Will Rogers once observed that “Everything is funny, as long as it’s happening to somebody else.” No one ever personified Rogers’ rule as much as University of California, Irvine instructor Matt Goldman, who cracked everyone up this week by joking about celebrating the anniversary of the assassination of Charlie Kirk by alluding to the possible assassination of independent journalist Nick Shirley.
Today is the anniversary of the murder of Kirk. In anticipation, Goldman posted a picture of Shirley with the line “Someone can do the funniest thing just before the Kirkiversary.” It was a response to an Instagram post by the Harvard Republican Club promoting a speech by Shirley.
Goldman reportedly has long found the deaths of disfavored people to be a real knee-slapper, allegedly mocking the deaths of Henry Kissinger and others. Indeed, Goldman takes Gallows humor to a particularly dark place in American politics.
After the murder of a UnitedHealthcare CEO in 2024, Goldman allegedly posted a photo of the “Super Mario” character Luigi putting a gun to someone’s head with the statement “Let’s not pretend as if America isn’t the greatest country on earth.”
In another Instagram post, Goldman allegedly wrote, “Lmao abolish ICE. only good ICE agent is a dead one.”
Goldman also teaches at Chapman University and specializes in “social justice rhetoric and community-centered composition.”
It has become common in higher education and on campuses to laugh and even celebrate the murder of Kirk. Recently, socialist Hasan Piker led a sing-a-long with hundreds mocking his death.
Hate-spewing influencers like Jennifer Welch have even justified his assassination. Protesters regularly reenact his murder, and this week at Georgetown and the University of South Carolina students are celebrating “Kirkiversary” with “Kirk Look-a-Like” competitions.
Chapman University has expressed concern over Goldman’s hateful postings, but he is hardly unique. Faculty departments have largely purged their ranks of any conservative, libertarian, or Republican faculty members. According to various surveys, many departments have no Republicans. Forty percent of faculty say they would vote against any Trump supporter, regardless of academic accomplishments or publications. Recently, the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) abandoned its long-standing political neutrality and endorsed radical Michigan senatorial candidate Abdul El-Sayed.
At the same time, radical faculty members on the left are common across the country and many espouse the same hate-filled and violent rhetoric.
Professors have regularly advocated “detonating white people,” denouncing police, calling for Republicans to suffer, strangling police officers, celebrating the death of conservatives, calling for the killing of Trump supporters, supporting the murder of conservative protesters, and making other outrageous statements. A San Diego University professor celebrated the death of an Israeli soldier who was eaten by a shark.
At the University of Rhode Island, Professor Erik Loomis responded to the murder of a conservative protester by saying that he saw “nothing wrong” with such acts of violence. (Loomis was given a promotion by the University of Rhode Island after his remarks).
Social media postings present difficult challenges for universities. These are statements often made on private sites and are not part of academic duties. Yet, universities have regularly taken action against faculty members who espouse what they view as prejudicial views based on race, gender, or sexual orientation. These faculty members rationalize or support violence targeting conservatives.
The problem is not that faculty can voice extreme political values in private postings. Those views should be protected. Likewise, the problem is not that faculty pursue far-left views in their academic work. Those views are protected by academic freedom.
The real problem is the virtual absence of any countervailing views today, after faculty have turned our universities into ideological echo chambers. There is a crushing orthodoxy on our campuses that fosters this type of extremist, violent rhetoric. For conservative students, it is common to be taught entirely by faculty who denounce their views and values.
While faculty members continually virtue signal about maintaining inclusive environments, they rarely seem concerned about the hostile environment for anyone who holds right-of-center views on campuses. A faculty member who mocks “land acknowledgments” is intolerable for many faculty, but those mocking the murder of conservatives are merely engaging in “spirited” debate.
The espousal of violent ideations or hateful views against conservatives can cross the line. Even if students are not concerned about their physical safety, they are likely concerned about their academic standing in classes taught by such hateful faculty. If a faculty member finds killing conservatives funny or justified, it is unlikely that they would welcome conservative viewpoints being expressed in classes.
The lack of consistency in dealing with what I have called “rage rhetoric” is an indictment of higher education. Imagine if a faculty member mocked the killing of minority students or Democratic activists. The response would be immediate and final.
However, the humor in killing conservatives is precisely because it is “happening to somebody else.” The most unnerving aspect of this latest controversy is not that Goldman is making jokes about assassinating conservatives, but that many in academia find it uproariously funny.
Jonathan Turley is a law professor and the New York Times best-selling author of “Rage and the Republic: The Unfinished Story of the American Revolution.”
Goldman. Sounds ethnic.
