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Just an awful and tragic story to report out of Arizona today.

A Christian pastor from Victory Chapel First Phoenix was apparently shot while standing and preaching on a street corner in Glendale, Arizona, on Wednesday evening.

The latest update from his church says that he is in critical condition:

Hans was taken to the ER where they discovered he had been shot after conducting a CT scan. He began seizing and was intubated. There has been some movement; however, physicians are uncertain how much is voluntary and began draining fluid from his brain. He remains in critical condition, please continue praying.

According to reports, Hans Schmidt was on the corner of 51st and Peoria avenues quoting Scripture and preaching with his megaphone when someone pulled a gun and shot the preacher in the head.

Paul Sanchez works nearby and recalled occasionally seeing people drive by, cursing and screaming at Schmidt as he preached. However, Sanchez said the preacher never responded with hostility.

"There was a slurry of everything, really. I mean, hateful comments, people yelling at him, 'Just get off the street.' All sorts of mean things," Sanchez told AZFamily.

No suspect has been arrested yet, and Schmidt is still in critical condition.

A well-known supporter of President Donald Trump has been hospitalized after being brutally attacked with a sledgehammer in New Jersey.

64-year-old Rocky Granata was attacked by an anti-Trump activist and repeatedly hit with a sledgehammer.

Granata drives an RV around town with prominent pro-Trump and Make America Great Again signs covering it,

He was attacked by Michael Gonzalez, 36 at Crown Tire in the Port Monmouth section of the city.

Head of Young Populist Activist Group Violently Attacked on Street in France

The young populist activist was reportedly assaulted by a group of leftists when they discovered who he was and what his beliefs were.

In true leftist fashion, they reportedly screamed “fascist” and “Nazi” at him during the unprovoked, violent attack.

The victim was 24-year-old Stanislas Rigault.

Rigault is the president of the youth movement of Éric Zemmour’s Reconquête! (Reconquest) anti-mass migration party.

... nobody has a greater interest in condemning political violence than the German right, because Alternative für Deutschland is its foremost victim. Things could hardly be otherwise in the face of unceasing media vilification and calls by political figureheads for “militant opposition” against AfD politicians.




Last year saw two particularly high-profile assaults on AfD representatives. In August, Andreas Jurca, from Augsburg, was beaten unconscious by a group of men as he left a party function. He endured severe facial bruising and a broken ankle, and the press had basically nothing to say about it. In a still more disturbing incident two months later, AfD co-chair Tino Chrupalla suffered a needle attack at a campaign rally in Ingolstadt. He collapsed and ended up spending several days under medical observation in intensive care, while investigators prevaricated and the Bavarian Interior Minister accused him and his party of “perfidiously and deceitfully trying to capitalise” on the attack for political gain. The police rapidly discontinued their investigation and they have made no arrests.

That is the truth of political violence in the Federal Republic, but the truth doesn’t matter, because our rulers have enormous resources at their disposal, and they work night and day to construct a very different reality. In their alternate discursive universe, “the right” is the primary source of political violence and everyone else its victims. This is why attacks like those against Jurca and Chrupalla must be so studiously ignored, and why every last assault on anyone from the left must be elevated to the level of a national emergency.

61 House Democrats Vote against Resolution Condemning Violence on Police

Commenters retaining their sanity observed what the Verdict really punctured was not Trump’s aura of invincibility, but rather the left’s contorted claims that MAGA folks are violent extremists, since our reaction to the Verdict was not to riot but to flood Trump’s fundraising website.

Casey Goonan was arrested Monday morning at his parents’ $1.1 million home in Pleasant Hill on suspicion of a string of arson attacks at UC Berkeley from June 1 to 16.

Feds, cops and CalFire allege the 34-year-old, a Northwestern University doctorate of African American studies, firebombed a Berkeley campus police car and carried out three other arson incidents on university grounds June 1, as well as last Thursday and Sunday.

A leftist BBC presenter is under fire after he suggested that President Biden should have Donald Trump “murdered” in the wake of his Supreme Court immunity ruling.

“If I was Biden I’d hurry up and have Trump murdered on the basis that he is a threat to America’s security,” Radio 4 host David Aaronovitch, 69, wrote on X.

His comment was in response to the Supreme Court’s 6-3 ruling Monday that Trump has immunity for any “official acts” he made during his presidency. ...

Aaronovitch’s reaction sparked immediate backlash – including one account that suggested “people have had police visits for a lot less. Knock knock.”

When Aaronovitch deleted his initial post, GB News contributor Alex Armstrong accused him of “backtracking” due to advice from his “handlers.”

Feds, cops and CalFire allege the 34-year-old, a Northwestern University doctorate of African American studies

First, note that Trump’s assassination attempt followed a few months after pro-Trump Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico’s May 15th shooting. Politico, July 9th:

Fico owns the libs by ...
surviving assassination
"Sorry to have survived, but I am back," Slovak prime minister tells media and opposition.

And six days ago, the Japanese commemorated the successful assassination of pro-Trump Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Headline from last week, Universal Press International:

JULY 8, 2024 AT 11:10 AM
Japan marks second anniversary of Shinzo Abe's assassination

A pattern seems to be developing, if you are willing to see it. I cannot find a single example from recent history of globalist leaders being shot or assassinated. Maybe it’s time for people to confront the obvious facts.

