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09/15/2025

BREAKING: Senator Chris Murphy just dropped a viral thread warning that something dark is coming — that Trump is primed to use the Charlie Kirk assassination as a pretext for a dizzying crackdown on his political enemies.

The fascist pieces are falling into place.

Murphy writes: “Pay attention. Something dark might be coming. The murder of Charlie Kirk could have united Americans to confront political violence. Instead, Trump and his anti-democratic radicals look to be readying a campaign to destroy dissent.”

In the wake of Kirk’s assassination, Trump rushed to blame the “radical left,” before a suspect was even identified. Republican media has already weaponized the killing: people are losing jobs simply for quoting Kirk’s own hateful, bigoted statements. They’re demanding we not just condemn the assassination—but whitewash his record, erase what he said, and praise his legacy.

Here’s what Murphy sees:

• GOP leaders are spinning a lie: that the only threat comes from the left.

• Extremists like Laura Loomer are openly calling for “dictatorial” powers to silence opponents. Trump is echoing it.

• Meanwhile, truth—like examples of right-wing political violence—is ignored or minimized. The Cato Institute admits right-wing beliefs account for ~11% of politically motivated terror attacks since 1975, vs ~2% from left-wing ideology.

Murphy: “We should condemn violence from all sides. But if we’re honest, there’s much more violence driven by the extreme right. And this narrative that Democrats are cheering violence or that leftists are fomenting it is pure fabrication.”

He warns that the Trump/Loomer/Miller axis is looking for a pretext—a real crisis—to justify raids on dissenters, locking up opposition, suppressing speech. And he’s urging everyone who cares about democracy to mobilize now—join on-the-ground groups, donate to truth-telling media, stand up.

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🔹 Why State Governments Matter Right Now

This is where federalism isn’t just theory. States have powers the Founders built in precisely to check abuses at the national level.

• The Tenth Amendment reserves for states (or the people) any powers not delegated to the federal government.

• States are responsible for elections, voting laws, public health, safety, education, welfare. These are “police powers” and reserved powers the Constitution entrusts to the states.

• Historically, states have served as “laboratories of democracy”—trying new policies when the national government is failing or overreaching.

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🛑 What We Must Do

If the threat Murphy describes is real—and all signs point to it—then Americans who value democracy have to act:

1. Pressure state executives, attorneys general, and legislatures to defend civil liberties, protect dissent, enforce constitutional limits.

2. Support state laws that guard free speech, protect journalists, and defend those being unfairly punished for political speech.

3. Use state legal systems—through lawsuits, state supreme courts—to check federal overreach.

4. Educate the public about federalism and how states can be a firewall against tyranny.

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We can’t wait for crisis. We can’t assume institutions will hold. We must rebuild from the bottom up—start with states, local communities, people. Democracy doesn’t survive silence.

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09/15/2025

📢 Political violence in America is being mocked — not condemned.

On June 14, 2025, Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark, and their golden retriever Gilbert were murdered in their home. That same night, Sen. John Hoffman and his wife Yvette were shot and wounded. This was targeted political violence.

Instead of mourning, MAGA leaders mocked it:
• Sen. Mike Lee joked “Nightmare on Walz Street” about the murders.

• Rep. Derrick Van Orden twisted it into an anti-left rant, blaming “anti-Trump protesters.”

• Scott Walker suggested Democrats would excuse it if the killer was one of them.

• Right-wing media blasted out disinformation, painting the killer as a leftist.

And this wasn’t an isolated case.
🔻 When Nancy Pelosi’s husband was nearly beaten to death with a hammer, Trump and MAGA influencers mocked him at rallies and spread conspiracy theories about the attack.

🔻 When Democrats and their families in Michigan and elsewhere faced political threats, MAGA voices called it “good because they were Democrats.”

🔻 When journalists, professors, and officials faced threats after being put on watchlists by Turning Point USA, MAGA leaders amplified the harassment.

⚖️ Here’s the double standard:
• Mock Democrats being beaten, shot, or murdered? No firings. No censures. No accountability.

