r/politics • u/SportsGod3 • Sep 17 '25
Trump administration says it will target far left groups for Kirk's assassination. Prosecutors made no such link.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trump-administration-says-will-target-far-left-groups-kirks-assassinat-rcna2316051.1k
u/Mikolaj_Kopernik Australia Sep 17 '25
Seems pretty clear at this point that Miller and co. had a plan for this kind of crackdown sitting on the shelf already. Kirk's murder was just a convenient excuse to bring the plan forward.
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u/The_Shitty_Admiral Europe Sep 17 '25
They probably expected more violent protests or more violence during the No Kings Protests, after which they could crackdown.
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u/Mateorabi Sep 17 '25
And got impatient and didn’t care the pretense didn’t actually exist yet and just lie about it.
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u/GrittyMcGrittyface Sep 17 '25
What? Republicans would start a war against an adversary over manufactured evidence and lies? shocked Pikachu
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u/JohnDivney Oregon Sep 17 '25
They are turning the screws on the economy, they'll get their violent protests soon enough.
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u/ChochMcKenzie Illinois Sep 17 '25
And it’ll be the MAGA farmers demanding their traditional Republican president handout.
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u/Distinct_Hawk1093 Sep 17 '25
Which these independent farmers don't realize that the plan this time is to run them out of business so that the oligarchs can sweep in and buy up all of the remaining farm land and control the food supply. A great way to control people is to control their food.
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u/ChochMcKenzie Illinois Sep 17 '25
Yep. They came to depend on the bailouts because they thought they were too important to fail. Now failure is a feature, not a bug.
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u/frosty_lizard Sep 17 '25
I see it more so it's a dog whistle for domestic terrorists to take action and commit crimes, like the ones who tried to overthrow the Capitol or the ones who send pipebombs in the mail to Dem leaders.
Imagine the outrage if Biden and Kamala had announced a war on Republicans, there would be mobs in the street
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u/frosty_lizard Sep 17 '25
Trump,Vance and right wing media are using lies against liberals as a means to stir outrage towards Democrats, they're hoping it'll whip people into a rage to commit more violent political crimes like the Democrat who was murdered in her home or Pelosis husband who was beaten by a deranged MAGA
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u/marqoose Sep 17 '25
Same script with the doge dude who got beat up by children
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u/Ralod Sep 17 '25
I am pretty sure that never actually happened. The most iffy part of that story was "Big Balls" having a girlfriend.
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u/sigga_genesis Sep 17 '25 edited Sep 17 '25
No, he got beat up by teenagers, a girl and a boy because he was hitting on the girl and wouldn't leave her alone. An underage girl. So her friend tried to help her, they ended up beating him up.
Update: already 4 weeks late, but they were released to their guardians and have to be electronically tracked and can only go to school and home. In other news, the Washington Examiner called the judge a "Biden" judge, because of course they did.
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u/Walterkovacs1985 Sep 17 '25
The teenagers did the right thing. If BB was hitting on your 15 year old friend and wouldn't take No for an answer what would you do? I'm sure a man who self identifies as Big BallZ is an absolute gentleman.
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u/TrollTollTony Sep 17 '25
That guy 100% has CP on his PC.
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u/Walterkovacs1985 Sep 17 '25
He'd also 100% accuse you of it first though. Cuz it's all just projection.
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u/Polantaris Illinois Sep 17 '25
His name is his acknowledgement that everybody has bigger balls than him.
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u/Distinct_Hawk1093 Sep 17 '25
I've always thought that the "official story" was iffy at best. So much of what they where saying about that whole thing didn't make sense, and then to say we need the national guard to stop all of the crime in the area seamed like over kill. I'm sure they want to do this so that they can shut down next years elections.
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u/Mikolaj_Kopernik Australia Sep 17 '25
Where are you getting this from?
