HOW DO YOU LIVE WITH PEOPLE WHO WANT YOU DEAD? The Left Has Never Been Held Accountable For Political Violence — And That Must Change.

Which all brings me back to Obama’s disingenuous statement that “We don’t yet know what motivated the person who shot and killed Charlie Kirk.” At this point what does it matter? Obama did not think consorting with violent, unrepentant terrorists was disqualifying. Obama certainly knew what “motivated” Ayers and Dohrn, and it did not trouble him. Nor is Ayers the only left-wing terrorist Obama has excused. But now, when the cold-blooded assassination of a leader on the right threatens to be an impediment to implementing the progressive political program that Obama and Ayers largely share, Obama is confused about what may have motivated this and wants you to know that violence is bad.

Anyway, I am DONE. If you have ever excused or condoned violence or knowingly consorted with those who have, and I don’t care one whit if you’re someone as lofty as Barack Obama, you need to be driven from polite society.

Yes.

And don’t forget, lefty political violence is never in pursuit of anything loftier than raw political power:

“The violent period only ended after a Democrat was elected President.”

A brief lesson on left-wing political terrorism. During 1970-1976:

– The Weather Underground and associated groups committed over 2,500 bombings, nearly one per day.
– The Black Liberation Army assassinated over a dozen police officers.
– Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional… pic.twitter.com/xg1mPBZi5w

— Jeremy Kauffman 🦔🌲🌕 (@jeremykauffman) September 11, 2025

INVERTING THE CLAUSEWITZ CLAUSE:

Anderson Cooper: Far right podcasters are profiting off rhetoric saying there’s a war targeting conservatives.

Dan Goldman: That’s incredibly dangerous. These far right podcasters need to realize this is not war.

Chris Murphy, two days ago: We’re in a war to save the country. pic.twitter.com/543t9MmEv4

— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) September 11, 2025

Yes, why would “far right podcasters” think that?

They are at war with the right. https://t.co/cqdD9yNKwi

— WW (@the_urb) September 11, 2025

Democrats: "We're in a war to save this country so you have to be willing to do whatever is necessary."

Killer: murders the icon of the Right

Democrats: "Right wing podcasters are incredibly dangerous. We're not at war and their rhetoric will lead to violence."

— Batya Ungar-Sargon (@bungarsargon) September 11, 2025

As I wrote in June of 2009, “President Obama has demonstrated that he’s always eager to view American politics as the continuation of warfare by other means, to flip Von Clausewitz’s axiom on its head.”

And Joe Biden (and/or whoever was writing his teleprompter speeches) carried on that tradition, particularly during this infamous moment, right around this time three years ago:

Eugene Robinson, then still with the WaPo, dubbed Biden’s rantings a great “wartime address.” As Ed Morrissey asked, “Question: With whom is the United States currently at war?”

I DON’T LIKE THESE: Flush door handles are the car industry’s latest safety problem. The Insta-Wife’s car (not a Tesla) has these and I don’t trust them.

CAROLINA PANTHERS FIRE EMPLOYEE AFTER SOCIAL MEDIA POST ABOUT CHARLIE KIRK’S FATAL SHOOTING:

The Carolina Panthers have fired an employee in the team’s communications department due to an insensitive social media post about the fatal shooting of conservative activist Charlie Kirk in Utah, a source familiar with the team’s decision said Thursday.

Charlie Rock, a football communications coordinator for the Panthers, posted on his personal Instagram account Wednesday, a few hours after the 31-year-old Kirk was shot and killed while speaking to a crowd at Utah Valley University. The post read: “Why are yall sad? Your man said it was worth it …” and included a photo of Kirk. Rock also included a reference to the Wu-Tang Clan song “Protect Ya Neck” in the post.

There’s quite a bit of that going on today:

Following massive backlash, DC Comics has officially canceled trans writer Gretchen Felker-Martin’s Red Hood series after just one issue.

The first issue was released on Wednesday, but DC has now pulled the plug on all future installments.

