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David Howard's avatar

Mexico got lucky

Trump built a wall to keep this crap in America

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Patrice Mobley's avatar

Amen, release those Epstein files!

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Lana's avatar

I always figured this would be how he would get Mexico to pay for the wall. To keep us out.

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Ann's avatar

Governor of Utah, just now, is claiming the shooter was on the left...the lies are just incredible.

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Diana's avatar

Cox is an idiot. He's claiming that he got this based on info from Robinson's family and friends, even though no motive has been established. But then again, Cox is a Republican, so, no wonder there.

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T L Mills's avatar

Governor Cox is just another cowardly, spineless Repubbie, playing to an audience of one.

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Maria's avatar

Is HE, by chance trying to get reelected?😏

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Patrice Mobley's avatar

Exactly, MAGATS are mere liars who believe in their own lies. Weak men with no spines!

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Esther Hunsalzer's avatar

true

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Maria's avatar

Remember the Internet, never forgets even when you delete it. . There’s a writer I follow here.. . She managed to get a lot of information that was claimed not to be available.

And this was not redacted . . It was in the national archives.. .how about that .

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John's avatar
Sep 15Edited

Maria, which National Archives? What internet? The National Archives are now under this administration's control, and the internet is in the hands of Elon Musk and that scary Zuckerberg, founder and CEO. Although not all is lost yet, my God! Just think about the shenanigans that impact the accuracy of our history.

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Sue McCarthy's avatar

Trump probably threatened him and said he’ll get another MAGA to shoot him just like he did Charlie Kirk

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Steve Foman's avatar

I’m sure he was told to do this because of all the information that is coming out about the shooter. Can’t have MAGAs killing MAGAs. 🤬

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Maria's avatar

Remember, there’s facial recognition now. . Who knows it’s probably been available for quite a few years.

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Kirk's avatar

Just when I thought he showed some signs of leadership.

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Patrice Mobley's avatar

So sad and pathetic. Grown ass men behaving like idiots believing in a pathalogical liar and it tells you about their lack of a spine and no moral compass.

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Theresa DeLeon's avatar

Some reason hes changed his attitude

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Lisa Unger's avatar

Could it be the personal phone call from Trump that he got? Cox wasn’t sticking to the narrative.

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Linda McCaughey's avatar

BINGO!

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Theresa DeLeon's avatar

I agree, so much media manipulation

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EtTuBrutex's avatar

Don’t anybody forget the goddamn Mormon angle here…

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Linda's avatar

That is slander and he should be sued…This is when the Media asks questions to stump Liars…When Liars have a platform they don’t care and Trump is proof of that…

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Hal Brown's avatar

Thanks to this info I had to post my 2nd Substack after I wrote one early in the morning praising him. Read it here: https://halbrown.substack.com/p/now-it-looks-like-i-was-engaging

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Roxanne Mitchell's avatar

We are waiting for the Epstein files unredacted

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Tarla Rai Peterson's avatar

Don't forget hold your breath

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Todd Hansen's avatar

Please explain why you are waiting now, but we're not waiting for four years under Biden? And if Kamala could of stolen the election, do you really think files would have gotten even this far?

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Cat's avatar

Only pedos protect other pedos. You're an ignorant, racist, magat moron troll. Fuck you. 🖕🖕🖕🖕

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Todd Hansen's avatar

Please keep talking like that, keep chasing the moderates and those with common sense away from the Democrat party 🥳.

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Becky Schneider's avatar

In your dreams asshat.

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HelixEndeavor's avatar

We were waiting for them - but Biden didn't run on releasing them as a core part of his platform and then walk that promise back in the most embarrassing, blundering way imaginable because he realized he would be implicated. Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if he was! And I want them released either way! YOU freaks are the ones who decided you don't want them released when your dear leader told you it was "a hoax" lol

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Cydnie's avatar

Who cares who exposes pedophiles? You are either a pedophile or against pedophiles. There is no party line here.

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Ellen McKenzie's avatar

Todd. Todd. Todd. Your underbelly is showing.

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Steve's avatar

Todd is a Russian troll.

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Todd Hansen's avatar

Am I just shining 🌟 the light on the Trolls? For years extreme leftist believed they were the majority because fake news, Hollywood, Universities gave you that false belief. As you will see in the next two elections, that you cannot win without cheating.

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Nick's avatar

Just block it

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Nancy G Leveson's avatar

Because the DOJ was not controlled by the White House then and had not been before. Trump has taken it over and made it political, taking away from the primary duty of preventing all types of crime.

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M. F. Hopkins's avatar

Trump stole the election with Elon's help using Starlink.

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Cheryl Thomas's avatar

This is why the Epstein files weren't released during Biden's presidency: Most of the documents were sealed under court order, and the Supreme Court extended the appeal deadline (twice). That resulted in delay of disclosure until after the 2024 election.

