For those of you who are oldtimers about American Politics?
Attacks by Republicans against Democrats /Left are just normal….
Donald Trump rode it TWICE to the American Presidency….
This time as a convicted criminal no less….
Using Charlie Kirk is just a excuse…
Check Ted Cruz below…
And Kirk’s actual quotes….
Vance….
Vance called out the “generous tax treatment” that George Soros’s Open Society Foundations and the Ford Foundation receive as he accused the groups of funding a “disgusting article” in the Nation magazine that he said was used to justify Kirk’s death. Neither group appears to have provided money to the Nation in the past five years…
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Vance blamed “an incredibly destructive movement of left-wing extremism” for contributing to the killing, which remains under investigation. The suspect in Kirk’s shooting had a “leftist ideology,” but the motive for the slaying remains unclear, Utah Gov. Spencer Cox (R) said Sunday…
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The White House is compiling a list of “left-wing organizations” that it says are tied to political violence, but it has not yet decided what action to take against those groups, according to a senior White House official who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the developing plans. One option under consideration is trying strip the organizations of their tax-exempt status, the official said. The official cited violence at pro-Gaza protests and the firebombing of Tesla car dealerships as examples of violence that the administration is investigating….
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Miller…
White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller emerged on Monday from the crypt in which he sleeps and vowed vengeance in the wake of MAGA activist Charlie Kirk’s killing this past Wednesday.
During an appearance on the right-wing network Real America’s Voice, Miller said the Trump administration would harness the anger over Kirk’s death to dismantle what he described as a coordinated “terrorist” left.
“So let me explain a bit of what that means,” Miller said. “The organized doxxing campaigns, the organized riots, the organized street violence, the organized campaigns of dehumanization, vilification, posting people’s addresses, combining that with messaging designed to trigger, incite violence in the actual organized cells that carry out and facilitate the violence—it is a vast, domestic terror movement, and with God as my witness, we are going to use every resource we have at the Department of Justice, Homeland Security, and throughout this government to identify, disrupt, dismantle, and destroy these networks and make America safe again for the American people.”
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Ted Cruz…
“The First Amendment absolutely protects speech,” Cruz said Tuesday at POLITICO’s AI & Tech Summit in Washington. “It absolutely protects hate speech. It protects vile speech. It protects horrible speech. What does that mean? It means you cannot be prosecuted for speech, even if it is evil and bigoted and wrong.”
At the same time, Cruz endorsed “naming and shaming” as “part of a functioning and vibrant democracy,” citing English philosopher John Stuart Mill’s famous axiom that free and plentiful expression is the best antidote to undesirable speech.
“We have seen, as you noted, across the country, people on the left — not everybody, but far too many people — celebrating Charlie Kirk’s murder,” Cruz said. “We’ve seen teachers in high schools and elementary schools posting online, celebrating. We’ve seen university professors posting. In my view, they should absolutely face the consequences for celebrating murder.”
The senator lauded Kirk, who he described as a friend, for being willing to engage in civil debate….
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