As a native Chicagoan, I must confess that I have little patience for Mayor Brandon Johnson, a politician who has been a disaster for the city. One of the most unpopular mayors in the city’s history, Johnson has been using the increased ICE operations to try to ride a wave of rage back into popularity. His language has become more and more inflammatory in calling for citizens to “resist” and “fight” federal law enforcement. Now, he is claiming the authority to not only mandate “ICE-free zones” in the city but to arrest federal officers.
Ironically, Johnson has declared that President Donald Trump wants a “rematch of the Civil War.” However, it is Johnson who is pursuing antebellum policies. It was the South that claimed independence from the Union and fought to expel federal troops.
Johnson signed a ridiculous executive order creating “ICE-Free Zones” to ban federal agents from using city-owned properties and property of unwilling private owners as staging areas for immigration enforcement.
The federal government has its own jurisdictional authority and can enter city and private property in pursuit of lawful operations. In terms of “staging” operations, the Constitution, not Brandon Johnson, protects citizens from having their property seized or used for the quartering of troops.
Most importantly, the City of Chicago cannot arrest federal officers who are conducting federal operations. This point was correctly noted earlier by Chicago Police Supt. Larry Snelling, who said that CPD officers will not arrest federal law enforcement, “because someone deems what they are doing is illegal.”
Nevertheless, Johnson was back to his signature chest-pounding bravado: “We’re going to see people in court. As far as other authority that allows for us to be able to enforce this ordinance, we’re exploring.”
In the meantime, Gov. J.B. Pritzker has been using equally inflammatory language about a few hundred National Guardsmen “occupying” the city and, most recently, told Rachel Maddow that the National Guard would intimidate voters at polling places and it might even seize voting boxes or ballots to steal the upcoming election.
Both leaders are attempting to marshal the mob for political purposes. At a time of rising political violence, including the recent sniper attack on an ICE facility and the Charlie Kirk assassination, Pritzker and Johnson are fueling the rage.
The federal government has the right to enforce these laws to deport individuals. Congress passed these laws and, if these politicians oppose them, they can seek to rescind deportation laws in the democratic system.
Johnson has continued to double down on his reckless rhetoric, declaring that
“The Trump administration must end the war on Chicago. The Trump administration must end this war against Americans. The Trump administration must end its attempt to dismantle our democracy.”
Threatening the arrest of federal officers enforcing federal law is not defending the rule of law or democracy. Indeed, a similar claim was made by Southern politicians not only before the Civil War but during the Civil Rights era. It was governors like George Wallace who insisted that he could stop federal officials and the National Guard from enforcing federal law.
Likewise, it was George Wallace who objected to the “unwelcomed, unwanted, unwarranted, and force-induced intrusion” in his state by federal law enforcement.
Before Johnson attempts to arrest federal officials, he might want to take another look at the Constitution and review some history on the subject. Wallace also tried to ride the wave of rage to power after “standing at the schoolhouse door in person, if necessary.” It did not work. The federal government prevailed, and Wallace was left as a tragic relic of history.
Let your rage fuel you!!
– Abigail Spanberger (aka BFF Jay Jones)
Freedom loving Virginians vote for freedom loving Lt Gov Winsome Earle Sears
With all due respect, Wallace benefited greatly from his defiance and continued to play a large role in US politics for many years until he was shot. You may recall Wallace is the last third party candidate for President to receive Electoral College votes.
Political karma is not always instant. Johnson will ride that wave until it peters out.
Wallace was a Democrat. He ran as an independent because he was willing to say what the Democrats stood for and the establishment Democrats didn’t want the truth out. George Wallace perfectly represented the Democratic party. He still does but the Democrats still don’t want the truth of their party known to the public.
how many electoral college voted did John Anderson win in 1980?
John Anderson won 7 electoral college votes in 1.980
Here is an example of the total incompetence of the prosecutors in the Comey case.
They asked for a trial date in July 2026, citing the need to review a vast amount of classified material needed as evidence.
Comey’s counsel responded, that the government’s lack of a plan is putting the cart before the horse. “Usually, you figure out classified information issues in consultation with DOJ’s national security division BEFORE bringing a case”, he said.
The government indicated that it is not yet sure how it intends to handle the potential use of classified information at trial — i.e., whether it will use the process set out in the Classified Information Procedures Act (CIPA) or opt to declassify the information.
The judge, for his part, warned the government that the case shouldn’t get off track because of classified information issues. “Either the information will be declassified or we’ll go through the fastest CIPA process you’ve ever seen in your life,” he said.
This judge is definitely not messing around.
I suspect he already realizes that the indictment is defective, considering his comments from the bench when Halligan filed 2 different indictments with conflicting information, then denied ever seeing one of the documents that had her signature.
He just needs to hear a motion to this effect from Comey’s counsel before he dismisses the case.
So then you have nothing to worry about. Your criminal left-wing political operative, who sought illegally to undermine Trump’s chances of winning election through the weaponization of law enforcement, will walk free. You like that because “orange man bad.”
TDS.
What modern, brain dead dems don’t seem to realize: JFK was assassinated by the same people that have taken over the modern democratic party, and all that implies. If you aren’t this stupid, then: enough. Wake the eff up.
” JFK was assassinated by the same people that have taken over the modern democratic party,”
Meyer Lansky is running today’s Democratic Party? Thank you, I did not know that.
In Virginia federal ICE officials are snatching people off the street and won’t allow them to call their spouse and denied constitutional due process. They simply disappear by officials not displaying badges or their faces.
When federal officials are violating any person’s constitutional rights, it’s perfectly legitimate for local or state officials to check & balance any federal official violating their own oath of office.
That’s the same standard federal officials used intervening in local and state government practicing Jim Crow laws. If the government officials are disloyal to their oath of office – other officials can check that illegal conduct.
