The killing of Charlie Kirk is hitting Congress hard. Some lawmakers were close with him. For others, his death is the latest reminder of their own exposure to attacks. “It’s changed the atmosphere in the place,” Mike Johnson said.
The killing of Charlie Kirk is hitting Congress hard. Some lawmakers were close with him. For others, his death is the latest reminder of their own exposure to attacks. “It’s changed the atmosphere in the place,” Mike Johnson said.
Reminder: Minnesota lawmakers were assassinated two months ago. But they were democrats.
and Melissa Hortman’s murder didn’t have them considering these things already?
Gee, you'd think they would take some action on gun control if that's the case.
Remember none of them give a fuck about the children dying or mass human rights abuses by ICE racists. But when a pedophile supporter hate monger who legit argues against empathy and in favor of public executions suddenly the "atmosphere changed". Meanwhile the right calls for violence
Is it more a reminder that the biggest risk is the ludicrous amount of guns free in that country
Will they stop lying and cheating now they know they are exposed? Respect people and the constitution?
Look - it’s afraid! Good
Only care when it's one of your people?
Is the Charlie Kirk shooting a suspicious distraction??
As it should. The name calling, the memes, the lack of empathy for others, the attacks on minorities, how immigrants are being handled by thugs without respect or due process, the chaos from this administration every single day is driving people into crazy desperate measures. Be better. Do better.
But they still won’t vote for any gun band!!!!
We are very well aware that they only care because it was one of their loud supporters. Where was all this fear and anger when it was an actual politician that was assassinated? Oh right, they didn’t care since she was a democrat.
Well they are the only ones to blame for this. They allow it. Fucking go cry somewhere else. DOMESTIC TERRORISTS should never be held in high regard.
Jesus Christ
Oh poor them and how many more kids were shot in CO the same day and you hear crickets about it.
Mike Johnson is full of it no matter what he says.
Because you shouldn’t be a bigot who passes laws that kill people. You aren’t special. You aren’t chosen by god. Church won’t save you. Humanity should be your goal.
You would have thought the tragedy earlier this year with the senators would have done the same.
Considering that the trump/GOP threatens so many people's health and safety, made their peace of mind obsolete, and constantly spew insulting, demeaning slander like margarine all over more than half the population of the country on a daily basis, they should be looking over their shoulders.
It should words matter
But will they do anything about it? The money says. “No.”
Wake up!! It's not the left or right problem, it's the damn guns!!!! Until Congress grows a pair and pass gun reform, the killings will continue
Was this an excuse for more security for these ppl who lack humanity as much as Kirk did? Did they orchestrate this?
I would think that would have been the murder of Melissa Hortman
Oh please, our kids have to worry about shootings every day. I do not pity these terrible men that refuse to add gun control legislature. They spread hate and vitriol, they created this terrible environment.
"latest reminder of their own exposure to attacks" is a nice way of saying 'latest reminder supporting/doing evil might get them killed'.
They're upset over Kirk, but not children in school shootings? Priorities, right?
I don't know much about him. Can you post some of his quotes or ask members of Congress words that he said that they felt were powerful and good? Ask them what they liked about his beliefs and which beliefs those were. Thanks!
Just checking in to see if there is a follow-up to the story earlier and if you got any quotes of Charlie Kirk from Congress members that they felt reflected their own beliefs. Thanks so much for helping out with this!
It’s the f**king guns so ban them!
Well I guess the memory of 911 is now a moot point.
Wow who gives a fuck?
They'll use this as just another excuse to harass the people they hate already.
lol like maybe there are consequences for spouting white supremacy bullshit?
You're fucking disgusting he leaves 2 kids and a wife who are devastated.
The outrage from the one follower troll club is off the charts!
Unfortunately it is just the price you pay for having the second amendment, right?
Any cunt that would stay married to him deserves this and has brain washed her kids. So happy he’s in hell
So? Herman Goering had a wife and daughter.
Hitler liked dogs
Goebbels had a hamster
Sounds like he shouldn’t have been praising and amplifying political violence, hatred, and division? Are you guys ever NOT the victims?
damn maybe she shouldn't have had kids with a nazi
You can take a principled stance against political violence, but to people on the other side of the argument, “that guy you think is a monster had a family” is not going to be super convincing.