• Quote Charlie Kirk’s own words back at his fans? Fired. Blacklisted. Destroyed.

This isn’t about “civility.” It’s about protecting a cult. Political violence is being normalized while free speech is being policed.

📖 History teaches us: in N**i Germany, Mussolini’s Italy, and Franco’s Spain, violence against political opponents was celebrated while speech was tightly controlled. That’s how authoritarianism works — by weaponizing cruelty and silencing dissent.

🛑 Don’t let them normalize this. Political murder is never a punchline.

🗣️ Share this if you refuse to let MAGA whitewash violence into politics.

09/15/2025

Funny how quoting Charlie Kirk is suddenly “offensive” to Charlie Kirk fans. If his own words hurt your feelings, your problem is with his words, not mine.

The receipts (Charlie Kirk quotes & themes)

• On Black pilots / DEI (2024): “If I see a Black pilot, I’m going to be like, ‘Boy, I hope he’s qualified.’” → That’s not “merit,” that’s racism dressed up as anti-DEI.

• On gun deaths (Apr 5, 2023): “It’s worth it to have some gun deaths every year so we can have the Second Amendment.” → He literally framed dead kids as an acceptable “price of liberty.”

• On MLK & Civil Rights: He smeared Martin Luther King Jr. as “awful” and railed that the Civil Rights Act created a permanent “DEI bureaucracy.” → That’s attacking the core of civil-rights progress.

• On demographics: He pushed Great Replacement talking points (immigration “designed to diminish white demographics”). → That’s a white nationalist conspiracy often cited by extremists.

• On women: He said birth control makes women “angry and bitter,” and warned of “sexual anarchy.” → That’s straight misogyny masquerading as morality.

Why fans call quoting him “offensive”

Because it breaks the brand. The strategy was never honest debate; it was viral performance—straw-manning students, Gish-galloping, never conceding, and turning Q&As into humiliation clips for clicks. When you replay the actual quotes, the cult narrative collapses.

The real legacy

Not “kind” or “rational.” Racist, sexist, white-nationalist rhetoric that normalized cruelty, targeted professors with watchlists, and amplified conspiracies that fuel authoritarian politics. That’s his record. That’s why “quoting Charlie Kirk” feels offensive—because it’s indefensible.

👉 Don’t let them whitewash it. Share this so people remember what Charlie Kirk actually said and stood for.

09/15/2025

The Washington Post Just Fired Its Last Black Opinion Columnist for Quoting Charlie Kirk

Karen Attiah, after eleven years at the Post, was fired this week for doing her job: condemning political violence, exercising restraint in speculation, and reminding people of Charlie Kirk’s own on-record racist words.

Her offense? Paraphrasing one of Kirk’s statements—where he claimed “Black women do not have the brain processing power to be taken seriously. You have to go steal a white person’s slot.”

That’s not “gross misconduct.” That’s journalism. Attiah warned readers not to rush to judgment about Kirk’s assassin—something Trump himself immediately failed to do. For that, Bezos’s Post said she endangered colleagues’ safety. The absurdity of that claim should insult everyone’s intelligence.

This is bigger than one journalist. It’s part of a nationwide purge of Black voices and dissent in media, academia, and government. The GOP, which screams about “cancel culture,” is running the biggest cancel campaign in America right now—firing, blacklisting, and punishing anyone who refuses to venerate Kirk or Trump.

Republicans don’t want free speech. They want forced loyalty. They want compliance. They want billionaire-owned media to silence those who expose hypocrisy and racism.

Karen Attiah stood for truth. The Washington Post chose cowardice. And democracy is weaker for it.

📢 Share this so nobody forgets what Charlie Kirk really stood for.

09/14/2025

📱 Scroll-stopping truth: Don’t let anyone rewrite Charlie Kirk’s legacy. He wasn’t a “kind debater” or a “patriot.” He was a racist, sexist, white “nationalist” (supremacist) who built a career off division and hate.

