Links - 22nd February 2026 (1 - Left and Right Wing Violence)

Lauren Chen on X - "I've come to realize the left doesn't actually oppose crime or violence on principle.  They only oppose it when it hurts their own agenda or allies. Otherwise, they actually cheer it on when it's inflicted upon their enemies, or just ignore it when it can't be exploited.  For example, killing is good when it's a health insurance CEO or Charlie Kirk. But it's bad if it's Renee Good or George Floyd (for the purpose of this argument, we will assume, as leftists do, that George Floyd was actually killed and did not OD). And killing doesn't register at all when it's someone like Iryna Zarutska being murdered by a black man.  The same goes with violence and crime as a whole. Violence against ICE is good. However, violence against ICE protestors is bad. And violence between black gangs is simply unimportant.  Furthermore, stealing from Walmarts and other big chains is good, but "stealing" from indigenous people is bad. Somalis stealing from taxpayers, on the other hand, should just not be discussed at all.  Unlike most people, the leftist views violence and crime as morally neutral tools, with acceptability or importance wholly dependent on who or what these tools are being used against.  Now, you might say, the right acts similarly! After all, weren't the ICE agent's and Kyle Rittenhouse's killings excused by conservatives?  But no, actually, these cases are not the same. The right doesn't excuse these killings because they were perpatrated by conservatives against progressives, which is how leftists view these scenarios.  It is not the "who" that provides justification for these killings in the eyes of the right, but rather, the "why," which is self-defense.  Regardless of the parties involved, conservatives, in general, recognize the right to self-defense. Leftists, conversely, might only recognize self-defense as valid depending on who is using it.  Case in point, according to leftists, the ICE agent was not justified in shooting as self-defense after being hit with a car at a protest. But somehow, self-defense has been the go-to defense for Karmelo Anthony, a black teen who stabbed an unarmed student after getting into an argument at a campus sports event.  Again, for the leftist, the justification for crime and violence comes not from "why," but from "who."  And so, why does this matter? Why is this worth discussing?  It matters because, as we saw with Charlie Kirk, regardless of how law abiding or moral you may otherwise be, as long as you are conservative, it means the left will support any and all violence or theft that befalls you. Unfortunately, the justification for harming you comes from who you are: their enemy.  This phenomenon also explains the leftist indifference to the crimes of minority groups, like Somalis, or trans people, or illegal immigrants, or whatever other protected class. Put simply, in the left's belief system, if a crime happens, but there's no way to use it to gain political power, has it even really happened at all?  Finally, with these revelations in mind, the right must stop entering into debates with leftists assuming they share the view that crime and violence are inherently bad, because though they may deny it, the truth is they do not." Florida nurse' license suspended after threatening press secretary Karoline Leavitt - "Florida has issued an emergency suspension of the license of the nurse who wished childbirth injury on Karoline Leavitt.  The emergency suspension order, obtained by Fox News Digital, reads, "Joseph A. Ladapo, MD, PhD, State Surgeon General, ORDERS the emergency suspension of the license of Alexis Backer Lawler, R.N., ("Lawler") to practice as a registered nurse in the State of Florida."   In a Wednesday post on X, Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier praised the move, saying, "Effective today, Lexie Lawler is no longer allowed to practice nursing in Florida,"... Lawler, a former labor and delivery nurse at Baptist Health Boca Raton Regional Hospital, was fired last week after posting a video where she wished Leavitt permanent harm during childbirth, saying, "As a labor and delivery nurse, it gives me great joy to wish Karoline Leavitt a fourth degree tear."  She added, "I hope you f------ rip from bow to stern and never s--- normally again, you c---."  She later doubled down on her remarks, saying, "So they just murdered a man in Minnesota, they murdered a man in Minnesota, and you motherf------ are coming after me ‘cause I used bad language? F--- you. I’m on the right side of this. F--- you."... Uthmeier had previously called on the Florida Board of Nursing to revoke Lawler’s license, and told Fox News Digital in a statement, "Women shouldn’t have to worry about a politically-driven nurse who wishes them pain and suffering being in the delivery room during childbirth."" Scott Jennings on X - "DEMS: "It's not just the left that's being violent!"
"OK, who on the right is being violent?"
