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November 1, 2025
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A significant number of Americans took to Bluesky, TikTok, Reddit, and the streets to express their regret that Trump’s would-be assassins had been unsuccessful and to praise the assassins of Charlie Kirk and UnitedHealthcare’s Thompson. In the case of the latter two, many asked or offered their opinion on who should be next. (I won’t cite any examples. If you are at all online, you have seen them in abundance, and if not, you may want to spare yourself.)
At present, the assassination fan base is pretty much a left-wing subculture. So far, it has applauded attempts on the lives of a former president, a conservative activist, a corporate CEO, and a conservative Supreme Court justice. The closest thing on the right is the online coterie claiming that Trump supporters who stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021, did nothing wrong, either because they were let in or were duped into entering by a government plot. But to speak up on behalf of J6 defendants, even to the point of alleging conspiracies, is not the same as celebrating the assassinations of Kirk and Thompson and lamenting the misses on Trump. I hope no comparable figure on the left becomes a target that thereby allows us to ascertain whether there is a comparable fan base for assassination on the right.
We should also note that even “lone gunmen, acting alone” have to get their ideas about whom to target from somewhere. They, too, have social networks, which likely traffic in in-group suggestions about who in the out-group are the worst of the worst. So we are now living in a political culture in which a potential would-be assassin can count on a social network for inspiration and an outpouring of public support after the fact. This is fertile ground for evil, perhaps because assassins always believe they are doing good. And we may be cultivating more and more of them.
Are these Arizona teachers part of the fan base?
It’s been a dark couple of days
— Mary Katharine Ham (@mkhammer) November 1, 2025
Indeed it has:
DEMOCRATS WILL DEFEND HIM TO THEIR LAST CONSTITUENT: Rogue Judge Boasberg May Finally Be Impeached
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UNEXPECTEDLY: Michelle Obama Takes Victimhood As Currency to Another Level in Latest Interview.
Michelle Obama complains: “We didn't get the grace that I think some other (first) families have gotten." pic.twitter.com/wgLY3TZqFD
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) October 31, 2025
[ABC’s ROBIN ROBERTS]: “We were all too aware that as the first black couple, we couldn’t afford any mistakes.” And you also say that as a black woman, “I was under a particularly white hot glare.” Did you feel that?
OBAMA: For sure. You can’t afford to get anything wrong because you didn’t get the, and at least until the country got to know us, we didn’t get the grace that I think some other families have gotten.
I’m sorry, what? I was alive during the Obama years, and one of the things that stuck out to me was just how much grace they were given. They could literally do no wrong. Every mainstream media outlet endlessly fawned over every move Barack and Michelle Obama made. They were plastered on the covers of designer magazines while journalists admired the creases in their pants. Every scandal was swatted in favor of endless jubilation at their presence in the White House.
Where was this “lack of grace” at? And are we to believe that the Trump family or even the Bush family received more deference? In what way? The Trump family has been dragged through the mud, up a hill, and back down again. Even the Bush family was routinely attacked in the press, including their then-teenage daughters. If anything, the Obamas enjoyed a uniquely sheltered experience as the First Family and continue to devour the fruits of that today as they live in their mansion on Martha’s Vineyard, never meeting a journalist who isn’t ready to bow at their feet.
Evergreen:
A POLITICIAN WITH A SENSE OF HUMOR HAS SUPERPOWERS: JD Vance’s Halloween Costume Truly Won the Internet.
PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS: Harrison Ford Whines That Trump’s Climate Policy ‘Scares The Sh**’ Out Of Him.
Actor Harrison Ford is not happy that President Trump won’t buy into climate change alarmism.
The 83-year-old “Indiana Jones” star ripped into the president while speaking to The Guardian this week as he prepared to receive a conservation leadership award at Chicago’s Field Museum.
“[Trump] doesn’t have any policies, he has whims. It scares the sh** out of me,” Ford told the outlet. “The ignorance, the hubris, the lies, the perfidy. [Trump] knows better, but he’s an instrument of the status quo and he’s making money, hand over fist, while the world goes to hell in a hand basket. It’s unbelievable. I don’t know of a greater criminal in history.”
“I knew it was coming, I have been preaching this stuff for 30 years,” the actor said. “Everything we’ve said about climate change has come true. Why is that not sufficient that it alarms people that they change behaviors? Because of the entrenched status quo.”
