This week, most Americans found a moment of rare unity in our pride over the performance of our athletes in the Winter Olympics. After years of rage politics, there was a brief respite as we joined in cheering our team in representing the United States in Milan and Cortina. Well, most of us. Some in the media found the entire demonstration of patriotism to be intolerable and triggering. What is striking is how this aversion to our flag and country was so openly expressed in major media.
Yesterday, the nightmare continued for some on the left who were traumatized by seeing the American flag and open displays of patriotism. Jack Hughes, one of the heroes of the gold medal hockey game, returned to New Jersey to play and was met with cheers of “USA, USA” and a sea of American flags. Hughes immediately called his Olympic teammate Tage Thompson of the visiting Buffalo Sabres to the ice to join him. The two skated arm in arm as the crowd celebrated them and our country.
It was another unifying moment for the country. The fans joined arm in arm to relish this moment for the nation.
These scenes are clearly having a different impact on some on the left.
The HuffPost even published an article with therapeutic advice for liberals triggered by seeing so many American flags. The liberal publication ran an article titled “There’s a Name for the Discomfort You’re Feeling Watching the Olympics Right Now.” It then published it a second time before the gold-medal hockey game with Canada — presumably to prepare its readers for the nightmare of the United States actually winning.
The subheading read, “If waving the American flag or chanting ‘USA!’ turns you off right now, you’re not alone.”
Senior writer Monica Torres began the article with this line: “While President Donald Trump’s deportation agenda separates families, and federal agents detain 5-year-olds and kill unarmed civilians, American athletes are winning medals on behalf of the nation at the Olympics right now.”
Torres goes on to interview three therapists for this “story” about how the celebration of the United States team has forced many liberals into therapy over their trauma and “the cognitive dissonance of rooting for U.S. sports.”
Los Angeles-based licensed clinical social worker Aimee Monterrosa explained that the “atrocities” of the United States can trigger feelings of guilt, despair, shame, anger” in seeing the country celebrate these sports victories.
Expert Lauren Appio echoed how “waving the American flag or chanting, ‘USA!’ [can make] us feel grossed out or ashamed.”
Over at Vox, Senior correspondent (and former Atlantic writer) Alex Abad-Santos wrote an article on the winners and losers of the Olympics. The column perfectly summed up the pathological opposition of some to this country’s symbols and celebrations.
Abad-Santos declared the men’s hockey team one of the biggest “losers” of the games. He blamed that team for alienating citizens by their patriotic statements: “The conversation surrounding the win quickly shifted into how the team celebrated and who it celebrated with.” He expressed outrage over the team accepting the celebratory call from the President of the United States.
In the meantime, the “winner,” according to Abad-Santos, was . . . wait for it . . . Eileen Gu, the American who reportedly took millions from the repressive Chinese regime to ski for China.
Gu used the games to criticize the United States while saying nothing of how China arrests anyone who speaks out against that country.
Abad-Santos gushes:
“Gu symbolizes the reality that athletes don’t need the US’s backing or support to be commercially successful. That makes some Americans like Vance uneasy. She also embodies the very American idea of relentlessly pursuing success and maximizing it, no matter what it takes. Gu represents the American dream and the startling concept that America isn’t necessary for it.”
The last line is particularly telling. Abad-Santos is celebrating the idea that you can live the American dream without America.
Others joined in lionizing Gu. Charlotte Harpur, writing for The New York Times’ (NYT) The Athletic, virtually declared her a new deity: “You would be forgiven if you thought Gu was a quasi-human robot expertly created by artificial intelligence, so eloquent are her responses to the media.”
The next day, the Times then slammed Men’s Hockey Team in an article titled “The U.S. men’s Olympic hockey team won gold — and then lost the room.” The Athletic‘s Jerry Brewer acknowledged that speaking with the U.S. president after such a win is “an obligatory celebration.” However, he declared that these are not “normal times”: “This isn’t a neutral climate. This isn’t a neutral president. And in a nation this polarized, the proximity carries weight whether the players are being intentional or merely naive.”
These columns on sites like HuffPost and Vox stripped away the pretense of past pieces and laid bare the antagonism for the United States by some on the left. The open celebration of the country was too much for many rage addicts today.
Fortunately, these writers are largely writing for each other. The public long ago left these sites. They now write for a minority of Americans who are triggered by the appearance of American flags or traumatized by expressions of patriotism.
What these writers find repulsive is rousing for the rest of us. Watching Hughes and Thompson skate together last night was everything that is great about this country, as those Jersey fans went wild. Hughes said that he was struggling not to get emotional at that moment. He was not alone.
Jonathan Turley is a law professor and the author of the New York Times bestselling “Rage and the Republic: The Unfinished Story of the American Revolution.”
We have a problem in this country of a self-appointed elite who live here, and benefit from our highly-developed economic system, but despise, or pretend to despise, the rest of the population. It is easy to effect contempt for people you have never met or are likely to meet.
I suggest that it would be doubly helpful to enact a universal military draft of 6 months duration for all Americans when they reach the age of 18, “National Service’ as it used to be called in England. First, we would be better prepared for war. But, even more importantly, Americans from different places and strata would be forced to mix with Americans from other places and strata. I think that almost would be the end of cheap generalizations about other Americans.
edward albert mahl,
There is something to what you said concerning a universal military draft.
When I enlisted in the Marines, I met recruits from all walks of life, backgrounds, race, religions. We were all tossed into boot camp and as the late, great, R. Lee Ermey (Gunnery Sgt. Hartman, Full Metal Jacket) said, “Here you are all equally worthless.”
That we were.
Then, they broke us down and rebuilt us into a cohesive, well tuned, well trained fighting unit.
UpStateFarmer
This comment is just as stupid as edward mahl’s comment.
How many of those recruits you met were from families of the wealthy elite?
