There's a line around the block of like-minded bigots who are falling over themselves to take his job.
One big reason why I suspect the killer was a Nick Fuentes influenced Groyper. The fact that Nick was front row center and immediately posted the kill-shot as it happens only fuels my suspicions.
Most people who aren’t actively engaged in this type of discourse like you and I, or don’t pay meticulous attention to conservative media outlets, likely don’t know who Kirk is, let alone care.
Kirk's had his face plastered all over the news, his voice jammed into podcasts and radio shows, and his physical form injected into college campuses for over fifteen years running. You don't need to be an academic to know who he is, any more than you needed to be a wrestling fan to know Dwayne Johnson or a pop music obsessive to recognize Taylor Swift.
I have no doubt your average conservative that watches Fox News has been exposed to Kirk
That's tens of millions of people. And then you've got the average liberal who watches MSNBC or tunes in to Colbert's Late Night. They can spot him, too. And then - again - anyone on a major college campus over the last fifteen years knows this guy purely because of his reputation as National Debate-Me Bro. The man did the college circuit hundreds of times. He's been a popular meme for at least a decade. He died running his mouth at a C-list university in Utah, ffs. That's how prolific the man was.
I would gamble that more people could recognize Charlie Kirk on sight than any of the last three Vice Presidents.
If your understanding of why there are any statues of MLK boils down to “he was a famous guy who said stuff and then got shot,” your history teachers have failed you.
If we want to get down to the nut of it, he was an icon of a large and very successful social movement who was cut down in his prime by his political opponents.
But that does technically also qualify for Kirk. Also, for any number of Confederate General statues we'd thrown up across the nation in the wake of Jim Crow. Statues don't go to the "Good Guys", they go to the people whose movements have the wealth and the influence to build them.
If your history teacher hasn't conveyed that message, you might need to ask her why we've got Andrew Jackson's face on our money and a pedophile carved into Mt Rushmore. Monuments and statues aren't handed out objectively. They are propaganda works erected by the wealthy and powerful to venerate historical icons. Very real possibility we end up tearing down the MLK memorial under our current President in order to clear a space for these goons, sycophants, and freaks.
What "the base" wants is blood in the water. We missed that opportunity as soon as Biden handed the keys to the DOJ over, back in January.
If Trump really does show up with "The List" (which isn't really a list, but a compilation of various other documents that people keep pretending is a big binder called "Names of People Who Fucked Kids" that we're going to get a copy of) and his name is emblazoned across it a thousand times... what happens next? Does Thomas Massie not vote on the next "Gut The EPA Act of 2025"? Will Trump's next court nominee fail confirmation? Do we recall our Navy from the coast of Venezuela? Is the genocide in Gaza going to end? Is it finally Mueller Time?
I've seen "Release the Epstein List!" in a thousand fundraising emails. I've heard it in speeches. I've got spam texts about it from Roganites and Third Way and Communist Party USA.
Nobody seems to be doing anything else but this. Nothing appears to be improving.
Just keep pushing and don’t stop.
Pushing what? Don't stop what?
Are you writing your Congresscritters about this on the reg? Are you in contact with your state's District Attorney? Did you show up at the Epstein Victims Rally, after shoving your way through all the National Guard and ICE goons patrolling DC?
Every helicopter pilot can explain why helicopters are dangerous. But they're all still getting up in the morning to collect a paycheck.