You know what all the condemnation of Jim Crow reminds me of??? It reminds me of Dirty Harry, when he was in the stadium, and he had the murderous little weasel on the ground with a leg wound. The weasel was crying about his rights, and Dirty Harry ground his foot into the wound until the little creep coughed up the location of the kidnapped girl. You see, what Dirty Harry did was not constitutional, and maybe even immoral. But it what I would have done under the same circumstances, and I would have lived with the sin of it. Because it had a good outcome.
Jim Crow is like that. It was not constitutional, and probably racist and immoral. But you know, African Americans, as a whole, were happier then, and lived less vile and violent lives. There was a black community because blacks had to rely on each other. Black kids went to black schools, and had black teachers, who could whomp the heck out of them when they acted up, without the brat and the baby mamma hollering RACISM! There were black businesses, and black professionals, and most black people were married, and their kids born in wedlock. There was a better outcome than what happened after the civil rights crusades. It’s counter-intuitive, and if you think I am crazy, or a secret Klan member, watch this. Jesse grew up in Alabama, during Jim Crow days. It gets really relevant about 7:00 minutes in:
The American Founders established a nation, its law, and its population.
None were ever legislatively and constitutionally abrogated.
What happened?
It was always a simple matter of benevolent and compassionate repatriation.
What happened?
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Naturalization Acts of 1790, 1795, 1798, 1802 (four iterations for maximal clarity)
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….
Virginia federal ICE officials are snatching people off the street…..
The Martians are coming, the Martians are coming!!!!!
“One if by land, and two if by sea.”
– “Paul Revere’s Ride,” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1860
SCOTUS heard a case today:
The opposition takes the stand that it’s snake oil, malpractice to say talk therapy can reset gender identity. Gender identity is as real as appendicitis and to suggest that prayer and talk will heal the appendix is harmful and can result in death.
A friend told me that about the arguments.
A friend told me that telling little children that Tranny is cool, that they can become the other sex simply by demanding surgical mutilation of their bodies and a lifelong regime of drugs is the sort of thing normal people would assume ended when underdeveloped cultures took their children to witch doctors’ mud hut to deal with emotional problems they were displaying.
Dana Bash just now on CNN refers to Nancy Pelosi as ‘Madam Speaker.’
SHE’s NOT THE SPEAKER!
Mike Johnson is the Speaker.
Please STOP with giving these people honorifics for the rest of their pathetic lives as if a royal title has bestowed upon them.
She had the job and got to use the title.
She no longer has the job.
She is Rep. Pelosi. CALL HER BY HER CURRENT TITLE for pete’s sake.
STOP allowing these people to continue to use titles for jobs they NO LONGER HAVE!
Sheesh it makes me sick.
Hillary Clinton is another abuser of previous titles. She is just Citizen Hillary Clinton.
She is not a Secretary of anything.
She is not a Senator of any state.
She is not First Lady.
She is not employed by the government in any position.
STOP CALLING HER SECRETARY CLINTON!
She is NOT in any freakin’ government job.
She is a private citizen. She is Mrs. Clinton. Refer to her as such.
Sheesh. When you leave the government job, you leave the title behind as well!
The government jobs do not include use of royal political titles for life.
Just stop it already.
” She is Mrs. Clinton. Refer to her as such.”
I must disagree somewhat. It;s fine with me if anyone wants to refer to her by the sobriquet “D*o*u*c*h*e**B*a*g.\”
X
REBELLION – INSURRECTION
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson…sending…ICE agents…is “like redoing the Civil War.”
Mayor Brandon Johnson just claimed that the “Right-Wing” of this country wants a REMATCH of the CIVIL WAR…
“The right wing of this country wants a REMATCH of the Civil War. The President has declared war against the people of Chicago!”
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Proclamation 80—Calling Forth the Militia and Convening an Extra Session of Congress
“On April 15, 1861,…President Abraham Lincoln issued a proclamation calling forth the state militias, to the sum of 75,000 troops, in order to suppress the rebellion. He appealed ‘to all loyal citizens to favor, facilitate, and aid this effort to maintain the honor, the integrity, and the existence of our National Union.’”
Proclamation 92—Warning to Rebel Sympathizers
“[On] July 17, 1862,…I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, do hereby proclaim to and warn all persons within the contemplation of said sixth section to cease participating in, aiding, countenancing, or abetting the existing rebellion or any rebellion against the Government of the United States and to return to their proper allegiance to the United States on pain of the forfeitures and seizures as within and by said sixth section provided.”
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Abraham Lincoln was a Great American President.
Now President Donald J. Trump MUST implement his rendition of “The Lincoln Era,” close the border, rescind rebel sanctuary cities, compassionately repatriate all illegal and unassimilable aliens, revoke birthright citizenship, make English the sole official language, commence a war to defeat the rebellion, impose martial law, suspend habeas corpus, “smash” rebel printing presses, networks, podcasts, and social media platforms, and imprison political opponents and rebel judges, all in order to save, not the Union, but the Nation, eradicate the communist American welfare state, and place America squarely back on the Constitution and Bill of Rights, including absolute freedom, free enterprise, free industries, free markets, private property, and minimal taxation and regulation, alongside infinitesimal constitutional government.
Slavery was not the cause of the civil war. The south wanting to secede from the union was. Fort Sumpter.
TRUTH BE KNOWN
Secession is not prohibited in the Constitution. Secession was included in the constitution ratification documents of multiple states. The 10th Amendment provides for powers not delegated to the U.S. and not prohibited to the states to be reserved to the states. The power of secession is reserved to the states.
Lincoln deployed military forces on the territory of a sovereign foreign nation; Lincoln was derelict and refused to remove his military forces from the territory of a sovereign foreign nation, which is commonly referred to as an illegal invasion.
