Below is my column in the Hill on the rising political violence on the left. Many have found an irresistible release from both reason and responsibility in rage. A new study found more people embracing political violence. Joel Finkelstein, the lead author of the report, stated that “what was formerly taboo culturally has become acceptable… We are seeing a clear shift – glorification, increased attempts and changing norms – all converging into what we define as ‘assassination culture.’” Roughly 40 percent reportedly found it somewhat justifiable to burn a Tesla or even to kill Donald Trump.
Here is the column:
“We should replace our piece of crap Constitution.”
Those words from author Elie Mystal, a regular commentator on MSNBC, are hardly surprising from someone who previously called the Constitution “trash” and urged not just the abolition of the U.S. Senate but also of “all voter registration laws.”
But Mystal’s radical rhetoric is becoming mainstream on the left, as shown by his best-selling books and popular media appearances.
There is a counter-constitutional movement building in law schools and across the country. And although Mystal has not advocated violence, some on the left are turning to political violence and criminal acts. It is part of the “righteous rage” that many of them see as absolving them from the basic demands not only of civility but of legality.
They are part of a rising class of American Jacobins — bourgeois revolutionaries increasingly prepared to trash everything, from cars to the Constitution.
The Jacobins were a radical group in France that propelled that country into the worst excesses of the French Revolution. They were largely affluent citizens, including journalists, professors, lawyers, and others who shredded existing laws and destroyed property. It would ultimately lead not only to the blood-soaked “Reign of Terror” but also to the demise of the Jacobins themselves as more radical groups turned against them.
Of course, it is not revolution on the minds of most of these individuals. It is rage.
Rage is the ultimate drug. It offers a release from longstanding social norms — a license to do those things long repressed by individuals who viewed themselves as decent, law-abiding citizens.
Across the country, liberals are destroying Tesla cars, torching dealerships and charging stations, and even allegedly hitting political dissenters with their cars.
Last week, affluent liberal shoppers admitted that they are shoplifting from Whole Foods to strike back at Jeff Bezos for working with the Trump administration and moving the Washington Post back to the political center. They are also enraged at Mark Zuckerberg for restoring free speech protections at Meta.
One “20-something communications professional” in Washington explained “If a billionaire can steal from me, I can scrape a little off the top, too.” These affluent shoplifters portrayed themselves as Robin Hoods.
Of course, that is assuming Robin Hood was stealing organic fruit from the rich and giving it to himself.
On college campuses, affluent students and even professors are engaging in political violence.
Just this week, University of Wisconsin Professor José Felipe Alvergue, head of the English Department, turned over the table of College Republicans supporting a conservative for the Wisconsin Supreme Court. He reportedly declared, “The time for this is over!”
Likewise, a mob this week attacked a conservative display and tent on the campus of the University of California-Davis as campus police passively watched. The Antifa protesters, carrying a large banner with the slogan “ACAB” or “all cops are bastards,” trashed the tent and carried it off.
Antifa is a violent and vehemently anti-free speech group that thrives on U.S. college campuses. In his book “Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook,” Mark Bray explains 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.”
Of course, many of the American Jacobins are themselves bourgeois or even affluent figures. And they are finding a host of enablers telling them that the Constitution itself is a threat and that the legal system has been corrupted by oligarchs, white supremacists, or reactionaries.
This includes leading academics and commentators who are denouncing the Constitution and core American values. Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the UC Berkeley Law School, is the author of “No Democracy Lasts Forever: How the Constitution Threatens the United States.”
In a New York Times op-ed, “The Constitution Is Broken and Should Not Be Reclaimed,” law professors Ryan D. Doerfler of Harvard and Samuel Moyn of Yale called for the nation to “reclaim America from constitutionalism.”
Commentator Jennifer Szalai has scoffed at what she called “Constitution worship.” “Americans have long assumed that the Constitution could save us,” she wrote. “A growing chorus now wonders whether we need to be saved from it.”
As intellectuals knock down our laws and Constitution, radicals are pouring into the breach. Political violence and rage rhetoric are becoming more common. Some liberals embraced groups like Antifa, while others shrugged off property damage and violent threats against political opponents. It is the very type of incitement or rage rhetoric that Democrats once accused Trump of fostering in groups like the Proud Boys.
