New rule. If we are going to award the Presidential Medal of Freedom posthumously, we have to dig up the corpse.
Don't have a corpse? Then no Presidential Medal of Freedom for you.
this post was submitted on 14 Oct 2025
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Trump tends to be nice to people who act fully subservient to him -- those he has dominated.
And wasn't Kirk on the "we should see the Epstein files" side of the MAGA divide except for that one afternoon when he said he was over it?
Having a problematic person publicly killed and then "honored" like this sure feels on brand for the wannabe mafia shitheads pulling the strings. It's like how they revel in their hypocrisy rather than hiding it because they care much more about rubbing it in their enemies' faces than they do about their own integrity.
Worthless medal at this point.
We can be angry that a sack of shit was given an award, or we can be glad for the requirements that are needed to be met in order to receive it. I for one, am impatiently looking forward to trump’s posthumous award(s).
Lol.
He's still dead.
Can just stuff it in the hole I guess.
Everything about Kirk's death is performative and self-serving. Even from his widow. And I hate saying that, but it's true.
All the way back to the first so-called "memorial" whose poster included 3-people, (Vance, Trump, and Kirk's widow) and literally no photo of Kirk himself...on a poster for HIS goddamn memorial. We all know that turned into nothing more than a MAGA rally, and from there nothing has changed.
Charlie Kuck's dead body is being used for a grift.
Fitting, really.
and I hate saying that
Why? It's the truth. Bitch was literally profiting off of his death within days. Money really is the only thing the right cares about.
don't hate saying that - it's so abundantly absurd, and deserves to be called out. The whole video Erika took is self-centered and just plain weird. I can't say it was a loveless marriage, but she certainly wasn't grieving his death.
Welcome to America! Where a convicted felon, pedophile and reality tv “star” is president and we worship racist, bigoted podcasters.
Just so much winning!
Anything to draw the attention away from the Epstein files.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horst-Wessel-Lied
Horst Wessel was a Nazi street fighter of no great distinction. He died in a brawl with some other thugs his landlady had hired.
Because his death played into Party propaganda, he was posthumously raised to secular sainthood. The ballad of his death became a favorite Nazi marching song.
He died in a brawl
Unless I'm misremembering something, he was shot in the face when he opened his apartment door.
late recall: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horst_Wessel Yeah, shot at his door.
He brawled with the shotgun shell, and lost.
So just like Carotid Artery Charlie, he lost the gun debate the hard way
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If the Germans get wind of this, those plagiarism charges will most certainly nail them to the cross.
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The brown shirt loser was overdue on his rent payment and the landlord asked some locals to help him/her out. Well, the locals were communist party members and they really took it out on him.
Communist... landlord enforcers? 🙃
Are you suggesting that the Nazis’ characterisation of someone may have been exaggerated to serve their purposes?
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At this point the presidential medal of freedom is worth less then the paper crown you get at Burger King.
Arguably, you have more freedom at BK because you can have it your way.
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"But some of his comments on gun violence, LGBTQ issues, race and more often drew criticism from liberals and others."
So understated lol
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Ehh... worthless award anymore after he bastardized it already
An extraordinary champion of gun rights
No he wasn't, he was against certain people owning firearms, wanna take a guess at which people.
He literally said that gun deaths are the price we have to pay for a free society.
I geuss the medal is for his contribution to that cause??
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He can wear it from his neck piercing.
Assholes of the earth.
Does the medal look like a target?
I like both interpretations of posthumously in this sentence, but I like the other one better.
A lot of medals and awards are going to have asterisks on certain entries in the lists after this.
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