‘They Are at War With Us!’ Fox News’ Jesse Watters Denounces ‘All These Rats’ After Charlie Kirk Assassination
https://www.mediaite.com/media/tv/they-are-at-war-with-us-fox-news-jesse-watters-denounces-all-these-rats-after-charlie-kirk-assassination/
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spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works · 309 pts · 342d
The Minnesota political assassinations were less than 3 months ago.
These fuckers are just freaked out that the people they encourage their followers to shoot may be starting to shoot back.
Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip · 146 pts · 342d
We didn't know who shot Kirk. The last few attempts on Republicans were also conducted by Republicans.
spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works · 83 pts · 342d
Maga was spreading the news that the shooter was a liberal within minutes. The vast majority will believe that they're under attack by liberals despite any news or facts to the contrary. Anything else will be viewed as another conspiracy.
Reality is not a place where Maga and Fox News live.
Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip · 25 pts · 342d
I'm aware they'll lie about. Just saying we shouldn't boost that narrative. Not while no one knows who did this
13igTyme@piefed.social · 20 pts · 342d
The shooter could be a live long Republican with the parents, spouse, and kids all being Republicans. They could have the dog trained to attack minorities and they could be someone that was very publicly vocal about every and all Republican talking points.
But they'd find a single photo where they are wearing a blue shirt and say they've secretly been a Democrat all their life.
AlexLost@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 342d
Even if it turns out to be a liberal, that'd make what, 1 in 10 shooters being on the left? 1 in 100? It's clearly a lefty gun epidemic. If only Republicans could read... Also, no one will ever be caught for this one. That way they can speculate to high heaven and never be wrong.
BanMe@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 341d
If it doesn't matter if the shooter is conservative, it doesn't matter if the shooter is progressive.
We need to stop making things matter when they don't. Who cares what the shooter was. They never do.
ALLGLORYTOHYPNOTOAD@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 342d
pivot_root@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 342d
Or brainwashed by leftists. The idea of a Republican harming a Republican seems to short-circuit them, like a robot with a paradox.
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 342d
Yep. I saw someone comment on the shooting earlier today on one of the mainstream articles - first commenter says "liberal violence needs to stop", next commenter says "both attempts on donnie were Republicans", third commenter denies that (I'm pretty sure the shooter that broke glass near donnie was a con, not sure about the other guy that set up a backpack near one of his golf courses, but he didn't even get off a shot).
They already think the guy that had Taco wearing that performative bandage for weeks on end because of broken glass nearby was a liberal.
Facts don't matter to these clowns. At all.
NJSpradlin@lemmy.world · 39 pts · 342d
No_Eponym@lemmy.ca · 16 pts · 342d
Certainly he will be the matter they use to unify the Republicans and move on from the Epstein Files
NJSpradlin@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 342d
dcpDarkMatter@kbin.earth · 37 pts · 342d
Minnesota*
spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works · 19 pts · 342d
Gracias. Multitasking is hard.
DrFistington@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 342d
It's probably a disgruntled MAGAt, although the fact that they are still at large probably means they are too smart to have been a MAGAt.
Then again, if it were a white male with a red hat they probably could have slipped in and out pretty easily. Has anyone done the math on how far the shot was?
spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works · 16 pts · 342d
IMO it doesn't matter who it is any more than it matters that vaccines are safe, Magats will make up their own story. 20 years of social media saying the guy's a hard right nutcase will just be considered a liberal conspiracy.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 10 pts · 342d
"Hey! You guys are supposed to be the ones against guns! You're not allowed to shoot US!"
We keep telling them that they aren't the only ones with guns, but they don't believe it. And I'll bet we're more competent with them as well.
Frenchys_prospecting@aussie.zone · 9 pts · 342d
100%
aramis87@fedia.io · 212 pts · 342d
Funny how when a liberal politician is shot, they've been "killed", but when a conservative influencer is shot, it's "assassination".
crystalmerchant@lemmy.world · 39 pts · 342d
Lmao it's like "private healthcare" and "government-run healthcare"
You fucks don't get to mix both, either way public/private or say government-run/corporate-run healthcare
Blackfeathr@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 342d
Isn't the word "assassinate" reserved for elected officials? Why tf is the media using this language for this jabroni who was a civilian?
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 341d
No, monarchs and heirs can be assassinated as can appointed officials. It refers to all public figures killed for reasons relating to their being a public figure
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 341d
And the liberal that was killed was literally assassinated.
