Afghan national Rahmanullah Lakanwal ID’d as alleged gunman in shooting of 2 National Guard members in DC : r/NewsWorthPayingFor - "He's an OAW entry. That means he helped us in Afghanistan"
"A lot of people in Afghanistan that helped the US didn't do so because of some honorable reddit notions lol. We had plenty of terrorists on the payroll."
Left wingers say if you deny any OAW candidates entry, you're ungrateful
Meme - Bleeding Heart Syndicate: "Trump is responsible for this"
"SIX DAYS AGO A FEDERAL JUDGE RULED TRUMP'S NATIONAL GUARD TAKEOVER OF DC ILLEGAL. HE REFUSED TO ENFORCE IT IMMEDIATELY, GIVING TRUMP 21 DAYS TO APPEAL. TODAY 2 WV NATIONAL GUARDSMEN GOT SHOT. JUSTICE DELAYED = LIVES ENDANGERED."
Joe Rusynyk: "why exactly do you think federal law enforcement doesn't have the right to enforce federal law or federal troops don't have the right to protect federal property?"
Left wingers have amazing ways to blame the violence they incite on others.
Threads - "Seditious Six Senator Elissa Slotkin went on TV and told Americans that the National Guard will start shooting Americans in the streets! Today, two National Guardsmen were shot near the White House. Liberal Politicians must be held accountable for inciting violence against Patriotic servicemen. Prayers to the BRAVE AND PATRIOTIC National Guardsmen who were gunned down today in Washington DC.🙏"
Refugee groups worry about backlash after shooting of National Guard soldiers in DC - "People who work with refugees are worried that those who fled dangerous situations to start again in America will face backlash after authorities say an Afghan national shot two National Guard soldiers this week, killing one of them."
Imagine if a "majority" group expressed such fears after one of them did something.
Norm Macdonald's quip hasn't been satire for a long time.
Meme - Reddit Lies: "Redditor: "the shooter is most likely white"
Narrator: "the shooter was brown""
"The DC Shooting of two national guardsmen, is it helpful?
the shooter is potentially.a white maga shooter, but if (a much less probable outcome) the shooter is not indeed a republican, what should the next move be? any and all questions welcome
edit: update- shooter is not actually white maga, but an afghan national
the question pertains as to what is more helpful for the democratic party. as in, this shooting is bad but can be used as an argument to not have the national guard out because its dangerous for them, making the streets safer with Trumps soldiers not out - if this issue is used as an example- it can dissuade Trump from using Troops against American citizens we can maybe turn this into something good, thats all the post is saying"
Councilwoman Vickie Paladino on X - "I really don't understand these posts saying the guardsmen shouldn't have been put 'in harms way' by being deployed to Washington DC. They're basically saying American soldiers are unsafe in the capital city of their own nation, as though it were equal to a deployment to a foreign warzone. Yet almost every major lefty account is parroting this narrative. It's bizarre. Like "of COURSE people are going to try and murder the National Guard, what did you expect to happen in Washington" Is this the narrative here? That Washington is Fallujah? Or is it that the left has declared a de facto state of war, and casualties are now just to be expected? It's extremely bad either way."
Left wingers are easily propagandised and download their new programming together
Andrew Surabian on X - "WATCH: Sean Parnell in 2021 arguing against bringing unvetted Afghan "refugees" into America by telling a story about a longtime interpreter in Afghanistan who betrayed his platoon. People forget that this was a lonely and courageous position to take in 2021. Countless establishment Republicans in Congress, along with virtually the entire donor class, sided with Biden and supported bringing these people into our country. I saw firsthand how MAGA Conservatives like @JDVance , @Jim_Banks and @SeanParnellUSA were ruthlessly smeared and attacked by RINOs inside the GOP for opposing it, but they were right all along."
