Why are so many violent haters of Western civilization themselves children of wealth and privilege?

The Philadelphia Inquirer published photos of the homes of the two Bucks County, Pennsylvania, ‘men’ charged with throwing homemade bombs at a protest outside of Gracie Mansion, the mayor’s official residence, in New York City. To the left is the newspaper’s photo of the Clymer Street home of 19-year-old Ibrahim Kayumi. It did not take too much effort to look up that house, and then check Zillow, the real estate website, to find that the six-bedroom, five-bathroom, 5,816 ft² home has an estimated value of $2,238,200. Built in 2018, Zillow guesstimates it has a rental value of $6,611 per month.[1]I did not link the Zillow information because I do not wish to specify the exact house, and possibly cause problems for Mr Kayumi’s parents, at least no more problems than they already have.

The four-bedroom, four-bathroom, 3,217 ft² home shown as being Emir Balat’s is Zillow listed with a guesstimated value of $668,000. Not quite in Mr Kayumi’s league, but still well-to-do enough in a well-to-do neighborhood.

It would seem that young Messrs Kayumi and Balat were not exactly children of poverty.

Two Bucks County men who said they were inspired by ISIS charged with having bombs at violent Gracie Mansion protest, police say

Emir Balat, 18, of Langhorne, and Ibrahim Kayumi, 19, of Newtown, were charged with use of a weapon of mass destruction and related crimes.

by Jesse Bunch, Ellie Rushing, and Maggie Prosser | Sunday, March 8, 2026 | 8:42 PM EDT | Updated: Monday, March 9, 2026 | 5:29 PM EDT

Two Bucks County men arrested for attempting to detonate homemade bombs at a protest outside Gracie Mansion in Manhattan over the weekend said they were inspired by ISIS, court documents show.

Emir Balat, 18, and Ibrahim Kayumi, 19, were charged with use of a weapon of mass destruction, attempting to support a foreign terrorist organization, and related crimes by federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York, according to documents unsealed Monday afternoon.

Balat, of Langhorne, threw an improvised explosive device and a smoking projectile toward a group of people who gathered Saturday afternoon for a demonstration planned by far-right provocateur Jake Lang called “Stop the Islamic Takeover of New York City,” said New York Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch.

Kayumi, of Newtown, helped Balat, she said, handing him a second explosive device that, like the first bomb, did not detonate, and no one was injured.

Did you catch that? The headline itself states that Messrs Balat and Kayumi were “inspired by ISIS,” but it is Jake long who is described as a “far-right provocateur.” Provocateur is defined as someone who provokes other people to take rash actions or break the law. Reporters Jesse Bunch, Ellie Rushing, and Maggie Prosser have, by the use of that description, placed blame on Jake Long for the crimes of the actual (alleged) criminals.

Federal prosecutors say that after their arrests, Balat and Kayumi made multiple references to the Islamic State, a trans-national Jihadist network that has claimed responsibility for a range of global terrorist attacks.

Balat wrote on a piece of paper that he “pledge[d] allegience [sic] to the Islamic State,” according to the charging document.

Balat told investigators he wanted to carry out an attack “even bigger” than the Boston Marathon bombing, which he noted had resulted in “only three deaths,” the document said.

After Balat was taken into custody, the document said, he told NYPD officers from the back of a police vehicle that “this isn’t a religion that just stands when people talk about the blessed name of the prophet. … We take action!”

There’s a lot more at the original.

All of this leads me to think back to loony Luigi Mangioni, the (alleged) killer of Brian Thompson, the Chief Executive Officer of United Heaththcare. He, too, was a child of privilege, attending a tony, private, male-only high school, and then the University of Pennsylvania, an exclusive Ivy League college. Where the pro-‘Palestinian’ protesters at the not-so-exclusive University of Kentucky were able to protest peaceably and then leave, the sit-ins and break-ins and harassment of Jewish students seem to have primarily been on our Ivy League campuses. The children of privilege, benefitting from the fruits of their parents’ work and Western civilization in general are the ones who seem most to hate Western civilization. Why are so many violent haters of Western civilization themselves children of wealth and privilege? From the two ISIS-inspired Bucks County idiots, to loony Luigi, to the privileged and pampered denizens of Columbia and Penn and Hahvahd, the radicals are supporting people from cultures who would happily slit their throats.

Remember: many of the protests occurred before Donald Trump won re-election.

