Ben Shapiro and Amy Klobuchar are on the same side.
Ben Shapiro is the far-right influencer with the nasally voice who talks about men not being manly enough but stays home with his kids while his wife works outside the home. Amy Klobuchar is the medium-right (honestly, she might be far-right) politician currently representing Minnesota in the Senate who ran for President in 2017. One is a MAGA Republican, the other is a faithful Democratic Party member.
Neither is on your side.
I can say that with absolute confidence because of how they each responded to the assassination of psychopathic mass murderer Brian Thompson, the CEO of United Healthcare. I should probably clarify why I would define Brian Thompson as a psychopathic mass murderer. United Healthcare is responsible for the deaths of many thousands of Americans thanks to their policy of rejecting 32% of all health insurance claims; they also recently implemented an AI system that rejects 90% of claims. This kills people. Brian Thompson, as CEO, was ultimately responsible for those deaths. The only valid debate is whether he’s a mass murderer or serial killer. Yes, those murders were legal; does that make it better?
For anyone on the left, or anyone who cares about people more than money (which may very well be an important distinction), there are two valid responses. One valid response would be, “Murder is wrong and I don’t condone violence, but I can’t get very excited about this particular murder because of the horrific history of the deceased.” At the other extreme of viewpoints that are either leftist or the least bit empathic to the American working class would be, “This is a good start.” That is not how Ben Shapiro responded. That is also not how Amy Klobuchar responded.
Both of them responded with some variation of, “How dare you?!” — as if this assassination of a mass-murderering CEO was the most unacceptable thing to have happened in the last 5 years in the United States of America. If you consider the real context of the USA, that’s just absurd, even by the standards of bootlickers. Ben Shapiro and Amy Klobuchar have a lot more in common with each other than they have with you or any of Brian Thompson’s victims.
Here’s a link to The Young Turks (TYT) episode on Ben Shapiro’s reaction and his audience’s reaction to him. Below is what Amy Klobuchar said on Twitter and BlueSky (she deleted the BlueSky post in response to people telling her to go fuck herself).
This is a horrifying and shocking act of violence. My thoughts are with Brian Thompson’s family and loved ones and all those working at United Healthcare in Minnesota.
Is it, Amy? Is it horrifying? I mean, relative to what Brian Thompson did? Is it shocking? At all? Given what Americans have been putting up with for decades, it seems more “inevitable” than “shocking”. Personally, I’m wondering why it didn’t happen sooner. I’m picking on Ben Shapiro and Amy Klobuchar, but they are merely two data points in a deluge of shit takes from both Democratic and Republican party representatives.
JFK once said:
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
On that note, here is the statement we’ve been reading at meetings with other organizations since the election:
Our club does not believe there will be a 2026 or 2028 election in the sense of a fair competition between the two major parties that is winnable by Democratic party candidates. Moreover, we do not support the Democratic Party. Given that we are having an indeterminate period of one-party rule, we believe it is best to shift away from electoral politics and instead toward mutual aid and direct action, including community defense. We do not support the Democratic Party winning elections unless they can remove pro-capitalism individuals from leadership positions within their party and break with the policy of putting the needs of major donors above the needs of working-class people. We are not Democrats, and we have never been Democrats. Since the Reagan administration, the Democratic Party has moved further and further to the right. We have learned again and again that it will throw working class people and any marginalized group under the bus, even going so far as to support genocide, to attempt to attract moderate Republicans. Since only a tiny percentage of Republican voters will ever vote for Democrats, this is not only a betrayal of all working-class people, but a losing strategy. The association of the Democratic Party with “the left” is an incomprehension that damages both the left and the Democratic Party, given it’s clear goal of gaining wealthy people as constituents.
The Democratic Party is not on the side of the American people. Democrats like to say that Republican voters are “voting against their self-interest”. Well, guess what: When you vote for a Democrat, you are also voting against your self-interest. Moreover, you are voting for cruelty just like people who vote for the Republican are voting for cruelty. The lesser evil is still evil, and I’m not convinced that loyal Democratic Party voters appreciate the fact that the Democratic Party is evil.
Those who choose the lesser evil forget very quickly that they chose evil.
~ Hannah Arendt