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senseandsensibility

(25,527 posts)
Thu Sep 11, 2025, 02:39 PM Sep 2025

Pick your hero. Officers who defended the capitol on Jan.6 or Charlie Kirk?

Anna Paulina Luna is now demanding that Mike Johnson put a statue of Charlie Kirk in the capital. But "Congress passed a bipartisan law mandating that a plaque honoring the officers who defended the Capitol on Jan. 6 be displayed in the building. Mike Johnson has ignored that law and refuses to do it," according to Ron Filipkinski.

What are the chances that although Mike Johnson is ignoring an actual law passed to honor Jan. 6 officers, he will cave and erect a statue to Kirk?

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Pick your hero. Officers who defended the capitol on Jan.6 or Charlie Kirk? (Original Post) senseandsensibility Sep 2025 OP
Next thing, someone will petition to the Pope IzzaNuDay Sep 2025 #1
The complete whitewashing of this guy senseandsensibility Sep 2025 #5
A statue? Why not put his mug on Mt Rushmore while they're at it? Dave Bowman Sep 2025 #2
Shhh... senseandsensibility Sep 2025 #3
Regardless of its final form, his memorial will be gilded and tacky Torchlight Sep 2025 #4

IzzaNuDay

(1,342 posts)
1. Next thing, someone will petition to the Pope
Thu Sep 11, 2025, 02:48 PM
Sep 2025

to make CK a saint. A saint he ain’t!
The only miracle he could do is go away in infamy.

senseandsensibility

(25,527 posts)
5. The complete whitewashing of this guy
Thu Sep 11, 2025, 04:57 PM
Sep 2025

is over the top IMO. I can understand not wanting to badmouth someone who was just killed by an act of violence, but presenting a completely sanitized picture of him with no examples of his own words is something the media would only do for a "conservative".

Torchlight

(7,066 posts)
4. Regardless of its final form, his memorial will be gilded and tacky
Thu Sep 11, 2025, 03:01 PM
Sep 2025

and a master class in Riefenstahl-style media coverage

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