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“It’s the [law], stupid!”
– James Carville
TRUTH BE KNOWN:
“Stupid is as stupid does.”
– Mrs Gump, talking to her son Forrest Gump, explaining why Confederate Kluxxers like GeorgeX treated his friend Bubba as they did.
That includes claiming you can “repatriate” people born in America, who have never been anywhere other than a Democrat Kluxxer slave plantation to countries they have never been to.
And only demand their “repatriation” after the Confederate Democrats lost the ability to own those black Americans and use them as slave labor.
The insurrectionist Confederate Kluxxers were firing on federal troops and ships LONG before Fort Sumpter. Ultimately, the country’s patience with them ran out.
The earliest known example of American culls experiencing FAFO.
OT
Has anyone noticed that freeloading parasites and illegal aliens all have healthcare insurance, and they’re using Americans’ doctors? You can’t get an appointment for months. America suffers from national healthcare just like Canada, the UK, etc. Healthcare is free for the leeches, which makes it almost impossible to obtain. Thank God for the illegal alien invasion. Oh, and thank Obongo, Biden, and the dumbocrat parasite party.
Darn, but this is a great article. Stumbled across it on Free Rpublic. Best lines IMHO, “The path back to a civilized society is long and uncertain, but we have no choice except to begin. The goal is not to change minds but to correct behavior. ”
The Progressive Left’s Descent Into Barbarism
Can we re-civilize our society?
Martin Gurri
There often comes a moment in the pursuit of a noble but hopeless cause when the idealist discards both ideals and human bonds, embracing barbarism in the name of a higher purpose. The progressive Left has reached that moment in its moral decline. Once self-styled protectors of the marginalized, progressives now push their opponents beyond the margins—and beyond the pale. Their cause is the defense of victims, yet some have victimized their adversaries to death, while others have mocked and abused the dead afterward. Champions of compassion have mutated into purveyors of hatred. Whether these perverse reversals have penetrated the sect’s own consciousness, I cannot say.
Possibly, the Left’s belief system made its descent into barbarism inevitable. Progressives long ago cast aside God, religion, and other transcendental restraints. The moral order and conventional rules of a supposedly oppressive society mean less than nothing to them. What remains is hedonism and the will to power. In the Internet age, both find expression in rituals of demonization—destroying those whose opinions offend them, whether through harassment by a digital lynch mob, coerced confessions and firings, or, as in the cold-blooded killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, outright political assassination. It is the same principle aimed at the same end: hate the haters more brutally than they hate you.
Kirk’s murder can be blamed on an unstable individual. The reaction is harder to explain. Many progressives seemed blind to the horror of the crime; many more rushed to strip the victim of his humanity, cheering the extermination of a 31-year-old father of two as if it were a touchdown for the home team.
Mike Solana has compiled a partial roster of loathsome reactions to the murder. It makes for astonishing reading. Teachers, nurses, engineers, civil servants—posting under their real names and affiliations, certain that the world would applaud—exulted in the simple message: he got what he deserved. Others on X and Bluesky eagerly nominated more candidates for the slaughterhouse. The kill list included Joe Rogan, J. K. Rowling, Ben Shapiro, Elon Musk, and, of course, Donald Trump.
Famous personalities joined in. Stephen King, the horror novelist, bizarrely claimed that Kirk had advocated stoning gays. Elite attorney George Conway posted a photo of Horst Wessel, a murdered young Nazi—apparently Kirk’s parallel. MSNBC’s Matthew Dowd virtually accused the victim of being his own murderer for inciting “hateful actions.” In this way, a man with a creed objectionable to the Left was reduced to a mute abstraction: white supremacist, fascist youth leader, Nazi, gun maniac, Christian fanatic. Silencing him forever became a positive good.
Most Democratic Party worthies initially condemned “violence,” as if the killing had descended from the clouds untouched by human motives. Others weren’t so charitable. J. B. Pritzker, governor of Illinois and presidential hopeful, and Elizabeth Warren, queen of Senate progressives, somehow managed to implicate Donald Trump—and even the January 6 riots—as guilty parties in Kirk’s death. One can only wonder whether any Democratic leaders felt a moment of sincere compassion, self-questioning, or doubt about how to treat a political opponent in a democracy. I have seen little evidence that they did.
The media, as ever, played the role of institutional enabler in the progressive slide into barbarism. On X, Bluesky, and Instagram, users staged standing ovations over the snuffing out of a human life. Maybe the surge of hatred overwhelmed the safety algorithms—but think back to 2020. What would have been the fate of anyone who applauded George Floyd’s killing or urged further violence? Those posts would have been flagged and deleted in a nanosecond, their authors banished forever to digital hell. By contrast, those who defiled Kirk’s corpse online under their own names clearly felt safe, and in terms of platform tolerance, they were right.
The prestige press, operating on its mandatory anti-Trump principles, played an even more contemptible role. Kirk was an ardent Trump supporter, and that settled coverage: even with a bullet in his neck, he had to be cast as the villain.
The original New York Times headline, later changed, labeled Kirk a “rightwing provocateur.” That implied that he got what he was asking for. In what might be the least gracious obituary ever published, the Times accused Kirk of spreading “outright lies” during the pandemic about hydroxychloroquine. Here was a charismatic figure gunned down while promoting open debate, and the paper chose to scold his corpse about Covid cures. The Times then invited Hasan Piker, a leftist podcaster best known for saying that the U.S. “deserved” 9/11, to deliver a posthumous takedown: “I was supposed to debate Charlie Kirk. Here’s what I would have said.” Piker and the Times presumably thought they had won the argument. After all, no one talked back.
