Axios, Too: 'MAGA Siege Mentality'
Posted By: Dreadnought, 9/12/2025 12:58:46 AM
Well, Axios thinks MAGA is overreacting to the constant stream of threats and political attacks we have been subjected to. Because, of course, they do. That is the conventional wisdom in the legacy media and among All the Right People™. Everybody knows that Republicans commit all the political violence in this country. Siege mentality. I wonder why. Perhaps I can suggest a few reasons. Really, if you think about it, Republicans deserve to be the target of so much hate. If only we would agree with the left everything would be fine. Charlie Kirk's assassination has unleashed an outpouring of rage across the MAGA universe, with many leaders framing
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NEW YORK — President Donald Trump attended the New York Yankees 9-3 victory over the Detroit Tigers on Thursday night, drawing a mixed reaction from a raucous crowd while marking the 24th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.
Authorities installed security glass for the president outside the upper level box suite belonging to the Steinbrenner family, which owns the Yankees, on the third base side over the Tigers dugout at Yankee Stadium.
Wearing a suit and tie, Trump sat next to Yankees team president Randy Levine and chatted with him throughout the game, though he sat by himself at other times. During the national anthem
Axios, Too: 'MAGA Siege Mentality'
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Well, Axios thinks MAGA is overreacting to the constant stream of threats and political attacks we have been subjected to.
Because, of course, they do. That is the conventional wisdom in the legacy media and among All the Right People™. Everybody knows that Republicans commit all the political violence in this country. Siege mentality. I wonder why. Perhaps I can suggest a few reasons. Really, if you think about it, Republicans deserve to be the target of so much hate. If only we would agree with the left everything would be fine. Charlie Kirk's assassination has unleashed an outpouring of rage across the MAGA universe, with many leaders framing
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The question of whether or not Medicaid funding could be cut off from Planned Parenthood had already been settled by the Supreme Court in June in a 6-3 decision involving South Carolina. Nevertheless, when the BBB passed, Planned Parenthood immediately sued in Boston and within hours Judge Indira Talwani
Man Who Was Questioning Charlie Kirk As
Fatal Shot Rang Out Speaks—'It's Hard
to Grapple With' 3 replies
Fatal Shot Rang Out Speaks—'It's Hard
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We’ve heard that Charlie Kirk was fielding a question from someone when he was brutally murdered on Wednesday by an assassin at an event at Utah Valley University.
But amid our shock and horror, we’ve naturally focused on Kirk, his grieving family, the shooter, and the pain that this tragedy has inflicted on our country.
But who was the person talking to Charlie at that awful moment? His name is Hunter Kozak, and like Kirk, he is the father of two. Despite his vehement disagreements with Kirk’s philosophy, he was nevertheless horrified by his senseless killing:
WASHINGTON — Following Charlie Kirk’s assassination, President Donald Trump may be uniquely positioned to tamp down the anger that suffuses American politics and lead a movement to bind up a bitterly divided country if he chooses.
But, political strategists and officials from both parties told NBC News, that’s not the path Trump appears to be taking.
Trump has been both a target of assassination attempts and a fount of vitriolic rhetoric. He knows firsthand the passions that drive American voters and, were he to renounce partisan attacks and call on others in both parties to do the same, that gesture could potentially send a healing message.
President Donald Trump said that investigators are “making big progress” in the hunt for the person who fatally shot conservative activist Charlie Kirk at a Utah event on Wednesday.
“I hear they’re making big progress, and we’ll have to see what happens,” Trump told reporters before boarding Marine One en route to New York. He added that the shooter was “an animal” who would be “dealt with very appropriately.” When asked about a possible motive, Trump said, “I have an indication, yeah, but we’ll let you know about that later.”
The president also confirmed he plans to attend Kirk’s funeral in Arizona in the coming days.
Trump says he had ‘long talk’ with
Charlie Kirk’s ‘absolutely devastated’
widow Erika Frantzve 3 replies
Charlie Kirk’s ‘absolutely devastated’
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President Trump said Thursday that Charlie Kirk’s widow is “devastated” after her husband was savagely gunned down by a lone shooter during a speaking event in Utah Wednesday afternoon.
