Leftists vow to burn America, but what’s their plan for after that? My latest in FrontPage:
Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died at 87, and many Leftists are avidly calling for violence to prevent President Trump from naming, and the Senate from confirming, her successor. The Left’s political and cultural hegemony are more threatened now than they’ve ever been before, and some Leftists are saying openly that they’re ready to burn the country down to regain and secure their power. They’re ready to burn the country down to preserve their political hegemony, but no one seems to have thought through this civil war business. If they do burn the country down, what will they have hegemony over?
The rage has even spilled across the border. Emmett Macfarlane, a political science professor at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, tweeted: “Burn Congress down before letting Trump try to appoint anyone to SCOTUS.” Here at home, Laura Bassett, a self-described “politics writer” for GQ, the Washington Post, Rolling Stone, Cosmopolitan, and the Huffington Post, issued her own threat: “If Mitch McConnell jams someone through, which he will, there will be riots.”
There were many others. Beau Willimon, the President of the Writers Guild of America, thundered: “We’re shutting this country down if Trump and McConnell try to ram through an appointment before the election.” Reza Aslan, the well-known cannibal and disgraced CNN host, chimed in: “If they even TRY to replace RBG we burn the entire f**king thing down.” Leftist activist Eliel Cruz warned: “If the democrats don’t fight, the people are going to have to march on Washington and just shut it down ourselves.”
Aaron Gouveia, author of a paean to the beta male entitled Raising Boys to Be Good Men: A Parent’s Guide to Bringing up Happy Sons in a World Filled with Toxic Masculinity, showed what he thinks being a good man involves when he tweeted “F**k no. Burn it all down” in response to Mitch McConnell’s statement about the permissibility of selecting a successor to Ginsburg in an election year.
There was much more of this, and in the midst of it all, a package containing ricin and addressed to President Trump was seized by law enforcement officials while on its way to the White House on Saturday.
All this is happening against the backdrop of the Left’s increasingly open espousal of violence. Obama operative Rosa Brooks wrote in the Washington Post several weeks ago that “the election will likely spark violence — and a constitutional crisis,” “In every scenario except a Biden landslide, our simulation ended catastrophically.”
Not to be outdone, Shadi Hamid wrote in The Atlantic: “Strictly law-and-order Republicans who have responded in dismay to scenes of rioting and looting have an interest in Biden winning – even if they could never bring themselves to vote for him.” What on earth could that interest be? “A loss by Joe Biden under these circumstances is the worst case not because Trump will destroy America (he can’t), but because it is the outcome most likely to undermine faith in democracy, resulting in more of the social unrest and street battles that cities including Portland, Oregon, and Seattle have seen in recent months.”
In other words, vote for Biden, or there will be more riots.
The Left is holding a gun to the head of America. If Trump appoints a Supreme Court Justice, there will be riots. If Trump wins a second term, there will be even more riots.This makes it obvious that the American Left has completely abandoned the American political process that has made for stable government for over two hundred years, and adopted the modus operandi of its allies the Palestinian Arabs and other jihadists: threaten and kill until the other side is so thoroughly frightened and intimidated that it gives you what you want.
And so that is an indication of what kind of society those who are threatening violence over a prospective Supreme Court nominee would build if given the chance: an authoritarian state based on violence and perpetuating its rule through more violence. If this sinister movement isn’t beaten back before it can destroy the American Republic, Americans will be in for years and possibly decades of bloodshed and strife. As Leonard Cohen said, “You won’t like what comes after America.” If they succeed, the savage Leftists who destroyed the freest and most egalitarian society the world has ever known will find that they don’t like it, either.
Wellington says
This illustrates again the greatest menace to Western Civilization. It is not Islam. That is the secondary menace.
The primary menace is the morphing of traditional liberalism (which for policy reasons, mostly related to how much government should exist and the tax structure, I disagree with but which I nonetheless respect) into a horrid simulation of such, call it modern liberalism or Leftism.
