I highly suspect Trump will get “intel” that the shooter is hiding in a blue American city like New York or Chicago and take it over with the military. I think he will use this to escalate his military take over of cities.

Left-wing streamer Kyle Kulinski says Charlie Kirk was feuding with nazis to his political right before he was killed.

Right-wing Pundit Clayton Morris shares rumor that Charlie Kirk was concerned Israel was going to kill him, and that he was wearing body armor when he was shot.

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I’m somewhat surprised that the Trump Administration went this far to distract from the Epstein files.

Interesting reflection of Lemmy demographics that I haven’t seen much “But he has a wife and kids, we shouldn’t be celebrating his death uwu” rhetoric. Apparently even the most staunch centrists here acknowledge the harm Toiler Paper USA has done to the US populace.

There’s some insane laundering of his legacy going on now over on Reddit and through American news outlets though, as if he didn’t call Paul Pelosi’s attacker a “patriot” or dismiss school shootings as a necessary evil of the 2nd amendment. MSNBC even fired a political analyst over calling him “divisive.”

I’m not one of those people who blame every ill of the world on the “neoliberal cucks” or whatever, but damn if they don’t have a point regarding the corporate capture of the United States news media currently.

Busting out the cigars and celebrating this. Finally some good news. Sending thoughts and prayers

My thoughts:

My prayers:

“So we need a bigger distraction. Like Horst Wessel meets Reichstag fire.” I wonder if someday we’ll find out Trump ordered it.

Or maybe it’s just chickens coming home to roost.

Thanks to the “good guy with a gun” who protected the world from this guy.

There’s so many layers of irony to this event. You can’t make this shit up.

A man, who made a career downplaying gun violence and advocating against empathy for its victims, was shot while giving a talk about his favorite topic under a tent that said “Prove me wrong”, on a college campus in a state that just lifted its ban on weapons on college campuses. His own quotes can be endlessly used to shut down any outrage at his ironic demise.

Charlie Kirk’s final moments were spent being definitively and completely proven wrong.

If this wasn’t going to used as an excuse to ban Trans people from owning firearms and for further violence against the opposition, it would be hilarious.

A moment of silence on the floor of the US House of Representatives over Charlie Kirk’s killing has turned into a shouting match between Republicans and Democrats.

The commotion began when Republican representative Lauren Boebert rose after the moment of prayer to ask that the House also say a prayer for Kirk, according to multiple lawmakers who were on the floor during the incident, Axios reports.

Democrats then shouted “what about the kids in Colorado”, referring to a school shooting in Colorado that also occurred on Wednesday afternoon. Boebert responded that she was about to reference that tragedy before she was interrupted, the report continues.

Republican representative Anna Paulina Luna, who worked as Kirk’s director of Hispanic engagement at Turning Point USA, then stood up and yelled at Democrats: “You caused this!”

That prompted a raucous Democratic response, with Democratic representative Jahana Hayes, a leader on the gun violence prevention task force, shouting: “Pass some gun laws!”

Footage of the commotion from C-Span can be seen here on Instagram.

Source: Guardian.com live updates feed, https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/sep/10/donald-trump-jeffrey-epstein-tariffs-immigration-crime-us-politics-live-news-updates?page=with%3Ablock-68c234808f08d80fd0f11d17#block-68c234808f08d80fd0f11d17

I just want to point out some things since everyone is assuming it was a leftist shooter:

1. No one knows who the shooter actually is.
2. Most leftist reactions I’ve seen to Kirk have been to laugh at his stupidity, not get murderously angry at him.
3. No political message has appeared yet, like the one Luigi put on the bullets he used. Which if you’re a leftist shooter, come on you gotta at least do that homage.
4. The shooter killed him with one shot from a distance and got out without being caught.
5. I’ve never met a leftist who knows how to shoot a gun, nevermind one with that level of skill. If it was a leftist, I’m surprised they couldn’t catch them by now by simply arresting the one leftist who knows how to shoot at long distance.

Considering some of his comments over the years, I’m torn whether this is ironic, appropriate, or hilarious.

I just can’t decide.

Good riddance to a monster. I feel sorry for his kids though.

Trump blames harsh language for Kirk’s death

Trump posted a video that appeared to be filmed in the Oval Office Wednesday evening on Truth Social, blaming Kirk’s death on harsh political rhetoric.

He said “violence and murder are the tragic consequence of demonizing those with whom you disagree.”

He added: “For years, those on the radical left have compared wonderful Americans like Charlie to Nazis and the world’s worst mass murderers and criminals. This kind of rhetoric is directly responsible for the terrorism that we’re seeing in our country today, and it must stop right now.”

U.S. terror experts have warned of rising threats from so-called stochastic terrorism, in which sometimes unstable individuals are inspired to violence by hate speech and scenarios they see online and hear echoed by public figures.

Whaaaaattt??? I am so totally shocked to hear this accusation coming from Trump.

After the FBI has already apparently arrested and released 2 suspects… That’s another great thing about firing every FBI agent that was qualified to do their job in retaliation for Jan 6th. You never quite know what’s incompetence vs conspiracy these days.