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On September 10th, Charlie Kirk, an American conservative political activist, was shot and killed while giving a speech at a university in Utah. The suspect is still at large. According to reports from CNN, Politico and other media on September 11th, US President Trump blamed Kirk's death on "radical left-wing madmen" after the incident, while Vice President Vance personally went to Utah to carry Kirk's coffin, and used the special plane "Air Force Two" to bring Kirk's coffin back to his home in Phoenix.

Trump, speaking on the South Grass at the White House on 11th, responded to reporters¡¯ questions about the Kork murder and said: ¡°We have a great country.

Trump also said: ¡°Our country has a group of extreme-left madmen, absolute madmen, and we will surely solve this problem.I only care about the country.¡±Then, however, Trump encouraged supporters to deal with the shootings in a non-violent way and mentioned Kirk himself as a ¡°non-violent advocate.¡±

As for the investigation into Kirk's attack, Trump said: "I heard that they (investigators) have made significant progress, and we will wait and see."

On September 11, Trump spoke to reporters at the White House.

Trump in this speech blamed Kirk¡¯s death on the ¡°radical left.¡± Trump also said at the time that these ¡°radical leftists¡± compared Kirk to the ¡°Nazi¡± and the world¡¯s most brutal killers and criminals, and that Kirk¡¯s death has a causal relationship with these ¡°evil remarks¡± of the Left, which also ¡°directly led to the terrorism we see in America today.¡±

On the morning of the 11th, Trump also announced that he would pursue the Kirk's Medal of Freedom.

On the other hand, Wance brought the crown of Kirk from Utah to his home in Phoenix, Arizona, where he lived, on the 11th via the Vice President¡¯s aircraft Air Force II. Some family and friends, including Kirk¡¯s widow, were also in line with the shipment.

From a video currently circulating on social media in the United States, Vance himself can be seen carrying Kirk's coffin on the tarmac of Utah airport, with a serious expression.

Wans picked up the coffin for Kirk at the airport on social media "X"

Photos show that when Air Force Two arrived at Phoenix Airport, Vance's wife and Kirk's widow were the first to get off the plane hand in hand. However, according to CNN's quotation of informed sources, Vance only escorted Kirk's family and coffin off the plane, but he himself did not leave the airport to see Kirk off his "last journey". Vance soon reboarded Air Force Two.

Vance himself posted after the shooting incident on the 10th that he and Kirk were very close friends, and Kirk had supported him to become Trump's running mate in last year's presidential election "in front of the stage and behind the scenes", and finally helped him become the vice president of the United States. Vance also praised the "American Turning Point" organization founded by Kirk for its many contributions in supporting Trump.

¡°Charlie Kirk is a real friend,¡± Wance said in a tweet.

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The gunman was killed while expressing his right to have a gun ¡ª the scene that took place in the United States on September 10th shocked the world.

¡°Some shooting deaths every year are unavoidable, so that we can enjoy God¡¯s right to the Second Amendment.¡±

The person who said this, named Charlie Koch, 31, right wing Red, was also the initiator of the ¡°American Turnpoint¡± organization and an active member of Trump¡¯s core circle. On September 10, a public speech at a Utah university, where a bullet hit his neck and eventually led to his death.

The scene-related photos and videos showed Corker wearing a white shorts and black pants, holding a microphone, sitting under a sunshine tent writing "America's Revival" and interacting with a large audience on the open square of Utah Valley University campus. According to U.S. media reports, Corker was shot deadly in response to a student's proposal about "mass shooting by transgender people."

Charlie Cook speaks before shooting

Following the shooting, Cockna¡¯s words spread widely on social media and gave the whole incident a new meaning.

Originally, this was the first stop of Kirk¡¯s ¡°American Revival¡± tour speech this autumn. He was very talented and challenged liberal students, then turned them out of the skin and caught the audience.

This is also his longstanding mission. After Obama re-elected in 2012, he, aged 18, founded the non-profit ¡°America¡¯s Turnpoint¡± to promote conservative values among young students, and now has branches in over 850 universities. Such brilliant achievements naturally attracted Trump¡¯s attention. In January this year, he was invited to attend the presidential inauguration ceremony and became a regular visitor to the White House.

Cork is regarded as a conservative star of the younger generation in the United States. For many years, he has been opposed to the progressive culture of American campuses and canvassed for Trump among youth groups. This "American Renaissance" speech tour also tries to win more young voters to support the Republican camp. After the incident, Trump, an ally, ordered the national flag to fly at half-mast to mourn the controversial online celebrity.