They were all the same uneducated schmucks who couldn’t find any other form of employment.
Class warfare? from a commie? here? in this kitchen?
who’s a schmuck? You’re a schmuck.
edwardmahl
Unbelievably stupid comment as usual from you.
The wealthy, well connected elite have ALWAYS found a way to avoid any form of military draft.
Look no further than Donald “Bone Spurs” Trump.
The ONLY people that end up being drafted are the poor schmucks who don’t have the money or connections to avoid it
America hasn’t had a draft since the 1970’s, Vietnam War. Where anyone could be drafted, ask Al Gore. He did get preferential treatment for his Senator Daddy but he as well as many young men from affluent families were drafted and a war zone is a war zone.
Let’s not forget all those dumb well to do rich schmucks that went to Westpoint, Citadel, Annapolis or the Airforce academies to lead all those poor draftees into battle. The wall is full of their names. I have known many men that joined up did a tour got out and went to college on a GI bill then reenlisted to climb the ranks in the military. Hey, just like a mirror of civilian life, hard work and brains lead to success.
A mandatory 12 month service period afer HS would be a good thing for our country and our youth. Stellar idea!
Semper Gumbus
BugAnon – what a sad life you lead as a low-grade Demo troll hiding behind the Anonymous label. All you are capable of at this time is cheap insults. That is ironic because you have become like Donald Trump, who also values cheap insults.
Getting to the substance of your remarks, the wide-spread avoidance of the draft during the Vietnam War does not comprise the entire history of the draft. There was not wide-spread avoidance of the draft in WWII, for example. In the Korean War, the great athlete Ted Williams was drafted for a second time.
When I used the word “universal”, I meant to exclude the exemptions that were exploited by the rich and powerful in the 1960’s. Everyone should serve 6 months whether they have religious or minor health objections. Even people who have real health problems can find a place in a national service which can cover non-military training. A workable and fair system of “6 months for the country” can be devised if the will exists.
edwardmahl
If you think that some sort of draft system can be established such that it would be impossible for the wealthy and well connected to avoid service, then you are completely out of your mind.
The wealthy and well connected will ALWAYS get their way. They will ALWAYS find a loophole or simply pay someone off.
Such a draft plan would have to put in place by legislation.
Legislation is put in place by politicians.
Politicians can ALWAYS be bought.
Your thinking is just magical, pie-in-the-sky, MAGA delusional nonsense.
You are out of your mind.
Oooohhh… a Bolshevik Biden Birthing Boy is here to represent “Childhood Asthma” Biden – varsity football star fit enough to play ball but not fit enough to be be drafted once he finally managed to struggle to graduation from college!
30 years in the voluntarily service military; multiple deployments including during the last 15 years of Afghanistan and Iraq. Served with Americans just young enough to enlist and those on the edge of mandatory retirement through all of it. They were all volunteers, and the vast majority served more than one hitch.
Those of you starry-eyed dreamers who think those of us who volunteered and stay to make a career of military service have a job you need to do:
Sell us on why it should also be OUR job on top of preparing to fight our wars to take on the burden of being the parents you weren’t for your children. The state training the country’s children is how the communists do it. Drafting Americans and forcing them into military service outside of war is communism – not constitutional Americanism.
Be a real American: raise your own damned children – don’t take the coward’s way out of forcing us to do that job for you as well.
What exactly is your point ??
What does this have to do with the fact that the wealthy and well connected can ALWAYS find a way out of service through a draft.
You chose to volunteer, which is laudatory.
However edwardmahl and UpStatefarmer seem to think that EVERYONE should and CAN be forced to serve through a draft.
The point I am making is that will NEVER, EVER happen. As I said the wealthy and well connected will always find a way to weasel out.
edward Albert Mahl and Upstate Farmer have a valid point. There is a lot to be said for a universal National Service requirement. As said by another poster re: cutting Olympic apologists some slack because they’re only repeating what they’ve been taught in school, it is a way to teach specific skills (such as electronics, mechanics, maintenance) and responsibility for those who may be un/under-employed or in economically disadvantaged/depressed areas. As confident as I am of the competence of our highly professional military, sole reliance on a paid volunteer milita for our national security should give any citizen some pause.
I’m sure everyone is reading and learning from Gigi’s 5,000,000-word rambling deranged manifesto below.
If another country suspects that Americans have drugs on their boat are they allowed to blow it up and kill everyone, or are only we allowed to do that?
Maybe if the boats are clearly carrying illegal drugs and are operated by cartels duly designated as foreign terrorist organizations, and the nation that so designated them experiences 100,000 meth overdose deaths each year.
So how did Hegseth “clearly” determine that the boats were carrying drugs.
Obviously he did not. He ASSUMED they were carrying drugs, simply because of their location.
Other countries could also feel free to make such assumptions about American boats in the Caribbean.
They tracked the drugs by satelite from production to docks.
John
You can’t help them. It’s a disease.
John
One thing is for sure. They are NOT fishing boats.
No, they will kill you too but first they will take your drugs and any money and keep the boat as well.
Only we are allowed to do that. thanks for asking.
“WE THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES SECURE THE BLESSINGS OF LIBERTY TO OURSELVES AND OUR POSTERITY.”
– Preamble to the Constitution, 1789
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“There’s a Name for the Discomfort You’re Feeling Watching the Olympics Right Now.”
– Monica Torres
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Monica Torres is an illegal alien and non-citizen according to the plan and intent, the letter and spirit, of the American Founders and their Naturalization Act of 1802.
Monica is simply devastated by the fact that she will never be an actual American as per the American Founders.
Monica is free to avail herself of the prosperity and comfort of her country of origin and self-deport.
The question is: Why doesn’t she?
Americans hold all people in fond regard and esteem.
Go home. Be happy. Engage intensively and exhaustively in your own “pursuit of happiness.”
