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[–] Aljernon@lemmy.today 7 points 46 minutes ago

Should surprise no one since she obviously didn't marry him for his looks or personality.

[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 1 points 15 minutes ago* (last edited 14 minutes ago)

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. He's not giggling about the assassination. She's a grifter, obviously, but this audio is not the bombshell Owens says it is.

[–] CircaV@lemmy.ca 1 points 31 minutes ago* (last edited 31 minutes ago)

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

[–] ramenshaman@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Don't worry, Erika. People will forget about you and your idiot husband soon enough.

[–] Ach@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

No.

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

[–] bampop@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

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

[–] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 25 points 4 hours ago (3 children)

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

[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

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".

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.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 hours ago

She will be poor as fuck when this is all over.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 25 points 5 hours ago

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.

[–] EtAl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 hours ago

My husband's dead. Like, I'm not trying to be morbid, but he's dead.

She should put that on a t-shirt.

[–] Ulvain@sh.itjust.works 59 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Ok, so psychopaths marry psychopaths. In other news: rain still wet.

[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

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.

[–] lemmylump@lemmy.world 58 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

What a pain in the neck she must be.

[–] willie1foot@theblower.au 23 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

@andros_rex Still waiting to hear why she dropped the 'tradwife'
schtick. I mean, who's looking after the children?

[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 28 points 8 hours ago

That is just the classic Phyllis Schafly playbook - making a career out of telling women they shouldn’t have careers.

[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 6 points 8 hours ago

Probably got an underpaid Hispanic nanny.

Deported em to cecot

Single widow leather pants vance ain’t got time for dat

[–] hitmyspot@aussie.zone 13 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] fizzle@quokk.au 19 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

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!"

[–] hitmyspot@aussie.zone 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] fizzle@quokk.au 1 points 1 hour ago

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

[–] IAmYouButYouDontKnowYet@reddthat.com 13 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (4 children)

I'm not sure I'm allowed to say this, but her face looks like a bleached asshole.

[–] mirshafie@europe.pub 6 points 5 hours ago

For future reference, you are allowed to say this.

[–] TotalCourage007@lemmy.world 5 points 5 hours ago

Its the Mar-A-Lago breed specialty for the uninitiated in Trumpworld.

[–] KingGordon@lemmy.world 6 points 7 hours ago

She is figuratively a bleached asshole.

[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 4 points 7 hours ago

Yeah, for now.

[–] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 35 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

This news is being posted as if everyone thought she was attracted to his personality

[–] Eldritch@piefed.world 19 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Triumph@fedia.io 19 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Whostosay@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 hours ago

Funny. He's more useful to us dead, too.

[–] Tempus_Fugit@lemmy.world 21 points 9 hours ago

Grifters gotta grift, it's in their nature.

[–] doc@fedia.io 1 points 6 hours ago

This is a worthless story consisting entirely of peoples reactions in social media. What a waste of internet.