there are 2 ways to get donor money in politics - be a republican - be a republican but brand yourself as one of the reasonable democrats
there are 2 ways to get donor money in politics - be a republican - be a republican but brand yourself as one of the reasonable democrats
Even went as far as to give him a cup or two to throw at me before we chat!
This is why they’re deleting studies
People are really losing the forest for the trees here. The main point isn't whether this kid was nominally left or right, its that "the state" is making an argument that he was indoctrinated by some nebulous leftist ideology or organization and there is no evidence of that
If I'm doing the math right, in May 2025 China installed new solar power–93 GW–a rate sufficient to replace all current world electricity generation in 13 years. And I think it's only accelerating.
Desperate Kash Patel Asks Shooter’s Family If They Can Solve Any Other Cases
My optimism here is limited, but I really hope centrist institutions like universities and major news organizations understand that the plan is for the govt to dismantle them. They do not care if you fire your columnists or discipline staff for accurately quoting Kirk. They just want us all gone.
the washington post fires a black columnist for the crime of directly quoting kirk. meanwhile the vice president is hosting kirk’s show from the white house and claiming that “the left” is “malignant,” words that any reasonable person could say are liable to incite. this game is not on the level.
Exactly that, "The Man's Hitler and is going to do Hitler things if he wins" *Wins the Election* "Welcome home, mister president." And they wonder why trust in the party is low.
good video on this from @sarahtaber.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=badG...
We're witnessing the most aggressive, fanatical crackdown on free speech in my lifetime. The speed and breadth of government censorship and private sector and nonprofit capitulation has been astonishing. As has the lack of urgency/silence from people who've long claimed to care about this stuff.
This is such a throwback to 1930s press normalization of Hitler, with trans community in same position, even as other parts have shifted somewhat.
Charlie Kirk was killed by a Groyper, due to that group’s known hatred of his positions, and it’s as obvious as if his killer had “MS-13” tattooed on his knuckles, but the @nytimes.com and others refuse to cover it that way because they don’t respect their colleagues who know this.
Doing politics right!
www.thedailybeast.com/white-house-...
Imagine if any Democratic President (a) used the Armed Forces to blow up a boat of refugees fleeing to a different country (b) hacked a GOP appointee’s personal info to gin up charges to help game the Fed (c) put legal visitors from an ally in chains on a made-up raid Each one career-ending
Need some like Constantine burning the Praetorian Guard Barracks level of political spectacle to make sure that this crap doesn't happen again
Yeah I feel like its a safe bet they don't at this point. I think even with Trump actually being coherent enough to try to settle them down a bit (He's not), the types of people they're pulling in are just too damn bloodthirsty.
The fact that Matthew Dowd lost his job for pointing out Charlie Kirk’s hate speech, while Brian Kilmeade openly suggests we should euthanize the homeless and there is zero outrage, shows exactly what is terribly wrong with today’s political mainstream media.
Good on him, the bar's low but he's pretty quick on the uptake it seems.
I have written and deleted a lot of posts but I keep thinking about how the brutal assassination of Minnesota State senator Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark, and their beloved dog Gilbert in June did not prompt this same level of calls for empathy, sympathy, and flags at half-mast.
We still don't really know what drove Tyler Robinson, or if he even holds a coherent worldview. The tone certainly shifted when he did not match the hoped-for demographic profile. The civil war was cancelled, at least for now, to be replaced by Young Male Mental Health Appreciation Week.
Party of podcasters, baby!
That would be so damn funny if the most immediate effect of Charlie Kirk's assassination was one of his biggest enemies on the right gaining a bunch of power because of it.
like this is the most irresponsible level of hysteria i’ve ever seen. most of these people are either paid by the republican party, or are high level advisors and allies. this is insane
*a lot of *it* is
I do think a lot of is also just the unrestrained egomania he has, even his dead allies have to be second to our god king now.
Update: Civil War cancelled due to shooter being demographically uncooperative
the permission structure created for a bloodthirsty maga rampage the last two days by mainstream media, all before any facts were known at all, deserves some real introspection by the entire industry
using Kirk’s death to cynically shill his own book is maybe the most honest tribute any of them have made to him
It’s also worth noting that as soon as it became clear the Trump shooter had no real legible politics and certainly not from “the left” he completely vanished into anonymity. No one knows his name.
challenging millions of viewers to “go to war” with people they disagree with politically when tensions are at their highest is so reckless it should be a fireable offense even if you have the facts right that he didnt even have the facts at the time is too irresponsible to even comprehend
"We told everyone to kill the leftists in revenge, but now we're the leftists" 😞
Yeah and maybe I'm reading too much into but judging by his shirt? Probably either a Fuentes fan or just some one who got *real* mad at that "I trust my friends in the government..." line.
if this shooter winds up being a red-pilled groyper the Kirk newscycle length will be mysteriously cut from two months to two days
You'd be surprised how quickly bullies turn coward when presented with even the possibility that they could fail
It's wild to me because Kirk's own staff hated his ass, IIRC the small face memes were started by people who worked for him and wanted to humiliate him in public.
for Kirk of all people
Put this one in the paper tiger column. You fight back, you win.
Uhhhh
He has done more to deter Brazil from bringing its former president to justice than to protect our allies from military attack.
The reaction to Kirk’s murder on the right is a reminder that Republicans are the most bad faith people on the face of the planet.
