Democrats Are Desperate To Return To Business As Usual: Do Not Let Them

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Democrats murdered Charlie Kirk. With that act, the unleashed a wave of disgust and anger not only at them, but their sickening attitude and agenda. They now want to put that toothpaste back in the tube and get back to business as usual. To hell with that, make them choke on their words and actions for the rest of their lives.

I have to admit that I am amazed at how many leftists seem to have lived a large part of their adult lives without ever being exposed to the concept that actions have consequences. They genuinely seem surprised that a company might not think it’s great public relations to have someone on the payroll who openly celebrates the murder of another human being and hopes for more. What did they think was going to happen?

They’re now posting videos of the apologizing (way too late and wildly insincere) or expressing complete shock that they’d be let go over something so ghoulish. I wonder what color the sky is on their planet?

Of course, there are some people for whom there are no ramifications for their scumbaggery. Dan Goldman, Congressman from New York and the heir to a Levi’s fortune, has no concerns about losing his seat (he can buy it pretty easily for as long as he wants), so he can say stupid, offensive, hypocritical things all he wants because he knows conservatives won’t try to kill him the way fascistic leftist progressives do all the time.

Former MSNBC host Krystal Ball can fake being shocked about consequences all she wants, she’d celebrate the firing of anyone who threatened her.

Pig-nosed piece of shit and aspiring OnlyFans dad, George Conway, has all the money he grifted in the child sexual predator con known as the Lincoln Project, so he and his unemployable ass don’t have to worry about making light of the killing of political opponents and his ability to eat.

There is no consequence some people can face that will keep them from being a despicable pig, be they rich or sociopaths. That’s where the left-wing rage should really be directed – toward the people who incite and run away; the insulated who spread lies to cause action of others from behind their gated community walls.

In Animal House, John Belushi’s character started a food fight and immediately fled the room as the mess began. That’s who people like these are. With a wink and a nod, they spread their bullshit on MSNBC and social media, but it’s far enough away to provide plausible deniability if things go sideways.

Now that things have gone sideways, they are afraid of the monsters they’ve created; terrified some of them will come to the realization that they’ve been manipulated and lied to – Frankenstein’s Monster always returns to the castle to destroy it. We can see people pot-committed to the con scrambling to fend off any actualization of reality to save themselves and keep the game going.

Never forget, the left didn’t create these monsters by accident, they’re useful to them. They don’t want to give them up over one murder, especially not of an elected official. There will be no special election to replace Charlie Kirk, his empty seat won’t sway the balance of power in the House. That’s all Democrats really care about.

To achieve their goal of power, Democrats need to return to normal. Charlie’s blood isn’t just on their hands, it’s stained them forever, so they’ll be the people with gloves on. They’ll move to not leave any fingerprints on their actions; they’ll get better at the manipulation and the fomenting of hate.

But the world saw them, saw who they really are. Once you see it, you can’t unsee it. People will not unsee it.

Democrats are desperate to get back to how things were a week ago, but they’ll never be back to how they were a week ago because Charlie was alive then and they hadn’t cheered his murder.

We can’t bring Charlie back, and we can’t let Democrats bring their version of normal back either. Ever.

Podcast thread for Sept 15

 

Mind feels at ease today. Hopefully it continues.

I Have a Solution to Crime

posted by Kurt Schlichter at Townhall 

Political crime, like the murder of Charlie Kirk, is one thing, and we are committed to crushing it – at this writing, there is a suspect in custody in Utah, which shoots criminals, and I’d hate to be his life insurance underwriter. Street crime is another issue, and after the assassination briefly took the focus off Iryna’s public transit murder, it will be back. As Republicans, solving street crime is a moral obligation as well as our ticket to victory in 2026. Luckily, the solution to the criminal disorder sweeping blue-run cities – yeah, Governor Hairstyle, the chaos in the red states is entirely within those parts of them that are deep blue – is pretty simple. It’s no secret. You simply refuse to tolerate disorder, from the worst manifestations of criminality like that shambling semi-human who decided to stab an innocent woman on a train car to the relatively minor (but still important) petty crimes like vandalism, shoplifting, fare-beating, and public disorderliness. But it’s not just actual crime that contributes to the inexcusable vibe of insecurity Dems tolerate. Some scumbag out in public who is demonstrating dominance of public spaces by acting menacingly, playing loud music, puffing on a spliff, or whatever, needs immediate and firm attention, whether by the official authorities or by citizens who understand that the government will have their back rather than the back of the miscreant. 

