Trump wants to be a king so badly, maybe we should call him the King of Greed.

FYI: Donald Trump is the poster boy for greed:

Trump: I'm very greedy'
01/09/16 2:59 PM ET

"Now, I'll tell you, I'm good at that--so, you know, I've always taken in money," he said at a rally in Iowa. "I like money. I'm very greedy. I'm a greedy person. I shouldn't tell you that, I'm a greedy--I've always been greedy. I love money, right?

"But, you know what? I want to be greedy for our country. I want to be greedy. I want to be so greedy for our country. I want to take back money," he added.

"His mother didn't understand why he was wearing a Pepe costume or what that meant."~ Gal_Karma
It wasn't Pepe, you cultural illiterate. Its the SlavicSquat, a viral trend in 2015 to today ...www.instagram.com
Posted by oneironaut

It was Pepe too. I read it on his mother's FB page before she took it down.

But you have to admit all the violent left-wing rhetoric led to this. Call people a Nazi? What do you with Nazi's? Well, you shoot them.
#39 | Posted by HeliumRat

Kirk called the Biden adminstration Nazis/fascists and compared MAGA supporters to American soldiers who fought on D-Day:

So...Trump is going to do what?
suspend ABC's license?
block their merger deal?
I'm guessing......no, that's not going to happen.
#167 | Posted by eberly

We'll see. Time will tell. What did Carr mean when he said we can do this the easy way or the hard way? Guess we are going to find out.

Oh, and his family and all his friends said he was a flaming liberal, and his father (Mormon) turned him in.
Posted by HeliumRat

His mother didn't understand why he was wearing a Pepe costume or what that meant. She said, he said he was going as a meme. I doubt she knew anything about the online gamer culture he had been in for years. Some of his friends said he wasn't political. I think I read he wasn't registered as a Democrat or a Republican and he hadn't voted in recent years. I could be wrong, but I am coming to believe he isn't left or right in the way we have traditionally come to understand those terms.

We still need to know more, but the assumption that Robisnon and his roommate must be liberals misses another possibility that I knew nothing of:

Unless Tyler is actually a conservative gay into furry costumes, that other alternative is liberal.
That's going to be a hard sell.
#28 | Posted by BillJohnson a

Bathhouse Bill, Robinson is a MAGAt. Deal with it.
#29 | Posted by reinheitsgebot

No, you both are stuck in the left/right dichotomy that likely does not apply here. Robinson is neither a liberal, nor MAGA. Good explanation of why trying to put Robisnon in a right/left dichotomy is "archaic and inaccurate":

"Tyler Robinson and his boyfriend were reported to be involved with "furry fandom" or the "furry lifestyle""
Is this Leftist?
I heard that they were involved in femboy stuff, characteristic of the degraded fascist Right.
#23 | Posted by Zed

Zed,
"Is this Leftist?"
Is it something a conservative would do?
Pretty unlikely.
#24 | Posted by BillJohnson

I wouldn't have thought the whole febmboy thing would be conserative, but it is. Or maybe it isn't. It's radical RW. Are furries LW? Not that I know of, or maybe they are radical LW in the same way femboys are radical RW. Or maybe the problem is we are trying to force these groups into a left/right dichotomy that doesn't really apply. I've posted links outlining all of this in recent days.

Disney and ABC will bring the comedian back to its schedule starting Tuesday night. "Last Wednesday, we made the decision to suspend production on the show to avoid further inflaming a tense situation at an emotional moment for our country. It is a decision we made because we felt some of the comments were ill-timed and thus insensitive," "the company said in a statement. "We have spent the last days having thoughtful conversations with Jimmy, and after those conversations, we reached the decision to return the show on Tuesday."

Jimmy Kimmel Returns: ABC Ends Suspension Starting Tuesday

Jimmy Kimmel will have more to say on late-night TV.

