Across the country, Democratic leaders are resorting to what I have called “rage rhetoric” as supporters are turning to actual violence, including arson and other crimes directed against Tesla. In Hawaii, Gov. Josh Green (D) even reacted to Novak Djokovic playing tennis with HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. by hoping that he is hit in the head. However, Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, currently one of the top Democratic candidates for New Jersey governor, appears to have gotten an early lead in this race to the bottom. In a video that has now attracted interest in his run for governor, Baraka gives a full-throated endorsement of the violent and racist rhetoric of Nation of Islam leader (and raging anti-Semite) Louis Farrakhan.
In a newly released video from 2004, Baraka is shown applauding and embracing Farrakhan as he calls for violence and denounces White people as “demons.” Those “demons” compose roughly 52% of the state that Baraka wants to lead.
The video from a Newark church shows Baraka introducing Farrakhan as “the leader of every Black person.”
“I don’t think that there’s any man today, present today, that has the kind of moral authority or spiritual strength. Not president, not community leader, not political international activist, nowhere that has the moral authority, the historical and political framework, that the Minister Farrakhan has, that. Who can stand where he stands and truly say that he is the leader of black people anywhere and everywhere.”
The New York Post uncovered the video showing Baraka giving Farrakhan a standing ovation as he denounces non-violence: “We didn’t believe in no non-violence. The cracker hit you on your jaw, you break his neck. That’s the way we think.”
He also gives him a standing ovation in denouncing all white people as the “enemy.”
“Now the enemy comes in. You, the Crips, and the Bloods, they’ll send people in to give you rumors about your brother over there. These demons will even kill a policeman and then blame it on you. You dealing with a devil, man. You’re not dealing with righteous people. This cracker is the real devil. And you better wake up and realize that.”
Once again, this is the mayor of a major city and a leading Democratic candidate for governor of New Jersey.
Baraka later arranged for Farrakhan to give a speech to over 1,000 high school students at Central High School in Newark, where he was principal.
Many on the far left shrug off such connections to racist or violent groups. It is reminiscent of former Democratic National Committee deputy chair Keith Ellison, now the Minnesota attorney general, who once said Antifa would “strike fear in the heart” of Trump. This was after Antifa had been involved in numerous acts of violence, and its website was banned in Germany. Ellison’s son, Minneapolis City Council member Jeremiah Ellison, declared his allegiance to Antifa in the heat of the protests this summer.
With violence on the left increasing around the country, Democratic leaders continue to try to appease the most radical elements in their party. That was evident last week when Rep. Dan Goldman (D., N.Y.) denounced the investigation into the attacks on Tesla dealerships and owners as “political weaponization.”
This is a long history of downplaying or shrugging off such violence, including some who seem to fuel the violence.
Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., told George Floyd protesters in Minnesota to “get more confrontational” if a jury found former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin not guilty. And when Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, was threatened in 2018 because she had not opposed Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court, Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., mocked the concern over her safety with “boo hoo hoo.”
For her part, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi declined to condemn left-wing mobs destroying statues and historic displays in her home city of San Francisco. Pelosi shrugged and said, “People will do what they do.”
In the case of Baraka, he appears to have a long history of associating with such violent and racist speech. In 2017, he organized another speech for Farrakhan titled “Separation or Death,” reportedly calling for a separate black state.
With the release of the videos, Baraka is standing firm in support of his association with Farrakhan, bizarrely defending his record of supporting “peace, equality, and equity.” He is blaming the “political establishment” for “false” claims based on these videos.
In his campaign for governor, Baraka is calling for voters to “reimagine New Jersey” and promising to “deconstruct the state budget and reassemble with equity as our north star; judging every decision as either a step towards equity or a step towards inequity.”
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.”
When real estate developer Donald Trump was looking at ‘re-imagining’ Newark in the 1980’s, he passed on the opportunity for many reasons. This piece about the guy who would be governor of NJ brings back recollections of what was being written in the local newspapers all those decades ago — has anyone bothered to ask Senator Cory Booker is he’s a supporter of this
candidate?
here’s the inconvenient truth about calypso louie – he is a virulent racist and hater- and, most incoveniently, his analysis of america is spot on
You hit my funny bone with this one!
Elon’s moving on, but I pray that DOGE finishes audits of HUD (Dept of House and Urban Development) and the Federal Reserve.
