“What we really need to do is be willing to get shot.” Those words to a Democratic member are part of a chilling Axios story on the rising violent rhetoric on the American left. As alleged Antifa members are arrested in Texas for the attempted murder of ICE agents, Democratic members are beginning to express private concerns over unleashing uncontrollable rage after their election defeat.
Axios reported on conversations with Democratic members who admit that followers are turning to violence and rejecting messages of political reform.
One House member explained that there is a “sense of fear and despair and anger” among voters that “puts us in a different position where … we can’t keep following norms of decorum.” The member does not address how Democratic leaders are fueling the rising violent rhetoric and imagery (including the most recent posted picture of House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D., N.Y.) brandishing a baseball bat).
One House Democrat told Axios, “Some of them have suggested … what we really need to do is be willing to get shot.”
Yet another admitted that constituents have told them to prepare for “violence … to fight to protect our democracy.” Others reported that liberals are talking about the need “to storm the White House and stuff like that.”
One explained that “They’re angry beyond things.” Another said, “It’s like … the Roman coliseum. People just want more and more of this spectacle.”
Some are discussing triggering or staging violence. One member said, “What I have seen is a demand that we get ourselves arrested intentionally or allow ourselves to be victims of violence, and … a lot of times that’s coming from economically very secure white people.”
We have recently seen such performative acts with members like Sen. Alex Padilla (D., Cal.) heckling a press conference by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and Democratic members storming an ICE facility.
In one encounter, a lawmaker told Axios: “I actually said in a meeting, ‘When they light a fire, my thought is to grab an extinguisher’. And someone at the table said, ‘Have you tried gasoline?'”
The answer is clearly yes.
Across the country, Democratic leaders are resorting to what I have called “rage rhetoric” in my book “The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage.”
We have already seen violent protests and planned assassinations directed against Trump Administration figures. Democrats ratcheted up claims of a “coup” and called for Democrats to “fight in the streets.”
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D, Mass.) declared, “Elon Musk is seizing the power that belongs to the American people.” Rep. Jamie Raskin (D, Md.) claimed on MSNBC’s “The ReidOut” that Musk and Trump were conducting a “rapidly expanding and accelerating coup.”
Sen. Ron Wyden (D., Ore.) appeared to be working off the same talking point and declared that a “coup” was being carried out.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) warned that Musk was “taking away everything we have.”
Rep. Maxine Waters (D., Cal.) said, “We are here to fight back.” Sen. Cory Booker (D., NJ) called on citizens to “fight” and declared, “We will rise up.”
Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D., TX) yelled, “We are gonna be in your face, we are gonna be on your a–es, and we are going to make sure you understand what democracy looks like, and this ain’t it.”
Rep. LaMonica McIver (D., N.J.) added: “God d—it shut down the Senate!…WE ARE AT WAR!”
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., called for Democrats to fight “in the streets.””
Such rhetoric can inspire unhinged citizens who actually believe that this is a war against a coup. It is the type of rhetoric that can prompt anti-Republican Nicholas John Roske to try to assassinate Justice Brett Kavanaugh or Sanders supporter James T. Hodgkinson to try to massacre Republican members playing softball.
This week, the Department of Justice announced the arrest of ten alleged Antifa members who are being charged in an ambush of ICE agents in Alvarado, Texas, on July 4.
Democratic members have long played a dangerous game in dismissing the violence or even the existence of groups like Antifa.
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 nationwide anti-free speech movement.
We have continued to follow the attacks and arrests of Antifa followers across the country, including attacks on journalists.
Nevertheless, former Democratic National Committee deputy chair Keith Ellison, now the Minnesota attorney general, once said Antifa would “strike fear in the heart” of Trump.
Ellison’s son, Minneapolis City Council member Jeremiah Ellison, declared his allegiance to Antifa in the heat of the protests this summer.
Liberal sites have sold Antifa items, including baby outfits, to celebrate the violent group.
Now, Democratic leaders are privately expressing alarm that their followers are demanding violence and rejecting moderate language. Yet, many are fueling that rage and few of their colleagues are speaking out against them. The party is attempting to ride this wave of rage to victory. However, history shows that the enablers of the mob today often find themselves the enemies of the mob tomorrow.
Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University and the best-selling author of “The Indispensable Right.” and the forthcoming book, Rage and the Republic: The Unfinished Story of the American Revolution.
Whichever side manifests the most kinetic power is the winner. There is no more certain characteristic of the government and society of the USA. The Constitution is only what they say it is: Might makes right. Start with the Civil War and work your way forward til today.
