Jimmy Kimmel show ends because of Charlie Kirk comments
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Vandelay
Life is absurd. Lean into it.
Imma just flat out say it...
We not getting GTA 6 y'all
We not getting GTA 6 y'all
Good...use such resource for Red Dead 3
Tribal Outkast
Veteran
shyt won’t get real til they hit social media
If Karl Rove had to come out and say this, we are in trouble trouble.
“It has been a sad, sickening week for America.
Our country witnessed a terrible event. A young man was gunned down doing what he loved—debating all comers on a college campus on behalf of his passionately held beliefs.
The pictures will linger in our minds. Some were from better times. Charlie Kirk with his wife, Erika, and their two young children. Charlie debating on other campuses. Leading conventions of his organization, Turning Point USA. Standing with his friend President Trump on a campaign rally stage.
Others are from the aftermath. Grainy pictures of the suspected shooter released as officials hunted for him. The accused assassin’s mug shot. Crowds of young people on campuses across the nation holding candlelight vigils and memorials for their now-departed champion. The president, shaken by the death of his supporter and friend. The vice president excusing himself from a 9/11 event in New York to fly to Utah to accompany his friend’s lifeless body home to Arizona. The slain man’s wife filled with grief, describing how the couple’s 3-year-old daughter asked her, “Where’s Daddy?” To which Erika replied, “Baby, Daddy loves you so much. Don’t you worry. He’s on a work trip with Jesus.”
Charlie was a 31-year-old political advocate, organizer and entrepreneur. Rather than going to college, he started Turning Point USA. For he loved America—its story, promise and ideals—and wanted it to prosper and grow. Within a dozen years, he grew from an eager teenage politico to confidant of the president. Few people have had as big an influence at such a young age as Charlie Kirk.
Much has been said and written about his extraordinary life and horrific death. Utah Gov. Spencer Cox was one of the first voices to capture our attention. In anguish, he said, “We just need every single person in this country to think about where we are and where we want to be, to ask ourselves, ‘Is this it? Is this what 250 years has wrought on us?’ ” His answer was a challenge. “All of us,” he said, must “try to find a way to stop hating our fellow Americans.”
Despite this earnest plea, there has been a disturbing and growing undercurrent in our national conversation and on the internet, a pronounced emphasis on “they” and “them.” Charlie would be alive but for “them.” “They” killed him. “They” are responsible for his death. “They” must be made to pay.
No. Charlie Kirk wasn’t killed by “them.” “They” didn’t pull the trigger. One person did, apparently a young man driven by impulse and a terrible hate. If there were a “they” involved, law enforcement would find “them” and the justice system would hold “them” accountable. But “he” and “him” are the correct pronouns for this horrendous act.
Our culture is built on the principle that individuals are responsible for what they say and do. People can be influenced by words they hear and groups they’re part of. But we aren’t helpless automatons whose actions are dictated by others.
Using Charlie’s murder to justify retaliation against political rivals is wrong and dangerous. It will further divide and embitter our country. No good thing will come of it.
It is also an insult to his memory. Anyone who saw Charlie in action could see he had supreme confidence that logic, facts and appeals to history were the way to win arguments. Not thuggery, threats or silencing. He was in the business of persuasion. No one can have faith in the power of persuasion like he had without an inherent respect for people who might disagree. Earlier this year, Charlie appeared on California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s podcast. Though they disagreed on much, they spoke for more than an hour, free of vitriol and full of mutual regard. That’s the model to emulate.
Charlie will be honored at a memorial service Saturday at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Ariz. The president, vice president and secretary of state will be among the speakers. What they say there will reverberate. Our political system could become even more dominated by deep, dark obsessions. Or Saturday could be a moment when Americans see people of prominence remind us that our republic’s continuance depends on debating important ideas with both passion and mutual respect.
Above all, it needs to be repeated: Violence has no role in our country’s politics. Now or ever. Reasoned discourse is essential to our democracy. Charlie Kirk understood that. Let’s hope it’s a message his eulogists honor.
Mr. Rove was senior adviser and deputy chief of staff for President George W. Bush and is author of “The Triumph of William McKinley” (Simon & Schuster, 2015).”
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Karl Rove.
Yea, the man who was the former GOP Lobbyist during the Bush era back in the 2000s being another voice of reason in these crazy times.
Even Karl rove looks like a reasonable moderate compared to these loud, crazy, delusional and fascist maga people controlling the direction, ideology and policy of the GOP right now.
Pay closer attention to what Kimmel said, it's not because of what he said about Charlie Kirk that he got taken off the air indefinitely.
OJ Simpsom
Superstar
They'll def use AI for that. You won't even be able to post things without it being screened and approved first by AI. That's the future.
Yep
Basically claiming that trump didn't give a shyt. This was all a ploy to get dude off the paint because of not only ratings, but senile ego.
Devilinurear
Veteran
fukk trump
That's technically going on with YouTube. Some of my favourite content creators had to break camp because AI is dumb as doorknobs.
We're not even 1 year in to this administration. This shyt is crazy
They put half-dead Biden and slotting Kamala in at the last minute and through they could win
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