Which is worse, to not stand or to gut a great deal of our cancer research. One of these things he'll definitely survive.
Um, no...maybe later. I am quite fond of pain chocolat. https://tediumtwentyfourseven.substack.com
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Which is worse, to not stand or to gut a great deal of our cancer research. One of these things he'll definitely survive.
It can't be solved by doing one perfect pushup, so yeah, super uncomfortable.
At least that's what Charlie Kirk's supporters have been telling us for the last week.
They are so chaotic,anything that looks organized gives them the heebie geebies. They also think it's a potential RICO problem when people show up to protests with well put together signs. They're always pointing it out as if as if they truly can't grasp their incompetence inspires creativity.
In the movie Spy Game, it looked a little bit like the passing of the torch.
I was like, that's one wordy alleged murderer.
I mean, I think Kirk had a dog, maybe they agreed animal cruelty is bad. But the cruelty to fellow human beings trumps that, so yeah, please stop. The downfall of this country continues to be, being unable to be honest about our bigotry.
And sadly that particular ding dong is of course employed by this administration.
Yeah, at one point, she had a clothing line. I figurecsge had to give it up when she had kids, but maybe not.
There's already a dude there as co-something or other so Patel can go ahead and ease on out of there.
Clown doing clownery.
And I heartily the amount of time we have spent talking about him.
We might be talking past each other. My preferences and everyone else's are irrelevant at the moment. I would say the existence of other races, trans people and cultures has much more grounding and evidence than the existence of anything remotely charismatic about Vance.
And he's married to Serena Williams, so -
Did you think that, or did someone tell you that?
How is it not true? His lack of charisma isn't going to prevent him and fellow charisma void Stephen Miller from riding roughshod over "leftist" until the midterms. For that matter, it hasn't stopped them occupying their current offices for which they're both grossly unfit.
Sadly, when you're already the VP, you don't need charisma to make our lives miserable.
Instead, they keep tripling down as the VP both hosted Kirk's show today from his WH office and vowed again to work with Stephen Miller to make those not grieving sufficiently pay.
True story - I just liked this post from the grave.
In this instance, the VP who I assume is going to run in 28, is displaying one again his unfitness for higher office.
Yes. That was reprehensible. I also think it's important to name the politician instead of using the blanket "politicians". For example, I doubt Jasmine Crockett would have platformed Charlie Kirk. And in this instance, the VP has a higher, different responsibility than a Governor.
She was right - at this moment the Vice President is abusing his office by hosting Kirk's show from his office and whitewashing his legacy, instead of representing the entirety of the country that could also be victims of gun violence in their lifetime.
Precisely. He used Christianity as a cloak for the real meat and potatoes of what he was doing - normalizing bigotry and scapegoating just like the president he supported.
This is precisely why I've been watching the broadcast of his podcast and his like-minded cohorts for a few years now because I figured someday there would be a time where people pretended they were other than what with their own words they established themselves to be. And here we are.
Depending on the date of this, he subsequently changed his stance at the request of Donald Trump. He said he trusted Trump and the administration to do the right thing.
And at the personal request of Donald Trump, he stopped asking. He talked about it on his podcast, said he trusted Trump and the administration.
They wrote a lot of words for nonsense.
Sigh. This was the main headline on Breitbart yesterday afternoon as well. Desperate MAGA is Desperate. And it's disgusting. Does he think this will save his job?
I was thinking that when on Stephanie Rhule's MSNBC Friday show they kept calling the notable dead person by his first name as you would a friend. The person's whole name or perhaps just the last name might have been more appropriate for journalistic distance.
I didn't say that, so I'm not sure there would be anything to debate. His words don't justify his murder. His words do call into question the level of posthumous adulation.
At this moment, we don't know the motive for the murder So while he was killed while "debating" we don't know the because. Unless you mean being in public to do that made him an easier target? I think the issue is people thinking the horrific crime conveys good qualities on the victim.