Get shot?
I aim to please.
Noone
Democrat “followers are turning to violence and rejecting messages of political reform.” (JT)
When you abandon reason, as the D’s have done, you are left with only one means of settling disputes: mad, blind physical force. The result is a barbaric culture run by mobs with the biggest pitchforks.
“Democrats Admit Followers are Embracing Violent Rhetoric”
Not a surprise when elected Democratic leaders are inciting violence.
Did American dodge the bullet or what.
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Kamala Harris did an interview with Kareem Rahma’s SubwayTakes and it was so bad that they couldn’t publish it.
SubwayTakes is a show where people are asked about their hot takes.
Harris allegedly told SubwayTakes that her take was that bacon is a spice.
OMG….. moron alert.
Mother Nature strikes again. PS New Mexico is dem run by the way
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Flash Flooding Kills 3 in New Mexico as House Swept Away
Flood watch for flash flooding was issued by the National Weather Service several hours before the devastation began.
Lincoln attempted to introduce Americans to the idea that there was a gaping whole prohibiting Democracy in a Constitution that established slavery at the state level while attempting to create a federal whole consisting of multiple state governments and a single federal government.
We fought a civil war over the alleged state right of unilateral secession versus the federal right to repel an invasion rather than face up to Lincoln’s music. We’re 150 years-on in grappling with that, but it is still a messy emotional mire.
Mayor Karen Bass was once a youth leader in the Venceremos Brigade, an organization that was part of communist Cuba. She traveled there more than a dozen times when Castro was alive. No wonder she advocates insurrection against federal authority. She will lose. California will lose and Governor Pretty Boy has lost all credibility.
She appears to be as smart as a post.
How sad.
You saw the footage of her on the cell phone with the head of CBP.
So … at least Karen was able to speak to the manager 🤣
You underestimate the level of cunning and depravity in the leadership of the Democratic Party. While it is clear that California and Los Angeles are both in free fall, the Democrats created the perfect offset by fomenting fear leaving blue voters with the following dilemma. If you don’t vote blue, (admittedly for more of the same) you’ll end up with (OMG !!!) a Republican. The Democrats have convinced the electorate to support the devil himself rather than any Republican. The replacement of the former Chicago mayor with a worse mayor who is a less popular one as the city he leads has rising crime and a decaying quality of life is a validation of this assertion..
So it turns out that Russian spies did interfere in the 2016 election . . . to help Hillary Clinton. So if anyone was a Russian asset, it was Hillary.
oldman
Remember Billarys (Re-set) button with Russia.
“[Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were] going after anybody that is brown.”
– Rep. Jimmy Gomez (D-CA), CNN, July 8, 2025
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Naturalization Acts of 1790, 1795, 1798, 1802
United States Congress, “An act to establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization,” March 26, 1790
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That any Alien being a free white person, who shall have resided within the limits and under the jurisdiction of the United States for the term of two years, may be admitted to become a citizen thereof…
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“The influx of foreigners must, therefore, tend to produce a heterogeneous compound; to change and corrupt the national spirit; to complicate and confound public opinion; to introduce foreign propensities. In the composition of society, the harmony of the ingredients is all-important, and whatever tends to a discordant intermixture must have an injurious tendency.”
– Alexander Hamilton
You mean (“The influx of illegals)
During his presidency, Barack Obama deported over 2.5 million unauthorized immigrants from 2009 to 2015, making his administration the highest in deportation numbers compared to previous presidents. In 2013 alone, a record 438,421 people were deported.
No they are not ‘going after anyone that is brown”. They are going after anyone that is illegal. That includes white, black, brown, yellow red and purple with pink polka dot illegals. That a lot of illegals are Latino or Hispanic doesn’t mean anything:
As of 2020, approximately 12.5 million Hispanic and Latino Americans, or 20.3% of the Hispanic population, identified as white alone, while about 31.5 million, or 50.8%, identified as white alone or in combination with other.
If it looks like they are deporting a lot of brown people it is because a lot of brown people entered the US illegally, which is a crime. It was made a crime by Congress and many or the laws were passed by both parties and signed by both Presidents and confirmed as Constitutional by the Supreme court.
During Donald Trump’s first term as president, from January 2017 to January 2021, the administration deported approximately 1.2 million individuals.
As of April 2025, the Trump administration claimed to have deported over 207,000 migrants, although some estimates suggest the actual number may be lower. President Trump has a long way to go to catch up to Obama.
