I am Spartacus

It's time to tell the truth to power and to hell with the consequences

This was Speaker Mike Johnson’s post today on X

This was my response:

I’m more upset that EVERY Democrat did not join you. It was a poison chalice as you well know. No Democrat should in good conscience have voted on the bill, because of item(4). Maybe they didn’t read it, despite being well paid to do so?

Charlie Kirk was not a Civil Rights leader; he was a Christian Nationalist who bastardised the teachings of Christ for profit and political gain. The truth can be uncomfortable, I know.

Democrats may be afraid to speak up, but I’m not. Did he deserve to die as an exponent of stochastic terrorism? ABSOLUTELY NOT, and I would defend to my last breath his right to say the hateful things he often did. It is a right enshrined under the First Amendment of the Constitution. The same right that protected the comments of Jimmy Kimmel, until you decided to ignore them.

You may have bullied Disney, but ‘We, the people, ’ took care of that and asked Disney to make a choice. To lose billions in market cap from customers walking away from their brand, or bend the knee to a convicted felon. Jimmy Kimmel will return to TV screens tomorrow.

In case I’m reported and lose this account, accused of spreading anything other than the truth, the definition of Stochastic terrorism is as follows:

‘A public figures using hostile, demonizing rhetoric through mass media to inspire random, statistically predictable but individually unpredictable acts of violence from susceptible individuals’

You may have sought to beatify Charlie Kirk and hail him a martyr, but the truth is, history will record him as a 31-year-old social media influencer who travelled around the country politely peddling racism, homophobia and misogyny to students for profit and political gain.

You don’t get a divine exemption for using religion and God’s name to dress up the sale of fear and political division. There’s a name for that. BLASPHEMY.

When he came to my country, the UK, to the Oxford Union and faced real student debaters, his propaganda, racism and misogyny were brutally and academically dismantled because we teach our students critical thinking and how to spot false prophets and charlatans.

So you go ahead and erect your false God statues. MLK, John Lewis, Rosa Parks, Maya Angelou and all the civil rights movement will stand as giants above his insignificance in the history of political discourse. Democrats who voted with you should not forget their complicity in your act of political deception.

I can assure you that when your great leader leaves the White House, where he currently runs a criminal extortion gang from the Oval Office, while lying to Americans about who is paying the tariffs. That would, of course, be THEM, and not countries exporting the goods they buy. When Trump is defeated, as he will be, the world will rejoice as it did at the fall of Nazi Germany in 1945.

Trump will have gone, but your shame will remain, as a commission is formed to investigate the corruption during Trump’s term in office and US complicity in war crimes in Gaza. You and your friends will claim you were following orders, as cowards always do. It’s then that people will say, ‘Charlie Who?’

The damage your administration is doing to the reputation of the U.S. on the world stage will take a generation to recover. Your worship at the altar of greed and your attempt to create a Christian nationalist state will be a stain on the ruins of what’s left of your party forever.

May God have mercy on your souls. There can be no redemption for the lives you have ruined, the women you tried to subjugate and your dehumanisation of ‘the other’ for sport. There will be no redemption for that, as you are cast into the political wilderness.

As for when you meet your maker, can I suggest you invest in a fire-retardant suit? As masked men abduct you from the closed gates of heaven.

The content of this post has been shared with my many influential liberal friends, who I’m sure will repost it and claim ‘I am Spartacus’. I will not be silenced, be sure of that.

Have a nice day.

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