Isaac Butterfield Reacts to Charlie Kirk's Assassination and the Online Celebrations of His Death

[00:00] If you haven't seen the reports, Charlie

[00:02] Kirk has died uh after being fatally

[00:06] shot in the neck

[00:09] um I don't know if you call it at a

[00:11] rally, but at at least an event that he

[00:15] held.

[00:18] And honestly, I'm currently in uh in

[00:20] Texas at a hotel and

[00:23] it's weird, man. Like we have seen a lot

[00:27] of violence in America

[00:30] over the past week and [ __ ] I don't

[00:33] know. I

[00:35] I don't even know what I just feel so

[00:37] sorry for his family. Like I was not a

[00:39] huge fan of Charlie Kirk. I wasn't not a

[00:42] fan. I wasn't a fan. I didn't know

[00:45] anything about him. He seemed like a

[00:46] good dude who just sort of

[00:49] I don't know. He had strong beliefs. And

[00:54] I guess that leaves us with the

[00:55] question, are some people so terrified

[00:59] of other people's beliefs politically

[01:02] that they would resort to violence? And

[01:04] the obvious answer is yes. It's the same

[01:07] that happened with Trump. Like you just

[01:09] got these crazy people that are infected

[01:13] with these ideas from the media and from

[01:17] uh social media and and and I know like

[01:20] right-wing people cop a lot of [ __ ]

[01:22] They're like, "Oh, well, you know,

[01:24] you're a bad person for X, Y, or Zed."

[01:27] But from what I've seen from people who

[01:30] would classify themselves as far-left

[01:32] people celebrating this tragedy where a

[01:36] young man, a young father, a young

[01:38] husband who just has opinions

[01:43] that they they've celebrated it to to to

[01:45] this enormous degree. And it just I sat

[01:49] there. I watched the video and

[01:54] I don't know

[01:56] if you can watch that video and

[01:58] celebrate it. I don't care who Charlie

[02:03] is. Like you can't celebrate something

[02:05] like that unless they're act like maybe

[02:08] if they're like a real horrific person,

[02:09] but that wasn't Charlie. No way. Are you

[02:12] serious?

[02:13] He's a guy who has opinions.

[02:17] A lot of them are based in religion,

[02:18] too. And if he was of another religious

[02:22] denomination and he had those opinions,

[02:23] we would be told to respect them.

[02:26] I just think the violent side of this

[02:28] [ __ ] has to stop. And people are calling

[02:31] like Andrew Tate tweeted, "Oh, civil

[02:34] war, all this shit." No, you can't fight

[02:37] fire with fire with this [ __ ] This is

[02:39] this whole divide and conquer thing.

[02:41] It's almost like what they're trying to

[02:42] do.

[02:45] You have to excuse Addie in the

[02:46] background. He's a bit upset. It's He's

[02:48] very jet-lagged at the moment.

[02:51] He was up last night for hours. He

[02:54] kicked me in the head and I think he

[02:55] chipped me too.

[02:58] I just feel And what hit me hard about

[03:02] it like is having having a young son and

[03:05] he had a young child and knowing that

[03:08] that young child now doesn't have a dad

[03:11] forever.

[03:13] Oh, and the wife. [ __ ]

[03:18] As I said, I didn't know him from a bar

[03:20] of soap. I didn't know his content too

[03:22] well. I've seen all the viral clips that

[03:24] you've all probably seen, but he seemed

[03:27] like a fine dude.

[03:30] And I'm just so sorry that it happened

[03:31] to his family all because of some

[03:34] [ __ ] lunatic

[03:37] for some reason deciding that he had to

[03:40] take this person's [ __ ] life.

[03:44] crazy madness,

[03:48] unsettling, too. It has been confirmed

[03:49] by Donald Trump that he is in fact dead.

[03:52] Um, I think most people saw the video

[03:55] and or anyone who did see the video

[03:58] thought there's no chance. I spoke to a

[03:59] guy who's a lot of military experience

[04:02] and he said he's seen one person survive

[04:04] a shot like that. Other people were

[04:07] saying you had a 5% chance. But

[04:11] being that far from a hospital and

[04:14] I just wish he wasn't doing these

[04:15] [ __ ] events that's open out in the

[04:17] open air that you should be able to do

[04:18] them, right? Of course.

[04:22] It's the same with Trump when he got

[04:23] shot. It's like what are you doing out

[04:24] in the open like this? It's not safe.

[04:28] At least not in the United States.

[04:32] I don't know. I I I don't even know what

[04:35] to think. Obviously, this is a sort of

[04:38] a swift video to make. It only just

[04:40] happened. But I guess

[04:43] we we were all talking every I was

[04:44] traveling with, we were all talking

[04:45] about it, and I thought I might as well

[04:47] talk to you guys about it, too. Like

[04:49] the the fact that some people are so

[04:52] bought into their religion, and by

[04:54] religion, I mean their politics, that

[04:56] they would go and take another man's

[04:58] life or another woman's life. It's just

[05:01] madness. And if if the shooter is the

[05:03] shooter that's been reported early, like

[05:05] he's just some [ __ ] psycho, but he

[05:08] had a quite a long list of arrests and

[05:12] had broken the law and other previous

[05:14] occasions. And you got to ask yourself,

[05:16] what are these people doing on the

[05:17] street? It's the same guy, the same

[05:18] thing with the guy on the bus who

[05:20] stabbed that Ukrainian girl. And that's

[05:22] another horrific video.

[05:28] And a lot of people be like, "Oh,

[05:30] Charlie Kirk was pro gun,

[05:33] mate.

[05:36] That's the most [ __ ] insane position

[05:39] to have."

[05:41] Like, there's people saying, "Oh, he's

[05:42] pro gun, so he deserved it." You're a

[05:44] [ __ ] You're a horrible person.

[05:47] If you think that,

[05:50] it hug your loved ones. That's what I'm

[05:53] going to go and do. Um,

[05:56] and it it makes you think like I know

[05:57] I'm not in the same sort of circles as

[05:59] Trump and Charlie Kirk, but even the

[06:02] videos I make, like I know I make fun of

[06:04] people and [ __ ] but how many of those

[06:07] deranged human beings want to [ __ ]

[06:08] try and take me out or anyone on the

[06:11] internet? Saw it with Friendly Jordies

[06:14] in Australia when he had a firebomb

[06:16] attempt on his house. Like, there's

[06:17] crazy people out there all over the

[06:19] world. It's not just America.

[06:21] And Add's upset. I'm going to go and

[06:23] help Claire with him. But um

[06:28] I'm sorry to Charlie's family.