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“We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.”
– Declaration of Independence, 1776, The American Founders
that WILL BE MY PLATFORM, MY FRIEND. BAN ALL/ANY SECURITY AT OUR AIRPORTS. WHO ARE WE TO RESTRICT AIR TRAVEL TO PEOPLE WE LIKE? HOW UNFAIR IS THAT! i WANT A COURT INJUNCTION FORBIDDING ANY VIOLATIONS OF PRIVACY WHILE BOARDING AIRCRAFT! aoc, MY LOVE, PLEASE, DEMAND THAT WE END THAT RACIST, BARBARIC, UNNECESSARY VIOLATION OF BASIC HUMAN RIGHTS. WHY THERE MAY BE PEOPLE WHO WANT TO BOMB PLANES HEADED FOR OTHER CAPITALIST NATIONS! THEY HAVE EVERY RIGHT TO EXPRESS THEMSELVES!
I can’t remember exactly. How many Americans were murdered when that paragon of liberal values, lied about the Gulf of Tonkin, and sent our kids to the jungles to murder millions of Asians?
Those kids should have been deployed on the American border to stop the invasion. They and all those in world wars fought for nothing. Look around you at the third-world s—hole that the once-great America has been “fundamentally transformed” into.
Tienanmen square anon
Denigrating the U.S. makes perfect sense. I know for a fact, A FACT, each mother who lost a child from having her head smashed into pieces by an immigrant here illegally, is outraged that we’ve closed the border. You can’t be more anti-American than that. Come on! Imagine. Shutting down our borders to those who would destroy a beautiful young woman–The HORROR! The HORROR. That’s what it is. We should invite every one who wants to come here without any restrictions, without any background checks, with open arms, for Pete’s sake. Who do they think we are? A Sovereign State?
Along those lines I will support and vote for aoc if she will merely promise to remove all the demons who run security at our airports. That is just as disgraceful. Come on. You know in your heart, I’m right on, baby!
I know in my heart that you are right!
BABY!
And, a triple dip:
The fact that these folks are even allowed to express their dissent in a free country is lost on them. Real education or critical thought is a whisper in the wind. We can’t build a future on that.
James,
I do not recall who it was, but they said, if you can criticize your government, you do not live in a fascist state.
Triggered by patriotism? Theses people are sick, and traitors to their country willing to sell out US citizens for no reason at all. At least Benedict Arnold had a reason to be treasonous.
It’s amazing how MAGA media can purchase the distortion and twisting of images and can turn literally everything into an attack against the majority of us–those who oppose Trump and his agenda. Trump’s approval rating is in the low thirties. Approval for his agenda and for his handling of immigration matters are similarly low. Americans are not repulsed by the American flag–we are repulsed at what Trump has done to this country, all while waving the flag and pretending to be a patriot. We are repulsed by his authoritarian agenda, laid out in Project 2025, that he lied about being his agenda, but which he is implementing, including hiring several of the authors of the Project. We are repulsed at the constant lying about everything, his insistence on tariffs as a means for personal aggrandizement and to get corporate CEOs and leaders of other countries to bend the knee and beg him for exemptions. We are repulsed that Trump constantly lies about who pays the cost of tariffs and that we are paying more for groceries, home goods and other things because of them. We are offended when he insults the SCOTUS for enforcing the law when it doesn’t go his way. We are repulsed by the “Department of Justice” that is being used as Trump’s personal law firm to get revenge on his perceived enemies and which is protecting Trump and the wealthy, powerful men who abused the Epstein victims, even to the extent of outing the names and images of victims but covering up the identities of the perpetrators. We are repulsed that the US “Attorney General” has buried reports that Trump was identified by someone who was 13 at the time and reported to the FBI that he tried to force her to perform oral sex, and after she bit him–he punched her in the head and threw her out. She was interviewed several times by the FBI, but the case was dropped. Pammie Jo only released one report–that did not name Trump, but the other reports were disclosed to Ghislaine Maxwell’s attorney as part of pretrial discovery in her criminal case, which is how intrepid reporters found out about the existence of these records. We are repulsed that the “Attorney General” lied under oath about the contents of the Epstein files, and has clearly violated the statute requring release of all of the records and protection of the victims. We are repulsed that Trump claims the Epstein files are a “Democrat hoax” and that he was “exonerated”. We are repulsed at the army of masked thugs who tear parents away from their children, who abuse and even shoot peaceful protesters, and a Department of Homeland Security head who dresses up like a cowgirl, or farmer, or with her little ball cap, decked out with heavy makeup and hair extensions and who calls Americans murdered by her agents “domestic terrorists”. We are repulsed that our tax dollars are being used to set up a system of concentration camps to incarcerate migrants, and the endless lying about them being murderers, rapists and violent criminals, when the vast majority of them have no criminal record and are just trying to earn a living. We don’t want environmental and consumer protections taken away or subsidies and tax breaks for the wealthiest individuals and corporations.
It’s nice that the US mens’ and womens’ hockey teams won, but most of us don’t really follow hockey regularly, and we are offended that Trump is using the mens’ team (only) as a political prop at his disgusting “State of the Union” Show, which was more of a game show than a “state of the union”. It is also a shame that the team allowed itself to be used as a political prop by a chronic, habitual liar, wallowing in the perceived “glory” of the US presidency. This person even trotted out members of out military and gave them awards as part of the evening’s entertainment–a draft-dodger who previously referred to members of our military as “suckers and losers” and who refused to attend a ceremony at a military cemetery in France because it was misting out and it would cause his pompadour to fall. Brave service members who deserve awards and the US mens’ Olympic Hockey Team have nothing to do with the “state of the union”, and it is disgusting to use them to get applause. Trump has changed perception of America and what it stands for–which, to him, is his personal glory and aggrandizement. Pardon us if we don’t feel patriotic. We won’t until Trump is gone and the bad things he has done are reversed.
