Dave Smith: "Charlie Kirk was the most moderate human being."

In an impassioned segment of his podcast Part of the Problem released on Thursday, comedian and far-right pundit Dave Smith used the murder of his friend Charlie Kirk to assure his audience that if push comes to shove, the right will obliterate those pathetic and womanly gender studies majors on the left. 

The episode, in which Smith describes Kirk as a moderate Republican, was recorded and released before the arrest of suspect Tyler Robinson—by all accounts an online-poisoned nihilist lone wolf with no ties to the left—and also includes warnings against jumping to conclusions about the assassin and his motivations. ("You don't start hate mongering and getting everybody worked up and furious about the other side… It's easy to genuinely believe it in a moment like this, but you don't do that.”) Despite his high-minded calls for patience and equanimity, however, Smith makes clear that he blames the left for the killing, which he uses in the furtherance of his own political project. To wit:

Smith: To all of you goddamn r—ards, Charlie Kirk was the moderate. He was the fucking reasonable guy in the room, you dummy. He wasn't a far right activist. Are you kidding me? You have any idea what's out there? You think that was like the radical position? Charlie Kirk was the most moderate human being. He was a plumb line Republican. A plumb line Republican, as everybody who knows anything about anything knows, is one centimeter to the right of a plumb line Democrat. He was right just in the middle.

He supported Israel like the Democrats and Republicans do. He was a little bit more on the side of restrictive immigration policy. That was his big, radical policy was he was with 80% of the American people on immigration. It's nuts. So you sit there and what do you think? You think this is a victory for you? You think, oh, you took out—"Let me think this through here with all of my wisdom, I want to win a culture war. So what I did was I violently murdered the most high profile moderate voice on the other side." 

Hey geniuses, summon all your wisdom together and tell me, do you think that is likely to calm things down? Or might that lead to more radicalization? And what the, these dumbass fucking lefties celebrating? Like what exactly are you trying to start here, you fucking pussies. Jesus Christ, man. I mean, go live fucking your weird lives with your fucking pink hair and your 70 genders or whatever, but don't sit here and pretend you're ready for a fucking fight. What are you doing?