A few takeaways: 1) You’ve gotta respect it. 2) Nobody misses that CEO—not a soul. 3) This kind of thing simply couldn’t have happened five or ten years ago, but now all bets are off. People are willing to just say shit, in part because they’re fed up and in part because it will all be washed away by tomorrow’s algorithmic tide. Nothing is sacred. Everyone is nihilistic. The right wanted to turn Charlie Kirk into a martyr; instead he’s a meme.

Well we don’t know. We know his widow isn’t so ecstatic, she’s not getting felt up by another woman’s husband in public.