It is arguably the most disheartening aspect of the “Age of Rage.” Almost immediately after the shooting of Minnesota politicians and their spouses, the press, pundits, and politicians leaped to capitalize on the tragedy by blaming the other side for political violence. There is a sick, almost hopeful, quality to the commentary as political pundits hope that they win this round of the assassination sweepstakes with a criminal associated with the other party. Initial reports fueled such speculation on both sides. Some are now saying that Boelter suffered from “MAGA disease” while others are claiming that he is a “far left” goon. Still others insist that he is “a far right, MAGA, left wing loon,”
Both sides found just enough to weaponize the shootings. Vance Luther Boelter has connections to Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, who reappointed him to a state board. He is also someone who reportedly voted for Trump and opposed the abortion movement.
As we have discussed, there is a rise in political violence in this country. From January 6th to attempted assassinations of both President Donald Trump and Justice Brett Kavanaugh, there is a radicalization that is occurring within our society. It is the license of rage that I discuss in my book where unhinged individuals believe that any means are now justified to counter a political threat.
The fact is that rage rhetoric has been common on both sides of the political spectrum for years. Politicians continue to fan these flames, including many who insist that democracy is about to die in this country, or call Trump the new Hitler. Leaders on both sides have called their opponents “traitors” and threats to the nation.
The fact is that we still know little about Boelter. He had “No Kings” literature in his car but that does not mean that he was motivated by those protests. We still do not know what is contained in a reported manifesto left by the shooter.
The only thing that is likely is that Boelter is another unstable loner who took his anger out on others. There are reports that he was in difficult financial straits and suffered a series of setbacks. He was the CEO of an international NGO called the Red Lion Group, which appears to have run out of funding. There are reports that he was holding a variety of odd jobs to sustain himself.
The fact is that we have a significant number of people who are mentally unstable or delusional. Anger in their lives is easily translated into a lethal obsession for public officials or public figures, particularly when leaders call on people to resist opponents labeled as traitors or tyrants.
The rush to claim Boelter as a devotee of the left or right only shows how these critics are engaging in the very rage rhetoric that they are supposedly condemning.
We should know the actual facts soon, including the contents of this manifesto. So here is a novel idea: perhaps we should wait for those facts rather than engage in this frenzy of recrimination and rage.
On a different topic Professor Turley recently wrote about, a small town in NJ is about to seize a historic family farm that is still operating as a farm, and turn it over to developers for low income housing. This is similar to Kelo, but there is a twist: the town is acting to satisfy a state law that requires towns to contribute their “fair share” of such housing (called the Mount Laurel Doctrine under state law and upheld by the left-wing NJ Supreme Court). If SCOTUS would be inclined to revisit Kelo and ultimately finds that is not a “public use” for 5th and 14th amendment purposes, then the fact the NJ Supreme Court has upheld it will be of no moment.
https://www.nj.com/news/2025/06/once-its-gone-its-gone-forever-family-and-neighbors-make-last-plea-to-save-nj-farm-from-seizure.html
Oldman, let’s hope the Court takes another look at Kelo, one of their worst decisions in years.
“a small town in NJ is about to seize a historic family farm that is still operating as a farm, and turn it over to developers for low income housing”
I’m not sure that the attempts to characterize the Henry farm in Cranbury as a “family farm” aren’t likely to backfire at some point, since the owners now live in New Mexico, and use a contractor to operate it. That said, government seizure of private property to expand low-income housing is a terrible practice (disclaimer – I personally dislike all, or nearly all, applications of eminent domain). There is a ~100 A tract of farmland near me that was condemned and acquired over 10 years ago under the same law. To this day nothing has been built there. Once or twice a year some minimal improvement takes place over a few days (e.g., installation of 3 septic separation tanks at a time) and then all activity ceases for another few months. I suspect that the contract that was let for developing the low-income housing has some minimal activity stipulation, and that the developer is doing the absolute bare minimum to prevent disqualification. In other words, this particular example is nothing but yet another stipend to some politically connected interest at the expense of taxpayers and the original owner. How very NJ-like 🙁
“legalization for recreational cannabis was an incredibly stupid idea. ”
Meh. You could as easily argue that the 21st Amendment repealing Prohibition was an incredibly stupid idea that culminated in millions of cases of alcoholism, deaths and injuries from traffic accidents, and premature deaths. People are responsible for their own decisions and welfare, regardless of anyone who wishes to control their behavior “for their own good”. That kind of arrogance is the very basis for the nanny state BS that is finally being dismantled (to at least a small degree). I used marijuana regularly back in the 1970s, but have not partaken in many, many years. I do have someone in my household who has a chronic insomnia problem, and deals with it by buying a minimum amount of the weakest strain available at a local dispensary every few months, and taking one puff every night before bedtime. That apparently works as intended. I have looked for adverse behavioral changes that might be attributable to this practice, and have not observed any. Absent legalization, that remedy would be unavailable, or, at best, obtainable only late at night on some poorly lit street corner in some dangerous neighborhood.
