"Let's just be honest, all the Swifties want is swift abortion."
Women don't want to be the property of men. Go figure.
Why you keep telling me to be careful, Old man ?
Your stupidity doesn't deserve my sacrifice, Kiddo.
Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?
Epicurus
I suspect it would be a challenge to find a Christian in America more thoroughly fake than Charlie Kirk, the head of a Right-wing group called Turning Point USA. I’m unsure what TPUSA does or if it exists merely to amplify Kirk’s sizeable ego. Whatever the case, Kirk thinks he has a lot to add to the public discourse, though much of it is patently ridiculous and easily debunked.
Never mind his absurd lack of self-awareness and his world-class arrogance. But he’s a top-notch incel who legitimately believes that women should be the rightful property of men and should set foot outside the house only with their husband’s permission. And why would a woman need to vote when their husbands are perfectly well-equipped to make decisions for them?
With the Far-Right getting their collective asses handed to them (electorally speaking) on Tuesday night, Charlie Kirk has his panties in a wad over abortion rights winning so handily. Next, women will want to make their own decisions. After that, who knows? Anarchy and chaos will probably reign throughout the land.
It’s not a contest of which extraneous white conservative loser coward MAGA man is having the funniest conniption over America handing the so-called “pro-life” movement its ass Tuesday night and forcing it to eat it.
But Charlie Kirk would like to take a turn, obviously.
Charlie is furious, obviously.
Charlie is mad about a commercial placed by a group called Roe Your Vote Virginia, encouraging young women to vote.
The commercial was a Taylor Swift knockoff. And a Barbie knockoff.
The theme was “Look What You Made Us Do,” and the “You” was patriarchal white Christian fascists and their illegitimate partisan hack Supreme Court, and the “What” was voting.
If this isn’t lowly women acting out of turn without regard for interchangeable MAGA dudes like Charlie, he doesn’t know what is.
His tantrum is so amazing, y’all. He’s so angry, and if he keeps scrunching his angry little misshapen face like this, it’s gonna get stuck in a whole different repulsive rhombus shape.
Yeah, Charlie Kirk is all sorts of angry because single women HATE men and are terribly selfish and more concerned about their own lives than birthing babies for the coming Christian revolution.
What would Jesus say about that??
If only Kirk could convince single women that selfishly pursuing their goals rather than his will have the inevitable result of leading society away from Jesus.
He says abortion is what makes single women so loyal. (Yes, specifically single women. Homely, uninteresting white Christian fascists like Charlie who wouldn’t likely ever be chosen by a human woman if there wasn’t at least some sort of religious/societal pressure involved are very rageful at single women.)
Charlie says single women don’t even care that they’re being “raped by illegals” or about the border. These damned single women don’t care about anything that makes Charlie Kirk’s shit his white supremacist bed at night! And here he is taking the time to tell them what to believe and everything.
“They want to make sure that they can get abortions. It is the top priority for young female voters,” he says.
Sadly, Charlie, it’s not about making “sure that they can get abortions.” It’s about making sure that White Conservative Christian Cisgender Heterosexual males don’t continue to chip away at their rights.
Most women aren’t even concerned about abortions, per se, but rather about what they represent. It’s about a woman’s right to obtain a full range of reproductive health care- up to and including abortion if that’s determined to be necessary and/or appropriate. That’s a decision rightfully made between a woman and her doctor, not BY her Republican White Conservative Christian Cisgender Heterosexual male legislator.
The fear is that once Republicans succeed in taking away abortion rights, it will be easier for them to move on to other rights. Voting? Speech and expression? Assembly? Movement? Loving whom and how we choose? And once rights disappear, it becomes exceedingly difficult to restore them, so fighting to keep these rights isn’t an academic exercise; it’s a threat to be met head-on.
The end of the commercial says “Keep yourself in power,” and this enrages Charlie, and it’s very funny, because you get to witness in real time the cultural powerlessness of MAGA men, who have nothing to contribute to anyone.