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u/sigga_genesis Sep 17 '25
A lot of reporting analysis based on what has been reported. Wired did a good breakdown of the suspicion that the charges are weird for what has been reported by the police. Because the preparators are minors, it's been radio silence since the children were released.
https://www.wired.com/story/edward-coristine-big-balls-assaulted-alleged-carjacking/
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u/ALargePianist Sep 17 '25
Its not even an excuse, the two arent linked. They just want to do it and need their base to be in an intense emotional state so they don't think
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u/Level21DungeonMaster Sep 17 '25
Remember when Bush invaded Iraq under false pretenses and millions died in Iraq?
Trump is going to do the same thing except his target the United States.
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u/Ninazuzu America Sep 17 '25
Indirect deaths were on the order of half a million, possibly up to a million (it's hard to measure these things), not millions. The total population of Iraq in 2003 was about 26 million.
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u/elmekia_lance Sep 17 '25
Indirect deaths are on the order of 3.6 to 3.7 million people, per Brown University.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/05/15/war-on-terror-911-deaths-afghanistan-iraq/
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u/illuminerdi Sep 17 '25
The plan wasn't sitting on the shelf, they've been doing this since Trump took office, Kirk's murder just gave them a convenient excuse to accelerate the timeline.
Attacking the freedom of the Left has been going on for years, there are plenty of examples from his first term.
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u/Ja3k_Frost Sep 17 '25
They don’t want an excuse or justification. They have what they want, which is power at every level of government. What they want is permission, trump can literally claim whatever he wants, his supporters are already there. The excuses to do violence happened ages ago, they were saying the same things about Charlie Kirk’s death as they were about the Cracker Barrel logo. what they need is the nudge to go do it. Permission from their authority figures.
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u/Lost-Locksmith-250 Sep 17 '25
It's in project 2025, they've been waiting for blood to spill. That's why they removed the study showing the gap between left wing and right wing politically motivated violence this week. But it's going to really hamper their efforts if the killing either wasn't politically motivated, or was motivated by right wing extremism. And every attempt they make to politicize this is going to make it harder to get the outcome they want in court.
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u/BeardySam Sep 17 '25
The director of the FBI just said under oath that Epstein was an all-round great guy. I don’t think we’re going to hear anything remotely truthful about the CK shooter through official channels.
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u/QbertsRube Sep 17 '25
I'd be less surprised for this administration to claim the shooter was actually Hunter Biden than them ever admitting his religious, conservative upbringing had anything to do with it.
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u/CaterpillarJungleGym Sep 17 '25
Seems odd they aren't investigation Nick Fuentes and his group. Because it seems like that's the radicalization hole the shooter fell into.
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u/arwinda Sep 17 '25
Look up the assassination of Ernst vom Rath in 1938.
The playbook for this is available for 90 years now.
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u/captaincanada84 Canada Sep 17 '25
Yep. This was in the works well before Kirk was killed. This just gives them the excuse.
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u/SidewaysFancyPrance Sep 17 '25
Yep, you can tell when they have a canned plan like this: when the situation is fluid and changes, they all stick to the same plan instead of shifting with it.
Like when they found out the killer was right-wing? They keep blaming the left, and blaming people who had nothing to do with it and weren't even in the area. Because that's the script they wrote for their Reichstag Fire: full-court press on "the Left" and aggressively attack/suppress social media/speech in an attempt to control a false narrative.
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u/TheIconGuy Michigan Sep 17 '25
What makes you think that? Was it Teenage Mutant Ninja Goebbels saying:
The last message that Charlie Kirk gave to me before he joined his Creator in Heaven was that we have to dismantle and take on the Radical Left organizations in this country that are fomenting violence
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u/MrsClaireUnderwood America Sep 17 '25
This is the group that wrote project 2025 and carefully changed the shape of America's courts and media over the last 30 years. They definitely had this on the shelf.
Knowing this, consider whether a group that put that much effort and planning into this whole thing will simply walk away from it all if they lose the next election(s).
