The 3 stages of grief: Anger, denial, ballroom. Q: My condolences on the loss of your friend Charlie Kirk. How are you holding up? LUMPY: I think very good. And by the way, right there you see all the trucks. They just started construction of the new ballroom for the White House, which is something they've been trying to get for about 150 years. And it's gonna be a beauty. It'll be an absolutely magnificent structure
Side note - he had also apparently donated directly himself to Trump and dressed up as Trump for Halloween. Despite being disturbed of late - he was a hardcore Republican for most of his life.
I had thought the donation to Lumpy had been debunked? That it was other family members? Regardless… Amazing the silence of the right wing now. They couldn’t wait to get in front of a microphone to scream at the Democrats in the immediate aftermath and now? Crickets. Absolute crickets. The most fun or hypocritical or at least in the running for such has to the absolute loon that is Nancy Mace. “The Democrats own this!!!!!!!”, and she was heading to the gun range, transgender people were to blame. Yesterday? “We know Charlie Kirk would want us to pray for such an evil, and lost individual like Tyler Robinson to find Jesus Christ. We will try to do the same.” So thoughts and prayers it is because IOKIYAR.
BTW, meant to ask, what network has the rights to the war between the hard right wing and the extreme right wing? I’m assuming subscription only.
I'll choose to believe finally Laura Loomer's eyes. Plenty of space behind them for facts to fit, as there is patently nothing between the ears....
Apropos of this - and while we are all still idly waiting for Wingtips to either admit he was lying/blustering or debunk it .... I lifted this from the "Gun on every corner thread" in the main boards Before any of this was known, Donald Trump blamed “the radical left” and Elon Musk claimed Democrats are “the party of murder.” Both owe the country an apology. The reality is a huge percentage of political violence in recent years has come from the right. Officials in Evergreen Colorado confirmed that the 16 year old boy who carried out a shooting just moments after Kirk's was ALSO radicalized online by far right propaganda. Conservatives need to face the truth that their MAGA movement with countless right wing dudebro podcasters is radicalizing an entire generation of young men across this country.
The thing that always surprises me about Laura Loomer is that a mere 8 years ago she was rightfully dismissed as a complete loon when she jumped on stage at Shakespeare In The Park in Central Park to protest “Julius Caesar” being used as a metaphor for Lumpy World. Now she’s vetting NSA agents. I know politics has changed, but f.uck me.
The next time this b@stard sets foot in Britain he should be effoin' arrested for invlvement in creating a riot and have the book thrown at him. https://www.theguardian.com/technol...on-of-parliament-at-far-right-rally-in-london Pure unadulterated scumbag.
There's a certain type of mentality which thinks that the mentality of Kyle Rittenhouse was/is less prone to committing acts of violence than the three people he shot who were trying to disable a guy with a gun wandering around in a volatile situation. Yet, if Kyle Rittenhouse's leftist cousin had lost his mind and shown up in Washington on January 6th and shot maybe 10 or 12 actual rioters, or if he was a poli ce-man who shot that mentally deranged imbecile, Ashli babbit, these same brain-molecule-drained cretins would be screeching out the opposite. What's my point here, an uninformed idle onlooker might well ask? The answer being that it is not difficult at all to spot, ascertain, define, or indeed, prove by threatening actions photography, where political violence is more readily observable or likely to come from. (You don't even need to read the reports of the institutions tasked with tracking such things.)
Shit no! We should all keep quiet about stuff the right wing terrorists have done to promote this extremism. At least until Kirk gets the Medal of Freedom from his best bro Trump. Then a Sainthood from the Pope. Just a reminder.
He will never get a sainthood from this current Pope. Indeed - the current Pope actually stands against almost all the values of the current Republican/MAGA party.
And the beat goes on. Unfortunately most likely leading to more violence. And FWIW the irony is that these disciplinings and terminations for negative Kirk comments would be most vehemently opposed by Kirk himself.
What is interesting to me is how awful of a human being JD Vance has become on every level. He was sort of a sideshow a couple of years back - but he's now fully reprogrammed and spouting off the standard hitler nonsense like it's second nature. I know people say trump is a unicorn - but Vance strikes me as exceptionally dangerous too (especially with Thiel pulling his strings).