The enemy without is Islam, though yearly it is becoming a secondary enemy within in many Western nations. But the principal enemy of Western Civilization, which has explored freedom and developed a technological legacy such as no other civilization or society remotely compares to, remains. That enemy is Western Leftism, the newest totalitarian ideology in mankind’s history and which has made an unholy, tacit alliance with the longest-lived totalitarian ideology in history, i.e., Mo’s creed, often called Islam, more accurately Mohammedanism.
Fluid times. You betcha’. And freedom and other good things like equality under the law, women’s rights and a true Golden Rule for all, hang in the balance. Islam is not for women’s rights, equality under the law and a true Golden Rule for all. Neither is Western Leftism, though on the specific matter of women’s rights it wishes to impose a new sexism whereby females are dominant. This is wrong and stupid by the Western Left but also directly contrary to Islamthink—and one of several reasons why the alliance in our time between the Western Left and Islam is ephemeral.
The Western Left doesn’t “get” this, but Islam does. So, per Islamthink, the Western Left is a sucker big time.
Count on the Western Left not grasping this at all. After all, it grasps almost nothing with accuracy. At least Islam, menace as it is to the best that mankind can achieve, grasps exactly what it is about—with great precision to be sure.
James Lincoln says
Wellington says
“The Western Left doesn’t “get” this, but Islam does. So, per Islamthink, the Western Left is a sucker big time.”
Absolutely true.
The Western Left, if any Western country becomes islamized, will go the way of the communist Iranian Tudeh Party post-1979 revolution.
Rob says
Hitler admired Islam and wanted it to be the guiding light of the SS.
roberta says
”Hitler admired Islam and wanted it to be the guiding light of the SS”
It would be perfect match for any despot. The despots never live by the rules set for the masses. To them it is best that the little people are kept in place by the cruelest methods possible. Islam fits perfectly into the scheme. If it is islam giving the beatings, then in a kinda sorta sideways way, the despot is innocent.
Despots dont want the kind of system that is best for the people, they want the system that is best for the despot. Islam should be a go-to for all despots/democrats.
LB says
Agreed. However, Trump has played the leftist politics TO HIS OWN BENEFIT! How you may ask? Well guess who he nominated to take over ol’ Ruth’s position. That’s right, it is a LATINO WOMAN named Barbara Lagoa. Therefore, the rabid twitter leftists CANNOT POSSIBLY PROTEST Trump’s decision lest they out themselves as the hypocrites that they are, effectively using their own weapon–identity politics–against them. The 4D chess Trump is playing here is on another level. It will be interesting to see how this plays out.
Vyx says
Umm…Lagoa is on the short list. Trump has not nominated anyone yet. Rumor is “Saturday.”
Also, the Left doesn’t care if they out themselves as hypocrites. They do it all the time. “Believe All Women” and “Bill Clinton, Harvey Weinstein, etc.”
LB says
You’re right. I just checked my source and it says Trump is only “heavily favoring” Barbara Lagoa and he will make his decision this week. Another possible pick is Amy Coney Barrett. Still, Trump gets to choose and there’s nothing the screeching leftists can do about it.
And yeah, leftists have outed themselves as hypocrites time and time again, and will no doubt continue to do so in the future because their collective IQ is in single digits (a generous estimate on my part). But protesting against a MINORITY WOMAN OF COLOR, which checks all the identity subgroups on the leftist victimhood scale (except muslim and gay) will make them look particularly bad.
As I said, can’t wait to see how this will play out. I have about a dozen popcorn packages at the ready 😀
mortimer says
Seconding Wellington on ‘the enemy within’. It is the abandonment of critical thought and morality. The god they worship is political power at all cost … they worship change for its own sake … not because change would lead to knowable, predictable, better future. Post-modernism not only rejects reason, but sneers at it. They know it all … they believe anyone can be bought and the truth is unknowable on any subject, so MAKE IT UP to suit the need of the moment. These extreme cynics think, ‘Eat, drink and burn the place down, for tomorrow we die.’