“This country, inch by inch, is moving closer to “everyday” violence.”
Davis Betz, a UK “Professor of War” (yes, I was also astounded to find such a job title exists) is convinced that the outbreak of civil war in one or more EU states has become all but inevitable. Much of what he has said of Europe seems to fit our situation quite well. I wonder if we are lagging that curve to any appreciable degree.
Professor Of War Warns Many European Countries Are In A ‘Pre-Civil-War’ State
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/professor-war-warns-many-european-countries-are-pre-civil-war-state
“One of the globe’s leading experts on war has warned that many European countries are on the verge of civil war and may already be past the point of no return.”
“Turley has jumped the shark ”
If the perpetrator had one single copy of that literature, there could be some doubt. I can see doing that to keep as a reference to opposed talking points. OTOH if he had a number of duplicate, hand-out type pamphlets, that would be a clear indication of support, since no one ever does that unless they intend to distribute the material. I generally agree with your assessment. I think that Turley is grasping at straws here to justify a column he wanted to write anyway. The biggest problem with that is that, in the process, he affords undeserved cover to the wokists who are trying to deflect merited blame.
The motivation for violence doesn’t matter. At all. Ever.
The violence itself is the problem and should be decried in bipartisan fashion. There are lunatics in both parties.
When Orange Dumbbell’s assassination attempts occurred, I said they were wrong and entirely unacceptable. No caveats. And the same should be said now.
You ruined your comment with the phrase Orange Dumbbell. You revealed yourself to be one of the lunatics you decry.
Exactly! When they start using names that are degrading it becomes easier to move to the next step – violence.
Imagine the outcry, if everybody started referring to Obama as the black this or the black that
Yet, you yourself cannot control yourself from calling the President an “Orange Dumbbell.” You are part of the problem.
Oldman and shannon, they won’t admit that their rhetoric is riling up lunatics.
Ooh, how gracious and magnanimous of you to publicly state that an assassination attempt was wrong. But meanwhile back on earth the leftist party is what is causing these attacks by calling their opponents Hitler and saying such tripe a 300,000 people have died since DOGE became an agency. Or how about the AP and the BBC saying Israel killed civilians trying to get food and then retracting it but not before some lunatic killed two young people in DC and burned Jews in CO.
But “Everyone” says assassinations are bad.
We can assume by that gratuitous orange comment that you would not have minded if that assisting had been successful, thereby nullifying any post as objective. You are a partisan masquerading as objective – the common tactic of an obfuscator.
Everyman posted: When Orange Dumbbell’s assassination attempts occurred, I said they were wrong and entirely unacceptable.
Okay, to use Everyman’s version of political speech: What did you say when the Black Marxist Buffoon justified the mass murder of five Dallas police officers at a Black Liars & Marxists event they were assigned to protect?
Did you say it was wrong and entirely unacceptable for the Black Marxist Buffoon to attend their memorial service and pronouncing that the murders were understandable due to “systemic police racism”???
I’m guessing you weren’t the least bit offended at how outrageously offensive it was for the Black Marxist Buffoon to say that to the faces of their wives, children, other family members and fellow police officers at that funeral.
You fake.
Turley has finally shown his hand.
He talks about “both sides” leaping to capitalize on this event for their own agenda.
However, the only place where this is happening is in the alternate universe of the MAGA cult..
In the real world of normal sane people there is no speculation about political motives for the attack.
