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NPR’s Luse: Kirk ‘Said Some Extremely Bigoted Things’ and That’s Why Some on Left Downplay His Death

On Friday’s edition of NPR’s “It’s Been a Minute,” host Brittany Luse stated that Charlie Kirk “said some extremely bigoted things. Because of that, I have seen and heard some folks who are saying something like, this type of violence shouldn’t happen, but I’m not mad that it did happen to this person, meaning Charlie Kirk.”

Luse said, [relevant exchange begins around 12:55] “[L]ooking to the left, Charlie Kirk was undeniably a polarizing figure for his, at times, extreme conservative views. He said some extremely bigoted things. Because of that, I have seen and heard some folks who are saying something like, this type of violence shouldn’t happen, but I’m not mad that it did happen to this person, meaning Charlie Kirk. What would you say to someone who takes that kind of stance in this politically-charged moment?”

Guardian Reporter Abené Clayton responded, “I think that’s a tough one, you know what I mean? Because it’s like, even that comes with its own dangers. You know what I’m saying? I’m a black woman. To me, the things he was saying [were] like, no, this just does not work for me, this is racist, this is trifling. And I also think there’s a little bit of pressure from other folks on the left to see Democratic lawmakers say, like, this person was horrible, this is bad, yes, but also look at what he said. I think that’s what people want, but that’s not super advisable if we’re trying to create an environment of, like, peace, safety, and justice for everyone.”

At the beginning of the show, Luse stated, “America is divided on how to respond to this moment. I have seen some people on the right calling for revenge. I’ve seen some people on the left indifferent or even cheering that this right-wing pundit, who frequently spouted bigoted views, was killed. I’ve also seen people of all political backgrounds fearing for what the shooting and the reaction to it mean for this country’s future.”

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Ongoing Hate Campaign of the Democrat Apparatus ‘Led Directly’ to Charlie Kirk Assassination

The political assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk is the result of the ongoing hate campaign of the Democrat apparatus — an apparatus that has been charging full steam ahead with this dark rhetoric for the last decade — Andy Surabian, adviser to both Vice President JD Vance as well as Donald Trump Jr. said during an appearance on Breitbart News Saturday.

“We are not talking about a flippant comment where one elected Democrat, you know, here or there, you know, called President Trump a fascist, or Charlie Kirk a Nazi, you know, or so be it,” Surabian, a friend of Kirk’s, said.

“We are talking about a coordinated messaging campaign that has been going on for the last decade, that has been coordinated between Democrat nonprofits —  places like Media Matters — Democrat politicians, Democrat donors, Democrat political operatives,” he explained.

“Ok, this has been an ongoing messaging campaign to castigate 50 percent of the country as Nazis and fascists. So we’re not talking about a flippant comment from some random,” he emphasized, making it clear this is not about a singular offhand statement.

“We are talking about the talking points that come out of the Democrat apparatus that has been — this has been going on now for 10 years — where they are repeatedly doing this over and over again, purposely, all these groups, we know all these groups are coordinating,” he said.

Surabian said all one has to do to see an example is look at Media Matters’ website, look at Charlie Kirk, and “read the archive of all their, all their vicious smears and disgusting lies they put out about him, and then see how the Democrat politicians and media figures repeat those lies.”

“This has been donor-funded. Ok. This is donor-funded. This has been activated by operatives and media figures and repeated by Democrat politicians for a decade now,” he said, making it clear that this has been an “ongoing campaign to label anyone associated with Donald Trump a Nazi, and it’s evil.”

“I can’t repeat this enough. This is not a case of a flippant comment. This is not a case of somebody getting a little overzealous with their commentary. …. No no no. This is coming from the very top of the Democrat Party. The biggest donors, the Democrat think tanks, nonprofits, and politicians are funding this stuff,” he said.

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A Turning Point For The Radical Left?

Charlie Kirk’s assassination will mark the moment the cultural tide turned.

It was a few minutes before 3pm on September 10th, I had just joined a Zoom call with Addison Wiggin for our weekly planning session around a book project we’re working on. Moments after I joined he said “Oh my God, Charlie Kirk has just been shot  – at an event in Utah”.

We talked a bit about the ramifications of what this could set off – and speculated on whether he would pull through.

Later in our call we learned he had succumbed to his wounds, and the symbology was not lost on me: it was the day before Sept 11th, one of those dates everybody remembers exactly where they were.

Because what was certain then was that the world had just changed. We were in a whole new ballgame, uncharted territory, and we’re still in it today.

Charlie Kirk’s assassination feels similar. Most people had never heard him speak—and are now forming their opinions from whatever their preferred media mouthpiece says.

