It’s so extreme, maybe he’ll inspire a new term: Kirkwashing.
And there is Teen Vogue, doing the journalism “serious” outlets should be doing.
Yep there’s literally more important things to worry about. One more shooting is just one more shooting ultimately. There’s no real reason it should matter any more than the last shooting or the next shooting. And we all know nothing is going to be done to reduce the number of shootings.
Charlie would have wanted it that way anyway.
Also, a the usual right-wing shitbirds, including Elon Musk, immediately claimed that the guy who murdered Melissa Hortman (and her husband and her dog, and had also shot state senator John Hoffman and his wife earlier that day) was a leftist and “one of Walz’s goons” and called for Walz’s arrest.
When it was proven beyond a doubt that it was a Trump supporter with an anti-abortion obsession who committed the murders, they claimed the guy was framed, it was a false flag operation by the deep state, and tried to pin it on one of the No Kings protestors.
Trump said he was going to call Walz to discuss the shooting, and then changed his mind saying that Walz was “whacked out.”
…oh, but the Democrats were HORRIBLE yesterday for “politicizing the murder” (while at the same time, Republicans were blaming Democrats for the shooting and demanding that the Democratic Party be shut down under RICO, somehow).
Looks like a pretty generic skinny white guy. We shall see…
nytimes:
A preliminary and unverified report circulated inside the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives found that ammunition recovered with the rifle used to kill Charlie Kirk appeared engraved with statements “expressing transgender and anti-fascist ideology.”
A senior law enforcement official with direct knowledge of the investigation cautioned that the report had not been verified by A.T.F. analysts, did not match other summaries of the evidence and might turn out to have been misread or misinterpreted.
An older-model Mauser .30-06 caliber high-powered bolt action rifle was recovered in a wooded area just off the college campus in Utah where Mr. Kirk was shot, according to five federal law enforcement officials based on the preliminary internal assessment.
Several cartridges, including what appeared to be a spent round in the rifle’s chamber, were recovered. The weapon and ammunition are being traced by A.T.F. analysts in West Virginia, but the evidence has not yet led to a person of interest, the law enforcement officials said.
There will be some edgelords who will celebrate just to generate outrage, but I suspect most of them are like us, and waiting with increasing anxiety for the other shoe to drop. And it will. Most of the fascists are keyboard warriors at best, but there will be a small fraction who will hear the call to arms and try to do something. Stochastic terrorism is likely to become the mode of the day.
Who let Clay “Shit for Brains” Higgins out of the thread of assholes?
First amendment, schmurst amendment. And if it is the government (Congressional authority) going after people for their speech, it is exactly a 1A case. What an asshole…
So like it was before trump got banned for inciting violence and y’all decided it was a good thing to murder us citizens and threaten politicians with assassination. Ok. Ban it. And the Nazis too. People need to sue every time some one talks about civil war. Flood the courts with suits until they apply this law to themselves as well.