Members of Congress such as Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) have called for Tesla CEO Elon Musk to be “taken down” and said that Democrats have to be “OK with punching.”
Some take such words as a justification to violently attack a system supposedly advancing the white supremacy or fascism. Fortunately, such violence has been confined so far to a minority of radicalized individuals, but there is an undeniable increase in such violent, threatening speech and in actual violence.
The one thing the American Jacobins will not admit is that they like the rage and the release that it brings them. From shoplifting to arson to attempted assassination, the rejection of our legal system brings them freedom to act outside of morality and to take whatever they want.
Democratic leaders see these “protests” as needed popularism to combat Trump — to make followers “strike ready” and “to stand up and fight back.”
For a politician, a mob can become irresistible if you can steer it against your opponents. The problem is controlling the mob once it has broken free of the bounds of legal and personal accountability.
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.”
It is interesting watching the left ranting against Change.
You would think they had all become Burkean conservatives.
@John
No doubt. So much for ‘the change we bring.’. There is nothing remaining to take seriously about the modern left if one grew out of their junior high school levels of comprehension and ideals, or tolerance for variations in personal comfort. Guess the boomers shouldn’t have just dropped out and invented running away from your problems, physically, emotionally, and mentally, hoping someone else would fix it for you, thus providing a blueprint for subsequent generations that were frightened by what used to be simple demarcations in a life.
Actual spine is in very short supply these days. So are actual balls.
It’s understandable when it’s bad change. When it’s clear the changes are being made by incompetents there is reason to complain.
Leftist rage is not restricted to the USA. We here in Israel are discovering that the same sort of rage movement exists here. Laws are meaningless to these new Jacobins.
Israel has never been exempt from power-seeking leftists.
While color revolution specialist Samantha Power used USAID money to sprinkle on Antifa and Antifa-inspired revolutionaries in foreign nations, her husband and your colleague Cass Sunstein, declared the US Constitution invalid by means of linguistic redefinition. After leaving the “cockpit of government” at OIRA under the Obama administration he retreated to the Ivied halls of Harvard Law School. Where he wrote out a strategy to reinterpret the US Constitution so it means the opposite of what the words on parchment say:
How to Interpret the Constitution
August, 2023
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/cass-r-sunstein/how-to-interpret-the-constitution/
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4405238
How to redefine “freedom” and “democracy.” How Orwellian “Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength, War is Peace” becomes constitutional. Linguistic flexibility, Olympic gymnast-level. His “Interpretation” would have Antifa defined by law as freedom fighters protected under civil rights statutes, their victims declared criminals who deserved to be punished by Antifa auxiliary “policing” “community relations” specialists.
Revolution pincer move, Revolutionary Antifa in the Streets, Revolutionary Attorneys in the Courts. How overthrowing western liberal democracies is done.
How utterly barbaric and disgusting.
Complete commies they are, 1 and all. Maybe we need to revise the meaning of citizen of the United States. 1 that stands by the Consitution and Bill of Rights. Those that have try and subverting it need to be stopped of their citizenship and removed from this country. Sick and tired of this anti American turds. Time to clean this country up.
Magats have to go by your rules.
“KUDOS AND CONGRATULATIONS FROM KARL”
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“The workingmen of Europe…consider…that it fell to…Abraham Lincoln…to lead his country through the…RECONSTRUCTION OF A SOCIAL WORLD.”
– Karl Marx Letter to Abraham Lincoln, 1865
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Every act of Lincoln subsequent to his unconstitutional denial of not prohibited secession was equally unconstitutional and must be retroactively abrogated and extirpated, beginning with the “Reconstruction Amendments” of Karl Marx’s thesis.
If anti constitutionalists Ellie Mystal, Doerfler, Moyn, Szalai, and Cherminsky are so smart, and correct (in their minds), that the U.S. constitution is the problem, how come they have not themselves written a replacement constitution? They haven’t, because they intellectually can not. This especially applies to Cherminsky who, as the Dean of a prominent law school, one would expect to have the skill set to do so. In a room together with Madison, Jefferson, Hamilton and Monroe, these clowns are mental midgets whose ideas should be heeded by no one who values freedom and liberty.