Given the left-wing, illiberal stranglehold on media and culture, none of it is flattering. Conservatism is routinely conflated with the “far-right”  (whatever that means these anymore) and is treated as ipso facto morally reprobate.

The Left Dances on Charlie’s Grave.

The hot-takes poured out within minutes, showing exactly where the lefties wanted to steer the narrative:

  • MSNBC host Matthew Dowd initially speculated that the shot may have come from “a supporter, shooting in celebration” but later pivoted to, (paraphrasing) “Awful people, say awful things to awful consequences”.
  • Rachel Gilmore (basically Canada’s Taylor Lorenz) – ruminated that Kirk being murdered by what turned out to be a radical antifa-aligned leftist might make the “the far right more extreme”.
  • Democrat politicians like Mark Kelly were quick to link the shooting to escalating political rhetoric
  • Illinois Governor JB Pritzker also pointed to the Jan 6 protestors – but omitted the two attempted assassinations on Trump that occurred since.

None of this should be a surprise – the West’s political and ideological left have absolutely no capacity for introspection and barely measurable levels of empathy.

What is surprising, to the left, is the knock-on consequences to their shameful behaviours from a corporate and popular spheres that have had enough with the old zeitgeist  and the cultural pendulum is now swinging the other direction, with a vengeance.

The End of “Diplomatic Immunity” for the Far-Left

Since COVID—and the old order’s failed lunge at a global social-credit technocracy —the public has steadily lost faith in industrial-era institutions:  Big Government, Corporate Media, and late-stage globalism (ESG, DEI, and the rest of it).

The pendulum has swung back through the centre, hitting several key beats along the way—mostly in the form of nationalist or tribal populism.

Oct 7th

Many details of how Oct 7 happened remain baffling to me—but what mattered for the zeitgeist was the reaction by the radical left.

This marked the first real shift in popular opinion—though unevenly (in Canada, Hamas cheerleaders still shut down Toronto streets every weekend).

The backlash focused on academics and labour organizers openly celebrating the massacre, but even Meta—once quick to throttle anything smelling of “Trumpism”—turned its censorship machine the other way, deboosting Hamas content and demonetizing prominent accounts.

The Targeted Killing of Brian Thompson

The targeted murder of United Health CEO Brian Thompson in December ’24 further brought out the berserkers who were lionizing his assassin – but there began to be even more palpable pushback in the zeitgeist against these extremist positions.

Taylor Lorenz made headlines after defending and celebrating the murder, and faced severe criticism on social media platforms and some professional ostracizing, including being uninvited from industry panels and removed from contributor lists at several outlets.

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TikTok User Calls For Charlie Kirk’s Widow and Children, Elected Officials, CEOs to be Murdered Next – “His Wife and Kids Need to Go Too… Get Rid of the Whole Family”

Many are now calling for an investigation into a black woman after she called for a “revolution” and the murder of Charlie Kirk’s entire family at a time of heightened political division and potential for violence following Charlie Kirk’s assassination.  

“I’m surprised that y’all didn’t get rid of him sooner, and I’m surprised that you guys aren’t getting rid of more people. Like, don’t stop with him. Don’t let him be the end dog. Get rid of them all!” she said in the now-viral clip.

The individual goes by the names @noryy_bell on TikTok and Estoy Dokusei on Instagram.

Millions of conservatives across the globe are peacefully mourning the loss of the great 31-year-old conservative icon and, as Glenn Beck accurately put it, civil rights leader, who played a major role in saving freedom of speech and open dialogue. This is why they killed him.

But this woman wants us all dead.

The illiterate woman in a TikTok video was seen actively encouraging violence against Charlie Kirk’s wife, two young children, parents, and grandparents. “Y’all keep on talking about his wife and kids. They need to go too, because they’re carrying on that mentality and that lineage, like get rid of the whole family… Why did you stop with him?” she says.

“Go get his grandma because who raised you? Like your mom ought to be ashamed for birthing a scum like you. Get rid of the whole family.”

The woman, who is apparently from Georgia, also calls for the death of “the ones that are above him,” adding, “your mayor, your city councilman. What is it, Georgia Power? The people that keep on raising our sh*t, the CEO.”

She then invokes the words “revolution” and “progress,” taunting activists for being “too scary,” which is thought to mean too scared.

“Y’all want results without putting in the work. You gon’ have to take out trash to get a clean house… Take the garbage out, y’all.”

The text in her video reads, “dont let it stop with charlie.”

