I 100% agree — and thank you for using the correct word: assassination. That’s exactly what this was. Not a “shooting.” Not an “event.” Words matter. When the media softens the language, they downplay the reality because it doesn’t fit their narrative.
Ask yourself: was JFK shot, or was he assassinated? Was RFK’s death just a “shooting”? Of course not. Precision matters. The same is true today. The recent school massacre wasn’t just a “school shooting” — it was the targeted assassination of innocent children. If we use the right words, people will stop, listen, and understand the truth for what it really is.
Tough day to be an American. I didn’t always agree with Charlie but man did I respect the hell out of his approach - and especially his willingness to listen to those with opposing views.
Your piece is right on, Charlie loved debate & relished an opportunity to change the minds of those that disagreed with him by respectfully using our God given right of free speech. Always giving glory to Jesus. And he was the best at it, millions listened. That’s why they murdered him.
CNN is not much better - I watched for 10 min last night to see what they’re saying. They played a clip of Alex Jones saying this is war now. They are now twisting this tragedy to the MAGA want to go to war, giving the impression that Charlie deserved this.
I just hope he did not die for nothing and his message gets louder with the youth.
I’m just sick and tired of this country - 5 years ago everyone lost their damn minds when a career criminal and drug addict dies…….but when a good person that was 100% for open dialogue is gunned down the narrative is well he asked for it.
Just an unbelievably sad and horrific day for the country. It’s weird having feelings of sadness, rage, etc but also feeling numb. Just feel so awful for his family. This country has been on a destructive path for awhile and this is a significant escalation. I don’t see how things improve in the short to medium term. It’s hard not to be black pilled right now.
If we want to honor Charlie Kirk, we must carry his legacy of peaceful dialogue forward. I agree Chris and it is imperative that we show up at the voting booth rewarding candidates that hold the values that this nation was founded upon which if you harken back to the Declaration of Independence and then Constitution and Bill of Rights were all created after intense and passionate debate. Voting is how all of us get a say in how we are governed - time to demand better.
please stop with the one sided comments and get back to your data driven roots. no moment of silence or flags half mast when mn rep melissa hortman and husband killed by homegrown terrorist and 2 others critically injured. charlie laughed when pelosi husband was hammered on the head and asked to collect money to bail out the violent offender. when parkland related gun control was brought up he said that some innocent people dying was the price of keeping the second amendment. i don’t condone violence for any reason but also can’t stand double speak.
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can we agree that fox news and newsmax do the same as msnbc but with a right instead of left leaning approach?
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i agree but did we not hit this point much earlier when m hortman and husband were assasinated in their home? when another dem couple were shot and critically injured by the same terrorist who had a list of 20 other dems. when 20 maga guys in mich made a plan to kidnap the governor? when people were running around on jan 6 and pence and family had to run for their life, when our capital was desecrated and when our police were beaten in public with not consequences? when repube solomon peña hired people to shoot at his dem opponents in new mexico. i abhor violence. charlie was not a nice person , he joked about pelosi’s husband after the brutal hammer attack and tried to setup bail for the assailant. when they tried to bring up gun control after parkland, he said some innocent dying was the price to pay for the second amendment!
The fact that you still believe the official story about J6 and the Michigan thing is unbelievable. Actual feds were proven to have been heavily involved in both. Maybe try watching anything but boomer normie news and look into things critically for once?
You cant talk from both sides! Several of the Mich guys were proven guilty after multiple appeals. Is sending in the FBI to emebed with people who are actively thinking of kidnapping govt officials OR blowing up american infrastructure wrong? do we wait for the kidnapping or bombing to happen before investigating - mind you investigating NOT arresting.
Ashli Babbit broke the glass of the house and scrambled into it because of fed involvement?
The guys who beat up the police repeatedly behind the glass were doing it because of fed involvement.
The guys who dragged fanone thru the ground and pummeled him was because of fed development.
The guys who went hunting for Pelosi and Pence were doing it because of fed involvement?
The guys building nooses in the main square were doing it because of fed involvement?
Why is admin (not fed) stopping the disclosure of the Epstein info.
Why has the admin moved ghislaine to girls sleep camp in tx from top sec.
Why is the whole GOP (except for 3) stopping the complete disclosure of the epstein files.
Why has the president and his family directly made $5B with pump dump crypto scams in the last 9 months! more than they have in the last 4 years.
