On “Assassination Culture”: It’s Not You, It’s the Left

"A new report warns that rising left-wing support for political violence, fueled by online “assassination culture,” threatens the foundations of civil discourse and democracy."

 Thaddeus G. McCotter 

"After all, during the four years of the Biden Administration, the right did not engage in a similar wave of violence, let alone have it ignored or condoned by the media. In fact, it was the federal government under a leftist president that used its police and surveillance powers to infringe upon the constitutional rights and civil liberties of its opponents."

"Writing in City Journal, Zack Dulberg and Max Horder, senior fellows at the Network Contagion Research Institute, examined the results of a recent survey to determine why America has experienced a disturbing increase in political violence. The answer should surprise no objective observer: “Progressives increasingly support violence.”

We found that nearly one-third of Americans surveyed—and around half of those identifying as left-of-center—believe that the murder of certain public figures is at least somewhat justified. The figures are startling: 38 percent of respondents, and 55 percent of those left of center, said assassinating President Trump would be at least somewhat justified; 31 percent of respondents, and 48 percent of those left of center, said the same about Musk. Forty percent of respondents, and 58 percent of those left of center, deem it at least somewhat acceptable to “destroy a Tesla dealership” in protest.

"Further, based upon their findings, Mr. Dulberg and Mr. Horder have identified the disease ravaging the body politic: 

Our report also discovered an online “assassination culture,” found in predominantly left-leaning digital spaces, such as Bluesky and Reddit. This subculture justifies and glorifies political violence. Some of these networks’ users wield the name “Luigi” or use the Luigi video game character as coded endorsements of Brian Thompson’s alleged assassin, Luigi Mangione. These users cloak explicit calls for violence in stylized memes. Many believe that political murder and sabotage are acceptable forms of protest.

"And again, as the authors stress, this is no longer a phenomenon on the fringe of the public square: “This ‘assassination culture’ incubated on social media has migrated from the margins of public life into the mainstream.” . . .

"Hon. Thaddeus G. McCotter (M.C., Ret.) served Michigan’s 11th Congressional District from 2003-2012, He served as chair of the Republican House Policy Committee and as a member of the Financial Services, Joint Economic, Budget, Small Business, and International Relations Committees."

Let’s Move One Prison Gang Thug Into The Home Of Each Judge Who Wants To Keep Them In America

 

"Biblical & historical Scholar Steve Putney, award-winning financial adviser George Caylor and retired attorney & Substack writer Diane L. Gruber discuss the asinine Supreme Court ruling to keep murderous Tren de Aragua prison gang members in America. Steve explains the history of suspending Habeas Corpus^ and how illegal aliens put Abraham Lincoln in the White House. George and Diane discuss the fact that Christians and gun owners have a low voter registration rate.Share

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S.C.O.T.U.S. Was NOT Elected: Usurps Presidential Authority   If, if, if President Biden had the authority to fly in prison gang members from Venezuelan and give them “temporary protective status;” then President Trump certainly has the authority to terminate this TEMPORARY protective status, which he did in March.

"In February the US government declared the Venezuelan prison gang, Tren de Aragua, as a foreign terrorist organization, which was "conducting irregular warfare and undertaking hostile actions against the United States" with the goal of destabilizing the nation. The gang is linked to kidnapping, extortion, organized crime and contract killings, which is promoted by Venezuela's government.

The Dangers of Price Controls

Imprimis   

"Of course, if we are in a period of inflation, price fixing does immensely more harm. It is never a cure for inflation. Rather it is an attempt to direct the blame away from government. What causes inflation is an increase in the supply of money and credit. This is often brought on, directly or indirectly, by government policies—especially when the Federal Reserve decides to print new money to fuel government deficits."

Thomas Nast 1873

"Editor’s Note:   The first issue of Imprimis, published in May 1972, featured an article titled “The Dangers of Price Controls” by Henry Hazlitt. The Federal Reserve back then was printing large amounts of money to fund massive government spending on Great Society programs launched during the presidency of Lyndon Johnson. As a result of printing so much money, the U.S. economy was suffering from rapid inflation. To address inflation, Federal Reserve Chair Arthur Burns and the Nixon administration dreamed up wage and price controls.

