The new rule: all assassins are MAGA now
Actually, it’s not such a new rule that all assassinations are blamed on the right. If they managed to do it with the Communist Lee Harvey Oswald, it can be done to anyone.
The latest in the line is the guy in Dallas who tried to kill ICE agents, failed, killed some detainees instead and then himself, and left very clear messages about what he was intending:
A handwritten note recovered by investigators said, “Hopefully this will give ICE agents real terror, to think, ‘is there a sniper with AP [armor piercing] rounds on that roof?’” …
Jahn, who opened fire at a van near the entrance of an ICE field office in Dallas on Wednesday morning, had also conducted multiple searches of the “Charlie Kirk Shot Video” between Sept. 23 and 24, just before the shooting, FBI Director Kash Patel said in an X post Thursday. …
He also searched for apps that tracked the presence of ICE agents, and downloaded a document titled “Dallas County Office of Homeland Security & Emergency Management,” which the FBI said contains a list of DHS facilities.
He also engraved “anti ICE” on bullets. But the left insists he’s MAGA – as ACE points out – after the left celebrated the murders when they thought the dead people really were ICE agents.
There’s another angle that I think is telling, which is that Jahn apparently ran in gamer circles:
Dallas shooter Joshua Jahn’s gamer pals made ghoulish jokes about his attack on an ICE facility where he killed one person and critically wounded two others — including suggesting he “shoulda hit the range a lil more.”
The eight-member gaming group, formed in 2012 on the online gaming platform Steam, goes by the name “Fug bithces Get Money” with the tagline “we can uze da pew pew or not we are coollllll :-D.”
“[He] shoulda hit the range a lil more,” one member wrote in the gaming group chat on Thursday.
“He missed,” the user exclaimed. …
The 29-year-old gunman played mostly first-person shooting games, logging over 17,405 hours of playing time, totaling approximately two years.
Hours before Wednesday’s fatal shooting, Jahn logged onto Steam to play the first-person shooter games “Team Fortress 2” and “Left 4 Dead 2,” according to his profile created in September 2011.
So he played a shooter video game not long before the actual shooting. Was he a bad shot because he thought that practicing shooting in an online game would transfer over into real life expertise?
The left not only denies killers are on the left and claims they are MAGA (in an “absence of evidence” of any MAGA leaning), and/or blames the right for a “climate of violence” while repetitively calling the right Nazis, but it also blames the killings on guns and uses them to promote more draconian gun control. Any evidence of leftist leanings is dismissed as lies from Trump’s FBI and/or the police, who are the enemy. It’s a closed system of denial, and I doubt it convinces anyone except those already firmly on the left. But that’s a lot of people these days.
Finally, from Karoline Leavitt:
Three months ago, CNN irresponsibly gave free publicity to an app that recklessly shares the location of ICE Agents.
It has now been revealed the leftist lunatic shooter who opened fire on the Dallas ICE Facility was using one of these apps.
The liberal media is complicit in the increased threats and violence against ICE.
We see it every day — they are quick to write a fake story portraying ICE in a negative light, often omitting the real facts of these cases, and they hardly ever write about the vicious criminals that ICE is arresting every day to make our country safer.
Notice that she calls Jahn both a leftist and a lunatic. The two are not mutually exclusive.
We are in a dirty civil war.
One party is talking and being civil
The other party is shooting and its politicians have no problem with it
It ends when the party that is talking becomes Solzhenitsyn’s “man who wanted to be left alone.”
We are not there yet.
“Notice that she calls Jahn both a leftist and a lunatic. The two are not mutually exclusive.”
Indeed the correlation approaches 1.0. But I think you knew that when you wrote this neo, just being characteristically understated …
Why should I be so concerned about far away enemies when the biggest threats to me, my family, and my way of life are so near?
This is like a replay of the 1960s/70s. The problem today is that the MSM is even more leftist, the internet allows more coordination, academia is filled with leftists, and the left is supported by billionaires and leftist foundations. They are more powerful than back in the day.
Trump is doing a great job of working against their plans. So did Regan. Reaghan made great strides but unfortunately, conservatives are not as driven by politics as the left. The left regrouped and came back. They are pushing such nutty policies, such as open borders and anti-ICE policies that 80% of the citizenry don’t support. If the MSM was even halfway objective, the left wouldn’t have a prayer. But here we are. They’re very much alive and dangerous.
“Three months ago, CNN irresponsibly gave free publicity to an app that recklessly shares the location of ICE Agents. It has now been revealed the leftist lunatic shooter who opened fire on the Dallas ICE Facility was using one of these apps.” Karoline Leavitt
Thoughtlessness is a precondition to irresponsibility.
There was nothing ‘thoughtless’ about CNN’s bringing its viewer’s attention to this app. It strains credulity to imagine that it was NOT done with malice aforethought.
Accordingly, charges of accessory to a crime and RICO charges against CNN’s CEO and anyone else involved. While conviction is to be preferred, it is the left that has established that the process is the punishment.
Consequence MUST be personal. Until media personnel are held personally accountable, their evil (bearing false witness) will not only continue but will become even more depraved. Hate filled, deceitful propaganda that foments violence is not in the “public interest”.
There’s no longer any pretext of journalism, is there?
Megyn Kelly warns the violence will get worse. Elon Musk is concerned. I try to look at the sunny side, but after the last month I’m not so sunny on that score.
