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A flashback from me to when we were gaslit about “extremist” “brownshirt” wingers at Obamacare townhall meetings driving the Republic to the brink in 2009. It turns out the vast majority of violence at those gatherings (and it was minimal, despite the panic) was left-on-right. pic.twitter.com/Zk7BWhEixC
— Mary Katharine Ham (@mkhammer) September 17, 2025
Ed: As Josh Treviño wrote at the American Mind yesterday, everyone knew it. Political violence isn’t exclusive to the Left, but it occurs primarily on the Left. We spent 2020 experiencing it for months in many major American cities. It’s no secret.
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NY Post: Jemele Hill reportedly deleted a social media post in which she suggested that Charlie Kirk’s assassination was the result of a “white supremacist gang hit.”
Hill, the controversial former ESPN personality who currently writes for The Atlantic magazine, recently reacted on Bluesky to an interview granted by a Boston University professor to the Los Angeles Times.
“The LA Times spoke with an expert (imagine that!) about the markings on the killer’s bullet casings and turns out … Charlie Kirk likely was the victim of a white supremacist gang hit. Well, well, well,” Hill wrote in the now-deleted Bluesky post.
Ed: She writes for The Atlantic? Perfect. They’re suited well for each other.
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“Buffalo Bill’s dialogue with the woman he lowered into a well in order to make clothing out of her skin was very touching in a way that many of us didn’t expect.”
– ABC News pic.twitter.com/wyr8IIzfng
— NotKennyRogers (@NotKennyRogers) September 17, 2025
Ed: I wrote about this earlier, of course, as did David. This made me laugh because I ran across a gag trailer that turned this film into a romantic comedy, so the timing is perfect. If you want to watch it, here’s the link.
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Spectator World: In July’s Spectator, I covered the peculiar case of individuals supporting Luigi Mangione, now in custody for the public murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. A month later, Lara Brown wrote about the similarly curious trend of people falling in love with online chatbots. Neither of us, I think, ever imagined that there could be a situation in which both of these stories would combine. Yet it looks like nothing about our dystopian world can surprise me anymore, because I have discovered it is indeed possible. A woman has fallen in love with a Luigi Mangione chatbot.
In this short clip, an unnamed woman proudly declares both her infatuation with – and ability to create an artificial construction of – Luigi Mangione outside of a Manhattan courthouse, where he has recently been absolved of various terrorism-related charges. Wearing an “I ♡ Italian Boys” T-shirt with an illustration of his face, the woman lists the many reasons why an AI chatbot, presumably trained on Luigi Mangione-related trivia, offers her the perfect romantic companionship. She gets to talk to him every day, she says, as a best friend and partner with whom she can plan a future and name their children. And, the woman adds, although she is aware that this might make her something of an imposter, the fact that Luigi studied AI at Stanford meant that this was an all-round reasonable thing to do.
Ed: The Left romanticizes and fetishizes violence, and not just on the fringe. Montel Williams called Tyler Robinson a “love-torn child” as though he was Juliet instead of a political assassin. Matt Gutman found him “touching.” The Left has been lionizing Mangione for months after he shot a stranger in the back and ran off into the night.
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The bottom poll was cited for showing a plurality of people believed the shooter was a Republican. But a subsequent poll that put the focus rightfully on ideology rather than party affiliation finds that by more than 2:1, Americans say he was left-wing. https://t.co/NrO6iqOlyY pic.twitter.com/sbIYBstwje
— Philip Klein (@philipaklein) September 17, 2025
Ed: Good. No thanks to the Protection Racket Media, of course, but good nonetheless.
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This is why. pic.twitter.com/V4W19wZGfu
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) September 18, 2025
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Hollywood in Toto: The “Gutfeld!” host wasn’t pleased.
“I might have to watch Kimmel tonight to see what he has to say about this, because if he doesn’t address what he did, he’s done. I mean, this is a great case study, though, of cognitive dissonance. You know, how can such a smart, successful man be so wrong? How can he live in this kind of denial? It’s because he knows he’s wrong. And if you strip that away, what’s left? If you wrestle him away from this delusion that he’s stuck with for years about Trump supporters, about Trump, about Republicans in general, what’s left, what’s underneath that, the realization that you are the bad guy in the movie.”
Spoiler alert: Kimmel didn’t apologize.
That was almost kind compared to what Gad Saad shared about Kimmel.
The podcaster/author behind “The Parasitic Mind” blasted Kimmel via his X account. He called Kimmel “an affront to human decency.”
