Below is my column in The Hill on the rising rage of the holiday on the left as we approach the second Trump inauguration. From looking forward to harassment at restaurants to the purchase of Antifa-themed Christmas gifts, some appear to be planning for a hate-fest in the New Year.
Here is the column:
“May Trump supporters and Trump voters and Trump himself never know peace.”
Those words, from Disney’s new Snow White actress Rachel Zegler, came shortly after half of the country, roughly 77 million Americans, voted for Donald Trump.
Only a few weeks ago, Kamala Harris and her supporters were rallying the country to choose “love over hate.” Now, the “joy” is gone. Tis the season of the liberal hate-fest.
As Washington prepares for the inauguration, we are seeing a return to rage.
During the first Trump administration, liberal servers and restaurant owners pledged not to serve Trump officials. Now, the Washingtonian is reporting on the planned resumption of the harassment of those serving in the Trump administration.
Zac Hoffman, manager at the National Democratic Club and “D.C. restaurant veteran,” told the magazine that abusing conservatives was only natural and understandable: “You expect the masses to just ignore RFK eating at Le Diplomate on a Sunday morning after a few mimosas and not to throw a drink in his face?”
One bartender stated that Trump people may “theoretically [have] the power to take away your rights, but I have the power to make you wait 20 minutes to get your entrée.”
Suzannah Van Rooy, a server and manager at Beuchert’s Saloon on Capitol Hill, declared that she would not serve some Trump officials. “It’s not, ‘Oh, we hate Republicans,’” she said. “It’s that this person has moral convictions that are strongly opposed to mine, and I don’t feel comfortable serving them.”
Beuchert’s later fired Van Rooy.
This campaign of hate is all too familiar to conservatives. Many remember when White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders and her family were kicked out of the Red Hen restaurant in Lexington, Virginia. As others were denied service or chased from restaurants, Democratic members like Rep. Maxine Waters, D-CA, supported such harassment.
For those restaurants not willing to follow the Red Hen model, the response was equally unhinged. Mariya Rusciano runs a D.C. pizza restaurant. She posted congratulations to Trump on X after the election to encourage everyone to come together as a nation. The response from Democrats was furious, filled with pledges to boycott the restaurant and force it out of business.
It is not just service and civility that are scarce in Washington. Even while accusing Trump of putting his political and personal interests ahead of the nation, Biden is now reportedly moving to veto a bipartisan bill to relieve pressure on our overwhelmed court system.
The Judges Act, supported by both Democrats and Republicans, would add 66 new judgeships to an over-worked court system. The White House supported the bill right up until Trump won the election. While some Democrats are still trying to get the White House to change its mind, liberal groups are applauding the expected veto “to prevent President Trump from having more vacancies.”
If Biden carries out his threat, it will be not only gratuitous but illogical. The bill deliberately staggers the addition of judges over the next decade so that presidents of both parties will presumably be able to appoint them. Moreover, the Senate is still closely divided, and “blue-slipping” (whereby senators can hold up some nominations) remains in effect.
More importantly, the reason for this bipartisan effort is due to a dire need for our courts. Judges are drowning in dockets with rising caseloads. In 2004, the number of cases in district court pending for more than three years was 18,280. This year, there are 81,617.
If justice delayed is justice denied, our court system is becoming a tar pit of injustice, with litigants left without verdicts or relief for years.
The word of the intended veto stripped away any pretense of the White House putting the public interest before politics. A veto would put rage before reason.
In my recent book, I discussed how addictive rage is. People do not like to admit it, but they like being angry. Sometimes, people can choose madness as a release from reality. It offers a righteous license to slip from the bounds of civility and decency. It allows people to harass Republicans in restaurants or to scream profanities outside of their homes.
It allows a president to say that he might block judgeships for a struggling court system, just because he does not want his successor to make any of the appointments.
It is the reason 41 percent of adults under 30 believe that killing others, like healthcare executives, is justified, according to an Emerson College poll.
We cannot seem to shake this rage addiction even after an election or during a holiday committed to peace and understanding. One liberal site, Crooked Media, is actually selling holiday items featuring the violent extremist group Antifa — one of the most anti-free speech groups in history, which routinely attacks journalists, speakers, and conservative demonstrators.
Created by former Obama staffers Jon Favreau, Jon Lovett, and Tommy Vietor, the Crooked Media site is selling a line of Antifa items for liberals, including Antifa onesies for infants and “Antifa Dad” shirts to seemingly celebrate political violence.
