Michigan Forward Network shared a video clip of its staff arguing with Office Depot employees, especially a manager, about their refusal to print a poster advertising a vigil for TPUSA Founder Charlie Kirk.
The Office Depot employees wackily asserted that the vigil poster was “political propaganda” and refused to print it. “It’s propaganda, I’m sorry,” snipped the Karen manager. “This is someone that passed away. This is for a vigil,” the Michigan Forward representative attempted to explain while being repeatedly interrupted. “It’s still propaganda,” Manager Karen sneered. “What makes it propaganda?” challenged another person from Michigan Forward. “Because it’s a political figure, and I don’t have to—” the manager began before other employees chimed in and the interchange became a jumbled shouting match.
A team member ordered and paid for a poster to be printed at @officedepot so he could bring it to a vigil for Charlie Kirk tonight in Michigan.
— Michigan Forward (@MIForward_Net) September 12, 2025
When he arrived to pick it up four hours later, the employees said they refused to print it, calling the poster “propaganda.” pic.twitter.com/WCitioCzZF
I am not going to analyze whether Office Depot has the right to refuse to print certain things. Rather, I want to look at how this is a symptom of a bigger and very dangerous problem. We are at a point in America where a manager at a store that belongs to an international chain thinks she is fully justified, and even praiseworthy, for refusing to print a poster about a vigil for a murdered man. Whether she hates prayer or Charlie Kirk more, it is equally concerning. And she is joined by thousands if not millions of equally radical leftists who teach our kids, make our entertainment, and write our laws.
Founder John Adams famously warned in 1798, “We have no Government armed with Power capable of contending with human Passions unbridled by morality and Religion. Avarice, Ambition, and Revenge or Galantry, would break the strongest Cords of our Constitution as a Whale goes through a Net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
It is no wonder then that our freedoms are under constant assault and now we are seeing deadly shootings every week, not to mention political assassinations, from the attempts on Donald Trump to the killing of Kirk. For decades now, America has been increasingly compromising with and even celebrating evil, including abortion, homosexuality, fornication, political violence, unjust redistribution of wealth, and racial hatred. This is not to be preachy, but simply to state facts. The explosion in societal and political violence is the inevitable result of a culture fallen from the standard of morals and religion which we originally possessed.
Charlie Kirk was so open about his faith, and encouraged others to commit to loving and serving God. It is one of the reasons that Democrats hated him. Kirk knew full well that if we are not a moral and religious people, our Constitution will fail, not from inherent weakness, but from our inability to uphold its standards.
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Kirk was not belligerent or violent — he was the opposite. And yet a crazed leftist who spouted lefty “anti-fascist” rhetoric shot him dead. Was it not because Kirk preached the patriotic and religious truths with which we can renew our society and defeat the Democrat Party and all its pernicious works once for all? He was a threat to leftist ideology not because he attacked people, but because he was persuasive in the truth.
The Office Depot manager and her employees are part of the reason America is in crisis. They demonize prayer as politics and angrily refuse to promote prayers for a young murdered father, because they happen to disagree with his opinions. And that is why they are dangerous — not because they themselves fire guns at people they hate, but because they fuel the hate that inspires people such as Tyler Robinson to fire guns.
