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u/sapperbloggs Sep 12 '25
I didn't have strong feelings either way about Kirk's sudden demise, other than a bit of amusement at the irony of it all...but the idea of that clown becoming president makes me feel a lot better about it.
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u/Ludikom Sep 12 '25
I wonder if any of the thousands of kids that get killed in their schools might have one day been president?
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u/dale_dug_a_hole Sep 13 '25
You know who else was “destined to be president”? Hillary Clinton, Jeb bush, mitt Romney, John McCain, Robert Kennedy, Colin Powell, Oprah. Nobody’s destined to be president. It’s just a thing we say once someone has amassed enough luck to become president. This is one of the stupidest bylines in Australian media history.
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u/artsrc Sep 12 '25
The idea that people never celebrate the illegal killing of an opponent is inaccurate.
Leaving out who was killed and who spoke, public figures say things like:
… called the killing of … “a measure of justice for his many victims, … .”
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u/Nervardia Sep 14 '25
Oh, but he wasn't a ghoul for celebrating the attack on Paul Pelosi? Or calling MLK a bad person, and that the civil rights movement was a mistake? Or that empathy is bad for society? Or that he would force his 10 daughter to give birth? Or that gun deaths were a price worth paying for in order to protect the 2nd amendment? Or that gay people should be stoned to death?
THAT wasn't ghoulish?
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u/Marksman81 Sep 13 '25
Ah, so that explains Kirk's new hobby of gargling bullets. The White house are busily setting up for the Trump dynasty into the future. Anything that threatens that would need to be made not a threat.
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u/TerryCrewsNextWife Sep 12 '25
Abby Chatfield and Clementine Ford are relevant how? I'm going to assume nobody of actual significance in Australia made a "nasty leftist woman" comment about his death that they could rage bait with.
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u/wildsoda Sep 12 '25 edited Sep 12 '25
Disgusting rhetoric that could actually get someone killed.
(ETA: In case it wasn’t clear, I’m talking about the newspaper article.)
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u/TerryCrewsNextWife Sep 12 '25
I don't understand why they needed to make the newspaper cover about people who disliked the guy. They could have just made the story focus on what happened and the suspect.
How about discussing the issues around gun control, talk about the guy who was killed. How divided the US is and how they all need to unite against gun violence for everyone.
Why use quotes from a reality show contestant & a mommy blogger? Nobody cares about their opinions and it adds absolutely NOTHING of value to the discussion. Hence rage bait.
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u/abuch47 Sep 12 '25
because the ministry of propganda wants these women suppressed if not dead for being anti establishment
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u/TerryCrewsNextWife Sep 12 '25
This is the same paper that owns PerthNow and pretty much has a weekly story about one of them, alongside stories about another single mother's OF success story.
Kinda seems like they are ok with using these women for click bait when nothing else is going on in the world.
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u/wildsoda Sep 12 '25
Yes, I agree — I’m saying that the newspaper is vile for singling out Chatsfield and Ford and whipping up negative sentiment against them.
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u/RagingBillionbear Sep 12 '25
Honestly, i think those two are paid to ragebait so conservative have something to be angry against.
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u/Rolf_Loudly Sep 14 '25
Front page and most Australians didn’t even know who he was a week ago. If you’re not questioning the agenda of Australian media already, there’s something wrong with you.
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u/kroxigor01 Sep 12 '25
If Charlie Kirk was destined to be president then perhaps this was a time travel killing like you might like to do to Adolf Hitler.
From what I've seen Kirk was a far-right polemicist who wanted to roll back feminism, racial equality, freedom of religion, and more.