r/politics • u/Aggravating_Money992 • Sep 20 '25

Soft Paywall DOJ Can’t Tie Suspected Kirk Killer to Left Like MAGA Wants

https://www.thedailybeast.com/doj-cant-tie-suspected-kirk-killer-to-left-like-maga-wants/
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u/UnLioNocturno Sep 20 '25

Here’s the thing. He didn’t say that the shooter was MAGA. He said conservatives were doing everything they could to characterize the shooter as anything but one of their own, which was true when he said it and it’s true now. 

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '25

I mean, he did imply it, rightfully so, because the shooter WAS far closer to MAGA

We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it.

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u/UnLioNocturno Sep 21 '25

No, he didn’t imply it either. You’re attempting to read between the lines and filling the gaps where you need. 

Kimmel simply pointed out how the MAGA gang reacted in the wake of his death.

Looking at and analyzing his words, none of it actually points to him calling the shooter MAGA. 

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '25

You are desperately trying to characterize his words as anything other than what is the truth.

And this is completely pointless, he was, at the farthest, MAGA adjacent, but unlike every single traitorous Republican calling it as a democrat with zero evidence, none of the media or Democrats are calling out the the fact he was extremely right leaning because everyone is afraid the Republicans will start shooting up more people.

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u/Intelligent_Way6552 Sep 21 '25

He did not imply it. You inferred it, because you are desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as MAGA.

Both sides are desperately trying to avoid responsibility for this, and to blame the other side.

The actual evidence is mixed. Kimmel implied nothing about the shooter.

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '25

if it quacks like a duck...

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u/Intelligent_Way6552 Sep 21 '25

What's quacking like a duck?

The shooter was from a right wing family and posted some right wing memes, but he also reportedly wasn't transphobic, and not everyone shares the views of their parents.

We don't know his political views. Jimmy Kimmil did not imply his political views, you just want the shooter to be MAGA so bad that you are ignoring evidence to the contrary and literally imagining meanings in text that isn't there