But of course no one here is aware of this because you all live in a bubble like fantasy world where actual facts have no meaning.
So, the mere fact that Turley even brings up this alleged conflict is proof beyond reasonable doubt that his feet are firmly planted in MAGA world.
You must’ve missed yesterday’s comment section where there were such political-blaming comments by Trump haters. I have linked to one below for your edification.
https://jonathanturley.org/2025/06/14/in-the-spirit-of-your-loyalty-la-city-council-member-asks-police-to-create-warning-system-for-federal-operations/comment-page-4/#comment-2526258
Oldman
The way I read that comment is someone just pointing out the wackadoodle nature of the absurd theory that the shooter is a Democrat, and rightfully telling the MAGA nutcases to knock it off.
I don’t see any blame being assigned with regard to motivation.
He was just pointing out the facts.
*. The dems actually do get the loon blue ribbon. Ideas like all electric cars when the most expensive energy remains electricity is a stunner coupled with no natural gas. Take your medal Lia Thomas. You won it fair and square, dems?
He didn’t have a roommate. The media is lying to you.
That’s just not true. This really is a “both sides” example. Perhaps you do not have a full selection of news sources.
Plato’s Allegory of the Cave features your worldview. Hint: you’re one if those still in chains.
I don’t think there’s much comparison in the rhetoric between ‘sides’ since the early oughts; our modern left are incendiary, violent, and insane in toto, no exceptions anymore other than the lone dissent of John Fetterman. Of course there are unwell individuals in the rest of the mix, but to the modern left, the aforementioned qualities now literally define their entire movement.
I agree with the poster below – there is no way our country would have survived four more years of leftist rule, and each passing month only further proves it. It’s madness. I no longer consider our dems an American party, let alone a viable option. They are owned by the globalists whole hog, wholly incompatible with a free Constitutional Republic.
Yes, it is a good idea, as Turley suggests, to hold off characterizing Boelter’s motive until we have more facts. That said, we can still all agree that social conditions in our country are in dire need of correction. The left seems to be more into street riots, school demonstrations, pro-Hamas and antisemitism rallies, etc., and so we cannot give them a pass on violence. Plus, their affection for Marxism, Socialism, and even Communism only heightens the threat of these people to peace, tranquility, and democracy.
While we’re at it, we should also consider the widespread availability and use of cannabis, a hallucinogen with powerful effects on the hippocampus, the brain’s center for memory formation and learning. The drug, which is ten or more times more powerful today than in the 1980s, also affects the prefrontal cortex, where impulse control, decision-making, and judgment are processed. Mexican drug cartels control this traffic throughout the U.S. Industry estimates say the illegal cannabis trade is worth more than $74 billion/year, while the legal trade pulls in another $28 billion. Those able to put 2 and 2 together should consider that the well-funded LA riots are occurring in the first state (CA) to legalize cannabis in 1996, and which also happens to be the nominal U.S. headquarters for the Mexican drug cartels.
So, yes, we should hold off our judgment on shooter Boelter until we learn more about him and his motive but, at the same time, we should begin asking the hard questions of Congress and the Administration of who is behind these riots, is it the Mexican drug cartels, perhaps George Soros and his well-financed campaign to legalize drugs in the U.S., or are we experiencing a sinister campaign of espionage by a foreign foe? AG Bondi and Sen. Hawley have talked about such a probe. We need more than talk; we need action! It’s time to follow the money.
@jjc
Very much agreed about pot: legalization for recreational cannabis was an incredibly stupid idea. And you are absolutely correct: modern strands are magnitudes stronger than what people used to consider not that big a deal. I’ve had friends who were old hippies that are floored by the potency, and THC stays in the system for weeks; for regular users, it simply never leaves the system.
I am positive rampant drug use (including prescriptions, and many people combine them) is at least partially to blame for a lot of people’s mentality. My brother in-law has gone down the rabbit hole with pot, and it has made him unrecognizable in just a few years. Young people being taught it’s some kind of super vitamin or cure-all is begging for trouble, IMO.