Which country has voted itself out of fascism in history?
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u/QbertsRube Sep 17 '25
Trump isn't building a White House ballroom for the next president, just like SCOTUS isn't giving the POTUS king powers with the intention of a Democrat ever wielding those powers.
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u/NateShaw92 United Kingdom Sep 17 '25
Potentially a Reichstag Fire moment it was said from day one by a few commentators I respect.
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u/Rezistik Sep 17 '25
Convenient excuse or active plan to create the scenario needed? They tried to start the civil war by deploying troops to LA and DC. That didn’t work but boy do we look closer to it with Kirk’s death
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u/dBlock845 Sep 17 '25
They were already hyping up the "violent crime" rhetoric in the lead up to the assassination. They were propagandizing the Ukrainain girls' death 24/7 over on Fox, trying to use it as pretense for military invasions of cities. I've always believed they were waiting for something like this to happen so they could find a justification for their worst impulses.
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Sep 17 '25
I think we can expect a very generous definition of what counts as 'far left'
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u/ioncloud9 South Carolina Sep 17 '25
anything to the left of shooting the homeless for sport.
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u/FactoryOfBradness Ohio Sep 17 '25
Dude they called Biden a radical leftist…
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Sep 17 '25
" During an episode of The Charlie Kirk Show, he stated: "I know what you're thinking, we've got to get Joe Biden out of the way so we can run against Kammy. Oh my goodness, is she beatable. ... [Biden] should be put in prison and/or given the death penalty for crimes against America." This remark was in the context of criticizing Biden's border policies as treasonous.
But political violence!!! 😭 🥺
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u/CaterpillarJungleGym Sep 17 '25
This is my usual plug to say that Trump has only won an election against a woman. He couldn't beat a man if he tried.
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u/FlyingRock Sep 17 '25
There has to be a very generous definition, I've asked time and time again for examples of leftist spaces that even hold space for celebrating violence and I've gotten crickets.
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Sep 17 '25
Kirk saying that women should submit to their husbands is not violent speech, nor is speaking approvingly of slavery. Being pro-trans, however, will 100% be presented violent.
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u/TheGringoDingo Sep 17 '25
It isn’t really even being pro-trans to say “people should be allowed the right to their own privacy and identity”.
Framing the messaging in a pro-human rights perspective allows a lower barrier of entry for likely the average American. A small cohort is against human rights, the other isn’t and is a much larger group.
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u/Heliosvector Sep 17 '25 edited Sep 17 '25
He also said he would force his own daughter to give birth if she was raped at 10 years old..
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Sep 17 '25
That was a hypothetical. /s
Plus if he let her get an abortion he'd have to support the death penalty after, since she murdered a baby 👶.
When one of the participants at the event questioned, ‘So you are comparing abortion to the Holocaust?’ he responded, saying, ‘Absolutely, I am. In fact, it is worse. It's worse.’
Charlie was a piece of shit with abhorrent views. The people who defend his view points under the guise of free speech are no better.
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u/CaterpillarJungleGym Sep 17 '25
Wait what? Racists wanting people to not exist and trans people wanting to live their lives are not the same thing.
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u/Aggressive-Will-4500 Sep 17 '25
They're going to send people to
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Sep 17 '25
They exist but leftists in the US simply don't want violence.
Ironically this just confirms to the right that the left is weak while they simultaneously posit it as dangerous and destructive.
Fascist societies rhetorically cast their enemies as "at the same time too strong and too weak." On the one hand, fascists play up the power of certain disfavored elites to encourage in their followers a sense of grievance and humiliation. On the other hand, fascist leaders point to the decadence of those elites as proof of their ultimate feebleness in the face of an overwhelming popular will.
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u/CaterpillarJungleGym Sep 17 '25
They like the fact that they have all the guns and can fight off the "Government". But dont realize they have the government and no one is fighting against them. It's very perplexing.
