“Erika Kirk will continue his legacy, and will be a fearless advocate for the most elite airpower force in the history of the world whose warriors keep our nation safe, strong and free.”
Do you think Erika Kirk could even describe to you how airplanes fly with a basic grade school explanation?
120 Comments
Salamanderwizard@lemmy.world · 123 pts · 163d
Getting hep c and being discharged with 1 week of boot camp left seemed like a curse when I was 21...but now that I have seen all the bullshit Trump is doing...at 33 I can say thank God for hep c.
massive_bereavement@fedia.io · 26 pts · 163d
Swings and roundabouts.
Salamanderwizard@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 163d
Don't think I've heard that before, but I like it.
massive_bereavement@fedia.io · 4 pts · 163d
Well, in your case is the "state fair carnival ride that was on the evening news"-kind of swinging and roundingabout.
You know, the kind of a ride that you know at least three people that broke their elbows and somehow makes your cousin twitch every time he hears a pneumatic brake.
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 162d
Good description of Erikkka Kirk.
Salamanderwizard@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 163d
That made me chuckle, thanks friend.. I was having a mood swing, and ya put a smile on my face.
It was definitely a funny way for the universe to save my ass. Took the wind outta my sails though. I wanted to serve since I was a wee lad. But I'm a different man now.
hector@lemmy.today · 12 pts · 163d
I was considering going into the army, in 2001, after the election, I figured the leadership would get us into a war I would not want to be involved in. Nailed it.
W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 10 pts · 163d
Pirky@piefed.world · 8 pts · 163d
I'm the same age. When I graduated college 10 years ago my dad tried talking me into the air force. I'm so glad I didn't do that; I would have despised serving under this President.
robocall@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 163d
Also dispise bombing kids. Whether they are Afghan, Iranian, Palestinian, etc.
hector@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 163d
There is a cure now right? It costs a cool quarter million though sadly, last I heard.
Salamanderwizard@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 163d
I actually got the first cure. The shoots and pills Made me sick as a dog, but from what they told me, I was good. Honestly would like to get rechecked just to be sure.
Which I got through a program.
hector@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 162d
I have known a lot of people with hep c, all the older junkies from generations prior to mine had it it seemed, I used to have junkie roommates which ended very predictably, with them stealing my shit and selling it for pennies on the dollar. But some of their junkie acquaintances were ok, they were like in their 50's and still doing fine, they just couldn't drink much if at all and idk what else. Opiates for all of their faults don't harm any organ systems.
Salamanderwizard@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 162d
Yep. The thing for me is I was straight edge till I was discharged. I had wanted to serve since I was like 6 yrs old, and I kept myself out of trouble. I never knew how I got it. I will say, my mother got tested after I had called her from Paris Island and told her. She had it. My dad, however, refused to get tested.
wesdym@mastodon.social · 1 pts · 162d
@Salamanderwizard There's a popular myth, especially among moralist conservatives, that you have to have done something they'd disapprove of to catch it. You don't. It's enough if, say, your dentist's hygeinist wasn't thorough enough, or if you used someone else's razor. The vector of transmission is unknown in fully 1:5 cases. Meaning, so far as we know right now, just about anyone can get it, no matter who they are or what they do (or don't do).
Salamanderwizard@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 162d
Huh, really. That's actually nice. Lots.of folks treated me like I was druggie when they found out I had it. It sucked. I smoke my pot that's it. But even before that I didn't touch weed till I was 22 or so. It wasn't until I was discharged.
BigDaddySlim@lemmy.world · 109 pts · 163d
Ah yes, another DEI hire
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip · 13 pts · 163d
"We don't do that here"
orbitz@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 163d
Hey it could be a DUI hire like others too...I don't know much about her if that could be accurate but if she's going with that ship she's a fucking douche. No one with any sense of morality would ever accept a position from them.
Funny how apparently all the 'christian/godly' (outspoken ones) types are attaching themselves to the apparent anti Christ. Well probably not literally but the description fits 1:1 and I'm an atheist but I think the Bible had a good description of that charlaton.