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Oxford Union Announces ‘Disciplinary Proceedings’ Against Far-Left President-Elect Who Celebrated Charlie Kirk’s Death — But University Won’t Expel Him

The Oxford Union has announced “disciplinary proceedings” against their president-elect after he celebrated the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

The Telegraph obtained Whatsapp messages from the Union’s president-elect George Abaraonye in which he wrote: “Charlie Kirk got shot, let’s fucking go.”

He wrote in another message: “Charlie Kirk got shot loool.”

Amid growing pressure for his expulsion from the university, the Union said that it did not have the powers to dismiss Abaraonye, but that his remarks were being treated with the “utmost seriousness”:

The Oxford Union does not possess executive powers to summarily dismiss a president-elect. However, the complaints filed against the president-elect have been forwarded for disciplinary proceedings and will be addressed with the utmost seriousness.

Our duty is to demonstrate to our members, the university community, alumni, and the wider public, that disagreement must be expressed through debate and dialogue, not through abuse or threats. That is the tradition we uphold, and it is the standard we will continue to set.

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Sick: Hockey Stick Climate Fraud Scientist Shares Tweet Calling Charlie Kirk ‘Head of Trump’s Hitler Youth’

In 2009, leaked documents in the “Climategate Scandal” revealed the climate change scam to be exactly what many suspected – a massive scam. The Gateway Pundit reported on this scandal extensively when the reports first broke.

Dr. Michael Mann, the scientist who co-authored the famous “hockey stick graph” of temperature trends, was implicated in the 2009 global warming email scandal.

In 2012, Mann sued the National Review and Competitive Enterprise Institute over their critique of his work regarding the climate change hoax.

In 2017, The Gateway Pundit reported Mann committed contempt of court in what was dubbed the “climate science trial of the century.”

Mann also called for censorship of scientists who disagree with him on global warming.

Following the assassination of TPUSA’s Charlie Kirk, Mann, who is a senior administrator at UPenn, went on a vile rampage against Kirk, including sharing a post that likened Kirk to a Nazi and his work with TPUSA was akin to the Hitler Youth.

Mann retweeted several posts that took issue with a piece by New York Times columnist Ezra Klein titled “Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way.”

Klein’s piece praised Kirk’s approach and commitment to free dialogue and expressed that they were “on the same side on the continued possibility of American politics,” despite their differences.

Mann, however, chose to amplify hateful rhetoric from the left.

One retweet called Kirk “the head of Trump’s Hitler Youth.”

In a post of his own, Mann degraded the tragedy by calling, “The white on white violence has gotten out of hand,” phrasing that would cause an uproar if any other races were used as examples.

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Matthew Dowd Blames ‘Right Wing Media Mob’ for His MSNBC Firing, Defends His Bizarre Comments

Fired MSNBC political analyst Matthew Dowd claims it wasn’t his own inappropriate comments about the Charlie Kirk assassination that got him fired but the result of the liberal network caving to a “Right Wing media mob.”

“The Right Wing media mob ginned up, went after me on a plethora of platforms, and MSNBC reacted to that mob,” the analyst wrote on Substack Friday.

Dowd argued that his initial comments that ultimately appeared to blame Kirk and the conservative movement for the shooting came before it was confirmed that Kirk had been shot during his speaking appearance at a campus event in Orem, Utah Wednesday afternoon.

Dowd led off his analysis with one of the more absurd comments made on any network that day.

He told anchor Katy Tur that Kirk may have been killed by a “supporter shooting their gun off in celebration” — as if the college age attendees were acting like a bunch of drunken cowboys in a B Western.

His commentary went downhill from there, as Breitbart News reported.

“But following up with what was just said, he’s been one of the most divisive, especially divisive younger figures in this, who is constantly sort of pushing this sort of hate speech, or sort of aimed at certain groups,” Dowd told the MSNBC audience. “And I always go back to hateful thoughts, lead to hateful words, which then lead to hateful actions.”

MSNBC fired the analyst before the day’s end, network president Rebecca Kutler issuing an apology that his comments were “inappropriate, insensitive, and unacceptable.”

Dowd wrote that he’d made nearly “1,000” appearances on the network and “consistently condemned gun violence and political violence of any kind no matter where it came from.”

However, in his Friday treatise, Dowd still appeared clueless about the demeaning nature of his portrayal of the young supporters who attended the event. They were not there to fire guns “in celebration ” but to listen to Kirk take questions from the crowd, including from those with opposing opinions, in his “America Comeback” tour.

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‘WE F-CKING DID IT’: X User Connected to Tyler Robinson’s Alleged Boyfriend Celebrated Charlie Kirk’s Death in the Moments After Shooting

A social media user followed by Tyler Robinson’s alleged boyfriend on TikTok and X, posted “WE F-CKING DID IT” moments after Charlie Kirk was shot.

