Current Events > Charlie Kirk shot dead; topic Part 3

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WingsOfGood posted...

I worry this DoJ could have motivations to find someone they think would fit well for the President's purposes to be the perp and frame them

that is if there is no obvious trail of evidence etc

I doubt they'd have the competence to successfully frame anyone.

A_Good_Boy posted...

I doubt they'd have the competence to successfully frame anyone.

let's hope

A_Good_Boy posted...

I doubt they'd have the competence to successfully frame anyone.

Conservatives will eat up anyone they blame if it fits their biases

I feel bad for Kirks family.

Trump has ordered flags to be half mast across the country

https://www.instagram.com/p/DOb7e1kEaJs/

whitehouse

1h
In honor of Charlie Kirk, a truly Great American Patriot, I am ordering all American Flags throughout the United States lowered to Half Mast until Sunday evening at 6 P.M. - President Donald J. Trump

Pitbuller_26 posted...

Imagine, being a conservative star. Get killed by the rhetoric you espoused and including your daughter in that rhetoric ("children should see public executions"). Authorities can't get on a unified response on whether they actually have a suspect in custody.

Kind of just have to laugh.

For added irony, his literal last words were a whataboutism about gang violence when the topic of mass shooting came up

hivebent4life posted...

This will also take all attention off of the Epstein birthday card for a while, sadly. People will probably forget about it entirely, ensuring he gets away with it

I don't think Epstein got away with it

hivebent4life posted...

This will also take all attention off of the Epstein birthday card for a while, sadly. People will probably forget about it entirely, ensuring he gets away with it

That's not going anywhere. Not everything is a distraction from the Epstien scandal.

LightSnake posted...

I don't think Epstein got away with it

You know I meant Trump.

Kirk is the modern George Lincoln Rockwell

WingsOfGood posted...

https://www.instagram.com/p/DOb7e1kEaJs/

whitehouse

1h
In honor of Charlie Kirk, a truly Great American Patriot, I am ordering all American Flags throughout the United States lowered to Half Mast until Sunday evening at 6 P.M. - President Donald J. Trump

I hope my workplace (a government building in Detroit) doesn't comply with this.

LightSnake posted...

I don't think Epstein got away with it

Trump made the card.

BlackScythe0 posted...

He wasn't great at debating. He refused to answer questions and just said random shit confidently. People trying to respond to him would struggle because it's really hard to fight bull shit with facts, because you can say a whole lot more bull shit in 60 seconds than you can debunk in the same time.

Following this up, I highly recommend this playlist on youTube.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJA_jUddXvY7v0VkYRbANnTnzkA_HMFtQ

It's obviously a lot to watch, but it gives you quite a bit of insight into how conservatives' rhetoric works and functions.

Princess_Eev posted...

Following this up, I highly recommend this playlist on youTube.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJA_jUddXvY7v0VkYRbANnTnzkA_HMFtQ

It's obviously a lot to watch, but it gives you quite a bit of insight into how conservatives' rhetoric works and functions.

I love this series. Unfortunately, the creator quit YouTube a while ago for financial reasons

Solar_Crimson posted...

I hope my workplace (a government building in Detroit) doesn't comply with this.

Im curious if local businesses do. I live in a really liberal area and even the McDonalds lowers the flag to half staff when called for.

Though given the events of today I think they could easily also just claim it's to honor the Denver victims

RchHomieQuanChi posted...

I love this series. Unfortunately, the creator quit YouTube a while ago for financial reasons

Real shame. He provided a critical service.

Kirk will be remembered as long as rush limbaugh was, at most six months, and then completely forgotten . Kirk never built anything, he sowed hatred and division.

Solar_Crimson posted...

I hope my workplace (a government building in Detroit) doesn't comply with this.

I work for a school, and it could very well be a contentious issue...fortunately, I do not have skin in the game.

mystic_belmont posted...

Kirk will be remembered as long as rush limbaugh was, at most six months, and then completely forgotten . Kirk never built anything, he sowed hatred and division.

The right-wing political machine will forget him faster than it takes Matt Gaetz to sprint to the closest Quincanera to his house

Huh

Just woke up to this news. This is going to be a terrible day...

