• Basic Glitch@sh.itjust.works
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    Trump blames harsh language for Kirk’s death

    Trump posted a video that appeared to be filmed in the Oval Office Wednesday evening on Truth Social, blaming Kirk’s death on harsh political rhetoric.

    He said “violence and murder are the tragic consequence of demonizing those with whom you disagree.”

    He added: “For years, those on the radical left have compared wonderful Americans like Charlie to Nazis and the world’s worst mass murderers and criminals. This kind of rhetoric is directly responsible for the terrorism that we’re seeing in our country today, and it must stop right now.”

    U.S. terror experts have warned of rising threats from so-called stochastic terrorism, in which sometimes unstable individuals are inspired to violence by hate speech and scenarios they see online and hear echoed by public figures.

    Whaaaaattt??? I am so totally shocked to hear this accusation coming from Trump.

    After the FBI has already apparently arrested and released 2 suspects… That’s another great thing about firing every FBI agent that was qualified to do their job in retaliation for Jan 6th. You never quite know what’s incompetence vs conspiracy these days.

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      Man, this is a wonderful distraction from the Trumpstein files, eh?

      Trump is personally making it his mission to defend this “wonderful American”, as if he’s the only person in the United States to die from gun violence.

      And the double-standard to say this was caused by political rhetoric while still using terms like “the radical left”.

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        Yeah I know its straight out of the Fascist playbook, but this is way to conveniently timed and flawlessly executed. Its going to take some pretty compelling evidence for me to be convinced that this wasn’t a false flag. I definitely wont trust that its whomever the regime eventually pins it on.

        Charlie was a disposable pawn of right wing moneyed interests, and he will continue to serve those interests in death.

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          You know what… All those files dropped, it was looking bad for Trump, and that shot was surgical, rifle shot through the neck for one of the least liked mouth pieces and his death is announced by the President.

          Not an unbelievable conspiracy.

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        And they somehow can’t find the shooter. So if nobody’s a suspect, everybody’s a suspect.

        Like I’m just thinking about the lockdown procedure that most campuses have in place and wondering how somebody could just walk away after doing this from the roof of some building.

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      Lolololololol because Trump is sooooo respectful in his language. He would never exaggerate or demonize people simply because they disagreed with him. Boo fucking hoo that there’s people calling you a nazi, if it’s such a problem then maybe he should stop doing things that are so easily a direct comparison to what hitler did. What an absolute joke of president.