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[SoFlaBro]

1. That MAGA motherfucker has been skating on borrowed time waiting to fucking reap what the fuck he has sown.

[JBTaurus83]

2. I won't

waste any time with sympathy for one of the architects of our new American fascism.

[Attilatheblond]

3. Kirk disparaged 'empathy'

I will save mine for those who are deserving.

[JustAnotherGen]

6. That's right!

That was recent - right?

[IronLionZion]

33. Yes, he said people with empathy and compassion are weak, stupid, and easily exploited

even delving into the religious side claiming that "Christ-like compassion has its limits" and was somehow not for manly men.

[sprinkleeninow]

41. Oops....

'Yes, he said people with empathy and compassion are weak, stupid, and easily exploited

even delving into the religious side claiming that "Christ-like compassion has its limits" and was somehow not for manly men.'

[IronLionZion]

42. So many of these selfish A-holes think it won't affect them personally somehow

it's truly baffling to me as a normal human being.

[sprinkleeninow]

43. In Orthodox Christianity there's a term "prelest"...

Ya think yer somethin' especially in the spirituality department, but you ain't.

[SouthBayDem]

53. Sounds like we oughta play by his rules then...nt

[JustAnotherGen]

4. Since everyone in the media

Is waxing poetic and throwing out theories - here's mine . . .

Kirk had a bootleg copy of the Epstein files.

[applegrove]

5. The chyron had him as Charlie Cook when I turned on the news just

now. I wondered if that was intentional. Then they fixed it.

[Melon]

7. I refuse to celebrate anyone being killed for speech.

This world is out of control. I’ll listen or not listen to someone. It’s my choice. I would never kill someone for a verbal disagreement. It’s absolutely disgusting to me. I really feel like there is no way to stop the coming revolution.

[Silent Type]

12. It's quite disappointing and a big reason I don't have a lot of hope for country.

[Orrex]

16. When the people are denied legal and nonviolent means of effecting change,

Then the people will find other means of effecting change

[Silent Type]

20. What change do you honestly think will come from shooting a pissant like Kirk? Personally, I think you are wrong.

[Orrex]

22. What change? That's not for you or me to say

And I’ll shed no tears for a “gun rights” zealot come face to face with the fruits of his zealotry.

[Melon]

28. What have you been denied legally?

Go vote. That the country. Thats what you can do.

The country doesn’t change by individuals desires. We ban together and get change when we have enough votes to do it. You are absolutely wrong. Then…leave the country. Go find the panacea country that has everything you want and will change based on your desires.

[Orrex]

32. Whom have I shot? Spare me.

You need to address your pearl-clutching to the people who’ve chosen violence.

[Melon]

34. What? The guy who shot Kirk is a...republican?

Please…you are advocating violence because we’ve got a rough 4 years.

Tides go back and forth on the voice of the people. And somehow you think that assassinating Charlie Kirk will somehow better our situation is delusional. A martyr will be created that spoke to college campuses. Now his message will be clear to many more and somehow validated by his death.

[Orrex]

37. Please refrain from dictating what I think or advocate

I know how your type works, and further discussion with you doesn’t interest me.

[Melon]

65. A weak mind can't hear another mans opinion.

Nor can they express it.

[Orrex]

67. I have a suggestion re: where you can file that opinion

I've had posts hidden for less, so props to you for skirting the TOS.

[Layzeebeaver]

36. It's been going on since the beginning

I know it’s depressing, but there never has been hope. The fix has always been in.

[ForgedCrank]

48. This may

be the one that changes my direction..
Potentially the most vile thread I've seen here on DU. I'm outright ashamed to be on this side of the fence right now.
Like him or not, CK was a human being and there are people who are happy about this. It's making me sick to my stomach reading this shit.

[radical noodle]

63. Yeah?

Charlie Kirk said a real "patriot" should bail Paul Pelosi's attacker out of jail.

Charlie Kirk was a human being and perhaps a good husband and father. I feel sorry for his family and his kids who probably won't remember much about him. I am not happy about this and I venture a guess that most of us are not happy. But the irony of a person who has fanned the flames of hate for quite some time losing his life on that altar of violence he made is not lost on most of us.

I wish this had never happened, but he was apparently being a smart ass about mass shootings to someone who asked him about such things at the time he was shot, so in the spirit of what he continually preached... maybe this was God's will.

Besides, he said it himself, empathy "does a lot of damage."

[Orrex]

13. Well

How about for being a galvanizing misogynist, a career hatemonger, and a long term stochastic terrorist?

[Keepthesoulalive]

27. People can be brainwashed to hate others

Hitlers Germany, black Americans facing lynch mobs and people Trump calls criminals even though most are hard working people trying to care for their families. Think Minnesota.

[RockRaven]

8. How did you have any CNN-respect to start with, after the past decade?

[popsdenver]

23. BINGO, RR................NC

[0rganism]

9. I'm impressed that you still had any respect for CNN left to lose

I lost the last dregs of my CNN respect years ago.

