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Here’s an unpopular take. As the government reopens, the gloating and talk of winning by republicans is only causing divisiveness. Instead, use this opportunity to be humble and show gratitude for the courage it took for the few to stand up to the pressure of their peers.👍👍
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Alright.
I have had a few days to gather my thoughts on the events that unfolded last week and do so in a calm and collected manner that isn't emotionally charged or retaliatory.
I am a meteorologist who almost always comments on climate, energy and energy policy; I am not someone who does a lot of political commentary outside energy and environment matters because most people do not follow me for my political analysis of the day, and more importantly, I do not like to alienate people since my audience is diverse (although right-leaning). Deep down, I would like to think that most of us, left or right, want this country and its people to be the best we can be, especially in being role models for our children and grandchildren.
I am not a registered Republican.
I am not a registered Democrat or Libertarian either.
I do not belong to any political party.
I keep most of my political opinions to myself (except, on occasion, economics and illegal immigration, the latter of which it wasn't controversial being against as recently as 15 years ago because Democrats were, at that time, supportive of secure borders). I go and vote for who I think will do the best job, then I go about my day. It is not my place to tell you who to vote for. That is entirely your [hopefully informed] decision.
That all out of the way, I want to make something very clear to left-wingers out there, especially some of my personal friends and fans if you're reading this.
Last week was red-pilling for millions of Americans. And, this doesn't just encompass people who spend their entire existence on 𝕏 or Facebook. Nope. It was a red-pilling week for women who don't pay attention to politics (shoutout to my Millersville trio; I miss y'all!) and the Barstool sports bros who make their entire personalities NFL and college football (Roll Tide Roll btw!).
I've seen dozens of Facebook posts from family and friends (many of whom never discuss politics) who were horrified by not only the assassination of Charlie Kirk (which, by the way, was the first assassination in the U.S. to be caught on camera and seen live by thousands of onlookers since President JFK was shot in Dallas on November 22, 1963, which is why it has made a bigger impact than most other acts of political violence that lefties like to deflect attention to when it is brought up), but also the graphic footage of the fatal stabbing of the 23-year-old Ukrainian girl in Charlotte by a career thug with a criminal record a mile long.
While President Trump's life was nearly taken in Butler, Pennsylvania last July, what sets Kirk's assassination apart is that he was a commentator and family man, not a politician. It is not a surprise that politicians are often targets, but when it becomes ordinary citizens who are targeted, then it becomes a lot more personal and people see that politics cares about them even if they couldn't care less about politics.
You progressives out there might not like what right-wingers are saying lately.
And, you probably think the treatment you're receiving from conservatives is unfair (and I would agree to an extent because most of the progressives I know, and I know a lot of them, are not violent people even if they have far-left views), but these apolitical moderates are now driving in the express lane to the politically active right and are piling virtually all of the blame on you.
Again, I'm not saying it's justified, but I do understand where conservatives are coming from, and I think you ought to take a step back, look in the mirror and listen before jacking your jaws about “But, muh, both sides!” or trying to take the moral high ground on this one.
I don't want to hear it.
As country icon John Michael Montgomery sang in his 1993 hit song “Life's a Dance,” “There's a time to listen, [and] a time to talk.” And, right now, it's a good time for y'all to listen before marching off like foot soldiers in my comments section (because let me tell you, I won't be so nice there).
Let's replay the sequence of events.
Take a walk with me. . .
Last Friday, the Charlotte Area Transit System (CATS) released the surveillance footage capturing Iryna Zarutska's murder by Decarlos Brown Jr. that occurred on August 22nd. By Sunday, it had gone viral across all social media platforms, garnering tens, if not hundreds of millions of unique views worldwide. And, if you watched the uncensored footage, you know just how graphic it was.
I was eating lunch at LongHorn Steakhouse and was scrolling through my feed when it first popped up and I almost vomited and fainted because I don't stomach such graphic content well.
Every parent watching that video could picture his or her own young daughter being stabbed in the neck by a thug (who we soon found out had been arrested and RELEASED no less than FOURTEEN times since 2007). Every husband saw his wife. Every boyfriend saw his girlfriend. Every brother saw his sister. And, it was not only heartbreaking to watch knowing you are helpless, but it stirred up a feeling of anger.
I felt helpless as a guy who has been in relationships and is very protective, and as a guy who also has three cousins who are like little sisters to me.
I got angrier each time I watched the clip because it kept popping up in my feed with each refresh.
That's how widely circulated it was.
It made an impact, and it changed many of us.
Why?
