AaronBuck

You Can’t Fix This Crisis With Just Enforcement. bit.ly/substk

New Mexico Isn't Broke... open.substack.com/pub/aaronbuckb…

@Audreyl07m @EricLDaugh Sounds like Albuquerque

@EricLDaugh Only in New York could a socialist edge out Cuomo and still call it “progress.” The city is bleeding residents, jobs, and sanity. yet voters keep doubling down on bad ideas. At this rate, NYC’s biggest export will be taxpayers moving to Florida

🚨 JUST IN: FINAL NYC MAYOR poll, ATLASINTEL 🔵 Zohran Mamdani: 43.9% (+4.5) 🟠 Andrew Cuomo: 39.4% 🔴 Curtis Sliwa: 15.9% Wow — did NOT expect it to get that close. NYC, SAVE YOURSELF!

@AVGirl4Life Gillian’s Island! Boom

If you know what show this picture is from, I will follow you.

Albuquerque: Wake Up @Albuquerque is running out of excuses. We’re not on “Best Places to Live” lists. We’re on the lists for highest homicide rates, sky-high property crime, and homelessness spiraling out of control. Our chance of being a victim of violent crime? Roughly 1 in 76. Property crime? 1 in 21. That’s not “a problem.” That’s a crisis. And yet, here we are, an incumbent, @MayorKeller is asking for a third term, something no leader in this city’s history has pulled off. Ask yourself: if two terms haven’t cleaned up our streets, why on earth would a third suddenly do the trick? This isn’t about politics. Crime doesn’t care how you vote. Addiction doesn’t check your party card. Homeless encampments don’t vanish because City Hall holds a press conference. And yet, that’s what we get: staged photo-ops timed neatly to election season, while the rest of us live with the fallout. Meanwhile, others are stepping up. Louie Sánchez — a cop turned city councilor — knows firsthand what our streets look like and what it takes to change them. Darren White, former sheriff and public safety chief — has already done the job of putting cops on the street and holding criminals accountable. You don’t have to love them. But at least they’re offering something the incumbent isn’t: a plan grounded in reality. The truth is uncomfortable: if we keep voting for personality over performance, we’ll keep getting press releases instead of results. Albuquerque deserves more than excuses and broken promises. We deserve a city where businesses aren’t strangled by crime-driven costs, where families can walk their neighborhoods without fear, where police aren’t outnumbered three to one on a Friday night. So the question isn’t left or right. The question is: do you want another four years of talk, or do you want someone who will actually fight for this city? History won’t look kindly on our excuses. It’s time to wake up.

Kids went to a school board meeting to protest a teacher who was speaking horribly about Charlie Kirk. Good for you, kids.

🚨 HOLY CRAP! Greg Gutfeld just EVISCERATED Jessica Tarlov for making the "both sides" argument about Charlie Kirk's kiIIing "DON'T PLAY THAT BULLSHlT WITH ME!" "We don't care about your 'both sides' argument. That shlt is DEAD!" "On your side, your beliefs do not match reality so you're coming up with these rationalizations. 'What about this, what about that?' We are NOT doing that because we saw it happen. We saw a young bright man ASSASSlNATED and we know who did it." "The media is DEAD to us on this story. They built this thing up. We are dealing with it, we are going to act. We don't care what the what about is anymore, that SHlT is dead!" PREACH, @greggutfeld!

@Robbiebrin21866 That was so well said. Thanks for sharing. Thank you @PaulMcCartney for your words concerning @charliekirk11

@aaronbuck963 Sir Paul spoke up

I wrote this piece the day Charlie Kirk was killed. facebook.com/share/p/17M8fc…

@LynnAS2023 Thanks for taking the time again. I agree with you on crossing a line

@aaronbuck963 Just read this & the follow-up piece on FB. Couldn’t comment there so sayingthank you here on X. Both of these pieces articulate well what millions of people are feeling. It feels like we crossed some kind of rubicon this week. I’m praying that we’re heading to the better side.

