A mob of roughly 30 masked protesters at UC Davis attacked a tent for a conservative student group, the UC Davis chapter of Turning Point USA. It proceeded to destroy the tent and displays without any intervention from campus police, who were shown standing nearby. The police followed the rampaging mob and did not attempt to detain anyone. The mob appears to have been led by Antifa members, a violent anti-free speech group.
Dressed in their signature black with masks and umbrellas, the group tore down the tent and assaulted some of the students by shoving and grabbing them. They actually returned to finish the job. The protesters carried a large banner with the words “ACAB,” which stands for all cops are bastards.
The university said in a news release that it is investigating. However, the university insisted, “The event with the guest speaker took place on schedule and was completed without further incident. The university protected the free speech rights of the campus community throughout the event.”
“Without further incident” has that feel of asking “other than that, how was the play, Mrs. Lincoln?”
One question is whether Davis will look into why the campus police stood and watched these protesters assault students and tear down a tent without trying to detain a single person. They merely walked behind the mob as it carried off the bits and pieces of the displays and tents.
The student group was about to host Brandon Tatum, a black conservative and former police officer.
TPUSA stated that the “Our ‘Prove Me Wrong’ tabling event was utterly destroyed:
“They stole the canopy, ripped down banners, smashed foam boards, and even tried to steal the iPad and laptop of a @tpusastudents field rep. TPUSA students were shoved and had objects thrown at them—while police did nothing,” the organization stated. “Only after the damage was done did law enforcement finally form a perimeter. This is the reality of free speech on campus.”
Political violence from the left is on the rise across the nation, fueled by the rage rhetoric of Democratic leaders and commentators.
As I discuss in my new book, “The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage,” Antifa began as a movement in Germany decades ago:
“Antifa originated with European anarchist and Marxist groups from the 1920s, particularly Antifaschistische Aktion, a Communist group from the Weimar Republic before World War II. Its name resulted from the shortening of the German word antifaschistisch. In the United States, the modern movement emerged through the Anti- Racist Action (ARA) groups, which were dominated by anarchists and Marxists. It has an association with the anarchist organization Love and Rage, which was founded by former Trotsky and Marxist followers as well as offshoots like Mexico’s Amor Y Rabia. The oldest U.S. group is likely the Rose City Antifa (RCA) in Portland, Oregon, which would become the center of violent riots during the Trump years. The anarchist roots of the group give it the same organizational profile as such groups in the early twentieth century with uncertain leadership and undefined structures.”
Despite the denial of its existence by figures like Rep. Jerry Nadler (D., N.Y.), I have long written and spoken about the threat of Antifa to free speech on our campuses and in our communities. This includes testimony before Congress on Antifa’s central role in the anti-free speech movement nationally.
As I have previously written, it has long been the “Keyser Söze” of the anti-free speech movement, a loosely aligned group that employs measures to avoid easy detection or association. Yet, FBI Director Chris Wray has repeatedly pushed back on the denials of Antifa’s work or violence. In one hearing, Wray stated “And we have quite a number” — and “Antifa is a real thing. It’s not a fiction.”
We have continued to follow the attacks and arrests of Antifa followers across the country, including attacks on journalists.
Some Democrats have played a dangerous game in supporting or excusing the work of Antifa. Former Democratic National Committee deputy chair Keith Ellison, now the Minnesota attorney general, 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. During a prior hearing, Democratic senators refused to clearly denounce Antifa and falsely suggested that the far right was the primary cause of recent violence. Likewise, Joe Biden has dismissed objections to Antifa as just “an idea.”
It is at its base a movement at war with free speech, defining the right itself as a tool of oppression. That purpose is evident in what is called the “bible” of the Antifa movement: Rutgers Professor Mark Bray’s Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook.
Bray emphasizes the struggle of the movement against free speech: “At the heart of the anti-fascist outlook is a rejection of the classical liberal phrase that says, ‘I disapprove of what you say but I will defend to the death your right to say it.’”
Bray admits that “most Americans in Antifa have been anarchists or antiauthoritarian communists… From that standpoint, ‘free speech’ as such is merely a bourgeois fantasy unworthy of consideration.”
The increasing political violence from the left continues on a daily basis with only cursory coverage from the media. Even a department head was shown this week destroying a table of conservative students.
This is the sense of license that comes from an age of rage. The fact is that this video shows how these groups are enabled by the culture in higher education.
It is reminiscent of the defiance shown by arrested Antifa member Jason Charter, who declared “The Movement is winning” after his own arrest.
It is a movement that has been further enabled by government officials who rationalize their actions or offer little deterrence to their conduct. For example, molotov cocktail throwing lawyers in New York were given relatively light sentences under the Biden Administration.
Then there was Thomas “Tas” Alexander Starks, 31, of Lisbon, N.D., a self-avowed Antifa member took an axe to the office of Sen. John Hoeven’s in Fargo on Dec. 21, 2020. Federal sentencing guidelines suggested 10–16 months in prison but he was only sentenced to probation and fined $2,784 for restitution . . . he then reportedly mocked the FBI for returning his axe. After his light sentence, Starks posted last month that it was all effectively a joke: “Look what the FBI were kind enough to give back to me!”
Scenes like the one on the campus of UC Davis will only encourage further attacks. The police acted as mere pedestrians as a mob engaged in political violence against students.
Double dip:
‘The fact is that this video shows how these groups are enabled by the culture in higher education.’
No, Professor, lawlessness has enabled it, plain and simple. We now have entire states that are, because of mob rule in those places, and mostly completely thoughtless mob rule (‘Vote blue, no matter who!’). This was always the eventual outcome, and this is what mob rule looks like. This was all likely inevitable given the way we have done things over the past couple of decades. And it happened right under your liberal noses because believing the mendacity was easier than saying, ‘You know what? We were wrong, this is wrong no matter who is representing it.’. 🤷🏻♂️
And only the supremely privileged who are insulated from nigh on everything could ever possibly hold that stance or view while the rest of us watch things burn.
Always in states where they know, or perhaps even have arrangements, to not be prosecuted. The modern left are officially the mob and the Reich all rolled into one. This. Is. Madness. Pretty tired of people that claim to be moderates turning a blind eye.
# It looks like a beautiful spring day. These people wanted to do something ugly and mean. They must not have a car or any money to do else.
Campus police “escorted” the mob is a better characterization.
“They must not have a car or any money to do else.”
I would bet you good money that most of them are over-privileged ba$tard$ with plenty of money and cars (or access to other personal transportation) to pursue legitimate recreation if they so chose. Mayhem and destruction is what floats their boats. Sick mofos. There will be a turning point, and it will be ugly.
