Where Is Your ‘Stochastic Terrorism’ Now, Media?
S E E D E D C O N T E N T
America’s civic disintegration continues apace as terrible news comes out of Dallas: This morning an ICE facility was attacked by a gunman — identified by authorities as Joshua Jahn, age 29 — who unloaded a rifle into a van carrying detainees, then took his own life. The shooter, by the markings on the shell casings he left, declared his motive quite literally as being “ANTI-ICE,” but all of his victims — shot while still in their seats, from a distance — were in fact detainees being transported to the facility for processing. Two have died.
It is yet another atrocity in what has now begun to feel like an unceasing rush of them, and I am in no mood for jokes. People are dead. I understand the temptation to zero in on the obscenely grim irony that a psychopath tried to kill ICE agents and instead killed detainees, but what then? Those people are still dead . They have had their lives stolen away from them, and from their families. It is more than a mere tragedy, it is a baleful sign of our times.
And, although the media has predictably downplayed the issue, this isn’t even the first time ICE has been attacked in Texas. Although most of the immigration headlines this summer were stolen by Trump’s June deployment of the National Guard to Los Angeles (in the face of rampant and disruptive anti-ICE protests), Texas immigration and border officials were the target of far worse than just street theater in July: In Alvarado, ICE officers faced a full-on ambush (one was shot in the neck), while later that month another shooter targeted Border Patrol in McAllen.
Now this. The gaslighting has already begun, incidentally. The denizens of Bluesky, America’s self-imposed social media leper colony, are currently going through the exact same cycle of denial and conspiratorial thinking that they did with Charlie Kirk, except this time they’ve had practice so they’re speedrunning it like Twitch streamers. “Nobody writes ANTI-ICE on a bullet, do you really trust a liar like Kash Patel?” “Maybe he was trying to kill the detainees!” “It’s too early to speculate about motive!”
No, it’s not too early, not in our blighted new era where assassins cordially signal their intent right on the shell-casings of their bullets (easily the worst youth fashion trend since frosted tips in the late ’90s). Kash Patel did not plant those bullets, my dear deluded friends. The truth is, we owe it to the men and women of ICE and Border Patrol to recognize just how dangerous their jobs have suddenly become, for reasons beyond their control. They are already doing important and perilous work, and now they have every reason to fear random snipers. That is an unconscionable situation — and yet I see no way it will change any time soon.
As a final word, I cannot help but turn to the mainstream media, once upon a time during the Biden era so eager to talk up the threat of right-wing violence, and ask them, with a snarl: W here is your stochastic terrorism now?
You remember the term, right? “Stochastic terrorism” was once the theory du jour on the chin-scratching left, their argument during the Biden years for why political speech from the MAGA right needed to be subjected to public censorship. Apparently, voluble right-wing speakers like Donald Trump and Charlie Kirk were threatening to work their audiences up with apocalyptic rhetoric and inspire them to go out there and murder progressives.
As I wrote back in May — only four months ago — in response to the shootings of two Israeli Embassy employees, one Israeli and one American, by a pro-Palestinian college student, this was always an act of projection on the part of the left. They were accusing the right of what they most feared and already suspected would emerge among their own tribe:
Much like “fascism” has forever threatened to descend upon America but somehow always and only lands in Europe, so too does the stochastic terrorism predicted by the left seem to really affect only themselves. Luigi Mangione, despite himself having access to the finest health care in the world, was radicalized into assassinating a health care CEO through nothing more than his internet and YouTube reading list. Elias Rodriguez, who profiled as little more than your standard keffiyeh-clad college activist, similarly received his primary education online.
And don’t kid yourself: The left is swimming in this sort of deranged content in ways that the right is barely aware of. Present media coverage focuses almost exclusively on the influence of the right-leaning podcasting ecosystem. (Its obvious role in the 2024 campaign provides ample justification for this.) But my guess is that the left-wing universe will breed further killers in years to come.
