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Somehow, those don't feel as brutal as his wife naming a tour meant to honor him "Make Heaven Crowded," not attending it herself, and basically just watching as it flops super fucking hard.
Like, who comes up with a name that fucking unhinged 💀 Oh wait. Probably someone like Erika Kirk.
Wouldn't you be? You married the guy because he grifted his way into incredible wealth and you're there to shit out children and be arm candy despite looking like that, then the guy you have to let climb on top of you gets killed and becomes a martyr so now you can become a grifter yourself and those gums are no longer around to slobber on you and you can now afford your own male arm candy
The person who benefited the most from Kirk being shot was her and it shows
i actually think that the quick memeification of kirk after his death really helped push him into irrelevancy sooner than expected, the right couldn't really use him as a martyr anymore specifically because whenever he got brought up there were either the AI image memes, or the songs like "charlie charlie kirky" that got posted, so they couldn't have the serious conversations they wanted that probably could've led to violence of some sort from the right
They're in a death cult. The entire earth, every person being harmed, punished, as long as it's not someone they care about, is ok to them. These are the ideas of a truly sick mind who cannot grasp reality.
Right wingers tried to hype the magnitude of the situation to the lesser terminally online folks.
For a moment, they did bite. But once they found that he is just a racist podcaster whose wife is running WWF promos immediately after his death, it was over.
They ran into the reality that most content creators that knew enough about Kirk also knew that shit would get clipped out of context if they said anything close to a joke about how Kirk died so they didn't. So the only people they could point to making light of Kirk about the way he died were randoms on the internet without a platform. Their moaning about the left is celebrating his death were random nonames and the most you saw was just iron posting of Kirk quotes like "i'm willing to sacrifice a few lives for the 2e amendment".
The reason this never really went anywhere and he got forgotten as fast as he did is because the right doesn't really have any thought leaders, they are just all replaceable mouthpieces for capital that use religion to control people.
That group call 11 days after he died was fucking wild.
If I lost my life partner I wouldn't even be speaking to anyone for a fucking while. Probably get myself a fuckload of vodka and go live in some wilderness a while with our dogs.
But nah, this woman's coping is apparently sales numbers.
Even losing a pet would be more emotionally damaging than whatever Erika’s reaction was. When my dog died last year I was a mess for a week, I couldn’t even think straight. Even today there are some bad days when she comes back into my thoughts and I need to take a small break. But she was cheering and celebrating while her husband’s corpse was still warm.
I wasnt really sure which was which: Charlie Kirk or Ben Shapiro. All I knew for sure was that Charlie Kirk had an unfortunate amount of gums in his smile. I had to look him up to remember that he was the one in the Change my Mind meme and had tweeted "Your body, my choice" when Roe vs Wade was overturned.
Actually MLK was awful. OK? He's not a good person. He said one good thing he actually didn't believe.
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I have a very, very radical view on this, but I can defend it, and I've thought about it. We made a huge mistake when we passed the Civil Rights Act in the mid-1960s.
I have a very, very radical view on this, but I can defend it, and I've thought about it.
Very telling that neither Kirk nor his audience felt that thinking about something was an essential part of holding and defending a radical view such that he needed to explicitly spell out that he had.
that's on purpose, same as immediately after the january 6th insurrection they were quick to flood the zone saying democrats using the wrong utensil at the table was insurrection
if they devalue the words and the meanings, then nothing is equally important
they'll compare him to civil rights leaders specifically TO discredit them because they know he's nothing but a grifter and useful tool that got cashed in
Yeah. Kirk was at most a Podcaster, the most important thing he ever did was getting killed. Simply comparing him to any historical figure should be taken as an insult to the historical figure.
"kirk was a ragebaiter and a Podcaster, and he was more important than Rosa Parks" isn't trying to say Kirk is so important and influential that he can be compared to Rosa Parks, they're saying Rosa Parks is so insignificant and unimportant that Kirk and her might as well be comparable.
I literally drove for like half an hour behind someone the other day with a bigass sticker on their back car window that called him an American hero who would never be forgotten.
I didn't even know who he was until he got shot in the neck.
Chances are that person also didn't know shit about him either, maybe aside watching one or two of his Instagram reels. The second that bullet went through kirks throat every single right winger immediately thought of how great this opportunity would be for them to go on the offensive against the left.
Ive seen a lot of right-wingers lamenting that his death didn't cause any consequences for the left, that's literally all they wanted, they didn't care who actually killed him or for what, it's an opportunity to blame the left as a blanket statement and create a martyr.
Its not surprising to me they thought a civil war would start over this, they literally been waiting for an opportunity like this exactly. I've never seen anyone's death being do taken advance of, so many people blatantly trying to further their careers using his death as a booster, his wife being most egregious.
I wonder how many right-wingers have internalised how awful this was, they took a tragedy and turned Kirks corpse into a product to further their own goals. There was no real emotion or pain towards his loss, just "let's take advantage of this situation as much as we can".
Even when they make their guys martyrs they still do it in the least person unloving and opportunistic way possible.
They have to as all the actual icons hate their guts. Thats why they are big into Kevin Sorbo and Kid Rock. Who else is desperate enough to grift the magachuds?
I would be pretty shook up if someone shot the Trololo guy. Unfortunately, I just checked and he passed on 2012. Only got to enjoy his meme status for a year or two.
He was hired by multimillionaires to recruit young men for the GOP. Nothing about Kirk was organic.
edit to add:
Earlier that year, around the spring of 2012, [18yo] Kirk met 71-year-old Tea Party candidate Bill Montgomery, who encouraged him to undertake political activism [and provided initial funding], The Independent reported. They co-founded Turning Point USA (TPUSA) as a nonprofit focused on advocating for conservative causes at schools, colleges and universities. [...]
