{"id":89910,"date":"2025-09-11T07:22:51","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T12:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89910"},"modified":"2025-09-11T07:23:36","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T12:23:36","slug":"charlie-kirk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89910","title":{"rendered":"Charlie Kirk"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Apparently having an open, honest debate with people who disagree with you rates a death sentence.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Even some Democrats realize things have gone too far:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">In a display of unity across the political aisle, the Young Democrats of Connecticut and Connecticut Young Republicans have issued a joint statement offering prayers for Charlie Kirk and condemning political violence: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YpB0WFCmTS\">pic.twitter.com\/YpB0WFCmTS<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Mike Cerulli (@MikeCerulliCT) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MikeCerulliCT\/status\/1965877628881220076?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 10, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As this is written, the shooter is still apparently at large.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But who knew &#8211; when the leaders of a party full of mentally unstable people chant that their opponents are &#8220;Nazis&#8221; and &#8220;Fascists&#8221;, people my grandfathers&#8217; generation spent the best years of their lives killing and trying not to be killed by, that someone in that mass of unstable weirdos would take it seriously?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Enough. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cLR4Ay1oiP\">pic.twitter.com\/cLR4Ay1oiP<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Rhetoric Facer \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@John_Monahan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/John_Monahan\/status\/1965881140629434407?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 10, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And the giggly, tingly, school-girly response by so many Democrats, including prominent ones, to Luigi Mangione should be a bigger warning; their inventory of nutbars who think homicide is OK is nowhere near exhausted. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And no, it&#8217;s not a &#8220;both sides do it&#8221; thing.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"961\" height=\"391\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-89911\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image.png 961w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image-300x122.png 300w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image-768x312.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 961px) 100vw, 961px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The nation needs the same level of commitment to rooting out left wing terrorism today that we put into eradicating the Klan 60 years ago, or the mob in the &#8217;80s.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We won&#8217;t get it, but we&#8217;ll need it.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The one silver lining?\u00a0 The Democrats&#8217; ill-gotten right to throw out &#8220;<em>January 6<\/em>!&#8221; like a badly-trained parrot is forever null and void.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently having an open, honest debate with people who disagree with you rates a death sentence.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89910"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89913,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89910\/revisions\/89913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}