Nick Fuentes, who started his broadcast tonight with over 200,000 live viewers, is offering his condolences for Charlie Kirk’s murder while still acknowledging that Charlie was an “adversary” and a “foe.”
lol
Qatar please publicly drag him I am begging
this feels like such a perfect distillation of this moment. Charlie Kirk was mocking people on Nov. 27, 2016 for mourning the passing of Fidel Castro, and people have found this now and are reinterpreting it as some kind of heavenly message
man that's a small backpack considering the weapon it ought to be holding...
Oh. Is this the same expert analysis team that told us about the ms13 gang tattoos?
I'm told you can be less blazed but you have to parkour up the nearest bell tower and jump off of it into a nearby haystack to prove that you're worthy of the title.
and I say that as someone who has many individual streamers I like.
That and Streaming might have killed this nation, it's wild.
NGL her getting ratioed at "Name one extreme view he had." is very funny.
We're close to reaching a chilling moment; the first time in history where the single largest group of people arrested by ICE in the interior and held in detention are people with no criminal record. The gap is now down to fewer than 300 people.
I shed a single tear every time I think of his honorable final moments of deflecting away from the point trans people are about as small of a minority of mass shooters as you'd think with his courageous "Well have you considered that many shooters are (non-white) gang bangers"
so this guy like 100% had a stroke right
From me, a list of Trump supporters who killed, or tried to kill, Democrats and opponents of Trump in recent years (since the right are now claiming all the political violence is from the left!) Receipts: zeteo.com/p/charlie-ki...
The Trans Sniper Platoon is fearsome...
When you publish a website that posts the names and photos of scholars who have written or said things you disagree with and encourage people to surveil and harass them, you are not, in fact, a “free speech” organization.
Charlie Kirk was apparently 'doing politics right'
he was trying to stoke a race war for christ sake
i think anyone saying he practiced politics the right way or that we should continue his work should first have to read out loud his last days worth of posts to someone they love who doesnt know who he is
Information environment has reached its grotesque conclusion in that there is a very real killer out there who has not been identified, apprehended, or investigated, a detail practically inconsequential to nearly every commentator’s purposes.
The fuck?
Glenn Beck’s media outlet The Blaze just gave an interview last month to the person who killed the politicians in Minnesota
I'm also not gonna be a hypocrite and say "violence is never the answer." Sometimes, before responding "violence is never the answer," you really ought to listen to the question first
So uhhh.... who the hell shot him then?
We have a bit of a natural experiment here. Compare the tone, quantity and duration of Charlie Kirk coverage with that of the two Dem lawmakers gunned down in their homes in Minnesota 6 months ago. May be revealing.
Yeah dude looks like John Nebraska if this image is accurate: bsky.app/profile/maks...
Agreed.
If the perpetrator fits one of MAGA’s demonized groups this will get more coverage than the murders of the state legislators in Minnesota. If the perp reflects badly on MAGA it won’t be a big sustained story.
/2 We can, and should, discuss whether political violence is inevitable, or whether we’re fooling ourselves because we’ve been swimming in it for a long time. You can note that political violence against the Left (like Melissa Hortman) is treated differently than political violence against the right
further proof we're living in the darkest comedy
"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 www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk...
Yeah Jesus that was pretty bad looking
The context for a lot of the "why don't people make conservative students feel more welcome 😔" contaversies is that a lot of those students see themselves as active enemies of the institutions they're part of.
The easiest mark on the planet
Rep. Garcia: Trump is now walking into his own lie. First he says that it doesn't exist. We've proven that wrong. Now the White House is trying to play clean up and say it's not his signature. Again, that's being proven to be a complete lie. So the question to Trump is, what are you hiding?
damn, Marty's a hero then
CNN has a panel talking about Epstein and the host just mentioned (almost as an aside!) that one of the guys is a lawyer defending Ghislaine Maxwell. And rather than being a guest who's grilled about the case, he's treated like any other panelist who just happens to be minimizing the crimes.
Like "Oh no! You're gonna put icing on my cake??" sort of threats
As someone who falls in that age range the idea that Clinton would go to jail with Trump *discourage* people advocating more epstein talk is really funny
GOP greatly overestimates the number of fucks GenX and younger give about Bill Clinton.
Bill Clinton was the worst Democratic president since Woodrow Wilson.
Trump Urges Supporters To Move On From Societal Disdain For Pedophilia
SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool
I already beat another guy who cut Medicaid, gave tax breaks to billionaires, and hounded multiple women who accused him of sexual harassment — might as well debate the one actually calling the shots.
The Dem Senate leadership's unbelievable negotiating position is that they will give Trump everything he wants except that they demand: an extension of Obamacare subsidies so that they expire right after the midterms, not before. This sounds like political malpractice on several levels.
Trump on what he's doing stop Russia's war on Ukraine: "We have stopped the money. We send weapons to NATO. They pay full price." (In other words he's trying to compel Ukraine to surrender but not Russia to stop the violence.)
Chicagoans: buy up some Texas flags to burn in the presence of military uniforms. abc7chicago.com/post/texas-n...
Not only that they'll have to follow *rules!* The horror!
While progressives often get accused of undermining the Democratic Party, the evidence shows that it’s the moderate wing that most often violates the “Vote Blue No Matter Who” principle. https://trib.al/ayccoO7
