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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    2 days 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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      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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          17 hours 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.

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        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.

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      1 day ago

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