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   On 9/10/2025 11:28 PM, Clare Snyder wrote:   
   > On Thu, 11 Sep 2025 01:18:52 -0000 (UTC), Barry Watts  wrote:   
   >   
   >> 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.   
   >>From Wikipedia:   
   >> 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]   
   >> [43]   
   >> 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.[44]   
   >> Kirk spread falsehoods about voter fraud[45][46] 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.[47][48]   
   >> 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.[8]   
   >> 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."[38][50]   
   >> 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".[51]   
   >> 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.[54]   
   >> 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.[61]   
   >> 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.   
   >> [65]   
   >> 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.[6][66][67]   
   >>   - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Kirk   
   >   Political violence of any kind, by either side, cannot be condoned -   
   > but if it was going to happen to anyone I guess there could have been   
   > worse targets.   
      
   Violence is a hallmark of the left.  Even their leaders and the mainline   
   media incite it by calling Trump a fascist, dictator, racist, white   
   supremacist and the like.   
      
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBNl6GpkIdU   
      
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