Kyle Rittenhouse, previous owner of a Smith & Wesson M&P15

[sugar magnolia]

He’s claiming he had what we call a hard stop. Nothing to do with being heckled.

Yes. A hard stop at exactly 7:22.

[Estiveo]

Well, it was hard to stop the black people who were frightening him and he couldn't even shoot them so what was he supposed to do!

[Rolodex]

Because it takes so long to say, "yes."

[pipistrelle]

Well, it was hard to stop the black people who were frightening him and he couldn't even shoot them so what was he supposed to do!

And those Black people are getting an education, which he's said he was going to do how many times?

I wish my hearing were better. I couldn't tell what they were saying.

[Baidn]

I dunno, Kyle, this doesn't quite look like how you describe it.

This went even better than I hoped I wonder if his fawning defender will talk about how rude they were?

[Estiveo]

Well, it was hard to stop the black people who were frightening him and he couldn't even shoot them so what was he supposed to do!

And those Black people are getting an education, which he's said he was going to do how many times?

I wish my hearing were better. I couldn't tell what they were saying.

They recited a list of racist things Charlie Kirk has said and done and asked Kyle if that was racist, Kyle said "I don't know anything about that" so they said okay, IF Kirk said those things, would you agree that's racist, and the Murder Cherub said "No comment" which is when the chants of "deflection!" started and Shittenhouse bailed because he's a sniveling little coward.

[pipistrelle]

Well, it was hard to stop the black people who were frightening him and he couldn't even shoot them so what was he supposed to do!

And those Black people are getting an education, which he's said he was going to do how many times?

I wish my hearing were better. I couldn't tell what they were saying.

They recited a list of racist things Charlie Kirk has said and done and asked Kyle if that was racist, Kyle said "I don't know anything about that" so they said okay, IF Kirk said those things, would you agree that's racist, and the Murder Cherub said "No comment" which is when the chants of "deflection!" started and Shittenhouse bailed because he's a sniveling little coward.

Thanks! But you're wrong. He had a "hard stop." Places to go, people to see.

[Estiveo]

I forgotted.

[Rolodex]

And the things he listed were all super racist. Like things you'd make up if you were trying to make fun of someone being racist by exaggerating things racist people say. I mean...it was slam dunk "yes" of an answer.

[bob]

Free speech for me, but not thee.

Fans of Klayman may recall he filed a similar suit against UC Berkeley after Yiannopoulos' 2017 gambit went poorly; that lawsuit was predictably dismissed.

[sugar magnolia]

"Viewpoint discrimination"
They're just making up words now, aren't they?

[Tiredretiredlawyer]

"Viewpoint discrimination"
They're just making up words now, aren't they?

I think the correct legal term is “my viewpoint discrimination”.

[bob]

"Viewpoint discrimination"
They're just making up words now, aren't they?

It is a real legal concept: The state (i.e., a state university) can't promote one viewpoint and prohibit another.

But Kirk has no evidence any state official encouraged anyone to shut down Rittenhouse's appearance.

[raison de arizona]

there’s video, whatta maroon.

[northland10]

How many TPUSA supporters were in that room. If you took out the POC, it appears the room would only have a few people.

[pipistrelle]

This expression and posture scream alpha male, anyway.

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[Ben-Prime]

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A Rittenhouse-Hawley vehicle?

[Tiredretiredlawyer]

[Resume18]

Free speech for me, but not thee.

Fans of Klayman may recall he filed a similar suit against UC Berkeley after Yiannopoulos' 2017 gambit went poorly; that lawsuit was predictably dismissed.

Rioters?

Am I missing something or is it just more rwnj gaslighting?

[pipistrelle]

Or they want riotous (boisterous) to mean rioting.

[Rolodex]

The need to look up "sabotage" in the dictionary.

[bob]

Newsweek: Kyle Rittenhouse Storms Off Stage After Being Confronted by Students:

In a statement, Rittenhouse told Newsweek: "The event was scheduled for 30 minutes. I spoke for 30 minutes and then my security team told the coordinator that we were leaving after the question, and we left. I stayed for my scheduled time."

As to that "viewpoint discrimination":

"Furthermore, there's important context as to why the event was disrupted in the first place. The school forced a day-of, last-minute ticketing system change, forcing the local chapter to use the school's proprietary ticketing system after agreeing to allow us to use our own. The protester groups were tipped off of when the new tickets would be made available, so they reserved nearly all of them so they could interrupt, sabotage, and eventually stage a walk out.

"We had thousands of people who wanted to come to this event who were unable to because of the ticketing change done in the name of 'fairness and equity,' but the school's complicity in empowering bad faith agitators is why Mr. Rittenhouse spoke to a room of protesters."

So the school (i.e., the state) "discriminated" against Rittenhouse by ... insisting an event on its property ... use its ticketing system. So that students at that school could have the opportunity to attend an event hosted by that school.

It isn't like Kirk's org can't afford to rent its own venues; the conflict is the point.

But I'll take the over on Kirk filling Klayman-esque griftsuit.

[Suranis]

Well, then if the change was so last minute and there was thousands of people wanting to go, they should have lots of people who emailed them inquiring about it, phone records of people ringing up to inquire about it, and who paid to reserve tickets on their system.

Right?

[bob]

Well, then if the change was so last minute and there was thousands of people wanting to go, they should have lots of people who emailed them inquiring about it, phone records of people ringing up to inquire about it, and who paid to reserve tickets on their system.

The (original) tickets were ... free. (I don't know whether that's also true for the reissued tickets.) But the new ticketing system required an account to obtain them. This, undoubtedly, was a security measure, so the school could have some information about the ticket holders. (Even if Amanda Hugginkiss ordered tickets with an IP "resolving" to Moldova.)

The ob. TPUSA statement:

The University of Memphis has taken unprecedented actions to undermine our event. Seizing control of seating arrangements and the ticketing system —on the day of the event— has never happened in our many years of campus organizing. Despite being promised control over 50 seats, we're now restricted to just a single row of 8 seats. This abrupt change will result in hundreds of disappointed students whose tickets will no longer grant them entrance into the venue.

Most shockingly, we have gathered credible information that school administrators have leaked the new ticketing information to protester groups so they can reserve large numbers of newly issued tickets and sabotage the event. We know this because some of our students are in the protester group chats. There is no way these groups could have known the new ticketing timing and protocol without school administrators leaking that information. This has never happened before at a TPUSA campus event.

"Credible information" is the new "major award."