Please look at all data and all facts to analyze ideas and then make a conclusion.
God help all americans to weather this storm and treat all americans as equals. Rich and powerful should not be special.
By the way, some innocents dying as the price for Second Amendment rights is unequivocally true. Much as some dying in traffic accidents is the price of mechanized movement. It is a tragic truth, to be sure, but a truth nonetheless. The Second Amendment is a bulwark against tyranny. It is, sadly, not free of charge.
You obviously have never bought a gun. They do an FBI background check right there at the store. What sort of additional “approval” do you want? Hilarious because your party thinks showing an ID to vote is racist oppression.
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did i ask anyone to take down their opinion? i asked for him to give equal time to the narrative that MSNBC is the only one that you can attibute blame to. nothing else. the more 360 information there is the better for americans, else we are in echo chambers and i respect qtr else i would not suggest it to him.
A left leaning militia wanted to kidnap a "leftist" governor, now we have heard it all. I dont know how you you are not reading any real news and facts: The Wolverine Watchmen group was reportedly an offshoot of the Michigan Militia. The day after the suspects were arrested, the Michigan Militia issued a statement disavowing the group.[23] Other Michigan-based militia groups also distanced themselves from the plotters' actions and intentions. The Michigan Home Guard, a militia that one of the suspects had once been a member of before being kicked out in 2020, released a statement condemning the Wolverine Watchmen's actions. Anyways why would a group of leftist people kidnap a leftist governor!
What am i wrong about wrt Charlie? He is an influencer, like howard stern, but from a christian, racist, zionist perspective. Nothing justifies murder of anyone but lets not pretend that he did not say and encourage hatred amongst americans. He focused on inflaming aggreived white christians and laid blame on muslims, african americans, immigrants ...
Why no accountability? Everything is blamed on someone else. If you don't introspect OR look at information carefully you will support the wrong ideas and americans will suffer.
The suspect, Vance Luther Boelter, a 57-year-old evangelical Christian, was vehemently anti-abortion and led Revoformation Ministries, a nonprofit opposing abortion and LGBTQ+ rights. His hit list, found in his vehicle, included prominent abortion rights supporters, suggesting Hortman’s legislative record made her a prime target.
Does someone who dislikes LGTBQ+ rights OR abortion rights, sound like an democrat/leftist person?
i have put a small summary here of targeted assasinations of govt officials not pundits etc.
Who shot minnesota dem govt officials. (Rep)
Who shot Gabby Giffords. (Rep)
Who shot Scalise. (Dem)
Who tried to kidnap whitmer and bomb american infrastructure. (Rep)
Who shot at dem opponents in NM. (Rep)
Who broke into Pelosi's house and bludgoened her husband. (Rep)
Pena (Trump wasn’t president at the time, guy got 80 years in prison)
i am not telling that trump or biden is responsible for this! i am stating that these are non “left” people committing theae horrific acts in american soil.
this was to dispel the left is violent narrative and stands, right?
are you telling me that people conspiring to kidnap someone and blow up bridges are ok because they were entrapped by the FBI????. here are some final details that should inform your opinion on this matter.
here are details on michigan governor case.
Adam Fox - Convicted of conspiracy to kidnap and conspiracy to possess
weapons of mass destruction
Joseph Morrison - Convicted of providing material support for terrorist acts, gang membership and carrying or possessing a firearm during a felony.
finally in apr 25.
An appeals court on Tuesday affirmed the convictions of two men who were accused of leading a plot to kidnap Michigan’s governor in 2020 and start a civil war.
Lawyers for Adam Fox and Barry Croft Jr. had argued that their right to pursue a vigorous entrapment defense was greatly diminished by the rulings of a trial judge in western Michigan, among other claims.
The court, however, said any errors by the judge were harmless.
“The jury saw and heard a host of video and audio recordings of defendants promising violence, planning and participating in trainings, bringing their own weapons and material, and plotting the abduction without reluctance,” the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said in a 3-0 opinion.
Barry Croft - Convicted of conspiracy to kidnap, conspiracy to possess weapons of mass destruction and knowingly possessing an unregistered destructive device.
Kaleb Franks - Pleaded guilty to conspiracy to kidnap
Ty Garbin - Pleaded guilty to conspiracy to kidnap
Brandon Caserta - Acquitted of conspiracy to kidnap. Caserta, of Canton,He declined to testify in the second trial, invoking his Fifth Amendment right
Daniel Harris - Acquitted of conspiracy to kidnap, conspiracy to possess weapons of mass destruction, possessing an unregistered destructive device and possessing an unregistered short barrel rifle.