Here’s what he really said:

✖️ “If I see a Black pilot, I’m going to be like, ‘Boy, I hope he’s qualified.’” (2024) — straight racism, nothing more.

✖️ He called white privilege a “racist bitter lie.”

✖️ He pushed the Great Replacement conspiracy, claiming immigration was designed to shrink white demographics. That’s the same theory mass shooters have cited.

✖️ He smeared Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as “awful … not a good person.”

✖️ He told women birth control makes them “angry and bitter,” reducing half the population to misogynist caricatures.

This isn’t “debate.” This is hate. It’s the language of white supremacy and authoritarianism — dressed up for cable news and campus tours.

👉 Charlie Kirk should not be remembered as a good man. He normalized racism, sexism, and fascist ideas that poison America. His legacy is toxic, and pretending otherwise is dangerous.

⚠️ Don’t mourn the myth. Remember the facts.

📢 Share this so nobody forgets what Charlie Kirk really stood for.

09/14/2025

🚨 Charlie Kirk’s “debates” were never debates. 🚨

People act like he was some champion of free speech or intellectual sparring. Let’s be honest: his events were rigged carnival games, designed to humiliate kids and churn out viral clips for cash.

Here’s the formula:
🎯 A student asks a real question.
⚡ Kirk interrupts, seizes on one word, twists it into a straw man.
📢 He floods the room with talking points (a Gish gallop) so the student can’t keep up.
👏 The audience laughs, the clip goes online, and Kirk pockets the applause.

It was never about dialogue. It was about control. He never conceded — not once. Not when confronted with facts, not when pressed about murdered children, not when challenged on authoritarian rhetoric. He’d rather dismiss kids’ concerns about school shootings with an “oh well” than admit the obvious: gun violence is out of control.

And let’s not forget: he only ever debated college students. Teenagers. Young adults. People who didn’t have PR teams, research staff, or media platforms to fight back. Why? Because it was safer to bully students than to sit across from an equal.

👉 Bottom line: Charlie Kirk wasn’t a debater. He was a showman running a con — a man rigging the game and calling it “discourse.” The whole point was never to engage, only to make fun of you for money.

Don’t let anyone romanticize him now. He didn’t champion debate — he cheapened it.

👉 Share this so people stop pretending Charlie Kirk was a debater — he was a con man rigging the game against kids for clicks and cash.

09/14/2025

🚨 Mike Johnson is a Christian Nationalist — and that makes him one of the most dangerous Speakers of the House in U.S. history.

During his first big TV interview (Oct. 2023), Johnson bragged that his worldview “comes straight from the Bible.” That’s not conservatism. That’s Christian nationalism — a belief that U.S. law should be dictated by one narrow brand of white evangelical Christianity.

Why is this dangerous?

🔹 Undermines Religious Freedom
The Constitution separates church and state. Johnson’s worldview excludes non-Christians and Christians outside his white evangelical bubble.

🔹 Legitimizes White Supremacy
Christian nationalism in America has always overlapped with white nationalism. When Johnson ties governance to his faith tradition, he elevates whiteness and evangelicalism as the only “real American” identity.

🔹 Authoritarian Logic
If a politician believes his policies are “God’s law,” then dissent becomes heresy. That’s not democracy. That’s theocracy.

🔹 Defunct Congress = Rubber Stamp
With Congress failing to check Trump, Johnson’s position becomes even more dangerous. If lawmakers surrender their power, and the Speaker thinks his orders are divine, democracy collapses into theocracy.

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📖 Historical Parallels
• N**i Germany: Hi**er used Christianity and nationalism together, claiming divine mandate while scapegoating minorities.
• Franco’s Spain: Catholic nationalism justified authoritarian rule for decades.
• Roman Empire: The Senate became a hollow shell, rubber-stamping Caesar, who claimed divine sanction.

Every single one of these examples shows the same pattern: when religion fuses with nationalism, democracy dies.

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👉 Bottom Line: If you’re MAGA and cheering Johnson, you’re not conservative. You’re not Republican. You’re supporting Christian nationalist fascism — a movement that has always led to authoritarian rule.

