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Tommy Carcetti

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9. I don't think it's having the galvanizing effect on the youth that the right-wing wanted.

Reply to Miles Archer (Original post)

Mon Nov 24, 2025, 02:29 PM

Nov 24

I know this is anecdotal, but when I was driving my daughter and her friend (high school aged) home, they were making jokes about everything getting "Kirkified," which apparently is when people feel the need to swap pictures of Charlie Kirk onto everything and everyone, no matter how ridiculous the situation.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/kirkification

It's sort of cynical--and I wouldn't say it's in either bad taste or good taste or even intended as a political statement at all, but rather just one of those nonsensical youth memes of the moment (not unlike like "6-7" )--and goes to show that the young people still more or less basically view Kirk as a joke as opposed to some hallowed, virtuous martyr.

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The plan to use Charlie Kirk as a martyr-slash-MAGAt recruiting tool has fallen dramatically short of expectations. [View all] Miles Archer Nov 24 OP

The people who bought into this idea of Kirk the Savior most slavishly senseandsensibility Nov 24 #1

The key line for me: "Kirk was never the mega-celebrity the right now pretends he was" Miles Archer Nov 24 #5

But the corporate media was all in on pretending he was senseandsensibility Nov 24 #6

"MAGA in, uh, 'misarray'!"... regnaD kciN Nov 24 #2

Yup, most Americans didn't even know he was. Halicarnassus Nov 24 #3

Shapiro dubbed Carlson "the most virulent super-spreader of vile ideas in America." BlueWaveNeverEnd Nov 24 #4

Charlie wasn't as a big a star as his followers believed pfitz59 Nov 24 #7

That fake widow of his didn't help matters. CrispyQ Nov 24 #8

She seems thrilled with her new life. Fake tears and all. NT Happy Hoosier Nov 24 #12

I wonder if she ever wore those spray on leather pants for Charlie? -nt CrispyQ Nov 24 #14

I don't think it's having the galvanizing effect on the youth that the right-wing wanted. Tommy Carcetti Nov 24 #9

Charlie who? NBachers Nov 24 #10

They REALLY tried to make that happen. Happy Hoosier Nov 24 #11

Thats because he is a pos! kimbutgar Nov 24 #13

Ghouls. Cha Nov 24 #15

Kirk was just an updated version of Morton Downey Jr. PSPS Nov 24 #16

Ok,this is purely subjective..in other words.. BattleRow Nov 24 #17

If the vacuum left by someone like Kirk's death can provoke dobleremolque Nov 24 #18

Astroturfed martyrs are quickly forgotten. sop Nov 24 #19

Or maybe it's just that B.See Nov 24 #20

Kirk was unknown to the great majority of Americans Kaleva Nov 24 #21