I truly wish this could be the last thing I post about the horror of the Charlie Kirk assassination, but since Drumpf and MAGA seem intent on lionizing the life of their fellow charlatan and bestowing government-sponsored honors upon him that he neither earned or deserves, I have a sad feeling we are going to be talking about this shit for some time to come unfortunately.
You do have to admit though that it's pretty damn convenient that this event will push news of Drumpf's burgeoning Epstein files cover-up to the side, and gives him and his cult a polarizing public incident to seize upon and of course embellish and cynically exploit for their own political advantage.
So since Drumpf and his people seem intent on elevating Charlie Kirk to sainthood status and are foaming at the mouth yelping for vengeance against Democrats and liberals without there even being a suspect in custody yet or any official evidence presented to the public as to the killer's identity, much less ideology, I'm just going to put this out here and let it simmer for a bit, mkay?
There are no decent mainstream liberals or Democratic politicians who are celebrating the killing of MAGA activist Charlie Kirk. Those claims from the MAGA mouthpieces on social media (Facebook and X mostly) that this is occurring are just outright, provocative lies, and also a sick-minded effort to politically capitalize on Kirk's death, which is nothing new for these MAGA apparatchiks because this is the kind of shit they do - constantly.
Sadly, even before rigor mortis has set in on Kirk's corpse, his MAGA compatriots are already seeking to martyrize him by getting Drumpf to order the flags in the nation's capitol lowered to half staff and posthumously awarding Kirk the nation's highest civilian honor the US Medal of Freedom, which btw is something he wouldn't do for the Minnesota Democratic lawmakers recently slain by a MAGA nutjob. And today, Drumpf issued a hollow decree on his Chinese-funded social media site vowing retribution, which of course only serves to inflame tensions even more.
Then there's the MAGA Republican in Florida (where else, right?) who is even pushing the idea of erecting a statue of Charlie Kirk in the Capitol rotunda. Seriously - a fucking statue in the US Capitol. I mean, you have to remember folks - these hardcore MAGA people who we are dealing with are people who are very, very loosely tethered to reality.
As such - there will be no mournful memorials from these quarters for the life of an individual who:
1. Said gay people should be stoned to death.
2. Said people should be scared if an African-American pilot is flying their plane.
3. Said Taylor Swift should 'submit' to her husband.
4. Said no Americans should be allowed to retire.
5. Said liberals and Democrats should not be allowed to move to and live in 'red' states.
6. Said the MAGA guy who viciously assaulted Nancy Pelosi's husband should be set free.
7. Said that religious freedom in America should be terminated.
8. Said that black politicians "stole white people's spots."
9. Said that Martin Luther King Jr. was an awful person.
10. Said that vaccine requirements are "medical apartheid."
11. Said that gun deaths in America are acceptable in order to preserve the 2nd amendment.
12. Said George Floyd is dead because he had it "coming" to him.
13. Said the 1964 Civil Rights Act was a "huge mistake."
14. Said that mass incarceration should be considered as a solution to homelessness.
And the list goes on and on and on. I am not going to post links to every one of those utterly cruel, ugly, un-American, un-Christian things that Charlie Kirk and other MAGA mouthpieces just like him for that matter, have uttered publicly or in print. That's what the internet and a search engine are for - go find out for yourself.
Having said that, we must roundly and in unison condemn the act of cowardly violence that took Charlie Kirk's life, as we should condemn the taking of the Minnesota Democratic politicians lives, or any human's life for that matter. Just don't venerate Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk's life was not honorable. It was a life of grifting off of a cult of personality movement built around an aging, pussy-grabbing, failed reality TV show host, convicted felon and suspected child rapist. It was a life of spreading bigotry and racism, misogyny, intolerance, lies and ignorance in furtherance of that movement. There isn't a shred of honor or decency in any of that.
And one last thing. Isn't it supremely ironic how the guns everywhere, guns all the time crowd who are of the view that the tens of thousands of American men, women, and children killed by guns in this country every year is an "acceptable" price to pay for them to keep their cherished 2nd amendment, are all up in arms (pun unintended) about one of their movement leaders dying by gunfire? Fucking incredible, isn't it?
My God, what stupid, thoughtless, ugly times we are living in.
---TFG
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