The psycho-political pathologies unleashed by Kirk’s assassination should not have surprised us. The signs were already evident. Polls show that 55 percent of those who identify as “left of center” say that killing President Trump would be justified. We heard the giggles, including from another Democratic White House wannabe, Tim Walz, at rumors of Trump’s death or grave illness—Trump would, with luck, die soon. Two real attempts on the president’s life have failed, to the loud regret of many on the left. We watched progressive women idolize Luigi Mangioni for shooting a health-insurance executive in the back. And in every case, media narratives could be found ready to explain away, even justify, the violence.
And there were other signs. A repeat offender—a black man—slashed a young white woman to death on a Charlotte light rail train, and the city’s enlightened mayor issued an initial statement full of understanding for the attacker and his mental condition, while never once mentioning the victim. The lesson was plain: some groups in our society deserve compassion; others apparently deserve to die.
Charlie Kirk’s murder pushed many of us to a tipping point. We now know where we stand. Kooks and cranks thrive under every dispensation—granted. But most conservatives and Republicans don’t cheer assassinations. Most old-fashioned liberals and Democrats don’t, either. This derangement belongs to the progressive Left.
In June, when the House of Representatives voted to honor a slain Democratic state senator, the outcome was unanimous. When the same body sought to honor Kirk, 58 of the 212 Democrats voted against the measure. Those numbers define a civilizational battleground. From the House floor, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez reviled Kirk as “ignorant” and “uneducated.” The Left’s hatred proved stronger than life or death.
How do we re-civilize fellow citizens who have chosen barbarism? The alternative is a sharp escalation of violence. It won’t be civil war—there are too many reasons against that, not least our fragmentation. Fortunately, hatred is not an organizing principle.
But much bloodshed and horror can occur short of civil war. We haven’t yet reached the madness of 1971–72, when leftist groups carried out 2,500 bombings and murdered police officers. But such violence can erupt quickly and persist for years. Today’s information environment makes it easy to track the movements of controversial figures, turning incitement into personal, targeted threats. In one possible future, anyone with a political opinion will be forced to cower inside a coffin of bulletproof glass.
Most tragic of all would be for Republicans to retaliate in kind, endorsing and inciting violence against opponents. Any hope of restoring sanity would vanish, and much of American life, including urban centers and universities, would come to resemble the gunfight at the O.K. Corral on endless replay.
The path back to a civilized society is long and uncertain, but we have no choice except to begin. The goal is not to change minds but to correct behavior. American politics should reflect the sanity of the great majority. Criticism across partisan lines can be harsh, even vicious, but should never be dehumanizing. No American elected official is Hitler. No faction with millions of supporters is a coven of fascists. No party owns a monopoly on “our democracy.” These self-serving claims, once dismissed as Internet bluster, are now splattered in blood—and must be condemned, loudly and without qualification, by all people of good will.
Everyone has a part to play. We must withhold our money and attention until a relatively level playing field is attained in media and entertainment. We must assert our voices and our votes until the funding and privileges that progressive groups currently enjoy in our institutions are stripped away. We must mock without mercy land acknowledgments, pronoun proliferation, and all the little rituals through which progressives ensure our obedience, until these are abolished forever.
Republicans must police the blowback from the Kirk murder to prevent violence and lawlessness from the right. In the heat of the moment, the Trump administration must not wield state power in ways that it has previously condemned. Attorney General Pam Bondi’s chatter about banning “hate speech” was an embarrassment, for example. Brendan Carr, head of the FCC, looked ludicrous impersonating a Hollywood gangster over the Jimmy Kimmel flap. Republicans should remember that they have ascended proportionately as the Democrats abused their authority when in office. With the roles now reversed, they have much to lose.
In the end, Democrats have the hardest part to play. The party consists of a large but passive liberal majority and a highly active progressive minority. When the two align, as in the Biden years, liberal moderation is buried under an avalanche of progressive projects, each an assault on existing social and political norms. That must change. Traditional liberals need to mount a counteroffensive. At the very least, they must persuade progressives that venom and hatred are poor persuaders. In a better world, liberals would grasp that the fundamental threat to their ideals comes not from the villainous Trump but from the radical Left—not least because Trump always gains when the public associates liberals with their unhinged progressive allies.
This realization seems unlikely, however. Democrats are too deeply consumed with Trump-phobia—87 percent of the party faithful are positive the president is a fascist. But Trump will not be around forever, and his successors probably won’t inherit his peculiar gift for driving otherwise rational actors insane. This is a generational struggle for the soul of the Left, one that the liberals, for their sake and ours, must win. If they succeed, the Democratic Party could once again campaign from the strategic center, positioned between the excesses of the MAGA movement and the violence of the radical Left.
Until that day, Democrats will continue to conduct progressive experiments in states like California and Illinois—building windmills rather than houses, for example, and outlawing plastic straws instead of street crime. So long as the Left is in control, with unconstrained rage as its chief motivation, the party should be kept as far as possible from the coercive machinery of national government.
Talk of re-civilizing society sounds farfetched; hatred is as addictive as fentanyl, and potentially even more destructive. Such collapses of human feeling as we have seen can only leave us in wonder—and despair.
Yet, we should never underestimate the power of decency or forget the vast moral resources available to us as Americans. Our history has been the record of our overcoming—with the forces of division, often at the crisis point, tamed by the better angels of our nature. That process may have already begun. In a remarkable gesture, Erika Kirk, a young widow, publicly forgave her husband’s assassin. Such generosity is improbable, but it reflects the finest impulses of the American spirit and shows us the way to higher ground. After a season of barbarism we can, if we choose, inaugurate an age of forgiveness.
https://www.city-journal.org/article/progressive-left-barbarism-charlie-kirk-murder
Martin Gurri is a former CIA analyst and the author of The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium.
