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We all mourn the death of Charlie Kirk??? We do? Really? Define we.

I don’t mourn his death. I don’t care one way or the other.

They don’t actually give a shit about Charlie, either. That’s mostly performative 🐴💩. They just can sense it’s the perfect outrage vehicle for them to mash the gas on every authoritarian tendency they already have.

3 police officers were killed in Pennsylvania yesterday and Republicans don't give a FUCK.

I had the same realization. Children shot, as well as innocent bystanders, all the fuss about this guy; doesn’t make sense.

Sadly dead children only score momentary political points because school shooting is continually happening year after year.

Tbh I'm not mourning him nor having a party. These politicians are only using it as a distraction for personal benefit while they are also attacking their own voters from behind

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DEMOCRATS HAVE NOTICED SINCE SANDY HOOK. Has Alex Jones payed up yet? It won't bring back those children, or give their parents peace about how they died, BUT IT GIVES ME JOY KNOWING THAT THAT CALOUSED, UNFEELING, INHUMANE MONSTER LOST HIS WEALTH IN THE COURT SYSTEM. He deserves worse, but ok.

Correct. There has been mass shootings where the MAGAts in power just ignored it. This is all an act to "punish" non MAGAts.

I mourn the *method* of his death, not his actual death. As far as I'm concerned, it's one less hateful bigot in the world. And if conservatives are beside themselves because some people aren't sufficiently sad a bigot died, boy are they in for a surprise when Trump dies choking on a Big Mac.

when Chikdren are gunned down, it’s just another day in America.

Those in society who do not wield power are rarely missed.

Yes and???

If I'm being honest, I have to say I don't mourn Charlie Kirk. Before his death, I'd never even heard of him. I choose to mourn those innocent school children killed while sitting in their classrooms!

If it's any consolation, most of them don't genuinely care about Charlie Kirk either.

Bingo!

I don’t mourn his death. He means nothing to me personally

Cars kill more people per year than guns should we cancel cars? Btw Hitler took all guns from citizens and 35 million died could defend them selves from a communist government

Kirk’s death should be MAGA’s Mark Kinsella/Doc Graham moment in Field of Dreams, when Moonlight Graham crosses the base path and turns into Doc Graham, saving Karin from choking on a hot dog. Mark asks when the ball players got there. Somehow, I fear MAGA still can’t see the school massacres.

This times 1 trillion...well 17 trillion. That seems to be someone's favorite number. They do not give one s%&t about the dead, wounded, and traumatized students, teachers, workers, or any anonymous victim of gun violence.

THAT'S WHO THEY ARE

I don’t mourn him. I mourn that I am being told I must mourn for someone I did not like.

The inter webs have been talking about this for a bit. Mourn for the children, show me you want to do something about the gun violence, and yet silence

I mourn his killing. I do not mourn his death.

I do not mourn Charlie Kirk, but the slaughter of children in the classroom and the shooter drills we force our children to endure is cruel and frankly repugnant. We’re a sick society.

Adam; seriously, are you surprised?

If you convince people that all that matters is the "afterlife" then it doesn't matter to them if there is human destruction on earth. That part of the population which was exploited to give a man power and money as a kind of ridiculous tribute just doesn't give a shit about anyone else.

I have a difficult time mourning his death, as his divisiveness has been minimized and often celebrated. I feel bad for his family, but why waste energy on a man who marginalized and said hateful things about so many?? His themes of racism, xenophobia, transphobia & homophobia cannot be minimized.

Don’t condone his murder but won’t expend one second mourning him.

You just thought of this? There was a school shooting that same day.

The cognitive dissonance is eating me alive now. Pointing out the obvious seems like it doesn't even matter anymore, and decisive actions must be taken as a collective. I wish talking heads we trust would spell it out - do this now, then that, then that, rather that stating the obvious.

yeah, Adam, no fucking shit…jesus christ

Three cops dead. Shit by rural white dude with AR 15. Fucking crickets from MAGA.

The point is we have a right to not mourn it. Yes, he was a husband and a father but he had repulsive, racist, bigoted views that couldn’t be farther from mine. I mourn people I care about. That is my right.

We’ve all noticed this for 2 decades.

Please don't speak for me. I don't mourn the death of a hate spewing religious zealot any more than I mourn the death of that mosquito I slapped on my arm last night. Express your opinion. Don't include me. Thank you for your attention to this matter

I do not mourn his death, why should I?

