Wednesday's murder of the racist activist Charlie Kirk has kicked up a storm of bullshit these last 48 hours — which we cats hope may subside just a bit with the revelation that the newly arrested suspect is a 22-year-old, straight, white-as-snow video gamer who grew up in a Republican/law-enforcement household and loved guns.
Okay, that's probably too optimistic, right? After all, Kirk was killed in one of America's whitest states, at an event that was probably over-90-percent Caucasian, but Trumpy trolls still called in bomb threats to a bunch of historically Black colleges and universities yesterday. After all these unrelenting outrages, we have no idea why Black Americans don't riot every single day. We're in awe that they don't.
Maybe they're just tired. Or maybe they know that MAGA's gonna MAGA, and it's fruitless to waste any energy on their predictable nonsense. It's disturbing, of course, to see the media play along — whitewashing Kirk's career as a cretin who monetized hate — but we all should have been prepped for this since the press bent the knee to the GOP and fawned over Ronnie Reagan's funeral more than 20 years ago.
The Kirk killing has also, no surprise, brought out the usual worst in Benedict/Droopy Donald, who literally said today that he "couldn't care less" about trying to unify a country whose citizens are very worried that something terrible is broken. When asked about how he was holding up after the loss of his friend Charlie (spoiler alert: Benedict Donald doesn't have any friends), he said, "I think very good. And by the way, right there you see all the trucks — they just started construction of the new ballroom for the White House."
Donald is simply a black hole of humanity. As most narcissists are.
Meanwhile, in our opinion, the best take on the Kirk murder came from an account we admire on social media: "Look, while I don't condone what happened to the kid, I also see it this way — no one should wonder all that much why it was that Huey Long found himself at the business end of a gun. Those who a spew a constant stream of violence will eventually find themselves knee-deep in it. You can't play with fire and then cry foul when you get burned." We cats PURR.
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