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.
Why the fuck would EU Parliament give a shit about an American YouTuber?
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
There was no uproar, no one cares.
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.
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.
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?
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.
If the EU Parliament had to have a minute of silence for every shitty American killed by a gun, they’d never have time for anything else.
the us has like hundreds of gun deaths every day
4 mass shootings this past Sunday; and 4 isn’t even a ‘record’ day by half.
Which 4? I’m not doubting just checking sources as I hadn’t heard about them.
And very few of them are on record advocating for how we should not have empathy for gun victims. The right wingers whining for compassion here are dishonouring his legacy.
As an American, I laughed out loud at this one. They sure wouldn’t!
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.
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
Probably the fastest and easiest ”no” in European Parliament history.
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
As a reminder, we hanged people at Nuremberg for doing exactly what Charlie Kirk spent his whole career doing.
🤣🤣🤣 the bros and I spent weeks quoting this, genuinely wasn’t expecting to see it here, best laugh I’ve had this week. Thank you.
Would you say Charlie’s proposal was… shot down?
The proposal failed…by a long shot ?
Not a fuĺl throated motion.
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.
No mention of the kids killed in that school shooting.
These people can go fuck themselves.
The outrage is the point. Don’t give them the satisfaction.
You don’t even have to be specific, I just inherently 'reckon there was a school shooting somewhere in the last two weeks in the US.
Pretty sure they’re referring to the school shooting that happened on the same day.
https://apnews.com/article/colorado-high-school-shooting-3f4fc4338247a661874060e06cb16f43
I literally was not aware of said shooting, usually watching political drama around free speech and encryption, but man, that really figures.