More of the famous leftist tolerance we keep hearing so much about!
I am going to attempt to engage in wokespeak.
Your speech is violence and our reaction is only self defense.
How did I do s@@tlibs?
I am hoping the “brave masked wonderful warriors of antifa”(tm) will take their message of joy to some small town in middle America where the authorities will not merely stand around and watch and the citizenry is armed.
antonio
We can expect to see more and more of this political violence as the leftists become more and more unhinged. Their blind hatred and rage is all consuming to the point they will act out in even more violent ways. And Democrats will cheer them on, even if it is a city burning.
. . . as the leftists become more and more unhinged.
And as they see that campus police won’t do anything to stop them.
@Upstate
And we can expect to see more and more of the shrugs from the modern left. The insidiousness of it all is quite literally stomach churning.
“And Democrats will cheer them on, even if it is a city burning.”
And on that day, those Democrats become legitimate targets in an effort to put a halt to this nonsense. That might be regrettable, but it is the exact outcome they are courting, and damned near inevitable if events proceed on the present course.
UC Davis campus police = German police during Kristallnacht. They side with the criminals.
Yesterday an anonymous commenter was on here griping about Professor Turley calling out left-wing antics while the left is out of power. So self-unaware. If the Left would just stop its political violence, there would be nothing for him to call out. But they never look critically at their own actions, just kvetch when anyone points out that they are being unreasonable. So lazy and childish.
OldManFromKS,
I think that is the funny part about them. All the good professor is doing is calling out the stupid and crazy of his own party. If they would just stop with the stupid and crazy, get back to the sane and normal, traditional, moderate Democrat party, they would not have this problem. So, all they can do is jump up and down and scream insults, make demands he writes what they want him to write about. It is his blog. He is free to write about whatever he wants. And that upsets them.
How marvelous!
“How marvelous!”
Say it over and over again, Upstate. The Democrat orb is shrinking as they kill more of their own and the rest run away. Their actions and responses seem like a Woody Allen movie.
S. Meyer,
I asked the question previously, what are the Democrats going to run on in 2028? These companies are committing a lot of money to build here in America creating a lot of America jobs. Promise to off-shore them again? Run on they are going to open the border, again? Promise to bring back DEI? Bring back fraud, waste and abuse? Expand the government, again? More war?
Upstate, reasonable, logical people can’t assess where the Democrat Party will go at present because Democrat power is in the hands of hateful and violent people. When those people are pushed aside, what remains will better tell us the people’s moves.
Right now, the worst of the worst ideologues are involved. They will gradually move into the background, but we should not forget that, just like in the 60s, they will exist until another day.
# the next president is Marco Rubio not Vance. The next governor of calif is Xavier Becerra.
The Democrat Party is already overseeing its members’ run away while Party politics extinguishes the rest. Becerra’s advocacy of killing babies will ensure the Party’s lack of future growth. That will make the rest of the country better off.
Upstatefarmer,
“ I asked the question previously, what are the Democrats going to run on in 2028? These companies are committing a lot of money to build here in America creating a lot of America jobs. Promise to off-shore them again?”
They are going to run on the economy. Trump is not doing what he said he would do. He promised to lower prices and make America affordable again. He’s making it more expensive. When people start losing jobs, Medicaid, and not getting their SS checks they are not going to be blaming Biden or the Democrats. Elon Musk already harmed the republicans in their attempt to win the election for Supreme Court justices in Wisconsin. Elon is already seen as a liabiliy by Republicans and they are quietly glad that he’s rumored to be leaving in a few months. But he’s not even touched the defense department yet. But I digress.
Pledges mean nothing. Making promises is easier than actually spending the money here.
Bringing manufacturing back here is not going to lower prices. Workers are not going to work the same wages workers in other countries are getting. OUR companies outsourced work where it’s CHEAPER because it increases their bottom line AND we as consumers WANT cheaper products.
Tariffs are going to make things more expensive and people are going to spend LESS. That leads to lower production and…layoffs. That’s a recession. People are not going to be buying new cars in the same numbers and used car prices will increase because they are not subject to tariffs But that will raise inflation rates. Trump is deporting immigrants which makes argriculture more expensive and diminishes our production which in turn requires more importation and more expensive food. Other countries don’t need to buy our products. China makes a lot of things and they have a massive manufacturing base that can provide other countries with cheap products and compensate for the American market.
Other countries will engage in bilateral trade agreements that will by-pass our markets. For example we get 50% of our oil from Canada. They can simply start selling it to China or Japan. We will have to spend Billions reconfiguring our refining faciities to accept lighther crude or import it from somewhere else like the middle east.
Trump has made the single stupidest thing anyone can do. Engage in a trade war with the world. Democrats just have to sit back and let the cratering economy do the talking for them. Republicans will not be able to defend the disaster that is unfolding and they can’t blame Biden or the Democrats. I wouldn’t be surprised if things got so bad that even AOC or Buttigieg become serious contenders for president. Remember, Republicans have always been the reason recessions happen and Democrats end up cleanng up the mess.
# There’s going to b arrests next week as 2 million non citizens are receiving SS and have voted.
First, we’ll take back control of the house in 2026. Doubt me? See what Donnie has done to peoples’ 401K plans. Gas will be cheap but try buying groceries. Hahaha.
A mistake to allow foreign industry to build on usa land and use American labor. Another ratchet…
Very disappointing. Explain the reason American beef is exported and foreign beef imported, same for fish and mollusks, etc.
American money should NOT leave the domestic economy.
Meanwhile, trump tariff policy cost $2.5 trillion dollars, in 2 days. Is this what they meant by Make American Great Again?
No one ever said recovery would be painless, diaper baby. Check back in a month. If it hasn’t rebounded by May 4th, 2025, I will apologize.
How long did it take to recover from the Smoot-Hawley Act, a decade? Fox News says we should wait six months to question the effectiveness of Trump’s policies, after all, he’s a great businessman with only six bankruptcies and 34 felony convictions.
@enigma
You love to quote things, like all of your cohort do; original thought or actual compassion would make your head explode. You are a ridiculous person.
James, please point out the fallacies of enigmainblackcom. I’m pretty sure it is universally accepted that the tariffs of Smoot-Hawly were a significant factor in the ensuing worldwide depression. I’m also pretty sure DJT has a number of felony convictions and bankruptcies. If you can’t make money running a casino where the house always wins, what makes you think he can run a country? And I see enigmainblackcom didn’t mention the civil case where DJT was found liable for sexual abuse. So yea, we have a sex abusing, felon, bankrupt, guy running the country. Sounds great. Maybe you, James, got your degree at Trump U? Oh sorry, that was another of trumps failures where he had a civil judgement where he had to pay millions out to defrauded students. Had any good trump steaks lately? Oh that’s right not available. Did you fly on a trump airplane? Oops there I go again, failed trump business.
