Charlie Kirk murder suspect Tyler Robinson is seen LAUGHING in court just a few feet away from sobbing widow Erika

 Daily Mail Online  

'[Charlie] wanted to save young men just like the one who took his life,' Erika said at the memorial, sparking a standing ovation and roars from the crowd of more than 60,000 people.  'That man, that young man, I forgive him,' she added, while breaking into tears.

"Charlie Kirk's accused killer Tyler Robinson was seen laughing in court as the conservative star's widow Erika wept just feet away. 

"Erika Kirk, dressed in all black, faced her husband's alleged murderer for the first time Monday morning as he appeared before a Utah judge for a five-day preliminary hearing.

Schoolteacher shares the joy

"She had burst into tears before the hearing even started, according to the Daily Mail's reporter in the courtroom.

"She was accompanied by her rarely-seen in-laws, Robert and Kathryn Kirk.

Donald Trump Jr and his wife, Bettina Anderson Trump, showed up to support the sobbing widow and were seated in the front row.

"Robinson, however, is said to have been laughing with his attorney Kathy Nester ahead of the proceeding, which will determine if he has to stand trial for Kirk's murder. It is unclear what prompted his expression of mirth. 

"The 23-year-old is charged with aggravated murder in the September 10 assassination of Kirk, who was shot dead while addressing a crowd of thousands during a Turning Point USA event at Utah Valley University.

"The accused killer turned himself in after the shooting and prosecutors allege that he also sent a text message confession to his transgender partner.

"He has not entered a plea in the case and attorneys have not commented on his guilt or innocence. The defense has sought to get the death penalty taken off the table." . . .  More...

Charlie Kirk Killer Caught On Camera For First Time, LAUGHING in Court | Internet RAGES: ‘Demonic…  Language'

Report: Platner Accused of Breaking into Woman's House, Sexually Assaulting Her

 Breitbart   

The Washington Reporter wrote in a post on X that a “well-placed source” informed the outlet that Platner would be dropping out of the Maine Senate race.

"Maine Democrat Senate candidate Graham Platner is facing allegations that he broke into a woman’s house and sexually assaulted her, according to a recent report.

Jenny Racicot, 41, told Politico that while she and Platner had been involved in an “on-and-off relationship,” in 2021 he allegedly “entered her rural Maine home uninvited one night” while intoxicated. Platner allegedly “forced himself on her while she repeatedly told him to stop.”

“I remember him grabbing my pelvis and being really forceful of me,” Racicot explained to the outlet. “I remember the specific moment where I thought to myself, like, ‘This is no longer my choice.'”

"Breitbart News reported in June that several women, including Lyndsey Fifield, and Racicot spoke to the New York Times about their past relationships with Platner.

"While Fifield told the outlet that Platner “could be rough with her” and described an instance in which they were in an argument and “he twisted her arm behind her back, shoved her into a bedroom and held the door closed from the other side,” she said he “never hit” her.

"The outlet said that according to Racicot, “In 2021 he arrived at her house drunk, after she had asked him not to come over.” Racicot also told the outlet that she found his behavior to be “reckless” and “unsettling.” . . . More..

Democratic Senate hopeful Graham Platner's campaign on the brink of extinction as ex-girlfriend accuses him of sex attack | Daily Mail Online

. . . "Platner has not denied the texts or the profile, describing the stories as 'gossip' and he and his wife have reaffirmed 'a very happy marriage.' 

"Some Democrats, notably, have soured on him. Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman told CNN: 'What kind of a creep has been on a platform like Kik, sending a dozen explicit messages - and who knows what else.'

"Vermont's Bernie Sanders and Massachusetts' Elizabeth Warren have backed Platner despite all of his scandals. [If Bernie liked Stalin, he should love the Platster]

"Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer told reporters last month that he met with Platner during the candidate's visit to DC, adding, 'we're going to beat Susan Collins and take back the Senate.'

"Collins, the only Republican in the race, holds an independent streak that makes her both loved and feared.

"She also represents an endangered species: a Republican who represents a state traditionally carried by the Democratic presidential nominee."