We can say “No.” Disorder is a choice, and the Democrats have made it. They’d better rethink their choice, both for their own sake and for the sake of the dirtbags they are protecting. The “No” is coming, the easy way or the hard way.

We need not live this way, and we won’t. Other people have made the right choice – why not us? Last June, I was in Portugal, which I highly recommend – it’s pretty, the wine is top-notch, and the people are surprisingly based. At one point, we were walking through Lisbon, a big, cosmopolitan city, and we came to a park. In America, it would be full of junkies, hobos, gangsters, perverts, and other human detritus. But in Lisbon, kids were running around, teen couples were looking in each other’s eyes, and old people were playing chess. It was wonderful. It was how civilized people live. And it was the manifestation of a choice, a choice not to tolerate the bottom 10 percent of the population ruling the roost for the rest of us.

But the degenerates, empowered by Democrats, rule it here. And they have for a while. Let me bring you back to the Los Angeles riots of 1992, when I was a first lieutenant with the 3rd Battalion, 160th Infantry on the streets packing an M16 rifle. Most of my troops came from South-Central, and that’s where we patrolled. Though I had been in the Gulf War, I was still a suburban guy from San Mateo, California. The ghetto blew my mind; I could not believe Americans lived like that.

Like I said, my troops were primarily from South-Central, and they were taking no guff. All those rules the LAPD observed? Not applicable to us. At one point, they ungently cleared a park just before I rolled up with the battalion commander (frequent Townhall columnist COL (R) Bill Wenger). I’m walking around when this black lady comes up and hugs me. I’m perplexed. She tells me she’s lived there for years, and this was the first time her kids could ever play in that park.

Mind blown.

We don’t have to live like this. Rudy Giuliani proved it by taming the jungle that was 70s/80s New York City, turning it from “Death Wish” to Disneyland. And Donald Trump just did it in Washington, D.C. I was there a couple of weeks ago – it was nice. The Guardsmen on the street provided a presence that drove the dirtbags away. The burly federal agents interdicted the remaining dirtbags, and word is that the Washington cops got the OK to go get the high-intensity felons behind the greatest hits of major crimes. The cops know who’s a bad guy; they just don’t have the backing to go get them. As a society, we know that if you incapacitate the few hundred worst offenders, that will tank the crime stats because these vermin commit crimes all out of proportion to their numbers. Further, the example deters some portion of the others. 

You have to refuse to tolerate not only major and petty crimes, but the kind of menacing domination of public spaces these creeps get off on. No, you don’t get to shout on your phone, hop the turnstile, or play your crappy music on the Metro. The deviants need people in their faces demanding compliance, not understanding, not caring, and certainly not tolerance. We tried tolerance, and Iryna bled out in a train.

So, now it’s time to try something else. Now it’s time to not tolerate disorder. This is not new – civilized societies throughout history have done this. The ones that did not quickly dissolve. Those that did often did so with a harshness that would give pause to many of us. But let me tell you, there’s less and less potential for pause out there as crime runs rampant. 

Let me chart the moderate course. It means we stop tolerating this stuff and bring back swift and certain punishment by lawful authority. Nothing wacky, nothing that would be unfamiliar to most non-urban Americans, even 30 years ago when Clinton offered his 100,000 cops plan, where we imposed mandatory sentences, and had three-strikes laws. Just firm law enforcement from cop to judge. But not just law enforcement. We must retake and defend public spaces from the creeps.

Hobos, I don’t know where you are going to go, but it’s not on our sidewalks, on our public transit, or in our parks. Jail, forced rehab, mental commitment, or get yourself behaving like a normal person. It’s one of those. The option to make us indulge your pathologies is over.

Criminals, I don’t care what continent your great-grandfather came from. You can call us “racist” from Rikers. You commit a crime, and we remove you from society for a long stretch. We charge crimes, and there’s no “cashless bail.” If you are bad enough, we hang you. “Due process” means a fair trial that determines guilt; it’s not an interminable exemption from retribution.

Understand that this is not a matter of cops alone. It’s a matter of will throughout the system. Do we have the will to enforce our laws and punish evildoers? Democrats better find the will and exercise it if they want to avoid a blowout in 2026. You can feel the zeitgeist changing. People are done being told they have some sort of racial or social obligation to shrug off being victimized. That’s done, finished, over. 