What kind of education are these students receiving that they somehow think that they can have their laptops and cell phones and $6.00 lattes from Starbucks when they support tearing down the capitalist Western civilization societies which provide such benefits, to do what, enjoy the squalor of the vast majority of the Muslims living in non-OPEC Middle Eastern nations or sub-Saharan Africa?

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1 I did not link the Zillow information because I do not wish to specify the exact house, and possibly cause problems for Mr Kayumi’s parents, at least no more problems than they already have.

Cosplaying the revolution

With Hamas’ October 7th attack on unarmed civilians and residents just north of Gaza, we quickly saw the highly educated but boneheadedly ignorant protests in support of the ‘Palestinians’ and hatred of the Jooooos on our college campuses. They wore masks to hide their identities, to try to avoid negative consequences from their stupidity, and the black-and-white ‘Palestinian’ keffiyehs were all over the place. There were even a couple of hunger strikes, but the one thing I never saw was any of these brave, brave people actually picking up a rifle and heading to Gaza to fight the Israelis.

They were cosplaying revolutionaries without doing anything really radical like fighting.

Well, now we’ve found a brave revolutionary who was willing to fight and kill:

Teen who killed parents to fund Trump assassination attempt gets life in prison

Nikita Casap, 18, pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree intentional homicide in connection with the shooting deaths of his mother and stepfather in 2025.

By Todd Richmond • The Associated Press • Friday, March 6, 2026 • Updated on March 6, 2026 • 9:02 AM

A Wisconsin teenager who killed his parents and stole their money to fund his plan to kill President Donald Trump with a bomb dropped from a drone was sentenced to life in prison on Thursday.

Nikita Casap, 18, pleaded guilty in January to two counts of first-degree intentional homicide in Waukesha County Circuit Court in connection with the shooting deaths of his mother, Tatiana Casap, and stepfather, Donald Mayer, in 2025. Prosecutors dropped seven other charges in a plea deal, including two counts of hiding a corpse and theft.

First-degree intentional homicide carries a mandatory life sentence. The only question as Judge Ralph Ramirez began the sentencing hearing Thursday afternoon was whether he would make Casap eligible for parole at some point.

Calling Casap’s offenses “horrific” and “inexplicable,” Ramirez ultimately handed down two life sentences with no chance at extended supervision, the term the Wisconsin criminal justice system uses for parole. The judge said he didn’t have a “crystal ball” that would tell him when Casap would change, if ever.

I suppose that the dropped charges don’t matter, inasmuch he pleaded guilty to crimes which carry a mandatory life sentence! Judge Ramirez chose to make the sentence as being one without the possibility of parole, and though the Judge didn’t specifically say so, one of the primary considerations had to be because young Mr Casap is just plain stupid. If you read the linked article, you’ll see that he was falling for scams throughout the process.

Federal authorities have accused Casap of planning his parents’ murders, buying a drone and explosives and sharing his plans with others, including a Russian speaker. They said in a federal search warrant that he wrote a manifesto calling for Trump’s assassination and was in touch with others about his plot to overthrow the U.S. government.

I wonder how many of the other leftist haters fantasize about assassinating the President.

It was the last line in the article that really caught my attention:

“I thought I was part of a revolution,” (Mr Casap) said. “I thought I was part of a war. I told myself bad things had to happen.”

Yeah, he was a brave, brave revolutionary, one brave enough to kill. Kill his parents, that is, kill people who trusted him, kill people who weren’t trying to defend themselves in the “war” he thought he was fighting.

Another cosplayer for Hamas

I have frequently mocked the pro-‘Palestinian’, pro-Hamas demonstrators in their keffiyehs, asking why they should be taken seriously when virtually none of them picked up a rifle and headed to Gaza to fight the evil Jooooos. But it seems like this anti-Semitic, anti-American — he was born in New Jersey, which makes him an American citizen — went at least far enough as to pick up a rifle!

The New Yorker trashed for inviting ‘pro-9/11 radical’ Hasan Piker, who called Israelis ‘inbred,’ to speak at festival

By Emily Crane | Friday, September 5, 2025 | 8:43 AM EDT

The New Yorker magazine is being ripped for inviting controversial lefty influencer Hasan Piker to headline an upcoming event — despite his vile history of calling Israelis “inbred” and that America “deserved 9/11.”

Piker, a popular left-wing Twitch streamer, is slated to participate in a New Yorker Festival roundtable event — titled the “New Political Arena” — next month.