Renowned Ethics Professor Hunter Biden Steps on a Rake Lecturing Trump on Profiting Off Presidency

 RedState 

"Hunter's laptop contained thousands of emails, documents, and photos revealing extensive foreign influence-peddling, including multimillion-dollar deals with Burisma and Chinese entities like CEFC. “10% for the big guy” ring a bell?"

"Hunter Biden, for reasons known only to him, went public with sharp criticism of President Trump and his family on Sunday, claiming they raked in billions from government contracts and overseas deals by cashing in on the presidency.

"That's right, Burisma’s best-known, best-paid board member of all time is giving a TED Talk on ethics.

"Biden, in a lengthy social media post, detailed a series of alleged transactions involving Trump family members and associates, while referencing the years-long public scrutiny he faced over his own business activities.

"'I hope everyone had a great 4th of July," he wrote. "I know [President Trump] and family did. 250 years ago, we declared independence from a king who ran the colonies as a family business. In just 18 months, the Trumps have made King George look like an amateur."

"The notorious crack smoker's post jumps straight in, wildly exaggerating and cherry-picking Trump family business stuff to paint it as corruption. Truth is, most of those examples tie back to long-running companies, routine government contracts, and legitimate national security efforts—with zero solid proof of any illegal quid pro quo.

"To borrow a line most likely used throughout Hunter's years from childhood right up to his mid-fifties, accompanied by a little pat on the head—At least you tried." . . .

"The materials also laid out Hunter’s wild spending sprees on drugs, escorts, and high-end luxuries—all bankrolled by those foreign payments—plus emails and messages showing family members working together to shuffle the money through shell companies back when the "big guy" was vice president."  More...

Liberals who side with Hamas I expect to support Hunter, don't you? TD

Democrat Socialists Weaponize Envy To Destroy American Families

 The Federalist   "Let’s stop letting perpetually miserable people define the moral terms of our lives. It’s time to make generational ambition honorable again."

"It is a profound irony and injustice that many of the youths driving the rising socialist movement come from wealthy families and have done the exact opposite."

"The recent wave of primary victories by Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) candidates has the media celebrating a web of grassroots populism and a supposed “working-class uprising.” But look past the revolutionary rhetoric, and you’ll find a much more sinister reality: Modern American socialism isn’t being driven by the proletariat; it is being bankrolled by a cabal of deep-pocketed, ultra-wealthy leftists.

"Historically, socialism has never been about uplifting the poor; it is an insider game designed to consolidate state control while shielding the wealth of the ruling class and ransacking the middle class along the way. To pave the way for this scam, these trust-fund radicals must first destroy the independent American family.

To do that, they have weaponized a nasty little phrase in our modern, grievance-obsessed culture. Whenever a person achieves success, buys a home, or launches a business, the bitter arbiters of online misery waste no time throwing an insult disguised as an observation: “You’re just doing well because your parents had money to help you.”

I"t is delivered with a sneer, intended to induce a deep, paralyzing sense of shame. The implication is clear: If your parents sacrificed, saved, and built something of value so that your starting line in life was a few paces ahead of theirs, your achievements are somehow illegitimate.

"This is nothing more than envy disguised as compassion. It is psychological warfare against families ensuring their offspring do better than them — a core tenet of humanity. It is time we stop apologizing. We need to completely reject this manufactured guilt and return to a time when providing a better life for your children was considered the ultimate civic and moral triumph. This achievement is something for children to hold up with immense pride, not hide in the shadows." . . .More...

Then there is my uncle who said "I'm leaving them nothing. Let them get theirs the way I got mine."

Lefties couldn’t stop hating America even on its 250th anniversary

NY Post   

"We get it: Much of the left abhors America. But if they believe this nation is worth saving, shouldn’t they be looking to applaud the nation’s achievements and seeking common ground and unity on its 250th anniversary? And if not, why should the rest of us take any other their advice seriously?" 

"What sourpusses: Lefties can’t even celebrate the Fourth of July without bashing America and ranking on Donald Trump.

"Trump “doesn’t care about you,” huffed California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) on Saturday.

"The Founders’ “radical idea” that “governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed” is “under threat” from Trump.   

