Editor's note ✏️: I write this on my flight to Phoenix to cover Charlie Kirk's funeral.
- I find myself distracted by the sadness of it all.
Programming alert 🚨: I'll see you tonight from outside Turning Point USA HQ.
- 📺Special coverage of Kirk's funeral starts at 1 p.m. ET on Sunday.
✈️ On Sunday, both the president and vice president will fly across the country to eulogize Charlie Kirk.
- ‼️The only time we can find in history a president and vice president speaking at a funeral together was for former presidents – that is the evidence of Kirk's legacy.
- 🕰️We are living in unprecedented times.
🏫 The Right says this is an awakening, and they can finally tear down the liberal stranglehold on America's institutions.
- 🐘 Yes, the political right in America is wielding power unlike they ever have before.
- 🤷🏼♂️ We showed you last night it's not any different than how Democrats did in the past.
🥊 Kirk's death accelerated something he fought for in life — he fought for Republicans to fight. That's why he was killed. Because he was so effective.
⁉️We really don't know yet what Kirk's death means.
🎤 The Left says we are dangerously heading towards fascism — their words, not mine.
- 🏫 And things are different: The institutions that Democrats perpetually owned — media/universities/major corporations are bending.
- 🤷🏼♂️ No wonder they are threatened.
✅The only thing both sides agree on is that this moment is an inflection point — they are probably right about that.
💪🏼 In life, no one fully understood the power of Kirk.
- But his death changed American politics.
- ➗ It fully exposed the division in American politics.
- ⛔️ The bare-knuckle brawling of our culture of war is no longer taboo.
- 🗣️ The celebrations from America's Left make it very hard to take their "warnings" about Trump seriously.
- 🗳️ Today, the House voted on a resolution to honor Kirk and condemn his killing; 58 Democrats voted against it.
- 🛑 They didn't abstain.
- 🗳️ They didn't skip the vote.
- 📩 They voted against it.
- 🎤 They trashed Kirk before he was buried — here is what Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., said:
- "We should be clear about who Charlie Kirk was ... His rhetoric & beliefs were ignorant, uneducated, & sought to disenfranchise millions of Americans."
- 📍Pro tip: When you are trashing a father of two who just got assassinated, you are losing.
- 🎤 But AOC's speech goes to something bigger — a new report from Axios today says she's planning a presidential run.
- Those were her public comments since the report.
📆 That is American politics today, and yes, it's a both-sides thing.
- 💭 The current occupant of the White House calls his political opponents "scum."
- 🚨 Those who want to occupy the White House take to the House floor and demonize a man who just got murdered.
🤷🏼♂️Here is the irony — the person Republicans will come to honor Sunday never engaged in that.
- 🗣️ I covered Kirk for years — and never heard him call anyone or any group a name.
- 💭 He spent his time debating the other side — that's what he was doing when he got killed.
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