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flancynancy's avatar

the files werent even available until mid 2024, easy google!

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Steve's avatar

Are you a Russian or intoxicated?

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Maria's avatar

Nice spin.

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olderwoman's avatar

Two words

Merrick Garland

Go ask him why he didn't prosecute.

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Angie's avatar

Could of. 😂

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Todd Hansen's avatar

I see you are all about changing hearts and minds... and that is why people are walking away from the Democrat or other leftist parties across the world in droves.

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Cydnie's avatar

You sound like a propaganda bot. Who cares about party lines with pedophiles? Are YOU a pedophile? Or are you AGAINST pedophiles? It's a simple answer.

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Esther Hunsalzer's avatar

true

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Black Raven's avatar

Psychological and sociological factors

Research indicates that white male mass shooters are often influenced by a specific set of psychological and sociological factors.

Toxic masculinity and grievance: Some white male shooters are linked to a sense of "toxic masculinity" or white supremacy, feeling that they are owed something due to their gender or race. This can combine with a deep sense of anger and entitlement, which they project onto their victims.

Radicalization and online echo chambers: Many shooters are radicalized online, spending time in "dark chat rooms" where violence is celebrated and validated. They often idolize past shooters and draw inspiration from them.

Feelings of injustice: Shooters frequently believe they have been victimized or wronged, either personally or as a member of a group they perceive as marginalized. This can manifest as misogyny or racial and political resentment.

Severe childhood trauma: Many mass shooters have a history of significant early childhood trauma, such as abuse or neglect. This can lead to deep-seated feelings of anger, isolation, and hopelessness.

Suicidality: A significant number of mass shooters are suicidal before or during the event, viewing the act as their final one.

Common traits of mass shooters, regardless of race

While certain factors may be more prominent in white male shooters, many other traits are common among mass shooters of any background:

Being male

A history of domestic violence or other violent criminal behavior

Mental health issues (though psychosis is a rare motive)

A history of trauma and perceived victimization

Suicidal tendencies

Access to firearms.

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Somewhere, Somehow's avatar

I’m reading the book Men Who Hate Women by Laura Bates. You might want to read it.

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Black Raven's avatar

Thanks for the recommendation. I'd love to read it. It sounds interesting.

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Somewhere, Somehow's avatar

Scary actually.

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Somewhere, Somehow's avatar

Worth reading.

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…Blueheart22's avatar

When I was young, all the young boys cared about was finding girlfriends! I think they need to go back to what their dad’s and grandpa’s were doing at their age.

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Toni's avatar

I think that's the problem. The ones having trouble finding girlfriends, because young women are outpacing young men in so many ways now, is part of where their anger and victimhood is coming from. The Incell Phenomenon.

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Amy goes to Washington's avatar

They don't get girl friends because they have nothing to offer. Women realize they are better off taking care of themselves. The logical conclusion from people like Kirk was that women need to be reduced to baby birthing vessels. They need to be made dependent on men again. No voting rights, no education, no own income. Stay home and serve the husband. If women are independent men can't get away crap. For the first time in history men actually have to put the work in to be an equal partner in a relationship and they are not liking it.

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Nancy Endersby's avatar

Did you also notice they whenever any of these extreme speakers talk about men being in charge and woman staying at home they never seem to mention that most households need two incomes to afford to live? They just keep blaming “ feminists “ and never ever mention finances?

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Amy goes to Washington's avatar

Exactly! And what happens if your husband becomes incapacitated, dies or gets tired of you?

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Linda McCaughey's avatar

So, as always, everything is women's fault.

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Toni's avatar

Not at all! It's the fault of the young men who feel entitled and can't cope with not getting everything they want. And the other men who prey on that resentment.

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Linda McCaughey's avatar

We know that. Do they?

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T L Mills's avatar

Too many of these young men are also unbearably entitled males who think it makes them more attractive and masculine if they dominate and bully women. They are young males who will never have anything that will attract a smart woman

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L B Rose's avatar

Now it's all about video games. There you can kill "people" and get points. I expect that concept was deep in Tyler's brain when he pulled the trigger. He didn't have a grasp on reality, just a fantasy. Much like Agent Orange whose life looks mostly like a "reality" tv show...

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Linda Myers's avatar

Two things. Democrats had not one thing to do with the shooting, and maga young men haven’t been raised right. In fact all of maga should be punished some way for telling despicable lies and causing harm to innocent people.

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HungarianAgrarian's avatar

Don't blame women for your problems!

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Renee Goodman's avatar

Michael, did you see and hear Kirk’s wife making her speech that she will continue Charlie’s messaging to keep his ideas heard, which is so frightening! Lies, lies and more lies are keeping the stupid people brainwashed because they believe them!

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Kathy Maas's avatar

I only saw a clip of it and it seemed to me that she was calling for revenge & violence as well. Truly scary. And because she's a white, attractive & blonde, she'll become a right-wing media darling.

