Monday, October 20, 2025

Special Kirk Honorary Recognition Withdrawn by AF Academy

Efforts by some encouraging the U.S. Air Force Academy to posthumously honor former conservative commentator and Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk were rejected on Friday, according to the nonprofit membership organization Academy's Association of Graduates (AOG).

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A proposal to bestow Charlie Kirk with honorary membership in the U.S. Air Force Academy's Association of Graduates is listed on the agenda for Friday's meeting of the board of directors of the academy's nonprofit and independent alumni organization. #Flashes

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... The motions were reportedly introduced by Lt. Gen. Rod Bishop, a retire Air Force veteran, according to another Air Force veteran, Marty France.

"[Kirk] has no long record of service to USAFA," France wrote on his Substack on Oct. 16. "What he does have is long record of racist and sexist statements, though. These are well-documented on thousands of sites and not worth rehashing. Probably the most galling to USAFA graduates, though, are his comments about seeing a black pilot in the cockpit of an airliner. 'If I see a Black pilot, I'm gonna be like, Boy, I hope he's qualified.'

"That's a funny statement coming from someone who had no qualifications to be a member of the USAFA Board of Visitors -- overseeing an institution that has probably produced more qualified pilots, of all races, than any other school in the nation. His comments about women, and other minorities, Muslims, and the LGBTQ+ communities are just as bad"and well-documented." ...



#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-10-18 06:26 PM

Well, so much for funding for the AF Academy. The Drunken Wife Beater will be calling on them soon, telling them that they aren't Real Men... like the former Fox Host.

(love for them what AF means these days)

#2 | Posted by Corky at 2025-10-18 07:00 PM

@#2 ... Well, so much for funding for the AF Academy. ...

I'm thinking more along the lines that Pres Trump might soon be replacing the governing body of Academy's Association of Graduates from his usual pool of incompetent admirers.

Similar to what he seems to have done with his Cabinet.


#3 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-10-18 08:29 PM

I thought Chuckie Kirk was the love child of Gandhi and Jesus and deserves every award available, without question.

#4 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-10-18 09:03 PM

@#4 ... I thought Chuckie Kirk was the love child of Gandhi and Jesus and deserves every award available, without question. ...

The stunning rebuke that his nomination received here was telling.

But at this point, I'm waiting for the MAGA response to the rebuke.


#5 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-10-18 09:41 PM

I'm waiting for the MAGA response to the rebuke.

Put Tucker Carlson in charge and send their funding to Argentina?

#6 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-10-18 10:08 PM

I'm not sure that Charlie Kirk really did anything with his young life.

I'm pretty sure that Charlie Kirk made more people miserable than happy when he was alive.

#7 | Posted by Zed at 2025-10-20 08:39 AM

" I'm pretty sure that Charlie Kirk made more people miserable than happy when he was alive.

#7 | POSTED BY ZED AT 2025-10-20 08:39 AM | FLAG: "

What is the basis for this assessment?

#8 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-10-20 10:28 AM

What is the basis for this assessment?

#8 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER

That he was a damned nasty racist.

#9 | Posted by Zed at 2025-10-20 10:32 AM

The dead racist made professors miserable.

chicago.suntimes.com

#10 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-10-20 10:36 AM

"What is the basis for this assessment?"

Common sense.

Hate speech is inherently harmful, causing severe and widespread damage at both individual and societal levels.

Hate speech has always been a precursor to atrocities and creates a climate of violence and discrimination.

Victims of hate speech often experience heightened fear, distrust of others, and may withdraw from public life to avoid future attacks. This can limit their freedom of expression and participation in society.

#11 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-10-20 10:38 AM

" That he was a damned nasty racist.
#9 | POSTED BY ZED AT 2025-10-20 10:32 AM | FLAG: "

I'm assuming that over the thousands of hours he spoke before the public you have ample evidence to support this.

" Hate speech" is not defined as anything you and your ilk disagree with.

#12 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-10-20 10:46 AM

you'll say it was taken out of context.

He's already been quoted and shown in video to be a racist pos.

#13 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-10-20 11:01 AM

Te 12

By the standards evolved by normal respectful caring empathetic civilized peoples of the world his rhetoric was divisive, racist, xenophobic, and extreme.

If you didn't know this then you are part of the problem.

#14 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-10-20 11:02 AM

Liberty and Justice for ALL!!

No masks.

No Kings.

#15 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-10-20 11:04 AM

The American Democrat party hates this country. They wanna see it collapse. They love it when America becomes less white.

" The Charlie Kirk Show, 20 March 2024

#16 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-10-20 11:06 AM

If I see a Black pilot, I'm going to be like, boy, I hope he's qualified.

" The Charlie Kirk Show, 23 January 2024

If you're a WNBA, pot-smoking, Black lesbian, do you get treated better than a United States marine?

" The Charlie Kirk Show, 8 December 2022

Happening all the time in urban America, prowling Blacks go around for fun to go target white people, that's a fact. It's happening more and more.

" The Charlie Kirk Show, 19 May 2023

If I'm dealing with somebody in customer service who's a moronic Black woman, I wonder is she there because of her excellence, or is she there because of affirmative action?