Longer term I think leftist violence will redound against Democrats. It’s still a terrible price to pay.
from Karoline Leavitt:
“Three months ago, CNN irresponsibly gave free publicity to an app that recklessly shares the location of ICE Agents.”
But a parallel question is how is it that the IT security around the ICE and DHS activity is so poor that there is a publicly available app providing that data?
Trump and Tom Homann need to rename Immigration and Customs Enforcement. It should be called the National Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Then the Democrats would have to say the NICE agents, picked up some people and took them to a NICE facility. 🙂 (H/T Adam Carolla) Well, it’s the kind of thing Trump might do to troll the Dems.
Did he have a Darwin-fish bumper sticker on his car? Tries to kill ICE agents; instead wounds two illegals, kills one, and then himself. Pathetic.
@ J. J. – I like your/Carolla’s idea, but C. S. Lewis uses that acronym for the baddies in his Perelandra books, so it would be possible that people would not get the intended satire you suggest.
(Wikipedia: That Hideous Strength (1945), set on Earth. A scientific think tank called the N.I.C.E. (The National Institute of Co-ordinated Experiments) is secretly in touch with demonic entities who plan to assume control of the Earth.)
However, the odds that many leftists have read a book that is a thinly veiled analogy for Christian beliefs are probably pretty low.
You get the impression that this lie is told by people who know they’re lying to people who know they’re being lied to and nod in energetic agreement and then lie to another who, they know, already knows better.
If they found anybody who actually believed it, I suspect they’d be shocked.
R2L,
Not sure if it’s the same app, but the one I read about in the news tracks input from users. A user spots ICE activity and reports the location to the app. It wasn’t pulling from a government database.
R2L, Rufus:
Correct, it’s an app that ostensibly relies on people reporting observed ICE activity. But it was developed on the inside (and some tips may well come from the inside as well).
I still subscribe, for sociological purposes only to my old DC neighborhood listserv, and this is the information that someone put out on it:
“I am away from DC while watching the horror of ICE and the U.S. Park Police (of all cherished law-enforcement assignments now being totally corrupted!!) move into the neighborhood and go after people who have the enormous talent and integrity to do work that others of us do not have the talent, or perhaps not the time, to do ourselves.
“There is an app that one can put on their phones to send out alerts of ICE actions or sightings, to help provide some protection to our people who are being targeted by this entirely corrupt and inhumane current White House Administration.
“It is called ICEBlock. Google it, learn about it, download it, and use it.
“One of the Justice Department firings this summer was of the wife of the man who developed this app. She was totally upfront about reporting her connection to it, having a percentage ownership just in case something might happen to her husband. It is free, and there are no intentions to monetize this app; it is a public service to help protect others.
“Let’s all please keep sharing more, and everything, that we can do. We are living in a horror show.”
The list is chock full of “how to help” “where to help” virtue signaling (and arguably illegal interference with Federal agents).
go after people who have the enormous talent and integrity to do work that others of us do not have the talent, or perhaps not the time, to do ourselves.
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This is how she refers to ordinary employment in the service sector, the building trades, and commercial agriculture. All of which would be done by natives (at a somewhat higher wage) if you ceased importing their replacements.
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I’m not seeing why you’re declining to publish this woman’s name.
AesopFan,
I think C. S. Lewis wrote that his novels were not analogies, but rather he wrote the kind of books he would like to read. Of course he is a prominent Christian apologist.
BTW, N.I.C.E. was only in That Hideous Strength, the third volume of the Space Trilogy. Perelandra was the second volume.
Thanks for bringing up N.I.C.E. I admire Lewis’ invention of the name. There seem to be many parallels between N.I.C.E. and today’s madness.
@ Selfy > “There seem to be many parallels between N.I.C.E. and today’s madness.”
Despite being a literary academic all his life,* Lewis was a shrewd observer of people and politics, and, like Orwell, a master at predicting the world’s condition “if this goes on.” (probably surprising to most of the people who only knew him from his academic and Christian-apolgetics books, but is discernible in his popular works).
*Wikipedia: After Lewis returned to Oxford [from WWI], he received a First in Honour Moderations (Greek and Latin literature) in 1920, a First in Greats (Philosophy and Ancient History) in 1922 and a First in English in 1923. In 1924 he became a philosophy tutor at University College and, in 1925, was elected a Fellow and Tutor in English Literature at Magdalen College, where he served for 29 years until 1954. … In 1954 Lewis accepted the newly founded chair in Mediaeval and Renaissance Literature at Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he finished his career. … Much of his scholarly work concentrated on the later Middle Ages, especially its use of allegory.
J.J. on September 25, 2025 at 11:14 pm
I like your idea of renaming the agency to NICE, for the reasons you provided.
RTF and NancyB: thanks for the clarifications.
I wonder if this app, as is, or one modified for an alternative purpose, could be used to report the presence of illegal alien immigrants (especially the criminally oriented ones), so law enforcement could also have a leg up in selected instances. The LEO’s may know where many of them are, but probably not all of them.
Not sure, but it sounds like the existing app might also be subject to disabling by a denial-of-service attack, if someone were so inclined and had the requisite resources?
The use of political violence is always falling on the Right, but lands on the Left.
I believe that it will be easy to see if/when the Right starts political violence. The shooters won’t miss and they will get away.
I still believe that the Right is far from political violence. Lack of political violence is something I have been proud of all my life. To buy into political violence is to step on all the ideals most of us grew up with.
The question is whether the trolls have succeeded in rendering ICEblock useless yet. No doubt many who bragged of false reports were keyboard warriors.