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Jane B's avatar

in a 'nutshell':The only thing sacred here is the grift. The only thing holy is the purge. And the only thing growing is the list of Americans marked as enemies because they refused to cry on command. This isn’t about honor. This isn’t about respect. This is about power — stupid, brutal, authoritarian power clawing for control under the guise of grief.

agree. sad to say this is very well said. on point. existentially ludicrous. thank you.

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BrunaCarchedi's avatar

I read this while having my coffee this morning and I am truly appalled. I didn’t think things could get worse. But here it is. God help us!

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James Bush's avatar

Every week it gets worse . And only we the People can save America.

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Seamus Onyou's avatar

How exactly do We do that? The democratic process isn't working especially when it's been hijacked by these lunatics. Violence only begets violence but I feel like the left is completely backed against the wall and has to go into major self-defense mode. Our existence literally depends on it.

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Maggie Bennett's avatar

These opportunistic grifters, sheisters, liars, fake Christians, criminal and felon protectors and defenders, deflecting their crimes of fomenting hate and worse - onto others and spitting out more vile bullshit - need to be removed asap. Get the money out of politics. Just get their freaking stolen money outta here! Money money money MONEY!!

In my humble opine, it is not simply politically opposing views. It’s HUMANITY and HUMAN issues. My RIGHT to be respected as a woman. My 8 years of service as a Sergeant in the Marines to not be erased by the likes of a draft dodger and a war monger, both cheaters and abusers of women. I am on the edge of seventy (cue Stevie Nicks; you know the song. Sorry; couldn’t help myself. It works.). At issue are HUMAN rights and lifestyles and this crap affects so many different people PERSONALLY. I AM NOT GONNA SIT DOWN OR SHUT UP OR BE ERASED!!! They do not get to shove their warped nastiness down my throat!!! STAND WITH ME!!

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Cheri Russell's avatar

Proudly and gladly! C. Russell

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Leslie Teal's avatar

You nailed this “A couple of months ago, Laura Loomer was shrieking into her phone that Charlie Kirk had stabbed Donald Trump in the back. MAGA’s attack dog had him marked as a traitor, an apostate, another soft-boy conservative who wasn’t vicious enough for the blood cult. Then Kirk gets shot, and suddenly Laura is draped in black, clutching pearls, wailing like a widow at a mob funeral”

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AG's avatar

She wants to replace him. They just keep eating each other to get to the top of the cult.

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RTEFNOW's avatar

Yeah she feared his voice

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Sherry A Kaufman's avatar

Everyday there are reasons to wonder when this craziness will end. The Closer To The Edge is a beacon in our darker times bringing the information necessary not to succumb to the lies and the dismantling of our society. It will take a majority in Congress to stop this madness. And the remaining majority to not buy into this insanity. Carry on…

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Noreen Jameson's avatar

I am, at this point, truly out of words…

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Susan Kacvinsky's avatar

Who would have thought that Roy Cohn's protege would lead us through another round of mccarthyism?

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Merry's avatar

The writing was on the wall

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LeeAnn's avatar

It seems to me that what you've described means we now live in russia, doesn't it? They're happily projecting their violence and violent wishes onto mostly innocent Americans. Or something very very close to it. We're there. Nothing is going to stop this freight train. We can't. Congress won't bc they're cowards-every single one. And they are fucking clueless and they don't care what happens to us all.

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RTEFNOW's avatar

Yes that is the plan the oligarchs want control of the state so they never pay taxes again.

Only we will

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RTEFNOW's avatar

Also they want that social security trust fund bad!!!!

They plan to “invest it” in their overpriced market they will try to say it is the only way to save it.

Its why stocks are so high they want huge returns to be the norm right before they do this so we go along with their broken logic

“Well i made 10% this year thats way better than what the government gets on my money so ok let’s do it.”

🤯🤮

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Doug miller's avatar

Please someone with the ability; Keep posting, running the news brief of Trump blaming the radical left loonitics for Kirks murder!!!

Don't forget the Epstein files!!!

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!!!

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AG's avatar

The hate seething from Hegeseth’s pie hole is palpable.

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RTEFNOW's avatar

In his every face he makes he is seething

Lol

did you see boy blunder at the restaurant in D.C in his little metrosexual suit?

If his face wasn’t seething with hate and anger and his brain stem wasn’t screaming Kill Kill Kill

he might have looked kinda stylish.

What a psycho.

God help us all

and our military that will be used even more despicably very soon.

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AG's avatar

Hate+power=EVIL

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Merry's avatar

And DANGER

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Cheri Russell's avatar

Lunatic!

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Darrell Lucus's avatar

I believe people rejoicing in murder should be held to account. But this has the feel of how North Koreans were punished for not “properly” mourning Kim Jong-il.

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Angie's avatar

Ok then. Held to account in what way exactly? You are advocating for this very thing but then saying that you're not. Please explain.

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Darrell Lucus's avatar

They’re going nuclear over stuff that isn’t clear cut.

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Susan Cooper's avatar

Excellent post! For a list of quotes belying Kirk's racism, xenophobia, misogyny and more, see Zeteo's "Charlie Kirk in His Own Words--17 quotes you should read from the right-wing activist and Trump ally who was tragically shot and killed on Wednesday in Utah" here: https://zeteo.com/p/charlie-kirk-in-his-own-words?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=2325511&post_id=173452031&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=2416fu&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

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Kelly Berger's avatar

This is useful. Thanks

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Bren M's avatar

The only thing sacred is the grift to the grifters. The griftees don’t even realize there is a grift, which no doubt is why the grift continues. Wake up, America, before there’s nothing left to grift.

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Rachell's avatar

Political machination on the Machiavellian level doesn’t change the fact that the death of some individuals is cause for relief. No one but psychopaths advocates shooting anybody. But It’s not a lack of humanity to feel comfort, satisfaction even, when the universe appears to set things right. When someone lives and harms by the sword and dies by the same sword there’s a cathartic sense of cosmic justice. I’m not going to reject it. It’s often all we get. MAGA isn’t mourning. They’re feeling cheated, and they’re perverting that (as they pervert everything around them) into and excuse to blame their enemies. I’m with you; fuck ‘em.

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Merry's avatar

Well, according to CK own words, he certainly didn’t die in vain. Afterall, he did say this -

“In a 2023 speech, Charlie Kirk stated, "I think it's worth it to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights". During the same address, he referred to this trade-off as a "prudent deal" and "rational".

Which begs the obvious question - Are all those who support unrestricted access to firearms now celebrating the death of CK as “rational” and a “prudent deal” to protect their “God-given rights”?

Or does that notion only apply to others, but not to themselves or their own?

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Kelly Berger's avatar

Amen to this summary

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Sue Laue's avatar

Well I'm 80 and can't be fired. My neighbors all know I'm a leftie radical, so all that's left is doxxing, and I'm mostly deaf so won't hear the yelling. But the Dobermans might not like it.

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Yvonne McCarthy's avatar

Vladimir is sitting back with 🍿 and smiling as he watches the USA implode. Won't be long now. The stench of fear and destruction is getting pretty strong in DC.

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