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[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 32 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"What really just hits me hard," she said, continuing, "is when i'm in the grocery store, and I see his hot sauce, I want to buy it."

Audible eye roll

It must be really ass hot sauce for her to still pass it up.

[–] CommanderCloon@lemmy.ml 35 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Quote: While the exact net worth of the Kirk family is not known, prior to his passing, NewsNation reported that the 37-year-old TPUSA CEO held an estimated net worth of roughly $2 million. Following Kirk's assassination in September, Celebrity Net Worth revised Erika Kirk's wealth projection to $12 million by late 2025, a figure that Grok adjusted upward to $20 million.

Glad to know they're using only the best sources

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 36 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] Spezi@feddit.org 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I sometimes do advertise random products around me, even when I’m alone.

[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 127 points 2 days ago (3 children)

"What really just hits me hard," she said, continuing, "is when i'm in the grocery store, and I see his hot sauce, I want to buy it."

When I initially read it, I thought she meant, like, his favorite hot sauce. Like maybe he really liked Cholula. Nah lmao she's literally just plugging her dead husband's brand lmao these people are ghouls

[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Looks like there was a Fox viewer mentioned in the article who thought the same

A user wrote, "When I first saw this clip, I thought she meant that Charlie Kirk has a favorite type of hot sauce and when she sees it, it reminds her of him. But no, Charlie Kirk actually owned a hot sauce brand that Erika makes money from."

I love hot sauce myself and I've even made some stuff with hot peppers I've grown, but when it comes from a right wing douchebag I can't help but think he was just doing it for his brand. Guns! Hot sauce! Xtreminate your life with KIRK SAUCE!

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 2 points 18 hours ago

Cock sauce >> Kirk sauce.

Of course I'm takling about Huy Fung Rooster Brand Sriracha.

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafe 38 points 2 days ago

Charlie would be proud.

[–] LittleBorat3@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

This is so wild. Again no one cared about Charlie Kirk, stop talking about him.

[–] kreskin@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

If she keeps crying on her marketing opportunities she is going to skip the last stage of her marketing potential, selling charlie kirk branded Depends, industrial fertilizer, and enema kits. Think of all the money she is leaving on the table. Hundreds of dollars, maybe. Certainly tens of dollars. I say bust out her glitter ice skating outfits, buck up, and keep a stiff upper lip. This is what being a republican is all about. she also needs to show some cleavage and get that domestic-violence looking mar-a-lago face the right adores so much.

[–] Bakkoda@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Fleshlights new model is neck hole

[–] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 30 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Coming onto store shelves...

"Charlie Kirk's Shot Sauce: It is a fountain of flavor!"

The bottle opens as it should.

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 25 points 2 days ago

It is amazing that there is no moral low for anyone on the right side of the political spectrum.

[–] tribut@infosec.pub 22 points 2 days ago

Celebrity Net Worth revised Erika Kirk's wealth projection to $12 million by late 2025, a figure that Grok adjusted upward to $20 million.

Random number from the synthetic text extruder. This is what passes for journalism now?

[–] Doorbook@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

It's amazing how if she played her cards right she could be running for president.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 88 points 2 days ago (4 children)

I've heard sometimes hot sauce just squirts out the neck of the bottle for no reason...

[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 23 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Maybe His Hot Sauce Just Did That

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[–] TryingToBeGood@reddthat.com 62 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Why is anyone interviewing this woman?

[–] Marthirial@lemmy.world 60 points 2 days ago (1 children)

She is honoring the memory of his assassinated husband by promoting rebottled hot sauce.

Jesus, some people are so insensitive to true grief.

[–] beejboytyson@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Idk I felt she honored him pretty well when she was hocking merch. with his likeness on the exact place he was publicly murdered.

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[–] CanIFishHere@lemmy.ca 20 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Fox News. The question is why is MS Now covering Fox News as news?

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[–] bobjones1665@lemmy.world 69 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Charlie Kirk hot sauce. It's hot as hell. Just like where he is.

[–] bedwyr@piefed.ca 19 points 2 days ago

I hear Charlie Kirk's hotsauce is neck and neck in quality to shitty mass produced hotsauce that has toxic preservatives like sodium benzoate in it.

If only we had a neckromancer maybe we could reborn kirk to disown his bitch wife.

[–] johnyreeferseed@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I didn't know this bozo had a hot sauce brand and looking at pictures of the bottles I'm shocked he put a black man on the label.

[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's just an old photo. That's Kirk's grandfather as an American football player. Iowa's first passing quarterback. I have no idea what that means.

In other news, the hotsauce website still refers to Charlie in the present tense, saying he reaches thousands of people weekly on his show.

Very funny to me his own hot sauce hasn't been updated since his death.

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 1 points 18 hours ago

I have no idea what that means.

American football used to be like rugby, the rules didn't allow forward passes. The rules were changed a little after 1900, so it's improbable that Kirk's grandfather was old enough. Great-grandfather, maybe. Or more likely it's just more grifter bullshit.

[–] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Grifter gonna grift…

[–] SecretiveVault@lemmy.zip 25 points 2 days ago

Taylor Grift

[–] A404@lemmy.dbzer0.com 37 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Urgh,shitty bottle only pours out the left side.

[–] lemmylump@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago

Pours right out the neck, genius.

[–] zoltanshields@lemmy.zip 18 points 2 days ago

This is bordering on being a Ferengi death ritual.

[–] smeenz@lemmy.nz 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] bender223@lemmy.today 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

the racist guy with a comically large head who goes to college campuses to pick on students

[–] smeenz@lemmy.nz 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Hmmm. Sounds like a bit of a shot in the dark

[–] bender223@lemmy.today 2 points 1 day ago

actually, it was a shot in broad daylight

[–] TurbidityVonAdvectionFog@pawb.social 30 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Ah, the grift continues, she is trying to milk his death for the maximum value before people forget about him. ROFL Cute.

[–] NekoKoneko@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You monster! She's clearly grifting to cope with the pain!

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[–] eggpl4nt@lemmy.world 28 points 2 days ago (2 children)

My brain refuses to believe this isn't an Onion News headline.

[–] DagwoodIII@piefed.social 27 points 2 days ago (3 children)

https://www.newsweek.com/trump-offers-ufc-ceo-dana-white-press-secretary-job-a-violent-fighter-12682142

Trump just asked the head of UFC to be his new Press Secretary.

Because if I have to have a stroke I want to take you with me!

[–] kreskin@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago

He really wants to make our government the exact clone of the idiocracy movie.

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[–] Avicenna@programming.dev 19 points 2 days ago

keep milking that dead husband of yours for more fame points (and remind people on the side to buy his sauces)

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 13 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

The only surprise is the hot sauces are gluten free...

And somehow the 3 hot sauces they have use the exact same ingredients and all are a 4/5 for heat. Even the ghost pepper one.

10/10 grift from ms Kirk

Edit. Hi new downvoting stalker account

https://lemmy.1095.me/u/lemmy1096

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[–] daychilde@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago

Erika Kirk breaks down in tears on Fox News while plugging Charlie Kirk

Selective quoting for the joke! :)

[–] ccunning@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago

Like histrionically? Or at the realization of how pathetic her life is?

[–] watson387@sopuli.xyz 15 points 2 days ago

Shit human being

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