Well, well—what a week.
I know—I say that pretty much every Friday, but that’s our
timeline. Charlie Kirk, a stochastic terrorist who spent more than half his life fomenting fear,
hatred and violence, was fatally shot Wednesday at one of his hate rallies,
this time on a Utah college campus. (Fun fact: evidently the Utah legislature
passed a law making it perfectly legal to carry firearms on school campuses. “What
could go wrong?” they reasoned.) At time of writing, the one (White) man
initially apprehended as a suspect has been released, and authorities are still
searching for the shooter.
Which means we do not yet know why he was shot. We do not know whether the motive was political.
Meanwhile, every lizard with an R after their name (apologies to lizards) is
screeching about violent Democrats and demanding a civil war to set things
right. We have absolutely no information on why shot Kirk, much less why, but the
blood lust is strong and the Right is not missing an opportunity to score
unhinged points. The Kleptocrat has ordered all US flags be flown at half staff
and the (Republican-controlled) House of Representatives held a minute of
silence to honor the dead. And, of course, Kirk is getting the Presidential
Medal of Freedom. Just like Rudy Giuliani.
I’m expecting the day of his funeral to be declared a
national holiday. Maybe he’ll be buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
(Another fun fact: the crowd hadn’t even fully scattered in
Orem, Utah, when there was another school shooting, this time in a Denver
suburb. Republicans have no thoughts or prayers to spare for those victims,
because they’re all going to Kirk.)
Let me state the uncomfortable obvious: this act came a day
after the notorious “Epstein 50th Birthday Book” was released by the
House Oversight Committee. This contained a contribution from the Kleptocrat of
a hand-drawn outline of a pubescent woman’s torso (that had more than a whiff
of necrophilia about it), a rather disgusting “dialogue” between Epstein and
Klepto and his very distinctive signature in the pubic region. I don’t even
know what the latest WH response to it is, because we’ve cycled through so many
that my brain is blurred.
But a right-wing sudden martyr could have seemed like a
good prospect for distraction. As well as impetus for more executive orders and
domestic invasions; not to mention new laws to “curb leftist violence”.
They’re already proposing that transgender people not be
allowed access to guns, in contravention of the sacred Second Amendment. How
long until they extend that ban to anyone registered as a Democrat? Or to
anyone saying anything derogatory about the Kleptocrat? Or the Sofa Shagger? Or
Homeland Barbie? Or Justice Opus Dei? Or Li’l Moses?
<sigh> STOP PRESS: The Kleptocrat has indeed announced a crackdown on anyone who says mean things about him. I am not making this up.
Unlike most on the Right’s spectrum, decent folks who’ve
been condemning gun violence all along have spoken up to condemn the shooting
of Kirk. (Another uncomfortably obvious note: there were no flags at half-staff
or moments of silence for Melissa Hortman, a Minnesota Democratic lawmaker, and
her husband, who were murdered in June by a RWNJ, who openly proclaimed his
intention to wipe out Democrats.)
We are meant to be a nation of laws, founded on the
principle that not even kings can escape the law. Anything that smacks of
extra-judicial activity is abhorrent—whether it be gang killings, masked
federal agents swarming our city streets to abduct people without legal
warrants or political assassination.
And I’m trying my best to view this particular murder as I do
other murder victims. Kirk was a human being; he had a wife and children. Those
children will grow up without him as their father and I hope they don’t turn
into the same hateful, entitled, grievance-filled person he was. The fact of
the matter is that Kirk’s long career as a professional racist, misogynistic
nationalist was made possible because he felt absolutely free to spew his sewage
because as a White male American he fully believed he was untouchable. He wasn't bold, he was entitled. And smug.
Matthew 26:52
Anyway—I can’t give you the “Horst Wessel Lied” only a month after the last time. Let’s have The Boss and “Born in the USA”. Because here we are.
©2025 Bas Bleu
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