One of Turley’s jobs is to try to normalize Trump and to downplay the outrage most of us Americans feel over Trump and what he is doing. People SHOULD BE outraged over a US President who is a convicted felon, who brags about assaulting women, who has been adjudicated to have sexually assaulted a woman and defamed her. It is outrageous that the “Attorney General” lies, protects perpetrators of crimes, especially against children and takes marching orders from the President. It’s not normal for a President to lie about the economy–the economy he inherited and what he has done with it since taking office, with made up statistics and exaggerated claims. Nothing he says can be trusted. It’s outrageous that Trump is selling crypto and personally profiting to the tune of billions of dollars. People ought to be outraged over Trump allowing Nvidia to sell advanced AI computer chips to “approved customers” in China in exchange for 15% of the profits. There’s so much to be outraged over–which is NORMAL for those of us who know that patriotism is more than just cheering for a hockey team–it is holding true to the values on which this nation was founded and respect for the rule of law–things Trump is destroying right and left. Turley trying to sell the normal reaction to the authoritarian and outrageous conduct of Trump as some kind of unhinged “age of rage” is, itself, outrageous.
The only thing I find amazing is the lefts whining about everything and anything Trump. It’s a sickness, clinically diagnosed now. Must suck to have Trump live in your head rent free 24/7/365. Take a day off, go outside, enjoy yourself and maybe Trump won’t dominate your every thought every minute.of the day.
They smell. Literally, everywhere they go a stench of decaying corpses waffs through the air.
Worst case of DTS since Omar and the squad. While you’re clutching your beads, try to remember that we’re coming up on 250 years of independence. btw, we’d like to see Crocket get the donkey nom. Pass the Save Act!
Hey Gigi/Natasha!! Rage and the Republic Debuts as #2 on New York Times Bestseller List
https://jonathanturley.org/2026/02/12/rage-and-the-republic-debuts-as-2-on-new-york-times-bestseller-list/
The rest of your rant is nothing more than leftist lies and gaslighting.
There is only one HOCKEY, and that is MEN’S HOCKEY.
You are simply trying to “fundamentally transform” the facts and the truth into something you perceive as advantageous to yourself. That is why you want every failed idiotic parasite to vote, because you are most effective with failed idiotic parasites. Not dissimilar to the Supreme Leader and General Secretary of the Failed Idiotic Parasites, Karl Marx. Imagine if every Fortune 500 corporation gave the vote to all of its failed, idiotic, parasitic workers; undoubtedly their fortunes would increase exponentially, right?
“Anonymous says: February 26, 2026 at 2:28 PM
It’s amazing how MAGA media can purchase the distortion and twisting of images and can turn literally everything into an attack against the majority of us–those who oppose Trump and his agenda……. ”
Whew! You Must be getting paid by the word.
Purple anonymous, the right has lost sight of the fact that criticism of our government and dissent are the most patriotic things you can do in this country. It’s literally why we have the 1st amendment. Trump and those on the right do not like hearing dissenting views and positions and choose to engage in massive ad hominem generalizations when using “The left” to paint anyone who does not agree with their views.
Dissent is not unAmerican, or unpatriotic. It’s a core value of this nation in my opinion. But those who can’t handle dissent like most of those on the right prefer to punish it or label it as “hate.”
When dissent takes the form of lies, it is no longer dissent, n’est ce pas?
Gigi’s first paragraph states that, “Trump’s approval rating is in the low thirties.”
Lies are not patriotic.
” the right has lost sight of the fact that criticism of our government and dissent are the most patriotic things you can do in this country. ”
No it is not. It is a right that government can not interfere with.
But I doubt even you would claim that criticism of government for not putting Jews in a concentration camp is NOT evidence of partiotism”
The first adment does not make what you say good or bad – YOU do that. People judge whether it is partiotic or evil – not the constitution.
The constitution merely allows you to say unpatriotic things without consequence from government.
“It’s literally why we have the 1st amendment.”
WE have the ffirst amendment o protect you right to free speech.
Supporting that right is patriotic.
What you choose to speak about may be patriotic or vile.
“Trump and those on the right do not like hearing dissenting views and positions and choose to engage in massive ad hominem generalizations when using “The left” to paint anyone who does not agree with their views.”
Has he used govenrment power to censor you ? Obama did, Biden did. Trump has not.
He has just correctly excercised his free speech to call you unpatriotic.
Which you obviously are.
“Dissent is not unAmerican, or unpatriotic. It’s a core value of this nation in my opinion. But those who can’t handle dissent like most of those on the right prefer to punish it or label it as “hate.””
The obama administration punished dissent, the biden admistration punished dissent.
Trump has responded to your foul speech with more speech.
That is how the first amendment works.
“ The obama administration punished dissent, the biden admistration punished dissent.”
Because you say so? You didn’t cite any examples.
“ Has he used govenrment power to censor you ? Obama did, Biden did. Trump has not.
He has just correctly excercised his free speech to call you unpatriotic.
Which you obviously are.”
More ad hominems?
Not me personally. But he has on others. Late night tv hosts. Students writing op-Ed’s punished and threatened with deportation for exercising free speech. Threatening broadcast networks licensing for unfavorable newscasts. There are plenty of examples. Obama and Biden did not censor anyone. Even the Supreme Court found Biden did no such thing.
Trump calls those who expressed dissent unpatriotic because he can’t stand an opposing view or criticism.
“ WE have the ffirst amendment o protect you right to free speech.
Supporting that right is patriotic.”
No sh!t Sherlock. Free speech also protects dissent. Which is exactly why we have the first amendment. The freedom to criticize our government without fear of punishment or retaliation, which Trump doles out liberally is precisely what Trump calls unpatriotic. He hates it that he can be criticized without punishing the critics.
