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   From: starmaker@ix.netcom.com   
      
   Diaper Joey wrote:   
      
   >Charlie Kirk being shot was the highlight of 2025.   
      
      
   Agreed.   We should all be happy that the dirtbag shit never got near our   
   children.   
      
      
    Charlie Kirk was a despicable, privileged, agent of hate, intolerance,   
   bigotry and racism, who advocated for the sacrifice of innocent children on   
   the alter of an infantile gun rights interpretation.   
      
   Promotion of falsehoods and conspiracy theories   
   According to Forbes, Kirk was known for "his repudiation of liberal college   
   education and embrace of pro-Trump conspiracy theories."[38] Kirk promoted   
   the antisemitic Cultural Marxism conspiracy theory, and described   
   universities as "islands of totalitarianism."   
   In a 2015 speech at the Liberty Forum of Silicon Valley, Kirk stated that   
   he had applied to the United States Military Academy in West Point, New   
   York, and was not accepted.[13] He said that "the slot he considered his   
   went to 'a far less-qualified candidate of a different gender and a   
   different persuasion'" whose test scores he claimed he knew.  He told The   
   New Yorker in 2017 that he was being sarcastic when he said it.  He told   
   the Chicago Tribune in 2018 that "he was just repeating something he'd been   
   told",[5][41] while at a New Hampshire Turning Point event featuring Rand   
   Paul in October 2019 he claimed that he never said it.   
   In July 2018, Kirk falsely claimed on social media that Justice Department   
   statistics showed an increase in human trafficking arrests from 1,952 in   
   the year 2016 to 6,087 in the first half of 2018. He deleted the tweet   
   without an explanation the next day, after a fact-checker had pointed out   
   that the false 2018 number had originated on a conspiracy site 8chan.[42]   
   In December 2018, Kirk falsely claimed that protesters in the French yellow   
   vests movement chanted, "We want Trump." These false claims were later   
   repeated by President Trump himself.   
   Kirk spread falsehoods about voter fraud  and the COVID-19 pandemic.[38] In   
   defending the Trump administration's response to the COVID-19 pandemic,   
   Kirk falsely stated that, during the H1N1 swine flu pandemic, it "took   
   President Barack Obama 'millions infected and over 1,000 deaths'" to   
   declare a public health emergency.   
      
      
   COVID-19 misinformation   
   Kirk spread false information and conspiracy theories about COVID-19 on   
   social media platforms, such as Twitter, in 2020. Kirk sharply criticized   
   Democrats' criticism of Donald Trump's withdrawal of World Health   
   Organization (WHO) funding and referred to COVID-19 as the "China virus",   
   which was retweeted by Trump.   
      
      
   Kirk alleged that the WHO covered up information about the COVID-19   
   pandemic. He was briefly banned from Twitter after falsely claiming that   
   hydroxychloroquine had proved to be "100% effective in treating the virus";   
   [8] he alleged that Gretchen Whitmer, the Democratic governor of Michigan,   
   threatened doctors who tried to use the medication.[8] These falsehoods   
   were retweeted by Rudy Giuliani whose account was then suspended by Twitter   
   as well.[8][49] Kirk also described the public health measure of social   
   distancing prohibitions in churches as a "Democratic plot against   
   Christianity" and made the unfounded assertion that authorities in Wuhan,   
   China, were burning patients.[8] In 2020, Kirk said that he refused to   
   abide by mask requirements, stating that "the science around masks is very   
   questionable."   
      
      
   In July 2021, Kirk promoted misleading claims about the efficacy and safety   
   of COVID-19 vaccines.[18] On Fox News' Tucker Carlson show, Kirk called   
   mandatory requirements for students to take the COVID-19 vaccine "medical   
   apartheid".   
      
   Election fraud claims and the 2021 United States Capitol attack   
   Immediately after Donald Trump lost the 2020 presidential election, Kirk   
   promoted false and disproven claims of fraud in the election.[52][53] On   
   November 5, 2020, Kirk was the leader of a Stop the Steal protest at the   
   Maricopa Tabulation Center in Phoenix.   
      
   Charlie Kirk was considered a "big name" social influencer in Rudy   
   Giuliani's communications plan to overturn the 2020 election.[55]   
   On January 5, 2021, the day before the Washington, D.C., protest that led   
   to the January 6 United States Capitol attack, Kirk wrote on Twitter that   
   Turning Point Action and Students for Trump were sending more than 80   
   "buses of patriots to D.C. to fight for this president".[56][57][58] A   
   spokesman for Turning Point said that the groups ended up sending seven   
   buses, not 80, with 350 students.[56][59] In the lead-up to the storming,   
   Kirk said he was "getting 500 emails a minute calling for a civil war."[60]   
   Publix heiress Julie Fancelli gave Charlie Kirk's organizations $1.25   
   million to fund the buses to the January 6 event. Kirk also paid $60,000   
   for Kimberly Guilfoyle to speak at the Trump rally.   
      
   Afterward, Kirk said the violent acts at the Capitol were not an   
   insurrection and did not represent mainstream Trump supporters.[62][63]   
   Appearing before the United States House Select Committee on the January 6   
   Attack, Charlie Kirk pleaded the Fifth Amendment privilege against self-   
   incrimination. His team however "provided the committee with 8,000 pages of   
   records in response to its requests."[64] In another closed-door meeting of   
   the House January 6 Committee, Ali Alexander blamed Kirk and Turning Point   
   USA for financing the travel of demonstrators to the Stop the Steal rally.   
      
   Climate change   
   Kirk consistently supported the extraction and use of fossil fuels. He was   
   a climate change denialist, claiming that humans have no significant effect   
   on global climate change.   
      
     - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Kirk   
      
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