An open forum for political dialogue and disagreement was upended by a horrific act of targeted violence. In America, we don’t settle our differences with violence or at gunpoint. I’m praying for Charlie, his family, and his young children.
I don’t agree with anything Charlie Kirk says, but I will never, not ever, condone politically motivated violence of any kind.
And I honest to God, hope he’s ok.
🚨🚨🚨This is exactly how I feel. 🚨🚨🚨
CHARLES PIERCE WRITES:
“In my life, I have watched John Kennedy talk on television about missiles in Cuba. I saw Lyndon Johnson look Richard Russell squarely in the eye and say, "And we shall overcome."
I saw Richard Nixon resign and Gerald Ford tell the Congress that our long national nightmare was over.
I saw Jimmy Carter talk about malaise and Ronald Reagan talk about a shining city on a hill. I saw George H.W. Bush deliver the eulogy for the Soviet bloc, and Bill Clinton comfort the survivors of Timothy McVeigh's madness in Oklahoma City.
I saw George W. Bush struggle to make sense of it all on September 11, 2001, and I saw Barack Obama sing 'Amazing Grace' in the wounded sanctuary of Mother Emanuel Church in Charleston, South Carolina.
"These were the presidents of my lifetime. These were not perfect men. They were not perfect presidents, god knows. Not one of them was that. But they approached the job, and they took to the podium, with all the gravitas they could muster as appropriate to the job.
They tried, at least, to reach for something in the presidency that was beyond their grasp as ordinary human beings. They were not all ennobled by the attempt, but they tried nonetheless.
"And comes now this hopeless, vicious buffoon, and the audience of equally hopeless and vicious buffoons who laughed and cheered when he made sport of a woman whose lasting memory of the trauma she suffered is the laughter of the perpetrators.
Now he comes, a man swathed in scandal, with no interest beyond what he can put in his pocket and what he can put over on a universe of suckers, and he does something like this while occupying an office that we gave him, and while endowed with a public trust that he dishonors every day he wakes up in the White House.
"The scion of a multigenerational criminal enterprise, the parameters of which we are only now beginning to comprehend. A vessel for all the worst elements of the American condition. And a cheap, soulless bully besides.
We never have had such a cheap counterfeit of a president* as currently occupies the office. We never have had a president* so completely deserving of scorn and yet so small in the office that it almost seems a waste of time and energy to summon up the requisite contempt.
"Watch how a republic dies in the empty eyes of an empty man who feels nothing but his own imaginary greatness, and who cannot find in himself the decency simply to shut up even when it is in his best interest to do so. Presidents don't have to be heroes to be good presidents.
USWNT just solidly outplayed the number 3 team in the world and lost because sometimes you lose. Time for a new coach because that’s what you do after a disappointing tournament and Vlatko hasn’t been all that good. But boy am I not concerned about the talent level on this team.
A wonderful, joyous run for the Baby Eagles comes to a valiant close. This talent-soaked group has made us dream what is possible in 2026 when the World Cup comes to the U.S. But... also a sobering reminder of what it takes against a tactically-cohesive world class outfit.🇺🇸❤️🇺🇸
Thanks for asking. I will be watching crouched behind my sofa, with my hands over my ears, incessantly mumbling "ohgodiliterallycannotbearthisohgodohgod."
TMR THE BRICK BASEBALL TEAM WILL SOAR ONTO BLUECLAWS FIELD TO VS THE HOWELL REBELS @ 7‼️ GET THERE EARLY AND BRING THE NOISE! LETS GO DRAGONS! 🐉🐉🐉🤮🤮🤮😈😈😈❌ #seniornight#seniorparentappreciation