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Saturday, September 13, 2025
MAGA, Sadly Lacking A Left Wing Killer
UNLESS I"M DREAMING, and please tell me if I am, it turnss out, or is turning out, that the young person who "allegedly" shot and killed Charlie Kirk is not, repeat not, a Trump hating radical left wing lunatic who spews hatred by calling Trump and his supporters mean things like "fascists", as if they had tried to steal an election by overthrowing the government, or something like that. Oh no, not at all. Rather he seems to be politically motivated, but unaffiliated as of yet, a political novice, from a conservtive Mormon family, this Tyler Robinson, and, last year, he allegedly wore a Donald Trump costume to a Halloween party. (I'd love to see it). Does that mean that he loves Trump, or hates Trump, or merely that he had a good idea for a Halloween costume, and acted on it? Could be any of the above. What seems increasigly certain is that, whatever precisely this idiot is, politically, he is certainly not a garden variety radical left wing lunatic like, for instance, Bernie Sanders or I am. And, it might seem, he is so far from being one that it will be difficult, and perhaps impossible for Donald Trump, MAGA, and conservative America to use lies and misinformation to twist him into the shape of one. Not that they would't love to. They are doubtless terribly disappointed at this cruel twist of fate, an apparently conservative political assassin when, for reasons of conservative expediency, a radical left wing murderer would be much, much preferrable. Its going to be a helluva lot harder for Trump and MAGA to blame every liberal in America for the murder, desperate that they are to do so. Had Tyler Robinson turned out to indeed be a strident left wing radical lunatic every liberal in America would be in danger. Trump would probably issue an executive order, and Congress and SCOTUS would probably back it up, making it illegal to be a liberal. And now for some facts. Liberals reacted to Charlie Kirk by signing petitions, staging protests, and challenging him intellectually, as he wanted. But he was killed by a fellow conservative. Of all the policically motivated murders or mass shoothings in the United States over the past, say, couple of decades, an overwhelmingly high percentage of them, somewhere far north of ninety percent, were carrried out by Trump loving hard right wingers. Anyone who doubts this or refuses to believe it for ideological reasons is welcome to go ask the FBI. Or, hell, you can probably google it. As Casey Stengal said: "You could look it up." And no, if the FBI tells you that indeed most political murders and mass shootings are perpetrated by right wing extremists, it does not mean that the FBI has been taken over by a bunch of radical left wingers, and is feeding you false information in a conspiracy to protect Republican shooters. Trump is already claiming that the entire American left wing is responsible for Charlie Kirk's death, by using hate speech. Despite the lack of any evidence for this, and a great deal of evidence against it, MAGA America will doubtless adopt this point of view, and promote it heavily, which is a great tragedy. Guns, of course, have nothing to do with it. Ironically, Charlie Kirk died within mere moments of trying to downplay the impact of gun violence in America. Our America is full of political speech of all kinds, hateful and otherwise. I for one will stop calling Trump and his followers fascists when they stop trying to overthrow the government and steal elections, stop trying to silence media sources they don't like, stop attacking educational institutions for teaching inconvenient realities, stop illegally sending the military into our cities to police the civilian population, and stop trying to gain as much power as humanly possible for Trump by taking it away from its proper owners. It might also merit suggestion that Trump and MAGA should either prove that left wingers, and not Trumpers, are the real lunatics, or find a more honest way to hurl their vile hatred and insults. If only Tyler Robinson had been a radical left wing lunatic. Oh well, can't win 'em all. Sorry for your loss, better luck next time.
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