"Hi. Under The Desk News' V Spehar joins Katy, Cody, and Jonathan to talk about the assassination of Charlie Kirk. They discuss the details of the investigation, the Right's vitriolic attacks on the Left, the bizarre media canonization of Kirk, and the uncertain future of political rhetoric.
"As always, we recorded right before that big thing that happened."
Yes, Jesse Watters, everyone
is accountable, and we
are watching what
you are saying on television, you fucking rat. (Well, no,
I am not watching it, because I wouldn't seriously watch Faux Noise outside of clips provided by others like SMN here if I were paid to do it, but yeah, at least
some people who actually matter are watching it.)
All this performative RWNJ rage is just yet more examples of RWNJ accusations also acting as RWNJ confessions or statements of intent. Their responses to what they claim to be exclusively left wing fearmongering and calls for violence is to... ... ... ... ...fearmonger and call for violence against the left. Seriously, why is it okay to demonize the entirety of liberals and Democrats and anyone who hasn't fallen in line with MAGA brainwashing, based solely on the actions of one solitary dickweed, but if anyone tries that with all the RWNJ dickweeds who have committed or attempted to commit murders and other horrendous violence (and, indeed, far more RWNJ dickweeds have done this shit than left wing dickweeds), the RWNJs cry "how dare you" and circle the wagons? Go figure.
I have not seen the video of Charlie Kirk being shot, nor do I ever want to watch the video of Charlie Kirk getting shot, and the way their guest describes watching the video of Charlie Kirk getting shot makes me glad I didn't. And it also makes me glad that this here Dreamwith blog is my
only social media "presence" now, because they're talking about having
accidentally seen this shit, because it just appeared without warning in their feeds, and that's horrifying.
I really appreciate what Katy is saying
here. I've been going back and forth on this myself over the past day or so, but I think my feelings that this was horrific and shouldn't happen to anyone far outweigh my feelings that Charlie Kirk was a "bad guy" who "deserved" something "bad" happening to him.
Also
this from the guest.
And now they're
getting into the stuff that I wrote four paragraphs above, i.e. the whole "it's okay to say the left is the 'party of murder' or whatever, but don't you dare try to draw any conclusions when a RWNJ does a murder" shit. And, apparently, according to Cody, some RWNJ literally said "this is our Reichstag fire" as if that's a wonderful thing.
I'm going to say something that might be a bit inappropriate here but... okay, so... you know how Israel has used the October 7, 2023 Hamas attacks as an excuse to do full scale genocide on Palestinians? That's sort of what this right here feels like, at least based on recent RWNJ rhetoric. Like they're using Charlie Kirk's murder as an excuse to gear up and start doing "genocide" on liberals and Democrats. I seriously doubt it will come to that, but that's certainly what it
sounds like all the RWNJs
want to do, up to and including the current President. Or, at the very least, it seems like they might be hoping that this results in even more RWNJ "lone shooters" going after left wing politicians and journalists and the like.
Honestly, I could not care less if
the Trump video was edited together from different takes or about the difficulties involved in making a 4 minute video of a teleprompter read or whatever. What matters is what the asshole was officially shown as saying, not how it was presented. And what he essentially said was that political violence and violent rhetoric is the exclusive domain of the Left, which is patently false, given that Trump himself has made himself the king of violent rhetoric over the past decade now. But all that is fine, because it's him doing it. Only his enemies should be barred from it.
And for everyone going on about how, oh, Charlie Kirk at least was a debater, all for free speech, rah rah rah, well...
here is an example of Charlie Kirk "debating." As with Jordan Peterson, it's not in good faith.
"News" has been fucked for decades now, at the very least since
October 7, 1996, if not well before that. I've already
said my piece (and have repeated it multiple times, including now) about what I think needs to be done in regards to that, and the current government seems to be hellbent on doing the exact polar opposite of that now, so what the fuck can any of the rest of us actually do about it?
Everything is a fucking trashfire shitshow right now, and it's not going to get better any time soon. (Roughly three and one-third years left of Donald Trump as POTUS, or potentially less than that + however long with JD Vance as POTUS. Woof.)
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