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bigtree

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Fri Sep 12, 2025, 02:33 PM Friday

This is the same thing that's been perpetrated on the public about the Trump rooftop shooter [View all]

...where the media has never nailed down the fact that the young man who shot at Trump wasn't affiliated with Democrats or the 'left,' but had a family life that was immersed in the culture of republicans, conservatism, and an obsession with powerful guns.

Looks to be the same with this young man who is said to have shot Kirk, with nothing at all indicating any 'leftist' or 'trans' or any influence in his life other than Utah Mormon, republican doctrine which doesn't lend itself to the kind of 'outreach' to other ideologies, like the seemingly bipartisan effort Kirk was engaged in on the day he was shot.

But, I'm going to guess that because of the evidence of apparently deliberate 'engravings' on shell casings reportedly found with the rifle, the press is going to be able to, or compelled by fear of the right-wing bullying, to muddle that clear republican influence on his life and upbringing.

Imo, it's the corrosive, divisive politics of the present-day republican party which is responsible for almost all of the political violence in America, encouraged and fomented by their very president who tried to light a fire at the feet of Democrats and the 'left' immediately after the Kirk shooting, with no clue who committed the murder at the time.

Democratic supporters weren't the ones violently attacking Capitol police with American and Trump flags, injuring 140 of them and contributing to the deaths of FOUR others. That was the present-day republican party which set up a hangman's gallows on the Capitol lawn intended for their own party's vice-president.

It's been disaffected republicans who have been shooting and aiming the guns at the president; the weapons they fight so virulently against the 'left' to protect and possess with the clearly stated goal of resisting our government to the point of overthrowing it.

They want Americans to believe, improbably, that the party which has consistently opposed the free flow of the very type of rifle that killed Charlie Kirk are the actual perpetrators and orchestrators of his killing; not the people like Kirk and his ilk who have fought Democrats tooth-and-nail to hold onto their weapons until the absolute end in their cold, dead hands.

This killing of their own has republicanism written all over it. It fucking stinks of it.

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Yes. Good points. All for social media. Kirk's killer was a Groyper (Nick Fuentes supporter) underpants Friday #1
. BoRaGard Friday #2
DURec leftstreet Friday #3
Hard agree EarlG Friday #4
Great OP malaise Friday #5
K&R PunkinPi Friday #6
We need . . . Scubamatt Friday #7
we let it go the last time bigtree Friday #13
100% agree. So much hate to give, and so many guns to help them do it. still-prayin4rain Friday #8
Guns, guns, guns. PoindexterOglethorpe Friday #9
Thanks for posting this important connection! Mme. Defarge Friday #10
Do you ever wonder . . . otchmoson Friday #11
K&R spanone Friday #12
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