This Podcast Is... Uncalled For - Thoughts on Political Violence

Episode Date: March 13, 2026

Political violence is never okay.  We need to be better than that. Yes, we're going to talk about political violence today - from a fact based prospective, and in light of the assassination of a certain right-wing influencer (who, it should be pointed out, our intrepid host does not agree with but he did not deserve what happened to him - no one does). We will try our best to dive further into this subject in future episodes because it deserves exploration.

Check the mic will go live stories told their eyes and dive Topics fresh with every spin you won't guess what's coming in Every week a new surprise minds away never lives conversations bold and free tuning now just wait just press play where is the shop a pin The podcast um well this is an episode i wish i didn't have to do but we're we're going to do it so I'm recording this about a week after a certain right-winger got shot and killed on college campus and got me to thinking that there needs to be a discussion on political violence and political rhetoric that

they go hand in hand and frankly they do need to stop and and this gives me an opportunity to debunk a lie that we keep hearing from the right that's well it's the left there causing all all the violence and everything with all their bad mouth there no this is a propaganda free zone and I will prove that. I have a report in front of me from the anti-deformation league. A murder and extremism in the United States in 2022

including an in-depth analysis on extremist mass killings. So good job of the ADL. One of many reports on this, by the way. I'm just going to read the executive summary because we could be here all day talking about this. So key findings. Every year, individuals with ties to different extreme causes and movements, kill people in the United States. The ADL Center on Extremism tracks these murders.

Extremists regularly commit murders in the service of their ideology in the service of a group or gang. they may belong to or even when engaging in traditional non-ideological criminal activities. In 2022, domestic extremists, one might use the word terrorists here, killed at least 25 people in the United States in 12 separate incidents. This represents a decrease from the 33 extremist-related murders documented in 2021, and is comparable to the 22 extremists-related murders in 2020. It continues the recent trend of fewer extremist-related killings after a five-year span of 47 to 78 extremists-related murders per year from 2015 to 2019. 2022 murders tolls would have been much lower enough for two high-casualty extremist-related shooting sprees.

Only 10 of the 25 deaths occurred. outside of those sprees and one of those ten occurred a less lethal shooting attempt. The issue of extremists-related mass killings is of growing concern, rightfully so, and is the subject of a special section of this report. From the 70s to 2000s domestic extremist-related mass killings were relatively uncommon. I wonder what happened. Let's continue. However, over the past 12 years,

their numbers have greatly increased. Most of these killings were committed by right-wing extremists. I'm not, buts left-wing extremists and domestic Islamist extremists, Islamist extremists, rather, were also responsible for instance. So, the vast majority of the violence out there is coming from the right, not the left, although the left is not completely excused

in any way or shape, or form. Because certainly we're only human, and humans are capable of, Violence. I would hope that they don't commit violence, but that's why we're doing this today is to educate ourselves. And go from there. So what happens that caused us? Oh yeah, we elected a black man as president. I still to this day maintain that the whole teabagging thing that morphed into

MAGA was completely because the rights could not handle the fact that a person of color Barack Obama was able to win the presidential election when it's quite convincingly

twice and here's the important thing. He did a good job as president. Not perfect, but he did a good job. And the rights just could not stand it. And they started calling him a socialist. He governed anything but socialist. All right, he was actually quite middle of the road.

If anything, Biden probably would have been governed slightly more progressive. than Obama did. But Obama was very much middle of the road. Let's continue with this. So the Center on Extremist and Mass Identified, 62 extremist-connected mass-killing incidents since 1970, with 46 of them being ideologically motivated. Discerably, more than half, 26, or 156,

are 57% of the ideological mess killings have occurred within the past 12 years. This obviously came out in 2022, 2023, so they're time period from 2010 to 2020. Of particular concern in recent years are shootings inspired by white supremacist, accelerationist, propaganda urging sucks attacks. Again, right-wing ideology. In 2026, 18 of the 25 extremists-related murders appeared to have been committed in whole or part for ideological motives. While the remaining seven either had no clear motive or were committed by a non-ideological motive. All of the extremists-related murders in 2022 were committed.