Ed: Let’s noty forget that Kimmel was a co-conspirator in the fraud perpetrated by Democrats to hide Joe Biden’s cognitive incapacity. Keep that in mind when considering what’s next …
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People tend to forget how much power the affiliates have. https://t.co/5z2tuH9k3M
— ZitoSalena (@ZitoSalena) September 17, 2025
Ed: Not today, they won’t.
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College Fix: The alleged killer of conservative activist Charlie Kirk was not necessarily liberal, professors rushed to claim. Some have continued to stand by their claims despite evidence strongly suggesting the alleged killer was a leftist.
Boston University journalism Professor Joan Donovan alleged within days after the assassination that the markings on bullet casings and cartridges did not suggest a particular ideology.
Bullet casings read “hey fascist catch!,” “if you read this you are gay lmao,” and “notices, bulges OWO what’s this?” The last statement is a reference to transgenderism and furry subculture.
“With memes the message was really about talking to other would be shooters,” Donovan (pictured) said, referencing other mass shootings. “It wasn’t about communicating to the media or communicating even a serious message,” she told the Los Angeles Times. Donovan was previously pushed out of her role at Harvard University, where, among other claims, she said Trump won in 2016 because of memes.
Ed: Maybe we should focus on cleaning out Academia before we clean out late-night TV.
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An important piece from @baseballcrank: It is important to acknowledge the ideology of Kirk’s killer because so many D policies flow from the assumption (to which they’re holding tighter than ever) that the American right is the font from which all political violence springs. pic.twitter.com/mktQ6fqNFV
— Noah Rothman (@NoahCRothman) September 17, 2025
Ed: I’d put it even more bluntly: Democrats exploit violence to seize and keep autocratic power, and it doesn’t much matter to them where that violence originates. That’s why they fetishize it, romanticize it, and why their activists — especially in Antifa and grievance groups — tend to normalize violence as ‘speech.’
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Hollywood Reporter: South Park is taking an additional week off.
The Comedy Central series is skipping yet another week, with the cable network releasing the news on Wednesday, Sept. 17 — the same day as the new episode was supposed to air. …
The episode was particularly anticipated as it was the first one scheduled in the wake of conservative activist Charlie Kirk being assassinated.
The reason for drawing a connection between those two seemingly disparate events is that South Park has been mocking President Trump and MAGA heavily during its 27th season, and during its second episode parodied Kirk specifically. So many have wondered how what the Comedy Central series would do next.
Ed: I wonder whether this is the reason for the delay. Perhaps they had some criticism teed up that had to be scrapped for reasons of taste (although that’s rarely an issue for South Park). Kirk didn’t make a fuss over being the butt of their joke in the earlier episode, quipping that it meant he’d arrived, or something similar. If they needed a reset for that reason, it would reflect well on them. If not, well, then it’s just a coincidence.
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This is the only riff this woman has. And even that requires her four IQ points to work overtime. https://t.co/eT5aXfNnBl
— Brittany Hughes (@RealBrittHughes) September 17, 2025
Ed: It’s always All That Jas on Capitol Hill, eh?
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WSJ: Ben & Jerry’s co-founder Jerry Greenfield said he is quitting the brand after 47 years, ahead of parent company Unilever’s planned spinoff of its ice-cream business as a separate entity.
In posts on Instagram and X, Greenfield said he decided to leave Ben & Jerry’s because it was no longer allowed to stand behind social justice issues that were core to its business.
“It’s profoundly disappointing to come to the conclusion that that independence, the very basis of our sale to Unilever, is gone,” he wrote in the social-media posts that were posted on co-founder Ben Cohen’s account on Greenfield’s behalf.
Ed: Sell-out hippie says what? Nothing says progressive socialist better than whining about not having control of a company you sold for $326 million. You took the money, Jerry. You can Chunky Monkey all you like, but don’t complain about getting iced after taking the cash.
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Last night, I was scolded for being “angry.”
You’re damn right I’m angry.
And I’m channeling the anger of millions of Americans who are fed up as the left gaslights about the motivations and continues to call us “fascists” after Charlie was M*RDERED over this lie pic.twitter.com/OVeFkYdjgP
— Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) September 17, 2025
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Just a check-in. It’s been a wk since Charlie was murdered & only follow-on crimes/arrests are: lefty who pretended to be the shooter to save the shooter, an assault (TX) and a vandalism charge (AZ) for two people *attacking Kirk mourners*, and 2 would-be bombers of a Fox truck.
— Mary Katharine Ham (@mkhammer) September 17, 2025
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