Quick thought 💭: I'm writing "War Notes" today angry — sorry. - Charlie Kirk was a good man, loving father and unlike many political activists would engage in honest (also lively) debates with anyone.
- 🚨 Kirk's assassination today was both preventable and predictable — many (including me) said that someone was going to die because of the rhetoric coming from the Left.
- Don't believe me?
- 🎤 Just yesterday, Senator Chris Murphy, D-Conn., said, "We're in a war right now to save this country. And so you have to be willing to do whatever is necessary in order to save the country."
- That is a United States senator.
- 🚨Is the Charlie Kirk assassination Senator Murphy's fault? No.
- BUT: When you tell people they must save the republic, it should come as no surprise when someone (or someones) take you up on it.
- And today, Democrats could be heard shouting on the House floor, "No" when Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., requested a moment of prayer. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., shouted back, "Y'all caused this."
🚨 Reasonable Americans can agree our country faces many problems, but this week has given us horrible reminders of two major ones. - 🚔 Rampant indiscriminate violence on the streets of America's cities.
- 🚔 Politically motivated violence — almost exclusively (right now) from the Left.
📝 Gavin Newsom's response to the Charlie Kirk assassination summed up the political reality in America. - He writes, "The attack on Charlie Kirk is disgusting, vile, and reprehensible. In the United States of America, we must reject political violence in EVERY form."
- Rejecting political violence in every form explicitly says it's coming from all sides — it's not.
- Political violence over the past 18 months has almost exclusively come from the Left.
📝 Former Vice President Kamala Harris and former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg echoed the same message. - Harris wrote on X, "I am deeply disturbed by the shooting in Utah. Doug and I send our prayers to Charlie Kirk and his family. Let me be clear: Political violence has no place in America. I condemn this act, and we all must work together to ensure this does not lead to more violence."
- Buttigieg wrote, "Horrific to hear that Charlie Kirk was shot today in Utah. Political violence must be always and totally rejected. Praying for him and all who may have been injured or impacted."
🎤 Then there is Illinois Governor and likely 2028 Democratic hopeful JB Pritzker, blaming the president's rhetoric and Jan. 6 rioters. - "But I will say that political violence unfortunately has been ratcheting up in this country. We saw the shootings, the killings in Minnesota. We've seen other political violence occur in other states. And I would just say it's got to stop. And I think there are people who are fomenting it in this country. I think the President's rhetoric often foments it. We've seen the January 6th rioters who clearly have tripped a new era of political violence."
- And this guy wants to be president? He is going to bring us together?
Standard 💭: In 2020, you were told you couldn't say "all lives matter" — moral clarity was required. - Well — moral clarity is required now.
- Fair question ⚖️: Who will be the first Democrat to say their side is the one with a significant problem?
- Who will be the first on the Left to call their own people out for saying things like, "Trump is akin to Hitler" and "ICE agents are the modern-day Gestapo."
- 📺 After the shooting, MSNBC's Katy Tur said, "You can imagine the administration using this as a justification for something."
- Now is the time for leadership – who is the first Democrat to not "both sides" political violence and rhetoric.
Influence ‼️: It's impossible to overstate Kirk's influence. - While not an elected leader, his prominence in the modern conservative moment is akin to all but a few of the Founding Fathers in the American Revolution.
- Not quite Martin Luther King Jr. to the Civil Rights Movement but certainly similar.
- 🤝 He was a personal friend of the president and numerous Republican senators.
- 🗓️ In the past 10 years, he singlehandedly built the most influential student and youth political organization in the country, Turning Point USA.
Programming alert 📺: We'll have lots more for you tonight on a special edition of "On Balance" from 9 to 11 p.m. ET. |
Wowzer 😳: Reading former Vice President Kamala Harris' book excerpt makes me terrified that someone so delusional (among other things) got so close to the presidency. - Most telling 📖: She writes, "When polls indicated that I was getting more popular, the people around him didn't like the contrast that was emerging."
- Reality check ✅: Harris didn't make it to Iowa in 2020 because she is a terrible candidate.
- Sad: She clearly still surrounds herself with people who don't tell her the truth and have little understanding of the American electorate.
- Race: The excerpt in The Atlantic opens with a scene of her talking to Black women where she professes, "Throughout my career I've maintained that people in positions of power must be required to ask of themselves: Who am I not hearing from? Then make it their business to seek those folks out."
- Blinded 👀: She goes on to say, with that in mind, she sought out Black women to hear from — how blinded by race and identity politics can one get?
- Woof 🐶: A good source tells me the Congressional Black Caucus won't endorse Harris outright if she runs for president in 2028 – that says everything you need to know.
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