One year after Charlie Kirk's death, the organization is a joke — even on the right
When Charlie Kirk was alive, his wife Erika had a retrograde role that was easy to understand. She didn’t use the word, but she was a tradwife.
Her position at Turning Point USA, the organization her husband co-founded in 2012 to promote conservative politics on high school, college and university campuses across the country, was essentially to dote on him as her leader.
After they married in 2021, she became the evidence that Charlie Kirk was living up to his own beliefs about male leadership — and female submission — at home during the crucial period that he was rebranding himself as an evangelical leader from the secular libertarian he had been.
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aramis87@fedia.io · 165 pts · 23h
Because she's a woman in an inherently misogynistic movement?
CubitOom@infosec.pub · 75 pts · 22h
I was gunna say it was a lack of funeral pyrotechnics, but misogynists on the far right makes sense too.
TomMasz@lemmy.world · 42 pts · 22h
Every MAGA woman discovers this at some point. And they always act surprised.
meco03211@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 21h
But they never thought the leopards would eat their face!
a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 19h
CADmonkey@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 19h
Actually my first thought.
HazardousBanjo@lemmy.world · 67 pts · 23h
She immediately went on a colossal spending spree to celebrate her new found riches, effectively dancing on his grave.
But hey, could you blame her? Imagine having to be the honeypot wife of Charlie Kirk and bearing his children, let alone ever having sex with him 🤮. You'd be over the moon too when his neck exploded.
CADmonkey@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 19h
She alone knows what his little face looks like during his vinegar strokes.
subverted_per@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 54 pts · 22h
This article is disingenuous to say the least. Kirk's death was met with bipartisan celebration, not horror. The left of course because he was a fascist who died in the most ironical manner possible. On the right cause they now had a martyr. The only people horrified were those who bought into his performance of debate.
Bahnd@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 21h
Plus he was fresh in a lot of peoples minds as South Park aired an episode targeted at him and Cartman doing his "master debater" shtick less than a month before it happened.
CADmonkey@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 19h
I've not seen this, it just occoured to me that South Park has probably been trolling all of these people the last two years.
Amuro_eat@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 18h
Mercilessly, at that
riskable@programming.dev · 29 pts · 23h
I'm not sure the media should be encouraging people to give her a shot. Especially after she stuck her neck out for an inherently misogynistic organization.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 22h
I don't mind her sticking her neck out.
Triumph@fedia.io · 14 pts · 21h
In that case, let's give her a shot.
RumRunningDevil@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 22h
Ehhh,
Eehhhhh
I see what you did there.
givesomefucks@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 23h
There's been zero investigation...
And stuff like immediately repaving the concrete before law enforcement looked at it as a crime scene, is weird enough we shouldn't just assume he was shot.
Like, they could have treated it as a normal investigation and people would be able to trust it. But after the shit they immediately pulled, there's always going to be a shred of doubt that his microphone had a bomb or something else.
Dude was breaking from Trump on Israel, obviously America's and Israel's current governments arent above assassinating a streamer.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 22h
Shut up.
It can't have been a year already!
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 11 pts · 19h
Conspiracy types don't even believe live video.
nightwatch_admin@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 22h
While you take a few next steps, I agree that Kirk was either a direct competitor, or possibly the one taking over after The Don would snuff it, with his manners, intellect and charisma - either way, he was prone to having a few enemies with a complete lack of morals. I think it’s definitely possible someone from his own team did the job.
givesomefucks@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 21h
I mean, the supposed shooter was legitimately further to the right of Kirk...
I'm just pointing out that a lot of inexplicable shit happened immediately after he died.
Is it most likely he was shot by a rifle? Absolutely.
But we don't actually know that's what happened.
MrVilliam@sh.itjust.works · 12 pts · 20h
It's possible that his neck just did that. There's just no way of knowing. Maybe the thing he said immediately prior was just so stupid and absurdly racist that, just
POP
Y' know?
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 19h
oh yes, he had a neck aneurism. That happens.
TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today · 7 pts · 20h
Nah, I think his neck just did that. Sometimes it happens, just look at JFK. One day you're being driven in a sweet convertible by your boys, the next second your head just decides to become a different shape.
AA5B@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 18h
The MAGAt party has plenty of evil people, but very few with the personality to take over as cult leader
KrasMazov@feddit.dk · -5 pts · 23h
unknownuserunknownlocation@kbin.earth · 25 pts · 23h
I saw the video. No, that wasn't an explosion. No smoke, no nothing. There's no credible evidence to support that. Let's not spread baseless conspiracy theories, please.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 22h
The person they replied to is also spreading a conspiracy theory, despite the hedging.
unknownuserunknownlocation@kbin.earth · 9 pts · 22h
Yeah, I was referring to both posters, I guess I didn't make it particularly obvious.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 22h
Gotcha. I have seen this type of thing a lot here. And more than a couple users can become very defensive if you doubt their version of events. I wish we could have nice things.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 22h
I'm guessing she proved incompetent.
Maybe she should start a cooking podcast now. She chose the role of tradwife, so she should lean into it.
meco03211@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 21h
Since when has that been a barrier to success for right wing grifters?
AA5B@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 18h
Why won’t that organization go away, at least out of the news.
….. my youngest just discovered there is a tpusa chapter at his university and at least one member 😠
nightwatch_admin@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 22h