But news of the progressive darling’s appearance on the line up has sparked outrage — with many blasting the mag for giving a “pro-9/11 radical” a platform to potentially spew hate and peddle antisemitism.

The 33-year-old New Jersey-born streamer has also downplayed the sexual assault of women on October 7, declaring it “doesn’t matter if rapes happened.”

I almost think that Mr Piker was at least being honest in saying that the issue of Hamas’ rapes of innocent women doesn’t bother him, so he doesn’t care if they happened or not. That’s at least more honest than so many of the rape-denialists on the left, who deny the rapes occurred, because they didn’t want to denigrate their heroes in Hamas.

But it’s Mr Piker’s costume playacting — cosplay — that gets me. He had a photo taken of him, holding a military-looking rifle, while being adored by a dog in an apartment. Dogs are ‘unclean’ and may not be kept indoors as far as Islam is concerned.

Americans have gone to Ukraine, to fight the Russians, and Americans have gone to Israel, to join the Israel Defense Forces, to fight the Arabs, but if there has ever been an American who has left the wealth, safety, and security of the West to go to Gaza to fight the hated Israelis, I’ve never seen a story on that.

Mr Piker certainly has not. Instead, he appears in expensive suits with his artfully coifed hair and beringed fingers, that military-looking rifle and protective vest left behind, never lifting a finger to help the poor, poor, pitiful ‘Palestinians’ to actually gain the land they want.

I’ll have more respect for Mr Piker when he goes to Gaza and puts his life on the line defending the people and causes he so vocally supports. Until then, he’s just another cosplayer, trying to look big and important, but he’s really just a pipsqueak. It’s easy to hold a rifle, but it takes balls to go out and really fight.

What did they think would happen?

Let’s tell the truth here: Western liberals are, collectively, as dumb as a box of rocks. Images of the border wall between Gaza and Egypt are all over the internet, and anyone who can use Teh Google could have looked up the fact that the Egyptian government see Hamas as just another facet of the Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamist group outlawed in Egypt. Egypt has been ‘helping’ with negotiations between Hamas and Israel, because Egypt still dislikes Western civilization — other than Western nations’ money that is! — but sees political Islam as a real threat. That border wall, built by Egypt, not Israel, certainly more of an impediment than the big, beautiful wall President Trump has been building between the United States and Mexico, was meant to keep ‘Palestinians’ from getting into Egypt, because Egypt sees them for what they are: nothing but radical malcontents who have caused trouble everywhere the’ve gone.

Knowing all of that, why would the #GlobalMarchToGaza think that the Egyptian government would go along with their plans? Continue reading

It was never about “protecting democracy”.

The left have complained loudly that Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter and his support of that wholly radical concept of Freedom of Speech was a horrible, horrible thing, but while conservatives are no longer censored on that social media site, Mr Musk has allowed those on the left the same access they always had.

And thus we have Tristan Snell being able to vent his frustration that former President Donald Trump will become President again at noon on January 20th.

Who is Mr Snell? His self-written Twitter biography states that he is a “Lawyer, commentator, fighter for democracy. Prosecuted Trump University @ NY AG. Author of TAKING DOWN TRUMP. Host of the Tristan Snell Show on Apple + Spotify.” Continue reading

And these are the people the ‘Palestinian’ supporters admire?

We’ve seen so many demonstrations, by supposedly educated Americans and other Westerners, in support of the ‘Palestinians’, their Islamic culture, ‘settler colonialism,’ and fighting ‘Islamophobia’. Sensible people have mocked them, noting that those protesters are the beneficiaries of ‘settler colonialism,’ being privileged to live in the United States, and especially the “Queers for Palestine,” pointing out that being openly queer in any of the Islamic lands is an invitation to beating, torture, jail, or even execution.

Now we come to this, from, of all place, al Jazeera:

Five children among seven killed in attack on Pakistan polio vaccine drive

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif condemns attack near a girls’ school in the southwestern province of Balochistan.

All Saints’ Day, November 1, 2024

At least seven people, including five schoolchildren, have been killed and 23 injured in a bombing near a girls’ school in southwestern Pakistan, officials said.

Friday’s attack targeted police guarding a polio vaccination drive in Mastung, a town in Balochistan province.

“The target was a police van which was going to pick up a polio [vaccination] team,” Senior Superintendent of Police Rahmat Ullah told the Reuters news agency.

One police officer and a shopkeeper were also killed in the explosion, senior police officer Abdul Fatah told the AFP news agency.

