Right-wing lawmakers pushed for a tribute to the U.S. conservative influencer who was shot dead.
European Parliament President Roberta Metsola on Thursday rejected a bid by right-wing factions to hold a minute of silence for slain U.S. conservative influencer Charlie Kirk.
The initiative was first proposed by Charlie Weimers, an MEP from the right-wing European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR), as a symbolic measure “to declare that our right to freedom of speech cannot be extinguished,” according to an email chain with dozens of MEPs that was seen by POLITICO.
We don’t care. We also would not hold a moment of silence if Joe Rogan was shot.
He was some right-wing idiot influencer, what do you expect?
Should we have a minute of silence if some Putin propagandist in Russia dies? Wtf why is this a topic at all?
What’s with the Trump fd little girls on Epstein island, can we get back to that?
No uproar. Fascists got told no by the majority.
They can always go have a viking funeral, or sacrifice a goat, or slice their arms while ululating, or whatever the hell those people do, just not in the European Parliament.
There was no uproar, no one cares.
Probably the fastest and easiest ”no” in European Parliament history.
Why would we care in Europe about a fascist US citizen dying on his own soil? He’s just some random dude for us. More concerning are the murders of school children and the Epstein files.
The only reason I even knew about him was because of people mocking him and denouncing his grifting and reprehensible ideology through memes.
I was fascinated by his manlet body, pumpkin-like head, small face, and chromosomal features.
High rate of sisterfucking among the fundies.
Kirk’s wife didn’t look chromosomal, always surprising what attractive women the biggest chumps can attract.
It’s because she’s a Nazi too.
One could say he bore a mitochondrial burden.
He’s literally a right wing influencer, nothing else.
Why would they? He’s a frickin podcaster, not some virtuous political figure gunned down doing their duty to the public. He was paid to be at an event to promote himself and his agenda.
He was a lot more than a podcaster, he was a well-funded hatemonger leading the neoconfederate christofascist wing of MAGA.
That doesn’t make the point any more salient. He’s a nobody hate mongerer, not an elected political figure. Why would any government anywhere give a shit about him?
Cuz christo fascism is a global scourg-I mean cance-I mean… uhhhh movement. Yea, That.
Global bowel movement, more like.
2000 year case of constipation.
Influencer = just some guy. If he was close to you, go have your own moment of silence.
I never suspected that Charlie Kirk was deemed more important or valuable than all of those schoolchildren (past, present and future) that were killed by gun violence. I expect Solomon Grundy to cause some shit later today in this bizarro world.
It’s really disappointing, living here in Colorado where we had a school shooting on the same day as the Charlie Kirk thing, and seeing the people on Nextdoor gushing over the “find out” phase of a 13 year career antagonizing people, while ignoring the deaths of their neighbors children. MAGA is sick as fuck.
Interesting. Release the Epstein files.
You’d have better luck standing on your roof and yelling at random people in red hats that the 80 year old man who is also a convicted felon likes to party with all of the rich people on a private island (probably doing horrible things to men, women & children) and his “friends” can use .00005% of their wealth to make your online presence null and your life a miserable hell.
Good, why should the EU care? This whole political scene is just US doing its best to try and escalate bad relations with EU.
Of course it is. Putin hates the EU and NATO, and Trump is Putin’s bitch.
Thank you EU for not glorifying yet another Hitler wannabe! “Never Again” means just that!
Never again will we miss getting on the ground floor of growing fascism
fuck that kirk idiot and the usa
Would you say Charlie’s proposal was… shot down?
The proposal failed…by a long shot ?
Not a fuĺl throated motion.
Why the fuck would EU Parliament give a shit about an American YouTuber?
the thing about fascists is that everything that doesn’t involve bending the knee and pledging complete loyalty and respect to fascists is a cause for uproar
remember some years ago, the far right outrage over starbucks for daring to release xmas cups that were just solid red because they weren’t jesusy enough?
these people are fucking insane cultist psychopaths
They cause an uproar anytime they don’t get what they want. Like toddlers having a tantrum. It’s part of a very calculated strategy, and the sad part is, it seems to work.
I work for a major casino in Nevada. During the last campaign, we hosted both Tim Walz and Donald Trump. When Walz was here, his supporters were absolutely pleasant to have over. Polite, mature, etc. Then the Trump Campaign had their event, their supporters made it a point to go around the casino acting like immature high school kids that just attended a pep rally. It was like they were going out of their way to disrupt operations of a business that actually welcomed them in. It really exemplifies the type of absolute trash filling that portion of the American population.
As Thomas Mann put it referring tothe late 1930s, they tried dicatorship of the proletariat. Now it’s dictatorship of the scum of the earth.
Maybe we need to do the same for anthing caving in to fascists, and write it off as “weak” when they do so. Fascists detest being called weak.
I’m still trying to decide how much is that, and how much they just like outraging. Gets the blood pumping, y’know.
Kirk certainly knows what it’s like when the blood’s pumping.
Not for long.
And then they have the gall to say they have thick skin and that liberals are the snowflakes. They have contempt for reality.
He’s not just a YouTuber, he’s a Republican Mega-Bundler. One of the richest country’s premier bagmen has been slain. How can you be so callous? It’s not like he’s a Palestinian or a Minnesota Congressperson or a Colorado school kid, here. He’s important!
Yeah, the GOP keeps trying to make this asshole into something more than he’s not. He wasn’t even part of ANY government service. Like, this clown wasn’t even a local parks and rec employee of a small town.
the GOp need something to unify the disarra-yed supporters of magats. THE MSM will just sweep this under the rug like they did with RUSH, ONCE THE NEWS cycle blows over, they did nothing of noteworthy to benefit society so they will just disappear as soon as people reorient themselves with epstein again.
If you’re gonna be silent for a minute every time some American is gunned to death we’d never be able to talk
It is more newsworthy the few days someone isnt being gunned down in the USA really