Fantasy Island run by Pol Pot.
Jaydam says
Well said Wellington +1
Mason Stewart says
the left has taken over here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dW0VBAIfqdA&feature=emb_title
curious george says
Don’t Go Wobbly, Senate Republicans
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/09/dont-go-wobbly-senate-republicans-bruce-thornton/
Notice how the Washington Post reported the Death of Scalia and Ginsberg
https://media.notthebee.com/articles/e412745c-98a9-44b1-9dbd-3606e435713a.jpg
E T says
The Great Divide Abortion
Justice Clarence Thomas’s dissenting opinion:
Although there are variations, it is generally performed as follows:
After dilating the cervix, the physician will grab the fetus by it’s feet and pull the fetal body out of the uterus into the vaginal cavity. At this stage of development, the head is the largest part of the body. Assuming the physician has performed the dilation procedure correctly, the head will be held inside the uterus by the woman’s cervix. While the fetus is stuck in this position, dangling partly out of the woman’s body, and just a few inches from completed birth, the physician uses an instrument such as a pair of scissors to tear or perforate the scull. The physician will either crush the skull or will use a vacuum to remove the brain and other intracranial contents from the fetal skull, collapse the fetus’ head and pull the fetus from the uterus.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg:
“A state regulation that ‘has the purpose or effect of placing a substantial obstacle in the path of a woman seeking an abortion of a no viable fetus’ violates the Constitution “, Ginsburg wrote in her Stenburg opinion:
Seven years later, in the case of Gonzales vs. Carhart, the court reviewed a Federal ban on partial-birth abortion. In this dissent, Ginsburg argued that it was “irrational” to ban partial- birth abortion.
“Brilliant” minds at work.
In God we trust!
gravenimage says
What you describe is a “partial birth” abortion. Far more common are “D & Cs”.
Roland says
Bob Spencer, like many professional conservatives, is making dire predictions about leftist behavior. Most liberals are peaceful citizens not cultural Marxist nut jobs.
First, it is rather provocative of Trump and McConnell to nominate a Supreme Court justice late in the presidential term. Ok for Republicans, not for Democrats. During an election, no less.
One reason for the hasty nomination before Reublicans possibly lose some congressional seats is to stack the Supreme Court against the Affordable Care Act, a health insurance system for persons who lack employer-subsidized health insurance. Nothing to do with stemming the tides of Islam and Marxism.
Second. Trump is working to cut off the FICA payroll contributions that fund Social Security and Medicare. If he has his way, Social Security will be dead within 3 years. Your readers, if they are not rich, might have to subsidize the income and health care of their family seniors. Again, this has nothing to do with stopping Islam, Marxism, and sexual and racial extremists.
curious george says
History Is on the Side of Republicans Filling a Supreme Court Vacancy in 2020
https://news.yahoo.com/history-side-republicans-filling-supreme-184809078.html
Supreme Court vacancies in presidential election years
https://www.scotusblog.com/2016/02/supreme-court-vacancies-in-presidential-election-years/
At least 14 Supreme Court justices have been confirmed during election years
https://www.vox.com/2016/2/13/10987692/14-supreme-court-confirmations
Do you agree that President Trump has the right to fill the vacant Supreme Court seat ASAP?
If your answer is yes, then;
PLEASE… contact your Senator. Tell him/her that you are supportive of him/her and President Trump to fill the vacant Supreme Court seat ASAP.
Let YOUR voice be heard! Encourage everyone you know to contact their Senator.
Please, don’t allow the “left” to control the narrative.
I would hope, that the next Supreme Court Justice, would be in the mold of Antonin Scalia, one who honors the rule of law and interrupts the Constitution of the United States of America in its original intent.
or
Would we want someone who embraces John Lennon’s World Vison?
Imagine there’s no heaven
It’s easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today… Aha-ah…
Imagine there’s no countries
It isn’t hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion, too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace… You…
You may say I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And the world will be as one
Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world… You…
You may say I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And the world will live as one
Contact your Senator by phone… U.S. Capitol Switchboard 202 224-3121 or via email
https://www.senate.gov/senators/contact
“Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.”
