Right-wing influencer films Pritzker’s home, stokes concern by asking followers to ‘take action’ after Kirk death

https://chicago.suntimes.com/illinois-governor/2025/09/12/right-wing-activist-ben-bergquam-jb-pritzker-home-chicago-charlie-kirk-assassination

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  1. Right wing influencer suffers horrific political violence at hands of right wing follower of right wing influencer. Right wing’s response: advocate political violence against the left.

    -.-

  2. This shit is about to go sideways. If a governor gets assassinated over this bullshit, this country is in for it

  4. There’s a decent percentage of MAGA that just wants a civil war. They’ll incite it no matter the cost.

  5. They don’t want any Democrats standing up for us. Pritzker is one of the first Governors who called out this administration for copying the tactics of Nazis. He sheltered Texas Dems when they were planning to use gerrymandering to end democracy in their states.

    “The authoritarian playbook is laid bare here. They point to a group of people who don’t look like you and tell you to blame them for your problems. I just have one question: what comes next?

    After we’ve discriminated against, deported, or disparaged all the immigrants and the gay and lesbian and transgender people, the developmentally disabled, the women and the minorities. Once we’ve ostracized our neighbors and betrayed our friends after that. When the problems we started with are still there, staring us in the face.

    What comes next? All the atrocities of human history lurk in the answer to that question. And if we don’t want to repeat history, then for God’s sake in this moment, we better be strong enough to learn from it.”

    — [Gov JB Pritzker](https://reddit.com/r/pritzkerposting)

  6. It looks like he was killed by an internet edge lord, possibly a groyper,

    But that’s not going to stop violent thugs like this guy who just want a civil war to begin with, apparently.

  7. They should carefully watch every word from this guy as this could be interpreted as threatening. State or federal law apply?

  10. Odds another young republican man will not take kindly to this MAGA influencer’s fascist and dangerous ways?

  11. If by “stokes concern” you mean “advocates domestic terrorism.”

  12. The incestuous-media-laundering machine has started, with many aligned “sources” referencing each other in order to muddy claims about the assassin’s politics. Going forward, expect a diluge of people claiming that they heard he was an XYZ, even when there is evidence to the contrary, if ever any evidence at all. 

  14. People rushing to fill the void and absorb his subs. Very American.

  16. “Right wing influencer does offensively stupid crap in hopes of capturing some of Charlie Kirk’s audience for himself”

    It’s going to be a long month.

  17. *Right-wing internet personality Ben Bergquam on Thursday filmed outside of Gov. JB Pritzker’s home and invited his followers to “take action” after the murder of Charlie Kirk on Wednesday, sparking concerns for the Democratic governor’s safety.*

    *“Made a stop by Governor Pritzker’s house in Chicago today,” Bergquam* [*says in a video*](https://x.com/BenBergquam/status/1966252722354823543) *with Pritzker’s Gold Coast home in the background. “If you love America and the assassination of Charlie Kirk doesn’t inspire you to take action, I don’t know what will!”*

    Letting an assassination be an inspiration, Why is the FBI not having a chat with this guy? At least get him on watchlist – or would that violate his privacy?

  18. I love how hes wearing a shirt that if you put Biden or Obama on it, they would lose their fucking minds.

    Meanwhile, I never once said Trump isn’t my president, i just said hes the only convicted rapist president that is also a pedo

  19. When Obamacare was passed, the US right wing held protests all over America where they hung Obama and Pelosi in effigy and burned them.

  21. The president of the US called Dems the enemy. But because I don’t care that a hateful trash person died I’m the problem.

  22. It’s becoming more and more obvious he was most likely a follower of Nick Fuentes, who viewed Kirk as an enemy and has referred to Kirk and Trump at one point as fascist, so the ‘anti fascist’ appearance of the messages on the bullet casings wouldn’t exactly be out of place.

    The only action the right should be taking is self reflection.

  23. Jesus christ this is like if a country was attacked by people from Saudi Arabia and we retaliated against Iraq.

    That would be equally dumb.

