MAGA Irish bookstore bans Stephen King books

[mainer]

Because King had the audacity to speak ill of Saint Charlie Kirk.
Somehow “MAGA” and “bookstore” seems like a contradiction. Which makes me wonder which books they’d carry. Beyond the Bible and Mein Kampf, I mean. Even a dictionary would be abhorrent to them because it contains naughty words like “progressive” and “privilege” and “transition.”

https://www.irishstar.com/culture/entertainment/charlie-kirk-stephen-king-bookstore-35902256.amp

[marble falls]

1. Jumbo shrimp, military justice, civil war, MAGA bookstore.

[yardwork]

2. Microsoft.

[Jerry2144]

3. Stop mentioning the Felon's mushroom

oh. You mean the company, not the Felon's appendage

[yardwork]

4. I always thought it was a poorly thought out corporate name.

[Jerry2144]

8. There was logic to it

Way back in the last millennium, we had mainframe computers and terminals. Then computers started to get smaller and mini-computers came in. Instead of being the size of a small room or closet, the mini-computers were the size of a small refrigerator. Then small microcomputers were created. Computers like the Timex Sinclair and other small computers came about that can sit on a desktop. Microsoft developed an operating system and a version of Basic that can run on certain microcomputers to compete against CP/M and Unix and a few other major systems. The name is a portmanteau of Microcomputer and Software.

[yardwork]

9. I remember those days.

It still was poorly conceived.

[Jerry2144]

11. lots of puns to be made

I was telling my son, a computer engineering student, about connecting to the mainframes at school using a 300 baud modem. He had a hard time understanding how anything would get done at that slow speed. old text editors and old non-graphical interfaces might as well have been writing in cuneiform as far as he can relate.

[Bettie]

5. "Speaking Ill of Charlie Kirk"....

by quoting his own words.

That's the funny part. Quoting him.

Somehow, they now don't like people repeating the things he spewed of his own accord.

SMH.

[Thunder Chicken]

13. I believe Stephen King apologized for this

You have to admire Stephen King for apologizing.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/celebrities/2025/09/12/stephen-king-charlie-kirk/86123212007/

"I apologize for saying Charlie Kirk advocated stoning gays. What he actually demonstrated was how some people cherry-pick Biblical passages," King wrote on X on Sept. 12.

[Bettie]

14. I did enjoy that apology

and Stephen King, in his writing has shown us what's inside people like Kirk...and it isn't pretty.

[Vinca]

6. Their loss. Somehow, I think Stephen King will survive.

[Paladin]

7. I'm used to this sort of shit here in the U.S..

I expect better from Ireland.

[Tanuki]

12. Belfast, Northern Ireland.

[muriel_volestrangler]

10. Arseholes. King shouldn't have apologized anyway.

In a 2024 episode of The Charlie Kirk Show, the activist cited a Biblical verse saying that it stated "that thou shall lay with another man, shall be stoned to death" - with Kirk describing it as "God’s perfect law when it comes to sexual matters".

The verse actually reads: "If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall surely be put to death."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cdx2q24l1zqt?post=asset%3A33826617-4e38-4d6a-9861-07d92d08dee4#post

The (Irish) Daily Star is wrong to say "Stephen vocally condemned Charlie's words before accidentally sharing misinformation that Charlie called for LGBTQ+ individuals to be stoned to death." If a Christian calls something "God's perfect law", then he's advocating it. It's not "misinformation" to say that. The Star then goes on to incorrectly quote what Kirk said, with just "it is an abomination", when the Kirk quote (as above, from the BBC, and in a video)

is "shall be stoned to death". The problem was that Leviticus says "put to death", and Kirk bloodthirstily upgraded that to "stoned to death". Another indication he really meant it.

(Kirk was also wrong to claim that Ms. Rachel was quoting from Deuteronomy and Leviticus - she was quoting Jesus, from Matthew 22 as she explicitly said.)

So, the Irish Star is a crap newspaper, Belfast Books is a crap bookstore, Charlies Kirk was a crap human being, and Stephen King should not have apologized, because that's just encouraging the remaining crap human beings to continue their crusade against truth and decency.

[Wiz Imp]

16. Right. Very disappointed King apologized and said he was wrong. He wasn't wrong.

What he said was 100% true.

[TheProle]

17. He also had a movie adaptation opening last weekend

which is not doing all that well (though my wife and I saw it Saturday and it wasn't bad).

I doubt he is looking to alienate ticket-buyers.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

15. MAGAs read? Really