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Ethics Alarms 
We’ve certainly come a long way from the aftermath of the Kennedy assassination, either Kennedy assassination. Can you imagine anyone cheering on Lee Harvey Oswald or Sirhan Sirhan back then? I can’t. But they are now. As Trump observed last night, these are sick people.
I see this outfit hails from Madison, Wisconsin, Paulie’s and Steve’s territory. And Ann Althouse’s. I wonder whether Ann will note this.
If they did cheer it, it was done privately. Publicly, everyone condemned it. I am sincerely hoping university presidents and all teachers/professors begin Monday with a statement condemning political violence. They are mostly cowards though, so I’m not that hopeful.
A successful assassination of Trump is a good thing because he’s evil! A failed assassination of Trump is a false flag and proof of his evil!
You see, Democrats will always have and eat their cake too.
When Butler happened, I went to work and heard all my liberal co-workers basically make this joke. They also did it with Luigi Mangione. I told myself it was dark humor, but at this point, it’s not just dark humor, and I’ve realized Charlie Kirk was right about assassination culture. The parts of the left that do this have my full contempt now. They do not care about democracy; they care about power.
Presidents of Universities need to en masse send out e-mails on Monday morning about the value of civility and condemn this violence. Every teacher and professor should begin class with a short statement that killing your political others is not the path to peace. It is not complicated to condemn political violence.
Sadly though, the education establishment is full of nonsense now. This guy being a teacher doesn’t surprise me because I’ve seen the most unhinged nonsense from teachers. The profession as a whole is infected with far-left ideology.
I’m convinced the prolonged TDS has become a psychological mental condition that completely flushes morality.
Quiet Sunday at EA. Townhall has a long list of tweets of unhinged liberal reactions to the assassination attempt. Summary of the reactions 1) staged 2) false flag 3) justified 4) pity it did not succeed. My editorial comment: has this country gone crazy?
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2026/04/26/the-left-were-absolute-psychopaths-following-the-attack-on-the-whca-dinner-n2675073
Well, I’m tied down with work. We have some unit outages (for some reason, we’re not to call them turnarounds this time), and my project for one of our units is nearing completion, so I’ve been putting in long days trying to finish all my configuration work so they can start the unit back up soon.
I did glance at that Townhall article, and it does make my blood boil a bit. But I don’t recognize most of the names that were attached to all the claims of a false-flag operation. I’m hoping, Mary Trump and Don Lemon aside, that most of the voices claiming that Trump staged his own assassination are fringe speakers that Townhall had to dredge up to stoke outrage. However, I’m not banking on that hope.
What I do think is that the Left has to push every narrative they can so that they can separate themselves from this gunman. Never mind he is a liberal. Never mind that he donated to Harris’ campaign. Never mind he had a long manifesto about his Trump hate that is probably hard to explain away as part of a false-flag operation. He can’t be tied to the Left, because if he is, then we have yet more actual evidence of the violence on the Left. The Left is all for violence against conservatives, but in their projection mentality, it must mean to them that the conservatives are also bucking to use violence against the Left. And it is the conservatives who have all the guns…
Sure. If Trump is evil and a Nazi and a fascist and super villian evil, then you can’t argue with him or try to convince him that’s his super duper evil is wrong. That appeases evil. “Never again” means just that: never again and you are required to use any means necessary to rid the world of such evil.
jvb
jvb,
Your thoughts are spot-on. If an asteroid is an “existential threat” to you, the range of outcomes is binary: the asteroid kills you or you kill the asteroid. There is no third option.
But President Trump is NOT an existential threat. That was proved beyond any doubt when President Biden walked through the White House doors in January 2021.
It’s truly frightening that there are so many people who are smart and normal and good and decent in nearly every other way that also see a President – who is up for election every four years and can only serve two terms – as an existential threat and are ok with him being gunned down.
Steve W is right…TDS is powerful, mind-altering disease.
I just have to conclude that they are NOT good and normal and decent. They just want to appear that way. The TDS has revealed to many who they truly were all along. In a way, it is the same thing. They think that calling for Trump’s death makes them APPEAR to be good and normal and decent. They will do anything they are told to do, as long as the ‘right people’ tell them to do it. In 2021-2022, these are the people who wanted the government to force people out of their jobs, to keep them from buying food, and even taking away their children because they refused to take part in a ‘medical experiment’. People who refused to take a ‘vaccine’ (remember, they had to change the definition of vaccine multiple times to make the MRNA gene therapy a ‘vaccine’) that did not prevent the spread of the disease, did not lower the death rate from getting the disease, and may not have even made the symptoms of the disease less, were to be cast out of society because…the news said so? People who refused to wear masks that 71 of 72 studies said were useless (each with a 5% error rate) were similarly cast out of society and often arrested and criminally charged under….well…something or the other. They supported court rulings that said 200 people could gamble in a space, but if you tried to hold a religious service with over 50 people in the same space, you would be arrested.