We still have no idea who shot Charlie Kirk, or why.
rigatti@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 342d
aramis87@fedia.io · 42 pts · 342d
Most recently, that guy who shot four people in Minnesota (two politicians and their spouses), killing one couple and leaving the other pair wounded.
rigatti@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 342d
Saw the post below right after I said that. Totally forgot about it. News is kind of flooded with shit every day, it's so hard to even remember major events like that.
PattyMcB@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 342d
And that's EXACTLY what this regime is going for.
Yes, regime. This is not a democratic administration.
chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world · 121 pts · 342d
Fox News hosts are simply unbearable.
LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 47 pts · 342d
Lmao did they serious say that? Wild.
chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world · 36 pts · 342d
Yup. Right in the article.
Absolutely insane.
LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 38 pts · 342d
So they lie about everything then? Like I knew if was ‘entertainment’ and not news because they were lying but this is like… come on.
Edit: ‘he was a beautiful boy’? Why are they so weird? Who talks like this?
chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world · 34 pts · 342d
As someone raised by Republican parents that I'm now estranged from.....this is just how they talk. It's fucking weird.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 341d
Lying about everything implies a commitment to oppose truth. They more engage in a reckless disregard for the stuff. They say what they feel is fitting their agenda and give 0 shits any which way if it's true.
Cethin@lemmy.zip · 30 pts · 342d
Not polarizing, like Socrates...
Do they even know what they're saying? Socrates was so polarizing he was put to death because his opinions were too controversial at the time. (This isn't to imply the same for Kirk. He's just an asshole, and he won't be remembered by history.)
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 341d
He will likely be remembered in history. In the rising violence section of the mid 2020s
nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 341d
Whether they know or not is irrelevant. They know their brain dead audience doesn't know anything about Socrates other than "that old Greek guy" and so they can say whatever they want.
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 342d
LOL, Socrates?
GladiusB@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 342d
He invented geometry?
Horsey@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 342d
Charlie didn’t even graduate from college lol. He dropped out according to his Wikipedia.
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 342d
It's under SO CRATES.
https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=xkfvg1j1yg8
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip · 96 pts · 342d
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works · 54 pts · 342d
Charlie Kirk: loses gun debate the hard way
PattyMcB@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 342d
I have zero empathy for him
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 6 pts · 342d
Joke's on you, he doesn't believe in empathy.
PattyMcB@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 342d
Joke's on him. He can't believe in anything anymore.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 342d
Heh-heh. The Schadenfreude is flowing strong today.
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 342d
Neither do I, but I do have empathy for the people who'll suffer due to Kirk's martyrdom. Meanwhile, Kirk's audience is still there, and they'll be eagerly snatched up by the next demagogue to spout the same message.
The world became worse yesterday. Don't forget that.
JuBe@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 342d
https://www.newsweek.com/charlie-kirk-says-gun-deaths-worth-it-2nd-amendment-1793113
PattyMcB@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 342d
Sunflier@lemmy.world · 91 pts · 342d
"The enemy within", "Rats", "Demon-crats"
The Nazis dehumanized the Jews like this
CitizenKong@lemmy.world · 40 pts · 342d
Jews, gypsys, homosexuals, disabled people and the opposition. Hitler actually went for the left and unions first.
eddanja@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 342d
Dare I say, Demo-cats?
AbidanYre@lemmy.world · 85 pts · 342d
The Second American Revolution will remain bloodless if the Left allows it to be,” the Heritage post said.
Get fucked fascists.
halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world · 66 pts · 342d
Political violence is of course bad... but as soon as you call for it, especially indirectly, you deserve whatever comes to you. Stochastic terrorism is still terrorism, and there's not a lot more American than the fact we don't negotiate with terrorists.
inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 342d
Except these assholes have been calling for it explicitly for years.
halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 342d
They haven't faced any consequences for their calls of violence, so why would they stop?
Assassassin@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 342d
They just keep escalating their violent rhetoric and and actions without regard to the law. If you make violence inevitable, the threat of violence as a punishment becomes meaningless.
PattyMcB@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 342d
Live by the sword...
Zero empathy from me
Cethin@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 342d
I would say the only things more American than the fact we don't negotiate with terrorist is our negotiations with terrorists or our acts of (state sanctioned, so they don't use the term) terrorism.
jordanlund@lemmy.world · 62 pts · 342d
"my daughter loved him. I mean, she’s 13 years old. This is a man who touched an entire generation of Americans"
PHRASING!
mierdabird@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 34 pts · 342d
ThanksObama@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 342d
Sploosh!
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 11 pts · 342d
No, it was meant literally. Pedophilia is a basic tenet of the MAGA Party, along with treason, racism, corruption, rape, misogyny, ignorance, and incompetence.
