Erika Kirk event booted off high school campus after backlash from students and parents
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Shouldn't she be at home looking after the kids, like a good conservative mum?
She's trying to find another small-faced husband first.
She already has a candidate.
Eek!
I thought she just needed to get away from her small-faced children of the corn.
https://youtube.com/shorts/F9TmouBA_5o
No, she's busy being on the Air Force Academy board...
A place where evangelical extremism has been a problem for literal decades and everyone just pretends isn't a big deal.
Her not talking to a couple hundred highschoolers is nothing compared to the real damage she's doing when she's not pretending to be a couch.
If she's parenting her children at home, who's out there grifting on her behalf?
She's a single mum just trying to make ends meet.
ok, so the headline makes it sound like a bit more than what it was, but:
still, glad to hear that some people at the school had the sense to stop this crazy bullshit before it started
I'm very proud of these kids.
The kids are alright. And they rock.
They might be illiterate but at least they aren't down with fascism.
Yeah, the article basically says, “the parents also had problems” without really elaborating too much lol
Are they ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFsIRRjW-8I
I'm going to have to watch the doc. I very much have my doubts, too. People love to dunk on boomers, but, FFS, that's the generation known for the hippies. And now the term "boomers" has flipped into shorthand for people sitting around watching Faux "News" vs. people sparking up a joint and tending to their pot plants...
If they are supposedly the worst now that they are reaching old age, just imagine what having no media filter/gating (as right wing as the corporate "liberal media" was and is - sure, that filter of the MSM is a two-edged sword, but fuuuuuck, if you let YT send you down the Nazi rabbit hole long before you've ever developed any kind of media literacy and/or critical thinking skills, it is going to cook your brain) and being given something like a tablet/phone from a very young age...
It's just thinly veiled ageism.
Nah. Boomers actually just suck.
Honestly, most of the boomers that I knew/know were/are some of the best people I had the pleasure to know. Dismissing an entire generation is really quite....something.
Nah, you suck for being a bigot.
If people get to say all Americans suck for not standing up to Facism well enough and all men suck then I can say all boomers suck. Is it literal? Not really, but the sentiment remains.
I find it horrifying that this is even an option. I don't think political parties/organizations should be allowed to recruit in schools at all. Let alone America's Hitlerjugend.
"Sense" seems to be responding to backlash in this case.
They are still supporting TP's extreme right-wing anti-education propaganda, by a school of all places!EDIT: It read like the school were organising it themselves but it seems it was by a student club? Kind of weird that such a thing exists and they can host "high-profile" people, but there might be some indication the school itself wasn't aware of it.
seems to me like TP reached out to maybe some neo-nazi district admin that made a short-term booking with little-to-no notice (so they couldn't stop the nazis) to the actual school admin (except maybe the principle through some super-vague email, designed to hide the nazis) about some "district-mandated school assembly" (of nazis).
Some state/county/local law must have kicked in, requiring some sort of disclosure to some series of people the ended up in people being informed they were about to be mind-pissed by a bunch of christo-nazis, and, clearly, lots of people - included very not-stupid children - had a major fucking problem with that.
proud of those kids!
these aren't just American values... I hope these are HUMAN values!
if you don't believe this, I don't think you should be considered human
there was a Christian prayer club that had really obnoxious meetings and pray sessions at my high school. There's a lot of leeway from clubs in schools.
Dear Erika Kirk,
Your late husband was a scourge on the world and he died a death too clean for his own good. We'd say it's disgusting you're using your husband's death as a platform to spread more misinformation and hate, but we suppose it's fitting that his memory is besmirched by your fucking lunacy. We wish you all the worst save perhaps your late husband's fate you pathetic pathetic excuse for a human being.
Sincerely,
Most of The United States Population
Correction: most of the world's population
I'd bet most of the world's population never knew who Charlie Kirk was.
"fuck you im making money" that's her response
Everyone liked this.
High school? College kids too tough to debate?
Republicans dare not debate in colleges.
Not since... the incident.
She was meeting to much resistance, went down an education step in hope to find pliable minds to corrupt.
I bet in 6 months she'll be trying to perform at Elementary Schools... assuming shes allowed within 1500 feet of them given, you know, conservative grifters and their interests
-made me smile-
Remember that this was even attempted next time we hear something about schools indoctrinating kids
I mean at least a couple red states have attempted to put the ten commandments in schools. Even after courts obviously make them stop.
In Idaho my daughters went to an assembly sponsored by the highschool during a school day that taught her that people who look at porn become serial killers.
Shit my health teacher in 2003 taught us that, showed us James Dobsons interview with Ted Bundy where he claimed that’s what made him a violent monster, in retrospect it’s very clear that Bundy is playing Dobson and telling him exactly what he wanted to hear.
It's just further evidence to them: "So we can't have speakers in schools to share Republican values like women shouldn't vote, immigrants are evil, and they might die as a sacrifice to the 1st amendment, but it's perfectly fine to teach Leftist talking points like 'the Nazis and slavery were bad'?"
What a cesspool this countries institutions institutions are becoming. I bet she is getting taxpayer dollars to do this talk too.