Robinson is the 22-year-old accused of assassinating conservative icon Charlie Kirk during an event at Utah Valley University on Wednesday.

It has been reported by multiple outlets that Robinson, who grew up in a conservative Utah family, lived with a transgender partner named Lance Twiggs at the time of the shooting.

Twiggs goes by “Lance Lotte” on most social media platforms.

Activity on his social media accounts ranges from him appearing to be a typical teenager or young adult on Facebook several years ago, to very dark recent posts in wild transgender fetish communities on Reddit and X.

One of just a few users who was following and was followed by Twiggs on X had just 195 followers and used the name “Churbum75m.”

In parentheses, his name read “SAW TYLER ON JUNE 30.”

This likely refers to Tyler, the Creator, who performed in Chicago on June 30, given his handle. “Chur Bum” is the name of the protagonist of Tyler, the Creator’s album “CHERRY BOMB,” though it is especially eerie given that it is also the name of the man arrested for Kirk’s murder.

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GLAAD Smears Charlie Kirk, Puts Target On Back Of Other Conservative Activists

AGLAAD spokesman smeared conservative Christian Charlie Kirk, who was assassinated on Wednesday while speaking at Utah Valley University, as someone who “spread infinite amounts of disinformation about LGBTQ people.”

The spokesman did not provide any examples, but told The Advocate, the self-proclaimed “queer paper of record,” that, “Lies and vitriol about transgender people were a frequent part of his rhetoric and events.”

It should be easy to find examples because Kirk produced so many videos, but perhaps The Advocate failed to show any of Kirk’s “vitriol” because they don’t exist. When Kirk engaged with the LGBT community, it was always with respect. He saw the humanity in people who desperately want to be seen, heard, and understood.

The speakers who came to challenge Kirk’s ideas wanted to sway his opinion, but with the rock-solid foundation of the Bible, he would not move from his Christian principles. He was kind, asked thought-provoking questions, and it was apparent that he cared about the long-term outcome for the people he spoke with.

GLAAD hates that. After all, as a $36 million nonprofit, GLAAD needs to perpetuate a need for advocacy by keeping every gender-confused victim supporting its movement.

“GLAAD stressed the extent to which Kirk and Turning Point USA promoted anti-LGBTQ+ narratives,” The Advocate reported. “The group highlighted Turning Point’s college campus campaigns featuring speakers such as Riley Gaines, Chloe Cole, and Pastor Junsun Yoo, who regularly spoke against transgender people.”

Chloe Cole is a woman who detransitioned after a regrettable attempt to become a man when she was young.

“Naming the 3 of us in this statement is putting a target on our backs and it normalizes the violence that took place in Utah,” Cole posted on X after she was namechecked in GLAAD’s statement. “They do not care if we die because they think we are nazis. This is the reality of a large amount of the democrat party in America.”

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After Kirk assassination, political left social media posts list ‘next’ targets

In the wake of the assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, thousands of social media posts appear to list politically conservative targets for assassination by the political left.

Those on the list include podcaster Joe Rogan, Harry Potter author JK Rowling, conservative political commentators Ben Shapiro and Matt Walsh, among others.

In response to being targeted, Rowling, said, “If you believe free speech is for you but not your political opponents, you’re illiberal. If no contrary evidence could change your beliefs, you’re a fundamentalist. If you believe the state should punish those with contrary views, you’re a totalitarian. If you believe political opponents should be punished with violence or death, you’re a terrorist.”

Shapiro said, “We will never stop debating and discussing. We will never stop standing up for what America is and what she should be. And we will never let Charlie’s voice die.”

Walsh also said people were sending him screenshots of posted death threats, saying, “A lot of concerned people are sending me these screenshots (and dozens more). I appreciate their concern. But I’m not surprised and I won’t be going into hiding. We have to be louder and bolder now than ever. Or else the demons who killed Charlie win. And they cannot win.”

A website has also been launched to “Expose Charlie’s Murderers.” It includes statements posted on social media by individuals who allegedly espouse violence as well as those celebrating Kirk’s assassination.

“We have received nearly 20,000 submissions,” the site says. “This website will soon be converted into a searchable database of all 20,000 submissions, filterable by general location and job industry. This is a permanent and continuously-updating archive of Radical activists calling for violence.”

The website has posted screenshots of the posts made, the alleged poster’s name, publicly available information about their employer, the company’s name, university or college and other publicly available information like the town and state where they live that the poster made public themselves.

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