PattyMcB@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 342d
...Because that's how you get ants!
unmagical@lemmy.ml · 58 pts · 342d
My brother in christ, your side had already deployed the military on American soil and kidnapped our neighbors, this ain't a start of a war, it's engaging with an active invasion.
DaddleDew@lemmy.world · 58 pts · 342d
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world · 51 pts · 342d
Guy isn't even cold and they're moving on to more culture war bullshit.
untorquer@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 342d
They're not wrong, Socrates is dead.
ALLGLORYTOHYPNOTOAD@lemmy.world · 51 pts · 342d
Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip · 49 pts · 342d
The party that was cheering on civil war for the last year is now trying to play the victims
ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one · 25 pts · 342d
Right out of the fascist playbook.
stickly@lemmy.world · 44 pts · 342d
Patiently waiting for the shooter to be a hard right conspiracy nut so I can play this clip back
slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org · 20 pts · 342d
As funny as it is, nothing matters to these people. They find out that he rented twilight 12 years ago and determine that he must be one of those homosexuals, who are now at war with them.
WanderWisley@lemmy.world · 42 pts · 342d
The party of “fuck your feelings” has feelings now? I’m clutching my pearls right now!
mycodesucks@lemmy.world · 41 pts · 342d
Yes. A war YOU started.
Redditsux@lemmy.world · 40 pts · 342d
Here it comes.
givesomefucks@lemmy.world · 80 pts · 342d
What?
Has it even been a week since Trump himself declared war on Chicago?
Don't act like any escalation is because one piece of shit got got. Whatever comes next was co.ing anyways.
If what happened today has any effect on Trump's timeline, it likely slows it down.
Every piece of shit just got reminded that this is still America. 40% of people have easy access to a gun, and most Americans can buy one in under an hour.
They're going to calm down, at least in person. Violence is about the only thing that keeps fascist out of daylight, especially when they already control the government
Xulai@mander.xyz · 28 pts · 342d
This was done by someone with skills and discipline.
It was probably deliberate, and ordered by the administration, and will be used for Trump to try to take guns away from citizens so he can start sending goons to our homes
They started this earlier in the week with the trans gun ban speculation. And immediately Trump knew and posted when he was shot. And Fox News already has a script ready.
criss_cross@lemmy.world · 45 pts · 342d
A hell of an Epstein distraction.
No_Eponym@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 342d
This this this. And Kirk so loved his Fearless Leader that the Leader figured Kirk would be ok knowing he would be more useful to Leader as a dead distraction than a played out influencer of youth when those youth are abandoning the R anyway.
Stabbitha@lemmy.world · -3 pts · 342d
You people are every bit as unhinged as the Qanon idiots
gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 342d
I won't say that Trump wouldn't order the cold blooded murder of one of his allies for a small temporary gain, but
doesn't sound like anything I've seen out of this administration
SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 342d
Maybe a staffer called the wrong takeout and delivery number.
Substance_P@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 342d
100%, this stinks like the start of fascism.
Maeve@kbin.earth · 8 pts · 342d
I'm sorry but that just sounds a bit wishful thinking.
whiwake@lemmy.cafe · 6 pts · 342d
And it’s not like Charlie didn’t have it coming.
maplebar@lemmy.world · 39 pts · 342d
You thought a "culture war" would never turn into a "war war"?
Aren't you the fucking clowns that just declared war on Chicago and Portland like a week ago?
AlexLost@lemmy.world · 37 pts · 342d
I love that these two bit conmen are all like "they're at war with us?!" When they've been trying to incite war with "us" for the past decade or so. It's hilarious how it's now all our fault. Also, Jesse Watters is a cunt and a deplorable human being. Let me know when someone of worth has something to say.
Soup@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 341d
They’re the same people who think it’s the Palestinians who are the attackers. They’re classic, boring, textbook bullies who don’t like it when the kid they’re torturing gives a free one to the nose and so they run to the teacher crying.
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 35 pts · 342d
Good grief, these people are such gaslighting assholes.
fox2263@lemmy.world · 35 pts · 342d
Ah yes, They
Ioughttamow@fedia.io · 7 pts · 342d
THE OTHER
BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz · 34 pts · 342d
I'm TERRIFIED! As a Republican i NEVER thought I would be treated like a FIrst Grade child or Democrat politician!
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 342d
I sure hope they are even 1/100th as frightened as they are pretending to be, but these guys just seem to be cosplaying at being victims (again)...
Typhoon@lemmy.ca · 28 pts · 342d
Someone declared war, but it wasn't the left.
YoiksAndAway@lemmy.zip · 24 pts · 342d
I wonder what he had to say after two Democratic state senators in Minnesota were murdered. And after Paul Pelosi was nearly murdered, for that matter.
inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 342d
Just saying, with this type of unhinged rhetoric, liberals and minorities should exercise their 2A rights.