InfantryDort on X - "I’ll be honest, this clip hit me hard. An interpreter who served alongside @SeanParnellUSA for most of the tour was secretly working with the enemy, leading to the wounding and death of his men. It jolted loose memories I wish I could forget: interpreters steering us toward ambushes… the constant fear of Green-on-Blue attacks from the very people we were ordered to stand shona ba shona with. It happened far more than the public ever knew. And we rationalized it away. Just like we now rationalize mass migration in the name of unrestrained egalitarianism. We were told, “Fight them over there so we don’t have to fight them here.” That was the coping mechanism of an entire generation at war. But here we are (many of us still of fighting age) watching the same dynamic unfold a stone’s throw from the White House. A Green-on-Blue moment on our own soil. Let me be brutally clear: this isn’t a policy debate. Don’t bother with vetting arguments or procedural niceties. Some people simply cannot stay here. And this won’t be the last attack. We keep warning you. You keep covering your ears—terrified of being called “Islamophobic” or “racist.” How’s that working out? It’s always easy to dismiss the warnings, until you’re the one on the wrong end of the jihad. 9/11 was supposed to teach us something. Instead, the West clings to suicidal empathy while refusing to make the hard choices required to survive. So go ahead, keep rationalizing the presence of people with no impulse control, no cultural alignment, and a worldview that sees conquest as virtue. And to the Marxist ideologues who’ve made an unholy alliance with them: if you help tear this nation down at their side, don’t be surprised when they turn and devour you next. My fellow Americans: it’s said that experience is that one thing you get just after you need it. Do yourself a favor, and just listen to ours for once. War veterans have already learned the hard lessons for you."
Shoe on X - "I remember talking to several soldiers who were tasked with “facilitating” (guarding) the Afghan refugees at Fort McCoy in 2021. They were harassing female soldiers (who were genuinely afraid of being r*ped), while single, unaccompanied males were literally shitting on the floors in the barracks they were housed in and destroying the facilities. The army couldn’t restrict them to stay on the installation, despite being told they had to wait for their paperwork to process, so hundreds (if not thousands) of military aged males, many whose identities were completely unknown, just wondered off base into the greater Wisconsin area without any follow up. It was a nightmare scenario then, and we’re only beginning to see the true reflections of the consequences of what the last administration did."
Not the Bee on X - "The left labeled Charlie Kirk fascist, and he got shot. The left labeled the National Guard deployments fascist. It wasn’t hard to guess what would come next."
Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 on X - "When an Islamic extremist executes a National Guard soldier in cold blood, Zohran refuses to mention how the victim died. They just “pass away.” But Zohran accuses American police of murder all the time. He denounces prisons for MURDERING “black and brown people.” He denounces motorists for unleashing an “epidemic” of murder and violence on cyclists. He of course denounces Israel and the United States for murder across the Middle East. Just strange that he can’t bring himself to express a similar level of moral outrage when Islamic extremists murder people. Strange."
Goldie Ghamari | گلسا قمری on X - "Jihadi Tactic 101: manipulating language to minimize and whitewash Islamic terrorism. Sarah Beckstrom didn't just randomly "pass away". She was murdered in cold blood on American soil by an imported Muslim terrorist who shot her while yelling "Allah-o Akbar. Words matter."
Derrick Evans on X - "National Guard shooter Rahmanullah Lakanwal, his wife, & five kids were moved straight into Walton Place Apartments — subsidized housing partnered with the Bellingham Housing Authority. The waitlist for American families is six months to three years. American elderly, disabled, single moms, & veterans are pushed aside while Afghan migrants are given priority. How did this POS repay America? By taking the lives of our American troops."
Federal Judge Overturns Law Of Gravity | Babylon Bee - ""The law of gravity is a bigoted law that quite literally keeps people down. This is typical of the fascist authoritarianism that has become President Trump's brand," said Judge Porben Crumbly of his latest ruling. "It is a blatant violation of the Constitution and my sensitive leftist sensibilities. It is therefore my divine will as an all-powerful federal judge that gravity no longer exists."... Others defended the decision as "constitutional" and "nonpartisan," pointing to the fact that Judge Crumbly was appointed by George W. Bush."
jay plemons on X - "Bill Maher: Scott Adams and Cernovich actually think Republicans will be hunted and rounded up, lol The next day James Carville: In 2029, Trump collaborators should be rounded up, head shaved, paraded and spit on."
