Despite calls for many Democratic politicians and pundits to temper their inflammatory rhetoric, this week has proven a further escalation in this dangerous form of rage rhetoric. DNC Chair Ken Martin just told MSNBC’s “The Beat” that “we may be nearing” the moment when “elections don’t matter and then the resistance looks completely different.” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer called on people to “forcefully rise up.” With political violence on the rise, these leaders are clearly fueling the mob in hopes that they and their party can ride the wave of rage back into power. History suggests that it is a foolish delusion. Today’s revolutionaries quickly become tomorrow’s reactionaries.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., who pictures himself brandishing a baseball bat has previously called upon people to “fight in the streets.”
California Governor Gavin Newsom previously declared, “I’m going to punch these sons of bitches in the mouth.”
Virginia Democratic gubernatorial nominee Abigail Spanberger called upon her supporters to “Let your rage fuel you.” She then refused to withdraw her support for the Democratic candidate for Attorney General, Jay Jones, who once expressed his desire to kill his political opponents and his children.
In his podcast with co-host Al Hunt, James Carville was again spewing unhinged hate. He returned to treating Trump and others as Nazis and their supporters as “collaborators.” I previously criticized Carville for that analogy. He later attacked me.
Doubling down, Carville declared
“You know what we do with collaborators? I think these corporations, my fantasy dream is that this nightmare ends in 2029 and I think we ought to have radical things. I think they all ought to have their heads shaven, they should be put in orange pajamas and they should be marched down Pennsylvania Avenue and the public should be invited to spit on them.”
To be sure that his menacing words were not lost, he then added “The universities, the corporations, the law firms, all of these collaborators should be shaved, pajamaed and spit on.”
There was no later push back by his co-host Hunt or anyone else associated with the podcast.
As one of those Carville has already attacked, I expect he has a haircut and public humiliation in mind for me and a significant number of others deemed insufficiently committed to the resistance.
Even with the assassination of Charlie Kirk and the attempts on Trump and Justice Brett Kavanaugh, these politicians and pundits are still fueling the madness. Even with the sniper attack on ICE officers, they are still calling these law enforcement officers “Gestapo” and “Nazis.”
In my book, “The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage,” I write about rage and the uncomfortable truth for many engaging in rage rhetoric:
“What few today want to admit is that they like it. They like the freedom that it affords, the ability to hate and harass without a sense of responsibility. It is evident all around us as people engage in language and conduct that they repudiate in others. We have become a nation of rage addicts, flailing against anyone or anything that stands in opposition to our own truths. Like all addictions, there is not only a dependency on rage but an intolerance for opposing views. … Indeed, to voice free speech principles in a time of rage is to invite the rage of the mob.”
The appearance of guillotines has become commonplace in left-wing protests. From protests against Trump to those against Israel, the symbol of the Terror is being rolled out as a warning to those with opposing views: “We got the guillotine, you better run.”
It is the ultimate expression of an age of rage. There is no question that it is protected speech. However, it is part of what I have called “rage rhetoric,” and it is meant to inflame others. It suggests that the only solution to these issues is what the French called “the razor of the Republic.”
In the French Revolution, the irony is that those who turned the guillotine into the symbol of revolution were themselves beheaded on the same platforms. Robespierre and others would ultimately be dispatched in the same atmosphere of rage and revelry.
As my new book discusses, most revolutions are driven by establishment figures who seek to capitalize on the wave of popular rage to gain power. We are seeing that today with many Democratic leaders using rage rhetoric to appeal to the far extremes of their political bases.
Some have. Protesters are burning cars, dealerships, and even lawyers and reporters on the left are throwing Molotov cocktails at police.
In the end, today’s pseudo-revolutionaries are likely to find themselves tomorrow’s reactionaries. Leading mobs is rarely a safe place to be as more radical elements take hold of a movement. The result is an inexorable pattern that runs throughout history as revolution devours its own.
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The Age of Rage”is now the
“The Age of Homicidal Politics“
This week, Trump appointee Paul Ingrassia, 30, removed himself from consideration to lead the office of Special Counsel amid a widely covered scandal of young Republicans using blatantly racist language in casual texts to each other.
