INGERSOLL: What’s It Like To Live In A Consequence-Free World? Just Ask Renée Good

A left-wing activist is detained by police after throwing a homemade explosive device towards police during a protest organized by far-right influencer Jake Lang against alleged "Islamification" and to ask for a "stop of public Muslim prayer" in New York, in front of Gracie Mansion, New York mayor Zohran Mamdani's official residence, in New York on March 7, 2026. (Photo by CHARLY TRIBALLEAU / AFP via Getty Images)

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Greetings, Dear Reader,

Here we are again, State of the Day, where I strip the euphemism and misdirection off the day’s news and give it to you straight, no ice, no mixer.

Do you remember childhood? Do you remember what it was like to live in a world where consequences were only vaguely understood?

Well, that childhood was probably the closest you’ve ever been to understanding the modern, adult liberal.

WELCOME TO THE CONSEQUENCE FREE ZONE

Yesterday I wrote about a goofy far-left comedian who almost died. We know Walter Masterson almost died because the police have been very clear about him, and many others, almost dying.

He was standing in the middle of a protest “making content” about how terrible and no good anti-immigrant “white supremacists” are for the country when a homegrown Islamic jihadi vaulted over him to throw an explosive at the right wing counter protesters.

ICYMI, here’s what that looked like, in two images:

He later tweeted an image of the unexploded ordnance on the ground and made fun of conservatives.

The bomb squad did in fact confirm the bombs were filled with TATP, an explosive called “Mother of Satan.” They were also wrapped in nuts, bolts, screws and the like. Authorities unequivocally said that if either of the two bombs the jihadists deployed had exploded, it would have been a mass casualty event.

To fully flesh out the sheer luck of the situation, TATP has been known to explode without any initiating charge, i.e., a jostle can set this stuff into motion.

Conservatives saw the jihadist and the bomb and did the obvious: They ran away. Liberals sat there laughing and then stood around with the phones photographing the explosive.

And this anecdote gets at the heart of how those on the far left, who have captured so many critical institutions, are truly the most dangerous species in America. They are fundamentally incapable of identifying threats, and so they are fundamentally incapable of conceiving consequences.

The leftist stew that has caused this brain damage or mental illness or whatever you want to call it has essentially overridden billions of years of evolutionary biology.

Consequences are a far away, imaginary, or even just vacant concept in the liberal worldview.

It’s the best way to explain the deaths of Renée Good and Alex Pretti. Like Masterson, they were intellectually incapable of perceiving a negative consequence to their actions.

It also explains the institutional malignancy plaguing America. Elon Musk says lowering standards for the education of physicians will result in malpractice and preventable death on the operating table. Obvious consequence, right? Don Lemon sits in front of him utterly dumbfounded, his only retort a vague accusation that Musk is simply racist.

“Are you saying black people aren’t smart enough to be doctors?” Or some such nonsense.

Hey, guys, maybe don’t DEI military flight training. A helicopter crashing into a commercial airliner barely made a blip in the liberal worldview, but conservatives rightly and instantly took note.

The judges and prosecutors and city administrators who consistently absolve repeat violent offenders. Who refuse to cooperate with ICE on detainers and release rabid illegals back into the general population. The resulting murders and rapes are almost too numerous to count.

The academics and educators who don’t foresee the obvious result of removing entrance exam requirements. Of abolishing gifted courses. Or of openly discriminating against the applications of white males. Now an army of highly credentialed, highly indebted idiots has been pipelined into every major institution. The illiterati.

Our supposed smartest, our best and brightest, are not even remotely immune to the leftist, brain sapping stew. At best they laugh as conservatives predict the obvious outcome. They mock the right for running away from bombs! At worst, they take the podium and blame “white supremacy” for two radical Islamic teens building homemade bombs, intent on inflicting fatal acts of terrorism.

Concepts like “suicidal empathy” are merely a result of living in a consequence-free world. The brainwashed hair-dyes with septum piercings wait until people with intact amygdalas go to sleep so they can open the gates and welcome in the oppressed zombie hordes.

Never mind how obvious the outcome of such an act is. They’re so incapable of conceiving it, they won’t even hear the screams of the once peaceful and productive as they fall victim to the gnashing of the ravenous multitude.

They live in a consequence-free world.

In a better world, they’d all be in asylums.

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