Right-wing lawmakers pushed for a tribute to the U.S. conservative influencer who was shot dead.

European Parliament President Roberta Metsola on Thursday rejected a bid by right-wing factions to hold a minute of silence for slain U.S. conservative influencer Charlie Kirk.

The initiative was first proposed by Charlie Weimers, an MEP from the right-wing European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR), as a symbolic measure “to declare that our right to freedom of speech cannot be extinguished,” according to an email chain with dozens of MEPs that was seen by POLITICO.

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    3 days ago

    This is just one of those “did you even say thank you?” moments when Trump, Vance, and the other GOP Muppets try to generate outrage and play upon the ignorance of their base.

    It’s a show made exclusively for the idiots.

    idiocracy scene where a grown man can't fit a shaped block through the same shape hole