Charlie Kirk was a lifelong advocate for freedom of speech, civil political discourse, and the political engagement of youth. Representative Ilhan Omar's actions in the wake of the assassination of Charlie Kirk are reprehensible and affect the dignity and integrity [00:00:16] of the proceedings of the House, and do not reflect the credibility of the House. Now, therefore, be it resolved that Representative Ilhan Omar of Minnesota be censured. So last night, the House of Representatives rejected Nancy Mace's [00:00:33] resolution to censure Ilhan Omar for comments that she made about Charlie Kirk in the wake of his assassination. Had the resolution succeeded, it would have removed Omar from her congressional committees. So what set conservatives like mace off were remarks that Omar made about Kirk [00:00:52] during an interview with Mehdi Hassan. So take a look. It was really mortifying, to to hear the news, to to see the video. You know, all I could think about was his wife, his children. [00:01:08] That image is going to live forever. My heart does break, for for those babies. You know, Charlie was someone who once said, you know, guns save lives. After a school shooting. [00:01:25] Charlie was someone who was willing to debate and downplay the death of George Floyd, in the hands of Minneapolis police. - I think he called him a scumbag. - Right. Have no regard, downplay slavery and what black people have gone through in, in this country. [00:01:44] So some more on the resolution. This is from the Washington Post that says the resolution also criticized Omar for reposting a video to X from an anonymous user who called Kirk a reprehensible human being who was spewing racist dog whistles in his last dying words, [00:02:01] but she also repeatedly condemned the assassination as an unconscionable act of violence. And she defended her commentary in the Mehdi Hasan interview, saying, while I disagree with Charlie Kirk vehemently over about his rhetoric, my heart breaks for his wife and children. [00:02:18] I don't wish violence on anyone. My faith teaches me the power of peace, empathy and compassion. Right wing accounts trying to spin a false story when I condemned his murder multiple times is fitting for their agenda to villainize the left, to hide from the fact that Donald Trump gins up hate on a daily basis. [00:02:39] Nonetheless, mace has been on an absolute warpath against Omar, tweeting dozens of times about her over the past few days and repeatedly threatening to send her to Somalia. And in one instance, she said, if you celebrate murder, [00:02:54] maybe Somalia can take you back. And in another tweet, she said, we would love to see you deported back to Somalia next. So that was when Ilhan Omar, she finally hit back at me and said, we'd love to see you get the help you need next. You belong in rehab, not Congress, which is very spicy, I think. [00:03:14] She also said mace was not well or smart and ultimately the house did side with Omar. So the motion to essentially dismiss the resolution succeeded by a vote of 214 to 213. So just one vote with four Republicans voting with the Democrats. [00:03:32] And those Republicans were Mike flood, Jeff Hurd, Tom McClintock, and Cory Mills. They also condemned Omar's comments but said it was a First Amendment issue. So mace immediately attacked them for their votes. Writing on X, Ilhan Omar mocked the cold blooded assassination of an [00:03:51] innocent American husband and father. She supported ISIS, she supported the Muslim Brotherhood, she incited political violence. And tonight Congress protected her, to which Omar responded, literally none of this is true and this woman needs to get help. We have to stop allowing members who are experiencing mental breakdown [00:04:10] to continue to work without getting them the help they need. This is an emergency. Let's help her before she hurts herself. Or one of us was. I love this energy from Ilhan Omar. But you know, she is just the latest victim in what we're seeing happen, at, [00:04:27] like, a very disconcerting, rapid speed. Since in the last week, since Charlie Kirk was killed. And it obviously people are very, very concerned about where all this is going to lead. So much has happened. I know here in Texas, somebody was just a student at at a college here, [00:04:44] was jailed for speaking out against, Charlie Kirk, which is an actual violation of the First Amendment. Cancel culture is not, you know, people not liking you because of the things that you say is not cancel culture. That is not a violation of your First Amendment, [00:04:59] because you can still say those things. People don't have to like you for the things that you say. But once the government gets involved and jails people for it, that is actually a violation. And what we're seeing now is the the right is using all these claims [00:05:14] that the left is condoning and celebrating this violence against Charlie Kirk, when really that is I haven't really seen that. Right. I know I don't celebrate it. I nobody that I've spoken to is celebrating it. I haven't seen anything celebrating the killing and the way it happened, [00:05:31] none of it on any of the online forums that I've looked at. Maybe just some like off people somewhere, some nobodies, you know. But of all like the the people with any kind of streaming platforms or any kind of audience, they're not celebrating it. So the right is just perpetuating this idea that the left is celebrating [00:05:49] Charlie Kirk's death when it just simply is not true. And then you have people like Nancy Mace, who is in Congress speaking about another congressperson, saying that she supports things like ISIS and the Muslim Brotherhood, just I assume just because she's Muslim. But no, she's never supported those things. [00:06:05] So what are your thoughts on this was. And, I don't need you to get prophetic on me, but like, what do you think is going to come from all of this? I think in especially the early days after Charlie Kirk got assassinated, [00:06:23] I think there's a level of grace one might bestow upon Republicans because the guy was