Political Pistachio
By Douglas V. Gibbs
In 1812 the term “Gerrymander” originated when Massachusetts Governor Elbridge Gerry approved a redistricting plan to favor his political allies by manipulating district boundaries. Newspapers, critical of the practice, quipped that the new boundaries of one district resembled that of a salamander. A political cartoon depicted the contorted district as a “Gerry-mander” (with a hard “g” – it’s pronounced Gary-Mander), combining the governor’s name with the amphibian shape. Gerrymandering had actually been around since the founding of the country, albeit as an unnamed practice, with evidence reaching back into the first decades of the United States’ system under the Constitution of the United States in Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina.
In 1788 the Anti-Federalists in Virginia drew congressional maps forcing federalist (federalist based on support of Federalism, not a member of the Federalist Party) James Madison to run against Anti-Federalist James Monroe in the same district hoping to keep Madison out of Congress. Madison won, anyway. A few decades later, Monroe became a staunch ally of Madison.
Gerrymandering intensified after the Apportionment Act of 1842 which mandated single-member districts, making gerrymandering a key tool in electoral politics. Since the very start, gerrymandering has been a key tool that has especially flourished during periods of extreme partisanship to establish both a partisan advantage, and in some cases racial discrimination.
Louisiana v. Callais has been ruled on by the United States Supreme Court, with the case centering on Louisiana’s map and whether state lawmakers were forced to improperly draw districts based on race. Despite being in an age of reverse discrimination thanks to a relatively long history of Affirmative Action, and more recently DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion), none of which are constitutionally or lawfully supported, the Supreme Court in a 6-3 decision ruled that Louisiana was not required by law to create an additional majority-minority district.
Justice Samuel Alito in the majority opinion wrote, “because the Voting Rights Act did not require Louisiana to create an additional majority-minority district, no compelling interest justified the State’s use of race in creating SB8, and that map is an unconstitutional racial gerrymander.”
Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act has been used historically by partisans to claim districts dilute minority voting strength, which allows Democrats to use a racial twisting of districts in their favor. The Supreme Court ruling regarding Louisiana v. Callais reins in the gerrymandering practice where leftist legal teams pressure states to use race in redistricting which violates the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
Justice Alito explained that the Louisiana v. Callais decision is a warning to lower courts who have stretched Section 2 in a manner that has been compelling race-based decision-making. “Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was designed to enforce the Constitution – not collide with it. Unfortunately, lower courts have sometimes applied this Court’s §2 precedents in a way that forces States to engage in the very race-based discrimination that the Constitution forbids.”
Texas, California, Virginia, and Florida – along with a nice long list of other states – have been lobbing cannonballs at each other with their own redistricting schemes and Louisiana v. Callais could very well have a rippling effect on each of those battles.
According to Black Voters Matter, as a result of the ruling Republicans could end up with a significant advantage over new maps, perhaps swinging 19 districts in the direction of the GOP.
At about the same time, the Virginia State Supreme Court heard arguments regarding Scott v. McDougle, regarding the Democrats’ attempt to gerrymander Virginia in such a way that it would guarantee that 10 out of 11 congressional seats go to Democrats in the upcoming midterm election. While Virginia narrowly approved the redistricting referendum on April 21, County Circuit Judge Jack Hurley Jr. ruled back in January that the constitutional amendment that ended up on the ballot violated the state constitution. On April 24, Virginia’s Attorney General Jay Jones, Democrat, filed a motion for an emergency stay of Hurley’s order. The Virginia Supreme Court denied their emergency stay – which means at the moment the Democrats’ gerrymandering scheme is currently dead in the water.