[still-prayin4rain]

10. Luckily, I didn't have a lot of respect to lose

[PCIntern]

11. 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

[Silent Type]

14. Yeah, why aren't they showing people dancing in the street.

[Pisces]

15. No they are reporting facts! He was a conservative, influential, young with children. They are not bending

over backwards. Someone has been shot and possibly killed. The fact that he had opposing views should not mean we celebrate a shooting. Get it together!!

[Keepthesoulalive]

21. I am not celebrating his misfortune

But I will give him the same consideration he gave to others, mainly people of color.

[FelineOverlord]

78. He was a Nazi

Brainwashing young people to be a version of the Hitler Youth aka as Turning Point USA.

This is NOT just about “opposing views.”

He wanted us to be ruled by a Christofascist dictatorship.

I do not celebrate his death.

.But Republicans have become so vile that I have no sympathy for them, either.

They want to destroy us.

[Torchlight]

18. For-profit media goes where the ratings (and their new policial officers) tell them to

[Keepthesoulalive]

19. Why would you respect cnn?

They consistently show you who they are and who they support.

[onenote]

24. Lots of Democratic leaders are expressing thoughts and prayers for Kirk

Have you lost respect for them too? Gabby Giffords? Nancy Pelosi?

[Keepthesoulalive]

29. Because most Democrats attempt to act like decent human beings

Unlike the person who was attacked.

[James48]

25. "Fair and balanced"

Would give equal coverage to then point of view of thr shooter. Maybe some discussion about marksmanship in the USA, and the case for better and more training to ensure top level marksmanship.

[Buddyzbuddy]

26. Respect for CNN? IMHO, that was your first mistake.

[KelleyKramer]

30. Tom Llamas of NBC is slobbering all over him right now

I can't stand Llamas, he is a rightwing shill and a huge fanboy of Joe Rogan and Alex Jones

[Ilsa]

31. Someone higher up at CNN might know Kirk and

the talking heads are sucking up to that executive, possibly. That might be why CNN is overboard.

Didn't CK criticize Krasnov or the Administration recently, possibly over the Epstein files?

[mountain grammy]

35. oh barf..

don't die Charlie.. may three ghosts visit you and you wake up a decent person.. long shot, I know, but.......

[Fil1957]

38. When a high profile person is seriously injured or dies, especially by assassination, the media

almost always sugarcoats their lives. Not saying it's good or bad, it's just the way it is.

[YoshidaYui]

39. I kinda feel the same as

When Rush Limbaugh was announced as dead.

[dlk]

40. Too many Americans are shot and killed every day

And the media blithely just walks on by. Kirk’s life has no more or less meaning than anyone else who has had their life cut short by gun violence

[Blue Full Moon]

44. Noticed that this morning not because of kirk

They claimed no inflation and the bad economy and job numbers were Biden's fault.

[live love laugh]

45. Why are you watching? Did you not know CNN is RW controlled?

[niyad]

46. I am just surprised that you still had any respect for cnn to lose.

[Hassler]

47. CNN is a joke with a MAGAt CEO.

[CaptainTruth]

49. I lost all respect for CNN when they replaced Aaron Brown with clueless Anderson Cooper in 2005.

[ReRe]

68. I think I remember Aaron Brown, I like him too. n/t

[CaptainTruth]

69. Aaron was great, IMHO he was a real newscaster in the vein of Walter Cronkite.

[ReRe]

70. Whatever in hell happened to him?

Was it because of what I call his dry sense of humor? I loved him.
Aaron Brown, wherever you're at, come back. Podcast!

[CaptainTruth]

74. Sadly, he died last year, shortly before Christmas.

[ReRe]

75. Ohhhh. Well, he was a good one.

Will run over to youtube and see if I can find his face and voice there. For old times sake. Thanks.

[LisaM]

50. I never heard of him before today.

Can we get rid of guns now?

[BlueKota]

58. I doubt any Republican,even if they were personally wounded,

and permanently disfigured or disabled, would give up the pay offs from the gun lobbies.

[czarjak]

51. Daily Wire Martyrdom achieved?

Sorry, Charlie.
Race War/Civil War?

[SheltieLover]

52. You had respect for CNN?

[Deminpenn]

54. Nicole Wallace isn't much better

right now.

[senseandsensibility]

59. Ari is really bad too

He's interviewing some R politician who said that Kirk wanted his children to grow up in a safe neighborhood with the possibility of buying their own house. So he was against every policy, including gun control, that would make that possible? I mean, the guy is dead and was a victim, but there is no need to make him a truth teller or some kind of savant. He wasn't.

[Deminpenn]

81. Dean Obedahla at least refused to whitewash

who and what Kirk was.

[JustAnotherGen]

55. He was a stone cold racist

Who fed white supremacy to the masses.

I won't be crying over Krasnov, David Duke, MTG . . . was thrilled when limp balls died.

This is where we are now - and he was part of creating two Americas.

If it was me - he would laugh.