"Today we face a similar situation. The Federal Reserve has been printing a lot of money to fund the huge expansion in the size and scope of government that took place during and after the Covid pandemic. In response to the resulting inflation and the political unrest that comes with it, Vice President Harris and others are promising to outlaw “price gouging”—in other words, to impose price controls—which will eventually lead to wage controls as well, since production and prices involve both in an intimate way.

"Because economic truth remains the same today as it was 52 years ago, we are reprinting Henry Hazlitt’s article from 1972, but with edits and updates by Brian Wesbury that bring Hazlitt’s classic piece into today’s world.

"The first thing to be said about price and wage fixing is that it is harmful at any time and under any conditions. It is a giant step toward a dictated, regimented, and authoritarian economy. It makes impossible arrangements that both sides are willing to agree to. It sets aside contracts that have already been made in good faith. If an employer wishes to give a man a raise in pay, and the man deserves it, he is nonetheless forbidden to do it under the new regulations. This is a grave abridgment of individual liberty.

"Price and wage fixing does harm even if there is no inflation. In a free economy prices are constantly changing. They are changing to reflect changes in supply and demand, in costs, and in a hundred other conditions. Some prices are going up, other prices are going down. If an effort is made to freeze prices and wages exactly where they are, it immediately disturbs the relationship of prices and comparative profit margins, which decides what things will be made and what quantities they will be made in. It upsets the process by which the free market decides how thousands of different commodities and services are to be made in the proportions in which people want them.

"Of course, if we are in a period of inflation, price fixing does immensely more harm. It is never a cure for inflation. Rather it is an attempt to direct the blame away from government. What causes inflation is an increase in the supply of money and credit. This is often brought on, directly or indirectly, by government policies—especially when the Federal Reserve decides to print new money to fuel government deficits.

"Since the onset of Covid, government deficits have soared to spectacular levels. Roughly $5 trillion of new debt was issued to pay people not to work and to buy vaccines, as well as to fund Green New Deal policies. The massive spending bills that accomplished this were cynically called the “CARES Act” and, comically, the “Inflation Reduction Act.” Even in the past two years, with the pandemic over and the unemployment rate down near four percent, the government—in adopting what may be the most irresponsible budgets in U.S. history—has been running deficits as high as $2 trillion.

"These deficits have mostly been financed by the Fed’s creation of new money. At the end of 2019, demand bank deposits and currency in the hands of the public totaled $15.3 trillion. Today that figure is $21.1 trillion. That is an increase of 38 percent, most of which occurred in 2020–2021. This is the major cause of the worst U.S. inflation in over 40 years, with consumer prices up 22 percent." . . .

London in The Blitz, WW2

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No Tesla or victim love in Minneapolis

 Mike McDaniel  

"Among the worst burdens of any police officer’s job is dealing with non-prosecuting prosecutors. The common, pre-Soros variety were bad enough, but Soros prosecutors blatantly refuse to prosecute most criminals and are prone to throwing the book at non-Democrats." . . . 

"That Democrats have long enjoyed a two-tiered system of injustice is well established. The law applies to Normal Americans, not the self-imagined elite who may break it with impunity. That’s particularly true in Minnesota, playground of Governor Tim “Tampon” Walz and Hennepin County—Minneapolis—Prosecutor Mary Moriarty, very much a Soros prosecutor.

"Moriarty has a horrible record of ignoring victims and coddling criminals. She dropped the case of a 35-year-old man who allegedly raped a 14-year-old girl. She gave probation to a drug dealer who knowingly killed a man with a fatal Fentanyl dose. She was so lenient to two hitmen even Tim Walz had her booted from the case. 

"And now one Dylan Adams, a 33-year-old state government employee who allegedly keyed six separate Teslas, causing at least $20,000 in damage, won’t face the felony charges he deserves. I say “alleged” because Teslas have 360° cameras, all of which caught Adams in the act. Instead, he’ll be given a “diversion” program.

