Posted on 09/11/2025 3:35:51 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Kirk, like all victims of gun violence, was someone’s family member — a husband, a father, a son. He was a professed Christian and a provocateur who took his message to places that were often hostile; he welcomed a back-and-forth with those who disagreed with his views. He was a media savant who leveraged his views into the algorithms of young people, particularly men, who have been historically reluctant to engage in politics. Many people who couldn’t have picked Tucker Carlson or Candace Owens out of a police lineup knew Charlie Kirk. Turning Point USA, the political organization he co-founded to activate young conservatives, played a key role in President Donald Trump’s reemergence from the shadows of Jan. 6 and his return to the presidency four years later.
There is no getting around other elements of his character. Kirk was eager to weaponize language against some of the most marginalized and vulnerable among us. That fact alone made his calls for respectful debate and elevating “discussion above personal insults” ring hollow.
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There was no mistaking how Kirk viewed Democrats, and liberals and progressives more generally: They “stand for everything God hates,” he said last year during a campaign appearance with Trump in Georgia. The transgender community, he proclaimed, were “a throbbing middle finger to God” and an “abomination.” The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was “awful” and “a bad man,” and the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which outlawed discrimination in public accommodations, public education and
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Axios via MSN (7/7/2025): "There needs to be blood": Democrats' voters tell them to "get shot" in Trump resistance push
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At town halls in their districts and in one-on-one meetings with constituents and activists, Democratic members of Congress are facing a growing thrum of demands to break the rules, fight dirty — and not be afraid to get hurt.
Why it matters: House Democrats told Axios they see a growing anger among their base that has, in some cases, morphed into a disregard for American institutions, political traditions and even the rule of law...
What we're hearing: The grassroots wants more. "Some of them have suggested ... what we really need to do is be willing to get shot" when visiting ICE facilities or federal agencies, a third House Democrat told Axios...
A fourth House Democrat said constituents have told them "civility isn't working" and to prepare for "violence ... to fight to protect our democracy."
...A sixth House Democrat said that when they try to persuade voters to channel their frustration into a focus on winning back Congress in 2026, "people who are angry don't accept that. They're angry beyond things."
Zoom in: Many lawmakers said these voters tend to be white, well-educated and live in upscale suburban or urban neighborhoods.
"What I have seen is a demand that we get ourselves arrested intentionally or allow ourselves to be victims of violence, and ... a lot of times that's coming from economically very secure white people," said an eighth House Democrat...
The bottom line: "The expectations aren't just unreal. They're dangerous," the eighth House Democrat said.
They not only told us WHAT they were going to do, they told us WHO was going to do it.
-PJ
That picture just caused smoke to come out of my gaydar machine.
That t-shirt is leftists admitting that they lost the argument.
STFU loser troll. No one here is advocating assassinations. You should have been zotted many moons ago.
BIH
Them, not you rx.
Good riddance to bad garbage.
So
Soy boy butt muncher
Not your call.
Grow up and let the poster speak for himself.
That *itch looks like a young John Sebastian.
Agree. It’s an ignorant comparison I see far too often in FR.
Go to a BlueSky-like site and pose the question: if the non-left were to behave like the left, who would be targets? Throw in a few beloved names to get things rolling, like Destiny, Sam Harris, etc.
Bkmk
A dick-smokin, turd-burglarin butt pirate for sure.
Funny how leftist “women” are the ugliest skanks to walk on two legs - though my guess is they more adept at scurrying about on four.
These “women” are so fugly they could make a freight train take a gravel road.
There is good reason why we call them “MASSHOLES” from FAG-A-CHUSETTS ... The GAY State.
Except your neglecting to realize it was republicans who supported the civil rights and voting rights in the sixties and MLK was a Republican like Nixon
“He’s no hero, he was a fanatic terrorist, just like modern leftists.”
Don’t forget the murders at Osawatomie. He was a vicious fiend and deserved hanging.
Amen!
SAH not the same shirt!!
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