Because most Americans didn't just see a deranged, depraved lunatic in that video. They saw a textbook byproduct of our failing criminal justice system, which is mostly a reflection on YOUR voting history.
For the better part of the last two decades, university professors, HR cat ladies and social justice warriors in DEI departments have lectured us about (imaginary) systemic racism and this has manifested into Democratic [often Soros-funded] district attorneys refusing to file charges against violent criminals, many (but, not all) of which fit a very specific demographic. Instead of putting them away permanently to rot in a prison cell after their first major offense, DAs reduce the felony to a misdemeanor and send these thugs to therapy thinking a little compassion will “rehabilitate” them so that they won't have any more “mental health episodes.”
Even more concerning, law enforcement officers are quitting in droves in big cities because no sooner than they make an arrest, that criminal is back out on the streets hurting people. This happens many times over and it gets to a point where victims stop reporting the crime and LEOs stop wasting time making arrests because social justice is prioritized over public safety.
These are facts.
And, everyone knows these facts are true.
Not one person questions these internally.
The dividing line here is just whether or not you have enough guts to openly state it.
Now, ordinary Americans have had enough of it and are taking a stand and I suspect that any gains that Democrats had in the upcoming midterms are circling the drain. And, everyone with half a brain understands that even IF you are slightly left-of-center or even a moderate, but voted for Democrats, then you cast your ballot for people who have facilitated catch and release policies that have undermined the safety of our once great cities.
Then, on Wednesday afternoon, Charlie Kirk, one of the most influential voices in the conservative movement, was shot in the neck while speaking on stage to 3,000 people, most of whom were college students, at Utah Valley University, with thousands more watching it live. I was in my office at the time writing up some Python code for a report on climate models that I'm working on for CFACT, and was completely oblivious to the situation until I received a text from a buddy of mine.
Immediately, I opened up 𝕏, Facebook and Instagram and saw posts from people in absolute shock. These, as I stated before, were largely people who do not get involved in political matters, and they agreed that this was a morally unjustifiable and politically targeted assassination. Some of them knew who Charlie was, some of them didn't. But, what they all saw in that few second clip was a young man in his prime, who was speaking peacefully and engaging in healthy debate be shot.
Not too long after, people (myself included) began to see disturbing posts from friends, acquaintances, college professors and deans, public school teachers and nurses celebrating Kirk's assassination all because they didn't agree with his political views, in particular, his pro-2A stance.
And, while the legacy media and DNC spin doctors are trying to claim that the motivation behind this is not yet understood, anyone approximately smarter than a sea sponge can put two and two together.
Others are concocting their own narratives, claiming that the kid responsible was “one of MAGA,” and to try justifying that, have been pointing out that Robinson's family is conservative (which doesn't mean anything, because I have two liberal / leftist friends with conservative parents and siblings). Worse, I have seen digitally altered images of the shooter with pro-Trump messaging on his T-shirt and claims that he donated to Republican candidates, which just turned out to be different people with the same name. Instead of admitting these errors, most of the left-wingers I have seen have doubled down.
There are extremists on both sides of the spectrum; I don't deny that. But, we have seen an alarming rise in left-wing extremism, revealed most recently in polling data from YouGov.
26% of liberals ages 18-44 responded that physical violence is justifiable to achieve political goals. 12% of moderates agreed and only 7% (still too high) of conservatives did in that same age demographic. For ages 45+, the distribution was similar, but percentages were [thankfully] a bit lower.
🔗today.yougov.com/politics/ar…
This is what happens when your people, mostly in the media, have spent the last decade calling everyone to the right of Karl Marx a “fascist” (a term that nobody who tosses it around as a label actually understands what it means) or “Nazi,” and equates the President of the U.S. to Adolf Hitler. Although it may be a minority of those on the left, you are guilty by association since most of you, except Bill Maher and Cenk Uygur, have done absolutely nothing to get your house in order.
Instead, your weak, pathetic responses have been:
1⃣ In the case of Zarutska, to call people pointing out uncomfortable, yet factual statistics and patterns “racist” or “xenophobic.”
2⃣ In the case of Charlie, to deflect with a bunch of whataboutisms and criticisms of his doctrine.
As I said yesterday, if you cannot be human enough to post something to the effect of, “Murdering someone for their skin color or political beliefs is not okay” without adding a BUT, THAT BEING SAID or a WHAT ABOUT followed by a bunch of baloney, just be quiet and say nothing at all.
This is EXACTLY how I feel right now. Also, for those on who repeatedly use the word N*zi to describe the right, I am begging you to actually pick up a history book and read it.
