GOP -Senator „angewidert“ von Konservativen erklärte „Krieg“, nachdem Kirk getötet wurde

As you should be

Finally! A little bit of common sense from the gop. So what’s up with those Epstein files?

Huh, good for him.

I’m glad to see this. Even if the guy was “left” it sure as hell doesn’t mean “the left did it”. A MAN did it. We. Don’t. Need. This. Divisiveness!

Thomas massie also said today that Trump needs to tone down his rhetoric. Unfortunately this is what I feared the most with a 2nd Trump term is that there would be no more “cooler heads” to prevail if some crisis hit and depending on what happens after the Kirk incident well we shall see if that fear is justified or not.

Huh, I’m surprised a member of the GOP said this. I wonder if he’s either up for reelction and needs the independent vote or if he’s retiring

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Oh look at that. He’s retiring. Now it makes sense

Finally some logical sense from a Republican. Too bad there’s not enough of this today

MAGA is itching for civil war. This has only been fuel for them.

If Republicans want to honor Charlie Kirk they should release the Epstein Files as he wanted.

Then why did you ask for it?!?

I might have disagreed with Kirk on just about everything, and I’m not going to sugarcoat it, he was a mouthpiece for this corrupt administration, a bigot and Christian nationalist who inflamed racial and political tensions. He was no hero of mine, but he didn’t deserve this.

What happened to Kirk was unforgivable. Political violence begets more violence and breeds more division and chaos.

But now his supporters are jumping to conclusions about the shooter’s motive and ideology, even though no credible information about the suspect has been released.

The hypocrisy and cognitive dissonance is baffling. On the one hand, many conservatives are responding to this incident with charged rhetoric of their own and calls for swift, violent retribution against their political opponents who they’ve instinctively blamed for the horrific actions of a single individual.

On the other hand, these same people have continuously downplayed or ignored countless other similar tragedies in the past involving culprits that have been radicalized by far right conspiracy theories, propaganda, and online extremist networks.

The fact remains—domestic extremism in the US is committed disproportionately by right wing radicals.

But conservatives overlook this fact while they prematurely speculate about these incidents to get out in front of those facts and control the narrative.

It appears that they are more interested in politicizing deaths like Kirk’s to reinforce and justify their hatred for their perceived enemies.

These conservatives are exploiting Kirk’s death to portray him as a martyr and victim of „radical left violence“ without knowing the facts or without acknowledging the role that right wing extremists have played in this history of political violence and division.

It should also go without saying that they do not see this as an opportunity to address the underlying causes that contribute to gun violence in America.

> „Charlie Kirk… said during an organizational event on Wednesday that gun deaths in exchange for the preservation of Second Amendment rights is part of America’s reality.“

Ya, that’s pretty surreal…

And while this act alone was indefensible, Kirk represents just one of a chilling number of gun deaths in this country. He is not the first victim of political violence, nor will he be the last.

When a white male radicalized by far right dogma attacks and/or murders a democratic lawmaker and their family in their own home; opens fire on school children, federal buildings or minorities in a supermarket, the response is to downplay widely recognized systemic issues while decrying „mental illness“ and offering meaningless thoughts and prayers.

But when a transgender gunman or a black man is involved in a high profile crime or shooting, it’s an issue of race, gender or leftist ideology, despite the fact that these individuals have obvious mental health problems that transcend race, gender or politics.

I’d argue that these conservative hypocrites don’t have a whole lot of sympathy for the victims of these tragedies. In some cases, they’re treated more like political props than anything else.

I think there’s a tendency from conservatives to politicize these attacks to justify their animosity, or their bigotry towards the communities of people they demean and vilify on a daily basis.

They’re eager to exploit these incidents to perpetuate certain stereotypes and push narratives that associate immigrants, minorities, the LGBTQ community, Muslims and their political opponents with violence, „domestic terrorism“ and criminality.

They’re the ones manipulating these stories and capitalizing off of these victim’s traumatic experiences or deaths to incite violence and validate right-wing grievances—often resorting to the use of stigmatizing and fearmongering messaging that fans the flames of division.

They take excessive liberties in these situations to demonize and scapegoat out-groups and marginalized communities of people, and all while ignoring systemic issues and the growing number of incidents of political violence and extremism committed by the far right.

At the same time, the Republicans in power that they continue to elect have done next to nothing to address the underlying, root causes of crime, widespread gun violence and mental health problems among Americans especially.

In fact, Republicans are actively defunding and dismantling the programs, community support structures, social services, agencies, organizations and operations that monitor, manage and try to address these issues.

And let’s make something perfectly clear. Federalizing the military and local law enforcement to occupy the streets of cities around the country where Trump’s political opposition is most prevalent, is *NOT* how you even begin to address the root causes of crime and gun violence.

With all of that said, it is without question that this culture and political climate of hostility, violence and extremism is primarily a consequence of Donald Trump’s frequent use of inflammatory and divisive rhetoric, his cruelty, his assault on democratic norms, his constant politicizing of every issue, his normalizing of revenge as a political tool, his weaponization of the federal government, and his faux populist appeals to hate groups and their many grievances.

The claims that there are a huge demographic of liberals who actually want a civil war with red America are just not true. The reason I know it’s not true is evidenced by the events of 6.17.2025.

Blue America is distraught and angry about 7 months of the Trump presidency. ICE raids have sparked a huge protest in LA. The CA national guard has been nationalized against the wishes of the Governor. A few days later are huge protests planned across the country.

People heading to the protests awoke to the news that 2 Minnesota lawmakers were murdered along with their spouses and dog. Millions of these people then attended protests in every major city, as well as cities big and small across the nation, In blue and red states.

Were there calls for violent retribution? Were there violent mobs roving the streets looking for conservatives? Were there calls for civil war from the protestors?

No. They simply wanted to voice their displeasure with the way Trump has been governing. There were no major issues or riots at any of the protests that day.

The left mobilized millions onto the streets and manage to keep it peaceful. There absolutely are some radicals who are willing to do crazy things of course, but the vast majority just want to live peaceful lives under a just and fair government.

Interesting how they forgot about attacks on Democrats or even their own when they don’t have proof about the assailant in Order to use it as an excuse.

There is already a cold civil war happening tho. Look at how democrats are being purged from the military leadership and DC bureaucracy. The GOP complaining rings hollow. They create the tension. None of this was going down during Biden. Cons can eat a D with their callout of the dems when they are pushing the real violence.