I recall reading some old philosopher and they described the worst person, it was Trump. I could never find it again forget but it was Plato or Aristotle I think. There have always been those types in all of history. Somehow the US was hoodwinked into actually giving him power, rather than run him off like the snake oil salesmen he is.
BigDaddySlim@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 163d
I'm not religious either, but I'm aware of the core principles of Christianity. Trump is the embodiment of greed, and goes heavily against what the Bible teaches, look no further than "love thy neighbor." He actively goes against that core principle daily. I'm sure someone has done a full write up of all the things trump has done that's against the Bibles teachings, yet these Bible loving """Christians""" swear he's the second coming of Jesus and was appointed by god.
It's a cult, plain and simple. Christians follow him because a good amount of them are conservative, because their believe is only surface level. It's only faith when it's convenient and "against gods wishes or whatever" when it's against their conservative beliefs.
Christians that belive trump is the greatest and sent to us by god haven't read the same fucking book they're constantly quoting, they're hypocrites and traitors to themselves and their supposed beliefs. He is in fact the antichrist according to these people's own book.
This is the true Trump Derangement Syndrome, because once again, every accusation is a confession of the Repulikkkan party.
skulblaka@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 162d
"Could American Evangelicals spot the Antichrist?"
The answer is, resoundingly: no, they cannot, despite having an entire Where's Waldo-esque guide to spotting him listed in their holy book that they love to claim to have read.
I'm an atheist (reading the Bible critically will do that to you); and even I readily recognize that Trump, and men just like him, were explicitly called out and warned against in Revelations, among other chapters.
tover153@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 162d
You've missed the point, they KNOW he's the antichrist. They need him to be to get to heaven without actually dying. I'm the child of old conservative evangelical christian ministers, and I can tell you at 80+ they are more terrified of dying that any other single thing.
thetentacle@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 163d
They have apparently succeeded in poisoning the meaning of the term.
floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com · -14 pts · 163d
DEI = nepotism? Are you a Republican?
BigDaddySlim@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 163d
I'm making fun of how republikkkans claimed people were hired for DEI not their skills, yet of course it's a projection. The entire cabinet is unqualified
I assumed the sarcasm was obvious
Bakkoda@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 163d
Woooooosh
aproposnix@scribe.disroot.org · 88 pts · 163d
robolemmy@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 25 pts · 163d
That’s been a core value of the academy for decades. It’s a religious cult disguised as a military academy
NottaLottaOcelot@lemmy.ca · 16 pts · 163d
She’s there to preach about women staying home, raising kids, and keeping quiet. Except her of course, she’s special.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 163d
Serena fucking Joy over here
manxu@piefed.social · 2 pts · 163d
Don't you think she's more loudly going to preach about the virtues of out Lord and Savior, Six-pack Jesus?
aproposnix@scribe.disroot.org · 3 pts · 163d
hector@lemmy.today · 0 pts · 163d
Angry evangelical baby jesus. Big distinction, that little shit.
Noite_Etion@lemmy.world · 77 pts · 163d
She was hired because of
nepotismher qualifications...WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world · 49 pts · 163d
She was hired because she's proven herself to be a valuable psychopath and propaganda operative; those are the only relevant qualifications to the American nazi party.
rozodru@piefed.world · 24 pts · 163d
she'll also be Vance's "Wife" soon if they deem him ready to be next in line. last thing they'd want is an Indian as first lady.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 16 pts · 163d
She got herself upholstered in black leather and JD is starting ICE investigation into his wife.
W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 14 pts · 163d
hector@lemmy.today · 7 pts · 163d
Vance is not getting the succession though. Ha. That fucking tool? No one likes him, that's why he was chosen, so the big man wouldn't be shunted aside for him.
After the dust has settled, Vance will be chopped liver mark my words. Hopefully this cynical bitch throws in her lot with him and get wasted too. Silver lining.
Asafum@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 163d
I don't know about that, she'd be useful to point to so they can say "see, we're not racist! We tolerate her existence!"
13igTyme@piefed.social · 3 pts · 163d
The mask is off. The don't care if we think their racist and the certainly don't want to tolerate any brown people.
