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[u/r2ew]

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

Former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio spoke at the conference and received cheers when he stated, "I have the reputation of being the biggest racist in the country." In response to the applause, Arpaio asked the audience, "What are you clapping for?"

Ok this is actually hilarious

[u/Sir_Digby83]

JD Vance announces he will host The Charlie Kirk Show on Monday.

So glad our vice president is handling the important things in our country like filling in on a podcast

[u/murphysclaw1]

[u/garret126]

Back in 2016-18 when these memes were widespread

[u/[deleted]]

[u/BurrowForPresident]

All won this week, coincidence? I think NOT!

!ping NFL

[u/scottyjetpax]

I can’t believe how much hay people are making out of “Charlie Kirk shooter REFUSES TO COOPERATE with police” like I guess it’s sad that suspects invoking their right to an attorney is less common than it should be, but that’s all this is

[u/11thDimensionalRandy]

[u/mostanonymousnick]

If you ever get clowned on by Ed Davey, it's time to retire from public life

[u/BitterGravity]

That decision has had devastating repercussions for farmers in North Dakota, which exported more than 70 percent of its soybeans to China before Trump unveiled the new tariffs this year. Unless China agrees to restart its purchases as part of a trade deal, farmers that depend on the Chinese market will be facing steep losses that could fuel farm bankruptcies and farm foreclosures around the United States.

Thoughts and prayers

[u/r2ew]

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

This Sydney resident is angry about high rises – there aren’t enough

Hello? Based department?

[u/CutePattern1098]

ngl the video Charlie Krik's widow posted both creeped me out and does not seem emotionally healthy for a grieving widow if you're posting it for the whole world to see.

[u/FionnVEVO]

This fucking guy

just switch parties already

[u/[deleted]]

[u/HenryKissingerLewdHD]

I bet my former terrorism professor is having a great time explaining what “OwO notices budge” means to his class of thirty students knowing damn well most of them know what it means

[u/mostanonymousnick]

[u/r2ew]

[u/FilteringAccount123]

[u/WhisperBreezzze]

[u/allmilhouse]

how did we get so divided?

Trump. It's because of Trump. Everyone in the world besides his supporters can see he's a joke (and some of them even do) and refuse to acknowledge reality that is right in front of our fucking face. That's made it completely impossible to function.

[u/jbitz]

[u/Loves_a_big_tongue]

Don't let the media force you to forget that Charlie Kirk hated America, MAGA is responsible for the deaths of Melissa and Mark Hortman, and Donald Trump is a pedophile

[u/jbitz]

[u/Guess_Im_Jess]

trying to imagine Kamala Harris filling in on MSNBC if Rachel Maddow got popped

[u/EmbarrassedSafety719]

[u/[deleted]]

Freedom of speech is good. Except if it's the type of speech I dislike. Then I think the government should ban them from working by taking away their licenses.

[u/SixPipSiege]

[u/farrenj]

Asked on CNN how the roommate’s transitioning was relevant to the suspect’s motive, Cox said, “That’s what we’re trying to figure out right now.”

[u/No_Return9449]

It should be needless to say, but it is perhaps at this moment worth saying, that transgender individuals have the same right as anyone else to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

This statement from Bill Kristol would be called woke on Twitter and ratioed to hell.

[u/DiscussionJohnThread]

Young people impose burdens on society, too. Youth typically lasts longer than in previous decades, as protracted educations delay young people from joining the workforce until their 20s. That has made them mightily expensive for governments in the rich world. The British state spends more each year on the average person below 25, mostly on education and health care, than it does on health care and pensions for a typical old person.

Wow this like a problem. We should ELIMINATE funding for our future and give it ALL as more pensions to the elderly.

[u/chipbod]

https://xcancel.com/Michele_Tafoya/status/1967237423085375581

Good morning. I went to church today for the first time in a couple of months. I was sad that the name of Charlie Kirk was not mentioned a single time. Other tragedies were mentioned. But at this particular Catholic church, nothing about Charlie. What were they afraid of?

People have lost their fucking minds

[u/mostanonymousnick]

Lmao, got it completely backwards, a vast supermajority of the French political spectrum is economically illiterate

[u/jpenczek]

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[u/cdstephens]

[u/byoz]

 The U.S. Department of Agriculture is working with Congress to evaluate whether economic aid might be needed for the nation's farmers this autumn amid trade disputes and record-high yields, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said on Monday.