[BlueKota]

56. Tsf will probably use this as an excuse to militarize

the country even more, and of course he will scapegoat goat Democrats even if the shooter turns out to be a Republicon.

[BidenRocks]

57. Same shit with KNX radio in LA.

The bothsiderism and ass kissing is disgusting!

Charlie Kirk, the leader of the rightwing Shitler Youth Movement which encourages the overthrow of our Democracy,
was silenced by a patriot today.

or

An unnamed Mexican was beat and had his face pushed into 140 degree asphalt while working in a car wash by military thugs wearing masks. Charlie would say they had it coming.

South Park nailed it! Kirk didn't care who got hurt as long as his ideology wins at any cost!

AMF!

[twodogsbarking]

60. Are we great yet?

[totodeinhere]

61. I understand what you're saying but I don't think now is the time to say it.

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At 31-year-old man has been killed leaving behind a widow and two children. It's a tragedy. Just like the killing in Minnesota was a tragedy. This political violence has got to stop.

[JustAnotherGen]

66. When can

We call out he was a racist piece of shit?

Right-wing celeb Charlie Kirk thinks George Floyd is a ‘scumbag’
https://minnesotareformer.com/briefs/hagedorn-munson-attend-charlie-kirk-speech-in-mankato/

Right-wing celebrity Charlie Kirk opened his appearance in Mankato Tuesday night by giving the crowd some advice: “Just don’t totally mess up this state. It was built by wonderful Scandinavians, and it seems as if it’s being destroyed now, rather intentionally.”

In an 80-some-minute speech, Kirk called George Floyd a “scumbag,” railed against urban areas — especially Minneapolis, which is “not the town it used to be” — and seemingly referenced Jan. 6 while lamenting how “if you dare walk into the U.S. Capitol building and take a selfie, they’ll put you in solitary confinement.”

In Mankato, Kirk told the audience his tour is named the “CRT tour” because of “George Floyd’s death, and the misinterpretation of that.” Kirk repeated debunked falsehoods that Floyd died because of a fentanyl overdose, that he was “illegally counterfeiting currency,” and that he once “put a gun to a pregnant woman’s stomach.”

“No,” he continued, “This is civilization-defining stuff

See one of his interactions below. He was a zero worth person who destroyed America. This is akin to asking my grandparents to be nice about George Wallace getting shot.

And when Trump dies Im going to be AWFUL.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DIw4tZBzD0P/

[totodeinhere]

73. None of this justifies murdering him and leaving his wife a widow.

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That is not how a civilized country deals with racists and bigots.

[JustAnotherGen]

79. We aren't civilized

Proof?

We have racists and Nazis running AmeriKKKa.

He once said that the Civil Rights Act was one of the worst things to happen to America. His job was to convince young white people that the color of their skin religion entitled them to rule over me.


I guess you are safe in this regime. Kudos to you.


He reminds me of Hoerst Wessel.

[totodeinhere]

82. Oh come on. Just because I condemn political violence as a means to an end you

are saying that I feel safe under the current regime. That comment is totally uncalled for and I resent it. For your information I condemn everything that Kirk stands for. But taking him out with an assassin's bullet is immoral and wrong and will only lead to more violence.

[JustAnotherGen]

83. You can resent the comment all you want

I resent being told how to feel about the death of the second coming of Hoerst Wessel and how he died.


Kirk was a white supremacist propagandist who would only be happy when everyone NOT like him was dead or removed from this country.

He didn't bring anyone together. He chased clout and clicks on a platform of hate.


And we don't KNOW who the shooter is. We don't. How do we know it wasn't personal? Someone that evil was bound to have a lot of enemies.

In 40 years we are going to find out it was someone acting on behalf of the Regime because this asshole kept talking about the Epstein files.

[Ford_Prefect]

62. Charlie Kirk had no empathy for the many mass shooting victims, their families and communities over the last 2 decades.

I have none for him now.

I am not an advocate of violence, nor vigilante actions. I believe there are other means to achieve justice.

I wouldn't put the idea or the weapons in the hands of those who did this. Charlie did both for the mass killers I cited above.

He was a vile, hate filled, arrogant white supremacist who fought common sense and human dignity at every turn. He was about as far from a patriotic or Christian American as you could get. I guess he'll find out just how much his privilege is worth now.

He left behind his children and wife, sadly. I hope they will find more sympathy and support than Charlie offered other survivors.

I will say this though: It certainly looks like a case of what goes around comes around.

[JustAnotherGen]

84. Malcom X

Had a few things to say about chickens coming home to roost.

[ImNotGod]

76. I have zero respect for any MSM. nt

[Jack Valentino]

77. There was much respect left to lose, for CNN at this point ??

[Brainfodder]

80. How weird are they going to get when these creepy old assholes like Newt start croaking from natural causes?

[Rhiannon12866]

85. I quit watching CNN in 2005

When they switched from John Kerry speaking live before the Senate to a recorded speech by some right-winger, "for balance" they said. That was all it took for me.