Free Speech or False Rhetoric? The Charlie Kirk Aftermath, Media Spin & Hypocrisy
Stay in the Fray PodcastSeptember 19, 2025x
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Free Speech or False Rhetoric? The Charlie Kirk Aftermath, Media Spin & Hypocrisy

Charlie Kirk has been assassinated — and the reactions exposed a moral crisis. From YouTubers like Destiny mocking his grieving widow, to teachers openly celebrating his death, to late-night hosts spinning false narratives — the fallout reveals a chilling hypocrisy about free speech, censorship, and political violence.

This episode breaks it all down:

  • What free speech really means vs. what it does not protect.

  • How “dangerous rhetoric” creates a culture where violence gets excused.

  • Media gaslighting — from ABC’s Matt Gutman to Jimmy Kimmel — and the lies designed to protect the narrative.

  • Social media mobs, double standards, and the dehumanization that fuels violence.

  • Why Charlie’s own words prove the labels against him were false.

Free speech has consequences. Dangerous rhetoric has victims. And Charlie Kirk’s assassination should force us to confront the difference.

👉 If you value honest conversations and refuse to accept mob-driven lies, you have to check this one out! 👍🏼


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Bragging about Charlie's death now they're losing their jobs

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left and right. Good.

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Because if your idea of education is teaching kids that

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murder is funny when it happens to the wrong side, you shouldn't

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be within a mile, 20 miles of a classroom.

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If I ever find out any of my children's teachers do anything

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like that. Accountability for this isn't

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censorship, it's consequences. And of course, the social media

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mob threads and posts saying oops, Charlie, love the Second

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Amendment, look what happened. Are you fucking stupid?

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All right, hey everyone, hope you're all well.

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I have to talk about Charlie again.

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Now it's reaction time. Charlie Kirk is dead,

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assassinated, and the reactions from his opposition side include

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celebration from teachers, influencers, Youtubers mocking

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his widow, posting memes, cheering like their team just

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won the Super Bowl. One of them is called Destiny

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and I admit I haven't heard of this asshole and apparently he's

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some big bro online and he mocked Charlie's wife for

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grieving. That is the level of moral rot

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that we've reached. This is not about politics right

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now. It's about humanity.

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Here's the kicker. They defend it all under this

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faux banner of free speech, as if dancing on a man's grave is

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the entire point of the 1st Amendment.

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Meanwhile, these are the same people who are now crying about

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being silenced when their own words get them fired, when their

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reputations go up in flames, when they finally taste

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consequences of the garbage that they spew.

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Yes, I'm angry, I'm saddened. I'm confused by what humanity

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has become in moments like these.

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Here's the truth. Sometimes tragedy is the very

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thing that forces us to be better.

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It's a horrid truth, but it's how we heal.

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It's how we grow alone and together.

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And that's where my frustration, it takes me.

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It not to incite. I'm not trying to to get back at

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people. And it's not to tear down.

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It's demand something better. I've already edited a lot of

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name calling out of this episode in my script for this episode.

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I want to be better than that. And if Charlie's death doesn't

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drive that home, then I don't know what will.

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This is Stay in the Fray podcast.

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It is September 17th. Excuse me, 2025.

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Let's roll. I want to get something

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straight. Free speech means you can speak

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your mind with the government locking you up for it.

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It doesn't mean you get to celebrate assassination and then

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keep your job at the local grocery shop.

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This is where our youth are getting this The First Amendment

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protects peaceful opinions, and debate does not protect threats,

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incitement, or dangerous rhetoric that leads to violence.

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And that's where this little like gotcha moment that Charlie

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that the people laughing are trying to do, this is where it

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falls apart. Their whole line now is, well,

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Charlie wanted free speech, so we're doing just what he said.

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No, that's not free speech. That's moral cowardice hiding

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behind the 1st amendment, the truth.

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Free speech is not void of consequence.

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You post a TikTok celebrating a man being murdered and your

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employer has every right to fire your ass.

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You're a teacher telling kids that violence against political

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opponents is justified. You shouldn't be in a classroom,

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period. But the hypocrisy is blinding

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during cancel culture. Thank God it's going.

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The woke left was fine with people losing jobs over the

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smallest fabricated offenses. Someone tweets an off color joke

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from 10 years ago and suddenly they're cancelled.

