

Hate posted to social media for assassinated conservative activist Charlie Kirk has claimed another far-left Democrat’s job.
This time, the big mouth is one Jennifer Stomsky, the tax collector for Ambler, Pennsylvania, and vice chairman of the Area 14 Wissahickon Democrats. When hate got the best of her and she wrote on Facebook that Democrats must step up the violence after Kirk’s murder on September 10, her role as party mugwump ended. “More martyrs” are needed, she wrote.
That small-town crackpot wasn’t the only Democrat to continue dumping on Kirk’s memory. Joining the hate-Kirk mob was U.S. Representative Mark Pocan of Wisconsin, who falsely claimed that Kirk was an “extremist.”
Notable for their silence — after caterwauling about the drug overdose death of George Floyd while police restrained him — is the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB). Thus far, The Daily Wire’s Vatican correspondent Bree Dail reported, the group hasn’t said a word.
Stomsky, who might have forgotten her medication when she posted her sentiments to Facebook, is particularly fond of the F bomb.
“Hey Democrats, GET A F***ING SPINE!!!” Stomsky began her deranged rant:
You wanna know why we’re in the position we’re in? Because Democrats are weak! Because you are bringing fluffy down filled pillows to a motherf***ing machine gun fight. I’m so tired of being told that violence isn’t the answer. I’m so tired of hearing we have to be better than the other side. You cry because nothing f***ing changes, but nothing changes because you don’t change it. History isn’t filled with feel good stories about how taking the higher ground and stern negotiations brought about change. History is filled with blood, so stop being so f***ing righteous and so f***ing squeamish, and climb out of the f***king pot before it boils you.
But that wasn’t enough. She then suggested murdering a few more conservatives.
“Let’s make some more martyrs,” she replied to a comment.
Party officials were not amused, Philadelphia’s NBC10 reported. Almost immediately came the call for her resignation:
“I want her to resign from her public office as the Ambler tax collector and also from all of her party positions,” said Jason Salus, the chair of the Montgomery County Democratic Committee.
Jeanne Sorg, the mayor of Ambler, also said Stomsky must resign, ABC6 reported. “Political violence and those who advocate it are an anathema to our nation’s values and to the rule of law,” she said:
Any public official who irresponsibly makes comments advocating violence and those who support it should resign their offices immediately.
But Sorg wasn’t finished. “No one who encourages violence against political opponents can credibly continue in office,” she said. Promoting such behavior “is never acceptable.”
Stomsky didn’t listen. Though she resigned as party vice chairman, she didn’t resign as tax collector.
She apologized on Facebook: “I recognize that my words were not only hurtful, but they fell far short of the standards I hold myself to and that this community deserves.”
Amusingly, Stomsky claimed that her comments were “never intended for public view, and in no way meant as a call for violence.”
The residents of Wisconsin’s 2nd Congressional District have a problem, too: Pocan, their representative.
“Charlie Kirk said a lot of things that people consider very awful towards other people, because he had, I would say, an extremist viewpoint,” Pocan said on CSPAN:
But among that group of extremists, he was extremely popular, and right now you’re seeing a bit of a rewriting of history. But if they really put down some of the things he said about different groups of people, you may not have the same perspective that people are trying to put out there right now.
Oddly, while Pocan condemned political violence, he didn’t explain just what Kirk said that made him an extremist.
While far-left Democrats who believe opposing genital mutilation is “extremist” have been quite voluble about Kirk, the USCCB, Dail reported on Facebook, have said nothing. At this writing, a search of their website reveals no search results for Kirk.
By contrast, they never shut up about Floyd. Searching for the late drug addict’s name returns 33 results.
Dail wants to know why.
To their credit, two bishops, Michael Burbidge of Arlington Diocese and Robert Barron of Winona-Rochester in Minnesota, did publish statements about Kirk.
“We are witnesses in just the past few weeks to a vicious pattern of political and social disorder,” Burbidge wrote:
At Annunciation Catholic Parish in Minneapolis, the killings of Harper Moyski and Fletcher Merkel, two innocent children. In Charlotte, the murder of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska. And now the political assassination of Charlie Kirk, known for his commitment to civil and rational discourse. We entrust each of these victims to God, our Heavenly Father and author of every human life, and his son Jesus Christ, the reason for our supernatural hope.
“Charlie Kirk’s method, which he practiced on college campuses all over the country, was to invite into a public dialogue people who disagreed with him,” Barron wrote for First Things.
Kirk didn’t skirt “hard questions,” the Word on Fire founder wrote. And “he engage[d] his interlocutors respectfully, even when he [was] articulating a position radically contrary to theirs.”
Kirk’s method, Barron wrote, was Socratic. “Up until his dying moment, Charlie was engaging in a practice that goes back to Socrates and that informs the West at its best,” the popular bishop wrote:
And that is precisely why we all feel so unnerved by his death. We sense that something basic to our civilization, something axiomatic and fundamental, is teetering — and that truly fetid cultural influences have found their way into our institutions and the minds of our kids.
The problem is, “we all” don’t feel so unnerved, as the commentary from far-left Democrats well shows.