"Never mind that Trump was duly elected — twice; Newsom blathered on like that for nearly all eight minutes of his speech. That’s a 250th national anniversary salute?

"Meanwhile, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s screed focused on America’s flaws.

"Immigrants, he whined, couldn’t “see the nativism they would face — the jobs they would be refused, the landlords who would not rent to them, the abject labor and living conditions they would withstand.”

"Hmm: Hizzoner’s dad is a professor, and his mom a respected filmmaker. Surely they must’ve known about the “horrors” of America. Yet they came anyway.

"Socialist Claire Valdez, who’ll almost surely represent New York’s 7th congressional district after winning the Democratic primary last month, expressed even more rage.

“'The system is rigged, and our planet poisoned by billionaires, bosses, and war profiteers,” she fumed on X." . . .  More...

But here's how I saw it. TD

The Color Of Contagion

 American Thinker  

"Historians have devoted generations to Christopher Gadsden’s coiled rattlesnake and his warning, “Don’t Tread on Me.” Yet no surviving document answers my question: Why yellow?"

"Today, Elon Musk warns Americans of a woke “mind virus,” the destructive ideologies spreading through censored societies much like contagious diseases—“the woke mind virus is pushing civilization towards suicide” and is “arguably one of the greatest threats to modern civilization.”

"Whatever one’s political perspective, the EU’s communication pattern in attacking X’s free speech offerings is strikingly familiar to the lead-up to the American Revolution, when European bureaucrats believed certain American ideas were so dangerous that their spread must be censored, or at least quarantined to North America.

"Indeed, in the years preceding the Revolution, British officials and Loyalists also described colonial freedoms and their resistance to the King in the language of contagion. The “spirit of rebellion” was spreading from colony to colony, infecting minds and threatening the stability of the Empire. Loyalist writers decried how “the violent Spirit in the Whigs… raged with… unbridled Fury,” while officials warned of rebellion as a contagion that could lead to “total Ruin and Destruction.”

"The concern went beyond protests over taxes or Parliament. The greater fear in Britain was that the underlying idea of self-government might prove contagious.

"Only a generation earlier, Britain had watched disease devastate its Caribbean expeditions against Spain, where tropical illnesses destroyed armies on a scale that shocked the Empire, altered imperial strategy, and contributed to political upheaval in London.

"For Britain’s Atlantic leadership, contagion was not merely a medical problem. It had become a strategic one. This observation led me to reconsider one of the most recognizable flags in American history." . . .More...

Democrats lost their way

Mamdani tells us how much he hates America on its 250th birthday

This guy doesn't love or cherish America. What he loves is power, the power to wield it against ordinary Americans and the capacity to bend and change this country to his socialist ideal, making it something it is not, something very like the third world socialism he left behind. That leaves scoldings and lectures to normal Americans. Thank goodness he will never become president.

But we can elect that Thunbergian scold Liz Warren, should she run.. 

. . . "What an appalling speech the Mayor of New York delivered for the 250th anniversary of the nation.
Sadly, it reflects the view of America propagated for years by Howard Zinn and his like-minded colleagues in the universities and believed by armies of the young: a dark, oppressive…  — Bishop Robert Barron (@BishopBarron) July 3, 2026

For Mamdani, America's 'greatness' comes from its money- Monica Showalter

"Marxism and third world resentment are no way to understand America, son."

Democrats move further to the left.

Liberal Town Elects All Muslim City Council

Why Democrats Lost Their Way

"Whether the Democrat Party can muster the courage to once again be responsible to the wider public it has always claimed to represent is the great domestic political question of our time."

Bill Clinton's July 4th Post Proves the Democratic Party Is Truly Done . . ." But if there was a real sign of how far the Democrats have gone off the leftist cliff, it might be the letter that former president Bill Clinton posted on Saturday. Remember, this is Clinton, who, on a relative scale with Democrats moving so far left, is now often remembered as a moderate." 

Did Democrats condemn Hamas? At least 40 babies, some beheaded, found by Israel soldiers in Hamas-attacked village

Congress members wearing the Hamas keffiyeh supporting those who did this sit on the Democrat side in the Capitol, their faces twisted in anger when President Trump addresses Congress.