a paradigm of lefty dumbassery.

I'd have thought they might go with "hands up, don't shoot"...again...

Anyway, a fair number of lefties seem to be mourning the death of terrorist/murderer Joanne Chesimard (aka Assata Shakur), who was convicted of killing a cop, busted out of prison by the Black Liberation Army, and given refuge in Cuba.

[shrug]

Man, the left is just loony.

Discard "Disparate Impact"

In the opinion of many--including me, FWTW--getting Griggs before the Court should be one of the top priorities of the administration and conservatism generally. It was a catastrophically bad decision, and its effects have been incalculably destructive.

   On a related note, as much as I would miss them, I suppose I do kinda wish that Justices Thomas and Alito would consider retiring while we can be sure of them. Justice Sotomayor is diabetic, and--nothing against her personally--I'd certainly be happy to see her take up a happy retirement in good health. Unfortunately, we're stuck with KBJ for awhile... Kagan I may disagree with, but she at least often seems to be more-or-less reasonable...though my opinion here doesn't matter much, as I'm not a lawyer and don't even follow the arguments or read the opinions carefully anymore...who's got the time?

   Anyway.

   Even if I sway back toward the (center-)left someday, I'd hope I'd continue to see the importance of a conservative, more-or-less originalist or textualist Court.

   Ideally, of course, Trump will calm down a bit and we'll get Vance or DeSantis or someone comparable in '28. But we can't bank on that, obviously.

   Say what you will about Cocaine Mitch, he got us Gorsuch instead of Garland. I tend to be uncomfortable with power politics...but when so much is at stake, I'll learn to live with it.

Anti-ICE Mob Blasted With Tear Gas And Pepper Balls After Attacking Agents

I mean, I used to be against these guys until I heard their little chants.

Up, up with liberation

Down, down with deportation

Really makes ya think...

York: A Brief Example of Comey's Dishonesty

Oh yeah...almost forgot about this stuff...

Nunez: Comey Indictment Should be Prelude to a "Grand Conspiracy Charge" Against About "Two Dozen Characters"

Nunez has been right about a whole lot about Russiagategate.

   Whereas McCarthy is looking at the legal case in abstraction, Nunez is looking at the big picture.

   Note: I'm not saying that's better than looking at the legal details.

   I'm very concerned about the way Trump and his DOJ are acting, it's easy to forget that there is a good chance that the real villains here are on the blue team--Clinton, her campaign, and Deep State players like Comey, McCabe, et al. If Nunez (and Trump) are right, what they're basically doing is playing roughly by the informal rules established by the Democrats. But, whereas the Dems were engaged in an actual conspiracy to prosecute and persecute an innocent man--Trump--and thwart the will of the voters, Trump et al. aim to expose that conspiracy to sunlight and reveal the truth of the matter.:

[Nunez]: ...So, look, Comey has long been a liar, a leaker. He's dishonest. He ruined the FBI. And I would just lastly say this about this indictment, is, he's going to also going to be very lucky if there's not a superseding indictment. But I'd say, most importantly, he will be lucky if there is not a grand conspiracy charge brought, which is really what should be brought against probably about two dozen characters in the United States over the last seven, eight years.
BARTIROMO: So that's what I want to talk about. The conspiracy charge, will that come? And what does that mean, the conspiracy charge? Because John Ratcliffe also brought that up to me, saying the statute of limitations does not apply if it's a conspiracy that's still going on.
NUNES: Yes, that's right. And so, when you go back and look at this at 50,000 feet, what are we really talking about here? What actually happened that they were all involved in? And it all goes back to really one thing, and that was that there were 30,000 e-mails that Clinton had that Clinton was worried would come out before the 2016 election, and, if those came out, it would make her unelectable.
That's what this is all about. Everything goes back to that. And then what happened is, is that Comey and company and all of them got involved in the so-called Clinton plan, which, if you remember, the Clinton plan was to do what? To say that the Trump campaign, it was colluding with the Russians and that's how the e-mails got out.
That's all true. That's all happened. That's, like, the quintessential definition of conspiracy.

It really is worth reading the whole (short) thing. He argues that this is what led to the bogus first impeachment--the Ukraine one. I'd say we already know that that impeachment was an embarrassing shit-show--and that Trump was justified in asking the questions he asked. (The second impeachment seemed to me to have a much stronger basis.)

   I thought the Durham investigation was supposed to reveal the facts here...and maybe it did reveal everything there is to reveal. But if so, it wasn't much. Elias lied, but a DC jury let him off--which is another kind of obstacle the Pubs face in all this. To my shame, I didn't read the Durham report, just accounts of it. And I don't even know whether it really did aim to uncover all this stuff. If not, we'd seem to need another investigation. We absolutely have to know what actually happened.

   Unfortunately, all blue-teamers took from any of this was [a] Trump was a Russian asset, no matter what Mueller said, and [b] "Russia, if you're listening..."...whicy they still refuse to admit was a jokey bit of rhetoric of a pretty ordinary kind.

McCarthy: "With More Scrutiny, the Trump DOJ Indictment of Comey Gets Worse"

Once again, I crapped out partway through this. I'm not really interested in the details, and I'm in the midst of sleep restrictions as part of CBT-I in an effort to learn how to sleep again lol WTF? How did I work myself into this position? 

   Anyway: brain no work.

   I'm just gonna conclude by induction that McCarthy is right about this.

MI Mormon Church Shooter Flew Two Big American Flags From His Truck

Again, there's no reason to rush to judgment here.

But this looks more like the truck of a righty than of a lefty.

Again, there are a lot of other possibilities.

   As others have noted, it's weird when things like this happen, and you find yourself holding your mental breath, hoping that it's "the other guys."

   There's a lot of chatter among conservatives now to the effect that it's the left that's violent, not the right. That's not true--but the left is pretty obviously more violent. It's no accident that as the left radicalized over the last decade it has become more accepting of terrorism and other political violence. That's a litmus test--or possibly even a criterion of--radicalization. And ideas matter. Convince a faction of the kinds of things the left has convinced itself of over the last decade, and more violence from that faction is a natural (almost an inevitable) result. Much of the left has tolerated or embraced Pantyfa, excused or supported rioting...and now much of it has shrugged at or excused or celebrated several assassination attempts--including one successful one.

   But conservatives are deluding themselves if they think there's no violent fringe on the right.

   I'm not saying that to dull the effect of all the leftist violence we've seen. I'm just gesturing at a relevant fact.

   I'm actually pretty surprised there hasn't been any notable retaliatory violence from the firearm-obsessed right.

   Anyway.

MI Mormon Church Shooting

Everybody's rushing to blame this on the other side.

Jeez, everybody just calm the hell down and wait for actual, y'know, information to emerge.

He could be a crazy lefty, a crazy righty, a lapsed Mormon with a grudge against the church--or any number of other things.

Everybody just chill.

Does it even matter that much?

Think Before You Sleep: The World Will Never Be The Same (On Leftist Violence and the Assassination of Charlie Kirk)

AJW: NYC "Teens" Savagely Beat Child Until She Had a Seizure, and Kicked Her 3-Month-Old Dog

Savage beatings in response would be justified:

Patel Fires FBI Agents Who Knelt During BLM/Antifa Riots of 2020

Or the "racial justice" riots protests, as USA Today puts it...

I prefer The Mostly Peaceful Social Justice Riots For Peace And Justice...

The agents shouldn't have kneeled.

But I don't think they should be fired, especially five years after the fact.

But, then, I don't know what the conventions of law enforcement are like, nor of the FBI specifically.

If it was, in fact, a "de-escalation strategy" rather than a political statement, that also seems to matter.

Look, it was a crazy time, and a lot of people went crazy.

Maybe offer a little grace here.

Robert Kuttner: Charlie Kirk's Theocracy

I agree with some of this, but much of it is BS--including some of the now-boilerplate-on-the-left distortions of Kirk quotes.

   Perhaps most notably, I do agree that, while Dems can be expected to honor Kirk as an American assassinated because of his support for free speech, they cannot be expected to revere him, nor to pretend that they didn't profoundly disagree with him.