Don’t let history repeat itself. Share this.

09/14/2025

🚨 Brian Kilmeade says the solution to homelessness is “Just kill ’em.”🚨

On Fox & Friends, Brian Kilmeade seriously suggested that the solution to mentally ill homelessness is to “just kill ’em” — even mentioning “involuntary lethal injection” as an option. His co-hosts nodded along, treating it like legitimate “policy.” This isn’t conservatism. It’s cruelty dressed up as politics.

This isn’t “Republican.” This isn’t “conservative.” This is MAGA — cruelty as policy, violence as entertainment, authoritarianism as a governing style. And Republicans who go along with this need to hear it: if you’re MAGA, you’re not Republican anymore. You’re MAGA. Period.

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Why MAGA ≠ the Conservative Republican Party

🔹 1. The Constitution
Republicans once stood for the Constitution. MAGA calls for terminating it (Trump, Dec 2022). They’ve replaced rule of law with loyalty to one man.

🔹 2. Limited Government
Conservatives preached small government. MAGA uses the state to police women’s bodies, ban books, and muzzle teachers.

🔹 3. Fiscal Responsibility
Republicans warned against deficits. Trump’s MAGA blew open the debt with unpaid tax cuts and reckless spending.

🔹 4. Foreign Policy
The GOP backed NATO and global leadership. MAGA flirts with Putin, threatens allies, and wages tariff wars that punish American farmers.

🔹 5. Rule of Law
“No man above the law” used to mean something. MAGA calls convicted criminals “hostages” and promises them pardons.

🔹 6. Family Values
The party of “family values” now worships a man who bragged about sexual assault, cheated on every wife, and cozied up to Epstein.

🔹 7. Compassionate Conservatism
Republicans once said society must care for the vulnerable. MAGA leaders go on TV and say “just kill” the homeless. That’s fascist rhetoric — straight from 1930s Germany.

🔹 8. Civil Discourse
The GOP debated ideas. MAGA spits hate: “vermin,” “poisoning the blood,” “groomers.” That’s eliminationist language from authoritarian playbooks.

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Fascism in Real Time

And here’s the ugly truth: MAGA isn’t just un-Republican. It’s fascist. They cheer dictatorship and authoritarianism. And Congress? It has completely abdicated its role. Since Trump retook office, Congress has passed nothing to check him, stopped nothing he’s done, and surrendered its constitutional authority. Just like the Roman Senate rubber-stamping Caesar, they’ve become spectators — complicit in the death of democracy.

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The Projection Game

While they dismantle America, they project:
• Call Democrats “terrorists” while MAGA rioters stormed the Capitol.
• Accuse liberals of “grooming” while their own defend predators.
• Cry “cancel culture” while banning books and silencing dissent.

This is textbook fascism — label your opponents as enemies, justify violence, consolidate power.

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👉 Bottom Line: If you’re still Republican but you follow MAGA, you’re not Republican anymore. You’ve abandoned conservatism. You’ve abandoned the Constitution. You’ve abandoned democracy.

You’re MAGA. You’re fascist. And history will record you the same way it recorded the German nationalists who swore loyalty to Hi**er while pretending they were “conservative.”

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09/12/2025

🚨 BREAKING: MAGA World in Panic — Grandmother of Charlie Kirk’s Suspected Assassin Confirms His Entire Family Is Hardcore MAGA

The Republican narrative has collapsed in record time…

Debbie Robinson — grandmother of 22-year-old Tyler Robinson, arrested for the assassination of Charlie Kirk — told The Daily Beast:

“My son, his dad, is a Republican for Trump. Most of my family members are Republican. I don’t know any single one who’s a Democrat.”

Both parents are registered Republicans and avid gun owners. Robinson grew up in a pro-Trump, pro-gun household. Family described him as “shy” and “non-political” until recently — but evidence shows he was radicalized online.

