A dangerous moment for the US after Kirk shooting 9/15/25 TDPS Podcast

Let me get this straight? JD Vance filled in on Charlie Kirk’s podcast? If Kamala Harris had filled in on a left-leaning podcast under the same circumstances the Right would have lost their mind and it would be lead news on Fox for days!!!!

I listen to David often. This careful distillation of this horrible killing ... is so welcome. We, all of us, must condemn violence.

The right makes outrageous claims about the left, and then when they turn out to be wrong they say nothing. Their's no retraction no apologies, just silence. Why should we hold ourselves to a higher standard than they hold themselves? We should because we are better than them and we need to not let them drag us down into the mud with them

I write this from Switzerland. Like most young men here, I went through military service and kept a rifle at home. That means: every Swiss household is familiar with the presence of a gun. Some people only keep the military-issued weapon, some also own private firearms – but it’s not unusual at all. To give you an idea: in a country of 8.5 million, there are around 2.3 million civilian guns. Roughly one in three adults has access to one – and that’s not even counting militia rifles. So yes, we live surrounded by weapons. And yet: Switzerland sees fewer than 20 gun homicides a year. In the U.S., it’s more than 40,000. The difference isn’t “guns or no guns.” It’s culture, rules, and context. For us, a rifle is tied to duty, training, and responsibility. In the U.S., too often it becomes identity, ideology, even myth. I remember the feeling of having that rifle at 20 – heavy, cold, just a tool. Nobody thought of using it to settle an argument. That’s the contrast: here, guns are part of democracy; in the U.S., they’re part of polarization. And maybe that’s where the discussion really begins. Nobody wants gun deaths – not conservatives, not liberals, not anyone. So why does the U.S. system produce so many, while ours doesn’t? Is it regulation? Social trust? Training? Or is it deeper – loneliness, inequality, ideology? Guns don’t pull their own triggers. People do. The hard part is asking: what makes people reach for them?

They don’t want people going to college because they want to keep them in their echo chamber.

So they don't want people to go to college? I really wouldn't want untrained doctors, lawyers, etc.

All the children who are getting no food and he puts a ballroom in!! What a horrible waste of money 😢

Lake is such a propagandist! She never has facts.

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He's 22 years old, people need to stop calling him a kid