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Thursday, October 28, 2021

'When do we get to start using the guns?' questioner at TPUSA event asks Charlie Kirk

 


ARMED WHITE DOMESTIC TERRORISTS who continue to believe LIES pose a violent threat to our nation.
Pushing election lies, TPUSA audience member asks Charlie Kirk when they can “use the guns” and “kill these people”
Audience member to Charlie Kirk: “When do we get to use the guns? ... That's not a joke. I'm not saying it like that. I mean, literally, where's the line? How many elections are they going to steal before we kill these people?”
WRITTEN BY MEDIA MATTERS STAFF
PUBLISHED 10/26/21

AUDIENCE MEMBER: You're brave. You're brave for what you say, and the fact that you stand up there and say it, and I appreciate it. I think we all appreciate it actually, because there's not a lot of people that have the balls to do it. But I want to ask you something a little bit out of the ordinary, so prepare yourself. At this point, we're living under corporate and medical fascism. This is tyranny. When do we get to use the guns? No, and I'm not — that's not a joke. I'm not saying it like that. I mean, literally, where's the line? How many elections are they going to steal before we kill these people?
CHARLIE KIRK (TURNING POINT USA FOUNDER): So, no, I – no, hold on. I – no – stop, hold on. Now, I'm going to denounce that and I'm going to tell you why. Because you're playing into all their plans and they're trying to make you do this. That's OK. Just hear me out. You started with a compliment, so at least give me a little bit. They are trying to provoke you and everyone here. They are trying to make you do something that will be violent that will justify a takeover of your freedoms and liberties, the likes of which we have never seen. We are close to have –
AUDIENCE MEMBER: They're already doing it.
KIRK: Hold on. We are close to have momentum to be able to get this country back on a trajectory using the peaceful means that we have at us. So to answer your question, and I just think it's, you know, overly blunt, we have to be the ones that do not play into the violent aims and ambitions of the other side. They fear – let me say this very clearly – they fear us holding the line with self-control and discipline, taking over school board meetings. They are the ones that are willing to use federal force against us.
And I know that people get fired up. We are living under fascism. We are living under this tyranny. But if you think for a second that they're not wanting you to all of a sudden get that next level where they're going to say, OK, we need Patriot Act 2.0. If you think that you know Waco is bad, wait until you see what they want to do next. What I'm saying is that we have a very fragile balance right now at our current time where we must exhaust every single peaceful mean possible.
I will say this, Idaho is not even started to exercise the peaceful means of state sovereignty against the federal government. Not even close. I'll give you five things Idaho could do right now. The governor of Idaho could sign an executive order that says there are no vaccine mandates for private, for public, for anyone. It's not going to happen. He could do that right now. Number two, the governor of Idaho could come out and he could say, OK, BLM, Bureau of Land Management, EPA, you're out. We're governing our own lands. We're in control of our own territories. You're out of the state of Idaho. Number three, Idaho could now – could pick and choose through the state legislature, which one of the federal laws they think actually applied to the Idaho Constitution. These things will push back against the tyranny you're talking about. A mistake would all of a sudden be getting into physical, violent confrontation. You think that this regime has all of a sudden sprung into action? Wait until they get what they want. They want that. Why would we give that to them? Follow up point.
AUDIENCE MEMBER: I just want to know, where's the line?
KIRK: The line is when we exhaust every single one of our state ability to push back against what's happening. We haven't even started. We have not even started the process of having Idaho or states like Idaho get back to self-government as our founders envisioned. They gave us state sovereignty. You outnumber the liberals like eight to one here in this state. Why don't we start to use that muscle peacefully through local government, through city council? We have even started doing that, my friend. I know you think like, oh, we have — man, not what I've seen from the state capital here in Idaho. I've seen pandering. I've seen, you know, trying to go to the middle and all this.
And so what is the line? Look, man, I think, I think we're – I think we're at the teetering edge of a regime that knows that good and decent Americans are going to get to the place in the movie Network, I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it anymore, right? Well, guess what? Know that there's a deeper game at play. Understand the psychological warfare that's being played here. They're trying to animate you. They're trying to get you to do something that then justifies what they actually want to do. So what's the solution? We need to start to demand Idaho to be Idaho, and the federal government can stay out of the state of Idaho for most, just about everything. So thank you for being here tonight. Thank you.


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Thursday, July 15, 2021

Trump’s back to inciting violence just six months after the insurrection

 



 
 

 
Donald Trump is out of office. But he's back on the rally circuit and encouraging supporters to overthrow democracy. Just weeks ago, he told a crowd in Ohio that he'd “never stop fighting for the true results of this election." And in Florida, he suggested that the Capitol Police officer who shot an insurrectionist on January 6 should be “strung up and hung."
 
We've already seen what Trump's radicalizing rhetoric can wreak. His supporters are still celebrating every word he says.
 
We can't ignore all the violent, anti-democracy language Trump keeps spouting. Marjorie Taylor Greene and other Trump sycophants still have their platforms and their audiences, and they haven't changed their tune one bit since the insurrection.
 
The rally audiences applauding Trump and Marjorie Taylor Greene don't care who the real president is. Meanwhile, Trump is building them up with delusions of guerilla warfare and vigilante justice. At one of Trump's recent rallies, a supporter announced, "We're going to be in a civil war, because the militia will be taking over."
 
And every day, more and more Republicans are changing their minds, telling pollsters that the January 6 attack was justified. The radical right is growing, and it's more and more becoming the mainstream GOP.
 
If we pretend January 6 never happened, it'll happen again -- and next time, it might cost even more lives and damage.
 
Trump doesn't have the bully pulpit anymore. He doesn't even have a Twitter. What he does have is a crew of white nationalist radicals representing him in the halls of power -- people like Marjorie Taylor Greene, Matt Gaetz, and Lauren Boebert.
 
That's why we at Progressive Majority are focused on getting Trump's allies out of office and putting progressives in. Donald Trump, and the conspiracy theories he obsessively repeats only have power as long as other Republicans embrace them.
 
So, before Trump and his cronies can radicalize their followers and cause a repeat of January 6, help us take them down. Unlike Trump, we don't believe in mob justice. We believe in the power of a group of people giving what they can. If you share that belief, rush us whatever is possible and help us shut down the next insurrection before it even begins.
 
 
 
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