Leftists and the "freedom of speech" card.

For what seems like the thousandth time, I saw the words leftists now trumpet repeatedly as those trashing Charlie Kirk and giddy over his slaughter now either feel or see the consequences for their act.

"What about freedom of speech?" or "what happened to freedom of speech?"

Whenever I see the question, this is how I respond:

Nothing. Still there.

But because of the outright failure of public schools to actually teach the true meaning of Constitutional law, people such as yourself (and I am NOT throwing rocks at you.... this is more of a teaching moment) the students they failed do not understand that the 1A applies ONLY to government efforts to criminally prosecute you for something you've said or written.

It has zero application anywhere else, including work.

In short, there IS no "freedom of speech" in the civil environment. ABC has the right to fire anyone at any time for anything they do, public or private.

While those on the right, for example, who used blackface for anything, were outed and fired for that sort of thing while the left cheered, Kimmel?

He who did the exact, same, thing?

Why, HIS blackface episodes didn't cost him a thing, let alone subject him to the very same "cancel culture" the left espoused. When in reality, if the leftist movement wasn't hypocritical on its face, Kimmel would have ben kicked off the air back then.

The left flips that "freedom of speech" switch on and off whenever they feel like it. And while "freedom of speech" didn't matter to them then, it's suddenly their holy grail.

After the slaughtering and celebrating the death a man practicing the very thing they now so staunchly, if not incorrectly, seemingly demand to protect.

THIS is the democrat playbook.

When democrats decry violence, as many have in the Kirk assassination, you need to ask yourself:

Where were their voices during their Tesla insanity? The irony cannot be overstated: the primary owners of Tesla vehicles are those who bought into the EV/ecological hype/propaganda, i.e., their fellow leftists.

Their silence during THAT violence, which those democrats obviously agreed with, was deafening.

During the Floyd riots that lasted for months, where were the alleged democrat leaders then? Hundreds of millions in damages. Murders, looting, assaults, burning... These people NOW decrying political violence are ONLY doing so pro forma.

They don't believe it and they celebrated like everyone else on the left. They just kept it mostly private. Some were so hate-filled they went public... and some are paying a personal price for that (as in, getting fired.)

The current example is a tie between the rioters in LA that leftist leadership encouraged and applauded, and the ongoing terrorism of the rioters in Portland in the vicinity of the ICE facility where violation of Portland ordinances is an everyday, common occurrence and police are under orders not to respond to calls originating from the 4 block area of that facility.

Assaults are common place. Residents of area apartments and other homes are not allowed to sleep because the government of Portland ALLOWS the rioters to break their own laws because they do not want to be seen as "supporting ICE."

Leftists governments ALWAYS have excuses for their inaction.

These actions and inactions are a direct result of the mainstream democrat party.

Social media is rife with democrats expressing their hatred and death wishes for a wide variety of politicians and others to the right of Mao who are targeted for speaking.

For.
Speaking.

So now, when the media makes a big deal about leftist pols condemning violence... my first thought is their motives for doing this are self-serving on both the political front (They don't want to be viewed indefensibly and publicly hate-filled) and they don't want to be next, i.e., retaliation.

But what's an obvious miss for them is their past (and in some cases, current) failures to decry violence... like the terrorist supporter running for NYC mayor who refuses to condemn the October 7 massacre or the concept of "intifada."

There have been leftist gang members in Chicago aligning with both their mayor (Johnson) and their governor (Pritzker... the exception to the "hate all billionaires" democrat rule, since he is one) threatening to attack any Guard or other troops that Trump may send to the Chicago shithole where government is frequently nonexistent... like Labor Day weekend when 58 people were shot and at least 7 died.

The programming begins in the earliest stages of schooling. It's like seeing the rebirth of the fringe-left version of Hitler Youth.

And it continues through college, where your grades can depend not so much on academics but on how closely your POV has been made to align with your professors.

THOUSANDS of leftists have expressed their hate-filled death-inflicting fantasies on social media. And the "leaders" of the left remain silent or even have expressed OUTRAGE over the issue of toning down their rhetoric, instead blaming conservative public like Kirk for their own outcomes.

I despise most leftist politicians. I've made my feelings clear on this platform and on my blog.

But never once will you see me or read my words expressing a desire to see their blood spilled.

And that, apparently, is far too much to ask of our "loyal opposition."

The question? What do we do about it?
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A former Vancouver mayoral candidate, Steven Cox, put it this way.

