As usual, lately I’ve been paying close attention to how our political opponents have been acting. I’ve had my ear to the ground, my nose to the grindstone, and my head on a swivel. Maybe that’s why I feel like I slept weird last night.
Anyway, I’ve noticed a pattern in recent Democrat behavior, and wonder if you’ve noticed it too.
Example 1: I’ve mentioned this one before, but do you remember when our lefties were gnashing their teeth and rending their garments for several years because of the ongoing “genocide” against “Palestinians?” Never mind what actually happened. But to hear them tell it, this was the worst injustice ever, and it involved the IDF doing everything they could to kill Gazan children, while doing their best to avoid accidentally shooting any of the filthy terrorists who were hiding behind those children.
And yet when Trump engineered the end of that terrible carnage, they pouted, and sulked, and stamped their little feet.
Of course, they didn’t give Trump or Netanyahu any credit for bringing that happy resolution about. (Unexpectedly!) But you’d think they’d at least celebrate the end of “genocide,” wouldn’t you? Hell, even the “Palestinians” were celebrating in the streets as their vicious terrorist brethren who had been rightly held in Israeli jails were returned to them.
But no. For our MSM, elected Dems and campus left, Trump was the Grinch who Stole the Genocide, and they were very displeased.
Example 2: As soon as the peace began and the IDF pulled back from Gaza, the Hamas cowards crept back out of their holes and immediately started slaughtering their fellow “Palestinians” who happened to be from rival clans. Those Gazans might have been expected to assume positions of leadership if the peace continued as scheduled, and Hamas were disarmed and removed from power. And Hamas couldn’t have that.
You may have seen the footage of some of the many reprisal killings, which often featured the rival Gazans bound, hooded and helpless, while the peace-loving Hamas terrorists bravely shot them in the backs of their heads.
You may also remember, like me, how every Gazan killed between 10/7/23 and the beginning of the Trump truce on 10/13/25 was a totally innocent victim and a saint, a veritable Mohammad Luther King Jr. And the world media covered all of those dead Gazans exhaustively.
Right up until the truce started and Hamas started slaughtering their co-religionists.
And then each of THOSE killings was…a mystery. The formerly voracious media closed their notebooks, and turned off their cameras. Al Jazeera and other jihad-friendly Middle Eastern reporters closed out the word processing programs on their laptops, and returned to the goat porn sites that make up the remainder of their internet usage.
The MSM has gone radio silent, despite what has to have been at least hundreds of Hamas-on-Gazan murders. Because I am nothing if not a tireless researcher – you’re welcome, CO nation – I searched for a death toll since 10/13/25. But I was unable to find anything.
My first search yielded dozens of articles about all the Gazans killed since Israel responded to the Hamas attack on innocent Jews, but stopped counting in late summer or early fall of this year. But the death count before that was high, believe them!
Many MSM sources reported between 40,000 – 60,000 “Palestinians” killed by the IDF. Something called Middle East Monitor came out with a shock headline in late June pegging the deaths at 84,000.
I’m sure CAIR and the pro-jihadi factions on American campuses – Students for Justice in “Palestine,” the groups claiming to be Jewish but who are fronted by trans, heavily-pierced and heavyset scary gals (I call them the “Jewish as a Ham Sandwich Consortium”), and the faculties of Columbia, Harvard and Yale – have set the number at eleventy-billion.
So I narrowed my search, and made it consecutively more specific. I went from, “How many Gazans were killed by Hamas since the truce started?” to “How many Gazans were killed by Hamas since 10/13/25?” to “For the love of God, how many Gazans were killed by Hamas in the last 34 days?”
But the response was always the same: pages and pages of articles detailing the quintillion Gazans murdered after Hamas attacked Israel – all of them pediatric nurses and special needs infants and elderly amputees with spina bifida, and brave journalists – but beginning on 10/13/25…nothing.
It’s a Ramadan miracle. The “Palestinians” have all come down with a simultaneous case of immortality: no one is dying in Gaza anymore, since the evil Jews stopped killing them for no reason at all.
Example 3: And now I jump ahead to last week, when the second worst crisis of this century – ranked just beneath the “genocide” in Gaza and just above 9/11 – i.e. the Great SNAP Holomodor of the government shutdown ended. Mysteriously.