Pete Musico - Convicted of providing material support for terrorist acts, gang membership and carrying or possessing a firearm during a felony.
You are liar and all your snipets of Charlie quotes are all clipped without full context. This is the classic left lie it’s what they do take quotes out of context to present a person in a certain light which always in a negative light for conservatives. You again are a liar nothing Charlie said is hateful but to you anything you disagree with is hate speech. You are simply repeating the talking points the left has been spewing the past week plus.
Can you put a context on this underwear/hammer "joke" on Pelosi when he was in ICU. Is the behavior of a decent person? Would you do this? Would you like someone to do this "joke" if it happened to your spouse or loved one?
Why do you hate americans and want to split them up? Were you born here or did american troops bomb your country or did we destabilize your government? This is not americans but the government and politicians who did those things.
You are someone who seems incapable of accepting facts that dont fit your narrative. When Pelosi was bludgeoned with a hammer, Charlie posted a pic of an large underwear with a hammer on it and laughing emoji and tried to raise funds to bail out assailant. Is this a person with empathy and morals?
So all of those sayings are not hate speech, making fun of. degenerating a race of people and women and immigrants is OK. I guess that explains a lot.
Your comments on Charlie are nothing but lies. You spew the same hateful rhetoric that got him killed because people like you cannot accept the fact others have a different view point than the one you believe. Did you see his memorial? I think that speaks volumes about the lives he touched. There is no one on the left who would draw a crowd that size after they passed away. He was a man of God who never attacked anyone and allowed anyone to debate him and prove him wrong. He never attacked anyone who debated him but instead showed nothing but respect.
As to the militia they planned to kidnap her because of her lock down policies which they disagreed with.
I have no interest in lying and no reason to, I want ALL americans to improve their lot and get a chance at the american dream. His memorial is the trump admin propaganda tour, have you been to a memorial where they have fireworks, people spent 50% of the time talking about what this admin is trying to do.
There is no such thing as a leftist militia, please send us a list of registered leftist militia in the US! All the militias that have attacked or being attacked by republican/democratic admins have been right wing, conservative militias, show me otherwise.
Here are some of the hateful things he has said. IMHO, his rhetoric pitted white males, christians against muslims, immigrants, asians, LGTBQ. He effectively split the opposition to allow the Oligarchs to stay in power.
when asked about gun control in discussion about parkland mass shooting
"It's worth it to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year, so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights," he said during an April 5, 2023, appearance at the Salt Lake City campus of Awaken Church. "That is a prudent deal."
Kirk decried not only Martin Luther King Jr., calling the civil rights leader "awful" and "not a good person," but also the Civil Rights Act of 1965 that outlawed discrimination on the basis of race, colour, religion, sex and national origin, and prohibited segregation.
"I have a very, very radical view on this, but I can defend it, and I've thought about it," Kirk said. "We made a huge mistake when we passed the Civil Rights Act in the 1960s."
"It is a growing consensus in the pro-life world that abortion is never medically necessary," he told one female student, who then asked, if someone raped his hypothetical 10-year-old daughter, would he want the child to be born.
"The answer is, yes, the baby would be delivered," he said.
If I’m dealing with somebody in customer service who’s a moronic Black woman, I wonder is she there because of her excellence, or is she there because of affirmative action?
If we would have said that Joy Reid and Michelle Obama and Sheila Jackson Lee and Ketanji Brown Jackson were affirmative action picks, we would have been called racists. Now they’re coming out and they’re saying it for us … You do not have the brain processing power to otherwise be taken really seriously. You had to go steal a white person’s slot to go be taken
“If I see a Black pilot, I’m going to be like, ‘Boy, I hope he’s qualified.’”
While debating a college student, Kirk said, “black people were actually better in the 1940s under jim crow and segregation . It was bad. It was evil. But what happened? Something changed. They committed less crimes.”
America was at its peak when we halted immigration for 40 years and we dropped our foreign-born percentage to its lowest level ever. We should be unafraid to do that.