In Oregon, Judicial Watch’s lawsuit against the state, filed in 2024, charged that state officials have refused to remove ineligible voters from voter rolls, and in 35 of Oregon’s 36 counties the number of voters registered exceeds the number of voters who legally exist in those counties. Since 1998 Oregon has been a mail-in-ballot-only state, and the state’s registration method uses a motor-voter law which automatically registers a voter upon receiving a driver’s license – opening up the opportunity for ineligible voters to be added to the voter rolls without any regulatory supervision or oversight. Meanwhile, widespread voter roll maintenance failures have been occurring across the state. Judicial Watch has now won their case, resulting in Oregon being required to remove possibly up to 800,000 ineligible names on the state list of voter registrations, a number confirmed by Oregon Secretary of State Tobias Read. About 160,000 already meet federal and state criteria for removal. The remaining 640,000 inactive records will be process through future list maintenance efforts.
Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch, explained, “Dirty voter rolls can mean dirty elections.” Federal law demands that states take reasonable steps to remove ineligible voters, those who have died, those who have moved, and those who have become otherwise inactive.
Colorado recently removed 372,000 ineligible voter names due to a Judicial Watch lawsuit and settlement. Kentucky has removed 735,000 ineligible voters from their rolls, New York City 918,000, and Los Angeles 1.2 million in recent voter roll maintenance operations.
According to North Carolina election officials, roughly 34,000 deceased individuals have been identified on the state’s voter rolls, yet another failure the Trump administration has been pointing fingers at over the last year. These irregularities are the reason the Trump administration is pressuring states to fix their voter rolls. The discovery comes as an added benefit of North Carolina’s effort to verify the citizenship status of registered voters.
As the U.S. Congress still fights over the passage of the SAVE America Act, which would require voter identification and proof of citizenship to register to vote, and while the voter rolls around the country are being cleaned up, polls show the current fight for the 2026 midterms to be an even split. If the poll is accurate, and it is also true (as I’ve believed for a very long time) that the Democrats manipulate elections with non-citizen voting, dead-people voting, and a variety of other corrupt election tactics, the purging of ineligible voters from the rolls, the courts disallowing their partisan gerrymandering tactics, and the passage of the SAVE America Act (which I believe will eventually get passed), the Republicans should be able to gain seats in both Houses of Congress through the midterm elections of 2026 – if GOP voters and voters disgruntled with the Democratic Party come out in droves – and I expect that they will.
Already, 71 percent of voters plan to participate in the midterms, and 67 percent of voters are already considering the 2028 presidential election.
— Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
By Douglas V. Gibbs
Nothing new. The Democrats harbor a deep hatred for Trump because he’s an outsider who stuck a stick in their spokes. He’s a clear and present danger to their power, their system, and their plans. They’ve been working at it for over two centuries, and when they thought they saw their goal at the end of the tunnel in 2016, Trump slipped in and ruined it for them. They’ve used the education system, entertainment, and pretty much every other institution to infiltrate, indoctrinate and mold America into the tyranny they desire. They’ve used social media and the increase in the movement of information to lurk inside our culture and destroy their opponents without us even realizing it. Many of our churches fly their WOKE flags, and their army of children fresh out of public school indoctrination stand in the new camp. But Trump blocks their path, so they’ve positioned themselves to do all they can to kill the man that steers the political freight train destroying all of their hard-earned advances.
Technology has become an important tool. They can get their message into your brains faster than ever before, and their minions can plan attacks through social media and email in ways that couldn’t be done in days of old. Encryption makes it difficult for law enforcement to do their job, and violating the Fourth Amendment is the only way to catch them and stop them, it seems. If the Constitution is not violated, they can get more done through political violence and not get caught. If the Constitution is violated, they get the surveillance precedence they wish for and tyranny increases. For them, it’s a win-win situation.
In the days of old, the communists attacked from afar. The people encouraging this political violence behavior were overseas. But now, they are here, close enough to strike quickly and easily, able to move efficiently and instantly when the time to strike opens up.
Their army is vast. Who knows how many more Cole Tomas Allen’s, Tyler Robinson’s, Thomas Crooks’s, Ryan Routh’s, Tucker Martin’s, and Luigi Mangione’s are out there? From the Democrats’ point of view, if they throw enough darts, eventually one will hit the bull’s eye. They want Trump dead, so why would they let up now? People can’t understand why even after the White House Correspondence Dinner the leftist rhetoric didn’t back off, and if anything it increased. Social media exploded with heinous responses, as did talk shows, and the political left.