The blast was believed to have been caused by an improvised device attached to a motorcycle parked near the school.

The Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan have frequently attacked polio vaccinators, claiming that they were distributing evil, Western medicine. Some believe that the vaccines are prohibited by Islam:

Another population study from Peshawar, Pakistan, reported that 79% of participants were not willing to vaccinate their children as they believe that vaccine was composed of ingredients that are prohibited in their religion.

These are the people the supporters of the ‘Palestinians’ admire!

Of course, the doctors who developed the two polio vaccines were Jonas Salk and Albert Sabin, both of whom were Jews, so perhaps that has something to do with the radical Islamists not wanting people vaccinated.

What could possibly go wrong?

Illinois goes by the nickname “Land of Lincoln,” because that was where the Kentucky native became an adult and built his legal and political career. Mr Lincoln is known, among other things, for his folksy witticisms, including the famous, If you call a tail a leg, how many legs does a dog have? The answer is ‘four,’ because calling a tail a leg does not make it so.

Sadly, the Prairie State doesn’t seem to be living up to its other nickname, because our 16th President would have said that a man calling himself a woman doesn’t make him a woman.

Transgender Pedophile Who Sexually Assaulted His Children Now Being Held At Illinois Women’s Prison

By Reduxx Team | Monday, August 19, 2024

James, not Michelle, Blessent. Photo by Bloomington, IL, Police, and is a public record.

A transgender pedophile in Illinois is being housed in a women’s prison after being found guilty on multiple counts related to the sexual assault of his two children. Michelle Blessent, born James, is being held at the Logan Correctional Facility in Lincoln, Illinois.As previously reported by Reduxx, Blessent, 35, was initially arrested in April of 2023 in a file which included five counts of predatory criminal sexual assault of a victim under 13.

But on November 15 of that year, three more charges were applied, including one additional count of predatory criminal sexual assault of a victim under 13, one count of grooming, and one count of exploitation of a child. In a public notice posted to their official Facebook, the Bloomington Police Department confirmed that the new charges were related to the original victim. During the course of the trial, a second young victim under the age of the 13 was named. Both of the victims are reported to be Blessent’s biological children – a boy and a girl.

At the time of his original arrest in April, a public information officer with the Department admitted that they were treating the arrest as that of a woman because of Blessent’s “gender identity.”

Which only goes to prove that the state of Illinois is run by idiots!

Mr Blessent applied to legally change his name to Michelle in July of 2022, and completed that process in December of that year.

On June 26, Blessent was sentenced to 42 years for each of two counts of predatory criminal sexual assault of a victim under 13, as well as three years for a count of grooming. The sentences will run consecutively, totaling 87 years. Under Illinois law, Blessent must serve at least 85% of the time for the counts of sexual assault, meaning he will not be eligible for parole until 2095, at which point he would be 106 years of age.

Part of Mr Blessent’s defense was that he had been taking estrogen, which he claimed made it difficult for him to get and maintain an erection, but that also means that he’s a physically intact man male. Nevertheless, he is being incarcerated at a women’s prison.

What could possibly go wrong?

In 2019, the Illinois Department of Corrections approved the transfer of a transgender inmate from an all-male prison to a women’s prison after he claimed he’d been the victim of sexual harassment and abuse. Janiah Monroe, born Andre Patterson, had successfully obtained transfer with the assistance of various trans activists and law firms, while claiming he had been struggling with PTSD from his initial placement in a men’s prison.

Monroe, who had convictions on several felonies including second-degree murder, was later accused of raping a female inmate at Logan, sexually harassing female inmates, and threatening staff members.

Though the IDOC attempted to move him back to the men’s estate, Governor Pritzker’s office overruled the decision and allowed him to remain at the women’s prison. Pritzker is known for being an ardent supporter of trans activism, and is the brother of Jennifer Pritzker[1]Mr Pritzker was named James by his parents when he was born., a trans-identified male billionaire who frequently funds trans causes.

So, what could possibly go wrong? Andre Patterson showed Illinois what could go wrong, but it seems that the state didn’t learn its lesson. Will Mr Blessent try the same thing now that he’s locked up, for the rest of his miserable life — or at least until he turns 106! — what more could the state do to him if he chose to rape a female inmate? The Land of Lincoln does not have capital punishment, so Mr Blessent cannot be punished more severely than his current sentence, though solitary confinement is a possibility.