by right-wing extremists of various kinds, who typically commit most such killings every year, but only occasionally are responsible for all. The last time this occurred was in 2012. What happened in 2012? Well, that was Obama's re-election. Left-wing extremists engage in violence, ranging from assaults to fire,

bombings to arsons, but since the late 1980s have not often targeted people with deadly violence. The same cannot be said for domestic Islamist extremists, but deadly incidents linked to Islamist extremism has decreased significantly in the United States over the past five years. Yeah, remember when that was a thing? certainly after 9-1101. Hopefully we're better than that now, but who knows. White supremacists commit the greatest number of domestic extremist-related murders in most years. But in 2022, the percentage was unusually high.

21 of the 25 murders were linked to white supremacists. Again, this is primarily due to mass shootings. Only one of the murders was committed by right-wing anti-government extremists, the lowest since 2017. There's a chart I want to, there's a chart here I want to talk about. Oh yeah. Oh, yeah, here we go. domestic extremist-related killings in the United States by years from 2013-2020. Do you know when the highest years were 2016, 78, and 2015, 71?

What was going on then? Oh, yeah, that was when Donny Dumbfuck decided he's going to run for president. this was the beginning of the MAGA thing, but I digress because we now have from 1971 to 2020 the five most deadly years for domestic

extremists killings number one is in 1995 specifically the Oklahoma City bombing which resulted in 168 deaths the total number of deaths for that was 184. Then we go to 2016 and 178.

49 of them in the Orlando nightclub shooting. 2015, there were 71, and 28 of them happened in shootings in San Bernardino, Chattanooga, and Charleston. 2018 so well into Donnie's first term 56 such deaths including Parkland High School in the Pittsburgh Synagogue and in 2019 23 deaths at the El Paso

Walmart and 49 total such deaths that year here's the chart of one to get at this is a domestic well one of the charts I'm going to get that domestic extremists related killings in the U.S. by perpetrator affiliation in

2022 so all of the 22 extremists related murders were committed by right-wing extremists 25 84% white supremacy that seems to be something Donnie's supporters are really big on right

and we get anti-government extremism 4% Q&N extremism 4% yeah those people who think liberals are convening satanic rituals in the in the non-existence basement basement of DC pizza shops. So, saith the ruler, Bethos, I'm sorry, it has to be said right there.

I'm going to make love to your asshole, children. There's a lot of parallel between that bullshit theory and what they portrayed in South Park that here.

Domestic extremists related killings in the U.S. by perpetrator affiliation from 2013 to 22. 444 deaths. Excuse me, one second, please. I apologize for that. Something completely unrelated to what we're talking about. But yeah, let's get back to what we're talking about.

So 444 deaths from 2013 to 22, all related to domestic extremist-related killings in the United States, by perpetrator affiliation. Right-wingers, right-wing extremists are responsible for the great majority of extremist-related murders over that decade. 75%. Right-wing extremism, all movements.

Left-wing extremism, and they include anarchists and black nationalists, here. 4%. 75%. 75. to four. You tell me that the left is

dangerous ones. Yeah, good luck with that. Domestic Islamist extremism? 20%. Others miscellaneous, 1%. And I will read this paragraph here. Next two paragraphs. Right-wing extremists in the U.S.

