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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    21 hours ago

    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.

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    16 hours 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 😠

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    21 hours ago

    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.

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      20 hours ago

      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.

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        15 hours ago

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

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        18 hours ago

        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.

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          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?

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    20 hours ago

    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.

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      18 hours ago

      I’m guessing she proved incompetent.

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