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Saturday, November 22, 2025

A planned GOP rally in northeastern Pennsylvania imploded after the venue, facing fierce community outrage over Kyle Rittenhouse's keynote slot, abruptly shut the whole thing down.

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Kyle Rittenhouse, who became a darling of the right after shooting three protesters in 2020, hightailed it off a stage at the University of Memphis on Wednesday night as a crowd of demonstrators booed him.

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#1 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-11-21 08:12 AM | Reply

Republicans Freedom

Posted by reinheitsgebot

Not really a thing.

#2 | Posted by Zed at 2025-11-21 08:46 AM | Reply

Murderhouse needs to be behind bars.

#3 | Posted by a_monson at 2025-11-21 10:59 PM | Reply | Funny: 1 | Newsworthy 1

Murderhouse needs to be behind bars.

I'd have thought he'd be keeping a low profile for fear of getting kirked.

#4 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-11-21 11:23 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

That little ---------- needs to get lost for a decade or so.

#5 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-11-22 12:09 AM | Reply

Soros paid agitators, just like Jan 6.

#6 | Posted by visitor_ at 2025-11-22 12:37 PM | Reply | Funny: 4 | Newsworthy 1

#6 I suppose exposing yourself as an unserious, sh*tstirrer is one way of fulfilling your machoistic fantasies.

#7 | Posted by A_Friend at 2025-11-22 12:39 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

#7 Was your exile self imposed or did RCADE do it to prevent a more severe mental health breakdown?

#8 | Posted by visitor_ at 2025-11-22 01:11 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

Soros paid agitators, just like Jan 6.
#6 | Posted by visitor_

Can't tell if you're being funny or being stupid... Probably both.

Trump paid for the J6 insurrection.

New evidence unsealed of how Trump's Jan. 6, 2021 rally was funded

Budget documents show as much as $3 million for Jan. 6 rally and related events

$1 million was budgeted for Turning Point Action, a grassroots non-profit group founded in 2019 by Charlie Kirk to embolden young conservatives "through grassroots activism."

The money was earmarked for having TPA deploy social media influencers and students from around the country to Washington to attend the rally, to produce "all the video content at the event" and to run nationwide ads "educating millions about the significance of January 6th for President Trump."

Another $500,000 was budgeted for a group founded by Donald Trump Jr., "Save the U.S. Senate," to stop alleged voter fraud in Georgia and help re-elect Republican Senate candidates Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue.
www.usatoday.com

#9 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-11-22 01:15 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

"Stupid George Soros!"

#10 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-11-22 01:16 PM | Reply

x.com

Killer Kyle with the throat goat.

#11 | Posted by Reinheitsgebot at 2025-11-22 01:19 PM | Reply

Murderhouse(sic) needs to be behind bars.

Is that a fact established by a jury or an opinion formed from your media consumption?

#12 | Posted by et_al at 2025-11-22 01:43 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

MAGAts swooned when they saw Killer Kyle punch a little girl.

www.the-independent.com

#13 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-11-22 01:47 PM | Reply

#7 Was your exile self imposed or did RCADE do it to prevent a more severe mental health breakdown?

#8 | POSTED BY VISITOR_

What's you talking about now fool?

He can never get banned ... . Didn't you hear?

He IS Rcade!

#14 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-11-22 01:59 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

How Rittenhouse ever became a right wing hero in the first place speaks volumes about how ------ up MAGA really is. Hitler Youth Lite.

#15 | Posted by moder8 at 2025-11-22 02:01 PM | Reply

How he became a villain for self defense against vile scumbags speaks volumes about the left. Maoist youth

#16 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-11-22 02:03 PM | Reply | Funny: 2

"a villain for self defense"

He went looking for a fight and found one.
That's not self defense.

#17 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-11-22 02:16 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

#16 Sorry, bell boi ... He had zero business being there in the first place.

#18 | Posted by A_Friend at 2025-11-22 02:17 PM | Reply

It was a public area. He had just as much of a right to be there as anyone else.

#19 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-11-22 02:18 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

#17 A jury of his peers concluded self defense in a court of law.

#20 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-11-22 02:19 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

It was a public area. He had just as much of a right to be there as anyone else.
#19 | Posted by BellRinger

Doesn't change the fact that he went there looking for someone to kill.

#21 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-11-22 02:20 PM | Reply

#17 A jury of his peers concluded self defense in a court of law.
#20 | Posted by BellRinger

Sure and OJ didn't murder anyone either.

#22 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-11-22 02:21 PM | Reply

#20 And a jury of his peers found the Trump liable for sexual assault, to which the judge added that it was rape.

Your point is?

And a jury of his peers found OJ not guilty of his charges. Does that mean he was innocent? Or did he just beat the rap?

#19 as #17 said, "He went looking for a fight and found one.
"That's not self defense."

#23 | Posted by A_Friend at 2025-11-22 02:22 PM | Reply

A jury of his peers concluded self defense in a court of law.

It's handy when the judge is part of your defense team.

#24 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-11-22 02:25 PM | Reply

#23. He was being chased by violent thugs.

#25 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-11-22 02:26 PM | Reply

It blows my mind that so many lefties believe certain people have no right to self defense.

#26 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-11-22 02:27 PM | Reply

Murderhouse slugged a chick who weighs 100 lbs.