In a notice sent to comic book… pic.twitter.com/zAX26MaWxv

— Cosmic Book News (@cosmicbooknews) September 11, 2025

But how did we get here?

kids didn’t just wake up one morning and start cheering at assassinations

they have been trained

the majority of teachers today have nothing to do with education, they’re communist activists and their mission is ideological programming https://t.co/qMHfuewVgQ

— vittorio (@IterIntellectus) September 11, 2025

As a result, for those who have some prominence on social media, they must have assumed there would be widespread approval for their hateful rhetoric:

THIS https://t.co/2VDjIFmDRq

— RBe (@RBPundit) September 11, 2025

Otherwise, we’re in the territory mined daily for years by Libs of Tiktok. Do lefties on social media believe they’re shouting into the void? Creating Voice Memos on their iPhones that only they would have access to?

There needs to be a name for the paradox whereby people behave on social media, which is accessible to the whole world, as though they are in the privacy of their own home, visible to no one. https://t.co/TCS5PLqMsG

— Varad Mehta (@varadmehta) September 11, 2025

JAMIE K. WILSON: BLESS Our Nation: A Path Forward After Charlie Kirk.

GOOD: A ‘universal’ therapy against the seasonal flu? Antibody cocktail targets virus weak spot.

APB: The FBI Asking for Help Identifying Suspect in the Assassination of Charlie Kirk.

SLATE BOLDLY GOES WHERE NORM MACDONALD HAS GONE BEFORE:

Evergreen (doubly so, today):

SEA CHANGE:

my entire life i voted democrat

donated the max to obama, got a photo and had him talk about my toe-shoes on the stump

pulled my kid out of preschool in 2016 after trump won because their teacher was maga

voted kamala last year

today i registered republican. pic.twitter.com/WLxPnX1wdu

— Siqi Chen (@blader) September 11, 2025

21ST CENTURY HEADLINES: Congress probes UFOs in hearing on whistleblowers, transparency.

TMZ FRANTICALLY SPINS AFTER THEY’RE CAUGHT LAUGHING ABOUT CHARLIE KIRK’S DEATH AND HELLO BACKFIRE (Watch):

TMZ erupting in cheers. https://t.co/2BE2u7lh92

— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) September 11, 2025

And here comes the ass covering:

Addressing tone deaf laughter pic.twitter.com/7lOvG7z3H4

— TMZ (@TMZ) September 11, 2025

As James Woods replied, “Bull. Shit.”

HOW ABOUT SOME NICE NEWS? It’s About Time: Barron Trump Moves Back in With Mom and Dad.

SHOCKER: Study finds self-harm in kids often involves household items.

TRUMP TO AWARD CHARLIE KIRK PRESIDENTIAL MEDAL OF FREEDOM POSTHUMOUSLY.

BEEGE WELBORN: On September 11th – Thoughts.

I have written about it every year in some fashion, as it’s a visceral memory in our family, as it is in so many others who live or have loved ones on the East Coast. It’s hard to even say the date without tears springing to my eyes – remembering being sick at heart with worry over Bingley at work, only a few blocks from the Trade Center, the frantic calls, watching and hearing the towers I knew well fall, that deadly dust cloud of death roll across and envelop the city.

And the planes. Oh, my God, the folks on those planes. The gaping hole in the side of the Pentagon, and the ghastly gash in the verdant green earth of a field in Shanksville.

But I also remember the incredible courage. The everyday people who were so magnificent in the face of such devastation and horror, who were thinking about others even as they faced their own peril.

Years later, on that same day, the atrocity at Benghazi. The unforgivable betrayals.

The unbelievable heroics in the most desperate of hours.

Americans are amazing – that’s the only word for them.

For us.

Read the whole thing.

MATTHEW CONTINETTI: Who Will Stop America’s Slide Into the Abyss?

To the ghouls celebrating online, Kirk and his supporters represented something else entirely: fascism, Nazism, Gilead from The Handmaid’s Tale. How does one succumb to such delusion? Whatever the mix of ideology, grievance, envy, contempt, or pure nihilism, the hatred is spreading. Every year brings forth downwardly mobile graduates with debt, no prospects, a sense of entitlement, and mounds of resentment. Combine radical individualism with a culture without restraint, and you have the social equivalent of a Molotov cocktail.

