Ta-Nehisi Coates: 'Charlie Kirk Was a Hatemonger'

VanityFair.com:

 

Before he was killed last week, Charlie Kirk left a helpful compendium of words—ones that would greatly aid those who sought to understand his legacy and import. It is somewhat difficult to match these words with the manner in which Kirk is presently being memorialized in mainstream discourse.

New York Times columnist Ezra Klein dubbed Kirk “one of the era’s most effective practitioners of persuasion” and a man who “was practicing politics in exactly the right way.” California governor Gavin Newsom hailed Kirk’s “passion and commitment to debate,” advising us to continue Kirk’s work by engaging “with each other, across ideology, through spirited discourse.”

Atlantic writer Sally Jenkins saluted Kirk, claiming he “argued with civility” and asserting that his death was “a significant loss for those who believe engagement can help bridge disagreements.” The mentions of “debate” and “engagement” are references to Kirk’s campus tours, during which he visited various colleges to take on whoever come may. That this aspect of Kirk’s work would be so attractive to writers and politicians is understandable.

It’s no secret that Charlie Kirk trafficked in racist rhetoric at times, particularly during his associations with openly bigoted figures like Matt Walsh and Steven Crowder. That said, if you're going to label a self-proclaimed Christian like Kirk a "hatemonger," you need to cite concrete examples rather than rely on ad hominem attacks. Otherwise, you risk sounding like one of the many so-called race-baiters who exploit racial issues for personal or political gain, regardless of whether the racism in question is real or exaggerated. That said, with the recent Ezra Klein vs. Ta-Nehisi Coates discourse trending online, I think Klein (a committed liberal) has a point. After what happened last November, he seems to believe that Democrats need to take a page from Kirk’s playbook: start engaging with political opponents to find areas of common ground, rather than relying solely on anti-Trump rhetoric as a campaign strategy.

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Federal Gov't Denies Claims of Genocide Against Christians in Nigeria

VanguardNGR.com:

The Federal Government has strongly refuted recent allegations by some international platforms and online commentators suggesting that terrorists operating in Nigeria are engaged in a systematic genocide against Christians.

In a statement issued on Sunday by the Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, the government described the claims as “false, baseless, despicable, and divisive,” insisting that they misrepresent the country’s complex security challenges.

According to the Minister, portraying Nigeria’s fight against terrorism as a targeted campaign against a particular religious group oversimplifies the situation and risks fueling division along ethnic and religious lines. “The violent activities of terrorist groups are not confined to any religious or ethnic community. Muslims, Christians, and even those who do not identify with any faith have suffered at their hands,” Idris said.

This what upsets me about about the pro-Palestianian protestors and an msm that's finally starting to platform them only because Kamala lost: this year alone more Christians have been killed in Nigeria than Palestinians in Gaza, yet not a single protest or mention in the msm for them.

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Assata Shakur, U.S. Black Liberation Activist Exiled in Cuba, Dies at 78

AlJazeera.com:

Assata Shakur, a Black American liberation activist who was given political asylum in Cuba, has died at the age of 78 after decades in exile, her family and Cuban officials said.

Shakur, who was born Joanne Deborah Chesimard, died on Thursday “due to health conditions and advanced age”, the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement on Friday.

Her daughter, Kakuya Shakur, also confirmed her death in a Facebook post. “Words cannot describe the depth of loss that I am feeling at this time,” she wrote.

The former Black Liberation Army (BLA) member, who was a symbol of resistance for many activists, escaped a United States prison in 1979, where she had been serving a life sentence for killing a police officer.

Funny how all the Democrat shills out there celebrating Assata's legacy conveniently forget the days when Barack Obama doubled the bounty on her head to appease the Right.

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NYC Mayor Eric Adams Quits Re-Election Campaign After Sagging in Polls

amNY.com:

 

Eric Adams will officially be a one-term mayor. Hizzoner announced on Sunday that he is suspending his independent re-election campaign. The campaign had seemingly slowed to a crawl in recent days after being repeatedly denied public campaign financing and polling in last place for weeks in the four-way race.

“Despite all we’ve achieved, I cannot continue my re-election campaign,” Adams said, blaming bad press and an inability to gain public campaign matching funds for paralyzing his campaign.

“The constant media speculation about my future and the CFB decision to withhold millions of dollars have undermined my ability to raise the funds needed for a serious campaign. I hope that over time, New Yorkers will see the city thrive under our leadership, and policies that we have put in place should be continued and expanded.”