#27 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-11-22 02:27 PM | Reply | Funny: 1 | Newsworthy 1

#25 He wouldn't have been chased by anyone, bell boi, had he just stayed home.

But, nope. As #17 said, "He went looking for a fight and found one.
"That's not self defense."

#28 | Posted by A_Friend at 2025-11-22 02:28 PM | Reply

#26 It blows my mind that so many righties believe certain people can be as irresponsible as they want to be and face zero consequences.

#29 | Posted by A_Friend at 2025-11-22 02:29 PM | Reply

He went looking for a fight and found one.

#17 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-11-22 02:16 PM | Reply | Flag:

LMAO and won...Also won in court in front of a jury of his peers.

#30 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-11-22 02:30 PM | Reply

Murderhouse slugged a chick who weighs 100 lbs.
#27 | Posted by reinheitsgebot

That was also self defense.
--JeffJ

#31 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-11-22 02:31 PM | Reply

He had just as much of a right to be there as anyone else. You sound like the type of person who blames a rape victim for wearing a short skirt.

#32 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-11-22 02:31 PM | Reply

#30 And a jury of his peers found the Trump liable for sexual assault, to which the judge added that it was rape."

Your point is?

And a jury of his peers found OJ not guilty of his charges. Does that mean he was innocent? Or did he just beat the rap?

#33 | Posted by A_Friend at 2025-11-22 02:31 PM | Reply

#32 No. He had no common sense that he shouldn't have been there in the first place.

You sound like the type of person who blames a rape victim for wearing a short skirt.

#34 | Posted by A_Friend at 2025-11-22 02:32 PM | Reply

Was he being chased before he fired?

#35 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-11-22 02:32 PM | Reply

It blows my mind that so many lefties believe certain people have no right to self defense.
#26 | Posted by BellRinger

Nobody believes that.
More importantly, you're too much of a coward to name names.
It's one of the many ways we can tell when you're lying.
When you start blaming "lefties" that only exist in your imagination.

#36 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-11-22 02:32 PM | Reply

Why did he have no business being there?

#37 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-11-22 02:33 PM | Reply

#32 No. He had no common sense that he shouldn't have been there in the first place.

And it is amazing to me that you're defending stupid, juvenile behavior from a kid carrying a weapon of war into a fight that wasn't even in his own state.

"He went looking for a fight and found one.

"That's not self defense."

#38 | Posted by A_Friend at 2025-11-22 02:34 PM | Reply

Or did he just beat the rap?

#33 | Posted by A_Friend at 2025-11-22 02:31 PM | Reply | Flag:

That was 30 years ago. Do you understand what video evidence is? Meathead

#39 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-11-22 02:35 PM | Reply

He was being chased by violent thugs.

#40 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-11-22 02:36 PM | Reply

The individuals he shot would be alive if they had also stayed home.

#41 | Posted by visitor_ at 2025-11-22 02:36 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Killer Kyle was out with a semi-automatic weapon looking for trouble, then showed what a coward he was when he found it.

Typical Trumper Trash, really.

#42 | Posted by Corky at 2025-11-22 02:36 PM | Reply

#32 No. He had no common sense that he shouldn't have been there in the first place.

#34 | Posted by A_Friend at 2025-11-22 02:32 PM | Reply | Flag:

But he was there. Does that mean he has to lay down and die because you're of an opinion that he shouldn't have been there?

#43 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-11-22 02:37 PM | Reply

#37 He was a kid. He was carrying a weapon of war. It wasn't his neighborhood. It wasn't his town. It wasn't even his own state.

Why are you so hell bent on defending the irresponsible actions of a kid (and his parent) that resulted in the death of fellow human beings.

Why is that, bell boi?

#44 | Posted by A_Friend at 2025-11-22 02:37 PM | Reply

He was being chased by violent thugs.

Posted by BellRinger at 2025-11-22 02:36 PM | Reply

You lie

#45 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-11-22 02:37 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

#43 Doesn't matter, Left Hind Turds. He was a kid. He was carrying a weapon of war. It wasn't his neighborhood. It wasn't his town. It wasn't even his own state.

#46 | Posted by A_Friend at 2025-11-22 02:37 PM | Reply

#45 Thank you.

#47 | Posted by A_Friend at 2025-11-22 02:38 PM | Reply

" He was carrying a weapon of war"

Our military doesn't not use the AR-15. Let's please keep things honest.

#48 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-11-22 02:38 PM | Reply

You lie

#45 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-11-22 02:37 PM | Reply | Flag:

The video evidence and the jury disagrees with you.

#49 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-11-22 02:39 PM | Reply

#45. You do realize video exists, right?

#50 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-11-22 02:39 PM | Reply

Why did he have no business being there?
#37 | Posted by BellRinger

Because vigilantes have no place in a civilized society.

#51 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-11-22 02:40 PM | Reply | Funny: 1 | Newsworthy 1

#48 Sorry Perry "bell boi" Mason. This isn't a court of law. It is the court of public opinion. Your objection is overruled, and your exception is noted for the record.

#52 | Posted by A_Friend at 2025-11-22 02:40 PM | Reply

#51 Zing! And thank you.

