Why? Charlie Kirk wasn't anything. He was a political grifter. Oh. Nevermind. Birds of a feather. I get it now.

Minnesota democrats murdered in their homes: nothing done or said. POS grifter shot while talking about violence: lower the flags, President gives a speech and tweet. America 2025 🫡

I will not be lowering my flag in remembrance of the life of an abuser who had helped to cause harm to so many of those that I care about. I will not celebrate his death, but neither will I lose sleep.

Fuck MAGA. Good riddance to every last one of those Nazi white power cultists.

So what about the actual politicians that were gunned down a few month ago. Nothing for them? Oh, because they were democrats, and you endorse it, got it...

I don't understand how Kirk qualifies for this? He was just a modern version of Rush Limbaugh, going even edgier and on other platforms than radio....oh, right, Limbaugh got the fucking Presidential Medal of Freedom, so of course we should lower flags for a fucking Reich wing trolling edgelord.

The NY Times comments about his death are pretty disgusting. Lots of enlightened centrist liberals talking about how inspiring and respectful Kirk was and what a loss it is.

That said, there were only about 100 comments before they locked it. Given the comment counts on big stories like this, I imagine there must've been about 10 or 20 times as many comments that they declined to publish.

This is the same asshole who threw a hissy fit that flags were at half staff for Carter, a far more deserving person than Trump or Kirk could ever dream of being.

But of course not for the kids that got shot today.

Lowering flags is now about as significant as being Nobel Prize nominated.

Like the new "metals of honor", lowering the flag is now meaningless. Remember the orange rapist/felon ordered the flags at full mast after President Carter's death for his inauguration.

I never raise a flag but suddenly want the biggest one at the top of the tallest pole

Does anyone know how to put a flag at 1.5 staff?

one of the only times where it’s acceptable to fly an american flag high and proud

If the USA lowered flags to half mast every time there was a school shooting you may as well just cut off the top half of the flag pole. It'll never get used.

Kirk was a complete scumbag, but flags definitely flew at half-staff for school shootings in the past.

Trump ordered flags at half-staff for Minneapolis

Biden ordered flags at half-staff for Allen, Texas

Also, since this took place at a university, this technically counts as a school shooting. A feverent right-wing agitator dies at a school shooting. Ironic.

America just got its Horst Wessel.

brb raising any flags I see higher.

we got this flag display outside town that lowers to half staff for important shit. they ain't lowering for kirk.

I didn’t like the guy but Trump is going to 100% use this to tighten his grip on America.

Air Force 2 went and picked up his body. They already had a response ready immediately after his death. A long range sniper shot with no one found immediately. At this point it is looking like this was an assassination by the current administration.

Maybe a posthumous Medal of Feces

Once children leave the womb, they are target practice and slave laborers. Republicans have never valued life. They are part of a violent hateful cult which is based in a naive & non-scientific culture that is 2000 years old.

I don't understand why children aren't important - every child lost is one less the asshole can rape. He should care, right?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3L4YrGaR8E4

You mean to celebrate Mario?