commit such a large proportion of murders for a range of reasons it is not that only right-wing extremists are violent left-wing extremists engage in violence ranging from assaults to firebombings

and arsons but in recent decades have only occasionally targeted people with deadly violence being far more likely to attack property again not excusing anyone on my side of the aisle okay there

but for the most part you know when left waiters get together it's usually peaceful just a few bad apples out there I hate to see it but I'd rather

property that can be replaced lives cannot domestic Islamist terror extremists in the US will be have been more willing to engage in deadly violence, including shooting sprees, but such incidents have decreased significantly over the past

five years, particularly due to the decline of the terrorist movement. ISIS or ISIL, whose cause to violence inspired many plots and attacks. Moreover, the far right of this country is large, comprising many movements. including multiple white supremacist and anti-government extremists movements as well as a variety of single-issue extremists and conspiracy-based movements. And they have a breakdown of that too,

so we went from 444. We're now a giver of the non-right wingers. where I 335 total deaths by right-wing extremists. Of these, 73% white supremacy, 17% anti-government extremists, 5% toxic masculinity extremism, and 4% anti-abortion and other right-wing extremism. so why why why why why why is it that most of the people who are against abortion are people you want to fuck in the first place

and uh and uh i i suggest that reading this report to yourself because it is uh pretty lengthy and all that's but they do uh list the uh extremist murders in uh 22 which we will We'll go ahead and just read the list. So we have the Suisun City, California, on December 15 of 22, then we have, this looks like it's reverse cryological. So Colorado Springs, Colorado, and November 19 of 22. Auburn, Illinois, November 8, 2020.

Rochester, New York, November 3rd, 2022, Green Bay, Wisconsin, October 21st, 2022. Wald Lake, Michigan, September 11th, 2020. Buffalo, New York, May 14, 2022. I believe this was the supermarkets. That one did make the national news. Inid, Oklahoma, April 28, 2022, Fairfield, California, April 22nd, 22nd, 22, Tracy, California on March 15, 2020, Portland, Oregon, February 19, 22, 22, Tulsa, Oklahoma, January 5th, 2020, 22.

So I do recommend reading this yourself. ADL.org slash C-O-E for their center on extremism. And also we're saying a lot of lack of empathy on the right on this. Just this year alone, we had the Democratic. Democratic Speaker of the House in Minnesota, guns down, along with her husband and their dog. You had the governor of Pennsylvania, his house set on fire. These are done by right-wingers. But God forbid that we talk about other violence.

on the right, from the rights or yeah. Yeah, let's look up I don't, what is that Time article

real quick? I'm going to pause real quickly. Back. So this is Time magazine, time.com September 16,

2025. Written by Rebecca Schneid. The headline is Trump called for a crackdown

on the radical left, but right-wing extremists are responsible for more political violence. So just hours after the killing of conservative influencer Charlie Kirk, more on him later, when police were still searching for suspect and motive, since this was released, they found a suspect and he was not politically motivated, it sounds like. except for the fact that he was not exactly conventional sexually. We'll just say that, but we continue. So just hours after Charlie Kirk was killed when police were still such a respect to the moment.

Donnie promised to crack down on the radical left groups that he blamed for Kirk's. death and for rising political violence across the country. Radical left political violence has hurt so many innocent people and taken too many lives. He said in an

Oval Office address adding that you would find each and every one of those who contribute to this atrocity. Well, I just read a bunch of stuff that bruises you to be

full of shit speaking again on Tuesday days after the killing Donnie said that most of the violence is on the left the day tells a different story and they cite a different study but came

up with very similar conclusions in the last five years 81 people had been killed by political violence in the U.S. Right-wing terrorists account for over half of those murders. Some 54%,

according to research by the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank. Islamists account for 21%, and left-winners for 22%. So, yeah, different study, but similar conclusions. The same study looked at data as far back as

1975. In fact, the terrorists inspired by Islamist ideology account for some 87% of all deaths, 3,122, from political violence

due to 9-11. Excluding 9-11 over that same period of time, terrorists inspired by right-wing ideology are responsible for 63% of deaths from political violence during that time compared to just 10% from left-wing attacks. Since 1975, there have been 391 deaths caused by right-wing terror attacks in the U.S. 65 from the left.

