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After Charlie Kirk, what next – riots? Exactly!
American Thinker ^ | 13 Sep, 2025 | Ned Barnett

Posted on 09/14/2025 6:35:27 AM PDT by MtnClimber

I want to go out on a limb and predict that the tragic death of Charlie Kirk will lead to protests and riots and chaos in the street.

However, it will not be led by Republicans outraged by the assassination of that great and good man.

It will – as it almost always has been – the work of Democrats, Democratic Socialists and those even farther out on the left wing of America’s political spectrum.

Please mark my words here. Charlie Kirk’s assassination will trigger violence, as it so often does, on college campuses. Maybe this weekend, almost certainly next week. There will be many – paralleling George Floyd, for instance, or the Ferguson riots in St. Louis – that started around an individual or a specific and narrow location.

Friday – yesterday as I write this – I saw the first inklings of the progressive left’s actions.

Don’t take my word for it.

Here’s what NBC, one of the vanguard far-left “mainstream media” has to say about this:

Following the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk this week, educators across the country have found themselves facing swift termination or potential discipline after allegedly sharing opinions on social media about the killing.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: charliekirk; leftism
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To: V_TWIN

Not only is it NOT “alleged,” the euphemistic “sharing opinions” is par for the course for these evil propagandists.

Celebrating the murder of a fellow human being may be “free speech” but should be identified for what it is.

Yahoo is currently running one of the most misleading headlines I’ve seen in awhile (which is saying something for them): “Unusual bullet messages deepen mystery around Charlie Kirk’s suspected killer.”

Inscribing the words “farm” or “light” on a bullet, for instance, would be unusual. Inscribing “Hey fascist! CATCH!” might only be described as a deep mystery to someone with a 5th grade education.

It is paired, of course, with a picture of some law enforcement officers casually standing and chatting in a completely disconnected environment. The reader wouldn’t be drawn to read in the same way that, say, a picture of saint George Floyd would be used for a similar story.


21 posted on 09/14/2025 7:42:13 AM PDT by Señor Presidente (Tyranny deserves insurrection)
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To: MtnClimber
Unfortunately, this is probably how it will go:

"We can expect suspended or terminated faculty members to become martyrs – around whom the rallying cry will trigger tens of thousands – or more – college students to march, violently, against any person or college who stands up against the vitriol and hatred already being spewed out against Charlie Kirk, and against anyone who dares mourn him."

22 posted on 09/14/2025 7:51:20 AM PDT by citizen (A transgender male competing against women may be male, but he's no man.)
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To: MtnClimber

“Just sharing opinions “ is apparently the latest leftist talking point this week.


23 posted on 09/14/2025 7:52:48 AM PDT by Maskot (Put every dem/lib in prison........like yesterday!!! )
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To: Bon of Babble
Remember they tried to assassinate Trump twice, and almost did.

I predict there will be more attemps.

24 posted on 09/14/2025 7:58:28 AM PDT by libertylover (The HBM (Has Been Media) is almost all AGENDA-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
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To: metmom

I’m afraid they’ll start picking off influential conservatives across the board.


25 posted on 09/14/2025 8:07:34 AM PDT by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: MtnClimber

What should be next? A radical shrinkage of Federal Government. Down to 5% of GDP, as it was for a very long time in our history.

Just like Rome, America’s empire and government bloat/debt are funding corruption and cronyism, bizarre social movements, and intense and deadly political infighting in the capital which necessarily is felt across the entire nation.


26 posted on 09/14/2025 8:11:13 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: MtnClimber
Showing weakness feeds lunatics...just a fact.

The morally bankrupt left have been fomenting the removal of basic human values for so long, with little to no push-back...what did folks expect?

I'll tell you what they can expect...more of the same.

Can one imagine an economic collapse...in THIS decadent climate?

(America's enemies, foreign and domestic, sure can)

Hope for the best, plan for the worse.

27 posted on 09/14/2025 8:16:17 AM PDT by RckyRaCoCo (this space for rent)
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To: MtnClimber
I've noticed that the left seems to have changed their tactics and they're now in a full-court press to trash Charlie Kirk's reputation. I began to notice this late yesterday afternoon, not long after Tyler's furry little boyfriend came to light (thereby destroying their earlier tactic of claiming he was a MAGA conservative). It was like someone flipped a switch. I'm now seeing a lot of social media posts claiming Charlie was racist, misogynistic, homophobic, name-your-insult. The posts usually begin with "I don't support anyone's murder, but Charlie Kirk was a terrible person who spread hate, so..." I'm hopeful that everyone now knows who Charlie was and this latest effort by the left to avoid culpability falls flat.
28 posted on 09/14/2025 8:26:53 AM PDT by NoLongerTrappedInNY
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To: Bon of Babble

And likely not just assassinations of those on the right. I would not be surprised to see ANTIFA or the like assassinate someone on the left in a false flag operation.