Vincente: excellent.
(and yet, they help us to form and refine our own approaches/opinions)
@Vincente
👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
Because, dear Vincente, scholar of our times, they cannot create. They can only destroy and ape at their great “intellectuals” like Marx. They want anarchy to reign supreme, because they think they will be able to take the reins of crumbled society and give rise to their new glorious communist empire that absolutely hasn’t been tried before.
Russian bot ^^
Mystal has made many suggestions, published, about which parts of the Constitution should be adapted to the present day.
RFK Jr. is developing his own version of MMR vaccine: It prevents Measly Mumpers, panic-Mongerers, and Rage-ers.
Such vaccine is necessary because no one can deny the serious harm that could come from conditions fomented by these afflictions, but the vaccine may control their spread.
(mumper: a beggar or begging impostor)
RFK, Jr. is a heroin-addicted brain worm eaten moron who trades on the fame of his father and uncle. His stupidity and lying about vaccine safety, based on literally nothing, since he has no background in science of medicine, coupled with the gullibility of people dumb enough to believe him and MAGA media spreading his lies, will result in unnecessary deaths.
As far as I have seen, it is every other member of his family, save maybe one nephew, who has been riding the laurels of the family name for several decades. They are the ones who declared him not a Kennedy, when their view of the great JFK has been warped by their politik. Kennedy, were he alive today, would be seen as a heavy Republican to you, even though he was very classic Democrat.
You wouldn’t happen to be one of said lesser Kennedys, would you?
Ad hominem and irrelevant. Quite an accomplishment for Girly-Girl!
@Gigi
I don’t honestly know what Gigi is, except very privileged and bored. Cry us a river when you are eating your perfectly coiffed eggs Benedict prepared by someone else, ‘Gigi’.
Maybe there’s some rocket or some hot sauce on there for you, on top of the English muffins. That defines your entire existence, and to the rest of us, that is sad. Truly sad. You are a prisoner of your privilege, perhaps on the Upper East Side, in every sense of the word.
RFK, Jr. IS:
1. a heroin addict.
2. infested with a brain worm that is visible radiologically–meaning that it has displaced some of his brain tissue.
3. has no background in any scientific or medical discipline that qualifies him to comment upon, much less recommend, medical treatment based on scientific consensus.
4. has spread readily and consistently disproven lies about the safety and efficacy of vaccines, resulting in deaths due to measles in Samoa.
If he weren’t a Kennedy, he’d probably be homeless now. The rest of the Kennedys have disowned him because he has tarnished the Kennedy name and reputation with his stupid lies.
AND, you are insulting ME?
Plus he’s a profiteer whose actions re-traumatize the family. If he truly believed in his own actions he’d not be in it for lawsuit referrals but he’d be gearing his approach to the synthesis of allopathics with traditional and alternative healing models rather than teeing off on vaccines instead of the cheeseburger a standard magat would choke down at lunch. The burger is more dangerous. And an herbal protocol to balance any negative effects from vaccines is quite easy to recommend, even on a highly individualized basis. Plus RFK Jr looks like a boiled catchers mitt.
I haven’t even bought up cutting the head off of a dead whale to perform some half- assed autopsy or collecting a road kill bear cub to take home and use the meat for eating— then changing his mind and dumping the carcass in a park and trying to make it look like a bicyclist killed the cub.
RFK Jr. Is nuts —and not in some amusing quirky way—he uses the Kennedy name to sell his stupid and dangerous propaganda that will get people killed. That we don’t live in an era when children die or get paralyzed by polio is due to vaccines. The same is true for diphtheria, pertussis, and had been for measles, but that’s changing. Another child has died from measles.
Written by someone on the upper east side. ^^
Lin,
Good one!
With my sincerest apologies for interrupting whatever this supposed legal blog discussion has become for a constitution question: Why is it constitutional for a lower court to stop all Executive branch actions, but not constitutional for the Executive branch to ignore all but SCOTUS?
@OLLY
I’d love to know that too. I would love to see real world intervention on that point. SCOTUS seems to be asleep.
James, I would like to know why an appeal by the Executive branch cannot go immediately to SCOTUS, if a nationwide injunction by a lower court can be immediately in effect?
@Olly
Yup.
