Cecilee Sanders

Veteran. Believe in a balanced budget and the military. Progressive on social issues. Love dogs.

[Charlotte Clymer 🇺🇦 @cmclymer]

To the Idiot Who Killed Charlie Kirk:

Against all odds, I hope you somehow come across this before they catch you, or I hope you’ll somehow read it before you take the coward’s way out by putting a gun in your own mouth.

I want you to know that there isn’t a rational adult in this country who thinks you’re a hero. There is no reasonable person who is thankful for your all-time act of self-important, destructive idiocy.

You have singlehandedly managed to make an increasingly unstable country that much more unstable, veering as we’ve been toward violent chaos, and the people who will suffer the most for it are those who were already fearing for our safety on a daily basis.

You have given some of the worst people in society the propaganda they desire to push their hateful agenda against the least protected among us.

I don’t care about your supposed reasons. Whatever your motivation happens to be, it’s definitely bullshit.

You don’t care about anyone but yourself.

If you did happen to care about this country and preserving our democracy and protecting the most marginalized, you’d have taken enough time to reflect on how this will only lead toward more violence and instability.

With a modicum of common sense, you’d have reached the obvious conclusion that political violence solves nothing. It is always immoral. It always self-serving.

It only leads to further violence and ultimately enables scapegoating of vulnerable communities. Committing acts of violence against those who disagree with us helps no one.

Your narcissism is now a national cancer that will likely metastasize, and the rest of us will have the responsibility for doing everything we can to stop its spread.

Your sociopathic fuck-up is now everyone else’s problem.

While law enforcement is busy looking for your moronic ass, we’re going to be flooded with the most asinine commentary blaming everyone else for your stupidity.

Trans people, Muslims, etc. Take your pick. We’re all being forced into this cycle of blame by shameless propagandists because of your selfish bullshit.

You have helped no one in doing this. We are all now less safe because of you.

I’m not supposed to root for anyone’s suffering, but I’ll make an exception in this case.

I really do hope you suffer for all the pain you’re about to cause so many innocent people who didn’t get a say before you decided to pull that trigger.

Fuck you.

[Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom]

That last line is the key

[Alex Cole @acnewsitics]

What's really sickening is the GOP blaming Democrats for issues they themselves won't go near.

Mental health and gun access.

[Harry Sisson @harryjsisson]

Declaring “war” is not only dumb but incredibly dangerous. You might get views and likes on social media, but this only divides us further and puts more people in danger. Nobody, left or right, should be speaking like this. My thoughts go out to Charlie Kirk’s family.

[Adam Schwarz @AdamJSchwarz]

My observation from the last few hours of monitoring US social media is that Democrats are universally denouncing political violence & calling for calm while MAGA are escalating rhetoric & lusting for retribution against broad categories of people they identity as their enemies.

[Joe Walsh @WalshFreedom]

.@charliekirk11 was like a son to me. Many yrs ago, I helped him get @TPUSA started. We went our separate ways bcuz of Trump, and went after each often on social media. My heart breaks for him & his family right now. We must ALL get off this road of political violence. STOP THIS.

[Aaron Parnas @AaronParnas]

Today, multiple students were critically injured in another school shooting at Evergreen High School in Colorado.

Another school shooting in America.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Charlie Kirk called me a ‘lunatic’ and a ‘prostitute’ and demanded I be deported.

Nothing, *nothing*, justifies killing him, or robbing his kids of their dad.

We don’t know the identity or motive of the shooter but murder can *never* be the response to political disagreements.

[Pablo Torre 👀 @PabloTorre]

Every time a gun plunges our country into hell I think about this proposal, from @JasonKander.

[Ezra Klein @ezraklein]

In the last few years we've seen:

- The plot to kidnap Gretchen Whitmer
- The Storming of the Capitol and pipe bombs left at the RNC and DNC
- The break-in to kidnap Nancy Pelosi and the brutal on Paul Pelosi
- Multiple assassination attempts against Trump
- The assassination of Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband and the shooting of on State Senator John Hoffman and his wife
- Luigi Mangione's assassination of Brian Thompson
- The assassination of Charlie Kirk

Political violence is contagious. It is spreading. It is not confined to one side or belief system. It should terrify us all.

The foundation of a free society is the ability to participate in it without fear of violence. Political violence is always an attack against us all. You have to be so blind not to see that.

[Stephen Richer @stephen_richer]

"You're not in a free country if you can't feel safe to express your views."
-@Timodc

That's what Charlie was out there doing today. He was debating people. He was shot while answering a question that was meant to be provocative.

Solid video from Tim and Sarah on a sad day.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Spencer Cox: "Our nation is broken. We had political assassinations recently in Minnesota. We had an attempted assassination on the governor of Pennsylvania. And we had an attempted assassination on a presidential candidate and former president of the United States and now current president. Nothing I say can unite us as a country. Nothing I can say right now can fix what is broken. Nothing I can say can bring back Charlie Kirk."

[Cecilee Sanders @CecileeSanders]

@SheaLambert @ClaireK14001817 @Booker4KY I haven't been on twitter for a long time..what is a "concern troll" lol..in my 40s and maybe out of touch

[Ari Meirov @MySportsUpdate]

Patrick Mahomes has more INTs (8) than TDs (6) this season, yet the #Chiefs are 6-0.

Makes you wonder how good they'll be once the team gets healthier, potentially makes a trade, and Mahomes starts playing like his MVP self.

This Chiefs team is a powerhouse.

Also let's give credit to this guy. 👇

[Kyle Brandt @KyleBrandt]

You watch long enough, you’ll see it all.

Patrick Mahomes, welcome to
😡ANGRY RUNS😡

See you on @gmfb this week.

[Matthew Gertz @MattGertz]

Great @EricMGarcia report details how the town hall "was populated by only GOP backers hand-selected by Fox News." https://t.co/LTuo8Zp96o

[Nicolle Wallace @NicolleDWallace]

“Girl dads” - been watching this group - interesting:

[Amy Siskind @Amy_Siskind]

"In July, Donald Trump’s campaign set up a GoFundMe account to raise money for those killed and wounded when a gunman tried to assassinate Trump in Butler, Pa. It has now raised more than $6.6 million. The bulk of that money has not yet been distributed, according to the widow of one victim and a lawyer for the other two." - NYT

Trump is gonna stuff them. So on brand.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Reporter: Trump has accused you of ignoring—

Biden: He's lying and the governor told him he was lying. I've spoken to the governor.. I don't know why he does this and the reason I get so angry about it, I don't care about what he says about me, but I care what he communicates to the people that are in need. He implies that we're not doing everything possible. We are. I assume you heard the Republican Governor of Georgia talk about that. He was on the phone with me more than once. So that's simply not true.
And it's irresponsible.

[Kaitlan Collins @kaitlancollins]

While in Georgia, Trump claims Gov. Kemp is having a difficult time getting in touch with President Biden. But Kemp spoke directly with Biden last night. “He offered that if there’s other things we need, just to call him directly,” Kemp said, “which I appreciate that.”