James: You are so correct. I’m sorry about your brother-in-law and hopefully he will come to his senses. Cannabis has long been known to be directly toxic to genetic material including the induction of breaks in DNA. States that have legalized cannabis have higher rates of pediatric abnormalities, including autism, atrials eptal defect, cancers. THC produces intergenerational toxic effects on fundamental cellurlar processes, meaning that the smokers of today may be harming their unborn progeny over generations to come. These effects have been known and discussed for more than a half century but the industry spends millions each year funding writers and researchers to publish positive cannabis data. The industry has adopted the tactice of Big Tobacco from the 1950s and 1960s, when physicians, sports heroes, and movie stars told us how great certain brands of cigarettes were. Sorry to get off topic here but readers need facts, not propaganda.
There are plenty of documented cases of babies born with alcohol fetal syndrom because the mother drank while pregnant. I wonder if there have been studies done on the use of weed while pregnant and could that explain how so many of the offspring of boomer/hippies are now running rampant in our streets?
The young fellow who shot Trump perfectly captures the professor’s thesis: a registered Republican whose only campaign donation was to ActBlue; bolh Left and Right could claim he belonged to the other side.
My deepest sympathy to those injured and killed and their families. I’m very sorry for your loss 🙁
Boelter is clearly unstable at this point. Whatever his bizarre reason for this, his actions cannot be justified. I agree with the professor: this ghoulish obsession with Boelter’s motive is just “blood-slinging.” There’s no cosmic significance here.
The real cosmic significance is when political leaders–not unhinged madmen–condone and encourage violence. That’s much more a problem on the Left than the Right, IMHO. To some, Boelter might make a convenient excuse for more “Kristallnacht,” but that’s also not justified.
For anyone that loves America more than their politician-of-the-day. Here is an idea: Litigate past history so we can create future reforms for our children and grand children.
Let’s call out Democrat FDR for his war crimes against American citizens in California, removing them from their homes at gunpoint and placing U.S. citizens in detention camps in the swamps of Arkansas. FDR did many great things but his war crimes were never officially accounted for.
George W. Bush’s alleged war crimes after 9/11 were built upon FDR’s actual war crimes. By simply ignoring history we will repeat those war crimes and illegal practices that harm American citizens.
Americans violently removed by FDR during World War Two slept in manure-filled horse stables, then spent up to 4 years behind barbed-wire in the Arkansas swamps.
How did the greatest nation on Earth (USA) resolve it? They gave each American citizen $25 cash and a bus ticket, although most lost their homes and all assets. It created absolutely zero deterrent-effect from George W. Bush alleged lawbreaking and war crimes. Today in 2025, we now know Bush’s wild exaggerations were false in justifying Guantanamo Bay prison – most detainees (86%) were more law abiding than FDR or Bush.
When foreign nations did what FDR and Bush did, they were indicted, prosecuted and sometimes even executed by the United States. Not calling to imprison anyone, but if we litigate the past abuses we can reform those practices so our kids and grand kids aren’t harmed by unconstitutional authorities – no president legally has!
The spate of anti-Asian hatred at the beginning of the “Kung Flu” caused me to rethink Japanese internment as protective custody.
The Anglophile FDR was eager to enter the war, and the “Quiet Canadian’s” propaganda machine was pumping out material (the little Dutch orphan girl in Miracle on 34th Street is an example.)
Before we can kill an enemy, we must hate him, and the “sneak attack” followed by ugly racialized depictions of the Japanese enemy: the slitted eyes, the Coke bottle glasses, the buck teeth, did that.
So what would have happened to West Coast Japanese Americans once their white neighbors’ kids started getting killed fighting for possession of those little lumps of coral in the South Pacific?
Nothing very good, I’m afraid.
First, while it was long overdue, Reagan signed into law the Civil Liberties Act. In it the federal government formally apologized to the Japanese-Americans who lost their homes, businesses, and had their lives destroyed by FDR. All remaining living survivors were also entitled to a $20,000 payment from taxpayers for wrongs committed by the government.
It often goes unstated that before Hawaii was a state, it had been mostly colonized by Japanese. There were more people of Japanese origin than native Polynesian Hawaiians when Pearl Harbor was bombed – and certainly far more ethnic Japanese than Americans of either ethnic European or African ancestry. There were many more Shinto temples than Christian churches. Much of the signage around the islands was written in the Japanese alphabet and language.