What I’ve Learned Since the Death of @CharlieKirk, So Now What When I posted about Charlie Kirk’s murder, I had no idea so many people would read it or even care. I just needed to express how and what I was feeling. I figured it’d get a few likes, maybe some eye rolls, and disappear into the feed like everything else. But a lot people saw it. Many of them responded. And I read every single comment. The ones that thanked me. The ones that pushed back. The ones that asked fair, important questions. And yeah, the ones that called me a racist pos, a bootlicker, a twat, a bigot, and worse. And I responded to them all. Why? Because I wanted to understand what people were feeling — even the folks who came at me sideways. Especially them. And through all of it, a few themes stood out. People wanted to know why I didn’t speak up sooner. Where was I when Representative Melissa Hortman and her husband were murdered in Minnesota? Why didn’t I say anything about the high school shooting that happened the same day Charlie Kirk was killed? Why didn’t I post about the brutal hammer attack on Paul Pelosi? Fair questions. And they deserve a real answer. The truth is, I don’t know. I was outraged. I was heartbroken. But I didn’t say anything publicly. Maybe I didn’t know what to say. Maybe I figured someone else would. Maybe I thought it wasn’t my place. But here’s what I’ve come to realize: Silence isn’t always indifference, but maybe I’ve been too silent for too long. Some people asked how I could defend someone like Charlie Kirk — a man they say was a bigot, a misogynist, someone who used fear and outrage as tools. I’ve seen some of what Charlie has said. Not all of it, but enough to know he was a lightning rod. And no, I don’t agree with everything he ever said. But what hit me — what shook me — was that he showed up. He stood in front of people who hated his guts and talked to them anyway. Face to face. In person. He didn’t shout them down or storm offstage. He didn’t hide behind a screen or a snarky comment section. He engaged. And that’s rare now. Too rare. We don’t talk anymore. We attack. We shame. We wait for people to slip and then celebrate when they fall. When did we become a culture that roots for death? I mean that literally. There are people — real people — celebrating the murder of a man they disagreed with. Just like there were people laughing when Pelosi’s husband was hospitalized. Just like people ignored when a Democratic lawmaker was gunned down in her own home. If that’s where we’re at — if we’re so tribal that we only feel empathy when it suits our team — then we’re in deeper trouble than I thought. We’ve replaced conversation with condemnation, and we’re paying the price. This isn’t just political decay. This is cultural rot. I served in the military. I know there are times when force is necessary. When evil needs to be met head-on. I believe there are times when killing is justified — to stop even greater killing. That’s reality. But we’re not talking about terrorists here. We’re talking about fellow Americans. Charlie Kirk wasn’t Hitler. Neither was Rep. Hortman. They were activists. Elected officials. People who stood for what they believed was best for the country, even if you disagreed with them. What they were — what they are — is children of God. And whether you agreed with them or not, that means their lives had meaning. That means their deaths should never be celebrated. That means we have to be better than this. So now what? Now I speak up. Not as a partisan. Not as a mouthpiece. But as a human being who’s tired of seeing people dehumanize each other over politics and ideology. I’m not here to tell you what to believe. But I am going to start telling you what I believe. That we’ve lost our way. That we need to relearn how to live with disagreement. That we need to stop treating words like weapons and start treating people like people. That we need to stop clapping for violence and start asking why we’re so comfortable with hate. So no, I won’t stay quiet anymore. Not because I’ve picked a side, but because I’ve picked a principle. Compassion. Understanding. Listening. Respect. You don’t have to agree with me. But if we can’t even talk anymore — if we’ve lost the ability to hear and be heard — then we’re not holding a republic. We’re holding a funeral. And we should probably start asking who’s next. You don’t have to agree with me. But if conversation is now a threat, and disagreement is treated like treason, then we’re not protecting a democracy, we’re managing its collapse.

@SherryLynnMAGA Thank you for reading it, I know it was a long one but had to get it out

@aaronbuck963 This is excellent. So well said. Thank you. 🙏🏻🇺🇸

@NanaInvestor Thank you for reading this. I'm working ona follow up now.

@ChickenChasern Thank you for taking the time to read this.

@aaronbuck963 Well said…

@ElectJayCBlock Thanks for sharing Senator Block!

A must read!

Prominent DOCTOR in Albuquerque New Mexico says Charlie DESERVED TO DIE and calls the murder “JUST” Meet Dr. John R. Virgil. He is a managing Partner at JRV Medical Group, and a board certified physician. Here are his public Facebook posts about Charlie’s murder.

This was the MLG inciting false accusations on a peaceful Christian who would just debate anyone and now he is dead @KKOBradio @koat7news @krqe

@CarolDuVal1 Exactly. We have to be bold and continue to push for civil debate without the fear or threat of violence. @charliekirk11 modeled this for us.

I think what you wrote is spot on and it does feel like a tipping point. We have got to go back to seeing people as human beings and take politics out of it. In addition, if things continue down the road of people being hurt, punished, or killed bc of their political view or voicing their political view, we will become a country that is no longer free.

@CarolDuVal1 Thank you for sharing this. I had no idea my thoughts that day would be so wildly accepted. It seems like a lot of us feel the exact same way.

“When a conversation gets you killed, we’ve lost the plot” This⬇️

Tyler Robinson, 22, now in custody after the Charlie Kirk shooting. Bullet casings with messages. Discord messages. A family tip that cracked the case. This isn’t just a headline, it’s a mirror. What are we doing as a culture when politics turn lethal? #CharlieKirkshot