Jason Bassler on X - "While MAGA hyperventilates over NYC electing a Muslim “commie,” the White House is rolling out the red carpet for Abu Mohammad al-Jolani — the former ISIS jihadist who fought alongside militants killing U.S. soldiers in Iraq. His DC reception is in 2 days. Can’t make this up..."
Mr. Hand on X - "If you can’t see the difference between hosting foreign heads of state and having them run the largest city in the country, you aren’t a serious person."
Macron and David Lammy met Ahmed al-Sharaa/Abu Mohammad al-Julani but let's just ignore that. These are the same people who said the West should treat ISIS like a normal country
SaltyGoat on X - "You can't really argue with this dude...
Narratives vs. Reality
-Trump hates immigrants - married to an immigrant
-Trump hates women - first ever woman Chief of Staff
-Trump will start WW3 - Stopped 8 wars in 9 months
-Trump is a dictator - People are free to protest him 24/7
-"Democracy" is at risk - Trump won electoral AND popular vote AND all swing states which sounds pretty democratic to me...
Anyone else smell the BS coming from the left?"
Scott Jennings on X - "Suddenly, after cheering on the endless targeting of President Trump for YEARS, "no one is above the law" is no longer the Democrat talking point. Funny how that works."
MAZE on X - "According to the legal "experts" on CNN, Letitia James can make a mistake on her loan documents but Trump cannot. This is CNN."
Americans Have Lost Sight of What 'Fascism' Means - The Atlantic - "How do Americans decide what to be outraged about? It seems like ancient history now, but that was one of the questions The New York Times inadvertently raised in June when it appended an editor’s note to an op-ed by Senator Tom Cotton—a piece that some on the Times staff saw as presenting a physical danger not only to the country but to themselves. The op-ed called for American troops to be sent to “restore order” to cities experiencing violent protests. Outside and inside the Times, it was widely condemned as “fascist” or fascist-adjacent. More recently, though, the Times published an op-ed of a similar vein, except this time readers had the opportunity to glimpse what actual fascism looks like. Fascism, in today’s context, isn’t mere authoritarianism, but the attempt to suppress all dissent, public or private, in the name of the nation; it is the expression of a regimented society that elevates order as both the means and end of all political life. The October 1 op-ed, by Regina Ip, a member of Hong Kong’s Executive Council, captured such sentiments well. Ip laid out the case for a new Chinese-backed security law that would effectively criminalize anything that might be perceived as “subversion.” Included was one of the most disturbing passages I have read in an American publication... This time, though, no staff revolt occurred, even though Ip’s article was an elaborate, if refreshingly frank, endorsement of real fascism. Outrage is always selective. I could have written about something else, but I decided to write about this. The question remains: Why did readers who were infuriated by Cotton’s argument seem to shrug off Ip’s? Words matter because they help order our understanding of politics both at home and abroad. If Cotton is a fascist, then we don’t know what fascism is. And if we don’t know what fascism is, then we will struggle to identify it when it threatens millions of lives—which is precisely what is happening today in areas under Beijing’s control. Chinese authorities have tightened their grip on Hong Kong. And while the world watches, they are undertaking one of the most terrifying campaigns of ethnic cleansing and cultural genocide since World War II in Xinjiang province, with more than 1 million Muslim Uighurs in internment camps, as well as reports of forced sterilization and mass rape. For morality to operate, moral proportion is required. Unfortunately, the Trump era has badly damaged our ability to see what’s right in front of our noses. Today, the United States is consumed by internal divisions, which means that the flow of ideas is the reverse of what it otherwise might be. Instead of solving problems through the very democratic institutions that once gave inspiration abroad, we now import foreign notions from Europe’s dark past in an attempt to comprehend what seems incomprehensible here in our own country. Donald Trump’s election led to a whole cottage industry of thinking that fascism is near, right here at home. It has grown steadily, reaching its culmination in the lead-up to the November election. In the past month alone, readers have seen Mussolini comparisons from eminent historians, explainers on what it’s like to live through a civil war, and an endless stream of warnings about Reichstag fires and a “fascist coup.”