The modern Democratic Party is not ‘sorry’ when political violence happens. They want it to happen. They create the conditions for it. I know what my friends will say: “I am a Democrat and I don’t ascribe to this”. No, I didn’t say all democrats - this is what your party has become. What are you going to do about it?

Here’s the playbook:

1. Corporate media demonizes you, calling you Hitler, fascist, deplorable.

2. Left-Wing dark money groups fund, arm, and radicalize people to target you.

3. They hype violence, glorify killers, and manipulate minds with drugs and social media.

4. One of their radicalized, over-medicated loners decides they can die a hero if they just “kill Hitler”

Repeat.

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That's the reality today. Will the slaughter of Charlie Kirk open the leftist flood gates? Will someone on the right see leftist reasoning as a justification to destroy what they see as a leftist threat, merely for speaking? I hope not. I pray it doesn't. Meanwhile? If you don't have a weapon, get one. If you don't know how or when to use it, learn (classes are available out there.) Practice with it. Carry it. And be prepared to use it to defend yourself or others. Understand that you may need to take someone's life as a result. But it's better to have a weapon and not need it... than it is to need it and not have it. And yes, I get that if Charlie was armed, it wouldn't have helped. But far too many governments have neutered their law enforcement so you cannot depend on them to react in anything close to a timely manner. Your protection is on you. Meanwhile, honor Charlie Kirk's memory by speaking his truths. Silence is complicity, the leftists tell us. And so it is.

Thoughts on the Kirk assassination.

Maybe I've watched too much crime drama.

But this seems like the plot of a poorly written movie.

The shooter has an escaped planned. He's smart enough or planned enough that to this point, he has yet to be captured.

I would not be surprised if 1. He's already been "eliminated" as a loose end. 2. His escape was planned to the extent that he is no longer in the US.

Chances are, others are involved. If he's acting alone, he's no idiot.

But his weapon is found, with engraved ammunition? Not even in a predug hole but laying, weirdly visible, in woods close to the shooting sight? With the kind of engraving on the ammunition that SCREAMS "let's start a civil war?"

Would a professional have done that? Could it have been deliberate?

Look. I get that Occam's Razor may be at play here.

Am I over-thinking this?

Who could profit from the national division ripped open yesterday? (Yes, I'm aware we were already divided. But now?)

Politically? Economically?

Are we being played to achieve this reaction on the part of the American public and perhaps, be the first shot fired in Civil War 2?

I freely admit I could be 100% wrong. But it just doesn't "feel" right to me.

SOME democrats get it... the "woke" words they need to cut from their speech.

SOME democrats are starting to get it. 

Establishment democrat think-tank, Third Way (and no, I've never heard of it, either, but they're apparently major establishment players for the left) has come up with a set of blacklisted terms the left should STOP using. 

As for me, I believe it's far too little... and far too late:

“We are doing our best to get Democrats to talk like normal people and stop talking like they’re leading a seminar at Antioch,” says Matt Bennett, Third Way’s executive vice president of public affairs. 

Far, far too late and far too much ingrained into the leftist psyche. Getting leftists to speak and write like non-leftist political hacks has as much chance of success as getting them to stop hoping the president is assassinated. In short, none at all.

“We think language is one of the central problems we face with normie voters, signaling that we are out of touch with how they live, think and talk." 

Perhaps he should add "normie voters" to the list?

"To please the few, we've alienated the many."

No kidding?

“The intent of this language is to include, broaden, empathize, accept, and embrace,” the memo states. “The effect of this language is to sound like the extreme, divisive, elitist, and obfuscatory, enforcers of wokeness. To please the few, we have alienated the many − especially on culture issues, where our language sounds superior, haughty and arrogant.” 

Duh. Seriously? Leftist arrogance and attempted moral superiority REEKS. Demands, for example, that we play along with the trans mental illness comes to mind. (yes, I refuse) 

ANYhoo, here's PART of the list. I'm trying to get all of it, but this is a start. 

Among the blacklisted terms: privilege … violence (as in “environmental violence”) … dialoguing … triggering … othering … microaggression … holding space … body shaming … subverting norms … systems of oppression … cultural appropriation … Overton window … existential threat to [the climate, democracy, economy] … radical transparency … stakeholders … the unhoused … food insecurity … housing insecurity … person who immigrated … birthing person … cisgender … deadnaming … heteronormative … patriarchy … LGBTQIA+ … BIPOC … allyship … incarcerated people … involuntary confinement.

Yes, it's a beginning. Their problem? 

They waited far too long and now the neocommunist wing of the fringe-left has much more sway and influence to actually get them to listen. 