And now they have a nice little chart here too, again from the Cato Institute. murders by ideology in politically motivated terrorism since 1975 so different time frame two excluding 9-11 so excluding 9-11 3991 from the right 143 from Islamists

65 from the left 8 from foreign nationalism 4 from separatism nine unknown or other so Colin Clark senior researcher at the Sufan Center

focusing on domestic and transnational terrorism said the data shows a clear disparity in lethality between left and right when it comes to political violence there's no question that if you look at the numbers in terms of lethality

is the far right that's been more lethal Tree of Life El Paso Walmart attack Buffalo supermarket shooting Each of these attacks were commanded but with extremist

white supremacist motivations Clark notes that Donnie's speech mentioned noble instance of left-wing terrorism in recent years but dodged any mention of right-wing terrorism he mentioned all these issues of far-left terrorism,

but he omitted the attack on Michigan's governor, Woodmore. I don't think he mentioned the arson attack against Pennsylvania's governor Shapiro. So do we only care about one type of extremism? And if so, why wouldn't we care about the more lethal threat? Donnie's administration Focus on left-wing violence

at the expense of the more deadly threats of right-wing violence was drawn in the sharp focus on Monday when Donnie was asked by a reporter whether flags showed up at full and a half-mass following the recent assassination of the Minnesota House Speaker

a Democrat named Melissa Hortman as they were for Kirk again more on Charlie Kirk in a little bit oh I'm not familiar who Donnie's reply when someone explains who Hortman was

well I would have done it if the governor had asked me to do that the governor in this case being Harris's running mates to Moles who by the way I think would have been far superior a choice for

presidents than as vice president on that ticket and full disclosure when I voted I wrote in Bernie Sanders for presidents and Walls for vice so

all right so we have Alex I'm going to butcher your name I'm sorry namaste Ah, what's just going to Alex from? I studied. Who conducted this study said that the main takeaway from his research was that

politically motivated violence is very uncommon in the U.S., which is a good thing. And any major policy shift based on these small amounts of murders would be in contradiction to his findings. The rhetoric does not match the evidence. everyone is rightfully aghast and disturbed by the video and the murder but a horrible individual murder and not evidence of a massive society-wide problem or trend I just don't want to blow this out proportion to give the government an excuse to crack down in a way

that would be detrimental to all of our liberties I agree the Cato study which used 18 datasets and documents found that a total of 3,599 people

that had been murdered and politically motivated terrorist attacks in the U.S. since 1975. The study categorized

left-wing attacks as those motivated by animal rights, environmentalism, and anti-police sentiments, to name a few.

I will pause and say the whole the whole defund the police thing guys that didn't help us at all

at all do I think police need to be reformed yes police do need to be reformed but not defunded that that's a

that course is my take animal rights environment I'm All for environmentalism, absolutely. I mean, we did an episode on climate change and all that, and I would love to get more involved with that when the time is right. But still, you know, you don't usually hear people dying in those types of attacks. Right-wing attacks includes those motivated by sentiment, slitches, white supremacy,

and anti-abortion beliefs. Experts do note, however, that political violence is rising, even if from a low starting point, spurred by increased polarization, economic insecurity, and racial

tensions. Now, how much of this has to do with a right-wing media? Just asking. Here. I think a lot, but we continue. The last few years have seen the storming of the U.S. Capitol by Donnie's supporters to impede

the certification of a presidential election, January 6, 2021, more than 9,600 recorded threats against members of Congress. hammer-wielding assailant attack on Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband Paul and the attempted stabbing of New York gubernatorial

candidate Lee Zeldin at a campaign rally. Last year, Donnie himself faced two attempts on his life on the campaign trail. Both of which were done by right wingers, so shut the fuck up about those. All right.