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Charlie's avatar

Two issues about her comments.

1. It was deeply irresponsible for those around her to let it happen. Was it in an interview, or a statement 'to the press'? There's a reason that grieving families request privacy: people can't be expected to make sense when they're in the shock of a violent death! Even the expected death of someone you love is destabilizing. I wish--for all of our sakes-- her mother, grandmother or someone had sat on her. Because in her altered state she was allowed or worse, encouraged, to release another dose of poison.

2. Let us not forget the money-- the financial rewards of his career spinning together charm and hatred.

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Theresa DeLeon's avatar

I wonder if the young males will listen to her cause of the gender issue

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Sally Devoe's avatar

I wonder how “she” will frame the misogyny message 🤔

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Esther Hunsalzer's avatar

ty

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Judy Berube's avatar

Dear MC,

You've described their MO perfectly. Sadly, young minds are being groomed to hate.

Praying this changes and soon.

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solnichka's avatar

Their parents have failed these boys, certainly. As have their peers ... hopefully, they figure out how to be self aware and self examining instead of just blaming everyone else for their own issues.

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Linda Beaver's avatar

Tragedy? Yeah, the tragedy is that he helped to elect a toxic sociopath and narcissist who is now destroying everything and everyone in his path.

AFAIC, the less we endure deliberately divisive elements like Kirk, the better.

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Using The Angry Mob Mentality For Change

Anger is double edged sword It can be destructive which gives this emotion a bad rap But it can be constructive when used in way to respond to threat WE the People are under a Nazi takeover threat and WE are angry at what is transpiring Our only hope is that the Democratic Party can meet the moment with anger and continue to not play by the rules and civility to quash the Nazis in what can only be termed a political civil war

With that said WE the People are behind the Democrats no matter how bad we may think their policies are because they stand between the democratic republic and a Russian dictatorship And I think that there is enough public animosity about this Nazi takeover that a Congressional mandate will become apparent in the 2026 midterms

So what does a Democratic platform look like? It better be darn close to what that anger that brought about the Democratic election results No more civility No more compromise No more reaching across the aisle It should look like a knockdown drag out fight and no taking prisioners This should include election reform to include mandatory mail in voting in every state and removal of gerrymandering , SCOTUS expansion, abortion rights and women’s reproductive health initiatives, end Citizens United and big money in politics, AND revocation of tax relief for billionaires and corporations

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Hendrik Gideonse's avatar

Punctuating your posts with proper periods would make reading them much easier . . .

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Larry Lathrop's avatar

Young males in this country believe they are entitled to things they are NOT entitled to without decades of hard work.

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Goldilocks's avatar

They need to wake up & smell the coffee. We can’t do it for them.

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Bonnie Boyce's avatar

I think it's unhealthy to neglect/ignore the crisis among young men at present. The social realities facing millennial and Gen Z boys/men are remarkably different than those of their fathers and grandfathers. Sometimes it seems that we expect them to "just get over it" or make themselves more "marketable" or stay off line. Simple answers may be correct in general, but they don't seem to be all that helpful. I think this issue is critical to the health of the nation.

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bitchybitchybitchy's avatar

I didn't read this articlr as telling young men to get over their valid worries and concerns about their opportunities.

What I read was that Kirk and others on the political right have sold is political grievance-that women, Blacks, immigrants, leftists, are responsible for the lack of good jobs why some of these young men have not found partners.

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Bonnie Boyce's avatar

Agree with you. The article was really not the topic my comment tries to address. I was responding to comments, and my post should have been below those comments. Kirk and tRump have done incalculable damage on the minds and sense of personal responsibility of young men.

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Barnation Station's avatar

What I want is someone to find all the black, latino, and other cultures of men who voted for Trump, in 24, after being welcomed into the "club" who have been thrown out in the garbage, as early as the day after the election, to speak TF out and up. They are very valuable humans and got screwed.

I want to hear their stories. I want them to come forward as they authenticate the dismissal of people like them because they were the wrong "color", "culture", or "nationality".

I saw plenty of their videos. Where are they?

We need to find them to flip this script.

They are not to be shamed or embarrassed as they were victims of being gas-lit, projection used as driving promises, gone wrong with no initial intent of ever accepting them, and get their stories.

This is what Dems/Progressives/ANYONE, with an actual platform can ask for, or a Republican/MAGA, on their own, who got bit in the ass and is willing to bring a group together to speak out, with help from others, that will grow their stories.

Ideas. Not hate. Not Fox News idiots telling viewers that mentally ill or homeless people should receive a lethal injection is, um, threats in real time, and he should have been fired on the spot. Isn't he promoting, as a black man, JIM CROW?

WTAF?

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Linda's avatar

Totally agree…

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Barnation Station's avatar

It is needed as there are a lot of them out there and they should reclaim what was taken, their dignity, and tell us their stories!!! I'm all ears!!

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