Hi everyone!
A high school English teacher in Maine went on a wild, unhinged Facebook rant in which she encouraged the Secret Service to assassinate President Trump and kill his supporters. After posting her crazed diatribe, she said she knew she was risking her job to do it. The school's superintendent gave a statement that he was looking into it.
"The Secret Service has the perfect opportunity if they choose to step up and take it. You are the ones with the power. Coordinate. Take out every single person who supports Trump’s illegal, immoral, unconstitutional acts." She continued: "I have zero shame about what I've said. I'm not backtracking a single Thing. I believe Trump and every sycophant he has surrounded himself with... needs to die."
I'm all for free speech and everything, but I don't get why she posted this particular rant. She hates Trump, clearly, and those who voted for him, apparently, but her call for action is assassination, which is not only illegal but also super violent. If she wanted to speak her mind, why not put out a call to action that was worthwhile? The Secret Service isn't going to assassinate the president, for goodness sake, so if she does get fired, she got fired for being a fool rather than for speaking her mind. I never understand why people use their platforms to resort to vitriol rather than a calm, persuasive elucidation of their ideas.
Unless the violence is the message, which is really the only takeaway here. Those who call for violence aren't trying to get a political message across but savagery. They're trying to create an environment of terror, not one of political change through political means.
New York state is moving closer toward approving assisted suicide, which is just euthanasia in progressive coded language. It's a terrible idea, and I took to the New York Post to urge the state not to do it. It won't stay with the terminally ill but will branch out, as it has in Canada, to cover the mentally ill and people who have incurable, but not terminal, illnesses.
In Canada, assisted suicide has officially become euthanasia in Quebec, where doctors treating dementia patients have been authorized to allow those patients to sign "advanced directives" so that when certain criteria are met in the progression of their illness, the doctors can give them the deadly dose and end their life. That's not assisted suicide. Also in the 51st state, the federal government has authorized assisted suicide for the mentally ill. How absurd is it to offer assisted suicide as a cure for the suicidal?
Meanwhile, NY Gov Kathy Hochul took to X to complain "as a Catholic" about Trump's Pope joke. But this is the same lady who is super pro-abortion and is also poised to sign that assisted suicide law if it gets to her desk.
The ponies ran the Kentucky Derby on Saturday and in a pretty funny turn of events, Sovereignty beat out Journalism, who was favored to win. This led to an outpouring on social media about how journalism is no match for sovereignty. For months now, even years, we hear from the media about the problems of securing the border, of building a strong nation, but down at the derby, journalism took a back seat. They'll have another run at a win in the Preakness and the Belmont Stakes.
Here's what's on my desk today:
New York, halt assisted suicide — the ‘death cult’ won’t stop with the terminally ill
New York is poised to join an unholy alliance of US states that let doctors help people kill themselves.
Maine high school teacher calls for Secret Service to assassinate President Trump
“You are the ones with the power. Coordinate.”
Former White House press sec Jen Psaki claims there was no ‘cover up’ of Biden’s mental decline
Former White House press secretary Jen Psaki, who is now an MSNBC pundit, claimed on a podcast with Semafor that she had no idea President Joe Biden was suffering from mental decline in his advanced age and that there had been no cover-up.
‘Sovereignty’ beats ‘Journalism’ in 151st Kentucky Derby
The odds on a win for Sovereignty were 9 to 1.