So, can we call reaping what you sew getting "Charlie Kirked" now? Watching the media and Trump already canonizing this guy as a martyr is sickening. Seriously. "Oh... he got young people into politics... he was a cultural icon... what a tragedy..." Like, never mind that this piece of trash was just another bigoted mouthpiece for the establishment literally poisoning America. I don't have any sympathy at all for him or the rest of his ilk. Fuck 'em all but six.
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This was a dumb thing. Kirk was odious, sure, but of all the people to shoot…They didn’t even take a major player off the board, and the repercussions, the retribution, will not be worth it.
Purely from a hypothetical strategic standpoint: Kirk was one of the young household names being groomed to take the mantle of the angry, populist, old white regressive in the future.
A lot of the current generation are decrepit mummies and could drop dead at any minute, and building gravity for successors takes time. Kirk was also a relative outsider as a cheerleader, keeping the taint of disastrous administration off him.
Retribution is coming either way so you could argue the worst assassination attempt outcome would be giving him a bloody ear and a killer photo op. In that context it's a decent longterm outcome for the violent opposition wing.
Of course we'll have to see how the shooter motives and responses play out, nobody really knows.
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A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
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In other interesting SLC news, I hit every green light on the way to the grocery store this afternoon. Bought stuff to make chili.
Good riddance to bad rubbish.
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Lmao. Also, lol.
“gun deaths and school shootings are incredibly unfortunate but a necessary thing to help ensure our gun freedoms “ - Charlie Kirk
Glad that he is dead, time to party 😄 He got what he wanted, so no need to feel sorry for him.