“ the right has lost sight of the fact that criticism of our government and dissent are the most patriotic things you can do in this country. ”
No it is not. It is a right that government can not interfere with.”
A distinction without a difference.
george
Because you say so? You didn’t cite any examples.
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Did you forget when O-dumber used the IRS to suppress the Tea party.
Short memory I see.
PS.. They won in court too.
X says: the right has lost sight of the fact that criticism of our government and dissent are the most patriotic things you can do in this country.
Who would accept the declaration of an avowed communist of what patriotism is?
Why don’t you have articles by author X on the Marxists Internet Archive?
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You are an Useful Idiot
You are A useful idiot…
Just Saying
Trump’s approval according to Rassmussen that the only daily tracker now – and undercounted trump support in 2024 by 2.3% is currently 48%’
After the SOTU the Right direction was +28 – except at CNN where it was +50
That will fade slowly over time,
Before the SOTU americans thought Dems were too far left by 58%
That has likely risen. Regardless Dems reminded people why they hate you are why you are dangerous idiots.
I have no ideas wht to beleive about midterms – there are far too many variables. But I beleive the pre SOTU claims of a blue wave have no substance.
Yes, Republicans “attack” democrats – who have attacked republicans visciously my entire life Political attacks are not new.
But the virulence of those on the left is absolutely new, and the actual political violence from the left is beyond beleif.
You were attacking NYPD yesterday. You have been attaking Walz and Frey and the Portland city councel all for not doing what they do not have the power todo.
One of you stole and ambulance filled it with gasoline and tried to burn down a private office building that had DHS administrative offices.
9 left wing nuts are on tril for trying to murder ICE agents in TX – they wounded a local police officer. 6 have already plead guilty.
There is the Charlie Kirk ASsassination, and the many attempts on Trump.
And this is a tiny part of the actual left wing nut violence.
Regardless of Who is president – people are replsed by Green Antifa Frogs, and left wing nuts in orage girage outfits.
They are repulsed by those who walk out on the SOTU and more by those who are disrespectful during it.
They are repulsed by those who will not stand for the american people, or for injured veterans, or people maimed by illegals.
Or everything you refused to stand for.
The SOTU was a disaster for Dems We will have to see how long that impact lasts.
But pi$$ing on americans is very hard to forgive.
Before the SOTU you sucessfully ersuaded many indepents to be unhappy with HOW trump was doing somethings
But that is NOT the same as getting them to change their mind about wanting What Trump is doing
At the SOTU we save Democrats in congress destroy themselves.
Congressional democrats are unfortunately captured by the far left. But most of them – and most democrats re NOT far left.
Yet they were too stupid to grasp that they need support from more than the far left to win elections.
And At the SOTU you burned that support to the ground.
I would further note that the aproval rate of congressional democrst is barely over half that of Trump.
And that was before the SOTU
Those of you on the left are the FRINGE in this country.
Your power comes from your threat to blow things up.
Do not expect that to last.
Of course your repulsed by the american flag
You pissed over Us Olympians ho wore it
Core inflation was 1.7% in 4Q 2025, that is the lowest it has been in decades.
The powerful men who absused Ep[stain victims are 90% democrats.
Still shilling the long ago debunked 13yr old story.
The COURTS rejected that almost 10 years ago.
The only investigation of a hoax the FBI needs to do is to prosecute the hoaxster.
BTW Bondi is not protecting Trump – Obama had 8 years to go after Epstain,
Biden had 4. Trump investigated and arrested Epstain and Maxwell.
All these garbage claims regarding Trump have been available for decades.
Democrats did nothing. Not about Trump, not about any of the real democrat pervs.
The epstain files are not a hoax, But the false claims of Democrats who see them NOW as another hail mary to get Trump ARE.
“Department of Homeland Security head who dresses up like a cowgirl, or farmer”
Which she is.
For most of 2024 DHS/ICE have eebn using fascilities build by Obama to deport illegal aliens.
These are not concentration camps – anyone in them is free to go HOME at any time. There are precluded from returning to the US
where thay can not legally reside.
” lying about them being murderers, rapists and violent criminals”
Most are not violent criminals. roughly 1/3 have nee convicted of crimes somewhere, another third have pending criminal charges in the US.
“are just trying to earn a living.”
Which they can not do legally, because they are illegal aliens
“We don’t want environmental and consumer protections taken away or subsidies”
You have no need for any of those
All subsidies are theft.
Economic regulation is accplised with a perfectly good torts system that predates any of these stupid laws.
The laws you desparately want protect those who do harm from paying the real cost of their harm
“and tax breaks for the wealthiest individuals and corporations.”
The BBB was a massive tax break for ordinary americans.
“It’s nice that the US mens’ and womens’ hockey teams won, but most of us don’t really follow hockey regularly, and we are offended that Trump is using the mens’ team (only) as a political prop at his disgusting “State of the Union” Show”
All politicians do that – wtch other SOTU’s Trump just did it better.
“which was more of a game show than a “state of the union”.”
It was sort of a game – all politics is a game, and democrats lost badly
Just like Canada.
” It is also a shame that the team allowed itself to be used as a political prop by a chronic, habitual liar, wallowing in the perceived “glory” of the US presidency. ”
Again all politiciasn do this – get over it.
Trump merely did so to democrats self inflicted detriment.
“This person even trotted out members of out military and gave them awards as part of the evening’s entertainment–a draft-dodger who previously referred to members of our military as “suckers and losers” and who refused to attend a ceremony at a military cemetery in France because it was misting out and it would cause his pompadour to fall. Brave service members who deserve awards and the US mens’ Olympic Hockey Team have nothing to do with the “state of the union”,”
Military and other awards are a common feature of SOTU’s – get over it.
