Sept. 14, 2025 - A Charlie Kirk rally in Somerset, NJ. The MC was Phil Rizzo hiding behind the flag figuratively and literally, a onetime storefront church pastor who sold his home to his church for $1.65 million and Rizzo continued to live there without paying property taxes.
Charlie Kirk does not deserve our respect or goodwill, no matter how much the mainstream narrative tries to legitimize him. For the rest of us, his departure is a reminder that we will be tested in the days ahead. Doing nothing is not an option.
OREM, UTAH – It took two days after Turning Point USA (TPUSA) founder Charlie Kirk was killed on the campus of Utah Valley University, law enforcement have a suspect in custody, after previously detaining two individuals then releasing them. The grainy picture that they released the morning of Sept. 11 had lent in speculation of who may be responsible, to flat out accusations from the right, despite not knowing the motive of the shooter, against leftists and declarations of retaliation and war. On Friday, 22-year-old Tyler Robinson was arrested for the shooting. In the press conference announcing the arrest, where FBI Director Kash Patel concluded his remarks with a White Supremacist dog whistle: “To my friend Charlie Kirk, rest now, brother. We have the watch, and I’ll see you in Valhalla”, officials say that writing on shell casings include messages such as “Hey fascist, catch!”, three arrows, and “Bella Ciao”. While some speculate this points to an antifascist as the culprit, it’s more plausible this is a reference from the video game Helldivers 2 and still other suggestions that he was a part of the Groypers, the essentially the fanbase of Mexican-American White Supremacist Nick Fuentes and the right, who was insisting that suspect was transgender before one was identified, is currently suggested that his roommate is his transgender lover.
Regardless of the unknown motivation of the shooter, the right justifies in their response, and that response has still caused concern with those who do not want such violence to happen.
Kirk, 31, was a conservative propagandist that turned TPUSA into a multimillion dollar generator promoting racist and bigoted positions and conspiracies. He was an adamant transphobe who said transgender them an “abomination” and a “throbbing middle finger to God.” He also believed in the subjugation of women, saying on Fox News two days before his death, “Young women who voted for Kamala Harris want careerism, consumerism and loneliness,” while “Trump voters, young men, they want family, children and legacy.” He particularly singled out Black women scorning them, saying in July 2023, “You do not have the brain processing power to otherwise be taken really seriously,” You had to go steal a white person’s slot to go be taken somewhat seriously.” His hatred of Black people went beyond women, often hiding his criticism of affirmative action, and crime, but he also attacked the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. calling him “awful”, a “race Marxist”, and a rapist. Kirk also believed that the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which King championed, was a mistake that had become “an anti-white weapon”. Last year, White Supremacist Jack Posobiec took the stage at the TPUSA Conference to declare that was the beginning of “White Boy Summer”, which had been then what White Supremacists used in their campaigns over that year’s summer.
Kirk was killed while he was on one of his college tours, which he was famous for. His last words were to attempt to disparage the transgender community as mass shooters and to associate gang violence to mass shootings, such rhetoric has always been used to attack Black and Brown people. Despite this, politicians and media outlets have been quick to sanitize his legacy, ignoring the hatemongering he was known for. Writer Erin Reed noted in a Substack post how California Governor Gavin Newsom tweeted that they should “continue the work”of Kirk, while Ezra Klein published a column titled “Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics The Right Way.”
The sanitizing of Kirk’s legacy has ultimately given Kirk’s fans idea that they have cover while they attempt to make threats against those who weren’t, which they did enmasse. “Charlie Kirk is a casualty of war,” said Steve Bannon, who in 2017 said he was seeking “deconstruction of the administrative state” and would later that year resign as an advisor of Donald Trump in the wake of the tragic “Unite the Right” rally in Charlotteville, VA. “We are at war in this country. We are.” Fox News pundit Jesse Waters continued the war theme saying, “We’re sick, we’re sad, we’re angry, and we’re resolute, and we’re going to avenge Charlie’s death in the way Charlie would want it to be avenged. Whether we want to accept it or not, they are at war with us! And what are we gonna do about it? How much political violence are we going to tolerate?” Meanwhile a number of persons on TikTok and other social media platforms take threats there, many of them from throwaway accounts.
Much of the rhetoric like this was spewed well before the Charlie Kirk shooting, and it serves to prove prophetic as this was the latest in politics in just the past year and a half. In that time, there were two reputed attempts on Donald Trump’s (R) life last year. April, the Pennsylvania Governor’s Residence was firebombed while Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) and his family and friends were upstairs. Two months later Minnesota state representative Melissa Hortman (D) and her husband Mark were shot and killed in their home in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota. Earlier that morning, state senator John Hoffman (D) and his wife, Yvette, were shot in their home in nearby Champlin and injured.
The violent trend continues. Coincidentally on Sept. 11, six HBCUs across the country received bomb threats, but there has not been evidence that it was related to the events in Utah. Meanwhile on Sept. 10, a 16-year-old boy who authorities say was “radicalized through an extremist network” and espoused White Supremacist views online, shot and injured two students and then himself at Evergreen High School in Evergreen, Colorado was buried by the news about the Kirk shooting, and after a moment of silence for on him the U.S. House Floor, Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) requested that the chamber also offer a spoken prayer for Kirk, saying, “I believe silent prayers get silent results.” That resulted in a shouting match Democrats charged the Republicans with not caring as much about victims of the school shooting. One Democrat asked “What about the kids in Colorado?”. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.), who used to work with Kirk at TPUSA responded with shouting and cursing of her own, saying “You all caused this!” There have also been reports of White Supremacists rallying for Kirk in Huntington Beach, California chanting, “White Man Fight Back” and a brawl during a vigil for Kirk at Boise, Idaho. Two were arrested.
The concern about political violent might have been why remarks by Brian Kilmeade a co-host on Fox News’ Fox & Friends on the morning of Sept. 10, just hours before Kirk was killed, were addressed over the weekend. Kilmeade in a discussion about about the Aug. 22 stabbing murder of Iryna Zarutska on a light rail train in Charlotte, North Carolina allegedly by a homeless and mentally ill man, Decarlos Brown Jr., that Kirk coincidentally tweeted about in his last tweet. When he co-host Lawrence Jones spoke about public money spent on trying to help homeless people, suggesting that those who didn’t accept services offered to them should be jailed, Kilmeade responded by saying, “Or involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill ’em.” By the end of the weekend Kilmeade apologized for the remarks, but it doesn’t appeared that he repercussions from Fox News. Monday, he was on show Fox & Friends and ironically interviewed Lexi Kuenzle, the New Jersey nurse who was suspended from her job in a hospital after she reported a doctor who celebrated the Kirk shooting then posted about reporting him on social media.
Tensions in the country have been building with each for some time, and there is nothing that says Kirk’s demise will be the last. University of Massachusetts Lowell scholar Arie Perliger suggests the trend is going in the opposite direction. “The data shows that there’s a substantial increase in the level of threats against officeholders at the local and federal level,” he said ”Consistently, almost a quarter of the public is willing to support political violence in some form, or see that as a legitimate form of political action.”
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