Charlie Kirk visited campuses and often engaged with students hostile to Israel, patiently listening to them and then calmly correcting their lies and distortions about Israel and the war in Gaza. When eventually the FBI or another LEA finds Kirk's killer I wouldn't be surprised if the killer states their motive was to Free Palestine and to globalize the intifada. And if so the Jew haters will come out en masse to support the killer, moreso than if the killer's motivation was anything other than the Free Palestine and "genocide" and killing children faux virtue ad nauseum.
I don't care what Israel or Palestine does. I want the US government to put Americans first, not a foreign country. What we're seeing now with Israel in the United States is exactly what George Washington warned the nation would happen by putting foreign allies before the country in his farewell address.
"So likewise, a passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils. Sympathy for the favorite nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest in cases where no real common interest exists, and infusing into one the enmities of the other, betrays the former into a participation in the quarrels and wars of the latter without adequate inducement or justification. It leads also to concessions to the favorite nation of privileges denied to others which is apt doubly to injure the nation making the concessions; by unnecessarily parting with what ought to have been retained, and by exciting jealousy, ill-will, and a disposition to retaliate, in the parties from whom equal privileges are withheld. And it gives to ambitious, corrupted, or deluded citizens (who devote themselves to the favorite nation), facility to betray or sacrifice the interests of their own country, without odium, sometimes even with popularity; gilding, with the appearances of a virtuous sense of obligation, a commendable deference for public opinion, or a laudable zeal for public good, the base or foolish compliances of ambition, corruption, or infatuation." - George Washington, Farewell Address
Sounds like you are talking about the United State's relationship with its European allies and Turkey through NATO. Israel is America's staunchest ally and the USA is more popular in Israel than it is in any European nation or Turkey. Standing strong with an ally like Israel is putting America first, whereas our war committments vis a vis NATO nations is not putting America first. We have no commitment to go to war when Israel is attacked, we do with NATO. Good quote from Washington.
Reread Washington's warning. "Israel is America's most staunchesr ally" is exactly the type of warning that Washington warned about where Americans betray their own country to support another one that they're not even a citizen of.
No, putting an ally (Israel) before Americans by sending the country taxpayer money and supporting a war when Trump said he would be a peace president is one of the major problems of the current Trump Administration. Israel has been losing support around the world and in the United States, especially among young people. I'm an American. I want my government to put Americans first and supporting Israel does not help the American people.
Interesting enough, this was one of Charlie Kirk's main points on an interview with Megyn Kelly a month ago.
Megyn Kelly and Charlie Kirk Push Back Against Israel Supporters Demanding Their 100% Support For Israel:
Nothing wrong with what Charlie Kirk said to Megan Kelly, did nothing to diminish or contradict his consistently strong support of Israel. Supporting Israel doesn't mean putting Israel ahead of America. Every American I know who supports Israel knows this. Jew haters think that supporting Israel means you are putting that ally ahead of America. The notion is ridiculous. As far as Israel losing support in the world, suggest you read "The World Loves Dead Jews" by Dara Horn. The story of Job in the bible is the story of the Jew in this world. The devil caused Job misery because Job refused to lose his faith in God, so too the devil causes the Jew misery because the Jew refuses to lose faith in God. And as God ultimately restores Job, so too that day will come for the Jew. Genesis 12:3
Very little point in trying to "peacefully dialogue" with those who intend to murder you because you believe in reality rather than "relativist" fantasy-worlds.
"When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say"
Word on X is Dowd is fired from MSNBC.
MSNBS is truly the worst of media in this country.
You cannot hate MSNBC and everyone connected with it enough.
I 100% agree — and thank you for using the correct word: assassination. That’s exactly what this was. Not a “shooting.” Not an “event.” Words matter. When the media softens the language, they downplay the reality because it doesn’t fit their narrative.
Ask yourself: was JFK shot, or was he assassinated? Was RFK’s death just a “shooting”? Of course not. Precision matters. The same is true today. The recent school massacre wasn’t just a “school shooting” — it was the targeted assassination of innocent children. If we use the right words, people will stop, listen, and understand the truth for what it really is.
Tough day to be an American. I didn’t always agree with Charlie but man did I respect the hell out of his approach - and especially his willingness to listen to those with opposing views.
We lost a good man today.
Thanks for writing this Chris. I’m numb thinking about this murder, and that of the young Ukrainian woman. This article helped.
Your piece is right on, Charlie loved debate & relished an opportunity to change the minds of those that disagreed with him by respectfully using our God given right of free speech. Always giving glory to Jesus. And he was the best at it, millions listened. That’s why they murdered him.
