Charlie Kirk Is Dead: And Right Now, I Don't Feel So Good Myself

You know what really grinds my gears: The fact that we now live in a world without Charlie Kirk and his racist, bigoted, hateful bullshit, and somehow, that makes it worse, even if it should make it better.

When the Poison Well Runs Dry

"The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence." - Bertrand Russell

The political landscape without Charlie Kirk will be like a sewage treatment plant suddenly going offline—at first, you’ll notice is the stench disappearing, then we realize just how much toxic shit was actually pumping through the system. This motherfucker has spent years weaponizing Christianity like a goddamn sledgehammer against LGBTQIA+ folks, and his absence will create a vacuum so powerful it might actually suck some decency back into conservative discourse (although I doubt it). This fucker literally quoted Leviticus calling for death to gay people—imagine the psychological relief washing over queer kids in conservative households when that particular brand of biblical terrorism stops echoing through their Twitter feeds.

"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." - Lord Acton

The psychological ramifications of Kirk's disappearance will ripple through the conservative ecosystem like a fucking earthquake through a house of cards. This asshole has normalized hatred so effectively that young conservatives think empathy is—and I shit you not, these are his actual words—"a made up new age term that does a lot of damage." Without his toxic influence poisoning the well, we might actually see conservative youth develop something resembling human fucking compassion. LGBTQIA+ teens in red states, who've been force-fed his bile about "transgenderism" being child abuse, might finally get a chance to breathe without some bow-tied shithead telling them their very existence corrupts children.

The Philosophy of an Absent Kirk

The philosophical void left by Kirk's absence will force conservatives to confront the festering abscess of their own moral bankruptcy. This motherfucker called Martin Luther King Jr. "awful" while simultaneously claiming to represent Christian values—the cognitive dissonance alone could power a fucking city. Without his particular brand of pseudo-intellectual horseshit, the right will have to find new ways to justify their bigotry, and fuck me if that won’t be harder without their boy-wonder hate-preacher leading the charge. LGBTQIA+ people might actually get to exist in public spaces without some Turning Point USA dipshit screaming about "sexual anarchy" every time two dudes hold hands.

The Anatomy of Absence: How One Asshole's Silence Can Heal Thousands

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion." - Albert Camus

The ripple effects will be fucking astronomical. Every queer kid who's had to sit through a family dinner where Uncle Randy quotes Kirk's "two genders" bullshit suddenly stops. The bullhorn celebrity endorsement for that is dead. Gone. Over. Bled Out. The psychological terrorism this fucker has inflicted—telling gay conservatives they shouldn't "introduce themselves based on sexuality" while he introduces himself based on being a professional homophobe—will finally fucking stop. The relief will be palpable, like taking off a weighted vest you didn't realize was crushing your fucking ribs.

"Knowledge is power." - Francis Bacon

Without Kirk's Professor Watchlist McCarthyist bullshit, progressive educators can actually teach without looking over their shoulders for the thought police. This shitburger has made a career out of terrorizing anyone who dares suggest that maybe, just fucking maybe, LGBTQIA+ people deserve basic human rights. His absence will be like removing a tumor from the body politic—suddenly, oxygen will hopefully flow to parts that were dying from his toxic presence.

"I think, therefore I am." - René Descartes

The philosophical implications are staggering when you consider how one loud-mouthed fuck-nugget has shaped conservative youth culture. His declaration that women's liberation was "an overall negative" while claiming women are "the most depressed group in the history of the species"—as if correlation implies his desired causation—reveals the depth of his intellectual dishonesty. LGBTQIA+ women, particularly trans women, have borne the brunt of his multi-pronged assault on both gender and sexual identity. Without his voice amplifying every regressive impulse in American conservatism, we might see actual fucking progress. I am not confident, but it could happen now. We could FINALLY heal from it.

The Sweet Sound of Silence

"Hell is other people." - Jean-Paul Sartre

The truth is, Charlie Kirk's absence will be like finally getting that fucking splinter out of your finger—immediate relief followed by the realization of just how much unnecessary pain we’ve been enduring. Every LGBTQIA+ person who's had their humanity questioned by his followers, every progressive who's been doxxed by his watchlists, every human being with a functioning moral compass who's had to watch this shitstain call George Floyd a "scumbag"—all will experience the collective exhale of a nightmare ending. The fucker has spent years building an empire of hate, brick by bigoted brick, and his absence will finally let us start dismantling that monument to human cruelty.

The most fucked up part? We're sitting here watching a world without one hateful voice when we should be building a world where such voices never gain platforms in the first place. But here we are, in the timeline where calling for LGBTQIA+ people's death gets you a speaking tour while advocating for universal healthcare gets you called a communist. Am I fucking Communist? No. I’m a goddamned trans woman, and I just want to live in fucking peace. And NOT have to look over my fucking shoulder every day wondering where and how and when I am going to get hit next.

Charlie Kirk's absence won’t solve everything—there's a whole ecosystem of assholes ready to fill his shoes—but fuck me if it won’t be a start. Every queer kid who doesn't have to hear that they're "corrupting children" by existing, every woman who doesn't have to hear that her depression is caused by liberation rather than systematic oppression, every person who gets to live without this particular brand of weaponized Christianity—they'd all be better for it.

That's the real fucking tragedy here: we're seeing about absence when we should be demanding presence—the presence of love, acceptance, and basic human decency that Kirk has spent his career trying to destroy.

Fuck Charlie Kirk. Fuck his message. Fuck his hate. Let him just disappear with no relevance or bravada.