Turley makes no mention of the scandal in this sanctimonious column decrying ‘liberal stoked violence’. And even Fox News barely covered the scandal, making scant reference to it in the article below.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-pulls-nominee-lead-government-watchdog-after-racist-text-scandal
Young guys holding no power whatsoever vs. politicians in high office. Seems there is a power difference that you lefties are always going-on about…
Anonymous, once again you miss the point. When it was found out that Mr. Angassia had made racist statements his nomination was quickly pulled. On the other hand, Hakeem Jeffries has just endorsed a
Marxist ideologue for the Mayor of New York City. When the Republicans find out about a man with an unacceptable ideology they can’t drop him fast enough while the Democrats to gain power will even endorse a Communist. Thank you for pointing out how each party approaches those within their ranks who are outside of the principles necessary to maintain a free nation. Your contribution is appreciated.
On top of that, there are the Democrat candidates for the top offices in Virginia whose equally reprehensible public comments offer empty apologies and continue to be embraced by the leftists.
You may have missed this: the YR chapters whose members used objectionable language were closed down, as they should have been.
Those comments were cherry picked from a long string of boys goofing with each other. Their jocularity is obvious if you bother to investigate in the slightest, but you prefer to rage over morsels taken completely out of context, while your heroes demand the murder of people simply because they refuse to vote for the Insane Party of Chaos.
Yes, let’s talk in detail about the Attorney General candidate in Virginia. A few stories about it but the question is, “where’s the outrage from the leftists?” Oops, I’m sorry, I forgot, he’s a leftist loon that you folks support without fail because he is one of you!
The Thermidorian Reaction has already begun.
Which hopefully does not spawn a Napoleon.
A Napoleon would be near the top choices available. For every George Washington there are a thousand Stalins, Maos, Pol Pots, etc.
“. . . an age of rage.” (JT)
The flip side of that rage is faux rage — such as this:
Trump is committing “cultural vandalism” (by demolishing the East Wing).
How do we know that it’s phony outrage?
The Left has vandalized, removed, toppled the following statues (all cultural icons): Columbus (4 statues), Ulysses Grant, Francis Scott Key, Thomas Jefferson (3), George Washington (3).
And yet not a peep from our so-called defenders of America’s cultural icons.
Explain to me how converting an office block to a much more useful event space is “cultural vandalism.”
“A l’exemple de Saturne, la révolution dévore ses enfants”. (In the example of Saturn, the Revolution eats its children.) Jacques Mallet du Pan (1749-1800) considered, by some, the father of political journalism.
The first wave of “revolutionaries” eventually are no longer sufficiently pure in their zeal and dedication to the revolution’s ideology in the minds of the second wave. They become, in the view of later firebrands, weak or even traitors to the cause, and are removed, often with extreme prejudice. Thus, most revolutions become what they purported to fight against and, in this manner, fail.
Revolutions can be like trolley cars – anybody can hop on, people have different destinations, and you don’t want to stand between somebody and where they want to go.
“A l’exemple de Saturne, la révolution dévore ses enfants”
It’s a shame that what they devour is not limited to “their own”. If that was the case, I could watch the spectacle with amusement and in complete satisfaction.
“We have become a nation of rage addicts, flailing against anyone or anything that stands in opposition to our own truths.”
These are the words of someone seriously brainwashed by media sensationalism. Funny, when I’m not getting information from a screen, but rather in direct f2f contact with my fellow citizens, I get a completely opposite impression — we are still a nation of common-sense, emotionally-balanced pragmatists — who the media is constantly doing their damndest to inflame with cherry-picked vignettes of outrage.
That’s what JT’s column has become. He gives ink to the most outrageous speakers on the left. The more subdued, cogent, thoughtful Americans who are independent, leaning D or leaning R get no ink. We’re boring.
We’re normal. And we numerically swamp the frenzied fringes on both ends of the spectrum. For those reasons, we’re ignored by media creators (like JT) as if our numbers don’t matter.
I’m not angry. I’m not possessed by rage. Nor are the majority of us. Turley, occasionally still a voice of calm rationality, has gone over to the same perverted sensationalism as mainstream journalism. The “rage” he claims has taken over our country in reality has only taken over about 10-15% of us. The 85% who are merely opinionated (or tuned out) — numerically — WE are America. Stop trying to convince us we’re all just like the ragers and zealots.
“. . . as if our numbers don’t matter.”
They don’t.
Flotsam merely floats on the surface, pushed by the currents. Those currents are directed by cultural leaders, the very ones JT focuses on.
You clearly have not spent much time engaged in such activities as handing out Republican sample ballots. Rudeness from Democrat voters is the least hostile reaction. Verbal harassment is so routine that volunteers wear body cams.