This clown is a gay dimwit who teaches at UCI, which like UCLA is under the control of the California Board of Regents. The universities are the next place to look for fraud. The universities, like UCI (which is dubbed the University of Chinese Immigrants) get higher tuition from foreign student than they do from citizens in their own state. Then they train these Chinese students to be good, educated little communists who probably report back to Xi. Trump should cut off all federal funding for these universities. They are hotbeds for revolution. The current Muslim insurgency is identical to the Muslim takeover of Egypt by Morsi. They used democracy and the universities to get into power and then proceeded to change the Constitution until they were kicked out (forcefully) by General Sissi. Cut off any funding to any of the pirates in the Middle East who are funding the Islamic garbage at the universities, including Qatar and Saudi. Pull troops out of the ME and let them fend for themselves.
What exactly is the difference between Islam and Communism and Marxism? Answer is….NOTHING. Nothing except a label that one is *religious while the others are not. ALL are dictatorships….ALL deny Freedom to the people….ALL are controlled by a very few.
The Bible explains this in the account of the Israelites leaving Egypt. After a while all the Israelites wanted to return to Egypt….because even though they would return themselves to slavery….they would have free food.
The fleshpots (free food in slavery)
Exodus 16:2–3
The whole congregation of the people of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness, and the people of Israel said to them, “Would that we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the meat pots and ate bread to the full, for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger.”
That is the line: better to die as slaves with full pots than live free and hungry.
This is what atheists tell the masses. “Vote Democrat and we will give you free food.” The communist Mandami does it in New York right now.
But a Democrat controlled World cannot work unless ALL the People are made slaves. And THIS is the reason that the Democrats want Republicans dead….or made into slaves. They cannot withstand resistance.
Montana American
@HPBTSubMOA
Good analogy.
Uju Anya, a Nigerian college professor at elitist Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.
Anya decided that on the one-year anniversary of Kirk’s public execution at the hands of a fellow leftist, she would call him a “s**tbag” on social media. She also posted, “May he rot in p**s.”
The post that garnered the most attention for its over-the-top barbarism is where she seemingly directed her ire at the late Kirk, “Die first, white man, then ask yourself why I’m dancing.”
Meanwhile the case of Professor Porter at North Carolina State U received no national media that I could find. He was FIRED FOR SPEECH from a tenured position. He mocked DEI and was charged with “lack of collegiality” a federal appeals court ruled 2-1 against him and the “right wing exremist” SCOTUS routinely denounced by Left commantaries REFUSED TO REVIEW THE CASE.
Academic freedom is dead. But only if you resist the Left.
A CANCER like this so called teacher is disease that needs to be eradicated from this country… I am sure he will be eating some lead in due time. I wont blink an eye when I read about it.
Yes, they don’t realize when you corner a cat it becomes a Saber Tooth Tiger and rips you to ribbons of flesh. The Universities will be burned to the ground in the coming conflict. Once it starts, there will be no stopping it until the country is torn apart and divides into ethnic regions. A good example of this happened in the 90s in a certain part of Europe. The streets will run with blood. All this will be remembered. Think Italy, Argentina, and prolonged intertribal domestic conflict. This has happened many times before. It will happen here. Western societies are not responsible for the demographic excess of the third-world.
I am going to simplify this for those of you who don’t comprehend the seriousness of this situation. War is coming. It’s not coming as a result of the Right, or Conservatives or Traditionalist Americans. It’s coming from the Left. From Progressives and Socialists and the very heart of the Democrat Party. The coming war will be horrific, but the outcome is not in doubt. Once enraged, once backed into a corner, the Right will rise up like the sleeping giant that it is. And, when it does, the sheer fury will be overwhelming. So, all of you threatening violence, who promote murder and political assassination, get ready. Prepare yourselves for what will come. Just be aware. You won’t like it.
democrats started the 1860 civil war after barely 40 years as a political party. Truth is they opposed the constitution the first they heard of it – and have actively sought the destruction of the US before it was even born. They are savages despite their cotillion balls.
Where is the outrage? This is a disgrace.
I try to imagine what the trigger will be for this war. With Kirk’s assassination and several attempts on Trump already occurring I’m thinking that the REAL trigger will come from the Left themselves …if somehow Republicans hold BOTH chambers in November and in fact increase their majority. The Left will absolutely then be unleashing the rioters in many cities. Mistake! Yep. THAT would ignite the war.Then the “hunter becomes the hunted “nation wide.
Ideation of political violence as the way to solve problems is an indication of declining mental health. Regardless of the legal status (protected from govt. prosecution), that doesn’t imply that it must be tolerated socially. Ignoring it as unserious and unworthy of attention is devastating to the performative zealot espousing it. Refusing it airspace is how a healthy polity deals it a blow.