Point being, FDR had some intelligence and reason to believe SOME Japanese in Hawaii and California were loyal to Japanese imperialism. That does not excuse treating the whole class the way he did. Destroying the businesses, lives and homes of the many more Japanese who WERE loyal Americans was wrong. Wrongs happen in war.
Wrongs also happen when they result from insane ideologies as those now manifested by the woke prog left. What sane parent is going to not be infuriated when they learn that their child has been subjected to all sorts of inappropriate s*xual info starting in kindergarten and also being hidden from parents. That is just one example of the recklessess of the progressive anthropological experiments pushed on citizens by an agenda-driven democrat party and off-the-track and in-the-ditch religious instiutions that foresake their core beliefs in order to stay loyal to their progressive cult masters.
But the Japanese-Americans in Hawaii were not placed in camps as these were essential for the war effort. The younger men became the 422nd Battalion, later Regiment, which was distinguished in fighting Germans in Italy and southern France.
Correction: 442nd Regiment including the Hawaiian 100th (Independent) Battalion.
The rush to label the shooter as a “right wing MAGA nut” was entirely predictable. Turley alluded to it with the “reports are that he voted for Trump”. I seriously doubt that. He was appointed by Dayton and Walz to positions in the state government. They don’t do that for Republicans or Conservatives. He was more than likely a true blue unhinged democrat. After all, his first victim was a democrat who “betrayed” her party.
Well….for what it is worth….Minnesota’s State Bird is the “Loon” and the home of folks like Jesse Ventura, Walz, and a State that elected a bonafide Clown for a Senator. What should we expect from folks up there?
I think, like the professor, that this is a confusing scenario. I prefer to wait it out and see what the police find out and where the evidence leads. Jumping to conclusions often lands you in a pile of other problems. Taking action with incomplete data usually just leads to further errors and atrocities. Much of what was written today about the Democrats and Progressives are true but politically motivated murder is messy and can be quite convoluted. My politics are clearly conservative but I will wait and see where the evidence trail takes us.
The professor knows this and I think his caution is well founded. We don’t need people making wild statements and taking even wilder actions. Otherwise we are no better than the street rioters in Portland, Los Angeles, and Austin.
The history of humanity is filled with rage. There is a reason that moral codes prohibit murder – because we have a proclivity for it.
This utopian, progressive delusion which believes that man is “perfectable” by training has lead to another delusion that removing consequences for bad actions by limiting both police enforcement of laws or the removal of laws entirely and has allowed our more base nature to flourish.
Until we return the Rule of Law to strictly and swiftly return such millennial-proven deterrence which h ad been initiated to control those pernicious elements within a society we will continue to see these outbreaks of violence more often.
We must, firstly, realize that the untested anthropological experimentation pushed by utopian-seeking idealists and supported by those who find avenues of control via such programs are a turn off of the path of human development and into the ditch of wrong-thinking that conflicts with the very basic nature of human behavior.
Like your post… do you think your idea of killer instinct is the reason for the death penalty?
There is a sound reason for many religions to have prohibitions against “murder” which the Torah explains is not the same term used to describe a punishment that requires death. That is a prescribed “killing” and not a violent murder.
You should learn the subtlety of language, translations and nuance before you just post.
“This utopian, progressive delusion which believes that man is ‘perfectable’ [sic] by training . . .”
You keep butchering that idea:
“I consider man as formed for society, and endowed by nature with those dispositions which fit him for society. I believe also … that his mind is *perfectible* to a degree of which we cannot as yet form any conception.” (Thomas Jefferson, emphasis added)
I don’t think Jefferson was a progressive. Nor was he suffering from delusion.
The very idea of self-governance is based on the premise that man is perfectible.
Thomas was a transcendentalist by nature even before the term truly overtook rational thought and created the tragedy of communism, socialism and its aftermath – anarchy. Thomas Jefferson was greatly mistaken by his view (as he was in many things) so to use him as an excuse to not condemn that silly notion of progressivism belies your true proclivities.
“. . . belies your . . .”
I think what you mean is “reveals,” which is the opposite of “belies.”
The rest of your comment is equally accurate.
When you enter the field of the history of ideas, come armed with knowledge — not a burning desire to rescue religion. That makes you a shill, not a scholar.
