So somebody shot and killed Charlie Kirk. While I am no Charlie Kirk fan, I don’t encourage shooting people. The last thing we need now are a bunch of retaliatory shootings. And let’s not give Trump any more excuses to send out jack-booted thugs.
Regarding Kirk, a number of people have cited an old quote of his — “I think it’s worth it. I think it’s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights.” And karma always gets the last word.
Ironically, there was a school shooting in Denver today. There were no deaths. But the legacy of Second Amendment Worship lives on.
"I think it's worth it. I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights." Nothing else needs to be said. Goodbye!
Another day of horror. Record levels of horror. More horror forecasted. Please don't even think of asking why. The answer will be horrible.
The last thing I want to hear, in reference to this rising political violence, is this is not who we are. It is, unfortunately.
DJT
Here's a note from one of the radical left. You, and the people you selected for your inept administration act like Naazis every day. Some of them are Nazis or have links to or sympathy for Nazis. YOU must stop right now. If you think I'm 'contributing' to the opposition of your assault on Democracy, I thank you for the compliment,
The news coverage of this is sickening. They are acting as if Kirk was some kind of innocent ambitious political activist. He was not. he was a hate radio dj right wing extremist who at the time of his murder was practicing his craft if shilling for diaper Don and spreading his hateful message on college campuses. He certainly has the right to practice that "craft" but the fact is he was an extremist who gunned down by another extremist. Watching the media put on their phony concern faces and ignore who and what he really was is really hard to stomach.
I think our top priority is to win the 2026 midterm elections, gain control of the House at a minimum and maybe pick up some Senate seats. At this moment, it feels to me like the murder of Kirk will make it significantly harder to peel off some of the younger generation voters who swung to Repug in 2024. Not impossible, but somewhat more difficult. Expect the current administration to do anything they can think of to exploit this killing for political gain.
We need to be careful to not throw gasoline on that fire. In a normal information ecosystem we could afford to be a bit less careful, but with the current crisis of truth vs disinformation and two-way lack of trust, I think we need to maintain discipline and keep the focus on what this administration is doing to increase the degree to which the super-rich and greed-driven large corporations have captured our government. This administration is tanking the economy. We have an opportunity to exploit that. And we should.
In my opinion, culture war issues are not fertile ground for us to make gains. In that arena it is very difficult to break through the both-sider-ism, as unfair as it is to us. We need to fight loud and hard for the positive values that drive us. The current administration is actively turning our country into a feudal system run by the billionaire class and exploiting everyone else, and that is not a popular vision for the future. The wrecking of the economy is directly attributed to the current R party: the Big Ugly Bill which gives huge tax breaks to the billionaires and huge corporations in tandem with the stupid tariff scheme which shifts the tax burden to the working class. We can and should beat the drum every day on the tariff war disaster.
To be clear, I find all of the policies / societal-engineering positions that Mr. Kirk has promoted to be abhorrent. I think most voters not on the hard right would agree with me. But I don't want the dem party to take the position that because his ideas are repugnant, it it was okay for the murderer to take him out. I don't condone murder of anyone for any reason. And I don't want the party to become vulnerable to a smear along those lines. Political violence is not acceptable for either side.
Finally, consider this: for the past two days, the non-extremist media system has not had much to say about what the administration is doing with a) illegal acts of undeclared war in international waters; b) firing DOJ prosecutors who did their job investigating potential crimes; c) attempting to subvert the law which establishes the independence of the Federal Reserve; d) attempting to corrupt the Federal Elections Commission (another independent agency by law); e) failing to execute appropriations enacted by congress and signed by the president; f) the potential that the current administration is protecting some powerful people re. the Epstein enterprise (who is being protected and why?). There are probably a few more things to keep in the spotlight.
I am against corruption, greed, self-dealing, nepotism, and in general the corrupt use of the Article II branch to nullify the legitimately established law from the Article I branch. I am in favor of sweeping reforms to reverse the capture of the institutions of our constitutional republic.
Outside the political realm, I am actively seeking organically emerging groups focused on addressing the blight of the downsides of social media, and the closely related technology of cellphones. So far, the human race has not done a good job of handling the destructive effects of these developments.