I’m almost done with my revolution, Elon Musk says
The billionaire says his cost-cutting efforts are almost complete and he plans to step down as head of the Department of Government Efficiency in May
https://www.thetimes.com/us/american-politics/article/im-almost-done-with-my-revolution-elon-musk-says-njxl7c703
Elon Musk and DOGE team sit down with Bret Baier in ‘Special Report’ exclusive
Elon Musk and members of his DOGE team discuss efforts to eliminate waste, fraud and abuse from government and address their critics and more.
By: Bret Baier – Fox News’s ~ March 28, 2025
{Link] foxnews.com/video/6370654580112
Video Link:
https://vod.foxnews.com/media/v1/pmp4/static/clear/694940094001/d1853cd6-588e-4c56-a561-7ea4adc4790d/2a26fa00-5d02-47db-b158-39ba8f76bca5/main.mp4
Would someone please list the historical accomplishments of African and other nations that compare to discoveries such as electricity, radium, E=MC2, steam power, the radio, nuclear power, telephone, and television, flight, jet propulsion, penicillin, computers, iPhones, space flight, landing on the moon, etc.
The Egyptians pioneered precision cut rock architecture, which spread into Greek and Roman empires, and became used throughout the world. The pyramids that weren’t ransacked for building materials still stand today. The Arabian sea was one of the first places ocean-going vessels were developed. Everyone in anthropology traces human languages to the continent of African.
But for anything recent, no, it’s hard to cite anything. That said, at one time the world’s most advanced scientific, math and medical knowledge was housed in the Library at Alexandria (which the Romans stupidly torched).
A modest person in the West understands human history, and has no problem acknowledging the various strands of great civilizations that ours is built on top of. That same citizen is serious about passing along a great civilization to posterity, not squandering it and despoiling it into decline.
What you mentioned is not only merely rudimentary; it is feeble.
Yeah, they did medical work like eating marijuana plants or some such and brain surgery with a hammer, right?
Did they discover DNA—you’re gonna claim some variant, aren’t you?
Ah, they excelled at the “Stone Age!” Precision rock cutting, and how long did that take?
The pyramids that were not ransacked were built by off-planet aliens.
Why is it that the newer pyramids are in worse shape than the older, better-built renditions?
The new ones are cheap knock-offs; after seeing them for the first time, the people of New Guinea built cheap, small-scale mock-ups of American WWII bombers as religious shrines.
Who won the race of history, who won every last one of the technological battles, Einstein?
Your obstinacy is not a virtue but a dead giveaway.
Nope. The Israelites invented the technology for the pyramids in Egypt and Egypt also used the Israelites as slaves for those projects. Egypt should pay reparations to Israel and should taken in all the Hamasniks in the Middle East and the USA.
Reparations to the slaves who toiled for 400 years for the Eqyptians —- Israel has been historically screwed and continues to be — even Putin understands that as old as Mother Russia is, it’s not even close to the Hebrews longevity
The loss of the books at Alexandria is a fraught topic. It seems to be inaccurate to say that Ceasar or the early Christians of the Arabs burned or destroyed the library. While these conquerors seem to have damaged “the library” (there was more than one facility), mere neglect and the natural decay of ancient scrolls also played a part. See, e.g., https://www.worldhistory.org/article/207/what-happened-to-the-great-library-at-alexandria/
“. . . the Library at Alexandria . . .”
Which was conceived and built by *Greeks*.
Touching: Libs Spell Out ‘Coexist’ With Burning Teslas
SEATTLE, WA — In a beautiful, heartwarming call for universal peace, liberals took several stolen, burning Teslas and arranged them to spell out “Coexist.”
The fires burned for hours, sending massive plumes of smoke into the air, a signal to the world of the progressive desire for people of all backgrounds to live in harmony with each other. “These torched cars show how serious we are about tolerance,” explained local liberal Geoffrey Wendt. “Every firebomb we throw is a call for us to love and accept our neighbors, regardless of their beliefs or background. Can you smell that burning gasoline? That’s the sweet smell of peaceful coexistence with all mankind.”
Conservatives across the country instantly saw the error of their ways after witnessing the beautiful message spelled out in flames. “Wow. Maybe we really can live together in unity,” said local man Bill Patton, as he watched his Tesla being burned. “It seemed like we were so divided as a nation. But, as I was dragged from car and beaten with a pipe, I finally began to realize that peace is possible.” At publishing time, liberals had sent another poignant message by spelling out “Justice” with the bodies of assassinated CEOs.