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But when it's celebrating an assassination and suddenly

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they're all defenders of free expression?

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Give me a fucking break. This is not OK.

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Free speech is supposed to be about discussion, debate,

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exchanging ideas. That's what Charlie stood for.

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Dangerous rhetoric is the opposite.

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It dehumanizes, it justifies violence, and it creates the

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culture where a man loses his life because of his beliefs.

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If he can't tell the difference between those two, you're either

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dishonest or you're that far gone.

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Let's talk about what happened, which is sparked this episode,

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what's happened after Charlie's death, Because the reactions

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tell you everything we need to know about the problems in this

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country and the world. First off, you have this Destiny

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douchebag, all right? That was the last name call.

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I swear, he's a smug YouTube who thinks debating college freshman

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on Discord makes him Socrates. And he's mocking Charlie's wife

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on Piers Morgan's show. Take a look.

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Why did you mock his winner? Why did you mock his winner?

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She's because she's being used as a political weapon right now

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for conservatives to continue they're fact.

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What do you mean? Wow?

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She's literally doing her. Husband just got murdered.

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On e-mail, Yeah, she's using it to drive a recruitment.

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And you? Can't even condemn the murder.

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You won't condemn it. You can't even tell his side.

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You're so deranged about Trump, you are, that you cannot condemn

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the murder because you're waiting for Donald Trump to say

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something. All.

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Right, let me bring it. This guy, I've never seen

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anything like this. I'm happy I haven't heard of him

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until now. I'm sorry that I have.

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Charlie's wife is grieving her murdered husband and his trash

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take is that she's weaponizing that grief.

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No, she's not. She's mourning by sharing

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Charlie's words with the millions who loved him.

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Her 17 minute speech was not exploitation, It was a widow

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honoring her husband's mission. If you see that as a threat,

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that says more about you than it is about her.

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The fact that a grown man with a platform thinks that the right,

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that the right move is to laugh at a widow.

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That's not edgy free speech, dude, that's being a piece of

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shit. Anything for clicks, I suppose.

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Here's the bigger issue. This kind of stuff, this stuff

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from this guy, people like this. This is what some people are

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listening to. This is who some are taking

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seriously. He sits up there all fired up

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with Piers Morgan saying that his opposition of the right

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needs to turn down the heat. Really tell me what the right

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has done in actual political violence compared to the left.

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Riots from the left, Arson and Tifa, assaults on conservatives

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wearing hat, churches vandalize, pro-life centers firebombed.

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The record speaks for itself. I can't believe I have to

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continue to to bring the receipts here.

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Meanwhile, he refuses to condemn a man's assassination.

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He dodges, he deflects, and he points fingers at the very

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people who aren't the ones out committing violence.

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That's not just misinformation, that's false blame.

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That's protecting your team at all costs, even when it means

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excusing murder. And if that's your moral

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compass, how the hell anyone aligns with you, I have no idea.

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It didn't stop there. I was just giving him as an

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example. Teachers, The people we trust to

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shape our kids. We're posting celebration clips

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bragging about Charlie's death. Now they're losing their jobs

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left and right. Good.

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Because if your idea of education is teaching kids that

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murder is funny when it happens to the wrong side, you shouldn't

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be within a mile, 20 miles of a classroom if I ever find out any

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of my children's teachers do anything like that.

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Accountability for this isn't censorship, it's consequences.

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And of course the social media mob threads and posts saying

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oops Charlie love the Second Amendment, look what happened.

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Are you fucking stupid? The Second Amendment exists so

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people can't protect themselves. What happened to Charlie was the

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exact opposite. A man who preached self-defense,

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family, faith, mental health responsibility was gunned down

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by someone radicalized by lies. And instead of condemning it,

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the mob mocks it. It's not a win, it's cowardice.

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Let's deal with the labels. I'm going to give you some more

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receipts. A lot of people cheering this on

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haven't even heard Charlie Kirk speak.

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They just go with it. So check this out.

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The shooter and the idiots on social media called Charlie a

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fascist, racist, sexist, trans. All the words the receipts say.

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Otherwise, roll the tape you. You just.

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If they are, openly if they are. Supporting open homosexuality.

