“There is an ideology that has been steadily growing in this country which hates everything that is good, righteous and beautiful and celebrates everything that is warped, twisted and depraved. It is an ideology at war with family and nature. It is envious, malicious, and soulless,” wrote Stephen Miller on 9/11/2025. Miller has succinctly described the ideology that murdered Charlie Kirk.
Michael Stern
It is so nice to see all the leftists in Sound Off are back after one day of showing some restraint after the assassination of Charlie Kirk, back to their same old hateful selves. Democrats never want to debate ideas; they just want to shut people down. Back to calling people Nazis, Hitler, Dictators, Threat to Democracy, etc. Violence on the left will never end because they know no other way to communicate. Welcome Back!
“MARINE FOREVER”
Until every Democrat politician, mainstream media mouthpiece, left-wing “journalist,” and elitist Hollywood personality publicly apologizes for their vile words, and their failure to condemn their colleagues speaking those incendiary words, know that nobody wants to hear your take on the assassination of Charlie Kirk. You’re just as culpable as that left-wing radicalized social misfit who took Mr. Kirk’s life.
Can Man
When teachers celebrate the death of someone, it sends a terrible message to young, maturing minds. It tells them disagreement is violence and politics is war rather than opinion and dialogue. Schools are supposed to be places where children learn both knowledge and character. If those entrusted with both are cheering violence, parents most certainly should be furious and fearful for what influence these teachers might have on their children, so yes, fire them.
Info Depot
ABC “News” aired a segment about the text messages sent by Charlie Kirk’s murderer to his boyfriend. The “reporter” commented that the texts showed the humanity of the killer and the love he had for his boyfriend. The “reporter” characterized the exchange as touching. No! The exchange was revolting.
The Independent
KC and Diana stated they think Charlie Kirk’s assassination was wrong. But they’ve never apologized for spending the last 10 years calling Trump and his supporters Nazis, fascists, racists, homophobes, Islamophobes, misogynists, threats to democracy, or supporting democrat politicians who’ve been advocating violent retaliation against Republicans. We all know who you are, so spare us your hypocritical self-affirming virtue signaling crap and go back to being the disgusting human beings you both are.
Missy Miss
KC has joined the what-about-ism crowd by assuming Melissa Hortman and her husband were killed by a right-winger. We won’t know for sure who the perp represents and what his motive was. But consider this: Melissa Hortman and the two other targeted Democrats had recently crossed the aisle to vote with Republicans to pass the bill denying taxpayer-funded Medicare to illegal immigrants, and without those votes, the bill would have failed.
Sandy Loven
Democrats have raised the temperature of the political discourse. In their own words — Sen. Chuck Schumer said this, “I want to tell you, Gorsuch, I want to tell you, Kavanaugh, you have released the whirlwind and you will pay the price. You won’t know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions.”
Realist
Just when I thought I’d heard it all, Sound Off’s RealAmerica compares Charlie Kirk’s assassination — an innocent, law-abiding Christian conservative — to George Floyd, a career criminal high on drugs who died resisting arrest. That’s not just ignorant — it’s pathetic. Kirk was killed for his beliefs; Floyd died from his own actions. RealAmerica? More like RealDemocrat. Change your name — you’ve clearly picked a side.
Bonnie
Killing over political ideology is wrong. I am not outraged, but saddened by what our country has become. 4 years being led by a man with declining mental acuity, and heading into 4 years with a man who seeks power and fortune through his office. Discord leads to chaos. Chaos leads to centralizing power to control the people. The worst part is that a majority of the people cannot see it.
The Moderate
It’s called “performative empathy.” It’s when MAGA pretends to care about a person who is aligned with their sick ideology. I saw a very evil man who suckered money from some very stupid people. MAGA members have to go along with this or get excommunicated from the cult. Get a backbone!
Lefty, Not Afraid
Democrats are upset that they’re now being judged by the content of their character rather than the color of their skin or sexual orientation. Karma at its finest.
Shadow
Remember when Joe Biden called Trump “con artist”, “worst spray tan in America”, “erratic”, “vulgar”, “fake”? And said “I’m a never Trump guy”, “never liked him”, “terrible candidate”, “Trump is America’s Hitler”. No, I’m sorry, that was Marco Rubio and JD Vance!
RealAmerica
Leftists actually think it’s wrong that their people are losing their jobs for what they’re saying about Charlie Kirk’s assassination, but they think it’s perfectly OK that Charlie Kirk deserved to lose his life for what he said. Dems be tripp’n!
Butch
There is a deep sickness in our society. To see folks wasting their time on this earth supporting a killer like Luigi Mangione is heartbreaking. He killed a productive member of our society for nothing. Recent polls show that 86% of baby boomers like me say political violence is never justified, but 40% of Gen Z say it is sometimes justified — this is a terrifying poll.
Billy G.
Richard Paladino — why are you making stuff up? It wasn’t democratic prosecutors and judges who let deCarlos Brown walk. It was one magistrate named Teresa Stokes, and no one knows her political affiliation. Magistrates in North Carolina are appointed; they don’t run. They also don’t need to be a lawyer, which is shocking to me. Maybe that’s part of the problem, but blaming it on Democrats is a lie
Diana
To RealAmerica, all the things said about George Floyd were true. He was a scumbag and far from an innocent man. He also was not killed. Now that the autopsy reports have come out, George Floyd died of a drug overdose. That’s why he couldn’t breathe!
Puggy
As I’ve aged, I’ve found the easiest way to remove those wrinkles we all see when we look into the mirror is to just remove your glasses! Voila. They’re gone!
Jim Fitch
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