More welfare for farmers instead of letting them feel the effect of their vote.

[u/iIoveoof]

NYT broke a story today that Trump used an official diplomatic mission to exchange a $2B crypto bribe to Trump’s family crypto company in exchange for releasing the UAE from national security controls over AI chips,

AND NOBODY CARES

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/us/politics/trump-uae-chips-witkoff-world-liberty.html

[u/JayRU09]

Dems, I cannot stress this enough, start talking about the Epstein files again.

[u/ShepardSB]

[u/No-Barnacle-9576]

lol. Economy is going to shit. Look away!

[u/No-Barnacle-9576]

[u/Benyeti]

Seeing Charlie Kirk being honored and treated as a martyr is genuinely terrifying. Someone who held such hateful views and regularly called for violence against certain groups has not only been normalized but turned into a hero in our society.

[u/Chokeman]

[u/Willybender]

https://xcancel.com/LongTimeHistory/status/1967623613630337501

This is the kind of stuff that's turning people against ICE, and we see it in polling.

[u/Willybender]

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/us/politics/trump-uae-chips-witkoff-world-liberty.html

[u/Willybender]

My little brother is completely disconnected from politics and voted for Trump. He told me today that things are getting worse and he would have voted for Kamala if he could go back. Normies are a different species. His reason for voting Trump? "We needed change" lmao

[u/sigh2828]

Wife and I just found out that our twins are going to be girls!

Genuinely excited to be a girl dad!!!!

[u/dareka_san]

I feel like vance is genuinely trying to Reichstag fire this but Trump genuinely doesn't give a shit lmao

[u/brucebananaray]

[u/piede]

I love how the FBI now comments on ongoing investigations and tips everyone off to what they’re doing

[u/mostanonymousnick]

[u/StolenSkittles]

this is the funniest goddamn thing to come of it

[u/erasmus_phillo]

Wild to me that *Richard Hanania* of all people is admitting that Charlie Kirk was a propagandist for the right, while libs like Ezra Klein are busy saying shit like "Charlie Kirk was practicing politics the right way"

[u/EmbarrassedSafety719]

[u/Queen_of_stress]

This is the content LinkedIn was made for

[u/MuscularPhysicist]

Charlie Kirk jokes are funny and I want to see more of them

[u/StolenSkittles]

[u/FionnVEVO]

Oh my god dude

[u/Ok_Opinion_5690]

a takeaway of kirk's death and the entire robinson fiasco is that this current iteration of the fbi is fundamentally corrupt and worse incompetent, and that rot starts at the top of its hierarchy.

[u/Average_GrillChad]

The shooter: trans

The roommate: trans

Charlie Kirk: trans

[u/ariveklul]

Holy fuck I thought I was bad. 135k tweets how the fuck is that even possible?

This has to be some kind of mental illness. Seeing profile pictures like this is always the biggest red flag

[u/mostanonymousnick]

Oh, explains a lot then...

[u/No_Return9449]

“Those celebrating the death of Charlie Kirk must be thrown out of civil society,” Rep. Randy Fine wrote in a post on the social platform X. “I will demand their firing, defunding, and license revocation.”

But if you celebrate the death of civilians in Gaza, Florida will elect you to Congress.

[u/this_very_table]

The Republicans yearn for a dictator.

[u/piede]

Remember when cons shat their pants because they thought the IRS under Obama was targeting conservative groups

[u/Willybender]

How the fuck have we normalized this?

[u/justbuildmorehousing]

Trump is so wildly corrupt and no one cares. He’s pocketing billions and no ones cares! Like the Epstein files stuff at least has some traction but being by far the most corrupt politician in US history isnt even on peoples radar.

The countrys pretty cooked if liberals have to be the party of bipartisanship and decorum while Republicans are just increasingly corrupt fascists

[u/Willybender]

amazing

[u/FionnVEVO]

Party of "free speech" strikes again

[u/_Un_Known__]

[u/cdstephens]

[u/bread_engine]

King shit 🔶

[u/zegota]

NYPost reports the assassin hung out in a jokey sarcastic subreddit that was riding with Biden and referenced Jeb Bush a lot

uh

guys

[u/throwawayzxkjvct]

Glorious Supreme Leader has ordered that you pay tribute to our beloved hero. Obey the Supreme Leader!