It's got the potential to get bad because guys don't need facts before they shoot especially with a influential guy here, and he is, actively encouraging his followers to avenge Kirk and blaming the left with no proof.
krashmo@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 342d
The 2A was quite literally written to be a failsafe against a federal government like we have now. Of course it comes with additional societal drawbacks that we've essentially focused exclusively on for decades, for mostly good reasons. However, you can be assured that they'll think twice about oppressing minority groups if those people are armed and demonstrate a willingness to defend themselves. It's not a magic bullet (lol) but at the end of the day I'd rather go out fighting the fascists than hoping to hide from them while they escalate their violence against my fellow citizens.
Cyberflunk@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 342d
Jolly_Platypus@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 342d
The civil war is coming.
sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz · 50 pts · 342d
Kevin Roberts, Heritage Foundation fascist, main architect of Project 2025, said,"the country is in the midst of a 'second American Revolution' that will be bloodless 'if the left allows it to be.'"
I wish people would realize that the new civil war started some time ago.
peoplebeproblems@midwest.social · 15 pts · 342d
It never ended. It just went cold.
Bonesince1997@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 342d
I'm not sure it's the left doing the shooting.
ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 340d
It is not. How many liberals you know want to kill people?
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip · 17 pts · 342d
Watters's mom must be so disappointed at what a piece of shit her son became
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/jesse-watters-mom-fox-news-tucker-carlson-b2377101.html
mcbenavides85@piefed.social · 17 pts · 342d
whiwake@lemmy.cafe · 15 pts · 342d
And by do this, you mean do it TO the right wing, and not the other way, right?
mcbenavides85@piefed.social · 14 pts · 342d
MnemonicBump@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 17 pts · 342d
Marshezezz@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 15 pts · 342d
don@lemmy.ca · 13 pts · 342d
You couldn’t stop yourselves from being brainwashed into the fascists you’ve become, and from completely destroying the country. You can’t be reasoned with, so war it must be.
MehBlah@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 341d
Anyone can see this is a MAGA operation. They are gonna pin it on some Trans person to give them an excuse to take away their right to have a gun. All these MAGAT's are afraid of less than one percent of the population.
Sassinake@mastodon.social · 1 pts · 341d
@MehBlah @Redditsux
the wrong 1% at that. That one, they worship.
birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 341d
The guilt is on the MAGA asshats anyways. They literally shot themselves and are fighting in their own ranks.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 342d
I_Clean_Here@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 342d
Still a different guy. This is Steven Crowder and whoever created this picture is an idiot.
slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org · 6 pts · 342d
Not sure if you know this, but this template is used for a variety of things, it hardly involves anything around this nazi.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 341d
Yes, the guy in the meme template is Crowder. Kirk was literally standing under a change my mind banner when he uttered his last words.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 9 pts · 342d
The 2nd Amendment exists for when all the other Amendments fail.
6stringringer@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 342d
HuskerNation@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 342d
No we are not, but perhaps it's time to be
HulkSmashBurgers@reddthat.com · 7 pts · 341d
Oh come on now, right wingers have been com|iting acts of violence against political opponents for years already.
Sunflier@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 342d
Please let the Union stick together just long enough for me to move to a northern state. Please please please please please please
PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 342d
What a terribly naive thing to say.
Sunflier@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 341d
I ain't sticking around in an area trying to form a whites only community, where an "honorary" klansmen runs for governor, or Nazis wave Swastikas on an overpass. Conservatives can fester in the shithole they're making. I'd like to move on to greener pasture.
resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 342d
The same dickheads who blamed the left for Donald's "assassination" attempt(s).
SabinStargem@lemmy.today · 6 pts · 341d
Their projection will become a well deserved prophecy. These Confederates will regret provoking otherwise peaceful people into war.
Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 341d
They attack and they attack. When a perceived attack happens they act like now is the time to attack. Just like yesterday and the day before.
Steve@startrek.website · 5 pts · 342d
Is this a civil war?
FlexibleToast@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 342d
It already has been. Other states invaded the Capitol and are planning to invade Chicago.
Substance_P@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 342d
A kill shot, a single shot from 200 yards? Hmm.. A dispensable generic older white man gets taken into custody in the crowd, then released, something seems off here.
wuphysics87@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 342d
Better watch out. An elderly chinese woman is coming for you, Jesse.
I_Clean_Here@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 342d
They wish, huh.
Ironfist79@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 341d
DARVO once again.
T00l_shed@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 342d
Who's "they" Watters, you fucking loser
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 342d
They started it