Charlie Kirk’s body wasn’t even cold before the Left showed its true face. I expected the usual internet-sewer anonymous trolls hiding behind cartoon avatars, spewing hate from the safety of a keyboard. But this was different. The cheering wasn’t subtle.

And it wasn’t just basement trolls or nameless agitators. They were seemingly professionals, people with paychecks, titles, and public trust, lined up to spew their contempt.

At Middle Tennessee State University, Assistant Dean of Students Laura Sosh-Lightsy wrote on Facebook: “Looks like ol’ Charlie spoke his fate into existence. Hate begets hate. ZERO sympathy.” She was fired, but only after the outrage went public.

Over at Ole Miss, Lauren Stokes, an executive assistant to the vice chancellor, reposted a graphic comparing Kirk to a Klan member and declared she had “no prayers to offer Kirk or respectable statements against violence.” She, too, lost her job.

FIRED! Ole Miss fired Lauren Stokes, an executive assistant for the vice chancellor.

Good! No one deserves to celebrate the death of a loving husband and father and not face the consequences.

Thank you @OleMiss pic.twitter.com/LzK5oNWIWt

— Students For Trump (@TrumpStudents) September 12, 2025

They weren’t anonymous trolls. They were professionals. People shaping students, sitting in university offices, holding positions of trust, openly mocking the assassination of a conservative activist.

Some felt no shame typing “good riddance” under the news of a young man’s murder. They didn’t just disagree with Charlie Kirk. They treated his death like a moral victory, as if an assassin’s bullet was something to celebrate.

From the Basement to the Bureaucracy

And it didn’t stop there. The gloating didn’t just come from college staffers or teachers with Facebook accounts. It reached into places where political bias should never live. Into institutions where neutrality is supposed to be non-negotiable.

That’s what stunned me most. The mask is off. The Left doesn’t even pretend anymore. They celebrate political violence out loud, without shame, without fear of consequence.

You expect bile from the gutter. You don’t expect it from the Secret Service. Yet here we are. Anthony Pough, a federal employee, took his oath to protect and twisted it into a public sneer against conservatives, against Charlie Kirk, and against Donald Trump himself.

That Wasn’t A Random Hot Take

It was a man with a federal badge and a gun celebrating an assassination. The same Secret Service that guards presidents, candidates, and public figures. The same institution Americans are supposed to trust.

And what did the agency do? They put him on leave. Government-speak for let’s wait until the heat dies down. Will they fire him? Maybe. But let me ask you: if celebrating an assassination doesn’t get you tossed out on the spot, what does?

Earlier this year, Pough, who is black, also posted several Facebook posts criticizing Trump for attempting to ban diversity, equity, and inclusion programs and initiatives through the federal government.

“DEI stops NEPOTISM,” Pough argued in one Facebook post. “That’s the problem they have, [sic] That’s the root issue.” – Real Clear Politics

The “DEI Hire” Firestorm

Online, people quickly branded Pough a DEI hire. Another diversity box checked, another unqualified bureaucrat exposed when the mask slipped. Pough himself shot back, saying critics only assumed that because he’s Black.

But quite frankly, I don’t care if he was hired under DEI or not. What matters is that he used his platform to celebrate a man’s murder. That’s the scandal. That’s the rot. And yet the DEI hire label sticks because DEI has become a stand-in for lowering standards, for valuing optics over competence. If DEI really is producing agents who think assassination is “karma,” then yes, it’s broken beyond repair.

STORY UPDATE: A knowledgeable Secret Service source tells me this USSS agent who said in a Facebook post that Charlie Kirk deserved to be murdered because of “karma” has been placed on administrative leave. https://t.co/ZZuYZDMgBN

— Susan Crabtree (@susancrabtree) September 11, 2025

A Culture That Protects Its Own

This isn’t just about Anthony Pough. He isn’t the first federal employee caught spewing political venom, and he won’t be the last. The real question is why he felt comfortable enough to post it publicly in the first place.

That kind of confidence does not appear out of thin air. It grows in a culture where people believe they are untouchable. Where discipline means a paid vacation called leave. Where ideology quietly replaces the oath. And yes, free speech has consequences. You can post your hate, but you do not get a shield from accountability when you work for the federal government. Unless you’re a member of Congress.

A Hateful Virus Spreads and Infects the Left

Which raises the bigger question: how many weak minds on the Left have been groomed into this mindset? How many have been brainwashed to believe that anyone who disagrees with them deserves destruction? Their leaders keep hammering the same script, calling us racists, bigots, extremists, until some people start believing violence against us is not only acceptable but righteous.

This is not coming only from punks getting high in their parents’ basements and trolling X on anymore. It has spread into classrooms, universities, offices, and even the federal government. That should be a wake-up call. The poison isn’t contained to the fringes anymore.

Charlie Kirk’s voice has been silenced. Ours has not. The question is whether we use it to call this out for what it is or whether we stay quiet and let the people who cheer political violence grow bolder.

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