” Trump has changed perception of America and what it stands for”
Absolutely and for the better – get over it.
“Pardon us if we don’t feel patriotic.”
Nope.
Regardless of who is president you are expected to respect this country – regardless of flaws.
If you can not do that – Leave.
“We won’t until Trump is gone and the bad things he has done are reversed.”
If you try – you will be wiped out in the next election.
Whether you like it or not YOUR polices are unpoular – Trumps are very popular.
Pi$$ over Trump and ICE has not shifted people policies.
“One of Turley’s jobs is to try to normalize Trump”
Trump is not normal – nor are you.
One of the reasons Trump got elected is people were betrayed by normal politicians right and left.
“downplay the outrage most of us Americans feel over Trump and what he is doing.”
ROLF – you have made numerous FALSE claims and some of them have stuck.
But because you made the mistake of attacking people – you have made no progress on policies.
People still want all ilegals deported – they just want a kinder Gentler deportation.
As ONE example.
The majority of those disappointed by Trump are so because he has done what he promised to slowly.
Not because he has not done them.
The majority of people HATE the left – because you are hateful and evil.
” People SHOULD BE outraged over a US President who is a convicted felon, who brags about assaulting women, who has been adjudicated to have sexually assaulted a woman and defamed her.”:
But they aren’t because people do not beleive you – that is YOUR fault.
If people beleived on iota of your idiotic claims – Trump would not have been elected.
“It’s not normal for a President to lie about the economy”
Biden and Obama did that all the time.
“the economy he inherited and what he has done with it since taking office,”
Correct – he inherited a mess and that is why people elected him.
If the 2024 election was redone today – Harris would still lose, no matter what people think about Trump, or his exagerations they KNOW the economy is better than under Biden or Obama.
“with made up statistics and exaggerated claims. Nothing he says can be trusted”
Does exagerate – but YOU lie, democrats lie, people do not trust you.
They trust trum much more than you.
” It’s outrageous that Trump is selling crypto and personally profiting to the tune of billions of dollars.”
So ? He is selling Crypto – not selling out the government. He is getting richer doing things that have NOTHING to do with government.
“People ought to be outraged over Trump allowing Nvidia to sell advanced AI computer chips to “approved customers” in China in exchange for 15% of the profits. ”
15% of the profits TO THE US. Regardless no one is paying attention.
“There’s so much to be outraged over–which is NORMAL for those of us who know that patriotism is more than just cheering for a hockey team”
It is, but it is also cheering for the hockey teams, and for the US in the olympics and for brve soldiers who served the nation well, and
for the flag. And for US successes.
None of which you do. You are not patriotic.
P_lease move to a country you actually like.
“it is holding true to the values on which this nation was founded and respect for the rule of law–things Trump is destroying right and left.”
Absolutely it is rooted in the principles this country was founded on, and respect for the rule of law.
Those of you on the left are violent, you throw rocks and snowballed and shoot people or drive into them when you do not get your way.
That is disrespexct for the rule of law.
You fawn over censors – that is ANTI the principles this nation was founded on.
J6 protestors have done far less wrong at the cpital – than YOU have done EVERYWHERE you go.
If you do not like US immigrantion law – take that up with Congress, NOT those tasked with enforcing a decades old law passed by both parties.
bsolutely we are in the midst of the “age of RAge” – YOUR left wing nut rage – that is outside the law, the constitution or the rule of law.
273 words?
“ Trump’s approval according to Rassmussen that the only daily tracker now – and undercounted trump support in 2024 by 2.3% is currently 48%’”
Only Rassmussen? Undercounted? Even Rassmussen shows a majority disapproval of Trump over 50%. Every poll shows a majority disapproval of Trump. That’s not good.
https://www.natesilver.net/p/trump-approval-ratings-nate-silver-bulletin
Trump is underwater on every issue. Every single one.
John Say, that’s a lot of words to say very little. Good grief.
Trump’s SOTU sucked. Everyone knows it. It was THAT bad.
The chip deal only concerns the H20 which has slower processing speeds, is considered Nvidia’s 4th best Al chip & WAS DEVELOPED FOR THE CHINESE MARKET as it complies with all export restrictions involving China.
Why there you are Gigi!!!! Slow night for business behind the local dive bars where you’re crashing now? You’re improving! THREE massive run-on paragraphs, instead of the normal one single monster paragraph!
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There is HOCKEY. The best players in HOCKEY win the GOLD. There is no other HOCKEY. There is women’s hockey. Women will NEVER “TAKE THE ICE” in a HOCKEY game. Men play HOCKEY. Women watch. President Trump made comments about HOCKEY! And nothing else.
How well any human mind functions depends on the philosophical beliefs which that mind chooses to guide it. Left wing ideology is nihilist. That is leftists formally reject all facts which clash with their ideology and all human values, honesty, competence, integrity, excellence, beauty, etc., as such. As a direct result, the American flag, which is intimately connected to those values in the minds of those who love America, offends, even literally psychologically ‘hurts’, leftists. Leftists’ descent into violence,, rioting, looting, murdering, to enforce their demands for blind unthinking obedience to their dictates is the direct result of the destruction of their minds by their chosen beliefs. Expect more of the same especially if they win elections.
Mayfwriter,
“ Left wing ideology is nihilist. That is leftists formally reject all facts which clash with their ideology and all human values, honesty, competence, integrity, excellence, beauty, etc., as such.”
Huh, nope. I bet you don’t know what their values are at all. Who fights for LGBTQ rights? Trans rights? Who is more concerned about the poor and how to address it? Competence? Really? Based on the facts, incompetence is what the right is famous for, at least Trump’s administration is. Integrity? Wow.
Blind unthinking obedience?
Jeez. All of what you described applies to the right. People like Stephen MIller are nihilist. You’re one seriously confused fella.
You forgot to add Nazi.