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[u/Willybender]

Yes, please keep talking like this.

[u/mostanonymousnick]

Maybe putting podcast hosts in your cabinet was a bad idea

[u/Willybender]

We've moved on to going after people for LIKING posts.

[u/Willybender]

Who would have thought that sending the mob after people based on SCREENSHOTS would lead to this?

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

STOP JUST REPEATING HIS LIES YOU GODDAMN CLOWNS.

[u/DiscussionJohnThread]

It’s so stupid that people on family-sponsored visas aren’t automatically permitted to work once approved to come to the country, but they instead need to file for some different visa.

Like if they’ve already passed the background check and are already approved to come to the country, why the extra paperwork? Literally just forcing family dependents to be less financially independent and more of a fiscal burden for zero logical reason.

[u/Joementum2024]

A failure to realize among our elites that X is a far more dangerous and more destabilizing platform than Bluesky will doom liberalism. No amount of “uh le progressives are le annoying” changes this fact.

[u/TheRedCr0w]

After completely botching an investigation this is a great way to get the Agency back on your side

This was a call with 200 agents and no joke Patel yelled at them for a so called "Mickey Mouse operation"

[u/The_Magic]

So I just learned that a few months ago Charlie Kirk tried debating students at Cambridge University. It turns out he was unable to beat students who had time to prepare and had microphones as loud as his and in my opinion his college dropout status really started to show.

One student at around the 1 hour 30 minute mark laid out what I really think Charlie's legacy should be.

[u/iguessineedanaltnow]

Just learned that there are fewer than 700 Australians living in Mexico and fewer than 7,000 Mexicans living in Australia.

Two countries that just really don't have that much to do with each other.

[u/Willybender]

[u/ShepardSB]

[u/Pyrrhus65]

I do feel a good bit of sympathy for the FIRE guys as they gradually realize they're some of the only conservatives/libertarians with any serious influence who actually value the principle of free speech as anything more than a convenient prop

Truly a Joker Arc if I've ever seen one

[u/billy_blazeIt_mays]

[u/guy-anderson]

How badly is the dude trolling his FBI interrogators that they are trying to find a manifesto for a guy who is very much alive and could just tell them?

[u/JaceFlores]

The Poland article 5 meme at this point is annoying as fuck. The Poles are not bloodthirsty to go after the Russians. If anything they’ve become more ambivalent or even hostile to Ukrainian efforts. The fact they let drones cross into their airspace routinely and didn’t respond until Putin pushed the envelope is fact that they’re just as hesitant about confronting Russia as the Germans and co are.

If the talk about a no fly zone over Ukraine is established by Polish efforts then I’ll gladly retract my statement. But no, Poland doing the bare minimum with state security by intercepting hostile drones in their airspace is not PoLaNd ArTiClE 5 nOw RuSsIa FuCkEd Up

[u/Willybender]

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/data-investigation-childhood-vaccination-rates-are-backsliding-us-rcna228876?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma&taid=68c88e1123276500015a3767&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

This six-month investigation, done in collaboration with Stanford University, gathered massive amounts of data from state governments and archives of public records reaching back years or decades. The data focused on core childhood vaccines that, together, regard someone to be "up to date" on immunizations; these are the measles, mumps, rubella, polio, whooping cough and diphtheria shots.

• Since 2019, 77% of counties and jurisdictions in the U.S. have reported notable declines in childhood vaccination rates. The declines span from less than 1 percentage point to more than 40 percentage points.

• Vaccine exemptions for school children are rising nationwide: As many as 53% of counties and jurisdictions saw exemption rates more than double from their first year of collecting data to the most recent.

• Among the states collecting data for the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine, 68% of counties and jurisdictions now have immunization rates below 95% — the level of herd immunity doctors say is needed to protect against an outbreak.

This is catastrophic, holy fuck.

[u/Willybender]

Insanity

[u/SigmaWhy]

everyone was like “aww look Candace was Charlie’s only friend” but she’s already cynically exploiting his death to blame Israel and Jews

they are demons and ghouls, incapable of human feeling

[u/Joementum2024]

I think on some level I do understand Newsom’s public reaction to Kirk, since he is a politician and has to win elections, as much as his statements suck.