29 posted on 09/14/2025 8:34:24 AM PDT by Jonny7797
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To: MtnClimber

“...the work of Democrats...

Finally a voice from the darkness. Of course it is their work. Their agenda has always been trying to scare the public into doing what they want. And this is no different. If it was a different person without notoriety, it would only require the left to use the media to get them some. Then all they have to do is take an average person and make them something more than special. Like George Floyd, caught passing a hot $20 bill, who was mentioned in the article.
And it starts each time a topic of their scorn of Trump or this form of government grows stale. And it has been coming back to back ever since Trump said he’d run again just like it happened whenever any conservative stands on the principle we are supposed to be indulged in and support.

And the conservatives are falling into the same old trap by supporting the effort to destroy what has taken two hundred and 50 years to create.

Even the boards here are telling. I have 20 topics on my display and of those 14 are about Kirk. So the left continues to use the Kirk shooting from a nut job they have arrested to go after the second amendment. And that is just one topic they will use before the election in 2026 and 2028. You can bet that they will come up with with someone’s graph about how gun violence has increased since Trump took office.

But even though there are a lot more important fish to fry, the left continues to play the conservatives like a trout in a stream with throwing flies out and and keeping their heads up on the hook.

Kirk was a good man. But he is being used in schemes by the left to con the public again like Floyd, Melissa and Mark Hortman, Josh Shapiro, Steve Scalise, Crystal Griner, Matt Mika, Zack Barth, and a number of others. Let’s move on. A nut job killed Kirk so be sad, but don’t let the con get past the loss for their political gains. The right is letting the left dictate what they should be thinking about rather than what’s at hand. We’ve come a long way over the past 9 months. Don’t let it be buried or let the next 9 month lose their importance with distractions provided by the left.

wy69


30 posted on 09/14/2025 8:43:45 AM PDT by whitney69
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31 posted on 09/14/2025 9:07:53 AM PDT by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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To: MtnClimber

Hard to believe that if the Left riots over this they won’t get “entertained” this time.


32 posted on 09/14/2025 9:09:08 AM PDT by TalBlack (Their god is government. Prepare for a religious war.https://freerepublic.com/perl/post?id=4322961%2)
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To: Seruzawa

drop a dime on the dime-dropper.


33 posted on 09/14/2025 9:09:57 AM PDT by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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To: whitney69
So the left continues to use the Kirk shooting from a nut job they have arrested to go after the second amendment.

I'm OK with taking the guns from every Democrat.

34 posted on 09/14/2025 9:11:02 AM PDT by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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To: MtnClimber

Needs killed before dem prez pardon


35 posted on 09/14/2025 9:16:01 AM PDT by Palio di Siena (Kralik…..you get the wallet)
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To: MtnClimber

George Floyd riots compared to Charlie Kirk vigils exactly frames the difference between right and left.


36 posted on 09/14/2025 9:25:25 AM PDT by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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To: MtnClimber

It will be organized, well-funded violence.

The leadership sponsoring the violence must be held accountable.


37 posted on 09/14/2025 9:25:37 AM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism. )
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To: MtnClimber

Pagging the Ohio National Guard.


38 posted on 09/14/2025 9:31:42 AM PDT by cowboyusa ( YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA AND HE WILL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE HIM!)
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To: MtnClimber

Around September 5, I saw a video of a guy in Houston.
He was a Muslim and he was going store to store and telling even Muslim own businesses to stop selling alcohol, pork and gambling things (lottery).
Said he had 30 days or his business would be protested against.

Then I don’t know where it was, but I heard there’s going to be a protest starting October 5.

The timing is similar.

So my personal opinion is the protest start October 5.


39 posted on 09/14/2025 9:33:13 AM PDT by missthethunder (Since the 1980 Rona Barrett interview. IYKYK. )
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To: laplata

Lots more people will be carrying and on alert and likely some of these assassins will not come out alive.

Well, that’s war and they started it. It’s called consequences.

And while some people strictly adhere to turn the other cheek, it’
s fine to make that decision for YOURSELF but not for others. I feel no obligation to stand passively by while someone else gets assaulted and/or killed.


40 posted on 09/14/2025 10:04:00 AM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus….)
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