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You fuck off, Kirk was a hateful person who didn't care about the wives and children of others, you reap what you sow. He wasn't setting a good example for those kids, was he?
he defended Trump over the Epstein files. what about those kids? He defended the ethnic cleansing of Gaza. what about those kids?
I know! Isn’t it hilarious??? His #Nazi kids and #Nazi wife are grieving right now! Mmm, #Nazi tears are so yummy…
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And he never gave a shit about any of the children murdered in schools who left devastated parents behind; in fact he mocked them. Chickens done come home to roost, troll.
His wife and children were getting their coffee and Froot Loops off his plentiful hate speech money, so pardon me if I don't shed a tear for another Eva Braun
Ironically, the future world for his children is now just a little bit safer without him in it.
What? Grok won't argue back anymore lol
And Joseph Goebbels was a loving husband and a doting father. So fucking what? Everybody who gets murdered leaves someone devastated. Charlie Kirk dedicated his life to increasing the number of devastated widows and orphans. Fuck him and fuck you too.
Hopefully it’s in the form of a wake up call.
It's definitely not going to change their stance on the proliferation of guns or lax gun laws.
The murders of Melissa Hortman and her husband and dog should have done that. Guess he was fine as long as it was Democrats being murdered.
I hope it does. They need to know they have made "We The People. " Do not like this Congress! They are Trump Ticks. Who feed off the blood of the Poor. FOFA. And Kirk found out!.
Maybe we should have some common sense gun legislation.
Thoughts and Prayers, Mikey.
good. now maybe you’ll reconsider your asinine positions on gun control.
What did the elected republicans expect? They spent years promising great rewards to those who bought into their rhetoric of hate. GOP now controls all 3 branches of government. In less than a year same republicans have enacted policies that destroy their base. Their base feels betrayed, lied to.
Hey FVCKING CONGRESS - another school shooting yesterday , STILL SAY NOTHING! You HYPOCRITES!
We need to stop calling fascism freedom of speech. When your whole political philosophy and opinions center around ending everyone else's free speech that in essence is not free speech. Fascism is not a political ideology it is a cancer.
It'd be nice if the mass media would take a lesson from Richard Spencer: none of these pasty-faced little men with their fashy haircuts cares about free speech. They laugh about it behind closed doors. www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwat...
lol
...for about 48 hours
This is funny
Is it changing the atmosphere on…guns?
"I think it's worth 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" - Charlie Kirk, 2023
"I think it's worth 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" - Charlie Kirk, 2023
Congressional Democrats buddying up to a guy that wanted lgbtq to be stoned is exactly one of the issues
It should. Particularly for the current GOP Congress. In this country, you piss enough people off, they will shoot you. Now are you glad to know that there are more guns owned than the entire population of this country. And, keep in mind: They don't usually sell guns to people under the age of 12👽
This is not the story...
Death comes for us all! Just a matter of time! Sounds like Kirk died doing what he believed in: Hatred, promulgating lies snd fomenting hate!!!
And celebrating guns .
Were they not chilled when Melissa Hortman and her husband were assassinated? Assholes every one of you f******. Everyone of you is responsible for the rhetoric and the hate going around because of your support for the jackass occupying the White House
They can do a very easy thing about this: Step Down.
Republicans afraid more people will take to killing Nazi's.
Be careful Congress because karma is a bitch!
They dont care about kids in schools, or anyone else. Fuck them!
The fucking gall of that guy…kids are regularly shot and killed at school and have been for years, but the shooting of a goofball demagogue, professional agitator, and smirking bad actor….THAT is what’s changing the environment.
Maybe they should allow open carry everywhere because that’s what he would have wanted. That should totally make them safe.
Consequences are so hard to deal with. Thoughts and prayers for the actors in Congress.
Notice how it doesn’t “send a chill” when it’s a school shooting or the Minnesota legislature’s murders all they get is “ thoughts and prayers”
Are they nervous after realizing the regime will martyr anyone for their cause?
Changing the atmosphere might not be a bad thing. Maybe stop with the inflammatory and hateful rhetoric, the lies, and the blind adherence to bizarre and unconstitutional demands just because the demander in chief is a leader of your party.
Try not being fascist cunts.
Maybe quit being fucking twats and you can worry less?