” bet you don’t know what their values are at all.”
And you would be wrong.
“Who fights for LGBTQ rights? Trans rights?”
if you are gay and want to marry – go for it.
If you wish to dress up in womens clothes – that is fine.
If you are an adult and wish to do permanent harm to yourself – go for it.
But you do NOT have the right to force any of this on children,
Nor do you have the right to FORCE anyone else to like you or agree with your choices.
There is no right to force your will on others – not on the left, not on the right. ‘
The left has gone far beyond supporting actual LGVTQ rights and into forcing propoganda, and conduct on others.
” Who is more concerned about the poor and how to address it?”
That is not patriotism, and not any business of the government/
If you wish to address the problems of the poor – do so with your own money – government is not a charity, and there is no right to charity.
” Competence? Really? Based on the facts, incompetence is what the right is famous for, at least Trump’s administration is.”
It is the left that blew up the economy, and the border and got us a bunch of new wars Trump is trying to end.
“Integrity? Wow.”
Integrity is keeping your promises –
Trump does that. The left does not.
” All of what you described applies to the right.”
No it does not. Whatever the faults of the right they are different from those of the left.
“People like Stephen MIller are nihilist.”
Not at all, nihilism is destroying things.
You may not like what Miller is trying to build, but he is a builder not a destroyer.
“You’re one seriously confused fella.”
As always you are the one using words diconnected from their meaning – 1985 Newspeak.
John Say,
“ But you do NOT have the right to force any of this on children,
Nor do you have the right to FORCE anyone else to like you or agree with your choices.”
Nobody is forcing it on children. That’s a claim the right loves to peddle without proof.
The right is the Ill group forcing everyone else to agree with their choices. They are the ones making law to force choices. Not the left.
“ People like Stephen MIller are nihilist.”
Not at all, nihilism is destroying things.
You may not like what Miller is trying to build, but he is a builder not a destroyer.”
ROFL!
Millet is indeed a destroyer. He is tearing down others to build his vision. He is definitely a nihilist.
“ Integrity? Wow.”
Integrity is keeping your promises –
Trump does that. The left does not.”
ROFL!!
No he doesn’t. He promised to lower cost of living. Last year. He hasn’t. He promised to end the war in Ukraine. He hasn’t. He promised to lower prescription drug prices. He hasn’t.
There evidence? He’s polling underwater on every issue. People are not seeing his promises materialize. Talk is cheap. Actions and evidence is what he’s not providing.
“ It is the left that blew up the economy, and the border and got us a bunch of new wars Trump is trying to end.”
Trying to end? He’s going to start a brand new war with Iran very soon. Blew up the economy? It was improving when Trump took over. Now it’s floundering under trumps reckless tariffs and non-existent “trade deals”
X says: I bet you don’t know what their values are at all.
We know exactly what your communist values are, X:
Why don’t you have articles by author X on the Marxists Internet Archive?
https://www.marxists.org/admin/janitor/faq.htm
The writer is alive and well and politically active. The MIA’s Charter forbids us from building an archive for a writer who is still politically active. There are several reasons for this:
(1) It ensures that the MIA stays out of current disputes and
(2) remains independent of all political parties and groups; Also,
(3) if a writer is still alive, they can build their own web site. This does not prevent the MIA from using material also from politically active writers in an editorial role or in support of a subject section, so long as we have the author’s permission.
More simply put leftist are stupid whiners that feel guilty for living.
In other words suckers to be taken advantage of by scammers.
mayfwriter,
That is a very interesting point, re: the rise of nihilistic mind set in America. I do think it has to do with the break down of the self-reliant, strong be it physically, mentally or both, responsible, individual. Probably could throw in a number of the values you list as well. I have mentioned in the past that these people, from antifa to anti-ICE have got it in their mindset they are fighting against . . . something. In that belief, they believe it gives them the license to commit acts such as rioting, looting, obstructing LEOs, even murder. So much so, they cheer on when others commit these acts of violence whereas any sane, normal, rational person would be aghast in horror of the act. I commented earlier about how I believed Democrats have painted themselves into a corner by embracing the negative attitude about American patriotism. I would also include this nihilistic attitude about America values.
That ^^^^ was me. Hit the return button too fast.
If these folks aren’t getting mental health care/treatment (or it isn’t sucdessful) for their anger or shame or whatever … they can move to a country with a different flag. Soon!
Going to double dip:
‘The public long ago left these sites.’
Yes, we did. These insane leftists are whistling in the dark, preaching only to each other, and convincing no one, of anything.
But our kids in school do not, and could not, know this. This is a bizarre assumption we have that has got to go; the mythical ‘wall of reality’ they are supposed to bump up against. We made the structures of society – they do not magically preexist by some act of nature, and they can be dismantled and overcome as easily as they were made, and they have been.
Wake up, parents, this is no longer isolated. You will get it in Bakersfield as much as in Los Angeles in 2026, even at the city or state or community colleges. If you haven’t yourselves prepared your kids to think, then you can reliably expect them to not think.
James,
Not sure where or to whom you are quoting but yes. We do see the leftists preaching only to each other and convincing no one of anything else. The one upside with all the leftists who attempt to comment bomb the good professor’s blog is they unintentionally inform us that they are bonkers, or have nothing to offer other than bland and lame insults.
How marvelous.
To go back to what OLLY has been saying as of late, I think we need to ensure our own children are capable to think, think for themselves, have the courage to state their opinion with the logical rational to back it up, e.g. Charlie Kirk, in order to have informed, civic citizens. We need to form strong young minds. We need to encourage independent thought. Critical thinking. Civil debate and the capacity to have it, call out when what is claimed to be civil debate is not, e.g. hecklers veto. And most of all, we need to a sense of pride of who they are and where they came from.