Why?
Because from their vantage point they’ve got nothing to lose and everything to gain. They figure if they keep screaming their “Trump is a clear and present danger” rhetoric often enough and disgusting enough, eventually one of the darts flying in the air out there will hit the target.
They have to because the structure they’ve built to make their dreams of tyranny happen is crumbling. They need to move fast because Trump’s investigators are crawling through the Deep State, Trump’s teams are exposing their global network of cult-Marxist propaganda machines, and even their propaganda ally, The Southern Poverty Law Center, has received a fatal blow. The hateful rhetoric flowing quickly and abundantly is the main tool they use to activate their assassins, and without their clearinghouse for hate at the SPLC, they’ve got to ramp it up in other places. The walls are closing in. They are desperate. They need Trump dead as soon as possible before he causes anymore damage.
This is why the response to the attempted massacre at the White House Correspondence Dinner has been so disgusting. They are disappointed it didn’t turn out the way the shooter had planned, and they are actively calling for the next assassin to step up.
Norah O’Donnell on 60 Minutes repeated for her audience the list of baseless accusations against Trump, not to give news, but I believe to spread hatred against Trump so that the next assassin would be ready to step up.
Senate Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries doubled down on his calls for “maximum warfare,” not because he’s just being a political opponent, but I believe because with his rhetoric he hopes to encourage the next deranged leftist assassin to step up and assassinate President Donald Trump and key figures of his administration.
ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel less than 48 hours before the event in a mock hosting of the Correspondence Dinner on his television program said that Melania Trump had a “glow like an expected widow.”
Katie Porter, Democratic candidate for Governor of California in an expletive-laced email wrote, “Trump is willing to kill people in the streets, to rip healthcare away, to ruthlessly attack our democracy.” With that message it isn’t hard to have the opinion that she is pushing the same kind of rhetoric that the assassins attach to. I think these killers truly believe what they are being told, that they are on the right side of history, and this is their chance to save history and stop the modern-day Hitler before another calamity in history occurs at the hands of the great danger to democracy known as Donald Trump.
Despite the calls by reasonable people for them to stop the rhetoric, they will likely deny they are encouraging political violence, and they will ramp it up. Trump has them afraid. He has them cornered like a wild animal, and their patience is thin. Fight or flight? Their only hope in their minds is to eliminate what they believe to be the cause of their pain, and the cause of the delay along their road to a single-party, global, Marxist system of power that they operate without any obstacles or intrusions.
— Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
By Douglas V. Gibbs
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani promised greater fiscal responsibility during his campaign for office. He would tax the rich, and they’d stay in town to pay it. He would make the buses free, subways free, housing free, and would create a chain of government-owned grocery stores to make sure the capitalist grocery stores’ higher prices would be challenged by the might of the warmth of collectivism. Everyone applauded, and a majority voted him into office so that Mamdani could bring brighter days to New York City. Except, none of these things have happened, except maybe taxing the rich – and they are escaping in droves.
The socialist grocery stores, in particular, have proven to be quite the difficulty. According to the New York Post, the city-owned store he wants to place in East Harlem will cost taxpayers about four times the amount of money rival markets spend on construction, and would likely run at a loss in perpetuity. You see, Margaret Thatcher’s quote about socialism working until you run out of other people’s money is hitting Mamdani’s plans faster than even conservatives expected.
The daily sales if the market was operating in a normal manner for a privately owned store would take about six years to recoup the cost of construction if there was any profit being made. But, the problem with Mamdani’s socialist idea is that to keep it from being a complete bust he would have to charge prices at least even with or higher than the competitors (so much for cheaper prices) and with the history of projects under socialist style management (or should I say mismanagement), the store would be losing money. Privately owned grocery retailing already operates at a very slim profit margin as it is. The store, according to experts, will likely lose at least $300,000 per year, likely in perpetuity, and that cost will be borne by the taxpayer.
