It is getting truly nauseating the way MAGA is treating this incident as if some important world leader was assassinated...

On one hand I get it. If you’re older and liberal, it makes sense you might not follow everything happening inside the Republican Party.

But if you post on a political board that talks about Trump and Republicans every day and you don’t know who this guy is?

Trump would not have won without him. He is arguably the leading reason so many young people turned out for Trump.


This is literally a headline in today's WSJ:

Friendship With Charlie Kirk Helped Propel JD Vance to Vice Presidency​


And yet you think he wasn’t big in the party and was just some outlier?

I'll be 100% honest with you, I had literally never heard of him before this happened.

I don't think he'd ever been mentioned here on this board.

At least not that I know of.
 
I followed Kirk enough. I saw him on several programs. I found him snotty and demeaning. That appeals to young people. We old people respect manners. He had no new ideas.
My comment had nothing to do with liking him or not. I responded to your comment: He was not even huge in the party. He was an outlier.

That couldn't be more wrong.
 
For awhile, anyway.

He will be forgotten about before too long as he didn't say anything new or original.
I don't think you are right, we will see which is right.

I think he created a movement, one that actually created space for dialog where previously folks from that side of politics were effectively barred from speaking.
 
I'll be 100% honest with you, I had literally never heard of him before this happened.

I don't think he'd ever been mentioned here on this board.

At least not that I know of.
This board is full of retirees and Boomers. His appeal was all with young people and he went around the country speaking on thousands of campuses. Turning Point USA was aimed at the youth, not Gen X or Boomers.

Think about this because its 100% truth. Trump doesn't win without Kirk turning out the youth vote like he did. That is how influential he was.
 
Bless your heart.
Being incredibly uninformed is a terrible way to go through life. Thanks for your admission. I will pray for you.
At least I have a life outside of this message board.

Something that you apparently cannot truthfully say.
 
This board is full of retirees and Boomers. His appeal was all with young people and he went around the country speaking on thousands of campuses. Turning Point USA was aimed at the youth, not Gen X or Boomers.

Think about this because its 100% truth. Trump doesn't win without Kirk turning out the youth vote like he did. That is how influential he was.
I don't watch cable news or Fox either, so it's not surprising I wouldn't be familiar with him.
 
I don't watch cable news or Fox either, so it's not surprising I wouldn't be familiar with him.
I don’t watch Fox but neither do many young people. He had millions of followers on social media which is where most young people engage.
 
I don’t watch Fox but neither do many young people. He had millions of followers on social media which is where most young people engage.
Either way, I'm glad I had never heard of him.

All i missed was a lot of annoyance, which is something I get more than enough of nowadays.
 
....as opposed to some obnoxious, trump groveling bigot who got rich pedaling hate and xenophobia.

I'd never celebrate a person's death, especially as the result of murder, but this guy was nothing but a self-serving hot air bag.

Just another gun death in trump's 'Murica.

They happen countless times per day because of the right's devotion to guns.

Shut the fuck up about him already.

🖕🏼
He was a hater and his bio shows it.
 
I don't watch cable news or Fox either, so it's not surprising I wouldn't be familiar with him.
Probably best if you refrain from commenting on Charlie Kirk. By your own admission, you are blind to the right side of politics. It would be better still if you educate yourself before opening your piehole.
 
The far right news organizations have used hate and demagoguery to attract traffic on their channel and web sites.
The Dems are not portrayed as the opposing party, but as an evil enemy. Yet the Dems govern as presidents have. Trump breaks all the rules, amassing powers the president is not supposed to have. Congress is supposed to levy tariffs according to the Constitution. Over time, Congress has given away a degree of that power. It did not cede it all to the president. Trump bullied the Repub party and took the power.
Right-wing news has used blatant lies to energize their followers. It works great.
 
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