A new survey finds that most Americans believe private companies are justified in firing employees who publicly celebrate an assassination on social media.
The Napolitan News Service poll, conducted by Scott Rasmussen and RMG Research, Inc. on Sept. 16–17, 2025, surveyed 1,000 registered voters online and has a margin of error of +/- 3.1 percentage points.
According to the findings, 51% of voters say it is appropriate for private companies to terminate employees who post celebratory reactions to an assassination, such as the recent online controversy involving Charlie Kirk. Thirty-five percent said it is not appropriate.
The partisan divide was stark. Democrats were the only measured group with a majority opposed to firing employees in such cases, with 51% against and just 27% in favor. By contrast, 80% of Republicans said it is appropriate.
Support was even stronger when respondents were asked about reporters or public officials. Nearly six in 10 voters (59%) said journalists or public officials should lose their jobs if they celebrate an assassination online. Republicans overwhelmingly agreed (88%), while only 34% of Democrats supported such consequences.
Frequency of political engagement also played a role. Among those who say they discuss politics almost daily, 73% agreed that reporters or public officials should be fired for celebrating an assassination online.
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“Or, uh, involuntary lethal injection. Or something. Just kill ’em”. Brian Kilmeade still has his job, and his show on Fox.
So that’s interesting.
This partisan divide is not surprising.
“Or, uh, involuntary lethal injection. Or something. Just kill ’em”. Brian Kilmeade still has his job, and his show on Fox.
So that’s really interesting.
Government is empowered by men to further our inalienable right to speech.
Govenment Allowing the violation of the first amendment outlined in the bill of rights is dereliction of duty under the highest federal law. The abhorrent practice of business trampling on citizen rights will eventually be deemed highly illegal when the supreme court steps up its rulings to follow originalist intent.
Who gets hired and fired became government business, thanks to decades of union-influenced state and federal legislation. It opened up floodgates of wealth for the lawyer class, and endless lawyer jokes. The recently passed, but unconstitutional, 2024 Alaskan initiative is yet another example.
Once upon a time, hiring-and-firing was completely up to the owner, foreman or whomever he designated. Henry Ford was famous for providing a shockingly enormous salary for assembly-line workers, which revolutionized labor. BUT! If there were any complaints, they were instantly shown the door. It was tyrannical, as some “complaints” were better characterized as suggestions. However, no one argued that a boss had the right to act on his own whims, whether just or unjust.
Right now conservatives are not thinking clearly, and the Pam Bondi comments about “hate speech”, along with Trump’s increasingly dangerous actions in this regard signal great trouble. How can conservatives forget what the Biden Admin did during Covid, cancel culture, de-platforming on social media, etc? It is IMPOSSIBLE to win every election, and someday the Lefties will be back in charge, and they will build upon whatever the Right is now doing. “We are becoming what we hate” applies to ALL of fallen humanity. Charlie Kirk is being used for the antithesis of everything he stood for, before he is even laid to rest.
Bob ,
Thank you for standing firm during the waves of this emotional mess.
All Hail the right to free speech regardless of its content.
Charlie would agree with you .
For a free republic we need free speech.
Indeed. I am continually gobsmacked by the hubris of Conservatives, who either forget that they will be out of power someday, or who incorrectly believe that they will retain it forever. Honestly, I think that their current addiction is so strong, their lust for retribution so powerful, that they have been blinded to this fact.
For what goes around eventually comes around.
Hans
Retribution for a Coup against America .
Retribution for destroying the education system. Retribution for targeting innocent Americans with draconian intrusion / right reduction yes.
You are dang fool if you think core Maga voters support free speech intrusion .
Trump Rides the wave of freedom lovers but he is just the figure head . If he goes wrong he gets dumped. If you have been paying attrntion you would see that non main stream leaders are chaffing at his authoritarian
tendency’s. Unlike the left we dont put up with leaders who damage citizen rights . Do not let your trump derangement blind you. You clearly do not understand the movement. This movement protects your rights as well and trump is just a tempory tool to get government to do its job.