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Fox's Kilmeade, Earnhardt, and Jones Need to be Fired for Calling for the Imprisonment and Lethal Injection of Homeless People
In a truly sick display of all that is wrong with FOX "News" and the right wing MAGA media echo chamber, three of their morning hosts: Ainsley Earnhardt, Brian Kilmeade, and Lawrence Jones suggested that a war on the weak is necessary with the homeless being either jailed or killed by lethal injection.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/7YSF4ZgyeOc
Jones is the moron that suggested incarceration.
Kilmeade is the jackass that blurted out killing the homeless by lethal injection.
Earnhardt was vacuous and was not disturbed at all by what her two colleagues said.
FOX needs to fire all three.
If Matthew Dowd is fired for speaking the truth about the hateful filth Charlie Kirk spoke out about every day of his adult life up until the moment of his assassination, then FOX should terminate these MAGA insults to humanity for broadcasting the need for NAZI Euthanasia programs.
Responding to this trio's NAZI style mindset, Arizona Representative Yassamin Ansari posted:
"As we grapple with rising political violence in America, we need empathy from our leaders—and frankly anyone with a platform—more than ever. Stop dehumanizing people. Stop normalizing cruelty."
Former Representative Adam Kinzinger called the trio's War on the Weak broadcast "A new low for FOX News" and:
"Brian Kilmeade on FOX News to millions of people suggested euthanizing and murdering people less fortunate than him. People with mental health illnesses. Maybe veterans...Human lives...A FOX News Host calling for the murdering of the down and out. I just got to say this to all the Christians out there. If you cheer on what Brian Kilmeade says...those are the exact people if Jesus was walking the Earth today, that he would be hanging out with...He would be hanging out with the people about to be deported and in situations less fortunate than him...If FOX News doesn't fire him and they won't, they have no right ever to complain again about what anybody says."
Quoting scripture, California Governor Gavin Newsom wrote:
"Proverbs 21:13: Whoever closes his ear to the cry of the poor will himself call out and not be answered."
Third Way Executive Director Matt Bennett offered:
"It took about 8 months for MAGA to get to televised calls for the mass murder of those they consider undesirable.
Still 3.5 years
Bravo Democratic House and Senate Leadership
Bravo to House and Senate Democrats for throwing the gauntlet on Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans, demanding that they restore the cuts they made to the Affordable Care Act/Obamacare subsidies and Medicaid so they could pay for their unneeded tax cuts for the wealthy in the reverse Robin Hood Angel of Death Big Billionaire Bill.
In a joint press appearance yesterday, House and Senate Democratic Leaders Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer told reporters and the American People that no votes for the Trump/MAGA Continuing Resolution Bill would be forthcoming from their caucus unless they gave in to their demands to protect the health care and lives of the American People adversely affected by the MAGA-Project 2025 Draconian Budget Cuts on the nation's social safety net.
At the event, Leader Jeffries said:
"...At this particular moment in time, we're together as it relates to the unprecedented attack on the health care of the American people. The House and Senate Democrats are prepared to enter into a bipartisan spending agreement that meets the needs of the American people, Including as it relates to their health care and economic well-being. We will not support a partisan spending agreement that continues to rip away health care from the American people period."
Senator Schumer echoed all of Jeffries sentiments, saying after the House Democratic Leader:
"What the Republicans are proposing Is not good enough for the American people and not good enough to get our votes. The American people are hurting. Healthcare is being decimated on all different fronts. People are gonna die. People are losing jobs. People are losing health care. We are fighting for that and people are just seeing their costs go through the roof. They hate it and probably the number one or number two reason for that is healthcare and what the Republicans have done in the BBB. Just as on the BBB, we were totally united. Every Democrat in the House and Senate voted against it on this issue. We're totally united. The Republicans have to come to meet with us in a true bipartisan negotiation to satisfy the American people's needs on health care or they won't get our votes plain and simple."
In a social media post earlier today (September 12,) Arizona Senator Mark Kelly also called for bipartisan talks on the funding agreement, writing:
"Premiums will spike for as many as 22 million people who get their health insurance through the ACA next year. Why? Because of Trump and Republicans. What we need to do is work together to keep health care costs down."
Commentary from writers at the New York Times and Third Way applaud the legislative strategy the Congressional Democrats are undertaking.