Maybe it’s time for people to confront the obvious facts.

This conviction is just the first shot. Trump has 3 more trials to go. The Dems will keep pushing until there are protests, which they will call an: insurrection.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but weren't all of these delayed to the point nothing is going to happen until way after the election?

https://notthebee.com/article/this-man-went-to-a-kamala-event-wearing-a-trump-shirt-and-a-trump-event-wearing-a-kamala-shirt-the-difference-in-how-he-was-treated-was-stunning

Lefties are adults

A California man has been charged with attempted arson for twice trying to torch a women’s Republican club in the Golden State, according to a report.

Carlos Espriu, 23, allegedly busted the windows at the East Valley Republican Women Federated office in La Quinta on May 31, then lit three Molotov cocktails to set the building on fire — and came back to try again when they didn’t spark a blaze, Fox News reported.

Espriu’s second attempt was caught on surveillance video which cops posted on a GoFundMe page that raised nearly $9,000 to repair the damage.

“The terrorizing goes on,” the page said. “Their headquarters have experienced increased hostility including: multiple harassing phone calls daily, eggs thrown at the windows, and drive-by shouting accompanied by obscene gestures.”

If you’ve been wondering why there has been such an endless firehose of hate coming from the Left for the last nine years, that’s why. They need a way to express these dark and angry thoughts because, on the Left, you’re not allowed to anymore. You have to always reflect GOODNESS. You have to be a feminized man, or it’s “toxic masculinity.” You can’t call a woman fat. You can’t use sexually violent language, or your career would be over in seconds.

Ah, but to do it to a woman who will be voting for Trump, then all bets are off. It’s fair game. Dehumanize at will. There is no bottom. There are no rules, so why not unleash all of that pent-up rage? It’s probably true on the Right, too. I’m not saying it isn’t. But they don’t define themselves as morally pure. They don’t put up bullshit lawn signs, “In this house, we believe.”

John Anderson doesn’t realize that I’ve been online for 30 years. The level of bullying I’ve received online has been off the charts for years. It goes with the territory.

So far, no physical violence, but I can survive that too. I grew up with it. I hope that no one shoots me. That’s the one thing I fear. These folks, these angry Leftists, they’re so close to concentration camps, gulags, public executions. They’re right there. All they need is the green light. ...

When Ashli Babbitt was shot point blank in the Capitol, a tiny, unarmed woman, it didn’t even matter. Her life was treated like she was nothing. She wasn’t even worthy of acknowledgment by our government. She was treated as a terrorist. ...

We’ve never been as close to fascism as we are right now. A president was threatened and removed from power, and a candidate was installed. The entire propaganda press is going along with it. In other words, all aligned as one against the individual. The last time we were this close was the post-WWII Cold War era. Every major institution of power was aligned with the state, even Hollywood.

But imagine if Eisenhower warned us about the Military Industrial Complex before 9/11; imagine what it looks like now. It’s just bigger and bigger.

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MISSION: FIGHT TO UPHOLD REAL TOLERANCE IN AMERICAN SOCIETY
New Tolerance Campaign is a watchdog organization mobilizing Americans to confront intolerance double-standards by establishment institutions, civil rights groups, universities, and socially-conscious brands. NTC action campaigns empower ordinary Americans to hold accountable self-proclaimed arbiters of tolerance when they betray their own stated values.

PROBLEM: “PHONY TOLERANCE” BY THE ESTABLISHMENT
The “tolerance establishment” has lost its moral compass by failing to uphold basic standards of decency for all people, and is inspiring others to do the same. The establishment criticizes the moral conduct of certain people while ignoring vile bigotry by others. Even worse, the establishment wields “tolerance” selectively as a weapon for political attacks, sometimes even aligning with extremists to advance their goals.

Examples of “Phony Tolerance” include:

The ACLU, which once upheld free-speech for all on principle, has declared it will no longer defend the civil liberties of “others whose views are contrary to our values…”
The NBA boldly advocates for Black Lives Matter while abetting China’s human rights abuses, ignoring repression of Muslims, and silencing criticism of China’s subjugation of Hong Kong.
The ADL is partnering with Al Sharpton – the unrepentant inciter of one of the worst anti-Semitic riots in US history.
UC Berkeley, a public university once renowned for its Free Speech Movement, has repeatedly allowed students to physically threaten and shut down unpopular speakers.
The Southern Poverty Law Center, founded to protect minorities from intimidation, uses its Hate List to defame liberal Muslim reformers while partnering with CAIR, a bigoted Islamist extremist group.

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For two years, from behind bars and in courtrooms, to journalists and judges, a former Las Vegas-area Democratic elected official has insisted he wants to tell his story to the jury that will decide whether he goes to prison or goes free after trial in the killing of an investigative journalist who wrote articles critical of him and his workplace conduct two years ago. ...

German spent 44 years covering Las Vegas mobsters and public officials at the Las Vegas Sun and then at the larger Review-Journal.