NYC is losing a good man in Adams, but Mamdani's rise and sagging poll numbers really left him with no choice but to drop out the race. Question now is does this help Andrew Cuomo? A horrible person who enthusiastically gave NYC cashless bail and screwed people over and over again during Covid. Also, what's next for Adams? Especially after Trump dangling an administration spot in front of him in return for dropping out the mayoral race. Personally, I think Adams should say no to Trump and go after a Democrat congressional seat or even wait for a Governor or Senator spot if he wants to stay in politics.

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DOJ Pursuing Perjury Charges Against James Comey

FOXNews.com:

 

Federal prosecutors preparing to seek an indictment against former FBI Director James Comey for allegedly lying to Congress have just days left before the statute of limitations expires — one of several hurdles the Justice Department faces in pursuing its case against Comey.

The case against Comey, at least for now, centers on the remarks he made during his testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee in a Sept. 30, 2020, hearing focused on the origins of the so-called "Crossfire Hurricane" probe.

This could be tricky for two reasons. First, prosecutors have little time to make their case for perjury, which appears to be the basis of the probe. That charge carries a five-year statute of limitations — giving prosecutors until Tuesday to impanel a federal grand jury, present their case and secure an indictment from at least 12 jurors before the deadline expires.

First, the DOJ needs to present a strong case against Comey, otherwise, it’s just wasting everyone’s time. Second, Comey has managed to earn the disdain of both Republicans and Democrats, to the point where even Joy Behar has called for his indictment. Finally, if anything, he should be held accountable for lying about posting, then deleting, an Instagram photo of seashells spelling out “8647” on a beach. The image sparked a Secret Service investigation after Trump supporters interpreted it as a veiled assassination threat, although many (including myself) believe Comey himself was behind it.

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Dead Heat in New Jersey Gubernatorial Race?

ABC7NY.com:

In the race for New Jersey governor, Mikie Sherrill and Jack Ciattarelli are tied at 43%, according to an Emerson College poll out Thursday morning.

It is the first mainstream poll to put the head-to-head race in a dead heat, and the cycle's first to not have Sherrill leading, either in the democratic primary or the general election.

"A tightly contested race in the Garden State," Spencer Kimball, executive director of Emerson College Polling, said. "Young voters, under 40, break for Sherrill by large margins, 58% to 24%. The race tightens to seven points among voters in their 40s, with Sherrill leading 47% to 40%, then Ciattarelli flips the script among voters over 50, leading Sherrill 52% to 36% among this group."

If Ciattarelli's campaign team is smart, they'll take some hints from Trump's 2024 campaign run and go the 'bro route' between now and November. That means chasing the young male vote and doing the 'bro podcasts', college campuses', social influencer meetups, etc. to put your name and agenda out there and get them to the polls.

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FBI Says Dallas Shooter’s Rounds Contained ‘Anti-ICE’ Messages

Mediaite.com:

The now-deceased shooter who targeted a Dallas, Texas ICE facility wrote “anti-ICE” messages on his rounds, according to the FBI. 

 

Three detainees at an ICE facility were shot by a gunman on the roof of an adjacent building on Wednesday morning. One of the detainees died at the scene, and the shooter died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. 

 

Joe Rothrock, the FBI’s special agent in charge in Dallas, revealed in a Wednesday press conference that “early evidence” shows that there are “anti-ICE” messages “in nature” found on rounds near the shooter.

Amazingly enough, this latest incident happens the morning after Gavin Newsom went on Stephen Colbert's show last night talking about how people need to posh back against ICE agents because they're the result of a 'authoritarian government'. Keep in mind too that it was former "Deporter-In-Chief" Barack Obama who did the most deportations using ICE.

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Disney Bringing Back Jimmy Kimmel's Show After Suspension Over Host's Remarks on Charlie Kirk

FOXNews.com:

ABC’s "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" will return on Tuesday after a brief suspension, The Walt Disney Company has announced. 

 

"Last Wednesday, we made the decision to suspend production on the show to avoid further inflaming a tense situation at an emotional moment for our country. It is a decision we made because we felt some of the comments were ill-timed and thus insensitive. We have spent the last days having thoughtful conversations with Jimmy, and after those conversations, we reached the decision to return the show on Tuesday," a Disney spokesperson told Fox News Digital. 

 

Kimmel's late-night show was pulled off the air last Wednesday after Kimmel's remarks about the alleged assassin of Charlie Kirk sparked outrage and a veiled threat from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Disney decided to suspend the show after two major affiliate owners pulled airings of Kimmel from their stations, and Kimmel reportedly had told executives he would not apologize for his comments.

So if Trump gets all the credit for 'firing' Kimmel, he gets all the credit for 'hiring' him back, right? That said, considering how much all these late-night 'comedians" work as shills for the Democrat party, it's no wonder Trump and co. hates Kimmel's guts and wanted him gone.

