Fact Agenda

I am a woman who cares about the facts and will be sharing them on Tumblr whether you like it or not. Biology is real. Facts are more important than emotions. I will also put fun facts that you may or may not know. Links will be provided for all facts.

[musiclover638]

Charlie Kirk was a Hero!

I don't get political on my blog as I prefer to read the comics that I follow on here and the people who have good stories on AO3. It will be my only political post but overall, yeah, y'all heard me right. I don't care if you block me, if I lose fanfiction followers, or anything I don't care. Charlie Kirk was assassinated and I am devastated. He was a role model for me. He inspired me to gain my common sense back when it was lost. He was a hero and regardless of how you feel about him he was an icon.

Charlie allowed open speech and dialogue at everything he did. He wanted open conversations because when people stop talking, violence happens. Civil War happens. If you are celebrating his death, unfollow me. Block me. I don't want to be associated with people who cheer when people are murdered.

You cannot say you preach for love, tolerance, and no violence when you celebrate his death. You instead preach hate, intolerance, and violence when you celebrate things like that.

Look within yourself and the party that claims to be for love. Charlie left behind a wife and two kids. All of whom saw him get shot. His daughter heard the sound and tried to run to her daddy. That beautiful baby girl will never be able to do that. I can't imagine my niece and nephew being raise without their dad. I can't imagine my young cousins being raised without their dad. I can't imagine what my life would be like without mine.

When you follow Jesus, you never truly died. Charlie has inspired the next generation to become followers of Jesus. Charlie was welcomed to his home in Heaven and he is looking down at us and is smiling. Knowing that even though he is gone, people are stepping up to be like him. Don't tell me you don't see it because I do. Its thousands of voices around the world are holding vigils for Charlie Kirk.

Charlie, Matthew 25:23 is a perfect example for you and I know it was the first words out of Jesus's mouth when you came to your heavenly home. “His master replied, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things. Come and share your master’s happiness!’

Regardless of your party, no one deserves to be killed. Whether they are on the right or the left. We are still people who deserve life no matter how you live it.

I won't deny that I am a Christian. I don't support the LGB or TQ+ communities but I accept you for who you are. You are a beautiful human being who deserves to live a full life. I can't force anyone to follow my religion. I can just pray for you and that for me is enough. I hope you all have a beautiful day, and God bless you all.

The verse Romans 8:18 comes to mind for me today.

For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us.

(Yes, I am aware the person who killed Charlie has been caught and arrested but I chose to not post his name. I am angered that he decided to kill Charlie but the Bible tells me to love my neighbor and so I will because that is what Charlie would have wanted.)

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[prettynpink17]

[fact-agenda]

Hi, sorry to bother, I just... I wanted to ask why you are against trans people

I'm not here to be angry, or fight, or make a fight. I just... I'm curious, because as far as I've seen, most trans people are nice, or just wanting to be and let be, most don't even get into sports at any """"relevant"""" levels.

Im just curious.

I agree let's not. This is a long post but I am not against trans people. To be honest, I don't care if someone is trans. It's like if someone is gay or bisexual. Why should I care who someone sleeps with? It's not my business what people do in the bedroom or at home. So why should I care? They are adults. Who am I to tell them how to live. What I am against is men dressing up as women and invading women's spaces.

I am against men, playing dress up and invading women's spaces, sports, prisons, and locker rooms by putting on a dress and saying, "I am a women, accept me or else." It's putting what it means to be trans down to a simple level. It's saying that you don't need surgery to be trans. Being trans is also a mental disorder, this is a fact that we can't deny. It's called gender dysphoria.