Now, that’s the moderate option, where we enforce laws, refuse to tolerate public disorder, and punish criminals with tough but reasonable sentences. It’s a good deal – the left should jump at it. The left should jump at it because the hard option is on the table. We are talking vigilantes. We are talking cops off the leash, dispensing street justice as they see fit. We are talking two-strikes laws and the noose for a lot of things, without endless appeals. You think that’s not possible? Think again, because if the choice is young women getting their throats cut by guys who have had a dozen close encounters with the cops or degenerates like him, either locked away forever or swinging from a gibbet several felonies ago, I can tell you how that will come down. 

Americans are tired of paying the price in blood for the bizarre ideological pathologies of the left. That is going to end, and if they keep a moderate like Donald Trump from ending it the easy way, someone is going to come along who will end it the hard way. If they murder voices of reason, other voices will rise and it will not be pretty. Spit on the street in Singapore and see how that goes.

Choose wisely.

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Defending Kash Patel from Himself

posted by Sundance at Conservative Treehouse 

Many people were thrilled with the nomination and eventual confirmation of Kash Patel to be Director of the FBI. However, with decades of researching the political weaponization of the FBI and against the known capabilities of the nominee, we were not part of the thrilled group.

The non-pretenders looked at the challenge, contrast the scope of work against the skillset of the person selected to confront the institutional corruption, and warned people there was more reason to be apprehensive than optimistic.

Do you remember us outlining how the various FBI field offices would be keeping Patel/Bongino tied up with busy work, and stuff to go on TV about.

That said, we don’t want him to fail, but Director Patel has walked himself into a gauntlet of consequence that will be difficult to exit given his lack of discernment – evidenced in the events surrounding the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

The people in control of FBI field operations (not Kash), set up their agency head by informing the boss a suspect was in custody.

The ever focused on public opinion, Director Kash Patel, then took to Twitter at 6:21 pm on September 10th to relay the news.  According to media reports Patel was just about to eat dinner at a swanky New York City restaurant when he sent the text message.

We all watched it unfold.

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After eating dinner at Rao’s, an embarrassed Kash Patel was then forced to retract his public statement, walking back his message that a suspect was in custody at 7:59 pm, a little over 1.5 hours later.

The FBI field operatives smiled. Egg applied as expected, it worked brilliantly.

Kash Patel couldn’t then turn to those who set him up with too much anger, because their defense was, “we were questioning a suspect, we didn’t tell you to go public with it – and as it turned out the suspect was cleared.”

It was a brilliant maneuver, likely intended to undermine his authority and position.  It worked perfectly.

Did you see Kash Patel’s face the next day when he eventually did arrive in Utah and didn’t say a word at the microphone?

National media and DC political opposition now runs with the “incompetent” narrative, albeit rightly deserved but for other bigger matters, and the leadership structure of the FBI is weakened.

The institutional elements in control pulled off a great hit. Well played FBI bad guys. Well played.

Perhaps, just perhaps, Director Patel will shift his position and recognize the scale of opposition inside the institution he keeps praising. [Although I doubt his ego will allow him to reset.]

Kash Patel has essentially neutered himself by falling prey to the most transparently obvious ploy of the intel operatives within the institution.

Now, the media has a narrative to enhance, and Director Patel is scheduled to be questioned in the Senate later this week. What comes next will be entirely the result of his own self harm.

Those Machiavellian FBI guys are cruel.

Every adverse operative within the FBI will be back channeling specific investigative information to the Democrat inquisitors in advance, so questions can be specifically formatted.

Whether he can see it or not, FBI Director Kash Patel is being set up by his own agency in collaboration with the Senate guards in DC.

Unfortunately, Kash Patel is now in a defensive mode trying to promote his image over the past 24-hours by retweeting positive articles about him as written by the sources he uses to deliver information, John Solomon (Tick-Tock) and Brooke Singman (Fox).

It’s all quite transparent, and simultaneously a hot mess.  “The more he spoke of his honor, the faster we counted the spoons.”

I’m not sure if President Trump can see it unfolding, or if President Trump is simply trying to support his FBI director and simultaneously avoid collateral embarrassment.  Either way, given the fortunate situation where the father of the assassin secured his son and turned him into police, President Trump is supporting the successful outcome.

