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maxrandb

(16,811 posts)
Wed Sep 10, 2025, 05:23 PM Wednesday

The problem is, I shouldn't even know who the fuck Charlie Kirk is

20 years ago, a man so devoid of intellect, reason, empathy, understanding, compassion and grace, would be, justifiably so, a big, fat nobody.

20 years ago, a man that said the shit he said about your mom, wife, sister, daughter, granddaughter, or any of the women in your life you cared about, would get his ass beat every God Damned day!

Now, I will be asked to have sympathy for an ignorant asshole that would never show me the same....NO THAT'S WRONG...it's NOT that he would ever show me the same...IT'S THAT HE WOULD WELCOME WHATEVER HARM CAME TO ME WITH GLEE!!!

So, I am regretful that he has been murdered, but I am fucking sad beyond belief that I even knew who the fuck he was!

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The problem is, I shouldn't even know who the fuck Charlie Kirk is (Original Post) maxrandb Wednesday OP
It's not Charlie Cook Renew Deal Wednesday #1
Fixed it maxrandb Wednesday #8
Kirk? Nt spooky3 Wednesday #2
The man shot and killed today is Charlie Kirk. madaboutharry Wednesday #3
Leave your OP title uncorrected leftstreet Wednesday #4
I thought of doing that, but I fixed it maxrandb Wednesday #10
Charlie Cook is a pundit who covers elections Justice Brandeis Wednesday #5
Correct spelling is: Kharlie KirK RockRaven Wednesday #6
Exactly!!! niyad Wednesday #7
I've seen Kirk's name and knew he's a MAGAt. Silent Type Wednesday #9
I'd heard the name, vague impression he was MAGA, that's all. UTUSN Wednesday #11
It's sad, but a society can and should be judged by who they hold up as "heros" maxrandb Thursday #12
In my old age, my erstwhile heroes have been replaced by our Dem *AGENDA* UTUSN Thursday #15
Agree 100% still-prayin4rain Thursday #13
I never heard of him until yesterday. Emile Thursday #14
Neither did I. But my doc has me on a strict diet, no garbage. Ping Tung Thursday #16

madaboutharry

(42,003 posts)
3. The man shot and killed today is Charlie Kirk.
Wed Sep 10, 2025, 05:26 PM
Wednesday

if you are talking about Charles Cook, he is an election analyst and an entirely different person.

leftstreet

(37,159 posts)
4. Leave your OP title uncorrected
Wed Sep 10, 2025, 05:26 PM
Wednesday

it underscores your point actually

I wasn't even sure who he was up until an hour ago

maxrandb

(16,811 posts)
12. It's sad, but a society can and should be judged by who they hold up as "heros"
Thu Sep 11, 2025, 09:34 AM
Thursday
"We'll be fighting in the street,
with our children at our feet,
and the morals they all worshipped Will be gone"


"And the men who spurred us on,
Sit in judgment of all wrong,
They decide and the shotgun sings the song"

UTUSN

(75,612 posts)
15. In my old age, my erstwhile heroes have been replaced by our Dem *AGENDA*
Thu Sep 11, 2025, 12:23 PM
Thursday

It's well known that the general education system is pablum, an airbrush version of the subject personalities. In my adolescence I "worshipped" JACKSON, WILSON, of course FDR and ER, even into early adulthood LBJ. When all the dirty laundry about the KENNEDYs was dragged out, that was that for them. But then I found out that JACKSON was a genocidal maniac and WILSON was a raging racist. And now in the YouTube era, the tons of legitimately educational videos detailing the very human, horrific personal failings of anybody who can be thought of have demolished the concept of "heroes". When MAGAts accuse in Comments that we "worship" OBAMA, HRC, or whoever our Dem leaders are, I say that our leaders are only in the service of our *agenda* (Civil Rights, Civil Liberties, stewardship of the environment, Social Justice) and are not to be "worshipped" in the cult sense. Apart from dropping the bombs, HST emerges fairly clean, where setting aside Vietnam LBJ personally speaking doesn't.

I'll look for an exegesis of those lines of poetry, thanks.




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