" The Charlie Kirk Show, 3 January 2024

If we would have said that Joy Reid and Michelle Obama and Sheila Jackson Lee and Ketanji Brown Jackson were affirmative action picks, we would have been called racists. Now they're coming out and they're saying it for us ... 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.

" The Charlie Kirk Show, 13 July 2023

#17 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-10-20 11:08 AM

Charlie Kirk's worst IMHO:

ca.news.yahoo.com

#18 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-10-20 11:11 AM

"I know what you're thinking, we've got to get Joe Biden out of the way so we can run up against Kammy. Oh my goodness, is she beatable. It's like Black Hillary on steroids. Is she Black? I guess she says she's Caribbean or whatever. Doesn't matter. She gives these speeches, and it just has this aura of totalitarianism. My team says she is Indian and Caribbean.

I'll tell you what, she would be a lot easier to beat than Joe Biden. Joe Biden is a bumbling, dementia-filled Alzheimer's, corrupt, tyrant who should honestly be put in prison and/or given the death penalty for his crimes against America."

-Charlie Kirk

#19 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-10-20 11:12 AM

#12 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER

Get your questions answered?

or were you reminded of what you already know?

#20 | Posted by Zed at 2025-10-20 11:30 AM

What is the basis for this assessment?
#8 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER

Oh, my guess would be: not much.
I mean, other than his words and actions.

#21 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-10-20 11:35 AM

ouT oF cOntExt!

-Lil Jeffy

#22 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-10-20 12:41 PM

What is the basis for this assessment?
#8 | POSTED BY BULLBRINGER

That he was a damned nasty racist.
#9 | POSTED BY ZED

You think racism is a problem for a xenophobe like BullBringer, or any Deplorable Trumping MAGAt for that matter?

Hell, I'm sure BullBringer had the same opinions about black and brown people as Charlie Kirk does.

#23 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-10-20 02:06 PM

They do. both jeff and charlie kirk espouse the nazi great replacement theory.

#24 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-10-20 02:17 PM

Hm. What happened to Bellringer?

#25 | Posted by YAV at 2025-10-20 10:06 PM

If I see a Black pilot, I'm going to be like, boy, I hope he's qualified.
" The Charlie Kirk Show, 23 January 2024

It's funny because Air Force pilots are overwhelmingly white men.

#26 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-10-20 10:34 PM

@#12 ... " Hate speech" is not defined as anything you and your ilk disagree with. ...

Hate speech
en.wikipedia.org

... Hate speech is a term with varied meaning and has no single, consistent definition. Cambridge Dictionary defines hate speech as "public speech that expresses hate or encourages violence towards a person or group based on something such as race, religion, sex, or sexual orientation".[1]

The Encyclopedia of the American Constitution states that hate speech is "usually thought to include communications of animosity or disparagement of an individual or a group on account of a group characteristic such as race, color, national origin, sex, disability, religion, or sexual orientation".[2]

Hate speech can include incitement based on social class[3] or political beliefs.[4] There is no single definition of what constitutes "hate" or "disparagement". Legal definitions of hate speech vary from country to country. ...



#27 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-10-20 11:14 PM

@#25

I have things I could say.

But for now, I'll not say them.

#28 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-10-20 11:17 PM

Child of the Universe...

Back in the day, this was a song that engendered emotions ...

Barclay James Harvest - Child Of The Universe (1974)
www.youtube.com

Lyrics excerpt ...

genius.com

...
I'm a child of South Africa
I'm a child of Vietnam
I'm a child of Northern Ireland
I'm a small boy with blood on his hands

Yes I'm a child of the universe
Yes I'm a child of the universe
You can see me on the TV every night
Always there to join in someone else's fight

I didn't ask to be born, and I don't ask to die
I'm an endless scream, a gene machine
That cannot reason why

Yes I'm a child of the universe
Yes I'm a child of the universe
You can see me on the TV every day
I'm the child next door three thousand miles away
...


Back in the days of the Vietnam War, those lyrics struck a chord ...


#29 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-10-20 11:40 PM

... Efforts by some encouraging the U.S. Air Force Academy to posthumously honor former conservative commentator and Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk were rejected ...

And, imo, correctly so.

#30 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-10-21 12:43 AM

Sugarcubes - Motorcycle Mama (1990)
www.youtube.com

Lyrics excerpt ...
genius.com

...
Tell your daddy and your mama too
You got something better to do
Don't stick around the house the rest of your life
You're eighteen - you can do what you like

You'll be the queen of my highway
My motorcycle mama
We'll see the world from my Harley

We'll get matching jackets and helmets too
We'll get respect from the towns we ride through
We'll sleep at the roadside in the soft green grass
And if the squares walk by we'll let them pass

You'll be the queen of my highway
My motorcycle mama
We'll see the world from my Harley
...

#31 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-10-21 02:36 AM

Good. He was never a cadet, Applied to West Point and not the US Air Force Academy, NEVER SERVED, and in general was a regressive bigot.

#32 | Posted by GalaxiePete at 2025-10-21 10:23 AM

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