Category: Politics

Charlie Kirk’s supporters have declared him a ‘martyr.’ Some want vengeance.

  • The shooting death of conservative activist Charlie Kirk has triggered a range of reactions, from mournful sympathy to religious conspiracy theories.
  • Kirk spoke of what he called a “spiritual battle” being waged in the United States between Christians and Democrats.
  • Experts on faith and far-right extremism say they are troubled by the religious glorification of Kirk in an era of increased political violence.

In life, Kirk spoke of what he called a “spiritual battle” being waged in the United States between Christians and a Democratic Party that “supports everything that God hates.”

In death, Kirk, one of the Republican Party’s most influential power brokers, is being hailed by conservative evangelical pastors and GOP politicians as a Christian killed for his religious beliefs.

Kirk — who rallied his millions of online followers to vote for Trump in the 2024 election — declared that God was on the side of American conservatives and that there was “no separation of church and state.” He was also known for his vitriol against racial and religious minorities, LGBTQ+ people, childless women, progressives and others who disagreed with him.

Kirk called transgender people “a throbbing middle finger to God.” He said the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was “a huge mistake” and called the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. “awful.” On his podcast, he called with a smirk for “some amazing patriot out there in San Francisco or the Bay Area [who] wants to really be a midterm hero” to bail out of jail the man who attacked then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband with a hammer in their home in 2022.

Where Charlie Kirk stood on guns, the LGBT+ community and the future of the United States

Is this the country you want?

Kirk was known to be a gun owner himself and regularly spoke out on the issue, including on behalf of the National Rifle Association in the aftermath of the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, in February 2018.

At a Turning Point event in Salt Lake City in April 2023, he said, “It’s worth it to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment.”

Kirk adopted a traditional Christian conservative stance in his approach to many contemporary issues, telling an audience at a Trump election rally in Georgia last fall that Democrats “stand for everything God hates” and adding: “This is a Christian state. I’d like to see it stay that way.”

He also lashed out at the gay community, denouncing what he called the “LGBTQ agenda,” expressing opposition to same-sex marriage and suggesting that the Bible verse Leviticus 20:13, which endorses the execution of homosexuals, serves as “God’s perfect law when it comes to sexual matters.”

Generally Kirk was loyal to Trump, whom he saw as key to establishing the conservative Christian America he wanted to help realize, one in which abortion is heavily restricted to cases of medical emergency in which the mother’s life cannot be saved by any other means, women enter higher education to find husbands and “woke” ideologies play no part in public life.

Political analyst Matthew Dowd lost his contributor role at MSNBC because of comments he made about Charlie Kirk after the young right-wing activist was murdered Wednesday.

Shortly after Kirk was shot to death while speaking on stage at Utah Valley State University, Dowd told MSNBC anchor Katy Tur that “hateful thoughts lead to hateful words which then lead to hateful actions.”

The angry reaction on social media was immediate after Dowd’s comments suggested that Kirk’s history of incendiary remarks led to the shooting.

Kamala Harris Doesn’t Blame Herself for Losing the 2024 Election

Harris’ book — “107 Days” — recounts the shortest presidential campaign in modern U.S. history. All the reviews of the book which is her story of why she lost the election she appears to blame everyone but herself.

“ ‘It’s Joe and Jill’s decision,’ “ Harris wrote. “We all said that, like a mantra, as if we’d all been hypnotized. Was it grace, or was it recklessness? In retrospect, I think it was recklessness. The stakes were simply too high.

“This wasn’t a choice that should have been left to an individual’s ego, an individual’s ambition,” she went on. “It should have been more than a personal decision.”

Ms. Harris dismissed any notion that Mr. Biden was not mentally or physically fit to serve as president.

“But at 81, Joe got tired,” she wrote. “That’s when his age showed in physical and verbal stumbles.”

107 days was too short a period to run a presidential campaign and Harris knew that. But there was more to her failed campaign than that. While Donald Trump was holding rallies that drew large crowds and his willingness to give interviews Harris hid from the press.

She lacked the courage to speak truth to power.

With no primaries Harris was the assigned candidate.

The Democratic Party is to be blamed for the loss of our Democracy.

Is Trump the Inside Mole?

A mole is a spy that is buried deep inside a society to the point it is very unlikely he or she would ever be identified as a spy.

For those of you following the news about Ukraine and the impact of Russian President Vladimir Putin on President Donald Trump consider these reported facts

*President Trump said Monday he would renew his assault on mail-in voting after Russia’s autocratic leader, Vladimir Putin, told him to do so at their meeting in Alaska last week.

*Trump interrupted his talks in Washington with European leaders to call Russian President Vladimir Putin, an EU diplomat told Reuters on Monday. What did Trump say to Putin and what was Putin’s response?

*The US president said he felt there is a “warmth” between him and Putin, which was felt at the summit between the two leaders last week. He also said he didn’t talk to the Russian president in front of European leaders yesterday because he felt it “would be disrespectful” to Putin.

Why is Trump so willing to support Putin rather than Western allies?

Nothing Burger

“Nothing burger” is a slang term, primarily used in American English, that describes something that was expected to be significant or important but ultimately turned out to be inconsequential, insignificant, or disappointing.

In Alaska, President Vladimir Putin walked on a red carpet, shook hands and exchanged smiles with his American counterpart. Donald Trump ended summit praising their relationship and calling Russia “a big power … No. 2 in the world,” albeit admitting they didn’t reach a deal on ending the war in Ukraine.

By Saturday morning Moscow time, Trump appeared to have abandoned the idea of a ceasefire as a step toward peace -– something he and Ukraine had pushed for months -– in favor of pursuing a full-fledged “Peace Agreement” to end the war, echoing a long-held Kremlin position. The “severe consequences” he threatened against Moscow for continuing hostilities were nowhere in sight. On Ukraine’s battlefields, Russian troops slowly grinded on, with time on their side.

President Trump made his expectations clear entering a summit with Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Friday: “I won’t be happy if I walk away without some form of a ceasefire,” he said aboard Air Force One.

Yet he did, emerging from their meeting in a diplomatic retreat, adopting the Russian leader’s position that puts off ceasefire negotiations in favor of more comprehensive talks.

“It was determined by all that the best way to end the horrific war between Russia and Ukraine is to go directly to a Peace Agreement, which would end the war, and not a mere Ceasefire Agreement, which often times do not hold up,” Trump wrote on social media. “If all works out, we will then schedule a meeting with President Putin. Potentially, millions of people’s lives will be saved.”

Trump obtained nothing and Zelinsky is still fighting a war he can’t win. Trump should be ashamed but he can’t admit the Alaska summit was a mistake.