Because the president isn’t a king.
Why is it constitutional for a convicted criminal who cheated his way into office by lying about bringing down the the cost of groceries, arbitrarily imposing tariffs on the rest of the world, including uninhabited islands, by falsely claiming there is an emergency? The orange hog you worship is not the supreme authority on what is constitutional and isn’t free to do as he pleases. The judicial branch is a check on the executive branch. That is the law.
Rabble Rabble Rabble Rabble Rabble!!!!
While most of your claims are nonsense – the fact is that Trump is President. That he was voted into office based on the promise to do exactly what he is doing.
You say he lied about lowering Grocery prices – but commodity futures are dropping, that means LOWER grocery prices.
While some “experts” predicted Tariffs would cause inflation – more are now recognizing they are DEFLATIONARY – i.e they bring prices DOWN.
Arguably the Stock market is purging the inflation fo the Biden years. Many economists now that left wing nuts are out of power are recogizing that from 2022-2024 the US was in a protracted mild RECESSION.
Bond yields have dropped as capital moves from the stock market to bonds – and interest rates drop and the cost of refinancing $10T in debt drops.
March Job Numbers were very strong – despite anticipated tariffs.
GM is hiring.
The only layoffs I have heard of are in China which is being economically devastated.
And the world has come begging to Trump for REAL free trade.
“You say he lied about lowering Grocery prices – but commodity futures are dropping, that means LOWER grocery prices.
While some “experts” predicted Tariffs would cause inflation – more are now recognizing they are DEFLATIONARY – i.e they bring prices DOWN.”
Tariffs are not going to have an immediate effect. You should know that. Give it two or three months and inflationary pressures will increase.
People will buy less and slow down the economy. Republicans are committing the same mistakes of past tariff policies. Making it worse is the arbitrary nature of the “formula” they used to impose tariffs. Prices will go up and peopel will spend less. A lot less and that will result in layoffs here at home. How are the tax cuts that Trump wants going to help the economy? Investors won’t risk investing in a tanking economy and during uncertainty.
“GM is hiring.”
Yeah…just over 300 positions. Not exaclty anindustry wide postiive.
“ The only layoffs I have heard of are in China which is being economically devastated.“
Right, because you say so. It’s too soon to gage the effects of the tariffs here. The longer it goes on the higher the prospect of layoffs will be.
FYI, there are layoffs in China all the time. You forget that China’s manufacuring capacity has not been seriously impacted yet. It’s way too early to start making claims.
“March Job Numbers were very strong – despite anticipated tariffs.”
The key word here is “were”. That will change for the worse in the next quarter. The job numbers before Trump’s tariffs being imposed. Give it some time and those numbers will change.
John, lowering commodity prices won’t help farmers or producers. That means they will be losing money. Consumers won’t be spending money on higher priced goods still. Farmers won’t be selling their product to the US at a loss. They need to sell abroad and with tariffs they can’t.
No matter how much you try to spin the self inflicted disaster Trump is, it won’t be a good thing.
Johnnie SAY talking out of his ass again with sweeping allegations that won’t even survive cursory research.
John Say, you can tell the Trump administration is aware that they tariffs are going to harm our economy because they are now considering a “tax credit for exporters”. In essense a government subsidy to help mitigate the costs of tariffs. Which is really an admission of how bad idea of tariffs is.
Trump wants to help companies cheat tariffs of of other countries by offering a tax credit. Which is odd because it undermines the argument that other countries are “ripping us off”. This will turn into yet another Trump disaster that will take a few years to recover from.
“Why is it constitutional …?” Because the constitution does not prohibit anything you are ranting about.
If you do not like that – amend the constitution.
The judicial branch is a check on the executive branch. That is the law.
That’s your Civics 101 response. And the Legislative is a check on both. Got it. So what does the law say is the level the Judiciary has the power to impose a nation-wide injunction (check) on the Executive? Municipal? County? State? Federal (not SCOTUS)? Why is it constitutional for lower courts to stop Executive action until a decision is rendered by SCOTUS, but not constitutional to continue Executive action until SCOTUS rules? Let’s see if you can provide a legal opinion sans your usual flourish.
Let Boasberg find Trump in contempt and have him arrested.
The executive power is vested in a President.