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So I'm going to ask a very respectful question as

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respectfully as I can. What does what they do in their

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private life concern you so much that you have to go up in front

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of a crowd? And it is against God.

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That is, are you a? Christian or not?

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Do we live in a theocracy, Yes or no?

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No, that's Do we live in a theocracy.

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Said you're a Christian. I am a Christian and do you know

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what? And guess what?

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I I will say this part of being a Christian is appropriately

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interpreting what the theological says for the

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individual, but also means to be long-suffering and patient and

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loving and kind. Jesus Christ talk to all people.

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Jesus Christ went and did his ministry through Judea and

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Samaria and he had dinner with tax collectors and he had dinner

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with prostitutes and he did his ministry in every part of the

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Mediterranean. What it means to be a Christian,

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my friend, is to be open minded but firm in your beliefs so you

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can have that belief. But if you say there's something

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inherently wrong with communicating or associating

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just because they make different personal decisions than you,

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then you Sir, are not a conservative.

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Thanks for being here tonight. There it is.

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Charlie's defending gay people, amongst others, to a right

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winger who said that Charlie wasn't Christian enough.

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Yeah, that sounds like Charlie totally hates gay people.

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Here's another one. How about this?

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Let's roll some more. You will never be the best

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version of yourself if you allow other people to convince you

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that you can't be better because of your skin color, because of

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your sexual identity, because of the community you came from.

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You must resist those narratives at all costs if you truly want

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to be successful in America. Did you hear all that?

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You misinformed lunatics in the back.

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Charlie's saying every person he's made the image of God, he's

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always said that and should value themselves regardless of

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anything. Those are words of a unifier,

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not a bigot. Have you taken the time to

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listen? So I'll ask you this.

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If the man is on record saying these things, where do these

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labels come from? Well, they come from the media.

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They come from politicians, from influencers like Destiny who

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spent years painting him as a monster.

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And when you dehumanize someone long enough, you make it easier

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for a weak mind to do what happened here to Charlie.

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Show me where Charlie was. Any of these horrible things

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that you call him, you can't do it.

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It doesn't exist. If he disagreed with you on

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trans life, there's some mental illness.

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That's his opinion. Doesn't mean he doesn't care

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about the trans community. He just disagrees.

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Sports and all of those things. There's a difference.

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Let's talk about the cesspool where all this garbage festers

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social media and it's not the platforms themself, it's the

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people on them. You know the type behind some

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anime avatar or profile picture of a fucking dog.

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No name, no face. It's all day long spewing hate,

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trolling, cheering on death like it's a sport.

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These people are weak. They're indoctrinated.

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They're the ones who think actual violence is acceptable

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because they've been conditioned to believe that debate is

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pointless. Instead of making an argument,

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they vomit the most vile things they can think of and they hit

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post. And I'll be honest with you,

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I've talked about it briefly. I've fallen into it myself.

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I've taken the bait before. Rage typing back and forth with

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nobodies give the time of day with in real life.

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And I didn't like who I became. That's what this environment

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does. It drags you down.

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It makes you someone you don't even recognize.

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And I still have to work hard not to fall into that trap.

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And I have to be on social media to do this.

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Meanwhile, those same people toss around words they don't

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understand. Fascism, racism, even Nazis,

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they use them for everything. I already debunked the racist

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claim earlier in one of the video clips.

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I debunked the notion that Charlie doesn't like gay people.

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I've got the receipts. Charlie defended gay people

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against far right critics. He defended them from his own.

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He said every person of every skin color is made in God's

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image. That's not hate, that's unity.

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Here's the irony. No one wants the left.

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No one on the left wants to admit Charlie Kirk never once

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called for violence. Ever.

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I've got the clips. Go look for yourself.

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You won't find it. Meanwhile, the rhetoric aimed at

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him, It was dehumanizing and the rhetoric ended with him losing

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his life. That is the true meaning of

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fascism. By the way, for all of you who

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love to spew words, you don't even know what the meaning of

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silencing someone with violence because you don't like what they

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believe. That is fascism.

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And now social media allows people to celebrate it.

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Tell me how this isn't going to breed more of the same.

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This episode initially wasn't going to be mostly about Charlie

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Kerr. I already did an episode.