You are NOT in leadership positions that can use their positions to influence others to violence. Also, if you are not actively outspoken against those who disposed to violence and you continue your association, then YOU are as guilty. Silence is often very loudly spoken as of like mind. Put up or shut up!
That sniper attack on ICE officers killed a prisoner. The ICE officers weren’t even hurt; a fact that Turley neglects to note. Turley also forgets to mention that attack on CDC headquarters a few months back. Instead one is left with the impression that ‘all the violence is being stoked by leftists’.
The Leftist Goon Loon missed his intended targets .
Ahhhhhhh YES it is the left, and only the left!
“That sniper attack on ICE officers killed a prisoner. The ICE officers weren’t even hurt”
So, according to you, we should give a pass to an armed attacker and those who urged him to make the attack, because he proved to be an incompetent marksman? You are a sick joke, but no laugh has materialized.
All the violence IS being stoked by leftists. So far.
Alvarado police department would like a word with you. 🤷🏻
The Republicans are an insane violent fascist group. Every patriotic American should resist.
“The Republicans are an insane violent fascist group. Every patriotic American should resist.”
Oooooohhhh is it childish Gaslighting? Or Projection?
Projection:
Channeling one’s actions onto others typically refers to the psychological concept of projection, where an emotionally disturbed individual unconsciously or deliberately attributes their own thoughts, feelings, and anti-social or criminal behaviors onto someone else. This is an internal defense mechanism which allows a person to avoid confronting their own behavior and guilt by seeing them as the thoughts and actions of someone else who they despise and hate instead.
Fascism is a variety of socialism, so are Nazis. The struggle in the thirties was between the World Socialist Workers Party (communists), the National Socialist Workers Party of Germany (Nazis), and the Italian Socialist Workers Party. (Fascists)
Look in the mirror for the Fascist.
Perhaps this is the long awaited death of the “Democratic-Socialist “ Party, spawned out of the Vietnam War, Civil Rights Movement and the Corporatist collective. Let’s hope that justice and rule of law prevail, treason to our nation should NOT be appeased.
I have a friend who likes to call the Dems “Commiecrats.” ;D
Democrats, at this point, are Jacobin-Americans.
Test
“democrat” politicians are out of ideas and putting the onus on their supporters to “Ahhh! Do Something!”
demonstrates the disintegration of their stupid collective once and for all.
That’s gotta hurt!
“[The] disintegration of their stupid collective once and for all.”
Reminiscent of the collapse of communism in the Soviet Union in 1991.
Hmmm. From J H Kunstler today, the issue of “recursive feedback.” Perhaps this happens to the Democrat Shills here, too??? They read so much of their own side’s slop, that they begin to hallucinate – an excerpt:
“First of all, get this: A-I has already quit operating as-advertised. It has lost the “I” part. A-I does its thing by rapidly combing through the Internet to evaluate and seize information that you request. Increasingly, A-I colonizes the Internet with second-hand, third-hand, and so forth A-I-generated information. The more territory A-I seizes on the Web, and the more it trains itself on recursive feedbacks of its own garbage, the more distorted the output gets. As that occurs, A-I becomes increasingly abstracted from Reality, which is exactly what happens when a person goes insane. So, expect an exponential rise in incorrect content that would, in theory, become a pretty serious problem when you ask A-I to run things like systems we depend on, the electric grid, harvesting crops, warfare. . . .
Two days ago, Mr. Starbuck sued Google for defamation (with malice and negligence) when it’s Bard A-I output alleged that he was a “child rapist,” a “serial sexual abuser,” that he abused and stalked his ex-wife (Starbuck states in his lawsuit that he has no ex-wife). It accused him further of fraud, embezzlement, drug charges, stalking business partners, and being a “shooter” or “person of interest” in a 1991 murder case (Starbuck was two years old at the time), of appearing in Jeffrey Epstein’s flight logs (untrue), working as a porn actor, and voicing support for the Ku Klux Klan.
The A-I cited non-existent news articles from outlets such as Newsweek, The New York Post, Rolling Stone, Mediaite, The Daily Beast, and Salon, along with fake URLs and headlines (e.g., “Robby Starbuck Responds to Murder Accusations”). Starbuck demonstrated this in a podcast episode on October 22–23, 2025, where he queried the A-I live.