   Then there are Kuttner's complaints about Trump undermining freedom of speech...which...I mean, I'm also concerned about...but it's hard not to compare his record on that to the record of the left over the past decade...and there's no real comparison. Which doesn't excuse Trump's transgressions. But, facing a comparative choice between reds and blues...well...

   And, as I've said, I do worry about Kirk's death prompting the wrong kind of religious revival.

   But I'm capable of worrying about almost anything in politics.

274 FBI Agents Were at the 2021 Capitol Riot--Sent in After It Started to Attempt Crowd Control

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   One of the ways in which the fringier reaches of the red team is nuts concerns the 2021 Capitol riot.

   You kind of have to hunt for these people. They tend to inhabit really, really dark red backwaters of the internet, like the Instapundit comment section and FreeRepublic. But you can find some of them even in the comments at National Review. Anyway: once you find them, you can find a lot of them...and they are way nuts. I've had them come right up to the edge of threatening me for not believing them...which I would find funny IRL...but I find hilarious over the internet. I mean, what are such people thinking?

   Anyway.

   But even those guys recognize that the riot was a shit-show of Biblical proportions.

   One way to tell is that they switch fairly easily back and forth between suggesting--or even saying outright--that [1] it was permissible or even obligatory because (insert supplementary bit of crazy) THE ELECTION WAS STOLEN, LIBTARD...and [2] IT WASN'T OUR FAULT SOMEBODY ELSE DID IT IT WAS THE FEDS OR MAYBE ANTIFA.

   I find it at least somewhat comforting that they feel guilty enough about it to want to foist off responsibility on someone else... And, I've gotta say, they've got a few points here and there. There were, indeed, significant electoral irregularities--in fact, that election was a mess. Not: stolen by adding votes via Italian satellites or WTFever that Kraken person was saying...but also not "the most secure election ever," or whatever the blue-team propaganda was. (And Ray Epps. Honestly, even I think that guy was a Fed...) The Wisconsin drop boxes were illegal, as we now know...but that's really just a technical tip of the iceberg. The whole unregulated mass voting-by-mail thing was just a wreck--and an orchestrated one. And the blue team used its already-in-place COVID/lockdown hysteria as a steppingstone. And we haven't even mentioned Zuckerbucks yet...

   Anyway. Yeah, the riot was a crazy national embarrassment...but, then, so was the election...

   And on top of that, it resulted in the blue team foisting an already-in-decline Joe Biden onto the nation...who would be the worst President of my adult life if not for the catastrophe that was Dubya...

   But, however bad that election was, Trump lost it.

   And never underestimate Trump's ability to make an embarrassing situation humiliating...

   But anyway:

   The deep red right has long maintained that the crowd was filled with Feds...needless to say, the blue team scoffed at this.

   But, over the last decade, the red team has really pw0nz0red the blues in such head-to-head competition...and it turns out, they were right in this case, too...

   ...technically...

   ...but not, y'know, really...

   Turns out that there was an absolute shit-ton of Feds in the crowd...but...they were (well, allegedly) sent in after the riot already underway, and to attempt crowd control.

   So it doesn't really count. That's not what the red team had in mind.

   Anyway. We could still find out that the Feds were there as agents provocateurs...and I'd be willing to believe it if that's where the evidence pointed...but it just doesn't look like it's true.

   So give it up, red team.

   Take the L with whatever shreds of dignity you can still manage to pull together on this one.

"The Rise of America's Young Socialists--From the 2008 Financial Crisis to Mamdani"

Summary:

Because capitalism doesn't always work perfectly, we need to trade it in on a system that never works at all.

Three L.A. Women Federally Indicted for Assaulting ICE Agent, Following Him Home and Posting His Address

You're goin' ta jai-ail

You're goin' ta jai-ail

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

And this is, undoubtedly, just the beginning.

Get ready, Pantyfa and Pantyfa wannabees...the administration is about to come down on you like the Very Fist Of God.

And, hey, don't forget:

Download ICEBlock or the ICEalert app for Android and start posting those false reports of ICE sightings...I'm already on it. (ICEblock says it doesn't collect any user data, so they shouldn't be able to tell that it's the same accounts sending fake reports all the time. Dunno about ICEalerts. 

There are other apps called, e.g., ICE Watch and Stop Ice Alerts...so if those are for Android, I'm going to load those up, too.

McCarthy: The Indictment Against Comey Should Be Dismissed

Honestly, I'm overcaffeinated and I got bord and confused halfway through this...but it doesn't matter b/c I basically always take McCarthy's advice on legal matters. I'll bet he's right about this one, too.

Comments Loosely Based on Waters and Ellwanger's "Trump is a Monument"

Hoo boy.

Dunno what to think about this...there's substantial truth in it...but...

   Well, lemme dodge the question to some extent by repeating myself yet again:

   Trump is a man of great strengths and great weaknesses.

   I'm inclined to say, inter alia:

The progressive left didn't create Trump (obviously), but it opened the door for him. In fact, it made him (roughly) necessary. It created the conditions that made his ascendance necessary...or at least possible.

   By going batshit crazy, and cowing opposition by shrieking NAZI RACIST at all who opposed their madness, they made it imperative for someone to step forward and oppose them openly, publicly, prominently--and in the context of national politics. One of Trump's greatest strengths is that he cannot be cowed. He knows he isn't a NAZI RACIST, and, so, unlike many or most other Americans, he just doesn't give a damn that people call him those things. And, not caring, he is freer to oppose the shriekers. Someone had to oppose them--the Woketarian cultists. The PC Reavers. Which is why the cult put so much hysterical energy into suppressing dissent. If you can win the argument, you argue; if you can't win the argument, you find another way... Of course many people did publicly dissent anyway...but Trump is the one who did so most prominently.

   Now, you may have to be a little crazy to stand up to a huge, powerful, crazy social movement screaming YOU ARE EVIL at you... Or maybe you just have to be kind of an asshole. I think I speak with a little authority on the subject, as I've opposed the cult in my own small way, openly at my university, with this blog, and by e.g. helping to reactivate the National Association of Scholars in my own state, by co-authoring some very politically incorrect public reports and the like... And, speaking for myself, I suspect that some of my character defects--e.g. contrarianism and, well, being kind of an asshole...and maybe being a little nutty--helped push me along in that direction. I was the loudest "voice" (I dislike that terminology, incidentally) against political correctness in my graduate program ca. 1990, and I've been kind of a loudmouth against it at my current university. A big mouth in a small pond...but at least I kind of know what it's like...

   Anyway.

   I've got things to do, but I'll just end by saying again that Trump's weaknesses concern me a lot. I've long thought that civil public discussion is extraordinarily important. And so I think Trump's tendency to fan the flames of conflict and discord is a very serious weakness indeed. Though, not to dodge the point overmuch: the left is worse. They started it by routinely shrieking NAZI RACIST at us all... And since I think truth is of the utmost importance, Trump's tendency to bullshit and spin and otherwise deviate therefrom is a very, very serious defect. However, I also think that his problem with the truth is small potatoes compared to the progressive left's powerful, widespread, in-principle political correctness / Lysenkoism. So I think our only real option is to get behind Trump--who I think of as our Patton--until we've whipped...well...the enemy...recognizing that he (thus we) will do some damage...including some unnecessary damage...in the effort. Then we'll have to deal with him, and with the damage that he (and we) have done in the effort. I've never felt like I'd like Patton--I'm more of an Omar Bradley fan, myself--but you can't argue with results. Not too much, anyway.

   But, to not-quite-quote the Great and Terrible Donald Rumsfeld: you go to war with the general you have, not with the general you might want or wish to have at a later time...

   Of course we might be wrong, the collateral damage may be too great in the end... But the die is cast...

   Well, make of all that what you will.

Theodore Dalrymple: Final Answer

Another link to the terribly retrograde/naughty/bad/unPC TakiMag...so make sure you're ok with this being in your history.

Karlyn Borysenko: Yes, Leftards, Antifa Is Real

 

Lowry: The Left's Ongoing Anti-Trump Terrorism Campaign

Agreed

Peggy Noonan: Charlie Kirk and the New Christian GOP

I mean, Noonan isn't the most judicious thinker...