CNN is not much better - I watched for 10 min last night to see what they’re saying. They played a clip of Alex Jones saying this is war now. They are now twisting this tragedy to the MAGA want to go to war, giving the impression that Charlie deserved this.
I just hope he did not die for nothing and his message gets louder with the youth.
I’m just sick and tired of this country - 5 years ago everyone lost their damn minds when a career criminal and drug addict dies…….but when a good person that was 100% for open dialogue is gunned down the narrative is well he asked for it.
Dear Chris Irons, once again a measured article with plain speaking.
Tensions are being pushed to the limit via assassination.
This is a road to ruin, for any nation.
May Charlie Kirk's soul rest in peace.
Why is MSNBC, a Transnational mouthpiece, still on the air?
Just an unbelievably sad and horrific day for the country. It’s weird having feelings of sadness, rage, etc but also feeling numb. Just feel so awful for his family. This country has been on a destructive path for awhile and this is a significant escalation. I don’t see how things improve in the short to medium term. It’s hard not to be black pilled right now.
If we want to honor Charlie Kirk, we must carry his legacy of peaceful dialogue forward. I agree Chris and it is imperative that we show up at the voting booth rewarding candidates that hold the values that this nation was founded upon which if you harken back to the Declaration of Independence and then Constitution and Bill of Rights were all created after intense and passionate debate. Voting is how all of us get a say in how we are governed - time to demand better.
please stop with the one sided comments and get back to your data driven roots. no moment of silence or flags half mast when mn rep melissa hortman and husband killed by homegrown terrorist and 2 others critically injured. charlie laughed when pelosi husband was hammered on the head and asked to collect money to bail out the violent offender. when parkland related gun control was brought up he said that some innocent people dying was the price of keeping the second amendment. i don’t condone violence for any reason but also can’t stand double speak.
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can we agree that any violence is bad?
can we agree that fox news and newsmax do the same as msnbc but with a right instead of left leaning approach?
you have conplete authority to write whatever you want but i am asking for equal views which will help inform your subscribers better about reality. my purpose in that comment was to try and see if the qtr that did great research on tesla by your unbiased data driven approach can continue more of the same. that’s why i subscribed, because of your style and standing up for unbiased data driven ideas.
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i agree but did we not hit this point much earlier when m hortman and husband were assasinated in their home? when another dem couple were shot and critically injured by the same terrorist who had a list of 20 other dems. when 20 maga guys in mich made a plan to kidnap the governor? when people were running around on jan 6 and pence and family had to run for their life, when our capital was desecrated and when our police were beaten in public with not consequences? when repube solomon peña hired people to shoot at his dem opponents in new mexico. i abhor violence. charlie was not a nice person , he joked about pelosi’s husband after the brutal hammer attack and tried to setup bail for the assailant. when they tried to bring up gun control after parkland, he said some innocent dying was the price to pay for the second amendment!
The fact that you still believe the official story about J6 and the Michigan thing is unbelievable. Actual feds were proven to have been heavily involved in both. Maybe try watching anything but boomer normie news and look into things critically for once?
You cant talk from both sides! Several of the Mich guys were proven guilty after multiple appeals. Is sending in the FBI to emebed with people who are actively thinking of kidnapping govt officials OR blowing up american infrastructure wrong? do we wait for the kidnapping or bombing to happen before investigating - mind you investigating NOT arresting.
Ashli Babbit broke the glass of the house and scrambled into it because of fed involvement?
The guys who beat up the police repeatedly behind the glass were doing it because of fed involvement.
The guys who dragged fanone thru the ground and pummeled him was because of fed development.
The guys who went hunting for Pelosi and Pence were doing it because of fed involvement?
The guys building nooses in the main square were doing it because of fed involvement?
Why is admin (not fed) stopping the disclosure of the Epstein info.
Why has the admin moved ghislaine to girls sleep camp in tx from top sec.
Why is the whole GOP (except for 3) stopping the complete disclosure of the epstein files.
Why has the president and his family directly made $5B with pump dump crypto scams in the last 9 months! more than they have in the last 4 years.
Please look at all data and all facts to analyze ideas and then make a conclusion.
God help all americans to weather this storm and treat all americans as equals. Rich and powerful should not be special.