And, if one reads the immigration law of the Founders, you and your ilk could not have been admitted to become citizens in the United States of America and must have been compassionately repatriated. That is why it is so important for the Supreme Court to strike down every act of Lincoln, subsequent to his unconstitutional denial of secession, including the acts of his successors, among them the improperly ratified and wholly unconstitutional “Reconstruction Amendments,” dictated by Karl Marx, just as it struck down Roe v. Wade 50 years after that unconstitutional and utterly corrupt decision was excreted on U.S. territory.
Comments like this make me understand why you remain anonymous. You wouldn’t dare attach your real name to this. If you’re trying to prove what Tim Scott and Nikki Haley can’t admit. You’re succeeding.
Recovery from an uncessary recession? Was the economy worse before? How is a recesion better?
This is,
GM to increase Truck production at Fort Wayne, Indiana, assembly plant. GM said in a statement on Thursday that it will hire temporary workers for the Fort Wayne assembly plant, saying that will be part of “operational adjustments” at the plant “to support current manufacturing and business needs.”
Hyundai Motor Group Commits to U.S. Growth with USD 21 Billion Investment
https://www.hyundainews.com/en-us/releases/4404
The Group to invest a total of USD 21 billion in the U.S. from 2025 to 2028
USD 9 billion to expand U.S. automobile production to 1.2 million units annually
USD 6 billion to enhance parts, logistics and steel business, increasing the localization of auto parts and strengthening supply chains
USD 6 billion to expand future industries and strengthen external partnerships and energy infrastructure, including EV charging
Investment is expected to create more than 100,000 direct and indirect job opportunities by 2028, including 14,000 direct full-time jobs
Johnson & Johnson Increases U.S. Investment to More than $55 Billion Over the Next Four Years
https://www.jnj.com/media-center/press-releases/johnson-johnson-increases-u-s-investment-to-more-than-55-billion-over-the-next-four-years
Investment builds on almost 140-year legacy of improving and saving lives and supporting American jobs
Includes four planned new manufacturing facilities, with ground-breaking today in North Carolina on $2 billion+ facility
Total Company U.S. economic impact estimated to be more than $100 billion per year
“ GM to increase Truck production at Fort Wayne, Indiana, assembly plant. GM said in a statement on Thursday that it will hire temporary workers for the Fort Wayne assembly plant, saying that will be part of “operational adjustments” at the plant “to support current manufacturing and business needs.”
Upstatefarmer, talk is cheap. Who is gonna afford to buy more overpriced trucks? Especially when everything else will be more expensive.
All these pledges and promises will depend on the ability of consumers to afford the products being produced here and that won’t happen for months or even years. All the while dealing with a recession. How stupid are you? Trump is betting on other counries kowtowing to your demands because he thinks they all depend on America for trade. That’s not the case. There will be bilateral trade agreements that will by-pass our markets. China has the manufacturing power to outcompete ours anytime. Why do you think OUR companies even Republican business owners send manufacturing to China? They have the workforce and the skills necessary to make it products cheaper and better. Nearly all of our electronics come from China. Those high end smart phones, and TV’s and computers all come from China. Remember Zenith TV’s? They went out of business because they couldn’t produce TV’s cheap enough using U.S. workers.
American Investors are NOT going to start pumping more money into U.S. factories if they are not going to get the return on investment that they get from Chinese or other cheap labor sourced manufacturing.
Here’s a question that is being thrown around by economy watchers. Why is Russia not on the Tariff list? What do they export to the U.S.?
And this,
Apple will spend more than $500 billion in the U.S. over the next four years
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/02/apple-will-spend-more-than-500-billion-usd-in-the-us-over-the-next-four-years/
Teams and facilities to expand in Michigan, Texas, California, Arizona, Nevada, Iowa, Oregon, North Carolina, and Washington
Plans include a new factory in Texas, doubling the U.S. Advanced Manufacturing Fund, a manufacturing academy, and accelerated investments in AI and silicon engineering
Nvidia to invest billions in US chip production over four years, FT reports
https://www.reuters.com/technology/nvidia-invest-billions-us-chip-production-over-four-years-ft-reports-2025-03-20/
“Nvidia (NVDA.O), opens new tab plans to invest hundreds of billions of dollars in U.S.-made chips and electronics over the next four years, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday, quoting CEO Jensen Huang.”
Here is some more,
Eli Lilly plans to more than double U.S. manufacturing investment since 2020 exceeding $50 billion
https://investor.lilly.com/news-releases/news-release-details/lilly-plans-more-double-us-manufacturing-investment-2020
Corporate promises of expansion vs. laying off workers and shutting down production right now.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/general/tariff-response-stellantis-to-pause-production-and-institute-temporary-layoffs/ar-AA1Cj8i4?ocid=BingNewsSerp
Do you actually understand why they are idling production? Until they re-shore their production from Canada and Mexico back to America, that is a lot of their own problem for not having the foresight like all those other companies.
“Re-shoring” production will take years—months at least. By then, people will not be able to afford a new car. Unemployment claims will rise, and with government services gutted, they will not be able to recover.
Companies can pledge all they want, but that doesn’t guarantee long-term improvement. Remember, Trump couldn’t keep his own casinos in business. He’s using the same logic that led to multiple bankruptcies.
“Years, well, er, months at least.”
At this point, no corporation knows precisely what their response configuration will be…
but George does.
It must be nice to create your own facts to justify any action. Do you have any information supporting your wishful thinking like a statement from the company about plans to re-shore their production? Please not that five American locations are laying off workers.
Entire swaths of American industry were devastated by the lack of tariffs reciprocal to what other nations – especially China, which dumped steel and other products – were imposing on us. Tariffs will indeed help restore greatness by restoring American industry. They are also being used quite effectively as a bargaining tool in matters of international affairs beyond trade, such as other countries agreeing to take back their criminals. But I don’t expect any of that to make any difference to someone who doesn’t really care, whose only goal is to trash President Trump no matter the merits of the case.
“ American industry were devastated by the lack of tariffs reciprocal to what other nations – especially China, which dumped steel and other products – were imposing on us.”
