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Baitball Blogger

(52,724 posts)
Thu Sep 18, 2025, 05:52 AM Sep 2025

So, is there a right-wing mourning period

For Kirk’s death? Or are they going to turn him into some kind of Mohammed of the West?

I think it’s curious how quickly that strategy went into play to silence even quoting his own words to show the world he wasn’t a candidate for canonization and provide a balanced view. And they will probably continue to use the strategy until it gets a court vetting based on the First Amendment.

And then you have the authorities doing their very best to control the evidence found at the hangings of two young black men. They were too quick to call it suicide. What could their deaths prove when it is discovered otherwise? For me it suggests that for some on the right, they are just looking for a reason to start a race war, and all this attempt to keep Kirk’s own words under tap feels very much like how the racist South operated for generations.

These are dark times in America.

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TommyT139

(2,431 posts)
2. There will be two mourning periods
Thu Sep 18, 2025, 07:13 AM
Sep 2025

One for them lasting until Sunday or whenever...and one for us, where if we ever say -- or sing! ⬆️ 👠👠--- anything ever, it will be too soon and punished severely.

Vinca

(54,335 posts)
3. Yeah . . . forever. They'll milk this for years to come. You'd think he was JFK or RFK or MLK.
Thu Sep 18, 2025, 07:32 AM
Sep 2025

Most people had never even heard of him until he suddenly became a martyr.

Vinca

(54,335 posts)
7. Oh. My. God.
Thu Sep 18, 2025, 11:30 AM
Sep 2025

The truth is if Jesus turned up on the street he'd be deported by the Charlie Kirk lovers.

Aristus

(72,525 posts)
9. I keep wondering where all the Second Amendment guys are; you know, the ones who insist the Second is needed
Thu Sep 18, 2025, 11:41 AM
Sep 2025

to protect all the others.

Unless...unless...they've just been full of shit this whole time, and just really like seeing schoolkids get mown down with cool firearms...

Baitball Blogger

(52,724 posts)
10. Protecting grandpa's favorite rifle
Thu Sep 18, 2025, 12:52 PM
Sep 2025

With the $2000 scope in case they need it in the future?

ornotna

(11,559 posts)
11. It won't be over till the cult builds a shrine and temple
Thu Sep 18, 2025, 01:37 PM
Sep 2025

Everyone will be expected to visit at least once a year.

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