Thread 🧵: What really happens at Turning Point Events.
(Trigger Warning: Disturbing Content)
- Deplorable Conduct
- Police Reports
- Allegations of Abuse
- Underage Drinking
- Lives Changed Forever
And a staff which did nothing to stop it.
This isn't partisan, its evil.
“Different opinions,” Alec? Have the fucking decency to name what those opinions meant for the people expected to suffer under them.
Kirk said that even a hypothetical ten-year-old daughter pregnant through rape should deliver the baby. Translate that into policy: a sexually assaulted CHILD denied an abortion and compelled to continue the pregnancy. Her body, her pain, her schooling, her recovery—all subordinated to his convictions. Calling that “protecting children” is grotesque.
He demanded a nationwide ban on trans-affirming care. The concrete objective was to make that care unavailable: patients unable to obtain treatment because Charlie Kirk’s politics overruled their decisions with their clinicians. He publicly described a trans woman as a “freak,” then presented himself as compassionate. Contempt with a microphone doesn’t become compassion because you invoke God.
He demanded that transgender people be disqualified from military service. That means people barred from a career regardless of their individual competence: lost opportunities, livelihoods and years of work building a future. Those people have families too, Alec. Where’s your fucking concern for them?
These positions told people something brutally concrete: your control over your body, your access to care and your career should depend on whether you satisfy his ideology. The humiliation of being publicly degraded was accompanied by a campaign to turn that contempt into government policy.
His children’s grief is real. His murder was wrong. Neither fact requires anyone to pretend he was a harmless bloke exchanging opinions. You can mourn the father without whitewashing the activist. And you don’t get to demand tenderness toward his legacy while treating the people he targeted as disposable.
Rightists have trouble understanding why Charlie Kirk jokes are funny.
Maybe I can explain it in a way you can understand.
People make jokes when a situation is absurd, and more specifically, when others demand you say something untrue about a person and treat them with more respect than they deserved.
George Floyd died. You conservatives thought jokes about St Floyd were funny. In your mind, he was a criminal and a drug addict, and leftists had treated him like the Second Coming of Jesus. Or think about how you'll see a trans person playing basketball with biological women, which leftists tell you is fine and normal, and how funny it is to laugh at this.
Similarly, most Americans do not share your personal admiration for Charlie Kirk. They think he was a bigot and a conspiracy theorist. He was also not in any way a thinker or someone who contributed positively to the discourse, but a political hack who formed his opinions based on tribal considerations and owning the libs.
When Charlie Kirk died, you went around cancelling people for being insufficiently sad. Even if someone said they were sad about his death and they just thought he didn't deserve to be admired, in those cases rightists still tried to destroy people's lives. Republicans in Congress started calling for a statue of Charlie Kirk in the US Capitol, and others introduced legislation to put his face on coins.
As of April 2026, an AP article identified more than 60 Kirk-themed bills introduced across over 20 states. Among these was one in Florida that threatened to take away funding from universities if they didn't rename a road after Charlie Kirk.
Outside of your bubble in which Charlie Kirk was a great thinker and leader, this is all ridiculous.
So when people at a Chappelle show hear the name "Charlie Kirk," they're not thinking about the human being and father. They're associating the name with rightists trying to create a cult of personality, and are employing humor, which is common when people are facing a movement that is trying to tell them what to do.
oh my goodness, Tim Miller totally destroyed the hosts of the Charlie Kirk Show as they desperately tried to deflect from Trump's failures
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