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J.D. Vance on Shooting at Dallas ICE Facility: ‘It Is Time to Stop the Rhetorical Assault on Law Enforcement’

Posted on | September 25, 2025 | Comments Off on J.D. Vance on Shooting at Dallas ICE Facility: ‘It Is Time to Stop the Rhetorical Assault on Law Enforcement’

A 29-year-old lunatic named Joshua Jahn — a criminal, a drug addict and, perhaps not coincidentally, a Democratic primary voter — opened fire on an ICE facility in Dallas early Wednesday morning. The attack killed two immigrant detainees and wounded a third; Jahn committed suicide before he could be apprehended. It appears that the detainees were in the line of fire because they were inside an ICE van that Jahn shot into blindly. “Anti-ICE” slogans were found on shell casings at the scene.

It so happened that Vice President J.D. Vance was scheduled to speak Wednesday in Concord, North Carolina. The recent murder of Iryna Zarutska in Charlotte has made public safety a major issue in next year’s U.S. Senate campaign in North Carolina, where the leading candidates are Michael Whatley on the Republican side and former Gov. Roy Cooper for Democrats. Anyway, J.D. Vance just lit ’em up:

“In Dallas, Texas, an ICE facility, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility, was opened fire upon by a violent left-wing extremist, a person who wrote anti-ICE messaging on their bullets. And there’s some evidence that we have that’s not yet public, but we know this person was politically motivated. They were politically motivated to go after law enforcement. They were politically motivated to go after people who are enforcing our border and I think that is the most disgusting thing. The very people who keep us safe ought to be honored and protected and praised by Democrats and Republicans alike.
“It is time to stop the rhetorical assault on law enforcement. When Democrats, like Gavin Newsom did, say that these people are part of an authoritarian government, when the left-wing media lies about what they’re doing, when they lie about who they’re arresting, when they lie about the actual job of law enforcement, what they’re doing is encouraging crazy people to go and commit violence. You don’t have to agree with my immigration policies. You don’t have to agree with Donald Trump’s immigration policies, but if your political rhetoric encourages violence against our law enforcement, you can go straight to hell, and you have no place in the political conversation of the United States of America. . . .
“If you want to stop political violence, stop attacking our law enforcement as the Gestapo. If you want to stop political violence, stop telling your supporters that everybody who disagrees with you is a Nazi. If you want to stop political violence, look in the mirror.”

It’s about time somebody said it.



 

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In The Mailbox: 09.24.25

Posted on | September 25, 2025 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 09.24.25

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: More Calls to Violence By Antifa
EBL: 4 people shot, including shooter, at Dallas ICE facility, Why This Blue Lobster Is So Special, We went to Charlie Kirk’s Memorial as non-conservatives, Barefoot In The Park, and Bella Healthcote
Twitchy: Megyn Kelly Crushes Unprepared Lefty Student At TPUSA Event, Gutfeld Explodes At Jessica Tarlov For Rolling Out Tired “Both Sides” Deflection, and MSNBC Blames Charlie Kirk & ICE For Lethal Leftist Violence By Being “Divisive”
Louder With Crowder: Daughter of two A-list Hollywood celebrities lectures at the UN to bring back universal mask mandates, Ilhan Omar DEMANDS we abolish ICE based on an NBC News article…that wound up being fake news, Hillary Clinton calls for unity…as she blames YOU for fueling all the political divisions, Gavin Newsom swears “by the core of his soul” there won’t be a 2028 Election, but the internet isn’t amused, and Shocking poll shows which party Americans trust more on important issues, and it’s NOT the party crying over Jimmy Kimmel
Vox Popoli: “Destroying Your Heritage”
Upstream Reviews: Hawkeye & Mockingbird
Cedar Sanderson: The Tyger
The Bugscuffle Gazette: For Clarity
Gab: A Manifesto For Christian Strength
Jim McCoy: Interview With Wally Waltner

