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In reply to the discussion: Charlie Kirk is the martyr they needed [View all]live love laugh
(16,480 posts)57. Leon's leading the pack trying to slither back into the inner circle.
The left is the party of murder. Elon Musk, former DOGE head, Tesla CEO
More people will be murdered if the left isn't crushed with the power of the state. Laura Loomer, conservative activist, Trump confidant
It's a real treat to see all these liberals condemn political violence now ... You have blood on your hands. [i]Katie Miller, former White House staffer, wife of White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller
Civil war. Andrew Tate, British American masculinity influencer turned far right culture warrior
This is war. Chaya Raichik, creator of the far right account lLibs of TikTok
The left won't stop unless it's forced to. Darrell Cooper, far right activist and podcaster
The goal for Republicans in the next 10 years shouldn't just be to win elections, but to destroy the Democrat party entirely and salt the earth underneath it. William Wolfe, former Trump administration official and Christian nationalist influencer
https://www.instagram.com/share/_qyzsTM0E
Interview with Nancy Mace
Mace: I'm gonna say this. Democrats own what happened today. I am devastated. My kids have called panicking. Every conversative around the country has called panicking. Just because you speak your mind on the issues doesn't mean you get shot.
Reporter: By that logic doesn't the Republican Party own the shooting of two Democratic representatives in Minnesota?
Mace: ARE YOU KIDDING ME? ARE YOU KIDDING ME? You don't know what condition Charlie Kirk is in right now. Some raging leftist lunatic put a bullet through his neck and you want to talk about Republicans right now? NO. No not at all. No. Democrats own this. Democrats own this. We're talking about Charlie Kirk right now. That's the subject of this that we're talking about right now. Democrats own this. 100%.
Commentary Jesse Waters, Fox
This hits differently because Charlie was one of us. And Trump gets hit in the ear. Charlie gets shot dead. They came after Kavanaugh with a rifle to his neighborhood. They went after Musk's cars. They just shot 2 Jews outside the embassy. Think about it. Scalise got shot. Barely survived.
They are at war with us. Whether we want to accept it or not. They are at war with us. What are we going to do about it? How much political violence are we going to tolerate? And that's the question we're just going to have to ask ourselves. Charlie would love us to put as much pressure on these people as possible.
Dana nailed it. This is unacceptable and has to stop. And it has to stop now. And everybody's accountable. And we're watching what they're saying on television and who's saying what--the politicians, the media . This can never happen again. It ends now. This is a turning point. And we know which direction we're going.
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Brownshirts cracking heads in streets...oh, wait...that is Redhats doing that...n/t
PatrickforB
Sep 2025
#48
Agree...in a few days he'll be like rush limbaugh....nobody will be talking about him.
PortTack
Sep 2025
#50
Of course we know ALL social media posts are true. Republicans couldn't have planted those posts at all.
live love laugh
Sep 2025
#6
There are worse videos and comments of attacks on Democrats like Pelosi's husband. Nobody threatened Civil War for the
live love laugh
Sep 2025
#12
St. Charlie himself graced Paul Pelosi with his gentle wit after he was attacked.
Crunchy Frog
Sep 2025
#20
I follow journalist Greg Sargent on Bluesky, as I did on Twitter. Yesterday I saw him copying
highplainsdem
Sep 2025
#14
Quite so. And I honestly had no real reply to those who have said "Stop pointing fingers at us!"
Hellbound Hellhound
Sep 2025
#15
Agreed. Btw, this is what Mamdani posted yesterday on Bluesky - "I'm horrified by the shooting of
highplainsdem
Sep 2025
#23
fascists don't need a martyr, they can pull any crap they want without an excuse and get away with it
ImNotGod
Sep 2025
#2
sometimes when you are dealing with zealots, they may decide martyrs are necessary...
dweller
Sep 2025
#4
Good post and idea but, not so sure. People have the attention span to repeat this sentence.
chouchou
Sep 2025
#10
I might be wrong for the first time in my life but this shooting does not pass my smell test.
Botany
Sep 2025
#11
VERY orchestrated. The bloodlust chorus of shrill RW voices is telling.
live love laugh
Sep 2025
#49
Releasing that they had recovered the rifle and gave out the type and caliber of the weapon is really strange
Botany
Sep 2025
#54
And less then a month or two ago we have one of Trump's ICE agents saying that he was there (some US ..
Botany
Sep 2025
#59
As if "he was the martyr they needed" was the only reason, they wanted to do this for years
tornado34jh
Sep 2025
#36
I'm trying to dig myself out of this thought, but I fear he's the 21st century equivalent of Ft. Sumter.
Pacifist Patriot
Sep 2025
#43
My hope is that Charlie's followers will blame Dumpy because of the Epstein stuff.
Clouds Passing
Sep 2025
#46