Google spokesman José Castañeda attributed the issues to its A-I “hallucinating” — which tells you that the recursive feedback of garbage content in A-I is already well-advanced. Prepare for ever more interesting mischief, while you watch your portfolio of index stocks go up in a vapor.”
https://www.kunstler.com/p/reality-v-garbage
You hit the jackpot, Floyd. Say horrible things and AI gathers it and reports it.
Politics has reached a moron level it’s not worth watching nor listening anymore. I’m willing to listen a case presented with some bona fide legal point but not this idiocy.
The name of the game is envy, Floyd. The United States was a great place for opportunity. The food was Clean, safe, cheap and abundant. If you tried life was OK and safe and even fun. The world envied.
Think of what gas happened to the UK a fine, intelligent culture with a long history and all recorded perhaps like none other. France also a fine culture and Europe generally all destroyed.
Envy will raise its head again in 2029 I predict. Dem as president and the despots will send nukes. They’re waiting knowing the dem president will not retaliate. It’s planned.
My op and hope I’m wrong but these are bad guys.
Bye
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I always read James, Monday and Friday, before plunging to the comments here.
As a techie, I do fear for the overuse of these LLMs. It’s a bubble, and it’s going to pop. Once it does, the world will be left holding this bag as all those rare earth minerals, servers, connection lines, codes, everything falls to waste like Detroit’s automotive industry.
These should be helping high-level research consolidation and medical breakthroughs, not making videos of dogs ringing doorbells and blowing up elderly people (one a co-worker showed me yesterday).
Anonymous,
AI is not a bubble that is going to pop. It is an important step to a much better future.
BUT it is NOT sentience or anywhere near it. It is not truly thinking. It is a tool, a powerful tool.
One that can be used to do good or to do bad.
Ultimately it will do far more good than bad.
It also has limits – some of those hard limits are biting us in the ass right now, Barring some massive new break through – most of what we will see from AI in the near future, is apple polish improvement AND wide spread adoption. But we are a long way away from another exponential jump in capability.
That does NOT mean it is a bubble or that it is not massively important.
The steam engine changed the world.
But steam engines did not take us to the moon or mars. And proved unsuitable for individual use.
We could spend the next several decades just trying to make use of the current capabilities of AI.
And each effort will improve the human condition.
It is extremely unwise to bet against a better future.
But there is a differences between AI today has hard limits that may not be solved anytime soon,
and it is not extremely useful with significant benefits for decades to come.
If AI stalls right where it is now – it will still take many decades to capitalize on its benefits.
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https://gizmodo.com/clickbait-gives-ai-models-brain-rot-researchers-find-2000675101
I’m talking more the bubble in lieu of the dot-com bubble, the NFT bubble, the recent Counter-Strike weapon skins bubble, hell, even the housing bubble.
Once shareholders and investors realize that their money in is not translating to the pipedream Niagra Falls of money out, they’ll pull, make safe, and look for the next big thing. This “enterprise” has been expanding for about 5 years now, generous. These bubbles rarely last past 6.
We’re seeing major stagnations (even in some of the more “recent” LLMs) because all the LLMs have to feed off of now is, as Kunstler had put, 2nd, 3rd, and nth-rate information, already generated by other LLM. And those prior LLMs were all lobotomized multiple times because their creators didn’t like what they were outputting. And so it will continue, because comapnies must control everything in pursuit of the infamous “number go up.”
ChatGPT will soon be rolling out “adult-unfiltered” content, i.e. sex bot chats. Once the investors get their rocks off, they’ll see a severe lack of income-enhancing results.
John, you usually make decent points, I’ll tell you that. But, having seen the trends of the past 12 years (when I started paying attention), and seeing those trends sine wave across history, “AI” will fail, in it’s current form. I just hope to Jesus it does so before our infrastructure relies on it.
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My only consolation is that LLM expansion (i.e. data centers) has brought nuclear power back into parlance, and people seem more agreeable to having those go up since “renewable energy” is anything but. At least we the people will be able to use those power plants when the data centers close because: a major portion of the internet does not operate at a profit, again what I was saying above. LLM groups are no different.
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Sorry, I keep thinking more thoughts. Taking it to your comment of “AI is not a bubble that is going to pop. It is an important step to a much better future.” and “It is extremely unwise to bet against a better future.” Those are almost the exact terms used by every venture-capitalist ultra-funded bubble project. They remain in blissful ignorance, believing that this time, unlike the last guys, they will hit the golden goose and swim like Scrooge McDuck in their golden vaults. Where are most of those capitalists now, who didn’t pull out when they saw the tide shifting? No one in the bubble thinks it will pop, until it does.
