Posted on 09/15/2025 6:24:17 AM PDT by CIB-173RDABN
When Charlie Kirk was murdered on September 10, 2025, reactions across the internet followed a now-familiar pattern. Supporters expressed shock and sadness, while detractors — especially many on the progressive left — took to social media with mockery, celebration, and even open joy. For years, this kind of reaction toward controversial figures has played out online without serious consequence. In some circles, it was even encouraged.
But this time, something changed.
This time, the internet didn’t shrug. The public didn't just move on. People lost jobs. Employers issued statements. Some of those who celebrated Kirk’s death — laughing, posting memes, or expressing wishes for more deaths like his — were publicly identified and fired from their positions. And this, it seems, came as a shock to many of them.
Why?
Why were so many surprised that celebrating a man's murder would provoke backlash? Why did they think this time would be like all the others — with no consequences? The answer, I believe, reveals something deeper about how we’ve come to treat political hatred, social media, and our expectations around "acceptable" speech.
For years, political discourse — particularly online — has grown increasingly vicious. Public figures, especially conservative ones, have been fair game for mockery, distortion, and dehumanization. In that environment, celebrating the death of a figure like Charlie Kirk wasn’t just tolerated; for some, it was practically a ritual.
Many people have grown desensitized. After all, extreme statements are common — and often consequence-free — on social media. Insults, threats, celebrations of misfortune... they fill timelines daily. And for those making such comments, there's often an assumption of safety: if you're attacking someone already unpopular in your own circle, your side will shield you.
So, when Kirk was murdered, many expected the same rules to apply. Say what you want, pile on the hate, and wait for the next story to distract everyone.
But this time, the script flipped.
What happened instead was public backlash. Not just from Kirk’s supporters, but from average people — some of whom may have disagreed with him politically — who recognized that something had gone too far. That laughing at a man’s murder isn’t just in poor taste — it’s inhumane.
Why the shift? A few reasons stand out:
Those who mocked Kirk’s death weren’t just expressing political opinions — they were displaying something darker. And in doing so, they overplayed their hand.
They forgot that speech may be free, but it's not free of consequence.
They forgot that celebrating a killing says more about the speaker than the victim.
They forgot that while ideology may divide us, decency is supposed to bind us.
This moment — as unexpected as it was — may signal a cultural turning point. Perhaps people are tired of the endless outrage, the gleeful cruelty, the “owning” of the other side. Perhaps there’s still a moral line that, when crossed, brings real consequences.
Or maybe it’s just a pause — a moment of discomfort before the internet moves on.
Time will tell. But for now, the reaction to Charlie Kirk’s death — and more importantly, to those who mocked it — stands as a reminder: cruelty isn’t courage, and sometimes the crowd does push back.
What comes next? Civilization collapse. Count on it. There is nothing that can be done to stop it at this time.
IMHO...others were politicians that died of natural causes. Others that died from murder weren’t that well known, or at least their deep beliefs and opinions weren’t, and they weren’t as visible.
Charlie changed a generation. The college campus has changed from being hostile to openly welcoming, with massive crowds. Those that listened to him, which were countless and global, saw a man that was deeply committed to Jesus and was *always* respectful with those he debated, even when mocked and ridiculed.
Those that didn’t listen to him, that only heard their echo-chamber calling him “racist, anti-woman, white supremacist”, thought they could react with their usual vile hatred because this is what they thought most people believed as the media tells them so. The assumption Charlie was marginal, not mainstream.
Maybe it’s a combination:
- Woke died, some on the left still didn’t get the memo
- Many have left the Democrats because of their perversion and hatred toward ANYONE else
- PDJT empowers us to feel like we can have our opinion publicly
- We are finished with the “trans agenda”, we told them to not come after kids, they didn’t listen
- Charlie was far more popular than they realized
- Charlie was far more articulate, educated, armed with the gospel, reasoned, data based, ...
- Charlie was murdered in front of his kids and family
- Charlie was murdered because the left couldn’t debate him
- Dumbing down the debate to labels of “racist”, “white supremacist” has expired - it’s intellectually weak
If you’re going to celebrate his murder, you’re stepping into a world where you’re saying it’s OK to kill somebody because you disagree with them, on top of not even having listened to him.
That’s not a world any sane person wants. It’s vile and evil. It exposes these people for being just that. Why would any employer want that around their other employees? It’s just asking for violence. They miscalculated his importance, as well as his civility that highlights their insanity.
the thing is.. there is a huge difference between celebrating the natural death of someone you oppose and celebrating his murder by one of your allies.
Random musings ...
Big Politics (both sides but more likely the left) had CK killed because it was likely that he would be a strong candidate for POTUS after JD Vance completes his 8 years. The possibility of 19 uninterrupted years of Republican rule is completely unacceptable to BP. The graft must flow.
Another possibility is Big Education. The trend of youth to the right is disrupting the lesson plans of all the tenured communists in the classrooms. Being challenged in class by open-minded free-thinking youth is unacceptable - just who the eff do they think they are talking to?
They didn’t celebrate this much when Rush died and his was a natural death and he tormented them with facts for decades.
No this time, they killed a young man they are trying to demonize, but its mostly not working and he was young, had a young pretty wife with two small children.
Also, Iryna death just recently hit and people are already on edge about that. We have “fatigue” and we have had enough. No more hiding the facts, no more lying about us calling us Nazis, and fascists. No more accepting the narrative.
They don’t know how close they have us from going over to a bad place that they can’t win.
there are some unintended consequences.