I read every word.
We all read every word.
Please give us more.
I am very glad that you enjoyed it! I thought that it was fantastic, too!
What exactly was its subject matter? Maybe next time you can provide the CliffsNotes rendition. Better yet, get your own blog; everyone will be there, indubitably!
gee i wonder where you got the idea of CliffsNotes or getting one;s own blog. was it reading other people’s comments?
Get a blog where you can post vast screeds that visitors don’t read but simply scroll over, then no one’s the wiser and no one cares.
(The path back to a civilized society is long and uncertain, but we have no choice except to begin. The goal is not to change minds but to correct behavior.) That sounds reasonble and sane but just look to history and see how many times this has worked…
I blame the right for not paying attention 60 years ago at least – now I think our tipping point has gone and we will not be able to rehabilitate or remove the pernicious combination of nihilism, communism, islamic jihad and atheism that has seized half of this nation.
Unfortunately, I do think civil war is at hand.
WhimsicalMama,
Not sure I would call it a “civil” war, given the various demographics in various geophysical locations. More like a Balkenization war. I could see something setting off a minor incursion, then snowballing as other groups take advantage of the situation. Could be race war, religious war, gang war, political war, class war, war over land, etc. After reading about the SIM server farms in NYC, could throw in a few other state actors too.
Yes, I do not think most of regular Americans understand the depth of the situation in which we find ourselves. The riots that have happened many times in our past were not as funded as these various entities. There was never such a concerted effort by outside actors to extinguish this nation as they know that as long as we remain that beacon of freedom they cannot control the globe. They must bring us down in order to complete their goal of world-wide domination.
Americans, in general, are in a fog of comfort and ignorance and they were made to be that way, like happy fat pigs being led to slaughter.
“Not sure I would call it a “civil” war,”
Incivil war, then. Whatever you choose to call it, I’m 98% convinced it’s coming in my lifetime, and I’m pretty old (I can still sight a rifle and squeeze a trigger, however).
Every Chicago PD officer is aware that they won’t be arresting any federal anybodys, thank god.
His declarations on Trump’s intentions are his racist dog-whistle which unfortunately work on many but not those that are actually the in-charge responsible adults. reprehensible angry brandon-baby getting all the racists on his side for votes.
Once again, it bears repeating that when Dems and the left refer to “our democracy” they mean it exclusively the way communists have used it since early in the last century, as in “Democratic People’s Republic.” But even that implies a national interest and in the 21st century it means a globalist tyranny.
Incredibly ironic that a black mayor follows the script of George Wallace! MLK is turning in his grave.
Turning over his plagiarized PhD while dreaming of his extramarital affairs and defrauding his congregation and deity.
Turning over his plagiarized PhD while dreaming of his extramarital affairs and defrauding his congregation and deity.
AI gets it! The REAL problem with America is US. Kinda like the Walt Kelly Pogo swamp critters trooping around the Swamp to find The Enemy who was trashing the swamp, only to stumble the realization that. “The Enemy is us!”
From AI:
John Adams stated that the Constitution was “made only for a moral and religious people”. His full quote explained that the Constitution “is wholly inadequate to the government of any other”.
This sentiment was based on the belief that a self-governing republic could only succeed if its citizens possessed a strong sense of virtue and morality. Adams and other founders, such as Benjamin Franklin, believed that a limited government would fail without the internal moral compass of its people.
Key takeaways from Adams’s perspective:
Virtue as a necessity: Adams believed that no government is “armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion”. He argued that without these internal checks, citizens’ vices would tear the constitutional framework apart.
Limited government: By structuring the Constitution with limited powers, the framers assumed that the citizens themselves would uphold a level of moral integrity. If the people lacked this, the government would need to become more authoritarian to maintain order.
The broader view of religion: While Adams referenced religion, his view was not about establishing a state religion. Instead, he saw religious belief as a foundation for the broader moral principles necessary for society to function. The founders generally understood that a virtuous population was essential for liberty to flourish.
FWIW, here is John Adams FULL letter:
From John Adams to Massachusetts Militia, 11 October 1798
To the Officers of the first Brigade of the third Division of the Militia of Massachusetts
Quincy October 11. 1798
Gentlemen
I have received from Major General Hull and Brigadier General Walker your unanimous Address from Lexington, animated with a martial Spirit and expressed with a military Dignity, becoming your Characters and the place memorable Plains, in which it was adopted.
While our Country remains untainted with the Principles and manners, which are now producing desolation in so many Parts of the World: while she continues Sincere and incapable of insidious and impious Policy: We shall have the Strongest Reason to rejoice in the local destination assigned Us by Providence. But should the People of America, once become capable of that deep simulation towards one another and towards foreign nations, which assumes the Language of Justice and moderation while it is practicing Iniquity and Extravagance; and displays in the most captivating manner the charming Pictures of Candour frankness & sincerity while it is rioting in rapine and Insolence: this Country will be the most miserable Habitation in the World.
Because We have no Government armed with Power capable of contending with human Passions unbridled by morality and Religion. Avarice, Ambition, Revenge or Galantry, would break the strongest Cords of our Constitution as a Whale goes through a Net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other
An Address so unanimous and firm from the officers commanding two thousand Eight hundred Men, consisting of such substantial Citizens as are able and willing at their own Expence, compleatly to arm, And cloath themselves in handsome Uniforms does honor to that Division of the Militia which has done so much honor to their Country. Oaths, in this Country, are as yet universally considered as Sacred Obligations. That which you have taken and so solemnly repeated on that venerable Spot is an ample Pledge of your sincerity, and devotion to your Country and its Government.
John Adams
MHi: Adams Papers.
Early Access Link Note: this link will eventually disappear!
https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/99-02-02-3102
https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/99-02-02-3102
What stoopid garbage.
