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September 17, 2025

NO! HE DID NOT BREAK PROTOCOL. It was agreed upon.

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-royal-protocol-king-charles-2131277

But a royal source told Newsweek it is protocol for the visiting head of state to always go first.
September 17, 2025

Great piece. Rec'd. The Nazi in The Blues Brothers (1980) summed this up

At least Charlie’s message:

The Jew is using the black as muscle against you! And you are left there, helpless. Well? What are you gonna do about it, whitey? Just sit there?

Gawd I hate all Nazis.

BTW - the “joke” about killing 4 more…was (sadly) stolen from Howard Stern who got suspended from DC 101 for making the same “joke” when MLK Day started being inacted around the country.

Bottom line is that none of Kirk’s message was new. It’s all been here for a long time.

September 15, 2025

Katy Tur (not popular here I know) but 5 days ago she kind of called this madness

MSNBC’s Katy Tur Asks If Trump Will Use Charlie Kirk Shooting ‘As a Justification For Something’ Bad

“I mentioned the aftereffects because, as we were just talking about a moment ago with Alan, after one of the DOGE employees was allegedly attacked in Washington, D.C., that’s what Donald Trump used as justification to send in federal troops into Washington, D.C., to get things under control—the carjacking situation. He used that,” Tur replied, adding:

And I know it’s hard to predict the future, Mark, but you can imagine the administration using this as a justification for something.

https://www.mediaite.com/media/tv/msnbcs-katy-tur-asks-if-trump-will-use-charlie-kirk-shooting-as-a-justification-for-something-bad/



Mathew Dowd fired, Fla. teachers threatened, ESPN sportscaster

Va Dept of Education threatens teachers licenses

Washington Post Reporter fired

DOD, Delta Airlines, Idaho, Oregon, South Carolina

September 15, 2025

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Switched from among to along at the last second

September 13, 2025

This was tribal warfare. He's a Groyper - follower of Nick Fuentes

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=20634209

Groypers call anyone who doesn’t agree with them “Nazis” and claim to be “Antifa”. See, it’s ironic projection and groupthink at the same time.

Fuentes from time to time lashes out at Trump to get attention and test Groypers loyalty to him.

Fuentes and Kirk hated each other. Kirk basically humiliated him by taking away a lot of followers. Tucker Carlson initiated a reintroduction of Fuentes this summer. Kirk also backs Israel which is Nazi to the Groypers. This was a violent act between two camps of the same tribe.

Kirk did call for the Epstein files to be released but that seems to be more about keeping his flock close due to their already being over the edge on what they were already sure was in them. Kirk had taken to going spiritual in an attempt to both cleanse his record 🙄 and probably prepare for a run at office. MAGA X is absolutely certain now that he’d have someday been President. Seriously.

Tyler sadly, look no one should be murdered, had an opportunity and took it. There was remarkably little police presence. Talk radio says 6 cops total for this event specifically. Kirk would’ve had to personally pay for more. There are 47,000 students at UVU.
September 12, 2025

In summary

September 3, 2025

I guess all those useless eaters can just die finally

Great post usonian.

I stole that meme.

August 31, 2025

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June 29, 2023

Today's SCOTUS Affirmative Action ruling stems from decades of racism hiding as pro-life

The origins of pro-life come from Paul Weyrich tapping into the evangelicals to protect racist colleges’ tax exempt status. Bob Jones U specifically.

The Real Origins of the Religious Right
They’ll tell you it was abortion. Sorry, the historical record’s clear: It was segregation.

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/05/religious-right-real-origins-107133

But the abortion myth quickly collapses under historical scrutiny. In fact, it wasn’t until 1979—a full six years after Roe—that evangelical leaders, at the behest of conservative activist Paul Weyrich, seized on abortion not for moral reasons, but as a rallying-cry to deny President Jimmy Carter a second term. Why? Because the anti-abortion crusade was more palatable than the religious right’s real motive: protecting segregated schools. So much for the new abolitionism.

In May 1969, a group of African-American parents in Holmes County, Mississippi, sued the Treasury Department to prevent three new whites-only K-12 private academies from securing full tax-exempt status, arguing that their discriminatory policies prevented them from being considered “charitable” institutions. The schools had been founded in the mid-1960s in response to the desegregation of public schools set in motion by the Brown v. Board of Education decision of 1954. In 1969, the first year of desegregation, the number of white students enrolled in public schools in Holmes County dropped from 771 to 28; the following year, that number fell to zero.

The Green v. Connally ruling provided a necessary first step: It captured the attention of evangelical leaders , especially as the IRS began sending questionnaires to church-related “segregation academies,” including Falwell’s own Lynchburg Christian School, inquiring about their racial policies. Falwell was furious. “In some states,” he famously complained, “It’s easier to open a massage parlor than a Christian school.”

One such school, Bob Jones University—a fundamentalist college in Greenville, South Carolina—was especially obdurate. The IRS had sent its first letter to Bob Jones University in November 1970 to ascertain whether or not it discriminated on the basis of race. The school responded defiantly: It did not admit African Americans.

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I refuse to subscribe to the idea that the poor and the powerless are the ones organized to screw me over. Truth, Justice, & the American Way - that’s all we ask.
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