Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., on Friday opposed a resolution honoring the life and legacy of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, the 31-year-old unelected, Radical Right antisemitic Christian Nationalist racist extremist, who was assassinated Sept. 10 during a speaking engagement at Utah Valley University.
She read a series of damning Charlie Kirk quotes on the House floor Friday afternoon after the passage of a resolution to mark Oct. 14, 2025 as “Charlie Kirk Remembrance Day.” The resolution states Americans should use the day to remember the slain MAGA influencer—who was fatally shot on Sept. 10 while speaking during an event at Utah Valley University—as someone devoted to “strengthening public discourse, defending constitutional principles, and fostering active citizenship.” However, Ocasio-Cortez argued this was a “whitewashing” of Kirk and his agenda.
In her speech on the House floor, Ocasio-Cortez asserted that the resolution was introduced on a "purely partisan basis, instead of uniting Congress." After condemning Kirk's murder, she noted the resolution "brings great pain to the millions of Americans who endured segregation, Jim Crow and the legacy of bigotry today" and tore into the late 31-year-old's ideology."We should be clear about who Charlie Kirk was, a man who believed that the Civil Rights Act that granted Black Americans the right to vote was a mistake, who, after the violent attack on Paul Pelosi, claimed that ‘some amazing patriot' should bail out his brutal assailant and accused Jews of controlling ‘not just the colleges – it’s the nonprofits, it’s the movies, it’s Hollywood, it’s all of it,'" Ocasio-Cortez said.
"His rhetoric and beliefs were ignorant, uneducated and sought to disenfranchise millions of Americans — far from the ‘working tirelessly to promote unity’ as asserted by the majority in this resolution."
The resolution ignored the fact that Kirk was an unelected, Radical Right antisemitic Christian Nationalist racist extremist. Instead, it described Kirk as a "devoted Christian," "dedicated husband" and a "loving father" of two, and commending his personification of the First Amendment which is now under assault by Kirk’s mentor Donald Trump.
In the resolution, the House of Representatives condemned Kirk's assassination and all forms of political violence; commended law enforcement for catching Kirk's alleged killer; extended condolences to Kirk's family; honored Kirk's life, leadership and legacy; and called upon all Americans — regardless of race, party affiliation or creed — to "reject political violence, recommit to respectful debate, uphold American values, and respect one another as fellow Americans."
AOC rightfully dissented, saying that Charlie Kirk's "rhetoric and beliefs were ignorant, uneducated and sought to disenfranchise millions of Americans."
Here is a breakdown of public comments Kirk made regarding the topics Ms. Ocasio-Cortez mentioned in her dissent.
In a February 2024 podcast, Kirk acknowledged his ideas about the Civil Rights Act and its role in American society were "provocative”. Explaining why his ideas were provocative, Kirk said, "At the time … there were legislative priorities that needed to be done by the federal government to stop bitter segregation. The American people thought they were getting minor legislative adjustments to say that segregation based on race is evil and wrong. In reality, what they got was the birthing of a permanent deep state of bureaucrats that were looking for racism where it didn't exist, eventually with affirmative action, quotas and hiring practices expanded beyond race into LGBTQ-type issues.”
In other words, Kirk’s fine-tuned interpretation of the Civil Rights Act leads one to reject the Act and return to unfettered segregation and racism. He then, as all Radical Right White Nationalist extremists do, blamed the Civil rights Act for empowering the federal government to “not just to say that discrimination is wrong, but to actively go against any sort of disparate outcome and try to even the score under the guise of equity." Like all Radical Right extremists, Kirk’s blaming of the federal government is an automatic impulse. Without saying what the alternative to the Civil rights Act is, Kirk instead prefers that the states that were implementing racist policies (Jim Crow, equal but separate, etc.) be the ones to enact “minor legislative adjustments” to combat racism and discrimination. In other words, Kirk was trying to hide his rejection of the Civil Rights Act behind the stupid dichotomy between State and Federal governments.
In discussing Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I have a dream" speech, Kirk said he "100% bought into" the need for equality, but added he believed the Civil Rights Act was expanded further than necessary. His mediocre and pedestrian thinking entailed the false notion that a majority of Americans wanted segregation and that "they didn't want to see new segregation put forward in eventually anti-White hiring practices, affirmative action or the entire federal bureaucracy having racial hiring quotas.”