However, taxpayer dollars are dropping as the rich that were supposed to bear the costs are heading out of town. The money is leaving, the costs are going up, and eventually the lot the store is supposed to be built on will likely become something like Gavin Newsom’s train to nowhere in California – overprice, unfinished, and just another ugly relic proving that the Democratic Party’s socialist pipe dreams are nothing but costly failures.
As for the overall loss of money in New York City, since the wealthy are heading for greener pastures the brunt of the cost will be borne by the very people Mamdani claims he is trying to help – those with less in the bank, less in their paycheck (if they even have a paycheck), and who voted for him hoping for free stuff. History reveals a horrid truth. Communism always fails. Folks who put in place communist dictators always end up with less money in their pocket, less freedom, and less services than the elitist power players promise.
— Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
By Douglas V. Gibbs
The Democrats, and establishment Republicans, have hated Donald J. Trump since the moment he decided to enter politics, and “drain the swamp.” He’s an outsider they can’t control, they can’t cancel, and someone who knows their behind-the-curtain secrets as he seeks to dismantle their system of power and corruption. It’s an unforgivable sin, in their eyes, and for them it’s worth killing over.
Political violence is on the rise because the Democrats have called for it, and the Deep State is fueling it. When they began calling Donald Trump a fascist, dictator and wanna-be-king that must be stopped, what did they think was going to happen? Thanks to their rhetoric, and their rhetorical urging, characters like Cole Tomas Allen have risen to the surface like pond-scum.
Cole Tomas Allen is a 31 year-old Southern California man who was apprehended as the suspect in the White House Correspondents Association Dinner shooting on April 25, 2026 who was a far leftist that not only recently attended a “No Kings” protest, but his social media accounts are filled with anti-Trump and anti-Christian rhetoric. According to the New London Police Department in Connecticut, Allen sent a manifesto to family members, and his sister confirmed the gunman’s radical statements and firearm purchases. Allen was a member of a group called “The Wide Awakes” that is a far left activist group which promotes abortion and anti-ICE propaganda. And, he was a Kamala Harris donor.
Allen, after he was apprehended, told police he was going after “administration officials” at the event being held at the Washington Hilton hotel in Washington, DC. The gunman ran into the event area attempting to breach his way in and take out whoever he could, aiming to carry out a “national tragedy” while all eyes were on the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. He underestimated the security personnel on site, and was stopped at first contact. The attack by Allen began shortly after 8:30 pm, about 20 minutes after President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump first sat down at the dais. Approximately 2,500 people (Fox News reported about 3,000) were in attendance, including the Vice President, many Trump cabinet members, and journalists.
The shooter “took a cross-country train” from the Los Angeles area, traveling through Chicago, and then to Washington DC. Fox News host Shannon Bream suggested he took the train to “sidestep tracking methods and security procedures.”
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said although the Justice Department didn’t yet know if Allen was in possession of the firearms while in transit – he conceded speculatively “that could be another reason why he traveled by train, because he had those firearms with him.”
Ironically, as the shooter was preparing for his attack, CNN was spewing the kind of rhetoric that encourages political violence. S.E. Cupp, the former conservative who is now about as infected with Trump Derangement Syndrome as they get, and who recently compared President Trump’s immigration strategies with ICE to North Korean communism, said on the air just before the gunman launched his attack at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, “The Correspondents’ Association was trying to sort of mend some fences with a guy who wants us dead, figuratively. Figuratively, he wants journalism dead. It doesn’t make a lot of sense to me.”
Cupp made the remarks about 20 minutes prior to the reported shooting during a panel discussion with CNN anchors John Berman and Laura Coates as the network previewed Trump’s arrival. Cupp said she was disappointed by how the evening had been arranged and the decision to feature Trump as the central speaker.
Libs of TikTok posted the potential shooter’s ideology on X and took a shot at the lamestream media, “Cole Allen wrote this in his manifesto: “’I am no longer willing to permit a ped*phile, rap*st, and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes.’ This is what happens when the media knowingly falsely call Trump a r*pist pedo. Media incited this. They knew exactly what they were doing.”