DEMS: 🦗🦗🦗
The left has a problem with violence, it is in its heart right now 👇" BLACK DUMPLING™ on X - "Yeah, Leftists lie about Right wing crime stats endlessly there too.  Some Aryan brotherhood shanks some dude in prison and a Leftist just like you dutifully records it as "Right Wing Political Violence".  Montez Terriel Lee melts some dude in a pawnshop he set on fire during a BLM riot and that's an abstract crime committed in a vacuum as the Biden Admin prosecutor invokes MLK *for the benefit of the Defendant*."
Naturally, this person got blocked by the left winger who was talking rubbish Meme - wanye @wanyeburkett: "It sounds like crazy, far-right, woo woo nonsense, but almost everything you're taught about the last 75 years of American history in the standard high school curriculum is if not a straightforward lie, carefully designed to produce an understanding of that history that's quite..."
Peter Conroy: "It wasn't until Bryan Burrough was doing the media rounds talking about his Days of Rage book a few years ago that I realized how absolutely insane and violent and chaotic the late 60's were. And how *wrong* the whitewashed / peacenik version portrayed a few decades later was" Meme - Thomas Chatterton Williams: "Bluesky is a platform where a person can ask in all seriousness, "who is eradicating their ideological opponents?" and it doesn't even occur to them that this is something the left has done."
Thomas Chatterton Williams: "Bluesky is such a sealed epistemic vacuum in many corners not a single person points out that just this past September Charlie Kirk literally got his neck blown open in public *by his ideological opponent.*"
Evan Bernick, a finite m... @evanbe...: "quick question, who is literally eradicating their ideological opponents"
Thomas Chatterton Willi... @chatt...: "There is a growing and palpable bloodlust and desire to see ideological opponents quite literally eradicated that should give us all extreme pause. It's been a long time since the most meaningful divide in American political and cultural life was between "left" and "right."" Meme - Thomas Chatterton Williams: "The Bluesky moral high ground:"
Corey Atad @coreyatad.com: "the Kirk thing really got to a lot of guys worried that their open veiled support for fascism might come back to harm them"
Occam's Bec de corbin @goodvers...: "if only" unseen1 on X - "Charlie Kirk gets assassinated by a leftist. The right doesn't riot. They turn to God and prayer to make sense of it all. A leftist agitator gets killed while trying to run over a law enforcement officer, the left riots and calls for mass killings. We are not the same." 42% of young liberals say Kirk’s views ‘brought violence upon himself to an extent’: poll - "Conservative Charlie Kirk’s viewpoints mean he brought violence upon himself to an extent, according to 42 percent of young liberal voters polled in a newly released survey.  Young America’s Foundation released the results of its fall survey on Tuesday, which questioned 1,021 registered voters aged 18 to 29 nationwide.  “Surveyed shortly after the assassination of Charlie Kirk this fall, 70 percent of young voters say that there is absolutely no justification for murdering someone over their viewpoints,” YAF reported. “When broken out along ideological lines, an alarming 42 percent of young liberal voters, however, say that Kirk’s viewpoints mean he brought violence upon himself to an extent.”  Kirk’s murder may have had a small chilling effect on conservative speech on campus as well.  “Compared to YAF’s previous survey conducted in January, young conservatives are now less likely to feel comfortable expressing their views, sliding from 65 percent who were comfortable at the start of the year to just 51 percent this fall,” YAF reported...   About half, 51 percent, said they believe “there is not much opportunity in America today and the average person doesn’t have much chance to really get ahead.”  But dig into those numbers, and a somewhat surprising picture emerges: “Among young white voters, just 21 percent think they have more opportunities than their parents, compared with 41 percent of young black voters and 47 percent of young Hispanic voters.”"