My deepest fear is that anti-intellectualism is going to be elevated as correct speech. Critical thinking becomes the very punishable wrongthink that conservatives keep warning us about.

Starks posted...

My deepest fear is that anti-intellectualism is going to be elevated as correct speech. Critical thinking becomes the very punishable wrongthink that conservatives keep warning us about.

that has already been happening for years now

dummy420 posted...

Just woke up to this news. This is going to be a terrible day...

I thought the Russian drones in Poland were going to be the worst thing to happen this 24 hour cycle...

BlackScythe0 posted...

You think I'm gullible. I've lived in college towns before.

I have too for... way too long Lol

Starks posted...

My deepest fear is that anti-intellectualism is going to be elevated as correct speech. Critical thinking becomes the very punishable wrongthink that conservatives keep warning us about.

Seems like you're going to have to find some fears with a new bottom.

BlackScythe0 posted...

You must not live in a conservative state. I do and I hear people talking about assassinating democrats every day at work.

also the jokes about how women shouldnt be leaders because theyre so emotional or that when you heard a crime happen they ask were they Mexican or black (they didnt say Mexican or black but you know which words)

I wonder when they will tell us why the old man got arrested if he wasn't the shooter

Starks posted...

My deepest fear is that anti-intellectualism is going to be elevated as correct speech. Critical thinking becomes the very punishable wrongthink that conservatives keep warning us about.

Yeah this is a concern. Anti-intellectualism and the rejection of evidence has also been terrifying, a trend I hope doesn't continue or get shuts down.

Let people speak and let them think, if you have to prevent people from doing that then I can't support your agenda.

Zikten posted...

I wonder when they will tell us why the old man got arrested if he wasn't the shooter

from what I heard he didn't get arrested. He was detained but multiple sources said he wasn't the shooter(maybe he happened to have a gun on him?)

Huh. I did not know who Charlie Kirk was before today.
I mean, I just looked it up, and I'm familiar with Turning Point, but... yeah.

And nothing of value was lost.

RchHomieQuanChi posted...

I love this series. Unfortunately, the creator quit YouTube a while ago for financial reasons

I loved his videos too but didnt he get over $100,000 in debt, start a gofundme, exceed his goal and then proceed to spend his excess cash on a trip to Japan instead of putting it toward his future?

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/c/c6e1457f.jpgPretty much all I can really say here. Dude played himself

^ what happened

Apparently he died at a university campus, and his literal last words were downplaying school shootings.

hivebent4life posted...

Apparently he died at a university campus, and his literal last words were downplaying school shootings.

"Do you know how many mass shootings there's been this year?"

CK: "Gang violence or non-gang violence?"

(bang)

WingsOfGood posted...

^ what happened

I saw the deleted posts; someone had trouble posting an image correctly.

hivebent4life posted...

Apparently he died at a university campus, and his literal last words were downplaying school shootings.

he was asked about the number of mass shootings in this country, and said 'regular mass shootings or gang related ones?'(paraphrasing)

I would find the exact quote but trying to google charlie kirk quotes right now it literally impossible. Pretty sure the right wing media is trying to scrub the internet of every pro-gun or otherwise bad thing he ever said.

Dabrikishaw15 posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/c/c6e1457f.jpgPretty much all I can really say here. Dude played himself

hivebent4life posted...

Apparently he died at a university campus, and his literal last words were downplaying school shootings.

Wow, sounds like a true piece of shit. I say good riddance.

thronedfire2 posted...

he was asked about the number of mass shootings in this country, and said 'regular mass shootings or gang related ones?'(paraphrasing)

I would find the exact quote but trying to google charlie kirk quotes right now it literally impossible. Pretty sure the right wing media is trying to scrub the internet of every pro-gun or otherwise bad thing he ever said.

still up

https://www.newsweek.com/charlie-kirk-death-penalty-public-executions-1873073

Trump Ally Charlie Kirk Suggests Children Should Watch Public Executions

Charlie Kirk, founder and president of the conservative organization Turning Point USA, suggested in a recent episode of The Charlie Kirk Show that children should watch public executions.
Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty, is the state-sanctioned practice of killing someone as punishment for a convicted crime. According to the Death Penalty Information Center (DPIC), there are 27 states that carry out the death penalty and 23 states that have abolished the lethal practice.
Meanwhile, several executions are scheduled to take place in the United States this year, starting with what was the nation's first execution using nitrogen gas in Alabama.
Twenty-four inmates were put to death in the U.S. in 2023, according to the DPIC. Texas carried out the most executionseightfollowed by Florida with six and Oklahoma and Missouri with four each. Alabama carried out two executions, one in July and another in November, following a series of flawed lethal injections in 2022.

