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Elena Freshman Schumann's avatar

I can remember as far back as when I was 3 years old and I caught my mother crying, she was very upset. She usually was such a happy person so this was unusual for me. I her "Mom what is wrong!!!" She answered: You know about the President of the United States correct? Yes mother I do. The President was Shot today. This was in 1963.

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Elizabeth St's avatar

Yup, I've been thinking similar: it could be a MAGA person who was disgruntled with Charlie flip -flopping against Trump on the Iran bombing, the Epstein file release etc.

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Mary Baville's avatar

I agree with you 100%. I trust none of Maga appointments to do the job of finding the shooter. They don't take responsibility for their hate mongering. Ridiculous conservative republican officials who are all speaking out with no correct information, full of hate and lies. I am so completely sick of these people running our government who want fame only, and who use this tragedy to push themselves. No comprehension of the pain of the families of the democratic leaders who were murdered in the last months and those of Kirk. Instead Maga Trump News etc. lie and create more violence. There is no God in these peoples lives. They are inciting violence by promoting hate.

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Harold Nelson's avatar

Concerned for my broken nation.

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Amy Smith's avatar

We need to immediately, like tomorrow, pivot right back to the Epstein files!!!!!

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AAA's avatar

TERRIFIED! RUNT DID NOT WIN!!! GET THE WHOLE ILLEGAL ADMINISTRATION OUT!!! THEY ARE ALL TRAITORS!!!! THE MEN ON THE SUPREME COURT MEN HAVE BEEN CORRUPTED SINCE B4 ROEVWADE!!!!

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Christina Ferrigno's avatar

we can't depend upon anything this FBI concludes. No legitimacy in that organization. I suspect this was done by the far right. This guy was sacrificed to serve as the ignition for what the clown in the Oval Office has been anxiously awaiting. He wants a martyr. He wants an excuse to get his storm troopers in the streets. I also predict he'll either be killed 'resisting arrest' or will die in custody before he can talk. Sounds conspiratorial, I fully admit. But. Makes you think. Yes?

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Dan's avatar

Trump’s insurrection continues with complicit Republican sycophants in Congress and SCOTUS, and the government is heading towards complete disfunction and closure, so I’m very pessimistic about the short term.

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L B Bowen's avatar

I believe Charlie Kirk’s assassination was committed by the Russians in order to distract from Epstein, which threatens to dethrone Trump. This admin and its shills will blame the Dems and either blame some innocent liberal or he will never be found because he’s back in Russia. Russia wants to cause a civil war here while it gobbles up chunks of Europe. Russia is weak right now and China is probably not happy at the thought of a vastly more powerful neighbor to the north. N Korean soldiers (obedient to China), are flooding into Ukraine on the west, Eastern Russia is virtually deserted. China has 1.5 billion people and is running out of resources. Russia has 128 million people and is so weak it depends on North Korean soldiers. Perhaps the mastermind here is not Putin but Xi? While we are fighting ourselves, he can swallow Russia and southeast Asia and make China invulnerable. With AI’s help it probably will be possible to neutralize all the nuclear silos with EMPs or other technology, removing every bit of deterrence that Russia has.

And the US is apparently pathetically easy to manipulate by everyone, because every damn group is selfish, greedy, short-sighted and doesn’t give a shit about our formerly amazing country!

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dana klein's avatar

The only person who benefits from Kirk being assassinated by an unknown individual is trump. He can now make up whatever to pin it someone in opposition to trump, including other maga.

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Elizabeth St's avatar

But Kirk was in line with Trump...he fell off the wagon for a moment, was scolded by people like Loomer but he was seriously back in alignment.

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dana klein's avatar

Elizabeth, I really don’t think that matters, he’ll take the opportunity anyway. His remarks on Kirk will depend on how the base reacts.

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Donna Wood's avatar

that’s not the point. it’s a major distraction from trump. this is what happens every time he wants to change the narrative

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Wendi Hammock's avatar

I support Matthew Dowd! Truth is truth!

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Elizabeth St's avatar

I watched Kirk's show the nite before the shooting ( to see if he flipped again on the Epstein cover-up) and my perception was that he was inciting a race war: He and other right wing media (as well as Trump), have been looping over and over ALL WEEK, about the tragic stabbing murder of the "white" Ukrainian woman in NC by a "black man" (quotations are their own words). Hmmm, if he cared so much about Ukrainian girls he should have said something about Dear Leader cutting off most aid to Ukraine etc. and Ukrainians getting killed weekly by Russia. NOPE.

BUT by the end of his racist rant , he summed it up with: "1 in 22 black men will be murderers in their lifetime" Sickening how his show and other right wing media constantly use these techniques to "divide and conquer". Yet how ironic, because according to FBI photos, the male shooter they are looking for is white.

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Carol Gregus's avatar

Another convenient distraction for trump…

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AAA's avatar

WHY DOES EVERYONE STILL TALK LIKE RUNT WON?? RUNT DID NOT WIN!!! EVER IN THE USA!!!! MASSIVE EVIDENCE OF COVER UP!

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Rhonda Guerrero's avatar

Yes- the republicans hardly said anything when the democrats were killed- and Charlie was against women’s rights & gays & transgenders .. it is sad - but no sadder than the democrats getting killed !

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Nick's avatar

Some folks talk of how Harris actually won. No one can prove that beyond a shadow of doubt. What is important now is to resist.

What is important is the sainthood of Charlie Kirk by the dictator. He even has flags at half staff. Maybe they are at half mast due to the shooting in a school in Denver. Everyone is all ablaze over Kirk being gunned down. Appalling as it is, put it into perspective, MAGA. We live in a country with almost more guns than people. Wow.

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