Quote Originally Posted by Omegstrat6 View Post
..........Upon the shooting of Charlie Kirk, Kimmel -like many-decried the act and sent "love" to his family but in a recent episode of his show stated that "the MAGA gang" were "desperately trying to characterise this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points off Kirk's killing".

.......The first part is demonstratively not true as we now know that the killer was in a relationship with a trans room-mate and was likely radicalized by a variety of factors including social media, Kirk's hate speech against trans people and his own father's pro MAGA stance. Certainly he was not part of the MAGA gang. The second part however rings very true.

MAGA spout all this stuff about them defending "free speech" but the reality is almost the complete opposite, with Trump wanting to control the media and actively trying to enable his political cronies to buy up key media outlets....
Disclaimer. Please excuse editing and this load of old waffle I've just typed out.

This could be interpreted very differently Omeg and in which case Jimmy Kimmel wouldn't just be stirring the pot . Boy raised in a right of centre Christian and political environment with right of centre Christian and political values develops right of centre Christian leaning and political values.

Boy gains access to a wider world view and forms his own opinions. Boy meets pronoun, gets a boner and decides he firmly prefers his new leaning to the old one, in this instance his dad. Boy sees threat to his new world and neutralises it. Dad puts his son away.

He may not have a MAGA stance but he is of MAGA stock and his moral grounding is closer to the right than the left. He is clearly a very confused young man with clowns to the left of him and jokers to the right who now finds himself stuck in the middle of a cell.

As Aristotle mused: 'give me a child until he is seven and I'll give you the man'. We are generally shaped by our environments. There's definitely a right sided influence in there and it would be remiss to ignore or conveniently overlook those early influences whatever his later actions.

As for the self promoting Trumpet he calls his own tune as and when it suits and rarely if ever bothers to pay the piper. I ear his rats very nearly came home to roost not long ago and wouldn't bet against them trying again.

Ps. I don't really know what any of that means but it seemed quite meaningful to me when I typed it out. I may actually read it later. Then again I might not. Thank you for reading if you did 😊.