Ford may have “preaching this stuff” for 30 years, but certainly not practicing his own advice:
Environmental activists have blasted Harrison Ford for making “unnecessary” trips by air, following revelations he once made a jet journey to buy a cheeseburger. The “Indiana Jones” star began flying when he was 52. After receiving his license, he went on to purchase several aircraft, which he keeps at Santa Monica Airport in California. He recently revealed in an interview the extent of his love for piloting, telling Britain’s Live magazine, “Learning to fly was a work of art. I’m so passionate about flying I often fly up the coast for a cheeseburger. Flying is like good music; it elevates the spirit and it’s an exhilarating freedom.” But the 67-year-old has come under fire from experts at Carbonfootprint.com over the comments, who are outraged he would make an airplane journey for such an “unnecessary” trip.
—As spotted by Tim Blair in a 2010 post succinctly titled, “Burgers Are Necessary.”
PARROTING MEDIA MATTERS: I Can’t Believe Karine Jean‑Pierre Said This About Biden’s ‘Freeze’ Moments.
DAVID THOMPSON: Grapes Deemed Sour.
From the pages of Vogue, where upscale ladies probe the issues of the day:
Is Having a Boyfriend Embarrassing Now?
Specifically,
[R]ecently, there’s been a pronounced shift in the way people showcase their relationships online: far from fully hard-launching romantic partners, straight women are opting for subtler signs – a hand on a steering wheel, clinking glasses at dinner, or the back of someone’s head.
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But remember, it’s totally not about image. Just the embarrassment of an Instagram feed cluttered with obsolete boyfriends. Like unfashionable shoes.
On the Delusional Diaries podcast, fronted by two New York-based influencers, Halley and Jaz, they discuss whether having a boyfriend is “lame” now. “Why does having a boyfriend feel Republican?” read a top comment.
One more time:
“Why does having a boyfriend feel Republican?”
Please define your terms, here, Vogue contributor. Because for the past few years, just about everything that was once perfectly normal started being viewed by the Bletchley Park left as a gateway drug to something far worse than supporting lower taxes, a strong military, secure borders, and a smaller welfare state, including Taylor Swift and Sydney Sweeney.
Earlier: Now Even Stay-At-Home Moms are Fascist.
—The American Spectator, September 24th, 2025.
The international socialists at the Grauniad view everything they don’t like as National Socialism, but is being a stay-at-home mom more or less fascist than someone who boasts about working out in his or her local gym?
I assume a stay-at-home mom who reads her kids epic poetry is really redlining the Godwin meter:
By last November, even Van Jones had noticed how crazy his party’s purity tests had become:
“If progressives have a politics that says all white people are racist, all men are toxic, and all billionaires are evil it’s kinda hard to keep them on your side. If you're chasing people out of the party, you can't be mad when they leave.”
— Van Jones
— The Rabbit Hole (@TheRabbitHole84) November 7, 2024
OLD AND BUSTED: The 1619 Project.
The New Hotness at the New York Times? The 1933 Project!
Of all the deranged things the @nytimes has published, this has to be one of the worst.
If you want to understand the psychology of a suicidal Jew, read it.
Every word could have been written by a Nazi. If you didn't know the author, you'd be forgiven for thinking it's a… pic.twitter.com/7cuq4Pe9ZH
— Yehuda Teitelbaum (@chalavyishmael) October 31, 2025
IT’S SATIRE, BUT IS IT, REALLY? Thousands of Muslims Flock to America to Enjoy the Exquisite Torment of Systematic Islamophobia.
“OUR DEMOCRACY.”
You know how our government backs coups in other countries to replace one party with another?
Well, the same groups, intelligence agencies, nonprofits, foundations, have long ago turned those tactics inward, backing Democrats to overthrow Republicans.
That’s the whole…
— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) October 31, 2025
TRIM YOUR NAILS: 360° Rotating Toenail Clippers. #CommissionEarned
WHY A DUCK? Woman files lawsuit against SeaWorld after duck allegedly hit her while on roller coaster.
A woman visiting SeaWorld in Orlando has filed a lawsuit against the theme park after she said she was hit by a duck while riding a roller coaster.
According to a lawsuit filed this week, obtained by WKMG, Hillary Martin was visiting the park in March and decided to ride the Mako roller coaster.
Martin said that’s when a duck flew into the roller coaster’s path, hitting her in the face and causing her to lose consciousness.
The Florida resident is accusing the theme park of negligence and seeking more than $50,000 in damages.