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: A Cold Economic Wind Still Blows for Late-Night
American Greatness: Why Our Systems Collapse, Randi Weingarten’s Fallacious Fascist Finger-Pointing, ‘You Can Go Straight to Hell!’, Trump Says Smith-Mundt Act To Be Restored, Domestic Propaganda Halted Under ‘Charlie Kirk Act’, and California’s ‘Election Rigging Response’ Restores an Uneven Playing Field
American Thinker: Georgia Democrats Defy Court Order
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
BattleSwarm: NYC Infrastructure Attack Thwarted
Behind The Black: Chinese satellite photographs commercial Maxar satellite, Firefly’s stock sags due to poor revenue numbers in 1st quarter report, NASA now targeting a February-to-April launch window for first manned Artemis mission, Two launches by China and SpaceX, and Another day, another leftist sniper; Another day, another Democrat incites violence
Cafe Hayek: Enough With Protectionists’ Rampaging Presumptions
Da Tech Guy: Cause and Effect DaTechGuyblog’s YouTube Channel Edition and a Flexible offer
Don Surber: Trump UN-bound
First Street Journal: Good News: 2 Million Illegals Gone In 250 Days, also, “Day-Zero Droughts” Coming Soon Or Something
The Geller Report: Supreme Court Sides With Trump: Grants Executive Authority to Fire FTC Commissioner, “MULTIPLE FATALITIES” In Left-Wing Sniper Attack at Dallas ICE Facility, Trump Slams Recognition of Palestinian “State” at UN, Google Admits Censoring Speech Under Biden, and Disney and ABC Bring Jimmy Kimmel Back To Late Night, Sinclair and ABC Affiliates Say NO
Hollywood In Toto: Reiner v. Reiner – Spinal Tap Director Disses Debate, Variety Hilariously Claims Jimmy Kimmel Isn’t ‘Movement Liberal’, Far-Left One Battle After Another to Open After Deadly ICE Attack, Spinal Tap Sequel Proves Box Office ‘S*** Sandwich’, and Night of the Reaper Gets Horror (Mostly) Right
Legal Insurrection: Federal Judge Overturns Trump Halting Revolution Wind Project Construction, Pregnant Liberal Women Pop Tylenol to Rebel Against Trump’s Autism Announcement, Jimmy Kimmel Insists He Hadn’t Meant to Brand Charlie Kirk’s Alleged Assassin as MAGA, FBI Claims It Found Classified Documents in John Bolton’s Office, and Boston Mayor Michelle Wu to Run Unopposed After Challenger’s Recount Bid Falls Short
Outkick: Russell Wilson Shows Grace And Dignity After Getting Demoted By New York Giants, Eagles’ Lane Johnson Injured By Tush Push As Play Claims One Of Its Own, Blue Jays OF George Springer Caught Saying MLB Wants Yankees To Win The Division, UCLA Football Program Is A Long Simmering Dumpster Fire, and Courteney Cox Turns Back The Clock In Her Silk Robe, Mets Announcer In The Doghouse & Clay Challenges Newsom
Power Line: The sun sets on solar, The Lichenstein solution, Feeding Our Fraud: The DFL connection, and Feeding Our Fraud: The fraud next time
Shark Tank: Wassermann-Schultz Rails Against CDC & NIH Funding Cuts
Shot In The Dark: Fraud In Minnesota – We Ain’t Done Yet, also, Lost
The Political Hat: Will “Print The Poster” Become The New “Bake The Cake”?
This Ain’t Hell: DACOWITS Decommed, also, Sniper shoots at ICE facility, one dead and two injured
Victory Girls: Kamala Harris Book Promotion Is New Cause Of Democrat Angst
Watts Up With That: Germany Sees Bumper 2025 Harvest As Earlier Climate Forecasts Of A “Hellish Summer” Fail, From Climate Radicals to Culture Killers – The Same Poisoned Root, India’s Ethanol Gambit: A Muddled Climate Policy, and UNFCCC Chief Wants Artificial Intelligence AND the Paris Agreement
The Federalist: Sen. Whitehouse Worries Trump Will Threaten Free Speech By Using His Own Playbook, Club Flyer Celebrating Charlie Kirk’s Assassination Found At GU Campus, MSNBC’s Tom Homan ‘Scandal’ Has All The Earmarks Of A Hoax, The Left Accuses The Right Of Hate To Avoid Debate And Silence Opposition, and We Can’t Let Leftist Freaks Hijack History To Smear Charlie Kirk
Mark Steyn: Something Stirs in Post-Christendom, Live Around the Planet – Trump Escalates, and Simple Sabotage