It’s depressing to see Prof. Turley and conservative media renting out brainspace to these marginal voices on the leftist fringe. To the radical left, today’s topic is positive reinforcement. It encourages still more outrageous verbal pyrotechnics. Conservative media don’t even realize how they are being trolled and gamed.
says the troll who thinks he is gaming this blog. We laugh at you troll
What happened to CK was not trolling. You are excusing evil.
I disagree. When there is a rattlesnake in the house….you don’t keep it secret. You tell everyone.
The REASON that the Left is so loud now in this age….is because people like you….didn’t warn the people. So the Left then was never called out. And that caused them to think they could get away with even more atrocities. And guess what? That is exactly what has happened.
All due respect, but hatred of the white Christian male is MAINSTREAM Leftist ideology. It is not fringe when mainstream Dems call anyone to the right of Mao “Hitler”, or march to “globalize Intifada” which literally means to unalive Jews world wide!
Culture of death. Incite others to kill journalists that uncover uncomfortable truths. Kill three kids and have women cheering you on and encouraging you – you go girl! Express regret that Crooks only got Trump in the ear and didn’t kill him. Show up at a golf course to assassinate the president. Storm the correspondents dinner with intent to kill the president. Show up at a Supreme Court Justice’s house to kill him so that he can’t send the abortion issue back to the states to decide for themselves. Kill Charlie Kirk because he expressed ideas with which people disagreed, then cheer (and mockingly reenact) the murder of that devoted husband and loving father of two young children. Kill an unarmed health care executive by cowardly shooting him in the back, then cheer that killing and make the killer a folk hero. Pass laws in Massachusetts that legalize infanticide and/or the killing of babies at nine months of pregnancy just moments before they’re born. Become a governor of Virginia and spread the idea that killing newborn children is a-okay. Make billions of dollars killing unborn children and get taxpayer money in the hundreds of millions from Congress.
The ancient false god Molech is alive and well in America. God help us all.
The ancient false god Molech is alive and well in America. God help us all.
These types of comments are shameful. If you studied the Bible, you would have a very different disposition.
I have long said that the problems that face America today are not due to the usual litany that people like you list.
No, the problem is that people like you, which is to say the majority of Americans Baby Boomers, betrayed their religiosity as lin would uncharitably say.
Where are the Christians who reaped the benefits of God’s graces over the centuries and millennia? Where is the fervor, the faith, hope and love that shaped our Western civilization?
Learn from the Book of Lamentations, the Psalms, the prophets of the Old Testament and their many warnings and prognostications for a people (Jews) who abandoned their God. Christians especially, who are or were more numerous, have a tremendous obligation to walk their talk by action. Yet, we are fed the stuff of which you posted, a long litany of complaints about “the other” yet failing to account for your own failings in showing others by your example a better path, forming their conscience, using reason and heart to educate the ignorant of mind and spirit.
We are facing difficult times. Our nation is at a precipice and it does not look good as we peer across the land. But giving in to our appetites of acedia, gluttony and wrath are not a path of enlightenment nor leading by example. Get on it.
WEEK 23 – FRIDAY
Office of Readings
FIRST READING
From the book of Lamentations 3:1-33
The thought of my homeless poverty
is wormwood and gall;
Remembering it over and over
leaves my soul downcast within me.
But I will call this to mind,
as my reason to have hope:
The favors of the Lord are not exhausted,
his mercies are not spent;
They are renewed each morning,
so great is his faithfulness.
My portion is the Lord, says my soul;
therefore will I hope in him.
Good is the Lord to one who waits for him,
to the soul that seeks him;
It is good to hope in silence
for the saving help of the Lord.
It is good for a man to bear
the yoke from his youth.
Let him sit alone and in silence,
when it is laid upon him.
Let him put his mouth to the dust;
there may yet be hope.
Let him offer his cheek to be struck,
let him be filled with disgrace.
For the Lord’s rejection
does not last forever;
Though he punishes, he takes pity,
in the abundance of his mercies;
He has no joy in afflicting
or grieving the sons of men.
http://www.liturgies.net/Liturgies/Catholic/loh/week23fridayor.htm
CINO. The same as a RINO… Christians In Name Only.
And they…(you)….always share their false teaching freely and without the shame they should have. You take things OUT OF CONTEXT and expose your Ego to the world on what a *Great Christian you think you are.
When the reality is, you are a False Prophet. Twisting God’s Word to suit your narrative of the World. Typical.
So here is TRUTH for you and those CINOs like you.
You say, ‘For the Lord’s rejection does not last forever;”
Yes. Correct. But the Bible says that *IF you do not REPENT…then you will not receive His Salvation. Most people do NOT Repent. MOST People.