Guest columnist Jonathan Alter, drawing on how Bill Clinton was able to outsmart Newt Gingrich and his band of Contract on America Republicans in the two government shutdowns of 1995 and 1996 wrote:
"...By demanding action on popular policies, Democrats could execute a delicate maneuver where they avoid blame for a shutdown while benefiting from the negotiations to end it..."
"...Yet when the shutdown ended in early 1996, Mr. Clinton had won big. How? Mr. Clinton, who had struggled to communicate a message, boiled down his dozens of wordy policy positions to what his aides called “M.M.E.E.” — Medicare, Medicaid, education and the environment. Intense focus on those four popular Democratic positions powered Mr. Clinton’s shutdown comeback and his re-election that fall..."
"...Democrats have a big edge on what’s seen as the No. 1 problem in America: affordability. According to a new CBS News poll, a paltry 36 percent of Americans approve of the way Mr. Trump is handling inflation, a blaring sign of the president’s vulnerability on the main issue that brought him back to the White House..."
"...On health, Democrats should demand an extension of the popular tax credits that make Obamacare more affordable for millions of Americans, which are scheduled to expire next year. They should insist on restoring funding for popular National Institutes of Health grants, particularly for cancer research. And in the glare of a shutdown it would be tough for Republicans to resist a Democratic push to reverse at least some of the unpopular Medicaid cuts. Finally, Democrats should insist on a provision guaranteeing the availability of vaccines, a position supported by 78 percent of adults in a recent NBC News poll, including overwhelming majorities of independents and Republicans..."
Alter also called for Democrats to use their position to bargain cuts to Trump tariffs and his placement of National Guard troops in American City's.
In the Third Way piece, their writers note the Democratic Party's strength on health care, conveying:
"...Democrats should fight to protect middle-class health care. That is the one area where they consistently have the upper hand. Because the ACA itself is now quite popular, with two-thirds of Americans viewing it favorably. That is a higher rating than either the Pope or Taylor Swift.
Republicans are on the wrong side of both substance and perception. Their signature achievement this year is a gigantic tax cut for the wealthy, while massively increasing the deficit. Now they are effectively pushing a middle-class tax hike by blocking health care subsidies.
Polling confirms this is political quicksand for Republicans. Third Way’s recent survey found that messages about Republicans slashing $1 trillion from Medicaid—cuts that would harm children, people with disabilities, and working families—resonated strongly with Independents and even persuadable Trump supporters. Layer on top of that a looming premium increase of 20% to 30%, and the contrast between the parties could not be clearer. Trump’s own pollster warned that if a Republican lets the tax credits expire, they will trail the Democrat by 15 points. Democrats have an opportunity here to fight to extend a middle class tax credit supported by 91% of Democrats, 80% of Independents, and even 63% of Republicans..."
"...Obviously, most voters do not know or care about the mechanics of appropriations bills or continuing resolutions. They are focused on whether government is delivering for them. If voters can’t afford health care next year, if they can’t see their doctor, or the quality of their care gets worse, then government surely is not working.
That’s why Democrats must draw a red line on GOP cuts to the cost protections in the ACA, access to rural and essential care through Medicaid, and veterans’ health care. If Republicans are hellbent on denying care to millions, let them fund the government alone.
If Democrats remain united around this singular goal, they either will succeed in protecting Americans from massive cost hikes or they will show the public they are the only party fighting to keep health care affordable. Both outcomes are wins."
Remember Most of the Political Violence Committed In the Recent Past Are More Aligned with Right Wing MAGA Extremism
Well it did not take long for vile MAGA opportunists like Nancy Mace and Donald Trump to publicly exploit the assassination of Charlie Kirk as evidence a rising stream of left wing violence across the nation even though the assassin is still at large and there is no idea what his or her motives were.
Can we say trying to martyr the flawed Kirk like the Germans used the Reichstag Fire?
Can we say bullshit?
When Paul Pelosi, the husband of Nancy Pelosi was attacked by a lunatic with MAGA sympathies, who rushed to that attackers defense and made fun of the incident?
People like Donald Trump and yes, Charlie Kirk.
When the former Speaker of the Minnesota House was assassinated with her husband, where was the flags at half mast for her and the outpouring of sympathy from Mr. Trump and his MAGA apostates?
Virtually non existent.