By the way, some innocents dying as the price for Second Amendment rights is unequivocally true. Much as some dying in traffic accidents is the price of mechanized movement. It is a tragic truth, to be sure, but a truth nonetheless. The Second Amendment is a bulwark against tyranny. It is, sadly, not free of charge.
My issue is not with the second ammendment but how it is practiced. I believe in our freedoms and want them preserved.
Why is there no approval process for anyone who buys a gun? It is harder to get a car license than a gun, which can kill 10X more in less time.
Why is there no regular mental checkups for people who own guns.
Why is there no requirement to carry liability insurance for gun owners.
Gun owners can and do kill faster than cars or users of knives.
You obviously have never bought a gun. They do an FBI background check right there at the store. What sort of additional “approval” do you want? Hilarious because your party thinks showing an ID to vote is racist oppression.
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did i ask anyone to take down their opinion? i asked for him to give equal time to the narrative that MSNBC is the only one that you can attibute blame to. nothing else. the more 360 information there is the better for americans, else we are in echo chambers and i respect qtr else i would not suggest it to him.
The Michigan Governor kidnapping was done by a left leaning militia that was infiltrated by the FBI not by 20 MAGA guys as you state.
You are also completely wrong about Charlie. You are free to your own opinions but not free to your own facts.
A left leaning militia wanted to kidnap a "leftist" governor, now we have heard it all. I dont know how you you are not reading any real news and facts: The Wolverine Watchmen group was reportedly an offshoot of the Michigan Militia. The day after the suspects were arrested, the Michigan Militia issued a statement disavowing the group.[23] Other Michigan-based militia groups also distanced themselves from the plotters' actions and intentions. The Michigan Home Guard, a militia that one of the suspects had once been a member of before being kicked out in 2020, released a statement condemning the Wolverine Watchmen's actions. Anyways why would a group of leftist people kidnap a leftist governor!
What am i wrong about wrt Charlie? He is an influencer, like howard stern, but from a christian, racist, zionist perspective. Nothing justifies murder of anyone but lets not pretend that he did not say and encourage hatred amongst americans. He focused on inflaming aggreived white christians and laid blame on muslims, african americans, immigrants ...
Hortman was assassinated by an unhinged democrat/leftist lunatic because she broke party ranks in a vote and he was pissed about it
Why no accountability? Everything is blamed on someone else. If you don't introspect OR look at information carefully you will support the wrong ideas and americans will suffer.
The suspect, Vance Luther Boelter, a 57-year-old evangelical Christian, was vehemently anti-abortion and led Revoformation Ministries, a nonprofit opposing abortion and LGBTQ+ rights. His hit list, found in his vehicle, included prominent abortion rights supporters, suggesting Hortman’s legislative record made her a prime target.
Does someone who dislikes LGTBQ+ rights OR abortion rights, sound like an democrat/leftist person?
i have put a small summary here of targeted assasinations of govt officials not pundits etc.
Who shot minnesota dem govt officials. (Rep)
Who shot Gabby Giffords. (Rep)
Who shot Scalise. (Dem)
Who tried to kidnap whitmer and bomb american infrastructure. (Rep)
Who shot at dem opponents in NM. (Rep)
Who broke into Pelosi's house and bludgoened her husband. (Rep)
Please add more to the list..
He had previously worked for democrats
Pena (Trump wasn’t president at the time, guy got 80 years in prison)
i am not telling that trump or biden is responsible for this! i am stating that these are non “left” people committing theae horrific acts in american soil.
this was to dispel the left is violent narrative and stands, right?
what is your point on the m hortman set of assasinatiom attempts?
that it was ok?
that the govt investigated it properly?
that trump condemned it?
there was not outcrying in the house for prayers or flags to be at half staff or immediate reaction by the president! he was still golfing.
my point, which still stands is that all americans lives are important - not just maga people and influencers and people close to the president.
are you telling me that people conspiring to kidnap someone and blow up bridges are ok because they were entrapped by the FBI????. here are some final details that should inform your opinion on this matter.
here are details on michigan governor case.
Adam Fox - Convicted of conspiracy to kidnap and conspiracy to possess
weapons of mass destruction
Joseph Morrison - Convicted of providing material support for terrorist acts, gang membership and carrying or possessing a firearm during a felony.
finally in apr 25.
An appeals court on Tuesday affirmed the convictions of two men who were accused of leading a plot to kidnap Michigan’s governor in 2020 and start a civil war.