It seems the joy, bipartisanship, and civility have all expired like last year’s eggnog. Even Disney’s new Snow White seems to have taken the cue from the Evil Queen and treated this election as “a blast of wind to fan my hate.”
And we are not even at the inauguration yet.
Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro professor of public interest law at George Washington University and the author of “The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage.”
Zegler…i realize this is a difficult concept for indoctrinated leftists like yourself…but at some point you need to realize that nobody with an IQ >65 could care less what narcissistic, condescending, arrogant leftist tools like you thinks about…..anything. At what point do you realize that you and your ilk are despised by normal Americans , which is why Trump won in a landslide? There is always that option of renouncing your citizenship and getting out of our country….please take advantage of that option.
The democrat party is not a political party they have turned into a violent hateful cult that is dangerous to our Republic. That has the media to shape people’s opinions
What behavior do we expect from the party filled with the kind of people who remove the “W” key from keyboards before leaving the White House to their opposing party? Democrats are the church of petulant children. Throwing tantrums is a tennant of their religion.
“Tenet,” not “Tennant.”
This re enforces my belief why the polls were so wrong for Trump. It was, and seems, still a very dangerous act to speak sympathetically about the man and his movement. Careers, businesses, and social lives can be ruined. So, ha, a new silent majority lurking about, who made their feelings known behind a curtain.
What kind of mind-virus exists within the majority of Democrats that they can proclaim that unity only exists when they are in charge? What is it about respect for others, who may disagree with them on some issues, causes them to become so hateful if they can’t dictate the rules? Who do those people answer to, since I don’t honestly believe they all came to these same conclusions independently of each other?
I’ve spent years working for and with people I didn’t always agree with, but I was continuously employed. Part of this I attribute to realizing that those whom I worked with cared as much about our political disagreements as I did, which was not at all. We just agreed to disagree, and then went home. We didn’t try to proselytize each other over our differences, and this attitude prevented any fist-fights from happening. Why don’t we have that anymore?
It’s easy. If you aren’t a lib, you aren’t human. You are a non person
Hence “Unity”
OT:
President Erdogan has declared that Jerusalem belongs to Turkey and Islam.
No. It belongs to Israel and Judaism.
On the other hand, Constantinople belongs to Greece and Christianity.
They are not liberals. They are leftists. Big difference!
Here is a more balanced presentation of the Judges Act situation. https://rollcall.com/2024/12/12/house-passes-bill-to-add-new-judges-amid-biden-veto-threat/
“Trump envoy pick was fired as bank president for alleged ‘intimate relationship with staffer'”
Now we’re talking, some good old fashion sex abusers in high places. I sure hope the fraudster in chief, the master sexual abuser, the convicted felon, the insurrectionist himself, mister djt makes sex with minors legal. At the least he can do away with all crimes of men groping women.
Come on, a free for all for macho men, finally.
Bummer that Gates, the guy accused of sex with a minor and other sex charges beat JT out for the AG slot. JT, start abusing women like the master, mister djt himself.
ATS
You do not matter anymore
No one beleives anything you the left, the MSM , democrats say.
You have sprayed the world with this garbage – and voters ignored you – because you are liars.
You are the little boy who cried wold.
Regardless, do we need to list democrat presidents that were/are crooks, perverts and rapists ?
John, If you really believe certain commenters don’t matter anymore, then why do you keep replying to their comments with lengthy responses?
Because he is mentally ill.
He has an uncontrollable urge to respond with absurdly long and tedious comments.
It is known as pressure of thought and pressure of speech.
Google it.
Next he’ll be demanding military bona fides from the slavering “Lil Screamin’ Bow Wow.”
““Trump envoy pick was fired as bank president for alleged ‘intimate relationship with staffer’” Now we’re talking, some good old fashion sex abusers in high places.”
An ENVOY??? You Democrat groomers afraid of the big leagues?
After all, you aren’t talking about the man you’ve voted for in every presidential election except the one Trump won, are you? That good old fashioned sex abuser who raped his teenage daughter repeatedly in the shower?
After getting a start experimenting with raping a young Senate aid just out of her teens.
Same old fashioned sex abuser who got off dangling his shrivelled junk in front of his female Secret Service agents.