“ChatGPT will soon be rolling out “adult-unfiltered” content, i.e. sex bot chats. Once the investors get their rocks off, they’ll see a severe lack of income-enhancing results.”
Or maybe that is the true market niche for AI, and these indulging will find the generated Artificial Sex (AS; or AO for Artificial Orgasm?) to be an irresistible addiction to squander all of their money on. Maybe “industries” like sports gambling, and addictive drug vending (legal and illegal) should be very concerned…
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My hope is that the consumer-side industry of LLM generated videos, articles, and overall slop will crash, and the private side will survive, leading to more condensed, impactful improvements. I’m not against you in this, John. I despise the current trajectory of the dead internet and the death of human communication, under metric tons of crap.
We have to wonder if the reckless pursuit of AI caused Moore’s Law to merge into Sturgeon’s law.
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Good call, Darren. Never actually heard of Sturgeon’s Law, but have used the same phrasing for a long while. “The first draft of anything is shit.” Moore’s Law hasn’t actually been relevant since around 2016 (common agreement).
I much prefer Murphy’s Law and his cousin, the ambitious Darwin Award. Let’s let the slop crash, and the awardees will be the one’s left holding the bag.
Sturgeon=sci fi writer and 90% of everything is crud. Look for 10%that isn’t.
Pareto Principle 80/20 split. 20 percent of whatever matters. Econ 20% of of a given market purchase 80% of the market . Identify market, of course English whitey Jeremy Bentham figures in.
80 percent of congress is crap.
The reason Marxism is crud..
I thought maybe it was Sturgeon, or Heinlein, who said, “Sooner or later, everything degenerates into work.”
AI tells me that I am wrong, and that it was Peter Drucker who said something similar to that. I do not remember it that way. Is this the Mandela Effect???
And 80% of your taxes are crap. Pareto had a pea garden and found 20% of the pea pods produced 80% of the peas. Even peas… when thinning peas don’t pull up 20% of the most productive. Pull up the non producers. You water, fertilize all peas wasting your effort. Only 20% of your effort is productive.
Probably what ticked off Musk and the bloated wasteful budget.
Chow
Both of which appear to be subsets of Finagle’s law…
Yes, but they were sloppy and greedy and wanted power. DEI turns everything to sh1t.
““First of all, get this: A-I has already quit operating as-advertised. It has lost the “I” part. A-I does its thing by rapidly combing through the Internet to evaluate and seize information that you request. ”
That statement is slightly misleading, in that AI cannot “quit operating as advertised” if the operation depicted in said advertisements has always been patently false. AI has never had a demonstrated ability to emulate human intelligence in other than very narrowly circumscribed tests, and the chat-bot variety of AI tools has never operated in any other way than what is described. That said, the idea of mindlessly AI-obsessed business and government interests plunging ahead to force AI into all kinds of widespread segments of activity, heedless of any potential negative consequences (which could potentially and conceivably occur on a disastrous scale) is frightening. For of a very wide scope of AI issues and the realized and potential problems it presents, I strongly recommend Ed Zitron’s site: “Where’s Your Ed At” https://www.wheresyoured.at/
To Carville and his Democratic Clan: “You all can go straight to h- – L, upon returning from Nam I was spit on by you fools who now protest against Law and Order.
Dear Prof Turley,
We may be nearing ‘perihelion’ .. . but I digress.
With all due respect to James Carville, The King of all self-absorbed, bombastic ‘rage rhetoric’ is sitting in the Oval office.. . perhaps you missed the King’s historic F16 full-load excrement dump over the approximately 7million ‘no kings’ protestors recently?
*note. presently, that was a direct hit on about 55% the population who strongly disapprove .. how’s that for rage rhetoric?
[As always, any criticism of him who was *right about everything* is not the same thing as support for James Carville’s ilk.]
As we near the mid-term elections, it will become more clear if proponents of change will be able to alter the trajectory Trump’s disastrous reign of vengeful retribution, economic anarchy and bombastic ‘rage rhetoric’.
Or not.
*on Oct. 29, as it swings behind the sun out of view from earth, 3I Atlas will enter ‘perihelion’, it’s closest approach to the sun’s immense gravitational forces .. . it remains to be seen what emerges on the other side.
dgsnowden
Trump dumped $hit on you – he did NOT threaten to cut off your heads. or round you up and imprison you.