a recent time cover story on rising political violence noted numerous instances just this year like the residents of Pennsylvania Governor Shapiro a Democrat sound fired by a arsonist

gunmen shooting two Democratic Minnesota legislators and their spouses that'd be the Hornman murder to Israeli embassy staffers

were shot killed outside the capital Jewish museum in Washington a man shining

free Palestine tossed malthoff cocktails at pro Israeli demonstration in Boulder

not cool all right I'm I'm a free Palestine guy but come on not cool

not cool at all injured multiple people and killing one and gunmen who allegedly held anti-vax views open fire at the CDC in Atlanta Benjamin Radd RAD RADD political scientists and professor of law at UCLA said that

Donnie's administration's characterization of the big shift in left-wing violence is not represented in the numbers if the numbers grow from one to five that's like a fivefold increase right so I think what Donnie is saying is yes we do have more than

we did before but before is basically negligible so does that represent a trend no we don't have enough data rad says that policy changes around political violence are often based less on the quantity of the violence and more about

the quality of the media storm surrounding them. Southern Rad said Donnie amplified very effectively. The recent killing of Hortman and her husband, the shooting of Minnesota John Hoffman, for example,

received much less attention from the public and from Donny himself. Investigators say that the suspect in that killing had a hit list of 45 elected

officials, all of them with a D next to their name. That amplification is in my opinion what makes this look bigger and the trend look more real than it actually is. It's the feeling

that stokes. It's the images, the iconography. The content it's used to convey and to reinforce these fears and that's much more powerful than what the data actually shows all right so that so there we go

now before anyone accuses me of engaged in hate speech here what I'm going to read next is actual Charlie Kirk quotes now Do he deserve to die for what he has said? No.

No one deserves to die for staying their opinions. Even if their opinions are hateful and contributed to this mess. Okay. And no, I will not be donating to Turning Points USA at any time because I think they're part of the problem. here. And if you want, put me in jail for, uh,

quoting Charlie Kirk back at you, so be it. So be it. But, uh, Huffington Post.com. If you're wondering what Charlie Kirk believed in, here are 14 real quotes. Uh, credit to Alexa Lysitsa

for Buzzfeed for writing this dated January, September 13, 2025. In life of his death, Charlie Kirk's likes to be being remembered through these viral quotes. So, this week, conservative personality, Charlie Kirk, was

fairly shot while speaking at Utah Valley University event. So a couple notes here before I continue. So Utah Valley University in Aram, Utah, which I guess is a suburb of Proville.

We used to play them in basketball when we were in the whack. So we got that. And it was just recently, the most recent season of South Park, they did a whole episode on the debate me bro culture

that Kirk and others represented. To the point that they had Cartman basically dressed up like Kirk and engage in what Cartman called Master Debating. I came out of Master Debating to the Cardca's, yeah. And I'm really a master debate, yeah. So really funny stuff.

The idea is to, and the idea is to, and the idea is, idea is to catch these college students that's what these guys do. They go to college campuses and debate students who are ill-prepared

and try to make their arguments but they come back with bullshit arguments in such a convincing manner that it seemed that you would think that they had won the debates but

they probably didn't. Now, prove me wrong. I get, is the, is their phrasing, but... Let's read the article. So, Kirk was a controversial figure. And in light of his passing, many of his most talked about quotes and beliefs are being resurfaced online.

So here are 14 moments of Kirk's that are going viral once again. Number one, at a Turning Point USA event. So this was Kirk's organization in 2023. Kirk said that he thinks gun deaths are worth it to have a second amendment. So once again, I think the second amendment of the Constitution is very poorly written. All right. And to prove it, I'm just going to read the text of the Second Amendment,

which is simply get a syrup of water here. This is the entire Second Amendment. A well-regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the rights of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. That is way too open to interpretation, especially in a time where we have automatic weapons and people living in denser, more urban areas. All right, that's just a recipe for,

disaster unless you specifically say you can't have semi-automatic weapons and you should only have access to weapons

if you are legitimately part of a militia none of this constitutional carry whatever the fuck they want to call that and you know where you can just

carry wherever you want without permit No, that's, that's just, that's just wrong, in my opinion. That's a discussion for another time, but let's get back to, let's get back to Kirk. So, we must also be real. We must be honest with the population. Having an armed citizenry comes with a price, and that price is liberty. We need to be very clear that you're not going to get gunned.