I haven't read it yet, but I thank you in advance. Watching the veneration of him this week has been something. And I'm praying (yes, I'm one of those) that my church addresses his murder correctly tomorrow.
Irony - Charlie Kirk despised Martin Luther King, Jr and platformed guests on his podcast, on the MLK,Jr holiday to disparage him so the joke really is on that poster.
Your mom is a great woman of sense.
Yes, to all of this from a cardholder who hasn't been in a Target except once in the last year or so.
And yet on Free Republic (right-wing site) he was radicalized at Utah State. It's a little bit funny watching them insist.
Well Fox was running social media clips of people not sad about Kirk and saying they should be fired from their jobs, and Steve Bannon is yelling about demons, false gods and how sweet and gentle Kirk was and wants the FBI to kick down doors like J6, also accusing gov of Utah of being a cancer🤷🏿♀️
Apparently, Rep. Luna was not aware of Kirk's deep animus toward Martin Luther King, Jr. so the placement in this ridiculous meme is its own kind of glorious.
Yep, right now Steve Bannon is calling for breaking down the doors of "antifa" TODAY! Like the FBI didn't even solve this murder, how are they going to find "antifa" doors?
Yep, Steve Bannon and Alex Jones are ranting right now about breaking down the doors of "antifa" Soros and war. A rant, I'm guessing they had ready regardless of who the shooter turned out to be.
Surprisingly, or not because they're still very much about liberals are after them, Steve Bannon immediately clocked on his show that the shooter was turned in by family, and not because of anything Patel did. Then pivoted hard to it's all antifa's, Democrats' and trans people's fault.
Turns out it wasn't Black pilots he had to worry about.
It's not speaking ill when in his own words, on his own platform he said he was proud to be called a racist.
That's definitely how I'll remember him.
The same way they (Steve Bannon, in particular) ginned up their base as the precursor to J6.
Unless the shooter wrote his name on the sidewalk, what in the world is Patel going to do 24+ hours after the fact. Not to mention, having gone to the Television FBI Academy, it seems to me, neither Bongino nor Patel should be involved directly because they were bosom buddies w/Kirk.
Yeah, right wing podcaster Steve Deace just said Kirk was murdered for his faith, really? Can you give us the murderer's name then?
Same. I was like heartbreaking for who? His wife, kids and parents definitely, the public at large, most who didn't know who he was, hardly. I guess they're trying to big picture it, like it's heartbreaking someone can get a gun and murder someone like this in our country?
Right?
Would these be the same "sources" that claimed the shooter was in custody yesterday?
He was until Trump personally asked him to stop. He talked about it on his podcast.
There's an ironic beauty in that Kirk championed incompetents like Patel and Bongino, because "meritocracy", and now, oops.
Thank you! Like, if media reports can't be honest about who he was, give us the basics - date of birth, death occupation, method of murder and move on to the nxt story. But this, he was a free speech warrior narrative...
I see facts. I guess those coworkers didn't know who he was.
I suppose it was "too soon".
Yeah, it's been weird listening to people who should know better leaning into - he was a free speech advocate and very polite, so so polite.
I appreciate them being kind enough to let us know who they are. Like the guy wearing a MAGA hat at the bus stop.
The bigotry being conveniently ignored in the coverage of his life, but the internet doesn't forget.
Thank you for putting these together. The attempts to clean him in death are reprehensible. He said these things with his full chest, let them be his eulogy.
He was, but stopped when Trump personally asked him to.
Which people?
While I don't think she could have been helped given the type of attack, I agree that efforts could have been made (allowing for bystander shock) and that would have been the better thing versus filming for social media. And what you said was "no one on the left" .
Why not acknowledge what Kirk found out today, a person who starts their day with the intent to murder you will always the jump on you.
What does that have to do with Kirk saying more than once, he was proud to be called a racist? His own words on how own podcast.
Well, he did, until at Trump's request, he stopped talking about Epstein.
Life is short as we were reminded again today, so I will definitely spend my time not doing that. Cheers!
That guy was something else. Whew!
I'm curious why you think so.