Even that might be ended, as the state House passed the “Nelson Mandela Act“, which greatly restricts the use of solitary, 73-40, on May 24, 2024, and it has been sent to the state Senate. If this passes, there would be almost no in-prison discipline that the state could impose on Mr Blessent should he assault a female inmate.

This guy is clearly mental! He sexually abused his own children, so what mental reservations can he be said to have when it comes to sexual abuse. He may have been taking estrogen, but he’s still a man male, which normally means that he could overpower most women.

Today’s American left seem to have adopted the furthest left positions when it comes to anything even remotely connected to sex, and if transgenderism is the reductio ad absurdum of the sexual spectrum, the left don’t seem to recognize the absurdity of it. In their desire to be all inclusive of any and every sexual perversion, they have even attacked those liberal women who reject transgenderism as real and rational.

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1 Mr Pritzker was named James by his parents when he was born.

This morning’s rant

Via William Teach of The Pirate’s Cove, I saw this quote:

“I never imagined seeing the flag of a terror group holding eight Americans hostage for 292 days waved in the streets of our nation’s Capitol,” Rep. Dean Phillips (D-Minn.) wrote alongside an image of a protester waving the Hamas flag.

I guess that he’s not old enough to remember the campus protest chant, “Ho, Ho, Ho Chi Minh, NLF is gonna win!”

It’s amazing to me that there are so many people in Western countries, enjoying the fruits of Western civilization and a modern economy, supporting Islamist savages who would gladly hang all of the queers and force the women back into subjugation. It’s as though they just can’t wrap their pointy heads around the notion that, if Hamas did win, and drive all of the Jooooos into the sea, this new ‘Palestine’ would not somehow be all sweetness and light, with a First World economy, liberation for queers and trannies, religious freedom, freedom of speech and of the press, and the happiness of a wealthy, Ivy League university campus, but become the same squalor that the rest of the non-oil producing Arab Middle East is.

I have to laugh at the “Queers for Palestine” signs, of (mostly) white young women taking a leadership role in these protests, when none of them would be allowed any leadership roles at all under Islam. I have to laugh at those calling the Israelis “white settler colonialists” when every white person in America is the descendant or beneficiary of white settler colonialists, only here because white settler colonialists — including my first American ancestor, Richard Warren — drove out and (mostly) killed the Indians here before them. Every black person in America is the descendant or beneficiary of the evil white slaveholders who brought their ancestors here, rather than leaving them in the undeveloped squalor that is most of sub-Saharan Africa today. Every Hispanic person in America today is the descendant or beneficiary of the white Spanish settler colonialists who drove out and (mostly) killed the Indians south of the Rio Grande.

Benjamin Netanyahu said yesterday, to Congress, referring to the anti-Semitic protesters outside:

I have a message for these protesters. When the tyrants of Tehran who hang gays from cranes and murder women for not covering their hair are praising, promoting and funding you: you have officially become Iran’s useful idiots.

Absotively, posilutely right!

When the people that today’s left are supporting actually take over, all of the campus idiots are going to be utterly astonished when they are among the first to be lined up against the wall and shot.
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What part of “the right of the people peaceably to assemble” don’t they understand? Hamas are not peaceful, so I suppose we shouldn't be surprised that their collegiate supporters have not been either

Gaza Rally, May 1, 2024, photo by Abbey Cutrer, Kentucky Kernel. How many were there supporting the rally, and how many were just spectators?

No one has been more supportive of the right of the pro-Hamas demonstrators to exercise their freedom of speech and right to peaceably assemble to proclaim their positions than The First Street Journal has been. We have pointed out how the keffiyeh-wearing activists — and I regard wearing the black-and-white Palestinian keffiyeh as qualitatively indistinguishable from wearing a Nazi swastika armband — had their demonstration at the University of Kentucky, made their points in a rally in front of the school’s main library, waved their Palestinian flags, and, when it was over, picked up their stuff and went home. I have supported the right of the Princeton University hunger strikers to starve themselves to make their point, even as I mocked them, because I unequivocally support Israel in their war against Hamas and I support freedom of speech. I have even said that it’s a bit pointless to use force to break up the protest encampments, because, with the semester ending, these encampments will just wither away.

As it happened, the powers that be at the University of Pennsylvania decided against just leaving the encampments alone, and the Philadelphia Police broke it up and arrested some of the campers. They were definitely the Usual Suspects, as Fox 29 News reported that only 7 of the 33 people arrested for ‘defiant trespassing’ were actually Penn students. Continue reading