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If it turns out kirk was a false flag that'd honestly be so fucking funny because literally no one ever truly gave a shit about him and those that pretended to already stopped pretending. Like they'd have just offed this stupid nazi kid for nothing.
Seriously, not even his fucking wife could pretend to give a shit about him
I still subscribe the the theory that she fucking hated him for reasons we'll probably never know. Was he a nightmare to interact with on a personal level? Likely. Did he refuse to wipe his ass after shitting? Who's to say? Either way there's gotta be some reason she didn't even pretend to be sad that her husband was publicly murdered in cold blood.
I have a hard time imagining either of them loving each other let alone tolerating each other. Their marriage has to have been some sort of arranged thing.
and she had to go through a whole pregnancy and childbirth for the ruse
the fireworks were grand weren't they tho.
She's more angry at that comedian dressing up to look like her than her husband being murdered.
They met in Israel. 100% she's a Mossad honeypot. And yes, they do go all the way like this.
Where is your source that they met in israel
Imagine your legacy being an AI-generated slop song
I believe Kirk's assassination was the continuation of the Trump's "failed assassination. " It was another message to Trump from an opposing clique of the govt.
It's full on tinfoil hat, but it could be an attempt at manufacturing a Horst Wessel.
If that's the case the perpetrators might have thought his maga semi-celebrity status would have helped making martyrdom more easily reachable, only for that to spectacularly backfire because of his semi-celebrity status
It's because Kirk said, on stream, that secular Jewish people are the #1 funders of radical open borders policies. He tried to talk Trump out of Iran strikes and turned down a nine-figure contribution (bribe) from Netanyahu himself. Kirk was going to be president someday, he had that JFK magic. MOssad saw the next JFK coming and took decisive action.
Kirk was an absolute dipshit who was never gonna be president cmon now
I don't think he himself but his organization Turning Point has decent reach and is surprisingly influential, he was definitely too much of a dipshit. If someone's face becomes a meme in a derisive way it makes me think people won't vote for him also.
This has to be an bit...
What's wrong with "open" borders?
Nothing is wrong with open borders, he was basically using the 'Judeo-Bolshevism' trope to tie 'Jewish globalists' to socialism in the US to demonize it to his neo-Nazi followers.
Oh, ewwwwwww
MAGA doesn't do martyrs because they're all sociopaths, and nobody cares about anyone else, beyond their immediate utility. A dead guy has no utility at all, so once the initial shock fades, nobody cares enough to keep the torch lit. Nobody cares enough to do that, except maybe Erica, because she wants to keep the money rolling in, so his name still has utility for her.
The minute his name becomes a liability, she'll be like "Charlie who?"