Now, over a year later, it’s incredible how sensitive Trump supporters still are regarding Charlie Kirk, even as they continue to support a president who mocked the killing of Rob Reiner and publicly celebrated the death of Robert Mueller.
Among many other horrible, disgusting things Trump has said and done throughout his life.
You know, like his ongoing cover-up of the Epstein files to protect child predators.
These are also the same people who, last year, before Kirk was tragically killed, didn’t give a damn when a Trump supporter killed two Democrats and shot two others in Minnesota — all while this president refused to even call Governor Tim Walz to offer any condolences. He didn’t order the flags to half-staff. Hell, he didn’t even know their names when he was asked about them.
But yes, we’re all supposed to always talk about Kirk as if he were some saint who spent his life just trying to make the world a better place, when that’s complete right-wing fan fiction.
I’ve said it before: What happened to Kirk should never happen to anyone. I have never, and will never, support or condone violence.
But I’m also not going to forget the reality of who Kirk was: someone who built his entire brand, and made himself a lot of money, by pushing racism and hate and by being an individual in his 30s who often went to college campuses to verbally beat up on people who were mostly just out of high school.
Furthermore, you instantly disqualify yourself from remotely being considered a “good person” when you say that the Civil Rights Act was a “huge mistake” and that Martin Luther King Jr. was “an awful person,” in addition to saying women should “submit” to men, pushing the “Great Replacement” theory in his racist propaganda, spreading conspiracies about vaccines, and frequently advocating for hate against the transgender community.
So I’m certainly not going to put any weight into the opinions of people who support a president who uses violent, hateful rhetoric on a daily basis, who mocked the brutal killing of an actor and publicly celebrated the death of a former director of the FBI and military veteran — all because I tell the truth about Kirk, who he was, and the disgusting, hate-driven rhetoric he often used.
That doesn’t suddenly become “not true” simply because of how he died.
These folks can be hypocrites all they want, but I’m damn sure not going to be lectured by them on the level of “civility” or “respect” that should be shown toward others when the person they blindly worship is one of the least civil, most disrespectful and disgusting individuals on this planet.