Civilization is a thin veneer, and underneath lies the animal nature. On the modern left, that veneer has been completely dissolved.
Yesterday VDH had a decent column about this phenomenon:
https://nypost.com/2025/03/28/opinion/democrats-response-to-losing-profanity-chic-and-terrorist-porn/
“Furious at their own increasing impotence, these contemporary Democrat Jacobins are dabbling in their own version of a reign of smut terror.
They are probably too impotent to derail the country, but they are certainly destroying themselves.”
— VDH
He’s got that right.
Wow. Isn’t he special?
There is absolutely no doubt that those who have nothing (Socialist Democrats of America as well as those embracing Farrakhan’s Follies For Racism) have absolutely nothing to lose . . . But, the people of our constitutional republic do.
The constitutional American republic was lost long ago by Abraham Lincoln.
That is true and why he has a memorial and a head on Mt Rushmore is beyond me. H*ll, Calvin Coolidge had a much better grasp of our constitution and he is never given any credit for being one of our better Presidents.
Rubbish. Lincoln preserved the Republic established awkwardly in 1788. He cleaned up the mess that was swept under the rug 80 years prior — the contradiction between “all men are equal in the eyes of their creator”, and slaves owned as property. If he hadn’t done this, the South would have seceded and become a failed nation — best by a black revolution overturning the racist whites. Haiti-South Africa would be a large neighboring country to our immediate south.
You can’t have it the way you imagine, if that’s one where people nowadays legally own one another. You would have to arrest progress throughout the world (starting in 1820 in England) for America to be a respected large nation with chattal slavery.
If that’s not what you’re thinking, tell me why you think our Republic was ruined by Abe Lincoln.
Rubbish you say! That is precisely what Lincoln said and upheld regarding the Constitution and Statutory law. Secession is fully constitutional, and Lincoln’s denial was not. Slavery was settled law, which Lincoln refused to enforce. Slaves were, unfortunately and completely out of context, private property, which Lincoln illicitly confiscated. Everything Lincoln did subsequent to denying the right to and freedom of secession is similarly illicit and unconstitutional, with emphasis on the unconstitutional “Reconstruction Amendments” attributable to Karl Marx, and not one but three amendments were improperly ratified in an environment of brutal post-war military occupation. Lincoln threw the baby out with the bathwater. He threw the Constitution out with reprehensible slavery. On January 1, 1863, American immigration law denied admission to become citizens to freed slaves, and they must have been compassionately repatriated, something the hypocrite Lincoln advocated and endeavored mightily for prior to his presidency. Southern states must have seceded, failed, and reunited, as was clearly their fate. It’s biblical; the Israelite slaves were out of Egypt before the ink was dry on their release papers, but then they had the capacity and acumen sufficient to the task, and every abductee in history had but one desire upon obtaining their freedom: Going home and returning to their families.
I could go on but I’m all out of time, my friend.
On January 1, 1863, American immigration law denied admission to become citizens to freed slaves, and they must have been compassionately repatriated
How do you “repatriate” American slaves born in America, whose slave parents were also borne in America, to some foreign country that not even their parents saw?
Anyone believe these Confederate Democrat slave owners were obsessed with whatever foreign nations their slaves came from, that they kept a registry? You know, so that they could willingly “repatriate” their slaves as the law supposedly required?
George’s sophomoric racist constitutional scholarship that believes in “repatriating” American slaves whose parents and grandparents were also borne here, is a great example of why George’s Kluxxer forefathers were doomed to failure, even if they had won their war of insurrection.
If you were were not such a clown spouting off like a scholar, you would know that birthright citizenship did not happen until 1898.
The 1898 Supreme Court opinion interpreted the Fourteenth Amendment, adopted in 1860s.
Taking a line from ‘Old Ships’ by James Flecker, using it out of context, but apropos to today’s subject:
“And with great lies about his wooden house
Set the crew laughing, and forgot his course.”
The secreted mind set of the progressive left is coming to light, they are racists, judgmental authoritarian’s and financially nearsighted. They preach from their high and mighty about superiority of thought and ideals of draconian measures to contain others of their rights. They conflate constitutional meaning and use violence to push their agenda and cause fear in the populous, and finally there are poor losers.
This reads like delusional drivel from a fervid fan of fentanyl! Seriously
“Wooden horse”.