RELATED: Jimmy Kimmel’s future at ABC was already up in air before Charlie Kirk uproar as contract came to a close

Supreme Court Rules Trump Can Fire Biden Appointee Rebecca Slaughter from the FTC

Reuters.com:

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday let President Donald Trump fire a Democratic member of the Federal Trade Commission for now while agreeing to hear arguments in the case in December, setting up a major test of presidential power over government agencies designed by Congress to be independent. 

 

The court granted a Justice Department request to block a judge's order that had shielded Rebecca Slaughter, who sued to challenge Trump's action, from being dismissed from the consumer protection and antitrust agency before her term expires in 2029. 

 

The Supreme Court said it will hear arguments in the case, which could lead to the justices overruling a landmark 90-year-old precedent upholding job protections put in place by Congress to give the heads of certain federal agencies a degree of independence from presidential control.

A triple win for Trump who gets to fire a Biden-appointee, slap down yet another activist judge and possibly overturn a 90-year-old precedent that allows Congress to restrict the President's power to remove members of independent agencies.

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The Running Mate Kamala Harris Didn’t Dare Choose...Because He's Gay

TheAtlantic.com:

As Kamala Harris rushed to pick a running mate last year, her “first choice” was her close friend Pete Buttigieg, but she decided that it would be “too big of a risk” for a Black woman to run with a gay man. 

 

Buttigieg “would have been an ideal partner—if I were a straight white man,” Harris writes in a passage of her soon-to-be-released book, 107 Days, that I saw. “But we were already asking a lot of America: to accept a woman, a Black woman, a Black woman married to a Jewish man. Part of me wanted to say, Screw it, let’s just do it. But knowing what was at stake, it was too big of a risk.” 

 

"And I think Pete also knew that—to our mutual sadness.” 

 

Harris instead selected Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, and the two went on to lose to Donald Trump. Her honest recounting of that decision—much more candid than I usually see in political memoirs—highlights one of the core challenges facing Democrats, especially as they try to refocus their message ahead of the next presidential election, in 2028. After years of highlighting and celebrating the historic characteristics of their nominees

Buttigieg, Walz, whoever, it doesn't matter who Kamala picked as her running mate because she still would've lost to Trump. Why? Because she is and was always an empty suit, she campaigned with the likes of Liz Cheney, she never cared about working-class voters, she overplayed January 6th, she avoided tons of interviews on the campaign trail like a plague because she can't speak clearly without a script or in a non-friendly atmospheres, she was a DEI hire for VP to begin with who covered for Joe Biden's lack of mental acuity, she was horrible on border control, she had no Black agenda and that laugh was hated by any and everyone.

RELATED: Harris' score-settling, elbow-throwing, bridge-burning memoir

ABC Suspends Jimmy Kimmel’s Late-Night Show 'Indefinitely' Over Charlie Kirk Lies

CNBC.com:

ABC on Wednesday pulled “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” off the air “indefinitely” over its host’s controversial comments linking the alleged killer of conservative activist Charlie Kirk to President Donald Trump’s MAGA movement. 

 

Trump praised the move, which came hours after Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr suggested that ABC’s broadcast license was at risk because of Kimmel’s remarks. ABC is a subsidiary of Disney. 

 

Just before ABC’s announcement, Nexstar Media Group said that its stations that are affiliated with ABC would preempt Kimmel’s show “for the foreseeable future beginning with tonight’s show” because of the host’s statements. Nexstar is seeking FCC approval for its planned $6.2 billion merger with Tegna.

How do you get liberals to look past and whitewash your notorious history of wearing blackface and glorified misogyny on 'The Man Show'? By going the Howard Stern route and shilling for Democrats 24/7. Which means spreading Democrat propaganda, smearing conservatives, wishing death on the unvaxxed, laughing when cons like Tucker Carlson lose their job, hating on President Trump and the GOP every day and finally, purposely lying about Charlie Kirk's killer being a member of MAGA. But unfortunately for Jimmy Kimmel there's a new regime in town and his cockamamie grift has come to an end.

RELATED: Stephen A. Smith Goes After His Disney Colleague Kimmel: ‘Wasn’t Anything Funny’ About Kirk Comments

Karma Catches Up To WaPo Writer, Blue Sky Liberal & Professional Race Baiter Karen Attiah

Mediaite.com:

Details of The Washington Post’s decision to fire longtime columnist Karen Attiah are coming into focus after the release of an HR letter late Monday that accused her of “gross misconduct” and unspecified “performance concerns,” declaring the paper could “not tolerate the risk” she posed. 

 

Attiah revealed Monday via SubStack that she had been dismissed by the newspaper for social media posts about the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, but argued the posts in question were measured and focused not on Kirk but on growing tolerance for political violence. 

 

“Charges without evidence, which I reject completely as false,” she wrote.

