Singer Who Ran Over His Girlfriend Calls For Public Executions

Singer and known contrarian Jonny Hawkins was desperate to make things about himself again, this time in the context of the recent public assassination of conservative podcaster and political organizer Charlie Kirk.

Hawkins posted on Friday following the public announced of alleged shooter Tyler Robinson via Instagram, stating:

Slide 1: "They just created a martyr."

Slide 2: "RIP Charlie. Agree or disagree, you stood for what you believed. They just created a martyr."

Slide 3: "My heart goes out to Charlie Kirk's family and friends."

Slide 4: "Charlie Kirk never lived by the sword. He lived by free debate and open discussion. Words not violence.

"The gaslighting, projection, and mental delusion is over. We are sick of it.

Less than a day later, Hawkins posted via his stories about how his intentions for the post was to stir controversy and trim the fat of his own fanbase.

"I am pruning my fan base. Like a gardner (sic) cutting off dead branches…Making room for new, healthy and strong limbs to grow!"

Let's make something abundantly clear in contrast to what Hawkins and many others have stated; The alleged shooter, Tyler Robinson, was not a progressive, far left communist hellbent on taking out their political opposition as many conservative outlets and pundits ran to exclaim, along with Utah Governor Spencer Cox. As of the writing of this post, the evidence shown via what was written on his bullet casings as well as interviews and videos of former classmates, friends, and family show an incredibly irony ridden, online brain poisoned individual. To attest to his specific politics other than that of dark web driven psychosis and nihilism is creating one's own narrative to justify their outrage at "the other."

Hawkins appears to be using confirmation bias from misinformation and disinformation spread by major news publications like CNN and The Wall Street Journal, who had to do retractions on baseless claims they shared as fact prior to Robinson even being the suspect and eventually arrested. He seems to be taking the outrage machine discourse broadcasted by the right wing ecosystem of declaring war on those who were ideologically opposed to Kirk's stances and movement.

Before we breakdown Hawkins's post that reads like an edgelord fifteen-year-old that is steeped in red pill YouTube at all hours of the day, let's hone in on the last slide and the singularly most intentional provocative sentence from the Nothing More vocalist, "Time to bring public executions back." This is not only ironic, given Kirk himself was extrajudicially executed in front of a vast crowd of young and now traumatized college students, but it's a statement Charlie Kirk made himself numerous times. It was shared widely as an incredibly bleak and ironic statement from a man who faced a publicly violent end himself.

Kirk and his hosts state as follows:

"I want to watch that execution. That'll make my day better. I want to see him on a public block and get him to be publicly executed. And I think that would be justice. You think children should have, you should see it. What is the age? At what age should you start to see public executions? 16.

I think you could do it earlier. I think you maybe at age 12, sixth grade or so, you are a person, you know, they're old enough to, you don't need to like really wallow in it and have them be broken on a wheel or anything. But if it was something like shopping, you know, if we had a guillotine or something, I want to watch that execution. That'll make my day."

Hawkins and many with similar statements like his have equated many of Kirk's statements to "free debate and discussion," which is whitewashing quite a bit. Many dissidents of Kirk and his conservative organization, Turning Point USA, have simply shared the 31 year old activist's own words, to overwhelming and puzzling outrage.

For Hawkins, this is especially contradictory to some of his own music and his own prior statements on humanity, politics, and violence. From Nothing More's 2017 album The Stories We Tell Ourselves (which is admittedly fantastic), Hawkins and his bandmates put out the following statement with the release of their single, "Let 'Em Burn,":

“Hundreds of people have been killed in mass shootings over the past several years. Almost everyone has chosen the red team or the blue team and we’re stuck in this mode where we fight over political problems instead of human solutions.” “More guns or less guns isn’t the question,” they continue. “The real question is, why are we killing each other?”

While someone may disagree with the band's statement, as many call for further gun control or regulation as over four hundred million guns are in the hands of civilians within the United States, the humanizing and empathetic aspect of the message and the lyrics of this song are nonetheless relatable. The song also dives into whether what people are being told, presumably from media and politicians, is a truth or lie. This is exceedingly ironic as Hawkins seemingly jumps on the reactionary band wagon with half truths both of Kirk's career and legacy, the motives and intentions of the shooter, and the mass narratives pushed to masses via social media to feed the outrage machine of clicks and ad revenue.

For anyone who has followed the slide of the front man's beliefs (or his more honest projection of what they always were), this comes as less and less of a shock. In October of 2023, Hawkins gave an incredibly dehumanizing message via twitter concerning the current mass bombing campaigns in Gaza following Hamas's attacks on October 7th:

"In WW2 when Churchill bombed the shit out of Germany, did the world blame Churchill for the destruction of Germany? No, they rightly blamed Hitler."

Which, again, is not only ahistorical but one of the grossest false equivalencies of all time. Connecting the mass bombing, slaughter, and torture of civilians that was already on full display, accounting for roughly ten times the amount of those killed on October 7th by October 31 already, is dehumanizing and the opposite of the anti violence and anti war aesthetic of the band. Nothing More notably featured and worked with notable Zionist and bomb singer David Draiman of Disturbed following this, which directly showed their alliances with a man known for discarding the lives of tens of thouands of Palestinian civilians as a necessary evil.

On a personal level, Hawkins went under fire in 2023, when video footage came out of Hawkins violently shoving his then girlfriend out of his truck and running her over before leaving the scene. After initially dropping off of a scheduled tour, his bandmates continued to support him stating, "One terrible night does not define a person’s entire life," and that Jonny had taken responsibility for his crime. However, it should be noted that more serious charged were dropped despite video evidence, which many have indicated as another example of gender-based violence being disproportionately placed on female victims. Since then, Hawkins has taken an notable reactionary turn, likely to still cultivate a fan base and to help himself sleep at night.

All of that is given as background to state that it is rich to hear a man call for public executions, let alone accountability at all as he himself skated by largely free from an extremely violent act that left his now ex partner with a collapsed lung, broken spinal bones, and severe road rash. It is always the arrogant and the most callous with a public platform that find themselves both calling for violence against the other and finger wagging at their reactions to public violence. It's always those who whitewash the legacy of a polarizing figures reality that clutch their pearls when people point out the reality of said person's impact and influence. And it's always those who think they have all of the answers amidst a lot of uncertainty and misinformation that claim they're the truth tellers.

Hawkins proves once again he isn't a free thinker or truth teller, he's the same tired cliché he's always claimed to be above.