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Wednesday, September 17, 2025

Ryan Adamczeski, The Advocate: Since his death, [Charlie] Kirk has been praised for how he engaged in political debate -- but his legacy is not one of honest discourse. Kirk built his brand by demonizing LGBTQ+ people and other minorities, frequently spreading disinformation about transgender people and gender-affirming care.

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Kirk built his brand by demonizing LGBTQ+ people and other minorities, frequently spreading disinformation about transgender people and gender-affirming care

'Salright. Libs love it when Hamas does it.

#1 | Posted by censored at 2025-09-17 05:49 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Kirk told bigots what they wanted to hear

#2 | Posted by hamburglar at 2025-09-17 07:00 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 4

"praised for how he engaged in political debate"

Charlie Kirk did not debate. He did crowd work. No moderator, he controlled the mic, a heavily prepared 31 year old vs random college students responding to the verbal equivalent of clickbait.

Charlie Kirk did one debate, at Oxford, against professionals with a moderator. He got his ass kicked, badly.

#3 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2025-09-17 09:21 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 3

He'd show the dumbest liberals. And holy ---- they were Dumb.

#4 | Posted by horstngraben at 2025-09-17 09:34 PM | Reply

To be fair, libs do it to. I mean showing the dumbest people in the country, who happen to be Republicans.

The ones who blame Obama for 911 and can't point to Europe on a map.

There's just so many. No shortage on either side.

#5 | Posted by horstngraben at 2025-09-17 09:38 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

What did Kirk say?
Nothing worth remembering.
Nothing out of what was for him the ordinary.
Just his usual bigoted, twisted sheet.
He and it will not weather well.
Unless, like MAGAts, you desperately need a Horst Wessel stand-in.
Oompah, oompah ...

#6 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-09-18 05:52 AM | Reply

#6

I just realized that for all the praise of him, I never see a direct quote or reference.

#7 | Posted by TFDNihilist at 2025-09-18 06:22 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

Nobody wants to see someone get fatally shot.

Nobody in their right mind wants to hear the words of a smooth-talking bigot, misogynist and religious hypocrite.

Everyone should read--and reject--this guy's filthy words...

#8 | Posted by catdog at 2025-09-18 08:34 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Charlie Kirk did one debate, at Oxford, against professionals with a moderator. He got his ass kicked, badly.

#3 | Posted by sitzkrieg

I'm gonna have to look for that on Youtube.

#9 | Posted by jpw at 2025-09-18 09:17 AM | Reply

Maybe Sitz can tell us all what happens to a body when it gets hit by 30.06.

#10 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-09-18 10:53 AM | Reply

And prominent Dems are on record saying Trump should be killed, Israel should be destroyed, Jews should be erased (yet Reps are the Nazis...riiiiiight), Biden threatened to run over a journalist, and on and on and on and on and on.

Anything liberals say that is 100% hypocrisy is doing two things...1) ensuring they lose future elections they don't want to lose and 2) ensuring less people actually listen to what they have to say. Case in point, Trump was able to be elected in a pretty convincing manner.

#11 | Posted by humtake at 2025-09-18 11:20 AM | Reply

#11 | POSTED BY HUMTAKE

If I slaughtered a goat, would you go away?

#12 | Posted by Zed at 2025-09-18 11:27 AM | Reply

And prominent Dems are on record saying Trump should be killed, Israel should be destroyed, Jews should be erased (yet Reps are the Nazis...riiiiiight), Biden threatened to run over a journalist, and on and on and on and on and on.
Anything liberals say that is 100% hypocrisy is doing two things...1) ensuring they lose future elections they don't want to lose and 2) ensuring less people actually listen to what they have to say. Case in point, Trump was able to be elected in a pretty convincing manner.
#11 | Posted by humtake at 2025-09-18 11:20 AM

Your post has a definitive German accent.

Give specific quotes so that I can stop laughing at your idiocy.

"Convince" me.

#13 | Posted by redlightrobot at 2025-09-18 11:28 AM | Reply

Charlie Kirk DID say stoning gay people was the 'perfect law' " and these other heinous quotes

Kirk invoked a Bible verse about stoning gay people "to death" on a June 2024 episode of his podcast with Jack Posobiec, calling it "God's perfect law when it comes to sexual matters."
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"There's a direct connection to inflation and the trans issue. You say, Charlie, come on. They couldn't be further apart. No, they're exactly the same. They're the same in this aspect"when you believe that men can become women, why wouldn't you also believe that you could print wealth? If you believe that someone can change their gender, why wouldn't you also believe that money is wealth?"
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Kirk tweeted last month that "it should be legal to burn a rainbow or [Black Lives Matter] flag in public."