Is it that Charlie brought so many votes for the GOP? School children do not vote so they do not matter to elected people I only see the self interests in politicians morn what has hurt them or that will stop them getting them re elected Power corrupts so many are happy to die whilst still in power

Bingo. Or that Minnesota congresswoman’s death, as if she wasn’t worth it. Or hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians who Trump effectively sentences to death by lying and doing Putin’s bidding. You get it bro

You are very right the GOP doesn’t give a toss about anyone that doesn’t serve a purpose, Charlie Kirk death is a political tool in their hands, that is all!

I'm not sure they're mourning Charlie Kirk either. I think they're using him to silence and intimidate people. Much like the deployment of the national guard was to suppress crime. But It wasn't. It's all part of a larger plan to achieve an authoritarian dictatorship.

This has been my issue all along. Gun violence and murder is always an evil act. Where is the outrage on the right for all of the children, the churchgoers, the shoppers, movie watchers, nightclub partiers, college students, dem house members…and the list goes on. The hypocrisy is staggering.

If the shooter had opened fire on the crowd and “merely” taken out 6 or 8 college students instead of CK, this very likely would have been like any other school shooting - and less than a blip in conservative news cycles.

I grieve for the surviving families of the shooting victims who died needlessly due to the policies Kirk aggressively pushed, including his children. No one deserves the fate he was pushing others to experience, not even his own family and children.

Charlie Kirk did not deserve to be shot and killed violently by the gun he worshipped. His murder was a travesty. But I do not mourn for him. Why would I mourn for a person who wanted to see me subservient to a man, who spread the notion that I should be stoned to death, or who denigrated women?

Those kids, like Dem politicians and black Americans, sure seem to be considered acceptable losses by your party.

Apparently we are not allowed to compare the CK murder to other murders that happen every damn day!

I don’t think Charlie should’ve been killed but I’m not at all upset that it happened. Unlike all those kids, he helped create the environment that got him killed.

And he was all for those school shootings.

A little different I’d say

Well, because they cared about Charlie.

I dont mourn Charlie Kirk at all. He was a bigot, a chauvanist, a propagandist, and an apologist for school shootings, fittingly shit dead at a school. Being murdered didn't make him a good person. Charlie Kirk was Hitler Youth Instagram Edition.

Took you long enough

I’m not mourning it in any way shape or form. Sometimes bad things happen to horrible people.

Charlie Kirk was evil. Was the person who killed him also evil? IDK

You nailed it & beats repeating

Why mourn a racist?

Three police officers were just killed in Pennsylvania too, and nothing from Trump and Vance, they prefer honoring bigots and rioters.

So true

I had a woman write to me: "The death of those kids is part of the MOVEMENT of Charlie Kirk." I was reading comments below hers when they all disappeared. She had dirty deleted her comment and those who replied to her comment. And they ALL had said it was okay. Sick, sick, sick.

We also have a POTUS who orders the U.S. military to intentionally target and assassinate Venezuelan civilian non-combatants in violation of the Law of War.

We are past time for a general strike. Maybe run it at the same time Congress shuts down.

I believe it was Mr. Rock who also reminded us of a message we can all use at a time like this: "Bawitdaba da bang da bang diggy diggy diggy said up drop the boogie." Up drop the boogie, indeed, Mr. Rock. Up drop the boogie, indeed.

This. I'm sick of everyone who isn't a foaming at the mouth MAGA suddenly "mourning" this piece of shit that just expired.

I nothing it too. I find it ironic but that’s about it.

Same. ❤️‍🩹

I agree. Robert Redford was a great man -intelligent, caring, compassionate. He is the one who should be honored at the US Capitol and with a Presidential Medal.

Sorry...I don't mourn his death. I feel bad for his families loss...but? Nothing. I save my sumpathy for the innocent children and adults who didn't spew hateful nonsense. Remember Sandy Hook and Uvalde.

I'm not mourning him. I'm not celebrating him. I'm simply forgetting him. Nothing that man said was good. He certainly got his wish when he said "people need to die to protect the 2A". Because we as Americans believe our guns have more rights than our children.

Well said.

Hi there from Germany, we are so lucky to - not ! - have a Second Amendment and most of us are not obsessed with owning assault rifles, so our government is usually able to protect our kids at school. We're watching our former dear ally in deep sorrow...