deaths to zero. That will not happen. Let's ask a country that actually has a strict gun loss. About that. But I think it's worth it. I think it's worth it to have a cost of

unfortunately some gun deaths every single year so that we can have a Second Amendment. That's right of Kirk's mouth. Yeah. He is now one of those gun deaths. so okay I'll give

I'll give him principle he died the way he believed so in Second Amendment way to open to any

interpretation and that's why I think it's very poorly written so number two on his self-titled radio talk show Kirk expressed his dislike of

word empathy. I can't stand the word empathy, actually. I think empathy is made up new age term. That does a lot of damage. Really? Really.

So people think I'm not empathetic because I refuse to support constitutional carry because it's put in a place by someone who used a death for his own political gain?

I'm more upset with the using someone's death for political gain than I than the other thing, which is still pretty bad, but say empathy is a bad word? That's, I don't know. I don't know. Number three. appearing on Jubilee's internet show Surrounded

I've seen a couple of episodes of this but Kirkch was not one of them they did this it's a interesting concept you have someone talking about one thing in East

and there there's a circle of people who have the opposite view and they on certain points to debate the person in the and they take turns debating

interesting concept and apparently Kirk did this so so appearing on the surrounded Kirk insisted black people were better in the 1940s under Jim Crow that's disgusting

and quite racist So while debating a college student, Kirk said, they were actually better in the 1940s. It was bad. It was evil. But what happened? Something changed. They committed less crimes.

The person in debate responded. 4,000 black men, women, and children were killed in violent lynch mobs. Racial terror permeated American culture for hundreds of years. And I would argue still does. to this day. You don't think that affected this generational psyche of an entire group of people?

He interrupted Black America's worse than it had been in the last 80 years. Absolutely disgusting. Absolutely disgusting. Number four, during that same Jubilee episode, Kirk was asked

what he would want his daughter to do if she were 10 years old and pregnant following rape. I think this is a legitimate reason to have an abortion. But, again, it's not my fucking business and shouldn't be anyone's business other than the woman who's caring. After calling the scenario, graphic, he responds, the answer is yes, the baby would be delivered. so he would force a 10-year-old, 10 years old, to carry and give birth to a child.

I have no words. I have no words. Number five, at Turning Point USA, Vince, Kirk suggested trans people are wearing the gender equivalent of blackface. He said, a man who calls himself trans is wearing woman face. No different than I would wear black face trying to be a black person. It's assuming an identity that isn't yours. This guy clearly didn't understand the trans issues and oh something else that South Park made fun of

ah John Wendy the same I got to I'm James Ginger. That's bad. Bumme's a good way I got to see. Um Okay This will make This This is sick So number six

On his radio show Kirk Not only said that Joy Reid Michelle Obama Sheila Jackson Lee And Katanji Brown Jackson Are affirmative action

Picks I'm not going to play the club But Uh But the But the uh But the uh tweets

being quote that says him saying black women do not have brain processing power to be taken seriously you have to go steal a white person's slot fuck you very much but I know we're not

supposed to speak ill of the dead but fuck you for that we're talking about a journalist the former first lady we're talking about a congresswoman who I believe has since

passed, I will look this up. Yeah, passed a little over a year ago. It looks like cancer. She was 74. So,

not just a black congresswoman, but a deceased black congresswoman, and a Supreme Court Justice. Are you saying that? they're not qualified to do their jobs because I would argue otherwise.

