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Yuri Bezmenov's avatar

Charlie was the best of us. While conservatives held peaceful vigils, leftists danced on his grave. We need RICO to bring justice to all the extremist networks and their funders. If we don’t hold them accountable, they will stoke more violence. Randi weingarten and many like her are already back to calling all of us fascists, only a week after they scolded both sides to tone down the rhetoric.

We must be vocal in calling out the "both sides" false equivalencies: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/both-sides-false-equivalencies

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Beverly's avatar

Randy weingarten is a menace to society.

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kittynana's avatar

@Beverly- my daughter is a teacher and sees the harm Weingarten has done.

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Seva's avatar

Watch this Dave Rubin video of Chicago’s Mayor Brandon Johnson from 2018 where he talked about what he did as a teacher in Chicago which was pretty much nothing. What’s interesting is that he feels he was being a good teacher by not giving test prep, homework or failing anyone. Why? Because he spared them the humiliation of once again failing and feeling stupid and he even says this, “sometimes my students would get frustrated.”

Many overlook how painful and humiliating this is for them and the anger and resentment it generates against whites which the democrats then capitalize on to get support for their party and agenda of reparations and replacing meritocracy with equity aka race based equal outcomes. How can our society survive this level of damage? How do we coexist with white leftists who hate us for not being on board with this project of dismantling civilization for the sake of equality?

“Watch Two Quotes That Should Have Disqualified the New Mayor.”

Rubin Report. Apr 12, 2023

https://youtu.be/tlA_FJ-s7EY

Bill Maher on Kamala Harris and Chicago public schools.

“Chicago Teachers Union: Tests are racist.” (2 min)

Illinois Policy. Oct 28, 2024

https://youtu.be/xp1DsUDCj1Q?si=cNST9rE_WvM_5qRw

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Susan Daniels's avatar

She is hideous and just desperate to keep her job.

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Marie's avatar

I was astounded that Greta on Newsmax was so friendly to her, seemed like they had a long relationship. Randi ruined young people by not allowing schools to be in session.

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Alexander Simonelis's avatar

Weingarten is a rabid ideologue who would be a commissar come the revolution.

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Art's avatar

I’ve tried steelmanning the argument that the Soros family merely holds ideas that are not aligned with mine and that they are legitimately exercising their First Amendment rights by using their vast wealth to change the country. But I just can’t manage to construct a plausible argument in support of that proposition. It sure seems vastly more likely that they are truly psychopaths intent upon causing as much harm and destruction as possible before they reach their natural demise. And even then the foundations they’ve established will continue to create havoc with endowments and paid staffs.

There is now a discussion of starting with these people and organizations and figuring out what they’ve been up to and their techniques. Following the money trails starting with this particular band of psychopaths seems as good a place as any to start improving life for Americans.

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Barry Lederman, “normie”'s avatar

It’s always about the money. The corrupt media is complicit in the brainwashing of large segments of voters and their funding has to be stopped.

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Nobodyknowsnothing's avatar

no he wasn't the best to of us he was a demagogue on many issues. as for the leftists you are just exercising collectivist ideology which is on the road to perdition. he never should have been assassinated by a psychopath but stop with the collectivist nonsense

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Jack Miller's avatar

@Nobodyknowsnothing, please provide specific examples of how Charlie "was a demagogue on many issues." He never claimed to be perfect, but he seems to have been a model Christian, husband, father, and patriot. He spent his young life on college campuses practicing the essence of the 1st Amendment by encouraging discussions with those, like you or Tyler Robinson, who disagreed with him. He would have welcomed your opinions, and I fail to see the demagoguery in that.

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Elizabeth's avatar

First of all, he had no interest in “power” which is in part the definition of a demagogue. Did he hold and speak unpopular opinions? Yes, and he believed in those opinions as truth. I did not agree with him on everything, but at least I listened. And I never would have dreamed of killing him for being pro-life [for example] but somehow, many on the left cannot seem to abide any opinions but their own. For some reason [many of us know why] they cannot allow such “unpopular” opinions to be held, much less stated and debated. It disgusts me that so many on the left—so many of my liberal friends!—are not denouncing his cold blooded murder, but are shrugging and implying “he sort of had it coming.” Just because one supports the 2nd amendment doesn’t mean they are pro-murder. Charlie was a good man even if you didn’t agree with his views, but no person should ever be killed for their views.

