Was Charlie Kirk's funeral a political rally or was it ...

[4th]

I will make assertions about what right wingers are saying without linking.
But you can find it easily if you're a glutton for punishment like me.
Know your enemy.

A common trope among progressives is that Charlie Kirk's funeral was political rally.
And so it was, but the interesting bit isn't right wingers trying to deny it.

It's that they are describing it as a ... revival.

[exboyfil]

1. I do remember some of the partisan stuff said at Wellstone's funeral

Democrats were quick to disavow the more partisan statements.

[Jilly_in_VA]

2. It was pretty damn political

from everything I've seen. I didn't watch, for obvious reasons besides the fact that I didn't want to be cleaning up vomit from the rug (I cleaned up enough of that stuff in my mom and nursing days).

[4th]

5. But see it's bringing people to ...

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... Jesus.

The Republican one.

[usonian]

3. Orange Julius seems depressed since the event.

Was the service just a rehearsal?
FOR HIS?


https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220668874

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=20668548

That said, they love a parade. Dingbats.

[Queso Delicioso]

4. Canonization of the Patron Saint of Lies and Bullshit

[LetMyPeopleVote]

6. The memorial for Charlie Kirk was really a MAGA grifting session and not a memorial

I did NOT watch this event but I saw that the only family member to speak was the Widow. This was NOT a memorial but a MAGA grifting session.

[Hekate]

9. Excellent observation

[misanthrope]

12. It was straight from WWE

How were Jimmy Kimmel's controversial remarks about the political reaction to Kirk's death any more offensive than the pyrotechnics display that erupted onstage as the widow appeared? Who agrees to this vulgar display for their dead spouse?

[Paladin]

7. It was a fitting send-off---and a fucking disgrace. (nt)

[Hekate]

8. Every cult needs a bleeding martyr, so sure it was a "revival"

[Kaleva]

10. Don't know. I didn't pay any attention to it.

[clevergrrrl]

11. where were Kirk's parents

Were they even in attendance? Ive heard his sister is a lefty