His meme was childish – all memes are. It was also effective and fun.
As to the 7M “no kinds” protestors. – Maybe that number is real – but NOTHING I saw suggested 10% of that.
No one came out in my community where there were thousands of BLM protestors.
Regardless we all know the left can organize a protest.
But left wing extremists onto the streets is not a reflection of the country.
Trump is as popular as Obama was this far into his first temr and more popular than during his 2nd term.
Trump is as popular as when he was elected. In fact Trump is defying conventional wisdom. His numbers bounce arround in a narrow range.
With the exception of major accomplishments – most presidents trend slowly down from the start of their temr to the end.
It has not been a full year yet, But Trump’s numbers seem to fall in a narrow range and do not go out of that range.
The left has thrown everything at the wall they have gone full bull goose looney and accomplished nothing but ruin their own numbers.
Rassmussent has Trumps disapproval at 42% not 55% and his approval today at 47%
And no Trump did not $hit on 55% of the country. but he did $hit on you and your 7M no kings protestors – or maybe the couple of thousand real left wing nuts that actually came out.
I do not know how many no kings protestors there actually were – though I doubt the 7M even more than I doubt Trump innaugural crowd claims.
But the protest was a fizzle regardless – because no one cares.
Everyone know the extreme left is angry as crap.
Regardless MOST of those 42% of people who “disapprove” of Trump – are NOT the same people protesting, and do NOT share the same values as those protesting.
Most of them will disappear entirely as the economy strengthens. Or punish republicans in 2026 if it does not.
They WILL vote – butnot on ANY issue that Democrats rant about.
They WILL vote based on whether Trump keeps his campaign promises.
You left wing nuts are opposed to Trump because he IS trying to keep those promises.
Trump’s disapproval is made mostly of people upset because he HASN”T kept those promises atleast not as much as hoped.
Whatever you think of Trump – his approval is double that of the democratic party.
People who are unhappy with Trump still LOATH the left.
The midterms are difficult to predict.
But if Democrats do NOT retake the house – that would be a MASSIVE failure on the part of democrats.
No out of power party has ever failed to gain the few seats needed to flip the house.
There is near zero possibility that Dems will flip the senate – and Republicans may even gain seats there.
The Mid Terms WILL be a vote on Trump’s performance.
But you are a brain dead idiot if you think even a major loss for republicans would be a reflection of support for Democrats polices.
There is a HUGE difference between the possibility that Voters punish republicans for failing to deliver on campaign promises in 2026.
And your idiotic conclusion that they Support Democrats policies.
Regardless Peter Thiel is correct – we hit peak woke in 2020.
The unhappiness of voters should Trump fail to deliver on his promises does NOT mean they have changed their mind about the woke left
You are OVER.
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They love to spout that “only 77 million voted for trump. That’s not 340 million. He has no mandate!”
Well, I say, 7 million is a far, far cry short of 340 million. With his polls supposedly as bad as they say, you think they’d be able to muster more than 2% of the population to protest a “failing leader”
BTW, ran the other numbers. 22% of the country’s pop voted for Trump. 340 pop, approx 173.8 mil registered voters in 2024. So, even then, it’s 44% for Trump, 4% at the rallies
Resistance to what? The rule of law? Our Constitution? This is just getting stupid, and the dems are bloody insane. I have ‘resisted’ saying this because I believe in free speech, but if you want to live in a socialist/communist country, then effing move to one. Cuba would be glad to have you until they destroy your life. We are a Constitutional Republic, and that is all, full stop.
James
Exactly my sentiment. Let me tell you how this typically plays out. The radical fringe continues with their nonsense only to find a completely exhausted audience of NORMAL American citizens armed and ready to quell their insurrection.
There are three Kings in America with the first being most important to all others, the King of Kings:
Christ
Elvis
Burger
That’s the thing, they really want world conquest. the evidence is that if they want to live in their utopian collective almost anywhere in the free world they are free to create one on their private land and reject the free market, grow their own food, etc. Never happens, successfully at least. The only way it ‘works’ for them if it’s absolute complete worldwide totalitarian hell, forcing everyone to go along or else. Evil indeed, oppressing humans. Man will be free as long as he yearns for it.
The “utopian collective” requires the collection of other people’s money.
