Posts Made By: Rod Kaufman

You might think she was talking about Davis:

"Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett, while speaking at the University of Notre Dame Friday, addressed Charlie Kirk’s killing and stressed the need to “learn to have disagreements in a civil and collegial way.”

“Too often when I look around the country, political violence is the most grotesque symptom of it, but there are others, too, just in online conversations and the way that people treat those with whom they disagree"

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5501524-amy-coney-barrett-charlie-kirk/

Originally Posted by Richard Davis

So then I guess you don't have the wherewithal to answer my questions, so I'll ask again:


Another interesting thing to note is that When the top Democrat Senator in the United States Federal gov't told Justices Gorsuch and Justice Kavanaugh:

"I want to tell you Gorsuch.  I want to tell you Kavanaugh.  YOU HAVE RELEASED THE WHIRLWIND AND YOU WILL PAY THE PRICE" and that "YOU WON"T KNOW WHAT HIT YOU"!

Then what happened? 

A crazy person went to Justice Kavanaugh's Home with intentions of Killing Justice Kavanaugh and his entire family.

But yet, not 1 Single Leftist Democrat here on this forum or in the US gov't called out Democrat Senator Chuck Schumer for HIS INCITEMENT to violence, that incitement to violence that nearly caused a violent attack on Justice Kavanaugh and his family.

Why is that?  Why didn't any single Democrat here condemn what Chuck Schumer had done. which resulted in a crazy going to his home to murder Justice Kavanaugh and the family of Justice Kavanaugh?

That incitement to violence by Chuck Schumer should have been condemned by Every Politician in this country and yet it was ignored and given a pass by the Leftist Democrat party.

I am curious if any leftist here on this forum wants to call out the Number One Democrat Majority Leader of the US Senate at the time, Chuck Schumer?

Does the resident BM have any commentary on that fact?  Does the resident communist want to comment on Chuck Schumer's incitement to violence towards Justice Kavanaugh AND Justice Gorsuch? 

Chuck Schumer did that right in front of the Capitol or the Steps of the Supreme Court.  I can't remember precisely where he was. 

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2022/06/08/2020_flashback_schumer_tells_kavanaugh_you_have_released_the_whirlwind_and_you_will_pay_the_price.html?mcid=D05107AEC67F456AAD8C1988080C4870

The supporter of the "JD" Trump Putin-commie team wants a response to yet another whataboutism/diversion??

“I should not have used the words I used yesterday. They did not come out the way I intended to,” Schumer said, adding: “I’m from Brooklyn. We use strong language.”

"Schumer said Republicans were “manufacturing outrage” against him, insisting that he was only trying to make a point about Republicans “working hand in glove” with the courts to undermine abortion rights. He said he was only referring to the “political price” Republicans would pay for having voted to confirm Kavanaugh and Gorsuch to the court."

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/05/chuck-schumer-supreme-court-comments-121960

I don't see or hear Trump backtracking on any of the inflammatory rhetoric he routinely uses at anytime. Do you?

Originally Posted by James Lacey

What is there for the right to protest? That the de facto leader of the MAGA-GOP, the POTUS himself, was completely wrong about who the shooter would be? That you were wrong about who the shooter would be? Should they protest that a young white male, from a conservative MAGA family, in a conservative red state, who was raised in gun culture, and steeped in online internet memes and gaming culture, is the shooter? Where exactly is the injustice that is even comparable to what was done to George Floyd, and the history of racism in the US? Yes, Kirk was shot and killed, but not by some "psychotic leftist democrat." As far as we know, the shooter acted alone, and there is no broader conspiracy or systemic issue to protest. Holy Cow! You are the absolute king of what-about-ery, distractions, moving the goal posts, and strawmen. Anything to avoid admitting you were wrong; what an intellectual coward you once again prove yourself to be. How about this? How about the right quits claiming they are being persecuted, and quits trying to turn Kirk into some martyr, and instead admits the facts as we know them today simply don't fit their narrative.

Well stated and consistent with the following video and well worth the view:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bw7Q0aczA2Q

Originally Posted by James Lacey

Not to mention, we already know what Democrats would do if a similar event happened, since it just happened in June of this year when Melissa Hortman, a State senator of Michigan, and her husband were shot and killed by a right-wing Trump supporter. Not to mention the other State senator and his wife, who were wounded in the same crime spree. When this happened, Democrats called for gun reform, and of course, right-wingers made fun of the murders. Trump himself said acknowledging the act or calling anyone to offer condolences would be a waste of time, and he skipped the funeral. And no one on the left called for the Republican Party to be labelled a terrorist organization, or that they should use the full force of the Federal Government to punish institutions and individuals falsely accused of being complicit or enablers. We don't have to imagine what the Democrats would do if a similar event happened because it just happened, and Rich is so cocooned in his echo chamber that he doesn't even know about it. Meanwhile, Trump and Republicans are acting like Charlie Kirk is some national hero, and ordering flags to be flown at half mast, awarding him the medal of freedom posthumously, and flying Kirk's body on Air Force 2 to AZ. It's actually kind of nauseating to see how much the right is politicizing Kirk's death for their political gain.