#53 | Posted by A_Friend at 2025-11-22 02:40 PM | Reply

#43. It kind of looks that way.

#54 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-11-22 02:41 PM | Reply

#50 You know that Photoshop exists, right?

You know that Adobe Premier exists, right?

#55 | Posted by A_Friend at 2025-11-22 02:42 PM | Reply

The individuals he shot would be alive if they had also stayed home.
#41 | Posted by visitor_

The individual who provided him with a straw purchased weapon would not be on probation if he hadn't provided him with a straw purchased weapon.

#56 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-11-22 02:42 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

#43 Not an opinion that he shouldn't have been there, Left Hind Turds.

He was a kid. He was carrying a weapon of war. It wasn't his neighborhood. It wasn't his town. It wasn't even his own state.

#57 | Posted by A_Friend at 2025-11-22 02:43 PM | Reply

Violent leftist thugs FA and FO. The only reason you clowns are angry is Kyle took out the trash when he was attacked. He otherwise posed no threat to anyone. The video evidence proved it.

On top of that the people who attacked him were stupid for pursuing an armed individual to cause them harm. And one of them was a pedo so it was a twofer in my opinion.

#58 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-11-22 02:45 PM | Reply

#41 So would Allison Krause, Jeffrey Miller, Sandra Scheuer, and William Schroeder be alive if they had just stayed home.

For that matter, so would James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner.

If they had just stayed home.

Your point?

#59 | Posted by A_Friend at 2025-11-22 02:45 PM | Reply

#58 Left Hinds Turds believes in a justice system in America based on might makes right.

Not the way it is supposed to be in America.

Nope.

Not at all.

#60 | Posted by A_Friend at 2025-11-22 02:47 PM | Reply

If this was your underage kid you'd not only be okay with it, but be proud of what Rittenhouse did.

Let's hear you say it, Republicans!

#61 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-11-22 02:47 PM | Reply

#50 You know that Photoshop exists, right?

You know that Adobe Premier exists, right?

#55 | Posted by A_Friend at 2025-11-22 02:42 PM | Reply | Flag:

This it the final sign of a failed debate.

#62 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-11-22 02:47 PM | Reply

None of the people who died were swaggering around with an AR-15 pretending they were soldiers.

#63 | Posted by Corky at 2025-11-22 02:48 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

#58 Ah, yes: Advocating summary execution for crimes that are unknown to the executioner.

Is that it, Left Hind Turds?

#64 | Posted by A_Friend at 2025-11-22 02:48 PM | Reply

"The only reason you clowns are angry is Kyle took out the trash when he was attacked."

No, not even close.

The streets aren't any safer with little Kyles patrolling them.

Bug you think Brown Shirts do keep us safe, and that's the problem.

The fascism that Kyle embodies and Republicans support is the issue here.

#65 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-11-22 02:49 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

#62 Only in your infantile mind.

You're welcome, Left Hind Turds.

#66 | Posted by A_Friend at 2025-11-22 02:49 PM | Reply

Why was he there to be booed offa the GOP Rally stage?

Did ICE reject him again?

#67 | Posted by Corky at 2025-11-22 02:52 PM | Reply

The individuals he shot would be alive if they had also stayed home.
#41 | Posted by visitor_

NOTE:
Offer not valid for all MAGA killers.

On June 14, 2025, Minnesota state representative Melissa Hortman was assassinated in a shooting at her home in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, United States. Hortman, the leader of the state House Democratic caucus, was killed alongside her husband, Mark. Earlier that morning, state senator John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette, were shot and seriously injured in their home in nearby Champlin and hospitalized. en.wikipedia.org

#68 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-11-22 02:53 PM | Reply

The fascism that Kyle embodies and Republicans support is the issue here.
#65 | Posted by snoofy

^
And with this, JeffJ and LftHndThrds know it's bow out of the conversation.

#69 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-11-22 02:54 PM | Reply

And with this, JeffJ and LftHndThrds know it's bow out of the conversation.

#69 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-11-22 02:54 PM | Reply | Flag

No, It's just that some of us have lives outside of your yellow dome. Kyle was attacked by violent people, who he in turn defended himself against. Video evidence proves it. None of your political dribble means anything other than you're you're retarded, or blinded by your hate of people who don't subscribe to your nonsense. Probably some of both.

#70 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-11-22 03:03 PM | Reply

#70 You say "Kyle was attacked by violent people, who he in turn defended himself against."

He was a kid. He was carrying a weapon of war. It wasn't his neighborhood. It wasn't his town. It wasn't even his own state.

Why, if he had just stayed home, Left Hind Turds, none of this would be an issue. Right?

#71 | Posted by A_Friend at 2025-11-22 03:08 PM | Reply

"Kyle was attacked by violent people"

Kyle is a violent person.

#72 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-11-22 03:08 PM | Reply

"None of your political dribble means anything other than you're you're retarded, or blinded by your hate of people who don't subscribe to your nonsense."

Nah, all it means is that you can't talk sensibly about why you support Brownshirts like Kyle.

#73 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-11-22 03:09 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

"Kyle was attacked by violent people"

He was?
What sort of injuries did he suffer in the attack?

"Joseph D. Rosenbaum, a 36-year-old unarmed Kenosha man, ran at Rittenhouse and grabbed the barrel of his rifle[6] after throwing a plastic shopping bag of clothing at him."

