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Lefties Cheered Charlie Kirk’s Assassination. That Rot Is Spreading, And Some Are Finally Paying A Price

by | Sep 13, 2025 | Censorship, alt left, Politics

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Here’s the thing. A good man is dead, and a lot of very online people showed us exactly who they are.

Charlie Kirk was assassinated on a college campus in Utah. Thirty-one years old. Husband. Father. Builder. Loved by many, hated by some, but committed to persuading, not punching. The facts are not in dispute. Law enforcement has said he was shot at a Utah university event, with the manhunt and then an arrest dominating the news cycle. ABC News+1

And then came the celebration. Not grief. Not sober reflection. Celebration. Like a tailgate for political murder.

You know what? That tells you more about our culture than any poll. A lot of people are so marinated in tribal politics that they’ll cheer a bullet if it lands in the “right” target. That isn’t politics. That’s rot.

I watched Sky News host Rita Panahi lay out clip after clip of smug reactions, ghoulish jokes, and media hedging that would make a PR intern blush. She called it what it was, and she’s right. The ugliness is the point for these people. They want the spectacle. They want the humiliation ritual. And they want you to accept that some victims deserve it. They even ran a segment titled Lefties Losing It that chronicled the cheering section and the euphemisms. Sky News+1

Let’s talk about the bigger story, because there are two American traditions colliding in this moment.

First, free speech. I’m a free speech guy. Full stop. You can say stupid, cruel things, and the government shouldn’t come after you for it. That’s the standard. The ACLU used to understand this, back when they defended speech they hated. They’d defend a parade of idiots if it proved a point about liberty.

Second, accountability in private life. You post depravity under your real name while employed, your employer might decide you’re bad for business. That isn’t censorship. That’s commerce. Freedom of association cuts both ways.

So yes, we’re seeing people fired. A lot of them. A Nasdaq staffer lost his job after posting garbage about Kirk’s murder. The company said they have zero tolerance for celebrating violence. I don’t love corporate speech codes, but I also don’t shed a tear when someone claps for an assassination and discovers actions have consequences. Reuters+1

A Vegas sports radio producer was canned after bragging about “karma.” Teachers and school staff across the map are being suspended or removed for mocking the killing. A hospital in Virginia cut ties with a worker over a post. An Idaho state employee was fired for divisive comments about the shooting. Even Office Depot fired a worker after a video showed them sneering at printing vigil posters. In some places it’s leave pending investigation. In others, it’s the door. The pattern is simple. Celebrate blood, lose your badge. Fox Business+5KSNV+5Education Week+5

Media, meanwhile, showed its reflexes. MSNBC had a pundit, Matthew Dowd, sit there in the fog of breaking news and muse about “divisive figures” and hateful words leading to hateful acts. Translation, blame the victim without using the words blame the victim. He’s now out at the network after the blowback. He claims he was misunderstood. Sorry, Matthew. When your first instinct after a political execution is to sermonize about the target’s tone, you’re telling on yourself. The network apologized, then pulled the plug. That’s not censorship. That’s editorial judgment and brand protection. People.com+1

I don’t say any of this to score points. I say it because America is teaching the next generation what is normal. When elites treat assassination like just another content lane, people learn that violence is politics by other means. And when campus culture trains students to shout down speech and justify force, some of them will eventually pick up something heavier than a megaphone.

Rita’s segment showed street interviews where people smiled into the camera and said they were happy. That is the mask off moment. It is proof that the “tolerance” brand is just marketing. The same crowd that called speech violence is now cheering actual violence. You know what? That’s the tell. If speech is violence and violence is justice, we’re not debating anymore. We’re recruiting for a fight. Sky News

Let me put it plain. Political murder is domestic terrorism. Period. I don’t care who you vote for. If you excuse it, you invite it. If you cheer it, you normalize it. And if you rationalize it on TV while the body is still warm, you accelerate it. Even those who dislike Kirk’s politics should be able to say the obvious. This was evil.

What did Charlie do that made him such a target? He debated. He asked basic questions, the kind of questions that explode a fragile ideology. What is a woman? Why should the state raise your kids? Why should the government steal more of your paycheck? He excelled at making students think out loud, where the contradiction can’t hide. He did it with humor, with calm, and with clarity. Clips of those campus exchanges went viral for a reason. He was effective. And effective dissenters draw fire. Sky News

I won’t canonize any man. Charlie had strong views and fought hard. But listen to people who knew him. They talk about generosity, family, faith, the discipline of building something, the decency of picking up the phone to help. They don’t talk about rage. They talk about a builder’s spirit. That is exactly the sort of figure a brittle ideology cannot tolerate. It cannot win the argument, so it tries to remove the arguer. That’s where we are.