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In The Mailbox: 09.23.25 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | September 24, 2025 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 09.23.25 (Evening Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: European Countries Designate ANTIFA as Terrorist Group, also Brandon Johnson May Be the Worst Mayor in America
Director Blue: The Illustrated Spygate Scandal Part XVI
EBL: How a Fish Market Guts Fish for Maximum Yield, The Fighting 69th, Hurrah for John Paul Jones, President Trump Delivers Remarks to the United Nations General Assembly, and Saint Padre Pio of Pietrelcina
Twitchy: Rep. Dan Goldman Asks X To Name One Member of Antifa, Man Gets Bear-Sprayed Trying To Vandalize Charlie Kirk Memorial, and Katie Pavlich Assures Kamala The UN Is Not Laughing At Tump
Louder With Crowder: Trans activists attempt to disrupt Turning Point’s return campus event, but frat bros are there to save the day, Kamala Harris tries to explain it’s not her fault she thought Pete Buttigieg was too gay to be VP, Jimmy Kimmel to make his return to TV tonight? “Not so fast,” says major ABC affiliate, Pregnant liberals are popping Tylenol just to “own” Donald Trump, because of course they are, and Sour Don Lemon has hissy fit, lashes out that Charlie Kirk’s memorial was too “Christian”
Vox Popoli: Neocons and the Fall of NATO, Lower Your Expectations, OF COURSE IT WAS THE VACCINES, and Kimmel is Back
Cedar Sanderson: A Weekend of Improvisation
The BUgscuffle Gazette: You say you want a revolution?

