CHRISTIAN TOTO: Pop Culture Proves It: The Left Loves Political Violence.

Sam Morril created an entire bit around a dead baby.

The comic found bleak humor in the reaction to an alligator killing an infant. He focused more on a comedy club patron’s outrage, expanding the bit in the process.

Dark? Yes. Funny? For some.

Morril wasn’t gleeful that a child had died, but he used it to explore the boundaries of humor and why we get outraged by select jokes and not others. Plus, black comedy allows us to process grief. It’s called gallows humor.

Dave Chappelle’s latest rant is different. And, sadly, it suggest a cultural rot that cannot be ignored.

The Left, not center-Left souls or classical liberals, crave political violence. Sound hyperbolic? Consider the evidence. There’s too much of it now to ignore.

The Left has always loved political violence, but it’s a big tell when open admission of it goes mainstream.

THOSE NARRATIVES DON’T MAINTAIN THEMSELVES, YOU KNOW:

RIGHT’S 119TH HAIL MARY: House Freedom Caucus (HFC) members delivered three clear messages during a Capitol Hill news conference earlier today that featured a frankness and candor one almost never encounters in Congress.

HEY, WHAT HAPPENED TO THE AFFORDABILITY ELECTION?

Run on affordability, govern on TDS and socialism.

THAT CAN’T HELP THE F-35’S READINESS ISSUES: Pentagon can’t track millions of F-35 spare parts, watchdog finds.

The government watchdog described the DoD’s records for F-35 parts as “outdated, inaccurate, and incomplete” and said “DoD has made minimal progress in attaining and maintaining accountability for F-35 parts” since issues were first brought to light seven years ago.

The report follows several audits since 2019 by the GAO and the Department of Defense Inspector General, which revealed numerous problems.

Unlike most aircraft, the F-35 program largely relies on a joint pool of spares – such as engines and tires – for the U.S. Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps, as well as international customers.

Maybe making the pool of spares “joint” leads to a lack of accountability.

BOYS NEED BOOKS FOR BOYS:

Takeaway: “Boys are not broken girls; they should not be treated as such.”

EVERY TIME I’M CONVINCED WE’RE IN A DEFLATING BUBBLE, I SEE A HEADLINE LIKE THIS ONE: CoreWeave beats on revenue and lifts guidance, easing AI slowdown concerns.

But then you go past the headline to details like these, and it looks like a bubble again: “CoreWeave has lost over 40% of its value in the past month, as investors rotate out of companies most closely tied to AI infrastructure. Rising interest rates have pushed lenders out of the market, raising concerns about ongoing access to capital. Some CoreWeave bond yields recently topped 16%.”

WAR IS PEACE, FREEDOM IS SLAVERY, CONFORMITY IS DIVERSITY:

GERMANS PARTYING LIKE IT’S 1939: Activists raise Palestinian flag over German Reichstag on eve of Kristallnacht anniversary.

A group of activists raised a Palestinian flag over the Reichstag, Germany’s parliament building, on the eve of the anniversary of Kristallnacht, in a stunt condemned as unacceptable* by Berlin’s mayor.

The incident took place on Sunday morning outside the Reichstag building, the seat of the Bundestag, when a 22-year-old activist climbed a 30-metre flagpole, removed the German national flag and threw it to the ground before replacing it with a Palestinian one.

Two other men, aged 20 and 32, assisted him from the ground, filming the incident.

* Subject to change in the near future: Islamists have Berlin’s politicians in their grip. “The city’s mayor-elect has just admitted that she’s terrified of the very pro-Palestine forces that got her elected. There can be no doubt about what [Elif] Eralp as mayor would mean for Berlin: a new stage in the creeping submission of its leadership to Islamist and anti-Zionist forces. In November 2024, Berlin’s police chief made headlines when she said: ‘There are parts of Berlin where I would advise people wearing a kippah, or who are openly gay or lesbian, to be more alert. In certain districts there is a majority of Arabs who sympathise with terror groups and hate Jews.’ Two years later, Eralp, the person aspiring to the leadership of Berlin and authority over its police, is too frightened to name those who pose a threat to gay and Jewish people.”