"Such programs are normally reserved for first time offenders who made a single, foolish mistake, people who really aren’t career criminals. Usually in exchange for restitution, and perhaps some community service, they get off without any criminal record. In this case, Adams vandalized six widely separated Teslas in a premediated series of felonies. One wasn’t enough for Adams; he had to make a bigger political statement. Moriarty’s office noted:  

"Our main priorities are to secure restitution for the victims and hold Mr. Adams accountable. As a result, we will file for pre-charge diversion to best facilitate both of those goals," HCAO spokesperson Daniel Borgertpoepping said. "This is an approach taken in many property crime cases and helps to ensure the individual keeps their job and can pay restitution, as well as reducing the likelihood of repeat offenses. Criminal prosecution remains a possibility should unlawful behavior continue."

‘Reminiscent of the KKK’: Columbia Janitors Sue Protesters Who Took Over Hamilton Hall

 The Free Press  

"The professors and students in the UCLA case are suing under the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871, alleging that these anti-Israel groups "plotted, coordinated, and executed a common plan to deprive Plaintiffs and other Jews at UCLA of their rights” and to “subject Plaintiffs to racial intimidation and violence and to stir up race hatred at UCLA.”

Mario Torres confronts demonstrators attempting to barricade themselves inside Hamilton Hall 

"The Columbia University janitors who were held hostage during the violent takeover of a campus building last spring are suing their alleged captors for battery, assault, and conspiracy to violate their civil rights, according to a copy of the suit reviewed exclusively by The Free Press.

"The lawsuit was filed in federal court on Friday evening by Torridon Law and the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law on behalf of Columbia janitors Mario Torres and Lester Wilson. It alleges that over 40 Columbia students and “outside agitators,” some but not all of whom were arrested by police following the takeover of Columbia’s Hamilton Hall last April 29, “terrorized” both Torres and Wilson “into the early morning of April 30th, assaulted and battered them, held them against their will, and derided them as ‘Jew-lovers’ and ‘Zionists.’ ”

"The occupation of Hamilton Hall occurred almost exactly a year ago, and both Torres and Lester say they have been struggling to cope ever since. The lawsuit states both men suffered physical injuries the night of the occupation, and that they have also been suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder that has required ongoing medical care. Neither has been able to return to work, and are instead “subsisting on interim Workers Compensation payments” which are “inadequate” to pay for their basic needs and medical bills, according to the suit.

“Mario and Lester are decent, honest, hardworking men who have been through hell. None of this ever should have happened,” said Tara Helfman, one of the Torridon lawyers on the case.

"The lawsuit describes the protesters, the majority of whom “donned masks and hoods to conceal their identities,” as “reminiscent of the Ku Klux Klan.” It claims they “are part of a broad pro-Hamas, anti-Semitic network of organizations, groups, and cells that are connected through a largely untraceable underground communications system. They promote and resort to violent and illegal tactics, and are motivated by invidious discrimination against Jews and supporters of Jews.”

"The Brandeis Center also filed a federal lawsuit late Friday on behalf of two students, a professor, and a rabbi at the University of California, Los Angeles, alleging that several groups, including National Students for Justice in Palestine, Faculty for Justice in Palestine Network, American Muslims for Palestine, and Westchester People’s Action Coalition, engaged in “a coordinated campaign of egregious acts of racial exclusion, intimidation, and assault” to “intimidate Jewish students, faculty, and staff.” . . .

"The “occupiers” named in Torres and Wilson’s lawsuit include leaders of Columbia’s most vocal anti-Israel groups like the Columbia University Apartheid Divest Coalition, Students for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voices for Peace. Other defendants are people not associated with the university who were allegedly involved in the building takeover, including James Carlson, described in a New York Post story as a “longtime anarchist” and as the son of millionaires, and Lisa Fithian, a professional protest trainer and “lifelong agitator.” Also named in the suit is The People’s Forum, a far-left activist group responsible for organizing many of the anti-Israel protests at Columbia and across New York City.

"Over 40 protesters, including Carlson, were arrested and charged with trespassing in the days after the Hamilton Hall occupation. But Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg’s office dropped the charges, claiming the charges would have been “extremely difficult” to prove because the protesters wore masks and covered security cameras." . . .