Trump orders flags to fly at half-mast

During his lifetime, Kork has always defended the power of guns, but now he has become the dead soul of the gun. It can be said that the political network that lost his life at the age of 31, is the embodiment of the polarization of the US right, and is ultimately the victim of the reflection.

The Utah Department of Public Security and the FBI are jointly investigating the murder. The former believes the murderer should be on the roof with a clear target. Two suspects have been arrested but soon released.

Trump, who lost his ally, posted several tweets accusing ¡°extreme leftist talk¡± of directly killing Kork, who ¡°understood the hearts of American young people.¡±

After Cork was shot, former President Obama, Biden and former Vice President Harris tweeted condemning the political violence, saying the words of justice were strict and could not hide the comments in the commentary area of a lot of misfortunes, blasphemy and even threats.

¡°This is the beginning of the fight.¡±

"The Democratic Party takes full responsibility for this matter."

"People on the left are celebrating."

If Cork were still alive, he himself would have felt very familiar with this style of speech.

Left-wing bloggers of the Democratic Party retorted, with jokes one after another:

¡°Since Coke did not apologize to George Freud (a black man killed on his knees by police on May 25, 2020), we do not need to apologize to Coke.

Demonstrations after the assassination of George Freud

¡°Cock: Shooting violence is acceptable.Cock: Go get a gunshot!The result: The Second Amendment is finally coming into effect.¡±

The blogger of the account called "Common Sense" said: "The tragic death of Cork can be said a stone-two-bird: first, the news of the Epstein case has failed; second, Trump's iron powder can declare a civil war against liberals has begun."

The background of this statement is: the day before the Cork shooting, a committee of the House of Representatives published a new batch of documents related to Epstein, including a 50th birthday congratulations letter written by Trump to Epstein in 2003, with signatures with handwriting very similar to Trump's signatures on various laws and regulations.

Trump wrote a letter to Epstein on his 50th birthday in 2003.

For a time, this news overwhelmed news websites and social media, and as a result, a shooting happened the next day.

The blogger named "Cooper" questioned: "Why did Trump first announce the news of his (Cork's) death?" The response below said: "It was part of the plan."

It is also a declaration of "fighting" on social media, and it is also a true and false conspiracy theory event created through various coincidences. The tit-for-tat confrontation between the left and the right wings uses the same formula.

In this big trend of the left wing, Kork has always been a role in the past. With "enemy" to describe the opponent, with "fighting" to describe the actions of his camp, and the various gestures of you kill me alive, these talks, Kork has been used for years.

Speaking of the various cyber-crimes that have appeared on social media in the United States in recent years, less than Cork's "contribution." Once advocated "American children should watch a public execution on the scene," Cork's many words, it is hard to imagine this is a person who will express any sympathy when facing the adversary's misfortune.

The Kork shooting is the latest bloody case on the U.S. list of killings of celebrities in recent years.

On December 4, 2024, a 27-year-old American young man from a middle-aged family, Luigi Mancini, shot the CEO of the insurance giant United Health Group on the streets of New York City.

Just 14 months before Cork¡¯s assassination, Trump, the then presidential candidate, was shot in a rally.

In the local political arena of various federal states in the United States, bloody assassinations also occur frequently. In June this year, state Rep. Melissa Hortman, a Democratic Party of Minnesota, was killed at her home. Her party colleague, state Senator John Hoffman, was also shot nearby, and the murderer was accused of being the same man.

Reuters concluded that from the Capitol Hill impact on January 6, 2021 to October last year, the frequency of political violence in the United States surged, with more than 300 incidents occurring in total. Bobby Chacon, a former FBI agent who once provided security services to politicians, warned that politicians and political activists "had better not give speeches in open spaces". Especially where there are buildings around and you can see the platform from a commanding position, it is also an excellent hunting place for murderers.

It has become a fact that the United States has entered a new cycle of political violence. After the outbreak of the Vietnam War more than 60 years ago, American politics witnessed a round of bloody storms. From President Kennedy to his younger brother, to American black civil rights activists Martin Luther King Jr. and Malkin X, who were shot and died one after another, mixed with the tearing between the left and the right wings and the fierce collision of various social thoughts, it was an unbearable mark of that era in the United States.

Martin Luther King assassination scene.

Foreign affairs have failed, internal affairs have torn apart. In the years of the U.S. in the Vietnam War, political murder is a shadow that cannot be wasted. Today, in the face of the Middle East and Eastern Europe situation, the U.S. is once again stuck in foreign affairs, and the hatred and opposition between the two sides is warming again.

In October last year, a poll by John Hopkins University showed that half of the Democratic Republic supporters believed the other party¡¯s camp was an ¡°inherently evil enemy¡± rather than a fellow political voter.23% of U.S. respondents believed that the U.S. had taken the wrong path, while ¡°patriots¡± appealed to violence to ¡°correct¡± the U.S. way forward.

