I know you know this, but. It's to mock us. It's a dominance play. It's about rubbing it in our face that they are Nazis, daring us to accurately call them Nazis, then getting us fired & on lists for telling that truth. They can do whatever they want. We do what they say. That's the lesson.

To mock us. I'm not kidding.

And it is. In the sense that this "memorial" will be a popular subject for history dissertations for the foreseeable future.

This may sound harsh but she strikes me as the kind of person who would do something unconscionable, like marry Charlie Kirk

You know, Erika Kirk is the one adult person in this horror show I could imagine having some measured empathy for, and under other circumstances I'd even say "well, okay, it's pageant contestant muscle memory." But she'd setting up this death & her mourning up as a commodity to be traded/consumed.

Incredible image. Also incredible that the vast majority of white Christians in this country align with the men in camo.

Only being semi-ironic when I say that as posters it is our solemn patriotic duty to make crass jokes at the expense of today's WWF White Christian Nationalist Super Martyrdom Extravaganza

Starting a Pinterest inspo board

I never know if he's using filler words for senility reasons or doesn't give a fuck reasons It's about Charlie Kirk so really a toss up I guess

It's dispiriting in part because there are a bunch of people in the room who spent our entire lives telling us how they're the adults, and lecturing us about eating our economic vegetables. And now that the room is ON FIRE, it's "oh gosh well have we considered being more polite to the arsonist"

There are just no adults left in the room who can be bothered and it is really dispiriting

This does not sound like a man who knows a lot about whatever this whole war thing is

Yep I genuinely felt for her at first, just on a human level. But she spent down that grace REAL fast. The unvarnished opportunism is really something to behold

I don't think this really needs to be said here but whew they really declared open season on Kirk's memory with that travesty

This is… on point!

Genuinely everything I hear about the Kirk death pep rally makes it sound like what Midjourney would spew out if you prompted it to generate the tackiest possible summary of contemporary dystopia

Wait did they really

Oh wow she is an AMBITIOUS widow, isn't she

I'm sorry the WHAT

Any time I get high from now on I'm going to tell people that I've been dehabilitated by marijuana

It’s important to know in advance that you will regret going along with it, but it’s also important to say to those who made the wrong decision that you can always stop going along with it, in fact it’s the best thing you could do

New: Sarah MacLachlan, Jewel, and more musicians scheduled to perform at tonight's premiere for Hulu's ABC News doc LILITH FAIR have all pulled out after Disney scrapped the red carpet. First notable talent consequence of the Jimmy Kimmel situation.

Guarantee he is going to have some weird comeback and it is going to make Sean Spicer's "Dancing with The Stars" stint look staid by comparison

I'd legitimately forgotten that Vivek Ramaswamy existed

God forgive me for what I'm about to write but this looks like bukkake

Oh my god I did not realize until just this moment that the fireworks people were talking about were... not even for Kirk

There will be a lot of insider memoirs when this is over, but the only one I'll read will be from whoever went from directing live pro wrestling broadcasts to being the GOP's Leni Riefenstahl

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I WOULD LIKE TO TAKE JUST A MINUTE HERE TO GLOAT ABOUT MY PERSONAL TAKE AT THE TIME

Fair. But ask yourself: did her funeral have fireworks, dragons, and a cross on wheels?

I think it probably ended a while ago. But I only just finished putting the kids down so you're all just going to have to put up with the fact that I am on time delay, lol

I'm sorry guys I will try and stop with the dragon bit it's just so fucking funny

DRACARYS

DO WE THINK IT'S SMAUG

No one tell him how Game of Thrones ends

THE DRAGON Imagine trying to sound tough on national television and your first instinct is to yell about dragons

Literally his father took him to a church run by the author of The Power of Positive Thinking and it has shaped the way he interacts with everyone and everything.

Ahahahah they had FIREWORKS at the Kirk memorial? Incredible.

"First I was outraged when they waved the bloody shirt, but then I wondered aloud about all the other stains, and they moved on real fast."

I really think we underestimate how much of Trumpian bullshit isn't so much him thinking, "I'll tell a lie now" as it is him thinking, "I will manifest this into reality through the power of spoken positive thought"

i do too and it cannot be said enough. the initial 'shock and awe' hid a lot, it's over, and every signal (vs what is presented) shows a country kind of overboiling with frustration at our government having been seized and i think the admin's actions read as rightfully scared we can plainly see

I do think MAGA managed to make the Kirk assassination their 9/11 Not in the sense they wanted, but in the sense that they took their brief window of public sympathy and strip-mined it so totally that everyone hates them even more, now

I did not watch but every glimpse I get of that spectacle suggests to me that they just invented the Christian Nationalist WWF Funeral

It should be obvious, but from someone who is aware of the literature: There is no observed link between Tylenol use in pregnancy and autism. But there is significant data on all sorts of bad outcomes if pregnant women don't treat high fevers.

Clearly a man wracked by grief

I know it's hard to do but you have to tune out the constant & I mean constant torrent of criticisms on social media re: activism & organizing. If you don't, it can stop you from trying to do any activism or organizing. Most of the critics aren't doing any organizing themselves so keep trying things

One thing I am realizing about this administration-- not just Trump, but his underlings-- is that they all think running the country is functionally the same as being able to have everything they want, all at once, immediately. There is no strategy, just naked expectation of instant gratification.

NYT is really giving the Kirk event the royal wedding treatment, hm? What a lucky coincidence for the man who just publicly ordered his AG to maliciously prosecute his political enemies, evidence or no evidence

Protesters yell at one agent with an American flag mask and sleeves “Nazi” as they push demonstrators off the sidewalk in front of the driveway. “Proud of it,” the agent replied.