Many industrialists in Germany supported Hitler's rise to power, convinced he was a hick they could control. By the time they figured out they'd been delusional, it was far too late for them to do anything about it. 

This is something of a replay of that scenario. 

Getting the progressives now mostly running the party to appeal to "normie voters" at this point has as much chance as forcing MLB to change the term "foul ball" into something like "miss-hit ball".

Good luck with that. 

Meanwhile, I look forward to their efforts to try and change course on the moronic policies these same people support. 

But I'm not holding my breath.

In the 30 states that keep track of party registration... Republicans are gaining voter registration and democrats are losing.

“Democrats lost ground to Republicans in every single one between the 2020 and 2024 elections — and often by a lot.”

So says the New York Times, hardly a bastion of conservative thought.

They lay it out in their article :

The Democratic Party Faces a Voter Registration Crisis

The party is bleeding support beyond the ballot box, a new analysis shows.

The reasons are obvious.

Most of us remember Obama's inane observations concerning the right "clinging to guns or religion."

Leftists are doing the exact opposite: clinging to unpopular, woke, out of touch concepts and ideas with their standard death grip.

I get it. It's painful. Most tectonic shifts for the mentally ill are painful. Addressing the underlying causes of these illnesses can cause almost as much damage as the causes themselves.

But the left's excuses for getting clobbered last November in the presidential race are the biggest symptom of their disease of them all.

They clearly remain incapable of anything approaching introspection.

The closest any leftist has come is Van Jones, who acknowledged Trump may be the smartest guy in the room.

Guys can we cut it out? Donald Trump is not an idiot. Donald Trump, let me just be very clear. Donald Trump is smarter than me, you, and all critics. You know how I know? Because he has the White House, the Senate, the House, the Supreme Court, the popular vote," Jones said.

The loss, to hear the left tell us, wasn't because of anything Kamala DID. How many have told us that she led a "flawless campaign?"

Introspection to avoid the same mistakes we all make in the future can, and frequently is, tortuously painful.

Harris's mistakes were obvious. 

But the left's excuses for her bludgeoning at the polls completely defy reality and continue to prove they learned nothing from their crushing presidential election defeat.

The left focuses on the low-hanging fruit of her gender, her race, media portrayals and so on.

They NEVER talked about policies (such as they were), her failure to reach out/connect with the middle/working class, the moronic insanity of her towing the Biden line ("can't think of a thing" she'd change) her responsibility for keeping the lie that Biden was perfectly OK mentally as president when it was clear to every sentient being on the planet that #DementiaJoe could no longer run an elevator. 

They never explained her abysmal failure as "Border Tsar," instead blaming the massive influx of millions of unvetted, unvaccinated illegals that has literally cost us hundreds of billions of dollars on the allegedly Trump-directed defeat of the so-called "bipartisan" border bill that would have cheerfully, and legally, allowed 1.8 million illegals in per year.

(As aside, one wonders: the Biden factory insisted the defeat of that bill made it impossible to do what Trump has done WITHOUT that bill; mainly, close down the border to almost all illegal crossings. Weird that Trump could do it without the bill after Biden, et al, claimed it couldn't be done.)

Instead, they choose to continually die on hills that actually took away even a remote chance of winning. Spending on and defending illegals as if they were much more important than citizens, insanity like the White House Trans Day that just happened to fall on Easter a while back, continued to claim the southern border crisis was made up, continuing to vociferously protect illegal alien criminals. 

Continuing to make outrageous claims that put most of their positions are on the wrong end of almost every 80/20 political equation, such as allowing fake females to compete against and use the locker rooms of real females in our public schools and colleges, such as horrific tax increases the left loves, such as having a hissy-fit over DOGE's efforts to cut government waste and spending; something they frequently talked about while simultaneously doing nothing about, etc.

Even now, they defy the reality of many fringe-left controlled cities (not least of which includes Washington, DC) as cesspools of crime. They freak out over the use of federal and National Guard troops to restore something approaching order, instead whining about such actions being "unconstitutional" and Trump taking over America and so forth.

Even the people of D.C. know better.

Months later, the democrats refuse to look in the mirror at the REAL reason they got their asses kicked in November and the real reasons they're hemorrhaging support and money now.

They are so programed that they are INCAPABLE of admitting they are wrong. On ANYTHING.

And until such time as the people who brought them to this level of insanity are gone... until the delusionals running the show are no longer in charge? They'll become increasingly irrelevant as common sense rears its frequently ugly head even though they know, deep down, that if this is the hill they choose to die on?

That's where they'll be buried.