The above image is all anybody should concentrate on right now. A father, a mother and their young kids. They are forever scarred by the murder of their husband and father. Gunned down while speaking conservative talking points. Graphic footage is just horrifying. I am sorry I saw it. So, for now, all we should focus on is Charlie Kirk's family. The grief is real. But the grift is over. I condemn this hit. Cuz it WAS a hit.
Now the BUT.
I had my problems with Charlie Kirk. I attacked him on twitter constantly because it was so easy. He said some of the stupidest shit ever on video and audio. He pretended to hate minorities, women, gays, and anybody else on the other side of the spectrum. He famously went from Release the Epstein files to I don't care about the Epstein Files in one day because he knew the man keeping his grift alive was in those files. It WAS a grift. Charlie Kirk, much like Sean Hannity and Kaleigh McEnaney, knew great television. They didn't believe what they said until they saw their bank accounts, contracts and adoration from mutton heads grow. Then their brains suddenly shifted. Man, are these people easy to grift. And the grift became gospel. They'd convinced themselves that cash is right and to truly earn that cash they must actually buy into what they say.
Meanwhile, the pearl clutching by the right is almost laughable. Without knowing a goddamn thing about the shooter or the motive they assigned motive immediately. The left, the Democrats, the gays whatever. Hey, we do know what motivated the MAGA Minneapolis assassin of Melissa Hortman and her husband. We DO know the motive of the Tree of Life murderer. We DO know the motive behind the mass murder in Arizona that severely wounded Gabby Giffords. We DO know the motive of the El Paso Walmart mass killer, the Buffalo supermarket killer, the King Soopers mass murderer, the Pulse nightclub killer, the killer of the black churchgoers in South Carolina, the killer at the Club Q in Colorado Springs, The Burnette Chapel mass murderer, the Knoxville Unitarian Church assassin. All of it was based in hatred of people unlike themselves. Yet the right, with no clue as usual, is quick to place blame. The Divider in Chief assigned blame without knowing anything as usual. Hey Donnie, Putin bombed Poland, didya hear?
Christ, assassinations and attempted assassinations are as American as apple pie in the words of H Rap Brown. Kennedy, Malcom, Evers, Kennedy 2, MLK Jr, Wallace, Lowenstein, Reagan, Giffords, Lincoln, McKinley, Roosevelt, Long, Hortman, Trump, the list is endless. For chrissakes, American history began with the killing of Alexander Hamilton by the freakin Vice President of the United States, Aaron Burr, perhaps you've heard of it.
So, to hell with this political bullshit outrage. I guess it all depends on whose side you're on before you actually become human and actually condemn this violence. Not a fucking word about Hortman from the Republicans, in fact, Trump said it would be a "waste of time" to reach out to the victims' families. To hell with all of it.
If you cheer this killing of Charlie Kirk, fuck you. If you cheer the killing of Melissa Hortman, fuck you too. If you cheer any murder, fuck you also.
I am sick of it. Sick of the backwards hatted tough guys on Tik Tok threatening revenge on libs. Sick of leftists cheering for Luigi Mangione. Sick of grifters and con artists pretending they care while raising money. Sick of people calling anything they don't like "genocide".
In conclusion, I feel sorry for Kirk's family. I condemn his murder. May he rest in peace if you buy into that stuff. But remember, grifting can be dangerous, and your words sometimes have consequences. Mostly just being ostracized, but in some cases a nut wants you dead.
And sometimes somebody puts out a hit on you.
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