Lawyers for Adam Fox and Barry Croft Jr. had argued that their right to pursue a vigorous entrapment defense was greatly diminished by the rulings of a trial judge in western Michigan, among other claims.
The court, however, said any errors by the judge were harmless.
“The jury saw and heard a host of video and audio recordings of defendants promising violence, planning and participating in trainings, bringing their own weapons and material, and plotting the abduction without reluctance,” the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said in a 3-0 opinion.
Barry Croft - Convicted of conspiracy to kidnap, conspiracy to possess weapons of mass destruction and knowingly possessing an unregistered destructive device.
Kaleb Franks - Pleaded guilty to conspiracy to kidnap
Ty Garbin - Pleaded guilty to conspiracy to kidnap
Brandon Caserta - Acquitted of conspiracy to kidnap. Caserta, of Canton,He declined to testify in the second trial, invoking his Fifth Amendment right
Daniel Harris - Acquitted of conspiracy to kidnap, conspiracy to possess weapons of mass destruction, possessing an unregistered destructive device and possessing an unregistered short barrel rifle.
Pete Musico - Convicted of providing material support for terrorist acts, gang membership and carrying or possessing a firearm during a felony.
You are liar and all your snipets of Charlie quotes are all clipped without full context. This is the classic left lie it’s what they do take quotes out of context to present a person in a certain light which always in a negative light for conservatives. You again are a liar nothing Charlie said is hateful but to you anything you disagree with is hate speech. You are simply repeating the talking points the left has been spewing the past week plus.
Can you put a context on this underwear/hammer "joke" on Pelosi when he was in ICU. Is the behavior of a decent person? Would you do this? Would you like someone to do this "joke" if it happened to your spouse or loved one?
Why do you hate americans and want to split them up? Were you born here or did american troops bomb your country or did we destabilize your government? This is not americans but the government and politicians who did those things.
You are someone who seems incapable of accepting facts that dont fit your narrative. When Pelosi was bludgeoned with a hammer, Charlie posted a pic of an large underwear with a hammer on it and laughing emoji and tried to raise funds to bail out assailant. Is this a person with empathy and morals?
So all of those sayings are not hate speech, making fun of. degenerating a race of people and women and immigrants is OK. I guess that explains a lot.
Your comments on Charlie are nothing but lies. You spew the same hateful rhetoric that got him killed because people like you cannot accept the fact others have a different view point than the one you believe. Did you see his memorial? I think that speaks volumes about the lives he touched. There is no one on the left who would draw a crowd that size after they passed away. He was a man of God who never attacked anyone and allowed anyone to debate him and prove him wrong. He never attacked anyone who debated him but instead showed nothing but respect.
As to the militia they planned to kidnap her because of her lock down policies which they disagreed with.
I have no interest in lying and no reason to, I want ALL americans to improve their lot and get a chance at the american dream. His memorial is the trump admin propaganda tour, have you been to a memorial where they have fireworks, people spent 50% of the time talking about what this admin is trying to do.
There is no such thing as a leftist militia, please send us a list of registered leftist militia in the US! All the militias that have attacked or being attacked by republican/democratic admins have been right wing, conservative militias, show me otherwise.
Here are some of the hateful things he has said. IMHO, his rhetoric pitted white males, christians against muslims, immigrants, asians, LGTBQ. He effectively split the opposition to allow the Oligarchs to stay in power.
when asked about gun control in discussion about parkland mass shooting
"It's worth it to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year, so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights," he said during an April 5, 2023, appearance at the Salt Lake City campus of Awaken Church. "That is a prudent deal."
Kirk decried not only Martin Luther King Jr., calling the civil rights leader "awful" and "not a good person," but also the Civil Rights Act of 1965 that outlawed discrimination on the basis of race, colour, religion, sex and national origin, and prohibited segregation.
"I have a very, very radical view on this, but I can defend it, and I've thought about it," Kirk said. "We made a huge mistake when we passed the Civil Rights Act in the 1960s."
"It is a growing consensus in the pro-life world that abortion is never medically necessary," he told one female student, who then asked, if someone raped his hypothetical 10-year-old daughter, would he want the child to be born.
"The answer is, yes, the baby would be delivered," he said.
If I’m dealing with somebody in customer service who’s a moronic Black woman, I wonder is she there because of her excellence, or is she there because of affirmative action?