This is kind of a leap.

But:

(a) It would (or at least could) be mostly bad, IMO

and

(b) It's something I've long feared.

   I'm not religious. But I do think that Christianity is generally a strength of the West...so long as it remains a kind of stabilizing background force, crowding out more dangerous religions--Islam, most notably--and giving a lot of people something like a sense of the meaningfulness of life.

   But a burst of evangelical enthusiasm is likely to be bad.

   And, as I've said many times, one of my nagging fears is that the red team will get crazier before the blue team starts returning to its senses. And the blue team still seems plenty crazy to me--maybe a smidge less insane? Is that wishful thinking? So if there's a revival of the religious right...we're probably in trouble.

   Given that Woketarianism is so cultish/religion-like, maybe such a revival would crowd it out too...but I doubt it. There are virtually no woke-friendly people on the right.

   (Incidentally, one of the creepier things I've heard from religious folks is that their perfectly ordinary churches went woke(!). I know a guy who tells me that he and his wife left their long-time church because it went nutso with the stuff. And there's no dearth of rainbow-bedecked churches and "nonbinary" preachers on th' YouTube... I mean, if you can't trust churches to hold the line against Woketarianism...well...what the hell??? It's like the Borg or something.)

   I've noticed for a couple of years now that loudmouthed actual liberals of my stripe--like Ayan Hirsi Ali and Michael Shellenberger and such folk--have seemed to become more favorably-disposed toward religion. Which is cool. I mean, I'm not the evangelical atheist I used to be... 

   But, anyway: put me down as officially concerned. Not about religion generally, nor sane varieties of Christianity...but about a revival of an '80s-style religious right.

Joshua Aaron Wrote the Iceblock App Used to Interfere With / Attack ICE Agents

I think he should receive nonviolent, civil pushback and criticism for doing this.

Such people generally can't be swayed by appeals to reason...but we ought to at least try.

Also:

If you've got an iPhone, I suggest getting the app and filing frequent false reports.

For Android, I just downloaded an app called Ice Alert, and will start filing false reports pretty much immediately. Iceblock, at least, claims to collect no user data, so it should be a sitting duck for this stuff.

The Dallas ICE Shooter Was Not a Lefty (??)

His family says he wasn't a lefty.

So we'll have to suspend judgment at least for a while.

The Dallas ICE Shooter Was a Lefty

He shot only illegal alien detainees, no ICE agents--but apparently that was because he shot blindly into an ICE vehicle.

   I mean, this is basically the culmination of the leftist rhetoric of the last 5-10 years...so no surprise, really.

Lefties are Pushing the "Antifa Doesn't Exist" / "Antifa Isn't a Group/Organization" Line Again; Chuck Todd Edition

Jesus, these people.

And: Yeah, the AUMF is some bullshit that should have been ended long ago. But you-all didn't complain when Obama was droning weddings with it...

Me, I've wanted that damn thing gone for 20 years.

But anyway: the left sure does love Antifa...

🚨NEW: Chuck Todd *PANICS* over Trump designating Antifa terrorist organization🚨

"I don't even know what Antifa is. I know what the definition of Antifa is. There is no group!"

"But what's dangerous is that by designating it, who's going to define who the group is?"

"And if… pic.twitter.com/vhZsRMSArF

— Jason Cohen 🇺🇸 (@JasonJournoDC) September 22, 2025

In case you missed this on NPR normalizing Antifa: 

FDA Chief Marty Makary on Tylenol, Autism and Restoring Trust in Science

Eminently and reassuringly reasonable.

   And: looks like Trump's comments on Tylenol were in the vicinity of being right.

   Sidebar: apparently a lot of pregnant progressive women--oh, sorry...persons containing fetuses--went online to post themselves taking Tylenol. Because Orange Man bad...

   Tylenol itself then took to Twixxer to say: Uh...hey..we don't actually recommend you take Tylenol if you're pregnant...

   Oopsie.

   Anyway.

   I have a very positive view of Makary, FWTW. And, in general, of FDA. CDC, however...that's a different story.

   One more thing: if Trump is really concerned about autism, or Tylenol...or, for that matter, almost anything else...he needs to let somebody else talk to the public about it. On the one hand, it's too bad that so many on the left are so TDS-addled that Trump saying something motivates them to do the opposite. OTOH, Trump himself is to blame for a great deal of that. I don't think there's any need to elaborate on that last point.

National Review: The Attacks on ICE Must Stop

Agreed

Jeffrey Blehar: The Dallas ICE Attach; and: Media Strangely Silent About "Stochastic Terrorism" on the Left

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   As always: both sides have their psychos. This stuff only tells us so much. It could and sometimes does happen on the right as well...etc.

   But it is hardly a surprise that these things are happening on the left. The left went insane 10-12 years ago. Its insanity has been its defining characteristic for a decade. Somehow, it went even crazier ca. 2020-2023.

   One aspect of its insanity--or we could say: the insanity of its vocal vanguard--has been to ceaselessly shriek about its opponents on the right being Nazis and Fascists and white supremacists and all the rest. It's also managed to convince itself that politically incorrect speech either causes violence or constitutes violence--they can't make up their minds on that one. Both, I guess... And calls for violence against "Nazis" (which is the Newspeak term for you and me), ICE, Trump, Charlie Kirk, Ben Shapiro, J.K. Rowling, Elong Musk, the Border Patrol, the National Guard, police, and, well, just about anybody they disagree with have become so common on the blue team as to now be almost unremarkable.

   Anyway: though this sort of thing could have happened on the right, it didn't--and it's less likely to. Because the right is not under the control of a shrieking cult of lunatics. The right didn't make a pact with a gibbering pack of unhinged anarcho-communist deviants. The right has its own problems...but it's time for the remaining shreds of the respectable left to face a fact that they've never been able to face before: sometimes you are the bad guys. And eventually the little bits of crazy you tolerate in order to remain a member of your tribe in good standing add up to such a point that they become full-fledged political insanity.

   And: if, when leftists started killing people, the left had responded with unqualified condemnation...that would have been one thing. Instead, what we've got from them has been heroification and ecstatic ululation. Not to mention, in some cases, sex-symbolification. In the case of Charlie Kirk--while we did see mostly condemnation from less-radical organizations--we saw an astonishing degree of joy and approval. Even cavorting in the face of mourners and destruction of memorial displays.... 

And calls for more of the same. An astonishing number of One down, n to go-type reactions. 

ICE is already being routinely attacked. And the left stokes the attacks by representing ICE as storm troopers dragging off American citizens and splitting up families.

I've said this many times, but: I've seen a lot crazy in American politics in my life.

But I've never seen it this bad before.

WSJ: When the Left Censored Speech

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There's little comparison--thus far--between the left and the right on this issue. Progressives conducted a massive, multi-layered, decade-long campaign against basically any speech they didn't like, including obvious truths and respectable science--and they did much of it in secret. Thus far Trump has issued some unenforceable nonsense about flag-burning. Whereas the left "cancelled" people for saying ordinary, obvious things of no consequence and important truths alike--again, let me stress, for a decade--the right has gone after people saying truly heinous and false things in joyous celebration of the death a champion of free speech.

   The left wants to emphasize the fact that, at a rather high level of abstraction, the right is doing the same kind of things the left has done. And that should be noted. However, the difference in degree is so vast that there is hardly any real comparison. Both the sameness in very general kind and the vast, yawning difference in degree should be noted.

   A voter motivated only by concerns about free speech, and forced to choose between the contemporary left and the contemporary right should have no trouble deciding which faction to back.

   We live in a world of both differences of degree and differences in kind. Ignoring the former because of the latter is generally not rational.

USAF Could Get 30 More Combat-Capable Raptors (!!!!!)

 

Dallas ICE Facility Shooting

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At first I thought it was mostly likely a righty/wingnut shooting illegal aliens. It doesn't make much sense given that those particular illegals are already presumably on their way out of the country...but such people aren't exactly pinnacles of rationality.

   Of course it could be a lefty who can't tell ICE agents from illegals...but that seemed a bit implausible.

   This guy apparently wrote on his shell casings...which is all the rage now (as it were).

