On and On and On It Goes - Trump thread #148

[Spandauer]

It's been 9 horrible months and I find myself looking back on those "eating the cats and dogs" days with nostalgia.

Previous thread:
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/5392716-grotesque-greedy-gullible-graceless-gaslighting-gormless-god-forsaken-grifter-trump-thread-147

My memory of 9/11 is a frantic call to check family was all safe and the horror of watching it.

However it reminds me of a relative in France. My relative was asked to break the news to his colleague that his son had died who worked in one of the towers. The colleague was on secondment abroad and either the family or maybe authorities wanted someone in person who he knew to break the news, not the police or over the phone.

I felt the same. I’d never heard of him but DS (sixth form) had come across him on YouTube and Tiktok previously and knew what his general position was. DS is a critical thinker and reads/watches from lots of different sources so gave me a quick run down of different positions and takes on CK’s activism. It really struck me how CK had completely passed me and DH by but had cut through to genZ. Apparently the shooting was a hot topic in school today. More disturbing DS said he and most of his friends have seen harrowing footage of the shooting on social media today. I said I hadn’t and he told me not to go looking because it’s so grim. 😕

A family member was United Airlines cabin crew.
Another whole story.
So many funerals to attend.

I felt the same. I’d never heard of him but DS (sixth form) had come across him on YouTube and Tiktok previously and knew what his general position was. DS is a critical thinker and reads/watches from lots of different sources so gave me a quick run down of different positions and takes on CK’s activism. It really struck me how CK had completely passed me and DH by but had cut through to genZ.

Kirk seems to have started his quasi evangelical revival of Christian nationalist talking points in 2012. So he never got the chance to debate, and be trounced by, say Christopher Hitchens, who was infinitely more entertaining but who carked it in 2011

Whilst I absolutely and completely condemn political violence I find it incredibly uncomfortable that as soon as someone like Kirk is dead their sins and flaws are essentially wiped clean. He had vile views and I worry that his death essentially martyrs him and his cause.

He is hiding the right side of his face

https://bsky.app/profile/acyn.bsky.social/post/3lylo3ip2ww23

Looks like the Kirk crime scene has been compromised by a Mormon TikTok influencer nabbing the bloodstained MERCH whilst also livestreaming the assassination

https://bsky.app/profile/airbagged.bsky.social/post/3lylhzal6ys2z

I don''t think his sins have been wiped clean with his death. Some have tried but they're the same people who lauded him when he was alive.

If anything, his untimely death has exposed him to the gullible who fell for his "I'm just a guy who wants to talk about stuff" shtick.

Stop the world, I want to get off.

I want the grown ups to come and save us.

Jesus.🤦‍♀️

@Lalgarh that is beyond belief, how on earth did anyone get near a crime scene in the first place. I am sick of “influencers” Tik Tok and all the rest of this nonsense 😡

Lewis Goodall from The News Agents. Donald Trump junior's reaction to the attack on Paul Pelosi

https://x.com/lewisgoodall/status/1966062001786171756

God bless America, go to church and check my eBay account.

Link in your original post is the only one which works for me when I click on it ... but when I C&P the "https" one works.

How weird!

Also, how predictable from Donald Trump junior. That's a deeply, deeply inadequate being.

https://x.com/lewis_goodall/status/1966060451885695404

Is that better? @PerkingFaintly

You know when you read history books and fathom at how people in the past lived through some really crazy shit? This will be an epic unit in history class. US History: The Fall of Democracy. Kids will learn a summarised list of everything that led up to the end, in the style of my DC’s GCSE list of everything that led to the rise of the Nazis in Germany.

Oh that takes me to a different post on Lewis Goodall's account. Worth reading though.

I'm not on Xwitter myself, so can't do more than land on the linked post.

Not to worry, I got to read both those you linked. Thank you.

I frequently think that I’m so sick of living through history 😂 I want some mundane time that’s of absolutely no consequence and that no one will ever talk about again!

Thank god I have no plans to go to the US.

The Trump administration has threatened action against any foreigners in the US who praise or make light of Charlie Kirk’s death

I thought free speech was allowed in the States? So we're not allowed to say we think he wasn't a very nice man...

on and on it goes indeed. Thanks for the new thread.

Watching the video released of the gunman/the guy climbing down off the roof, we were trying to spot the gun, as it was found away from the scene. Can such a gun be collapsed down into his backpack?

Utterly disgusted at the responses, given the hundreds of school children killed and the attacks and murders of Democrats.

@Talkinpeace That rolodex is something else. Wow.

There’s an absolutely brilliant interview on Times Radio with David Cay Johnston today called Donald Trump will resign if Epstein files check out - I really recommend it. He was saying things I have not heard elsewhere, based on years of investigation into corruption. I watched it on YouTube.

History is written by the victors. I am terrified that this chapter will describe the glorious Revolution led by DJT and the godly Christians who squelched the uprising from leftist terrorists.