Melissa and Mark Hortman
Boo hoo
USA government don’t care who they have to kill to declare martial war . Republicans doing republicans for martial war . Look behind your back Mike
As it should. Stop the rhetoric. Do your constitutional duties as directed by your constituents not the orange bully in the WH.
Mike Pence may have some thoughts on this.
Changed the atmosphere. This is what it took. Not hundreds of children. Got it.
Big "It can happen to school kids once a month for my entire adult life, but it never should have happened to someone who I KNOW" energy
Police received the call about the Colorado school shooting at 12:15 PM, Charlie Kirk was shot at 12:20 PM. He was shot while defending school shootings, during a school shooting.
"some lawmakers were palling around with a known outspoken nazi" fixed it for you
I hope it HAS! Could be coming to a town near you, who knows?
What about when DEM congress members are shot!??!
Yeah, because it was OK when Democrats and children were killed. This hits closer to home.
Mike Johnson said 'this is going to make it harder to protect pedophiles." so I hear
Give it a week.
The consequences of violent rhetoric will not be denied.
As well it should. The Red Hill has allowed this to happen. They've had had many chances to do the right thing since Trump rose to political power and they failed... They failed EVERY SINGLE TIME to put our once united, bi-partisan, 'by the people' nation first. Good god, the tragedy of all this.
The death of bad people is not bad.
Also it was yesterday
Is it possible that they are wondering if Kirk was set up by their own?
I am sure of it.
We need more guns.
That is the point
Yeah but Jan 6 was A-OK, right?
And didn’t some of them admit they feared for their own safety and for their families if they defied Trump?
It's important to realise it really wasn't that long ago that basically everything Kirk said would have been condemned by not only all media but also both sides of politics. That seems a lifetime ago now.
He was the manipulator of lesser minds in colleges. He was hateful, vile, and instigator. He sought to ridicule his opposition. He never debated; his purpose was to speak violence and riled up incels. He was the main manipulator of the nazi regime. Now, why Johnson did care to mention:
The answer is: Because HE DOESN'T CARE! He ONLY CARES about NAZIS.
What? As long as it was only Democrats being assassinated it was ok?
9/11 did also and every year is as painful as the first. Hell with them.
Try gun control and honest political discourse rather than vilification of “the other”
Maybe they should run home and hide like people of color have to!
Remember who is ultimately responsible.
Hey, is Trump's action in DC not expired, or did we kind of forget about that?
So is this what it takes to finally take gun control seriously? Here i thought their family's needed to be killed for them to care, but apparently a social media idiot may be enough. I didn't think they had empathy. Doubt that's what this is. They are scared to be next. About time. 😑 Do something.
Why would they be worried? Are some of them also horrible pieces of shit or something?
Should have changed with the Minnesota deaths or for that matter way back with all of school shootings! Silence or change subjects with many though over dramatic with just this one says more of law makers than the issue! He wasn’t a political elected official .
GOP MAGA Extremist Republicans feel that they can spew hate | bigotry | racism on a daily basis & live normal lives, immune to the lunatic fringe.
Did they react like that after the recent assassinations in Minnesota? 🤔
How soon before Charlie gets his posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom?
yeah if you are a Nazi, you are exposed to being lethally attacked- I learned that from Hollywood Have you guys seen the Indiana Jones movies? Nazis are the bad guys
lol "changed the atmosphere"
RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES
I guess the assassination attempt on two Minnesota state senators were too minor of incidents for Porno Mike
Who cares?
Poor, poor fascists.
Lawmakers who allowed children and Democratic lawmakers to be slaughtered reconsider their position after one of "their own" was murdered. (I fixed the headline for you, free of charge.)
Politicians on both sides of the political divide are deep in the pockets of the NRA AND AIPAC. They are corrupt. The LAST people they serve the interests of are those who elected them.
What's wrong Mikey? Scared you're going to be next?
...but will congress do anything about this now?
None of them should be able to look into a mirror ! Their support of Trump makes them all complicit to the destruction of this country and deaths of countless Americans and other citizens of the world.
Maybe stop being a Nazi and you won't have to worry about your position
You know if congress was working for the people following the law and upholding their oath maybe people wouldn't want to cause them harm.
funny how congress didnt feel unsafe when literal lawmakers were getting murdered by right-wing nutjobs
"I'm so flustered I won't even be able masturbate with my son tonight" - Mike Johnson, probably
Yet they made jokes and belittled the Minnesota lawmakers who were murdered in their home. They only care about murders of their own, everyone else they mock. Fuck these assholes.
