Republican lawmakers called for a statue of slain MAGA influencer Charlie Kirk to be installed in the U.S. Capitol following his murder.In a draft letter to Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) blamed "hateful rhetoric from the left" for the killing."To honor this legacy, we ca...
  • nozone@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Kirk organised but did not attend the so-called “Stop the Steal” protests after Trump lost the 2020 election and helped coordinate buses for the 6 January 2021 rally led by Trump near the White House, where the outgoing Republican president urged the crowd to “fight, fight, fight” to overturn his defeat by Joe Biden.

    Putting a monument for this turd in the capital he tried to overthrow is just perfectly republican. These people are going to milk this guys death for the next dozen years at least.

    • phutatorius@lemmy.zipEnglish
      6·
      1 day ago

      It’s going to be relentless. Right now, some washed up pop-country knobhead is probably in the studio recording The Ballad of Charlie Kirk.

    • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      1 day ago

      Conservative, not Republican. Wilson, a Democrat and tied with Jackson for worst president ever, though Trump is working towards that but I digress. Wilson is responsible for authoring Southern Revisionist History, the refounding of the KKK, and all those Confederate statues that we finally started tearing down.