I have never been more depressed to be proven correct.
Tags
Who is online
84 visitors
"Stochastic terrorism" will be resurrected, once the left has a murderer they can definitively pin on the right and then the calls calls for censorship, holding public figures accountable for their language etc will reappear.
As we have seen by their commentary, they are more concerned with some Trump-hater being suspended from late night tv than they are for those being killed.
This is left wing a "journalist" calling Republicans "stochastic terrorists"
Yet they never seem curious who is riling up all these left wing nuts...Maybe constantly calling everyone to the right of Chuck Schumer a NAZI, fascist etc.. might just be the stochastic terrorism left wingers were so obsessed about...
I didnt see anything in there proving that Kash Patel didnt orchestrate the writing of the "anti-ice" on the shell casing.
See how this works now.
Kash Patel is a habitual liar, AND a conspiracy crackpot, AND he is the head of our national law enforcement agency. Nothing he says can be believed just because he says so.
Yes, you are sounding like Alex Jones...
Another crazy leftist attacked ICE. It's not like it's anywhere near the first time.
I understand Laura Loomer is being credited for uncovering information about this guy.
Laura Loomer.
These are the people you depend on for information.
Kash Patel and Laura Loomer are habitual liars. Are they not?
I trust you will get my point.
BTW, almost all of the Charlie Kirk murder conspiracy theories are coming from the right wing gun community.
Do you think Kash Patel should be taken at face value? If so, why?
If a wacko wanted to stage a racist attack on illegal immigrants, they could do that anywhere. If you have a problem with Illegals and are crazy enough to kill them why attack a ICE van filled with Illegals who are already getting deported when there's millions running free in this country?
yes, John. I do. I don't believe Patel coordinated a coverup with local law enforcement and planted evidence in a crime scene swarming with officers.
If you want to claim a multi-jurisdictional coverup involving god knows how many officers and FBI agents was put together in a few hours, please provide some evidence other than it's inconvenient for your partisan viewpoint.
Are they? Not Reuters, the LA Times, left wing social influencers etc.. Odd that so many Democrats like Kimmel get their news from the "right wing gun community"
I am not asking if Patel should be believed about this, I am asking if he should be believed about anything.
You have no point.
So? Why do tens of millions of Democrats believe the shooter was right wing?
(1) Graham Mitchell on X: "This is WILD. This morning, the @PBDsPodcast showed a video made by @RangeDayBro that showed what appears to be CONCLUSIVE evidence that Charlie Kirk was shot FROM BEHIND! It reignites the anger in me to have to watch it, but even more so that real killer is on the loose. https://t.co/vquWfkKWQe" / X
So? Why do you keep linking to the same video?
More importantly. Why do tens of millions of Democrats believe Kirk was murdered by a right winger?
All you got is whataboutisms. Nothing dealing with the topic. Why? Because you got nothing on the topic.
Nothing.
It has to be proven that Patel didn't orchestrate the writing? I nominate that comment for the most ridiculous of the year.
Why not? You believe the J6 insurrectionists were tourists. As does Patel.
Because he doesn't have to. Your conspiracy theories seem to be getting more desperate.
Making stuff up doesn't help your case.
When all you got is bullshit, bullshit is what you serve. Patel keeps beating progressive/liberal bullshit like rented a mule.
Booker down, Shifty Shiftzel down, Pull-up Hirono down, etc,etc. One wonders who his next victim will be.
You didn't provide anything proving he is wrong either.
Pot meet Kettle.
Stochastic terrorism: The long-running demonization of opponents of transgender ideology has borne fruit. The demonization of ICE and the U.S. Border Patrol by countless progressive commentators and politicians has borne fruit. What else is coming? I don’t know, but if you’re not terrified about what it might be, you simply have not been paying attention to how quickly things are deteriorating.
The lefts chickens are coming home to roost and I guess they don’t like it much.
The face of today’s progressive left.
Congrats