#9. Well said Whimsi. I’m sure the atheists have a different opinion, and their welcome to it. But one is hard pressed to deny the glaring connection between Church attendance decline and moral value decline. The government, due to restraints as applied by Separation of Church and State, cannot teach morality beyond the tenants of the law. All the children learn is that, thus and so, is against the law so, don’t do the crime if you can’t to do the time. Which only teaches the kid; “don’t get caught.” That thinking does not teach why it is immoral to harm another person, only that it’s an issue of, you don’t want to get caught.
Like your comment about teaching don’t get caught..
exactly the description of an amoral agnostic state. There is no social core upon which there can be an agreed upon social contract. The failure of atheism is its inability to create a substitute for communal cooperation other than the fear of the state – there is no moral compass residing in the individual, just fear of “being caught”. No self-guiding star of moral parameters upon which to guide your actions.
If you doubt that just watch ANY gathering of progressives and observe their anarchy and lack of remorse – they are, after all, the party that believes that the ends justify ANY means.
Touché. The Left are driven by hatred because they wish evil on others hence their defining qualities seen at all of their gatherings manifested in rage, wrath, violence, killing, injuring, destroying property, etc
Given your career training, you might appreciate what the Dumb Ox taught. Your respondent would not since he is driven by evil as Thomas argued:
Now, in the movements of the appetitive faculty, good has, as it were, a force of attraction, while evil has a force of repulsion. In the first place, therefore, good causes, in the appetitive power, a certain inclination, aptitude or connaturalness in respect of good: and this belongs to the passion of “love”: the corresponding contrary of which is “hatred” in respect of evil. Secondly, if the good be not yet possessed, it causes in the appetite a movement towards the attainment of the good beloved: and this belongs to the passion of “desire” or “concupiscence”: and contrary to it, in respect of evil, is the passion of “aversion” or “dislike.” Thirdly, when the good is obtained, it causes the appetite to rest, as it were, in the good obtained: and this belongs to the passion of “delight” or “joy”; the contrary of which, in respect of evil, is “sorrow” or “sadness.”
On the other hand, in the irascible passions, the aptitude, or inclination to seek good, or to shun evil, is presupposed as arising from the concupiscible faculty, which regards good or evil absolutely. And in respect of good not yet obtained, we have “hope” and “despair.” In respect of evil not yet present we have “fear” and “daring.” But in respect of good obtained there is no irascible passion: because it is no longer considered in the light of something arduous, as stated above (Article 3). But evil already present gives rise to the passion of “anger.”
Accordingly it is clear that in the concupiscible faculty there are three couples of passions; viz. love and hatred, desire and aversion, joy and sadness. In like manner there are three groups in the irascible faculty; viz. hope and despair, fear and daring, and anger which has not contrary passion.
Consequently there are altogether eleven passions differing specifically; six in the concupiscible faculty, and five in the irascible; and under these all the passions of the soul are contained.
Summa Theologiae, First Part of the Second Part, Question 23
https://www.newadvent.org/summa/2023.htm
TL;DR:
Love is to will the good of the other
Hatred is to will evil on the other
– St Thomas Aquinas (paraphrased)
“. . . communal cooperation other than the fear of the state . . .”
So to achieve that “communal cooperation” (which is pure collectivism), you want to replace “fear of the state” with fear of the Church and of eternal condemnation.
A pox on both your houses.
The Framers of the Constitution, when designing the American model of government, never designed “political parties” into the American system of government.
The Framers designed a bi-cameral system (House & Senate). Not political parties.
Having said that, most credible constitutional experts also believe that the Framers wouldn’t oppose political parties if it created stronger checks & balances between levels of government (local,state,federal) and stronger checks between branches of government (Legislative, Executive & Judicial branches).
One fact most Americans would agree upon today in 2025, is that political parties have absolutely destroyed checks & balances. This 21st Century model would absolutely be opposed by the Founding Fathers!
One reform idea is to abolish political parties altogether and instead create coalitions on an issue by issue basis.
For example: a common sense gun rights bill would likely gain more support from today’s Democrats without a political party punishing their vote. On an equal marriage rights bill, would likely gain more votes from Republicans without a political party coercing their vote.
Today’s version of political parties would absolutely be opposed by the Founding Fathers for those concerned about “originalism”!