   (What, a stripper-clip? What was this guy using? That's not a Garand clip I don't think...)

   Anyway, he scrawled 'Anti-ICE' on the ammo...but...seems to me it's just as likely to be false-flag--do some stupid-ass shit and try to pin it on the other side... I don't pay much attention to the professions of violent criminal nut jobs.

   Guess we'll see.

3 ICE Detainees Shot, 2 Killed at Dallas ICE Facility

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The shooter took his own worthless life. So good on him for that...

   Of course we may never know the motive...this could have been a leftist firing off his gun in protest...

   

   But seriously: probably a righty/wingnut.

   It's easy to predict what the rhetoric will be like:

• Righties: this had nothing to do with us or anything we said.

• Lefties: this it the fault of the right for hateful "anti-immigrant" rhetoric; this is a pure expression of what they really think about "immigrants"...

   Well, I've said a bunch on this general point already.

Mooch on the Damning New F-35 Report

It seems to me to be pretty common for new weapons systems to have such problems...but...Fat Amy does seem to be especially prone.

Are We Going to Get (or Take) Bagram Back?

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We could probably just take it if we wanted to...but I think it would be better to some kind of accord with the evil Taliban so we can get some of their lithium.

I'd have never even considered such a thing ten years go.

AAUP is a Leftist Organization; AAUP President Endorses Lefty Conspiracy Theory that Kirk Assassin was Right-Wing

I was a member of AAUP for about a year when it looked like I might be in hot water for politically incorrect speech at my University. I'm a member of several other organizations that would likely defend me if necessary. And I didn't think the AAUP actually would. But I joined anyway, just in case. I let my membership lapse after a year, though I could still log in to the website. Just yesterday I contacted them to make sure my membership was terminated. I did so because VA AAUP just released its endorsement of all three statewide Democratic candidates in the upcoming election. Well, that was the proximal reason. But I'd been planning for some time to make sure I wasn't on autorenew. The AAUP is part of the problem in academia.

   AAUP is a leftist organization. There's no question about it, and no surprise there. Professors are overwhelmingly leftist. If AAUP weren't leftist, another organization would form to crowd it out. And now its president is repeating the never-plausible and conclusively-debunked theory that the Kirk assassin was a far righty groyper. Facts are anathema to these people.

Steve Sailer: A Trans Action

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Nick Gillespie: Why the Charlie Kirk Memorial Might Spell the End of MAGA

This seems like a very mixed bag to me.

   At some points he's right on the mark, as when he points out that Trump's line about hating his enemies (whereas Kirk loved his) was self-deprecating humor delivered deadpan. (This describes a lot of Trump's humor, but his enemies are so locked in TDS that they refuse to acknowledge it--or, perhaps, genuinely can't see it.)

   He's also right about the weird tone of some parts of the thing.

   Elsewhere, he's pretty hit-or-miss. Trump's administration is headed for disaster because Tyler Cowen said we're going to have stagflation...and other such stuff. Well, yeah, any President who wrecks the economy will be unpopular...but we've heard predictions of economic disaster over and over...and thus far, no dice.

   Stephen Miller can certainly sound creepy, and the administration would do well to keep him off-camera. He's right about most of what he says...and I actually think his tone is apt. But it doesn't seem to play well in Peoria... Gillespie's reference to Miller's High School newspaper reveals more of the same: he's basically right, but he doesn't cushion his claims, that's for sure...

   And Gillespie's bizarro, very-slightly-concealed accusation of antisemitism against Tucker Carlson is just, well, kinda nuts IMO.

   Finally, there's Gillespie's accusation that Trump politicizes everything... I mean...the left undeniably started that shit. That's their calling card. The personal (and everything this side of that...meaning everything...) is political. Whether Trump is just playing their game, or whether he thinks something (in effect) similar, I don't know.

   But anyway.

   Trump is best when he doesn't open his mouth too much. Which is rare. 

   Currently, I think Trump, Miller et al. are basically right: the left is hellbent on implementing policies and ideas that would lead pretty directly to horror and national disaster. E.g. open borders, DEI, CRT transanity, lawlessness, suppression of speech and dissent...just to name a few lowlights. Anger is a perfectly reasonable response to this malevolent idiocy... But tone does matter, and too much goes a long way. Tone is all that much of the electorate ever notices. So I'd tone it down a bit if I were them.

The Great Replacement is a Racist Conspiracy Theory, Bigot

Pay no attention to this U.N. report...

2 Million Illegal Aliens Out of the U.S. in 250 Days

Well, Trump drives my batshit crazy...but he's doing a good job.

Blair Gov't Increased Illegal Immigration to Transform UK and "Rub the Right's Nose in Diversity"?

I repeatedly rail against misuses of the term...but, if true, this is tantamount to treason:

The ruling class just despised the people they were entrusted to rule, so they set about destroying them. https://t.co/B1C16fBwwq pic.twitter.com/cEpp0BfRmz

— Dissident Soaps (@DissidentSoaps) September 23, 2025

NPR Pro-Antifa Propaganda

ABL: Progressivism in Yet Another Nutshell

Trump is lowering prescription drug prices so Big Pharma makes more money...and then her real leftism comes out...:

The NGAD/F-47 is in Production!

 

Jeffrey Blehar: Trumpian Chaos Reigns by Design

What an abject jackass.

   A couple of weeks ago I said that, if he could keep it between the ditches, he could be one of the best Presidents of my life--at least in terms of accomplishments, if not ability or temperament...but he obviously can't keep it between the ditches. I can't believe I ever thought he could. He seems to have gone even more off the rails in the past couple of weeks. I'd say that he's become an embarrassment to the country...but the tense of that seems wrong...

   I still think we had no real choice. The Democrats currently are simply not an option. And the Harris/Walz clown show...just no.

   But repeat myself repeating myself once again: we evaded the ravenous wolf pack by jumping off a cliff into a raging river...and now here we are, tumbling through the rapids... We knew what we were doing. And we didn't really have a choice. All we can really do is stop whining and hope for the best.

Will SCOTUS Consider the Phony Witmer "Kidnapping" Case?

   The left keeps holding up this case as if it counterbalanced the Kirk assassination...it took me a while to realize that they don't even seem to realize that it was entrapment--that the FBI basically created the entire plot, worked for months to drag people onto its periphery, then got two of them sentenced to long prison terms...but only two. Even Witmer was in on the act. There was never any threat to her. It seems to have been assassination theater, timed so that the final act came just before the election of 2020. (I wonder whether MI might have evaded Witmer misrule during the Deadly Batflu Pandemic of DOOOOOOM without the FBI's intervention?)

God knows what kind of story the MSM has told about all this.

Turley: Has the Left Discovered the Value of Free Speech?

Not likely.

PA College Students Galvanized by Kirk's Murder

We need that in the OD.

We have one month before the Commonwealth is wrecked on the rocks of unified Democrat governance.

Can't somebody cast a Summon Scott Pressler spell?

Shoe On Head on the Left's Psychotic Celebration at Charlie Kirk's Murder

Shoe is great, but probably what you really ought to watch is the clips of grotesque, repulsive leftists exulting at Kirk's assassination. There's a string of clips from about 5:00 to about 9:15, then some more scattered throughout.

Behold, the left:

This didn't change my mind about the country as much as it did Shoe's...

But that's only because I realized a decade ago that the hideous, odious, abhorrent, insane left was back. Their exultation at a political murder is grotesque and evil...but honestly it is, IMO, nowhere near as bad as their rejection of the very ideas of truth, reason and objectivity, their brainwashing and sexual exploitation and mutilation of children, their fomenting of race-hatred, and their commitment to various flavors of Marxism and their correlative desire to bring about the destruction of the USA and Western Civilization...so...y'know...dancing and singing at a 31-year-old man being murdered for political speech in front of his wife and Children...just about par for the course when you think about it...

   They are who I always thought they were...

[No...the most important thing in this isn't the clips of the leftist fucktards...it's Shoe's comments toward the end.]

How a Male Sex Offender Got Away with Leering at Little Girls in a Virginia School Locker Room

There will be more of this if Spanberger is elected.

