From the pro–Donald Trump conservatives in my timeline, however, I detected another sort of response. Although most expressed genuine grief at the tragedy befalling a figure many of them admired or knew, some others seemed preoccupied with proving that “the left” was celebrating the attack.
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I think what is happening is that the left are losing control of the political narratives and are being exposed for the assholes that they are, and always were.
From the pro–Donald Trump conservatives in my timeline, however, I detected another sort of response. Although most expressed genuine grief at the tragedy befalling a figure many of them admired or knew, some others seemed preoccupied with proving that “the left” was celebrating the attack.
The challenge, for this cohort, is that Democratic Party leaders were united in condemnation of the attack on Kirk and political violence generally. California Governor Gavin Newsom, a gleeful pugilist who has made a brand out of aping the president’s disordered egomaniacal communication style, wrote, “The attack on Charlie Kirk is disgusting, vile, and reprehensible. In the United States of America, we must reject political violence in EVERY form.” Zohran Mamdani, a New York City mayoral candidate so left-wing that many Democratic leaders refuse to endorse him, wrote, “I’m horrified by the shooting of Charlie Kirk at a college event in Utah. Political violence has no place in our country.”
Leading Democrats Are Condemning Charlie Kirk’s Murder
Why is the online right having such a hard time recognizing that?
Just as there is no factual support for YOUR belief that it was a "tiny minority".
Trump did the same as any other politician. Does a Democrat act differently when a member of their own party dies versus a member of the opposition party?I disagree. What I think is fair to criticize trump about is the outsized difference in his reactions to Kirk's and Hortman's murders.
In response to the murder of Hortman, Trump offered a brief, impersonal condemnation of her killing on Truth Social, stating that “such horrific violence will not be tolerated.” He didn’t do much else. He did not offer a substantial eulogy for her, or deliver an address on political violence, as he did after Kirk’s death. Unlike former President Joe Biden, Trump did not attend the funeral. The day after Hortman’s killing, when Trump was asked if he had called Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, he said, “I could be nice and call, but why waste time?” Trump suggested that part of the reason he didn’t want to call Walz was because he thought Walz was to blame for the killing, or at least the events leading up to it.
Trump's partisan double standard for assassinations is chilling
Why Trump’s different responses to Charlie Kirk and Melissa Hortman's assassinations matter.www.msnbc.com
Can we even trust the left with all they shit they have done since 2016? Now that they are almost defeated, they are showing signs of maybe extending an olive branch. How do we know it isn't just another trap set up by the left? They left said let's go to war, nothing is off the table and it is a fight to the death. OK.
Well yea...
What did they do again?
Bizarre that you are trying to equate the relationship between the President and Kirk and this local state representative that no one knew, let alone the PresidentI disagree. What I think is fair to criticize trump about is the outsized difference in his reactions to Kirk's and Hortman's murders.
In response to the murder of Hortman, Trump offered a brief, impersonal condemnation of her killing on Truth Social, stating that “such horrific violence will not be tolerated.” He didn’t do much else. He did not offer a substantial eulogy for her, or deliver an address on political violence, as he did after Kirk’s death. Unlike former President Joe Biden, Trump did not attend the funeral. The day after Hortman’s killing, when Trump was asked if he had called Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, he said, “I could be nice and call, but why waste time?” Trump suggested that part of the reason he didn’t want to call Walz was because he thought Walz was to blame for the killing, or at least the events leading up to it.
Trump's partisan double standard for assassinations is chilling
Why Trump’s different responses to Charlie Kirk and Melissa Hortman's assassinations matter.
I’m not sure they’re extending the olive branch, or if anything has actually changed.
From who?
The Krazed Kirk-type Kultists?
Who is George Floyd and why do you give a ****?