Trans, in its basic terms, means to change. That means a transsexual is changing their outward appearance to resemble the opposite sex. It is not putting on a dress and make up then calling it a day. When you do that, that is putting on a Halloween costume or going to Comic-Con or any nerd type event. Hell, it could even be considered cosplay, and cosplay is awesome. Snarky Jay Cosplay is one of my favs on the topic. But back to men playing dress-up, When they do that and people are told to accept it, it is saying that all women love dresses and make-up. It's saying that women only wear dresses and lots of make-up. Yeah, as a woman myself, I don't care for dresses and make-up is just a hassle. I can't speak for all women but this is just insulting. Some women like to get down and dirty. Some are tomboys. That's what's awesome about women, we share the same biology, uterus, ovaries, menstrual cycles, XX chromosomes, etc, but our personalities are different and we've all had a part in history. The same goes for men, they are same biologically but they are different personality wise, some are feminine and enjoy girly things and some don't. But to the topic though.

Ask yourself this question, why do we only see men calling themselves women and invading women's sports, locker rooms, and prisons and we see thousands of reports of them hurting women but we barely see it happen in the opposite? How many trans men are wanting to be in a men's prison? How many trans men are advocating to enter a man's locker room or men's sports? How many men are being hurt by the actions of trans men? It's only happening to women. I don't see people advocating for trans men to enter men's sports or men's locker rooms. If there are any, they are few and far in between.

How can someone advocate for women's rights but say biological men can compete in women's sports, enter their locker rooms, go to their prisons, and enter their bathrooms? What about the women who have been raped by men and are terrified of it? What about the women who have been hurt by men? What about the women who have been abused by men? They see a man enter their bathroom or locker room and they fear that something will happen when it has happened before in a similar location. It's not right and it's advocating against women's rights. This hurts women.

You're right. Not all transsexuals are bad people. It's unfortunate that we have so many who are faking being trans like William Thomas(Lia Thomas), Lilly Tino(I don't know his real name), Bloossom(Don't know his real name either), there's this other trans dude whose name I don't know and he is definitely a predator and there are so many more examples of bad trans people or people that are faking being trans. These are just the many who are making average people hate trans people. Many are going after children and once you go after kids it's all over. I have a niece, a nephew, and two young cousins and they don't need to see this. These kind of people piss me off because they are giving actual trans people a bad name. They are the ones who are actively hurting trans acceptance.

It's tragic because many transsexuals just want to live their lives and be happy living as the opposite sex. They got the therapy needed to get the approval for the transition, which I agree with Grandpa Buck Angel on this, you should have approval from a license therapist before getting the surgery. That's a topic I recommend watching. The offensive tranny, Blaine White, Sara Higdon, Buck Angel, are some trans YouTubers that I have seen and are awesome. They are lovely people and are advocating for trans people and talking about these issues but they also agree they we shouldn't force them down people throats.

For me, it feels like the left and democrats are forcing average people, who couldn't care less about trans issues, to care and forcing people to accept them. That's not how that works. You can't force acceptance. Acceptance is like trust. It is earned and gained. It isn't forced. The more you force it, the more you will lose it. It's like religion. Many people don't want it shoved down their throats and the same goes for trans topics. People don't want this shoved down their throats and told to accept it. Both are wrong and not okay. It's disrespectful to the person you are trying to convince.

In basic terms, I am not against trans people. While I don't agree with their lifestyle as a Christian, I can't force them to stop and I can't force them to follow my religion. As I just said, It's wrong and disrespectful to force people to do something they don't want to do. I am against people faking a real mental condition that affects maybe less than .1% of the population but the number could be higher but not by much.

Again, Sorry for the long post but I hope this explains it.

[fact-agenda]

The Democrats will never win another election.

I want Y'all to think about this for a second. Last night, Trump address congress to celebrate his accomplishments the past 40+ days since he became president. I don't want to talk about that, I want to talk about the Democrats and why because of their actions last night, they will never win another election until they get it together and get some common sense.

Many of the Democrats wore pink to speak out for women's rights when they can't define what a woman is, they voted no to keep men out of women's sports, and they refused to stand for Laken Riley's and Jocelyn's families after their daughters were raped and murdered by illegal immigrants.