And the official response? The country is split between candlelight vigils and algorithmic mobs. The FBI and local authorities asked for help, released surveillance images, and then announced an arrest. Reporters filed updates as the investigation moved. That’s the part of America that still works. You do the police work. You catch the suspect. You take it to court. You don’t turn the streets into a battlefield. ABC News+1

Meanwhile, journalists turned the firings into a meta-story about free speech and cancel culture. Fine, let’s talk about it. I’ll give you four principles.

  1. The First Amendment restrains government, not your boss. You can be as cruel as you want on your own time, but don’t be shocked if your employer calculates reputational risk differently.
  2. A culture that cheers assassination will eventually import that logic into everything. If a man can be killed for a speech, a nurse can be fired for a meme. That is the ethical bill you signed when you said violence is acceptable for politics.
  3. Equal standards matter. If a conservative staffer mocked a left-wing figure’s murder, would they keep their job? We all know the answer. The only surprising thing today is that companies are actually applying the standard to progressives on the record cheering the killing. It should always work this way.
  4. Mercy is still an option. Not every dumb post is depravity. Some people were just snarky and thoughtless. Employers should distinguish between “I disagree with him” and “He deserved the bullet.” Fire the latter. Discipline the former. Teach the difference. Some outlets reported dozens of cases, from teachers to firefighters to civil servants. That spectrum matters. Star Tribune+1

There’s a deeper moral split at work. I’ll say it plainly. If you can’t condemn assassination without a comma and a but, you have forfeited the moral high ground. If your politics needs dead enemies to feel alive, your politics is dead already.

The left once prided itself on dissent. On protecting speech. On being the adult in the room. What happened? The same way inflation waters down your whiskey, ideology watered down their empathy. The slogans got louder as the substance got thin. Soon, everything became war, and war justifies anything.

Censorship isn’t the answer here. Accountability is. More speech, not less. Put every bad take out in the sun. Let people see the dead-eyed grins and the jokes about a man’s murder. Then let communities make choices. Do we want that person teaching our kids? Do we want them in charge of a government office? Do we want them representing a brand? Liberty doesn’t protect you from criticism. It invites it.

I’ll also say something that won’t earn me applause from my side. We should resist the urge to build a blacklist. I know the instinct. I feel it. But the goal isn’t to replace one cancel mob with another. The goal is to rebuild a culture where we argue hard, shake hands, go home to our families, and meet again tomorrow. People who celebrate murder make that hard. Some make it impossible. But our standard must hold even when it hurts.

As for the press, they need to stop laundering moral confusion through euphemism. When a public figure is assassinated, don’t reach for the thesaurus. Reach for your spine. Report the facts. Condemn the act. Save the “divisive” lecture for next week’s panel. If you can’t summon that clarity, step away from the camera. MSNBC’s decision to cut a pundit who stumbled here is not censorship, it’s triage for a credibility wound they gave themselves. People.com

Charlie’s legacy won’t be decided by the worst people on social media. It will be decided by what the rest of us build now. We can choose the path of fear and vengeance, where every rally becomes a security drill and every talker looks over his shoulder. Or we can choose courage, where speech gets louder and the culture gets thicker skin.

Here’s what I want to see:

• More debates on campus, not fewer. Put security in place, then let the ideas flow. If one side refuses to engage without shouting down, that’s an admission they’ve lost the argument.

• Parents and pastors teaching kids that politics is not religion. No politician is your messiah. No pundit is your devil. Stop giving fallen humans sacred weight.

• Employers setting bright lines. Don’t celebrate violence. Don’t endorse crime. If you cross that line, you’re gone. But don’t turn HR into a heresy tribunal for every off-color take.

• Media returning to older virtues. Verify. Contextualize. Humanize. Save the moral algebra for the op-ed page, and even there, remember that murder is not a partisan Rorschach test.

I keep thinking about one more thing. Charlie made his name asking simple questions with a smile. Simple questions can save a country. What is a woman? Who should raise your children? What is the role of government? Why do we tolerate the Fed siphoning your future for today’s headlines? Why do we accept forever wars that turn young men into statistics? Why do we let the state decide what we can say? These are basic. If the response to those questions is a bullet, that’s not a policy difference. That’s a confession that the ideology can’t stand daylight.

Paying taxes is like handing the town drunk your wallet and hoping he buys groceries instead of whiskey. Letting the state police speech is like putting duct tape over a smoke alarm. Celebrating assassination is like cheering the arsonist because you never liked the color of your neighbor’s house. It’s madness.

We honor Charlie best by continuing the work. By building families, businesses, and communities that love liberty and tell the truth without fear. By showing up on campuses and in city halls with arguments, not fists. By refusing to hate the people who hate us. That last one is the hardest. Do it anyway.

To those who popped champagne on social media, enjoy the dopamine. Then look in the mirror. If political bloodshed feels like justice to you, you are not the hero in this story. You are the warning.

And to everyone else, keep your head. Mourn the man. Reject the mob. Demand justice. And speak louder than ever.

Because silence won’t save us. Courage might.

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