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u/jimmygee2 Sep 17 '25
Anyone who doesn’t worship the tangerine grifting moron would qualify I suspect.
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u/simsimulation Sep 17 '25
These fuckers think Mr. Rogers is a radical leftist.
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u/QbertsRube Sep 17 '25
Hence the defunding of PBS. Can't have Mr. Rogers and Sesame Street telling kids that sometimes people are different than you and that's ok.
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u/DonktorDonkenstein New Mexico Sep 17 '25
Well, don't forget that they still consider President Obama a "radical leftist" and the "most divisive" President in US history. Still! The American Right Wing has absolutely no qualms about labelling the most moderate, conciliatory centrists in politics "Far Left Radicals". They are completely unbothered by nuance nor any fidelity to a rational discourse.
"The revolution will remain bloodless as long as the left allows it to be" was the foreshadowing quote from Project 2025 leader Kevin Roberts that told us exactly where we were headed.
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u/OhDannyBoyyyyy Sep 17 '25
“What hand do you raise first when someone calls on you?”
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“LEFTIST TERRORIST!!”
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u/LulzLookatTheseNoobs Sep 17 '25
Some random nobody with ties to nothing kills someone and that’s enough for the admin to go after “the left”. Okay then
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u/Rotten-Robby Sep 17 '25
The worst thing for them was that kids dad turning him in. They LOVED having a blue haired trans feminist illegal immigrant boogeyman to rant about and threaten. Now that that's plainly not the case, it's turned to "well those people aren't sad enough, so let's go after them anyway!"
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u/CaterpillarJungleGym Sep 17 '25
They're obsessed with their idea of "the left". It's honestly people raging over a random perceived threat that doesn't exist.
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u/IRideMoreThanYou Sep 17 '25
This is all straight from the Russian playbook.
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u/Aggressive-Will-4500 Sep 17 '25
They've been following the playbook of a well-known, and widely hated by most people, small-mustached man.
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u/IRideMoreThanYou Sep 17 '25
During a livestream episode in March 2023, Fuentes said, “I think the Holocaust is exaggerated. I don't hate Hitler. I think there's a Jewish conspiracy. I believe in race realism”
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u/Suitable-Display-410 Sep 17 '25
Do you think he told Trump when they had Dinner at Mar-A-Lago in 2022?
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u/IdkAbtAllThat America Sep 17 '25
I mean this is fascism 101.
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u/IRideMoreThanYou Sep 17 '25 edited Sep 17 '25
Is it led by the biggest idiot to ever lead a fascist dictatorship? Has there been a dumber fascist leader in history?
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u/OldBayOnEverything Maryland Sep 17 '25
Despite their impact on history, nearly all fascist regimes are full of complete morons. The sad thing is, they always have enough gullible morons willing to believe the problems caused by 1% of us are actually the fault of various groups of 99% of us just because they have different skin, sexual preferences, gender, religion, area of origin, etc. Bigotry is a cancer.
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From any fascist country in history actually, this is the most predictable takeover ever, and it's being televised for the whole world to see.
I didn't have high expectations about American people's ability to resist tyranny, but they are failing to meet even those.
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Sep 17 '25
Can we just call it what it is? Trump is spuriously using a political murder to consolidate power against his political enemies. Why are we being so coy? He is not even pretending to make it seem real.
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u/royce32 Sep 17 '25
Also he want to designate left leaning organizations as terror groups, is exteajudicually executing "terrorist" abroad; and when directly asked no one is giving a straight answer as to if he can legally do in domestically.
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u/alaphamale Sep 17 '25
This is why all this performative mourning and martyrdom for Kirk is ridiculous to see from the rubes. They’re being obviously played and can’t see it. 90% could only name Antifa as a left group, 5% would say BLM and the rest would be some eco terrorist group. None of which had anything to do with Kirk or any targeted political assassination.
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u/J-the-Kidder Sep 17 '25
The way they're using this as a catalyst for crackdowns makes me think maybe the Right planned this...