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Go back and check it out. But everything that needs to be

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said about free speech applied to this tragedy.

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So it's not just about Charlie. It's about what happens when a

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country pretends that political violence only counts when it

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fits the narrative. Here's something to think about.

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I watched Politicians kneel at George Floyd's funeral crying.

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This was a career criminal. He died of resisting arrest,

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fatal amounts of drugs in his system.

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And whether or not you agree or disagree with methodology of

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police force, which is something to talk about, they still did

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this. They mourn a criminal.

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They wore kente clothes. They bowed their heads, turned

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it into a national moment. They're all over the end zones

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in the NFL, all over the basketball court, everywhere.

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And you know, when Charlie Kirk is assassinated, a man who never

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heard, a family who preached faith and family and unity.

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Silence. Where's AOC?

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Where's Pelosi? Where's Tim Walz?

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I haven't heard anything from any of these people.

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I'll tell you where they are. They're fucking hiding.

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Because condemning Charlie's death would mean admitting the

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rhetoric on their side. Lift the fuse and let's talk

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about the polarization here. Every time violence is excused,

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the divide grows wider. Every time they mock A grieving

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widow, people harden. They get angrier, less willing

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to talk, less willing to care, more willing to walk away from

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institutions altogether. That isn't healing this country.

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That's collapse. Look at the pattern again.

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Antifa riots, looting churches, vandalized pro-life centers,

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firebomb properties, property defaced, all the Teslas that

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were being keyed. That's a track record.

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Tell me what the other side is doing on that same scale.

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Seriously, tell me, give me an example where this is a

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bipartisan concern. The right has flaws.

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Look, nobody's pretending it doesn't.

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I'm not a far right apologist. But political violence like

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this, it's not coming from conservatives.

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That's undeniable. People are fleeing the left

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aligning with the modern liberalism and the woke is they

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see it. But there are still far too many

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who are OK with political violence in 2025.

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The ones who claim to be fighting for freedom and against

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fascism while acting like fascist themselves.

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They need to look in the mirror. You don't have to like what

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someone says, but why can't we just agree on basic humanity

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civility? So how do we fix this?

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Because you can't just shrug and say politics.

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No, a man was assassinated and the reactions exposed a

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concerning truth. There's no middle ground.

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First, the leaders need to call it what it is, political

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violence. Not an unfortunate rhetoric or

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heightened tensions. Violence.

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Condemn it, period. And not just when it's

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convenient for your party. If you can condemn January the

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6th, which is the only example of the right acting out, and

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even that we'll get into that, you better damn well condemn the

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murder of Charlie Kirk. Otherwise you're a hypocrite.

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Second, accountability. Teachers posting celebration

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clips? Gone.

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You're out. Influencers glorifying

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assassination? If they're big enough to have

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any sponsors, that should drop them.

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Horrible celebrities. And then you got the media

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circus. Let's start with AB CS Matt

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Gutman, Roll this. An alleged murder with such

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specific text messages about the alleged murder weapon, where it

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was hidden, how it was placed, what was on it.

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But also it was very touching in a way that I think many of us

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didn't expect. A very intimate portrait into

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this relationship between the suspect's roommate and the

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suspect himself, with him repeatedly calling his roommate

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who who was transitioning, calling him my love and I want

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to protect you, my love. So it was this duality of

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someone who the attorney said not only jeopardized the life of

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Charlie Kirk and the crowd, but was doing it in front of

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children, which is one of the aggravating circumstances of

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this case. And on the other hand, he was,

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you know, speaking so lovingly about his partner.

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So a very interesting and as Pierre said, riveting press.

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Oh hold on, I need another sip of Scotch.

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Touching. Are you fucking kidding me dude?

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Two people talking about an assassination, texting about how

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it went down and ABC and this guy spends it like it's some

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Nicholas Sparks movie. Care if those messages read like

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the most heartwarming ROM com script in history?

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The main character murdered a man in cold blood.

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There's nothing touching about it.

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It's disgusting and this is exactly the problem.

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The media sanitizes the evil when it fits a narrative.

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Sticking with ABC, here's our friend Jimmy Kimmel, who by the

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way, I won't get into it now, but I just found out before this

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recording that he has been cancelled and silenced.

