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My actual prediction is that within two weeks Charlie Kirk will be totally forgotten by both the right and left. He was a deeply mediocre hatemonger who offered nothing original, and there will be plenty of right wing grifters ready to step over his body to collect the racist propaganda checks.

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Completely agree. But now wormhole time.. Charlie knew he sucked deep down and wanted to pull a Trump. The Trump camp saw Charlie getting schooled by high schoolers and thought his influence peaked so they reached out and told him they could set up another earshot to get attention of Epstein....

Charlie being a loyal servant and believer that this would make him a hero, agreed in a heartbeat. But instead of a fake shot at his ear Trump's camp just blasted him in the neck. Now right wing influencers will push a call to arms and try to martyr him. But nobody cares. Release the Epstein files!!

I think it entirely depends on if they can make a good scapegoat out of whoever shot him. If that person isn't of conveniently demonizable minority background or worse still, if they never catch them (and fail to make up someone to pretend), the fact they failed to protect their boy is a liability

might doesn't make right at all if everyone watches your cheerleader get the fateful irony lifetime achievement award

I suspect he’ll be forgotten due to the quick succession of new headlines that will come as long as this administration is in power. Sowing chaos and distraction as your modus operandi only works up to a point, b/c it prevents people from hanging onto facts that you actually want them to hang onto.

No way. A live assassination of this scale doesn't just disappear in a couple weeks. I believe it will be used as a rallying call for more political violence and division unfortunately.

They weren't assassinated on live video in front of thousands of people. Also, hate to break it to you, but Charlie Kirk has way more influence, leverage, and attention than Melissa and Mark. Most people didn't even know who the hell they were. 🍎 & 🍊

that's contingent on his death actually being favorable for escalation they argue that immigrant minorities in blue state cities summarily threaten to take away your life a career strongarm bulling promoter getting rubbed in in a mormon bastion weakens their narrative and their claim to power

I’m thinking of Rufo, Walsh and their ilk. They haven’t met a situation where the answer is to cool things off. To deflect from the obvious hollowness of their arguments about immigrants, they’ll gladly focus on a new foe.

I hope you're right but I doubt it. The far-right loves a faux martyr to get faux sentimental about. Horst Wessel was a comparably mediocre dipshit but it served Nazi purposes to never shut up about him. I think Kirk fulfils that role better than Ashli Babbitt so we'll be stuck with him for a while.

Limbaugh was older & wasn't murdered. He'll be invoked if/when the right needs to manifest "a good man." Kirk will be a martyr & used constantly (for a time then as needed) to fearmonger to a xenophobic base that "a good Christian" was slain! He couldn't have planned it better himself.

Kirk will only ever be remembered as a martyr. No one will care about his ideas or message or anything he said or did except for the fact he was a right-wing ideologue who was murdered. But, eventually, they'll move on

To me he was nothing more than an Incel with a really bad haircut. He had no class, intelligence and no credentials like William F. Buckley, whom I totally disagreed with, but at least found interesting and intelligent.