Since not even his wife seems to care, can they just stop reporting? Some podcaster got shot a while ago, a lot of people get shot all the time.
Kids get shot, ICE shoots people who the fuck cares about this guy?
Why was this ever big news?
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They immediately used his death to try to argue that trans people are all domestic terrorists, and organized witch hunts to get people fired for making comments (often targeting professors that were on TPUSA’s hit list). There is a good chance that the Trump regime will cite the shooting as evidence that trans people should be viewed as terrorists.
I think it also really exemplifies the “reality show” - iffication of right wing American politics. The president is a reality TV star, Dr Oz is administering Medicare, Hegseth was a news personality; Erika Kirk is just an opportunistic vulture like the rest. The kind of person who spends their life trying to get on Big Brother or Survivor so that they can make a career out of partying and socializing.
We are somehow surprised a shitty person had a shitty wife? There are plenty of dynamic asshole duos.
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I'll never be rich or famous, and I'm a member of a group these folks actively stoke hate towards. But I'll say this, when I die, I know my wife will actually be sad about not having me anymore. That's something a lot of these folks can't honestly say
She is so weird. First time I saw and heard her I was like: There is something wrong with this woman.
Well she did marry Charlie Kirk...
Should surprise no one since she obviously didn't marry him for his looks or personality.
Some women like tiny faces. Don't kink-shame.
You mean don't kirk-shame?
Come on, did anyone think that this marriage was based on love? Please.
Ok, so psychopaths marry psychopaths. In other news: rain still wet.
I heard of anecdote of a guy who worked as waiter for the rich in a luxury yacht. He said pretty much what rich people ever talk about is building more wealth. These people are psychopaths. They see life as material transactions.
not all, but most rich people are constantly obsessed with positioning themselves versus their peers in business and family. its how the untalented keep score.
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MAGAs don't do martyrs well because they're all psychopaths, and can't maintain the pretense of caring enough to keep someone's legacy alive.
Wait till you see how fast Melania moves on and profits from Donny’s death. She might set a land speed record.
Melania tacitly admitted during her husband's first term that she is a trophy wife and married Donald for money. When asked if she married Donald for the money, she responded "he wouldn't marry me if I'm not beautiful".
(Disclaimer: she's only talking about physical beauty. She's as ugly as the devils haemorrhoids on the inside)
I also have to add that she doesn't really look attractive too - the Mar-a-Lago face is a super ugly trend
Eh, I think she's fine on that front, whatever procedures she has had are a bit lighter.
She doesn't have the over the top saw-face like others in the circle that have basically mutilated themselves with ill-advised procedures.
Once he is dead, all of those creditors he doged will be fighting each other to pick the corpse clean. She will probably be shredded in the feeding frenzy.
Most of the money he's borrowed over the last couple decades links back to Russian Oligarchs so they will likely right it off as a business expense.
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Not surprising. I recall when she “forgave” and every media outlet and commentator was like “this is wonderful, healing and what we all need to do!”
Why are so many folks so dumb in recognizing charlatans? We need education just for this. Know when you’re being played!
I'm becoming increasingly of the opinion that some groups of people care more about the packaging than the message.
As long as a person says the right kinds of things, is of the right pedigree, or has the right support and/or accolades, they can get away with damn near anything.
Correction, for her it was the event of a century. For me it was a Sunday on my 22nd wedding anniversary, and spent all morning having fun in bed with my wife because I am not dead
Obviously it's only hosted on Twitter: https://x.com/HotSpotHotSpot/status/2016323405125963895
It's not as bad and the title makes it sound. She talks about the memorial service and having millions of people hear the gospel and stories about Kirk. She's not giggling about the assassination. She's a grifter, obviously, but this audio is not the bombshell Owens says it is.
This news is being posted as if everyone thought she was attracted to his personality
I genuinely think she was. To psychopaths, everyone is transactionally of limited use. I think in him she genuinely saw and identified someone like herself. And if something had happened to her. Charlie would have 100% done the same as her. They aren't well.
She's happier now, I'm sure, because he's more useful to her dead than he was alive. There's a transaction for ya.
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To be fair, if I was that asshole's spouse and learned he'd just been shot, I'd have been pretty happy myself.
@andros_rex Still waiting to hear why she dropped the 'tradwife'
schtick. I mean, who's looking after the children?
That is just the classic Phyllis Schafly playbook - making a career out of telling women they shouldn’t have careers.
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My husband's dead. Like, I'm not trying to be morbid, but he's dead.
She should put that on a t-shirt.
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Eleven. days. later - I’m, like, more traumatized from seeing that snuff video then his own wife was.
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As much as they are both (all 3 actually) are horrible people, there's nothing nefarious in her not grieving how people want her to.
Perhaps she doesn't care. Perhaps she does, but sees an opportunity and can suck it up. Perhaps she does and she is using work to distract herself. Perhaps she does and it comes out differently. Perhaps she does and shes good at acting like nothing is wrong.
It's all just a distraction story.
In some ways I completely agree.
Its absolutely possible for someone who loves their husband to appear happy after they suddenly pass away.
However, the pivot to capture the TP USA business is a conscious one, and it definitely feels pretty gross to anyone who understands that it is indeed a business.
The thing is, to people receptive to their message, its not a "business", its a cause or a movement. They can just say "Charlie would have wanted her to continue his work!"
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I'm not sure I'm allowed to say this, but her face looks like a bleached asshole.
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