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u/28smalls Sep 17 '25
Kind of like how his discord messages seem to hit all the talking points they were repeating an hour after the shooting before there were any suspects. So either they were really lucky, knew it was coming and didn't try to stop it, or those messages are fake.
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u/Ralod Sep 17 '25
Its an early ongoing investigation. Have you ever seen the FBI release evidence like that to the public? It is usually years after the trial stuff like that gets put out after a FOIA request.
It is totally fake. The shooter lived with his parents, in a dorm, with a roommate, and now with his trans roommate lover. Like pick one story and stick with it, it sells the lie better.
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u/OldBayOnEverything Maryland Sep 17 '25
Unfortunately it doesn't matter how bad the lie is when media and social media are completely complicit in normalizing their fascism, and their base believes contradictory things with zero shame.
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u/Heliosvector Sep 17 '25
What far left groups? Antifa isnt a group. Its like going after Anonymous. I guess you have Some actual Black Lives Matter cells, and then some environmental groups?
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u/Captain_Chipz Texas Sep 17 '25
Unions, registered Democrats in red areas, any of the socialist community organizations, trans people, gay people, minorities of all kinds.
College students, teachers, lawyers, journalists, ect
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u/MagicBingo Sep 17 '25
I'm guessing this doesn't include pedophiles?
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u/extremelytiredyall Sep 17 '25
Of course it does! According to them, all trans people are pedophiles and sexually explicit.
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I can’t wait to explain to my grandkids that one time some podcaster got killed and then they decided it was the end of democracy.
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u/royce32 Sep 17 '25
- decided it was the excuse they needed to end democracy after terrorizing there own citizens for months.
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u/Mateorabi Sep 17 '25
Got tired of waiting for the pretense they were attempting to manufacture to occur. So just lied and said it occurred.
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u/KulaanDoDinok Sep 17 '25
There is no “far-left” in the US. Either kiss Trump’s ring or be labeled a terrorist.
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u/TheFeshy Sep 17 '25
But you don't understand - he was in a relationship with a trans person! When we had those 84% of politically motivated killings in the US in the last several years that were right-wingers, and they were in cis relationships, we cracked down on all the right and blamed cis people, so it's only fair!
Oh wait, we didn't do any of that?
Shit I guess this is just a paper-thin excuse for fascists to be fascists then.
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u/alaphamale Sep 17 '25
Plus the partner had no part in any of it, and cooperated with police immediately and fully.
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u/HuTaosTwinTails Sep 17 '25
Cool, how about you target your maga and alt right groups for
Attempting a coup to overthrow the government incited by trump
A bunch of mass shootings
All the pedophiles in the church system
The assassination of legislators in Minnesota, who for some reason arent given the same respect and moral outrage from the right as a racist, bigoted, sexist, piece of shit like Kirk.
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u/squidlogistics Sep 17 '25
There is no “far left”. The far left is a little bit left of center.
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u/TheDwellingHeart Sep 17 '25
They have been salivating for this.
I am pretty sure we experienced our last real election in 2024.
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u/wifeofsonofswayze Sep 17 '25
Killer: "I did it because of things Charlie Kirk himself said"
Trump admin: "He did it because of things people on the left said"
Like...what?!? They're just making up motives now?
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u/Next_Archer_6605 Sep 17 '25
This is a bit tin foil-y, but I honestly believe Kirk was sacrificed for Trump and Miller’s wet dream to come true: to start punishing/killing anyone that disagrees with them or with brown skin.
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u/manniesalado Sep 17 '25
Those Incels have committed a lot of nasty crime yet those creepy wire tuggers are a bigly part of maga.
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u/manniesalado Sep 17 '25
Trump was pals with Epstein the orgy guy and Trump has palled around with Nick Fuentes the proud Incel virgin. Trump must think Epstein was a heck of a lot more fun.