Down closer to home here in Arizona, it is MAGA loving State House Republicans like John Gillette who are issuing hateful and inciting Anti-Moslem posts calling them "savages" and bringers of "Sharia Law."
Arizona House Leader Oscar De Los Santos and House Democrats have issued a strong condemnation and ethics complaint against the repulsive Gillette.
When asked if Democrats were to blame for what happened to Kirk, Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren responded to a reporter by saying:
"Oh please. Why don't you start with the President of the United States. And every ugly meme he's posted and every ugly word."
In the great majority of cases, you never hear political venom from Arizona or National Democrats like the disgusting tone and messaging from MAGA.
It is a fact that the great majority of political violence that has been occurred in this country has been caused by reactionary right wing zealots more aligned with MAGA and enabled by people like Trump and the late Mr. Kirk.


So when people like Mr. Trump and Ms. Mace say Democrats are to blame for the rise in political violence, just remember they are just looking in the mirror and talking about their hateful divisive selfs.
Kirk did not deserve to be assassinated but to say he is some innocent victim is something that the facts do not bear out. Remember just before he was shot, he was stoking conspiracy theories from MAGA land on the false narrative of the proliferation of transgender shooters.
He was spreading and stoking hate up until his last breath.
Political Violence Is Never the Answer
Earlier this week at a political event at Utah Valley University, Turning Point Founder and Trump-MAGA surrogate Charles Kirk was brutally assassinated.
One thing must be clear in this age where certain right wing members of the political spectrum purposely stoke division, fear, violent acts, and calls for retribution.
Political violence is never the answer.
It was not the answer when a maniac shot Gabby Giffords in 2011.
It was not the answer when a lunatic shot up the House Majority Leader, Steve Scalise, at a Congressional softball game.
It was not the answer when racist low lives massacred Black Church members or Jewish Synagogue attendees.
It was not the answer when Right Wing Nut Jobs plotted to kidnap Gretchen Whitmer, the Governor of Michigan.
It was not the answer when Domestic Terrorists, enabled by the 45th President, stormed the Nation's Capitol in an attempted coup.
It was not the answer when a deranged MAGA supporter assaulted the husband of Nancy Pelosi.
It was not the answer when a loner takes a shot at that former 45th President, "injuring" him and killing a husband and father bystander.
It is not the answer when an arsonist tries to set fire to the house of Josh Shapiro, the Governor of Pennsylvania when he and his family were sleeping.
It is not the answer when masked agents of the government grab people off the street and detain them in American made concentration camps.
It is not the answer when people, radicalized by reactionary dogma, assassinate the former Speaker of the Minnesota State House, Melissa Hartman and her husband.
It is not the answer when a vaccine denying nut job shoots at the people working at the Center for Disease Control.
It is not the answer when shooting a 31 year old man who has different views, no matter how disgusting or repulsive than yours, at a political event at a university.
Arizona's leaders have already expressed their condolences for the Kirk family.
Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs wrote in a social media post:
"I am horrified by the violent attack on Charlie Kirk. In a democracy, we solve our disagreements at the ballot box. Political violence is never acceptable."
She also posted this:
Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes posted:
"The news of Charlie Kirk being shot is terrible and disturbing. I condemn political violence. This cannot be who we are. We are all Americans."
Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes offered:
"Political violence is never the answer. I strongly condemn the horrific act of violence against Charlie Kirk. We may not all agree in this country but our ability to freely share and discuss our political beliefs is what makes us American."
Senator Mark Kelly, the husband of Gabby Giffords, stated:
"Charlie Kirk lost his life today because someone thought violence was the answer to political disagreement. It's never the answer, and political violence has no place in our country. I'm praying for his wife and children."
Senator Ruben Gallego relayed:
"This is beyond terrible. Charlie Kirk was a husband, father, and son. Violence is never the answer. Sydney and I are keeping the Kirk family in our prayers."
Representative Yassamin Ansari commented:
"Political violence is never acceptable—this is horrific."
Representative Greg Stanton conveyed:
"The attack on Charlie Kirk is horrifying. I’m praying hard for him, and keeping his family in my thoughts. Political violence has absolutely no place in our country."
Arizona Senate Democrats posted:
"Political violence has no place in this country. Our thoughts are with Charlie Kirk and his family. Gun violence does not discriminate and the government’s inaction has consequences for every American."
Arizona House Democrats also remarked:
"Horrific and unacc
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