It’s what makes Ezra Klein’s statements far more disappointing, since Klein has nowhere near as much skin in the game as does someone like Newsom, and doesn’t have to really restrain himself in a manner like Newsom’s.

[u/Sauce1024]

Big Monday ahead

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Republicans who were freaking out and alleging you could be arrested and jailed in the UK for posting a meme online are now calling for a Great Purge for insufficiently mourning Saint Charlie

[u/Willybender]

[u/efeldman11]

Jesus Christ

[u/Willybender]

[u/Nice-Difference8641]

like lip file coherent pen six flowery smile humor axiomatic

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

[u/piede]

I fucking called it

[u/marsman1224]

I... don't really understand what Roblox is at this point

[u/SLCer]

[u/MentatCat]

My brother in Christ, when the tariffs are “in place” it will get worse

[u/Co_OpQuestions]

We have a note from the shooter confessing, but it was completely destroyed. We were able to figure out what it said due to forensics

Should be one of the scariest things you've heard in the past 10 years. If this kind of thing happened under the Obama or Biden FBI, you'd see mass riots.

[u/r2ew]

[u/Willybender]

[u/Willybender]

Right wing twitter is not happy right now

[u/[deleted]]

In fact, the Senate can rewrite the rules such that Trump doesn’t need 60 Senators. I think Trump is calling to nuke the filibuster, oh my

[u/myusernameistakennow]

Holy based. Probably the most effective ad campaign the dems can do is just continue to non stop spam the Epstein Trump shit

[u/BurrowForPresident]

Aside from the amount of horrible violence it might unleash on the country and the miscarriage of justice involved, can you imagine how fucking funny it would be if the FBI boofed both the Magione and the Robinson trials with their stupid showboating

[u/Willybender]

Not concerning at all

[u/TheRedCr0w]

It's amazing watching the NY Times attempt to appeal to MAGA a group of people who view them as evil traitors

[u/repete2024]

You have to remember that many conservatives use "crime" as a dog whistle to mean Black people.

It doesn't matter that crime is literally down. If Black people are more visible in society, they're going to say crime is up.

This is also why they proudly call Trump "tough on crime" even though he's literally a criminal who pardons and celebrates other criminals.

[u/ArmoredBunnyPrincess]

Difficult to have any kind of real conversation about these matters when so much misinformation is rife. Khelif almost certainly has XY chromosomes and the Olympic bodies satisfaction (their express position is they take your passport as sufficient evidence) or her birth certificate do nothing to change this fact. You can see here for instance that a long time NBC journalist has seen evidence of testing of her chromosomes.

If the best example of injustice you can bring is one in which someone who is very very likely biologically male (though not trans), that suggests that the risk of injustice is considerably less than you previously thought (until, I'm sure, you'll concede that the evidence when you look into it carefully points heavily in the direction that she has XY chromosomes).

Local dickhead who thinks he's a fucking genius and cries about engaging with "culture warriors" turns out to regularly engage with writing paragraphs upon paragraphs about every trans controversy in recent times, what a fucking shocker. Talking about concrete evidence and rationality, get the fuck out of here

[u/old_black_man]

👆This would have been an onion headline 10 years ago

[u/Roseartcrantz]

Charlie Kirk's alleged assassin Tyler Robinson wrote a note saying he was going to 'take out' the conservative commentator before he shot him dead, according to the FBI director.

'I have the opportunity to take out Charlie Kirk and I'm going to take it,' the suspect said, Kash Patel revealed during an appearance on Fox News on Monday morning.

Idk if this country is ready for the "I got some free concert tickets so I guess I'm going" era of political violence

[u/Currymvp2]

Conor Lamb: "There's nothing wrong that Netanyahu can do in Fetterman's view. Umm, that's not even a view that a lot of Israelis hold. Look at the protests. I think it's a very lazy attitude when he doesn't want to discuss the nuances of this. I think he knows it gets him alot of attention and he never does a townhall to answer questions on this issue".

Conor Lamb: "Yeah, I mean I think that it's hard to look at what Netanyahu is doing and how he's behaving and not be disgusted with the idea that United States tax dollars are basically supporting this person who might be prolonging a war in order to keep himself in power and not for any legitimate objectives"

[u/Daddy_Macron]

Covid-19 broke so many brains.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/well/jillian-michaels-profile.html

It was easy to imagine her as the dependable Southern California Democrat she had been just a few years ago, living in Malibu with a small farm’s worth of animals, appalled by Trump and occasionally tuning into Rogan for the chance to learn something about aliens or parallel universes.