In an interview with The Wall Street Journal last weekend, author Cynthia Ozick said, “This is a good country. It’s a great country. And now, it’s disintegrating.” That is why Kirk’s death feels like a watershed. It is the most stunning evidence we have to date that America is becoming two nations, divided not only by politics but by culture, lifestyle, psychology, and epistemology. Weak institutions, corrupted data, rampant distrust, political enmity, and an apparent inability to control criminality and the dangerously mentally ill tear us apart like a centrifugal force.

Exit question: “Is there a way back?”

ASHLEY MCCULLY: Charlie Kirk’s Assassination Video Is the New Falling Man for a Social Media Age.

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL: Ammunition in Charlie Kirk Shooting Engraved With Transgender, Antifascist Ideology: Sources.

Investigators found ammunition engraved with expressions of transgender and antifascist ideology inside the rifle that authorities believe was used in the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk, according to an internal law-enforcement bulletin and a person familiar with the investigation.

The older-model .30 caliber hunting rifle was discovered in the woods near the scene of Wednesday’s shooting at Utah Valley University, wrapped in a towel with a spent cartridge still in the chamber, the sources said. There were also three unspent rounds in the magazine, all with wording on them.

Or as CNN puts it:

CNN’s anti-journalism also appeared on-air via one of their Chyrons:

Just think of the media as Democratic Party operatives with bylines, and it all makes sense.

Evergreen:

HIGH TECH, LOW FARES: Amazon’s Zoox jumps into U.S. robotaxi race with Las Vegas launch.

Zoox’s first public launch kicks off Wednesday on the Las Vegas strip. The company is offering free rides from a few select locations, with plans to expand more broadly across the city in the coming months. Riders will eventually have to pay, but Zoox said it’s waiting on regulatory approval to take that step.

Amazon is jumping into a market that’s all about the future, but one where Waymo has a major head start, having offered commercial driverless rides since 2020. Earlier this year, Waymo said it surpassed 10 million paid rides, and the company now operates in five cities, with Dallas, Denver, Miami, Seattle and Washington, D.C., coming next year.

Nifty tech, but that name…

YES: Charlie Kirk, Single Combat Warrior, Practiced Politics the Right Way.

KEEP YOUR TEETH CLEAN: Philips Sonicare ProtectiveClean 5300 Rechargeable Electric Toothbrush. #CommissionEarned

ERIC S RAYMOND:

I don’t know anything other than public information about the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

However, a primer follows about patterns in past political assassinations. I will sketch what scenarios an intelligence analyst would come up with looking at this one.

The first and most important rule in this kind of investigation is: when you hear hoofbeats, think horses not zebras.

In political assassinations, as an ordinary murders, the correct suspect is usually the most obvious suspect. Airport-thriller-style convoluted plots and false-flag ops pulled off by unlikely people or organizations are rare in the real world.

Accordingly, when you’re trying to solve a political assassination, the right question to ask is “Who said they wanted him dead?”

Then, you infiltrate those organizations, or arrest a bunch of members, and do contact tracing. Usually you do in fact find your killer that way. It’s not very different from ordinary police work except for the stakes.

There are broadly speaking three different kinds of assassin: the nutter, the zealot, and the pro. They are not difficult to distinguish once you got your hands on them.

Read the whole thing.

BREAKING NEWS: New York Post reporting “Charlie Kirk shooter is of ‘college age,’ used since-recovered high-powered bolt-action rifle”

More TK.

HMM: OpenAI CFO: We will more than triple our revenue this year.

“Revenue this year will grow over 3X. So about $13 billion in revenue from about $4 billion last year. So it’s tripling on a very big base as well,” OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar told me at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia conference on Tuesday.

“It is a wild pace that we’re on. You’re defining a whole new era of AI,” Friar said. She declined to put a timetable on OpenAI becoming a public company.

It’s been an eventful year for OpenAI. The release of ChatGPT 5 in early August was met with mixed reviews as users complained about the interface’s less-human responses. CEO Sam Altman acknowledged the company “screwed up” on the rollout.

A few weeks removed from this episode, Altman reportedly said the AI market was in a bubble.

Profits remain elusive as ever.

HAVING MURDERED THE MODERATE, THEY WON’T LIKE WHAT COMES NEXT:

Charlie didn't "Live by the sword" he was shot while encouraging literally anyone to disagree with him in good faith. pic.twitter.com/W56zYxzXP6

— Reddit Lies (@reddit_lies) September 11, 2025