{"id":86,"date":"2026-07-04T18:15:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T18:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/undevoted.org\/blog\/?p=86"},"modified":"2026-07-04T18:18:42","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T18:18:42","slug":"no-one-hates-freedom-more-than-maga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/undevoted.org\/blog\/2026\/07\/04\/no-one-hates-freedom-more-than-maga\/","title":{"rendered":"No one hates freedom more than MAGA!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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What better day than America\u2019s 250th birthday to resurrect my series, \u201cDid Charlie Kirk REALLY Say That?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

And this time, we\u2019re doing it uncensored.<\/p>\n

No algorithm constraints. No delicately rearranging words because some social media platform might decide that quoting a prominent conservative\u2019s own public statements is more objectionable than the statements themselves. No squeezing years of documented extremism into whatever sanitized little box Meta considers advertiser friendly.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re going straight to the receipts.<\/p>\n

Which feels especially appropriate today, considering the way MAGA has worked to turn Charlie Kirk into a martyr for American values – someone who, according to his admirers, should<\/em> be here to witness the United States celebrate 250 years of existence.<\/p>\n

So let\u2019s take a look at the values he actually promoted. Oh boy. The first one’s a doozy.<\/p>\n

The Question<\/h2>\n

Did Charlie Kirk REALLY endorse allowing drivers to run over political protesters – potentially killing them – and say they should face no legal consequences for doing so?<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Answer<\/h2>\n

Yes. Explicitly.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is not a matter of interpreting some vague remark in the least charitable way possible. Charlie Kirk wrote it himself:<\/p>\n

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There it is.<\/p>\n

Not implied. Not hinted at. Not taken out of context.<\/p>\n

Charlie Kirk said that if a driver \u201chas had enough\u201d and \u201chas to run you over\u201d to get somewhere, that driver should face no penalties<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Pause on that for a moment.<\/p>\n

No penalties.\u00a0<\/strong>Charlie Kirk (husband, father, and “Christian”) said people should have the right to murder peaceful protesters for minor inconveniences. I wasn’t aware that Jesus endorsed consequence free murder because you’re in a hurry to get to Applebees, but maybe they are reading a different Bible than I did? In their version, Jesus sees the poor and says, \u201cHave they tried not being poor?\u201d He encounters the hungry and tells them to get a job. He heals the sick only after checking whether they have insurance. And when protesters block the road, he climbs into a Dodge Ram and says: \u201cNo penalties.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Very moving stuff. Really captures the spirit of Christ.<\/p>\n

And the really revealing part is the way Kirk frames it:<\/p>\n

\u201cChaos vs order.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cWe side with order.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

What kind of \u201claw and order\u201d demands a year in jail for “blocking traffic” (even though the protest he was talking about was planned and lawful), but no punishment at all for driving a multi-ton vehicle into a human being?<\/p>\n

That contradiction is not incidental. It is the entire point.<\/p>\n

This is the authoritarian trick in its purest form: redefine dissent as chaos, redefine violence against dissenters as order, and then act shocked when people notice what you actually said. It’s as old as time, and as rotten as Donald Trump’s stench.<\/p>\n

Because once you strip away everything else, that is what remains:<\/p>\n

A prominent conservative commentator publicly argued that political protesters should face prison for obstructing traffic, while people who run and potentially murder protesters over should face nothing.<\/p>\n

In the immortal words of Tony Stark:<\/p>\n

Thought we wouldn\u2019t notice. But we did.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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In the MAGA-Verse, There Are Only Two Options<\/h2>\n

See, in the MAGA-verse, there are ultimately only two acceptable choices:<\/p>\n

Submit, or die.<\/strong><\/p>\n

There is no meaningful world, in this ideology, where the opposition is treated as a legitimate part of democratic society. There is no genuine commitment to sitting down at the table and engaging the other side in good faith, despite what Mr. Kirk so often wanted audiences to believe.<\/p>\n