Disney and ABC will bring the comedian back to its schedule starting Tuesday night. "Last Wednesday, we made the decision to suspend production on the show to avoid further inflaming a tense situation at an emotional moment for our country. It is a decision we made because we felt some of the comments were ill-timed and thus insensitive," "the company said in a statement. "We have spent the last days having thoughtful conversations with Jimmy, and after those conversations, we reached the decision to return the show on Tuesday."

-But he isn't a reporter.
I wonder if that was a factor. It makes it harder to accuse the FCC(Trump) of going after the press.
#149 | Posted by eberly

Did you see what Trump said to ABC reporter Jon Karl over the weekend?:

President Donald Trump lashed out at ABC News Jonathan Karl on Tuesday, after the network correspondent asked him about Attorney General Pam Bondis vow to go after those who engage in "hate speech" following the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

"A lot of your allies say that hate speech is free speech," Karl said to Trump.

"She'll probably go after people like you, because you treat me so unfairly," Trump replied. "You have a lot of hate in your heart. Maybe they will come after ABC. ABC paid me $16 million recently for a form of hate speech. Your company paid me $16 million for a form of hate speech, so maybe they will have to go after you."

But that does not mean he was "a modern-day St. Paul."~ Gal Karma.
The irony of someone posting about the Catholic religion, and calling the assassination of Kirk, Karma.
I am not religious, but Gal, and Corky; I can tell you're the worst kind of Catholics.
#5 | Posted by oneironaut

I'n not Catholic. I don't think Corky is either. It doesn't matter really. Cardinal Dolan of NY said Kirk was a modern day St. Paul on Fox News last week, and the article I have linked was published in the National Catholic Reporter.

PS I explained to you what karma means: what goes around comes around. Go around talking about the rational, prudent losses from gun violence necessary to maintain unfettered 2nd amendment rights, end up being one of those losses. I wouldn't have wished that karma on him, but then again I'm not for unfettered 2nd amendments and don't find the losses from gun violence rational and prudent.

KIRK: "You will never live in a society when you have an armed citizenry, and you won't have a single gun death. That is nonsense. It's drivel. But I am--I think it's worth it. I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year, so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God given rights. That is a prudent deal. It is rational."

So I stand by what I said ealier

He said that MAGA voters were working really hard to to make sure no one thought Kirk was one of them.:
"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."
This is what both sides do after every mass or political shooting, especially immediately after the shootings when the shooter's motivation is usually not known, but even beyond that when evidence indicates otherwise or is inconclusive.

" It was reported that he planned on doubling down the next night."
Link?
#116 | POSTED BY GAL_TUESDAY
" Jimmy Kimmel was planning second Charlie Kirk monologue when Disney axed show"
www.yahoo.com
Ignore your lying eyes and ears folks and just listen to lefties describe what Kimmel said.
#119 | Posted by BellRinger

You are following the RW spin on his comments and on what he planned to say the next night:

Kimmel "was planning to say that his words were being purposefully twisted by some members of the Make America Great Again movement," the Journal reported.

Kimmel had planned to address the controversy in his Wednesday monologue, according to The Wall Street Journal. But Disney Entertainment co-Chair Dana Walden, a top Kimmel ally, believed his planned remarks "could make the situation worse."

"It was reported that he planned on doubling down the next night."

Link?

FTA:

Any reflection on the legacy of Kirk cannot gloss over the pain and suffering that Kirk inflicted on innumerable people through his harsh, divisive and combative rhetoric. We have published some of those perspectives in the National Catholic Reporter in recent days, but in any conversations about Kirk's legacy, we cannot ignore his racism, sexism and xenophobia.

Cruz quotes/video at links:

Angry
@angrystaffer.bsky.social
I didn't have agreeing with Ted Cruz on my bingo card.

" No, he didn't"
Yes he did. I watched the clip. Several times. His employer wouldn't suspend his show over nothing.
#97 | Posted by BellRinger

No, he didn't. ABC suspended Kimmel because Brendan Carr, Trump's appointed head at the FCC threatened to revoke their license. Rather than risk that, they caved to his threats and fired Kimmel.