LOL!! Lack of tariffs? You seem to be confusing free market forces with a lack of tariffs. WE buy cheap steel and other products from China because WE prefer cheaper materials. Furthermore we can’t produce steel in enough quantities and lower cost that China. Investors demand lower costs and that means, buying more from where it’s lower like China. They are not imposing anything on us. They are meeting OUR demand.
We cannot compete with China when it comes to manufacturing. Not in the quantities and lower costs that investors, republican investors who want to maximize profits, demand. Consumers want and need cheaper products because American made products are more expensive. Why? because American based manufacturers don’t want to pay American workers the higher salaries they want. So…they go where labor is cheaper, and where they don’t have to pay benefits or taxes.
Trump has secured more than $2.5T in foreign investment in the US in the past 70 days, and that is without counting the announcements that are flooding in now. OPEC’s cut to the price of oil along could have greater long term impact than the stock market.
While debating these tariffs over the past few months. I had completely forgotten that international companies can completely bypass their own governments and evade Tariffs by moving production to the US – which appears to be occurring on a massive scale.
John Say,
As I have stated several times here on the good professor’s blog, I still think we will have a recession. Biden propped up the economy with massive spending and expanding the government. Trump is putting a stop to it and that will cause a recession. Several economists think it was going to happen anyways, they think the stock market is over valued and is due for a correction. Even Warren Buffet thinks so. But many of them think it will be a short lived recession and with all of the adjustments in the markets, the re-shoring of manufacturing, the America economy will come out much stronger on the other side. We are going to have to endure some short term pain for long term gains. I see this as a buying opportunity.
@Upstate
Agreed. Course correction is hard after an entire apparatus spent five years+ dismantling our country every single day. We will recover, and we will not let it happen again. These lunatics can go to h***. We are in possession of the insight and patience their literal madness precludes, and by all accounts, that is now 79% of us.
“I still think we will have a recession. Biden propped up the economy with massive spending and expanding the government. ”
I understand the argument and it is possible that you are right. But while economic principles are relatively simple, economies are NOT – except in hindsight. Many things – trillions of things, occur simultaneously in an economy and it is very difficult to determine which forces are truely the strongest.
Gigi, Repeatedly Parrots the Biden line that the US has the strongest economy in the world – and even in the worst of Biden’s mess that was true. That does not change the fact that Biden did great economic damage.
Trump surprises me some times. I mostly understood the positive and negative impacts of these tariffs.
I mostly expected foreign countries to capitulate fast – and the still may.
I also understood that just the threat of tariffs would accelerate the re-industrialization of the US.
But I entirely missed the fact that Trump can bypass foreign government and negotiate directly with foreign companies.
That massively changes the dynamics. It severely disempowers foreign governments.
Mercedes can call up the commerce department and agree to move 50% of its production of vehicles for US markets to the US in 4 years,
and Commerce can grant Mercedes a waiver on Tariffs starting NOW.
That is incredibly important because it mitigates the impact of Tariff’s on the US NOW, while securing the long term benefits.
I am not looking to dwell on Tariffs even though that is the topic du jour and maybe for a while.
The question is “Are we going to have a recession ?”.
You may be right. It may be the only way to purge Bidenflation from the economy – and though we are down to 2.8% the correct rate of inflation is mild deflation and the FED target is a tad over 1% – we are still not where we need to be, and that additional 1.8% is harmful.
The signals I see in the economy are mixed.
I have multiple small businesses. My software development business has been stagnant for 3 years – it is picking up again slowly.
My Due Dilligence business – which absolutely is a leading edge economic indicator is also picking up for the first time in 3 years.
I did better in DD in the midst of covid than 2022-2024. I am way below where I need to be to rehire people. But I can see getting there, maybe this summer if things continue. Meantime, the bills are getting paid, the doors remain open, expenses have been cut to the bone, but cashflow is still positive – barely, and more important it is rising – slowly.
If you asked me based on my economics knowledge – which like many others is a massive dose of self taught economics arround 2008, as I like myriads of others tried to get a grip on the financial crisis – I would bet that we MUST have a mild recession to clear inflation before we can get a strong recovery. Biden and the Fed should have let the country go into a short recession in 2022 when inflation peaked. But Biden did not want democrats to get wiped out in midterms and in combination with the Fed has been holding off recession for 3 years.
At the same time it IS possible to grow out of inflation – though I do not think it has ever been done before.
I am not sure that is not what is happening now. I hope that is the case – who wants to listen to George and Gigi, and Dennis rant about a recession that is the consequence of Biden’s bad management, and may be unavoidable for 6 months, and then have to deal with them reminding everyone over and over as the country booms post recession.
I am also very worried about the burden of US debt. If the US were any other country in the world – our Debt would require recession, possibly depression and years of cuts to recover. I have no doubt of that. But the fact that we are the strongest economy in the world, and the worlds reserve currency and there is absolutely zero chance of that changing, and because if the US gets a head cold, the rest of the world will get Pneumonia the threshold for recession and forced austerity may be much higher.
I do not have the answer to that. I do not think economists have the answer to that. The US is an an economic situation that has no historical precedent.
My guts are telling me that recession is avoidable – or will be mild. No my guts are telling me that we are very early in a recovery, and probably a very strong one. But that we are dragging a boat anchor behind us so acceleration is slow.
But it is entirely possible I am wrong and recession is inevitable.
None of that alters. the merits of economic approach that Trump is taking.
“Trump is putting a stop to it and that will cause a recession.”
If we are entering a recession – then recession was inevitable. If Tariffs trigger recession, that just brings it early and ends it sooner.
“Several economists think it was going to happen anyways”
There are only a few economists I actually trust. Much Keynesian and Neo-Keynisan is garbage (not all).
“they think the stock market is over valued and is due for a correction.”
The stock market is inflated – just like everything else. You have to adjust stock values for inflation to see the real state of the stack market just as you must with everything else. Biden;s “record” stockmarkets are just another symptom of inflation.
Inflation effects ALL PRICES.
“Even Warren Buffet thinks so”
I do not know what Buffet thinks, but he is massively hording cash, which he does when he expects prices to drop, and he wants to be ready to BUY when they hit bottom. That is how he has made his fortune.
“But many of them think it will be a short lived recession”
I agree – if there is a recession it is likely to be short. But again – the laws of economics are simple. ACtual economies have massive numbers of different things occuring concurently, it is hard with foresight to know what the most important factors are. It is trivial in hindsight. Tell me exactly what the future will be and I can tell you with ease what was the primary cause.
But without knowing the future, I can know all the factors, but not which ones are the critical drivers.
“the re-shoring of manufacturing”
That is almost an independent issue – it has been occuring slowly for a long time for many reasons, Trump is trying to accelerate it.
