"We take the people that are going to do the best job. And so it's very simple. And that's the way our country was built. We were built on merit," #Trump who was born a #white #male #millionaire told the #military leaders.

"We're bringing back a focus on fitness, ability, character [🤣] & strength & that's because the purpose of American military is not to protect anyone's feelings. It's to protect our republic."

[character: #Hegseth & Trump who are criminals & rapists👍]
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"We take the people that are going to do the best job. And so it's very simple. And that's the way our country was built. We were built on merit," #Trump who was born a #white #male #millionaire told the #military leaders.

"We're bringing back a focus on fitness, ability, character [🤣] & strength & that's because the purpose of American military is not to protect anyone's feelings. It's to protect our republic."

[character: #Hegseth & Trump who are criminals & rapists👍]
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Orr recently left their home state of WV, finding it no longer safe after being threatened & assaulted.

#Kirk’s rhetoric of “#Christian #white #nationalism, anti- #transgender, …anti-woke culture-war framing, this isn’t on the edge anymore,” Orr said. “It has moved into what many consider the center of #Republican identity.” They said they were deeply concerned about how few people seemed willing to point out the consequences of this shift: “Who is actually fighting for us?”

And while #Trump has surrounded himself with people who have said #racist things & maintained ties to #white & #Christian #nationalists, the number of #Democrats & esteemed American institutions that have engaged in the mainstreaming of #CharlieKirk demonstrates that espousing open & explicit #bigotry no longer relegates one to the fringe of political discourse, a phenomenon we have not witnessed since the #CivilRights era.

8 months into #Trump’s second term, it is clear that Kirk’s ideas are no longer considered on the #extremist periphery but are embraced by #Republican leadership.

When Rep #JasmineCrockett (D-TX) bemoaned that only 2 of the 58 #Democrats who refused to sign the resolution honoring #Kirk were #white, #LauraLoomer responded on X by railing against “ghetto Black bitches who hate America serving in Congress.”

who continuously claimed that “there’s a war on #white people in this country; who said it was “a fact” that “prowling Blacks go around for fun to go target white people”; who gave a platform to people who believe in #eugenics & race *science*; who contended that #Black people commit more crime than white people & that the blame lies in a Black culture that accepts that Black men “impregnate women & they don’t stay around”;

#Oklahoma, of course, is a deeply red state. But in the wake of Kirk’s death, individuals & institutions across the nation moved not just to condemn his killing & political violence, but to venerate him. It was unsettling to many to see politicians from across the political spectrum speak with reverence about a man who espoused the #racist #GreatReplacementTheory, which argues that #white Americans are being systematically replaced by #multiculturalism & by #brown & #Black #immigrants;