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: The Big Free Speech Chill, also, Saudi Gets a Nuclear Army
American Greatness: Both Nexstar and Sinclair Plan to Preempt Jimmy Kimmel’s Show When It Returns Tuesday Night, Sen. Hirono Acknowledges Biological Reality While Grilling FBI Director About Training Standards, Weaponized Scoops – New Russiagate Documents Expose Media/Government Collusion, Trump Blasts UN For Failing to Help Out With Peace Negotiations, and Trump Says Smith-Mundt Act To Be Restored, Domestic Propaganda Halted Under ‘Charlie Kirk Act’
American Thinker: Trump’s Immigration Reset – H-1B and Gold Card Orders Put America First, ‘Misinformation’ about Charlie Kirk is Now Free Speech? The Charlie Kirk Assassination Forces Us To Face The Left’s Damage To America, Baby Boomers, The Violent Spawn Of The Greatest Generation, and Generation Z – Charlie Kirk’s Hope for America
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday, also, Animal’s Fiction Promo News
BattleSwarm: Shoe0nHead Horrified At Left’s Celebration Of Charlie Kirk’s Murder, DOJ Investigates Austin For Racism, Even Antifa Realizes It Screwed Up, and Democrats Successfully Resupply Dien Bien Phu For Another Month
Behind The Black: Blobby Martian crater filled with ice, Google admits to bowing to Biden censorship, and vows to end all bans, NASA’s new class of astronauts illustrates its increasing shift to capitalism, Australian satellite startup to fly an instrument on private mission to Apophis, and The real pushback against Disney, ABC, and Kimmel continues
Cafe Hayek: Constant Repetition Doesn’t Turn Fallacies In Realities, An Elite Thought, and  Yet Another Open Letter to Oren Cass
CDR Salamander: Fronts, Flanks, & NATO’s Silly Name Games
Chicago Boyz: Worth Pondering, A Questionable Report from the National Institute of Justice, The Power of Metaphor and Analogy…and the Dangers, and The Amazing Teflon Man
Da Tech Guy: Democrats Say Charlie Kirk is a Racist, Fascist, Homophobe Bigot (but Let’s NOT Go to the Tapes to Prove It)
Dana Loesch: RFK Jr.’s Autism Scam, 
Don Surber: Food stamp cheating states
First Street Journal: Youts Sue Federal Government Over Hotcoldwetdry, LOL: Newsom Signs Legislation Blocking ICE From Wearing Masks, Surprise: Hamas Declares Victory After UK, Canada, Australia Recognize Palestinian State, and NY Times Talks To Six World Leaders On ‘Climate Change’
Gates Of Vienna: Halal Meats Come to Farmville, Principalities and Powers, Dangerous Turks in Viterbo, Take It And Be Damned, and On This Day in History
The Geller Report: Palestinian Authority Demands 2 TRILLION in Reparations After Starmer Recognizes “Palestine” State, Muslims and Leftists Terrorize, Riot and Destroy Cities For Refusal to Recognize “Palestinian” Terror State, UN Security Council, Under Pressure From Islamic States, Schedules Anti-Israel Conference During Rosh Hashanah, Should Israel Now Annex Part or All of Judea and Samaria?, and Trump Calls Charlie Kirk One of ‘America’s Greatest Patriots,’ ‘Brightest Lights of Our Time’ in Impassioned Speech at Kirk Memorial
Hollywood In Toto: W. Kamau Bell Calls Joe Rogan ‘Bad for Comedy,’ Possibly Racist, Megyn Kelly Roasts Kimmel with His Own Words, The Senior Schools Viewers in Power of Second Acts, An Open Letter to Hollywood’s (New) Free Speech Warriors, and Is Pedro Pascal the Ultimate Hollywood Hypocrite?
Legal Insurrection: The Left Calls Kirk Memorial a ‘Festival of Hate,’ and Attendees ‘Fascists’, Lawsuit Against Cal State U Alleges Coach Fired in Retaliation for Speaking Out in Support of Single Sex Sports, Secret Service Foils Telecom Attack Near U.N. Meeting, Trump Attempted Assassin Ryan Routh Found Guilty, Courtroom Erupts in Chaos, and Kamala Harris Compares Trump to a Communist Dictator, Then Endorses Zohran Mamdani
Matt Taibbi: Activism, Uncensored – Blocking ICE, As Jimmy Kimmel Becomes A Speech Icon Alex Berenson Fights On Alone, 
Outkick: Mike Gundy Fired By Oklahoma State After 21 Seasons, Search For Replacement Begins, Oklahoma QB John Mateer Is Out For Unknown Period Of Time For Hand Surgery, MLB Officially Announces ABS Pitch Challenge System Coming For 2026 Season, Guardians’ David Fry Hit In Face By Fastball, Exits Game Vs. Tigers, and Roger Clemens Talks Charlie Kirk, Golfing With President Trump On Will Cain Show
Power Line: Cut Tucker loose, The Supreme Court Steps Up, YouTube Declares for Free Speech, Kudos to Giorgia Meloni, and Politically correct horror
Shark Tank: Jimmy Patronis Slams Alphabet’s Censorship of Conservatives
Shot In The Dark: Grabbing Straws, also, A List
The Political Hat: Hate Speech & The Right, also, On The Surrender Of Freedom
This Ain’t Hell: President Trump Asks UN “What is the purpose of the United Nations?“, Taliban Reject Bagram Bid, Be a hero, get…expelled, A Little Not-So-Light Music, and Vet gun cases
Transterrestrial Musings: The Murder Of Charlie Kirk
Victory Girls: Jasmine Crockett Is Disappointed That White Caucasians Didn’t Vote HER Way, also, Kamala Offers Up Word Salad Excuses For 107 Days Of Failure
Watts Up With That: Trump tells UN ‘Climate change is the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world’, Corals Won’t Disappear, Contrary to What the New York Times Claims, Burning Battery Ejectors – The Latest Chinese EV Safety Innovation, Governor Healey’s Energy Crisis Is Outrage Theater for the Freeze-and-Pay Crowd, and Judicial Limits on Glyphosate and Climate ‘Jackpot Justice’ Litigation
The Federalist: Charlie Kirk’s Death Is Filling Churches Across The Country, 66 ABC Affiliates Don’t Air Jimmy Kimmel After Nexstar Holds Firm, Charlie Kirk’s Memorial Marks Beginning Of The End For Third Wayism, Lukewarm Christianity, SCOTUS Tees Up Potential Takedown Of Progressives’ ‘Independent Agencies’ Theory, and Everything Democrats Are Saying About Charlie Kirk, They Think About You
Mark Steyn: Golden Boy – Robert Redford in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, On the Town – Life’s Really Mirth-Giving, The Coming of Age, Tea for Two, and When the “Nice People” Want to Kill You