*. ” we can’t keep following norms of decorum” from the article. Has anyone seen any norms of decorum from democrats in 15 years? There’s nothing more to say, PT. These people don’t belong in public office of any kind at any level. Surely he’s telling a clever joke?
George, here is a quote by your favorite president:
“That is the electric cord in that Declaration that links the hearts of patriotic and liberty-loving men together, that will link those patriotic hearts as long as the love of freedom exists in the minds of men throughout the world.” – Abraham Lincoln reflecting on the Declaration of Independence (July 10, 1858)
The primary fellow traveler of Karl Marx and destroyer of constitutional American freedom:
“If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author.”
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Indeed, Abe, indeed.
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“At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.”
– Abraham Lincoln, Young Men’s Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois, January 27, 1838
THE PRESCIENCE OF LINCOLN
“There is a natural disgust in the minds of nearly all white people to the idea of indiscriminate amalgamation of the white and black races… A separation of the races is the only perfect preventive of amalgamation, but as an immediate separation is impossible, the next best thing is to keep them apart where they are not already together. If white and black people never get together in Kansas, they will never mix blood in Kansas. [Racial separation] must be effected by colonization of the country’s blacks to a foreign land. The enterprise is a difficult one, but ‘where there is a will there is a way,’ and what colonization needs most is a hearty will. Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest. Let us be brought to believe it is morally right, and, at the same time, favorable to, or, at least, not against, our interest, to transfer the African to his native clime, and we shall find a way to do it, however great the task may be.”
-Abraham Lincoln, Springfield, Illinois, June 26, 1857
The most junior on the court has the biggest mouth and the most to say….yet again….(so much for being a neutral arbiter of THE LAW as written)….
Jackson, in a recent interview, said this about her job on the high court:
She is grateful that her job allows her to express her opinions about “how the government does and should work” –and she is privileged to be able to express and explain (in her dissenting opinions) how the courts “do and should work”…..yep, that’s her job, as she understands it….
Anyone think there will be serious conversations about impeaching and removing DEI radical Ketanji who was appointed by the Auto Pen?
She believes her job is to “express her opinions” on how things “should be.”
Actually, decisions of the court are OPINIONS.
Justice Brown Jackson is supposed to express an OPINION.
That is her job
I concur with the Chief
I also concur
I can report that the court is unanimous in agreeing with the Chief.
LAME!
LAME!
Even when she is 100% wrong. Which she is very good at.
And she believes that, yes, “some of the rulings” of the court “pose an existential threat to the rule of law.”
Bye supreme court….your legitimacy was nice while it lasted…..nice legacy Johnny Roberts….
NEWSFLASH John Roberts!!
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson said she believes recent rulings by the Supreme Court’s conservative majority pose an “existential threat to the rule of law.”
Anon
“Existential threat”? Do you mean — the rule of law and its meaning are being misinterpreted and if not please explain with the view of Jean Paul Sartre explicitly.
Ask Ketanji to explain what she meant when she said it.
I believe she actually wrote it in one of her opinions. How embarrassing.
Like what a woman IS?
Ketanji believes she ‘earned’ her position on the court.
No, Ketanji baby, you got put there because….
1) you are black, with a very black-sounding name,
2) you are a woman (who doesn’t know what a woman is).
But! You have ‘earned’ a title that will forever follow you: Disastrous DEI Hire.
As for your intellect and all that other nonsense required to ‘do’ the job on the highest court in the land?
No, no, Ketanji baby, you most assuredly DIDN’T EARN IT.
and 3) because you are a Radical Leftist
All of this nonsense from Kanji who can’t even define what a woman is (so what is SHE then?) yeah, that’s someone who can expect WE THE PEOPLE to UTTERLY AND COMPLETELY REJECT ANY OPINION SHE HAS. And
uite literally the job of judges and especially supreme court justices is NOT to opine on how things SHOULD be.
But what the law and constitution ARE.
How things SHOULD be is the role of the people, and to the extent that government is involved through our legislators.
NOT the judiciary.
The reason our founders spent so little time on the judiciary is they do NOT make policy. They do NOT make law.
They merely establish what the law and constitution actually says
Something our founders thought was more a gramatical task than a political or theoretical one. .
Exactly right. The most famous sentence in Supreme Court history was written by John Marshall in 1803, in Marbury v. Madison, establishing judicial review: It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is.
John
But what the law and constitution ARE.
