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Ty Bauman's avatar

Funny thing how he ignores the assignation of The Minnesota representative & her husband, attacks on Nancy Pelosi's husband, the plot to kidnap Governor Whitmore... I could go on but you get the idea. The only political violence he wants folks to remember is that against Republicans.

And there has been almost NO mention of the school shooting at the Colorado high school an hour after the assassination's of Charlie Kirk.

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A Pat's avatar

We must keep our focus. Feet on the ground, mind alert. We cannot let them dictate the narrative. We are able capable people who can stand up to this administration rhetoric.

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Marco Schaper's avatar

This is bad. And the " President " does everything to escalate the situation. I fear that is the beginning of something really bad. MAGA is prepared, remember January 6th. I'm really scared about the news tomorrow.

I got no idea how that can be fixed, Trump will do anything to make it as worst as possible. I hope I see too dark. You all take care of you ✌️

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Gordon Bullivant's avatar

Trump escalating this horror! It's appalling!!!

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Valari Taylor's avatar

We cannot become numb to gun violence. We must continue to speak up about the need for gun control and stricter gun laws.

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Deborah Grace Steward's avatar

I’m really impressed how your commentary has matured and become very thoughtful. I am a website subscriber and have been for many years.

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Jill Ganz's avatar

Charlie was murdered. Melissa Hortman was assassinated.

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Kahn's avatar

On cue, the Trump/MAGA/Musk/FoxNews/GOP social media machine response to Charlie Kirk’s death is coordinated and designed to insight more violence and a distraction from the Epstein files.

Trump’s FBI has dragged their feet on finding the shooter, misidentified 3 different people as the shooter, falsely reported each one of them to the media without actual proof that they even had the correct shooter, purposely did a poor job of retracting their statements to the public at large…which is helping to gin up Trump‘s base.

To date Kirk’s shooter still has not been identified/found, no response from the FBI on the shootings of the school children, meaningful action on the recent murders of Melissa Hortman and her husband…AND no one has been fired at the FBI. This is not normal.

I wonder if Charlie Kirk is really dead because no one from his family or even his closest friends have come forward to say anything. Trump was quick to lower the flag to half staff (inappropriate), and spew inflammatory statements from the Oval Office. Additionally, Trump has failed to reach out to Kirk’s wife or extended family. This is not normal.

I’m gonna have to go full conspiracy on this one…

Kirks death is starting to feel like a JFK grassy knoll moment and directly aligns with the supposed attempt on Trump‘s life (the actual deaths on that day was planned collateral damage for optics).

Either Kirk is NOT dead and needed an exit ramp to get away from MAGA to keep his family safe because it was becoming difficult for him to remain loyal to Trump…after Trump refused to release the Epstein files…or if Kirk is dead, he was double-crossed, and murdered because (allegedly) a certain orange authoritarian felt threatened and wants to remain in power.

It may be time to look into Charlie Kirk’s finances to see if he was getting his affairs in order early.

Signed,

Follow the money

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Anna P's avatar

He deserves every bit of empathy he doled out 🙄

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4grands's avatar
6hEdited

Worrying about children being exposed to guns is not unique to today. Many years ago my son had a friend whose dad was a police officer. I reiterated every time he went over that if friend wanted to show him his dad’s gun he needed to leave immediately. I did not know how responsible the family was about guns even though dad was a cop.

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Janet Bergamo's avatar

Kirk was an”wonderful American”?

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Marco Schaper's avatar

Like Trump himself is...

He knows exactly how his supporters react on his escalation, that could get really bad.

Take care✌️

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JBM's avatar

Never heard of the guy and look forward to not hearing about him soon

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Donnell OBrien's avatar

Murdered. Not assassinated.

A victim; not a martyr.

Words matter.

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James Michael Ouzts's avatar

Most assuredly, every firearms associated death is a tragedy whether political or otherwise at it origin . Trump always coming out with his usual blazing guns rhetoric automatically assuming its caused by some far left radical group to pin the blame on. This action actually makes Trump look and sound ridiculous since even the two attempts on his life were both found out to be none other than disgruntled Republican that held the guns. He seems quite content in beating the hornets nest simply to in order to rile up his supporters. All this mess was predictable since January 20, 2017 to the present. But what could one expect from a convicted felon in the presidency.

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Trudi Kirby's avatar

This is AI. His right side of his face is drooping bad in a photo

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Sharon Otstot's avatar

The flag at my neighborhood elementary school was a half staff. I don't know why. I hope it was for the right reason.

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Ann Brig's avatar

It wasn’t. It was for Kirk.

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Sharon Otstot's avatar

Afraid of that.

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