so well connected and well liked, that you could understand that there would be a deep emotional response, [00:06:40] and that these people are responding emotionally and mourning somebody who they called a friend and a comrade compatriot and all of that. And we know that oftentimes people aren't of their soundest mind when they're emotionally distressed or, you know, going through something [00:06:59] that's deeply emotionally felt. You can understand some level of all right, these people are saying crazy things. Congresswoman mace being the first of which she comes out of the first press conference and basically is like, Democrats have to wear this if like, [00:07:15] there's a Democratic Party apparatus that's openly or even implicitly ever, you know, encouraging people to go out and commit acts of violence against right wingers like it just doesn't exist. [00:07:31] And so, you know, the only explanation for the lashing out is that this is just a good old fashioned crackdown. They're just using this as an opportunity to crack down on their enemies. Whether that be Jimmy Kimmel, whether that be an attempt [00:07:48] to censure Congresswoman Omar. And I think we're going to see that, you know, in, in various other areas of them using this as an opportunity to, you know, pretend that there's, like, Maine, like any anything [00:08:06] that you would call a mainstream left. Right. I get annoyed, honestly, about words and like the idea that the Democratic Party is somehow some left wing party. Yeah, they're to the left of the Republicans, but they're not left wing. [00:08:24] And the idea that any mainstream Democratic Party or adjacent institutions or, you know, media companies or, well, you know, activist groups that are of the mainstream, you know, I think Madison said this to like, a t, you know, a New York Times. [00:08:44] A majority report, you know, pod save them, like, you name it. Like, where are you finding these democratic institutions, where a bunch of people are advocating that right wingers get shot on the streets just for being right wingers? I think there's been a robust response [00:09:03] online, some of which I don't agree with. Like, I don't think you should dance on a man's grave. Just because he had horrible politics, but like that stuff that existed online, and to pretend that that's some strain of institutional left wing thought [00:09:20] is ridiculous and out of step with anything that's in reality. But what they're going to try to do, they're just going to grasp for straws. They're going to try to connect, you know, this heinous act of violence with, you know, left wing, quote unquote, so-called groups. [00:09:39] But what I would say to folks is let's just say, God forbid somebody shot Hasan Piker tomorrow and killed him, right? God forbid that happened. What do you think right wing accounts on social media would be doing? [00:09:54] You think they'd be speaking in hushed tones and being like, oh, we gotta pay respect to the fallen brother on the left. And, you know, he debated people and he had very strong opinions, and he was a very left fellow, but he was just give me a freaking break. [00:10:14] Okay. We're talking about Elon Musk. Twitter. The idea that the, the, the response from those people from a cat or a meteor or you name it, somebody gets tragically gunned down that these people, [00:10:30] anonymous accounts on the internet would just be in grief and just be giving these, these, left wingers the utmost deference. - It's ridiculous. - Yeah. And and we kind of know what they would do if somebody on the left [00:10:46] was targeted in that way because we've seen it happen before. Either they just pretend it didn't happen. It gets caught up in some other news cycle or they, they just they, they mock it outwardly and not just like just people on the internet, but elected officials will mock it. We saw what happened after Nancy Pelosis husband was attacked. [00:11:05] We saw what happened after Josh Shapiro's house was burned down. We saw what happened in Minnesota. They just it doesn't it doesn't register with them. The argument is that, you know, the way that Charlie Kirk was killed and the fact that so many people witnessed it and saw it was very, [00:11:21] very jarring and very, you know, very traumatizing for anybody who saw that video. I did not watch it. I was fortunate enough to not have stumbled upon it, also, because I know a lot of people who were not trying to watch that video, but then they found them somehow. [00:11:36] But, you know, there is a lot of fear in this country, and this really is just kind of what should have been expected as the the natural outcome of all this fear that has been festering within our communities. And you mentioned, you know, like that so many people are just living online [00:11:54] in these online worlds and they don't actually know what's going on outside of the world. And I know people who don't leave their neighborhoods, right? Let alone the suburb or their city. They don't really leave their neighborhoods very often, if ever, if they can avoid it. And so all they know of the world and of the big cities is that they're [00:12:13] dangerous because they sit at home and they watch Fox News all day, and they see all this weird footage of scary things, and then they they are even more incentivized to just stay where they are. But, you know, I was in LA last week and I had people in my life who were like, oh, it's so scary over there. [00:12:28] Be careful. And I'm like, are you joking? Like, I'm fine, right? Nothing happened, I was fine, I had a great time. And you know, a shout out to Ilhan Omar, by the way, because she puts up with a lot of stuff from other members of Congress, from Republican members of Congress, [00:12:44] because she's from Somalia, because she wears a hijab, because she's openly progressive and openly Muslim, and she is a very, very strong woman because I don't think I don't know how she deals with what she deals with. Every time you ring the bell below, an angel gets his wings. Totally not true, but it does keep you updated on our live shows.