Manny
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Manny
@themannyortega.bsky.social
🏳️‍🌈 is an American philosopher, Public Intellectual, Entrepreneur, and Political Activist from California 🏳️‍🌈
No mention about how Prop 50 is being voted on in the first place because the Kult is trying to rig the midterms in the red states.

Cynical phonies!

#California
September 17, 2025 at 9:47 PM
...I guess the best way of putting it is that human beings seek novelty, and after a while, political violence gets to be old hat and uncool.

www.politico.com/news/magazin...

#News #Politics #CharlieKirk #Kirk #Sad
‘The Kindling Is a Lot Drier Than It Used to Be’
In the wake of the Boulder attack, a neurologist discusses rising political violence in America — and how the cycle stops.
www.politico.com
September 11, 2025 at 7:15 AM
...It seemed like the anarchist violence of the early 20th century — it lasted for a couple of decades, killed the U.S. president — it seemed that was never going to end either, but it does. These things burn themselves out...
September 11, 2025 at 7:15 AM
...I mean, if you were an Italian in the ’60s or the ’70s, major political and judicial figures, including prime ministers, were getting bumped off on a regular basis. And it seemed like it was never going to end, but it did...
September 11, 2025 at 7:15 AM
..It’s what happened in Northern Ireland. It hasn’t happened in the Middle East yet, in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but eventually it does happen.

I can remember back in the ’60s, early ’70s, it felt like the political violence was never going to end...
September 11, 2025 at 7:15 AM
On Wednesday, the routine repeated itself. Charlie Kirk is dead, and the nation is again reckoning with the combustion of gun violence and toxic politics."

www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

#News #Politics #Kirk #CharlieKirk #Sad
A new dark normal of political violence still shocks the nation
The shooting death of conservative activist Charlie Kirk follows a surge in threats and attacks against political figures for the second summer in a row.
www.politico.com
September 11, 2025 at 6:12 AM
...Like them, he had a feel for the political pulse of his moment, a demagogic flair, and the courage to take on all comers in argument, which exposed him to the sniper who ended his life.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

#News #Politics #CharlieKirk #Kirk #Sad
The Tragedy of Charlie Kirk’s Killing
The activist’s murder is a disaster for the country.
www.theatlantic.com
September 11, 2025 at 5:59 AM
...I won’t pretend that I believe America just lost a great man. In the long history of American political assassinations, Kirk belongs in the company of charismatic provocateurs such as Huey Long and Malcolm X, cut down before their time...
September 11, 2025 at 5:59 AM
In June, two elected Democrats in Minnesota were shot, one fatally. President Trump has ordered flags across the country to be lowered to half-staff in Kirk’s honor, but he wasn’t a statesman like John F. Kennedy, or a moral leader like Martin Luther King Jr. (whom Kirk called “not a good person”)..
September 11, 2025 at 5:59 AM
...CNN reported that some White House officials were furious that it took place after one of Netanyahu’s advisers, Ron Dermer, on Monday met Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff but made no mention of an operation sure to humiliate the US president."

www.cnn.com/2025/09/09/p...

#News #Politics #Qatar
Analysis: Israel’s latest attack deals another blow to Trump’s tarnished international credibility | CNN Politics
Assuming President Donald Trump’s claim that he couldn’t stop Israel’s strike on Hamas officials in a Qatar residential district is true, he’s just suffered another devastating blow to his internation...
www.cnn.com
September 10, 2025 at 7:12 AM