It is also why Canada and Mexico are DIFFERENT. Trump rails about NAFTA – but overall it was a good deal.
We want production to return to north america. But we do NOT want all of it in the US. We want most low to medium skill jobs in Mexico.
But we also need Mexico to be a stable country – not on the verge of becoming a narco state.
We want most medium skill jobs to go to Canada, and we want higher sill jobs to go to the US.
But that is a generalization – the US needs some low and medium skilled jobs – because we have workers who are not capable of more productive jobs.
regardless, the more low and medium skill jobs that return to the US the more immigrants we will actually need.
The first industrial revolution in the US drew its labor from poor european immigrants.
What is coming need not be different.
Regardless, the US decides its average standard of living by deciding the mix of jobs that return to the US.
We need Canada and Mexico to secure their non-US borders and to accept a trade arrangment that is essentially the same as between US states – i.e. No government requlation of any kind of Trade accross the borders with Canada and Mexico.
If we can not get that – the US must take more lower skilled manufacturing and more immigrants, and a lower average standard of living.
“the America economy will come out much stronger on the other side.”
Absent totally F#$King up debt that is inevitable. Trump is merely accelerating it.
Many of the long term trends that are benefiting the US started before Trump’s first term.
We are shifting from Globalization to regionalization.
As an example – you want to defeat Putin in Ukraine ? That is easy. The US stays almost entirely out of it.
We provide no weapons, intelligence, or monetary support. BUT we extend out nuclear umbrella over Ukraine.
The US tells Russia – we will NOT get involved in the war. Unless Russia resorts to nukes, and if they do we will destroy Russia’s ability to wage nuclear war – whether that is with conventional or nuclear weapons.
Then Europe must decide if they are prepared to fight in Ukraine.
It is their continent, it is their region. Europe would love US to lead the way.
But we should not – this is a european problem.
I would note the same is true from the cape of good hope, through the mideast.
Outside of Israel the US no longer has any interests in the mideast.
We should not be protecting the Suez Canal – Europe should. The Houthis should be taken out – but not by the US.
The Irainians should be taken out – but not by the US. All of Africa is a European problem – they colonized it, they broke it.
We had little to do with it and Africa is NOT in the US interests.
US interests are FIRST in North America. The left may rant about Trump’s remarks regarding Greenland and Panama and Canada.
But the FACT is that North American – and the panama canal are absolutely in the US interests.
The US should be pushing on the Nicaraguan canal – but we have shitty relations with Nicaragua.
The Panama canal is over burdened and antiquated and almost imposible to improve while in heavy use.
There are two critical value of the Panama canal – Trade and the transport of warships and war material.
In a conflict with China the US will take over the Panama canal in a heartbeat. We will not give a $hit about Panamanian sovereignty.
The same would be true with Greenland in a conflict where it was important.
There are other developments – Mexico has a huge port2rail2port project that resolves the trade issue. That will actually reduce asia to east coast transport costs. But it does not solve the warship problem. Only a canal in Nicaragua can do that.
After North america, US interests divide approximately equally between the rest of the western hemisphere and the pacific rim.
There are a few twists. After Brexit when Johnson was PM Trump should have negotiated a absolute free trade deal with the UK.
That still should happen. Despite the rants of the european Left, the UK has far more economically and culturally in common with the US.
“…Trump can bypass foreign government and negotiate directly with foreign companies.
That massively changes the dynamics. It severely disempowers foreign governments. ”
That is true, with one massive exception: China, where companies truly exist and operate only under the “benevolence” of the government and the CCP. That will be the real showdown, imo.
John Say, pledges and promises are not guaranteed. Relying on the “word” of companies investing here is easier than actually investing here. Remember Fox Conn pledging to build a mega factory here during Trump’s first term? They went as far as buiding the facility at a huge expense to the town where it was situated. That factory never produced the jobs they claimed they would. The town got stuck with massive debt and it’s current employment is less than they promised.
History is not kind to Republicans when it comes to recessions. Every republican government has been followed by a recession. Hurting employment, high inflation, and poor economic growth. What happens after such stupid decisions like Trump’s Republicans lose the House and Senate for years while Democrats clean up the mess, again.
Every spokesman for Trump’s tariffs has strong Baghdad Bob vibes and every economist, includig republican are saying how stupid this is.
Nothing Trump has done will lower prices. Which is what Trump promised voters he would do and why he was voted into office. He’s blowing up the economy while at the same time pushing for massive tax cuts for the wealthy. The tariffs are the biggest tax increase on Americans in decades and the trump administration stupidly believes the revenue from the tariffs will help with the tax cuts.
Any investments in the country won’t be realized any time soon. Employment has been at record lows for a long time and that means there are not enough workers for the “extra” manufacturing that is supposed to come back. That means prices will remain high because American workers won’t work for the same pay our companies pay in other nations. Products wil cost more.
Lutnick made the stupid argument that Europe won’t buy our beef, despite it being “beautiful”, and theirs weak. He’s too stupid to understand that Europeans have higher standards for beef products and they don’t want beef pumped full of hormones and fillers. They don’t want GMO enhanceed agricultural products either. Europe can switch to Australian beef or even Canadian beef instead of ours and our ranchers will be left with a severly diminished market. Argentina can provide better quality beef to Europe. They have plenty of options.
Trump’s tariffs are based on the stupid idea that they have been “ripping us off” for years. Trump has no idea what he’s doing. He doesn’t understand trade.
Europe doesn’t buy many automobiles from us because we don’t produce cars that Europeans want. We are all about pick up trucks and large SUV’s. They don’t need that. They sell cars and small SUV’s that everyone can wants. They can simply switch to Chinese cars and EV’s that better fit their preferences.
China is in a position to engage in free trade agreements with other nations and completely bypassing the US. Europe can import more natural gas and Oil from Canada Trump can impose as manny tariffs as he wants but all he will do is make us economically worse. We did same thing with the Hawley-Smoot act and it ended up in disaster and it gave democrats decades in power. Republicans are in for a rude awakening in the coming midterms.
John Say, announcements, promises, and pledges don’t mean squat.
Trump just made the stupidest thing he can do. Even Rand Paul a fellow libertarian is questioning the constitutionality of the tariffs. Trump is using an emergency power to enact them without specifying what this emergency is.
I give it a month or maybe two before Trump changes course…again because things are not working as he intended.
It seems the Trump economic “advisors” used AI to create the tariff policy and it’s proving to be one of the stupidest things a republican has done so far. Remember, recessions are always created by Republicans when they are in power.
