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🚨NEW: Bill Maher *TORCHES* left's reaction to Charlie Kirk Assassination🚨
— Jason Cohen 🇺🇸 (@JasonJournoDC) September 15, 2025
"If you're on the other side of the political divide and you don't care because the wrong team guy got shot, f*ck you! You're what's wrong with this country."@DailyCaller pic.twitter.com/wWFvOf8ESS
Ed: Lots of great Maher quotes are circulating from the last few days. I'm not surprised to see Maher on the correct side of this, both morally and philosophically, but I doubt his arguments will carry much weight with the Left these days. Unfortunately. And for that, I give him even more credit for at least TRYING to restore reason with progressives.
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Jonathan Turley: Charlie was brave, and he was brash. He refused to yield to the threats while encouraging others to speak out on our campuses.
He was particularly hated for holding a mirror to the face of higher education, exposing the hate and hypocrisy on our campuses. For decades, faculty have purged their ranks of conservatives and libertarians. Faced with the intolerance of most schools, polls show that a large percentage of students hide their values to avoid retaliation from faculty or their fellow students.
Charlie chose to change all that. TPUSA challenges people to engage and debate them. The response from some on the left has been to trash their tables and threaten the students. Recently, at UC Davis, police stood by and watched as a TPUSA tent was torn apart.
Charlie is only the latest such victim, and he is unlikely to be the last.
Ed: Well, this certainly could be a turning point, a phrase I use in his honor. Maybe the madness is becoming too obvious to ignore or set aside with his brutal murder and rational minds will prevail in politics. I am not terribly optimistic about that, though, and apparently neither is Professor Turley.
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Bill Maher: “[Charlie Kirk] was shot under a banner that said ‘Prove Me Wrong.’… To many people, the way to do that… is to just eliminate you from talking altogether. So the people that mocked his death or justified it — I think you’re gross. I have no use for you.”
— RedWave Press (@RedWave_Press) September 13, 2025
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Ben Shapiro: “Whatever you thought of Charlie’s views is irrelevant… He was literally in the middle of answering a question — picked up the microphone and was shot in the throat. We do have a serious problem in this country with people that believe violence is the proper response to speech… We’ve come to some place incredibly dark in our nation’s history. I weep for the country and I weep for Charlie. It’s horrific!”
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The Spun: Mickelson responded to a video of a college society leader suggesting that the right is a "cancer" that must be taken care of.
"The assassination of Charlie Kirk is bringing out some of the best in humanity and it’s also exposing some of the worst. The unification, love, support, and outcry on his behalf throughout the world is heartwarming. The number of people supporting Tyler Robinson’s appalling behavior has opened my eyes to a side of extremism with a moral superiority complex that has also shaken my belief in people in general. I hope they are held accountable for their disgusting rhetoric," he wrote on X.
Ed: Good for Mickelson. And for that matter, kudos to the NFL athletes that spoke out this weekend against political violence, including Lamar Jackson of the Ravens.
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Don’t know if people who live outside of LA can know how significant this is. https://t.co/p5d2JUXJE4
— Justine Bateman (@JustineBateman) September 15, 2025
Ed: Beverly Hills? Wow. That's amazing -- that used to be a fairly significant epicenter of what we called limousine liberalism. One rally may not show a complete 180, but the conservatives are making their presence known for the first time in a long while there.
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Power Line: What violence are they talking about? Out of that immense crowd, a tiny number scuffled with police and a number of policemen reported injuries. A few were reported to be serious.
This is what Starmer said:
But we will not stand for assaults on police officers doing their job or for people feeling intimidated on our streets because of their background or the colour of their skin. Britain is a nation proudly built on tolerance, diversity and respect. Our flag represents our diverse country and we will never surrender it to those that use it as a symbol of violence, fear and division.
Of course, the protesters weren’t using the flag as a “symbol of violence, fear and division.” They were using it as a symbol of patriotism and freedom. Liberals always accuse conservatives of promoting “division” when they express ideas that are not liberal, especially when those ideas enjoy broad support.
Ed: Starmer is a Quisling, and I mean that in its historical sense. Vidkun Quisling enabled the Nazi occupation of Norway in World War II, handing his country over to forces that opposed everything his country meant and represented. Starmer and the rest of the progressive establishment in the UK have abandoned British classical liberalism to pander to mobs, a good portion of them immigrants, while abandoning the British to crime and intimidation.
