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Fred Di Angelis's avatar

That’s exactly correct. They have weaponized every government agency, every violent event since 2015.

Susan Kelech's avatar

Remember, Trump "couldn't care less" about the unity of our country. What kind of leader says that? And after all the jaw dropping craziness since then, it's business as usual in the MSM. Thank you for being a voice of sanity, Mr. Mike!

Robert C Miller's avatar

Someone on this platform already proposed a great idea: Encourage your dem -Congressman’s to bring a bill to the floor, and call it: “THE CHARLIE KIRK GUN SAFETY BILL.” Meanwhile, when 99% of these spineless, pathetic, sycophant’s for Trump are on record -VOTING AGAINST THE SAFETY BILL, we remind voters early and often! Because that’s my job visa-vie the phone bank right before the all important “midterms.”

Robert C Miller's avatar

P.S. Speaking of Maga-Morons, no one is a bigger hypocrite than: majority leader: Maga-Mike-“Little Johnson.” He takes an early recess back in August to avoid releasing the -EPSTEIN FILES! Now, he facies telling us that his beloved cult-leader-Taco is an FBI-informant! And; during the recess Maga-Mike took the opportunity to send, taxpayer funded, LNG-troops to support his favorite: cult-leader/pedophile in chief to D.C,to take part in brutalizing hardworking Americans! By the way, Maga-Mike represents a red-debtor state called: “Louisiana” one of the highest, if not the highest murder rate in the country…..

Mairy's avatar

They are playing right out of Sh!tlers playbook Mein Kampf—-we know their plans why aren’t we stopping them?

Deb's avatar

That’s my question as well I will never understand this never. Why would the American people I love do this to us? It’s not for the good of the people. I want the military where it belongs not in our streets. What’s up with them that they aren’t refusing to go after the American people they signed on to protect? They are not protecting us they are arresting us for a bottle of booze sitting in your pocket. WTF is that. Being able to stop people because they might be Spanish or Mexican or Honduran. Damn talk about racism does it get even worse now? Yes by leaps and bounds

Mairy's avatar

It’s pure insanity and won’t stop until we all get off our asses

MARY JANE LELAND's avatar

Yes could have been a moment of unity! Brilliant and a lost opportunity.

Night Has A Thousand Eyes's avatar

Kirk was a huckster. He used and monetized religion, race, national origin and politics in order to advance his own pecuniary interests and in that respect he was no different from so many who populate the media landscape nowadays. But now in death, Trump and the rest of the Republican hucksters will elevate him to martyrdom or even sainthood in order to extract more money from the gullible, resentful, and ignorant who soak up this malarkey.

Consequently what this country needs is not a good 10 cent cigar but rather enough people who do not need to be spoon fed what to think or how to act. Critical thinking is only an effort when it is not practiced regularly or at all but if we want to get out of this morass a lot more people are going to have to put on their thinking caps.

Cherae Stone's avatar

Just use the word Christian. . .

Kathy Hughes's avatar

Charlie Kirk would better have been described as a Christian Nationalist, not your garden variety Christian who believes in following the example of Jesus in the Gospels.

Olof Hellen's avatar

This is a murder that I wouldn't support but it doesn't qualify as an assassination.

Lauren's avatar

Mike, I agree. I'd take it 1 step further. They'll be the ones responsible for the next assassin/mass shooting event by glorifying all of this. The main 1 responsible? Romney, considering how much money he makes from the NRA.

Stop focusing on the shooters. Focus on the survivors of the events.

Tobey T.'s avatar

But they, Vance, Trump, Miller, Bannon, et al, will never accept responsibility for the people they get killed from their rhetoric.

Lauren's avatar

Correct. But the focus on the shooters still makes the problem worse. Where is the focus on the survivors? Where is the help for them decades later? This has been true since Littleton.

Tobey T.'s avatar

True. The media does the same thing to mass murderers and serial killers. It's never about the victims.

Leslie Goodman-Malamuth's avatar

Rizz-free JD, Marine clerk-typist in an air-conditioned office, demonizes the left-wing extremists who commit TWO PERCENT of violent crimes. Seventy-four percent of shootings and sex crimes are committed by white MAGA men, and Muslim extremists account for the rest.

Food stamps and the GI Bill advanced James Donald before he pulled up the ladder behind him. Nine years ago, the “never-Trump guy” called him “an opioid.”

Joan Wiersma's avatar

They ARE doing that, and have been before. You are so correct on this.

Gregg Barak's avatar

Of course they are, here is my commentary from earlier today in Raw Story, saying pretty much the same. "How Donald Trump is making America politically violent again"

https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/how-donald-trump-is-making-america-politically-violent-again/

DumbDove's avatar

They even pretend to cry. It's so gross

Why You Should Care's avatar

When political violence becomes just another partisan tool, it compounds the damage. The real danger isn’t only the act itself, but how leaders choose to exploit it afterward.

Cathy G's avatar

You read my mind about the fantasy of leaders from both parties at the WH calling for an end to the violence.

Robert Eckert's avatar

"Let’s assume that’s true for the sake of argument. Let’s give him that for now."

NO NO NO. It's a lie, and we need to keep saying out loud that it is a lie.