Wednesday, September 10, 2025

Watch Out! Here Comes The White Backlash!

Here, this’ll help: Jesse Waters:
Jesse Watters goes full bloodlust in response to Charlie Kirk's death: "Whether we want to accept it or not, they are at war with us. And what are we going to do about it? How much political violence are we going to tolerate? ... This is a turning point. And we know which direction we are going."
Aux armes, les citoyens! Too much FoxNews? Yeah, sure. That’s the problem.
The First Amendment is standing just off camera, tapping its foot impatiently. Standing next to it is the 14th Amendment. They’d like to say something. Would the Speaker care to name names? The beat goes on:
MAGA 3 days ago: Chicago is about to find out the meaning of WAR

MAGA today: the left needs to stop condoning violence
FBI Directors are not supposed to be grabbing headlines from thousands of miles away (or even just from Las Vegas). That’s why.
Trump - The assassination of Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband and the shooting of on State Senator John Hoffman and his wife
- Luigi Mangione's assassination of Brian Thompson
- The assassination of Charlie Kirk

Political violence is contagious. It is spreading. It is not confined to one side or belief system. It should terrify us all.

The foundation of a free society is the ability to participate in it without fear of violence. Political violence is always an attack against us all. You have to be so blind not to see that.
I blame the rhetoric of the Left.
When a right-wing man murdered Democratic lawmakers in Minnesota, progressives asked MAGA to tone down the rhetoric to prevent more violence. Within hours of Kirk’s murder, motive still unknown, the right is demanding that the government wage a campaign of violence against their enemies.
Responding to Trump’s call to execute the Central Park Five hissy fit from the Oval Office:
Bullshit. Trump and Trumpists and a disturbingly large slice of the modern Right are absolutely fine dehumanizing in far worse rhetoric an alarmingly long list of groups and individuals ideals. It’s their favorite thing to do. It gets them off. /1

/2 More to the point there is also a very long list of groups and individuals that Trump, Trumpists, and most of the Right think ought to be killed extra-judicially, and whose death they will openly celebrate. They think it’s disqualifying to be an American to care about those deaths.

/3 Trumpists and most of the new Right are shitty people with shitty values from a shitty culture. Responding to their violence with violence may not solve a damn thing. There are good arguments against it. But don’t let them pose for a millisecond as anything but the gleeful thug trash they are.
I know, I know, I buried the lede.

David Axelrod says Kirk is like Martin Luther King. Really.
David Axelrod is my age. That makes him distinctly old enough to know better.
Famously, Martin Luther King said "empathy is a made up new age word that has done a lot of damage to this country"

Oh sorry, that was Charlie Kirk.
Schooley:
8 Kirk stories plus a lengthy liveblog on the New York Times home page right now. This is so odd.
Is it? Is it, really?
The Lovely Wife has taken to following politics and the news since she retired. She’d never heard of Charlie Kirk. I think you have to be terminally online to know who he is, especially if you’re over 30. Or is the NYT just desperate to escape extinction?
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2 comments:

  1. The Thought Criminal9:08 PM

    The same people who can accept school shooting after school shooting demanding that nothing be done.

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