  24. The shooter is a groyper edge lord who hates Kirk for being too soft and a sellout.

  26. So he’s stalking a political figure and calling for violence? Report him to the FBI. At the very least it will further showcase Krash Patel’s incompetence in dealing with anything serious.

  27. The kid’s dad was a MAGA Mormon minister cop. Their whole family was MAGA. At what point do you realize the MAGA rhetoric being barked in that household and Fox News blasting in that dude’s home since he was 12 years old had a negative impact?

    Maybe, just maybe we could start looking up at the people in charge, at corporations, at associations that fund weapons when shootings like this happen in our country pretty much daily in our schools instead of immediately looking across at each other?! Nobody, especially our kids in schools, signed up to go into a potential combat zone while out living their lives.

    We need actual gun reform. Actual change. We’ve needed it for 25 years. Guns are not more important than our fellow American’s lives. Not sure when we can get others onboard with that mindset.

  29. “why do liberals keep doing bad things to me” – victims of maga on maga crime

  30. Once upon a time, it would have been worth a visit of the FBI for this guy…

    nowadays the FBI plays in the same team of this guy.

  32. Kirk was shot by someone who clearly was not a Democrat. So why are people mad at Democrats

  33. A threat against a government official, Ben Bergquam needs to charged and convicted for promoting violence against a governor.

  34. • The man who targeted and killed Democratic state lawmaker Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark in their home in Minnesota in June was a Trump supporter.

    • The man charged with the attempted assassination of Pennsylvania’s Democratic governor, Josh Shapiro, in April was a Trump supporter.

    • The man convicted of orchestrating a series of shootings at the homes of four
    Democratic elected officials in New Mexico in 2022 was a Trump supporter.

    • The man who tried to kidnap then Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and assaulted her husband, Paul, in 2022 was a Trump supporter.

    • The men who wanted to hang Mike Pence on Jan 6, 2021, were Trump supporters.

    • The man who killed the son of Obama-appointed District Judge Esther Salas in 2020 was a Trump supporter.

    • The men who were convicted of trying to kidnap Michigan’s Democratic governor, Gretchen Whitmer, in 2020 were Trump supporters.

    • The man who sent pipe bombs to the homes of Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, and other top Democrats in 2018 was a Trump supporter.

    • The man who killed left-wing activist Heather Heyer after driving his car into a crowd of counter-protesters in Charlottesville in 2017 was a Trump supporter.

  35. ~~”Stokes concern”~~

    ENCOURAGES POLITICAL ASSASSINATION

    Stop treating these right wing freaks with charmin soft kid gloves.

  36. Won’t someone rid me of this wretched priest?

  37. This gang on gang violence has got to stop! Cause that’s what this was. One far right gang vs another far right gang. The Groypers vs the Podcast Provocateurs.

  38. This is straight psychotic. The right wing is brain damaged.

  39. Fucking do your GD jobs and charge these people with terroristic threatening!

  40. “If this doesn’t make you take action, what will?”

    Oh no, oh no, Ben Bergquam. Why don’t you take that “action” first rather than spitting into your selfie cam for others to do it for you? Go on. Lead by example.

    These right wing nutjobs were waiting with their little death squad fantasies for -something- to trigger this kind of reaction and of course they’re the ones calling on others to “do something”. Say it out loud and proud Ben.

  41. Fuck me Charlie Kirk is going to be the Franz Ferdinand of the second American Civil War isn’t he? These people want to kill their fellow americans so fucking bad, and for what? Because we disagree? We’re actually going to slaughter each other over that like are we fucking serious?

  42. Why? The shooter wasn’t a Democrat and the Epstein files aren’t in Pritzker’s house.

  43. The president has given people like this a permission structure.

  44. The right is, and has always been violent. They are always looking for an excuse to cause violence.

  45. Fucker is standing right there at the house but instead encourages others to get their hands dirty on his behalf because these guys are all giant pussies once you scratch the surface.

  46. Conservatives are living in an ocean of denial and psychosis.

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