There is a sense of familiarity, a feeling similar to NSA Director Mike Waltz, about it:

Understand and accept this with great seriousness, there are no honorable “rank and file” inside this organization. Every member of the FBI is a participant in the weaponization of power and government. The members are jackboots recruited from ideological college campuses for exactly the purpose of supporting a Stasi-like police state.

Through the past several years, we have discovered how the FBI worked inside Twitter, Facebook and social media to control information, remove content and manipulate opinion on behalf of the U.S. government – all activity political. We have also learned the FBI took active measures to suppress information about the Hunter Biden laptop and control any negative consequences for the Biden regime – again, political.

These are not disputed realities.

The U.S. Dept of Justice and FBI are now political institutions that have abandoned their originating mission in order to become the domestic equivalent of the Soviet-era FSB. Their joint targeting mechanisms have been redesigned to support the interests of corrupt DC politicians, specifically the interests of DC.

Tangentially related: (1) What’s the status of the DC pipe bomber case? And (2) are the 40 FBI agents who worked on the Mueller investigation, still employed?

Zohran Mamdani a Red Flag of What a Brainwashed Electorate Will Choose

  

Betsy McCaughey| September 13, 2025  |  Hot Air

        Get ready for more Zohran Mamdani-like candidates -- avowed socialists -- to soar to popularity across New York state and the rest of the U.S.

        We the public have ceded control of education to the far left. The result is a curriculum that never mentions the brutal consequences of socialist experiments in Eastern Europe, Latin America and elsewhere, and instead brainwashes students with a fairytale definition of "socialism" devoid of any historical context.

        Of course young New York voters are troubled by the unaffordability of the city. But that alone does not explain the appeal of Mamdani's socialist promise. Numerous polls show socialism is gaining traction among younger voters. They're being brainwashed in school.

        Gallup reported Monday that 49% of people ages 18 to 34 had a positive view of socialism, compared with 30% of those over age 55.

        Our only option is to fight politically to regain control of what's taught in our schools.

        Here is text from a typical lesson plan recommended for New York state teachers, telling students: "In a capitalist society, the goal is for individuals to make profit by earning as much money as they can. In a socialist society, the government directs the wealth so it is more equally spread around to everyone, but there is still private ownership of property and businesses. In a communist society, everyone is equal and given the same amount of resources as determined by the government."

        Students are encouraged to choose one of these economic systems -- based on these misleading definitions -- and defend their choice.

        New Yorkers should be outraged. This lesson plan includes no discussion of how, in the name of socialism and equality, Cold War despots in Russia, Romania, Poland and other Eastern Bloc counties slaughtered innocents, seized property and sunk their countries into starvation-level poverty.

        Students aren't told how socialism has plunged Venezuela into starvation since voters opted for socialist Hugo Chavez in December 1998. Chavez promised a fairer relationship among the socioeconomic classes. Sound familiar?

        On the campaign trail, Mamdani is promising the same equality that kids are hearing about in the classroom.

        "There must be a better distribution of wealth for all of God's children in this country," Mamdani tells CNN.

        "There is enough money for a life of dignity for all people," he says on ABC.

        No discussion of socialism's brutal past. It's not because socialism was implemented by bad actors. Socialism is inherently coercive because it violates our rights as individuals to work and acquire more property than the guy next door who doesn't work.

        It is now politically incorrect to suggest young voters -- many of them college graduates -- buying Mamdani's socialist promises, such as rent freezes, are victims of an inadequate education. When I stated that on CNN Thursday evening, Congressman Ro Khanna demanded that I apologize because he falsely claimed I was calling Mamdani voters "stupid."

        No, not "stupid," just lacking any knowledge of history.

        History would help them evaluate Mamdani's housing proposals, where New Yorkers are especially stressed.

        Mamdani said in 2020 that "people often ask what socialists mean when we say we want to 'decommodify' housing. Basically, we want to move away from a situation where most people acquire housing by purchasing it on the market & toward a situation where the state guarantees high-quality housing to all."

        That's reminiscent of what the despots of Eastern Europe did during the Cold War, building huge concrete apartment blocks with meager square-foot allotments per family. Romanian despot Nicolae Ceausescu razed entire villages to herd the populace into his high-rise state-run facilities.

        Of course, a New York mayor has far fewer powers. But Mamdani promises on his campaign website to build 200,000 new units of "permanently affordable, union-built, rent-stabilized homes."