Good idea if everyone registered as independent. No one to target.
This country, inch by inch, is moving closer to “everyday” violence. In your terms, the “rage” is more and more kinetic. For example, the main stream media is now calling Molotov cocktails as peaceful expressions. The general absence of guns at these demonstrations does, however, reveal there is still strict controls over the mobs. But by who???
Yes, the controllers of the impulsive rage people are the wrath people as wrath embodies the slow, ceaseless, plotting hand of revenge.
Jonathan, nice try at talking everyone off the ledge. Missing the point of your essay, we embraced the rage and ended up as a red pancake on the sidewalk.
He had “No Kings” literature in his car but that does not mean that he was motivated by those protests.
He allegedly has 2 arms, 2 legs, 2 eyes, 2 ears and runs a security business but neither of these proves he is a human being
The only thing that is likely is that Boelter is another unstable loner who took his anger out on others.
You killed off his wife who ran their security business
Turley has jumped the shark
Herschel Grynszpahn assassinated a Nazi diplomat in 1938. But would we compare what the Jews did to Nazis to what the Nazis did to the Jews? Of course not. Sometimes, maybe all of the time, bad behavior is common to both sides. But very often one side is far, far, far guiltier. The professor can go after rage as much as he likes. And both sides do play the blame game. I agree.
But aside from the plan to kill Kavanaugh (and the intent was other Supreme Court justices too), the two attempts on Trump, looking at the 6 months long George Floyd riots, including many deaths, the huge rise in homicides and other violent crime after them, the riots and looting that have been going on ever since, the left’s attempt to end the filibuster while they were in power, to make states out of left wing areas, their intent to end the electoral college and to pack the court with liberals, their ridiculous character assassination of Trump, impeachments, the prosecutions, the FBI going after Catholics and PTA moms, their antisemitism and killing of Jews, their love and insistence on their right to kill babies at any stage in its development, their desire to have young children mutilated and menally ill, the intentional opening of our border and the attempt to make our military as weak as possible while emphasizing climate change and DEI, tells me, should tell anyone, that one side is much worse than the other. Much, much, much worse. This started somewhere in the early 2000s when the left began nominating the most left-wing candidates they could find for president. Some of them won. Personally, I did not think our country could have survived another 4 years under Harris.
The professor is a great resource and I read everything he writes. But almost everything he writes is showing how deluded, ignorant and evil the left is. However, he does not acknowledge this. His desire to be viewed as a moderate is too strong. Go back and read all of your posts from the last year, Professor. It will not take long. The left is the danger in this country. Though there are extremists on the right too, of course, it is not comparable.
Anonymous gets it just right! Great response to Turley’s deliberate obtuseness, he’s too afraid to call an apple and apple, & an orange an orange. One of these days, Turley will slip on the fence, and land squarely on his nut’s, satisfied he’s still in both sides! 😳
This just in: Anonymous congratulates himself, proving masturbation is still popular with leftwing commentators. More to cum…
I wish I could withdraw my comment. I actually agree with some of what you said. I saw the criticism of the Professor first and jumped to the conclusion that it was the usual trolling. Sorry for the friendly fire 🙁
I wish you could, too. 😏
On his nut’s what?
( This started somewhere in the early 2000s when the left began nominating the most left-wing candidates they could find for president.).
As a university student freshman in 1968 I can say that the left was quite violently active prior to Kent State and that the entire coalition of minorities that raged on our streets during that period were quite convinced that violence was a valuable tool. Remember Bill Ayers? Just another example of leftist usage of violence. Heck, go way back to the KKK or the slave masters in the democrat south or the segregationist down their. The history of the left is full of anger and violence.
I call BS on the contents of the “manifesto”… it will only give one side or the other more fodder for their rage.
Yes, I’m a cynic and maybe the manifesto is being written right now.
Actually they found the manifesto on Hunter Biden’s laptop.
Hillary Clinton’s fingerprints are all over this, as well as the DNC.
Obama and Biden almost certainly participated in the planning.
I’m almost certain that Walz was directly involved as an accomplice to assassinate someone who defied him by voting with the Republicans.
I believe Harris played a vital role in the planning with Walz.