“Cuba would be glad to have you until they destroy your life. ”
The rulers of Cuba might be happy to have a few of these clowns to use as “useful idiots” for propaganda, but I think they even they are pragmatic enough not to want all of them.
Anonymous, so wishing that a political opponents should be shot along with his children is not encouraging physical violence? Threatening to punch a President in the mouth is not encouraging physical violence? You didn’t read the Professors entire post because you didn’t want to see the factual
quotes by the people who are calling for Republicans and their children to be murdered. There might be a very slim chance that you would have to admit to yourself that calling for such killings is a terrible thing to wish for. Your entire narrative and reason for living might be at risk if you changed your mind and you fear that you would be at greater risk for more dementia than is already present.
I ask you once again. Do you also believe that Conservatives and their children should be knelt against a wall and shot in the back of the head? Without an answer we can only correctly assume that such a thing is something in which you do indeed do heartily approve of. 1 for yes 2 for no. No response is evidence of your approval. The more you write the more we read an echo of Hamas , ANTIFA and the SS.
It’s good to know where you’re coming from.
Oh, Professor Turley, I hope you’re right about the outcome for those who foment all this awful, awful, rhetoric and violence. I know I’m a simple old lady, but I do not understand it.
It’s called envy, mam. Envy eats at the soul. Envy is not Jealousy. Envy is to covet. The difference between Jealousy and Envy is Envy must destroy what it cannot have. Hope that helps.
Democrat support has really whittled down! How many voters have they lost?
Now they are just the party of the un-american, the non-american, the criminals. the criminally insane, and the mentally unstable.
That’a all they have left!
Ummm, we’re here, too, to make money and support them.
I saw a great video today about the roots of the Radical Left Violence. He keeps saying 1948, when he means 1848, but other than that, pretty tight. Only thing I can see that he left out was maybe some excerpts from Eric Hoffer’s, The True Believer, which would have been insightful, such as revolutions being started by the well-to-do, not the po’ folks. And stuff such as:
““It is the true believer’s ability to ‘shut his eyes and stop his ears’ to facts that do not deserve to be either seen or heard which is the source of his unequaled fortitude and consistency. He cannot be frightened by danger nor disheartened by obstacles nor baffled by contradictions because he denies their existence. Strength of faith, as Bergson pointed out, manifests itself not in moving mountains but in not seeing mountains to move. And it is the certitude of his infallible doctrine that renders the true believers impervious to the uncertainties, surprises, and the unpleasant realities of the world around him.
Thus the effectiveness of a doctrine should not be judged by its profundity, sublimity or the validity of the truths it embodies, but by how thoroughly it insulates the individual from his self and the world as it is.”
― Eric Hoffer, The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
anyway, here’s the video:
More MAGA purchased Turley slop, which I didn’t read past the headline, because I know that it’s just slop. Turley’s assignment is to look for something, anything, with which to attack Democrats, to deflect attention away from the real, important stories that real people really care about, such as: 1. Trump tearing down the over 100 year old entire East Wing of the White House to build a vanity ballroom he intends to name after himself, while not disclosing the names of the alleged “donors” who allegedly put up the money–so we can’t vet what quid pro quo they are receiving in return; after lying that the White House would not be touched; after lying that a ballroom has been desired for years–no, it hasn’t–it’s not logistically practical to have gatherings of 600+ people at the White House with the necessity of security, etc.; without getting permission from the National Trust For Historic Preservation and other entities that have to approve any such changes to historic federal buildings; while MAGA media attempts to defend Trump by comparing Obama putting up a basketball goal to tearing down an entire wing of the White House without permission and lying about it; and, then, there’s the gaudy, tacky “gold” embellishments, taking down photos of prior presidents and paving over of Jackie Kennedy’s Rose Garden because Trump requires females to wear very high heels that sink into the ground; 2. Trump arbitrarily killing people in boats on the high seas and claiming, without anything resembling proof, that they are drug dealers attempting to smuggle drugs into the United States; 3. ordering his flunkie bottle blondie Attorney General Bondi to ignore the advice of career prosecutors and to go after his perceived enemies, without proof of wrongdoing, much less proof beyond a reasonable doubt and making public statements about the alleged “guilt” of people like Senator Adam Schiff that he slandered with childish name calling; even after an investigation