"We should work to overturn every conviction for those arrested, fined, or otherwise harassed for the hate crime' of doing donuts over Pride flags painted on public streets," he said.
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Kirk said in a September 2023 speech that trans people are "throbbing middle finger to God." He then directly addressed University of Pennsylvania swimmer Lia Thomas, a trans woman, deadnaming her and telling her "you're an abomination to God."
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Kirk blamed the so-called "decline of American men" on trans equality in an interview with failed college swimmer Riley Gaines, saying people should have "just took care of" trans people "the way we used to take care of things in the 1950s and 60s" " which independent journalist Erin Reed notes notes included lobotomies, shock therapy, and involuntary institutionalization. Others interpreted it as advocating for lynchings or physical violence against trans people.
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Kirk said in an April 2024 episode of his podcast, clipped by Media Matters, that doctors who provide gender-affirming care should be prosecuted like the Nazis were after World War II.

"Her daughter all of a sudden came home and said, 'I'm a boy.' She said, 'what?' And the whole assembly line, the conveyor belt was started to grind," Kirk said. "They wanted to give her cross-sex hormones. They wanted to give her testosterone therapy. They wanted to cut off her breasts. They wanted to do all these sorts of things, and these doctors do this without any thought whatsoever. Yeah. Sure. Here's the script. Here's the clinic. Go here. Go for surgery. These doctors need to be put in prison quickly. We need to have a Nuremberg-style trial for every gender-affirming clinic doctor. We need it immediately."
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When asked if he would support his children if they came out as gay or trans, Kirk said he would not, calling trans identities a "social contagion" that can be explained by "the autism spectrum" and "puberty anxiety."

"I don't affirm delusions. You do not affirm what is harmful or what is not true," Kirk said. "And you must find the underlying issue as to why this is happening. ... Young women have always been more prone to social contagions, and transgenderism is a social contagion. A 5,000 percent increase in transgenderism is not normal. Everybody is an external force upon our nation's youth."

#14 | Posted by redlightrobot at 2025-09-18 12:10 PM | Reply

"What is with this all gender bathroom stuff? You go in there and it's like boys and girls both in the same restroom," he said. "I got thinking to myself, How did this happen?' It happened for a couple reasons. One of the reasons is that we tried to reconfigure society to accommodate and pander to a hypervocal minority that itself will never actually be happy regardless of how many changes we make for the alphabet mafia, it's never going to be enough, right? Bathrooms, pronouns, whatever, but then it's like we have to teach your four year old about whether or not they need to transition or not."

"I do not believe transitioning your gender is right for people," he added. "I think it's a lie and we should tell people that suicide rates are extremely high for people that transition. ... You look at the transition regret and it will take your breath away at how many people wish they did not transition."
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"The transgender movement actually matters even more than biomedical fascism and they actually are together because the transgender movement is an introductory phase to get you to strip yourself of your humanity to mesh with machines," Kirk said. "It's called transhumanism. They want you to say 'Okay, well, I can choose any gender, why can't I just have like an exoskeleton of some sort of machine around me?'"

"This is what meta is about, the metaverse, kids staring at screens all day long," he continued. "This is where Silicon Valley is going. This is why they're so insistent on this transgender thing, because if you stop being a man then maybe you could stop being a human being."
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"Cis is a slur. 'Sex assigned at birth' is a logical fallacy," Kirk wrote. "Gender Affirming Care is child mutilation. Minor Attracted Persons are pedophiles. Trans is a mental delusion. Reclaim the language they stole from us."
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"There are hundreds of peaceful people that went into the Capitol on January 6. They did not touch a police officer," Kirk lied. "They didn't smash a window, but they have been charged federally for trespassing and called insurrectionists for the rest of their life. ... They should have stripped naked and filmed themselves having gay sex."
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"Enough of the gender insanity and the pandering to avoid hurting someone's precious feelings," Kirk tweeted in August 2024. "The Olympics just allowed a biological man, Imane Khelif, to pummel Italian Olympian Angela Carini. She lasted 46 seconds because to (sic) how painful it was: 'I have never been hit so hard in my life.' Her life's work was stolen by a man who beats up women for sport. Will someone have to die before people wake up?! This entire ideology is pure evil."
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After reports that the person who shot up a Catholic school in Minneapolis was trans, Kirk blamed all trans people for the violent attack.

"The evil perpetrated on young people by the trans medical industry is something future generations will look upon with horror," he wrote.

#15 | Posted by redlightrobot at 2025-09-18 12:10 PM | Reply

Re 14&15

You are just going to confuse the One Trick Hummer by posting so many facts at once. It will take him a week to read it all. If he bothers to read any of it.

Charlie Kirk did not debate. He did crowd work. No moderator, he controlled the mic, a heavily prepared 31 year old vs random college students responding to the verbal equivalent of clickbait.

Exactly.

Charlie Kirk was just an online troll who took his show on the road.

#16 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-09-18 12:19 PM | Reply

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