Among the many progressive Newspeak terms non-progressives need to refuse to use: "identifies as." As in:

When a man was reported for loitering in an Arlington Public Schools women’s locker room last October, district staff ignored concerned parents because the man, they said, identified as a woman.
“The patron is an adult swim class participant,” the director of aquatics management at APS said in an email. “I have spoken on deck and at the front desk with several people. I have told them that APS policy is to provide equitable and inclusive spaces for all community members and that the individual using the locker room identifies as a female and, therefore, permitted to use the women’s locker room.”
Richard Cox, the man in question, is a tier-three sex offender forbidden to be in close proximity to children. Cox was convicted in 1992 of taking indecent liberties with children after exposing his genitals and masturbating in front of a child at a gymnasium, according to court records. In 2007, he was convicted of six counts of possessing obscene material with a minor.  [My emphasis]

The relevantly-named Cox--who was undeniably male and observed to be so by staff and patrons of Arlington Public Schools--just had to emit the words 'I am a woman' and progressive APS staff folded like a whole Men's Wearhouse full of cheap suits. X "identifies as" y doesn't mean some special, super-secret technical thing. All it means is: x says x is y. Such claims are defeasible. Anyone who is willing to simply accept whatever someone says about himself, even when they can see it's false with their own eyes is a goddamned idiot. Being a man or a woman is not some special kind of property, different than all other kinds of properties. If x says he is 10 when he's obviously 40, we don't let him into the grade school. If he says he is well when he is obviously ill, we do not let him into the intensive care ward. If he says he is strong when he is obviously weak, we don't let him be a policeman or fireman...

   And so on.

   Anyone who thinks that saying that x is so makes it so is either stupid or lying or has some kind of mental illness...or some epistemically radioactive mix of all of the above.

   With contemporary progressivism, it's obviously option 4.

Lowry: The Roots of "Trans" Fanaticism

Start with mental illness...add leftist politics...

But I repeat myself...

Mike Benz on Organizations (e.g. the State Department) Using Antifa and Transgenders as Catspaws

Big if true.

In fact, huge if true:

discussing the assassination aftermath with @Liz_Wheeler pic.twitter.com/jAakR2OlCV

— Mike Benz (@MikeBenzCyber) September 18, 2025

Here We Go?: Will The Kirk Assassination Radicalize the (Religious?) Right?

People roughly like me who have openly opposed Woketarianism seem to be mostly hoping that something good could come from the Kirk assassination--the best possibilities being recommitment to free speech and open discussion, especially on campuses. And that would likely mean, among other things, disrupting the left's stranglehold on academia.

   Mr. Kirk, however, was also very much a Christian. Now, I got over my evangelical atheism quite some time ago, and, though I still don't think that any of the Abrahamic stories are true, I've come to think that Christianity is a more-or-less beneficial force in Western Civilization--when, that is, it crowds out more harmful religions, and functions as a kind of stabilizing and civilizing influence acting more-or-less in the background. Religious fervor, however, is generally a bad thing. So, if Kirk's murder sparks such fervor--well, that will not be good.

   I also have a longstanding view that the pendulum of crazy swings back and forth between our two major political factions. The left has obviously been in the grip of madness for about a decade, peaking ca. 2020-2023 with the George Floyd incident and the rise of CRT and BLM, DEI fervor, and, COVID/lockdown hysteria. The most worrisome thing about the right has obviously been the rise and fall and rise of Trump, the most mixed of mixed bags. He's done a lot of good, opposing Woketarianism, promoting (until recently) free speech, pushing back against CRT, transgender pseudoscience, DEI and open borders. And he gave us a good SCOTUS majority--and may still appoint another justice. But, of course, he's done more than his share of harm as well. I don't feel like counting the ways right now, but, since I think that civil public discourse is of paramount importance, it's not surprising that I'm not happy about how he influences that. Now, to be fair, the left has done more to turn public discussion vicious than Trump has--but Trump hasn't done anything to make things better on that front, to say the very least.

   I've basically just expected the left to come to its senses eventually, if just by regression to the mean...and for the right (probably but not necessarily) to move rightward, toward the nutty end of the right sector of the spectrum. (Though I'm not impressed by "abundance" progressivism, I do think it represents the right kind of shift on the left--away from Woke madness and toward economic issues...even if I generally disagree with Klien et al. with respect to economics.)

  But, of course, the nightmare scenario is: the blue team stays crazy and the right team goes crazy too...

   I suppose I don't see any reason to rule this out, unfortunately. Other than that: if the right gets crazier, it will start losing the genuine centristish-liberals who have been backing the red team as the lesser evil. Well, that's not nothing... But it won't help much if the left stays as radical and crazy as it's been and the right becomes possessed by an equal and opposite crazy. That will just leave centristish liberalish types with a choice between equally bad alternatives.

   Woketarianism, as many have noted, is similar to a religion--and similar to a cult in many ways. And the religious right is the component of the American right I fear the most. And we could end up with those two forces battling each other for supremacy...which would be very, very bad. Now, Kirk himself said that he didn't really rely on religious arguments to support his conservative arguments--he claimed to have non-religious arguments in support of them. Downright Rawlsian of him... At any rate, it's not in any way inevitable that we'll see an ascendance of the religious right like we did in the early-mid '80s...but there are certainly significant reasons to worry that we might.

[Addendum: one way in which a crazy, radical right is less harmful than a crazy, radical left: universities will fight the former tooth and nail, whereas it happily capitulates to the latter, as we've seen. (In fact, they don't even really capitulate...that'd be capitulating to itself. Academia is the source of crazy leftistm.)]

Some Grauniad Hack: FROM NAZI GERMANY TO TRUMP'S AMERICA NAZI FASCIST NAZIS FASCIST FASCIST FASCIST REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE...

LOLOLOL

   I stopped like three paragraphs at the claim that "there has been a reluctance to name this moment as [sic] fascism."

   What planet are these people living on?

   Anyhoo, it's always possible, I suppose, that there are a few nuggets of truth to be panned out of that slurry of nonsense...but if so, you're gonna have to find 'em yourself.

   I don't have the patience for that kind of pseudo-scholarly leftist horseshit this morning.

John Ellis: The Campus Left is Hateful to Its Core

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Why I Am Not A Christian

Erika Kirk forgives Charlie's murderer.

I never would. 

It's not my business, obviously, in this case. I don't even have the authority to forgive or not in this case--not as I understand it anyway.

But anyway, for the record: I wouldn't.

Eric Levitz on Heather Cox Richardson, Political Correctness, and the Smug Epistemic Train Wreck of the Progressive Left

My title for his piece, not Levitz's

This Richardson person isn't an anomaly.

   Living in the ideologically-grounded fantasy of political correctness has been basically the central characteristic of the left since about 2013...or 1985...or 1917...depending on how you count it...

   Anong the many bizarro things about the left is that its denizens not only live in a transparently fictional fantasy world...but they think themselves to be smarter, more rational, and just generally epistemically superior to everybody else.

   This is not an anomaly.

   This is how the extremist left has conducted itself both times it has become powerful in my lifetime--the PC fad on campuses ca. 1985-1995 and the Great Awokening of the past decade.

   Every faction stretches the truth to match its ideology. Radicals are particularly bad about it. The farther you go toward the right tail of the curve, the more you find it...but only the left basically turns it into a principle. At least on the right, it tends to be recognized as an error. But leftists, being a more philosophical lot, often openly proclaim their rejection of the very ideas of truth and objectivity.

Becket Adams: The Left Contrives Its Own Reality On Political Violence

The left contrives its own reality on everything now.

This is nothing new. It's political correctness, and it goes back at least as far as the early Soviet Union.

'Political correctness,' you might recall, is a communist term applied to the thinking of even-more-radical communists...

Even the left knows that the left makes shit up for political reasons and calls it true.

McCarthy: What to Make of the Homan Bribery Allegations?

Unclear--but what's alleged is bad.

I've never said this before...and I can't even believe I'm saying it now...but even if it's true...I kinda hope it's suppressed.

I honestly cannot believe I'm saying that.

But Homan's job is so important--and he seems to be doing it so well...that I'd be willing to take a crook who could get the job done.