... If America doesn’t descend into fascism—and Joe Biden wins by a comfortable margin and Republicans accept the result, however reluctantly—then Americans will be able, once again, to gain a proper perspective on their long, four-year episode of unreason and myopia. Sometimes, life is elsewhere. In some places, democracy, or what’s left of it, is truly under threat. One of those places is Hong Kong... Americans are not unusual in caring less about tragedies in countries other than their own. The atrocities committed against the Uighurs, however, attract less attention than they should in part because of whom they’re committed by. Getting large numbers of people genuinely worked up about what China does is difficult. Abuses at home make mainstream commentators and analysts wary about highlighting them in authoritarian regimes, if only because Americans feel our own hypocrisy is more glaring. “The United States cannot credibly speak against abuses in other nations,” Alexandra Schmitt of the Center for American Progress has argued, “if its own policies are perpetuating human rights abuses abroad or if it is failing to uphold and protect rights at home.”... It is one thing for American news outlets to publish perspectives from authoritarian heads of state in the interest of informing. It is quite another to publish actual, and not merely imagined, articulations of the kind of fascism and totalitarianism that the Chinese regime upholds daily... the Chinese regime does tend to garner more respect and deference among a certain kind of American observer than the Trump administration does. China, if one puts human-rights abuses aside, can seem tantalizingly efficient—a technocrat’s dream paradise, where unelected leaders “get things done.”... this is no justification for twisting the meaning of words such as fascist beyond recognition. Doing so has been a long-standing practice. As George Orwell wrote in 1944, “I have heard it applied to farmers, shopkeepers, Social Credit, corporal punishment, fox-hunting, bull-fighting, the 1922 Committee, the 1941 Committee, Kipling, Gandhi, Chiang Kai-Shek, homosexuality, Priestley’s broadcasts, Youth Hostels, astrology, women, dogs and I do not know what else.” But as citizens of a country apart, across an ocean, Americans were spared at least some of this lexiconic plasticity—until now. A world where a Republican senator in a democracy—even a flawed democracy—is deemed fascist and therefore beyond the bounds of respectable discussion, while actual authoritarians, or worse, are free to propagate their views with little public censure is a world that is upside down. Words should mean something, and if Americans insist on instrumentalizing them for political objectives, however just, then journalists and analysts will no longer have the language to describe the worst threats from the worst actors. What the Chinese Communist Party is doing is not unspeakable. It can and should be spoken about, however difficult that may be. Moral clarity requires us to seek both accuracy and proportion. Anything less does a disservice to those who have actually struggled, fought, and died against fascism. If Americans, even for just a moment, could look beyond Trump, they might realize that another world—one where fascism is a living, breathing thing—awaits them."
Calling their opponents fascists is just how left wingers delegitimise them and justify their murder, after all
Too bad, contra the author's predictions, Biden winning didn't stop the mass hysteria
Left wing logic: if you care about the log in your brother's eye but ignore the speck of dust in your own, you're a hypocrite and a bad person. But by boasting about "holding their own countries to a higher standard", they are admitting and justifying their hypocrisy and discrimination
Meme - "When you call Trump "Hitler", you're calling 80 million Americans "Nazis".
UMM. DUH. YEA, THAT'S THE WHOLE POINT."
Todd Asmussen: "Yup … and morons, and bigots, and ignorant, and gullible, and as of recent developments in the Middle East - Pro-Hamas, anti-American, and they self-identify as Christian’s while practicing a severe form of “counter-Christianity” … Yup we are calling 80 million Americans, Nazis. Because whether they like it or not - that’s exactly what they are."
A good reminder that to left wingers, everyone who disagrees with them is a "Nazi", and that you can't take them seriously when they call people Nazis
Meme - John Jerome: "FASCISTS GOTTA FASCIST... Hitler was all about Germany first. and Mussolini was all about Italy first."