And that's what a lot of people... Yeah, number seven, he also said black women... Yeah. Yeah. Just repeating what I just said. Yeah, black women do not have the brain power to otherwise be taken really seriously. You have to steal a white man's job

to go be... taken somewhat seriously. Oh, F that. Number eight, this kind of hits close to home because, of course, if you're a regal, you know, we're based in Kansas City. And we have this football team,

and there's a guy on, there's a player on that football team and starts dating a certain pop star. Well, at the, it's been about not even a, hasn't been even a month

as of this corner but a set couple is now happily engaged number eight after Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey announced their engagements Kirk fantasized

about Kelsey making Swift more conservative and begged the pop star to submit to her husband this is something that I hope will make Taylor Swift more conservative, he said. Engage in reality

more. Reject feminism. Submit to your husband, Taylor. You're not in charge. Fact check. Taylor Swift's billionaire, like 1.6 billion, I believe. Travis Kelsey

worth a millionaire in his own rights, but worth way less than Taylor. I would strongly recommend watching Taylor's appearance on New Heights, which Travis does, of course, with his brother, Jason. The two really like each other. They spent most of the absent talking about the genesis of their relationship. we finally heard her side of the story that he tried to barge in to her dresser,

that heirs to her concert at Arrowhead. And hearing what they're like behind the scenes, it's very much a union of equals, I would say they really do love each other and everything. And I'm happy for them. and married. In fact, over a union station, they had a display right after their engagements

and they had a book that people could sign, and I signed to the book. Reference in that one time that Travis quoted me on New Heights. So, so yeah, huge problem there, Charlie, that you're telling

a woman who's worth a lot more than her future. to submit to him F you. As for the politics thing, I think it's fair to say from I know

of these two their politics are left of center and that's perfectly all right. In fact, with Taylor she did documentary a couple years ago. Donnie forced her to get political when he

backed Marsha Blackburn. who is a far right-wing head case out of Tennessee currently in the U.S. Senate, and she is just horrible. And Taylor thought so too, and she actively campaigned against that. And that was her introduction to politics. Okay. Back to the article, Jabroney. Number nine on Twitter.

I'm not going to call it next, but Twitter. Carr consisted, gun control, like vaccines and masks, is focused on making people feel safe by taking freedoms away from them, from others. Don't fall forth. Again, I refer to you to the countries that have done a good job of gun control, and meaningful gun control, which is something we lack in this country.

And that's where the vaccines. Well, this year we're seeing the results of that with measles outbreaks. Here's the disease that vaccines pretty much almost wiped off the face of the earth, at least in the U.S., and all of a sudden they're popping back up because people aren't getting their kids' vaccines. made it against it. So, nice try. Number 10,

following the tragic January 2005 collision between the American Airlines plane a Black Hawk Army

helicopter caused by Donnie firing a bunch of air traffic controllers. Donnie suggested that diversity equity

the inclusion efforts were at fault. It's all a jihad against the idea of DEI of diversity, making sure people who were qualified had a fair chance at the job regardless of their, of the color of their skin. To take those programs away, there will be plenty of qualified people who would not get those jobs because they're black or Hispanic or whatever.

Kirk added to this saying, If I see a black pilot, I'm going to be like, boy, I hope he's qualified. Racist much? Number 11. Following the release of an NBC poll illustrating the difference in priorities between Gen Ziers, which show that Gen Z women who voted for Harris see having a fulfilling career as a marker for success. Kirk said, quote,

Democrat women wants to die alone without children. Okay. This is an issue I've had with the right for quite some time when they say it's a Democrat problem or they're talking about the Democrat Party it's Democratic Party all right so Democratic

women want to die alone without children that's not necessarily true you know if they want to have a correct that's fine you know if they don't have a career yeah that's fine let them

you know it's their lives leave them alone but for the love of God start with this Democrat thing. Democrat is a noun, not an adjective. The adjective form is Democratic. All right. Number 12, Kirk repeatedly spread misinformation surrounding the death of George Floyd, who experts say died from an officer applying their knee to his neck. So basically the cop killed him. Instead, Kirk, who is not a medical examiner and did not examine

Floyd's body. By the way, did not graduate college said his death was caused by overdose. Who the fuck are you to make that determination, pal? I mean, there's video of the guy shot, I can't breathe,

I can't breathe while a cop is kneeling on his fucking neck. And they have a nice little tweet here. too, so from Kirk saying, quote, telling how so many pastors

were mad that George Floyd overdosed, but don't care, a white woman was brutally murdered by 14 counts repeat offender. Again, where's your evidence? In fact, I want, I wasn't a fucking degree.