Frannie Block is a reporter for The Free Press. She started her career as a breaking-news journalist for the Des Moines Register, where she covered topics ranging from crime and public safety to food insecurity and the Iowa caucus.

Black Chicagoan Torches Democrats: They Live in Gated Communities While Demanding We Take In Illegal Aliens

 

 

"In her written testimony, Carter-Walters accused Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson (D) of catering to the more than 51,000 illegal aliens who arrived in the city under former President Joe Biden."  John Binder

Black Chicagoan Torches Democrats: They Live in Gated Communities While Demanding We Take In Illegal Aliens   "Danielle Carter-Walters, a black resident of Chicago, Illinois, torched Democrats during a congressional hearing on Wednesday, accusing them of advocating for public policies that they, themselves, never have to live with.

"At the House Judiciary’s Immigration Subcommittee hearing on sanctuary jurisdictions, Carter-Walters laid into Democrats for supporting illegal immigration despite not having to deal with the consequences of such a policy in their day-to-day lives.

“ 'I say, ‘Call me a racist,'” Carter-Walters said. “I don’t want anybody who crossed over here illegally, unvetted. I don’t want them in my community, so you can call me racist.”

“ 'Because let me tell you, the Democrat Party is so far from reality,” she continued. “They go in their gated communities. I don’t see any of those people that are advocating to keep these people here. I don’t see them in their house, in their communities. They don’t have them around their children or their husbands. But yet and still they are advocating for us to allow this in our communities around our kids and our families.”

“To the vocal Democrat Black representatives — cease and desist,” the Chicagoan said. “You do not speak for us.” . . .

UPDATED: Jeffrey Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre dies by suicide at 41 just weeks after saying she ‘had days to live’

 NY Post    "Virginia Giuffre, the most prominent victim of late convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, took her own life Thursday — just weeks after she made headlines for saying she had “four days to live” following a collision with a bus

“It is with utterly broken hearts that we announce that Virginia passed away last night at her farm in Western Australia,” the 41-year-old’s family said in a statement to NBC News.

“She lost her life to suicide, after being a lifelong victim of sexual abuse and sex trafficking.”

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Virginia Giuffre was one of Jeffrey Epstein’s most outspoken abuse survivors.

"Giuffre took legal action against billionaire financier Epstein in 2015, alleging that she was sex trafficked at 16 after his ex-lover and convicted madam, Ghislaine Maxwell, recruited her from her job as a locker room attendant at President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort.

"The mom of three also alleged she was forced to have sex with disgraced Prince Andrew three times when she was 17 — including at Epstein’s Little St. James island, in New Mexico and in Maxwell’s London home, where a notorious photo of her posing with King Charles’ brother was taken." . . .

"UPDATE: Trump later banned Epstein from Mar-a-Lago after reports surfaced that Epstein had approached underage girls at the club. Trump later banned Epstein from Mar-a-Lago after reports surfaced that Epstein had approached underage girls at the club."  "The  View" will likely leave this last part out. TD

Giuffre also alleged that she saw former President Bill Clinton on Epstein’s private island, though Clinton has denied visiting the property.

Giuffre also alleged that she saw former President Bill Clinton on Epstein’s private island, though Clinton has denied visiting the property.

The mom of three also alleged she was forced to have sex with disgraced Prince Andrew three times when she was 17 — including at Epstein’s Little St. James island, in New Mexico and in Maxwell’s London home, where a notorious photo of her posing with King Charles’ brother was taken.

UK Daily Mail:  Jeffrey Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre dies by suicide after troubling Instagram posts   . . ."Giuffre said Maxwell hired her as a masseuse for Epstein, but the couple effectively made her a sexual servant, pressuring her into gratifying not only Epstein but his friends and associates."

Giuffre said she was flown around the world for assignations with men including Prince Andrew while she was 17 and 18.

The Duke of York denied the allegation, as has Maxwell - who is a convicted sex offender - while Epstein died in a New York prison in 2019.

She filed a federal lawsuit against Andrew in 2021 which he agreed to settle for an undisclosed fee in 2022. He has denied ever having sex with her. 