In fact, if Trump could put together a whole team of crooks, I'd take it--if they could successfully roll back the lunacy of the Great Awokening.

I'm not proud of this position.

Of course even if Homan goes, Trump will keep pushing to deport at least a decent fraction of at least the criminal illegals. But bagging Homan would damage the project. Which, of course, is why MSDNC and the NYT are mostly interested in this.

Eh...that's not fair.

The NYT may also have some genuine interest in honest government.

L. Polgreen: Charlie Kirks' Murder TOTALLY Had No Connection to Transgenderism Whatsoever

I'd say This didn't age well...but...we already knew this was false when it was published (i.e.: yesterday).

Transgenderism is a mental disorder. "Transgender" men--that is: actual men who misrepresent themselves as women--commit sex crimes at a rate much higher than that of normal men. The violent Blackshirts who call themselves "Antifa" are disproportionately "transgendered." "Transgendered"men frequently threaten and commit violence against women who oppose gender pseudoscience. And a lot of recent, high-profile violent crimes have some very direct "trans" connection.

   And, to be clear: we've known for a week that Kirk's murderer's boyfriend considers himself to be "transgendered".

   Most of the rest of the piece is just the kind of quasi-literary psychobabble that pervades the politically correct progressive left.

Ilya Somin: Political Violence is Rare, and the Right Perpetrates it More

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   A lot of the stuff out there is by leftist organization (SPLC, ADL), and they cheat hard--e.g. by counting prison violence by white supremacist (actual white supremacist) groups against the right, but they don't count e.g. the BLM riots against the left.

   But, even if all that's corrected for, it still seems that the right perpetrates more killings--a lot more. (I'm still not convinced that it commits more violence...especially given the activity of Antifa over the past five years; but that's just a hunch, pretty likely to be wrong. And I'd be easy to convince on this point.)

  But anyway, as I've said before, this actually doesn't surprise me all that much, even if true. The right has a lot of gun nuts and "militias" just looking for an excuse to cut loose. And when they do, they tend to kill a lot of people. The extremist left seems to me to do more harm to the country--over the past decade, anyway--but by taking over institutions. But that's a different matter.

   Anyway, this is exactly the kind of issue that brings out tribal allegiances. Righties want the left to be (or at least to have been...) more violent: lefties want the opposite. The question's more difficult to answer than it initially might seem to be--but it is answerable. And this is just (or mostly at least) an empirical matter. So the facts have to be allowed to have their say, and to decide the matter.

Jeffrey Blehar: "The Trump Effect: On the Media"

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I foolishly thought Trump could keep himself largely under control until after the mid-terms, when he'll be a lame duck.

But, then, I would never have predicted the Charlie Kirk murder, which seems to have accelerated...lots of things.

Though I think I was well on my way to being wrong anyway.

Now I continue to (probably foolishly) hope that Trump can do enough to roll back the advances of the left to make the damage he's doing worth it. A reason for optimism: much of the damage he's doing won't survive long. In fact, blowback against his looniness will (I'd guess) likely help undo it rapidly. A reason for pessimism: much of the good he's doing probably won't survive long, either. (For one thing, much of it has been done by Executive Order.)

But I'm wrong a lot.

So who knows?

Byron York: The Forgotten Trump Assassination Attempt

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Megan K. Jacobson: Europe Tries to Export Censorship to America

Squirrely asshats.

Go t' Hell.

It's like our crazy-ass leftards took over a whole continent.

Steven Malanga on the "Red Moocher State" Myth

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Feccas Short: More Crazy Violent Lefties

One of these is Li'l Stevie "Destiny" Bonnell,* the other is this guy Hasan Piker (?) (sp?)--I think that latter dude is the guy lefties were saying was going to be their new Joe Rogan...but since he's an obvious retard with delusions of badassery...eh...I'm not so sure:

* As others have asked, I believe: why would a male streamer pick a screen name that would be more apt for a stripper?

What Happens When You Slap 8 .50 Cals in the Nose of a B-25

What happens is, you do things like saw Japanese destroyers in half...

This video is pretty grim in parts.

Just so you know.

Geraghty: "Harris: Late in the Race, My Campaign Analytics Found Me Ahead in All 7 Swing States"

Yeah, no they didn't.

We've already been told that they knew they were cooked.

Or, who knows?

The public polls were mostly lying to us...maybe her polls were lying to her, too.

More seasoned conservatives than I said pretty much the whole time not to worry. The polls, they told me, are basically like the main media outlets: truth and accurate predication are not their goal. Pumping up the Dems' chances is their goal. And that generally means: saying they're ahead no matter what.

And I was pretty confident. The best pollsters put Trump ahead.

And, honestly, I kinda couldn't believe that more people would actually vote for the blue-team clown show. It just didn't pass the smell test. Harris and Walz just weren't anything like POTUS/VPOTUS material. Even less so than Trump. Which is kinda saying something...

Man Who Tried to Assassinate Kavanaugh Pretends to be a Woman

He "identifies" (a hopelessly confused concept) as a "transgender" (a hopelessly confused concept) woman (a very simple concept...unless you're a leftist).

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   But, hey, it is very terrible and Politically Very Incorrect and bad to notice that the transes are way, way disproportionately violent. And perverted. Men pretending to be women commit sex crimes against women and children at a vastly disproportionate rate. And now they seem to make up pretty much all the assassins and would-be assassins on the left.

   BUT YOU MUST STOP NOTICING THESE THINGS YOU TERRIBLE NAZI!!!!111

   Noticing is a very terrible and naughty sin, and you will be called racist and whatnot for committing it.

   Hope this helps.

   Bigot.

Is the Trump Administration Blowing It re: Restricting Gain-Of-Function Research?

My view on this, FWIW, hasn't changed much since we first found out about this stuff during the pandemic. That is:

I'm in no position to determine whether the costs of GoFR outweigh the benefits.

But...it seems pretty obvious that, if we are going to do it, we can't farm it out to the third-rate labs of our political enemies...

Who thought that was a good idea???

(Fauci...cough...Fauci...)

(?)

Well, I'm not a big Fauci fan, but it doesn't seem to have been just him.

(Lefties love him...righties hate him...me...well...I actually pretty much tentatively loathe (or possibly loath...I can never remember) him for torturing dogs to death...if that story is true... But other than that, I'm not exactly sure...)

Anyway.

Other than farming out possibly world-killing bioweapons research to incompetent Chinese labs...for all I know, GoFR is actually worth the risk.

But I'm pretty damn skeptical.

But I trust Bhattacharya...so...not sure what to think here.

(When) Will the Right Lose Its Mind?

Seems to me that the parties tend to periodically swap the lead in the crazy race. The right seemed to me to be in the lead most of my life--but, then, I was too young to understand what was going on in the late '60s-early '70s. The "religious right" of the early-mid '80s--led by Jerry Falwell and the "Moral Majority"--were the main kooks of the time, it seemed to me. Then, pretty much as soon as I entered grad school, the political correctness fad exploded...but mostly stayed on campus. It did spread into journalism a bit...but it seemed to fade out IIRC by the late '90s...or maybe it just seemed that way because I was on the standard academic arc, leaving my prominent grad program for a much-less-prestigious university. And then came 9/11 and the neo-cons, shifting the epicenter of crazy back to the right. Next major trend I noticed, I suppose was the ascendancy of Woketarianism around the time of GamerGate, ca. 2013-14... And the left has been far out in the lead, crazy-wise, ever since...despite the rise of Donald Trump... Now...the left's gotta be pretty bad if the election of Donald Trump barely moves the needle, crazy-wise...but here we are...

   I've pretty much always thought that the Pendulum Of Crazy would swing back the other way...but the cult of Woketarianism has had a death grip on culture pretty much this whole time--with the madness radically intensifying in 2020. Then came the awful Biden Years... But the pushback seemed to start have some effect, what, around '22 or so? Younkin was elected in the OD, and we started seeing some progress. Trump's re-election, and the forces of Wokeness started being pushed back in earnest...

