Turning Point USA co-founder dies of coronavirus-related complications

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Source: Politico

The co-founder of conservative student group Turning Point USA, Bill Montgomery, has died from complications of the coronavirus, according to two friends of his.

Montgomery, who started it in 2012 with young conservative star Charlie Kirk, died at the age of 80 on Tuesday from Covid-19, according to pro-Trump conservative strategist Caleb Hull, who posted about the death on Twitter and his personal Facebook page, and Chicago-based citizen journalist Vic Maggio.

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Before starting Turning Point with Kirk, Montgomery, who lived in Illinois, worked in marketing, publishing, restaurants and was a business development consultant.

A 2015 National Journal story recounted how Montgomery met Kirk when he was 18 and urged him not to go to college but told him instead after a speech at Benedictine University: “I don't know you, but you need to start an organization to reach out to young people with your message.” So the next month, the two launched Turning Point together.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/29/turning-point-usa-founder-dies-coronavirus-complications-387077

[rpannier]

1. Thoughts and Prayers

[pecosbob]

2. Well, he died for his beliefs...unfortunately so have and will many others.

[torius]

3. A martyr for the cause

... the cause of insisting the virus is a hoax.

[TeamPooka]

4. oh well. Who's hungry?

[live love laugh]

10. 🤣🤣🤣

[cannabis_flower]

5. Thoughts and prayers

One less Trump voter.

[JI7]

6. of course the founder of a Conservative Student Group formed just 8 years ago will be 80 years old

[Roy Rolling]

8. This👆

It says it all.

[Mike 03]

13. That struck me too

[KY_EnviroGuy]

7. The homicidal wisdom of Charlie Kirk.....

Snip from article....

In two previous episodes of his podcast, March 16 and April 23, Kirk stated that he believed that the elderly and those with pre-existing conditions should self-quarantine. Outside of that, however, he has questioned the vast majority of public health proposals to limit community spread. On the Sunday edition of his podcast, Kirk said: “Do not force me to wear a mask, it’s that simple. I’m not gonna do it, I’m not.”

“[E]very single time I go into one of these grocery stores, ‘Where’s your mask?’ I say, well first of all, the science around masks is very questionable, very questionable,” he said. “In fact some people, some doctors think that masks actually make you sicker and have you less likely to be able to get oxygen and more likely to infect yourself, and less likely to be able to fight the virus, and actually more likely to be able to die sooner.

“A lot of people believe that. I’ve met many doctors that hold that view,” Kirk added. “Secondly, we have a huge civil liberty issue here. Why do you have the authority to tell me what I can and cannot do with my body? I thought it was ‘my body, my choice.’”

I would like for him to have to make that statement to each and every woman in America.

KY

[flibbitygiblets]

11. Darwin award nominee

It's a long list this year

[ToxMarz]

14. I hope this will be the eulogy at the funeral.

[DeminPennswoods]

15. Start naming names of the "many people"

who have said these things. Like Joe McCarthy's famous "lists" of communists, there probably aren't any.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

16. Never have understood how Republicans can lie and decieve....

to their fellow Americans, particularly on something with which they have no expertise and which is killing their own kind every day. Apparently, business interests trump all other considerations in their world.

The few I've interfaced with remind me of a parrot or one of those toys you pull a string and it plays a recorded tune.

I assume it's considered a mortal sin to say anything counter to the dogma of the right-wing media machine.....

[Delphinus]

25. It's

"my body, my choice" EXCEPT for if you're a woman who wants to do with her uterus what she decides is best for all concerned.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

29. Pure, raw misogynistic Republican hypocrisy.

And they manage to shield themselves from being called out by hiding in their right-wing bubble.

Of all of that guy's quoted lies and deceptions, that little statement was the most audacious for me and I'm a man....

[live love laugh]

9. Yeah ... I troll there. Kirk's ode to his now-late mentor was

puke 🤮 worthy. I don’t think he said the cause was Covid either.

[Dios Mio]

12. Another mess-I yah has left the dumpster.

[BlueStater]

17. I'm just so broken up by this news.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

18. Colleges teach science and logic and reason. Yeah, young cons don't have any use for college. . nt

[UpInArms]

19. I am so sorry

That he could not spread it to more of his acolytes

Kirk was banned for a brief time from Twitter in late March for falsely claiming that the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine was “100% effective” in treating the coronavirus. He has also pushed to quickly reopen the nation’s economy, although in March he said that young people were at risk from the virus and that they should be careful by avoiding large gatherings.

In late June, Trump spoke to a packed audience of young Turning Point supporters at a megachurch in Phoenix where he was introduced by Kirk. Few people in the audience practiced social distancing or wore masks, although the organization gave masks to everyone who wanted one and provided socially distanced seating in the upper tier of the church.

The

[RAB910]

20. Frankenstein killed by his own monster

[FakeNoose]

21. Another one bites the dust

[Fla Dem]

22. His protege, Charlie Kirk. They will carry on unfortunately. Video.

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[NurseJackie]

23. That's his protege, Charlie Kirk. (Bill Montgomery was 80 years old.)

[Fla Dem]

24. Oops! Thanks for the correction!

[NurseJackie]

27. ...

[BigDemVoter]

26. Better a repig than a Dem.

[sakabatou]

28. Tots and pears