They refused to stand and applaud when a young man, who wanted to serve America, and his application was approved. A 13-year-old brain cancer survivor, who dreamed of being a police officer, was given an honorary badge to the secret service and the dems did nothing. There are so many positive things he brought up and yet they remained seated. If you think that is a nice form of protest then fine but the cancer survivor not getting applause is just sickening. Only one Democrat, Laura Gillan stood up for him.

They brought signs and held them up as if they were at an auction. They were pissed when Trump talked about peace with Ukraine and Russia. I'm sorry but all y'all on this site want peace but when Trump talks about making peace, like he promised, you want the war to continue, are you that crazy or just stupid?!

The Democrats are losing and will continue to lose every single election if they keep up this hatred against the other party and refuse to admit why they lost. It's pure insanity! Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. This is exactly what the democrats are doing.

The Republicans aren't perfect. I'll admit that in a heartbeat. But with the way things are going with the democrats and all the liberal insanity, they will continue to lost each and every election. If this keeps up, they will lose even the most reliable blue states. If they lose New York or California, it's all over.

[the-most-humble-blog]

🔥 DEMOCRATS JUST DECLARED WAR ON WOMEN—AND THEY’RE LOSING BADLY 🔥

You can lie. You can gaslight. But you can’t outrun biology—or the backlash.

🚧 Welcome back to the Wrecking Crew. Another day, another Democratic self-inflicted disaster, and this time, they’re doubling down on one of the most indefensible, politically suicidal positions possible.

Let’s be crystal clear—this isn’t even a partisan issue anymore. ✔ 79% of Americans reject men in women’s sports. ✔ Even lifelong Democrats are side-eyeing this insanity. ✔ Yet here we are, watching the "party of women" sell out actual women to pander to an ideology that erases them.

The Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act should have been the easiest, most common-sense bill in modern history—yet Democrats voted it down as if their political lives don’t depend on it. Spoiler: They do. And they just signed their own electoral death warrant.

🚧 LET’S PILE UP THE BODIES OF THEIR LOGIC 🚧

Because, if we’re going to talk about who’s really getting hurt here, let’s start with:

✔ The young girls losing out on scholarships, records, and championships to boys who weren’t good enough to compete in men’s leagues. ✔ The female athletes being forced to share locker rooms with biological men. ✔ The women getting physically outmatched, overpowered, and literally injured by stronger, faster male-bodied athletes.

This is not a hypothetical. This is happening right now.

📌 Remember Fallon Fox? The male-born fighter who broke a woman’s skull in MMA and then had the audacity to gloat about it? 📌 Remember Lia Thomas? The "former" male swimmer who went from ranking #462 among men to crushing records and taking first place in women’s events? 📌 Remember Hannah Arensman? The world-class female cyclist who retired because she kept getting beaten by male riders?

🔥 WHERE THE HELL ARE THE "FEMINISTS" NOW?

They were screaming about the "patriarchy" keeping women down for decades—but when actual, literal male bodies are dominating women’s spaces, they’re suddenly silent?

Not just silent. Complicit.

🚧 DEMOCRATS CHOSE A MASSIVE, UNLOSABLE FIGHT—AND SOMEHOW THEY LOST 🚧

You don’t have to be a Republican to know that this is absolute insanity. Hell, you don’t even have to be conservative. You just have to be capable of basic critical thinking.

But let’s break down their clown car of excuses anyway.

"This isn’t happening that often."

So what? Since when do civil rights and fair competition get decided by how many victims exist?

✔ Slavery wasn’t "that common" in the North—should we have ignored it? ✔ Only a handful of women get raped at college each year—should we stop caring? ✔ There aren’t that many women getting harassed at work—should we stop fighting for workplace protections?

🔥 How many crushed dreams and broken bones are “acceptable” to you? 🔥

"We need to protect trans kids!"

