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General Chat - I am literally ill after the Charlie Kirk assassination and I'm calling in to work sick today. Anyone else feeling like that? Sorry...
self ^ | 09/11/2025 | Self

Posted on 09/11/2025 7:33:12 AM PDT by know.your.why

And today is 9/11. Imagine that. Better that I stay home from work than to spread my disgust that may be contagious. I wonder how many other people feel the same way.


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Health/Medicine; History; Society
KEYWORDS: assassination; charlie; charliekirk; growapair; kirk; vanity
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To: know.your.why

Slept OK but woke up this morning realizing the gravity of what happened yesterday and felt sick inside. It helps having the support of fellow FReepers here.


21 posted on 09/11/2025 7:52:56 AM PDT by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC)
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To: Leaning Right

Your first problem is having liberal acquaintances.


22 posted on 09/11/2025 7:54:47 AM PDT by ChuckHam
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To: know.your.why
Remember, Mr Kirk is with Jesus now, surely a cause for much rejoicing and Jesus is with you, a cause for much rejoicing as well

Revelation 21:4 “And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.”
23 posted on 09/11/2025 7:56:32 AM PDT by The Louiswu (USA FIRST...USA FOREVER)
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To: know.your.why

Yes.

I was extremely upset and despondent yesterday, especially after seeing the photo of Charlie Kirk’s wife and two little children, one of whom is only 16 months old - then realized today is also the 9/11 anniversary, which makes it worse.

Have two candles lit.

Felt same after hearing about Rush Limbaugh’s death.


24 posted on 09/11/2025 7:57:13 AM PDT by Bon of Babble (You Say You Want a Revolution?)
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To: ChuckHam

> Your first problem is having liberal acquaintances. <

Most of them are old-school, JFK types. Decent people who put the flag out on holidays and believe in the value of hard work. Some are veterans.

But they also watch MSNBC. So I’ll be avoiding them for awhile.


25 posted on 09/11/2025 8:00:02 AM PDT by Leaning Right (It's morning in America. Again.)
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To: know.your.why

good luck. its going to get a lot worse before it gets better.


26 posted on 09/11/2025 8:00:23 AM PDT by wafflehouse ("there was a third possibility that we hadn't even counted upon" -Alice's Restaurant Massacree)
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To: know.your.why

I had to go to the post office earlier. Trump ordered all government buildings to fly the US flag at half staff until Sunday evening.

Guess what...there was NO FLAG visible anywhere at the PO. Anybody else have this experience?


27 posted on 09/11/2025 8:03:23 AM PDT by Fresh Wind ( "If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine")
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To: know.your.why

As upsetting as Charlie’s murder is, I think what has me in a tailspin is just how hateful and gleeful voices on the left are. One needn’t have particularly liked him, but one also does not have to publicly gloat. That so many apparently average folks — teachers, pediatricians, etc. — have such hate in their hearts and feel so comfortable expressing it on social media has me astounded. Are we breathing the same air? Where is the heart in my country? I think back to the Kennedy and King assassinations ... those men were not family heroes by any stretch, but never, ever, was joy expressed at their murders, ever. Not privately, not ever.


28 posted on 09/11/2025 8:03:34 AM PDT by JustSurrounded
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To: Bon of Babble

Yes. I sobbed over Rush’s death. I am upset (grieving) and angry over Charlie’s. I cannot cry yet.


29 posted on 09/11/2025 8:06:56 AM PDT by madison10 (There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.)
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To: know.your.why

I understand how you feel, especially after the murder of Iryna.


30 posted on 09/11/2025 8:07:22 AM PDT by I want the USA back (America is once again GREAT! Blue Lives Matter! White lives matter. )
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To: know.your.why

If I wasn’t already retired, yes, I would be calling in sick.


31 posted on 09/11/2025 8:07:39 AM PDT by ducttape45 (Jeremiah 17:9, "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?")
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To: know.your.why
You're not sick my friend. You are feeling fury. Righteous fury. All of us are feeling it. We have to harness it, get control of it, and focus on what must be done. We have to pick up the flag Charlie was carrying and keep moving into the enemy.

They are breaking, they have lost the argument and you can know this because all they have left is violence. Keep moving into them. Keep spreading the truth, keep liberating minds, keep fighting the left.

Let's win this, for our Republic, for liberty, and for Charlie.

32 posted on 09/11/2025 8:08:40 AM PDT by Frank Drebin (And don't ever let me catch you guys in America!)
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To: know.your.why

No. Go to work. It’s indeed a tragedy but unless you knew CK in some capacity personally it’s just over emotional weakness.
I pray you all recover soon.
RIP CK. Be strong .


33 posted on 09/11/2025 8:10:55 AM PDT by Karliner (Heb 4:12 Rom 8:28 Rev 3, "...This is the end of the beginning." Churchill)
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To: know.your.why

The radical left will one day repeat Yamamoto’s words.
“We have awakened a sleeping giant “


34 posted on 09/11/2025 8:12:28 AM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (“I don't really care, Margaret.””)
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To: know.your.why

It is upsetting. To me, one of the defining values of conservatives versus leftists is that we persevere. We get up, get going, do what needs to be done when it needs doing.
I encourage you to focus outwardly to what needs to be done and don’t turn inward. That is a pit of despair. Get up, get going!


35 posted on 09/11/2025 8:14:38 AM PDT by vpintheak (All the left is, is violence.)
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To: know.your.why

I know how you feel. I didn’t sleep hardly any at all last night. The events of the day kept rolling through my head. I keep picturing Kirk and his beautiful family. I kept thinking of how the Democrats and media are culpable in his death. I keep thinking about how evil surrounds us each day.

I think we should all donate a little to Turning Point in Charlie Kirk’s memory in order to keep their mission going. They are going to have to up their security to include sharp shooters on roofs.


36 posted on 09/11/2025 8:16:07 AM PDT by CFW
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To: know.your.why

My friends and I had to get together last night - we had been scheduled to go out with a bigger group that included liberals but we just couldn’t do it. There were tears and shock. What has this county become? I see it as good v evil.


37 posted on 09/11/2025 8:16:57 AM PDT by Aria (Voted for Trump 2016, 2020 & 10/22/2024 )
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To: know.your.why

I own my own company and seriously considered closing today.

After much consideration, I concluded I was being selfish. My customers rely on us, my employees rely on their pay, so I am toughing it out.

I will not be good company.


38 posted on 09/11/2025 8:20:13 AM PDT by Crusher138 ("Then conquer we must, for our cause it is just")
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To: know.your.why

While it’s understandable, you need to pray for your Creator’s blessings to strengthen and toughen your resolve against evil. Things will likely get worse so we all need to encourage and comfort each other in such difficult times. Keep praying and ask for God’s help to go on with your life and you will be surprised how comforting it will make you feel.


39 posted on 09/11/2025 8:20:32 AM PDT by iontheball
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To: know.your.why

I know I messed up on a few tasks yesterday at work


40 posted on 09/11/2025 8:20:35 AM PDT by MNDude
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