The left is already shooting. But there is no war until the other side starts shooting back.
Guy Benson
@guypbenson
I'd like to ask my non-conservative followers to pay attention here for a moment. I don't need a response or a rebuttal or a 'whatabout.' Just read on and consider what I'm saying. Please.
We are only a few weeks removed from a leading conservative figure being shot in the throat and killed by a leftist, for and during his speech, at a public speaking event. Stunning, jarring numbers of leftist Americans justified or celebrated this assassination, aligning with multiple public polls showing that a sizable minority of leftists in this country think political violence can be acceptable.
Today -- just today -- many conservatives are thinking about:
(1) a major leftist statewide candidate being exposed for sending texts to a political opponent (R) explicitly hoping for the death of another conservative political opponent...along with the deaths of that opponents' young children. He WROTE DOWN that the pain of those deaths might promote his own agenda, which would be worth it, in his estimation. This candidate is now condemning his current conservative opponent for noticing this information.
And also (2) a development in the case of a leftist would-be assassin of a conservative Supreme Court Justice, who traveled across the country, heavily armed, with the stated intent of murdering up to three right-leaning Justices because he was angry about their abortion jurisprudence. The leftist judge in the case rejected prosecutors' request for a multi-decade sentence, giving the defense team the very lenient sentence they'd sought. The leftist judge, in her reasoning, cited the criminal's trans identity as a factor & expressed happiness that the assassination plot and its aftermath helped with the criminal's family therapy around the trans issue.
And also (3) yet another violent leftist attack -- this time an apparent ambush -- against federal immigration officers. This did not take place in Dallas, where a leftist sniper very recently went on a deadly spree while trying to murder as many ICE officers as possible. This one happened in Illinois, where the leftist governor just called these officers "jack booted thugs." Violent attacks on these federal agents (thugs, fascists, gestapo, per various leading leftist politicians) are up approximately one thousand percent, per DHS.
And also (4) a prominent university being pressured into reversing its attempt to shut down a conservative event commemorating the second anniversary of the Oct 7 terrorist massacre of Jews -- because, the school said, they were worried about the security situation around the event. They were referring, of course, to the violent Islamist-Leftist coalition pro-Hamas mob, which has engaged in harassment, threats, violence and murder ever since that mass slaughter.
AND YET, we see many of our leftist friends tweeting and posting about how their opponents are the "dangerous" and "authoritarian" "fascists."
I ask you to try to contemplate, even for a quiet moment or two, how this might strike many of us.
That's all for now. Thank you.
In blue cities across America--Portland, Oregon, especially--often violent protesters now seek to surround ICE facilities to stop federal officers from fulfilling their assigned and legal duties of arresting illegal aliens.
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Left-wing protesters are swarming ICE headquarters in Portland to violently oppose all deportations, even those of known criminals and those who have already exhausted efforts to remain here illegally.
Why? The Democratic Party apparat knows that the public wants both secure borders and deportations of illegal aliens. Indeed, in part, it lost an election by its open-borders advocacy.
But Democrat officials feel that if street thugs like Antifa can surround and besiege ICE facilities in Portland, Oregon, then deportations will stop. Then, a de facto amnesty will follow for millions who entered the U.S. illegally--and will soon become Democratic constituents.
As a result, they do not fully enforce the law when thugs attack federal law enforcement. Antifa and its spin-off groups favor the night, when they try to block all entries and exits of ICE vehicles and personnel, and can commit their violence with greater anonymity.
The masked rioters assault anyone in their way. They count on exemption from punishment for committing violence against federal officers through the goodwill or indifference of kindred local and state officials who hate the Trump administration more than they respect the law. An Orwellian scenario follows in which federal officers are attacked by Antifa, which in turn counts on the non-intervention of local police.
Summed up: the city of Portland's armed officers are in a de facto proxy war with their federal counterparts--in our version of something out of 1860, on the eve of a real civil war.
Leftists are calling for secession/insurrection.
From a column in the U.K. Guardian,
Blue states should come together to declare an emergency. Here's how.
Ok. I'm all ears,
States opposed to Trump can create a compact -- a new prototype for American government -- even if it's perceived as political theater.
I'm no student of history, but I'm pretty certain that was tried right after the Ft. Sumter incident. The author refers to 1776, but his idea is straight out of 1861.
What kind of "compact"?
Like the founders, we should create a limited, invitation-only body -- an embryonic constitutional convention -- that the anti-Trump blue states exclusively set up for themselves, limit to themselves, and control.
Limited? Invitation only? Exclusively? May I remind readers that all of the Confederate states were blue states at the. time of their confederation.
Powerline said the left is trying to manufacture a "Kent State moment," where they provoke cops into shooting their Antifa street stormtroopers and the public, in their imaginings, sides with the Antifa terrorists and their Democrat Party funders/protectors.
They think a "Fort Sumter Moment" is more likely.