To be perfectly honest with you guys, I didn't really even know who Charlie Kirk was--then he died in the dumbest possible way. Apparently Charlie Kirk was on stage arguing his point on gun violence (he was all for it) when he was blown away by gun violence.
Now everyone wants the flag at half-mast. That's an honor. For a guy who was, arguably, not an honorable man.
Some civic leaders are refusing to do such a thing.
“I condemn Kirk’s killing, regardless of who pulled the trigger or why. But I will not grant Johnson County honors to a man who made it his life’s mission to denigrate so many of the constituents I have sworn to protect, and who did so much harm not only to the marginalized, but also to degrade the fabric of our body politic.” - Jon Green
It’s frankly embarrassing to live in a society that would lower the flag to half-staff for a hate-filled lowlife as though he were a national hero. EMBARRASSING! Lowering the flag is a sign of respect, deference and honor. None of which Charlie Kirk earned. NONE. I’m sorry he died so senselessly, but to honor him? What for? I’m disgusted.
A big deal is often made about Kirk being a college drop-out, but I don't subscribe to that; many smart, accomplished people didn't go to college. That's not why he's an ass.
He's an ass because of the things he promotes under the guise of Christianity and Patriotism, including support of Donald Fucking Trump. Some of what Charlie Kirk said:
"MLK was awful. He's not a good person. He said one good thing he actually didn't believe.” (December 2023, Wired)
"There is no separation of church and state. It’s a fabrication, it’s a fiction, it’s not in the constitution. It’s made up by secular humanists." (From the July 6, 2022, edition of The Charlie Kirk Show, streamed on YouTube)
"The Democrat Party supports everything that God hates." (Turning Point PAC, Duluth, Georgia, Oct. 24, 2024)
On Taylor Swift’s engagement, “This is something that I hope will make Taylor Swift more conservative," he said. "Engage in reality more. Reject feminism. Submit to your husband, Taylor. You're not in charge.” (Real American Voice, August 2025)
"If we would have said three weeks ago [...] that Joy Reid and Michelle Obama and Sheila Jackson Lee and Ketanji Brown Jackson were affirmative-action picks, we would have been called racist. But now they're comin' out and they're saying it for us! They're comin' out and they're saying, "I'm only here because of affirmative action. Yeah, we know. You do not have the brain processing power to otherwise be taken really seriously. You had to go steal a white person's slot to go be taken somewhat seriously." (July 13, 2023, on his podcast)
"It's worth it to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year, so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights...That is a prudent deal." (Salt Lake City campus of Awaken Church, April 5, 2023)
From Wikipedia:
Kirk espoused a range of conservative positions, including opposition to abortion, gun control, DEI programs, and LGBTQ rights. Over time, he aligned with the Christian right and advocated for Christian nationalism. His more controversial positions included criticism of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Martin Luther King Jr., as well as promotion of COVID-19 misinformation, false allegations of electoral fraud in 2020, and the white genocide conspiracy theory.
That is all I have to say on the topic of Charlie Kirk.∎
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