💥 The receipts:

• Bullet casings were engraved with memes, including “Hey fascist! Catch!” and a reference from the video game Helldivers 2.

• “Bella Ciao,” an anti-fascist anthem now co-opted into far-right meme culture, was scratched into another casing.

• This meme-laden style of “ironic” violence lines up with the white nationalist Nick Fuentes and his Groyper movement, which despised Charlie Kirk for being “not extreme enough.” Groypers openly mocked Kirk as a sellout to “America First.”

Trump and MAGA influencers instantly blamed “the radical left” and even spread a false rumor the shooter was transgender. Elon Musk claimed Democrats are “the party of murder.” All lies. The suspect is a white Mormon man from Utah, steeped in far-right meme culture.

👉 This matters: Fuentes’s Groypers have spent years poisoning young men with racist, misogynistic, and authoritarian rhetoric under a veil of irony. Robinson dressing as Pepe the Frog for Halloween and engraving meme slogans on bullets is a textbook sign of that influence.

The real story:
• The shooter was not a Democrat.
• Not an immigrant.
• Not transgender.
• He came from a MAGA family and was radicalized by far-right propaganda.

Republicans owe America an apology. Yesterday they screamed “civil war.” Now that the shooter appears to be one of their own, they want silence.

We must hold them accountable. America’s gun violence and political violence problem is a Republican problem.

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09/11/2025

🚨 BREAKING: Journalist and professor Stacey Patton has gone viral with a searing statement about being targeted on Charlie Kirk’s “digital hit list” — and the violence he unleashed on her and countless others.

“I am on Charlie Kirk’s hit list,” Patton wrote to her 215,000 followers. “His so-called ‘Professor Watchlist,’ under Turning Point USA, is nothing more than a digital hit list for academics who dare to speak truth to power. Once my name went up, the harassment machine roared to life.”

She described weeks of racist, misogynistic, and violent threats:

• “Bitch.” “Cnt.” The N-word.*

• Death threats by phone and email.

• Floods of calls to her university demanding she be fired.

• Campus security offering escorts because they feared one of Kirk’s online warriors would show up in person.

And Patton stressed: “I am not unique.” Kirk’s watchlist terrorized women, Black faculty, q***r scholars, and anyone who challenged white supremacy, gun culture, or Christian nationalism. Some professors left academia. Others faced death threats. The message was clear: speak the truth, and we will unleash the mob.

Patton’s conclusion was devastating:

• “Kirk built a culture of violence. He normalized it, monetized it, and sicced it on anyone who dared puncture his movement’s lies.”

• “Now, in the wake of his shooting, the same violence he unleashed has come full circle.”

• “It is revolting to see bipartisan mourning for a smug white man whose life’s work was hostile to Black people, LGBTQ folks, and survivors of gun violence.”

👉 The truth is this: Charlie Kirk did not deserve what happened to him. But neither did the professors, students, and marginalized groups he and his machine terrorized for years.

If America wants peace, we must condemn both political violence and the hateful rhetoric that made Charlie Kirk a multimillionaire.

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09/08/2025

Yeah, he probably realized that as Speaker of the House he isn’t just some guy spouting off — his words are considered official government statements. If he falsely claimed Trump was an FBI informant in the Epstein case, when that isn’t true, that crosses into serious territory:

• 18 U.S.C. § 1001 makes it a crime to knowingly make false, fictitious, or fraudulent statements in matters within federal jurisdiction.

• Because he’s in a leadership position, his comments could be construed as official acts, meaning he could be liable for misleading federal investigators or obstructing justice.

• Obstruction of justice statutes (18 U.S.C. §§ 1505, 1512) also apply if the intent was to shield Trump from investigation.

Prison time isn’t just theoretical — officials have gone down before for lying in official capacity. The only reason most don’t is because Congress hides behind Speech or Debate Clause immunity, but that doesn’t fully protect knowingly false statements tied to criminal investigations.

So yeah — Miller backed off fast, probably because someone whispered in his ear: “Keep this up, and you won’t just be Speaker, you’ll be a defendant.”

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