“John Adams stated that the Constitution was “made only for a moral and religious people”. His full quote explained that the Constitution “is wholly inadequate to the government of any other”. ”
I agree with that statement (among quite a few others) from Adams (a cousin). I only wish his own conduct had lived up to what came out of his pen. After the Revolutionary War, Boston and many of its mover and shakers, including the Adamses, were running low on funds as a result of substantially bankrolling it. But instead of just appreciating what had been achieved and tightening their belts, they chose to inflict some penurious state taxes on the much poorer farmers of Western Massachusetts. The result was Shay’s Rebellion, in which those farmers were battling taxation without representation, which was one of the rallying cries of the Revolution. Shay’s Rebellion put down by William Shepard and Benjamin Lincoln, and many of its leaders threatened with execution at the behest of Samuel Adams, without opposition from (and likely in collusion with) his brother John.
MAGA influencers and fans are upset they didn’t get their Comey perp walk. They really wanted that perp walk. It looks like he walked in through a backdoor on his own.
the backdoor is where the shameful enter, and exit towards the prison transport van.
They might have to widen that door to accomodate the soon to be increased traffic
Especially with tubs like Pritzger. 😉
“the backdoor is where the shameful enter”
I think I maybe read that in the Bible somewhere. . . 🙂
““the backdoor is where the shameful enter”
I think I maybe read that in the Bible somewhere. . .”
In the account of Sodom and Gomorrah, perhaps?
What’s Comey’s legal bill so far?
Biden’s Bolshevik Birthing Boys are finding some tiny comfort there was no Biden style FBI “perp walk”, while consumed by rage that their favorite Obama police state fascist was actually indicted after getting away with his serial felonies pushing their felonious Russia Dossier.
Another manufactured left wing nut claim.
Given how effectively Trump has used YOUR lawfare efforts – Why exactly would those who expect consequences for the illegal garbage that the aparatich’s or the deep state and Obama/Biden admin want to Give Comey the oportunity to do the same.
In REAL news – the CIA has released a letter from VP Biden to the CIA asking them to supress a report reporting on Ukraine’s concerns about the illegal conduct of the Biden family in Ukraine.
This is TEXTBOOK obstruction of justice.
I always find it amazing that left wing nuts can overlook blatant criminal acts of those they support
while claiming that innocuous legal acts by those they oppose are great crimes.
As Turley has noted about – Past Presidents have used the NG over the objections of Governors to protect the civil rights of citizens. This has occured MANY times in the past.
No Trump is not being a totalitarian tyrant.
He is sending in the NG to HELP Federal Law Enforcement to enforce federal laws that are decades old.
That Obama and Biden mostly ignored.
While Everyone arrested by ICE is not a violent criminal – those are the priority and the target,
Only an idiot would be getting in the way of law enforcement as they arrest Violent Criminals.
None of this would be necessary if state and local law enforcement would cooperate.
When they have criminal illegal aliens in custody – notify ICE so they can be transferred to federal custody and deported. This saves local governments money, and is the fastest way to reduce the number of violent criminals in a community.
@John
We live in a generational era where younger people have been trained, over decades, to think that simply enforcing the basic law is ‘tyranny’. Being arrested for actual crimes committed is being, ‘disappeared’. I do not know how we deal with what is very real mental illness on such a broad scale. One cannot reason law or Constitution with people that are environmentally, chemically, or otherwise, insane. And that is what we are dealing with, make no mistake. It is honest to goodness madness. Treat it accordingly. None of our pontification matters one whit.
James,
Well said. I mentioned in the Jimmy Kimmel column that it could be that Kimmel truly did believe what he said as he might of been in such a echo bubble, the only thing he read was the Blue anon conspiracy theories and there were a lot of those running around at the time, despite the evidence to the contrary. And when that evidence became facts, they attempted to claim it was a right wing conspiracy. And when that failed, suddenly they quietly went away.
How a conspiracy theory about Charlie Kirk’s killer being ‘MAGA’ spread online to Kimmel and beyond
All credible first-hand evidence points to Charlie Kirk’s assassin being a leftist. That has not stopped prominent Democrats and media celebrities from trying to claim the shooter was a far right “Groyper.”
https://justthenews.com/accountability/media/how-conspiracy-about-charlie-kirk-shooter-being-rightwing-spread-online-kimmel?utm_source=referral&utm_medium=offthepress&utm_campaign=home
Now we are seeing them siding with the criminals and blaming the victims. Or getting arrested is kidnapping or disappearing. When inconvenient facts come to light, like Laken Riley murderer was a illegal who entered the country in Sept of 2022, they ignore it ever happened.
“We live in a generational era where younger people have been trained, over decades, to think that simply enforcing the basic law is ‘tyranny’.”
The ol’ “kids these days” naive belief that the only ones buying into this BullSchiff shows incredible blindness to all the rest of the population that can’t be characterized as “younger people” who just as eagerly embrace this belief.
And a similar naive blindness to the fact it isn’t “younger people” embracing, pushing and advocating this crap.
If we just blame “younger people”, then maybe it will simply go away! No matter how hard Democrat politicians who aren’t “younger people” both embrace and parrot this nonsense!
James,
A few months ago, I listened to something, on YouTube, by, or read by at least, Jordan B. Peterson, in which he talks about the powers on the Left basically creating a “mass psychosis” in the country.
Once this mass psychosis is fully in place, then the goverment will step in to “fix” society.
Fixing a mass psychosis-addled society will, most likely, need to be achieved through totalitarian means. The folks who constantly accuse DJT of being a dictator and authoritarian, would like nothing bettter than to do exactly that themselves.
Let us not forget, the Left, and their academics, love to “re-jigger” society.