And there you have it. After 300 years of White Americans enslaving Blacks, any effort at redressing the harm done to an entire people, Kirk and his racist ilk turn it around: Helping freed Black slaves means being anti-White. When the executioner plays the victim, like Kirk’s dear Zionist friends do in Palestine, there is no room for compromise.
In an Oct. 31, 2022, episode of "The Charlie Kirk Show," titled "A Naked Smear of MAGA," Kirk discussed the Oct. 28, 2022, attack against Nancy Pelosi's husband, saying directly, "I'm not qualifying it, I think it's awful."
David DePape was sentenced to life in prison in 2024 after attacking Paul Pelosi with a hammer in House Speaker Nancy Polsi’s home, causing two head wounds and injuries to his right arm and hand. DePape admitted to devising a plot to hold then-Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi hostage and "break her kneecaps" if she did not admit to allegedly telling "lies" about the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential campaign. This was clearly a MAGA assassination attempt inspired by Donald Trump’s evasiveness when confronted with his budding friendship with Vladimir Putin whose help he needed to win the election.
But Charlie Kirk, in his scintillating MAGA mind, reduced the entire episode to a problem with bail policies. Forget Trump’s treason of relying on the Russian dictator’s assistance to help him win the election. None of that matters to Kirk. Under cashless bail policies, a suspect who is arrested for a crime is released before a trial without having to pay bail or bond. The fees were put in place to ensure suspects do not flee and incentivize them to make scheduled court appearances.
"I’m not qualifying [the attack], I think it’s awful," Kirk said. "It’s not right. But why is it that, in Chicago, you’re able to commit murder and be out the next day? Why is it that you’re able to trespass, second-degree murder, arson, threaten a public official, [and receive] cashless bail? This happens all over San Francisco, but if you go after the Pelosis … you’re [not] let out immediately. Got it." This is so stupid an argument aiming at deflecting from the fact that a rightwing Radical Right MAGA lowlife of Kirk’s own tribe attacked the Democrat Speaker of the House.
The summary of all this argument is a White criminal like DePape was discriminated against because he was not receiving equal treatment as a hypothetical Black criminal (which for some reason Kirk decided was in Chicago). Imagine the paucity of this argument in relation to the extremism of the attack against the Pelosis. Kirk was defending the White criminal DePape using some convoluted silly argument. I am not surprised that the luminaries of MAGA find Kirk to be smart.
On Kirk’s antisemitism: In an Oct. 26, 2024, episode of the "The Charlie Kirk Show" podcast, Kirk claimed Jewish donors have been the No. 1 funding mechanism of radical, open-border neoliberal quasi-Marxist policies, cultural institutions and nonprofits.
"This is a beast created by secular Jews," Kirk said. "Now it’s coming for Jews, and they’re like, ‘What on Earth happened?’ It’s not just the colleges. It’s the nonprofits, it’s the movies, it’s Hollywood, it’s all of it." Kirk is trying to send the message that "secular Jews" are bad in contrast to his Zionist racist ultra-religious alter egos.
Kirk, a longtime supporter of colonial genocidal Israel, later argued in a Nov. 16, 2023, episode of "The Charlie Kirk Show," titled "Elon Musk Smashes the Digital Narratives," that some Jewish organizations and donors, including the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), helped fund "anti-White" or "cultural Marxist" ideas aligned with the Black Lives Matter movement or Diversity and Equity Inclusion (DEI).
The MAGA Einstein Kirk noted he does not believe all Jewish people are anti-White, specifying that he did "not like generalizations." "I don't like generalizations," Kirk said in the episode. "Not every Jewish person believes that. But it is true the Anti-Defamation League was part and parcel with Black Lives Matter. It is true that some of the largest financiers of left-wing anti-White causes have been Jewish Americans. They went all in on woke, and it wasn't just ADL. It was some of the top Jewish organizations in the country that have done that. In fact, we have seen this with the recent retreat of Jewish donations that are no longer going to be administered to colleges."
Conclusion: Incite the MAGA morons, who don’t even understand what Cultural Marxism is, against Jewish people and comfort them in their innate hatred of Jews.
So, Kirk’s talent appears to be a mediocre charlatan way of turning every attempt at redressing past injustices into an anti-White posture. The eternal White victim, who enslaved millions of Africans and killed many more millions of native Indians, is such a successful tactic to rile up the largely ignorant and illiterate MAGA base.
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