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It was only a matter of time: Jair Bolsonaro and Charlie Kirk join forces

John Fea   |  February 2, 2023

Brazil’s former president Jair Bolsonaro is in Florida right now and he wants to stay longer. This makes sense for the Trump-inspired former leader. After all, some of his followers recently tried to storm the Brazilian capitol with the hopes...

A socialist reminds Charlie Kirk that Joe Biden is not a socialist

John Fea   |  November 11, 2022

The MAGA right, including right-wing pundit Charlie Kirk (he’ll be at an evangelical megachurch near you this weekend) is fond of saying that Joe Biden is bringing socialism to the United States. This is laughable. Ben Burgis of Jacobin is...

Eric Metaxas and Charlie Kirk have a Christian nationalist meltdown in the wake of the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago

John Fea   |  August 14, 2022

Conservative evangelicals went crazy after the FBI executed a search warrant at Donald Trump’s home in Palm Beach. (I haven’t seen much from them after we learned Trump had classified nuclear documents). We chronicled some of the initial reaction here....

Hey Charlie Kirk–you got the wrong Wheaton College!

John Fea   |  July 12, 2022

Remember back in 2011 when NBC News host Ann Curry confused Wheaton College in Massachusetts with Wheaton College in Illinois? This was particularly embarrassing for Curry because she was delivering the commencement address at one Wheaton College but spoke as...

Voter fraud, attempts to steal the election, Charlie Kirk & Liberty University, and the potential ousting of Rick Warren’s church. And it’s only 9:25am in Anaheim!

John Fea   |  June 14, 2022

Yes, the Southern Baptists are meeting in Anaheim this week. Later today they will elect a new president. We don’t have the time or the staff to follow all the details, so I am relying heavily on other more competent...

“The Great Charlie Kirk,” the wizard of “Dark MAGA”

John Fea   |  May 20, 2022

On Tuesday, North Carolinians dumped evangelical frat boy Madison Cawthorn. Yesterday he gave us more evidence as to why he wasn’t fit to serve in Congress. Perhaps some of you have already heard about the “Dark MAGA” Instagram post. In...

Charlie Kirk on tall buildings

John Fea   |  April 14, 2022

Watch this clip: Some comments: How many “developers” actually care what Charlie Kirk says? There are few high-rises where I live in central Pennsylvania. We do have farmers, but most of us are not “in the weeds,” growing food, and...

Charlie Kirk is not the only one creating watchlists and encouraging students to record their teachers. Putin is also doing it.

John Fea   |  April 10, 2022

Charlie Kirk and his gang at Turning Point USA are not the only ones encouraging students to record teachers and create watchlists of unpatriotic educators . So is Vladimir Putin and his Russian henchmen. Here is Jeanne Whalen at The...

Charlie Kirk: “Huckster. Snake oil salesman. Charlatan”

John Fea   |  April 6, 2022

Charlie Kirk, the pro-Trump pundit who spends most of his time rallying college students to a combative form of conservative populism, regularly appears on the weekends at evangelical megachurches. He is currently visiting churches as part of his “Saving America...

Debunking the Ukrainian biolabs myth promoted by Charlie Kirk and Eric Metaxas

John Fea   |  March 18, 2022

Watch Metaxas and Kirk talk about the potential of Ukrainian biolabs that might be created bioweapons and coronaviruses. This is how fear-mongering works. Kirk says that he can’t be sure about such biolabs, but that does not stop him from...

Beware of “insecure narcissists”: Jack Hibbs and Charlie Kirk on the “Global Reset”

John Fea   |  March 5, 2022

Right-wing evangelical pundit Charlie Kirk recent joined pro-Trump, anti-mask pastor Jack Hibbs at Calvary Chapel-Chino Hills to talk about something they call “The Global Reset.” As I note below, this conversation is not only filled with half-truths and fearmongering, but...

Charlie Kirk or Satanists? Who appears to be the most compassionate today?

John Fea   |  February 25, 2022

Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, right-wing pundit and evangelical Christian Charlie Kirk has not used the word “peace” or “prayer” on his Twitter feed. Instead, he has tweeted: Meanwhile, Kirk made an argument in Newsweek today that Satanists do...

A restaurant asked Charlie Kirk to prove his vaccine status. Be on the lookout. Nazism is right around the corner.

John Fea   |  February 18, 2022

This is the latest fear-mongering from Charlie Kirk. He will be at an evangelical church near you this weekend. I am told by his PR people that he doesn’t make any money speaking at churches. But I am sure that...

The collapse of Charlie Kirk’s “America-first” academy

John Fea   |  February 8, 2022

Pro-Trump pundit Charlie Kirk, the president of the right-wing Turning Point USA, wanted to start an academy to educate K-12 students in “America first” principles. But its major funder abandoned ship after it got a look at the curriculum. Apparently...

Resounding gongs and clanging symbols at Charlie Kirk’s “America Fest”

John Fea   |  December 24, 2021

Charlie Kirk’s pro-Trump, God and country organization Turning Point USA recently hosted a conference called “America Fest.” Thousands of college students, fresh off of final exams, showed-up in Phoenix to attend the event. Let’s see how things went: Colorado congresswoman...

Charlie Kirk: Democrats are letting migrants into the country because they want to diminish and decrease “white demographics in America”

John Fea   |  September 24, 2021

The evangelical nativist Charlie Kirk, a regular visitor to megachurches across the country, “said the quiet part out loud” yesterday on his radio show. Here is a clip: I have posted the video of the entire show below. The conversation...

Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA is mobilizing evangelicals to oppose vaccine mandates

John Fea   |  July 29, 2021

Earlier this week, the conservative evangelical Trump-follower said that Simone Biles is a sociopath. He doubled-down on the comments yesterday: Today we learn how Kirk is stoking vaccine resistance through his “pro-Trump youth group” Turning Point USA. Here is Isaac...

Charlie Kirk has it all figured out

John Fea   |  July 15, 2021

Or does he? Watch: A few comments: Kirk is right about rapes in New York City. In 1980, there were 5,405 rapes in the city. By 2013 that number had dropped to 2,797. By 2019, it reached an all-time high...

Add Charlie Kirk to the list of those who oppose making Juneteenth a federal holiday

John Fea   |  June 18, 2021

The Trump court evangelical joins the fourteen members of Congress who opposed making Juneteenth a federal holiday. As he is prone to do, the supposedly God-fearing Kirk had a hissy fit on Twitter:...

Liberty University and Charlie Kirk part ways. The Falkirk Center will get a new name

John Fea   |  March 16, 2021

The Falkirk Center, named after disgraced former Liberty president Jerry Falwell Jr. and Trump wonder-boy Kirk, will be renamed the “Standing for Freedom Center.” It looks like the website is in a state of transition. Here is Ruth Graham of...

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