of him couldn’t turn up any evidence of wrongdoing, the FBI and DOJ were commanded to keep looking; Oh, and pardoning George Santos; 4. demanding, as compensation, $230 million dollars for the search warrant executed at MAL and his indictment for stealing classified documents–with bottle Blondie and Blanche having the power to just hand over American taxpayer money, even though his tort claims are facially invalid–there was a legally-issued search warrant that yielded classified documents that he did steal and refuse to return despite polite requests; these fools will literally do ANYTHING that demented degenerate orders them to do–they need to be disbarred; 5. agreeing to bail out Argentina with our tax money to the tune of $40 billion and agreeing to purchase Argentinian beef while US cattle farmers are suffering, prices for beef and other grocery items keep going up, along with inflation, and while ignoring the fact that his stupid and illegal tariffs have dried up the Chinese market for US-produced soybeans and other agricultural products–guess where the Chinese will be buying their beef, soybeans, corn and other agricultural goods?; on this note, cancelling trade talks with Canada because of a commercial that ran recently during a game between a US and Canadian team that quoted Ronald Reagan condemning tariffs as bad economic policy that leads to retaliatory tariffs and economic slowdown; 6. commanding red state flunkie governors like Greg Abbott to “create” safe “red” districts because the fat slob is so afraid of Democrats taking over Congress–which brings us back to the point of today’s MAGA purchased toilet piece–endlessly attacking Democrats; 7. illegally sending the National Guard to blue cities on the made-up lie that there is anarchy, violence, etc, over the objections of the governors of the states in which these cities are located and the mayors of these cities; 8. leaving the country and doing literally nothing to end the government shut down, and, instead, firing federal employees based on the outline of Project 2025 that Trump lied about being the blueprint for his cheated-to-get second term; 8. Republicans continue to refuse to seat the Arizona Congresswoman, elected over a month ago because she will be the 218th vote that will compel release of the Epstein files, which, according to reliable sources, contains photos of Trump with topless underage girls. Oh, and Speaker Johnson lying about her being able to serve her constituents, even though she has: no budget, no telephone service, no ability to hire staff; no ability to cover travel expenses to Washington DC.
People are and SHOULD BE outraged over Trump and the damage he’s done in just 10 short months and Republican complicity–over 7 million of us showed up last weekend, something else MAGA media lies about. Democrats have not literally encouraged physical violence, unlike Trump did after he LOST in 2020.
Just pure spin by the clearly uneducated.
Too stupid: Didn’t read
At a brief glance (didn’t read either) I found it too reminiscent of the long post cr@p that used to be posted here by some moron who iirc called himself “Dennis McIntire”…
I am glad you have the opportunity and the right to write about things you disagree. The best part is that you write in the platform of the person you don’t even respect enough to read what he wrote!
Not when is the same comment time after time.
I just sent PRESIDENT Trump a $500 donation and plead with him to go for another term. Thank you for the motivation!
More MAGA purchased Turley slop, which I didn’t read past the headline, because I know that it’s just slop. blah, blah, whaaaa, whaaaaa…. Trump…. whaaaaa… Trump…. whaaaa…
Why hello Gigi! Vibrators all faking dead batteries again – but you managed to get your broom fired up today.
You suffer from the same psychiatric pathology as GeorgeX does: Delusions Of Bare Adequacy.
Say When
Why would I even deign to read the slop posted by someone who shares a belief system/ideology with this crazy person???
Obviously a drug test..
Trained to be uncooperative with police. Injury means money.
They’ll take her in for observation.
Tragic
Drunk
I’m a coward so I would have said nothing and driven away to another part of the park. I know she may be a danger to herself and others but I would have left.
I might have called the police after I left.
“I’m a coward so I would have said nothing and driven away to another part of the park. ”
She is lucky she didn’t try this on a knowledgeable armed Floridian:
Can you shoot someone in self-defense in Florida?
https://thegunzone.com/can-you-shoot-someone-in-self-defense-in-florida/
“Yes, in Florida, you can legally shoot someone in self-defense if you reasonably believe that doing so is necessary to prevent imminent death or great bodily harm to yourself or another person, or to prevent the imminent commission of a forcible felony. This right is significantly shaped by Florida’s “Stand Your Ground” law, which eliminates the duty to retreat before using deadly force in a place where you have a legal right to be.”
“Drunk”
Stoned, more likely…
Rabble:
Holy Hadrian’s Text Wall, Batman. Use that funny-shaped key on the right side of your keyboard more.
Dismissing your comment completely since you admit in your first line that you didn’t read what Turley wrote.