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In The Mailbox: 09.23.25 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | September 23, 2025 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 09.23.25 (Afternoon Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Zero Waste Snowy Grouper, Earth, Wind & Fire : September, “Charlie’s Words”, Sinners’ Holiday, and Erika Kirk Forgives
Twitchy: Facing FBI Investigation, Keith Olbermann Backpedals REAL Fast, Megyn Kelly Not About To Let Van Jones Weasel Out Of HIs Hateful Words, and Note Found In ABC Shooter’s Car Reminder Of How Dangerous The Left Is
Louder With Crowder: “What are you doing, Democrats!?”, Credit where it’s due: Andrew Cuomo’s anti-Mamdani Muslim video is savage, Mother of girl killed by illegal immigrant GOES OFF on Jasmine Crockett’s latest comments defending criminals, Scott Jennings gets fed up at Jasmine Crockett’s anti-Charlie Kirk slander, unloads just before Kirk’s memorial, and Rashida Tlaib goes on yet another unhinged rant about how people who disagree with her are fascist
Vox Popoli: The Theranos Fraud, also, The Miracle of the Man of Steel
The Bugscuffle Gazette: Who Am I?
Gab: How To Conquer A Death Cult
Stoic Observations: Transactions v. Analytics
The Abbey of Misrule: Publication Day!

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: Japan’s Ship Classification Gets Too Clever By Half – And I Like It
Dana Loesch: For Charlie, 
Don Surber: Charlie’s job was bigger than president
STUMP: The Week In Meep – The Mortality Thief, St. Matthew The Apostle, & Some Walks In The Park

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In The Mailbox: 09.22.25

Posted on | September 22, 2025 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 09.22.25

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Was hoping to knock out two posts today, but alas, it is not to be.
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

ABC announces Jimmy Kimmel to return to the air Tuesday night.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Director Blue: The Illustrated Spygate Scandal Part XV, 
EBL: Triggerfish on the Grill, MAGA: Charlie Kirk Memorial, Triggerfish Short, A Walk In The Woods, and The Feast of Saint Matthew the Apostle
Twitchy: Variety Has Video Of A “Big” Kimmel Fan Celebration, The Most Poorly-Aged TikTok Video Prediction You’ll Ever See, and John Pavlovitz Rants About The Jesus-Less Church Of White American Exceptionalism
Louder With Crowder: Student Suspended After Wearing MAGA Hat and Getting Into Dispute at School, Ilhan Omar makes sickening comments about Charlie Kirk days after his murder, and her audience’s reaction is worse, and Pritzker takes photo op with “peacekeeper” to claim Chicago is safe – turns out the guy was charged with murder
Vox Popoli: Draining the Western Brains, Palestine Existed Before Israel, Disney Will Bring Kimmel Back, and Next Man Up
Cedar Sanderson: I’m A Quitter
Stoic Observations: Idolatry & Fear also, Blazkowicz – Nazi Killer, 
Upstream Reviews: A Great Disturbance In The Fandom, also, The Borrowed World Series,
Based Book Sale: Timeless Childrens’ Classic Author Attacked
Draw & Talk Comics: This Indie Comic Is Changing The World!