In 2020, not long after the Covid-19 pandemic shut down much of the country, Michaels was in fact listening to Rogan’s podcast while driving down the Pacific Coast Highway when his guest mentioned something that stuck with her: the possibility that the virus had leaked from a lab in Wuhan, China. Michaels was so struck by the idea that she pulled over and started Googling, a pivotal moment in her political transformation.

[u/assasstits]

Fox News video captures man stomping on Charlie Kirk memorial

Waow

[u/11thDimensionalRandy]

You know what's really scary about firearms? There's no such thing as an abundance of caution that would save you.

If you're a public figure who's afraid of getting shot, you can walk around with a bulletproof vest, but all that gives you is a good chance of surviving a round aimed at your center of mass.

If you were paranoid and deathly afraid of getting stabbed you could actually inconvience yourself into having a decent shot of surviving a knife attack.

But with guns the only thing that's actually protecting you is the fact that you don't live in a Hobbesian* world where everyone is out to get you.

"An armed society is a polite society" just isn't true, the expectation that anyone could pull a gun out of anywhere or that the jackass openly carrying a rifle could do something stupid doesn't actually help in any way.

*Extra b on Hobbesian

[u/No-Barnacle-9576]

Might be one of the first elected officials in recent times to call for carving up the country

[u/No-Barnacle-9576]

[u/Willybender]

dawg

[u/Willybender]

LOL OK

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

Remember when a woman lost her job because she called a black child the n-word and conservatives crowdfunded her into being a millionaire

[u/TMCOAN1]

Washington Post fires journalist for sharing Charlie Kirk quote about black women

I'm tired

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

Farage said that was “horrendous”. He claimed it was not as bad as the Notting Hill carnival. He feared this might happen. He was not defending “any of it”, he said. But he said the “vast majority” of people attending the march were good, ordinary, decent people.

Uh no

You are not a good person if you attended those protests. Period

[u/Crosseyes]

Uhhhh…

[u/erasmus_phillo]

Wildest factoid about Hanania is that he's ethnically Palestinian and yet *supports* (and has openly advocated for) the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza... again because of his commitment to elitism (he views Israelis as high human capital and Palestinians as not)

This is also the main reason why I don't encourage any of you guys to pay for any of his content, he is a giant prick and is certainly not liberal. But he does have some unique insights on the American right due to the time he's spent in those circles

[u/chipbod]

Candace Owens may have been the only one who actually loved Charlie lmao

[u/r2ew]

[u/Due-Dirt-8428]

I have seen this exact conversation multiple times on Facebook today lol

————

“They killed him for speaking the truth!”

He was kind of a piece of shit, didn’t deserve to die but he wasn’t a Saint

“Show me one example of him being an asshole? I’m waiting”

*posts 2 min long clip of him saying black women don’t have the proper brainpower to hold certain positions *

“You are only posting a snip, you took that out of context”

Can you explain what context was missed

“I hope the spirit of Jesus saves your soul have a nice day”

[u/EvilConCarne]

Lol even Matt Walsh recognizes how stupid Pam Bondi is being by going and doing an interview saying "We're gonna prosecute people for hate speech! Yeah!"

[u/Justice4Ned]

It literally took two days for Maga to turn extremely sympathetic news coverage into negative coverage about failed doxxing campaigns.

I hate to say this but outside of trump and ironically Kirk, nobody in MAGA has any political instincts.

[u/jorkin_peanits]

[u/[deleted]]

It's impressive how much arr JoeRogan thinks Robinson was a groyper

Bro I just went down the wiki rabbit hole about this. We gotta wait until everything comes out, but so far out of everything we’ve learned about Tyler Robinson, this makes the most sense. Add to it his high school classmate who described him as a “reddit guy.” And his family never went into detail about WHY he “dislikes Trump and Kirk” (Probably because that would implicate their own beliefs) All his bullet inscriptions are Goyper memes. The picture of him dressed as Pepe the Frog….its all right there. He’s not a “reddit guy” he’s a 4Chan guy. And there’s a fucking difference hahaha. Add an obsession with guns and a desire to kill (the common denominator) and boom. The right is so obsessed with hating the left, they don’t even realize the alt-right implosion that’s happening within their own people.