Like idiotic Gateway Pundit claiming HOME DEPOT was involved in the Office Depot fiasco so then twitter is bombarded with calls for boycotting Home Depot
Or the idiotic wife of owner Evolution Electrical in Oceanside but people not understanding that this is a franchise and innocent people are suffering economic consequence that have nothing to do with her insanity
This is some sort of movement that I am still stunned about. Office Depot 3 musketeers and their sanctimonious actions are the face of it to me. Victim said Corporate reached out but he never wants to go back in there again. Three Musketeers threatened to call the police on him.
Roy Orbison’s granddaughter who is Emily Orbison and a teacher deserves to be fired but so far it hasn’t happened. Politicians weighing in on it.
Edit...Robby Starbuck tweeting she has been suspended pending investigation.
She was the face of Roy Orbinson at events.
People might have moved on from the first story, they might have even moved on from the second one so soon after but a third .... it's too much and makes sane people ask 'what is happening to our country?'
Seeing both murders in graphic detail did not help their cause either. No lying from their side can hide that both were innocent of anything they could come up with.
Both were murdered. In one, people just got up and walked away to let her die. The other, we watched as people cheered his death. We will NOT forget this. Their utter lack of humanity and decency.
that picture of Charlie comforting that girl sitting on the train seat is a hard picture to see.
I’ll add that in all three cases the victims were the most sympathetic people possible killed in shockingly violent ways:
1) a bunch of children praying in a church. Left’s response: Where was their god, they were literally praying when they died. Prayer is bad.
2) Ukrainian war refugee on her way to work in a pizza parlor, slashed up while everyone looked the other way. The left’s response: This is just a local story, why are we talkign about it?
3) A young man with a beautiful family including two very small kids shot on camera in a gruesome murder who’s crime was seeking to engage in dialogue and try to hear the other side and debate in a civil manner. The left’s response: Good, who can we get next?
I think that many are seeing that THEY too would be dead if the left gets its way. I have been saying for years now, the end goal is to kill all “non-believer”. We were almost there during COVID.
Now, you can hide your head in the sand and look around. They haven’t stopped celebrating even as many are losing their jobs. They are doubling down and I expect them to head to court next.
NEVER FORGET: THEY WANT YOU DEAD!
You really covered all the bases. I have nothing to add except to suggest bookmarking so it can be re-read and passed along to others who need this type of clarity. It’s hard sometimes to cut through all the noise. “Jesus wept.” John 11:35.
An interesting tell was the Charlotte mayor asking for the video of the murder not to be shown for whatever reason. We think it’s because it didn’t help the leftist narrative. Beyond that though the images stand alone without any narrative and that may be part of why these two murders are different than things have been in the past. There is something visceral about seeing a fellow human of whatever stripe die unjustly when you know the image is reality rather than some murder in a movie. If you feel nothing or are happy for whatever reason you’ve lost a significant part of your humanity.
Indeed, there’s a lot of noise!
One other thing came to mind...
The murderer was the embodiment of everything the media, the entertainment industry, the leftist professors, etc., had all saturated our young people with - exploiting their innocence for decades, getting worse and worse as the years passed.
He was inevitable, Charlie was inevitable, and this resulting action was inevitable. Finally, collectively, we’re saying “enough”.
The evil that is the left today, has lost the argument of “who is virtuous?”. All they can do is distort the situation; continue to lie about Charlie (keep digging), lie about the shooter (he’s MAGA), lie about their celebrations, falsely claim right-wing equivalence, etc.. But they all fall flat because it’s transparent.
The number of leftists that are trying to walk back their public reaction is telling, they cancelled themselves and are now panicking.
This is such an earthquake of conscience on public display, and we never really saw it coming (at least I didn’t). It seems Charlie had reached a level of an audience, brick by brick, we hadn’t realized...and the nature of his murder was indefensible, unless you want to try and argue, somehow, it’s ok - good luck with that.
It’s a sort of “cultural check-mate”.
I am old enough to have see the progressives celebrate the death of other conservatives and they were just as hateful and vile as the ones directed at Charlie Kirk, but I noticed a difference, this time there was pushback, this time there was a price to pay for their hate, and I wondered why, what was the difference, and more importantly is this a one off, or is this a new direction for us?
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Prior to this Trump Presidency, the People have pretty much expected law enforcement and even politicians to bring justice for the People. During Biden term, we learned differently.
This time, We The People decided to handle a bit of justice ourselves. We may never know the truth behind the evil that took Charlie Kirk’s life, but we sure can make miserable those who celebrated it. We are staying within legal boundaries because we are better people than any liberal will ever be.
Here is a practical question that needs to be answered.
Where do we go from here? We know there are a LOT of people of all ages but primarily younger aged that fall in the spectrum of leftism. I think some of these leftists are salvageable because this is a line even they would not cross and hopefully they begin to turn their thinking around with deep introspection.
However, what do we do about those that are totally lost in the pure evil intent of their beliefs? Wait for them to act out thus destroying innocent lives? Round ‘em up just because of their beliefs or something they said? It is a tough question in light of everyone’s constitutional rights.
It was covered up to also hide the fact they everyone there let her die alone.
The first images they released they blew up to hide this and stopped with him hovering over her. When you finally get to watch the whole video, you see the whole truth.
She did nothing to provoke him-kills that narrative
She never spoke to him-claims she used the N word are BS
Every single person around her just left her to die also-Not one offered aid or did anything.
It was clearly a racist attack-The attacked got I got that white girl
Last week, I had to watch the equivalent of two snuff films to see the actual truth.
I did not watch them for fun or a sick thrill. I watched them because I had to, to get the full truth and not some scripted narrative from the media.
THAT is what they think of peaceful discourse and conversation and peace with the Right.
Darkness cannot exist in the light, and Charlie’s light was bright. A light always shines brightest in dark eyes. I think many of us on the right underestimated just how depraved (and probably demonic) today’s modern Left are. Seeing their absolute glee and relish has been eye-opening.
Haters gonna hate
Godless gonna Godless
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