The persona of the left has seeped into the effort to fundamentally transform our constitutional republic; to tear it down and eradicate it to establish power & control of central governance.
Professor Turley,
Thank you for that.
Are we really surprised? This is the same group who when Trump first got elected, they had meltdowns. Celebrities claimed they could not sleep at night, lost weight, seeing professional mental heath providers. MSM personalities claimed they feared they would be taken in the middle of the night by the Trump FBI/DOJ/someone. Wild claims there would be huge increases of sexual assault on women on college campuses (that actually happened when Biden open the border and all his illegals came rushing in to commit sexual assault, rape, murder). These are the same people who get “triggered” over just about anything. Like a kid who chewed his Pop-Tart into the vague shape of a gun. Someone wearing a MAGA hat. These are the same people who tried to claim exercise was a gate way to white supremacy. These are the same people who tried to link whole milk to Nazis.
Now, are we really surprised these people are “triggered,” and “traumatized” when the USA Olympic team wins, they celebrate by chanting “USA!! USA!! USA!!” and waving the American flag with pride and joy?
Best way to inoculate yourself from this insanity, fly the Stars and Stripes in front of your house. Put a American flag decal on your vehicle. Dont fall for the “I am ashamed of the nation because of who is sitting in the WH!” garbage.
@Upstate
No, we are not surprised. The entire culture of the modern left has morphed from something that was at least philosophically inclusive, if not in practice, to something that you’d have to be taking massive doses of drugs to even comprehend. And before you laugh, understand fully we still have leftover scabies from the 60s that think that is precisely what it is – they think they are enlightened while the rest of us do all of the hard work that supports their delusion.
They used to say, ‘square’; now they say, ‘Nazi’. They are idiot children that never grew up and did not raise their kids to be smart adults. And then they all procreated some more. It is what it is. Thankfully, they are marginal, whatever fake polls they put out, and whatever they think in their bubbles of non-reality. Let’s keep that going.
The film, ‘Idiocracy’ had it exactly backward; the modern left are the inbred, cloistered, buck-toothed Cletuses. 🤷🏻♂️
Hey Farmer – just wait ’til you hear about the epic meltdown Trump had when he found out Biden won! Not only did he try to do a coup – but six years later and he STILL can’t admit he lost! Pathetic – right?!?!?
Hillary Clinton suggests election ‘stolen’ from her, other Dems could suffer same fate
Published May 6, 2019 9:04am EDT
“I think it’s also critical to understand that, as I’ve been telling candidates who have come to see me, you can run the best campaign, you can even become the nominee, and you can have the election stolen from you,” the former secretary of state said.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/hillary-clinton-election-stolen
Yes. Pathetic is right.
he won.
Much of the democrat party has gotten behind a push for socialism. You can’t support the US or the Constitution if that is your goal. Individual rights and socialism are mutually exclusive. That is why the disdain of Pride and Patriotism bothers them.
Yup. Turley is using the fascist playbook.
Turley frames this as a media-induced trigger, but the reality is much uglier. When “patriotism” becomes a cloak for the unconstitutional targeting of students like Rümeysa Öztürk—who was detained for 45 days simply for writing a student op-ed—it is no longer about love of country. It is about state intimidation. As a federal judge recently ruled, the First Amendment protects everyone, yet the current administration uses the flag to justify the illegal suppression of dissent.
During the 1970s and 80s, the South African government branded any opposition to Apartheid as “unpatriotic” or “communist.” The South African government used the flag to demand loyalty while the rest of the world saw them as “assh*les” for their systemic cruelty. Turley’s argument puts him right where those who supported such systems were at the time. Enabling the use of patriotism as a cudgel against dissent.
That”shame” liberals experience is often the most patriotic emotion one can feel when a government betrays its own stated values.
In 1932 the U.S. government used the military to attack 17,000 WWI veterans who were protesting in D.C. for their promised bonuses. The government labeled the veterans “revolutionaries” to justify the violence.
This is another example of how government used the flag and patriotism to attack the very people who fought for it, much like the current administration targeting students and scholars for their speech. So those who are ashamed and embarrassed are justified in their sentiment.
X says: Turley frames this as a media-induced trigger, but the reality is much uglier.
Why don’t you have articles by author X on the Marxists Internet Archive?
https://www.marxists.org/admin/janitor/faq.htm
The writer is alive and well and politically active. The MIA’s Charter forbids us from building an archive for a writer who is still politically active. There are several reasons for this:
(1) It ensures that the MIA stays out of current disputes and
(2) remains independent of all political parties and groups; Also,
(3) if a writer is still alive, they can build their own web site. This does not prevent the MIA from using material also from politically active writers in an editorial role or in support of a subject section, so long as we have the author’s permission.
X: indelibly associated with the new Democrat communists and their police state fascism – they’re not the police state fascists; their intended victim Trump is the police state fascist!
“Gay was criticized for not clearly stating whether calls for the genocide of Jews violated Harvard’s code of conduct”
Woke went wild. How dare they!
Everyone knows none of that is true X
hmmmmmm Tell the whole story george
Key Details of the 1932 Bonus Army Attack:
The Cause: Impoverished World War I veterans marched on Washington (the “Bonus Expeditionary Force”) to demand early redemption of bonus certificates, authorized in 1924 but not payable until 1945
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The Conflict: After the Senate rejected a bill for early payment, thousands refused to leave their camps, which they named “Hoovervilles”.
The Attack: On July 28, after police killed two veterans during a scuffle, General MacArthur commanded infantry, cavalry, and tanks to disperse the veterans with tear gas and bayonets.
The Outcome: The veterans’ camps were burned to the ground. Two veterans were killed, and dozens were injured, including children.
The Leadership: The attack was executed by Army Chief of Staff Gen. Douglas MacArthur, with George Patton leading the cavalry and Dwight D. Eisenhower serving as an aide.
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