Trump: "I just heard about it five minutes before I walked in ... they have the person that they wanted. So you have breaking news, don't you eh? You always have breaking news, Ainsley. Sean's gonna be very disappointed that we're not doing it on his show."
from CNN
A person is in custody and being questioned in connection to the fatal shooting of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, according to four sources familiar with the matter. The person is still being questioned as of Friday morning, the sources said. President Trump just said in an interview on Fox News: “I think with a high degree of certainty, we have him” and he is in custody.
Hopefully Mr doubting Thomas 4 sources on CNN will convince you
Somehow I don't think milquetoast centrism is going to fix this.
In normal times you would have a respected president that would be able to call for calm, and the FBI would find this guy and charge him. Charlie Kirk is not the first person to be assassinated.
Centrism isn’t necessarily milquetoast in a world where the insanity of Horseshoe Theory is an ever-increasing reality.
If this is just another lie. Or as Trumpers like to say hyperbole. Or Trump just being Trump.
This lie is going to leave a mark.
What are your thoughts if it turns out to be a true statement?
The chance is low and still within probability. Trump’s statement is typically 20 percent truth with 80 percent fantasy, and Fox “News” is typically 10 percent facts and 90 percent propaganda. When Trump speaks on Fox, there is a larger than zero chance of truth coming out his mouth. Still possible.
What is becoming abundantly clear is this country can no longer function as one nation; there is no reconciling these differences. Two countries, one a religious/authoritarian dictatorship (which I'm guess a WHOLE lot of these pro-Maga/pro-Trump posters wouldn't like any more than I would) and one a country based on secular humanist values. That won't happen peacefully, but it needs to happen. If we aren't in what amounts to a hot civil conflict in the next 12 months I will be very surprised.
As an external observer, I would suggest the following arrangement for a peaceful partition:
The US government should hand over all its nukes to Switzerland who would safely dismantle and dispose them deep below the Alps.
Politely ask Russia, El Salvador, Belarus, Nicaragua or any right wing conservative authoritarian government whether they would agree to accept the adherents to a religious dictatorship. Similarly, ask Canada, Uruguay, Mexico, Norway or any left leaning humanist country whether they would accept the adherents to a secular democracy.
Organise a popular referendum under UN supervision whereby voters in each state decide which country their state should join. Voters unhappy with the outcome in their state should be given the possibility to move before the partition becomes effective.
The perp could be a total m’aga and a groyper and a member of the proud boys but in a month the idiots will think he was a ‘Dem.’
there’s no fact that cracks into their news bubble.
There is a chance if this, but it's extremely low. If you turn out to be right this person still deserves the death penalty. I'm a common sense consistent person, unlike many Democrats.
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WRONG. I do not have hope of shooting fellow Americans.
I’m very glad to hear that. Can you help me better understand what you meant, then, when you said, we’ll see how the lefties like it when (I believe this is a direct quote) ”we start shooting back”?
WRONG. I do not have hope of shooting fellow Americans.
I’m very glad to hear that. Can you help me better understand what you meant, then, when you said, we’ll see how the lefties like it when (I believe this is a direct quote) ”we start shooting back”?
Basically that if a civil war ever starts, which I hope it doesn't, that the left will get destroyed and they won't like it. Again, not hoping for this.