You young Democrat groomers: guys like that the cops used to call “flashers” and arrest them. They used to jail men who raped their daughters during “inappropriate” showers.
Daddy-daughter… now THAT’S what Bidens and their supporters call an ‘intimate relationship’. “Incest Is Best”… the motto of Biden White House Crime, LLC, senior and junior partners.
Daddy’s balling the daughter, sonny is following daddy’s example by balling his sister in law.
And all it takes to make 40+ years of serial felonies go away is to be able to pick an Attorney General who says you get temporary probation from being indicted as long as you control who the Attorney General and your hand picked Special Counsel are.
What a great environment for other groomers, rapists, and pedophiles to flourish in!
As long as he’s the president, of course. Time to start being careful, you Biden kiddy groomers.
If DJT can make sex with minors legal, the biggest beneficiary will be the liberal icon, Bill Clinton.
So what? JFK would screw anything that stood still long enough for him to unzip his pants. LBJ had multiple mistresses and conducted press interviews while seated on the toilet. Vulgarity in high places is absolutely nothing new. Incidentally, there was no bigger bigot than LBJ who killed civil rights legislation when he was a congressman and senator (and he stole his senate seat!)… Yet he passed the “Great Society” legislation with Civil Rights, Medicare and the “War on Poverty”… Betrayal of his constituents? Yes! But betrayal is baked into the everyone-must-compromise-democracy cake.
Why do the losers in this year’s election deserve ink? Ignoring their lame posturing would be the thing to do — that or mocking it. Taking it seriously as a topic of discussion strikes me as a bit clingy where we’ve been the past 4 years.
We have a new governing majority facing a whole host of gnarly problems — seems like policy details going forward would make for a lot more interesting conversation. How are we going to restore the nuclear family structure as the mainstream path for young adults? How are we going to redesign the internet to deter international cybercrime and cyberwarfare? How are children going to be sheltered from adult porn and infowarfare? How are we going to prevent AI from unleashing the next massive unemployment crisis? How are we going to regulate biohazardous chemicals before our food supply is permanently contaminated? How are we going to modernize and harden our electrical grid from a solar storm or EMP? Not enough topics?….add yours.
🤔 get rid of AI? FUNNY how the Amish knew about this?
Jonathan: The Q is why DJT has suddenly picked a fight with Panama? It turns out it has nothing to do with the fees for US vessels to transit the canal. It has to do with what happened back in 2017-2018 during DJT’s first term.
It started in 2011 when DJT was looking for his first international hotel. The new owners of the tallest hotel/condo complex in Panama City hired DJT to manage their new hotel. It was renamed “Trump International Hotel and Tower”. DJT made millions every year in management fees. Then in 2017 the owners decided they didn’t like DJT’ management style–the low occupancy rates and alleged mismanagement by DJT. When the owners attempted to enter the hotel to serve DJT’s management with eviction papers they were prevented from entering by DJT security people. A shoving match ensued and the police had to be called. Later, the owners tried to enter the building again with a group of Marriott execs who wanted to tour the property. Once again, the owners were prevented from entering by DJT’s security people. Eventually, Panama’s courts upheld the eviction orders and DJT was forced to leave–but only after DJT’s people at the hotel spent a lot of time destroying incriminating documents.
In 2019 the owners of the Panama hotel sued DJT in NY claiming DJT failed to pay Panamanian taxes on the millions of dollars he earned in management fees. They also alleged DJT failed to correctly report the number of people the hotel employed in order to avoid Panama’s social security payments. The plaintiffs in the case say they were required to pay all the amounts owed and were seeking restitution from DJT. That litigation is ongoing. All of this was widely covered by the press at the time.
On top of all this there was also wide coverage of another part of the scandal. It seems many of the condos and hotel rooms in the Panama hotel were used by Russian gangsters and drug cartels as a base of operation for money laundering and other illicit activities. While there is no evidence DJT was directly involved in this illegal activity the non-profit Global Witness reported: “Trump seems to have done little to nothing to prevent this. What is clear is that proceeds from Columbian cartel’s narcotics trafficking were laundered through the Trump Ocean Club and that Donald Trump was one of the beneficiaries”.
So there you have it. DJT is still in a rage because the Panamanian government deprived him of making millions indirectly from the international drug trade. That’s the real driving force behind DJT’s rants against Panama. It’s all personal, petty and vindictive!