As they say, there are no good people in a riot. They may be good people at a protest, but when the protest turns into a riot, there is a decision to be made. The truly good people leave. The people who only pretend to be good people for social acceptance stay and take part in the looting because ‘everyone is doing it’. I feel all the good people have left the left already. All that remains are the violent left and the people who will do whatever they think is ‘acceptable’.
“I just have to conclude that they are NOT good and normal and decent. They just want to appear that way.“
To borrow a phrase from the (IMO) très campy DTF St. Louis:
“No One’s Normal. It Just Looks That Way from Across the Street“
PWS
They’re addicted to their virtue-signaling because they’re rewarded for it. They wear it like a new Gucci purse, hoping their acquaintances will envy and admire them for their display. It’s easier than that confusing logic or honesty stuff.
Presidents of Universities need to en masse send out e-mails on Monday morning about the value of civility and condemn this violence. Every teacher and professor should begin class with a short statement that killing your political others is not the path to peace. It is not complicated to condemn political violence.Presidents of Universities need to en masse send out e-mails on Monday morning about the value of civility and condemn this violence. Every teacher and professor should begin class with a short statement that killing your political others is not the path to peace. It is not complicated to condemn political violence.
A few thoughts come to mind. Inherent in the ‘civic religion’ of the US is the notion of political violence as a proper means to an end — if that end is presented and defined as ‘righteous’. It was right and proper according to the historical narrative defined by the North to wage was against the seceding South.
It is important to realize this: in the popular movies of the Anerican Postwar (WWll I mean) there are presentations of political violence that justify extra-legal violence if the defined enemy is an appropriate and deserving one. An excellent example is Mississippi Burning. It presentes even the FBI resorting to paramilitary violence (torture, etc.) in order to get evidence for a legal case against those men who resisted the political organizing of radical Northerners who come down to change the evil ways of the Southerners in accord with “righteous Northern values” (these are LARPings of an astoundingly hypocritical sort, but that is another topic).
This is just one example of a Northern attitude that undergirds a specific type of “righteous Americanism”. When you want to, when the Spirit moves you I guess, you go on rampages of terrifying violence when you are doing God’s holy work in the world.
Wasn’t it Malcolm X who made that rather contundente observation: “The chicken came home to roost”?
What else? In pursuit of “righteous” Zionist aims how many “good and proper” assassinations have been carried out by the Noble Israelis — and never is even a word of opposition mentioned. Because it is “righteous political violence”. The Israelis with American assistance just assassinated as many as 20 or 30 enemies gathered together while (it is said) negotiations were in progress.
The entire following war, now turning out to be not such a good choice, is being submerged in forgetting as other dramatic events occur. Oops! Just started a recession. Ooopsie! Just undermined the petrodollar. Oooops again. But no matter …
Yes, I recognize that political violence — assassinations, politics by other means — is a bad sign in any nation or polity. And the so-called Left (Democrats) have become unhinged from everything that I understand to be Leftist values and objectives, but in a very real sense their derangement is not so different a derangement as among other deranged actors and activists. I assume that they actually think they are doing “righteous political action”. This Mr Cole potential assassin described his Christian-based justification of his actions. It is political-religious zealotry — and really it is of a sort that is common currency today!
You can: Declare that an entire country shall be “annihilated” if it does not submit to American political will. “Oh that is just hyperbolic rhetoric!” Invade a neighbor country, arrest its president to stand (shiw) trial, forcthe expressly declared ibtention of getting control of oil fields. Sure, why not?
The point? That absolutely outrageous things are being said. And absolutely outrageous actions are being undertaken. Is it “general psychosis”? Have things got to such a point that there are no more restraints? Why not scrape Gaza and 2 millions of people off the map? Why the hell not? What’s the matter with you!
Read CG Jung’s Wotan. The God that rules the present dispensation of time is a psychological Yahweh! I sincerely hope that his sick influence will not lead to general psychological conflagration.
Didn’t Americans also vandalize businesses that didn’t have their ‘Blue Eagle’ in the window to show that they were approved by FDR’s new programs in ‘modern economics’?
The guy (Kirk Bangstad) who posted that tweet has a history with the law and local authorities, including losing significant (over half a mil $ on one) defamation cases. He ran for a Wisconsin State Assembly seat a few years back and lost by about 2:1 in vote count.
He resembles a toad.
Bangstad’s a disgustingly toxic POS! To their credit, the WI democrat party CONDEMNED him.
I fight to keep an open mind as I ponder whether or not it was with a wink and a nod.
PWS