Well if sleeping with the Vice President 48 hours after becoming a widow doesn't earn you a chance to speak at a high school I don't know what will 😕
Please tell me there’s a source for that
There's no hard evidence. But some anonymous White House staff have reported the existence of an Erika Kirk body pillow at the Naval Observatory.
Get lost you ghoulish, fundamentalist attention whore.
College Republicans are insufferable losers. Can you imagine the kind of kids who show up for a high school level TPUSA event?
What does she even talk about?
I've actually been to her events and they're pretty good.
She talks about personal responsibility, American values, and that one time she conspired with Israel to assassinate her husband.
All things considered, not a bad way to spend an afternoon.
Conservative grievances
man, I hate that guy.
Brilliant.
God. Guns. Being white.
Fake. Dumb. Who cares?
Huh… just like her.
Herself and her needs. She's not trying to do anything for YOU.
She is on her world privacy tour.
Apparently all it takes to be a TPUSA Talking Head is being married to one. No other qualifications necessary.
Honestly, that's one more qualification than her predecessor.
That's a problem in the whole USA political scene. Why does the first lady hold events and give speeches? In Germany, we usually don't even know whether the chancellor is married or not, and if we do, we certainly don't know the name of the partner and have never scene them on TV.
That's true for previous chancellors but not for Merz. Yet another thing where he sets a negative example. His wive was a somewhat vocal in his election campaign and the district court led by her attracted negative attention when it bullied a political opponent of Merz by illegally issuing a search warrant (German source). She did of course dispute being personally involved, but it smells fishy anyways.
LOL I've always wondered that as well. I guess because it makes their partners look better.
I guess you wouldn't really know but have you ever had one that was single?
I just went through the list on Wikipedia, no, they were all married.
Honestly, I thought our previous chancellor, Olaf Scholz, was single. But no.
Well thanks. Idk how long of a list that was, I'm not too surprised, I would imagine most people both eligible and likely to get elected to be married statically.
Sooo the dumb bitch failed at impressing adults so she moves to more impressionable minds and they won't have any of her nonsense?
Good on them kids.
Cigarette ads knew this decades ago.
Is society better off now that Charlie Kirk is dead? It certainly seems to be healing.
Oh she will be welcome in any high school in the South. I am glad I have retired teaching.
Tennessee even made it illegal to protest events like hers.
Like I dont get it. If women like Kirk want women to be totally subservient to men, why don't they fuck off and live in Afghanistan?
Or Iran
Iran seems a little too progressive for their tastes....
“So Timmy, what happened at school today”
“Well Dad, you know that guy that got shot in the neck? The guy from the internet videos with the blood flying out of his neck? Well his wife is coming to school to talk to us! I guess she’s getting death threats too so the cops were doing active shooter drills with machine guns and everything!”
Peeve: it's not the division that's the problem. It's the hate and lies.
If only the headline were literally true. She was just blocked from speaking on campus.
Turning Point USA has chiefs? lol
It's pronounced toilet paper.
And, by extension, their 'chiefs' are officially titled "Grand Poobahs".
I’m starting to think having her husband assassinated wasn’t really worth it.
Let's be honest here, if that was your husband, it's always a win when he gets assassinated. Whether you can milk it for attention/money or not.
That headline just barely captured the facts lol
Honestly though
I remember Al Gore came to my high school during his run at the presidency, it was such a pain in the ass.we had cops at every enterance for weeks
Who was responsible for naming that group? Didn’t they realize that the abbreviation would be interpreted as Toilet Paper USA?
How did they not see that coming?
It was revenge for their hoses getting TP’d so much when they were kids because they were fuckin’ NERDS /s
Incoming Charlie Kirk law in that state
It’s a public high school for fucks sake.
Who from the school administration endorsed this visit in the first place? Never had to deal with political bullshit like this when I was in school.
With people like her I wonder if she actually genuinely believes in her values or just determined them to be most profitable to her. And I'd argue that the latter would be even more evil
Notice that a lot of gop politicians end up having their kinks exposed. It’s all for show, it’s like Christian cosplay; these people are total heathens
I wonder this too. I can’t fathom either
How was this even allowed to be staged in the first place? Someone at the school board should get fired..... From a cannon!
If the person who popped Kirk knew what kind of freakish dead-eyed monster would rise in his place, would they still pull the trigger?
Unfortunately this is why assassination is usually a bad choice. "Head of the hydra", making a martyr and all of that. It's contradictory to the goal.
Maybe she hired out to do it.
That is/was a legitimate conspiracy theory going through tiktok, at least a told to me a few weeks ago.
I could get behind it. There’s definitely something off about her.
Um I think that's the reason they pushed the button.
Oh, so that's why they're trying to pass laws against that
Oh, no! But MAH FREEZED PEACH!
I, as a conservative grifting anti-American asshole, have a right to being heard by a captive audience!
Can crazy eyes just go fuck herself? She might even feel human that way.
What's even funnier is what Charlie Kirk had to say about it.
Parents? Intervening in college? Seriously?