"EVERY TIME TRUMP TWEETS "AMERICA FIRST" JUST REMEMBER WHERE HE GOT THAT SLOGAN FROM. *KKK procession with 'America First'*"
If you don't put your country first, you're a fascist. And we're still told that left wingers don't hate their countries
Trump Dragged for MAGA Claim He Is ‘Opposite of Feminine’ - "The White House responded to the Daily Beast’s request for comment with an image of clown shoes alongside the text, “Your shoes madam.”"
Ahmed Baba on X - "I documented every day of Trump’s first term and I’ve covered Project 2025 since 2023. The threat of Trump’s authoritarianism has been the focal point of my journalism for a decade. So I’m not spreading false hope when I say Trump is weakening & MAGA is fracturing. It’s clear."
Cynical Publius on X - "Trump is the only "authoritarian" in human history whose ruling philosophy is to actively reduce the size, scope and power of the government that he leads."
Western Lensman on X - "Jen Psaki and Katie Couric complain that Trump is getting softball questions from ‘sycophants’ in the press, unlike presidents in the past: “It’s more of a Kremlin-esque press corps." Beyond. Parody."
Adam Housley on X - "No matter your opinion on the Press and Trump...Katie literally went to Epstein's home after he was released from serving time for solicitation of prostitution from a minor. She has zero cred at this point. And Jen said she had no idea of Biden's cognitive decline...she also lied about Benghazi and many other issues while at State. Zero cred times 2."
Peter Baker on X - "If anybody needed more evidence of how politics have changed in America: Rachel Maddow is at Dick Cheney's funeral."
Glenn Greenwald on X - "Maddow's career as a commentator began during Bush/Cheney, when she'd frequently compare Cheney to the worst monsters in history (I was on her programs when she said it). For so many liberals, Cheney is now rehabilitated despite regretting nothing: solely for opposing Trump:"
Sunny on X - "Mitt Romney was the moderate option and he was still smeared as a racist fascist trying to kill people. You can draw a direct like between how he and McCain were treated, and why Republicans don’t care about Trump lying and smearing."
Kaitlan Collins on X - "Asked to clarify if he thinks Trump is a fascist, before Mamdani can answer, Trump intervenes and laughs it off, saying, “That’s ok. You can just say yes. That’s easier. It’s easier than explaining.”"
Gene Parmesan on X - "one reason Trump is such a great politician is that he realizes politics is theater it’s wrestling. you call me “fascist,” I call you communist, it’s all part of the show also, Mamdani was gonna say “yes” but in a really roundabout way. “I think we’ve both been clear about our views, what’s important is…” and Trump is just like “cut the bullshit you can just say yes it’s easier” which is one reason people like Trump"
Ahmed Baba on X - "I documented every day of Trump’s first term and I’ve covered Project 2025 since 2023. The threat of Trump’s authoritarianism has been the focal point of my journalism for a decade. So I’m not spreading false hope when I say Trump is weakening & MAGA is fracturing. It’s clear."
Cynical Publius on X - "Trump is the only "authoritarian" in human history whose ruling philosophy is to actively reduce the size, scope and power of the government that he leads."
Bohumilo on X - "That’s why the right is losing. Just take 1 example. Republicans shut down USAID. But, what are Democrats doing w. it? Without second thought, they are funding their clientele of tens of millions professional leftists in the US and around the world, they just shut down govt because of it, and it’s considered normal. Can you imagine the U.S. Congress giving money to, say, religious organizations in Poland that want to ban abortions? Or can you even imagine a U.S.-funded recipient being a Trump supporter? No, it would be “authoritarianism”. You refuse to be labeled authoritarian by the media? Ok, but than Karen will rule."
Meme - Barbara K. Janik: "I just fired my therapist. I found out she's 100% a Trump supporter. I just can't with these people."
John Hawkins @johnhawkinsrwn: "Your inability to tolerate dissenting views is something you should talk about with your new therapist."
Of course, left wingers were claiming that a Trump supporters couldn't be a therapist, had no empathy etc