Here is some more,
Egg prices fall as consumers see ‘fully stocked shelves’ again
“Egg prices dropped by 9% over the last week, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture — falling to $3 per dozen.”
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/finance-and-economy/3368999/egg-prices-fall-consumers-see-fully-stocked-shelves/
Upstate, I always agree with you, but I haven’t seen any drop in egg prices yet and I was at the store two hours ago.
# why don’t Canadian and Mexican chickens have the flu? Eggs are 1.98 per dozen in Mexico. They’re imported and cost 8.00? 🤔. Must be fuel cost.
Another example of a brave woman standing up to leftist stupid and crazy,
Female Fencer Bravely Takes Knee, Forfeits Against Trans Opponent In Protest
https://dailycaller.com/2025/04/02/fencing-transgender-opponent-forfeit-stephanie-turner/?utm_source=referral&utm_medium=offthepress&utm_campaign=home
“Female Fencer Bravely Takes Knee, Forfeits Against Trans Opponent In Protest”
Martina Navratilova, the best women’s tennis player in history, and a lesbian and a fearless, long-time champion of gay rights herself, has some scathing comments on this. Emphasis CAPS are mine. Also, Navratilova did not use the abbreviation BS – she explicitly spelled it out in her tweet, but evidently this frustratingly inconsistent site has some newfound obscenity filter.
“This is what happens when female athletes protest! Anyone here still thinks this is fair??? I am fuming… and shame on @USAFencing , shame on you for doing this. HOW DARE YOU THROW WOMEN UNDER THE GENDER B__S___ BUS!!!
https://t.co/2ojOJvJiLx
— Martina Navratilova (@Martina) April 2, 2025
Where did you get that totally made-up crap? MSNBC or CNN? GTFO!
Leftist Mob on UC Davis Campus Destroys Conservative Group Display and Tent
Democrat college campuses are the equivalent of the Muslim terror groups’ madrassas: theology based “schools” that take children and turn them into violent, hate filled fascists obsessed with achieving the theology of their masters at the schools who instilled that hate in them.
“Leftist”???? Try being less evasive and be more direct in describing what this is:
Democrat Student Thugs, Empowered And Protected By Elected Democrats, Commit More Criminal Political Violence
After all, Professor Turley, were any MAGA hats seen participating within the violent rioters? You believe ANY of them who voted, voted Republican instead of Democrat, as you do?
Your party that you vote for is the problem, Professor Turley. These colleges/Democrat madrassas are just a tool of your Democrat party, it’s values, and it’s goals and how it intends to achieve them.
Sort your Democrat party out Professor Turley, and these colleges won’t be a problem.
Here is part of Douglas Murray’s op-ed today. Turley’s excellent piece is complemented by this especially since we have some of the same scum on this blog too stupid to understand what is happening. His new book is On Democracies and Death Cults which is closely related to On Democrats and Death Cults.
“Some campaigners for Khalil have spent recent weeks saying he did nothing wrong. They are trying to pretend that this 30-year-old agitator with a green card who was weirdly living in student accommodation, despite not being a student, is some sort of free-speech martyr. They pretend even now that all he did was act as a “negotiator” for the pro-Hamas students.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
Khalil served as the spokesman for a group that called itself Columbia University Apartheid Divest.
This group declares in its own mission statements that it is “fighting for the total eradication of Western civilization.” Good to know. It also claims that the attacks of October 7 were “a moral, military, and political victory.”
Wow.
So people like Khalil and his friends made it very clear which side they were on. They despise any and every action of Israel’s army to defend itself. They describe anything that the IDF does as “genocide,” “ethnic cleansing,” “white supremacy” and more. The IDF’s actions are none of these things.
None of these muppets can explain how the population of Gaza can both grow in size and be subjected to a genocide. Consistency and rationality are as much strangers to them as are decency and morality.
But these protesters have chosen their target well. They believe that Israel is absolutely central to the West. I agree with them. They believe that the Jewish state is vitally important. I agree with them.
Where we disagree is that I want the Jewish state to thrive and succeed — in peace with its neighbors. These groups want it wiped out.
And, as Khalil and his friends have made clear, Israel is only the first country in their sights. But it is by no means the last. These groups hate America more than anything. That is why they use this country, abuse this country, spit on this country, say they want to destroy this country and burn the American flag at any opportunity they get.”
S Meyer, perfect comment! These leftists say that this foreigner is being deprived of his freedom of speech as they forget that he and his group denied Jews access to classes and libraries, took over buildings, smashed windows and trespassed continually.
The leftists, in the Dem party, the media, academia and here won’t say a word about Tesla attacks, real physical attacks, and yet cry over foreigners being tossed for supporting enemies of our country, terrorists.
The left moved the Overton Window so much since 2001. Try to imagine a country where people would be marching for Bin Laden in October 2001!!! It is inconceivable. Not today. The terror group Hamas raped, kidnapped and murdered women and children and these leftists march for them. SICKENING!
HB
lets assume this was purely about Speech – it wasn’t, but lets assume it was.
Khalil is being returned to Syria where I am pretty sure he can rant about killing jews all he wants.
One of the problems the left has with the deportation issue is those being deported are just not people most of us want in the country.
Even on the free speech issue – the question is NOT why are we deporting someone for claiming that Oct 7 was a moral good.
But why did we ever let him in in the first place ?
You do not have to be all in for israel to question why we should bring into the country people who have a political agenda.
I would absolutely defend the right of Nazi’s to march through Skokie, while at the same time demanding that our government refuse Visa’s to Nazi’s, and deport Nazi’s who are not citizen’s.
It is not a violation of the first amendment to say foreigners do NOT get to bring their political issues into the US, They are free or not to do that where they came from
I would prefer that we did NOT deport people SOLELY on the basis of their speech.
But I have ZERO problem with refusing visa’s to people likely to agitate for foreign political causes.
The purpose of US Visa’s is NOT to disrupt our universities.
Your point is well take, but in this case it was more than a speech issue.
The same people that trash conservatives tables on campus claim a foreigner should be allowed to harass Jewish citizens.
I do not understand the left wing fervor at attacking deportations thus far.
It appears to me to be a massive political mistake.
I am all in for “due process” – but no one being deported is facing a criminal trial, outside of MS13 and Tda – they are being sent HOME.
As to “free speech” – again all in. But that is not the same as bring people from foreign countries into the US to trash our country our values, our policies – even if I disagree with some. I think the claim that those being deported are chosen because of speech rather than because they have violated our laws, is weak.
But it is absolutely true that they are being deported for conduct that citizens might spend the night in jail for.
