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“The fact to which we have got to cling, as to a lifebelt, is that it is possible to be a normal decent person and yet be fully alive.” George Orwell

@Commentary Just as importantly, teens need instruction on Gramscian Damage & USSR's "active measures" during Cold War. Otherwise, civics just competes with "woke" & progressivism. We need teens to understand how we got here @jpodhoretz @SethAMandel @AbeGreenwald

This neglect of civic formation and character education would have given fits to the nation’s Founders, who were concerned nearly to obsession about the necessity of a virtuous citizenry capable of sustaining our infant republic. commentary.org/articles/rober…

@schoolofwarpod @DouglasKMurray 5+ Cole Allens might've been able to force their way in. Graham Platner famously trained antifa militia. No one has asked the SRA in MN about the training, ie. who was the "enemy" they trained to fight? Foreign terror group? Domestic opponent (eg. Proud Boys)? Federal government?

Douglas Murray, @DouglasKMurray, journalist and author of On Democracies and Death Cults, joins School of War. Let's get into it. youtube.com/watch?v=nCo5FI…

@schoolofwarpod @DouglasKMurray Netflix's Death By Lightning about Pres Garfield & Charles Guiteau is an outstanding treatise on the delusions of assassins.

@schoolofwarpod @DouglasKMurray I heard from friends the security at the Army/Navy game last December was insane, that it took hours to get in. Wonder what the difference was for this event?

@Commentary @jpodhoretz @elianayjohnson @AbeGreenwald @SethAMandel A foreign terror group? A domestic opponent (eg. Proud Boys)? The federal government?

@Commentary 5+ Cole Allens might've been able to force their way in. Graham Platner famously trained antifa militia. No one has asked the SRA in Maine about that training, eg. who was the "enemy" they trained to fight against? @jpodhoretz @elianayjohnson @AbeGreenwald @SethAMandel

LISTEN: Today we discuss the controversy over Trump’s call to fire Jimmy Kimmel and the history of political controversies in the entertainment industry and more on would-be presidential assassin Cole Allen. commentary.org/noam-blum/yoke…

@Commentary Netflix's Death By Lightning about Pres Garfield & Charles Guiteau is an outstanding treatise on the delusions of assassins. @jpodhoretz @SethAMandel @AbeGreenwald

@geraldposner Only three left-wing attacks in 2020? It seemed as if a Federal Building was being attacked every other week from Memorial Day to Thanksgiving.

🚨 WSJ bombshell: Antigovernment violence in America just hit a 30-year high—the “Year of the Molotov Cocktail.” For the first time in 20 years, the progressive Left is the most violent side. By a considerable margin. The data doesn’t lie. The radical left has a serious violence problem. Paywall-free 🔗 wsj.com/politics/polic…

@AndrewKolvet Not the first. Nikita Casap murdered his parents Feb 2025 to fund an assassination attempt. Crooks & Routh were also sane but radicalized by media.

Greg Gutfeld just delivered the single most succinct and cutting indictment of the leftwing media's complicity in Saturday's WHCD attack: "This guy did hear voices. They were Ted Lieu's, they were Brandon Johnson's, they were CNN's, they were The View, they were MS NOW." "I think this is a helpful assassination attempt because it is the first one that shows you can be radicalized by liberal smugness." "He wasn't a crank. He was not deranged. Don't buy into that narrative ... He was just following orders." Greg nails it.

@TimOnPoint Graham Platner famously trained antifa militia. No one has asked the SRA about the training, eg. who was the enemy they trained to fight? A foreign terror group? A domestic opponent (eg. Proud Boys)? The federal government?

Trump’s attacker isn’t deranged and disconnected, he is an engaged, rational soldier for the Left. Democrats and their drone media labeled President Trump “Hitler,” and this Cal Tech graduate took the only logical next step—to get rid of “Hitler.” Greg Gutfeld is 100% correct. x.com/AndrewKolvet/s…

@jimgeraghty I made this point on a different tweet yesterday. I've yet to see a photo of Mangione from a bad angle or looking pathetic, awkward, uncomfortable. They exist for everyone, but the press discards them in favor The Narrative, with an eye toward jury nullification or copycats.

You know exactly what Luigi Mangione looks like, and what he did. You probably have no idea who Edward Scott Huffman, Briana Boston, Ryan English, Cody Balmer, Audrey Illeene Carroll, Zachary Aaron Page, Dante Gaffield, Tina Lai, Micah Legnon, Chamel Abdulkarim, Daniel Moreno-Gama are, what they look like, and what they have done.

@SenRonJohnson @OIGatHHS Many people involved in the Hillary 2016 presidential campaign & the Mueller Russiagate investigation should have been arrested & charged in similar fashion.

