Posted on 09/14/2025 5:30:56 PM PDT by Libloather
In the wake of Charlie Kirk's assassination, Republicans on Sunday criticized some Democrats, suggesting language used by them contributed to Kirk's killing, claims that Democrats rejected.
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Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg criticized Trump's threats that his administration would go after the "radical left" that he blamed for political violence.
"I want to be really clear about this. This is an example of something that is hurting," Buttigieg said. "We are not getting the leadership that we need to bring this country together from the White House."
"The response to this cannot be for the government to crack down on individuals or groups not because of violence, but because they challenge the government politically," he said. "We need to have free and open political debate and a healthy political process in this country."
Lawmakers did agree on the need for social media companies to do a better job regulating content circulating online -- specifically for children -- and criticized the ways in which videos of Kirk's killing were widespread.
"The ways in which folks are then taking the horrific images of these incidents and propagating them on the internet adds fuel to the fire we can and should pass bills," Coons said on CBS, advocating for Congress to pass the Kids Online Safety Act.
Lankford said social media algorithms push people to the extreme.
"The algorithm in social media is always pushing who is the angriest, who is the loudest, who says the craziest thing. That's what gets repeated over and over and over again," he said.
Cox blamed social media for helping to put the country into the "dark place" it's in and suggested a way out of it.
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These include so-called “gay marriage” and trangenderism which are both subsets of their LGBT+ religion.
If any violence had come from, say, white supremecists, neo-Nazis, the KKK, it would have been headline news all across the country for months.
Since the two attempts on President Trump's life, the shooting of representative Scalise (sp?) at the baseball game, and now the assassination of Charlie Kirk, have all been by Democrats and their supporters, crickets.
I’m not saying you’re not right. In Fact, FR will probably be shut down and Facebook will remain. So, it is probably even worse than you are suggesting.
FR is OLD. It’s why I’m here. It doesn’t demand access to my GPS, cameras, microphone or contact list. Since I’ve been lurking here, now decades, there has been talk of the Government shutting down or taxing or otherwise regulating the Internet. It hasn’t. Why? Because the Government is getting exactly what it wants from it.
What just happened to Charlie Kirk is depressing. It emphasizes what this crappy technology is doing to humanity. This, with Government ‘s gleeful support and the support of the vast majority of people addicted to this technology.
I am in no way saying that shutting it down is the answer. But, turning a blind eye to its impact is certainly not the answer.
“We need to have free and open political debate and a healthy political process in this country.”
Yea, well that’s exactly what Charlie was doing when you bastards murdered him in cold blood.
So GFY, Pete.
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Those are just the names you know. You know how many kids of all ethnicities are now looking up at worms. Whether through violence or od. And those are the ones that survived the Margaret Sanger award winners.
I absolutely get it... I am a techie but have become a semi-Luddite. I’m just making the point that “Social Media” is not just Facebook, X, Bluesky, and Tik Tok. If there is a call to banish or regulate these they we had better be ready to also sacrifice. Laws passed will be blind to the differences and will affect all of them, even the ones we like.
Democrats reject reality. What has been learned about the assassin proves it, as well as how the left-wing base has reacted.
The left is tolerant. And they’ll kill you if disagree with that.
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Turn about is fair play.
Reap what you sow.
The Dempcrats are a death cult who will joyfully send you to a Democrat run Americans version of Dachau gconcerration camp& don’t fool yourself the FBI will follow orders to do just that
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Of course they reject it. They’re all a bunch of turd sucking, commie drug addicts.
Charlie Kirk was killed by the mainstream left.
Democrats - the Party of Murder, of the unborn and the born.
It wouldn’t take long to comb through MSM footage and social media to compile a montage of the RATs’ content. The montage literally could be played for 24 hours straight without repeating one clip.
THEY are the stirrer-uppers; THEY caused this. 100%.
Democrats are joined with the far Left because they need their votes. Votes are more important than right or wrong.
The Democrats act like cowards, and speak like liars.
Of course they do but with their words they inflame the hatred and violence.
They’re lying as usual to portray us as the bad guys which then forces us to go on the defensive.
We MUST stop letting them control the rhetoric!
We need to start taking the offensive yet not to lie about them, but rather expose the truth about them for all the world to see. Put THEM on the defensive for a change.
And *Love is Love* and *Hate has no home here*>
Biggest BS yard signs I've ever seen.
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