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Presidential Medal Of Freedom

This is a wonderful thing except in recent years it has not been about freedom so much as donors getting slap on the back…..and it is all presidents.

It has been a freakin’ joke for decades and this just craps on it completely.

But Donny has gone full stupid….he has given this honor to someone who has bucked the very idea of freedom and now that he is dead he will be immortalized.

President Trump on Tuesday posthumously awarded America’s highest civilian honor to Charlie Kirk, the assassinated activist who inspired a generation of young conservatives and helped push the nation’s politics further to the right. The ceremony coincided with what would have been Kirk’s 32nd birthday, the AP reports. It came just over a month after the Turning Point USA founder was fatally shot while speaking to a crowd at Utah Valley University.

  • In a sign of Kirk’s close ties to the administration, he was the first recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom in Trump’s second term. The president also spoke at at Kirk’s funeral in September, calling him a “great American hero” and “martyr” for freedom, while Vice President JD Vance accompanied his body home to Arizona on Air Force Two along with Kirk’s widow, Erika. She accepted the medal on his behalf Tuesday, the Guardian reports.
  • “We’re here to honor and remember a fearless warrior for liberty, beloved leader who galvanized the next generation like nobody I’ve ever seen before, and an American patriot of the deepest conviction, the finest quality and the highest caliber,” Trump said Tuesday afternoon.
  • Of Kirk’s killing, Trump said: “He was assassinated in the prime of his life for boldly speaking the truth, for living his faith and relentless fighting for a better and stronger America.”
  • Trump said “far-left radicals” are committing “acts of violence and terror because they know their ideas and arguments are persuading no one,” the Hill reports. “They know that they are failing,” he said. “They have the devil’s ideology.”
  • The president joked that he almost requested to move the ceremony because of his Mideast trip. “I raced back halfway around the globe,” he said. “I was going to call Erika and say, ‘Erika, could you maybe move it to Friday? And I didn’t have the courage to call. But you know why I didn’t call? Because I heard today was Charlie’s birthday.”
  • In her remarks, Erika Kirk said, “Today we’re gathered not only to celebrate Charlie’s birthday, but to honor a truth that he gave his entire life to defend. And that’s freedom.” She said that if Kirk had lived, he probably would have run for president, but “not out of ambition,” the Hill reports. “He would only have done it if that was something he believed that his country needed,” she said.
  • Kirk founded Turning Point USA in 2012. Trump has praised Kirk as one of the key reasons he was reelected. But Kirk’s politics were also often divisive. He sharply criticized gay and transgender rights while inflaming racial tensions, the AP reports. Kirk also repeated Trump’s false claims that former Vice President Kamala Harris was responsible for policies that encouraged immigrants to come to the US illegally.
  • Trump wrote in a Truth Social post hours before the event that he was moving the ceremony from the White House’s East Room to the Rose Garden to accommodate a crowd he said would be “so big and enthusiastic.”

This pure caca…..this blowhard no more served the cause of freedom than a rattlesnake in heat.

But to back up what I say….let’s look at what this tool actually stood for….

Here’s what to know about some of Charlie Kirk’s political views:

Free speech

Kirk, a self-avowed advocate for free speech, demonstrated his commitment to spirited disagreement through regular debate events, often in front of large crowds where attendees could challenge his views.

Kirk also said the utterance of hate speech should not carry legal consequences. “Hate speech does not exist legally in America. There’s ugly speech. There’s gross speech. There’s evil speech. And ALL of it is protected by the First Amendment,” Kirk said in a post on X in May 2024.

Critics have questioned Kirk’s commitment to free speech, however. Turning Point USA, under the leadership of Kirk, compiled a “Professor Watchlist,” which aims to “expose and document college professors who discriminate against conservative students.”

Some professors said they received hateful messages, even death threats, after being added to the list. “You don’t want to get too overly paranoid, but it’s also hard to not do that sometimes because you are targeted on this list,” Shawn Schwaller, a professor at California-based Chico State University, told ABC News affiliate KCKR in Northern California.

(there is more….read on….)

https://abcnews.go.com/US/charlie-kirks-political-views-conservative-activist/story

If you read that then I ask does it sound like this hateful blowhard was furthering the cause of freedom?

Not in my world.

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

Medal Of Freedom

Closing Thought–20May19

Personally I think this medal has become nothing more than a reward for political support.

This is the highest civilian award possible…..such recipients as Maya, people who have contributed something to this nation and who does this Beloved Supreme Leader pick to give the award to….Tiger Wood.

I realize that this award in the past has been given to friends and the meg donors to campaigns….that is just wrong on so many levels……just what does architecture have with freedom….art or dance for that matter…and especially sports?

The Medal of Freedom should be given not as some reward for donations or other such nonsense but rather to those that have shown that they put their lives above anything else in pursuit…….wait for it……FREEDOM!

I nominate the students in Colorado……

The student killed in Tuesday’s shooting at STEM School Highlands Ranch in suburban Denver went out a hero. Kendrick Castillo, 18, along with two of his friends, tackled a shooter—seen pulling a gun out of a guitar case—and was shot in the chest, reports NBC News. The sacrifice “[gave] all of us enough time to get underneath our desks, to get ourselves safe, and to run across the room to escape,” another student says. “We’re going to hear about very heroic things that have taken place at the school,” adds Douglas County Sheriff Tony Spurlock, per USA Today. More details emerging:

  • Student suspects: One is identified as Devon Erickson, 18. Spurlock describes a second, initially identified as a male, as a female minor. Denver Channel, however, describes a juvenile suspect in the process of transitioning from female to male. Spurlock says “we originally thought the juvenile was a male by appearance,” but wouldn’t comment on whether the suspect is transgender.
  • The shooting: The pair are accused of firing on two classrooms at the public charter school after passing through an entrance without metal detectors, per the AP. Spurlock says they had a “number of weapons,” including two handguns they weren’t old enough to possess.
  • Capture: Deputies reportedly arrested the suspects within minutes, with no gunfire exchanged, per the AP. Spurlock said one of the suspects was detained by a security guard at the school, attended by more than 1,850 students in kindergarten through grade 12.
    A Columbine link?: Citing multiple sources, Denver Channel reports the motive “went beyond bullying and involved revenge and anger towards others at the school.” Some are questioning whether the shooting was inspired by the 1999 massacre at Columbine High School, just seven miles away. Per the AP, “the answer was not immediately clear.”
    The injured: Eight students aged 15 and older were treated at three hospitals, including one student shot three times. Five had been released by Wednesday morning, while three remained in intensive care.
    The terror: A 8-year-old second-grader tells the New York Times of hearing his first ever gunshot. His mother, speaking for most parents, says, “We’re more messed up than they are.”

These students illustrate what it means to protect freedom…..than some sports figure.

Why did Tiger Wood get the medal?  Why not he is a close friend and a carbon copy of a womanizing douche that gave him the medal.

Trump is not the only one that does this…they ALL do it….it is a reward  not for protecting freedom but rather having an open wallet for the president.

The Medal of Freedom should be held for the highest regard as the military Medal of Honor.