Although I respect Utah governor Cox for urging relative calm in the aftermath, we now get this from him:

“It’s very clear to us and to the investigators that this was a person who was deeply indoctrinated with leftist ideology,” Cox told The Wall Street Journal in an article published Saturday morning."

"Cox said at a Friday morning press conference that a family member of Robinson told investigators that the suspect “had become more political in recent years.”

“They talked about why they didn’t like him and the viewpoints that he had,” Cox said Friday morning. “The family member also stated Kirk was full of hate and spreading hate.”

"Robinson is registered as an unaffiliated voter in Utah."

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5502176-kirk-murder-suspect-leftist-cox-report/

How does that equate to being "deeply indoctrinated with leftist ideology"?

Originally Posted by Richard Davis

Rod Kaufman our resident communist did just yesterday.

As usual, our resident liar is lying again, on both accounts. I stated Trump's shooter was a republican, not the one who shot Kirk.

Originally Posted by James Lacey

Tyler Robinson being registered as unaffiliated is old news at this point. No one ever claimed he was registered as a Republican.

Disclaimer for when Rich comes back years later to claim I was lying: All of the following is subject to revision as the investigation into Tyler Robinson progresses. But as of right now, we don't know definitively that Lance Twiggs is transgender, or that he was Tyler's roommate at the time of the shooting.

As of right now, no "authorities" have confirmed that Lance Twiggs is transgender. It could be that we will eventually find out that Lance Twiggs is transgender, but as of right now, that is far from certain based on current reporting. Everything I've seen so far is from the likes of the NY Post and right-biased sources like i24. I couldn't find any mainstream reporting making these claims. Given what we currently know, the claim that Lance Twiggs is transgender is based on unverified reporting and anonymous or secondary sources. It could be that this rumor is factual, but it's far from confirmed at this point. Honestly, it's not even clear they were roommates at the time of the shooting. I've seen reports that they were roommates during the only semester Tyler attended college at Utah State.

I saw the story on Faux and it was apparently picked up by other right wing tablet-like sites. Like you, I haven't seen it at this point being reported elsewhere on MSM, so I'll wait for confirmation before  accepting it as factual.

Originally Posted by James Lacey

If other MSM are not reporting it widely, it usually means their fact-checkers and editors cannot confirm it independently; it doesn't mean it's not true, simply that it's still unclear.

Trump, taking questions today from reporters while on a tarmac, called the left "scum" and "agitators", so it really doesn't seem to matter to him what motivated the shooter. That'll ratchet things down a notch or two, don't ya think? Can you imagine the righteous outrage if Biden had said the same about the right under similar circumstances?

Originally Posted by Rod Kaufman

Trump, taking questions today from reporters while on a tarmac, called the left "scum" and "agitators", so it really doesn't seem to matter to him what motivated the shooter. That'll ratchet things down a notch or two, don't ya think? Can you imagine the righteous outrage if Biden had said the same about the right under similar circumstances?

"Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) late Sunday criticized President Trump’s use of the word “scum” in his latest remarks criticizing left-wing groups and pushed back on the suggestion that political violence is a problem plaguing only one side."

“No one party is immune from political violence,” Shapiro wrote in a post on the social platform X. “My family and I can attest to that.”

“Using the rhetoric of rage and calling some of our fellow Americans ‘scum’ — no matter how profound our differences — only creates more division and makes it harder to heal,” he added."

"Shapiro, a moderate Democrat, was targeted in an alleged assassination attempt earlier this year, when his home was set on fire as his family slept inside."

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5503503-trump-shapiro-political-violence/

"Trump fueled more concern last week after the chilling assassination of one of his biggest supporters, the college-crowd influencer Charlie Kirk."

"Before any suspect had been arrested, Trump blamed the “radical left.” Later he added, “We have radical left lunatics out there and we just have to beat the hell out of them.” He made no comment on findings that two-thirds of political violence comes from the right-wing, according to a study by the Anti-Defamation League. Instead, he called for cracking down on his political critics by blaming them for all violence."

"Trump has a record of damning his political rivals as “horrible people.” He said President Joe Biden ran a “Gestapo administration.” He accused President Barack Obama of “treason.” He called for a protester at one of his 2016 rallies to be “carried out on a stretcher, folks.”

https://thehill.com/opinion/columnists/juan-williams/5501792-dont-let-trump-pretend-he-doesnt-traffic-in-violent-rhetoric/

“I’m sick of Trump and JD and their love affair with everything Putin,”

"The Republican lawmaker said Russia’s massive drone and missile attack against Ukraine last week, the biggest aerial barrage of the three-and-a-half-year war, was a major provocation and a clear sign that Putin doesn’t fear serious repercussions from Washington."

“They’re just testing how far we’ll bend over. It makes me sick,” the lawmaker said.

"A second Republican senator who requested anonymity observed that Trump has occasionally talked tough about Russia but has failed to “follow through” with action."


https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5504778-trump-russia-sanctions-gop-frustration/

Nice views all around! (any UFOs?!)