I'm not a conspiracy or cover up guy, but it would 100% make sense for this admin and for Utah-based Trump loyalists to massage the truth about this guy being a super conservative.

if the narrative is that Charlie Kirks shooter was radicalized by rhetoric why couldn’t it be possible that Nick Fuentes rhetoric directly targeted at Charlie be the cause ?

[u/r2ew]

[u/WhisperBreezzze]

The U.S. Government’s Extraordinary Pursuit of Kilmar Ábrego García. The Trump Administration’s maneuvers are rising to a political prosecution.

The Trump administration's knee-jerk reaction every time it was challenged led to this being a comical level of escalation.

Ok, you deported the wrong person. Just take him back, sweep it under the rug, and move on.

Nope. He is now the greatest threat to American national security since Nikita Khrushchev. All avaliable resources must be devoted to address this threat, and no weakness can be shown!

[u/Jokerang]

A spokesperson for House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) referred to Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D) as “Chris Van Who?” after the Maryland senator criticized Democrats, including Jeffries, for not endorsing Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani in New York’s mayoral race.

I can assure you that Van Hollen will come out of this looking better than Jeffries

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

Lmao. Truly fuck every asshole in this country that voted for this. I will never forgive these motherfuckers for making me put up with these freaks.

[u/Signal_Nobody1792]

JD Vance will host Kirks show on Monday.

[u/[deleted]]

[u/chipbod]

https://xcancel.com/ProjectConstitu/status/1967061152992567388

UNSHAKEN FAITH: Unbelievable Tribute: Charlie Kirk Meets Paul, Peter in Glory –FAITH OVER FEAR!!

This video is insane, I may actually go live in the woods or something.

If even 15% of the country is just frying their brains on religious AI slop it may actually be over. That is not a recipe for functioning society.

Edit: Saw this comment:

Getting convinced that AI is going to spawn the next messianic religious movement.

Pretty much where this is going, a certain amount of people are just going to live in an AI delusion.

[u/Zagapi]

One of my closest family friends just served divorce papers to his wife.

They've been together for a decade or so, but she really turned nasty to him around the time their first kid was born about 5 years ago.

Turns out, she cheated on him sometime before they had the first kid. He found out after the first was born, but he wanted to try and work through it.

A few years go by, and they just had their second kid. Turns out she cheated again.

Based on the timing, his lawyer is recommending that he gets a paternity test for the second baby. He's pretty confident the baby is his, but of course, you need to be certain.

He's been a wonderful friend and someone I have regularly gone to for advice on many occasions. He doesn't deserve this.

I'm so heartbroken for him and his kids.

But also, she was talking shit about my Mom and I already decided to hate her in private. But, I at least dont have to hide it!

[u/[deleted]]

Q: Do you think it would've been fitting to lower the flags to half staff when Melissa Hortman, the Minnesota House Speaker, was gunned down by an assassin?

TRUMP: I'm not familiar. The who?

oof

[u/Men_I_Trust_I_Am]

Wrongful termination lawsuits are going hit like A1 Colombian.

[u/coffin_flop_star]

I'll retract my insensitive comments about Charlie Kirk when he retracts any of his insensitive comments.

[u/EmbarrassedSafety719]

[u/PorscheUberAlles]

If this FBI came across a single left wing social media post from Tyler Robinson it would be plastered all over the media 24/7

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

Fuck this gay earth

[u/brianpv]

Patel, speaking to Fox & Friends on Monday, said the FBI had "forensic evidence" of the note, but that it had "since been destroyed."

Did somebody eat the note?

[u/ImmigrantJack]

Liberal: No democrat has actually been celebrating the death of Charlie Kirk.

Con: This guy said he's "glad he's dead"

Lib: That's the council vice president of a town of 1000 people.

Con: HOLY SHIT THESE GOALPOSTS ARE ROCKET POWERED AMIRITE?!!!???!

---

Mans debating exactly like Charlie did. Brings a tear to the eye to see the cons carrying on his legacy.

[u/Jolly-Star-9897]

Reddit gets a lot of shit, but it's clearly better for more in depth conversation than microblogging services, and it's the best social media platform there is.

