Okay I kinda assumed that they might try to turn Charlie Kirk into a martyr but seriously what the fuck
Here's a list of real things that have happened in the past 2 days:
- He's being awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
- JD Vance personally escorted his body back to Arizona in Air Force Two
- All American flags both in the US and abroad are to be flown at half-mast for the rest of the week
- Republican senators are calling for a statue of him to be built in the Capitol (quote: "we have one of MLK don't we?")
- News anchors are sobbing live on television
- The governor of Utah has pledged to give the shooter the death penalty
- Vigils are being held nationwide
- Evangelicals have been equating him with Jesus
- In the House of Representatives a request for a prayer devolved into screaming that the Democrats killed him
- The New York Yankees held a moment of silence before the game and proceeded to lose 12-2
- People across the country are losing their jobs en masse for criticising him online
- MSNBC's political analyst was asked what created the environment for the shooting, said it could be his divisive rhetoric, and was fired on the spot
- A UK student wrote "he got shot lol" in a private group chat and it made the news
- The State Department announced that they will revoke the visas of foreign nationals who "praise, rationalise, or make light" of his death on social media
- Also it was 9/11