MSNBC - Joe: Don't use Charlie Kirk's death to gain political points

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3. Are you kidding? The Martyrdom of St. Charlie is *all about* political points.

If Kirk had died in a more conventional way - a car accident, a sudden illness - I doubt very much that we'd be seeing this much commotion over his death. No doubt there would have been a lot of attention and many loving tributes from Trump and MAGA. Vance probably would have gone to his funeral. But a guy who gets accidentally run over by a bus or croaks due to a peanut allergy when he can't find his Epi-pen doesn't get to be a martyr - that's just a sad case of someone who died too young. The martyrdom is the big deal. The narrative is that Kirk was foully murdered by the evil Left Wing and not just the victim of yet another disturbed, gun-obsessed young white guy. This time the disturbed young white guy was one who was raised by gun-loving Republican Mormons in gun-loving Republican Mormon Utah, and who fell into some weird world of ironic Internet memes that he couldn't distinguish from real life and decided it would be the ultimate act of memedom to shoot Charlie Kirk, whom he disliked for yet-unknown reasons. But he might have had a trans roommate/girlfriend, which means he must have been a leftist, since "trans ideology," which doesn't exist, is leftist. Of course. That was enough to make Kirk a martyr to the evil Left, and we are told we must consider only the way he died and not talk about the way he lived. Hang him up there on the cross along with Jesus. You must worship St. Charlie, but whatever you do, don't quote him. Don't quote Jesus, either.