It’s been a tough week for people who think that debate and ideas are the answer, and political violence and assassinations are not. Many media pundits and Democrat “leaders” have reacted with such cruelty and heartlessness that it makes one question the human condition: are we a decent species after all?
We’ve seen far too many examples proving otherwise, and it’s been soul-depleting.
But then along comes someone like Erika Kirk, whose passionate speech Friday night about the assassination of her husband Charlie is one for the ages.
News coming out of a Michigan Office Depot, however, is not so inspiring, and shows just how low, petty, toxic, and uninformed large swaths of our country have become:
Office Depot is facing backlash and even boycott calls after a Michigan store allegedly refused to print a poster of slain conservative commentator Charlie Kirk for a vigil, with a GOP official blasting the company online and calling the move censorship.
Matthew DePerno, an attorney and Republican activist, said the Kalamazoo County Republican Party ordered the poster at 2:24 p.m. Friday from the Office Depot in Portage, MI, for a vigil honoring Kirk scheduled for that evening.
But around 5:30 p.m., DePerno said a store print supervisor named “Beryl” called and told organizers the order would not be completed because the poster was “propaganda.”
Must Watch:
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
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Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Justice Harmeet Dhillon was not amused:
Excuse me what ?! https://t.co/k0ORflgr2e
— AAGHarmeetDhillon (@AAGDhillon) September 13, 2025
And nor should she be amused, because the haughty employees in the video, who just keep robotically repeating “it’s propaganda” like it’s some sort of mantra, seem to be utterly uninterested in the fact that the poster was for a prayer vigil for a man who had just been ruthlessly killed.
As calls for a boycott increased, Office Depot actually did the right thing: they said this was unacceptable, and they got rid of “Propaganda Karen” post haste:
Office Depot apologized for the encounter and said it has since fired the employee involved and reached out to DePerno to rectify the situation.
“The behavior displayed by our associate is completely unacceptable and insensitive, violates our company policies, and does not reflect the values we uphold at Office Depot. We sincerely apologize to the customer affected and to our community for this regrettable situation,” a spokesperson for the company said in a statement to The Post.
“Upon learning of the incident, we immediately reached out to the customer to address their concerns and seek to fulfill their order to their satisfaction. We have also launched an immediate internal review and, as a result, the associate involved is no longer with the organization.”
To our customers pic.twitter.com/XYlcFPpInN
— Office Depot (@officedepot) September 13, 2025
We’ve seen so many brands—Bud Light, Target, and Jaguar, to name a few—turn on their customers in some sort of twisted effort to prove their “woke” bona fides.
The tide is changing—yes, the employees at this Office Depot location were clueless droids—but corporate made the right decision in saying, this kind of B.S. has to stop. I don’t believe we would have seen this even a couple of years ago.
That being said, what about this person? It's a step in the right direction, but we still have miles to go before we sleep:
That's great, but there were TWO employees, the "print supervisor" and "manager," who BOTH refused to print the posters for Charlie Kirk's prayer vigil in Portage, MI. Why weren't BOTH of them fired? pic.twitter.com/BSXt3Xwn6I
— PattyMI (@PattyLovesTruth) September 13, 2025
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