Didn’t post yesterday because I was in surgery. All went well. To my readers who wish me well, thank you!!! To the one or two trolls who want me to die, sorry, luvs. I’ll be around for years.
How do you like these MAGA Christian dweebs portraying Charlie Kirk as some kind of Martin Luther King Jr. martyr, if not as Jesus himself? For the historical record, let’s get one thing straight: Mr. Kirk was a nasty, vicious man. Of course, he didn’t deserve to get shot to death. No one does. But I’m glad he’s no longer around to spout his violence.
Is there anyone Kirk didn’t hate? Gays, trans people, most women, liberals, Jews, Muslims, dark-skinned people, immigrants. He vituperated entire swathes of the American public in order to satisfy his Christian fantasy lust. I won’t go into detail of the things he said and wrote: they’re so vulgar and disgusting that they merit no further publicity. The only people Mr. Kirk seems to have liked were White male MAGA evangelicals like himself. He certainly wanted that group to rule America.
And now The Widow Kirk is running around screaming that she’ll spend the rest of her life avenging his death. I don’t quite know what that means, but I do know that vengeance is a big thing for the MAGA crowd. Their fuehrer, Trump, vows it all the time: he’ll get even with his enemies, they’ll be sorry they ever FAFO’d with him, there’s no room in America for them! Or “us,” I should say, since I am very much on MAGA’s—and Kirk’s—hit list.
Well, MAGA, take your little list and put it where the sun don’t shine.
Mr. Kirk was despicable, despite his fans’ portrayal of him as Christ on the cross. He was a young, good-looking, run-of-the-mill bigot. If he’d been some ugly slob, like J.D. Vance, he wouldn’t have had the popularity he did. And yes, he oozed charm. So did Hitler, who could be the most effusive of guests. Even Churchill was dying to meet him, although Hitler wouldn’t let it happen. Ted Bundy also was handsome and charming. Those qualities are not in themselves enough to make a human good. If anything, they can mask satanic wickedness. But Kirk did not aspire to be a good man. He wanted to be a powerful, destructive one. The sword, not the cross, was his weapon of choice.
If you’re not familiar with Horst Wessel, to whom I referred in the headline, Google him. He was the Charlie Kirk of his day: the late 1920s in Germany. An idiot storm trooper who pledged his allegiance to the most evil man then alive. I predict that some rightwing country singer like Jason Aldean or Lee Greenwood is going to drop The Ballad of Charlie Kirk and it will become the marching anthem of the Right. Next to come: the MAGA uniform and MAGA youth movement, led by Donald Jr. or—this would be funny—Barron.
Just as Hitler used Horst Wessel to consolidate his power, look at how Trump, Stephen Miller, Vance and the other crazies are using Kirk to declare war on Democrats. Yes, declare war. There’s no other way to put it. Trump has always wanted it to come to bullets. He once bragged that he had the cops, the military and the gun owners on his side—this pusillanimous man with flat feet whose crooked doctor got him out of military service. (At least, Hitler served his country honorably.) He thinks a MAGA-inspired civil war will give him (and his creepy sons—yes, MAGA, admit it, they are creepy!) permanent power. Maybe it will, but thousands of Americans will die in the violence Trump is instigating, including lots of Republicans. It will be but the latest example of: Be careful what you wish for. You just may get it.
Steve Heimoff