But I am OK with that.
I do think that the time will come when public support for deportations will fade.
But not so long as we are deporting MS13 members and Tda members and pro hamas terrorist protestors who shutdown our universities.
The left has trumpeted Khalil as well as others who may or may not have been Tda or MS13 members.
Sorry, even if ICE makes a few mistakes and deports a few Venezeullans who MIGHT not be Tda members or an El Salvadorarn that MIGHT not be an MS13 gang LEADER, or a Pro Hamas organizer who MIGHT not have advocated for violence
Outside the far left that is not going to sway popular opinion.
Popular opinion will NOT swing because someone here illegally who MIGHT NOT be a criminal is deported along with hundreds of Thugs.
Popular opinion will swing if people see their neighbor or coworker being deported.
We are a long way from that, and at current deportation rates are unlikely to get there in the next 4 years.
There are claims that illegal immigrants are less likely to commit crimes than citizens. That is complex – but it is also not relevant.
We are not for the most part deporting law abinding illegal immigrants. We are deporting mostly violent criminals.
The possibility that Venezeullan illegal immigrants may be less likely to commit crimes in the US does not mean we should not deport the actual criminals.
If the left wants to actually turn public opinion against deportations, fighting over free speech for Pro Hamas Terrorists, and whether or not one of 300 deported MS13 members is an MS13 gang leader or just an illegal immigrant who wore gang colors and hung aout with other MS13 gang leaders is NOT a winning argument.
If you want to swing public opinion – wait for the deportation of the pregnant mexican woman who has been here for 15 years and is runnign a homeless shelter. Or wait until people see their neighbors being deported.
I strongly suspect Homan and Trump are smart enough to keep the number of mistakes as low as possible.
The primary goal of deportations is to encourage those in the country illegally to self deport. And that appears to be working.
@John
This is always my response, as well. These people are being sent back to their countries after violating the terms of their visas in the host countries. This is not being ‘kidnapped’ or even ‘arrested’, it’s being *deported.* They are free to carry on in their countries of origin, or not, depending on their governments and laws. It isn’t our fault that wherever they came from they do not have true free speech or due process. All we know is that they violated the terms of their visas, and visas are by nature, *freaking temporary* and hinge on contractual contingencies.
This should not be rocket science, but we are dealing with a horde of ignorance and deference to personal entitlement, and rage at not seeing that entitlement externally materialized, just because.
The answer is: NO.
S. Meyer,
“Some campaigners for Khalil have spent recent weeks saying he did nothing wrong. They are trying to pretend that this 30-year-old agitator with a green card who was weirdly living in student accommodation, despite not being a student, is some sort of free-speech martyr. They pretend even now that all he did was act as a “negotiator” for the pro-Hamas students.“
So, what did he do wrong?
There’s nothing wrong about living in sutdent accomodations after graduating. This is quite common all around the country. Universities offer accomodations as extra revenue when students graduate if there are not enough enrollments. It’s not “weird”.
He acted as a negotiator for the protesters. He was negotiating a peaceful resolution between the protesters and the school. How is that a deportable offense?
“ So people like Khalil and his friends made it very clear which side they were on. They despise any and every action of Israel’s army to defend itself. They describe anything that the IDF does as “genocide,” “ethnic cleansing,” “white supremacy” and more. The IDF’s actions are none of these things.
None of these muppets can explain how the population of Gaza can both grow in size and be subjected to a genocide.”
Again, is despicing the IDF a crime? Does the law state they cannot express those views? What makes those views deportable. Smearing them with the label “Hamas supporters” is used to justify the suppression of their speech. Khalil was arrested just for being associated with the group. The author of the book you cite never claims Khalil engaged in violence or provided material support for terrorists. He is making a guilt by association argument which is not even a legal basis to deport him. For his green card to be revoked the government must have evidence tha the directly participated in violent acts and/or committed a crime. But all they have is a-by-association argument and that is not evidence.
Khalil was targeted for deportation because he exercised his right to express his opinion and political views criticizng the school and demanding divestiture from Israeli investments. None of that is grounds for deportation or punishment by the government.
“So, what did he do wrong? There’s nothing wrong about living in sutdent accomodations after graduating. This is quite common ”
As usual, George Svelaz deflects with arguments against Khalil’s deportation that do not pertain. His deportation has nothing to do with student housing or speech, another deflection by George. Stupidity is at the heart of George’s answers.
It has to do with who Khalil is associated with. Case closed.
“The author of the book you cite never claims Khalil engaged in violence or provided material support for terrorists.”
That is what you believe, but you are wrong. The government doesn’t have to prove Khalil actively engaged in violence or with terrorists. All they need to do is show how he associates with those people and is not fit to be in this country. He also lied on his visa application.
You are an idiot! Case closed.
S. Meyer: Good for you.
Wouldn’t it be fun if there were a televised public debate for the world to watch? Maybe some real exchanges would take place:
Exchange #1:
Marco Rubio: Khalil is the student head and local chapter founder of CUAD, which claims as its declared objective “the destruction of Western civilization.” He made various political {anti-semitic] demands on administrative authorities and joined others in taking over public areas on school grounds, shutting down classes and preventing others from attending classes. Under INA statute, I must show a “reasonable ground to believe that his PRESENCE or ACTIVITIES would have potentially serious adverse foreign policy consequences for the United States.”
George: “He acted as a negotiator for the protesters. He was negotiating a peaceful resolution between the protesters and the school. How is that a deportable offense?”
Rebuttal: self-evident.
Exchange #2:
World news: Without warning or provocation, on the early sunshiny morning of September 11, 2001, just under 3,000 (2,977) innocent persons going about their business in New York City died following ‘four coordinated Islamist terrorist suicide attacks carried out by al-Qaeda against the United States’ (wiki)
Ilhan Omar: “CAIR [Council for American Islamic Relations] was founded after 9/11 because they recognized that some people did something….”
[some people= the terrorists].
Rebuttal: CAIR was actually founded in 1994. “CAIR Action works to make sure that Muslims are at the forefront of shaping domestic and foreign policy initiatives across a broad range of issues that affect the Muslim community.” https://cairaction.org/
I repeat the two operative phrases:
“…the destruction of Western civilization.”
“to make sure that Muslims are at the forefront of shaping domestic and foreign policy…”
People do get a little loosey-goosey with their rhetoric, don’t they?
Lin, Khalil was asked about George Svelaz’s comments. Quietly Khalil remarked, he is an idiot. 🙂
It appears to be a Smash-N-Grab Troupe working California Campuses.