Sure. We can talk about trans kids playing sports—without throwing actual girls under the bus.

But that’s not what Democrats want. They don’t want fairness. They don’t want compromise. They want absolute ideological compliance.

Because if they actually cared about protecting all kids, they wouldn’t be saying, “Girls should just deal with it” while boys with biological advantages rob them of their futures.

🔥 Women fought for Title IX. And Democrats just torched it. 🔥

"This is just a Republican culture war distraction!"

Oh, now you want to pretend this doesn’t matter?

When 78% of Americans—INCLUDING DEMOCRATS—disagree with you? When parents are pulling their kids from school sports? When female athletes are quitting mid-career because competing is pointless now?

But sure, let’s ignore the issue because it’s inconvenient for your party.

🚧 DEMOCRATS JUST FORFEITED WOMEN'S RIGHTS—AGAIN 🚧

🔥 They chose this hill to die on, and now they're bleeding out. 🔥

This was their moment to say: 📌 "We respect women’s rights." 📌 "We believe in fairness." 📌 "We are NOT anti-science, reality-denying lunatics."

Instead? They threw their weight behind biological men invading women’s sports, even as voters recoil in horror.

🚀 Democrats are The Forfeit Party. ✔ They forfeit logic. ✔ They forfeit fairness. ✔ They forfeit elections.

And in 2026 and 2028, they're going to forfeit a lot more.

👏 Good job, Democrats. You just alienated voters you desperately needed. 👏

🚧 FINAL DEMOLITION: HERE’S HOW THIS ENDS

Republicans will run on this issue until the day Democrats are forced to admit they screwed up.

✔ Parents will vote against you. ✔ Women will vote against you. ✔ Even moderates will vote against you.

🔥 You had one job, and you blew it. Now get ready to pay for it. 🔥

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🔥 No survivors. No apologies. Just facts. 🔥

[leyenra8]

Can You Handle The Truth And Face The Facts?

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Agenda: Grinding America Down

The Fact-Based documentary detailing a COMMUNIST AGENDA for the last 70 years to corrupt American Institutions – from Education to Hollywood to Media – and sabotage America, and its values from within.

The main strategy is to Divide and Conquer – to turn Americans against each other.

After watching the documentary, at least you know why the DEMOCRATS Are COMMUNISTS.

The only way to DEFEAT the DEMOCRATS is to Call Them What They Are – DEMOCRATS Are COMMUNISTS.

Once the American people find out the Truth – DEMOCRATS Are COMMUNISTS, it could DESTROY the party forever.

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[leyenra8]

Can You Handle The Truth And Face The Facts?   

The DEI Disaster

Now, in their DEI context, these words all mean one thing – Applying unequal standards to ensure preferential outcomes for individuals, and groups based on race, sex, and gender identity.

The DEI movement is not about a sincere desire to make educational or corporate institutions more diverse, more equitable, or more inclusive.

DEI is ultimately about only one thing – Advancing those who are not WHITE, heterosexual, and male at the expense of WHITE, heterosexual men, regardless of their respective qualifications.

When do we know that everything is finally diverse, equitable, and inclusive? There are no good answers to any of these questions. That’s a feature, not a bug of the DEI racket.

America will never be able to DEI its way out of its DEI “Problem”. It’s the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.

You never reach your goal because it doesn’t exist. You’ll never quite be diverse enough, equitable enough or inclusive enough.

The DEI obsession has been great for one group of people, and one group only – The lavishly paid DEI administrators at every Fortune 100 company, college, and university; and all those who work under them.

Corporations now pay millions upon millions of dollars to so-called DEI experts to spread division, and distrust among their own employees.

It may be the single most non-productive, self-destructive thing a business can do to itself.

If businesses don’t set up a DEI office that proves their company is racist, sexist, and homophobic.

But if they do set up a DEI office that proves their company is racist, sexist and homophobic.

Or why else did they set up a DEI office in the first place? Heads DEI wins, tails you lose.