Are these your peeps, Dennis? Of course they are
“GA couple who abused 2 adopted boys in ‘house of horrors’ sentenced to 100 years”
On Aug. 20, William Zulock entered a guilty plea for multiple charges, including aggravated sodomy, aggravated child molestation, incest and sexual exploitation of children.
On Oct. 21, Zachary Zulock pled guilty to charges of aggravated sodomy, aggravated child molestation, sodomy, sexual exploitation of children and pandering for a person under 18, but pled not guilty to two counts of incest. A judge later found him guilty of the incest charges following a brief bench trial, according to a release from the DA’s office.
https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/walton-county/ga-couple-who-abused-2-adopted-boys-house-horrors-sentenced-100-years/PDKGQ4KWDRDZFCJJ5AC7EEEKSU/
It’s a couplet (e.g. two trans/homosexual males) who adopted two boys and sodomized… raped them under Democratic law that celebrates queer sexual orientations (e .g. pedophilia, incest, casting couches, neighbors with “benefits”, take a knee to social progress).
Dennis,
outside your left wing nut bubble, no one cares about your latest TDS nonsense.
Trump responded to a question from the audience at a TPUSA event in Florida and you are transforming that into a premeditated abuse of power to seek revenge against Panama for an ongoing civil dispute that is taking lace between US companies in US courts ?
Trump trolled you.
I would note that the Gaetz Ethics report was made public – providing the evidence for why these things do not get made public.
“a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.”
Allegations not substance – all of which was dismissed by Biden’s DOJ which would happily of put Gaetz head on a pike if there was the tiniest chance of a conviction in a DC court.
If you can not meet that low bar against someone that a DC jury would hate without even looking at the evidence, your really reaching.
Even the allegations – Gaetz, a single man, had consensual sex with women. That maybe there were drugs – like Viagra involved, and that maybe one of the women was 17.
This does not even reach the level of finding Coke in the WH, or “one day in the life of Hunter Biden”
I think I am happier with Bondi as an AG than Gaetz, I would rather see Gaetz back in congress or as a US attorney. I see no evidence that he is the right person to Run the DOJ,
though he is likely the right person to run specific investigations.
But this is a dud. Gaetz nomination was in trouble – not because of the ethics report, but because he lead the successful deposition of Speaker McCarthy and made too many republican enemies.
OT, some interesting information about the Israeli Mossad’s dramatic beeper and walkie-talkie operation, which was 10 years in the making. Of note, the Mossad was particularly keen that (1) most of the explosives would only injure the person holding the device, not someone next to him, and (2) most such injuries would not result in death . . . because a wounded terrorist was a more effective psy-op than a dead one. This was a brilliant operation.
https://allisrael.com/dont-mess-with-us-shocking-new-details-of-israels-mossad-operation-to-detonate-hezbollah-pagers-instilling-fear-across-the-middle-east
And like the Hindenburg disaster which brought about an epiphany regarding flight safety in hydrogen filled air ships, the cell phone caper brought about the hazards of keeping one’s cell phone in the front trouser pocket close to the family jewels.
* 🤔 they’re more brilliant than that…
Today cowardly Anonymous Democrat Trolls prefer to write about the allegations about Gaetz (with no mention of the fact Merrick Garland’s DoJ did NOT indict him for any crime).
So be it, then.
Surely they will be equally as eager to discuss and offer their opinions on the morality and standards of Vice President Biden, now just another Oval Office house plant but still Kiddy Fondler In Chief, forcing his teenage daughter Ashley into incest in the shower. (unless they believe she forcibly dragged daddy, The Big Guy, into her shower).
The morality and standards of Vice President Biden writing checks in the VP’s Office to cover paying for his son’s underage Russian whores as well as his drugs.
Surely now that they have pried the ethics investigation into Gaetz loose, they will be slobbering for access to Nancy Pelosi’s hidden list of all the members of the House and Senate who she paid out tens of millions of taxpayer dollars in hush money to the victims of their sexual harassment and assaults?
After all, if ANYONE, Democrat, Republican, or Independent wants to know and discuss the details about Matt Gaetz, they’re even more eager to know the details of the Biden Incest Is Best Family and all the Gaetz-like members of the House and Senate who Pelosi had to pay hush money to their victims.
That is: they want to discuss and know all the details regarding the Bidens and all those dozens of other House and Senate members if they want to actually have some credibility and the appearance of having one standard of morality and standards for all.