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REPORTER: With all of the left-wing violence going on and Charlie Kirk's assassination, do you plan on designating Antifa a domestic terror organization?
— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) September 15, 2025
TRUMP: "I would do that 100%." pic.twitter.com/8GyUHnjPd8
Ed: I'm surprised that it's not done yet. Antifa is very clearly a domestic terror organization and has been for several years. The previous administration had no compunction about declaring pro-life activists, parents opposed to woke policies at school board meetings, and traditional Catholics as potential domestic terrorists. Time to enforce the law properly.
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NY Post: A New Jersey surgeon who allegedly “cheered” Charlie Kirk’s murder while at work has resigned — and the nurse suspended for calling him out has been reinstated, their hospital said Monday.
Dr. Matthew Jung of Englewood Health quit following Wednesday’s troubling incident — which went down moments after the news of Kirk’s tragic assassination.
“We have accepted the physician’s resignation,” a representative from Englewood Health told The Post.
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Sweet Hannah would have been raped, murdered, her body desecrated, all filmed and uploaded to FB for the @TheEmmys to see, if she had attended the Nova Concert in Israel. https://t.co/JF0j0X7a0Q
— John Ondrasik (@johnondrasik) September 15, 2025
Ed: These are the same people who won't work with Jews, right? Who signed a boycott pledge targeting Israeli filmmakers, when in fact the Israeli filmmaking community is pretty much as politically progressive as Hollywood is? They're midwits at best.
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Suzy Weiss in The Free Press: “I thought it was important to talk about Palestine because it’s an issue that’s very dear to my heart,” she said, her co-star Jean Smart by her side. “I feel like it is my obligation as a Jewish person to distinguish Jews from the state of Israel, because our religion and our culture is such an important and long-standing. . . institution that is really separate to this sort of ethno-nationalist state.”
And just like that: peace in the Middle East.
Not a single word was uttered during the awards ceremony about the assassination, days before, of Charlie Kirk, arguably the most high-profile killing of a political figure since the ’60s in this country. You know, the one where the Emmys take place, and where its nominees presumably live. What happened to Kirk, in the minds of the actors at the Emmys, was perhaps something that happened online, to someone uncool and on the wrong side of history. Kirk does not exist in their glittering snow globe. But, curiously, Israel looms very large in it.
Ed: Midwits may actually overstate their intelligence.
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🚨BREAKING: We’re filing a resolution to strip @Ilhan of her committee assignments after her disgraceful remarks on Charlie Kirk’s assassination. pic.twitter.com/unGWzbOV5T
— Rep. Nancy Mace (@RepNancyMace) September 15, 2025
Ed: Omar is a repellent figure anyway, but she's spent the last few days outdoing herself. She has apparently reposted X tweets that called Kirk a "stochastic terrorist," and that people who are outraged and mourning over his death are just exploiting the assassination to "further their Christofascist agenda." She should have been expelled permanently over her anti-Semitic statements in her first term, and probably should be now for this crap, but ... I doubt they'll even strip her of her committee assignments in this session, as much as she deserves it.
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🚨 JD VANCE just WENT OFF on people who are calling for "UNITY" with radical leftists
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) September 15, 2025
"There is NO UNITY with people who scream at children over their parents' politics.
There is NO UNITY with someone who LIES about what Charlie Kirk said in order to excuse his murder.
There… pic.twitter.com/iDq3cKJQcO
... There is NO UNITY with someone who LIES about what Charlie Kirk said in order to excuse his murder. There is NO UNITY with someone who HARASSES an innocent family the day after the father of that family lost a dear friend. There is NO UNITY with the people who celebrate Charlie Kirk's assassination."
Ed: Kudos to the Vice President, who filled in for Charlie today on the radio. He will be at the memorial service this weekend as well.
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Ed: Also, via John Ondrasik as well … the real final word from Greg Gutfeld. You’re welcome.
I'm not sure there is a more important voice for moderate/conservative America than @greggutfeld. https://t.co/LTo0pVgDXr
— John Ondrasik (@johnondrasik) September 16, 2025
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