In the recording, the mother of two can be heard discussing with her staff the success of a TPUSA event and the strong sales of associated merchandise. She then appeared to dismiss her husband’s death during the discussion while emphasizing harmony between staff.
Erika Kirk also recently came under fire for including an alleged pedophile pastor in her ongoing Faith Tour.
Look, this is gross. I’m no TPUSA apologist, nor am I a fan of the Kirks. But I’ve had major tragedies happen in my life and had to continue work and put on a brace face.
People compartmentalize. People throw themselves into work/causes to separate themselves from the grief.
There is no wrong way to grieve, and it feels twelve types of misogynistic to be like “this woman isn’t an inconsolable sobbing wreck every minute since her husband died!? She must be a sociopath.”
Her politics are despicable, but that doesn’t mean she’s the physical embodiment of Satan himself, and nothing is gained by policing how other people grieve.
When your work becomes how to drive profit from the death of someone, anyone, then you are a monster, full stop. I’m not asking her to grieve her shitbag husband. I didn’t. I can’t expect her to. However, when I threw a Charlie Kirk is Dead house party that night, I didn’t charge a cover at the door, either.
She’s just a grifter, that’s it. It feels pretty clear she cares more about her business, success, and wealth more than Charlie… but that’s totally fair because I can empathize with not liking Charlie Kirk.
It would be beyond the line for me I guess, if it weren’t for the way his death was weaponized. There’s enough composure to try to market it, for the right to use it as an opportunity to go after people’s jobs and as a propaganda move to go after the Left.
Fighting fire with fire is dangerous, but sometimes necessary.
“Had to work” would mean continuing a job. She started a new job where she flies around the country making money off her dead husband while spreading hate. That’s fucked up.
I honestly don’t care whether she grieves for her husband or not. It’s not my business. We like to have this idea that the “sanctity of marriage” exists but the reality is that the institution has long been used for a variety of practical purposes. Politics, diplomacy, finance, immigration, bearding, and wedlock. A lot of people think they marry for love and find it’s not what they expected several years later. I certainly can’t blame anyone for not being sad that Charlie Kirk died.
The more interesting thing is the schism growing amongst MAGA influencers. Candace Owens clearly released this with the intention of damaging Erika Kirk’s reputation amongst their base. And while I normally don’t care about influencer drama, when it comes to MAGA that influencer drama ends up influencing the POTUS and fucking us all over.