Mark Thiessen posted, “In his fake White House correspondents speech @JimmyKimmelLive actually joked about Trump’s assassination — just before a real assassin showed up at the real dinner.”
Scott Jennings posted, “I’ve been on the air live twice now when someone has tried to kill the President. I worry about President Trump every day. I worry about these events. The fact that DHS has been unfunded for 70 days in this environment is outrageous. Every American should be outraged by it.”
After the news of the attempted mass shooting by Cole Tomas Allen hit the airwaves, the despicable lefties reminded us exactly who they are and how sick they are.
Actress Mia Farrow decided it’s all a conspiracy, and that the attack was part of an effort by President Donald Trump to “raise his approval ratings.” Her followers on the leftist social media platform Bluesky agreed with her sentiment, calling it a false flag. This was not Farrow’s first time suggesting an anti-Trump conspiracy. In February she suggested Trump “swapped Ghislane for a similar but not identical looking British woman.”
Other leftists on Bluesky also insist Allen’s attack was a “false flag.” They posted things like “Staged. Staged. Staged” and “The Epstein Files were not harmed in tonight’s staged theatrical event,” and “staged assassination attempts and all other forms of distraction from the Epstein files will continue until morale improves,” and “Trump is still going to give his speech. You’re going to tell me this wasn’t staged?” and “Trump claims the shooting at the WHCA is WHY WE NEED THE BALLROOM AT THE WHITE HOUSE??????? Yeah definitely staged.” and “Does anyone really care that Trump ‘staged’ another false flag attack on his pathetic life…Ummm…anyone?! Didn’t think so,” and “Looked staged to me, propagandist grifter Erika Kirk’s fake crying was the first clue alongside creepy racist scumbag JD Vance being evacuated first.”
On X a user “Red Pill USA” suggested the alleged false flag was to encourage support for building the White House Ballroom, which President Trump has indicated would provide more security for these kinds of events.
In the left-stream media ridiculous reports downplaying the severity of the situation were not uncommon, calling what is being considered another assassination attempt against President Trump an “incident,” or using headlines about Trump being “removed from the room at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner” without even mentioning the armed attack. CNN reported the gunshots as “LOUD SOUNDS,” and the Washington Post reported the shots as “loud noises.” Reuters also called the shots fired “loud noise.” CNN later reported, with Google News continuing to push the headline, “possible shots fired.”
I get it. In the heat of the moment attendees didn’t know what the noise was, and probably did everything they could to convince themselves it was not gunshots. An active shooting is something they report about, not something they wish to be a victim of. However, the mainstream journalists did have the presence of mind to grab as much of the booze as they could on the way out. One photographer had a bourbon neat in hand. Bourbon. Wine. Hey, it’s free booze. And after crying about the potential shooting, and before probably whining the day after, they still made sure they got in line for the after-party.
The Lincoln Project’s TDS sufferer Steve Schmidt said it’s Trump’s own fault that people have been trying to kill him.
And then there’s the Wisconsin brewery gushing over the assassination attempt, before considering it might be “another” “faked…assassination.” By the way, the owner of that brewery is a Democrat running for office.
Meanwhile, Code Pink was outside the dinner cheering for an assassination…
Shockingly, CNN’s Brian Stelter was complimentary of the President, and appreciative that President Trump didn’t blame the media for the attack – even though Trump had every right to partially blame the media considering the rhetoric we’ve been hearing from them, and leftist politicians, ever since Donald Trump appeared on the political scene.
Kari Lake ripped into the leftist progressives. “I walked out right next to Jake Tapper & looked him in the eye. ‘How dare you? You’ve caused so much division in this country with your lies. I’m done calling it gaslighting — you’ve LIED to the American people.’ These reporters have spent a decade spreading absolute lies about President Trump. They share some of the blame for what happened tonight. As a mother, I’m exhausted by it. I couldn’t stay silent and walk out pretending someone like Jake Tapper is one of the good guys.”