"What was he wearing?" Victim blaming is only wrong when it hurts the left wing agenda
The cope is that DEI just levels the playing field and young white voters just see the loss of privilege as oppression Sensurround on X - "Let's stop pretending this is complicated.  Democrats show up in the streets. Republicans show up in the tweets.   Democrats are perfectly willing to burn, smash, threaten, and intimidate to get their way. Republicans clutch their pearls, refresh their feeds, and argue about exactly how angry they should get.  Democrats understand power. Ugly, blunt, physical power. Republicans understand process, And complain about how it's being subverted.  When Democrats lose someone, they riot. When Republicans lose someone, they write a strongly worded post and ask why the police didn't do more.  Democrats are ruthless enough to scare institutions. Republicans are polite enough to be ignored by them.  One side is dangerous. The other is harmless.  In a world that rewards force and punishes hesitation, that's just losing with good manners" The Democrat Party Is A Domestic Terrorist Organization - "Decades of extreme language, calling conservatives “Nazis,” claiming existential threats are around the corner in order to feed an assassination culture, and justifying the aftermath has brought a level of violence that is only one-sided: The left tries to murder or maim their political enemies.   On Wednesday afternoon, a shooter took the life of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, just as he was answering a question about left-wing violence in the United States.  Left-wing commentators at corporate media outlets — the mouthpieces of the Democrat Party — were quick to justify the violence, suggesting it was justified or that Kirk brought it on himself, even going as far as to suggest it was really a Trump supporter firing a gun in “celebration.”  Democrats have a long history of calling conservatives the most vile things our culture can think of, and their friends in the media spread the message to anyone who watches them.  Democrats have recently been saying they “cannot be the only party that plays by the rules anymore.”  Just yesterday, Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., said in an interview, “Our only opportunity, our only chance to save our democracy, is to fight fire with fire.”  Murphy brushed off “the fact that we’re blowing up norms,” adding that if you spend any more than “two seconds … being sorry for the fact that the old world doesn’t exist, then your democracy is gone.”   “We’re in a war right now to save this country, and so you have to be willing to do whatever is necessary in order to save the country,” he said. Murphy’s media pal salivated over the sentiment, wondering if there were enough people who believe it.  What do Democrats think is “necessary?” Well, perhaps it is bringing a knife to a “knife fight,” in the words of Democrat National Committee head Ken Martin.  After all, as Kirk pointed out earlier this year, 48 percent of liberals say it would be at least somewhat justifiable to assassinate Elon Musk, and 55 percent say the same about President Donald Trump. “The left is being whipped into a violent frenzy. Any setback, whether losing an election or losing a court case, justifies a maximally violent response,” Kirk said at the time. “This is the natural outgrowth of left-wing protest culture tolerating violence and mayhem for years on end. The cowardice of local prosecutors and school officials have turned the left into a ticking time bomb.”  The left-wing penchant for egging on and justifying violence has long been a staple of their political movement.  Democrats did everything they could to make Trump seem like the most evil person on the planet for years, so it was no surprise when Trump was shot last year and a second gunman attempted to shoot him only weeks later.  Gov. J.B. Pritzker, D-Ill., said recently that “Republicans cannot know a moment of peace,” and then in the aftermath of Kirk’s death blamed Trump for the assassination.  All the way back in 1964, President Lyndon Johnson suggested that if Republican presidential nominee Barry Goldwater were to win, American families would be annihilated by nuclear weapons. He ran an extraordinarily on-the-nose campaign ad saying as much.   The 1960s was full of left-wing political violence.  President Bill Clinton granted clemency to Puerto Rican FALN terrorists who bombed and murdered their way across America, and President Barack Obama pardoned them. President Joe Biden granted clemency to those convicted of murdering police officers.  Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., threatened Supreme Court justices, and a man with a gun showed up outside Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s house intent on murdering him.   Sen. Bernie Sanders’, I-Vt., existential threat language led one of his supporters to shoot at the Republican members of Congress practicing for the Congressional Baseball Game in 2017, nearly ending the life of now-House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La.  In 2013, a man intent in killing as many people as possible at the conservative organization Media Research Council went there with a gun and killed a security officer after disagreeing with the group’s stance on gay “marriage.”  Left-wing violence in Nashville, Tennessee, saw Covenant Christian School attacked by someone claiming to be “transgender,” and the Biden administration attempted to cover up the shooter’s writings, which exposed her motive.  More recently, children at Annunciation Catholic School were gunned down while they were praying by another person claiming to be “transgender” with a similarly demonic motivation.  