Republicans are insane.
Republican lawmakers in Oklahoma introduced legislation this week that would require every public university in the state to construct “a Charlie Kirk Memorial Plaza”, with a statue of the assassinated Republican activist and a sign calling him a “modern civil rights leader”, or pay monthly fines.
The proposed legislation comes as conservatives pay tribute to the murdered activist and podcaster, whose life will be commemorated by the president at a service in Arizona on Sunday, by comparing him to martyred political and spiritual leaders, including Martin Luther King Jr and Saint Paul.
The Oklahoma bill, sponsored by state senators Shane Jett and Dana Prieto, specifies that the memorial site must be in “a prominent area” on the main campus of every institution of higher education in the state system, and must include “a statue of Charlie Kirk sitting at a table with an empty seat across from him” or one of Kirk and his wife holding their children. Designs for the statue must be approved by the legislature.
A rendering, created with artificial intelligence, of what the Charlie Kirk statue at New College of Florida could look like (yeah, Florida is considering the same thing)
Each plaza must also include “permanent signage commemorating Charlie Kirk’s courage and faith and explaining the significance of Charlie Kirk as a voice of a generation, modern civil rights leader, vocal Christian, martyr for truth and faith, and free speech advocate”.
I hope they make provisions for an adjacent vomitorium, because I’d need to use it.
The only truth is that proposed signage is that he was a vocal Christian. I think he was the perfect representative of the modern Christian. If only they could look into the mirror.
Tomorrow is the 23rd of September. Supposedly the day the Rapture is to occur according to the usual cranks. The little dears are going to be so disappointed.
Charlie Kirk was not a hero.
He never served in the military.
He never worked as a first responder.
He never held elective office.
He never pulled a child from a burning building.
All he did was promote fascism, and he made a lot of money for himself in doing it.
Since I don’t like fascism, I do not consider that an especially goo thing.
This is a remake of those statues of confederate generals erected in 1950s.
So if David Duke gets shot, we should build a statue of him?
BTW, I have listened to videos of this guy. Let’s just say I am not impressed.
Horst Wessel for our time.
fusilier
James 2:24
So who would you put in the other chair(s)? Jefferson or Lincoln clutching their heads in horror?
#7, submoron–
Perhaps Jesus?
I’d hope there would be exits nearby!
#8, John Watts-
Yes, if he’s shown horrified/despairing
Adding further insult to injury, Florida’s New College has also decreed a C.K. statue.
F U, C.K.
so the Oklahoma thought police wants to require that every public institution of higher learning has an idol to their new prophet? (why am I not surprised? same state where the Oklahoma State Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters requiring “all Oklahoma schools … to incorporate the Bible, which includes the Ten Commandments, as an instructional support into the curriculum.”) This has to theatre, right? I mean one of those things politicians do to show how devout they are but aren’t meant to do anything with? like a “statement” ? Oklahoma: Ranked 50th out of 50 states in public education by WalletHub in 2025, a study that considered factors such as test scores, graduation rates, and school safety, and this legislative body is going to put efforts towards this? and tell universities to spend money erecting political idols when funds need to be spent on improving safety and education and probably on books? it is the PERFECT illustration of WHY OK’s higher ed system sucks (the folks funding it think THIS is a priority, and think coercion is the best way to promote their agenda) – I cannot wait until this guy is forgotten just like [insert forgotten person here]
OK colleges need a course in “iconoclastism”.
With a practical, lab component.
Perfect target for vandalism. Of course they would want to make that a capital offense.
Are there stipulations as to how waterproof the ground underneath has to be? Because if there aren’t then each one is going to sink into a quagmire of piss within weeks.
Malicious compliance sounds trivially easy here. Submit something along these lines, possibly in this order:
A detailed plan drawn up by a cadre of engineering students for a stick figure sitting at a table with a placard straight out of The Onion posted nearby.
Something that looks just like they want it to… that is 6 inches tall.
Something vaguely like what they want with a plaque stating the legislature required that he be called a civil rights leader, followed by verified Kirk quotes showing he wasn’t. And a thank-you to the specific local congresscritters who voted to pass legislation requiring the statue.