   But now...I'm getting concerned that the right might lose it over the Kirk assassination. I might not blame them much if they do... But I had hoped that the left might start coming to its senses before the right started going in a bad direction for real. And, who knows? Given Kirk's advocacy of dialog and free speech, maybe it won't happen...but I'm very concerned about some of the things we're hearing from the administration. And, if anything, we're hearing even crazier crazy from the left--something I would have thought impossible. The right's reaction to Kirk's assassination has--thus far--been controlled, righteous outrage...whereas many of the left are just flat-out losing their shit. In fact, I don't think I've ever seen anything like it before in American public discussions. I really don't think I've ever heard such vile, hateful, stupid, appalling hysteria before in American public discussions. One wants to hope that it's just the lunatic fringe...but the left's problem for a decade is that there's not much difference between the orthodox and the lunatic fringe...

   Well, it's early. Kirk's murder was only about a week ago.

   Aside from the administration, I've thought conservatives have handled this all pretty well. And more mainstream blue-teamers have, unsurprisingly, handled things better than the fringe...not generally well...but better, anyway.

   The first paragraph above is at least close to being right. Not so sure about what comes after that. It's impressionistic stuff.

Turley: Antigone 2.0: Liberals [sic] Denounce and Destroy Memorials for Charlie Kirk

Not to harp, but these people really aren't liberals.

Little Stevey "Destiny" Bonnell is a Psychotic Leftard

LOOOOOL

Even the Hodge twins are almost speechless.

Jeez this guy is a stupid piece of shit.

And talk about a punchable face

You'd have thought that the left couldn't get any more insane...

...but you'd have been wrong...

AJW: The Head of the FCC Totally Ruined the Glorious Jimmy Kimmel Thing

Philip Klein: The Government Shouldn't Police Jimmy Kimmel's Lies

ALRIGHT GODDAMNIT YOU NEVER LET US HAVE ANY FUN.

   And, to hear some of my "progressive" friends tell it, we're also not permitted to "cancel" Kimmel by writing angry letters to ABC...or...CBS...or...whoever the hell it is. I don't know because the guy isn't funny and I've rarely ever seen the show.

   I mean...he's not Colbert levels of not funny...but he's still not funny....

   Anyway, I didn't really understand the situation. Klein seems right to me.

   Dammit.

   Trump keeps going farther and farther over the line. Now he's like a rogue Jaeger not only pounding the hell out of the leftist Kaiju, but wrecking the city more-or-less indiscriminately as well.

   Look, the left deserves absolutely everything its getting and then some--we have not yet begun to rain down the vengeance on them that they deserve...but...well...we can't dole out all the vengeance they deserve without becoming too much like them.

   I'm not arguing for perfect scrupulosity...that's how they win--they constantly break the rules and wreck the system...and break the rules to wreck the system. I favor something like: go a little too far in some cases to let them know we're willing to do it--willing to play their game. Let them know that we're not going to fight with the gloves on forever...but pull back before doing irreparable harm to said system.

   Something like that I guess.

Lefty Pseudo-Philosophical Bullshit Watch: "Antifa Doesn't Exist Because It's Just An Idea"

Remember this hilarious bullshit from ca. 2019? 

Antifa is just an idea...

- Which recruits members
- Screens them
- Host private servers on Discord and else where for vetted members to chat.
- Seems to have endless money for bricks and riot gear.
- Spring up overnight in perfectly timed and coordinated riots.

Sure, that all… https://t.co/NZEg1RHtQY

— Grummz (@Grummz) September 18, 2025

Andy Ngo Reacts to Trump's Declaration That Antifa is a Terrorist Organization

Kyle Shideler: How to Dismantle Far-Left Extremist Networks

I don't know anything about such stuff.

So I can't evaluate this.
I will say that I go to red alert when I hear the phrases "whole-of-government" and (even worse) "whole-of-society." I'd never seen these phrases before they started appearing a couple of years ago in soft-totalitarian progressive-left discussions. For example, the Biden administration's anti-"disinformation" Nina-Jankowiczian/Orwellian bullshit threw these terms around in every direction. And what they really meant was: we're going to mobilize all of government and society against you Neanderthal conservatives...

   To me, such phrases ring of totalitarianism.

   But, then, mobilizing the whole government against a genuinely bad target--e.g. a planet-killing asteroid--would seem to be good. Whether the pasty little Blackshirts of Pantyfa and Trantifa really warrant such an effort I do not know.

   But, now that they're murdering people for politically incorrect speech...well, I'm listening.

   But I'm skeptical.

Vance: "There Is No Unity"

There's a lot of truth in what Vance said...and I think those points must be made...but...to my mind, right now, without enough thought...: too far.

The Kirk Assassination and the Aftermath: a Wee Table-Turning Thought Experiment

Imagine if someone publicly assassinated a popular left-wing activist.

Imagine if the killer had engraved "catch this, commie" on the bullet.

Imagine if the killer had engraved anti-LGBT stuff on the bullet.

Imagine if the killer had engraved the words to a Nazi song on the…

— Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) September 17, 2025

Rich Lowry: The Left Has A Violence Problem

Blindingly obvious, but worth saying.

Trump: "Sick, Dangerous Antifa" to be Designated a "Major Terrorist Organization"

Good.

I think.

Oh and, sorry, actually he said designate:

ANTIFA, A SICK, DANGEROUS, RADICAL LEFT DISASTER, AS A MAJOR TERRORIST ORGANIZATION

Even when he's right--as I think he almost has to be here--he's gotta say it in a way that makes him sound crazy... Consider how much more effective this would be if announced through normal channels (rather than via a goddamned tweet), without the loony ALL CAPS...

   Look, this is basically our current predicament. The left's lost its damn mind, Trump was/is our only real alternative, he's doing a pretty good job trying to de-crazify the country...but...he just can't throttle back. he just can't get the message out there in a sane and sober way.

   Of course the actual content and initiatives are more important than the rhetoric...but the rhetoric is very, very important...

   So why do I qualify my judgment that this is good with "I think"? Well, I'm not sure what counts, legally, as a terrorist organization. Like most other sane people, I casually refer to it as terrorist--but if this is going to be a legal designation, obviously we've got to be more careful. For example: maybe Antifa is more like a criminal network. Perhaps RICO is the right vector of attack. I just don't know. I'll wait to hear from Andy McCarthy on this one.

   But, niceties to the side: good.

Assassination Denial and Celebration on the Left

Two prominent reactions to Charlie Kirk's murder on the American political left have been:

[1] Denial that the assassin was a leftist, motivated by leftist political commitments + a systematic effort to convince people that he was on the right.

[2] Celebration of his murder + mocking of mourners at vigils, destruction of memorial displays, etc.

   The evidence of these things is easy to find--it's shockingly common--and I've got to get moving this morning, so I won't link much now. But I probably won't be able to resist doing so later. There are more links that you can click on at e.g. Instapundit*, r/conservative, and other such places.

   Apparently there's a woman named Heather Cox Richardson (a historian to boot, if I got that right) who has the world's most-read substack. She is, apparently, still pushing the view--for which there was never a single scrap of evidence--that the murderer was on the right. In fact, there's a poll floating around to the effect that more people think he was on the right than on the left.

   You've got to give it to the left--they're good at this. They get their story out to their minions et al. fast--and it's a lot harder to refute a story than it is to get people to believe it in the first place. Of course they've got the MSM, NPR, Bluesky, all of Reddit other than r/conservative and a handful of other subs, universities, etc. But, unfair advantage or not--they're good at it.

   I'd have thought my opinion of the left couldn't fall any lower.

   I was wrong.

[Look, it obviously goes without saying that the fattest part of the curve on the left is near the center, and that part of the curve does not accept any of this. The closer you get to the center, the more e.g. Democrats are perfectly sane. There are still undoubtedly a lot of people there who just hear the radicals' message first, don't spend much time thinking about it, have a low opinion of the right, and end up believing the radicals' falsehoods out of ignorance or laziness--or because it coheres with their overall view. And the vast majority of these folks are not celebrating. But, again, this should go without saying. In fact, I see the radical left as almost a bigger problem for people on the center-left than they are for us--the radicals are routinely misleading them into bad positions. Yes, the relative centrists bear some blame for their own predicament--but not all of it. It also goes without saying that the same phenomena manifest themselves on the right--just not, currently, as prominently.]