Sounds like someone was attempting to disarm Kyle, not so much attack him.

#74 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-11-22 03:11 PM | Reply

Why, if he had just stayed home, Left Hind Turds, none of this would be an issue. Right?

#71 | Posted by A_Friend at 2025-11-22 03:08 PM | Reply | Flag:

As Visitor pointed out above, If those thugs had stayed home instead of destroying property and attacking a guy with a gun, they would still be alive.

#75 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-11-22 03:11 PM | Reply

#70 From George Zimmerman, to Derek Chauvin, to Kyle Murderhouse, to Vance Belter...

You people worship white people who murder your perceived enemies.

You find every reason to excuse what they do, why they do it, while always, always blaming the victims of their deadly violencve.

Transparent enough for you, Left Hind Turds?

#76 | Posted by A_Friend at 2025-11-22 03:12 PM | Reply

"attacking a guy with a gun"

Police do that every day and you support it, especially when the guy is black and the gun is a wallet or a cell phone.

#77 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-11-22 03:13 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

#75 And as I pointed out, Allison Krause, Jeffrey Miller, Sandra Scheuer, and William Schroeder be alive if they had just stayed home.

For that matter, so would James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner.

If they had just stayed home.

Your point, Left Hind Turds?

#78 | Posted by A_Friend at 2025-11-22 03:14 PM | Reply

" He went looking for a fight and found one.
That's not self defense"

People used to say that about lynching victims all the time, except with the type of "colorful" language that you have used casually on this board many times.

Alternately, it's like saying "she was dressed provocatively. That's not legitimate rape."

#79 | Posted by sentinel at 2025-11-22 03:17 PM | Reply

#79 Your impotent attempt at gaslighting is noted.

#80 | Posted by A_Friend at 2025-11-22 03:18 PM | Reply

"Stupid violent people!'

#81 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-11-22 03:20 PM | Reply

His point is obvious. You believe certain people shouldn't be allowed to exercise their rights. Because you dislike them.

#82 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-11-22 03:26 PM | Reply

#79 Did you actually conflate lynching victims with Kyle Murderhouse ("He went looking for a fight and found one" | "People used to say that about lynching victims all the time...")?

Really?

Did you really just do that?

#83 | Posted by A_Friend at 2025-11-22 03:26 PM | Reply

#82 Hey, bell boi, he actually tried to conflate lynching victims with Kyle Murderhouse ("He went looking for a fight and found one" | "People used to say that about lynching victims all the time...")?

So, I guess you're right, bell boi.

His "point" is obvious.

#84 | Posted by A_Friend at 2025-11-22 03:28 PM | Reply

Alternately, it's like saying "she was dressed provocatively. That's not legitimate rape."
#79 | Posted by sentinel

^
Kyle's defense for when he punched a woman has entered the chat.
www.snopes.com

This was just a few weeks before Kyle went on to kill other protesters.
Kyle systematically escalated his own violence, much like a killer starts with torturing small animals before moving on to humans.

#85 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-11-22 03:28 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

#82 You say that I believe that certain people shouldn't be allowed to exercise their rights.

Sorry, bell boi.

Why do you think I have, twice before now (and now a third time), specifically mentioned Allison Krause, Jeffrey Miller, Sandra Scheuer, William Schroeder, James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner?

If you think I believe that certain people shouldn't be allowed to exercise their rights.

#86 | Posted by A_Friend at 2025-11-22 03:30 PM | Reply

You believe certain people shouldn't be allowed to exercise their rights.
#82 | Posted by BellRinger

Rights aren't part of this discussion.
Responsibility, or rather lack thereof, is the focus of this discussion.
The Riiight doesn't see anything wrong with a person bringing a gun to a political event he opposes with hopes of instigating violence.

#87 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-11-22 03:31 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

You believe certain people shouldn't be allowed to exercise their rights.
#82 | Posted by BellRinger

Should Tyler Robinson have been allowed to exercise his Second Amendment rights?

#88 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-11-22 03:32 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

#87 Careful, Snoofy... Actual responsibility is anathema to the members of the Party of Responsibility.

#89 | Posted by A_Friend at 2025-11-22 03:33 PM | Reply

#87 Naturally, the Riiight doesn't see anything wrong with a person bringing a gun to a political event.

Unless, of course, it is a Republican National Convention.

Or the annual convention of the National Rifle Association.

Or, for that matter, any CPAC convention/meeting.

Nope.

Those are all GUN FREE zones... natch.

#90 | Posted by A_Friend at 2025-11-22 03:35 PM | Reply

You believe certain people shouldn't be allowed to exercise their rights.
#82 | Posted by BellRinger

This is nothing more than an "every accusation is a confession" statement.
Do illegal immigrants posses the rights that the Constitution confers upon "people?"

I don't think you can initiate violence, and then claim a right to self defense.
Do you?

#91 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-11-22 03:35 PM | Reply

"Kyle systematically escalated his own violence, much like a killer starts with torturing small animals before moving on to humans."
#85 | Posted by snoofy

'This is nothing more than an "every accusation is a confession" statement.'
#91 | Posted by snoofy

#92 | Posted by sentinel at 2025-11-22 03:42 PM | Reply

#92 That's making any point you think it is.

