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[–] Ulvain@sh.itjust.works 126 points 1 month ago (23 children)

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

[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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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[–] lemmylump@lemmy.world 99 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What a pain in the neck she must be.

[–] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 71 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] Eldritch@piefed.world 40 points 1 month 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 39 points 1 month 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 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

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[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 62 points 1 month 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.

[–] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 55 points 1 month 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 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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".

[–] D_C@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

(Disclaimer: she's only talking about physical beauty. She's as ugly as the devils haemorrhoids on the inside)

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[–] Afaithfulnihilist@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 month ago (4 children)

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.

[–] Aljernon@lemmy.today 9 points 1 month ago

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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[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 37 points 1 month ago (2 children)

We are somehow surprised a shitty person had a shitty wife? There are plenty of dynamic asshole duos.

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[–] Aljernon@lemmy.today 37 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Some women like tiny faces. Don't kink-shame.

[–] Jagarico@lemmy.world 28 points 1 month ago

You mean don't kirk-shame?

[–] hitmyspot@aussie.zone 28 points 1 month ago (3 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 26 points 1 month ago (3 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!"

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[–] LittleBorat3@lemmy.world 28 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Since not even his wife seems to care, can they just stop reporting? Some podcaster got shot a while ago, a lot of people get shot all the time.

Kids get shot, ICE shoots people who the fuck cares about this guy?

Why was this ever big news?

[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago

They immediately used his death to try to argue that trans people are all domestic terrorists, and organized witch hunts to get people fired for making comments (often targeting professors that were on TPUSA’s hit list). There is a good chance that the Trump regime will cite the shooting as evidence that trans people should be viewed as terrorists.

I think it also really exemplifies the “reality show” - iffication of right wing American politics. The president is a reality TV star, Dr Oz is administering Medicare, Hegseth was a news personality; Erika Kirk is just an opportunistic vulture like the rest. The kind of person who spends their life trying to get on Big Brother or Survivor so that they can make a career out of partying and socializing.

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[–] Tempus_Fugit@lemmy.world 27 points 1 month ago

Grifters gotta grift, it's in their nature.

[–] IAmYouButYouDontKnowYet@reddthat.com 23 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

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

[–] mirshafie@europe.pub 9 points 1 month ago

For future reference, you are allowed to say this.

[–] KingGordon@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

She is figuratively a bleached asshole.

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[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago

I'll never be rich or famous, and I'm a member of a group these folks actively stoke hate towards. But I'll say this, when I die, I know my wife will actually be sad about not having me anymore. That's something a lot of these folks can't honestly say

[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 22 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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. She's not giggling about the assassination. She's a grifter, obviously, but this audio is not the bombshell Owens says it is.

[–] EtAl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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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[–] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago

Come on, did anyone think that this marriage was based on love? Please.

[–] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 month ago

To be fair, if I was that asshole's spouse and learned he'd just been shot, I'd have been pretty happy myself.

[–] CircaV@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

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

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[–] Nebraska_Huskers@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Correction, for her it was the event of a century. For me it was a Sunday on my 22nd wedding anniversary, and spent all morning having fun in bed with my wife because I am not dead

[–] ramenshaman@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago (4 children)

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

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[–] JanusHassildorf@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

She is so weird. First time I saw and heard her I was like: There is something wrong with this woman.

[–] NickwithaC@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

Well she did marry Charlie Kirk...

[–] Avicenna@programming.dev 7 points 1 month ago

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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