Legislation and adjudication that include the exercise of executive power are unconstitutional.
Marshall found legislation unconstitutional in Marbury in 1803.
Let Boasberg find Trump in contempt and have him arrested.
Exactly. Molon Labe comes to mind. 😉 Trump should not flinch in the Left’s game of constitutional chicken. Make them change lanes by forcing them to find a way to fast track this to SCOTUS. I doubt they want that outcome as a decision in favor of the Executive would end their one remaining path they’ve constructed to obstruct legitimate constitutional governance. He certainly isn’t going to be impeached.
Gigenius’s “criminal conviction” resulting from “fake” unconstitutional “lawfare” was so serious it produced a sentence of “unconditional discharge,” which includes neither jail time nor any other restriction.
Poor Dastardly Injustice Juan Merchan scared himself into juridical impotence by his criminal acts.
A lot of us (here and on other blog sites like Kunstler’s) understand that is Trump’s one mistake. He is following their injunctions until told otherwise; Whereas, he should be continuing his business at full send until SCOTUS slaps it down.
Because the president isn’t a king.
Ultimately, if it all breaks down into civil war, I feel like the Left is gonna pay a much tougher price. I am fine with that. They are not tough people, but spoiled soy boys.
@Randy
Shadows cannot exist when something is illuminated from all sides. That is what terrifies them most, the transparency; and whatever dwells in the shadows is naturally going to try to kill the light, no matter what. This is what we re seeing, IMO; rats fleeing the light and finding that there’s really nowhere left to go, so they bite and hiss and attack.
In the end, they are still rats, and eventually in the face of superior reasoning, rats get trapped, and all of their hissing is for naught. The irony is that these rats built the cages that they gnash their teeth against themselves. In their lunacy, they can’t see it. Thankfully, we can, and someday, they’ll be glad we did. Right now is the hard part.
We are not going to have a civil war.
We may have more of the Summer of 2020 violence in the streets – though I do not think so.
More likely we will see more Aubrey Hale’s, more Tesla Bombings. more acts of individual rage and violence from the left.
John Say,
I think there will be increased rage rhetoric, which is what the good professor is calling out. Some of those unhinged leftists like Dennis and Gigi will rant and rave while the rest of us ignore them. They will continue to alienate moderate and traditional Democrats and lose elections.
@John
My thoughts, too. They will push right up to the line in places where it is acceptable, and no more, because they are cowards, and they know our national laws are not on their side. Utter, and total cowards acting out like the wee children they are.
The people that tolerate it deserve what they will tolerate. Thank God we are a Republic of states. I will not be sorry to watch the likes of Portland or Seattle or Minnesota burn again because they are too stupid to course correct, and apparently, the people living there are perfectly fine with a side of, very much, public violence with their Starbucks. Pfft.
What type of fool is an overeducated, naïve, unread clown that would commit arson and destruction of private property? They are nothing but the most astounding clowns I have witness in my life, BUT how were they convinced this was a proper societal course of action.
I think the beginning of the rage happened during the Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s years where welfare bound to new heights. The bureaucracy was born, and the republic’s documents were assaulted when government assumed charge of general welfare.
After FDR every Democrat President increased the bureaucracy to what now exists, entrenched employees thinking they alone have rights to your tax dollars and how they are spent.
The mindset of the Dem’s is perplexing, Lemming indeed following their leaderships desires to destroy this great country, I’m surprised they haven’t used Dr. Spock’s quote on Vietnam “To win in Vietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation.”
The United States today could be defined as a Bureaucratic Republic with a functioning assembly of advisors bowing to the power of the bureaucratic state!
George W,
And that is why all the howling from the bureaucratic state. They were supposed to have job security for doing nothing useful for the rest of us.
Actually, George W, I think the seeds that sprouted into the rage of today were planted by the progressive racist Woodrow Wilson, the originator of the progressive liberal bureaucracy. He posited that the ideals stated in The Declaration of Independence were outdated in his time as was the principle of limited government defined in the U.S. Constitution. He advocated for a government run by expert bureaucrats instead of elected legislators that represented the will of the people that elected them. And this is where those ideas have gotten us 100+ years later. Interestingly, both Wilson and FDR are revered as intellectual pillars of the Democrat Party.