LordOfLocksley@lemmy.world · 66 pts · 163d
The only DEI hire that Republicans approve of
phoenixz@lemmy.ca · 11 pts · 163d
Allo magat hires have been DEI hires as pretty .uch none of them are even remotely capable for the job they have
TrickDacy@lemmy.world · 64 pts · 163d
Donald Trump is cancer. Literally couldn't be a worse person. And he thinks the concept of "qualified" means "is liked by people in power". If this administration doesn't depress you greatly, nothing will.
Nothing of real value is given value by this administration. Only money and hoarding it matter, and nakedly so. They're literally citing greed as why starting a war is ok. "we're going to make a lot of money" is something actually said out loud by politicians in defense of a war. I cannot imagine how this government could get more corrupt.
hector@lemmy.today · 15 pts · 163d
There couldn't be a worse person by character. There could be a worse leader, one that was capable, and even just half as mean.
Witchfire@lemmy.world · 50 pts · 163d
DUI hire
Reygle@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 162d
You win.
TronBronson@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 162d
it says right there she won a beauty pageant. Checkmate liberal
smeenz@lemmy.nz · 2 pts · 162d
Yeah but she's clearly far too old for donny
barnaclebutt@lemmy.world · 44 pts · 163d
Oh my god, congratulations Erika. Look how far you got exploiting that bullet in your husband's neck! Amazing. I'm sure his gay rumours were untrue, and that you loved each other so much! I hope you also one day get that closeted couch fucker away from his dirty foreigner wife! Such inspiration. Beautiful.
oldscratchXV@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 163d
And what exactly are the qualifications of some former beauty pageant winner and widow of some dead far-right racist, anti-science, anti-intellectual monster to be in such a position?
Slovene@feddit.nl · 7 pts · 162d
Seems like Trump is trying to turn the White House into the Playboy mansion.
TrollTrollrolllol@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 162d
Temu playboy mansion maybe
Witchfire@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 162d
The Play-Doh McMansion
x00z@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 163d
Lmao. Everything Trump does is so extremely similar to how Hitler and the Nazi regime came to be. It's unbelievable.
HalfAFrisbee@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 163d
DEI whore.
AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@piefed.social · 25 pts · 163d
Tired of your married life? Get yourself a new life with a guaranteed federal job with this simple method!
Gammelfisch@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 163d
Imagine the qualified USAF officers reading her shitty advice about cadet selection.
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 163d
No doubt they would rather eat an onion...
P1k1e@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 162d
I wish there was an onion to eat
FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 163d
Blonde and white. Trim and pitch skills…secondary
FatVegan@leminal.space · 2 pts · 162d
Assuming these terrorists care
flop_leash_973@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 163d
I wonder if she will have a nice couch in her office for Vance when he visits.
On a more serious note, it is amazing how well her husbands killing has worked out for her professionally.
Passerby6497@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 163d
I feel its more of a "never let a crisis go to waste", but I can't blame people for wondering if she was involved. I don't know if she's just full to the gills on botox or what, but her grief felt performative.
matlag@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 162d
Her husband was not a big fan of women having a career.
entwine@programming.dev · 1 pts · 162d
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZIiOXMlSHs
inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 163d
What is she going to bring to the table here? How to grift off a dead husband you didn't love, abandon your children to grift, and be the side chick of a guy who fucks couches?
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz · 7 pts · 163d
Her ability to crank the afterburners on benefitting in her career from her husband dying has impressed even the Air Force's most aggressive fighter pilots.
Only the toughest Warfighters can execute such high-Greed maneuvers.
Etterra@discuss.online · 5 pts · 163d
Screen presence, kinda attractive, sycophant, rich (ish). Ya'know, the only criteria he gives a fuck about.
entwine@programming.dev · 2 pts · 162d
Trump gets a cut of the TPUSA merch sales
Ghostie@lemmy.zip · 19 pts · 163d
ours@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 162d
Cronies gonna crony.