Agenda: Grinding America Down

The Fact-Based documentary detailing a COMMUNIST AGENDA for the last 70 years to corrupt American Institutions – from Education to Hollywood to Media – and sabotage America, and its values from within.

The main strategy is to Divide and Conquer – to turn Americans against each other.

After watching the documentary, at least you know why the DEMOCRATS Are COMMUNISTS.

The only way to DEFEAT the DEMOCRATS is to Call Them What They Are – DEMOCRATS Are COMMUNISTS.

Once the American people find out the Truth – DEMOCRATS Are COMMUNISTS, it could DESTROY the party forever.

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[melspeaks-deactivated20200728]

Reblog if you recognize that Jesus Christ is Lord

[solleif04-deactivated20250318]

I know this is controversial on Tumblr but…

I feel nothing but love and thanks for

@realDonaldTrump. You’ve saved us from WW3 and disaster. I love that you are fighting for us and our freedom. I will always root for your success in helping America and by result, the world. Of course, you are not perfect, but I am honored to have you as my president.

[keepingitcountryon]

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[towerofhealthsix]

[triple-tree-ranch]

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[solospirit1801]

Love my President

[fact-agenda]

yes sir!!!! Thank you, President Trump! Love this man!

[leaning-right]

[anamericangirl]

They’re all Nazis! Literally no one can deny it because we have it right here in front of us. If what Musk did is a Nazi salute these are all Nazi salutes.

[lucrezianoin]

USA... Elon Musk just did the sieg heil (nazi salut to Hitler)

[glowsticks-and-jesus-deactivate]

I-

I have no words.

[christian-zelda]

This post that I'm linking provides an article with the full clip. The full clip makes it pretty clear that the "nazi salute" is meant to be him symbolically throwing his heart to the crow.

[glowsticks-and-jesus-deactivate]

Yes thanks to this and @caripr94 I have more context and appreciate yalls input on the situation!!

[lucrezianoin]

How interesting that the only people who do not see the nazi salute are:

Christian conservatives

MAGA

Even the nazi see it and rejoyced.

I look forward to see you loose your constitutional rights

[glowsticks-and-jesus-deactivate]

Do not associate this with Christianity. It has nothing to do with it. I’m trying to find truth here. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL), a nonprofit focused on combating antisemitism, said they didn’t see it at a Nazi salute. If it indeed was I will absolutely condemn that. But I’ve seen other politicians like Obama and Clinton in shown doing similar gestures, and my only goal is to identify truth so I don’t fall for lies.

As I said, if indeed it’s proven it was a nazi salute with 100% certainty I will absolutely condemn it because that is disgusting. Please don’t use my trying to understand as christians defending nazis.

[caripr94]

Here's a video of actual Nazis doing an actual Nazi salute. You can see a clear difference from Elon Musk's gesture; theirs involves no hand to the heart, keeping the body straight forward, and rigidly raising their arm vertically so that it's pointed straight forward. Meanwhile, Musk starts with a palm to his heart, and then he twists his body slightly to the back and waves his arm diagonally so that it's slightly pointed diagonally away from his body and from the crowd. In that way, it only looks similar if you focus on the arm pointed out, but ignore everything else.

[lucrezianoin]

Oh no, someone tells the neo nazi!

I wonder why...

For example here it he Kamala one and the Elon Musk one in comparison.

Here is Elon Musk in comparison with a nazi (real ones)

Another comparison with a nazi this time from a movie

and here Elon Musk in comparison with Hitler

Another Hitler and Elon comparison

This is Russian state media censoring it

This is the multiple nazi salutes from another angle

[caripr94]

wyllstarionizing and rookdavrinizing

maybe this visual will make it clearer for you, @christian-zelda but keep defending your nazi party. I am sure in about three or four years.