In the wake of the White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooting, the Department of Justice is pushing for President Trump’s White House ballroom to be built as quickly as possible. The lawsuit is baseless, anyway. Remember, not a single taxpayer dollar is going into the Ballroom Project. President Trump, and some donors, are funding the ballroom themselves as a gift to America and future generations. Any White House renovations in the past have never needed any approval from Congress, except for the funding to be appropriated – and in this case there is no appropriation needed because no taxpayer funds are being used. The lawsuit against its construction, as with everything else, is based on pure hatred of President Trump – the very same hatred that has been fueling the political violence against him, his allies, and his supporters. And the Grand Ballroom makes sense, not only to move White House events inside for comfort, but for the very kind of security that was in place that stopped the attacker at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.
Trump Derangement Syndrome has spread so deeply into the dark blue leftist corners of America so deeply, however, I am not sure if the left will ever back down, and I fear more political violence is on the horizon. I hope I’m wrong, but the signs all point in a very bad direction.
— Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
By Douglas V. Gibbs
A lone gunman charged into the lobby leading to the ballroom where the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner was being held, likely wishing to commit a massacre, as well as an assassination of President Donald Trump. The California man was quickly subdued after shooting one Secret Service agent at close range. The gunman survived, and is in custody of the FBI.
Guests inside the ballroom dove under tables as security teams went into action. At least six shots were fired during the incident. The suspect charged at a full run toward the ballroom but was stopped at one of the security checkpoints.
President Trump said that the event will be resumed. He refuses to let this kind of threat stop these kinds of events. President Trump says the event will be re-scheduled sometime in the next thirty days. President Trump celebrated the “unified” moment between all of the members of the press and White House in the room, regardless of political ideology.
P.S. – Remember, the Secret Service hasn’t been paid thanks to the partial shutdown, but they are still on the job…
— Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
The Left’s Violent Behavior Encouraged by Violent Rhetoric
By Douglas V. Gibbs
Remember when you played cops and robbers as kids? There was never any doubt who the good guys and bad guys were. If you steal? Bad. Liars? Bad. Soldiers from armies trying to take over the world? Bad. Americans versus Commies? The socialist commies were the bad guys. The ones who wanted to kill their opposition? Bad guy for sure. There was no question that the socialist goose-stepping commies who wished to kill anyone who got in the way of their lust for power were the bad guys. Even as kids, nobody had to tell us who the good guys were, and who the bad guys were.
There were no assassination attempts against Presidents Obama and Biden by deranged, gun-wielding conservatives because true conservatives are not violent by nature, and there is no public rhetoric from the Republican Party activating any crazy radicals that may or may not exist in conservative MAGA ranks. Sure, I have no doubt those presidents received death threats. Every group has its crazies. But Republicans tend not to be the breeding ground for violent political killers. Pretty much every mass shooting has been by crazed leftists, after all – and lately by woke trans-individuals who have bought into the ungodly transgender agenda. Of course, lefties always default to January 6 to try to prove there is such thing as violent Trump supporters – which means they had to manufacture it with agitation and a production that Hollywood might be jealous of in order to show that anyone other than them might have a politically violent bone in their body.
There have been three assassination attempts against President Trump (that we know of), and Republicans have been pointing at Democrats for their dangerous rhetoric that many believe is instigating the political violence.
There’s an old saying. Dancing is a vertical expression of a horizontal desire. Violent rhetoric is the same. The language of violence coming out of the mouths of Democrats is a verbal expression of a physical desire. They claim Trump is a modern-day Hitler, they call for “Maximum Warfare,” and to be honest their violent rhetoric is becoming a popular feature among candidates in the Democratic primaries.