TronBronson@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 162d
It’s a neat way to make tax dollars disappear
BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca · 18 pts · 163d
Sigh...
frog_brawler@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 163d
LoafedBurrito@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 163d
Damn, crazy how this nobody is still in the news. She is grifting HARD and loves that her husband was murdered. Now she gets the spotlight and can't get enough of it.
Skullgrid@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 163d
Unlike them, I get my news from a reliable source :
https://youtu.be/w-ozJg8yuQ8?t=74
mazzilius_marsti@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 162d
look at title
shrug, another joke post maybe
look at community name
Holy shit its real !
jump out the window
Raiderkev@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 162d
I remember going to the Air Force Academy as a kid when we went to visit my aunt who'd moved to Colorado Springs for work. We did the tour, and the guide said that it was one of the hardest schools in the world to get into. I have the feeling admissions will soon be based on your X posts and how many Trump coins you have. Fucking gross.
maxxadrenaline@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 162d
I think the house and senate are all brainwashed if they let bullshit pass this far. They’re all useless.
blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 12 pts · 163d
You can't spell Amerikkka without Erika
Wilco@lemmy.zip · 11 pts · 163d
That BJ game must be good. No one can say this whore has any other talent.
zalgotext@sh.itjust.works · 15 pts · 163d
Stop. It's 2026, we don't need to do this sex shaming bullshit anymore. Giving blowjobs doesn't make you a bad person. Being good at blowjobs doesn't make you a bad person. Don't lump Erika fucking Kirk in with people who are simply good at blowjobs. Erika Kirk is a bad person because she's profiting off of her husband's death. Erika Kirk is a bad person because she's continuing her husband's legacy of hate and bigotry. Blowjobs have nothing to do with it, and you're muddying the waters by making that the focus.
Ibuthyr@feddit.org · 7 pts · 163d
This. If anything, blowjobs should be encouraged. Because they're nice.
Avicenna@programming.dev · 1 pts · 163d
Much as I agree with this post, I don't think emphasis here is on blowjob but on doing sexual favours to increase your influence. Also not claiming that it is right, though I agree she clearly seems to be enjoying the influence her husband's death provided to her.
zalgotext@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 163d
The original comment is putting "performs oral sex" in the same moral category as "uses dead husband's bigoted beliefs and influence to put herself in positions of power in an authoritarian government". That's asinine. I don't feel the need to tolerate such stupid opinions. Sex work is real work, and performing sex acts between consenting adults is not immoral.
Avicenna@programming.dev · 1 pts · 162d
I agree that sex work is real work and sex between consenting adults is always moral. However performing sexual favours to obtain something that you don't deserve (for instance a position that should be given based on other merit) is immoral, not because of the sex but because of a reason not so dissimilar to nepotism. Our situation here is akin to me saying "nepotism is bad" and you saying "but looking after your relatives is not immoral". Again I don't know why "blowjob" was chosen there specifically, presumably because of all the gossip about Trump and blowjobs that have been circulating since day one, but at least on my end I did not focus on that aspect. And again I am not at all claiming that Erika has done anything of the sort which I guess is besides the point I am trying to make here.
zalgotext@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 162d
Implying that a woman has obtained a position of power by performing a sex act is misogynist. Implying that Erika Kirk obtained her new position by performing a sex act distracts from the actual facts: she's using her husband's death and influence to obtain power. I appreciate the nuance you're trying to bring to the conversation, but you're sort of falling into the trap the original commenter laid - you're letting yourself get distracted from the fact that Erika Kirk is terrible because she's an evil human being, not because she's a woman who may or may not perform sex acts.
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 163d
Never met the woman but this feels like a comment copy and pasted from a trove of remarks showing just how sexist an online community is.
Her actions and comments can speak for her not being a good person without us making allegations about her sex life.
D_C@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 163d
Is that all it takes to get a key job in the us government nowadays?
Janx@piefed.social · 4 pts · 163d
I know you're joking, but it's not "nowadays", it's this administration. Corruption from the top down...
medicsofanarchy@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 163d
Wait a minute, hear me out: What if - and I'm just spitballing here - what if Melania wanted to be on that panel? What would have to happen?
