1ºTrish Dennison his life had no impact on me. I never heard of him. Then reading his quotes about black Americans and worst yet his views on black women was awful. When I looked up his name it came up as radical right considered to be aligned with white supremacy. On that sameday kids were murdered at yet another school shooting. Nothing. Just like the recent 2 lynching of black men. Sad. Where is the out cry for them. This was a money maker for them. She dont want to lose that 12 million dollars profit. As someone else he wasn't the pope or Jesus just another victim of gun violence that happened to an extremist that got the cult riled up.
2ºSo when they shooter was first apprehended, it was ignore the shooter and promise stepped up battle against a group of people who DIDN’T shoot Kirk.
Now after it’s been obvious for days that the group DIDN’T kill Kirk, and that it was the shooter……as depicted in the media…..it’s I Forgive Him.
Not that there’s anything WRONG with forgiveness, but I can’t help but wonder if it’s typical MAGA-style forgiveness….where it’s offered to some (who look a certain way or politically affiliate a certain way) but not to others, even for far LESSER so-called offenses. You know, like disgust for President Obama over lesser things but forgiveness for multi-felony, teen model show perv, grab em by the stuff, cheat on every wife Trump. You know, typical MAGA-style selective forgiveness, which is completely different from the forgiveness Jesus spoke about in his gospel.
I know what I’ll do to TEST whether it’s real or it’s the phony MAGA-style. I’ll see if next she extends forgiveness to POLITICAL FOES of the Turning Point Organization for having a different political view (oh the sheer OFFENSE) and she takes back that public lashing out against them for something they didn’t do OR is that too much for her and she can only muster forgiveness for someone who looks like Tyler Robinson with a family like Tyler Robinson’s for the actual murder of her husband. Let’s see…….
3ºIn this one clip cnn is showing, it didn’t appear that there were tears but I promise having watched her speech fully, she cried and her makeup was smudging. The fact that people can so callously still find something negative to say about even this, says everything I need to know. A women whose had her husband brutally assassinated & she says she doesn’t want to ask for for the death penalty for his killer and that to top it off, she forgives him. Most wouldn’t have the strength to speak at all, let alone speak in a forgiving light of her husband’s murderer. Y’all need to find a heart and learn to stop spreading hate even for a political party you disagree with in every way, it doesn’t matter. It’s your fellow human and that human deserves a little humanity.
4ºCathy Abueg - "deserves compassion"? Really. You know what? I don't feel either empathy or sympathy for her. She knows who she chose to marry. She agrees with everything he stood for. She made her bed and now she has to lay in it. Seeing her husband murdered like that must have been horrific for her. But as yesterday shows, she didn't learn anything from it. No introspection. No self reflection that perhaps she could change the trajectory of her life and of the company she has inherited. But no. Instead, she and the rest of the GOP have demonized the entire "left" as being culpable rather than at least contemplating if the notion that his own words were the catalyst for his ultimate demise.
The kids, on the other hand, I do feel bad for them in a way. They didn't choose to be embroiled in political warfare. They didn't choose to have a father, so vile that someone felt like they wanted to kill him. They are the only innocents here and they are the only ones "deserving" of compassion.
5ºMy beloved husband died living me to raise our children alone. The doctors had told us that he was going to die so we were well informed, but when he finally closed his eyes in death my whole world crumbled. I felt as if I died with him though I was walking and breathing. I forgot to cook for myself and our children. The cemetery was about a kilometer away from the house and the first thing I did every morning was to visit his tomb. I would stayed there talking...asking questions and answering them myself. I would remain there lost in my misery. One day our parish priest came home and said, "my daughter" I have been told that you stayl at the cemetery till 9 pm. Please stop going there, let him rest. It was summer time so places weren't dark. I told Father that I cannot stop but I promised to reduce my visits to the cemetery. 15 years later my life has never been the same, what breaked in me with the passing of my husband remains broken. I can't understand Mrs. Kirk being so loud after the burial of the man she claims to have loved. Many sad widows would identify with my story.
6ºMargaret Ann Bowling there is a difference between grieving publicly in front of millions and privately.
I am sure she is in part numb from everything that has been happening and at times allowing herself to go into autopilot as a survival mechanism. And the fact that a team likely helped her write her speech is not surprising, nor do I judge her for it.
When my son died I needed not only clothes for his funeral but a distraction from the pit I was in. No one who saw us out picking out clothes would have guessed it was for my dead son’s funeral. But compartmentalizing extreme grief and focusing on other things as an attempt to just let your brain and heart rest and make it through the day is a real thing. If I had given in fully to the grief I would still be in bed broken 10 years later.
But I can tuck it away into a little spot that I bring out every so often to still grieve his loss. Some people are more comfortable showing full emotion in front of others and some are not. Personally I am not one of those people - especially not to strangers- I could have gotten up and given a speech after his death and probably would have appeared forced and cold. But it’s a survival mechanism.
Soldiers (and those in traumatic situations) watch their friends die in front of them yet still continue the fight and often don’t process it until they feel physically safe themselves. If they process it at all. A lot of people turn to work or forms of denial, or really lean into the idea of “higher purpose” in order to make some sense of a senseless loss.
Unless you know someone intimately and see them when they feel secure enough to let their guard down you have no idea how they feel.
7ºThese comments. When your time is up (and oneday it will be), will anyone remember you? Did you do anything that mattered at all? The people you're mocking made (and are making) a massive difference in people's lives. Their #1 goal is to bring people to know God. You either choose to follow, or you don't. If Erika's speech was not an example, pointing you to what is right, and the side you should choose, then I don't know what to tell you. Keep worshiping the tranny murderers and see where it gets ya. You get one shot at this....better make sure your money is on the right horse.
8ºDrea An It’s interesting that you bring up being desensitized the loss of human life. There are those in the gop who were ok with people lying and saying that the Sandy Hook massacre was a hoax. Innocent children were slaughtered. How many other children have been murdered in school shootings? Nothing gets done. Hasn’t someone said “people need to move on”?What about the Police who died on 1/6? What about the other murdered Political leaders and their family members? Seems to me that the GOP has become desensitized to murder or perhaps only to murders of those not like them. Not very Christian
9ºI feel for their children No child should have to go through that at such a young age, ever. They're the truly innocent ones in all this ugly. And I do believe she is grieving the loss of her evil husband. However, when my daughter's father was killed by a drunk driver at ten, fifteen pounds of makeup was the last thing on my mind. I couldn't even put chapstick on my own lips for a good month. Maybe she had it done, and that's ok. But I was more concerned with making sure my children were ok that day, not sitting for a good hour or two to put on war paint for fireworks and a show.
10ºWhether or not tears were shed, here is a woman who lost her husband at the hands of a radical leftist. She’s left with two children who will grow up never truly knowing their father—simply because he dared to speak and stand for what he believed.
But the Bible tells us that vengeance belongs to God. Our role is to forgive and let Him carry out justice in His time.
Many radicals may celebrate his death, but the story isn’t over. The best is yet to come. I have never seen God lose control—He is always in control. Even when it looks like He’s silent, He is working behind the scenes. And soon, this nation will witness His hand move in a way that will leave many shocked and speechless.