In the Internet era, a new cycle of political violence has a new appearance. On the one hand, the political bullets fly, and on the other hand, the public opinion is severely torn around the events. In the events itself, the "murderer" and "victim" no longer reap the same face of condemnation or sympathy. Instead, the perpetrator and victim soon became another protagonist on the social media platform, and a large source of inspiration.

On social media, Manjoni, as a murderer, was "washed away" and became a "hero" who killed the people. Even on the fashion online shopping platform, Manjoni's appearance was modified by AI into a fitting model.

by Louis Mancini.

Political violence has become a hot spot for all parties to consume through the Internet platform. Trump, who narrowly escaped death, immediately used the photo of his blood-stained face and pointing his fist to the sky as a campaign weapon. At that time, many American analysts believed that this bloody and provocative photo heralded an ominous undercurrent in the Trump era: violence.

Trump was lucky enough to survive and consumed a wave of his own blood. However, the bullet still hit an ally in his own camp. As Cork himself said, being shot and killed in a shooting is inevitable and "unfortunate" for the Second Amendment. Unfortunately, Cork has become the consumption source of a new round of social media carnival.

¡°I can¡¯t tolerate the word ¡®empathy¡¯. in fact, ¡®empathy¡¯ is a new-century style word that is falsified and has caused too much destruction.¡±

Letting elementary schoolchildren "live watch public executions", viewing "sympathy" as poison, viewing coloured groups outside the white group as "internal enemies", the outburst of the army, behind the back symbolizes the rise of a new social culture in the United States over the past decade.

Florida columnist Diane Roberts uses "mean girls" to describe many politicians in the United States today. The so-called "mean girl" does not necessarily mean "girl", but refers to the kind of acid thin, and is aimed at each other's personal inherent weaknesses and age, and even appearance, artillery all kinds of personal attack jokes, or people to label each other.

In the past British and American politics, calling each other "liar" was already a very outrageous attack. Nowadays, this kind of rhetoric is scratching one's boots. Even within the populist right wing of the Republican Party, mutual derogation is merciless. Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who belongs to the Crimson MAGA camp, once called fellow Colorado Rep. Lauren Opal Boebert a "little bitch."

Maggie Taylor Green (up) and Laurent Opal Bobert (down)

Within the Trump administration, the phenomenon of blasphemy and mutual blasphemy between Treasury Secretary Basant and the president's economic advisors is also widely seen in the news.

This bitter behavior also highlights the new transformation of the American spiritual core. In the past, the United States, which advertised its founding with the idea of the Enlightenment, thought that it followed the three concepts of "freedom, equality and fraternity" and shaped "a great political experiment".

However, these three parallel, but secretly counterbalanced concepts have some sort of distorting relationship. Today¡¯s America is a time when the rich and oligarchs highly monopolize society and national resources. When they turn the whole horizon toward the ¡°freedom¡± of creating wealth and realizing personal ambitions, the proportion of ¡°equality¡± and ¡°brotherhood¡± will be less.

New world leader Fuller Ellison has a wealth of $393 billion

In an environment with limited resources, some people have achieved "freedom", which means that at the expense of the "freedom" of others, what remains is such a society: highly atomized, traditional social organizations are completely broken up, and individuals are on guard and hate each other.

American moderately conservative writer David Brooks said: ¡°We (America) live in a society that no longer teaches people how to treat others with goodwill and consideration.

Brooks believes that Americans are becoming increasingly sharp and thin and should be blamed for the decline of moral education.

With the help of political critic Walter Lippmann in 1955, he attempted to go back to the beginning of the collapse. At that time, Lippmann published a book entitled The Public Philosophy Review, in which he wrote: ¡°If ¡®good¡¯, ¡®justice¡¯, ¡®truth¡¯ were merely personal ¡®choice¡¯ and ¡®invention¡¯, then we were removed from the tradition of civilization.¡±

Walter Lippman, Public Philosophy

In fact, Brooks¡¯s time in Burma was a relatively balanced era of ¡°equality¡±, ¡°brotherhood¡± and ¡°freedom,¡± but today, the re-return of personal ambitions, ¡°brotherhood¡± and ¡°equality¡±, by powerful and oligarchs such as Trump and Musk, hoping to extremely unequal status and wealth power, has become far-reaching.

The hatred of people of different racial and religious backgrounds, the cold ridicule of physically weak people with disabilities, has become the norm. It can be seen that under the oppression of this great era, Americans who do not look at each other and are constantly harming, will still be my way.

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