And all these lunatic Leftist Democrats say Trump is a threat to Democracy! That is acute projection!
I could see this coming 20 years ago. I didn’t like what I was seeing on the news at the time and locally in my small piece of the world.
You think and hope that you can push back against the evil but soon you realize you are surrounded and it’s time to make a move.
Fortunately 2008 to 2010 was a period of time when people were desperate to sell their real estate. Often, fortuitous events present opportunity.
I was able to buy an off grid fully functioning cabin and 55 acres of hardwood in a grandfathered area of 10,000 acres and I’m the only resident.
Needless to say, I have very few visitors but the ones I do have are respectful and thankful for the drink of water I offer…it’s a long walk from the bottom!
What is happening now could be the start of the end. I am not overly religious but lately I have been thinking about God and the hereafter a lot.
Time will tell. I may not see it…I think my children will!
Apr 6, 2025 “You won’t believe who’s REALLY running the world” Pyramid of Power exposes the truth | Redacted
Who’s really running the world? Is it the forward facing camera facing people like Klaus Schwab, Bill gates, Donald Trump, Keir Starmer, Justin Trudeau, Mark Carney? Are those the power players that are really running things, or is it a secret cabal of deep secret, deep state group of individuals running the show?
https://youtu.be/vtI4L8LdPXc?si=P0odlRuOe9B_2w44
#. No, it’s AI. The radio is like a chatty Kathy doll. Just pull the cord and she talks. It’s a noise box. Just noise with fake laughter buttons and annoying dialogue is just electrons…
Seems to me, it’s pretty simple.
On the one side, we have the “Jacobin” anti-Trump rebels, who started implementing their plan with retail markets selling off goods at tremendous discounts in the last quarter of 2024, -so that Biden could brag about the good economy he left for Trump.
Then, media sent soft signals of a failing economy. Then, media stoked fear and economic panic with “the price of eggs.” Then began the market games with meme stocks and short-selling, making sure that other markets/countries felt the panic…. until recession stunned the country into near-inertia—-all in fully-orchestrated and self-fulfilling prophesy of the doom to come if Trump were to be re-elected. DEI and equity prevail as guiding principles, but they are being glorified and canonized by the “elite” billionaires who are setting themselves up as the New Leaders.
On the other side, Trump lets them do all the work, so he can pick up the broken pieces and rebuild/restructure as promised. He retains Musk to analyze/identify/EXPOSE fraud and waste problems, cuts thousands of dollars and jobs deemed excessive or redundant, reciprocally imposes tariffs on countries with unequal tariffs/trade ratios, and attempts to rid the country of illegal immigrants or those inimical to American ideals. Predictably, his plan brings on hordes of orchestrated protests (pre-advertised by media) and concurrent criticism. Rage is the new pandemic.
Who will win? Who is the stronger force? More importantly, Which is the better approach?
When fighting fascism, all options are valid. Trump and the MAGAs will lose and there will be a reckoning.
Wrong. The leftist Democrats are the fascists. Just look at what they say and do. They are losing. Now. We are fighting you fascists. And we are winning.
#9. When fighting Communists, all the options are valid also. Obama, Clooney, and the Soros clowns will throw all their money away on the same idiotic logic that bought them the Great Harris charmer giggle, “hic”.
@Franke
How was that Antifa seminar you went to? Sounds like you learned a lot. 😂 Clearly new talking points and fresh $$$ have gone out from Globalist HQ.
79% of us, and growing, are not listening. Go blow. You can stick your *actual* and legitimate oligarchy where the sun don’t shine.
You have no clue what the word means, which is typical of your ilk.
Everything in the state
nothing outside the state
nothing against the state
Benito Musollini the founder of fascism’s definition of fascism.
Those of you on the left are inarguably the fascists,
Libertarians and some on the right are the anti-fascists, and YOU are loosing.
We had a weekend of paid astro-turf “hands off” protests.
This was a fizzle, and self contradictory.
Most people would be happy to see “Hands Off”
Hands off my kids.
Hands off my property.
Hands off my church.
This weekend we saw some of those who voted against Trump telling us all why they voted against Trump – again.
But Trump is doing what he promised to do.