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On point sir!
“Anyone think there will be serious conversations about impeaching and removing DEI radical Ketanji who was appointed by the Auto Pen?”
As horrible as her opinions are, what would be the legal basis for your proposed impeachment? So far as I am aware, poor judgments expressed in SCOTUS decisions have never been considered proper basis for impeachment of justices. In fact, too many of those poor judgements have been in majority decisions that have found their way into settled law. That would leave your (plausible, imo) allegation that Biden was not aware she was selected as nominee? If “Biden’s” decisions were to be overturned on that basis, for the sake of consistency, pretty much all of them would need to be vacated, resulting in major Federal chaos at several levels. I am jaded on Fedgov (no matter which faction of the Uniparty is nominally in charge at any given moment) to the point that it wouldn’t bother me very much to see it crippled, but I suspect that you and quite a few others here would object. Maybe you should be more careful about what you wish (and advocate) for.
I guess Turley wants to avoid the MAGA meltdown over the fact that Trump flat out lied to them over the Epstein list.
Bondi said it was on her desk now it isn’t? Guess Elon was right. Trump is on the list.
Yeah right. As if that wouldn’t have leaked during the failed Biden presidency. You’re pathetic.
Bondi had it on her desk. Kash Patel had it. So now it doesn’t exist? Trump is on that list. They stoked MAGA with this Epstein document dump for months. Now they don’t want to? Why are they lying to MAGA?
Who is this Epstein person of whom you speak????
Never heard of him !!!!!
That’s because you’re an idiot.
I’ve never heard of him either
Me too.
Who is this guy ????
Never heard of him
Oh I see we’re having another meltdown. I’ll alert the orderlies.
I have no idea who this Epstein character is.
I think he was just made up by the deep state.
What kind of loser pollutes the blog of a law professor like this? Are you twelve years old?
No he is not 12 years old
He is one of my army of professional trolls.
I pay him extremely well to come here to harass the MAGA cult.
That’s right.
I make a fortune doing this.
George pays his trolls very well
Everyone is in a cult but MEEEEE!!! Says the cultist. You’re such a pathetic loser. You always have been a loser, you always will be a loser. You are a leech on productive members of society. You add nothing, but only take. When you finally die, alone, under a bridge, with a needle jabbed in your arm, nobody will miss you, and your loss will not even be noticed. Why don’t you get along, now.
Try to pay attention and keep up
I am paid a lot of money by George Soros to make comments here.
I undoubtedly make a lot more money than you and have a much better lifestyle.
In fact I get bonus payments when MAGA morons like you get riled up and respond to my comments in the manner you employ.
Keep it up
Try again.
More money in my pocket.
Such an exciting life you have, loser. Really changing minds aren’t you.
More like you’re a flipping moron. Occam’s razor, anyone and everyone would have leaked it already.
The list? What about the hundreds of videos and thousands of photos the FBI seized when Epstein’s NYC townhouse was searched? You don’t need a list. The FBI acquired the evidence.
The thing most everyone is missing is Epstein’s CIA connection. THAT’S what is being covered up by Bondi.
The idea that the CIA paiud Epstein to run a “honey pot” operation (what the Russians call kompromat) involving under-age girls needs to be investigated. That would be disgraceful if true.
Given that outrage, who cares about a list. We already have names, Clinton, Trump, George Mitchell, Richardson, Dershowitz. If this was a CIA operation, then those chumps were actually victims as well as victimizers. But the notion that the CIA would gain the upper hand over a wide group of public leaders is totally chilling, and if true, MUST BE EXPOSED.
Roosters crow every morning. Roosters cause sunrise, anon.
I did not know that.
That’s because you’re an idiot. Try talking less and listening more.
Sounds to me like you’re the one having a meltdown.
People suffering from mental illness don’t know they have mental illness. They all vote democrat however.
Post some more, loser, show us how much of a loser you are. You must be a real hit with the ladies.
Sigh, more meltdowns to be cleaned up later. Why do you hate the moderator?
To those of you talking about the Texas floods, let this politically Independent Texan (moi) explain a few things to you.
The problem was not a lack of federal weather people (in fact, MORE employees were called in to monitor). The PROBLEM is that the state gov’t has always left it up to each county to provide safety protocols and equipment along the rivers. But for example, Comal County just south of Kerr County (where the Guadalupe flows into Canyon Lake) DOES have sirens because they chose to spend the money for them. Kerr County felt they could not afford them. NOW, the Lt. Gov. says that state will help provide them.
