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Trump Invokes Kirk’s Killing in Justifying Measures to Silence Opponents
https://www.nytimes.com ^ | Sept 17 2025 | Zolan Kanno-YoungsAndrew DuehrenKenneth P. Vogel and Katie Rogers

Posted on 09/17/2025 2:23:15 AM PDT by Beowulf9

President Trump has begun a major escalation in his long-running efforts to stifle political opposition in the United States, using the assassination of the right-wing activist Charlie Kirk to make the baseless argument that Democratic organizations and protesters are part of a violent conspiracy against conservative values and the American way of life.

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'baseless argument'?!!!
1 posted on 09/17/2025 2:23:15 AM PDT by Beowulf9
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the baseless argument that Democratic organizations and protesters are part of a violent conspiracy against conservative values and the American way of life.

The evidence is about as thick as an old phone book.

2 posted on 09/17/2025 2:29:00 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Democrats seek power through cheating and assassination. They are sociopaths. They just want power.)
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BASELESS MY ASS!


3 posted on 09/17/2025 2:39:19 AM PDT by spincaster (ifi)
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To: Beowulf9

Now the left, which censored during Covid, post 2020 elections, after J6, regards Ukraine and LGBTQIA is worried about “free speech?”

Is this a joke?


4 posted on 09/17/2025 2:39:37 AM PDT by Red6
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“...Is this a joke...?”

No, it’s not a joke. Not even CLOSE to being a joke.
The left are striking back, and striking back HARD.
Judging by the shift that has happened in the tone of nearly every online community I am part of over the past couple of days, the left has very much gone gloves-off. The narrative is being *FIRMLY* forced into the idea that Charlie was a Fascist that openly called for violence, and “Live by the Sword, Die by the Sword.”


5 posted on 09/17/2025 2:48:41 AM PDT by Kriggerel ("All great truths are hard and bitter, but lies... are sweeter than wild honey" (Ragnar Redbeard))
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To: spincaster

Dang it!

That’s what I was going to say!

So I will anyway:

BASELESS, MY ASS!


6 posted on 09/17/2025 2:52:38 AM PDT by Adder (End fascism...defeat all Democrats.)
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To: Beowulf9

The baseless argument again.

If they call something a baseless argument, it’s true.

There are all sorts of baseless arguments, but these newspapers don’t pass judgement on them but report them as claimed.


7 posted on 09/17/2025 2:52:38 AM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Kriggerel

This will not end well for them.


8 posted on 09/17/2025 2:53:34 AM PDT by Abbeville Conservative
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Is this a joke?......the loony left, which censored the rest of us during Covid, post-2020
elections, after J6, wrt Ukraine and LGBTQIA, is NOW worried about “free speech?”


Hit a snag, did they?


9 posted on 09/17/2025 2:55:38 AM PDT by Liz (May you be in Heaven half an hour before the devil knows you're dead (Irish blessing))
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I hope President Trump sues the sh!t out of the Gray (Old) Lady.


10 posted on 09/17/2025 3:32:42 AM PDT by Jack023
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I’m guessing they’ll change their time after a payout of the $15b lawsuit.


11 posted on 09/17/2025 3:43:27 AM PDT by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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... efforts to stifle political opposition in the United States...

Will it be less bloody than the way Liberals do it - sniping from an ambush position?

12 posted on 09/17/2025 4:33:16 AM PDT by Elsie ( Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Jack023

Well, that’s the slow way.


13 posted on 09/17/2025 4:34:24 AM PDT by Elsie ( Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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It took four retards to write this drivel.


14 posted on 09/17/2025 4:38:39 AM PDT by TTFlyer (Lenin: that by the infliction of terror, a well-organized minority can conquer a nation.)
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How dare you.

I worked with people who are mentally slow and, while not quite the same, on the spectrum. They are generally positive people who do their best to get things right. Many of them work at my grocery store. They are often chatty and usually leave me with a positive outlook.

The four people who wrote this article can’t hold a candle to anyone who’s “retarded.”


15 posted on 09/17/2025 4:45:14 AM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s²)
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To: Beowulf9

Wow. These people are delusional.


16 posted on 09/17/2025 5:03:33 AM PDT by vivenne (7Come to think of it. Fact)
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To: Kriggerel

Further proving that the Left is incapable of telling the truth. We must never forget this.


17 posted on 09/17/2025 5:04:53 AM PDT by vivenne (7Come to think of it. Fact)
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To: Beowulf9

New York Slimes


18 posted on 09/17/2025 5:20:37 AM PDT by Tommy Revolts
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To: ClearCase_guy

Trump “censors” the same way one censors cockroaches by turning on the lights. He exposes their insanity and they go scrambling. Truth to DemoKKKrats is being “silenced” as their lies then carry no weight. So they just lie harder.


19 posted on 09/17/2025 5:30:22 AM PDT by FiddlePig (The greatest threat to our sacred liberty is to not value it!””)
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To: DoodleBob

Your observation is spot on!


20 posted on 09/17/2025 5:41:27 AM PDT by Elsie ( Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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