While Democrats say they condemn the violence that has led to the assassination of Charlie Kirk and multiple attempts on the life of President Trump out of one side of their mouths, the fantasies of murder continue to escape from the other side. In 2022, Virginia Attorney General candidate Jay Jones texted about putting “two bullets in the head” of a former Virginia Republican House speaker, and wishing gun violence upon the man’s children. Democrat Eugene Vindman re-endorsed Jones’ after the text came to light, not viewing the violent rhetoric as a disqualifier for political office. Virginia Democrats then overwhelmingly elected Jones, along with Abby Spanberger for governor (who campaigned as a moderate, but has been anything, but), and Ghazala Hashmi for lieutenant governor.
Former administration staffer Maura Sullivan posed with a man holding a sign that included “86 47,” radical left shorthand for “86-ing” (getting rid of or killing President Trump) as first encouraged by former FBI Director James Comey’s seashells post on social media.
In Maine’s Senate race, Democrat candidate Graham Platner has suggested that violence is a justifiable means to forwarding social change. He’s running against longtime Republican incumbent Senator Susan Collins, and has since deleted his comments posted on Reddit. He wrote that if people “expect to fight fascism without a good semi-automatic rifle, they ought to do some reading of history. [A]n armed working class is a requirement for economic justice” Platner, described himself at the time as a “communist” and expressed a loathing for all police officers. This is the same Democrat who once had a Nazi symbol on his chest, but shrugged it off as fellow democrats rallied around him.
Leftist lawyer-turned-TV reporter Mike Sacks has not only called for defunding ICE, but while calling Trump adviser Stephen Miller a fascist, added (paraphrasing a Michelle Obama mantra), “When they go low, we kick them in the teeth.” Jolanda Jones, a Texas Democrat, used the same Michelle Obama slogan, but said, “If they go low, I’m going to the gutter.” She then urged Democrats to “fight ugly.”
According to an NBC News poll, 60% of registered voters believe “extreme political rhetoric” was a key contributor in Charlie Kirk’s assassination. Republicans blamed rhetoric by the widest margin – Democrats not so much.
Mike Marinella, spokesman for the National Republican Congressional Committee, told the Federalist in an email, “Voters are waking up to just how reckless and unfit this party has become.”
I hope so.
A leftist Wisconsin brewery owner is promising free beer on the day President Trump’s death is on the minds of federal law enforcement officials, urging the next would-be Trump assassin to improve his “marksmanship.” “Well, we almost got #freebeerday,” Bangstad wrote in now-deleted posts after a gunman stormed past a security post, set on murdering President Donald Trump and administration officials in attendance at the annual White House Correspondents’ Dinner.
And, let’s not forget Madonna dreaming of blowing up the White House.
President Trump is not the first Republican to receive this kind of rhetoric, though it seems to be on steroids with 45/47. On July 11, 2007, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Betty Williams gave a keynote speech to the International Women’s Peace Conference in Dallas, Texas, remarking with laughter and applause from the audience, “I mean right now, I could kill George Bush, no problem…I would love to be able to do that.”
And while the word “kill” is likely used by opponents of every President, an American Thinker study revealed the word “kill,” and its derivates used within the same sentence has appeared as follows for three of our recent Presidents:
Bush in 2001: 1,280
Obama in 2009: 2,608
Trump in 2017: 7,890
These usages occurred within the first six months of their respective presidencies according to the Lexis-Nexis database.
Republican Presidents, and John F. Kennedy who would definitely be considered a Republican today, who were assassinated or subjected to attempted assassination all were victims of repeated calls for political violence against them. If history reveals anything, it is that when our political and academic culture is creating violent pro-assassination rhetoric, it creates a cultish desire among their followers to carry out the violence.
The line between words and weapons has been dangerously erased, and the consequences are now playing out in blood. As the body count rises and assassination attempts become a terrifyingly regular news cycle, the left’s violent rhetoric is no longer just background noise – it’s a loaded weapon pointed at the heart of our republic. History has shown us that when a political culture normalizes calls for murder, it inevitably produces murderers willing to answer that call. The question is no longer whether this dangerous language will lead to more violence, but how many more lives will be shattered before we acknowledge that words have consequences and those who incite murder must be held accountable before their fantasies become our reality.
— Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary