As usual, I wanted to talk about a range of subjects today, but the left has been pushing one particular topic hard for the last several days – the Catholic school shooting in Minneapolis – so even though I touched on it Friday, I feel duty-bound to point out the way the Dems are spinning it.
Although just about all national Dems and leftist talking heads are playing variations on the same few themes, I want to call out two of them for special attention. The first is that totally stable little minx, Rosie O’Donnell.
I was all set to really go after her, because right after the shooting, she put out an idiotic video claiming that the perp was, “a white guy, Republican, MAGA person… whaddya’ know… white supremacist.”
In her defense, she may have listened to Aaron Katersky, who mentioned that the killer had written Trump’s name on his guns, but not that he had said, “Kill Trump!” (Nice journalism there, Ay-Ay-Ron!) (Semi-obscure Key & Peele skit reference for $100.)
On the other hand, that’s really not much of a defense, because Rosie has been around long enough to know that you can’t trust any MSM liar as far as you can throw them. She’s been posting hateful rants about Trump and anyone who voted for him since she left America for Ireland 7 months ago, and her latest bit of dis-information was pretty much SOP for her.
Still, Rosie has her decent moments. First, unlike nearly all of the spineless narcissist celebrity leftists who always promise to leave the country if a Republican wins the White House, she actually had the guts to follow through and leave. (One more sign that Trump’s strategy to get undesirables to self-deport is working!)
Second, when she realized that the mentally ill Trump-hating killer was not a MAGA-loving Trump fan, she actually posted an apology. And as you know, an apology from a leftist who was wrong is as rare as an un-eaten comically oversized turkey leg in the Pritzker mansion.
Her apology is hard to watch. I mean, visually. She’s got this thing about shooting videos with the camera about six inches from her face. (The giant cold sore on her lip doesn’t help.) And as a middling-looking fella myself, I can say that she’s not got a face made for close-ups.
(If you’ve watched any of my videos on my site, you’ll notice that I shoot from a respectable three or more feet away – no close-ups! You’re welcome.)
But again, credit where credit is due. She actually says, “You were right. I did not do my due diligence before I made that emotional statement, and I said things about the shooter that were incorrect.” Though she couldn’t help taking a shot at the NRA for some reason, she did say, “The truth is I messed up, and when you mess up, you ‘fess up. I’m sorry. This is my apology video, and I hope it’s enough.”
My own pettiness and love of mockery tells me that hell no, it’s not enough. Not when the wrong conclusion she jumped to was the result of her habitual malice toward half of humanity.
But then Uncle Jesus is always nagging me about forgiveness, and leaving the judgment to Him. (The Guy won’t let up about that!) So I’ll just say that Rosie seems like such an unhappy person, and she’s not hurting any of us nearly as much as she’s hurting herself. I hope she can find some way to let go of all the bitterness she’s embracing.
Then again, if she takes stupid shots at me and mine, I’ll be counter-punching again. It’s like hitting my knee with that weird little hammer thing: I’ve gotta kick.
The second person I watched beclowning herself over the Minnesota killer is our favorite Ginger Prevaricator, Jen Psaki.
If you didn’t see her soliloquy on the topic on MSNBC – and you didn’t, because you’re well-adjusted, and have a life – you missed some actual tears, and a lot of pre-programmed, dishonest Dem talking points.
While she was close to crying several times – and I have no reason to believe that her emotions weren’t genuine – she quickly retreated into lefty agitprop. In an interview of Minneapolis mayor Jacob “small” Frey, she talked about the way conservatives are “weaponizing the details” of the murders, and asked him, “What do you do as a leader of your city to prevent details from being weaponized, and using this to blame something other than the guns?”
If she called “details” what they really are – facts – the goofiness of claiming that they are being “weaponized” would be more obvious.
Ideally, journalists should focus on finding and reporting the facts, and letting their audiences decide how to interpret them. Realistically, most journalists are just biased commentators producing opinion pieces. But even so, they could still make an effort to present multiple perspectives, even if they’ll ultimately lead viewers toward one of them.
But that’s not enough for Psaki. She presents her own foregone conclusion, which must not be challenged: the guns are the entire problem, full stop.
(Can you imagine playing the board game Clue with a leftist ideologue? In the leftist version, there’s no Colonel Mustard or Miss Scarlett, or anyone else. There are only the rooms where the crime took place, and the REAL culprits: the candlestick, dagger, lead pipe, revolver, rope or wrench.)
In a later monologue, Psaki said all of the quite parts out loud – “all that [conservatives] are offering is thoughts and prayers.” She accused them of spouting those “hollow words,” and then “attempt[ing] to shift the focus.” She said, “You’re already seeing narratives about how the shooter was trans, about how the shooter appeared to be anti-Trump and anti-Semitic….”
First she called them “details,” and now she calls them “narratives,” but they’re still just plain, old facts. The shooter WAS trans, and anti-Trump, and anti-Semitic.
But Psaki’s not psatisfied with that. She sneers that we’re “weaponizing the shooter’s identity to distract from what matters.”
And what matters is…wait for it…guns. Unexpectedly! (“Don’t give me that Professor Plum or Mrs. Peacock or the gender-confused grievance studies major,” psays Psaki, “what matters is clearly the assault revolver! Or possibly the assault lead pipe, or the assault rope.”)
