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imanamerican63

(15,426 posts)
Sun Sep 21, 2025, 09:29 PM 14 hrs ago

That wasn't a memorial service!

It was a propaganda production and I bet Trump had a lot to do with it!

Having fireworks was bit much!!!

Having Erika Kirk stand there on stage crying that she forgives Robinson was a bit too much. Especially after every right wing MAGA calls for revenge!

The whole thing sounded like a farce and grifting production!

This wasn’t tamping down the hate, it only escalated the issue!






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That wasn't a memorial service! (Original Post) imanamerican63 14 hrs ago OP
It was an evangelical cluster fuck of the first kind. Klarkashton 14 hrs ago #1
Speaking in tongues? ? too funny but I didn't watch the propaganda show vapor2 14 hrs ago #7
Speaking with forked tongues. calimary 12 hrs ago #21
Epstein did happen vapor2 14 hrs ago #8
David Cay Johnston is a national treasure. markodochartaigh 13 hrs ago #12
Any snake handling? I have a bet... reACTIONary 13 hrs ago #10
" Any snake handling?" markodochartaigh 13 hrs ago #14
True! LOL reACTIONary 1 hr ago #31
It was the Erica Kirk, tRump,and Maybelline Queen's Spectacular Spectacular Blue Full Moon 14 hrs ago #2
You Know What This Could Have Used? Deep State Witch 14 hrs ago #3
Well, they got their Horst Wessel Bavorskoami 13 hrs ago #20
Decent people would have let her grieve more quietly, Ilsa 14 hrs ago #4
Turning Points supposedly has 85 million womanofthehills 13 hrs ago #11
She could have stayed home. hunter 12 hrs ago #22
One Big Klan Rally MrWowWow 14 hrs ago #5
The production team is working that idea for the next martyr funeral Maru Kitteh 13 hrs ago #9
all that they planned it to be, B.See 14 hrs ago #6
Yeah, it almost out did the memorial service for the murdered schoolchildren Grim Chieftain 13 hrs ago #13
Perhaps they'll take this show on the road RussBLib 13 hrs ago #15
"It was a propaganda production"....never let a good crisis go to waste... Niccol Machiavelli...nt mitch96 13 hrs ago #16
Their updated version of a Javaman 13 hrs ago #17
Remember the outrage when some people were political at the Wellstone memorial? karynnj 13 hrs ago #18
What memorial service? Gimpyknee 13 hrs ago #19
I took theater as an elective in college and I have seen a lot of over emoting Randomthought 12 hrs ago #23
You are so correct Randomthought 12 hrs ago #24
Fireworks? How cheapskate. usonian 12 hrs ago #25
Rick Wilson astutely summed up Erika days ago: Tanuki 11 hrs ago #26
LOL Randomthought 11 hrs ago #27
These people absolutely make me want to throw up. walkingman 11 hrs ago #28
Just when I think the US cannot humiliate and disgrace itself any further. Irish_Dem 6 hrs ago #29
It was a kabuki dance Gum Logger 1 hr ago #32
yes they get the Nobel Prize for Kabuki Theater. Irish_Dem 1 hr ago #33
More in common with the 1934 Nuremberg Rally. Emile 5 hrs ago #30

Klarkashton

(4,036 posts)
1. It was an evangelical cluster fuck of the first kind.
Sun Sep 21, 2025, 09:32 PM
14 hrs ago

Speaking in tongues, the whole bit. They want to let you know that Epstein never happened.
This is a travesty.

markodochartaigh

(4,068 posts)
12. David Cay Johnston is a national treasure.
Sun Sep 21, 2025, 10:24 PM
13 hrs ago

I have followed him since his reporting on Bush.

Bavorskoami

(155 posts)
20. Well, they got their Horst Wessel
Sun Sep 21, 2025, 11:04 PM
13 hrs ago

They seem to be making Kirk a martyr just as Horst Wessel was treated as a martyr in 1930.
.

Ilsa

(63,306 posts)
4. Decent people would have let her grieve more quietly,
Sun Sep 21, 2025, 09:34 PM
14 hrs ago

not putting on a show. I wonder if they took up an offering for the organization, the trumps, or the kirk family.

womanofthehills

(10,391 posts)
11. Turning Points supposedly has 85 million
Sun Sep 21, 2025, 10:21 PM
13 hrs ago

But big doners started backing off when Kirk did a complete I love Israel turn around and he started questioning Israel’s motives in Gaza. ( Videos on X - in one he asks if Israel had a stand down order on Oct 7) Donors were really pissed when he invited anti genocide speakers to his big Turning Points event in Tampa - Tucker, Dave Smith and MTG.

Tucker started a fund for Erica - he and a friend put in a million dollars.

Learned all this info from clips on X 🙃🙃🙃


Maru Kitteh

(30,657 posts)
9. The production team is working that idea for the next martyr funeral
Sun Sep 21, 2025, 10:16 PM
13 hrs ago

Maybe they’ll combine it with fireworks, flaming crosses that shoot into the sky and EXPLODE! Incendiary patriotic ordinance for JAYSUS!

Now that’s Uhmerica.



Grim Chieftain

(604 posts)
13. Yeah, it almost out did the memorial service for the murdered schoolchildren
Sun Sep 21, 2025, 10:25 PM
13 hrs ago

Oh, wait a minute...

RussBLib

(10,175 posts)
15. Perhaps they'll take this show on the road
Sun Sep 21, 2025, 10:26 PM
13 hrs ago

...lots of money to be made out there selling merch. Make it a weekly event somewhere in Amerika. The Murder of Charlie Tour.

mitch96

(15,479 posts)
16. "It was a propaganda production"....never let a good crisis go to waste... Niccol Machiavelli...nt
Sun Sep 21, 2025, 10:46 PM
13 hrs ago

Javaman

(64,513 posts)
17. Their updated version of a
Sun Sep 21, 2025, 10:50 PM
13 hrs ago

Bund rally

Chuck was just their excuse and reason for what comes next

And they will now justify everything that does come next on their useful martyr

karynnj

(60,547 posts)
18. Remember the outrage when some people were political at the Wellstone memorial?
Sun Sep 21, 2025, 10:56 PM
13 hrs ago

Even though in that case it was people who knew him telling stories about things he did.

Randomthought

(935 posts)
23. I took theater as an elective in college and I have seen a lot of over emoting
Sun Sep 21, 2025, 11:49 PM
12 hrs ago

Erika Kirk's scenery chewing was the worst overacting I have ever seen ever seen..
I know I'm being tacky considering that she is a widow but sh was beyond the pale of human decency5.

Randomthought

(935 posts)
24. You are so correct
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 12:05 AM
12 hrs ago

It was not a memorial service but a RW hate fest and Erika' s overacting of the grieving widow was just nasty. Her saying she was Kirk's advisor!!? Honey he was a major misogynist. I N HER DREAMS WAS SHE HIS ADVISOR.

walkingman

(9,850 posts)
28. These people absolutely make me want to throw up.
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 12:51 AM
11 hrs ago

The Bible Belt is controlled by these folks. It is fucking real.

Irish_Dem

(75,031 posts)
29. Just when I think the US cannot humiliate and disgrace itself any further.
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 06:00 AM
6 hrs ago

It goes further down the ugly spiral it is in.

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