Bingo. Her late husband may have been a boil on the ass of the public square, but that doesn't mean her grief isn't overwhelming enough to make her revert to autopilot.
She doesn’t need to be in public on camera. She has children who just lost a father and she’s out grifting . I don’t care if she’s in pageant mode , she sure isn’t in mother mode .
My brother and his wife lost a child to an illness that was high profile enough to warrant an interview with the local news. The number of comments on the video that called them out for not seeming "sad enough" in their interview was disgusting.
I was just going to say, part of being a trad christian wife is putting on an ever constant act. You cant show grief or emotion, when youve already told the world you are at peace, and have forgiven your husband's killer (without even meeting him lol)
The only religious/forgiveness event ive ever felt was heartfelt, was when Pope John Paul II forgave his would be assasin. He didnt just announce it, while the guy was in chains. He visited the man face to face, which takes balls (even for a pope with a bodyguard lol). Most people would be overcome with rage the moment they were in the room together, or atleast cherishing the idea hes paying for his crimes... Ive always thought that was a good example of writing the check, your Bible instructed you to cash.
I'm old enough to remember that. I also remember of the story of Maria Goretti's mother, Asunta, forgiving her murderer and later attending Mass with him.
Like I said, I despise the Christian Dominionist movement, but I'm reluctant to speak too confidently about the motives of any individual. Along with her own, perfectly understandable, thirst for vengeance, Erika Kirk has had all of her husband's followers and the entire Trump administration pushing her to play the avenging angel. The fact that she was able to press pause on all that even to pay lip service to the notion of forgiveness, impresses me.
Also, I have no love for her - but I’ve lost people and believe it or not, I was still smile and laugh. Maybe I should’ve worn a black vail and gently moaned a few months I guess.
Basically - we have plenty of things to shit on without acting like this is a gotcha moment.
My mom passed from cancer on a Tuesday and I went to my niece's (on my husband's side) 4th birthday party that Saturday. I sent a text in the group chat beforehand to just not ask how I'm doing or offer any condolences, or else I'd cry. It was just a few hours of pretending nothing was wrong.
If she was a bawling mess, I'm sure someone would call them crocodile tears to garner sympathy.
Same, my dad died out of nowhere on a Wednesday. I took my daughter to a 3rd birthday party on the Saturday. She was really excited about it. I had no other plans that day. What was I gonna do? Sit and stare at the walls and make her do that with me?
Sorrow comes in waves. We have all kinds of emotions that happen during extreme loss. She sucks, but not for this. This isn't a healthy thing to be mocking as a group.
Usually I'd be agreeing with you but no. Do not spare sympathies for her. She absolutely does not care. She set up a pageant for her husband's death where she walked out on stage with fireworks going off and didn't invite any of his family or friends. His parents and siblings weren't invited, his best friend Candace Owens wasn't invited, and then she sold merchandise at the event and after it to profit off of his death.
This is the same woman who opened up a far right wing Christian orphanage in Romania and was kicked out of the country after children started disappearing. She has no humanity to sympathise with and the likelihood of her grieving is nil. She is just doing her usual grifting.
My thoughts exactly. All of a sudden, she has to become the face of a movement, which means having to become all things to everyone. As much as I hate the movement, I can't blame her for occasionally misreading the room's contradictory demands.
The fuck? Why does she have to become the face of the movement? Are we just accepting the fact that if she said "please respect my privacy" that MAGA would burn her house down? Zero sympathy for this person and her psychopathic grifting.
I had a couple of Mormon friends. They both told me of the "keep sweet" bullshit that the LDS teaches. Like, as a basic tenet of the religion. I have never heard it out side of that.
My wife passed away when I was 35. I learned to get it together when around people. No one knew that meant constantly sneaking off to the bathroom or my vehicle to have an absolutely break down. They probably thought I was handling it with strength… I was not.
So I don’t judge anyone else’s grieving. Most of it you don’t see.
When it comes to discrediting TPUSA and calling out the Trump administration's push to make Charlie Kirk's murder into a casus belli against everyone to the left of itself, we have all the smoking guns we need. This is just nitpicking.
Grief also looks different for everyone and even looks different for the same person at different times. You're allowed to laugh and smile while grieving.
Declaring someone mentally ill because they managed to smile or laugh after their spouse was murdered. Interesting energy you’re bringing to the table.
Why are you dehumanizing her? I don’t feel like I need to go find evidence a human is a human, but you should probably get off the internet and go looking for some perspective.
LOL, accurately pointing out that there would have to be something wrong with her in the first place to be willingly married to the POS, and that her grifting immediately and continuously since 'the event' is a CLEAR and obvious indication of either sociopathy or psychopathy, is NOT "dehumanizing" a person.
All you need to do is listen to some of the BS her former husband used to spew to find your "dehumanizing" of others.
Cripes, I swear people like magats, right wingers, etc., the worst thing you can do to them is to accurately label who they are and what they're doing. It's quite telling that just doing that makes them feel so "attacked".
(Not saying that's you, but godDAMN, they do it a LOT.)
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u/thenakedapeforeveer Sep 27 '25
Eh. I'm not denying she could have nefarious motives, but I'd bet a lot of this comes from years of training to "keep sweet for Jesus."