It is a stunning illustration of the GOP's priorities and values and lack thereof.

our children are wearing special backpacks & practicing special drills - was he as experienced?

If by “mourn” you mean “wish it hadn’t happened because violence of that kind is not OK,” then I agree 100%.

Yet the very people calling for the asses & livelihoods of people failing to sit shiva for Kirk erected a gallows for Mike Pence & Nancy Pelosi among others on the Capitol lawn just a few years ago, mocking Paul Pelosi's grave injury & the Hortman's plus dog murders. Fuck 'em, every one.

I don’t mourn the death of Charlie Kirk. I mourn the society which has brought us to this precipice.

That’s exactly it.

They are trying hard to turn him into a martyr to sow even more division in hopes of violent outbreaks to justify declaring martial law.

Magas do offer a thought, or a prayer.... 🤢

yup. there was a horrible school shooting in Evergreen CO the same day as Charlie Kirk's killing! Apparently, a young white male influenced by right wing ideology.

That’s very true. Why do you think that is?

And the fact that politicians don't seem to care about the school shootings and the deaths of these children; seeing it as collateral damage for money, power and the osession eith gun culture, is more evil.

I don't mourn Charlie Kirk. I mourn the shooting of Charlie Kirk and the assault on freedom, thats happening because of it. Sorry, but if Charlie Kirk had died in his sleep because of some health issue, I wouldn't mourn him. So why would I mourn his person now?

Why? NRA. I’m a gun supporter, have my own. But I don’t donate to gop,as I’m a dem. Trump doesn’t care

Bingo

Not entirely true. To be crystal clear, I do NOT mourn the death of Charlie Kirk. He was an evil, bigoted, racist, misogynistic white supremacist cunt

Martyr my ass. He was a racist thug.

Maybe a 1/3 if that much of the country mourns him but not me. Yes, he is a murder victim who died a senseless death as will many more each day until Congress represents the will of the people and enacts sensible gun control, and work for their constituents not a feeble king with oligarch masters.

People kill people they choose the way the do it Hitler took away guns and 35 million died look it up. Should we cancel cares because 55k a year die because of cars? And guns are at 30k look it up

With the logic shared by MAGA, would this mean that every MAGA Republican is responsible for all school shootings ? Ridiculous right ?

That comparison is not lost on many.

The GOP is okay with dead school children, as was Kirk. You don’t know this!?

They are cult members…they have no feelings for anyone not in the cult.

And frankly, they didn’t when you were part of them either. This is nothing new.

Not to be too cynical, but its easier to turbocharge their base with his shooting.

These were my thoughts as well listening to the GOP express their collective shock, horror, outrage, and desire for retribution after Kirk's assassination — where is that same level of shock, horror, outrage, and desire for retribution when children are assassinated in their classrooms???

I've been struck with that too: Charlie Kirk: Anhänger rächen sich mit Doxxing-Aktionen an Kritikern - DER SPIEGEL share.google/gW4ETlJptall...

He was too close to being one of them. Too close for comfort, now they’re freaking out. Must be rough, living in fear

Listen Charlie Kirk dying was a tragedy. Have you seen the new White House ballroom though?

I'm sorry, but I see too much death every day to mourn every time someone dies. I intellectually acknowledge the tragedy and I can empathize. Maybe if I was a little less stressed about where my country is headed I would have more emotional bandwidth.

This makes me sad. Elephants are so much better than republicans.

Never have and never will. I mean the #NRA lobby has lost a lot of its power, but now all the red meat that they have thrown to their rabid dogs has come home to roost. Maga better tow the line because their most rabid are armed, without safeguards, thanks to #MAGA

Respectfully, what took you?

... That which struck you is the Christian Nationalist blast of hypocrisy wrapped in an American flag ...

I absolutely DO NOT mourn Charlie Kirk's death, not even the slightest bit. He was a piece of shit, a horrible excuse for a human being. I save my mourning for good people who deserve it.

Yes, he was.

Really?

Tragic * not traffic

They're not the In Group. They deserve neither protection nor empathy. This is the conservative view, as stated.

I think you're being very broad with the word "all."

I don’t mourn that creature

Those lives don’t matter as much as MAGA lives. And to be fair: they don’t really care about Kirk, it’s political capital. You know how the GOP is about controlling the narrative. Nothing has value to them except power