WILLIAM OTIS: Q: Why can’t we just turn down the heat? A: Because the people who turned it up have nothing else to run on.

Jonathan Turley has a good take on it in his piece here, titled, “The attempted assassination of Trump is not nearly as surprising as it should be.” Turley notes that the Left’s screeching has included:

…claims that Trump was set to kill democracy, unleash “death squads” and make homosexuals and reporters “disappear.”

President Biden has stoked this rage rhetoric. In 2022, Biden held his controversial speech before Independence Hall where he denounced Trump supporters as enemies of the people. Biden recently referenced the speech and has embraced the claims that this could be our last democratic election….

While most people reject the hyperbolic claims, others take them as true. They believe that homosexuals are going to be “disappeared” as claimed on ABC’s “The View” or that the Trump “death squads” are now green lighted by a conservative Supreme Court, as claimed by MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow….

I guess this was the reason that Brett Kavanaugh, a conservative Supreme Court Justice, himself needed to be “disappeared” — an actual murder attempt by a pro-abortion zealot that, oddly, we seem to be hearing zero about just now.

As soon as Trump was elected, unhinged rage became the norm as with Kathy Griffin featuring herself holding the bloody severed head of Trump.

Just recently, another celebrity, actress Lea DeLaria, begged Biden to “blow [Trump] up” after the recent presidential immunity decision. DeLaria explained that “this is a **** war. This is a war now, and we are fighting for our **** country. And these a**holes are going to take it away. They’re going to take it away.”

These are the people — they and their buddies one office down the hall at MSNBC or CNN or the WaPo — who are setting new world records for sanctimony in telling the rest of us to turn down the heat.

And it’s not all that new a development — like today’s Trump haters, Harry Truman also apparently had received special temporal dispensation from Mike Godwin to violate his law and go full Springtime for Hitler on Thomas Dewey, the liberal Republican governor of New York — because “Liberty!” was suddenly on the ballot if the big government Democrat didn’t win his election bid:

THE COUNTRY’S IN THE VERY BEST OF HANDS: Secret Service Director Allegedly Didn’t Want to Put Snipers on a Sloped Roof.

“That building in particular has a sloped roof at its highest point. And so, you know, there’s a safety factor that would be considered there that we wouldn’t want to put somebody up on a sloped roof,” she said. “And so, you know, the decision was made to secure the building, from inside.”

Talk about a genuine Mission: Impossible!

UPDATE: It speaks volumes about how far the credibility of our institutions has fallen in recent years that this question would even be asked:

A JOE DIVIDED AGAINST ITSELF CANNOT STAND! Or: Dispatches From The Intersection Of “The Rent Is Too Damn High!” Guy And The Trunalimunumaprzure! Guy:

Duane Patterson posits that there may be a third option at play here: “Where does the $55 dollar number come from? It most certainly was not on the teleprompter, so what neuron fired in Biden’s head to cause him to say it? Is Joe Biden a closet Sammy Hagar fan?”

HMM: Self-Awareness Might Not Have Evolved to Benefit The Self After All. “But we have argued that consciousness may have evolved to facilitate key social adaptive functions. Rather than helping individuals survive, it evolved to help us broadcast our experienced ideas and feelings into the wider world. And this might benefit the survival and wellbeing of the wider species. The idea fits with new thinking on genetics.”

OHIO NATIVE PAULA BOLYARD: Who Might Replace JD Vance in the Senate?

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): For a second, I read this as promoting “Ohio native Paula Bollard” as Vance’s replacement. Hey, we could do worse! And might.

NEVER ASSUME MALICE FOR WHAT CAN BE EXPLAINED BY INCOMPETENCE, BUT AT SOME POINT THE TWO ARE INDISTINGUISHABLE:

Related:

SAD BUT TRUE: Democrats Have No Problem With Political Violence, They’re the Reason it Exists.

Related:

Also: Just a Reminder: The Left Is Getting More Shrill and Violent.

Flashback: Democrats are threatening to remove security funding for Supreme Court.

Democrats very much enjoy an atmosphere of violence and intimidation.

COLORADO: A sentence in a new state law has scrambled the plumbing industry.

Colorado’s plumbing regulatory board held an emergency meeting Wednesday to try to figure out a solution that some in the industry say could lead to water shutoffs and pricey bills for a standard procedure.

The new law requires anyone inspecting, testing or repairing a backflow prevention device to have a license. Previously, professionals only needed a plumbing license to install or remove a backflow prevention device.

A backflow prevention device prevents used water from entering the public water supply. They are common on residential sprinkler systems, but the prevention devices are also common on commercial buildings where they serve multiple purposes. Some water districts require commercial buildings to test their backflow preventers frequently.

The change caught many in the backflow prevention industry off guard. Colleen Morrison with Morrison Backflow Testing said she learned about the new law, which went into effect on July 1, on June 14. She said she called her contacts at Denver Water who said they had not heard about the change either.

“If we test the domestic backflows, we’re breaking the law,” Morrison said.
She said the change in the law eliminates 44% of her business, puts her employees at risk and puts the public at risk if bad water enters the water supply.
It also will increase costs to her customers who have to find help in a limited pool of licensed plumbers who can do the work elsewhere.

If the Denver-Boulder Democrats who took over my state could just take a breather on legislating everything worse, that would be great.

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