• Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca
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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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    Is this a way to put her back in the spotlight? If republicans have thought me anything it is that ridiculous rage baits are fair game for getting online interaction.

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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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    Eleven. days. later - I’m, like, more traumatized from seeing that snuff video then his own wife was.

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      I saw it accidentally and it legit fucked me up even though I hate the fuckin bastard. My ocd latched onto it hard and it replays in my mind at 2am 😅😵‍💫

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      No.

      Remember them forever. Rememer them the same way we remember Hitler, and for the same reason.

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        I think he’ll be remembered the same way we remember Horst Wessel. Much less memorable than Hitler.

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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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        Most of the money he’s borrowed over the last couple decades links back to Russian Oligarchs so they will likely right it off as a business expense.

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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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    All these stories amount to “wow, she’s not grieving like I think she should!”

    Who gives a fuck. What a bizarre fixation on a widow’s reaction.

    She believes in the Christian God and most people making this point probably don’t. So no shit she’s not going to grieve the same way. She didn’t really lose him in her mind. It’s just temporary.

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      I didn’t know a single person whose faith caused them to feel like the loss of a loved one is no big deal. They may say that in their mind, but it hurts all the same

      But maybe 11 days is enough to be a bit more collected in general, but the context is off-putting. Even thinking about revenue and merch sales during something akin to your spouse’s funeral seems like a sociopath. I’ve heard people who had absolutely moved on and normal day to day get choked up at a one year memorial when they were faced with discussing a close friend. To be directly talking about a memorial for your husband less than two weeks after his death without missing a beat, and sincerely at complete ease, not merely trying to put up a brave front… That’s not the reaction of someone that actually cared.

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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.

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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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        Wet is used as a synonym for rain in my local dialect. The endless flexibility of english is amazing. Noun that verb! Adjectivize all the words!

        Just don’t put colour before size in your stack of adjectives or everyone cringes, for some reason.

        • Jessica@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          Water makes it self wet? The other definitions and reasoning is plausible. Water makes water wet? Stoner ideas?

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        This seemed a little sus to me so I checked the dictionary. Merriam-Webster says wet can mean consisting of liquid such as water. (See 1a of screen capture).

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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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      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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      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.