Sorry, Charlie

Famous last words

I don’t wish death on anyone. I’ve scolded more than one friend for posting in my comments on Facebook death wishes for Donald Trump. I don’t do that, and I don’t think liberals or Democrats should do it either. Let the other side be vile. Half of the reason I don’t want political opponents dead is that I don’t wish bad things to anyone. ANYONE. The other reason is that MAGAts would martyr the fuck out of it if something happened.

When someone, a Republican, shot at Trump at one of his hate rallies, it pissed me off. When a man with a gun was found waiting to shoot Trump at one of his shitty golf resorts, it pissed me off again. I was shouting at my TV, “You’re hurting us more than helping, fuckers!” Violence leads to more violence. This was followed by the murder of Democratic state legislators in Minnesota.

I don’t wish bad shit to happen to bad people, but when it does, I don’t go all thoughts-and-prayers about it. Even if I did care about those people, I know that thoughts and prayers don’t work. Even when their own are murdered by guns, the thoughts-and-prayers crowd never tries to find solutions other than suggesting stupid ideas like giving teachers guns.

And I don’t cry for these people. I didn’t dance and sing when Rush Limbaugh died from cancer, even though he didn’t want poor people to receive assistance when they had cancer. But I didn’t cry for Rush Limbaugh. I will speak the truth about someone after they die. Rush Limbaugh was a vile, hateful piece of shit. If there is a Hell, he’s burning in it.

As for Charlie Kirk, the best thing you can say about him is that he figured out how to monetize his hate at a very young age. Sure, Rush Limbaugh, Candace Owens, and other goons like that figured it out, but not at Kirk’s young age. A lot of White male college students felt that Kirk was talking to them. Like with Trump, they all hated the same people.

To me, Kirk hadn’t lived enough life to lecture anyone about life and politics. He died today at 31. I think today’s young people are very smart, but young bigots are not. Charlie Kirk was a piece of shit. I don’t cry for assholes.

Kirk was a liar, a conspiracy theorist, anti-semitic, and racist. He once said, “'If I see a Black pilot, I'm going to be like, 'Boy, I hope he's qualified.’” He was a proponent of the Great Replacement Theory and argued that Democrats and Jews are bringing illegal immigrants into this nation to replace White people.

Kirk described Martin Luther King Jr as “awful … not a good person” and as someone who is admired only because he “said one thing he didn't actually believe.” He said the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act was a “huge mistake.”

He said, “Jewish communities have been pushing the exact kind of hatred against whites that they claim to want people to stop using against them.”

He was anti-science, lied and gaslighted about COVID and vaccines, he was transphobic, Islamophobic, homophobic, and he never met a hate phobia he didn’t attach himself to. He spread Putin’s lies about the invasion of Ukraine and claimed Ukraine started the war.

He encouraged parents to go to school board meetings and start trouble over the lie that schools were teaching Critical Race Theory.

He was also a phony. He argued for the separation of Church and state, and didn’t express any thoughts on LGBTQ issues…until he realized his base was all about that hate, too, so he flip-flopped, became homophobic, argued against gay marriage, and became a Christian Nationalist.

He argued that the White Nationalist terrorist attack on the Capitol to overturn the election that Donald Trump lost was not an insurrection. He spread the lie that Trump won in 2020. He bused people to Washington, DC, to take part in the attack and pleaded the 5th later when questioned in Congressional committees about it. He was not a person who could take responsibility for his actions.

Kirk was also a gun advocate, and at a rally in Utah of all places, on April 5, 2023, he said, “You will never live in a society when you have an armed citizenry and you won't have a single gun death. That is nonsense. It's drivel. But I... think it's worth 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. That is a prudent deal. It is rational.”

Famous last words, you piece of shit.

To his kids: I’m sorry, but one thing you’re going to hear about your father for the rest of your lives is what a piece of shit he was. That’s not my fault. It’s your dad’s.

Sorry, Charlie.

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Creative note: I didn’t expect to draw another cartoon and write another blog today. But I was writing ideas before the news came in that Kirk had died from the shooting. Someone sent me a video clip, unsolicited, of the shooting. I didn’t think he would live after seeing that. If you have not seen the video, don’t look for it. You don’t need to see it.

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