Vice President JD Vance on Monday jumped onto the conservative movement demanding consequences for those who have cheered Charlie Kirk’s killing, calling on the public to turn in anyone who says distasteful things about the assassination of his friend and political ally.

“When you see someone celebrating Charlie’s murder, call them out,” Vance urged listeners on the slain activist’s podcast Monday. “And hell, call their employer.”

Vance’s call also included a vow to target some of the biggest funders of liberal causes as conservatives stepped up their targeting of private individuals for their comments about the killing. It marked an escalation in a campaign that some warned invoked some of the darkest chapters of American history.

“The government involvement in this does inch this closer to looking like McCarthyism,” said Adam Goldstein of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, referring to the 1950s campaign to root out communists that led to false allegations and ruined careers. “It was not a shining moment for free expression.”

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    Charlie Kirk was a piece of shit human and the world is a better place without him. Suck my dick you fascist fucks!

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    My response:

    Republicans support pedophiles.

    Fuck Trump and JD Vance and all the other cronies.

    ICE are a bunch of gravy seals.

    I am more than fine with Charlie Kirk being dead.

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    For the Americans it’s bye bye 1st Amendment. Land of the free is no more. This will spark world wide control of free speech, all world’s wannabe dictators will do the same if not worst. Welcome to new world order where “big” and “strong” dictators will rule without any checks. This is The “third crisis” in modern world.

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      Any part of the Constitution at this point that has to do with rights or liberties, except the 2nd Amendment (for now) of course, is pretty much out the window. The Constitution is just an inconvenient old piece of paper at this point. All those “Constitutionalists” have gone completely silent.

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      It’s “The Land of the Formerly Free” for quite some time already. If you thought this is changing just now, you overslept for a few decades.

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    We want consequences! ANY kind of consequences against the left. Now that the killer has been shown to be one of our flesh and blood, we need another angle to get consequences against the left! /s

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    Expected behavior. Cancel culture is bad and people should not be fired for their views. But if you don’t align with my beliefs we will find you and get you fired. Listen to what they say they stand for and you will know exactly their belief. It is always the opposite of what they say.

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    IT’S TIME TO RETALIATE.

    For every non-fascist they get fired, we need to get 10 fascists fired.

    Saying good riddance to fascists isn’t “distasteful;” it’s a moral imperative. J.D. Vance’s words are obscene.

    This is not “inch[ing] closer” to McCarthyism; this is taking a flying leap towards it. They are openly calling for war against all non-fascists. Believe them. They are coming to destroy us all, and we have to defend ourselves.

    They have to LOSE and it has to happen by any means necessary.

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      Obviously the first step is an equal doxxing site targeting Truth Social, etc.

      Pretty soon all that will be left are the apathetic centrists.

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    Fascist! What happened to freedom of speech and land of the free lol!! America is a fucking joke now

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    Rather than look at the environment within the Far Right that is causing them to kill each other, they would rather focus on the reaction of their enemies to their internal civil war.