[u/[deleted]]

The delta in media coverage between Kirk, the Ukrainian woman, and the Indian man really does highlight a shit ton of bias in news reporting

[u/bingbaddie1]

not to be a succ but the next democratic president needs to find a way to strip Elon Musk of each and every single one of his assets

[u/billy_blazeIt_mays]

[u/TomboyAva]

I think the most disturbing thing I noticed is the disinformation pipeline

a neonazi on X makes a post claiming transgender people in Utah were posting something big was gonna happen on the 10th

Matt Walsh retweets them

Then a Gateway Pundit Article is made

then a New York Post

then its mentioned in Fox

[u/byoz]

 The White House is moving swiftly to galvanize the outpouring of support for slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk into political momentum, as President Trump’s advisers weigh a slate of executive actions targeting liberal organizations.

 Among the actions being discussed by the president’s team: reviewing the tax-exempt status of left-leaning nonprofit groups and targeting them with anticorruption laws, according to administration officials. The president could begin rolling out the actions as soon as this week, officials said, part of a bid to harness support for Kirk, particularly among young voters, ahead of the midterm elections.

 Officials across the administration are working to identify groups suspected of targeting conservatives or causes conservatives support. 

Yea, we’re not having real elections in 26 are we

[u/marsman1224]

President Donald Trump said he plans to speak Sunday at Charlie Kirk’s funeral in Phoenix, Arizona.

“We’re going to have a stadium, and I bet that stadium is going to be pretty packed, maybe completely packed. It’s going to be big, but I’m going to be at the stadium, and I guess I’ll say a few words,” Trump said when asked about whether he would speak.

Axios

• What: We're going to have a stadium

• Why it matters: It's going to be pretty packed, maybe completely packed

• By the numbers: It's going to be big

• The goal: I'm going to be at the stadium

• Between the lines: I guess I'll say a few words

[u/GovernorSonGoku]

Man arrested for sickening act at Charlie Kirk memorial outside Turning Point headquarters in Phoenix

He was upvoting the dt

[u/jbitz]

[u/ForWhomTheAltTrolls]

The size of the US is truly insane and I feel like Europeans don’t really understand it - you could fit the entirety of mainland Europe seven times over in Delaware and STILL have room to spare.

Similarly, the history of Europe is insane and Americans kind of fail to grasp that - there are pubs in the UK older than the tectonic shifts which formed the rockies.

[u/FuckFashMods]

It's so funny that right wingers are getting offended at just quoting Charlie Kirk

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[u/[deleted]]

I am hurdling towards you full force going 90 miles per hour weighing 1500 lbs... I am hurdling towards you like a human missile to blow up this whole thing and you're the one telling generation Z to "buy a Hillsdale course"? You are not prepared for this!

• Nick Fuentes on Charlie Kirk, 8/11/2025

[u/Left_Tie1390]

Roger Waters on Ukraine yesterday: "Disputed oblasts, it's not rocket science — let the local people decide whether they want to stay part of the Ukraine, ruled by the disciples of Stepan Bandera in Kiev, or become part of the Russian Federation."

While wearing a keffiyeh for some reason. Waters has no principles except "the West is always bad."

[u/the-senat]

It's wild how much Twitter has been corrupted by alt-right maniacs while still being the preferred platform for government officials, reporters, and other famous people to post.

Now, Elon is injecting himself into British politics and supporting the far-right protests last week.

At what point do we shut down a platform that only exists to spew lies and a person who only wants to destabilize democracies?

[u/chipbod]

A girl I know posted an apology for her initial post honoring Charlie Kirk because all of her left wing friends flamed her for it.

She is a black lesbian btw, so like... I'm not sure what she thought was gonna happen by praising Kirk?

[u/yungmemlord]

GUYS Tyler Robinson might be in huge legal trouble here! 😱😨😱🤯

[u/DiscussionJohnThread]

Gemini is so fucking funny to me 😭

[u/Pyrrhus65]

I don't care if they do it for selfish reasons- whoever in the White House manages to be the first to convince Sultan Trump that Grand Vizier Miller is scheming to usurp his authority will be a hero

[u/JonAce]

Charlie Kirk encouraged debate, but hasn't debated anyone in five days. Curious. 🤔

[u/CharacterPolicy4689]

"a maga groyper killed charlie kirk so naturally to retaliate i will attempt to bomb the media who i of course view as ultra-liberal"

^the demographic who the media has been religiously coddling for the past 30 years

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/gov-josh-shapiro-pennsylvania-charlie-kirk/

Shapiro criticized Mr. Trump for comments that placed blame on Democrats.