I fear that we’ve already started on the path to mass psychosis, if we’re not there already.
John Say,
“ In REAL news – the CIA has released a letter from VP Biden to the CIA asking them to supress a report reporting on Ukraine’s concerns about the illegal conduct of the Biden family in Ukraine.”
and the link to this claim is…where again?
“ Given how effectively Trump has used YOUR lawfare efforts – Why exactly would those who expect consequences for the illegal garbage that the aparatich’s or the deep state and Obama/Biden admin want to Give Comey the oportunity to do the same.”
Effectively? More like bumbling incompetence and embarrassment.
“ I always find it amazing that left wing nuts can overlook blatant criminal acts of those they support
while claiming that innocuous legal acts by those they oppose are great crimes.“
What criminal acts? Biden didn’t commit any crimes. Even if it were true he would be immune from prosecution thanks to Trump.
“ As Turley has noted about – Past Presidents have used the NG over the objections of Governors to protect the civil rights of citizens. This has occured MANY times in the past.”
Well Duh! When states refuse to abide by constitonal laws like refusing to acknowledge segregation laws were unconstitutional the NG was rightfully used. Whose rights have been violated under Trump’s rule to justify the deployment of NG troops?
Trump is using the National Guard to “help” states fight crime and protect federal facilities because….some protesters are a little loud. That’s not a legal justification for using the military. States are not legally obligated to assist the feds in any way. That is not a legal reason to deploy the NG.
“ He is sending in the NG to HELP Federal Law Enforcement to enforce federal laws that are decades old.”
Nope. That would be a violation of the Posse Comitatus act. NG troops cannot act as federal law enforcement. They can be used to control rioters, but not participate in any apprehension or arrests of illegal immigrants or fight crime which is what Trump wants.
“ None of this would be necessary if state and local law enforcement would cooperate.”
No state is required to cooperate. Not the police, state police, or sheriffs.
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@ everyone, please remember to not feed the trolls. Otherwise, they become dependent on human interaction, and will be unable to fend for themselves.
“ None of this would be necessary if state and local law enforcement would cooperate.”
“No state is required to cooperate. Not the police, state police, or sheriffs.”
Way to completely ignore the point, George.
No one said they were required to cooperate.
Read what he said again, dunce.
If someone said “you wouldnt have lice if you washed your hair”, your response is “i’m not required to wash my hair.”?
Idiot.
John Say,
Additional evidence to add to your comment, Joe Biden’s team blocked CIA from distributing report on son Hunter’s Ukraine business dealings
Report raised concern about “double standard” on foreign corruption and VP office’s request to block was “extremely rare and unusual.”
https://justthenews.com/accountability/political-ethics/emb8amvp-bidens-team-intervened-prevent-distribution-cia-report-his
Please note, a redacted version of the declassified document is included in this report. I can see why, “I just spoke with VP/NSA and he would strongly prefer the report not/not be disseminated,” the vice president’s Presidential Daily Brief briefer told the CIA. “Thanks for understanding.”
Wrong. We are not upset about anything. We did not really want that perp walk. Let us see how this plays out in a trial.
What’s Comey’s legal bill so far?
We have a Left-wing violence problem in this country fueled by Democrats.
Man With 200 Explosives And Leftist Manifesto Arrested Outside Supreme Court Event At Church: Police
Oct 7, 2025
Washington, D.C., police on Sunday arrested a man with hundreds of explosive devices outside a church holding a Mass in honor of the Supreme Court. The man had a manifesto that suggested he was targeting the Supreme Court and Catholics, according to court papers obtained by The Daily Wire.
Louis Geri, a 41-year-old from Arizona and New Jersey, was apprehended outside the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle on October 5, the same day the church held its annual “Red Mass” in which a cardinal prays for the high court as it embarks on a new term, and which is historically attended by justices.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/man-with-200-explosives-and-leftist-manifesto-arrested-outside-supreme-court-event-at-church-police
See it’s a dem issue, not Prez Trump
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Attorney General Pam Bondi and Republican Tennessee Sen. Marsha Blackburn called out Democratic Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin during a Tuesday hearing for not publishing deceased pedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s flight logs.
Is the U.S. Constitution Broken?
NO-NO-NO, If you think about that, it’s that Unqualified People (and evidently an Unqualified Generation) have taken up positions in the arms of Government and only know how to run it from the corrupt predecessor before them. So the system of Government just keeps sinking lower and lower.
I’ll rephrase, the acolytes of Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, … Chicago Mayors; Rahm Emanuel (55th mayor 2011-2019, Lori Lightfoot (56th mayor 2019-2023), Brandon Johnson (57th mayor 2023-present) et.al. Political Dilettantes 2.0 are part of the Bloodline of systemic corruption that continues to live on in the present era.
On one hand: “If it ain’t broke don’t break it”. on the other hand: “If the Shoe Fits wear it”.
So the Political Figure (in this case Mayor Brandon Johnson) just goes along for the ride and Banks ($$$) what they can.
Example: Joe Biden sure as hell got his 10%, and the Clinton’s are sitting mighty high on a solid foundation of Cash. Look at the wealth of Congressional Members. enough said.
SO THERE YOU HAVE IT! Politics and the Circumvention of Social Contracts [K] PAYS.
Oh by the way, -YOU THERE- sitting home and watching the show amusingly say: ‘IT IS WHAT IT IS’.
Well that’s a real intelligent summation, uh huh.
– IT IS WHAT IT IS BECAUSE THEY ARE WHAT THEY ARE –
(Politicians taking Us for Fools, and they are right)
A couple other news stories circulating today:
– Greta Thunberg posted a photo of an abused, tortured Israeli held hostage by Hamas for 2 years, to say: “look how bad Israel is for doing this to Hamas”
– A leftist with 200 incendiary devices was arrested outside a church in DC where conservative Scotus Justices sometimes attend. The arrest took place shortly before the mass to pray for justice, which happened on October 6, the first day Scotus is in session for this term.
