Today:

Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D) [2025 file photo]

Rep. Cleaver’s Statement on Charlie Kirk Resolution
September 19, 2025
Press Release
(Washington, D.C.) – Today, U.S. Representative Emanuel Cleaver, II (D-MO) released the following statement on the Charlie Kirk Resolution.

“As John Donne said in his famous poem, ‘any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind.’

“I reject and resent the savagery of the man who killed Charlie Kirk. When we resort to violence as a means of expressing opposition to another’s politics, we are actually downgrading our own. I condemn political violence in all forms and from all perpetrators, including the heinous murder of Mr. Kirk.

“Mr. Kirk’s statements about African American women and other Black people demands me to reject his racial insensitivity. Therefore, because I fundamentally disagreed with many of Mr. Kirk’s views, I voted against today’s resolution on the grounds that it lionized a legacy I cannot support.”

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Emanuel Cleaver, II is the U.S. Representative for Missouri’s Fifth Congressional District, which includes Kansas City, Independence, Lee’s Summit, Raytown, Grandview, Sugar Creek, Greenwood, Blue Springs, North Kansas City, Gladstone, and Claycomo. He is a member of the exclusive House Financial Services Committee and Ranking Member of the House Subcommittee on Housing and Insurance.

The vote:

FINAL VOTE RESULTS FOR ROLL CALL 282

H RES 719 YEA-AND-NAY 19-Sep-2025 10:53 AM
QUESTION: On Agreeing to the Resolution
BILL TITLE: Honoring the life and legacy of Charles “Charlie” James Kirk

—- YEAS 310 —

Alford
Burlison
Graves
Onder
Smith (MO)
Wagner

—- NAYS 58 —

Bell
Cleaver

Performative:

Mark Alford (r) [2024 file photo].

Eric Burlison (r) [2025 file photo].

Eric Burlison
[September 19, 2025]
96 Democrats refused to honor Charlie Kirk after his brutal murder.
58 voted NO.
38 hid with “present”.
96 DISGRACEFUL votes.
They spit on the grave of a patriot because they hate what he stood for.
This is who the Radical Left is. Never forget it.

What Eric Burlison’s (r) “patriot” said:

Charlie Kirk (r):

If I see a Black pilot, I’m going to be like, boy, I hope he’s qualified.

If you’re a WNBA, pot-smoking, Black lesbian, do you get treated better than a United States marine?

Happening all the time in urban America, prowling Blacks go around for fun to go target white people, that’s a fact. It’s happening more and more.

If I’m dealing with somebody in customer service who’s a moronic Black woman, I wonder is she there because of her excellence, or is she there because of affirmative action?

If we would have said that Joy Reid and Michelle Obama and Sheila Jackson Lee and Ketanji Brown Jackson were affirmative action picks, we would have been called racists. Now they’re coming out and they’re saying it for us … You do not have the brain processing power to otherwise be taken really seriously. You had to go steal a white person’s slot to go be taken somewhat seriously.

We need to have a Nuremberg-style trial for every gender-affirming clinic doctor. We need it immediately.

I think it’s worth it to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the second amendment to protect our other God-given rights. That is a prudent deal. It is rational.

America was at its peak when we halted immigration for 40 years and we dropped our foreign-born percentage to its lowest level ever. We should be unafraid to do that.

The American Democrat party hates this country. They wanna see it collapse. They love it when America becomes less white.

The great replacement strategy, which is well under way every single day in our southern border, is a strategy to replace white rural America with something different.

America has freedom of religion, of course, but we should be frank: large dedicated Islamic areas are a threat to America.

We’ve been warning about the rise of Islam on the show, to great amount of backlash. We don’t care, that’s what we do here. And we said that Islam is not compatible with western civilization.

Islam is the sword the left is using to slit the throat of America.

There is no separation of church and state. It’s a fabrication, it’s a fiction, it’s not in the constitution. It’s made up by secular humanists.

Not a civil tongue there.

Bob Onder (r) [2025 file photo].

Jason Smith (r) [2025 file photo]

Gee, I wonder….

Previously:

thoughts & prayers (September 10, 2025)

gaslighting & hagiography (September 12, 2025)

Keeping a civil tongue (September 13, 2025)

And exactly how does this help, Mark (r)? (September 15, 2025)

First Amendment? Never heard of it. (September 16, 2025)

Union Proud (September 17, 2025)

Keep a civil tongue (September 19, 2025)