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Alexander Simonelis's avatar

It's your crowd that are the demagogical "colletcivists."

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Bull Hubbard's avatar

He certainly was emotional when making his case, and so appealed to his audience's emotions, since his subjects just naturally evoke strong feelings one way or the other, but he always was able to marshal enough evidence to prevail in debates, simply because his antagonists are either flatly insane or ignorant and immature, and haven't got a leg to stand on.

Some find Kirk's advocacy of Christianity, the nuclear family, so-called "race realism," and traditional gender roles offensive. More moderate people find them old-fashioned. but the alternatives that have advanced in their place over the last 60-or-so years (the trans-gender social contagion, black civil rights on steroids and all the nonsense that follows from that and their critical studies-based rationalizations) prove to me that his alternative is the healthiest, both for individuals and for social cohesion, whether you are a True Believer or not. The reactions to his murder also demonstrate this, especially the highly offensive, barbaric, and enraging public vomit on social media from the left.

If we have no appearances or public statements regarding this horrorshow from the so-called "actual far-right," like American Nazis or white supremacy groups , it will only reinforce my belief that such groups are too weak to make any sort of political difference and the evocation of their threat from Democratic DEMAGOGUES in Congress is just so much more horseshit from their feckless unprincipled politics.

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Tapestrygarden's avatar

Brilliant analysis! Thank you

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Joe Smith's avatar

Youknowsnothing

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Ben F.'s avatar

I didn’t care for a few of the things he said, because he said it in a rude way.. but that doesn’t mean he was a “demagogue”.. give me a break! Man, this kind of hyperbole is just a step down from saying he was a racist and homophobe, which is what’s enabling all these feckless radical leftists to justify their hate. Please cut it out with the labels.

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Tapestrygarden's avatar

The damage done to children by this evil witch is incalculable. I have numerous friends who said their previously active, engaged kids literally went to ground during the lockdowns and have never recovered.

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Bailey's avatar

You want RICO laws used against the people you disagree with? Would Charlie Kirk have agreed with you? He should have been free to say whatever he thinks but that goes for everyone!

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Alexander Simonelis's avatar

Not for their disagreement. For their funding of illegal activities. Have you ever noticed that so many tents in those university illegal occupations are the same or vey similar?

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Tim Banister's avatar

He had the courage that most of us lack. I pray that we all use his example to be

more bold in our faith.

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NoVaCloudDev's avatar

I agree.

Please take care of yourself, Chris.

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Alexander Simonelis's avatar

Yes!

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Lloyd M Richardson's avatar

Out of deference to Mr. Kirk's political assassination, I did not want to say this last week with respect to your post on young people on the conservative side, but there is a connection. Young Americans in particular have been the victims of the 300 year march of secularism, which we can trace to the laughably named "Enlightenment." As education spread in the 19th Century, this thinking infected not just the intellectual class, but normal people as well. Now we live in a society where "truth" is not absolute, but is whatever the individual happens to believe--a radical form of relativism. When man sets himself above God, human society cannot endure. I think Mr. Kirk understood this. There is a reason Christians believe in original sin, which is ultimately the sin of pride.

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Bull Hubbard's avatar

I agree the Enlightenment has borne some poisoned fruit, but anyone with eyes to see understands that God is not dead, though Christianity has certainly taken a beating and is down on points in the late rounds but seems to be rallying for at least a split decision.

The fact that there are still large numbers of Christians of various denominations tells me that some sort of concept of God is central to human existence and the search for transcendent reality will never end, though it might take some weird forms. And you can't deny that many of the cultural products of the enlightenment, art and literature for example, are beautiful and have stood the test of time. Go stand in the nave of the rebuilt Notre Dame cathedral to get a visceral sense of what I mean.

I have a Buddhist orientation myself. I find their concepts fit my actual experience, although I have no need for its rituals and cultural manifestations. I do like the art that has arisen from Buddhism in Asia though.

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Pacificus's avatar

A Buddhist Bull? I like it!

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No name here's avatar

Thanks for listing out some of the victims of left-wing Cancel Culture. Now that the winds are shifting, it would be good for us to go back and examine some of them.