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945)
FYI says
imagine there’s no islam.
It’s not easy -but please try.
No jihadists on the rampage
No ‘holy’ men who lie
imagine all the people
living from day to day
{whoo-hoo-hoo-hoo}
You may say that i’m a dreamer
but i’m not the only one..
like..
Young iranians for instance
Let’s hope someday they’ll join us{infidels}
And the world will live as one.
gravenimage says
Roland, threatening Americans to vote for Biden unless they want more violent riots is pretty bad, regardless of your views of Trump nominating a new supreme court judge.
Wellington says
Seconded.
ET says
Horse pucky. Read the Constitution section 2, article 2, clause 2.
If the shoe was on the other foot the “darling Democratic” would be voting tomorrow.
“Again, this has nothing to do with stopping Islam, Marxism, and sexual and racial extremists”.
This has EVERYTHING to do with stopping Islam, Marxism, and sexual and racial extremists.
Reziac says
I remember when all the same dire threats accompanied the election of Reagan (I actually knew a leftist who was white-faced with dread because Reagan was going to immediately start WW3). How’d that work out for ya??
gravenimage says
RGB Dies, and for the Left, It’s the Fire This Time
…………..
Just appalling.
And threatening people to vote for Biden lest there be even more riots is morally sickening.
Wellington says
Again seconded.
E T says
I often thought RBG’s decisions were morally sickening. She did a lot of fancy dancing promoting what I have always thought is murder.
Kepha says
The current time clearly shows the thuggishness at the heart of Leftism. Indeed, the immoderate Left is the grater enemy; Islam, the lesser. Islam shows its thuggish face at every chance, and anyone with eyes in his head can see it if he chooses to do so. The Left, however, demands that we cease to use our eyes when one of its chosen clients is under threat.
To the heirs of Gramsci and Marcuse who are openly and nakedly blackmailing the body politic, we should say a loud, reounding “no”. We should hammer at how they’ve allowed their own cities to burn. We should call them on their threats of blackmail, and demand that they explain why we should trust them at all when they piously quote Voltaire. After all, their real candidate Kamal Harris has shown, in her treatment of investigative journalists who looked into Planned Parenthood, that she does not believe in First Amendment protections for anyone apart from her side of the political aisle. We should also prepare to push back.
curious george says
Ginsburg in 2016: President’s ‘Power’ to Fill SCOTUS for ‘Four Years, Not Three Years’
https://www.breitbart.com/2020-election/2020/09/22/ginsburg-in-2016-presidents-power-to-fill-scotus-for-four-years-not-three-years/
somehistory says
“There will be riots”? Don’t they mean more peaceful demonstrations, peaceful protests…like the religion of peace puts on when someone burns or tears or tells the truth about their filthy book?
The woman was a witch and held on to her seat just as long as she could avoid the waters of Truth. But, melt, she finally did.
Those who would wish to pull a “Bates Motel” trick, still have a few on the Court much like her….in viewpoint and misguided thinking.
Anyone Mr. Trump selects for Senate confirmation will be torn to shreds…if those opposing have to concoct stories of wrongdoing and pay actresses and actors to spill their lies.
Bezelel says
terrorism
[ ter-uh-riz-uhm ]
SEE SYNONYMS FOR terrorism ON THESAURUS.COM
noun
the use of violence and threats to intimidate or coerce, especially for political purposes.
the state of fear and submission produced by terrorism or terrorization.
a terroristic method of governing or of resisting a government.
If I, who doesn’t have a PHD can connect the dots, Why aren’t the appropriate charges being made?
Years ago I read the book “The History Of The Jews” and about the violence islam was committing to influence the votes over establishing Israel. Now we’re witnessing arab spring USA courtesy of the same people who orchestrated the mess in the middle east. I remember people actually thinking that democracy was breaking out in Egypt.