The story here isn't about Attiah's feelings on Charlie Kirk, which she has every right to have. But to misquote the guy, have a Blue Sky (a platform that's a literal cesspool for sheer and utter hatred towards conservatives...only) and have a history of breaking the journalistic standards of your employer, is just begging to be fired.

RELATED: Employees of private companies learning limits of free speech after posting about Charlie Kirk

New York Court Tosses Terror Charges Against Luigi Mangione

FOXNews.com:

A New York judge has tossed Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's terrorism charges against suspected UnitedHealthcare CEO assassin Luigi Mangione.

The suspected killer appeared court Tuesday morning shortly after the NYPD warned that business leaders and political figures may be at an increased risk less than a week after a sniper shot and killed Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk during a public event at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah.

Mangione faces a slew of state and federal charges after police allege he stalked and ambushed Brian Thompson, the health insurer's chief executive and a married father of two from Minnesota who was visiting New York City for an investor conference.

2nd degree murder means no life without parole, a huge win for Mangione on the state charges. Somehow this NY judge found that studying someone's movements, lying in wait, stalking them and shooting them in the back of their head didn't rise to the level of 1st degree murder...smh.

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Office Depot in Portage, MI, Fires Employee Over Refusal to Print Charlie Kirk Vigil Poster

WWMT.com:

A video out of Portage is going viral following a controversial exchange at the Office Depot on South Westnedge Avenue Friday night.

It centers around the late Republican political activist, Charlie Kirk.

In the video, a customer asks to print a poster of Kirk for a vigil that took place at Bronson Park in downtown Kalamazoo earlier in the evening. The employee involved in the video, who says they're the manager on duty, refused to print the poster because of its political nature.

The footage has caught the attention of some Michigan lawmakers, including Senate Minority Leader Aric Nesbitt and Republican Congressman Bill Huizenga.

No matter how much hate one might have Charlie Kirk, how dumb could you be to pull something like this and risk losing your job? And it wasn't just one employee, but TWO of them. Indeed, one of the best piece's of advice I ever got was not to bring politics and religion to work.

RELATED: After His Murder, New York Times Assassinates Charlie Kirk’s Character

Appeals Court Slaps Down Activist, Liberal Judge, Upholds 'BBB' Law to Defund Planned Parenthood

PBS.com:

A U.S. appeals court panel on Thursday allowed President Donald Trump’s administration to block Medicaid funds to Planned Parenthood while legal challenges continue. 

A federal judge in July ruled Planned Parenthood clinics nationwide must continue to be reimbursed for Medicaid funding as the nation’s largest abortion provider fights Trump’s administration over efforts to defund the organization in his signature tax legislation. 

Planned Parenthood said Thursday’s ruling means that more than 1.1 million patients can’t use their Medicaid insurance at its health centers. That also puts as many as 200 of those health centers at risk of closure, Planned Parenthood said in a statement.

No matter where you stand on abortion and/or Planned Parenthood, one thing's for sure: conservatives better keep an eye out on Judge Indira Talwani: an Obama-appointed, uber-liberal, activist judge willing to defy the GOP at every step (even when it comes to bill's passed by Congress and signed by the President) who clearly sees her utter defiance of the Right as a path to perhaps, the Supreme Court one day. Hell, Judge Talwani is even willing to make up shit (like the OBBB being 'unconstitutional' because it cuts funding for Planned Parenthood) as she goes along if it can get in the GOP's way. Yeah, this chick is dangerous. 

RELATED: This is what judicial overreach looks like

Charlie Kirk and the Real Cost of Political Extremism

NYTimes.com:

The authorities in Utah were searching early Thursday for the person who killed Charlie Kirk, the charismatic founder of the nation’s pre-eminent right-wing youth activist group, after questioning and releasing two people.  

No suspects were in custody about 12 hours after Mr. Kirk, a close ally of President Trump, was shot while speaking on a Utah college campus in what the state’s Republican governor, Spencer Cox, and Mr. Trump described as an “assassination.” 

Hopes for the fast capture of the person who fatally shot the right-wing activist Charlie Kirk in Utah evaporated on Wednesday when Kash Patel, the F.B.I. director, announced that the authorities had released a man he had described as a central subject of a multiagency manhunt. 

Charlie Kirk built his reputation as a combative conservative voice who was part debater, part provocateur, never one to shy away from confrontation. But he was also a deeply polarizing figure, often accused of making inflammatory and, at times, overtly racist remarks. In the wake of his shocking murder, reactions have split predictably along political lines: some mourn, others celebrate. Yet, beyond the noise, one heartbreaking fact remains: two young girls have lost their father. And if you're someone consumed by political extremism, chances are, that simple human tragedy doesn't matter to you at all.

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