You're going to be talking like that. So, number 13. Kirk wanted to raise the age of retirement and didn't think people should retire at all. Now, I would say that for future retirees, people under the age of 45, we should absolutely raise the retirement age. Oh, thank you for excluding me from this. I'm going to say something very provocative.

I'm not a fan of retirements. I don't think retirement is biblical. You say, Charlie, I just, I'm just going to retire. I'm just going to go golf. I think, what a waste of the gifts that God has given you. Okay. So as we get older, as I'm finding out myself, as we get older, our bodies change, and we're not able to do as much as we used to.

All right. so to me it makes sense for people to retire all right my father's been retired close to a decade now

and he has his health problems if he is being forced to work right now would he be able to work just think about that before you make idiotic statements like that

and we're in the Bible does it say that's a retirement's a bad thing? In fact, you know what? Let's do a Google search right now. Google, retirement. And the first one that comes up. Okay. This is what Google says when you type it in.

So the concept of modern retirement isn't directly discussed in the Bible, but the Levites were instructed to retire from their active temple service at age 50 in numbers 8, 23 through 26. A duty involving physical labor that was better suited for younger men. For Christians, retirement from a career is not a time to stop serving God and others, but an opportunity to serve in new ways, using accumulated wisdom and experience. for God's glory. So, so there you go.

There you go, Charlie. Numbers 823 through 26. Says Yeah. Yeah. Retirement has to be a thing.

And then number 14, finally, but certainly not last. During Pride Month, children's show host Miss Rachel, aka Rachel Griffin Accurso, wished followers a happy pride month and responded to subsequent backlash by quoting the Bible and expressing the importance of loving every neighbor.

That's definitely in the Bible. Love thy neighbor as thyself. In response, Kirk attempted to cite the Bible to prove a point about his, anti-gay views, but he ultimately misquoted a mixture of passages from Leviticus 1822 and Leviticus 2013. He said, The house shall lay with another man shall be stoned to death. Just saying, the chapter affirms God's perfect law when it comes to sexual manner. Oh, jean. Okay. Maybe this was what South Park was making fun of when they had Cartman say, LeVacus 913, which is... LeVos 9.138, Neumbromah! So, LeVacus, 1822, You shall not lie with a male as with a woman, such a thing is an abomination.

This first is part of a chapter in the Old Testament. Book of Louvacus that details prohibitions against illicit sexual acts including incest, adultery the forms of sexual behavior considered unclean

and detestable and Lavacas 2013 if a man lies with a male as something with a woman they both committed an abomination.

They certainly will die. Their blood is upon... Okay. I wonder what a biblical scholar would say about these particular verses, but it's okay to be gay, is what I'm going to close with. So, in closing,

Charlie Kirk was clearly a monster, but did he deserve to die? the way he did, absolutely not. And I would hope that, uh, listen as we have a better understanding of how political

violence happens in the United States, what's causing it. And, uh, hopefully we can find that ways to, uh, put a stop. To attack it. So one good way to put a stop to it is just make the conscious effort.

Um, I'm not going to pick up again, he has a right to his opinion. I might not disagree with him, but he has a right to believe, no, what he believes. That is going to do it for this episode of the podcast. This is a complex topic that we're talking about here with political violence. I open the discussion to anyone who's interested.

I know if a couple of people who are interested, in having this discussion but we're going to have to cap it here for this particular episode so this will be thoughts on political violence

and we will pick up on it with others as time and circumstance will allow so that said it's going to wrap it up So this podcast is Uncalled for is hosted, produced, and edited by myself, Mike Chenevsky.

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