Except for demonstrating your copy/paste techniques, with a hint of HTML thrown in for good measure.

#93 | Posted by A_Friend at 2025-11-22 03:46 PM | Reply

#91 You're right. You cannot initiate violence and then claim a right to self-defense.

'Tis like the defendant, accused of killing his parents, throwing himself on the mercy of the court because he's now an orphan.

#94 | Posted by A_Friend at 2025-11-22 03:49 PM | Reply

Kyle Rittenhouse and George Zimmerman were both idiots who put themselves in dangerous situations. Neither one should be celebrated or held up as role models. That doesn't mean they forfeited the right to defend themselves in a situation where they were being violently attacked, which we know for sure was the case with Rittenhouse. Zimmerman was less clear, but prosecutors didn't have anywhere close to enough evidence to prove otherwise. When you have to lie about the facts in each case, it shows you're just as unstable as the people who made threats, if not the pedo who initially attacked Kyle.

#95 | Posted by sentinel at 2025-11-22 03:58 PM | Reply

Republicans also don't see anything wrong with Kyle having a straw man purchase his gun for him.

This insistence that Kyle didn't do a single thing wrong that contributed to what happened that night.

These are the same people who think Muslims attacked us out of the blue on 9/11 because they hate our freedoms.

It's fascism.

#96 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-11-22 03:59 PM | Reply

"the people who made threats"

referring to the people who made threats against the venue in this news story.

#97 | Posted by sentinel at 2025-11-22 03:59 PM | Reply

"You people worship white people who murder your perceived enemies."

Zimmerman wasn't white, but of course you know that, because you're trolling.

#98 | Posted by sentinel at 2025-11-22 04:04 PM | Reply

#95 What's lying about this:

He was a kid. He was carrying a weapon of war. It wasn't his neighborhood. It wasn't his town. It wasn't even his own state.

What was he doing there?

Oh, yeah, and as #51 said, vigilantes have no place in a civilized society.

#99 | Posted by A_Friend at 2025-11-22 04:05 PM | Reply

"That doesn't mean they forfeited the right to defend themselves in a situation where they were being violently attacked"

You're still dancing around the thing all you ------- won't face head-on, which is:

Kyle and others,
We do have the right to put ourselves,
armed,
"in a situation"
with the hope of being violently attacked.
And then claim Self Defense.

Tell me if I'm wrong.

#100 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-11-22 04:06 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

#98 Sure he was white. Stop the gaslighting.

#101 | Posted by A_Friend at 2025-11-22 04:06 PM | Reply

#100 Nailed it, especially with the last two lines: with the hope of being violently attacked. And then claim Self Defense.

#102 | Posted by A_Friend at 2025-11-22 04:08 PM | Reply

"with the hope of being violently attacked."

Every accusation is a confession.

#103 | Posted by sentinel at 2025-11-22 04:08 PM | Reply

"Sure he was white. Stop the gaslighting."

Hi Hans! How's your mom?

#104 | Posted by sentinel at 2025-11-22 04:09 PM | Reply

#103 That makes no sense whatsoever.

What liberal took a weapon of war to a riot in another neighborhood, another city, hell, even another state, with the hope of being violenty attacked so that said liberal could use their weapon of war to murder other human beings?

If every accusation is a confession.

Right?

#105 | Posted by A_Friend at 2025-11-22 04:11 PM | Reply

Correction: ANGRY LIBERAL DEMS..

They are angry that he killed two piles of ---- and wounded another one. Dems, they do love their criminals.

#106 | Posted by MSgt at 2025-11-22 04:12 PM | Reply

#104 I'd work on responding to my #105, or even proving that the murderer was anything but white.

You can do that, right?

#107 | Posted by A_Friend at 2025-11-22 04:12 PM | Reply

George Zimmerman, haven't thought about him in a minute. Zimmerman isn't white, but he bears the torch for white nationalism, just like Herman Cain, and Chachi from Joanie Loves Chachi. It's a safe move until whites actually take over, and even for a while afterwards, and it's a great grift in the meantime, and everyone who supports fascism has already convinced themselves they can ride the whirlwind even though history shows it really doesn't work that way.

Anyway, you can really see how some of these people, who weren't necessarily all that much into politics before, end up at Trump's side. It's being a sexual abuser:

Allegations of abuse
On January 29, 2018, sexual misconduct allegations made by Nicole Eggert against Baio surfaced. In 2013 Eggert stated on the Nik Richie Radio show that she and Baio had a one-time encounter "years" after Charles in Charge ended, which would have been after 1990. In the more elaborated account, discussed on The Dr. Oz Show and Megyn Kelly Today, Eggert claimed that Baio molested her beginning in 1986 when she was 14, and that when she was 17, she had intercourse with him. Baio contends that he had sexual relations with Eggert only once, and that the encounter occurred after she had turned 18. Baio explained that Eggert's own words to Richie proved he did not have intercourse with Eggert while she was a minor, since the final episode of Charles in Charge aired in November 1990, ten months after Eggert turned 18.[32][33][34]

Several months later, Alexander Polinsky, another co-star in Charles in Charge, accused Baio of verbally abusing and physically assaulting him while on set.[33]
en.wikipedia.org

#108 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-11-22 04:13 PM | Reply

Bellringer: "Maoist youth."