But she can’t even keep her delusions straight, because one minute later, when she circles back (HA!) to talk about past mass killings, the first one she mentions is the May 2022 shooting in Buffalo. And here’s how she describes it: “A white supremacist committed a mass shooting at a supermarket in a predominately black neighborhood.”
Whoa there, psassy Psaki! I think you meant to say that a semi-automatic rifle and a shotgun committed a mass shooting, don’t you? Leave the irrelevant “details” and “narratives” about the white supremacist – who absolutely does NOT matter in the story – out of it!
After Psaki lambasted conservatives for “offering thoughts and prayers,” some snarky conservatives posted old tweets from Psaki after Steve Scalise was shot by a Bernie bro in 2017, in which she offered – you guessed it – her own “thoughts and prayers.”
But I’m a bigger person than that, and won’t pile on. (Stop laughing!) Instead, I’ll leave her hypocrisy to one side, and point to one glaring mistake, and one glaring lie in her argument.
The glaring mistake is one that Psaki and many other Dems (including Small Frey) make about religious people in general, and Christians in particular – that we believe that prayer will result in God intervening to stop all tragedies. (Even those who don’t explicitly say that clearly believe it, because otherwise why the mockery of thoughts and prayers? The implication is clearly that the fact that God didn’t prevent the Minnesota shooting proves that prayer is meaningless, or God doesn’t exist, or both.)
But I know a lot of Christians, and I don’t know any who believe that, especially if they’ve read even parts of the Bible. As far as we know, none of the apostles prayed to be crucified, beheaded, beaten to death or stoned for their faith, yet most of them were. Christ himself prayed a fairly famous prayer that a certain cup would pass from Him.
(Spoiler alert: that cup did NOT pass from him.)
As on many other theological topics, my dear, departed dad had good advice for me when I was a kid: pray like everything depends on God, and work like everything depends on you. And pack heat, use a two-handed shooting stance, and aim small, miss small.
Okay, I made that last part up. But the “pray and work” part is true. Because dad knew a few things.
The glaring lie is easier to prove. When Democrats scream about conservatives offering nothing else to stop gun violence other than thoughts and prayers, they are full of it, and they have to know it. Because for decades now, the GOP has offered many steps to decrease gun violence:
1. We always advocate harsh penalties and long jail sentences for committing crimes with a gun, and the Dems always oppose those. (One main reason why: several of the Dems’ pet identity groups – blacks, to a lesser extent Hispanics, and confused transgenders – disproportionately commit gun crimes. So enforcing harsh penalties for gun crimes is racist, or transphobic, or something.)
2. Conservatives regularly push for hiring armed security at schools, churches and other public venues, and the Dems usually oppose that.
3. Most conservatives support allowing teachers to voluntarily conceal-carry their guns at school – with proper vetting and training – and Dems always oppose that.
4. Conservatives also advocate hardening targets like schools and churches just as we do with sports stadiums, broadcast studios, and congress buildings: hiring armed security, screening people who want to enter, installing cameras and various locked doors and other barriers to entry, etc..
This last point is one “narrative” that the Dems have been particularly stubborn about. Instead of hardening targets, the lefties’ main “solutions,” have been to create “gun-free zones,” counting on an invisible barrier of self-righteous proclamations to deter hateful criminals from preying on defenseless victims.
(Spoiler alert: NOPE!)
Psaki actually bought into this delusion in her above-mentioned monologue. She cited reactions to earlier school shootings, mocking “the conversations about hardening the doors. As if doors were the reason we kept having mass shootings. It’s not about the doors!”
Of course not, Jen. It’s all about the candlestick!
I mean, the gun.
It’s especially hard to listen to people like Tim A-WOLz lambasting conservatives for doing nothing to stop last week’s shooting. Because in 2023, shortly after a different “transgender” Christophobe murdered a bunch of Christian kids at the Covenant School in Nashville, an association of independent schools and another association of Catholic schools sent requests to Wolz, asking for funding for greater security at Catholic and other non-public schools in his state.
While his office responded, acknowledging the issue along with receipt of the request, no money was forthcoming. In the meantime, Wolz did find the time and the funding to champion Minnesota’s self-congratulatory support for making “transgender” students feel welcome in public schools, including welcoming biological males into women’s bathrooms and showers.
On the bright side, if any of the girls traumatized by sick males in their locker room also happened to need a tampon, they could easily get one…by asking a male friend to bring one from the men’s bathroom, where Jazz Hands had put them.
Finally, I think it should be alarming to many of our Democrat friends to realize just how much they have in common with last week’s killer.
He hated Jews. (Check.) And Christians (Check.) And Trump. (Check.) He was decidedly untroubled by the idea of killing children. (I’m not saying that’s the exact same as the mindset over at Planned Parenthood. But I’m not saying that it’s wildly different, either.) And the killer’s scrawled, “Where is your God?” on his gun is not far from the Dems’ “What good are your thoughts and prayers?” mantra.
On the other hand, the killer did make one significant departure from Democrat orthodoxy. In his tortured journals, he wrote, “I’m tired of being trans. I wish I never brainwashed myself.”
I doubt that the Dems are going to put THAT in their 2028 convention platform.
But they should.
Hamas delenda est!
Martin Simpson 