I happen to believe that the state gov’t was long overdue taking control of this, mainly because 80-90% of the tourists to our rivers and lakes are fellow Texans — the state is so big that most of us vacay in-state. But Texas state gov’t has a long history of decentralizing stuff like this to county and local levels. And yes, it takes years of tragedies to change their minds. Texans are tough-minded and stubborn about these things. We tend to be fatalistic about calamities and just fix/rebuild and go on with life.
*. So sad for your losses. I understand that the town is approx 50,000 people.
Fluid dynamics, measures done by engineers, can mitigate flooding away from towns. Permanent fixes may be considered hopefully. It’s like the border wall. Walls are constructed where there are towns diverting the trespass to unpopulated areas.
Condolences.
Yes, but the state of Texas will never do that.
Anyone demanding political violence should be arrested on charges of incitement and those funding and organizing violent acts of political terror should be given a full dose of RICO and the Patriot Act. Once most of Antifa is on a long vacation in Gitmo and rich heirs to major fortunes are facing decade long time in prison, the agitation will die down. Most of the fellow travelers, who are rich kids without a job, will find another less dangerous outlet for their Woke tendencies.
It’s not incitement, it’s advocacy, and that is 100% protected by the first amendment.
Incitement is very narrowly defined, precisely to avoid the laws against it being unconstitutional.
It’s like January 6th never even happened. Remember that? When a violent mob of Republican insurrectionists didn’t just pose for photos, or say some mean things, but actually stormed the Capital and beat the snot out of some cops, defecated in those hallowed halls, defaced offices, stole property and threatened to kill the Vice President. But yes, please, by all means – let’s hear some more faux outrage about a photo of a guy holding a baseball bat – a photo so weak, even Republican congresswoman Virginia Foxx called it “low energy.” Maybe you should go back to writing something you’re more on target with – like when you recommended Trump give Elon the Presidential Medal of Freedom. You really nailed that one.
Anonymous at 6:20 pm. A few questions: which officers “had the snot beat out of them” (a rather vague formulation)?; who was charged with defecating in the hallways (this sounds like 1960’s student radicals)?; what property was stolen ( a much lower offense than burning down a business)?
No, nobody remembers it. Nobody cares. The electorate looked at the situation and decided to re-elect Donald Trump. So, not even the electorate cares. Everyone has moved on but you. Get over it.
Anon, Yes, votes were not audited unfortunately. In some places there were more votes cast than registered voters. In other places such as fulton county , after counting ballots, ballots were destroyed. Legal elections are no longer possible because of the census count and for other reasons.
It was not an insurrection. It was a riot. DJT offered 10, 000 NG and was turned down by Pelosi and Mayor.
Musk wanted cuts to save the economy. Congress would not agree and Musk holds DJT responsible.
Government is the biggest employer in the nation by a single entity. Big government takes away individual freedom. Much of what has been done is in areas simply of no one’s business but your own.
In some places there were more votes cast than registered voters.
That is not true. It didn’t happen in 2024, and it has never happened anywhere. The Dems are very careful to ensure that the number of fake votes introduced does not exceed the number of voters who can be marked off as having cast them.
In other places such as fulton county , after counting ballots, ballots were destroyed.
I don’t think that’s true either. Ballots from earlier elections were destroyed, but not ones from the most recent election.
Legal elections are no longer possible because of the census count and for other reasons.
That sentence doesn’t even make any sense.
Brainwashed by LIES
Hey who is president? Nobody gives a rip.
beat the snot out of some cops, defecated in those hallowed halls, defaced offices, stole property and threatened to kill the Vice President.
None of that happened.
HAHAHAHA lie much. Who was murdered on the 6th. Yet had NO weapon.
Please explain to us, what law covers this???
“Temporary Work Permits”
Work – Go Home
No Citizenship – No Vote
AI Overview
Yes, Saudi Arabia has historically utilized temporary foreign workers.
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AI Overview
No, Saudi Arabia generally does not allow foreign workers to become citizens and vote.
Citizenship and Voting Rights:
No political rights for non-citizens: Foreign workers, who constitute a large portion of the Saudi population, have no political rights, including the right to vote.
Limited voting rights: While Saudi Arabia holds municipal elections, participation in the political process is limited, and there are no elections for national bodies.
Citizenship path is difficult: It is very difficult for foreign workers to obtain Saudi citizenship and equal rights, even with long-term residency.
Yes we have know this for a long time.