“Keep yourself in power,” he scoffs. “So narcissistic.” Remember, Charlie is part of a Christian fascist white movement of people, loathed by all normal Americans, who want to install themselves in power permanently.
So narcissistic? Because women dare to confront Republican White Conservative Christian Cisgender Heterosexual male incels who’ve convinced themselves that women are property and the world is rightfully theirs? How is that not “narcissistic” and supremely arrogant? Sorry, Charlie, but being a Republican White Conservative Christian Cisgender Heterosexual Penis-American is apropos of precisely nothing. And it certainly isn’t a title to America, knowhutimean?
Kirk reserved a special dose of disdain for Taylor Swift, who he sees as being singularly responsible for raising the social consciousness of America’s young women.
If that’s the case, good on her.
KIRK: Taylor Swift, I think she put up one voter registration link and she registered millions and millions …
Our side is nowhere near maxed out, that’s for fuckin’ sure.
KIRK: and let's just be honest, all the Swifties want is swift abortion. That's what they want. It's 100%.
That is the funniest fucking thing anybody has ever said and we are going to injure ourselves laughing.
KIRK: I don't know why it's so controversial. We act as if she is like Mother Mary or something. Newsflash, she ain't Mother Mary. And people say, but Charlie, why would you attack Taylor Swift, she's so popular, she is all these different things.
“[A]ll the Swifties want is swift abortion?” Seriously, is Kirk really that arrogant and dense? Does he expect America’s women to automatically accept the authority of White Conservative Christian Cisgender Heterosexual Penis-Americans? Is he so out of touch with reality that he believes his fairy tale reality should be accepted without question?
Yes, that’s a rhetorical question.
Of course, abortion isn’t the only issue on Kirk’s radar. He also hates the LGBTQ community and considers the existence of transgender people (“the transgender thing happening in America”) to be “a throbbing middle finger to God.”
At least something of Charlie Kirk’s is throbbing….
Unfortunately for Kirk, the world isn’t about to conform to his narrow, fear-based blueprint. He doesn’t get to determine right or wrong, and his White Conservative Christian Cisgender Heterosexual standard of personal conduct and belief applies only to himself. If he chooses to live and believe in his narrow, ignorant, and White-male-centric world, then good on him- but that’s as far as it goes. He has no authority to force his standards upon anyone else.
You’ll hear Kirk and others on the Far-Right whine about how America is in “big trouble” in the wake of Tuesday’s elections. Despite that declaration, it seems to me that elections represent the will of the People, not of narrow, intolerant American Taliban “Christians” like Charlie Kirk. If a plurality of voters decide differently, that doesn’t make them “wrong” or “sinful.” It means they have different values and want to protect women’s rights.
Perhaps it’s time for Charlie Kirk and his fellow White Conservative Christian Cisgender Heterosexual American Taliban zealots to understand that they’re free to believe as they will. But they have no right to impose their beliefs on those who happen to think, live, believe, and/or love differently. America, at least for the moment, is still a democracy, and abortion rights carried the day on Tuesday. Kirk didn’t like that, but he didn’t have to, and no one was required to care about his feelings.
I certainly don’t.
Cry me a river, Chuck. Get your own self-righteous house in order…and then maybe give some thought to why other people reject your intolerant, hypocritical American Taliban “Christianity.” You might find that some people want to enjoy life. And there’s nothing wrong with that.
Lighten up, willya?
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"Throbbing middle finger" -- and we all know where Charlie wants to slide that middle finger ...
American Taliban is right. The towering arrogance of these people is proven by the fact that, like Kirk, they're not only not sobered by polls showing that they're in the minority on abortion, they're contemptuous of them. They're so deluded, so immersed in their own hubris, that the notion of having the humility to accept that which they cannot change, to trust their faith and to focus on themselves so that they can live in a world that's in opposition to their beliefs with equanimity, which is supposed to be a Christian virtue, isn't even a remote possibility. And the result is that they lash out at heathens that they imagine instead of fixing the heathens in their mirror.