With Defense Attorneys defending these Assailants, it’s understandable why Police take a remote stance, in the end the University (State) foots the Billable Hours and Damages. LEO can’t win for loosing. Best thing all can hope for is that no one looses their life.
Hogwash! LOEs should do their jobs as defined in their rules. They can be brought to court but they have a defense. If they wander and watch, they should be sued personally. Don’t take the job if you don’t have the spine to do it.
Just saying that LEO’s hands are tied. Had LEO intervened there would have been an actionable ‘incident’ brought by the assailing Party of which would have eventually ended up in Court. Wherein California more than likely the presiding Justice would have ruled in favor of the Plaintiff. Causing considerable cost to the University (State of California). LEO themselves may bring suite pleading the State (Employer) did not do enough to prepare and protect them from the Mob It just like that. That’s the current atmosphere in California.
Litigate, Litigate, Litigate …
LEO has taken a Blind Eye in San Francisco, as the same Walk Up / Smash-N-Grab ‘Shop Lifting’ has closed down and driven out Major Store Chains.
The video of the Davis Campus shows the same Technique used in Smash-N-Grab. Walk Up with a Front, overwhelm and TAKE all that you can.
By Horde, They are not Antifa, they are Mondern Day Visigoths perusing a political/ideological agenda.
“Hogwash! LOEs should do their jobs as defined in their rules.”
Do you want a Kent State incident?
Because should the (TPUSA ) Students, Stood their Ground, that’s what have happened.
God didn’t make Rambo, Colonel Troutman made Rambo at Ft. Bragg, NC. Roll it.
Does it seem utterly obvious that any group of of persons, could have doned the guise of Antifa, and attacked the Conservative Students ? Even the Conservtive students themselves? Turley failes to recognize the potential for self-serving Political Chicanery in the ‘super-heated’ on Campus’s in the US?
StephenKMackSD
Of course, there is always a chance for a Smollet situation, but given the rhetoric of the left in recent decade, is it really far-fetched to assume that it was a bunch of Antifa Wanna-Be’s?
(Same Anon) Also, if there was even a hint of the protestors being Conservative leaning, do you not think the police would have acted instantly against them, instead of just following them around the campus?
Naturally, blame the victim. Just what you people did when 1,200 Israelis were brutally raped, murdered, and burned to death and another 250 were kidnapped.
No.
Does that absurdly stupid claim change whether they should be caught and prosecuted ?
Campus police obediently follow the instructions of their Woke Left Masters who passionately believe that political violence is just fine for them. Just not for anyone else…..
‘ Woke Left Masters’ ! Recall Joe McCarthy and his ‘List of Names’ ! Or ‘Red Channels’ and The Hollywood Ten’ ? In The Political Present the lies of the American Past, are reimgined in the venacular of an utterly fractured hysteria!
StephenKMackSD
Do you recall how many of those named by McCarthy were indeed communists as we’ve later learned? Can you name how many of those whose names were later revealed when FOIA requests ultimately obtained the release of the documents from the Venona intelligence intercepts transcripts?
Well… how about naming a few “Woke Right Masters” – surely there must be some on the right who are also pushing Woke Tranny agenda, Birthing Boys, etc? Can’t just be lefties/progressives/Marxists/communists!!!
Or should you acknowledge that Woke is the latest building block of Democrat Marxist Theology.
Yuri Bezmenov: The Four Stages of Ideological Communist Subversion
Now imagine this was the 1960’s at Ole Miss and the attackers were KKK and the victims were Blacks. Would the feds have let them get away with it?
Send in the National Guard and Federal Marshals and take over the university. Fire the entire administration. Teach California a lesson they won’t forget.
What has California Gov. Gavin Newsom said about it?
-ZIP- … Not on My Watch!
Recall Mario Savio of 1964 ?
StephenKMackSD
(StephenKMackSD) Excellent Point!
Cite:
Mario Savio (1942 – 1996 ~ 53 yrs old)
Free Speech Movement Bios
“He became the leader of the demonstrations against UC Berkeley’s ban of on-campus political activities that became known as the Free Speech Movement.”
https://www.berkeley.edu/free-speech/bios/
(The police followed the rampaging mob and did not attempt to detain anyone. The mob appears to have been led by Antifa members, a violent anti-free speech group.)
It’s CA, what more do we expect.
Police are the villains and conservatives are the problem – got ya. This antifa horde is just another glimpse into the real soul of the progressive ideology, and like an invasion of box elder bugs on your house, there is only one way to remove them; if you don’t, your home will be overwhelmed by these pests until they make your home unlivable. Sitting back and discussing this will not solve the problem and we see the resistance to evicting illegals, just imagine the pushback if we tried to remove these thugs and all their ilk from our society.
Sure, there have always been gangs and rabble rousers in any society, but when these same thugs are given cover by governments to do as they will it is time to undo the governments shielding them – that is the real problem here, not the thugs-of-the-moment.
The campus police did nothing. This is not acceptable! There must be an investigation.
Someone needs to go to prison Ben, I mean Jonathan
Prof. Turley, I loved your website when you were calling out the abuses of Biden and the left. Unfortunately, you seem stuck in a rut — there are much bigger problems going on today, especially those created by the Trump Administration, yet you are still going after campus leftists. Please wake up.
Care to explain?
University campuses are where revolutions are fomented, or do you have a blind spot to the protests during the Vietnam war era? Maybe this is this your attempt at a Jedi mind trick to tell us that this is not the crisis we should be worrying about?
Campuses, like Ohio State, are where protestors were shot and killed. Are you wanting to follow that track?
Should table displays and leaflet distributors keep wasp spray and baseball bats at their table to defend themselves when, as here, the cops just watched?
I’m trying to see what you are after.
There are many things going on at this time. They all need to be kept front and center. Do we just ignore what is happening on campus too? It’s still going on and will keep happening.
Campus leftists ARE the problem. They are nothing but Communists out to turn the US into a Communist country. Trump is just getting started. At this point we have no idea what their effect will be. There’s one thing – he’s not arresting people for speaking out nor is he destroying their displays.
ATS – each of us gets to decide what WE think is a problem – individually.
Many of us do NOT agree “there are much bigger problems going on today, especially those created by the Trump Administration”
Prof. Turley gets to decide what issues he thinks are important to comment on.
Most posts here are off topic – revealing that some activists do not share Prof. Turley’s view of what issues are important.
You are free here or on your own blog, to raise whatever issues you think are of greater importance.
It does not appear that most people care about what you think is more important.
After more than a decade of lying to people.
You Don’t matter anymore.
John Say,
Well said!