Oh, for chrissakes. From your postings here, you don't even know what socialism is. All of a sudden, there's a Maoist youth brigade in the US?

Are all your fears decades behind reality? What's next? Those dangerous Hare Krishnas at airports?

#109 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2025-11-22 04:13 PM | Reply

#106 CORRECTION: From George Zimmerman, to Derek Chauvin, to Kyle Murderhouse, to Vance Belter... you do love you some white murderers.

Right, ------------ Gets Tough?

#110 | Posted by A_Friend at 2025-11-22 04:15 PM | Reply

"with the hope of being violently attacked."
Every accusation is a confession.
#103 | Posted by sentinel

Carrying an AR-15 to an area where you need protection because you realistically "fear" you will be violently attacked when you are there, that is the confession you can't comment on.

#111 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-11-22 04:15 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

#108 Thank you... and nailed it... again!

#112 | Posted by A_Friend at 2025-11-22 04:15 PM | Reply

Following the links in the headline sure led to some completely fair and balanced headlines, totally not liberal clickbait ghost-written by Walter Winchell:

He Put On Like 100lbs': Kyle Rittenhouse Deletes Social Media Accounts and Immediately Becomes Laughingstock of the Internet After Finally' Disappearing from Public Spotlight atlantablackstar.com

I think Kyle's real sin,
in the eyes of right-wingers I mean, who obviously don't really love him
because they don't invite him to their reindeer games, and he doesn't orbit Trump

Is that Kyle Rittenhouse didn't cash in on a Meme Coin.
He failed to monetize his fame.

And they tried so very, very hard to whitewash him and set him up to be their next little pundit too.
He just... couldn't do it.
He's an undisciplined fat ----, which perfectly demonstrates why firearms are so appealing to Republicans
Because with firearms, a loser like Kyle Rittenhouse can become a Real Man and a Hero.

#113 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-11-22 04:29 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

#106

You're the ------- pile of ----, you ancient ----.

#114 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-11-22 04:44 PM | Reply

#113 I like this line from the source you posted:

"Young Kyle, then a minor, left the house with an assault rifle he was too young to legally possess that was owned by somebody else, then hopped on a bus and illegally carried it across the state line to protect a used car lot he wasn't authorized to protect owned by somebody he'd never met."

But the firearms advocate has his supporters.


As can clearly be seen here...

#115 | Posted by A_Friend at 2025-11-22 04:48 PM | Reply

70 You say "Kyle was attacked by violent people, who he in turn defended himself against."

He was a kid. He was carrying a weapon of war. It wasn't his neighborhood. It wasn't his town. It wasn't even his own state.

Why, if he had just stayed home, Left Hind Turds, none of this would be an issue. Right?
#71 | POSTED BY A_FRIEND

Let's apply that to one of the MAGA'ts hero's ... ..Just think, if Charlie Kirk had just stayed home that day, he'd still be alive today.

#116 | Posted by a_monson at 2025-11-22 04:54 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

#116 Indeed, if Charlie Kirk had just stayed home that day, he'd still be alive today. Newsworthy

#117 | Posted by A_Friend at 2025-11-22 04:57 PM | Reply

Kyle was attacked by violent people, who he in turn defended himself against.
#70 | Posted by lfthndthrds

If he hadn't been there carrying an AR style gun, nobody would have died.

#118 | Posted by Whatsleft at 2025-11-22 05:06 PM | Reply

Rittenhouse is a hero and on that day he made the world a better place.

#119 | Posted by visitor_ at 2025-11-22 05:07 PM | Reply

#119 So much for Christianity.

#120 | Posted by A_Friend at 2025-11-22 05:08 PM | Reply

119. Troll.

#121 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2025-11-22 05:09 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

119. Troll.

Always.

#122 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-11-22 05:15 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

#119, I think he means it.

Sad.

#123 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2025-11-22 06:46 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

#119 Earlier I said "From George Zimmerman, to Derek Chauvin, to Kyle Murderhouse, to Vance Belter... you do love you some white murderers".

Thank you for affirming, in the most convincing way, the efficacy and reality of my message.

'Tis almost like you were paid, or something.

You operate like shrimpidontknowwhatdafuqhishandlemeans does: Proving how stupid and inane you people are.

It is as if you are getting paid to help The Democratic Party and its candidates.

You show yourself to be a clown, thinking you're "owning the libs."

But what you're really doing is moving more independents to the Democratic Party side.

Thank you!

#124 | Posted by A_Friend at 2025-11-22 06:54 PM | Reply

on that day he made the world a better place.
#119 | Posted by visitor_

One more day than most Republicans have spent making this world a better place.

Kyle is your Thoughts And Prayers, manifesting.

#125 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-11-22 08:18 PM | Reply

"vigilantes have no place in a civilized society"

The people who attacked him were also acting like vigilantes. Funny how you twerps turn a blind eye to that.

#126 | Posted by sentinel at 2025-11-22 09:05 PM | Reply

#126 No, the people who you erroneously claim were acting as vigilantes are the exact same people as Allison Krause, Jeffrey Miller, Sandra Scheuer, William Schroeder, James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner.

You seem to want to felate George Zimmerman, Derek Chauvin, Kyle Murderhouse, and Vance Belter...