(Warning: long rant)
My liberal friends are completely oblivious about how radicalizing the last week has been for tens of millions of normal Americans. Zero clue.
I’m not talking about people who are “online”; I mean regular, everyday Americans. “Normies.” People who scroll through Facebook posts and Instagram reels from the Dutch Bros drive thru line. Political moderates who have water cooler chats about Mahomes touchdowns and Bon Jovi concerts, not Twitter threads or Rachel Maddow monologues.
Millions of them. Tens of millions. They’re logging on, they’re engaging, and they’re furious.
And I’ll be candid: They blame you guys. They blame the left.
Regardless of whether you believe it to be justified, they think you’re the bad guys here. And they are reacting accordingly.
I can already hear some of you racing toward the comments to start screeching in moral indignation, so I’m going to be blunt: Shut up and listen to what I’m telling you. Your movement will lose any semblance of relevance if you don’t develop some small measure of self-awareness, and—absent someone force-feeding you bitter medicine—you guys collectively lack the humility to do this on your own.
Here are the facts:
Fact 1. Tens of millions of Americans started the week seeing a 23-year-old blonde woman—a young woman in whom virtually every parent watching pictured their own daughter—stabbed in the neck by a career criminal. These people then found out the murderer had been released from jail 14 times over.
Fact 2. Two days later, tens of millions of Americans watched a video of Charlie Kirk get murdered speaking to college students. Millions of these people knew who Charlie was; millions of them didn’t. Upon seeing the video, however, these normal Americans from across the land and across the political spectrum agreed that he was the victim of a terrible, fundamentally unjustifiable crime, and their hearts broke in sympathy for his family. Good people who had never even heard the name Charlie Kirk before wept.
Fact 3. Immediately after seeing the footage of a peaceful young man get shot in the neck, these same people logged onto Facebook and Instagram (remember, we are talking about regular Americans, not perpetually online Twitter or Bluesky users) and saw some of their local nurses, school teachers, college administrators, and retail workers celebrating this horrific crime. Not just defending it, but cheering it.
These are all facts. You may not like the implications of these facts, and we can certainly debate the underlying causes thereof, but, indisputably, they are nevertheless factual statements.
Here’s what it means for you, the Democrats reading this:
These normal, middle-of-the-road, non-political citizens just become politically active. They realized that politics cares about them, even if they don’t particularly care about politics. After watching Iryna Zarutska and Charlie Kirk both bleed out from the neck, they think their lives and the physical safety of their families—the bedrock of human society, the foundation of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs—depend on political activation, whether they desire it or not.
These people are now sprinting—not jogging, not walking, but racing—to the right. Because they blame you guys for everything that just happened.
When they see footage of Decarlos Brown stabbing a Ukrainian refugee to death, they don’t see just one demon-possessed man. They picture every university administrator, HR bureaucrat, and DEI apparatchik that ever lectured them about systemic racism, the “carceral state,” or the need to release violent crime suspects without bail in the name of social justice.
They then think back to conversations they’ve had with their cop friends—their buddy from high school who quit the force after getting tired of being called a racist, their friend at the local YMCA who vents about having to release career criminals because Soros-funded prosecutors aren’t willing to file charges—and they realize everything the left has told them over the last five years has been utter bullshit.
And they blame you. Because, even if you count yourself as a moderate Democrat, your party supported the district attorneys, city council members, and mayors that let fictitious concerns about mental health and racial justice supersede very real concerns for their family’s safety.
When these Americans see blood erupt from the side of Charlie Kirk’s neck, they don’t see just a martyred political activist. They think of every extreme leftist they’ve ever met who (1) calls anyone to the right of Hillary Clinton a fascist and (2) constantly jokes—“jokes”—about punching Nazis and “bashing the fash.”
They realize that there really do exist people who wish to see them dead for their moderately conservative political beliefs, their Christian faith, and even the color of their skin. They ask themselves if the violence visited upon Charlie might one day show up on their own doorstep.
And they blame you. Because, even if you’re just a center-of-the-road liberal, you lacked the courage to police your own ranks. You let modern-day Maoist red guards run loose across every facet of society, and what started with social-media struggle sessions has now turned to 30-06 bullet holes.
When these Americans log onto social media and see their neighbors justifying, celebrating, glorifying murder, they realize that some who walk among them are soulless ghouls at best, literally demon-possessed at worst. These people—whether they faithfully attend church every Sunday or only attend with relatives once a year, on Christmas Eve—start talking about things like spiritual warfare. They implicitly understand that no normal human casually celebrates the mortal demise of a peaceful person.
