Uproar as EU Parliament declines to hold minute of silence for Charlie Kirk

And then they have the gall to say they have thick skin and that liberals are the snowflakes. They have contempt for reality.

the GOp need something to unify the disarra-yed supporters of magats. THE MSM will just sweep this under the rug like they did with RUSH, ONCE THE NEWS cycle blows over, they did nothing of noteworthy to benefit society so they will just disappear as soon as people reorient themselves with epstein again.

And very few of them are on record advocating for how we should not have empathy for gun victims. The right wingers whining for compassion here are dishonouring his legacy.

🤣🤣🤣 the bros and I spent weeks quoting this, genuinely wasn't expecting to see it here, best laugh I've had this week. Thank you.

He literally was just some guy.

On one hand, to Europe they were just some guy. True.

On the other, they were the co-founder and CEO of a political influencer operation so influential that the US President and their party are doing all this crap to honor them. Kirk is responsible for radicalizing many people into real violence.

They laughed and mocked them. Insisting they were insane and got what they deserved. Even Trump said he did not call the governor to give condolences as he considered Tim Walz beneath him.

This is just one of those "did you even say thank you?" moments when Trump, Vance, and the other GOP Muppets try to generate outrage and play upon the ignorance of their base.

It's a show made exclusively for the idiots.

Id answer your question, but I have to wait until the backed up moment of silence log is complete. Were adding one every 30 seconds

But the hammer incident and Minnesota incident I will cherish this moment the rest of my life, where's charlie's grave I got a drop a deuce!!

Wait, really? Nobody knew him? I guess it makes sense: everyone knows the song but nobody knows the singer. Only in this case it's not a song, it's propaganda and indoctrination. Like how if Christopher Rufo kicked the bucket, few would know he literally invented the CRT scare.

It's interesting how you say this because I serve MAGAs. I'm a bartender in small town Merica.

They're naturally good people. They care. But if politics enter into the conversation, the narrative changes.

Many of them, when brouched with a hypothetical/reasonable question, such as, "Don't you find it interesting that if you speak online with people of other nations, they all find us shameful?" they say fuck them, 'Merica! We'd fuck them up anyway, if it came down to it.

They want to get a rise out of the "libtards". I've witnessed them preening and delighted out of the reaction they insight.

Once I steer the conversation, so I don't shoot my own damned self, they start complaining about prices in the same sentence they hope the tariffs will sink in and help them recover their losses.

We are a nation being forced fed our thoughts, opinions, and ideals. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain

Nothing fundamentally. Might speed up the course we're on but that about it.

That is true.

I was out on my bike ride yesterday and one of the places I stop is next to a flagpole. The fucking flag was at half-mast for this asshole, just preposterous.

He went to Cambridge for a debate where he got absolutely trounced.

Maybe once or twice, for CPAC held in Hungary.

No they did not. President couldn't even mention them in his latest statement when speaking of all the recent victims of gun violence. He skipped over the the names of legislators that actually died. Of course those names are of Democrats.

It's only ever the European far-right, it's not even all of them and most of the ones which are influenced by America are pretty selective about what they take in because most of that shit in Europe is seen as seriously removed shit even amongst the far-right here (for example, religiousity doesn't land well nowadays unless you're talking about really backwards places like Hungary, outside maybe the UK, nobody gives a shit about the ideas of the transphobes and there is zero support for the kind of gun ownership laws the US has).

Sure, some shit does leak, but the fully packaged message from people like Charlie Kirk would just not work anywhere around here.

My bet it that it was a handful of total unknowns amongst the European Far-Right who maybe get money from American sources (some European Far-Right parties were created with the money Bannon brought some years ago very openly to "create far-right parties in Europe" and I would be surprised if certain American interests had stopped buying such politicians in Europe) that suggested this and the others just went along with it.

When it, naturally, failed miserably to gain traction beyond that handful of obscure politicians, the newspaper owned by Germany's very own Murdoch-clone then described the reaction to that refusal by the overwhelming majority of the EU parliament to do it, as an "Uproar"

That doesn't make the point any more salient. He's a nobody hate mongerer, not an elected political figure. Why would any government anywhere give a shit about him?

Yeah that’s essentially what I’m saying. They’re such fucking tools that the media amplified this to distract them from the Epstein files and it’s working just as intended. Kirk getting killed is something I’m just apathetic about and it’s not remotely close to the news that the media is making out to be, in order to distract people from the fact that they voted for and support a pedophile

The reason is that he was an anti-free speech hate monger with a huge following. In the minds of the far right those people are literally the only ones with ideas and the right to speak, and any form of attack, physical or verbal is not acceptable.

Another thing is that they want to force others to acknowledge their superiority over others. Remember Nancy Pelosi's being almost murdered? Or the killing of a Democrat law maker? Or even the attempted kidnapping of a governor? In their minds those are jokes. Trump even insulted Tim Walz when asked if he would give his condolences to the murders that took place there.

This is like how bullies behave towards their victims. If a bully shoves a kid down and breaks something expensive that they have, it is nothing... but if the kid has to serve the bully a drink in a cafeteria and it is 1ml too little or too much, that is the end of the world as far as that person's competence goes.