THE REGIME AND ITS ALLIES WANT TO DEFINE ALL CRITICS AS ACCESSORIES TO MURDER

Here's a September 17 press release from the Department of Homeland Security:

DHS Calls for Media and Far Left to Stop the Demonization of President Trump, His Supporters, and DHS Law Enforcement

... Following the evil act of political violence witnessed in the country last week and two attempts to resist arrest resulting in severe injuries of ICE law enforcement officers—one being drug by a car and another hit by a car....

It's "dragged," not "drug." But go on:

DHS is calling on the media, leftist groups, and sanctuary politicians to end their demonizing DHS law enforcement. This hateful rhetoric is inspiring political violence in our country and assaults against our brave DHS law enforcement.

Examples follow, including Representative Jasmine Crockett saying, "When I see ICE, I see slave patrols," and Representative Stephen Lynch calling ICE agents "thugs." This memo doesn't have the force of law, but it's an attempt to establish the premise that harsh speech inevitably leads to political violence, with the implication that criticism of the administration is stochastic terrorism -- a call to violence -- by definition.

Vice President J.D. Vance, who once speculated that Trump might be "America's Hitler," now says that silencing harsh criticsm of the regime will end political violence:

Vance: "If you want stop political violence, stop telling your supporters that everybody who disagrees with you is a Nazi."

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— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) September 24, 2025 at 2:27 PM

If you want stop political violence, stop attacking our law enforcement as the Gestapo. If you want stop political violence, stop telling your supporters that everybody who disagrees with you is a Nazi. If you want stop political violence, look in the mirror.

But it's not just government officials saying this. Here's Stephen Miller's wife promoting her podcast by telling Fox's Jesse Watters that political violence is caused by ... buskers.

Katie Miller: If we don't shut down the "hippies" singing songs criticizing fascism, it will lead to "another Tyler Robinson."

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— Craig R. Brittain (@craigbrittain.com) September 24, 2025 at 12:18 PM

The key moment, at 0:58:

JESSE WATTERS: When you see the singing, as a political operative, do you think hippies singing songs about Nazis is effective?

KATIE MILLER: That type of rhetoric, the ones that maybe they are not the assassins, but they are surely inspiring the next assassin, they're inspiring the next Tyler Robinson, to come out of his hole, come out of his couch, come out of his transgender relationship, and assassinate someone else, another one of my friends, because when you don't shut that behavior down, that's what it leads to.

The wife of the most powerful adviser to the president of the United States thinks that when people sing protest songs, the government, or some unidentified "we," needs to "shut that behavior down," because "surely" it's directly responsible for acts of political violence.

On Fox, the net is cast even wider. There was a shooting at an ICE facility in Dallas yesterday, apparently committed by a young man whose favorite screen activities were video games and 4chan shitposting rather than watching late-night legacy-network television. Nevertheless, Fox's Bill Hemmer asserted that the shooter's main accomplice was Jimmy Kimmel:

The now-deceased shooter who targeted a Dallas, Texas, ICE facility wrote “anti-ICE” messages on his rounds, according to the FBI.

... during the opinion program Outnumbered, [Hemmer] closed a segment focused on the shooting and the anti-ICE message they reported contained.

“This is why Jimmy Kimmel needed to say, ‘I’m sorry. And he didn’t.'” Hemmer insisted, tying the anti-ICE violence to Kimmel’s controversial monologue from Tuesday night. “And he needs to. He needs to call Erica Kirk and talk to her. And he needs to go on his program and say, I had this lovely conversation with this grieving widow. And this is what we discussed. That’s the proper way you manage this. And that did not happen.”

“This is why Jimmy Kimmel needed to say I’m sorry.” Fox News host Bill Hemmer tries to connect ICE shooting to Jimmy Kimmel.

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— Mike Sington (@mikesington.bsky.social) September 24, 2025 at 1:52 PM

But Trump's allies reserve the right to call for violence whenever they please. Fox, in particular, seems eager to establish the premise that Trump's allies can directly recommend violent reprisals against their opponents without consequence, while Trump's critics should be seen as terrorists when they simply denounce the administration harshly. You have to wonder whether Fox's Brian Kilmeade was given the assignment of saying that homeless people should be executed if they refuse treatment, a remark for which he later apologized under pressure.



Subsequently, we had Fox's Jesse Watters (yes, him again) recommending lethal force at the UN in response to alleged equipment malfunctions during Trump's appearance there:

Fox News host Jesse Watters suggested bombing and gassing the United Nations over escalator and teleprompter issues

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— PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 (@patriottakes.bsky.social) September 23, 2025 at 5:42 PM

Watters says, "What we need to do is either leave the UN or we need to bomb it. It is in New York, though, right? There could be some fallout there. Maybe gas it?"

Of course, it's long been permissible to recommend violence against institutions that are liberal-coded. Recall that in 2002, at the height of her career, Ann Coulter told an interviewer for The New York Observer, “My only regret with Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the New York Times Building.”

If you talk that way about liberal-coded institutions, you're seen as merely cheeky and "politically incorrect." Coulter had multiple New York Times bestsellers after that, and was a regular Bill Maher guest. But at the time, no one from the White House seemed prepared to jail anyone who called George W. Bush a fascist. We have no such assurance now.