And they blame you. Because, even if you condemned Charlie Kirk’s murder, they probably haven’t seen you condemn those in your own movement who cheered it on. They view you as complicit in allowing heartless fellow travelers to celebrate death, and it repulses them.
For all of these situations, what has your response been? Nothing but bullshit.
In response to Iryna Zarutska bleeding out on the floor of a train, you post bullshit statistics about reductions in reported crime, when everyone who’s ever been to a major urban center in the last decade knows that actual crime has skyrocketed, only for victims not to waste their time reporting it to cops that don’t have the manpower to respond and prosecutors that seek to downgrade as many felonies as possible to misdemeanor citations.
In response to a 31-year-old man taking a bullet to the neck in front of his family, you post nothing but bullshit whataboutism.
> “What about January 6th?” (Honest answer: After you let Liz Cheney spend two years operating a star chamber in the House, combined with countless other failed attempts at “lawfare” against Trump, no one cares anymore.)
> “What about Mike Lee making a dumb joke on Twitter about some guy in a mask in Minnesota?” (No one outside of Utah, DC, or Twitter knows who Mike Lee even is.)
> “What about Paul Pelosi?” (That’s not comparable to Charlie Kirk getting shot, and we all know it. And, again, Paul who?)
> “What about regulations on assault rifles?” (That’s not going to get you very far when one of these killers used a knife and the other one used a common hunting rifle.)
In response to teachers, healthcare workers, and thousands of other liberals cheering on Charlie’s murder, it’s nothing but more bullshit and misdirection.
> “It’s not THAT many people celebrating!” (Yes, it is. Everyone has seen it on their Facebook and Instagram feeds.)
> “I thought you guys didn’t support cancel culture.” (We don’t cancel people over their opinions; we’re more than happy to see people lose their jobs—especially their taxpayer-funded jobs—for actively cheering on murder, though. If you can’t see the difference, that’s your own shortcoming.)
All bullshit. Not even smart bullshit, but stale, mid-grade, low-IQ bullshit. Ordinary Americans see right through it, and they don’t like how it smells.
You probably don’t like hearing this. But you need to hear it.
Because I’m right, and, as you reflect on this, you know I’m right. The ranks of my political movement gained millions of righteously angry new members this week. We have a mandate to ensure these crimes never happen again, and that’s exactly what we are now going to do.
If you want to keep a seat at the table as we do so, you’d better clean house and start policing your own.
Hey dentistry, might want to pay attention to what has happened to medicine and…you know…stop letting it happen our profession as well. I don’t think I will be impacted🤞🏻but I don’t like what I’m seeing for the next generation.
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We are getting dangerously close to "he's either going to win the Masters, or it's going to be the most heart-wrenching, soul-sucking defeat in golf history" territory.
Just 3 months ago Republicans held more momentum than I've ever seen in my lifetime. If there aren't some positive results from tariffs very soon, all of that momentum will completely shift to the Democrats. This could turn into a generational political fumble.
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It’s been over 25 years and I’m still not over Pvt. Jackson not making it out of the bell tower.
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"I think both parties suck. But I think they do a really good job of making us not like each other…I wish people would understand that politicians do a good job of making us fight with each other." - Charles Barkley
Using an active tragedy to make political points is gross. Both parties do it, and it needs to stop.
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The Lord has used murderers, prostitutes, and now even the Florida Gators for His work. Never say He can’t use you
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Millions of Trump voters aren’t hardcore Trump supporters - they were just out on the economy, inflation, the border, identity politics or Dem messaging.
Are politicians genuinely this tone deaf?!?
The people of Lebanon are facing an increasingly dire humanitarian situation. I am concerned about the security and well-being of civilians suffering in Lebanon and will continue working to help meet the needs of all civilians there.
To that end, the United States will provide nearly $157 million in additional assistance to the people of Lebanon for essential needs such as food, shelter, water, protection, and sanitation to help those who have been displaced by the recent conflict. This additional support brings total U.S. assistance to Lebanon over the last year to over $385 million.
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when I saw the items they were identifying, it hit me like stray gunfire. 😭
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Dear VP Harris: I hear you make this statement all the time. Exactly what “faith” are you talking about when you say you don’t have to abandon it to support abortion? Are you talking about the Christian faith that says all babies are made in the image of God (Gen 1:26), that God places them in the womb (Jer 1:5) and that we should not take any life unjustly (Luke 18:20)? Are you talking about that faith or some nebulous, general “faith” that says we’re good enough, and smart enough to make our own decisions? What “faith” are you talking about?
