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      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.

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        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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    We are somehow surprised a shitty person had a shitty wife? There are plenty of dynamic asshole duos.

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        On the trigger, not looking at where it’s pointing, and what’s she going to do, is that her resting pose, just going to hold it out there all day long.

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    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.

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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.

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    Wait till you see how fast Melania moves on and profits from Donny’s death. She might set a land speed record.

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      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”.

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        (Disclaimer: she’s only talking about physical beauty. She’s as ugly as the devils haemorrhoids on the inside)

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          I also have to add that she doesn’t really look attractive too - the Mar-a-Lago face is a super ugly trend

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            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.

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      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.

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      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.

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        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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            Eh… he was a fair target for mockery and it’s not like his death changed any minds for the better… Charlie the martyr is far worse than Charlie the living douche.

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              I think the less hate spread actively, the better. Its a drop in a bucket, but a light rain is better than a heavy downpour.

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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

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    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.

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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.

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      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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        Yes but even if it is a conscious decision and she doesn’t or didn’t care about him, there’s nothing illegal about it. It’s just unseemly. She should be able to do as she pleases, no different to any other awful grifter. It’s not really news. It’s gossip.

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          It’s not a matter of illegal, it’s a matter of how much of a grift it is. Celebrating merch sales about your husband’s death is just sociopath level.

          It matters in the context of this movement trying to play like they gave a shit about this man for the sake of sympathy when even his own widow clearly cared about engagement and merchandise than his actual death.

          Admittedly, not that newsworthy because most of the world has stopped thinking about him, but TPUSA is still rolling and still riding that martyrdom angle.

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          Nah the Trump administration hitched their wagon to the Kirks so her unseemly behavior is newsworthy IMO.

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      I mostly agree with you, but I don’t think this is just a distraction story. The more interesting thing is the rift forming between MAGA influencers. Candace Owens clearly has beef with Erika Kirk.

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        Owens seems to lash out against everyone when she feels she isn’t getting her due. That’s a problem normally, but she seems to have outlived her usefulness to them. She’s been sidelined in that crowd for a while now, and only really makes the news over crazy shit

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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.

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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.