Because even though the Dems had absolutely nothing to do with the shutdown starting – it was the Trump shutdown, don’t you know – they somehow figured out a way that they could end it. By…voting for the deal that had been on the table since the pre-Holomodor/shutdown started.
And which they’d voted against, 15 times.
Once that vote had passed, was their response, “Thank God that the tragedy has ended, and we can begin the grim work of beginning to bury the bodies of the millions of SNAP recipients who starved to death, and who were totally not mostly morbidly obese, despite what your untrustworthy, functioning eyes might have been telling you.” ?
It was not. Instead, they ran to every camera and microphone and podcast studio and began venting their rage, and caterwauling that their fellow Dems had wrongly allowed the horrific shutdown – which they’d been screaming for 42 days must end – to end.
My final example takes us to Berkeley, where self-congratulatory leftists will tell you that they bravely started the Free Speech Movement 61 years ago. And ever since, they’ve been stalwart defenders of the rights of everyone to express unpopular views, free from obstruction, interference or violence.
Except for, I wanna say, the last 60ish years or so. Because every conservative who tries to give a speech on campus is harassed and shouted down at best, or violently attacked at worst. (Rest in Peace, Charlie.)
Which takes us to last Monday, when the last speech in a series put on by Turning Point USA was scheduled to be given at that cradle of the vaunted free speech movement, Berzerkely. Annnnndddd… out came the freaks.
They formed a mob and employed all the old fascist tactics so beloved by the self-proclaimed “anti-fascists.” They screamed, blew whistles and used bullhorns. They chanted obscenities and super-peaceful messages like, “F**k your dead homie!” They scuffled with police and engaged in a lot of vandalism (overturning barriers, throwing objects, spray painting, etc.)
The most viral video from that night revealed two people fist fighting, one in a “Freedom” shirt, and the other one who stole his cross necklace and assaulted him. (Guess which one was on which side?)
Despite the freedom shirt guy being all bloody, the cops initially detained him. Because: Berkeley. Fortunately, a ton of video was available that showed who started the fight, so the good guy was released and the bad guy charged with robber and battery resulting in injury.
The perfect detail that completed the story? The leftist aggressor’s name was… wait for it… and I swear I’m not making this up… Jihad Dphrepaulezz. (I’m guessing that that last name is pronounced just like it’s spelled?)
Jihad!
How does that Latin phrase go? “Nomen est omen.” (The name is a sign.)
And I can’t think of a worse omen for how your kid is going to end up than you naming him “Jihad.”
Though I guess if his full name was “Jihad Child-Killer McScimitar,” he might be a little more screwed than a more typical “Jihad Jones,” or whatever.
But still. Don’t name your kid “Jihad.”
(Cue the NBC musical sting, “The more you know!”)
Just to reinforce that point, regular readers might remember the cheerful tale from a month ago in England (you can find it in my column from October 4th at Martinsimpsonwriting.com) involving a Religion of Peace™ follower named Jihad al-Shamie. After he stabbed a few unarmed civilians, cops arrived, and it turned out that he’d brought his knife skills to a gun fight.
And as usual in a rousing round of rock-paper-gun-knife, the gun really cleaned up against the competition.
Anyway, to recap:
When the terrible genocide in Gaza the leftists had been wailing about ended, instead of celebrating, they slunk away and pouted.
And when Hamas started murdering Gazans in large numbers – the same Gazans that right up to 10/13 had been the salt of the earth, and each of their deaths a crime against humanity – the lefties just turned away, sucking on a kale smoothie so they wouldn’t have to make a statement.
And when the Democrats finally ended the government shutdown – which the lefties had said was entirely Trump’s doing, and was a horror that must end – the lefties were furious, and immediately began mourning that the shutdown is over.
And when some conservatives came to the birthplace of the free speech movement to communicate their thoughts, the leftists did everything they could to keep them from speaking freely.
My conclusion?
If I didn’t know any better, it’s almost like they are totally full of Schiff, and wouldn’t know the truth if it was packed into a pager and blown up, right before their eyes.
Or into their eyes. And into their hands. And into their non-binary groins.
Am I saying that’s what should happen to them? Of course not.
To quote a vacuous, cackling ex-VP, I’m just saying we should have that conversation.
Hamas (and Trantifa) delenda est!
Martin Simpson 