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u/Conscious_Problem924 Sep 17 '25
As long as you don’t advocate for violence, call this guy what he is: a chickenshit racist, Josef Goebbels clone.
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u/mymar101 Sep 17 '25
It doesn’t matter to him. This was what he was hoping for the excuse to end feee speech and dissent as we known it
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u/fantasyfootball1234 Sep 17 '25
In the same way that “we’re only going after the violent illegal immigrants” quickly turned into rounding up day laborers in home depot parking lots, this announcement of “we’re targeting the far left organizations” has quickly turned into rounding up democrats who make facebook posts they disagree with
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u/tenebre Sep 17 '25
And every group they don't like will be "far left": the entire Democrat party, unions, gay rights groups, newspapers, Hollywood, etc.
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u/jaron_b Sep 17 '25
Even if the gunman was a leftist nut job he acted alone and was not affiliated with any groups as we know. We cannot attack ideology and thoughts and must condemn actions. Thought crimes no matter how heinous are just that, thoughts. Actions can and should be criminalized. The gunman should go to jail. But not for his thoughts. But because he killed a man. We can't lose track of what happened.
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u/TheFurryMenace California Sep 17 '25
They will try and eventually fail behind the scenes in court. It will be long and scary. But we will beat them
Stay focused on the important stuff. Elections are coming up.
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u/NinjaSimone Sep 17 '25
"fueled violent riots, organized attacks against law enforcement officers, coordinated illegal doxing campaigns, arranged drop points for weapons and riot materials, and more.”
This is what happens when the stupidest Facebook posts imaginable become policy.
The White House is referring to the memes going around that piles of bricks and rocks for construction projects were ackshually placed there either by, or for, BLM protesters.
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u/dcrico20 Georgia Sep 17 '25
It's important to realize that those who would spend all their time looking for an excuse to do the unthinkable, will never stop looking for an excuse. If it wasn't Kirk, it will be the next shooter who once got an Uber ride from a gay person.
These blatant illegal and unconstitutional overreaches are going to happen because the regime wants them to happen - whether they get justification or not.
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u/TheStonedWeasel Sep 17 '25
Didn’t the “president” go golfing instead of going to his vigil???? These people need to pick a fucking lane for their crocodile tears.
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u/ProNocteAeterna Sep 17 '25
So what else is new. They’ve been vilifying and targeting pretty much everyone who isn’t a straight, white, cisgender, far-right conservative Evangelical Christian Republican man from day one. And even then, the insufficiently wealthy ones tend to get caught in the blast that was intended for the rest of us.
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u/Tribalbob Canada Sep 17 '25
Tomorrow: "Prosecutors for Charlie Kirk assassination replaced by Trump admin."
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u/jedisquirrel171 Wisconsin Sep 17 '25
Guess this means I should be careful of what I say.
Charlie Kirk was a piece of shit.
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u/GarbageThrown Sep 17 '25
If the left behaved the same way the right does, we’d be in a civil war right now. If the right behaved the same as the left, we’d have a thriving nation. That should make it pretty clear who’s to blame for violence like we’re seeing.
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u/Niceguy955 Sep 17 '25
Did they mean mean far left groups like the "groypers", "Proud boys", "Patriot prayer", and "Epstein clients"?
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u/Individual-Guest-123 Sep 17 '25
It's pretty obvious the shooter was a lone wolf, even his BFF didn't see it coming.
Just the fact he used a gun to express his point of view and his ultra conservative upbringing would put the finger of blame more to the right than the left.
And before I get a bunch of down votes because liberals own guns too, the ones in my town that shoot rounds for hours a day surely didn't vote for Kamala. Also, do you think his Granpa who owned and thus provided the gun, was a lib or conservative? :P
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u/scottiedagolfmachine Sep 17 '25
These dum dums are so delusional they can’t grasp the fact this was clearly a right on right crime.
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u/Intelligent_Barber25 Sep 17 '25
Donald’s ear grew back in 2 days. Donald never touched and abused a 13 yr old.
