Posted on 07/13/2025 10:10:42 AM PDT by simpson96
Wasn’t it just weeks or so ago when I warned that the left’s growing anguish over their loss of power would get worse?
Since then it has gotten worse, much worse with leftist rioting against federal law enforcement officers. They’ve told the left-wing news site “Axios” that their party’s base demands more violence.
“Some of them have suggested … what we really need to do is be willing to get shot” when visiting ICE facilities or federal agencies, a third House Democrat told Axios.
“Our own base is telling us that what we’re doing is not good enough … [that] there needs to be blood to grab the attention of the press and the public,” the lawmaker said.
They got their wish. There has been blood. With more to come.
But where is it going and what does it mean?
The angry cawing of the left is rather like a murder of crows, wheeling and attacking in some winter farmyard again and again. We can see the Democrat violence increasing from the left, the way that the neo-confederates must have felt in the 1850s, their anger, fear and powerlessness driving them toward Civil War.
And now their politicians refuse to condemn the violence lest they themselves are devoured. Democrats not only refuse to condemn the violence, they exhort their followers to commit violence. And America shudders at what’s to come.
So rather than scream or bark, let’s apply some reason and common sense.
Now the left is swarming its violence against I.C.E. officials just trying to do their jobs and enforce the law written by Congress with at least 10 so-called “transtifa” activists (pictured above) wearing full black battle gear and AR-15 style rifles. They were indicted for the attempted murder of a federal law enforcement officer in Alvaredo Texas.
Though the officer was shot, he survived.
And more violent riots in San Francisco, and elsewhere in California, with leftist activists throwing rocks and pulling guns and firing at I.C.E. agents trying to enforce federal immigration law at a marijuana farm employing illegal migrants, suppressing wages. The left and its legacy media mouthpieces framed all this as some sort of justified “action,” when it was nothing of the kind. It wasn’t justified, any more than the Jan.6, 2021 murder of unarmed Ashli Babbitt was justified.
It might be difficult for many of us to distinguish news from propaganda, especially since it is all being delivered on the cable and news networks in crisis mode and with loud, urgent and frenetic voices. I’ve sometimes referred to this as the barking dogs of politics. They tear at the American soul.
And for years I’ve asked you to search for what isn’t there, to tell you a more complete story. My wife Betty, an excellent modern dancer in Chicago and choreographer explained it once to me as defining that “negative space” between the dancers on stage. When you learn to train your eye to see the negative space, you begin to understand the dance.
This applies to the news of the day, too, as you search for what isn’t being said in left wing corporate journalism from the Los Angeles Times to the Chicago Tribune, the New York Times and those festering left wing taxpayer subsidized socialist propaganda pits of NPR and PBS, to train your ear to listen for the watchdog that doesn’t bark.
Photos provided by courtesy of the Johnson County TX Sheriff’s Office
If you’re a loyal reader of mine, you understand. It was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in the Sherlock Holmes story “Silver Blaze,” about the disappearance of a famous racehorse the night before a race and the murder of the horse’s trainer. And in the story, there was a dog.
It would have been expected to bark but did not.
All the violence is being expressed by leftists who are out of power as President Donald J. Trump enjoys a remarkable string of successes and the best 20 or so days for any president in modern history.
For example, his orders to the U.S. Air Force destroyed Iran’s long-threatened nuclear program. He passed his landmark legislation, the “Big Beautiful Bill” that will transform the economy in the Republican favor, the stock market has hit record highs. Illegal immigration that once streamed across the border by the millions has dropped to zero under President Trump.
Recently, the president has targeted universities that do not support the Bill of Rights that are the hives from which leftist American revolutionaries are grown. All of Trump’s successes have driven the left insane.
And not only in America, but Socialist Europe is also experiencing a wave of Trumpian populism. Many Europeans have fought back against the elites that allowed unfettered immigration that flowed over the continent after the Bush/Cheney dynasty, fueled by neoconservative zealots, broke the Middle East and flooded Europe with Syrian and Iraqi and other Muslim refugees.
You could say that the great leftist European experiment, so beloved by people like leftist media darling Barack Obama has lost its mojo. And now the left gibbers and jabbers like a dangerous lunatic in the asylum.
