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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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[–] anon_8675309@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Because she sucks

[–] Seppo@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 day ago

Tradwife in a white suit?

[–] tacoplease@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago

TPUSA has always been a joke, like it's founder, but some people listened to him just like those who listened to Charles Manson and Jim Jones.

[–] aramis87@fedia.io 225 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Because she's a woman in an inherently misogynistic movement?

[–] CubitOom@infosec.pub 104 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I was gunna say it was a lack of funeral pyrotechnics, but misogynists on the far right makes sense too.

[–] TomMasz@lemmy.world 69 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Every MAGA woman discovers this at some point. And they always act surprised.

[–] AngryRedHerring@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Act? Or are actually stupid enough to think that they're the exception?

[–] meco03211@lemmy.world 35 points 3 days ago

But they never thought the leopards would eat their face!

[–] a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world 23 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] Doom@discuss.online 2 points 1 day ago

So stunning, so beautiful

[–] CADmonkey@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

Actually my first thought.

[–] HazardousBanjo@lemmy.world 93 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

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 21 points 2 days ago (1 children)

She alone knows what his little face looks like during his vinegar strokes.

[–] CrimeIsLegalNow@ani.social 6 points 1 day ago

This is sex worker erasure and it will not stand.

[–] subverted_per@lemmy.blahaj.zone 74 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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 31 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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 17 points 2 days ago (3 children)

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.

[–] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 2 points 1 day ago

It's South America now!

[–] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

South Park is usually mildly to moderately transgressive, but the last season was quite a bit more pointed. Like Mr Garrison used to be a stand in for Trump, but they've completely shelved that and now trump's face is pasted over the complete character of saddam hussein: flapping head, voice, and gay relationship with Satan.

[–] Amuro_eat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 2 days ago

Mercilessly, at that

[–] riskable@programming.dev 40 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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 32 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I don't mind her sticking her neck out.

[–] Triumph@fedia.io 20 points 3 days ago

In that case, let's give her a shot.

[–] RumRunningDevil@lemmy.zip 5 points 3 days ago

Ehhh,

Eehhhhh

I see what you did there.

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago

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 😠

[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 19 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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 22 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I'm guessing she proved incompetent.

Since when has that been a barrier to success for right wing grifters?

[–] decolo@piefed.social 3 points 1 day ago

There is a specific type of competence for grifters: utter shamelessness, understanding who you need to socialize with and market to, and some amount of showmanship

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 19 points 3 days ago (6 children)

He died a year ago this week, shot to death while speaking at Utah Valley University.

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.

[–] starik@lemmy.today 3 points 1 day ago

I hate conspiracy theories like this, because they’re just a smoke screen to hide the fact that aliens did it. You are a paid shill for the Reptilians. Do you have any proof that aliens didn’t do it? I’ll wait.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 16 points 2 days ago

we shouldn’t just assume he was shot

Conspiracy types don't even believe live video.

[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago

Shut up.

It can't have been a year already!

[–] frostysauce@lemmy.world -1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Got a source for any of that, chief?

[–] nightwatch_admin@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago (2 children)

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 5 points 3 days ago (2 children)

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 13 points 3 days ago (2 children)

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?

[–] Manjushri@piefed.social 4 points 2 days ago

Personally I think that, in a desperate attempt to save humanity, his own major intestine was trying to leap straight up through his neck and throttle his brain but got stuck in his neck causing it to burst violently. Much like what happened to Grunthos the Flatulent.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 days ago

oh yes, he had a neck aneurism. That happens.

Is it most likely he was shot by a rifle? Absolutely.

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 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The MAGAt party has plenty of evil people, but very few with the personality to take over as cult leader

[–] AngryRedHerring@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Trump had decades of cultivating an image that low-wattage numbskulls admired and fell for.