James Lincoln says
Bezelel says,
“…Why aren’t the appropriate charges being made?”
Good question. Any Jihad Watch reader / attorneys care to weigh-in?
Bezelel says
James Lincoln, Thank you for noticing, I suspect there is no appropriate explanation, only advice to “Praise The Lord and pass the ammunition”, because when the rule of law breaks down we’re left with, every man for himself. The politicians who prefer to pussyfoot around the elephant in the living room just to keep the peace have only allowed this decay to fester.
Mount Zion says
When the rule of law brakes down it must not necessarily be every man for himself , it could also be to declare a state of war bring in the military and restore peace by any means . Threatening people there be more violence lest they vote for Biden is blackmail and direct incitement to violence , under these circumstances , to declare a state of war or martial law till the rule of law is restored would be fully justified. Round them up where ever they demonstrate and riot against a democratically elected president and his right to appoint someone in Ginsberg’s place , and throw them all in jail for high treason. .
CogitoErgoSum says
I will NEVER vote for anyone who says vote for me or else I’ll burn the country down. That just ensures my vote for Trump … and I hope it’s a landslide for him this time. The Democratic Party can go straight to Hell … oh wait, it already has.
Glynnda says
If they decide that’s the way they want to go, it won’t last long….
Savvy Kafir says
Agreed. That level of violence would be a huge strategic mistake for the would-be totalitarians of the Regressive Left. They wouldn’t last long in a real fight.
Paul Cerar says
Dear Editor: A University of Waterloo professor, a fascist terrorist arsonist named Emmett MacFarlane, declared his intention to commit premeditated mass-murder, by burning down buildings in Washington DC. Some Canadians think it is funny! To those persons I say, “What if he changes his mind, and kills Canadians? Would you laugh if he burned your house, and killed your family?”
Yours truly, Paul Cerar, Toronto, Canada
mortimer says
The application of the principle of ‘the shoe on the other foot’ … used to test whether a thing is moral.
mortimer says
Let us ask Prof . Macfarlane if it would be moral for someone HYPOTHETICALLY to say the same thing about him? “Burn University of Waterloo down before letting Macfarlane mislead any more students.”
If that would be ‘hate speech’, then Macfarlane’s remarks are also ‘hate speech’ for which he should be censured by the university.
E T says
Send notice to the University – He should be fired.
mortimer says
Leonard Cohen said, “You won’t like what comes after America.”
It is not widely known that Leonard Cohen was conservative. For fear of his delusional, leftarded fans, he kept it quiet.
With irony he also wrote: “I’ve seen the future, brother, it is murder.” He was talking about the amoral Left.
Reziac says
I was unaware of that, but those are dire quotes. And sadly accurate.
gravenimage says
Mortimer–I love Leonard Cohen; he is brilliant.
Here is his song, “The Future”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D97OxHZzBeQ&ab_channel=a1000kissesdeep
(Note that even though he sings this in the first person, this is for effect–not all of this is the way he thinks). A lot of his work is deliberately somewhat ambiguous.
But you are quite right about his saying “You won’t like what comes after America”, certainly, That interview is here; the line near the end:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axDoGt16O2I&ab_channel=RobKuil
Note that the interview has pictures of 9/11 and of ISIS beheading Christians on the beach in Libya, and references in the song to our not forcing women into veils–very specific references to Jihad terror and Shari’ah and its violent threat to the West.
Darryl Kerney says
source: FBI.
“Domestic terrorism is the unlawful use, or threatened use, of force or violence by a group or individual based and operating entirely within the United States or Puerto Rico without foreign direction committed against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a government, the civilian population, or any segment thereof in furtherance of political or social objectives.”
https://www.fbi.gov/stats-services/publications/terrorism-2002-2005
JDow says
Um um um just a little note. The world has not gone colorblind. RGB, Red Green Blue, has not died. That was Ruth Bader Ginsberg, RBG. I’ve caught myself making that typo too often. You might want to fix it if you can.
{o.o}
gravenimage says
All fixed.