– The feds have arrested an Uber driver for arson for starting the Pacific Palisades fire.
Old
I saw that picture. I guess no-one told her to check before posting.
“I guess no-one told her to check before posting.”
“Checking” facts requires a functioning brain, an attribute that it has been obvious for years that Grating Thornbutt completely lacks…
And they still say that the right causes more violence than the left.
That’s because the Left includes Islamic violence within the definition of “right-wing violence.” Of course, that’s backwards: just look at which side of the spectrum is supporting Hamas and Islamicism. But the ADL said so until recently, so they swallow it hook, line, and sinker.
“Joe Biden” used to lecture us on how the real violent threat to this nation is extreme-right White supremacist groups that few people ever see or hear from. Based on that false premise, he unleashed his goons upon moms at schoolboard meetings, dads praying near an abortion clinic, and traditional Catholics who celebrate the mass in Latin. “Joe Biden” – now there’s your real fascist.
Kansas, I look at the ADL as worthless and have for a long time. The left took them over when Foxman still ran it.
Really. The DNC is no longer a party, how much more evidence do people need? This is all absurd, inflammatory, dangerous. Egos running amok. They have been captured by the globalists, and I hesitate to say they’ve been captured by Marxism – the modern DNC is comprised of people with generational, verifiable ties to Marxism and its ilk. We now have an American party and an elitist, globalist one, with some of us in the liminal space in-between. It is not possible to rationalize with despots and tyrants, and that is the modern left, using the husk of past inter-partisanship and fairness as a costume, as would a wolf in a sheep’s skin.
We stand on the precipice of something truly horrible, IMO. Understand: these people do not care a whit about law or the rule of law, just power. It is ignorance coupled with madness, in the truest sense. Add a dash of their unfathomable privilege and it is becoming a perfect storm. We still have the opportunity to turn the tide in this country, we’d best take advantage of it while we can.
We stand on the precipice of something truly horrible.
America got a stay of execution on 11/5/24 by a vote of 312-226. But notice how many states voted against the stay. Notice the 226. That is not comforting. With the flip of a few of those in 2028, the stay could be lifted.
A-Fcking-Men!!! This is why the Walking Dead and zombie flicks are so popular. It is our Collective Unconscious telling us how dangerous the Brain-dead person is, particularly in masses. We sense that we are dire danger from the quantity of Stupidity evident all around us. How symbolic that zombies seem to want to eat (have, possess, obtain) brains from their hapless victims.
@oldman
I don’t disagree. It is madness.
2028 yes, check. But I’m more concerned about 2026 because state races are much more easily subject to vote fraud though the RNC did a lot to correct past abuses, those abuses and schemes which led to the Federal theft of 2020.
OMFK
I am 100% with you on the total stupidity of the left.
But look arround the world – We are past peak woke.
Labor may temporarily control the UK – but they will come in 3rd as soon as there is an election.
The only Question is whether Farage’s reform will outright control Parliment, or whether they will have to negotiate with the Tories – between Reform and Tories the British left is currently outvoted 2:1.
Labour did not get control of the UK by winning a majority, they won with a tiny plurality in a 3 way election.
In the next election they will be wiped out – this is one of the reasons that “first past the post” elections are a really bad idea.
And that is the UK – Whether it is actually La Penn or just her party – there is little doubt who will be running France soon.
Meloni is PM of italy and popular, the afd gets more popular in Germany the more effort is put into criminalizing them – did the germans learn nothing from the lawfare against Trump ?
There is a real danger in Europe that the failure of the European left is so great that truly far right govenrments will actually come to power. But lets be clear – as bad as some of the “far right” leaders in Europe may prove to be, they are not half as bad for their countries as the left wing nuts that are clinging to power by the skin of their teeth.
Did the US avert 4 $hitty years of a Harris presidency in 2024 ? Absolutely.
Do I hope that Vance or Rubio or some other Trump alcolyte wins in 2028 – absolutely.
But despite ranting – mostly from the left, but a little from the right – we are in no danger of civil war.
Large violent riots ? Possibly. Worse left wing political violence than we see right now ? probably.
It appears Mandami will win in NYC – that will be very bad for NYC, but very good for Republicans.
NJ should be a solid blue state – but Murphy was nearly beaten by an unknown who barely ran a campaign,
And the current NJ gov. contests is a dead heat.
VA should have been a shoe in for Ds with Youngkin unable to run, but they are in trouble there too.
The left is in trouble. If they win – they must govern – and they SUCK at that.
If they lose republicans get to fix some of the messes they created.
Overall Malthusian predictions regarding the future are FALSE.
I beleive it is likely the GOP will hold the WH in 2028.
I think it is very likely they will hold and grow their senate majority.
I am increasingly hopeful they will hold the House in 2026 – but that would be very very unusual.
Regardless is there anyone that sees Speaker Jeffries as anything but self harm for democrats.
I am a bit in the weeds – my point is the future is NOT going to be perfect.
But republicans have a secret weapon – nothing sours people on democrats more than democrats actually holding power.
John Say – I hope you’re right, but there could be a black swan event similar to Covid or the 2008 financial crises that changes all that. May God forbid it ends up being a nuclear conflict.
“a black swan event similar to Covid or the 2008 financial crises”
You omitted 9-11. Definitely belongs on an list of similar events.
Rage is all they have left to try to regain power. It’s the only thing that unites all under their (too) big tent.
@Anonymous
It really is, and I do not know why anyone sane would think appealing to our most base instincts is something to celebrate. We are better than this.