The fallout from the horrific assassination of conservative icon and TPUSA co-founder Charlie Kirk continues Wednesday as Democrats and leftist cable news hosts seem to be in a competition to see who can sink lower.
A young man with a beautiful wife and two small children is dead today, and yet the ghouls are implying that he deserved it because he was “divisive,” or that lax gun laws are to blame, or that we should just be plain happy that a prominent conservative is no longer with us.
In his quest to slither to the top of the list of people most lacking in decency, Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) knows what’s to blame: Jan 6. I’m running out of synonyms for “despicable” today as my horror mounts that people like Pritzker and MSNBC’s Katy Tur are fellow humans.
Ghouls would be a better description.
Watch:
Pritzker ludicrously claimed he didn’t know if the shooting was due to a political motivation. No, we don’t know all the facts yet, but it’s hard to imagine that it was caused by a personal beef.
I have no idea what he felt inside, but his expression betrayed exactly zero remorse:
“First, I want to express my sympathy to Charlie Kirk's family and to Charlie Kirk, who obviously, has, you know, become a target for somebody,” Pritzker said. “I don't know whether it's political violence because I don't know who did it. I know they seem to have somebody in custody, but I will say that political violence, unfortunately, has been ratcheting up in this country.”
So far, nothing too objectionable about his statement. But then—without mentioning the two assassination attempts on Donald Trump’s life—he proceeds to blame the president’s rhetoric and Jan. 6 for a new era of violence in our country. You can’t make this stuff up.
We saw the shootings, the killings in Minnesota. We've seen other political violence occur in other states, and I would just say it's got to stop.
And I think there are people who are fomenting it in this country.
I think the president's rhetoric often foments it. We've seen the January 6th rioters, who clearly, have tripped a new era of political violence.
Nowhere does he mention that former President Joe Biden frequently used to fantasize out loud about beating up Trump behind a gym, that he said on a donor call in July of ’24 that “It’s time to put Trump in the bull’s-eye”; he didn’t mention that Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) threatened that Supreme Court justices who didn’t rule the way he wanted would “pay the price”; he didn’t mention that he himself frequently refers to Nazi Germany when talking about the Trump administration; he didn't feel the need to include Rep. Maxine Waters' (D-CA) infamous speech in 2018 where she said, “if you see anybody from that [Trump’s] Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd and you push back on them and you tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere.”
There are so many more examples of Democrats’ violent, incendiary rhetoric; these are but a smattering.
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This is a dangerous crossroads we’re at in this country. In a day that should be spent in somber reflection and prayer for Charlie Kirk’s soul and for his family, JB Pritzker chooses to pour more gasoline on the fire.
Depraved. There's the word I was looking for.