NottaLottaOcelot@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 163d
She already has a job - it’s fondling wrinkly dicks in exchange for expensive outfits
yuknowhokat@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 163d
Why?
null@lemmy.org · 8 pts · 163d
Aren't beauty pageant winners supposed to advocate for world peace?
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 163d
No, they primarily assist with planning bombing operations over potentially hostile airspace.
Grumpyleb@lemmus.org · 7 pts · 163d
Hopefully Trump steals the midterms as well and plunges the entire world into further chaos, maybe then Americans will consider doing something? I'm genuinely curious as to what it will take for general strikes?
cheffrey@lemmy.zip · 21 pts · 163d
It’s going to take a culture shift. People on the ground don’t feel like they can trust each other. Until we have a sense that our neighbors won’t let us go hungry, a general strike can’t be sustained.
We get there with mutual aid, building relationships with our neighbors, and time. General strike 2028
Grumpyleb@lemmus.org · 7 pts · 163d
Damn, if you're aiming for 2028 to effect any realistic changes that ship might have sailed. People are already hungry and broke, I don't understand you lot to be honest.
FireRetardant@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 163d
Just 2 more years of fascism then we can speak up
Grumpyleb@lemmus.org · 5 pts · 163d
Fascism will dig in and you won't have elections without violence, we've literally seen it before. Only this time they have the worlds richest people funding them.
Jumbie@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 163d
He’s being facetious. Sarcastic, even.
Grumpyleb@lemmus.org · 2 pts · 163d
It's a sign of the times that I couldn't pick up on that...
cheffrey@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 156d
Fr if you have any suggestions on how to do it faster, I’m listening
Grumpyleb@lemmus.org · 1 pts · 151d
Fr, general strikes.
MisterNeon@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 163d
My neighbors are letting me go hungry. Right now I need help and there is no one.
cheffrey@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 156d
If you’re us based city folk, look up mutual aid groups in your area. They exist and can help, or connect you to help
DrDickHandler@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 163d
Have you not studied basic history? Americans won't do shit.
Grumpyleb@lemmus.org · 1 pts · 163d
It's a question that needs to be asked, and yes I know they won't. If they haven't already with everything illegal and immoral and Trumps been up to, they never will.
hector@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 163d
No one does anything, until they do. And someones did somethings already, the introduction of UH boss to Nemesis, being framed on Luigi for instance.
cheffrey@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 156d
Okay but they do, though. Look up medics who supported the Selma march for an example of Americans doing something for each other
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 0 pts · 163d
People here will not general strike until they literally cannot feed themselves. And even then, it's a toss up.
Grumpyleb@lemmus.org · 1 pts · 163d
The problem with that is you're going to get nothing but resentment and very little sympathy from most people. The actions of your government is causing chaos in the world, and for all intents and purposes you're doing nothing about it.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 163d
I'm just stating the reality, not defending it.
Something like 40% of people in this country support what's happening. They might tell a survey that they're not happy about invading Iran, but it will never stop them from financially supporting, and voting for, the fascists that are doing the things.
People here are rotten to the core.
Grumpyleb@lemmus.org · 1 pts · 162d
Unfortunately I agree, very tunnel visioned.
Marshezezz@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 163d
spykee@lemmings.world · 6 pts · 162d
Yes, I spent way too much time on my work machine to sculpt this.
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space · 6 pts · 163d
This Caligula has a horse for every office of state
lechekaflan@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 162d
Oh wow, here comes the Goering with high heels.
SabinStargem@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 162d
At this rate, some rando will become the Ghengis Khan of America, simply because all possible opposition is so fucking stupid.
Bakkoda@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 162d
She chose a career over her relationship. I thought we were supposed to support feminism?
/s
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 162d
SparkyBauer44@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 162d
Me thinks more of them boys will becomr men, if ya catch my drift.
HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com · -1 pts · 163d
!politics@lemmy.world
Ghyste@sh.itjust.works · -2 pts · 163d
lukalix98@programming.dev · 1 pts · 163d
I agree, the standard for oniony has increased..