Why is that?

#127 | Posted by A_Friend at 2025-11-22 09:24 PM | Reply

^^ Every accusation is a confession. TMI.

#128 | Posted by sentinel at 2025-11-22 09:35 PM | Reply

By the way, how's the weather over there in Togliatti?

#129 | Posted by sentinel at 2025-11-22 09:37 PM | Reply

#128 Have you been reduced to just calling in your "Retorts" and then retreat into your mental indulgents?

#130 | Posted by A_Friend at 2025-11-22 09:37 PM | Reply

#129 ^^ Every accusation is a confession. TMI.

#131 | Posted by A_Friend at 2025-11-22 09:37 PM | Reply

#129 My, how "precise" of you. So very, very "precise."

#132 | Posted by A_Friend at 2025-11-22 09:39 PM | Reply

#128 You must have missed this:

#126 No, the people who you erroneously claim were acting as vigilantes are the exact same people as Allison Krause, Jeffrey Miller, Sandra Scheuer, William Schroeder, James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner.

You seem to want to felate George Zimmerman, Derek Chauvin, Kyle Murderhouse, and Vance Belter...

Why is that?

#127 | Posted by A_Friend at 2025-11-22 09:24 PM


You are most welcome.

#133 | Posted by A_Friend at 2025-11-22 09:43 PM | Reply

"The people who attacked him were also acting like vigilantes."

When you believe in vigilantes, as you fascists do:
"There were good people on both sides."

#134 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-11-22 09:55 PM | Reply

So now A_Friend is blaming Derek Chauvin? A cop responds it to a robbery call and was assaulted and used lethal forcedto defend himself?

#135 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-11-22 10:37 PM | Reply

A_Friend likely thinks David Dorn got what he deserved. I mean, if he had any common sense he wouldn't have been there.

#136 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-11-22 10:39 PM | Reply

Derek Chauvin? A cop responds it to a robbery call and was assaulted and used lethal forcedto defend himself?
#135 | Posted by BellRinger

Derek Chauvin murdered a man who was under arrest in handcuffs in the back of the police car.

Derek Chauvin ordered him out of the car, while in handcuffs.
Derek Chauvin ordered him to lay down on the ground.
Derek Chauvin kneeled on his neck until he was dead.

And it wasn't the first time Derek Chauvin killed a black person.

#137 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-11-22 10:51 PM | Reply

And it wasn't the first time Derek Chauvin killed a black person.

Oh well, he's got another 20 years in prison to think about it.

#138 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-11-22 10:53 PM | Reply

"A cop responds it to a robbery call"

David Dorn was a retired cop when he was killed.
He did not have any police powers when he went policing.
I'm not saying David Dorn deserved to get shot, in fact I'll say he didn't.
Something you won't say for the people that Kyle Rittenhouse shot.

But it's a good event for you to bring up, since Kyle Rittenhouse also suffered no onus to go policing, with a straw-purchased weapon across state lines.

David Dorn died at 77, I doubt Kyle gets that far. He's too fat and too stupid and too lazy.

#139 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-11-22 10:56 PM | Reply

My bad. I was thinking of the cop who killed Michael Brown.

Sorry about that.

#140 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-11-22 10:56 PM | Reply

"I was thinking of the cop who killed Michael Brown."

Keep your sexual fantasies to yourself.
What capital offense did Michael Brown commit, is it shoplifting while black?

#141 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-11-22 10:58 PM | Reply

I'm not saying David Dorn deserved to get shot, in fact I'll say he didn't.

Probably why the city had a curfew up then... it was dangerous out there.

#142 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-11-22 11:21 PM | Reply

m.youtube.com

#143 | Posted by THEBULL at 2025-11-22 11:36 PM | Reply

" If he hadn't been there carrying an AR style gun, nobody would have died.
#118 | POSTED BY WHATSLEFT AT 2025-11-22 05:06 PM | REPLY | FLAG:"

If those who chased him hadn't been there they'd still be alive.

#144 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-11-22 11:48 PM | Reply

Has Kyle ever tried to get a real job? I thought he wanted to be a paramedic?

His "Influencer" career doesn't seem to be going anywhere.

#145 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-11-23 12:01 AM | Reply

If those who chased him hadn't been there they'd still be alive.
#144 | Posted by BellRinger

Yeah that's an important distinction.
Nobody is glorifying them, the way you glorify Rittenhouse.

#146 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-11-23 12:59 AM | Reply

Nobody is glorifying Rittenhouse.

#147 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-11-23 01:05 AM | Reply

No. No one has shown how the money was used, only what was donated. It isn't 1:1

#148 | Posted by Honk at 2025-11-23 01:34 AM | Reply

Nobody is glorifying Rittenhouse.

They tried.

www.congress.gov

#149 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-11-23 01:40 AM | Reply

99. He was a kid. He was carrying a weapon of war. It wasn't his neighborhood. It wasn't his town. It wasn't even his own state.
What was he doing there?

Yes, it was his town. Uninformed people don't know the facts.
He also lived there with his dad, friends, job. But the Uninformed don't know much.
He didn't do anything illegal being there. He didn't provoke anyone, only defended himself.

Not a weapon of war, another alt-left misnomer.

