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MaineBlueBear

(405 posts)
Tue Sep 16, 2025, 08:38 AM Sep 2025

If they think people are "celebrating" Kirks demise

Wait until they see the parties we throw when tRump finally shucks loose his mortal coil.

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If they think people are "celebrating" Kirks demise (Original Post) MaineBlueBear Sep 2025 OP
I am not celebrating Kirk's passing, Baitball Blogger Sep 2025 #1
seriously eShirl Sep 2025 #2
I barely knew who he was before he got shot. Crunchy Frog Sep 2025 #3
Me neither. Dulcinea Sep 2025 #13
He didn't "pass away" Seeking Serenity Sep 2025 #15
It's just another way of saying dead. eShirl Sep 2025 #17
In most contexts, I agree. But in this context, I believe it's a way of some to avoid Seeking Serenity Sep 2025 #19
I've been on the internet for a very long time Quiet Em Sep 2025 #4
The only concerns I had about Kirk lonely bird Sep 2025 #5
They are all scrambling popsdenver Sep 2025 #6
Not to mention... lonely bird Sep 2025 #10
Limbaugh was doing the same popsdenver Sep 2025 #12
Yup, I for one will party. republianmushroom Sep 2025 #7
We were as horrified as everybody else. hadEnuf Sep 2025 #8
They will blame TRANSfat in McDonald's to throw us all in jail newdeal2 Sep 2025 #9
Now, that is funny... lonely bird Sep 2025 #14
LOL leftstreet Sep 2025 #16
I've got my champagne on ice when that happens! Initech Sep 2025 #11
I've yet to see any celebrating myself Wiz Imp Sep 2025 #18
When Trump dies? Maybe misanthrope Sep 2025 #20
That won't stop me Wiz Imp Sep 2025 #21

Baitball Blogger

(51,625 posts)
1. I am not celebrating Kirk's passing,
Tue Sep 16, 2025, 09:11 AM
Sep 2025

Frankly, his life and death had no bearing at all. He belonged to the right.

Dulcinea

(9,583 posts)
13. Me neither.
Tue Sep 16, 2025, 11:32 AM
Sep 2025

Most people are indifferent. Let's face it, anyone who's not a political junkie probably never heard of him.

Seeking Serenity

(3,252 posts)
15. He didn't "pass away"
Tue Sep 16, 2025, 01:35 PM
Sep 2025

He was assassinated. He was murdered.

That "Oh, he just passed away" framing is very dishonest.

Seeking Serenity

(3,252 posts)
19. In most contexts, I agree. But in this context, I believe it's a way of some to avoid
Tue Sep 16, 2025, 02:16 PM
Sep 2025

facing or acknowledging the cold, hard truth of what happened last Wednesday.

It was an assassination.

Quiet Em

(2,519 posts)
4. I've been on the internet for a very long time
Tue Sep 16, 2025, 09:33 AM
Sep 2025

and every time there is a death of a well known person, a celebrity and even when there is a disaster people will see and complain about many comments they find offensive. It isn't a new phenomenon.

The con artist is just focusing on the Kirk comments because it helps him push his Authoritarian Dictatorship plans.

lonely bird

(2,701 posts)
5. The only concerns I had about Kirk
Tue Sep 16, 2025, 10:41 AM
Sep 2025

Were his stupidity, arrogance and ignorance and their impact. He was dangerous.

Beyond that it would have been impossible for me to care less about him.

popsdenver

(1,412 posts)
6. They are all scrambling
Tue Sep 16, 2025, 10:51 AM
Sep 2025

to try and become the next Rush Limbaugh..........maybe if they did some Oxy it would help.......

lonely bird

(2,701 posts)
10. Not to mention...
Tue Sep 16, 2025, 11:14 AM
Sep 2025

A trip to the Dominican Republic.

Limpballs was a complete piece of crap.

popsdenver

(1,412 posts)
12. Limbaugh was doing the same
Tue Sep 16, 2025, 11:20 AM
Sep 2025

as Epstein, on a much smaller scale, .......flying "select" individuals to Thailand for sexual adventures in his private jet.............

hadEnuf

(3,509 posts)
8. We were as horrified as everybody else.
Tue Sep 16, 2025, 11:11 AM
Sep 2025

But now that Kirk's supporters have shown us what they truly are by using this right-on-right violence to come after us, I believe some people may be reassessing their sympathies.

Wiz Imp

(8,680 posts)
18. I've yet to see any celebrating myself
Tue Sep 16, 2025, 02:12 PM
Sep 2025

I'm not saying it didn't happen, I know that some people did celebrate. But everything I've seen characterized as celebrating has been expressions of not being sorry that he's dead and/or posting and remarking on Kirk's own statements and videos. None of that is celebrating.

Now when Trump dies, there absolutely will be tens of millions celebrating including myself.

misanthrope

(9,347 posts)
20. When Trump dies? Maybe
Tue Sep 16, 2025, 02:16 PM
Sep 2025

Maybe overseas, if similar movements don't overwhelm the nations that currently are fighting to retain liberal democracy.

Here celebrants might be under threat of detainment and disappearance by federal forces by that point were they caught being insufficiently mournful.

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