On his weekly panel discussion, "ThoughtCrime," Kirk was discussing death penalties of those convicted of crimes, adding that not only does he believe there should be public executions, but that children should watch them.
"Death penalties should be public, should be quick, it should be televised. I think at a certain age, its an initiation...What age should you start to see public executions?" Kirk asked.
Kirk, along with his co-hosts Jack Posobiec, Tyler Bowyer and Blake Neff, continued to discuss at what age should children watch the public executions, with one co-host pointing out as young as 12 years old.

"I think maybe age 12, sixth grade or so when you are old enough... " Neff said.
While Bowyer pointed out that it should be at an age when someone "can embrace the meaning" of the execution.
In response, Kirk said, "I think it should be taken in a holy way and I don't mean holy in a bad way, I mean that this is heavy.
In addition, Kirk asked whether crime would go up or down if children were to watch public executions, "Here's a question for anyone that might be not persuaded. Would crime go up or down?"
Bowyer said, "It would go way down," with Kirk then asking, "So why is this even a question?"
Newsweek has reached out to the Charlie Kirk Show via an email online form for comment.
This is not the first time Kirk, a supporter of former President Donald Trump, the front-runner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, has been at the forefront of controversy before as pastor Darrell Scott, a radio host and another Trump supporter, said earlier this month that Kirk is attempting to inspire a new generation of the "Hitler youth."
Scott, pastor at the New Spirit Revival Center in Cleveland, Ohio, appeared on The Tudor Dixon Podcast, hosted by Dixon, a former Michigan gubernatorial candidate, where they discussed Kirk and another conservative commentator, Candace Owens.
"In those years right after high school but before you enter all the way into full adulthood, those are some critical years in a person's life," Scott said. "Those years can make or break the rest of your life...and Charlie is trying to grab them right then and there and form these opinions in their mind of white oppression, white victimhood, Black man bad, white man better. He's really trying to infect this [Republican] Party with that ideology to turn this party into what this party's detractors say this is.
"I even said he's trying to raise up a new generation of Hitler youth...I know I was kind of extreme in my statements, but I'm drawing the comparison to him because this guy thinks he's slick. He thinks he's the smartest guy in the room and he's not."

Rika_Furude posted...

I just woke up, Im not American so this is the first Ive heard of Charlie Kirk. Didnt realise CE still had it in them to make multiple consecutive fast 500s

I'm American and this is the first I had heard of the guy

RchHomieQuanChi posted...

For added irony, his literal last words were a whataboutism about gang violence when the topic of mass shooting came up

........damn it the self control i need to not quip about this ironic part is hard

My cousin is saying he was a great man and to pray for Turning Point

Moment of silence was held for him at Yankee Stadium
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/3/3c7ca168.jpg

WingsOfGood posted...

still up

along with his co-hosts Jack Posobiec, Tyler Bowyer and Blake Neff

You know, I was wondering what SubDeity was up to.

BlueBoy675 posted...

My cousin is saying he was a great man and to pray for Turning Point

MAGAt?

King_of_Inland posted...

I'm American and this is the first I had heard of the guy

consider yourself lucky

unless you're one of the people who didn't vote in the last election

thronedfire2 posted...

he was asked about the number of mass shootings in this country, and said 'regular mass shootings or gang related ones?'(paraphrasing)

I would find the exact quote but trying to google charlie kirk quotes right now it literally impossible. Pretty sure the right wing media is trying to scrub the internet of every pro-gun or otherwise bad thing he ever said.

You are correct, but immediately prior he said something about how 'you wouldn't belive the number of transgender mass shooters', then the person talking to him said it was 5. Then it led into what you posted

King_of_Inland posted...

I'm American and this is the first I had heard of the guy

Have you heard of Ben Shapiro? They ran in the same circles. He was basically just a Christian version of Ben Shapiro (Shapiro is Jewish)