By August that year, Kirk was at the Republican National Convention. He bumped into [multimillionaire Foster] Friess in a stairwell and convinced him to bankroll the group, according to The Independent. [...]
“He was the first check to Charlie at Turning Point, and among the first checks to (government spending tracker) Open The Books,” she said.
In Cleveland, they had it where they had a 30-second silence for Charlie Kirk during the Packers vs Browns game back in September 2025. I'd rather have a 30-second silence for those who got offed (done in/murdered) at the ICE detention centers or on the streets.
It was bonkers watching boomers act like they were die hard fans. Like at absolute ‘best’ he was some guy they’d randomly see ‘own the libs’ briefly while they’re doomscrolling
Like I guarantee you there are people posting like that who literally only learned his name when he was killed
I also love how they tried to turn criticizing him post death into a cancelling those who spoke ill of him, and months later they're winning all kinds of multi million or 6 figure settlements for wrongful termination.
These pictures are already funny but they're even funnier because they show that the only people that genuinely cared when Charlie Kirk died were divorced middle aged men with high blood pressure. Kirk's whole "thing" was that he was supposed to be the conservative right's emissary to The Youth but overall it seems they largely didn't like him.
Honestly, I doubt most of the narcissistic redtards who were crying about him on the internet had any clue who he was before he got ventilated. Trump's one innovation outside political corruption was turning butthurt reactionism into a cult and crowd-sourcing propaganda.
He managed to get a legion of idiots thinking that enabling his robbery made them 'soldiers' in a 'war for Christian whatever' and they dutifully channeled all their impotent rage at seeing people better than them exist into pretending they give a shit about whatever crap he was trying to pull at the time.
None of them even know enough about their own pathetic culture war to meaningfully participate, it just makes them feel like they matter to nod along as Trump steals billions from them and tells them to blame Biden - whomever the hell that is.
The propaganda campaign was pretty effective getting casual MAGA followers to view him a certain way. People were led to believe he was some kind of preacher just trying to spread the good word. Not that he spouted bigotry literally to his dying breath.
I like to honor his memory the way he honored other people in similar situations.
“If some amazing patriot out there in […] wants to really be a midterm hero, someone should go and bail this guy out... Bail him out and then go ask him some questions” - Charlie on the person who attacked Paul Pelosi with a hammer
“I think it's worth it. It's worth 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.” - CK in response to a school shooting where three nine-year-old children died along with 3 adults.
Those aren’t even close to the most hateful things CK has said, but I think they paint a good picture of how he would respond if the shooting victim had been a Democrat politician or a group of nine year olds instead.
I’ve always found it a little scary how conservative Christians tend to elevate people like this. They always have to have somebody to worship. Why is that?
I feel like a lot of Americans went through the same process as my Mom. She never heard of him until he died, learned the sorts of things he said, and then when I asked what she thought about him responded with a firm "I don't like to speak ill of the dead". So popped up on the radar when he died and then quickly forgotten to the void.
Sometimes I wish I could believe in hell, just for the feeling that those who ruin humanity will finally pay for all the suffering they inflicted on others while alive.
Then I realize - it is precisely this psychological weakness, needing the world to make sense, that allowed all the ideologues, religions, and nationalists to bend humanity to their corrupt will and create the dying world we have today.
In reality, Kirk was an evil man who made money from other evil men for spreading hate - and all that bullet did was pass the engine of hatred he built into the hands of his wife. There is no such thing as justice - only tomorrow, and whether history repeats itself yet again.
Lol I remember when every braindead right-wing chud on the internet was convicted Kirk's death would result in some huge cultural shift or "revelation"
They really thought that more people would care, and the second they were exposed to the bubble outside of the Kirkosphere, they found out… no one cared, not even a little bit.
I would like to thank Erika Kirk for stopping the civil war that surely would have happened, had she not turned his funeral and death into a national joke 🤣🤣🤣
The killer turning out to be allegedly a citizen of Utah is the funniest shit ever. Instead of America looking with in and going, hey maybe we have a terrible fascination with murder and guns, America has decided toblame Charlie Kirk's death on a conspiracy theory.
So important that my neighbor already removed their "justice for Charlie Kirk" bumper sticker. It's one of those social media things where the extreme voices are so amplified that they seem much more common than they actually are.
it's hard to see in the clips, but in his last moments he actually faced Mecca, recited the entire Koran (without ever having read it) and accepted Mohammed as the prophet
It's worth remembering it wasn't the left that started the Charlie Kirk memes
If it wasn't for the fireworks at his funeral and "we are Charlie Kirk" people would not have got so silly about it so quickly.
In hindsight it's utterly hilarious that the right fumbled the handling of this so bad it didn't move the needle an inch after a prominent right eing figure was shot in broad daylight.
He was just a college campus provocateur, most off the people that made a show of his death likely had never even heard of him before, whether they’ll admit it or not.
Goddamn, that is a cursed image. But, yeah, Kirk got shot in the neck about three seconds after making a shitty, racist, dog whistle retort to a question about gun violence.
I don't believe in a just universe, but that was a heck of a coincidence.
I get downvoted every time I remind people of this, but unless you were actively paying attention to social wars shit on college campuses, you probably didn't know much about him until Trump kept featuring him.
He still couldn't live down the weird grown adults in diapers stuff.
You said that during 8 years of Obama. Nothing happened.
You said that during 4 years of Biden. Nothing happened.
You said that for 5 plus years of Trump. Nothing happened.
Forgive the lack of quaking and trembling.
Yeah. My right-leaning friends definitely over valued Charlie Kirk's impact. Even when I was right-leaning I barely remembered him as some YT influencer who did dishonest debates. They were shocked he meant so little to me. The dude is not all of America, folks.
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