Quote of the Day
Approximately one-third of Democratic-leaning respondents said they would have a positive reaction to the president of the United States being murdered. This 32% cohort matched the “very negative” group, which also accounted for 32%. An additional one-quarter told the pollster that this outcome would engender a “neither positive nor negative” sentiment. That’s a substantial majority who would feel good, conflicted, or neutral about this president being intentionally killed.
Guy Benson
September 26, 2026
Leftism lurches toward assassination culture
A certain amount of this is not new. I know people who threw a party to celebrate the death of Rush Limbaugh. But a substantial majority admit to this is concerning. This makes it easy to for people to believe their bubble is reality. It becomes ever more likely that more people think they can be a hero or at least not be shamed for violent behavior of all types.
Political violence for democracy! Yeah. That makes total sense.
Prepare appropriately.
Are we going to bask in our moral superiority until they load us into cattle cars?
Or are we going to man up and puncture them?
You first, glowie.
I remember telling my wife at the time that Obama was president, when she asked me how Secret Service Agents would willingly place themselves in danger for one man, that I myself would do the same, even as a civilian.
You see, I understood something at the time that was to me important. The death of an American president would upend the stability of world and the security of America could be threatened by some of the outside nations who would be happy to step up during a time of disarray and attempt to rupture our alliances with other nations.
I was a bit naive I guess, but sometimes there are things important enough to give your life defending. World War 2 and the sacrifices made by so many to save the world from tyranny is but one such time.
A surprising number of people seem to have no functional definition for the term “honor”.
I’m curently using “having something you are willing to die for”.
The idea is that there is at least *something* which you can do, or not do, that you would be uninteresting in living with having done or not done.
Oh, that’s true. You just have to look at the degeneration of “The Four Feathers”, from the 1939 version, the 1954 version, and the 1978 version, which were still fairly close to Mason’s novel, to the 2002 version with Heath Ledger and Kate Hudson, which strayed so far from the original concept you could say that only the title, the era, and the location survived the transplant.
Another factor is the decline of teen boys today joining the Boy Scout, where they emphasize Honor.. They took a beating since the seventies, and survived only by going co-ed.
Yep. Just look at how violently disrupted the 1960’s were, 1964 election, decided by assassination, 1968 election decided by assassination, and the 1972 election almost got decided the same way, but George Wallace was only “partially paralyzed.
And the violence wasn’t limited to the United States. Vietnam “heated up”, there was a revolt in Indonesia, The Marines were sent to the Dominican Republic, and a pipsqueak of a country captured the US Navy ship Pueblo. Provocateurs started riots in Universities in America and Europe. American culture still hasn’t recovered.
As psychopaths say, Chaos is Power. We don’t need this with Trump, or whoever succeeds him, and, as harmful as I thought the Biden regime was to America, we didn’t need him dying violently either.
So many people who are ignorant of history and have little to zero first hand knowledge of war are so eager for serious political violence.
It is a failure of imagination and common sense on their part to believe that widespread political violence in the US would not touch them.
Many live in huge crowded cities, entirely dependent upon water, food and electricity imported from the surrounding conservative, rural countryside.
They’ve lived their entire lives in a 72 hour ticking death trap and haven’t a clue.
Fools!
I half hope they get their wish and all the consequences they haven’t foreseen and / or choose to ignore
Just have to stop the electricity.
After 72 hours without power, the only food left is shelf stable. Same with medications.
Cooking is electric. Those few with gas appliances find out the gas is moved with electric pumps.
Water is moved with electric pumps. So is sewer. Fire fighting stops soon after gravity fed water is gone.
Gas stations don’t typically have a backup generator that runs off the fuel in the tanks. Fuel pumps are electric.
Not a lot of wood fireplaces in city limits. Run out of wood pretty fast, anyway: not a lot of available chainsaws or felling axes, either, even if you have available trees.
No problem, just use your Tesla as a giant battery pack, then drive up the highway a ways to get help.
Oh, wait…
Having everything run on angry pixies makes the system very clean-appearing to the end-user, but also very fragile.
Wars are not at all pleasant, civil wars particularly so. I met an engineer forty years ago from El Ferrol. He said that his grandmother still had issues from it. If anyone wanting Civil War 2.0 thinks it will be anything like Civil War 1.0, they are fools of the first order. This time it won’t be a sectional conflict, but something more like the Spanish Civil War or Vietnam, with no fronts like in Civil War 1.0, WW1, WW2, and Korea. That means No Guerrillas, all of the time.
Really, they seem to be coming to the idea of a Civil War the way some English Generals wished for a European general war in the decades leading up to World War 1.
Politics and violence go together. Always has…probably always will. Just ask Julius Caesar. In fact roughly 2/3rds if Roman Emperors died a violent death.
So politics and violence goes hand in hand…
Look at the assassination rate for U.S. Presidents versus other occupations. It is a very dangerous job.
Highest death-rate occupations (Per 100,000)
USA Presidents: 17,021 (8 deaths)
Logging workers: 110.4 (51)
Fishing and hunting workers: 88.8 (24)
Roofers: 48.7 (104)
Structural iron and steel workers: 37.8 (14)
Refuse and recyclable material collectors: 37.4 (36)
Aircraft pilots and flight engineers: 36.7 (73)
Helpers, construction trades: 35.8 (18)
Underground mining machine operators: 35.6 (12)
I read, long ago, pre-internet, that the occupations with the highest life and health Insurance Premiums were in the Logging Industry.
A cousin worked for one in Oregon between years in College. He said that your clothes got ripped by cut branches and that once, when his work clothes were in a pile on the floor, another logger asked him, “How do you wear that?” Evidently hinting that he was carrying this rags as clothing thing a bit far.
He said that they had crane/pulleys on high towers with cables running from the top to hold it up. The loggers would hook logs to the crane, and the crane operators would attempt to reel them in so they could move them to where they were supposed to go. If the log was heavier than expected, the crane operators would pull harder, and you could hear the engine straining. Sometimes one of the support cables would snap and flip around, hitting anything in its path. This happened once when he was on the job and someone else shouted, Look Out!
He and the loggers in the area avoided injury that time. Other times they weren’t so lucky, and he spoke of a coworker who got squished by a log.
Those high insurance premiums aren’t from price-gouging.
Clearwater county, where I grew up on a farm, had logging as the number one industry. In the summers while going to college I worked in a logging camp as a painter and electrician’s helper. Many of my classmates were from logger families. The father of one was killed in a logging accident. After I was in college a classmate was killed in a logging accident.
The crane/pulley system you describe is familiar to me. In addition to occasionally doing minor maintenance on their communication gear, a guy I knew at the logging camp was also a college classmate. He worked with one of those systems. His job title was “hooker.” He attached the trees to the cable which pulled them off the mountain side. To the best of my knowledge he never had and serious injuries, but the opportunity was certainly there.
Farming and ranching are high accident professions too. I could tell you many stories of times I was injured and came close to getting killed. And there were many serious injuries my father and brothers have had.
With all that, being president would be far, far, more hazardous and is high on my “job professions to avoid” list.