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'We have a statue of MLK': GOP lawmakers push for Charlie Kirk monument in Capitol
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Wow is that the original? I think we’re on volume 50 right now
An edit with a little vol.50 would be epic lol
Doing God's work!!! For Charlie! 🤣
also the fact that charlie himself was recently ranting about files too, so the timing is very suspicious. because kirk has huge influence over young college age incel-to-gop pipeline, hes a threat.
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Omg. Please let this happen. Not because I care about Charlie. No, he was a racist asshole who reaped the rewards if his own rhetoric.
No no. I just want a sculpture to try and figure out how close he should make Kirks eyes. Knowing that someone had to actually objectively think about that makes me feel all warm and tingly on the inside.
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What has Charlie Kirk actually accomplished, though? Besides spreading hatred and bigotry, that is?
He's like the anti-MLK. Everything he stood for is the worst that conservatism has to offer.
He had a dream that america becomes like in the handmaid's tale.
He got some youths interested in politics
I think that's it
I mean, yes though. He was a huge influence on the reason the US is the way it is now and a big reason why so many young men think the way they do and elected the people they did.
He accomplished a pretty huge amount of shit. Just not good shit.
I've heard some say "it's better for someone to get into politics and disagree with me than to be apathetic"
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In what universe is Charlie Kirk at all comparable to MLK?
Release the rest of the Epstein files. Release the Yahoo emails. Why is there a drawing of Epstein grooming children allegedly at Mar a Lago?
He's not, and they know it. Pretending he's a martyr for as long as they can is rhetorically useful to them.
hes useful as a distraction from the epstein files, The old guard dnc wants the news about to go away as much as the gop does.
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He isn't and everyone knows it. It's what used to be trolling except it has now become a core principle and they are a full two or three generations into believing their own bullshit. It's like that guy who loves banter until you hit him with a slapper and it's a "he's gonna fight you in the parking lot" kind of situation but he called security and told them threats had been made and the cops are getting involved but it's ok because a few days later he got stabbed 7 times in Lovejoy NY for talking shit in a pool game and all was right with the world.
Sorry I got lost on that one but you get the point.
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Let's go down the list:
- They were both shot and killed.
That's the list.
Someone probably equates the political nature and him being white to what happened to MLK Jr.
Yep, Martin Luther Mayonnaise.
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Hope his statue looks absolutely ridiculous. Like it's based off the edits of the man with an extra tiny face
Those are actually just pictures of him.
How is this not the Onion
Kirk organised but did not attend the so-called “Stop the Steal” protests after Trump lost the 2020 election and helped coordinate buses for the 6 January 2021 rally led by Trump near the White House, where the outgoing Republican president urged the crowd to “fight, fight, fight” to overturn his defeat by Joe Biden.
Putting a monument for this turd in the capital he tried to overthrow is just perfectly republican. These people are going to milk this guys death for the next dozen years at least.
It's going to be relentless. Right now, some washed up pop-country knobhead is probably in the studio recording The Ballad of Charlie Kirk.
Until the next one who has been preaching violence gets a taste of it.
Conservative, not Republican. Wilson, a Democrat and tied with Jackson for worst president ever, though Trump is working towards that but I digress. Wilson is responsible for authoring Southern Revisionist History, the refounding of the KKK, and all those Confederate statues that we finally started tearing down.
Really working hard to distract from what the senate did yesterday being a shield for a pedophile
This is the martyr they wanted for whatever reason to finally roll out their next phase. He'll be used to lock up/kill anyone that says anything negative about the administration. They're treating this nazi like he was jesus fucking christ.
Do it, I would love a place my dog can take a shit if I ever visit.
Putting Charlie Kirk's giant face up across the street from the MLK memorial would be a real "What do they stand for?" moment for generations to come.
giant face
Giant head. Normal sized face.
Go ahead, hold him higher. Ring that bell as loud as you can. Identify yourselves as sycophants and fascists. Tell us what we already know.
There was a republican politician who wanted to take back the word Nazi like how black people use the N word. We are at the point in society where calling someone a Nazi, or a fascist, is not the worst thing you can do. In fact, it encourages the bootlicker to double down on their rhetoric.
The US Republicans and moderates welcomed fascism. How convenient as it's at a time where mostly all WW2 vets have passed away. The irony of their grandchildren welcoming the same evil they fought against.
Yeah go ahead. Put it with a plaque that says what will be his famous quote "I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year".
They want to add a gender neutral bathroom? I thought they hated those.
Worst administration ever.
I mean sure but we knew that back in January of 2017
They just so desperately want to be important and yet their desperation is making the times very important but their actions completely unworthy of being praised.
So stupid.