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ihaveaquestion

(4,360 posts)
Tue Sep 16, 2025, 10:33 AM Sep 2025

MSNBC - Joe: Don't use Charlie Kirk's death to gain political points



President Trump ramped up his rhetoric against what he calls 'the radical left' Monday when he was asked if the alleged Charlie Kirk shooter worked alone. Meanwhile, VP Vance and deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller talked about a crackdown on liberal groups during an episode of Kirk’s namesake podcast, which Vance hosted from his ceremonial office at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building.
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MSNBC - Joe: Don't use Charlie Kirk's death to gain political points (Original Post) ihaveaquestion Sep 2025 OP
It's about 6 days too late to call for that, Joe. spanone Sep 2025 #1
Can someone tell me what "liberal groups" they plan to crack down on? Beaverhausen Sep 2025 #2
They'll just make it up as they go along EYESORE 9001 Sep 2025 #4
All of them. That was the point surfered Sep 2025 #5
They already called the Democratic party an extremist organization. ihaveaquestion Sep 2025 #6
Are you kidding? The Martyrdom of St. Charlie is *all about* political points. Ocelot II Sep 2025 #3

Beaverhausen

(24,676 posts)
2. Can someone tell me what "liberal groups" they plan to crack down on?
Tue Sep 16, 2025, 10:37 AM
Sep 2025

Honestly - who are they talking about???

EYESORE 9001

(29,414 posts)
4. They'll just make it up as they go along
Tue Sep 16, 2025, 10:49 AM
Sep 2025

I heard ‘antifa’ mentioned, which is nonexistent.

ihaveaquestion

(4,360 posts)
6. They already called the Democratic party an extremist organization.
Tue Sep 16, 2025, 11:15 AM
Sep 2025

I guarantee Senior Shitstain wants to start arresting Democrats for "incitement to violence" or some other such bogus charges when they say something he doesn't like.

'It's absolutely a concern': CNN analyst warns Trump may outlaw the Democratic party
https://www.rawstory.com/democratic-party-2673997185/

Ocelot II

(128,793 posts)
3. Are you kidding? The Martyrdom of St. Charlie is *all about* political points.
Tue Sep 16, 2025, 10:46 AM
Sep 2025

If Kirk had died in a more conventional way - a car accident, a sudden illness - I doubt very much that we'd be seeing this much commotion over his death. No doubt there would have been a lot of attention and many loving tributes from Trump and MAGA. Vance probably would have gone to his funeral. But a guy who gets accidentally run over by a bus or croaks due to a peanut allergy when he can't find his Epi-pen doesn't get to be a martyr - that's just a sad case of someone who died too young. The martyrdom is the big deal. The narrative is that Kirk was foully murdered by the evil Left Wing and not just the victim of yet another disturbed, gun-obsessed young white guy. This time the disturbed young white guy was one who was raised by gun-loving Republican Mormons in gun-loving Republican Mormon Utah, and who fell into some weird world of ironic Internet memes that he couldn't distinguish from real life and decided it would be the ultimate act of memedom to shoot Charlie Kirk, whom he disliked for yet-unknown reasons. But he might have had a trans roommate/girlfriend, which means he must have been a leftist, since "trans ideology," which doesn't exist, is leftist. Of course. That was enough to make Kirk a martyr to the evil Left, and we are told we must consider only the way he died and not talk about the way he lived. Hang him up there on the cross along with Jesus. You must worship St. Charlie, but whatever you do, don't quote him. Don't quote Jesus, either.

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