And people KNEW Trump would do what he promised when they voted for him.
There are no surprises here.
The Border is closed.
Illegal immigrants are being deported – starting with the most dangerous.
They are being encouraged to self deport and alot are.
Government Spending is being cut.
Government is being shrunk.
Energy is more abundant and prices are going down.
Promise after Promise in Agenda 47 is being kept.
I hope that it’s clear to most by now that this madness is very much largely coming from one side only in 2025, and it ain’t the right or the center in America. The modern left are unhinged, our dems are absolutely part of an elitist, unelected, globalist regime, and the notion that any of the chicanery from the left is somehow grassroots and not the product of much money changing hands and much coordination is ludicrous. Only a fool would believe otherwise at this point.
Europe does not have our Constitutional protections – this could get real ugly. I am perfectly fine with making America self-sustaining, even if it means a little discomfort in the short term. Dark times, but as we have in the past, America can shine the light. When anything is illuminated from all sides, all shadows literally disappear, and this is why the opposition is so terrified of the fact that so much is happening transparently and right out in the open thus exposing them with no quarter. Hold the line for the midterms. 👍🏼
James,
Great comment. The UK PM just recently said, “The world has changed, globalization is over and we are now in a new era.”
And I agree about the short term discomfort. We will come out of this on the other side in a much stronger position.
@Upstate
That’s the thing: national sovereignty, and *cooperation*, dare I say peaceful coexistence, is actually an *old* era, we have just had an ideologically polluted world since the rise of Soros, the Clintons, Obama, et. al., ad nauseam.
We got into trouble when elitist, colonialist hubris decided that one way of thinking was best for the entire planet, and they would demonstrate that to us through brute force, which is currently at its pinnacle, though it began long ago (and it certainly sounds an awful lot like ideological fascism to me). So enlightened. 🙄 These people would be on street corners with cardboard signs if they weren’t richer than God.
Where did Trump’s $4 trillion loss go after the tariffs were announced?
$4 trillion doesn’t disappear. The black box derivatives, index arbitrage & put option traders got wealthy. I wonder if there was some insider trading?
Anonymous, what do you know. The Dow average surged 7 percent this morning. Nancy Pelosi’s stocks are on the rise. You should be happy as a lark.
TiT,
Hey, I said here on the good professor’s blog several times we would see a recession, just the other day I noted some economists and Warren Buffet said the stock market was over valued and we were ready for a correction. Is that insider trading on my part? I also said I see this as a buying opportunity.
Pssst…Can you keep a secret? This is Warren Buffet’s casino. He owns those black box computers. There is no human intervention trading involved.
The NYSE data center is located in Mahwah, NJ. 400,000 sq. ft. Don’t stop to take pictures. Security detail carries glock 9mm guns. Cameras are all over the perimeter.
There is no $4T loss. The perceived value of stacks changed. But yes $4T in valuation can just disappear.
There can be no “insider trading” in this instace Trump said what he was going to do publicly for the past 2 years.
There is no insider secret. Everyone had advance warning. Anyone was free to short stocks.
There has however been a massive move of capital from Stocks to Bonds resulting in a significant decline in bond yeilds.
Which will radically reduce the interest payments on $10T of debt that must be refinanced in the next year.
Commodoties fures are dropping – which means commodities – including food will cost LESS in the future.
Oil prices are declining – which means most things will cot less in the future and gasoline prices are dropping now.
Jobs numbers came in at record highs.
John Say,
Well said. I would note also those jobs, mostly created in the private sector. Not Biden’s government jobs program.
@John
Easy to do when you fudge the numbers. This was a thing under Obama, too, unemployment going down. They simply, and very blatantly (if you were unlucky enough to be one of them. so much for the ‘party of the people’) stopped counting the people that had been perpetually unemployed, for *years*, directly due to policy and piss poor executive decisions.
If a true thing ever comes out of the left’s mouth again, the country’s collective head will explode. Lies. Lies, and damned lies. And then, somehow, MORE lies. And the even more lies from the left. It’s all they have.
And they in all sincerity do presume we are collectively that stupid. This is the level of hubris we are dealing with, globally. Those seventh grade papier-mache guillotines should tell you all you need to know about the ‘opposition’ and their level of cognizance.
