Outside the bunker

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This weekend, while I was checking my feed on YouTube, the algorithm presented me with a couple of videos back-to-back that revealed quite a bit about our current situation.

The first was a clip taken at the gala celebration for the opening of the Bamabunker in Chicago. Among the grandees in attendance were the Usual Suspects – the Obamas, the Clintons, and Jill and Joe, but also the Bushes, George W. and Laura.

I can’t adequately express my sense of revulsion at seeing this, but I don’t have to, since most of you would feel the exact same thing.

“Disgusting” isn’t the word. All the threats, all the insults, all the cries of “literally Hitler” have evidently been forgotten. W and the First Librarian moved among the others as if they were at home, which they were. W brought Meeshell some mints, and she was delighted. Everybody was having a grand old time, global elitists in their natural habitat. Not ignoring the rest of the country so much as acting in total lack of knowledge of it.

I’ve put a lot of effort into defending W. in days past, but this is the limit. I’ll be pleased to never have to think of him ever again.

The next video revealed the exact kind of thing they were ignoring. It was ace podcaster Benny Johnson updating his followers regarding a crazed mutt – an owner of multiple porn shops in SoCal, of all things -- who wrote a threatening letter that fell into the hands of his wife, as it was undoubtedly intended to.

The letter was sent by George Russell Isbell Jr., back in September 2025. It was the product of a doxing campaign that published the home addresses of various conservative activists, containing the standard leftist hate speech cranked up to the highest level conceivable: “Sick of you cis Christian whiners spewing hate…” “ You and your fellow WHITE MAGA podcasters are nothing but revolting white racists and pedophiles….” “You need to be exterminated.” "Maybe someone will blow your head off!!! We can hope! Planning any public engagements? Love to see your head explode and your blood stain the concrete red…” "Here is hoping the American flag strangles the life out of you."

And, yes, that “public engagements” line is a reference to Charlie Kirk. Kirk is mentioned directly twice, including a line labeling Bennie as “Charlie Kirk Jr.”

At several points in his clip, Benny Johnson grows quite emotional, as should be the case. In the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination, threats like this are no joke. To drag a man’s family into a political disagreement is, of course, beyond the pale. But does anybody think the left cares about that?

Isbell, I’m happy to say, was soon tracked down by the FBI and arrested. He pled guilty in federal court last Wednesday. Isbell faces a five-year sentence and a $250,000 fine. Let’s hope he gets the works.

A major element making the soiree at the Bathhouse Monument so nauseating is the role that all those people played in creating the current milieu in which this kind of political violence is acceptable. Obama above all, with his “they bring a knife, we bring a gun” rhetoric, but certainly Hillary and Joe as well (to give more credit than he probably deserves, Bill seldom indulged in that kind of nastiness.)

So much for the Dems, who are only acting the parts given them. But W. is no innocent. Recall how he refused to respond to the insults and threats that came his way. No, he was above it all, and to answer would, as any good movement conservative could tell you, be “getting down in the gutter with those people.” So W. let it stand, let it become an accepted part of public discourse, let it fester and metastasize until we reached the point we’re at today, where anybody to the right of Che can be subject to any kind of abuse under any circumstances, including death threats against himself and his family – if not open assassination attempts. The Bush clan just gets worse as it goes on.

Well, the Devil will know his own.

To Benny Johnson and his family, all good wishes, chin up, and continue the great work. If God is for us, who can be against us?

Image: Gage Skidmore