Plausible
Not sure what the point of this article is . Facts are clear:
1, REPORT: Shortly before Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman was shot and k*lled, she broke down in tears in front of cameras after siding with Republicans.
Hortman was the lone Democrat who voted to cut health care access for adult illegal immigrants.
“I did what leaders do… I stepped up and I got the job done for the people of Minnesota.”
Hortman and her husband were k*lled shortly after this video was taken in their home. Police believe it was politically motivated.
2. Tim Waltz Appointee is the Minnesota Assassin Who Shot Down Elected Representatives In Targeted Shootings
https://gellerreport.com/2025/06/no-kings-assassin.html/?lctg=57995880
If Hortman was the target because she voted with the Republicans, then why were she and her husband the SECOND couple who were shot.
The other couple, who did not vote with Republicans were the FIRST to be shot.
And why did the shooter have a list of 70 targets who were all Democrats, including Walz and Ilhan Omar.
I’m sure you can come up with some whackadoodle, cockamamie explanation to rationalize these facts with your insane conspiracy theories.
I’ll wait.
Ok, good point but he’s not wakadoodle.
I think it may be as simple as him confusing the names Hortman and Holman. Let’s hope they get this homicidal maniac off the streets soon.
😂 thanks for the laugh.
I will wait until the entire background of this killer is deciphered. I’m certain that insanity is a main ingredient – which sort, we do not, yet, know.
We breed, not only violence, but unalleviated frustration and rage, as our bloated and weaponized government delays and obstructs the swift administration of justice. By any interpretation of our laws, each and every official who has created and protected sanctuary cities should have been easily tried, convicted and jailed long ago.
When we see illegals getting welfare we should count on the Rule of Law to end that but we see spineless republicans and cultish democrats flaunting this in our face.
That is the source of rage that will inevitable lead to chaos. The same is true when you see the unhinged rage in hapless woke college students and old hippie cat ladies screaming at the top of their lungs like possessed toddlers in a tantrum. They are angry that the promised utopia has not arrived and they blame the sane people for rejecting their delusions.
There is a timeless reason that societies create laws and moral codes when a group of humans, in a gathering larger than an extended family, come together in groups – especially in river valley agricultural cultures. Half of the 10 Commandments deal with societal behavior while the other half deals with a human’s relationship to his G-d. Why? Because the prohibitions in the first 5 commandments deal with our natural human proclivities that must be restrained in a social setting.
Maybe because the Hoffmans lived closer to the suspect’s starting point? then he went on to the Hortmans?
AND reporting says that @50 of the 70 were recognizable Democrats. Who were the other 20+, Martians?
Simplest explanation is probably right
What is that simplest explanation
the simple explanation is that those on the “hit list” were NOT all Democrats.
Vee must vind a link among those on zuh list. 🧐
The World War Two era movie “Nuremberg” should be mandatory viewing for every high school student.
The movie based on true events is about how the Nazis de-humanized Jews or anyone they disliked.
By de-humanizing, the Nazis brainwashed an entire population. They weren’t murdering humans, they were removing vermin or disease.
Trump may not be a Neo-Nazi, but he did practice de-humanization of anyone that disagrees with him. Some radical people then commit violence, since their perceived enemy is non-human. Americans presidents should be leaders. Real leaders try to unite their citizenry!
The real crisis is not having a weak president, but nearly half the U.S. population (including Americans of religious faith) support Nazi practices.
Get a life. You really one.
You really need one
What?
DEIsm, political congruence, abortive ideation, progressive principles, liberal arts, environmentalism, etc under a Pro-Choice religion deferring to kings/queens, experts, democratic/dictatorial progressions. Democrazis?
Trump’s a Nazi. Where have we heard that BS before? Try harder, “anonymous.”
Nice try blaming Trump and MAGA for all problems the last 4 years.
Wide open borders
Out of control Federal spending
Insane Energy policy
Mandatory vaccinations
Wasteful spending in Ukraine
High Inflation
Harmful DEI policies especially in the Military
We’re just trying to clean up the mess
Have you remained purposefully ignorant of the bullying nazi/like behavior of our universities and government institutions that demanded strict adherence to the prog woke agenda or fear the intimidation and harassment by these petty little hitlers who think they are the only source of wisdom (of which they truly have little)