Trump told reporters outside the White House that he had spoken at length with Erika Frantzve, the 31-year-old conservative activist’s wife and mother of his two young children.
“I spoke to Erika, his wife. And we had a long talk,” the commander in chief said. “And she’s devastated. She is absolutely devastated, as you can imagine.”
President Donald Trump on Thursday voiced concern for the country in the wake of the killing of conservative activist Charlie Cook, and said he wanted his supporters to respond with "nonviolence."
Trump was asked if he's worried for his own safety in the wake of Wednesday's fatal shooting of Kirk as he left the White House for New York on Thursday afternoon.
"Not really," the president responded. "I'm really concerned for out country. We have a great country. We have a radical left group of lunatics out there, just absolute lunatics, and we're going to get that problem solved. I'm only concerned for the country."
The suspect in Charlie Kirk’s assassination appears to be college-aged and used a high-powered bolt-action rifle to commit the harrowing murder, authorities revealed at a news conference Thursday morning.
Law enforcement recovered the weapon in a wooded area and obtained foot prints and palm prints from the suspect, who remains at large. The individual blended in well on the UVU campus given his apparent age.
“We have recovered what we believed is the weapon used in yesterday’s shooting. It is a high powered bolt action rifle.
Minutes after the news broke that conservative influencer and Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk was fatally shot at Utah Valley University, ABC News broke in and seemingly suggested he had it coming for his “controversial” views and for going to a campus that didn’t want him there. “ABC news has confirmed conservative activists and podcaster Charlie Kirk has been shot during an event at Utah Valley University,” announced correspondent Kyra Phillips. “The founder of Turning Point USA, a conservative student organization, is known for his outspoken views on politics, culture, religion, often taking his messages to colleges and universities,
Several actors and celebrities across the political spectrum condemned the assassination of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk on Wednesday with no equivocations.
Arnold Schwarzenegger (The Terminator), a staunch critic of President Trump, called Kirk’s assassination a “horrible tragedy” and pleaded with Americans to find their better angels.
“My heart is with Charlie Kirk’s family, and with the United States. Politics has become a disease in this country, and it’s deadly. But don’t listen to the pessimists who say there is no cure. There is a cure. It is inside of us. We must find our better angels and walk back from the extremes.
Charlie Kirk’s assassination will change American politics forever by prompting a long-overdue crackdown on the radical left.
Had this horrific event taken place under a Democratic administration, we would expect that attention would focus on gun control.
Because it has taken place under a Republican administration that has already taken aim at the bastions of the institutional left, we can expect a dramatic law enforcement response.
Gone are the days when then-FBI Director Christopher Wray would waffle
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Ammunition cartridges recovered along with the bolt-action rifle used in the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk were scrawled with transgender and anti-fascist messages, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.
The rifle was recovered Wednesday night in a wooded area where the FBI believes the killer fled after the shooting.
It was wrapped in a towel and had three unused ammo cartridges still in the chamber. Each was “engraved with expressions of transgender and antifascist ideology,” the Journal reported…
WASHINGTON — Following Charlie Kirk’s assassination, President Donald Trump may be uniquely positioned to tamp down the anger that suffuses American politics and lead a movement to bind up a bitterly divided country if he chooses.
But, political strategists and officials from both parties told NBC News, that’s not the path Trump appears to be taking.
Trump has been both a target of assassination attempts and a fount of vitriolic rhetoric. He knows firsthand the passions that drive American voters and, were he to renounce partisan attacks and call on others in both parties to do the same, that gesture could potentially send a healing message.
The FBI is facing questions over an airport that was left open after Charlie Kirk was assassinated, with speculation brewing over a jet that could be linked to his murder.
(snip)Speculation on social media has pointed to a private jet that left the airport shortly after the single shot that killed the conservative activist rang out.
Flight tracking data shows the jet left the airport shortly after 2pm and headed south towards the Arizona border before it disappeared from radars.
It then reappeared on radars and returned to Provo roughly one hour after leaving the airport.
TMZ forced to apologize for raucous laughter
in newsroom as Charlie Kirk’s death
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in newsroom as Charlie Kirk’s death
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TMZ scrambled to save face after staffers were heard erupting into laughter the moment Charlie Kirk’s death was confirmed during its livestream.