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: AUKUS, Australia, Alliances, & The Pacific – On Midrats,
Elizabeth Nickson: The Stupidification of Women? The Hate On Campus? Look No Further
Glenn Reynolds: Oft Evil Will Shall Evil Mar, 

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Rule 5 Sunday: Emma Loui

Posted on | September 22, 2025 | Comments Off on Rule 5 Sunday: Emma Loui

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Skylining

Seen on X.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

ANIMAL MAGNETISM: Rule Five Indigenous Wisdom Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL: Saturday Night Girls With Guns, A Walk In The Woods, Occasional Cortex Wants To Run For President, The Runarounds, King Charles III and President Trump, The Addams Family, OK Who Had Jimmy Kimmel Getting Kicked Off The Air?, Richard Wagner’s Die Walküre Act 3, Extract, Peg Entwhistle, MAGA Nurse Lexi Kuenzle Defends Charlie Kirk, The Phoenician Scheme, The Last Stop In Yuma County, and The Infernal Machine. 

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: Nataly C Ospina – One Spicy Meataball, Fish Pic Friday – Nikki Tightlines, Tattoo Thursday, Can Oysters Still Thrive in Chesapeake Bay?, The Wednesday Wetness, Was There a Conspiracy to Kill Kirk?, Tuesday Tanlines, The Monday Morning Stimulus, Palm Sunday, and New Study Says Sea Level Not Rising Faster

Thanks to everyone for all the luscious links!

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FMJRA 2.0: Draft Delays

Posted on | September 20, 2025 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: Draft Delays

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The draft in Pete’s league is being pushed back to the 4th (at least) since one of the managers is out of the country. This actually works well for me since what with the run to Las Vegas this week for podiatry I spent absolutely no time reviewing the free agents. Also, tax season is just a few months away and I really need to buckle down and take care of my continuing education.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

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After Charlie Kirk’s Assassination, Democrats Double Down on ‘Fascist’
The Pirate’s Cove
A View From The Beach
EBL
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Plot Twist: Did Lance Twiggs Just Become the World’s Most Famous Transgender?
A View From The Beach
EBL
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FMJRA 2.0: Cramming For The Draft
A View From The Beach
EBL
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Rule 5 Sunday: Karin Hart
Animal Magnetism
A View From The Beach
EBL

In The Mailbox: 09.15.25
EBL
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Demonic Forces, Transgender Terrorism and Other ‘Random Coincidences’
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum

In The Mailbox: 09.18.25 (Morning Edition)
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum

In The Mailbox: 09.18.25 (Evening Edition)
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum

‘The Normal-American Community’ and the Demonic Horde Who Love Death
EBL
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We’re All Shocked — Shocked! — to Learn That the Democrat Who Tried to Murder Brett Kavanaugh Is a Psychotic Tranny
EBL

In The Mailbox: 09.19.25
EBL
357 Magnum

Top linkers for the week ending September 19:

  1.  EBL (11)
  2.  357 Magnum (9)
  3.  A View From The Beach (7)

Thanks to everyone for all the links!