For me, anyone who has harmed Ukraine - by actions or words- is an enemy and a legitimate target. Period. P.S. waiting for David Sucks join the Kirk in hell 🤘
Amen!
Gosh. Sounds like they’re all getting a taste of the reality that they have created.
“We are all going to die.” -Joni Ernst
Yesterday's shootings."No one should have to....."."Thoughts and prayers",is everywhere... It's happening every day in Ukraine and Gaza.Ukraine is the same as USA beginning.Gaza is the same as USA slavery.Wake up world. Stop making bullets.Build round tables.
Ya Think ? 🤪
I bet most Republicons are shaking in their loafers and high heels right 'bout now! Wanna bet security for GOPers escalates dramatically today/tomorrow/very soon? This is what happens when the pot of hate is stirred too vigorously! SO very sad to see my friends to the south having to live this!
MAKE 👏 NAZIS 👏 AFRAID 👏 AGAIN
It truly sickens me when people ONLY react when it directly affects THEMSELVES! 😩
Thoughts and prayers should do...
The thoughts and prayers crowd is worried there complicit violence on brown people will backfire.
This is America. There are a significant number of crazy people with unrestricted access to guns. Trump allows them to act on their desires. Place the blame where it belongs.
Kirk advocated for removing women and minorities from the public sphere. That makes him a Nazi.
Yea its almost like when you create a climate of violence that violenec may get turned on you. Shocker🙄
Oh, so it's not just children in churches and schools who are at risk? if they are waking up to that fact, maybe it's a good thing.
Play stupid games - win stupid prizes.
None of the horrible shit they inflicted upon the American people gave the Republicans pause. It was only when it came for them that they said something.
He should still be alive. But his death does not absolve him. He was loudly and proudly misogynist, racist, anti-LGBTQ and divisive and took pains to be offensive.
But the actual murder of a colleague was just a distraction??
translation: it's hitting a bunch of softy Republicans hard, plus Chris Murphy for some reason
Buuut not KIDS GETTING SHOT? Where are their AK-47 pins? Shouldn’t they be wearing them?!
Oh no! Those poor lawmakers. How will they go on? Maybe they can get some grieving advice from the parents of those twenty 5 and 6 year old kids who were gunned down at Sandy Hook Elementary.
Still wearing the AK47 pins?
It made them consider actual consequences for their selfish and fascist policies and rhetoric, is I think what you meant to write.
Arsonists shouldn’t mourn the fact they were burned by the fire they started.
Did the killing of children in Colorado have the same effect???
They should be afraid. They’re extremely hated, more than the president to a point. And they write every law they creates motivation in these insane people.
Oh boo hoo, imagine what it feels like for a child in school to be shot at & have their friends killed in front of them. LIfetime of trauma! They could have done something about guns when the first school shootings happened. 1000s of children have died. They are all self-serving sick evil bastards!
Yeah, guys, it turns out you’re living in the violent hellhole you’ve created too, where we’re all mortal and constantly in danger of being gunned down at any moment, because bullets don’t care about how important you think you are.
Good. You can condemn political violence but actions/words have consequences.
Maybe you all need to work on being better people. The idea is to reduce hate, not increase it. bsky.app/profile/fred...
Wow, maybe they should do something about the constant political violence that this regime encourages
😔Melissa Hortman 🙏🏽🕯️🤍🤍🤍🐾🕊️🙏🏽
But the death of childern has never swayed them.
Kirk was a bad man no doubt, but I can’t say this was done out of justice or righteousness. He hadn’t killed anyone or made the world suffer through his actions, but he made plenty of enemies with his words. And like many on their platform, he thought it wouldn’t affect him.
Super simple to reduce gun violence. Legislate. Like every other developed democratic country on Earth. The data doesn't lie. The bodies don't either.
Sadly for the US it actually kinda is. The rest of the world has like 5% of the guns that the US has
Good. Now do your fucking job....
These guys in congress are culpable for where we are today. Now they can't get the stink off. Mr. Kirk death is a tragedy..but where was the concern for those who were killed in Minnesota? Sorry to say thoughts and prayers aren't changing anything. But they sure can. Do what you were elected for!