We all need to stop pretending we are still living in the 20th century. Things are very different in 2025.
#9. The NYSE was at a 30 percent average above earning levels, which is the historical setting for a reset. When stock is worth more than the company’s net worth, it’s time to reassess your investment and reinvest in a more stable stock priced in reality like 15 to 20 percent above earnings, not leave it there on auto pilot. I love how all the ninnies who loose money because of their own stupidly desperately blame someone else. That’s not TDS, that’s lack of substance inside the cranium.
#9. The NYSE was at a 30 percent average above earning levels, which is the historical setting for a reset. When stock is worth more than the company’s net worth, it’s time to reassess your investment and reinvest in a more stable stock priced in reality like 15 to 20 percent above earnings, not leave it there on auto pilot. I love how all the ninnies who loose money because of their own stupidly desperately blame someone else. That’s not TDS, that’s lack of substance inside the cranium.
Read Turley’s comments again !!!! What difference does it make ???? It made NO change in your life at all !!!! If your looking for Blame, Go no further then the Biden/Obama Period !!!!
@Anonymous
Where did Anonymous’ post go? Back to the parent company so they could collect a paycheck.
This doesn’t work anymore. At some point that will be even more painfully obvious, but not through violence, as most of us are above that; it’ll be through bankruptcy, marginalization, and irrelevance.
And in 2025, when the real bullets are dollars and soundbites, that’s gonna sting. This is already in progress. 🤷🏻♂️ You can take our 1A and 2A from our cold, dead, hands.
James,
That is going to be the fun part. When things start to really turn around, how are they going to try to spin it? Look at all the times Dennis has been wrong. Will he just prove himself wrong again? Might be a year before we find out.
I appreciate Professor Turley’s attempt to draw the analogy between the modern day demoncr@p and the 18th Century Jacobians. While the former are a particularly bad brand of evildoers, they are hardly Jacobian. The demoncr@ps are elitist to their core and have nothing but contempt for hard working, ordinary people. Nonetheless, they embrace violence and terror much like the Jacobian predecessors.
It’s a start, but if you want more, J.H. Kunstler has been calling them out for it for a while now, with more humorous aplomb, as it were.
How is it that right wing groups never burned a Tesla when they were the vehicle of choice of the leftist climate savers. It should be understood where the true danger to the nation resides. Let’s see. Proud Boy destruction versus Antifa destruction. I am not defending the ideology of The Proud Boys but the left without question embraces the ideology of ANTIFA. The Constitution is not what is outdated. It’s the Democratic Party that is past its expiration date.
@Thinkitthrough
To be fair, I am also weary of people on the right using phrasing such as ‘kissing the ring’. Cockiness not the road we want to be on. Awareness is. Trump uses hyperbole strategically; ‘kissing the ring’ et. al., or pretending that there everyone on the right is perfectly virtuous is more lofo nonsense IMO. Just a pet peeve. Feel free to disagree.
I’d like to see real unity, which is most certainly not the same thing as conformity. I feel at times we are in danger of going over that cliff on the other side, which is comprised of many disparate parts, too. That isn’t going to work.
It may be tiresome but civility requires a basis in moral authority outside of the individual or appropriated or even borrowed. The natural state of the human heart embraces selfishness and anarchy. Rebellion and rage do not need to be taught to toddlers when they discover beyond doting parents, that their servants have authority over them. Enter, the temper tantrum. With the physical, and mental development and time the child becomes adolescent. In this transitory stage the challenges to authority return with full vigor. Depending on the parents ability to tame and instruct their offspring during childhood a reaping of what has been sown comes to fruition. Many complete the transition to adulthood others do not. Society also reaps what had been sown. For every moral civilized law abiding person there are their counterparts. On the extreme the criminals, the self destructive, and mentally and morally dysfunctional. The cure for both, is a surrender to a real and trustworthy authority, Almighty God. Who created them loves them and offers to redeem all who are willing.
Gotta admit that Glenn Beck presented a program of the devils in darkness are America’s enemy within. And, they are the same characters that have been hanging around; pushing buttons and pulling strings.
It is becoming more obvious every day that peaceful co-existence is no longer possible with these people.
Oh look, another dumb a$$ leftist!