Maybe. I also think it's very possible to be genuinely grieving and still be planning ahead for your next business move, which in this case would be take over his enterprises and replace him and become the next Charlie Kirk. I've learned over many years that it's more than justified to have a large dose of cynicism and skepticism when it comes to prominent right-wingers, and to celebrity couples generally whatever their political leanings.
MAGA Turns on College For Not Firing Kirk-Bashing Professors
Clemson University is facing growing scrutiny amid deepening public backlash to a professor’s social media activity about the assassination of Charlie Kirk.www.thedailybeast.com
“… Clemson University has faced massive backlash, and even calls to be defunded, from Republican lawmakers and the late far-right activist’s online followers after failing to dismiss one of its staff members for making comments critical of Kirk following his death on Wednesday.
… Melvin Earl Villaver Jr, an assistant professor of audio technology and global black studies in Clemson’s Department of Interdisciplinary Studies, is understood to have shared a variety of posts ridiculing Kirk’s assassination.
“Worried about DEI and DIED instead,” one now-deleted post reportedly read, with another adding: “Charlie Kirk recently said to a Palestinian that there’s no such thing as Palestinians. Well now look… there’s no longer such a thing called Charlie Kirk.” …”
.., Clemson has since said in a statement it “unequivocally condemns any and all expressions that endorse, glorify or celebrate political violence.” While the college did not directly address any of the posts Villaver is understood to have written, Republican State Representative Thomas Beach claims the university has not yet taken action against either him, or any other members of staff who may have made negative comments about Kirk in recent days.
… “The SC legislature appoints six members of the 13-member board of trustees at Clemson,” Beach posted on X. “I think we need to know which board members didn’t want these leftist professors fired.” …”
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My money’s on Nikki Haley as the holdout (j/k)
As someone who has served on a college board of trustees, I can tell you that it is not the trustees’ job to weigh in on whether teachers at the school get hired or fired.MAGA Turns on College For Not Firing Kirk-Bashing Professors
Clemson University is facing growing scrutiny amid deepening public backlash to a professor’s social media activity about the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
“… Clemson University has faced massive backlash, and even calls to be defunded, from Republican lawmakers and the late far-right activist’s online followers after failing to dismiss one of its staff members for making comments critical of Kirk following his death on Wednesday.
… Melvin Earl Villaver Jr, an assistant professor of audio technology and global black studies in Clemson’s Department of Interdisciplinary Studies, is understood to have shared a variety of posts ridiculing Kirk’s assassination.
“Worried about DEI and DIED instead,” one now-deleted post reportedly read, with another adding: “Charlie Kirk recently said to a Palestinian that there’s no such thing as Palestinians. Well now look… there’s no longer such a thing called Charlie Kirk.” …”
.., Clemson has since said in a statement it “unequivocally condemns any and all expressions that endorse, glorify or celebrate political violence.” While the college did not directly address any of the posts Villaver is understood to have written, Republican State Representative Thomas Beach claims the university has not yet taken action against either him, or any other members of staff who may have made negative comments about Kirk in recent days.
… “The SC legislature appoints six members of the 13-member board of trustees at Clemson,” Beach posted on X. “I think we need to know which board members didn’t want these leftist professors fired.” …”
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My money’s on Nikki Haley as the holdout (j/k)
I think I would be having a little meeting with school administrators.
I would have expected more hot, buxom blondes.
Unfortunately, that seems to be changing.