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ABC and Disney have removed him from the air indefinitely.

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Stay tuned for that. This is what happened.

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Literal lies. Literal misinformation.

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Go ahead, guys. We hit some new lows over the

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weekend, with the Maggot gang desperately trying to

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characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as

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anything other than one of them, and what everything they can to

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score political points from it. Here we go.

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There's a problem. Kimmel, late night clown who

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hasn't been funny since the man show, which is the only reason

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he's famous. He gets on TV and lies through

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his teeth. He says the shooter was MAGA.

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No evidence, no receipts. He just tossed it out there

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because it feeds the narrative that his audience wants to hear

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100 of them and people believe it.

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Here is the truth. The shooter was anti MAGA, He

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was in a relationship with a trans man, he had a radical

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college ties. He was literally writing garbage

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on bullet casings. And now still if you pay

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attention to what he's saying during interrogation, he's not

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screaming. Make America Great Again.

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He's paired in the exact same far left talking points we see

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plastered all over social media and from people like Jimmy

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Kimmel. The dehumanizing garbage that

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turns disagreement into justification for violence.

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That is the danger people like Kimmel spin the lies.

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They don't just get it wrong. They don't just come back and

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apologize. They give cover to the violence.

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They create false hate because if you convince the public that

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a guy like Charlie Kirk was killed by one of his own, then

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suddenly it's not the left's rhetoric to blame him anymore,

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but suddenly it's an easy punchline instead of A

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reckoning. And that's what they want, to

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protect the narrative, even if it means lying about a man's

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death. Finally, the public.

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We got off topic ways to fix this.

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The public US. Stop letting the media gaslight

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us into thinking this is normal. It's not.

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Stop letting politicians redefine vocabulary words and

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labels to dodge accountability. Say no.

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Don't let your kids be taught by people who laugh at death.

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People have got to bring back humanity.

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It makes me want to lock down in some sort of apocalyptic bunker

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until it all passes, and that's not good.

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That will do nothing. Charlie Kirk never called for

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violence. Never.

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He called for faith, whether you want to have that or not.

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He called for family. He called for mental health

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resources, for building better communities, for the Second

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Amendment as a safeguard to protect people, not to destroy

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them. Those were his words.

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That was his mission. You do not have to agree with

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any of it, but just move on. Live your life or debate him,

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talk to him, talk to people like him.

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People want you to believe that he was a monster.

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Again, all the terms, well, we went over embraces, sexist,

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fascist, all that. But the receipts say otherwise.

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Please go listen. Yet his killer called him a

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fascist, which is the irony. Fascism isn't a man speaking

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ideas you don't like. True fascism is silencing that

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man with death. And when the mob cheers that

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silence, when teachers, influencers and celebrities

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celebrate it, what you're watching is the collapse of

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morality dressed up as some sort of justice.

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Think about his widow, Erica. His kids.

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Erica is a woman who just lost her husband and who stood up for

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17 minutes and shared his words with millions who loved him.

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That's not weaponizing grief. That's courage.

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That's strength. That's a reminder that even in

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Charlie's death, his mission is bigger than anybody who opposes

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it with violence. So here's where I leave it.

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Free speech is not the enemy. Dangerous rhetoric is, and the

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dangerous rhetoric, it's coming from the same people who scream

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about tolerance while laughing at a man's murder.

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If we let that stand, if we don't call it out for what it

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is, it will continue. And I dread a country that can

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get any darker than it already is.

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At the end of the day, Charlie's murder should be a wake up call,

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not a rallying cry for more hate.

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Not what I'm doing. We all don't have to agree on on

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issues on anything, but we do have to agree that killing

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someone over their beliefs is not OK.

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If we want this country to survive and thrive, we have to

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start talking again. Real conversations, honest

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debates, not mockery and mobs. Because free speech only means

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something if it leads to dialogue, not violence.

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I don't have anything else left for today.

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Just sick over all of it. The things that I've seen.

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I didn't always agree with Charlie, but I understood his

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purpose. I understood his conviction, his

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his mission and I respected him for it.

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I I would have done anything to sit down with him and have a

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conversation. Just go check them out, go

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listen, go learn, and let's be better to each other.

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Love you guys.