She had alleged she had sex with Andrew three times,  in London during a 2001 trip, at Epstein's New York mansion when she was 17 and in the Virgin Islands when she was 18. 

Giuffre said she was flown around the world for assignations with men including Prince Andrew while she was 17 and 18.

The Duke of York denied the allegation, as has Maxwell - who is a convicted sex offender - while Epstein died in a New York prison in 2019.

She filed a federal lawsuit against Andrew in 2021 which he agreed to settle for an undisclosed fee in 2022. He has denied ever having sex with her. 

She had alleged she had sex with Andrew three times,  in London during a 2001 trip, at Epstein's New York mansion when she was 17 and in the Virgin Islands when she was 18. 

UPDATED 4/26/2025: A Message to Larry David: Curb Your Derangement

 American Spectator  

"And this brings us to the painful, all-too-obvious irony. Larry David, the man who once gave us the Soup Nazi, an emblem of absurd authoritarianism taken to extremes, now pens op-eds warning that Donald Trump is quite literally Hitler" 

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"Larry David is a legend. The irritable neurotic behind Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm turned petulance into a form of performance art. He gave awkward silence a pulse. His misanthropy is somehow warm. His genius lies in the discomfort. But in his latest op-ed for the New York Times, titled “My Dinner With Adolf,” David overreaches. Way over.

"The piece, a satirical riff on Bill Maher’s recent dinner with President Trump, imagines a Jewish critic having a charming, disarming meal with Adolf Hitler. The tone is classic David — deadpan, absurd, snarky. But the comparison isn’t just distasteful. It’s entirely self-defeating. By invoking Hitler, David attempted to sharpen the critique. He failed. (RELATED: Enough with Leftist Fantasy — Hitler Is Really Dead, and He Should Finally Be Buried)

"The Holocaust isn’t a metaphor. Hitler isn’t a meme. Six million dead Jews, plus millions more murdered across Europe, aren’t props for a punchline. Yet, in David’s hands, they become set dressing for a sketch about Trump’s charm offensive.

"The point he’s trying to make is that private likability doesn’t absolve public harm. It’s a fair point. However, once you start goose-stepping around the Holocaust to make it, the moral high ground crumbles immediately.

"And here, I suggest, is the deeper problem: the invocation of Hitler always backfires. It transforms conversation into emotionally charged theater. It eliminates nuance. It hands your critics a gift-wrapped reason to dismiss everything else you say. Even the Times, in its own editorial note, felt compelled to clarify that David wasn’t really comparing Trump to Hitler. When your satire needs a trigger warning from the editorial board, maybe, just maybe, it missed the mark.

"Like many in Hollywood, David is furious, absolutely furious that someone they once considered “one of them” (Bill Maher) could sit down with Trump and come away seeing a man instead of a monster. And Maher didn’t just sit down. He publicly praised Trump’s demeanor. That triggered a kind of cultural autoimmune response, a reflexive, self-sabotaging lashing out designed less to engage than to punish. Read more...

(RELATED: The Left Should Learn From Bill Maher)

UPDATE: Larry David: No Longer the Master of his Comedic Domain  . . ."But today, that free spirit has been crushed, and David has become a propagandist for the Democrats.

"Larry's net worth is said to be over $400 million, so he isn't doing this to put food on his table. 

"David's parody pieces targeting Trump are disappointing on many levels. Firstly, they are lame and uninventive. Trump has been compared to Hitler since the day he descended the elevator at Trump Tower to launch his campaign for President. On MSNBC, pundits are sacked if they don't compare Trump to Hitler at least once a week. The comparison was hence neither provocative nor original. 

"The piece was predictable, devoid of any depth or insight, and, surprisingly for David, lacked humor of both dark and light varieties. This is the kind of shallow writing that escapes your mind when you finish the last word. 

"David could have been inventive, focused on the human aspect, and depicted Maher as a George Costanza kind of character groveling before his former adversary for personal gains.

"The insane reaction from David and others to the Maher-Trump dinner once again provides an insight into the Democrat cult." . . .