More than two years ago, my PSI staff discovered and made public emails in which Dr. David Morens bragged to colleagues about his efforts to avoid transparency by destroying federal records and using his personal email to communicate on “sensitive issues.” Today, @OIGatHHS announced that Dr. Morens has been arrested and charged with conspiracy and destruction of federal records. I applaud OIG’s new leadership for taking this much needed step forward to hold Dr. Morens accountable.

@jimgeraghty Background here: x.com/sgallz_/status…

@jimgeraghty Scary to think that one of Graham Platner’s antifa militia platoons could’ve reserved 30 separate rooms at the Hilton, assembled, & forced their way into the WHCD.

In a development that is sure to raise a furor, Janet Mills’s defiance of the state’s Democratic state legislative majority may be seen as a de facto surrender to her rival in the Democratic U.S. Senate primary, Graham Platner. It’s been a while since Mills led a poll in that primary, a fact that no doubt has Platner thumping his chest and feeling some Schadenfreude, believing he has captured the zeitgeist and proven himself the Übermensch.

@sgallz_ Has any journalist interviewed members of the SRA re: the nature of the training? E.g. who was the enemy they trained to fight? A foreign terror group? A domestic opponent (eg. Proud Boys)? The federal government? @steverob @themainewire @politico

And this... politico.com/news/2025/10/1…

🚨Graham Platner trained Maine's "Socialist Rifle Association" on paramilitary tactics... He also: -Called himself an "antifa supersoldier" -Said "an armed working class is a requirement for economic justice" -Told people to "fight fascism with a good semi-automatic rifle"

@GenerallyLeMay @politicalmath @redsteeze Which incident that wasn’t an Trump assassination attempt brought the “shots fired” tally to 4?

@politicalmath @redsteeze Number of times Secret Service discharged a weapon to protect the president: Trump: 4 Biden: 0 Obama: 0 G.W. Bush: 0 Clinton: 0 G.H.W. Bush: 0 Reagan: 0 Carter: 0 Ford: 0 Nixon: 0 L.B. Johnson: 0 Kennedy: 0 Eisenhower: 0 Truman: 1 Roosevelt: 0 Coolidge: 0 Harding: 0 Wilson: 0

The 11 Obama "assassination attempts" include (not making this up) - a Hispanic man shot 25 rounds at the White House from his truck when Obama was in another state - an accountant was at a waffle house when he said he wanted to kill Obama - an extremist Irish Islamist gave an interview to a major newspaper and said he wished that he could assassinate Obama - a "death ray" plot in which 2 rednecks planned to use x-rays to kills Obama (and also Jews) - a Walking Dead actress sent Obama a letter with ricin in an attempt to incriminate her husband

@micsolana I agree. I have yet to see a “lame” photo of Luigi Mangione. Photos or vid of him frog marching around would have a huge deterrent effect.

this is not a joke btw. psychopathic political influencers turned luigi mangione into a new heroic archetype. the image is rooted in "cool." shame is the only thing that can really do damage to these people now. what happens to them needs to be unimaginably mortifying.

every would-be assassin should be wrapped in aluminum foil and positioned for photos like a gay baked potato. they should tour him around the country so we can all come see the gay baked potato before his public floggings, and throw vegetables.

@CynicalPublius Scary to think that one of Graham Platner’s antifa militia platoons could’ve reserved 30 separate rooms, assembled, & forced their way into the WHCD.

Let me explain the four major differences between leftwing political violence and rightwing political violence: 1. Rightwing violence comes from the fringes of the conservative movement. Leftwing violence comes from the mainstream of the progressive movement. 2. Conservatives rarely encourage or glorify rightwing violence. Progressives routinely encourage and glorify leftwing violence. 3. Leftwing violence is such a common event that we hardly take notice of it unless it involves assassinating a major political figure--think of how routine Antifa/BLM style destruction of our cities has become. Rightwing violence is notable in its rarity. 4. Leftwing violence is often falsely attributed in the mass media to conservative beliefs. The opposite never happens.

@AaronBMacLean @DouglasKMurray @schoolofwarpod Scary to think that 1 of Graham Platner’s antifa militia platoons could’ve reserved 30 separate rooms, assembled, & forced their way into the WHCD.

Coming very soon: @DouglasKMurray and I were both witness to the chaos at Saturday’s White House Correspondents Dinner. We’ll discuss the shooting and the normalization of political violence in America on @schoolofwarpod, dropping imminently.

@Commentary @NRO @NoahCRothman Scary to think that 1 of Graham Platner’s antifa militia platoons could’ve reserved 30 separate rooms, assembled, & shot their way into WHCD. @jpodhoretz @elianayjohnson @SethAMandel

LISTEN: @NRO’s @NoahCRothman joins us from his vacation to discuss the attempted assassination of Trump and the media coverage of the incident and the shooter Cole Allen’s manifesto. commentary.org/noam-blum/viol…