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  • I’m genuinely curious. How is this in any way a theory?

    The day it happened the president said:

    “For years, those on the radical left have compared wonderful Americans, like Charlie, to Nazis and the world’s worst mass murderers and criminals. This kind of rhetoric is directly responsible for the terrorism that we’re seeing in our country today, and it must stop right now…From the attack on my life in Butler, Pennsylvania last year, which killed a husband and father, to the attacks on ICE agents, to the vicious murder of a healthcare executive in the streets of New York, to the shooting of House majority leader, Steve Scalise and three others, radical left political violence has hurt too many innocent people and taken too many lives.”

    Days later he said:

    “The radicals on the left are the problem, and they’re vicious and they’re horrible and they’re politically savvy. They’re already under major investigation, A lot of the people that you would traditionally say are on the left are already under investigation.”

    Vice President JD Vance on a podcast right after the murder said:

    “Of course, we have to make sure that the killer is brought to justice, and more importantly, we have to talk about this incredibly destructive movement of left-wing extremism that has grown up over the last few years and, I believe, is part of the reason why Charlie was killed by an assassin’s bullet.”

    Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller when asked about “the radical left” just after the murder said:

    “It is a vast domestic terror movement, with god as my witness, we are going to use every resource we have at the Department of Justice, Homeland Security and throughout this government to identify, disrupt, dismantle and destroy these networks and make America safe again for the American people. It will happen, and we will do it in Charlie’s name.

    Attorney General Pam Bondi just after the murder was asked “who killed Charlie Kirk” to which she answered:

    "Left-wing radicals and they will be held accountable.”

    Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins recently stated:

    Charlie’s murder is proof that the radical left won’t allow Americans to make our country great again without a fight. Now is the time to wage war, not through aimless violence, but with a legal and rational crackdown on the forces that are desperately trying to annihilate our nation.”

    (All emphasis my own)

    I could go on (and on and on) but this is so astoundingly clear who they are blaming for this and not only that, but for basically all of the violence in this country. It’s not conjecture. It’s not a theory. They are straight up saying it… An investigation may or may not prove that a certain group carried this act out or any others but that has absolutely no bearing on who they are very clearly blaming right now. I mean do you really, truly think this is some kind of conspiracy theory that people just made up??




  • Totally agree. Either way, this will 1000000% be used to fan the flames. If it turns out to be a left wing woke nutjob or something they will obviously cream their pants in glee and just scream something along the lines of “see? The left is so horrible and so violent. Look at what they’ve done! We need to stop them now before it gets worse!” If it’s a right wing idiot they’ll just gloss over that and say “look how violent our cities our. There’s criminals roaming the streets, we need to bring in the tanks to take our cities back!”






  • I mean with regards to this poll, yes and no. Look at the question framing. For some questions this is true but a lot don’t really leave space for that mistake:

    Did trump have a negative affect on grocery prices?

    Did trump have a negative affect on your finances prices?

    Will Trump’s tarrifs increase the price of every day goods?

    These don’t ask if Trump or his administration is responsible for high grocery prices or CoL or the financial climate, just if he has helped or worsened it. Other questions are pretty clear in their separation from this specific administration:

    Do you believe Corporations or billionaires have had an active role in making life more difficult for average people over the past 25 years?

    Do you believe congressional Republicans or congressional Democrats have made life more difficult?

    A lot of the other questions just have to do with how anxious people feel about finances or the concerns they have and doesn’t really ask about any politicians at all.

    Of course you are absolutely right that, in general, people have an astonishingly and consistently short memory resulting in attributing current problems to current politicians but I dunno if this poll is really indicative of that.







  • I feel like it’s very strange to not even mention the fact that many, many of these researchers have completely lost, or will lose the grants for the research that is the entire reason for their being in the field in which they are. They literally cannot do what they are there to do anymore. in addition, many additional folks are no longer allowed to work on or publish their projects because they are centered on or use some of Trump’s no-no words. There is way more than just salaries causing the brain drain out of the US right now.