And when you twist the Truth as you do, you cause those who will Never Repent to believe they are OK.
But they are Not.
Acts 3:19
“Repent therefore, and turn back, that your sins may be blotted out.”
Acts 17:30
“The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent.”
What repentance is
Joel 2:12–13
“‘Yet even now,’ declares the Lord, ‘return to me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning; and rend your hearts and not your garments.’ Return to the Lord your God, for he is gracious and merciful.”
Isaiah 55:7
“Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the Lord, that he may have compassion on him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.”
2 Corinthians 7:10
“For godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation without regret, whereas worldly grief produces death.”
SELF DEFENSE is NOT Wrath.
It is Commanded by God.
Luke 22:36
You cannot BUY a Spiritual sword. Walmart does not sell them.
Montana American
@HPBTSubMOA
Will Rogers was correct. For example,+ I’d find it absolutely hilarious to see Matt Goldman get the same treatment as the Irishman in the film Casino:
#. Coupling humor with murder is a perversion. These people are very seriously ill. It’s advisable to get the best psychiatric advice in the nation now and ongoing.
^^^ Students in these classes may seek to drop the classes or perhaps drop the college. It’s time to escalate the concern for safety.
For the Rams/49ers game, they sang “Jose Can You See….”
La Cancion Nacional De MexAfricAsiArabia.
Ain’t that nice of the conquistadors?
AI—Artificial Intelligence
Congress has absolutely NO power to regulate the technology and software industry per Article 1, Section 8.
The technology and software industry in 1789 would have been equivalent to the precision-manufacturing and scientific-instrument industry.
Article I, Section 8, makes no mention of regulating that sector or any similar sector.
Any attempt to regulate AI would be irrefutably unconstitutional, understanding that the Constitution limits and restricts government while providing maximal freedom to individuals.
America wins AI
or
China wins AI.
If AI wins over humans, then the winning country as you’re defining it loses.
Everywhere the dichotomization trap. Steering the middle course is ruled out from the git.
Where is the middle course when the other side literally wants you dead?? There is a team called “polarization”. There is a reason they shoot up our Christian and Jewish schools, Churches and Synagogues! The violence is here and it is not being done by Christians and Jews but to Christians and Jews.Where is the middle ground with people who see tolerance as weakness and license to escalate?
Calling it an effort to “restore sanity,” on Thursday Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney offered every adult American $10,000 to vote against Republicans in the midterms.
“If you oust the Republicans, you’ll receive a check for $10,000,” he said at a press conference. “And to be clear, we’re talking American dollars, not Canadian.”
The prime minister’s announcement seemed unlikely to make Donald Trump increase his own offer, since $5000 would be the most he has ever paid to a non-pornstar.
Carney concluded his press conference by unveiling a new map of North America with the United States renamed “South Canada.”
So funny I forgot to laugh.
(Liberals really can’t do comedy)
Canada has been renamed Snow Mexico.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/A9wcN3Aju8w
OMG!
Trump’s $5,000 reward check would easily add another trillion to the debt.
Around $1.8 trillion by my calculations. .. I don’t think Trump or Elon have that kind of money.
*show me the money.
Our “money” is a Fiat illusion. Until we end the Fed, all talk of debt is meaningless, all digital 1’s and 0’s
Congress could legally tax for those checks to all citizens as “general Welfare,” that is, “ALL WELL PROCEED,” per Article 1, Section 8, as bizarre as it sounds.
Where as public assistance for individuals, Social Security, Medicare et al. serve not general, all, or the whole, but small fractional groups of individual, specific, and particular beneficiaries.
Like Biden’s ILLEGAL student loan payments???
Biden made no student loan payments. The payments had already been made. What he did was recognize that many of those loans would never be repaid even though they remained a constant burden on the people who had them. All other loans can be discharged in bankruptcy; I think the same should apply to student loans.
Like the first three or four promised checks, this one will also evaporate after imbecile MAGA take the bait.
The globalists are the imbeciles. They vote for their own subjugation at the hand of Islamic Fascists, or Marxist Dictators.
If it successfully STOPS Communism, We’ll Take-on That Debt !
Speak for yourself. The incestuous business/government/military threesome already has our great-grandchildren in debt. You have no right to extend it to even more generations of our descendants.
Communism isn’t a danger, and hasn’t been for decades. The Moose-limbs are what will kill or enslave us all.
The debt is a non issue until we want to address the fact our money is fiat, and controlled by a privately owned bank that can manipulate interest rates and reenslave us if we tried to pay down the debt! Until we actually entertain the idea of ending the Fed, all talk of debt is theater and nothing more.
It ought to be a crime to be that unfunny
*****
Five stars out of five.