When that last fails, sue them for being overly burdensome such that even telling the simple truth will not suffice and publicize the trial and how much tax money they’re wasting on this sham.
Performative cult is performative.
Civil rights leader? What utter bullshit.
White male supremacy is rather the opposite, and exactly what CK and his cult are about.
That example scupture shown is just asking for the Glasgow solution.
Charlie Kirk was nobody worthwhile or important.
I’d barely heard of him before he was killed.
An Alex Jones clone, selling hate and lies back to the GOP for money.
This is saying a lot that the only hero and martyr the GOP can come up with is a fourth rate human like…Charlie Kirk.
Fair enough. What if we instead have a memorial with a selection of his most inspiring quotes?
vocal christian??? He was a fascist, misogynist, racist xtian terrorist! These xtian terrorist magats deifying him are INSANE.
TR shouldn’t have shot CK; he should have pied him.
I recommend the same for any CK statue.
Is there a way to attract birds to properly “anoint” these monuments to hate and fascism?
Insane? You don’t know the half of it. Several megachurches have used AI to simulate Kirk’s image and voice to allegedly speak from beyond the grave about his death and who he’s hanging with up in Heaven.
https://religionnews.com/2025/09/17/charlie-kirks-ai-resurrection-reveals-new-era-of-digital-grief/
So a party and movement who are already seriously divorced from reality, now have even more opportunity to hide in their own sick cocoon.
kukulkan @23: check the scene where that happens in “Fight Club.”
I’ll just leave this here:
https://legalclarity.org/when-is-compelled-speech-considered-illegal/
Turns out compelled speech runs afoul of the 1st amendment. This is my “shocked-actually-not-shocked” face.
@21 shermanj
Well, yes. You don’t need all those redundant adjectives — he was a Christian.
beholder, you clearly are an ideologue.
You just claimed that merely to be Christian (quite a wide variety of those, of course) necessarily entails that one is also a fascist, misogynist, racist xtian terrorist.
A palpable false claim, and quite absurd.
@27 John Morales wrote: beholder, you clearly are an ideologue.
You just claimed that merely to be Christian (quite a wide variety of those, of course) necessarily entails that one is also a fascist, misogynist, racist xtian terrorist.
I reply: While you may be technically correct that it is a false claim in some cases, based on many decades of personal experience and if we were able to spend the time to research it properly, we would likely find that in a majority of cases, xtian equates with vile excuse of a human being.
Can you believe people are actually posting memes of a Charlie Kirk memorial fountain? What has the world come to?
[facepalm]
What were the lyrics to that musical comedy number??
‘Oklahoma, where the brains keep dripping on the floor’
Will the statue include a button to press to make his head explode?
“… we would likely find that in a majority of cases, xtian equates with vile excuse of a human being.”
No. Too much vastness for that.
I know you mob are trying to shoehorn the default USAnian values of ‘Christian’ as generic, but there is an entire world.
Since PZ has forbidden me to post AI-generated syntheses, I can only assert that just among ‘Mainline Protestant Denominations’ within the USA, some affirm democracy, gender equality, racial justice, and peace; this is antithetical to fascism. They ordain women, support racial equity, and rejects authoritarianism.
If you don’t believe that, fine.
(Then, there is the rest of the world)
Who is that statue supposed to be? It certainly isn’t Charlie Kirk, with a face proportioned to match the head. His most defining feature was his tiny little face on a huge head.
Why not?
The idiots already have their (fattened) golden calf idol. (No, not Mooby.)
Erecting a shrine to Mammon was the next logical step.
@4 I’m strangely comfortable with a memorial of David Duke being shot.
@16 So… the Spinal Tap/Stonehenge treatment?
https://makeagif.com/gif/spinal-tap-stonehenge-HLBGp6
@18 What a lovely statue of an Arabian horse./s
@29 Hemidactylus
Yes, it would be a shame if Oklahoma installed coin-operated Charlie Kirk fountains at all of their public universities, which would quickly pay for themselves. It would be truly terrible if their tourism department gave me a reason to go to Oklahoma and try those out.