My own "turning point" away from the left was the cancellation of James Damore, the Google engineer, who when feminists brought equal outcome identity politics into the workplace, wrote a polite, reasoned, and evidenced based argument in the form of a memo. He was fired for it. The media subsequently lied about the memo, omitting some of it (the part where he urged his co-workers to treat each other as valuable individuals regardless of sex), and lying about its contents.

These things are not the same. Bringing identity politics into the workplace expecting a "The View" like experience where affirmation, validation and confirmation is experienced, evidence be damned, but being shocked when a polite, grown-up conversation is sought, resulting in a histrionic fit leading to terminating a grown-up in the room... Is not the same as getting fired for cheering the brutal assassination of a father in front of his children.

This distinction needs to be hammered home, hard... Because it is important.

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Lebo Von Lo-Debar's avatar

My own "turning point" away from the democrat&republican PARTY was when I stopped doing those drugs the VA gave me for my PTSD. But hey, you guys can continue to fuck the country up by voting for the tyranny of the republican&democrat PARTY, because that is what the dumbest people in America do, they vote for the democrat&republican PARTY.

$37 TRILLION DOLLARS and climbing, and you will still vote for the republican&democrat PARTY...what's that old saying about doing the same thing over and over again, and getting the same result.

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No name here's avatar

I share your concerns about the debt and wish you the best. That said, I see very important distinctions between Trump/Trumpism and these delusional Marxists, only one of which I highlighted above.

If a viable alternative appears that does something about this very dangerous debt level in addition to the rending of societal fabric based on identity and now political violence, I'll be behind you 100%. But the truth is we live in the world that is, not the world we wish to be.

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Lebo Von Lo-Debar's avatar

The alternative is to get rid of the democrat&republican PARTY that is responsible for THAT debt, not continuing to vote for your republican&democrat tyrannts.

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kittynana's avatar

@Lebo- over and over again. Like what you just did in your tirade I couldn't understand a single thing you said.

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Lebo Von Lo-Debar's avatar

I am an American I am NOT a republican&democrat voter.

$37 TRILLION DOLLARS in debt because of the democrat&republican PARTY do you understand that kittnana?

If you ARE A democrat&republican voter it is too difficult for you to understand anything not written by the republican&democrat PARTY and their propagandists.

Hence, why I say the dumbest people in America are the democrat&republican voter. They are TOO brainwashed to understand anything not spoon fed to them by their republican&democrat PARTY.

Thanks for proving that truism kittynana.

P.S. Kittynana, for most democrat&republican voters they cannot challenge their own bias and are therefore, forever stuck being a republican&democrat voter who steps into a voting booth and checks off all the d's or r's without a thought. Hence, the dumbest people in America.

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kittynana's avatar

Some of us have critical thinking skills and actually use them. Clearly, as you are pointing out, not all.

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Lebo Von Lo-Debar's avatar

Exactly...like democrat&republican voters.

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Alexander Simonelis's avatar

The problem is that we have to live in the real world. There is no alternative to D or R, other than to go live in the bush. GOP is is, and they've been doing a good job the last nine months.

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Dave Campbell's avatar

Thank you so much for explaining with your usual elegance the nature of the social contract in our country. And how it has been violated. And how to proceed forward with grace and truth.

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Fabius Minarchus's avatar

The transgender violence has been going on for years. Trannies were a major component of Antifa back in 2020. Andy Ngo has been documenting tranny violence on this X account for years.

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Sam Frazer's avatar

On point and direct, as always Chris. Thank you.

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reality speaks's avatar

Amen to that.

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Rare Earth's avatar

The media has been looking for a way to spin this for a week and, until now, unsuccessfully. For days they have told their listeners and readers that Robinson was MAGA. Half the country believed this poling showed, but it wasn't sticking, it was too superficial.

The left wing media also had no answer for the cold, heartless and hateful postings of their side celebrating Kirk's murder - it made them look really bad. So they just did not cover it, or claimed it wasn't true.