A clip of the celebrity gossip outlet’s livestream sparked outrage on social media after newsroom staffers cheered and clapped in the background as reporters on camera covered the assassination.
Seconds later, Levin is told by staff members around him that President Trump said that Kirk had died after the shooting at Utah Valley University.
Rep. Ilhan Omar added another mark to her record as one of the most hateful, depraved members of Congress on Thursday. While speaking to pro-Hamas journalist Mehdi Hasan, the Minnesota congresswoman mocked Charlie Kirk and appeared to offer justification for his assassination.
Kirk was murdered while speaking on the campus of Utah Valley State on Wednesday, (Snip) Further exposing her lack of common decency and humanity, Omar cast that aside and instead joined with Hasan to essentially argue that Kirk deserved what he got because of his "words and actions."
A Secret Service Agent, in a Facebook post, said Charlie Kirk deserved to be assassinated.
TPUSA founder Charlie Kirk, 31, was brutally murdered in broad daylight on Wednesday during an event at Utah Valley University. A gunman climbed up onto a roof and shot Charlie Kirk from an elevated position.
Secret Service Agent Anthony Pough said Charlie Kirk, a Christian husband and father to two young children, deserved to be murdered in cold blood.
“If you are Mourning this guy… delete me. He spewed hate and racism on his show,” Anthony Pough wrote.
Minutes after the news broke that conservative influencer and Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk was fatally shot at Utah Valley University, ABC News broke in and seemingly suggested he had it coming for his “controversial” views and for going to a campus that didn’t want him there. “ABC news has confirmed conservative activists and podcaster Charlie Kirk has been shot during an event at Utah Valley University,” announced correspondent Kyra Phillips. “The founder of Turning Point USA, a conservative student organization, is known for his outspoken views on politics, culture, religion, often taking his messages to colleges and universities,
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (WSMV) - An employee at Middle Tennessee State University was fired on Wednesday for comments she posted online regarding Charlie Kirk’s death. Laura Sosh-Lightsy, the now former Assistant Dean at MTSU, shared her thoughts on Kirk’s death online.
“Looks like ol’ Charlie spoke his fate into existence,” she wrote. “Hate begets hate. ZERO sympathy.”
FBI Releases Photo of ‘Person of Interest’
in Charlie Kirk Assassination, Seeks Public’s Help 12 replies
in Charlie Kirk Assassination, Seeks Public’s Help 12 replies
The FBI Office in Salt Lake City released photos of a “person of interest” in connection with Charlie Kirk’s assassination and asked for “the public’s help.” [Tweet]
Earlier Thursday morning, Breitbart News reported that Utah Department of Public Safety (DPS) Commissioner Beau Mason spoke at press conference and made clear that the shooter “appears to be of college age.”
He stressed that authorities “worked through the night” and were able to find photos and videos of the suspect on various cameras.
Charlie Kirk is no longer with us. The conservative activist, host, and founder of Turning Point USA was assassinated at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah, today. He was 31. He leaves behind his wife, Erika, and two children. A shooter took a single shot, striking Kirk in the neck. The footage is ghastly. He was rushed to the hospital but did not survive.
As condolences and thoughts and prayers pour in, you can leave it to MSNBC to peddle gun control and other personal attacks on Kirk, who promoted freedom
They Murdered Charlie Kirk and They Must Pay
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This may be the hardest column I’ve ever written, one where I’m so angry that it’s hard for me to put my words into a sequence that’s both coherent and not profane. They murdered Charlie Kirk today. They shot him dead because he dared to exercise his right as a human being to speak freely – contrary to what Democrat senators insist, our rights do not come from government but are endowed within us by our Creator. So, this was not merely a crime against one man, or against his beautiful family, but against both this country and our God.
And it will be righteously avenged.
A shocking new video has surfaced that shows an alleged shooter running above the roof after the assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University. According to the New York Times, UVU spokeswoman Ellen Treanor confirmed that Kirk was struck by gunfire from a shooter positioned at the Losee Center, a building roughly 200 yards away from where Kirk was addressing students.[snip]John Solomon told Steve Bannon that while details are still emerging, early indications suggest Charlie Kirk’s assassination may have been a calculated professional hit.