Old Airborne Dog
The list of all of the users of the Capitol Hill slush money fund need to be outed. No one is above the smear.
Notice Anonymous = Old Airborne Dog and attacks all postings
Anonymous call sign Comanche says they want to actually have some credibility and the appearance of having one standard of morality and standards for all.
Does your post mean anything ?
OAD signed his post, even if he did not use a gravatar.
Based on years of posts here – OAD has pretty good credibility – and attacks on that credibility REQUIRE some substance to back them up.
I would be happy to address standard of morality with you – What Standard to you propose that takes Gaetz or Trump out that does not take out Biden, Harris, and much of the democratic party ?
I voted against GHWB in 1992 because he went to the UN and knowing lied telling them that the US Vincense was in international waters when it shot down an Iranian Airliner.
If I applies that standard of morality to candidates for public office today – I would not be able to vote for anyone.
You are Free to believe E Jean Carroll – but you can not beleive here and reject Ashley Biden’s diary or Tara Reade’s more credible claims without enormous hypocracy.
* There’s no right and wrong. Do whatever you want. After you die you’ll begin a new life so kiddie fondlers will be born as Muslim.
“After you die you’ll begin a new life so kiddie fondlers will be born as Muslim.”
Stated by Anonymous aka OAD.
But the bible states in many verses we are asleep and don’t go to heaven. Did you find a way to cut in front of line OAD and avoid the judgment seat of Christ?
Daniel 12:2
And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
.Ecclesiastes 9:5
For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing, and they have no more reward, for the memory of them is forgotten.
2 Corinthians 5:10
For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive what is due for what he has done in the body, whether good or evil.
* 2 bad u can’t read…
“the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive what is due for what he has done in the body, whether good or evil.”
These are the words of a man who persecuted Christians before his “conversion”.
It goes against literally EVERYTHING that Jesus Christ taught while on earth.
Funny that Christ NEVER saw fit to mention this judgement.
The Gaetz report is a dud that only TDS sufferers find interesting.
Gaetz real sin was pissing off the House republican leadership and leading the charge to depose McCarthy.
This is not even “one day in the life of Hunter Biden”
I think it’s time for Trump to release the recipients of the congressional slush fund that paid out sexual harassment claims of our congress critters. If we have to hear about Gaetz…let’s hear about critters who have been stealing from us for years.
“[We gave you] a republic, if you can keep it.”
– Ben Franklin
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You couldn’t.
“[We gave you] a republic, if you can keep it.”
– Ben Franklin
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You couldn’t. You managed to defeat the racist Democrats in the Civil War, but you didn’t rid the country of Democrat racists who adopted communism as the new home of the old Democrat confederacy.
The singular American failure is the continuing existence of the Democratic Party even after their progression from simple racism to neo-communist Soviet “Progressivism”.
The USSR spy who defected, Yuri Alexandrovich Bezmenov warned us about fraudulent “constitutionalist” commies like you, George, back when many of us were well into our work careers. That was before you were having your first Democrat wet dreams about your Democrat heroes like George Wallace and his best friend young Senator Joe Biden.
At least sign an organ donor so we can hope you make some marginal contribution to this great country at some point in your otherwise meaningless failure of a life.
Yuri Bezmenov – A Brief Summary Of Communist Ideological Subversion As Used By American Communists Like George
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJnRmvqTdEQ
FULL INTERVIEW with Yuri Bezmenov: The Four Stages of Ideological Communist Subversion
“May Trump supporters and Trump voters and Trump himself never know peace.”
– Latina Rachel Zegler
“IT’S OK TO BE WHITE.”
– Rasmussen Poll
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Only 53% of blacks agree.
47% of blacks disagree.
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“Blacks are a hate group.”
“As you know, I’ve been identifying as Black for a while – years now – because I like – you know, I like to be on the winning team.”
“The best advice I would give to white people is to get the hell away from Black people.”
“Just get the f*** away.”
“Wherever you have to go, just get away because there’s no fixing this.”
“You just have to escape, so that’s what I did.”
– Scott Adams, “Dilbert”
Latina?!? I thought it was breakfast taco?
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-62130595
The vermin one continues to encounter under the rock of this nation’s society and culture never fails to disappoint.
But… the Progressive/Fascist/Nazis running the Democrat party will always have Kwanza!