The Left isn’t processing the latest headlines well.
Some are dreaming of drone strikes targeting former President Donald Trump. Others are eviscerating the Supreme Court for determining presidents have immunity for “official acts” conducted during their presidencies.
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“Orange Is the New Black” alum Lea DeLaria begged President Joe Biden to assassinate Hitler AKA Trump.
Bette Midler, who once cheered on a neighbor’s vicious attack on Sen. Rand Paul, attacked conservative Supreme Court justices for allegedly being afraid of women’s private parts.
Perhaps President Joe Biden’s calamitous debate performance Thursday set all of the above in motion?
Either way, celebrated author Joyce Carol Oates is upping the ante on violent rhetoric. The mind behind “Blonde,” “Wonderland” and “Black Water” routinely flexes her political views on X.
This week, Oates reposted a message from Rep. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez targeting the right-leaning Supreme Court. The social media wunderkind vowed to “impeach” the Court for making decisions she didn’t like.
Filing articles of impeachment against SCOTUS because they ruled in a way you don't like is an actual assault on our system.
— AG (@AGHamilton29) July 1, 2024
It's indicative of someone who does not take their oath to the Constitution seriously and doesn't belong anywhere near a position of authority. https://t.co/fg8vPKClOv
Oates agreed. She also took the matter in a dark direction.
fantasizing a Tarantino revenge film conflating "Kill Bill" & "Once Upon a Time in D.C." (sic) starring: https://t.co/6Oft3KRoJ8
— Joyce Carol Oates (@JoyceCarolOates) July 2, 2024
What does she mean?
Director Quentin Tarantino’s “Kill Bill” films follow The Bride (Uma Thurman) as she kills the former allies who tried to eliminate her at the behest of David Carradine’s title character. The other Tarantino film Oates references, “Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood” revisits the Manson family slayings. This time, the good guys wipe out the hippie thugs before they can kill Sharon Tate and four others as they did back in August of 1969.
Is Oates fantasizing about a similar hit on the Supreme Court, specifically its conservative justices? Is there another, more generous interpretation?
She’s not the only liberal celebrity to fantasize about dead Supreme Court justices.
Author John Grisham recently appeared on “The View,” reminding the far-Left hosts how his book “The Pelican Brief” featured the death of two Supreme Court justices.
That excited the hosts, prompting Grisham to imagine a follow-up tome in which more justices are killed after they collectively savaged the modern court.
Even the show’s hateful hosts cautioned Grisham’s tone, reminding everyone the conversation was just “fiction.”
In 2022, an armed man was arrested for plotting to kill Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Nicholas John Roske had duct tape, pepper spray, a gun, a knife and zip ties with him at the time. He confessed he planned to kill Kavanaugh for ending Roe v. Wade.
