There is a young generation that will be affected by this in much the same way that my parents' generation was affected by the JFK assassination, but it's not clear what it will mean politically, either next year or in future years.
— Not-So-OK Boomer (@Rand_Simberg) September 10, 2025
Pretty sure all the vile people calling Charlie Kirk "hateful" are the same kind of people who said that about Rush Limbaugh, in both cases never having actually listened to either of them.
— Not-So-OK Boomer (@Rand_Simberg) September 10, 2025
After all of the vile things this POS (who came frighteningly close to being the vice president) has been saying about his hopes for the death of his perceived political enemies, maybe he should just sit this one out. https://t.co/N3QieIVTMj
— Not-So-OK Boomer (@Rand_Simberg) September 10, 2025
This will be a sign to all young leftists that they too can change the world.
Wanting to control speech is a mainstream opinion among leftists these days. Walz made the mistake of saying it during the last election. I am not surprised someone has done this.
I was nine when JFK was assassinated, and remember where I was when I found out, and who told me. My father was a big-time conservative – Patrick J. Buchanan once called him a “right wing extremist” – and never had a good word to say about JFK when he was alive. But he was devastated by the assassination, to the point of being almost inconsolable for days. That left an indelible impression on me.
I wish tomorrow wasn’t 9/11, and I fervently hope that President Trump will be protected as no other human being has ever been.
JFK? really JFC . It going to be closer to George Lincoln Rockwell or Harvey Milk as far as consequence.
Outside of Trump will be trying to lionize Kirk as the next Ernst vom Rath for the next crackdown,
Go fuck yourself!
The local scumbag weighs in as expected.
Not just local. National scumbags too. Washed up actors (George Takei). Pols. Half of the damned Congress after Johnson asked for a moment of silence.
I’d expect a large percentage of teachers from pre-K to post-grad as well.
Consequential movements, both good and ill, tend to survive their founders. The paradigmatic examples are Christianity and Islam. An “honorable mention” goes to Marxism – which is its own “trinity,” being simultaneously a political movement, a religious cult and a personality disorder.
Turning Point is one of many anti-Marxist movements and, by all indications, one of the most effective – talk therapy for the Marxist personality disorder. As such, its longevity is tied directly to that of its opponent.
Marxism has had a good couple of centuries, but now seems very much on the back foot and increasingly senescent. Charlie had more than a little to do with this. The best possible monument to Charlie will be a world in which Turning Point is no more because it has achieved its purpose and Marxism has joined other dead faiths such as the religions of the Nordics, Aztecs, Carthage and classical Greece and Rome as objects of interest only to small cadres of academic antiquarians.
I think this is more like the assassination of MLK than JFK. Kirk was all about setting people free.
I’ve watched dozens, if not hundreds, of hours of Charlie Kirks YT videos and never saw him say anything cruel, violent, racist….despite being accused of all of that.
And when he challenged the accusers, they usually ran off, unable to offer a single example.
He will be missed. My condolences to his family and may his name be written in the book of life.
Firmly convinced the divide between Right and Left is a divide between humanity and inhumanity. Look at history.