But now they have their angle, their deeper story. Matt Gutman led the way out of their troubles. Robinson is in fact one of them after all. He embraced all that they hold near and dear - most especially the transgenderism; the furry kink is just a bit more spice. He is a social justice warrior. There was a motive and it was noble. He was defending his lover's honor and goodness in the face of evil and hate - which you and I know as merely as normalcy - a man cannot become a woman or vice versa. Walter Kirn is 100% correct:

https://x.com/walterkirn/status/1968107341120934180

Watch the media narrative do a grand pirouette today. It began last night.

And here it is already last night from the noted psychologist: Montel Williams on CNN Thunderdome says the suspect in the Charlie Kirk assassination was "a love-torn child" likely in the throes of "his first real relationship and someone was disparaging the person he loved" and thus not "motivated politically"....

https://x.com/CurtisHouck/status/1968142189436739606

He like Mangione will now be lionized even more by young people on the left. They finally have their deeper narrative. Of course media voices will say he took it too far and that they don't condone violence, but that will be about as effective and unimportant at the statement of side effects in a pharmaceutical commercial. The main point will be that he is actually good and noble young man, deeply in love, driven to violence by the hate speech of Donald Trump and Charlie Kirk. In the end, his demise is their fault. Once again, they will be found guilty. Welcome to the Cultural Revolution...Mao must be smiling.

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Bull Hubbard's avatar

It's not surprising that Robinson will be welcomed into the pack of SJWs and lionized by their leprous mouthpieces and that he will be painted as a poor little naïf incited to murder by the Evil Far Right, that clownish caricature of a miniscule faction with zero power or influence, that colossal lie that gullible geeks everywhere have swallowed whole.

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Timothy Underwood's avatar

The teachers’ unions deserve federal retribution for contributing to dangerous ideology.

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Susan Treadway's avatar

Chris, about the term "anti-fascists." Of course, as freedom-loving Americans we are against fascism. Antifa has, like the left always does, misappropriated a term to their advantage. I think if we refuse to call them "anti-fascists" (especially when they are the epitome of fascistic!) and only call them Antifa - or better, let's create a new moniker, Antifa Domestic Terrorists, ADT - we can potentially get control of the narrative on this one. The point is that they are DOMESTIC TERRORISTS, and that is what must be hammered home publicly.

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Peter From NH's avatar

As horrified as I am at this murder and the impact on America of the last ten years or so, I do worry about the development of policies in the immediate aftermath of these types of events. Emotion seldom leads to healthy policies and bad policies often lead to their own even more pronounced harms. I think we need to be cautious and thoughtful about the “solutions” to the actions of one individual, even if those actions may have been heavily influenced by others. Someday, the other party will control whatever mechanisms are put in place today - building increased government power, however directed initially, is unlikely to preserve the America I grew up in and treasure.

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kittynana's avatar

@Peter- agreed but the right tends to be more controlled in its actions than the left lately. I mean, the bullets are literally flying from one direction.

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Graham Cunningham's avatar

Yes he also did it the brave way. And there is nothing BUT lies at the heart of Left-wing ideology.

'The whole two hundred year history of Progressivism has been one long ever-tightening purity spiral. An ever-tightening, road up Social Justice Mountain from “What about the workers?” to “What about my new ‘gender’?....the one that I decided to be this morning”.

Contrary to pop history, 'Progressive' crusading has rarely been driven by uprisings from the downtrodden. It has mostly been driven by a relatively privileged but malcontent middle class intelligentsia. All the way from the French Revolution - via Marx, Lenin and Che Guevara - to Ta-Nehisi Coates. The huge irony to this middle class domination of the radical Left in our time is how it became more and more focussed on the kind of pre-occupations to be found among privileged, well-healed academics....sexual ‘identities’, feminism and a white racial-guilt-tripping-by-proxy-syndrome et al.' https://grahamcunningham.substack.com/p/stairway-to-equiheaven

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Bull Hubbard's avatar

Absolutely. And damned well-put. Consider me a new subscriber. Who knows? I might throw in some dough at some point after I read more of what you have to say.

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Graham Cunningham's avatar

Thank you Bill....and for the subscription

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T A Yount's avatar

Yes to all points Christopher. We also have the potential of healing our nation’s mass diasphoria —a constitution that protects individual rights, leaves guns in possession of qualified citizens, and balances rhetorical excess with truth. We need all parties on alert to ensure it’s enforced.

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Lloyd M Richardson's avatar

Thank you.

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