But the left celebrated when Luigi Mangione allegedly gunned down a healthcare CEO, and they cheered even harder when Black Lives Matter brought death and destruction to America’s streets.  In the world we live in now, there is no time to try to convince the left to “tone down” their extreme rhetoric. They need to be treated like the domestic terrorists they are." ALX 🇺🇸 on X - "Someone doxxed Stephen Miller’s home address, then showed up to his house 24 hours after Charlie Kirk was assassinated to try to intimidate his wife.. These threats forced them to move out to a military base and now activist judges and prosecutors are protecting the criminal…" We Arrive At My Fear - "A philosophical festering has taken root in the minds of the left that their opponents are evil and words are violence. A permission structure formed on MSNBC and other progressive media outlets that the right must be stopped to save democracy. An exculpatory structure formed on CNN and other media outlets downplaying or excusing progressive violence. A triggering event happened with the election of Donald Trump. Then progressive politicians amped up the rhetoric to push the disturbed and violent across the line.  Writing in the New York Times in 2017, the psychologist Lisa Feldman Barrett argued that, “If words can cause stress, and if prolonged stress can cause physical harm, then it seems that speech—at least certain types of speech—can be a form of violence.”... Words became violence. Concurrent to Thomas Matthew Crooks pulling the trigger on his gun in Butler, PA, MSNBC had on a commentator arguing Donald Trump was a threat to democracy and needed to be stopped. On a frequent basis, progressive historian Michael Beschloss appeared on Morning Joe on that network, decrying Trump. On Election Day 2024, Beschloss described that day to the Morning Joe crew as, “In the future, historians are gonna look back on this day and say this is the day America made the choice between freedom and democracy on one side and authoritarianism and dictatorship on the other.” Then Trump won.  On January 8, 2011, Jared Lee Loughner shot then Congresswoman Gabby Giffords of Arizona. On CNN, the conversation immediately turned to rightwing violence. CNN, the New York Times, and other outlets pointed the finger at Sarah Palin, claiming she had used the “militaristic” language of “targeting” Giffords for defeat. When it turned out the assassin had mental health issues, the network moved on. On June 14, 2017, James Hodgkinson attempted the mass assassination of Republican members of Congress. As soon as it turned out he was a progressive MSNBC viewer, CNN and other media outlets moved on.  Now, CNN will routinely talk to its audience about rightwing violence as a standalone category of violence. But all leftwing violence must be taken with a heavy dose of “both sides do it” and “why did Donald Trump provoke it.” After both Tyler Robinson assassinated Charlie Kirk and Joshua Jahn opened fire on an ICE facility, killing two detainees, CNN’s national security analyst Juliette Kayyem rushed to social media to assure the left that the shooters were not of the left. An entire media and progressive infrastructure exists to assure the left violence is never their fault. Donald Trump’s election triggered the left. Now, media outlets and Democrat politicians insist Donald Trump’s rhetoric is to blame, he is a dictator, and Democrats need to get comfortable doing things they would otherwise not do, in the words of Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy. The Atlantic, beloved by the progressive elite, is even sounding the alarm that leftwing violence is outpacing rightwing violence. Democrat politicians are forcing a government shutdown, scared that their voters might turn physically violent against them. News outlets continue making excuses, blaming Trump, and stacking bodies to see which side is more violent. California Governor Gavin Newsom, after suggesting everyone tone it down after Charlie Kirk’s assassination, went on Stephen Colbert to declare he really does believe Trump will cancel the 2028 presidential election. In the meantime, Charlie Kirk is dead. A gun control activist shot up an ABC station in California. ICE agents have been shot, and detainees killed in Texas. Mourners for Kirk were hurt in Arizona. An explosive device was placed under a local Fox TV van in Nevada. A federal facility in Oregon was vandalized, and employees were assaulted by protesters. That’s just the last two weeks. Until Democrats police their own side, the violence will only increase.  “But January 6!” they reply.  On March 1, 1954, four left-wing Puerto Rican Nationalists entered the gallery of the United States House of Representatives and rained down bullets on the members of Congress, wounding five.  On March 1, 1971, the progressive Weather Underground bombed the United States Capitol.  On November 6, 1983, the “Armed Resistance Unit,” a far-left group affiliated with the Black Liberation Army, bombed the United States Capitol to protest the invasion of Grenada.  I neither deny that some on the right have committed violence nor that Donald Trump stirs the pot.  Too many on the left, in the press, and anti-Trump voices on the center-right, however, seem to think screaming “But January 6th,” is a way to ignore what has been festering on the left and that is now spilling out into assassinations and murders across the United States."
Words the left hate are violence. Violence the left loves is speech Defiant L’s on X - "Are you feeling the love and tolerance?
Protester: "Remove this president or there will be violence""
Overturning an election is only wrong when the right does it - Left