Fair warning: if you’re MAGA, you WON’T like this and you won’t agree with a word of it…
Charlie Kirk is dead. He was 31. I wasn’t a fan of Kirk. He pretty much stood for everything I oppose. Kirk was co-founder of a group called ‘Turning Point USA’ that used to hit high school and college campus’s in an attempt to radicalize young people to the MAGA way. He had this shtick he did, where he would take a booth to a campus and challenge students to debates. The booth was emblazoned with the words, ‘Prove Me Wrong,’ which, of course, is impossible if a person is stubborn enough, and Kirk absolutely was.

Here are a couple of paragraphs from the Guardian’s piece about Kirk, ‘Kirk was unashamedly far to the right of the US political spectrum and had expressed openly bigoted views and engaged in homophobic and Islamophobic rhetoric. He recently tweeted: “Islam is the sword the left is using to slit the throat of America.”

He mixed evangelical Christian beliefs with right-wing politics into a combustible brew. During an appearance with Trump in Georgia last fall, he claimed that Democrats “stand for everything God hates”, adding: “This is a Christian state. I’d like to see it stay that way.”’ I should add, MAGA loved this guy.

Kirk was gunned down during one of his campus challenges. Ironically, he was speaking on the topic of mass shootings (he was pro) when the shot rang out. Voices from across the political spectrum hit the airwaves in an attempt to tamp down the rhetoric and, hopefully, slow ongoing political violence. Well, except Donny, of course. Donny just stirred the pot – exactly what one would expect from the anti-Christ. He immediately blamed the “radical left [who] have compared wonderful Americans like Charlie to Nazis.” As of this writing, no shooter has been identified, so no motivation has been identified.

Does it make sense that a radical right-wing voice may have been stilled by a radical left-wing shooter? Yes, it does, I’m not saying otherwise. But Kirk may have had other enemies, who knows? Maybe the shooter just wanted his (or her – let’s just pretend it might be a her) name permanently tied to a high profile victim, the way that asshole who shot Lennon did. We’ll find out more when cops find the shooter.

Am I happy violence has, once again, visited this once-great nation? No. I’m a supporter of common sense gun regulation. I oppose political violence and I don’t see it as a “solution,” ever. But ours is a blood-thirsty nation. One can hardly claim violence is unexpected. I do not like it, but I’m never surprised by it, either, and it must be acknowledged, Kirk was a leading voice for maintaining gun violence in this country. (He used the euphemism “Second Amendment Freedumb.”)

Am I okay with the fact that a man who spent so much time sowing the seeds of discord and supporting gun violence died by gun violence? Yes, I am. Am I wrong to feel that way? Maybe. What goes around, comes around. Kirk was okay with people being killed by guns, though I understand the possibility he, likely, didn’t include himself in that crowd. He thought of them as the unfortunate collateral damage that comes with Second Amendment rights.

Do you think I’m being hyperbolic? Here’s a quote from Kirk: “I think it’s worth it. I think 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.” According to his own words, Kirk, himself, thinks his death was “worth it” so why should I feel badly about it? His dream came true. Way to put your money where your mouth is, Charlie.

About here is where MAGA starts whining, “But he left behind a family!” Yeah. Pretty much every person gunned down in the US left behind a family. Suddenly we’re supposed to be outraged that a common, daily event in the US has come home to one of your heroes? I don’t think it works that way. We should have taken action to protect the population LONG before your boy was murdered. Maybe your boy wouldn’t have been murdered if we had.

We’re ALL suffering from the intentional MAGA misinterpretation of the Second Amendment. As far as I’m concerned, since someone, somewhere is going to die as a direct result of conservative refusal to regulate guns, the person who dies should be, by rights, the person who insisted everyone should be armed – and Kirk was exactly that guy.

Sure, he’s dead and he left behind a wife and kids, but someone’s right to bear arms remains sacrosanct and nothing can be more important to someone like him. Am I really supposed to feel badly that a person who passionately defended shooters killing innocents was killed by a shooter? I guess it seems harsh, but I don’t. What he wished for others, he got for himself.

I wonder if his widow will have a funeral, mourning the loss of her husband, or a celebration recognizing that the Second Amendment has not been infringed…

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So… maybe the First Felon doesn’t understand what the word ‘hoax’ means. He keeps calling the pursuit of the Epstein Files he once promised to release a ‘hoax.’ “It keeps coming up,” he says. He seems to be complaining that people keep bringing the thing up, not so much that the details are false.

A hoax, by definition, is an act intended to deceive or trick. It’s a deception for mockery or mischief. It’s not ongoing talk on a given topic. This is simple (unless you’re MAGA). If you’re saying that someone went back in time and planted all of the evidence that includes trump, just so they could use it against him later, AFTER he became “President,” you’re wrong. The Dems don’t have that kind of power.

If the information in the files is true and correct to the point where one dare not release it for public consumption lest one risk the ire of one’s supporters, despite the fact that people keep talking about it, that’s not a ‘hoax.’ That’s a ‘cover-up…’

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So, if you’re the CEO of a large company that sends goods all over the world, and some unnamed orange moron starts slapping tariffs on everybody, meaning you can’t get raw materials in the US at decent prices anymore, wouldn’t you, at some point, simply surrender the US market and move your operations out of the country?

I mean, if you can’t get the raw materials you need at a decent price and you can’t move out of the country then ship your product back in without running into the tariffs, it just makes sense. Leave the US and don’t even try to ship your product in. In short, eff ’em.

Your production costs stabilize. You can still ship goods to every country but one. You can make up the loss of the US market by getting into China and/or India. Donny says he’s trying to force companies to come to the US but after arresting the workforce of a South Korean company, I’m guessing companies are re-thinking that idea. I’m thinking that, long term, companies will be folding up shop in the US and moving elsewhere…