        Sounds wonderful, unless you're familiar with the failure of New York City Housing Authority housing, which ghettoizes the poor in unlivable circumstances. It takes on average 350 to 423 days to prepare a vacant NYCHA apartment for occupancy -- a sign of the system's dysfunction. NYCHA residents suffer heat and hot water outages, mold and dilapidated conditions.

        We have failed young voters by ceding control of their education to the teachers unions.

        Union members and their relatives outgun parent groups to control local school board elections, and unions dominate statewide curriculum choices. That has to change fast, or the push for a phony vision of socialism -- already dominant in the schools -- will soon dominate at the ballot box as well. Mamdani is a red flag.

        Betsy McCaughey is a former Lt. Governor of New York State and founder of SAVENYC @SAVENYC.org. Follow her on Twitter @Betsy_McCaughey

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Charlie Kirk to Be Honored with Stadium Memorial as Thousands Expected to Mourn a Conservative Icon

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Turning Point USA has announced that a massive public memorial for Charlie Kirk will be held next Sunday at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona—a venue capable of hosting over 60,000 people. The event is expected to draw a massive crowd of supporters, friends, and political allies as the conservative movement mourns the loss of one of its boldest voices.

The memorial, titled "Building a Legacy, Remembering Charlie Kirk," will take place on September 21, with doors opening at 8 a.m. and the program beginning at 11 a.m. President Donald Trump is slated to attend, joining what is expected to be one of the most significant political memorials in recent memory.

Kirk, who founded Turning Point USA at just 18 years old, was fatally shot during an event at Utah Valley University earlier this week. He was 31. Known for his unapologetic defense of free speech, American values, and traditional family structures, Kirk became a central figure in the modern conservative movement. His death has left a void that no one is likely to fill anytime soon.

The stadium has been used for Super Bowls and major concerts, but next weekend it will serve as a gathering place for Americans mourning a man whose mission was nothing short of preserving the country he loved.

Turning Point USA posted a simple but powerful message announcing the event: “Join us in celebrating the remarkable life and enduring legacy of Charlie Kirk, an American legend.”

Online registration is open, and attendance will be first-come, first-served. A website dedicated to the memorial highlights Kirk’s devotion to faith, family, and country, stating: “Charlie died doing what he loved: fighting for truth, for faith, for family, and for America. His sacrifice will endure as a guiding light for generations.”

Kirk built one of the most influential grassroots movements in the country, mobilizing millions of young people to challenge leftist orthodoxy on campuses and in culture. He didn’t just talk about freedom—he fought for it.

The tribute on the memorial site closes with a reference to Scripture, marking the depth of Kirk’s Christian faith: “Well done, good and faithful servant.”

'Jesus 2.0?' Critic Ridicules Charlie Kirk’s Widow Amid Mourning

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Many people attacked a grieving widow last night as she publicly addressed the nation. 

Erika Kirk mourned her late husband Charlie Kirk, who an extremist shot and killed on Wednesday with a bolt-action rifle from about 200 yards away on a college campus in Utah. The father turned in the 22-year-old to the police. If convicted, the shooter might face the death penalty. 

Tim Shorrock, who covers Korea for The Nation, a progressive monthly magazine, posted:

Shorrock attacked the widow five days after an extremist murdered her husband. And he's not the only one. Hundreds of people have reportedly been fired from their jobs for insensitive social media posts about Kirk, Townhall has reported. 

Robby Starbuck posted about Shhen Barnes, an apparent board member at the Toledo Public Schools. Barnes posted: "Ya'll love Handmaid's Tale, but missed the point. The wives weren't victims, they were gatekeepers. They fueled the abuse. They held the system together. Never forget that. ljs"

Kirk's assassination has brought out the best and worst part of humanity, golfer Phil Mickelson posted.

"The assassination of Charlie Kirk is bringing out some of the best in humanity and it’s also exposing some of the worst. The unification, love, support, and outcry on his behalf throughout the world is heartwarming. The number of people supporting Tyler Robinson’s appalling behavior has opened my eyes to a side of extremism with a moral superiority complex that has also shaken my belief in people in general. I hope they are held accountable for their disgusting rhetoric.

Cartoonist Scott Adams posted that many people who dislike Charlie based on lied and quotes taken out of context. 

The nation is still mourning Kirk as many gather in Washington D.C. this afternoon, Townhall reporter Sarah Arnold reports.