Elon Musk: palm planted straight on the heart, body twisted slightly back, hand pointed out towards the crowd slightly diagonally

Neo-nazis: palms facing straight downwards perpendicular to their chests like a military salute, body kept facing straight forward, hands raised above their heads

Elon Musk: palm planted straight on the heart, body twisted slightly back, hand pointed out towards the crowd slightly diagonally

Adolf Hitler: palm facing straight downwards perpendicular to his chest like a military salute, body kept facing straight forward, arm pointed straight forward towards the crowd

Elon Musk: palm planted straight on the heart, body twisted slightly back, hand pointed out towards the crowd slightly diagonally

Adolf Hitler: palm facing straight downwards perpendicular to his chest like a military salute, body kept facing straight forward, arm pointed to his side perpendicular to the crowd.

Yeah, again, it only looks like a Nazi salute if you focus on the arm pointed out and ignore everything else. These seemingly small differences mean everything.

Americans' Trust in Media Remains at Trend Low

Americans' confidence in the media is at its lowest point, as Democrats' confidence is near the record low and Republicans' is almost nonexi

I wonder why…

[lucrezianoin]

Interesting, and yet

My dear christofashist, just because you play PR shield for a nazi, it does not mean we are all blind. Your shield is not big enough or solid enough, I fear.

I'd recommend everyone to use their eyes, instead of reading your bizarre descriptions.

And my suggestion for you is go out. Do the gesture of love you adore so much, do it in public. Record yourself doing it, share it with us and the world.

[caripr94]

So one young Jewish lady who only runs an organization for Holocaust survivors but isn't old enough to be one herself calls it a Nazi salute and you would rather have me just take her word for it because of her association, despite another young Jewish lady saying the opposite, instead looking at it carefully and studying it for myself?

Yes, people, use your eyes and look closely and carefully at every part of the gestures, not just one part. I posted the links to those videos on my reblog for that very reason.

[lucrezianoin]

I'll leave you with one of my favorite quotes that you can see happening right here:

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."

[caripr94]

So you would rather have us focus on only one part of Elon Musk's gesture and take the word of one lady and a bunch of news pundits instead of making a close examination of every part of the gesture with our very eyes? Sounds just about right.

[lucrezianoin]

Let's ask our resident Nazis!

https://x.com/KyleKulinski/status/1881816643900412011

Oh? What is this? Nazi recognized the salute and are laughing at how obvious and clear it was?

Man, I must be wrong! Surely... If we look at the angle of the thumb, and the inclination of musk's head we will convince these Nazis!

[caripr94]

Kyle Kulinski | Politicon

Kyle Kulinski (born January 31, 1988) is a left-wing radio host, social democratic political commentator, and the co-founder of the politica

Except what exactly is so Nazi about Kyle Kulinski? Does he have any affiliation with any Neo-nazi organizations? Does he wear uniform connected to them? Does he show any sympathy for any officially confirmed Nazis? No, from what I've researched about him, he seems just like a standard leftist, socialist Democrat who's just been a little critical of the Democrat Party, rejected a few leftist views, and has been accused of Nazism by certain people on Reddit. So he's not really a Nazi and thus wouldn't have any significant authority on Nazi salutes.

See what I mean about calling everyone who disagrees with you a Nazi? Even your own fellow Leftists aren't safe! Maybe you want to finish that 1984 quote and see who's really rejecting the evidence of your eyes and ears.

“The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” “And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed–if all records told the same tale–then the lie passed into history and became truth.”

[anamericangirl]

Anyone who actually knows what a Nazi salute is can tell that Elon Musk is clearly not giving one. And everyone calling it a Nazi salute really should be embarrassed.

[fact-agenda]

Also, from 1892-1941, Americans used to do the Bellamy version of the American salute. In Bellamy’s version, the flag was saluted with the right arm extended and the palm face down. Congress passed legislation in 1942 instructing Americans to place their right hand over the heart instead, for obvious reasons. So, your grandparents or great-grandparents did this too. :)