The Charlie Kirk who said he was proud to be called a racist? Factual data like LGBTQ people can't have their own biogical kids? His podcasts are public for people to see, hear and know exactly who and what he was.
You're better than me, because nope.
Good Lord, how much does it cost us for them to fly around for this kind of nonsense. Stay in DC, send an email.
A person who competes in eating contests might be an idiot. So, while I take your point about his being murdered, he was a whole other deliberate kind of actor.
You may want to look up Dixiecrat as well.
I wish she had asked him the dates, times and adjudication of the crimes he said he witnessed and whether he arrested the perps himself.
It's sure gonna be news to Marjorie Taylor Green she's a Democrat.
You mean the nation with the morally virtuous serial adulterer in the presidency? Tell me more🙄.
I think it's Bannon's daughter, Maureen, who is a West Point grad and shares her father's bigotry. Bannon is divorced.
😂 whatever it takes!
Yes, I wonder if the calculation for him and Grennel and so on is to be collaborators with the hopes they will be overlooked, be safe or to grift as much as they while they can to buy safety somewhere else when they are turned on as is inevitable.
It's a choice underpinned by white supremacy because people HAVE been telling the collective them otherwise, but they chose the rich white sexual assaulter. People have been telling them differently since Plymouth rock.
There were/are people who were illiterate and still know better, do better. And in the year 2025, you don't have to leave your house, much less your town to have a sense of the rest of the world. It's in your hand.
If you're (universal you) a person who needs the narrative of people eating dogs and cats challenged, there's a part of you (not you) that is a bigot. Bannon & Kirk in particular, I don't find their bigotry performative. Like Trump, they have helped give bigots permission to be so.
I have watched and listened to Bannon and Kirk and others like that on their podcasts since before J6 so I wasn't surprised by J6. I listen because know your enemy. Others are attracted to and listen because they agree.
I don't know that I can get on board with the "no choice". These birds of a feather happily flock together. It takes effort and active choice to be a bigot. We don't make excuses for other reprehensible behavior and America has a long enough history w/this to not let them off the hook.
We can definitely hope.
Did they forget to tell Dan Bongino?
Unfortunately, bigots who don't know how anything works have been put in charge of the country.
Well, it looks like it's all white men this time because DEI or something. This pic there is the one Black guy on the end.
Yes, thank you for the proper explanation.
believe they do cause shootings and these are the people responsible for his MAGA rise it feels like pretending we don't know who he is. And what he does indeed mean. Like him claiming vaccines cause autism and suddenly all vaccines are in danger.
Given who he is and how he's behaved although, you are right he did not explicitly say - I believe SSRIs cause mass shootings - launching a study right after that particular shooting, when it has been explicitly stated prior to this by MAHAS ad naseum that they
Especially since whatever branch of the military he served in recently took him off their blacklist or whatever.
We'll also need to rename the Civil Rights division because Harmeet Dhillon will figure out a way for that dept. to support this unironically.
So trans people should stock up?
Yep, I think he both started his own thing OMG and was suing Project Veritas (not completely sure) or maybe came to some kind of agreement to use the name again. It is funny to see him turn his "journalism" on the repubs. Let them eat their own.
Rich white guy #meritocracy I think are the only necessary leadership qualifications now, so pretty much he's nailing it.
Yeah, he and Bannon are thick as thieves. Every terrible thing Bannon is applies to Farage. I also think Bannon financially backs him as much as is legally possible and possibly illegally since Bannon's a drifter as well.
This is funny because Savannah Hernandez is also a far right Trump loving wackadoo.
And you can't pretend Ashlii Babbitt and Co weren't domestic terrorists. As they say, context is key and in the context she is undeserving of a full Air Force burial as she ended her life in an act of terrorism that we all have been able to witness. She wasn't there's to hand out cookies.
The Black Panthers had a righteous cause/purpose borne out by history and in their real time. That wasn't the case for Babbitt in real time and it won't be historically. ACAB is an expression that can be and is used both literally and figuratively.