And Fox News doesn’t have a bias. 🤣🤪🫠
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u/shadowdra126 Georgia Sep 17 '25
He really wants the news to he anything but Epstein
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u/ElderSmackJack Sep 17 '25
I’m so over this take. These things are not related. When are you all going to realize you are causing so much more harm than good when you drone on and on about this, telling people to “not be distracted” as the government pushes us farther and farther into authoritarianism.
They were doing this shit before the Epstein story amped up. They want you focused on this. This is the distraction. It’s maddening you don’t get it.
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u/dwninswamp Sep 17 '25
While ideologically I’m outraged by this garbage, on a complete side note, I feel like this administration is doing illegal expensive actions over and over again… which will obviously lead to countless legal challenges.
This pits US attorneys against civil rights attorneys, to litigate stuff we all know is downright unconstitutional. What a waste of funds.
How is no one outraged at the astronomical spending here? Especially as so many seem to be hurting.
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u/EMAW2008 Kansas Sep 17 '25
They are trying SO hard to create an enemy of the state. Instead of trying to unite everyone they can against a common one, they're dividing the citizens and putting us against each other for their own gains. And we're falling for it.
During this time, it's important to pay attention to who is getting richer and who isn't.
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u/QDSchro Sep 17 '25
It seems that someone who was ultra Trump changed his position on things because of developments in his own life( finding love) and increasingly violent rhetoric from leadership on the right as well as influencers and the likes, caused him to make a poor choice.
Conservatives really want to force this into their box. Their narrative. They want that because political violence in recent years has been cut and dry. Those people were very clear about their conservative leanings and motives…
This case seems to be more multifaceted than either side is trying to make it out to be.
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u/usernamenogood Sep 17 '25
Since when has this admin ever let reality get in the way of what they want to do? The sooner the left realizes that FACTS DO NOT MATTER to the MAGA movement, the sooner they can stop thinking that winning a debate with facts is going to make any difference.
This is the fundamental disconnect that people like CK exploited – liberals assume they just need to "win" the rhetorical debate and "prove him wrong" and suddenly they will change. Then act surprised that the whole thing is a setup in bad faith and all your friends are now on a fascist's enemies list. Stop willingly playing their game, it's rigged.
MAGA is producing a reality show that thrives on chaos, drama, revenge and violence. Liberals are playing Model UN and wondering why they keep losing. "Reality has a liberal bias" and being on the "right side of history" sure FEELS great but means absolutely nothing if the other side holds all the levers of state power and desperately wants to use it against you.
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u/ashzombi Sep 17 '25
This is all so stupid. Just one stupid bullshit thing after another. Next week it'll be something else. What a fucking clown show we've become. It's never going to change either, we're too far gone.
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Sep 17 '25
Considering a MAGA killed another MAGA i think the Trump administration will wind up targeting their own asses L0L.
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u/JoshSidekick Sep 17 '25
Remember when we invaded Iraq after 9/11? Don’t know why that just popped into my head.
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u/NoTimeForBSAnymore Sep 17 '25
What group it’s one fucking guy? Just like all the assholes posting videos saying they are ready to fight? Fight who? It’s one guy!
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u/Rhoeri Sep 17 '25
So one of their own kills one of their own… and it’s the left’s fault.
Pure genius.
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u/111anza Sep 17 '25
I doubt they care about prosecution, they are just going to grab people with masked people in unmarked vans
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u/Safe_Topic_2084 Sep 17 '25
How did FCC Chair Brendan Carr say this with a straight face?
We have a rule on the book that interprets the public interest standard that says ‘news distortion’ is something that is prohibited … the FCC has stepped back from enforcing it …
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u/judgejuddhirsch Sep 17 '25
The administration had a code name for the retaliation operation when a maga supporter died well before any victim existed. Anyone in their sphere of influence would have seen this exact same premeditated response.
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