Because MAGA does not want a seat at the table.<\/p>\n

They want everyone to accept the boot on their neck. <\/strong>Because they<\/em> have accepted it, and think everyone else should, too.<\/p>\n

That is the part people keep missing.<\/p>\n

A seat at the table implies compromise. It implies that other people are allowed to exist, speak, vote, protest, organize, and hold values you despise without forfeiting their place in the country.<\/p>\n

MAGA does not want that.<\/p>\n

They want submission.<\/p>\n

That is why one of their favorite responses to criticism is some variation of, \u201cIf you don\u2019t love America, leave.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Notice the options there.<\/p>\n

Not: Let\u2019s talk about what you think is wrong.<\/em><\/p>\n

Not: Maybe your criticism has merit. Perhaps we can compromise.<\/em><\/p>\n

Not even: I think you\u2019re completely wrong, but you still have a right to say it.<\/em><\/p>\n

No.<\/p>\n

Love the country exactly as we define loving it, or get out.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Submit, or leave.<\/p>\n

Stay quiet, or be punished.<\/p>\n

Accept their version of America, or be treated as “the enemy within”. (We’ll stop calling you Nazis when you stop using Nazi ideology, by the way.)<\/p>\n

And that is why Charlie Kirk\u2019s statement fits so neatly into the larger MAGA worldview. Protesters do not merely disagree. They become \u201cchaos.\u201d Their disruption becomes illegitimate by definition. Their rights become conditional. And violence against them can then be repackaged as the restoration of \u201corder.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nothing offends MAGA more than when someone has the nerve to not immediately submit.<\/p>\n

And don’t think the hypocrisy is lost on me. When protesters Charlie Kirk despised blocked a roadway, he argued that they should face a year in jail –\u00a0 and that anyone who ran them over should walk away without penalty.<\/p>\n

But when the American right produced the little national embarrassment known as January 6, suddenly we were treated to years of excuses, revisionism, martyrdom narratives, and endless whining about political persecution.<\/p>\n

Funny how that works.<\/p>\n

Block a road for a cause MAGA hates, and apparently you surrender your right not to be crushed beneath a vehicle.<\/p>\n

Storm the U.S. Capitol because your cult leader lost an election, and somehow we\u2019re expected to spend the next several years tenderly examining your grievances. How about no, and go fuck yourself?<\/p>\n

So, Did Charlie Kirk REALLY Say That?<\/h2>\n

Yes.<\/p>\n

He really did.<\/p>\n

And this is exactly why I wanted to bring this series back.<\/p>\n

Because public memory is remarkably easy to sanitize, especially after someone becomes politically useful as a symbol. The cruelty becomes \u201cprovocative commentary.\u201d The extremism becomes \u201cpassion.\u201d Statements people made openly, proudly, and voluntarily are quietly pushed aside in favour of a much more flattering mythology.<\/p>\n

But screenshots exist.<\/p>\n

Archives exist.<\/p>\n

Receipts exist.<\/p>\n

And Charlie Kirk left plenty of them.<\/p>\n

Verdict: TRUE.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Charlie Kirk really did publicly endorse running over protesters whose apparent threat to public safety consisted of …\u00a0 peacefully protesting, and causing people momentary delays.<\/p>\n

Happy 250th birthday, America.<\/p>\n

If one of your “values” is that it’s okay to murder someone with your car for inconveniencing you, you won’t be around much longer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What better day than America\u2019s 250th birthday to resurrect my series, \u201cDid Charlie Kirk REALLY Say That?\u201d And this time, we\u2019re doing it uncensored. No algorithm constraints. No delicately rearranging words because some social media platform might decide that quoting a prominent conservative\u2019s own public statements is more objectionable than the statements themselves. No squeezing … Continue reading<\/a>No one hates freedom more than MAGA!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anti-maga","category-charlie-kirk","category-did-charlie-kirk-really-say-that"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/undevoted.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/undevoted.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/undevoted.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undevoted.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undevoted.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/undevoted.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93,"href":"https:\/\/undevoted.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions\/93"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/undevoted.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undevoted.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undevoted.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}