She Despised Charlie Kirk. He Resolved to Make People Like Her Pay.

[dalton99a]

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/us/charlie-kirk-civil-war.html

https://archive.ph/tZ8KG

She Despised Charlie Kirk. He Resolved to Make People Like Her Pay.
In rural Texas, just 40 miles apart, a paramedic and a former small-town mayor got caught up on two sides of a digital “civil war.”
By Eli Saslow
Oct. 12, 2025

Mike Arnold had been trying to step back from a life in politics when the first alerts lit up his phone. As the volunteer mayor of tiny Blanco, Texas, he’d been vilified for turning the holiday parade back into a Christmas parade and harassed by his fiercest critics while filling potholes. He was mocked online until a few threats began to arrive in his mailbox. Politics had become blood sport. He finished his term in May and disappeared into his family’s construction business, before his phone drew him back.

“Watch this! We’re at war,” a friend wrote last month, and Arnold, 55, clicked on the link. He saw Charlie Kirk, a fellow Christian conservative, speaking to a crowd of students in Utah. He heard the echo of a rifle. He watched Kirk go down. Arnold had hunted enough deer to recognize a kill shot, so he began to pray not for Kirk’s survival but for the country he was leaving behind.

As mayor, Arnold had often warned his constituents about the decline of Christian values, the spread of indecency and the fragile “veneer of civility” holding America together. Now he believed it was fracturing. Retreat no longer seemed like an option. He went on Facebook, changed his profile picture to one of Kirk and joined the fight online.

“Time to take the gloves off,” he wrote. “Enough is enough.”

In the weeks since Kirk’s murder, millions of Americans have engaged in an internet war, flooding one another’s feeds with accusations and attacks that begin onscreen and spill into the real world in places like Blanco, a town of 2,100 in Texas Hill Country. Hundreds of people have been doxxed, fired or threatened for social media posts that were perceived as callous or celebratory in the wake of Kirk’s death. A historic act of political violence has unleashed a wave of new threats, deepening the cycle of division in a nation splitting into two hostile sides.

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Hateful cultists who worship the dead troll

[newdeal2]

1. And yet, a month later, no one talks about him

Certainly not the guy in the White House. They got plenty of use out of his death already to advance their plans.

[JI7]

2. The other grifters are still talking about him

and it's turned into an internal right wing conflict with various sides claiming to represent what Charlie wanted.

[hlthe2b]

3. You can be sure his wife will- from now to eternity... His loss is her "golden ticket"...

I hate being so cynical, but damn if all evidence does not point in that direction.

[AStern]

5. Not to be all blue-anon but I think he had Kirk clipped.

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Why? Who benefitted from his death? Trump did.

[yellow dahlia]

7. Something about it doesn't add up.

Why has there been NO information in the past few weeks. Nothing about the alleged shooter. Nothing about the supposedly trans roommate.

[yellow dahlia]

8. Yup

[womanofthehills]

14. Guess you haven't been on X

It’s Charlie, Charlie, Charlie

No one believes Kash Patel and a million social media sleuths are busy.

[chowder66]

4. So a god fearing guy who talks about moral decay ignores what his party says and then attacks individuals

who expressed their feelings about the guy who spewed horrible things on a daily basis to large crowds.

Another "Christian" white male abusing his privilege.

[yellow dahlia]

6. Freedom of Speech for me, but not for thee.

[Historic NY]

9. His organization is already in fighting and splitting apart for control/.

[Gimpyknee]

10. Who's Charlie Kirk?

[GenThePerservering]

11. Give a few more weeks

until his shelf life is up - he'll be turfed under like Rush Limpdick was. I doubt his widow will get anywhere, but maybe Fox Entertainment will pick her up - they usually hire the dregs.

ETA: And yeah - funny how there is not much 'investigation' - similar to Trump's fake "assassination attempt". Nobody talks about the guy who was killed during it (probably considered 'incidental' damage by the GOP).

[womanofthehills]

16. I doubt it - it's just beginning

Candace Owens & others are on it big time. She’s now has 7 million followers just on X alone and her followers keep growing. People from around the world contact her. She’s obsessed as he was her bestie.

[mountain grammy]

12. This "good Christian man"

Is a sicko and a bad person. destroying the lives of others for what I see as a twisted view of the world and life..

[womanofthehills]

17. What many don't get is that Charlie had a catch 22

The Republican kids were turning anti genocide and were no longer accepting of his pro Israel views. So Charlie starts questioning Oct 7 ( he asks was it a stand down) and he’s questioning the genocide. Problem is all his million dollar donors are pro Israel. His donors told him he could not have Tucker at Turning Points because Tucker was anti-genocide. Not only did Charlie have Tucker but he invited popular social media Libertarian Dave Smith who is anti genocide to debate the gross Josh Hammer and the kids clapped more for Dave, the libertarian than for Josh, the Republican.

Turning Points was a multi million dollar- like 88 million dollar business- and lots of money and lots of Trump votes could be lost.

Most hunters say gov is lying about gun and bullet, but now it’s taking more of a turn as “supposedly” many names including Tyler’s were searched on Google in Europe & Egypt before murder took place according to Candace.

It’s like a good murder mystery - but unfortunately it’s real life. Most polls on X believe Israel might be involved esp after Netanyahu kept telling the press he wasn’t.

[AverageOldGuy]

13. Tuesday, October 14 . . . This Tuesday

Was proclaimed by Trump to be Charlie Kirk Remembrance Day, or something like that.

Not certain what we are supposed to do.

[AverageOldGuy]

15. Official name

October 14 “National Day of Remembrance for Charlie Kirk”