What to make of the recent round of violence as at the California pot farm that hires illegals has bought the support of Gov. Gavin Newsome.
Thwarting Congress and the law allows unscrupulous employers to hire cheap labor and force labor costs low. It helps agriculture and meat processing plants, but does it help the workers? No. It lowers their wages. Democrats once formally opposed illegal immigration on these grounds, but no more.
The drug cartels benefit because farm workers won’t run away. They illegals owe the cartels money. In practical terms those farms serve cartels as slave labor plantations. And the Democrat Party relies on the corrupt legacy media to give them, and by extension, much cover,
According to an exclusive report at Fox News, the President of Glass House Farms, the cannabis farm that federal immigration authorities raided in California on Thursday despite protests, has donated thousands to Democrats in California.
According to that report, “Co-founder, president, and board director Graham Farrar, who self-identifies on social media as residing in Santa Barbara, California, has made numerous political donations to the Santa Barbara County Democratic Central Committee’s federal political action committee and Rep. Salud Carbajal, D-Calif., according to Federal Election Commission records.
“According to California public campaign finance records, he also donated $10,000 to California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom in 2018, and his most recent public political donation was to California Democratic Assembly member Gregg Hart in July 2023”
As Democrats feel increasingly impotent over policy, their tribal rage rises like a flooding river. They insist on demasking federal immigration officers, leaving them vulnerable to attacks by the Mexican drug cartels and those Democrat “transtifa” guerrillas. It’s always been about violence with the left, since the Bolsheviks clubbed the Mensheviks to the wintry ground.
And with the approach of the critical 2026 Congressional mid-term elections, the violence will increase. As we say in Chicago, ‘politics ain’t beanbag.’ It’s all about the mid-terms now.
Democrats lost the House of Representatives, the Senate and the White House in November. They are leaderless and rudderless. And they will reach for violence and more violence to intimidate conservatives as they hope to win the House in the mid-terms. The left has lost the American people, but the Democrats still do have the legacy media to work on their emotions, and as long as that twisted partnership continues Democrats will continue confusing violence with virtue.
In the past few days, they’ve already used firearms.
And the rocks they throw at I.C.E. agents would certainly crush a skull or two. Violence has worked before. The massive violence of the Black Lives Matter riots that battered the cities worked before. Democrats elected the corrupt meat puppet Joe Biden. And they used him to open the borders wide and usher in more than 20 million illegal migrants into our country.
Now, though, the post-war liberal project is dying in Europe. The left is desperate to survive here. They only way it can survive Trump is to take Congress in the mid-term, gut the MAGA agenda, raise taxes, impeach Donald Trump and put him in prison. And then they will open the borders.
But this is still your country, for now.
Commies love spilling blood for their revolution. Just not their own.
“Some of them have suggested … what we really need to do
is be willing to get shot”
Be glad to accommodate you for that.
Mostly women, as usual.
OK....look at those photos, one at a time, and ask yourself “Penis, or no penis? “
Oh. Wait. I guess you did. Never mind. This one's on me.
DemonicRATS without makeup.
And they are ugly as sin.
In this case, I’d say fake women and not real biological women.
Probably why they are so angry and hateful. Get a haircut! Lay off the weed!
I can almost bet the 5 women in the top row are public school teachers.
Well said.
Liberal Thinking
“If you owned two homes, are you willing to give one to a family here illegally?”
The liberal, without hesitation, “Sure!”
Republican: “If you have two vehicles, would you give one to an illegal?”
Liberal: “Absolutely! It’s the right thing to do!”
Republican: “If you have two million dollars, will you give one million to a family here illegally?”
Liberal: Yes! For the livelihood of our dreamers!”
Republican: “If you have two bicycles, would you give one to someone here illegally?”
The Liberal remained silent and looked at the Republican, so the Republican had to ask again, “Would you?”
The Liberal answered firmly: “No.”
The Republican was confused. “You were so generous about houses, vehicles and money, but why do you draw the line at a bicycle?”
“Because,” says the Liberal, “I actually own two bicycles.”
If I had a farm I’d bet the whole ,damn thing that they are all products of public schools.
That’s a ton of “mental issues” right there. I knew this was going to happen once the far-left politicians legalized drugs to keep their voters high and on their list.
Kass nails it.
“Your terms are acceptable.”
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