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Collective Grievance, Collective Guilt, Collective Rage: A Case Study

Posted on | September 20, 2025 | Comments Off on Collective Grievance, Collective Guilt, Collective Rage: A Case Study

What’s wrong with the Democratic Party? There are two ways to approach this question. Democrats ask what’s wrong with their party in order to fix it, so that they can win more elections. Republicans ask the question in order to make the argument that nobody should vote for that dysfunctional trainwreck of a party. Because some of my friends and relatives are Democrats, I am always available to encourage them to sulk and pout and grumble about their party’s problems whenever Democrats lose. Like, counseling the young “Bernie Bro” fellows: “Democrats are sold out to their corporate donors!” Or advising my Jewish Democrat friends: “Kamala might have won if she’d had Josh Shapiro as her VP, but she had to pander to the Hamas caucus in Michigan.” Just doing my part to stoke grassroots discontent and demoralization. Anyway . . .

This week we started getting excerpts from Kamala Harris’s new book, in which she accepts zero responsibility for getting Donald Trump re-elected, and instead points the finger of blame elsewhere. Such is the background situation that sparked this online colloquy:

VeeCeeMurphy76: “I really don’t need white people tone policing Kamala Harris when their demographic is responsible for why we’re here.”
WendyDFW78: “So we need to treat Kamala Harris differently because she’s a Black woman? Is that the message? It is not white people’s fault that Harris lost.”
VeeCeeMurphy76: “Go cry to your people about it.”

You need seek no further for an answer to the question, “What’s wrong with the Democratic Party?” That’s it, right there.

The fundamental organizing principle of the Democratic Party is, and arguably always has been, to scour the landscape in search of people with grievances against whatever the status quo might be at any given moment, to persuade these people to view themselves as a distinct and coherent class, and then to promise them that the only solution to their collective problem is simple: Vote Democrat!

Among the several predictable consequences of this political strategy is that, first of all, people will begin to view election outcomes as a measure of their own well-being — if Democrats win, “we” win, but if Democrats lose, “we” lose. And it doesn’t matter which constituent identity grouping is your membership ticket in the party, this sense that you’re better off simply because Democrats win elections (or suffering because Republicans win) is the same. That’s the psychological identity trap which Democrats construct by the nature of their rhetoric.

Once you see this for what it is, and step back from your personal feelings — to assess the truth claims of Democratic Party rhetoric objectively and rationally — you begin to understand a lot of things that otherwise don’t make sense. Why, for example, does VeeCeeMurphy76 consider herself entitled to insult white people categorically, and to respond so rudely to WendyDFW78? Both of them are Democrats and the underlying question is: “Why did Democrats lose the 2024 election?”

If you wish to understand why this exchange between two Democrats is so hostile, I recommend you read Eric Hoffer’s 1951 classic The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements. Hoffer observes that collectivist and/or totalitarian movements tend to attract certain types of people — “Misfits,” “The Inordinately Selfish,” etc. — and once you’ve read his analysis, you will never see politics the same again. Hoffer’s insight confirms the observations of Friedrich Hayek about “Why the Worst Get on Top” (Chapter 10 of The Road to Serfdom).

While I could write thousands of words on that subject, the immediate point is how the blame-game among Democrats over the 2024 election is doomed to failure because of this collectivist groupthink problem. Millions of Democrats are committed to a belief structure in which Kamala Harris cannot be responsible for her own defeat. She is a WOC (woman of color) and therefore any criticism of her is racist and misogynist. To someone like VeeCeeMurphy76, there can be only one answer to why Kamala lost, and that answer is white people. By contrast, WendyDFW78 seems to believe that maybe Democrats would win more elections if they actually tried to get more votes from white people.

Having walked away from the Democratic Party about 30 years ago, I smile in amusement at such quarrels among Democrats. Do I want them to win more elections? No, I do not, and therefore refuse to offer them any helpful advice. As far as I’m concerned, they should continue nominating dingbats like Kamala Harris forever, and should spend the rest of their lives blaming each other for their predictable defeats.



 

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