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.
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? 🙃
That's one way to serve an eviction...
If the Germans get wind of this, those plagiarism charges will most certainly nail them to the cross.
While you’re drawing parallels, remind everyone how to stop Nazis.
I figured this whole thing had legs, like the Wessel story. Appears our attention span is too short to give a shit about a murdered fascist.
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.
Happy cake day!
He can wear it from his neck piercing.
Ehh... worthless award anymore after he bastardized it already
The award has become less than meaningless after Lush Limbaugh's.
Just like being president.
or nobel peace prize recipient
An extraordinary champion of gun rights
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??
It's sorta like a participation trophy, yeah
Hooooly shit, Charlie Kirk died!?
I didn't even know he was sick
Why, never heard him speak?
👏
Yup, shot right through the neck while spewing racist bullshit at a university. As someone who campaigned for bringing back public executions, his wife and kids were there to witness, exactly how he wanted it.
Can you believe that the little shit was only in his early 30s? I thought he was at least a decade and a half older. Hate ages you more quickly.
I hope so, since they buried him.
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.
Welcome to America! Where a convicted felon, pedophile and reality tv “star” is president and we worship racist, bigoted podcasters.
Just so much winning!
She totally looks like she's in mourning with the couture black dress and $1,000+ hair cut.
Who?
Donald J Trumph is the president of the USA
Nobel peace prize loser and president of the United States, Donald Trump
wished i forgot
Ew.
A lot of medals and awards are going to have asterisks on certain entries in the lists after this.
PED-ophiles?
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.
Worthless medal at this point.
He's number one with a bullet!
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He spreads those things around like syphilis, doesn’t he?
They're all just like Charlie Kirk. They are all domestic terrorists. And I haven't even gotten to what outsiders say about them!
"But some of his comments on gun violence, LGBTQ issues, race and more often drew criticism from liberals and others."
So understated lol
Where is Lee Greenwood with his banger for Ol' Kirk? God Bless Charlie Kirk maybe?
the White House awarded a white nationalist Christian fascist. doesn't matter what it really means; the fact it was done at any level is appalling.
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