“WE THE PEOPLE of the United States…secure the Blessings of Liberty TO OURSELVES and OUR POSTERITY….”
– Preamble
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You didn’t.
“[We gave you] a [restricted-vote] republic, if you can keep it.”
– Ben Franklin, 1787
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You couldn’t.
AMERICAN IMMIGRATION LAW – WITHIN THE YEAR OF THE ADOPTION OF THE CONSTITUTION AND BILL OF RIGHTS
(Four iterations for maximal clarity, persisting as statute for 71 years until being summarily extirpated by a dictator under martial law).
THE NATION – THE LAW – THE POPULATION
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Naturalization Acts of 1790, 1795, 1798, and 1802
United States Congress, “An act to establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization,” March 26, 1790
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That any Alien being a free white person, who shall have resided within the limits and under the jurisdiction of the United States for the term of two years, may be admitted to become a citizen thereof…
Congress in 1870 passed a revised Immigration & Naturalization Act where being Black and non-European became eligible for immigrating to the US.
It’s fine to know the history of Immigration Law passed by Congresses. Better to know all of it.
Some other key years:
1924: American Indian Citizenship Act….NAtive Americans could elect to become US Citizens, while holding onto tribal citizenship.
1942: Chinese were finally made eligible for Naturalization.
1965: Country-specific Immigration preferences were repealed.
After WW II, the Democratic Party decided to make racial appeals to black populations in large cities in northern and midwestern states as a way of gaining and keeping power in those states. As a strategy, it has worked well. But it has led to people like Keith Ellison, who is impossible to rid ourselves of.
It has also led to the collapse of many of those cities. See, e.g., Newark, New Jersey, Chicago, Detroit, and Philadelphia.
The American Founders quite simply did not admit them to become citizens.
American Immigration Law: The Naturalization Act of 1790.
America consisted of the Nation, the Law, and the Population of the Founders.
Who stole America?
It’s part of the plan. https://fb.watch/yDPf396UFN/?mibextid=wwXIfr&fs=e
Looks like I was spot on. Turley is steering clear of any real criticism of Trump and his admin. All these wild stories and rage-fueled narratives are just feeding the MAGA crowd. He’s going on about a video that’s over 20 years old and using it as a way to dive into some outdated tales about a terrible speech that’s just, well… bad speech meant to stir up anger among the MAGA folks. Turley is doing exactly what he’s complaining about, which is a classic case of cognitive dissonance.
George might want to consider taking a Red Pill….
Yesterday I very strongly attacked George and his opinions and he responded by saying I was smearing him. Yet somehow George smears Professor Turley every day and he’s all right with that. My so called smear directed at George brought up the fact that he declared that banning a book that depicted ten year old boys having sex with each other being available in a middle school library was simply a book burning incident perpetuated by the Florida Governor. This was exactly his position at the time. George Wallace is still considered a racist to this day and time has not erases this fact anymore than saying that a video that is twenty years old is of no import today concerning the support of racism espoused by the “Reverend” Farakan by a New Jersey Mayor with political ambitions. George is just not capable of telling the truth or thinking it through.
George and Gigenius are psychotic communists (liberals, progressives, socialists, democrats, RINOs, AINOs) who seek nothing but largesse from the U.S. Treasury—”free stuff” and “free status”—and are incapable of grasping that America, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights have been staunchly conservative in establishing the dominion of the concept of freedom since 1789 and who are incapable of civility due to the fact that they are egregiously out of alignment with the American thesis of Freedom and Self-Reliance, the Founders, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, Americans, and the United States of America.
TiT,
The slow and dumb one is the perfect example of a woke leftist, sick, twisted, full of hate and rage. I almost feel sorry for him. Almost.
Thinkitthrough, apparently you don’t think things through.
You accused me of declaring support for child pornography. That’s not true. You can’t even get your facts straight. I criticized Turley for being a hypocrite. You tried to smear my character I criticized Turley’s opinion on a subject.
Think through the difference.
Thinkitthrough, apparently you don’t think things through.
Everybody’s thought it through George. We have concluded you are a liar. We have concluded that without lies and attempting to apply double standards, you would have nothing. We have concluded that you lack even the slightest shred of credbility.
We have concluded that you are a Cheap Fake American.
“cognitive dissonance is a term georgie learned on this blog, and of course, he uses it wrongly.