#150 | Posted by Honk at 2025-11-23 01:59 AM | Reply

#149 Some idiots likely glorified Rittenhouse. But that was nothing to the outright deification of George Floyd, a career criminal.

#151 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-11-23 02:07 AM | Reply

"Not a weapon of war,"

I corrected him on that earlier today. In spite of that he kept running with the misnomer.

#152 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-11-23 02:08 AM | Reply

The AR-15 is a civilian semi-automatic rifle that shares a common design with military rifles like the M16 and M4, and was originally developed for military use. Its origins are rooted in military service, first with the U.S. Army in the Vietnam War, and it is often described as a "weapon of war" due to this history and its powerful capabilities, which have also made it a central symbol in gun debates and a common feature in mass shootings.
Military origins: The AR-15 was designed in 1956 as a selective-fire rifle for the military. It entered service with the U.S. Army in the early 1960s and was a precursor to the M16 rifle, which became the standard U.S. military weapon in 1969.
Civilian versions: After the AR-15 patent expired, Colt began marketing semi-automatic versions to civilians, and other manufacturers later produced their own AR-15-style rifles, which are also popular for sport shooting and self-defense.
"Weapon of war" controversy: The term "weapon of war" is used to describe the AR-15 and its variants because of their military design and history. This connection makes the AR-15 a symbol in the debate over gun control and has led to legal restrictions in some areas.
Role in mass shootings: The AR-15's association with military use is further emphasized by its frequent use in mass shootings, which has intensified debates over its place in civilian society.

#153 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-11-23 02:16 AM | Reply

Some idiots likely glorified Rittenhouse.

Yes. Your #147 was incorrect.

#154 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-11-23 02:27 AM | Reply

The term "weapon of war" is used to describe the AR-15

I prefer "Pretend Army Gun".

#155 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-11-23 02:28 AM | Reply

#155 That seems accurate

#156 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-11-23 02:31 AM | Reply

My wife found a video today of some guy with a pet honey badger running around his house.

1st comment: Home defense - tactical nuke

#157 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-11-23 02:32 AM | Reply

Posted by BellRinger

You and your demented ilk are garbage.

#158 | Posted by Angrydad at 2025-11-23 04:55 AM | Reply

Patricide Jeff has a shrine dedicated to Timothy McVeigh.

#159 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-11-23 05:24 AM | Reply

Nobody is glorifying Rittenhouse.

#147 | Posted by BellRinger

Rittenhouse is a hero and on that day he made the world a better place.

#119 | Posted by visitor_

#160 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2025-11-23 07:39 AM | Reply | Funny: 1

"deification of George Floyd."

--Bellringer

You use words loosely and then backtrack when others hold you to account for them.

I don't think anyone deified George Floyd. I think a lot of people are glad he was killed that way, and lots more are horrified at every aspect of the scenario and what it means for the United States, given that it represents in a nutshell a pattern of behavior that's been clearly present since, oh, Europeans came to the Americas.

"Maybe if [poster] hadn't logged into his computer that day, people wouldn't be following [poster's] comments to tell them how misguided they are."

#161 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2025-11-23 07:44 AM | Reply

Nobody is glorifying Rittenhouse.
#147 | Posted by BellRinger
Rittenhouse is a hero and on that day he made the world a better place.
#119 | Posted by visitor_

#160 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2025-11-23 07:39 AM | Reply | Flag: Side-Splitting Foreign Troll Lines for Americans


#162 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-11-23 07:44 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

deification of George Floyd

You spelled "Kyle Rittenhouse" wrong, jeff.

#163 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-11-23 08:00 AM | Reply

"I don't think anyone deified George Floyd. I think a lot of people are glad he was killed that way, and lots more are horrified at every aspect of the scenario and what it means for the United States, given that it represents in a nutshell a pattern of behavior that's been clearly present since, oh, Europeans came to the Americas."

Floyd did not deserve to die that way, but he was made another poster-boy martyr for a movement that routinely distorted facts to make every dispute or interaction between "POC" and non-POC individuals racially motivated, with the more "colored" person always portrayed as an innocent victim even when the reality was opposite (e.g. Michael Brown, Karen-vigilante Christian Cooper). Police brutality has always been a problem, and it should be condemned regardless of the backgrounds of the people involved. But the Russian agit-prop and the easy marks who propagate it want to distract from the real issues that need to be solved and sow discord and division in the same way Trump and his supporters do.

#164 | Posted by sentinel at 2025-11-23 08:40 AM | Reply

"behavior that's been clearly present since, oh, Europeans came to the Americas"

If you're referring to slavery and how people of African descent were treated, check out the Arab/Muslim slave trade, and compare.

#165 | Posted by sentinel at 2025-11-23 08:43 AM | Reply

165. I'm not comparing. I'm an American. I live here. History is not a tale of happy events. Humans are not a happy people.

#166 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2025-11-23 08:50 AM | Reply

No, I wasn't talking about Blacks and slavery. I'm talking about the Americas.

People around the world think their own country is the most important. Which many Americans can't fathom at all.

"Language is nothing but a dialect with an army."

#167 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2025-11-23 08:54 AM | Reply

165. One more. I was thinking about treatment of Native Americans.

#168 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2025-11-23 08:56 AM | Reply

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