Charlie Kirk sure did inspire a thoughtful group of folks.
“I dare you to come and kill me,” one of his followers, an Indiana man who goes by Ronald J. Schoolcraft, wrote me, in response to our article on Kirk’s killer being a fellow MAGA.
I’m not going to take Mr. Schoolcraft up on his apparent challenge to travel to Indiana to engage him in a duel, in case you were wondering.
The worrisome thing here – the guy keeps writing me, and it’s getting to the point that I’m wondering if I should contact the FBI.
As if the FBI, under the thumb of Donald Trump and Kash Patel, would go out of its way to investigate one of their own threatening a media guy, amirite?
Funny thing with all of this being, I wouldn’t have been able to pick Charlie Kirk out of a police lineup with a spotlight on him standing there as a head start a week ago.
Kirk, to me, and 99 percent of the rest of America, was indistinguishable from any of the rest of the America-hating lot on the far, far, far right.
Smug guy, punchable face, blathered on about Martin Luther King Jr. being a “bad guy,” called Michelle Obama and Ketanji Brown Jackson “affirmative action picks,” advised Taylor Swift to “submit to your husband,” affirmed the need for “a Nuremberg-style trial for every gender-affirming clinic doctor” – but don’t they all do that, for attention, clicks and donations?
Learning from his bio that Charlie Kirk grew up a rich kid in the suburbs who dropped out of college after one semester, yeah, fits the mold for privileged MAGA White guy who failed upward – and I can see why he would appeal to underachieving White kids who have decided that their lack of life success is because they’ve been oppressed.
I wouldn’t have guessed, though, that Charlie Kirk would appeal to a guy in his 50s who does business as Schoolcraft Power Train, “providing engineering services and expertise to the power transmission industry with special expertise in gear design and manufacturing and seal system design,” and “expert witness testimony, design engineering support, manufacturing engineering support, problem troubleshooting, training.”
This is according to the resume Mr. Schoolcraft posted on the website of his consulting business, which lists, as his customers the likes of “Caterpillar, Rolls-Royce, Laibe Corporation, Southwest Research Institute, MTSI, John Deere, Axicon Technologies, Productive Resources, Slone Gear International.”
Some heavy hitters there.
Thinking out loud here, we’re seeing people forced out of their jobs for insensitive public posts about Kirk’s murder – the Chesterfield County School Board chair, for instance.
“Chesterfield County School Board Chair Dot Heffron must immediately resign after her comments promoting the murder of Charlie Kirk,” our MAGA governor, Glenn Youngkin, said over the weekend, ahead of Heffron announcing that she will, indeed, step down from the board at the end of the year.
“Nobody who would cheer murder should be allowed within 100 yards of a student. I call on leaders from both parties to not only publicly condemn her despicable comment and rebuke any endorsement she has made, but also join me in demanding her resignation,” Youngkin said.
Alright, right back’atcha, Mr. Governor.
Dot Heffron should step down after her comments “promoting the murder” of Charlie Kirk.
Should the likes of Caterpillar and Rolls-Royce still hire this Ronald J. Schoolcraft guy who threatens a writer?
What’s good for the goose, the rest.
“No one is believing you anymore. You are losing. That is why your ilk killed Charlie Kirk,” Mr. Schoolcraft wrote to me, ominously.
Did you notice the line on his website about why people should believe the Bible?
Can’t make this stuff up, folks.
“I dare you to come and kill me. My contact information and address are given below.”
Look, dude, I just want people to have access to universal healthcare and basic civil rights.
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