Yeah, the sudden realization that you can't get away with anything is a bitch.
Maybe Republicans shouldn't be such fucks, Mike?
what is this human feces of an article
Um, are they saying that they are now worried because "one of their own" has died?
Didn't the Hartman's killing ring a bell?
It’s a con job. The fascist regime staged it and now they have their Reichstagsbrand
They know T-rump did it and they know they could be next. Anything to justify full blown authoritarian violence
Nazis like Kirk spent their lives working towards the genocidal violence of fascism. He died in the lawless fascist dictatorship he helped create. He had no humanity, and the world is better without him.
Do you even know what fascism is? You idiots have made it lose all meaning. Calling everyone a fascist without facts just makes you look dumb.
The one follower clown troll idiot steps up!
Shut up fascist.
You tell me which box you don’t think he checks and I’ll tell you why you’re an absolute moron.
His silence says it all
Hahaha You fucking clowns.
Looks like you came here from Twitter just to be a fucking asshole. Go back to Twitter and Reddit with your shit.
1 follower 1 following 5 posts makes you look like an astroturf account, and a lazy one at that
Oh look, a bullshit argument. I'm not gonna debate your bad faith nonsense. I'm too busy celebrating over a dead nazi.
Don’t think you’d be able to do that if you live in a fascist country
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we are where we are because all along we had idiots like you saying no the thing we're calling out isn't what we think it is
Damn, who cucked the humanity out of you. You are nothing but a mere stereotypical lib! Youll always be miserable and living with mommy.
Cry harder about that dead nazi. I'm laughing at both of you.
The Republicans in Congress are the REASON this country is awash in guns. How bad are we supposed to feel for them?
How exactly are Republicans to blame. Democrats have had the presidency and both houses in the past. So genius why didn't they do anything? You just sound stupid.
Because you need two-thirds of both houses of Congress, then a ratification by the legislatures of three-fourths of the states to change American constitution.
Or alternatively, just issue an executive order and get the bought and paid for Supreme Court to rubber stamp it.
Perfect response Just a note to everyone to be careful engaging with accounts that just spin up to say hateful things
This is probably the second best response. The first is to block and send these chuds to the land of wind and ghosts
PBS to the rescue again! www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EIS...
First real chance they got, they did...see 1994-2004
Take a Gov101 course my guy
Takes a little bit more than a majority to repeal a constitutional amendment.
You morons never cease to be confidently wrong.
Tell me you don’t know anything about politics without saying it. Obama barely had 60 votes to get the ACA, you think he could have banned guns? Like 8 of those democrats were literally “conservative democrats”, they basically don’t exist anymore but they did then.
Looks like you came here from Twitter just to be a fucking asshole. Go back to Twitter and Reddit with your shit.
failed high-school civics, huh
democrats have not done enough to stop republicans. Republicans are still the ones doing this shit.
I’m sure #CharlieKirk is smiling up at you, good little #MAGA soldier. Если ты можешь это прочитать, товарищ, Чарли Кирк горит в аду!
To be honest you both sound pretty fucking stupid on the subject of.
Babe, you don't even wanna know what you sound like.
I just love when really dumb people make fun of someone’s intelligence
Come back when you understand how our government works. Parroting words you heard your favorite podcaster say just shows your ignorance.
Perhaps you need to retake 7th or 9th grade American history?
It's President Chaos time lol the sole reason for voting him in is to "stir them up"
So they are upset about C Kirk, but not about supporting a pedo"file" prez killing women becuz they have no abortion rights/the hundreds of women raped in Epstein's sexual circus /unjust immigrate's arrests/assassinations in Minnesota/dead school children. It is all Taco's Gestapo policies/tactics!
Apparently, they thought that encouraging the culture of violence would never bite _them_. Just _other_ lawmakers like Melissa.
They’re afraid. Good.
Classrooms and church pews full of 8 year olds didn't seem to have the same effect
Wake up Congress. Who else is going to die before you start defying this bully and unlawful constitution breaking stuff going on. You could be next!
THIS is what did it? Not when COLLEAGUES were killed? Not affected by KIDS being gunned down at SCHOOL?
And yet assassinated #Democrat lawmakers get silence from every #Republican