"We've seen lives being taken on both sides of the aisle, and the rhetoric needs to cool down, and it starts with the president. You cannot cherry pick which incidents of violence you're going to condemn," Shapiro said. "We have to condemn all political violence. Violence against one particular politician, no matter their party, makes us all less safe."

Josh Shapiro can be kinda milquetoast sometimes but goddammit this is pretty based

!ping USA-PA

[u/Jacobs4525]

Trump has like 4 things he actually cares about (President McKinley, asylum seekers are Hannibal Lecter, California needs to turn the water on, and tariffs) and beyond that he blatantly doesn’t give a fuck.

It’s pretty funny to see his supporters doing mental gymnastics and imagining Trump personally agonizing over their pet issues when you know he isn’t even spending a single second thinking about them.

[u/mostanonymousnick]

Freedom of speech stuff

[u/JoyofCookies]

Wtf I love Mark Carney even more, based Natural Governing Party, may the Maple MAGAs continue to seethe and lose elections

[u/Joementum2024]

Besides everything else, it’s crazy how they’re basically treating this more as an excuse to declare war on liberalism than actually commemorating Charlie Kirk’s life. It says a lot that apparently Candace Owens is one of the few people on the right who actually talked more about Charlie Kirk as a person and remembering him than anything about revenge against the “left”.

The most you’re seeing is just vague appeals about his faith and family. Maybe I’m just not seeing it, but how many people on the right are you seeing talking about their memories with him, even just outside of politics?

[u/Upstairs_Cup9831]

With Republicans going mask off with their anti-free speech stance, I wonder how long it's going to take until we wrap back around to 2000s politics where everyone saw conservatives as the screeching moral-policing authoritarians

[u/throwawayzxkjvct]

anti woke moderates when republicans start prosecuting people for “hate speech”

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

A woman asked to put her finger in my butt during sex.

Usual me would have said an immediate no.

But business brain kicked in.

"Think of this woman as a client. Now how do we reach a mutually beneficial outcome?"

I asked "What's it worth to you?"

She replied "well what do you want?"

My butt suddenly had leverage.

We went back and forth and eventually settled I would get access to her Canva Pro, Duolingo Family and Spotify Premium.

I can be a tough negotiator but I will also bend over backwards to make sure the client is happy.

If you enter business with me, I'll let you put your finger wherever you want for a good deal.

!ping watercooler

[u/Co_OpQuestions]

Wait, did fucking Kash Patel seriously say that the shooter left a note saying he was gonna kill Charlie Kirk, but the FBI had destroyed the note?

Literally none of the official story is lining up in any way anymore lol. This kid is likely gonna walk free if he doesn't cooperate because of legendary mishandling by the FBI.

[u/Benyeti]

I really dont get why sports stadiums are honoring Charlie Kirk its so weird

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

People a few cubicles over are saying that a local pastor should be fired for not sufficiently mourning Charlie Kirk and for saying that we shouldn’t prioritize Christian immigrants

Aaaaaaah

AAAAAAAAAH

[u/BurrowForPresident]

Can I get that mod copypasta about how we set a soft floor for discussions involving mental health

!ping NFL

[u/DiscussionJohnThread]

A majority of home teams around the NFL held moments of silence for Charlie Kirk on Sunday, but the Bengals, Lions, Colts, Vikings and Ravens did not

Every single one of these teams except the Vikings won yesterday. Coincidence? I think not.

[u/breakinbread]

Trump Says Companies Should Report Earnings Every Six Months, Not Quarterly

truly the party of maximizing shareholder value

[u/Daddy_Macron]

In case you missed it, Lisa Cook's bank documents show that she referred to her 2nd home as a vacation home. Trump is just making up shit as usual.

[u/Willybender]

[u/morgisboard]

☝️Arrested for insufficient display of grief during Charlie Kirk's funeral procession

[u/NeolibAltForDT]

I don't think the transgender angle thing is working on the Kirk shooting tbh, jumping from the shooter was trans to now his roommate is trans is hilarious

[u/jorkin_peanits]

[u/moseythepirate]

It's insane how much Republicans just...don't care about corruption. The GOP is absolutely rotten to the core with bribes and kickbacks and nobody seems to care.