Why? Charlie Kirk wasn't anything. He was a political grifter. Oh. Nevermind. Birds of a feather. I get it now.
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Even if he never said or did anything, he was a friend of the Trumps - both the elderly orange peel currently staining the White House and his mentally-challenged offspring.
I don't know if you've noticed, but Trump's friends tend to be rather nauseating people.
Minnesota democrats murdered in their homes: nothing done or said. POS grifter shot while talking about violence: lower the flags, President gives a speech and tweet. America 2025 🫡
I think we need to start sell flag pole extenders so we can protest this shit.
Trump has also said he's giving him the presidential medal of freedom
At this point the presidential medal of freedom is as important as the Burger King crown.
Worse, at this point it usually means you did something abhorrent.
I will not be lowering my flag in remembrance of the life of an abuser who had helped to cause harm to so many of those that I care about. I will not celebrate his death, but neither will I lose sleep.
I will not be lowering my flag
Is that an ICE SUV I see in your street or just a random car full of masked people cosplaying?
You're supposed to comply citizen!
Is that an ICE SUV I see in your street or just a random car full of masked people cosplaying?
Those two things are the same.
No they're not: the cosplayers can't kidnap you and disappear you to a foreign concentration camp.
Can't be ICE, I haven't put a magnetic Mexican flag on my car to act as a designated distraction yet...
On my to-do list is to get a gigantic flag pole and flag. I so wish I already had one up, just so I could NOT lower it for Kirk.
I will not celebrate his death
You're a better person than me.
The American flag only stands for people like Charlie Kirk now… or people who don’t care. The Charlie Kirks lower their flags, the careless leave them up.
You can’t really take the Nazi flag “back” either.
The American flag isn’t the same as it was two generations ago. You just look like a Nazi.
Fuck MAGA. Good riddance to every last one of those Nazi white power cultists.
So what about the actual politicians that were gunned down a few month ago. Nothing for them? Oh, because they were democrats, and you endorse it, got it...
Lowering flags is now about as significant as being Nobel Prize nominated.
Or getting the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
I don't understand how Kirk qualifies for this? He was just a modern version of Rush Limbaugh, going even edgier and on other platforms than radio....oh, right, Limbaugh got the fucking Presidential Medal of Freedom, so of course we should lower flags for a fucking Reich wing trolling edgelord.
He doesn't. But Trump is an enormous piece of shit.
It's scary to think about action having consequences, if you've been a POS.
So he has to self-sooth, vilify and project.
This is the same asshole who threw a hissy fit that flags were at half staff for Carter, a far more deserving person than Trump or Kirk could ever dream of being.
The NY Times comments about his death are pretty disgusting. Lots of enlightened centrist liberals talking about how inspiring and respectful Kirk was and what a loss it is.
That said, there were only about 100 comments before they locked it. Given the comment counts on big stories like this, I imagine there must've been about 10 or 20 times as many comments that they declined to publish.
Yeah, I just saw a headline from The Economist that made me want to gag: "Charlie Kirk challenged liberals until the day he was murdered"
I mean, what kind of bullshit hagiography is that announcing? I started to read it, and it gets even worse right from the very jump.
Charlie Kirk was an awful douchebag and these paeans being said/written about him already are nauseating and he only just was killed. I suspect it's only going to get worse.
You should see the glazing Fox gave him. It was wild to read.
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But of course not for the kids that got shot today.
Like the new "metals of honor", lowering the flag is now meaningless. Remember the orange rapist/felon ordered the flags at full mast after President Carter's death for his inauguration.
Carter is 100x the President that Taco is. I sure hope that when Taco kicks the bucket, lots of people refuse to lower their flags....he is a total dirtbag and petty AF.
Kirk was a complete scumbag, but flags definitely flew at half-staff for school shootings in the past.
Trump ordered flags at half-staff for Minneapolis
Biden ordered flags at half-staff for Allen, Texas
Also, since this took place at a university, this technically counts as a school shooting. A feverent right-wing agitator dies at a school shooting. Ironic.
There were like 80 school shootings in the states last year. The thing should be at half mast until that problem is solved by this logic.
it should be upside down as a symbol of distress until the 'regime' changes.
Until the entire system in that country changes.
I think most people already know that flags at half staff is worthless virtue-signalling
The meaningless do nothing shit seems to affect a lot more people than it should. Hopefully that’s just bots on the internet making it seem that way.
Oh yeah, they’ll lower the flags for literally any reason, because the flag has been meaningless for some time.
See also: military cemeteries, and by extension, the military.
Did you know anyone who was honorably discharged can be buried in a military cemetery? Doesn’t matter who. Whether you were a “war hero” (like my grandfathers), you died in war, or if you just partied and fixed trucks in Germany in the sixties (like my stepdad), you can be buried there.
Keep that in mind when someone tries to make them into sacred places. They’re just graveyards, they have no further meaning just because the stones are all the same.
The entire military’s been a scam since the same time period. It’s nice that more people are figuring it out.
Does anyone know how to put a flag at 1.5 staff?
I never raise a flag but suddenly want the biggest one at the top of the tallest pole
one of the only times where it’s acceptable to fly an american flag high and proud
Honestly, I’m glad this happened. Of course I can’t be sure if it’s a good thing - for all we know it could speed up the birth of a tyranny, or WW3 - but something beyond waiting for the next election needs to happen. Kinda typical USA that that something involves guns though.
At some point the constant abuse needs to be met with - well, something.
brb raising any flags I see higher.
we got this flag display outside town that lowers to half staff for important shit. they ain't lowering for kirk.
If the USA lowered flags to half mast every time there was a school shooting you may as well just cut off the top half of the flag pole. It'll never get used.
America just got its Horst Wessel.
Maybe a posthumous Medal of Feces
Air Force 2 went and picked up his body. They already had a response ready immediately after his death. A long range sniper shot with no one found immediately. At this point it is looking like this was an assassination by the current administration.
Couldn't have happened to a bigger headed man
Once children leave the womb, they are target practice and slave laborers. Republicans have never valued life. They are part of a violent hateful cult which is based in a naive & non-scientific culture that is 2000 years old.
It’s just rhetoric and grandstanding designed to feed his army of anal leeches that mindlessly feed on his bloated science-defying animated carcass.
I don't understand why children aren't important - every child lost is one less the asshole can rape. He should care, right?
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