[Ok. here's just one link concerning this Richardson Substack person.]

*Never look at the Instapundit comments unless you want to get almost as depressed about the right as you already are about the left. r/conservative is much, much more reasonable, of course.

Jimmy Kimmel Live Show Cancelled / Pulled Indefinitely Over Kimmel's Retarded Remarks About Kirk Assassin Being MAGA

Hahahahahahaha

Apparently lots of lefties are still trying to push the like that the murderer was on the right...which is kinda hard to believe even for those reality-denying douchebags...

Here's what Kimmel said.

I'm not a big fan of such "cancelation" bullshit...and I hope we don't become like the insane left...but I do want to see a remorseless campaign of destruction (a) on this issue, (b) for awhile.

Lex talionis FTW...

 Not sure what school this is, but a pretty damn good conversation between Charlie Kirk and a college student. She's definitely been indoctrinated with a couple of blue-team falsehoods (e.g. about blacks, policing and crime), but she was very reasonable--as was he. This is pretty much how political conversations ought to go. (I mean, of course I could nitpick, but that's dumb.) Somehow she got the idea that Clarence Thomas wants to ban interracial marriage...which was a new one on me...and Kirk.

   Kirk would have done to have let the Kamala point go--but a minor infelicity.

   In the past I've really only seen really short clips chosen for their gladiatorial value. But this conversation was really good, and the nation would be a lot better off if Kirk were still going around to universities having such conversations:

Decoy Voice on the Further Unhinging of the American Left After the Charlie Kirk Assassination

All this grotesque retardation should be put on blast. Honestly, I wouldn't care if these people were expelled, ostracized, and never able to secure gainful employment.

   Well...life without work is basically a leftist dream...and we'd just end up supporting them...so...I may have to rethink that quasi-wish.

Happy Constitution Day

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It's raining today--for the first time in...almost a month?--so I won't be putting out my flag.

Which solves a problem: I wasn't sure whether to fly it since it's just one of those ordinary flags-on-a-stick, and there's no way to fly it at half-mast. I'm sure the flag code says what to do in such a case...but I just now thought of that...derp.

   My neighborhood as few flag-fliers. One guy flies two--always. Another guy a block over flies the U.S. and VA flags all the time. The former Marine and his Eagle Scout son catty-cornered from us don't seem to be flying theirs of late. We fly ours on whichever of the flag-fly days we're moved to do so. 7/4 obviously. Then whichever others we're moved or remember to do so. We're not religious about it, but we do it.

   The neighborhood has a lot of blue-team-type stuff. Campaign signs for Spanberger--which, of course, is misguided, IMO, but totally fine and I'm happy to see them participate in the process. Lots of those tri-color, trilingual signs about how the homeowner is happy you're his neighbor--no matter what. Those signs originated around here, and they're quite popular. Several BLM signs and banners remain. Rainbow flags. And some of those nauseating "in this house we believe" signs. Which is all fine. But, to nab one of their own words, I guess you might call it performative progressivism. The local GOP doesn't give out a lot of chum. Which is fine with me, because if I had a Sears sign I'd put it up, and then at least a couple of my neighbors would be less favorably-disposed toward me. I only saw one Trump sign anywhere in the neighborhood...and it mysteriously disappeared.

   Blah blah blah

More Texts from Charlie Kirk Murderer to his "Trans," "Furry" Boyfriend

He did it.

Robert Malone: The Enemy Within: Tyler Robinson is Trantifa

I can't evaluate this, but it's consistent with what people like Karlyn Boysenko say.

Guess I'd better read Andy Ngo's book.

Bondi (and Trump) vs. the First Amendment

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   Neither progressives nor conservatives can be relied on to protect free speech.

   Genuine liberals and libertarians can...but the former may not even exist anymore, for all I can tell, and the latter seem destined to remain a fringe group of nerdy weirdos.

   Progressivism fades off into old-school statist liberalism on its centrist end (as I understand it)...and turns pretty rapidly into various utterly insane hard-left views--cultural Marxism, regular Marxism, Woketarian totalitarianism...I don't even know what else...on its left end. But it has proven itself to be inveterately hostile to free speech.

   Progressives are, of course, the worst.

   Conservatives took up the cause of free speech as the tattered remnants of liberalism began fleeing to the red team ca. 2016...but conservatism has never seemed to feel the love of free speech in its heart. And pretty much as soon as Trump ascended to the throne again he started crapping on it. Flag-burning often constitutes the right's entering wedge against free expression. Some argue that it's a special case, and--even if we must defend it--we shouldn't hold it too much against people who flinch and go authoritarian over it.

Well, maybe.

   Now we get Bondi talking talk straight out of the totalitarian, progressive left's talk-book.

   There is no such thing as "hate speech" as a legal kind in the USA.

   Then Trump issues some typically garbled, dumbass comments in an apparent attempt to defend Bondi's bullshit.

   As is so often the case, it's amateur hour at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

WSJ: Pam Bondi Needs a Free Speech Tutorial

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They Just Keep Finding New Ways to be Crazy and Gross

DISGUSTING: ABC’s Matt Gutman says he’s not sure “if we have seen an alleged murder with such specific text messages” that were “very touching, in a way, that I think many of us didn’t expect — a very intimate portrait into this relationship between the suspect’s roommate and the… pic.twitter.com/ulPcxoOwM3

— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) September 16, 2025

You may remember Matt Gutman from his "work" distorting the Trayvon Martin Case:

Matt Gutman....where have I heard that name before...

I know I've heard it somewh--*

OH THAT'S RIGHT.

**THAT'S** WHERE I HEARD THAT NAME BEFORE.

The TRAYVON MARTIN case.

Gutman literally helped endanger and silence an eyewitness that told a different story from the…

— Brian Cates - Political Columnist & Pundit (@drawandstrike) September 16, 2025

Both tweets via Insty. 

Leftists Suddenly Decide Free Speech is Good, "Cancel Culture," Bad

S.E. Cupp now says that it's not a crime to offend someone and people shouldn't be punished for being a jerk.

Here's a look back at what she said when she fell for the Covington kids hoax.pic.twitter.com/e6CLMTo7ys https://t.co/V83AE8gljb

— MAZE (@mazemoore) September 16, 2025

Jesus Christ.

These people.

I'd almost forgotten about their five-alarm freakout about the Covington Kids.

When undeniable evidence that they were 180 degrees wrong about this case, the WaPo comments section freaked. the. fuck. out. It was like When Prophecy Fails or something. They lashed out in every direction, hysterically flailing to find some way to maintain their ginned-up hatred of those kids.

They really have lost their collective mind.

A "Ferrari" Upgrade With 6th-Gen Technology for Fat Amy?

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Yeah, going to a twin engine design...seems...improbable...no?

I would have guessed--based on my vast knowledge of aerospace engineering--that going to twin engines would basically require a whole new airframe.

Smith and Wesson Training Facility Opens in Maryville, TN

Looks like it's about time to visit my friends in Knoxville...

Borysenko on Antifa Funding

No idea how much of this is true. But she does seem to actually do a lot of undercover work in these fucked-up organizations:

Authorities Investigating "Armed Queers Salt Lake City" for Possible Participation in or Foreknowledge of Charlie Kirk Murder

So...these dudes in dresses waving around guns and talking about overthrowing the government...might be crazy and dangerous???

Charles W. Cooke: Pam Bondi's Ridiculous 24 Hours

I'm starting to think maybe Trump should stop hiring people for heir looks...

Daily Beast: MAGA "Melts Down" at "Moron Bondi" on "Hate Speech"

I think what you jackasses mean is: Bondi said something stupid about "hate speech," and MAGA--unlike the Woketarian left--immediately came down on her like the Very Fist Of God...

   Not, as they say, a good look...and I have no freakin' clue what she could have been thinking...but, whereas the left pushed that nonsense for a decade basically unimpeded, MAGA struck back within the hour and squelched that shit hard.

   But, seriously: first they're cool with "cancellation," then they want to censor undeniably protected speech in the form of flag-burning, now they're on about "hate speech"???

   Next up: not loving Charlie Kirk is a microaggression?