I want to hear the duck’s side of the story before passing judgement. Classical reference in headline:
EVERGREEN: The next Republican will always be ‘scarier’ than the last.
The previous looming threat to American democracy not named Trump was Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL), who seemed, at one point, to be a serious contender for the role of commander in chief. Back when this seemed like a reality, HuffPo, which declared Trump in 2017 to be the “Most Dangerous Man in the World,” warned that “No One Is More Dangerous For The White House Than Ron DeSantis — Including Donald Trump.” This was similar to when Washington Post columnist Max Boot wrote that “DeSantis is smarter than Trump,” which “may make him more of a threat,” but that was also after he claimed in 2020 that Trump was “the worst threat to our democracy since the 1930s.”
When it wasn’t DeSantis, it was Romney, the great pussycat of American politics, whom Psaki’s old boss once accused of conspiring to put black people “back in chains.”
The former Massachusetts governor was also accused of homophobia, bullying, and cruelty to animals. Romney was even blamed for supposedly allowing the death of a woman who had been diagnosed with cancer.
In 2008, it was GOP nominee Sen. John McCain, who was accused of being possibly more dangerous than even President George W. Bush. The Arizona senator was portrayed as more hawkish, possibly more militant, a “man of the hard right,” and “as slippery and evasive as” Bush. This was a hell of a thing to read even at the time, considering that, up until the 2008 election, McCain had enjoyed a great deal of positive media coverage for his tendency to break with the GOP. But that was then. Now, there was an election to win, and McCain, the onetime maverick of the United States Senate, was supposedly as bad, if not worse, than Bush the “moron” dictator, according to the news media.
John McCain: Worse than a fascist dimwit!
(It’s fascinating now to review such takes, given that McCain has experienced a sort of retrospective image rehab in the press following his defeat and eventual passing in 2018.)
Every Republican president or presidential candidate is Hitler, until he either lost the election or left office, at which point he is rehabilitated, given a new suit, and allowed to leave the Furherbunker — including Eisenhower, who merely defeated the Nazis — as this October 20th, 1952 AP article spotlights:
A letter from Financier Bernard Baruch to Dwight D. Eisenhower expressing admiration for the “high purposes that have motivated you in all circumstances” was made public today by the Republican presidential candidate’s national headquarters.
Baruch, a long time advisor to U. S. presidents, discussed the letter with newsmen by telephone. Newsmen asked Baruch if it meant he was endorsing the Eisenhower candidacy. Baruch called their attention to the fact that he had signed the letter “affectionately,” and said:
“I might have something to say later.”
The letter was dated Aug 7.
After he had said he “might have something to say later” about how he was going to vote, Baruch was asked how he felt about the Truman administration. Without elaboration, Baruch replied: “There can’t be any doubt of what I think of them.”
BARUCH DISAGREES
Newsmen then called Baruch’s attention to a statement by President Truman last Friday Imputing to Eisenhower the condoning of anti-Catholic immigration policies.
Baruch was asked if he agreed with President Truman on this and he replied:
‘I certainly don’t agree.”
In a letter to the Jewish Welfare Board’s national leadership Mobilization for G.I. and community service. Truman said of Eisenhower: “Today, he is willing to accept the very practices that identify the so-called ‘master race.’”
But then four years earlier, Truman trotted out that same smear against that year’s liberal Republican nominee, with of course, ultimately successful results:
IT’S COME TO THIS: NASA tells Kim Kardashian: Yes, we’ve been to the moon before.
Nasa has rejected a claim by the reality star Kim Kardashian that the 1969 moon landing was faked.
In an episode of the television programme The Kardashians, Kardashian told the actress Sarah Paulson that the space mission “didn’t happen”.
Sean Duffy, the US transport secretary and acting administrator of Nasa, corrected her on X. He wrote: “Yes, Kim Kardashian, we’ve been to the moon before … Six times!
“And even better, Nasa Artemis is going back under the leadership of [President Trump],” he added. “We won the last space race and we will win this one too.”
When will ABC News employees get the memo as well? Whoopi Goldberg Entertains Moon Landing Conspiracy Theories.
YES:
Never listen when they talk about uplifting women of color. It’s all a hustle https://t.co/TTxRF6TsnL
— Adam Carolla (@adamcarolla) November 1, 2025
To be fair, as a conservative black woman, Earle-Sears is neither a woman nor black — according to lefties.