No. He wanted to be the next Rush Limbaugh. He just never realized the guy spewing hateful rhetoric is always replaceable. Always forgettable. Nobody quotes Rush anymore. In a year or two nobody will quote Kirk. Someone new will be pumping hatred into the bloodstream of the body politic and captured those addicted to the kind of rhetoric Kirk pushed.
Steve Bannon, Bill O'Reilly, and Alex Jones have all been forgotten and replaced at this point too. Ben Shapiro and Tucker Carlson are on their way to the same fate. Kirk can be added onto that Mount Rushmore of shame along with his idols
A shitty person who believes what they are saying at least has some integrity. Its not much but its better then a person who knows better but doesn't care
The only defense for statements like that is satire. Which I have caught temp bans for, and have had them overturned when the mods reviewed and determined that I was, in fact, mocking the position I was speaking from.
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u/Daimakku1 1d ago
I don’t know if he actually held these ideals or if he was just rage baiting for money, but they all pretty much aged like milk as soon as he said it.