There were never any riots after the Tree of Life Synagogue shootings in Pittsburgh either, in which 11 people were killed and 6 injured:

A Look Back At Oct. 27, 2018
Pittsburgh's darkest day began as a rainy and dreary October morning like any other in the fall -- but the world's eyes would soon turn to Squirrel Hill, as unthinkable hatred shattered one of the city's most peaceful neighborhoods.

Eleven worshippers were shot and killed inside the Synagogue, as they attended services at each of the three congregations in the building -- Tree of Life, New Light, and Dor Hadash.

Later that evening, it was the young people of Squirrel Hill, students from Taylor Allderdice High School, who brought the community together to begin the long process of healing, one which continues today.

The streets of Mister Rogers' neighborhood filled with mourners wanting to pray, sing, cry and remember the lives taken and the lives forever impacted by the terror that rang out earlier that same day.

I wonder where this country will be 10 years from now?:

What forgiveness from Charleston church shooting families can teach us 10 years later

9 Black worshippers killed in June 2015

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WBTV) - There's an unspoken expectation for safety inside the walls of a church, where love and peace flow in abundance. It's also where we can learn to be the best version of ourselves; kind, accepting and forgiving, even under the worst circumstances.

Bishop Dewayne Anthony Walker of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church said the pain of the 2015 mass shooting at Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston still feels fresh.

"I was horrified. Just the notion of someone walking into a bible study class, which we welcome ... and all of a sudden, that person stands up and just begins to shoot," Walker said.

The 21-year-old shooter shot twelve people, killing nine of them.

Speaking to tens of thousands of people at the stadium, Kirk said she had found comfort in prayer and also in the way people had responded to her husband's death.

"We didn't see violence, we didn't see riots. We didn't see revolution. Instead we saw what my husband always prayed he would see in this country: We saw revival. We saw people open a Bible for the first time in a decade," she said, urging people to continue doing so.

"Pray again, read the Bible again, go to church next Sunday, and the Sunday after that and break free from the temptations and shackles of this world," Kirk said.

"I forgive you," said the daughter of 70-year-old Ethel Lance to the 21-year-old man who allegedly murdered her mother in church and appeared at an emotionally charged video court appearance in Charleston on Friday afternoon, two days after a horrific mass shooting here.

"You took something very precious from me, but I forgive you," Lance's daughter said through tears. "It hurts me. You hurt a lot of people, but may God forgive you."

Speaking of her son Tywanza Sanders, who was also killed on Wednesday night trying to shield his great aunt from gunfire, Felicia Sanders said to the suspect: "We welcomed you Wednesday night in our Bible study with open arms. You have killed some of the most beautifullest people that I know. Every fiber in my body hurts. I will never be the same."

She continued: "Tywanza was my hero. But as they say in the Bible study, we enjoyed you, but may God have mercy on your soul."

I always find this sort of forgiveness amazing:

Erika Kirk, widow of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, said she forgives her husband's alleged killer.

"That man, that young man ... I forgive him," Kirk said, wiping away tears as the audience at Kirk's memorial at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Ariz., erupted in applause on Sunday.

"I forgive him because it was what Christ did and is what Charlie would do," she said. "The answer to hate is not hate. The answer we know from the gospel is love and always love. Love for our enemies and love for those who persecute us."

BTW, what Trump was really mad about is what Kimmel said about him:

This is what Kimmel said:

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.

In between the finger-pointing, there was grieving. On Friday, the White House flew the flags at half-staff, which got some criticism, but on a human level, you can see how hard the president is taking this.

He then showed a clip of a reporter asking Trump how he was holding up in the wake of Kirk's death.

"I think very good," Trump replied. "And by the way, right there where you see all the trucks, they just started construction of the new ballroom for the White House, which is something they've been trying to get, as you know, for about 150 years, and it's gonna be a beauty."

"Yes, he's at the fourth stage of grief: construction," Kimmel said. "Demolition, construction. This is not how an adult grieves the murder of someone he called a friend. This is how a 4-year-old mourns a goldfish."