If we would have said that Joy Reid and Michelle Obama and Sheila Jackson Lee and Ketanji Brown Jackson were affirmative action picks, we would have been called racists. Now they’re coming out and they’re saying it for us … You do not have the brain processing power to otherwise be taken really seriously. You had to go steal a white person’s slot to go be taken
“If I see a Black pilot, I’m going to be like, ‘Boy, I hope he’s qualified.’”
While debating a college student, Kirk said, “black people were actually better in the 1940s under jim crow and segregation . It was bad. It was evil. But what happened? Something changed. They committed less crimes.”
America was at its peak when we halted immigration for 40 years and we dropped our foreign-born percentage to its lowest level ever. We should be unafraid to do that.
Charlie Kirk visited campuses and often engaged with students hostile to Israel, patiently listening to them and then calmly correcting their lies and distortions about Israel and the war in Gaza. When eventually the FBI or another LEA finds Kirk's killer I wouldn't be surprised if the killer states their motive was to Free Palestine and to globalize the intifada. And if so the Jew haters will come out en masse to support the killer, moreso than if the killer's motivation was anything other than the Free Palestine and "genocide" and killing children faux virtue ad nauseum.
I don't care what Israel or Palestine does. I want the US government to put Americans first, not a foreign country. What we're seeing now with Israel in the United States is exactly what George Washington warned the nation would happen by putting foreign allies before the country in his farewell address.
"So likewise, a passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils. Sympathy for the favorite nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest in cases where no real common interest exists, and infusing into one the enmities of the other, betrays the former into a participation in the quarrels and wars of the latter without adequate inducement or justification. It leads also to concessions to the favorite nation of privileges denied to others which is apt doubly to injure the nation making the concessions; by unnecessarily parting with what ought to have been retained, and by exciting jealousy, ill-will, and a disposition to retaliate, in the parties from whom equal privileges are withheld. And it gives to ambitious, corrupted, or deluded citizens (who devote themselves to the favorite nation), facility to betray or sacrifice the interests of their own country, without odium, sometimes even with popularity; gilding, with the appearances of a virtuous sense of obligation, a commendable deference for public opinion, or a laudable zeal for public good, the base or foolish compliances of ambition, corruption, or infatuation." - George Washington, Farewell Address
https://www.georgewashington.org/farewell-address.jsp
Sounds like you are talking about the United State's relationship with its European allies and Turkey through NATO. Israel is America's staunchest ally and the USA is more popular in Israel than it is in any European nation or Turkey. Standing strong with an ally like Israel is putting America first, whereas our war committments vis a vis NATO nations is not putting America first. We have no commitment to go to war when Israel is attacked, we do with NATO. Good quote from Washington.
Reread Washington's warning. "Israel is America's most staunchesr ally" is exactly the type of warning that Washington warned about where Americans betray their own country to support another one that they're not even a citizen of.
No, putting an ally (Israel) before Americans by sending the country taxpayer money and supporting a war when Trump said he would be a peace president is one of the major problems of the current Trump Administration. Israel has been losing support around the world and in the United States, especially among young people. I'm an American. I want my government to put Americans first and supporting Israel does not help the American people.
Interesting enough, this was one of Charlie Kirk's main points on an interview with Megyn Kelly a month ago.
Megyn Kelly and Charlie Kirk Push Back Against Israel Supporters Demanding Their 100% Support For Israel:
https://youtu.be/n2qn0mvSCig?si=OygwlozpKNMYOMzZ
Nothing wrong with what Charlie Kirk said to Megan Kelly, did nothing to diminish or contradict his consistently strong support of Israel. Supporting Israel doesn't mean putting Israel ahead of America. Every American I know who supports Israel knows this. Jew haters think that supporting Israel means you are putting that ally ahead of America. The notion is ridiculous. As far as Israel losing support in the world, suggest you read "The World Loves Dead Jews" by Dara Horn. The story of Job in the bible is the story of the Jew in this world. The devil caused Job misery because Job refused to lose his faith in God, so too the devil causes the Jew misery because the Jew refuses to lose faith in God. And as God ultimately restores Job, so too that day will come for the Jew. Genesis 12:3
Im finding it increasingly difficult to argue the un-arguable.
I will refrain from bullet points as to what the un-arguables are....but suffice to say things are quickly heading post-dialogue.
Very little point in trying to "peacefully dialogue" with those who intend to murder you because you believe in reality rather than "relativist" fantasy-worlds.