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imanamerican63

(15,439 posts) Sun Sep 21, 2025, 09:29 PM Sunday

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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 Sunday OP

It was an evangelical cluster fuck of the first kind. Klarkashton Sunday #1

Speaking in tongues? ? too funny but I didn't watch the propaganda show vapor2 Sunday #7

Speaking with forked tongues. calimary Sunday #21

Epstein did happen vapor2 Sunday #8

David Cay Johnston is a national treasure. markodochartaigh Sunday #12

Any snake handling? I have a bet... reACTIONary Sunday #10

" Any snake handling?" markodochartaigh Sunday #14

True! LOL reACTIONary Monday #31

It was the Erica Kirk, tRump,and Maybelline Queen's Spectacular Spectacular Blue Full Moon Sunday #2

You Know What This Could Have Used? Deep State Witch Sunday #3

Well, they got their Horst Wessel Bavorskoami Sunday #20

Decent people would have let her grieve more quietly, Ilsa Sunday #4

Turning Points supposedly has 85 million womanofthehills Sunday #11

She could have stayed home. hunter Sunday #22

One Big Klan Rally MrWowWow Sunday #5

The production team is working that idea for the next martyr funeral Maru Kitteh Sunday #9

all that they planned it to be, B.See Sunday #6

Yeah, it almost out did the memorial service for the murdered schoolchildren Grim Chieftain Sunday #13

Perhaps they'll take this show on the road RussBLib Sunday #15

"It was a propaganda production"....never let a good crisis go to waste... Niccol Machiavelli...nt mitch96 Sunday #16

Their updated version of a Javaman Sunday #17

Remember the outrage when some people were political at the Wellstone memorial? karynnj Sunday #18

What memorial service? Gimpyknee Sunday #19

I took theater as an elective in college and I have seen a lot of over emoting Randomthought Sunday #23

You are so correct Randomthought Monday #24

Fireworks? How cheapskate. usonian Monday #25

Rick Wilson astutely summed up Erika days ago: Tanuki Monday #26

LOL Randomthought Monday #27

These people absolutely make me want to throw up. walkingman Monday #28

Just when I think the US cannot humiliate and disgrace itself any further. Irish_Dem Monday #29

It was a kabuki dance Gum Logger Monday #32

yes they get the Nobel Prize for Kabuki Theater. Irish_Dem Monday #33

More in common with the 1934 Nuremberg Rally. Emile Monday #30

The only family member to speak at this event was the widow LetMyPeopleVote Tuesday #34

Klarkashton

(4,091 posts)

1. It was an evangelical cluster fuck of the first kind.

Reply to imanamerican63 (Original post)

Sun Sep 21, 2025, 09:32 PM

Sunday

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

vapor2

(3,154 posts)

7. Speaking in tongues? ? too funny but I didn't watch the propaganda show

Reply to Klarkashton (Reply #1)

Sun Sep 21, 2025, 10:07 PM

Sunday

calimary

(87,927 posts)

21. Speaking with forked tongues.

Reply to vapor2 (Reply #7)

Sun Sep 21, 2025, 11:11 PM

Sunday

vapor2

(3,154 posts)

8. Epstein did happen

Reply to Klarkashton (Reply #1)

Sun Sep 21, 2025, 10:08 PM

Sunday

follow David Cay Johnson and his comments on Epstein.

markodochartaigh

(4,159 posts)

12. David Cay Johnston is a national treasure.

Reply to vapor2 (Reply #8)

Sun Sep 21, 2025, 10:24 PM

Sunday

I have followed him since his reporting on Bush.

reACTIONary

(6,727 posts)

10. Any snake handling? I have a bet...

Reply to Klarkashton (Reply #1)

Sun Sep 21, 2025, 10:17 PM

Sunday

.... that they would be handling snakes.

markodochartaigh

(4,159 posts)

14. " Any snake handling?"

Reply to reACTIONary (Reply #10)

Sun Sep 21, 2025, 10:26 PM

Sunday

Well, JD Vance was there if that's the kind of snake you mean.

reACTIONary

(6,727 posts)

31. True! LOL

Reply to markodochartaigh (Reply #14)

Mon Sep 22, 2025, 10:42 AM

Monday

Blue Full Moon

(2,903 posts)

2. It was the Erica Kirk, tRump,and Maybelline Queen's Spectacular Spectacular

Reply to imanamerican63 (Original post)

Sun Sep 21, 2025, 09:33 PM

Sunday

Deep State Witch

(12,253 posts)

3. You Know What This Could Have Used?

Reply to imanamerican63 (Original post)

Sun Sep 21, 2025, 09:34 PM

Sunday

Leni Riefenstahl.

Bavorskoami

(155 posts)

20. Well, they got their Horst Wessel

Reply to Deep State Witch (Reply #3)

Sun Sep 21, 2025, 11:04 PM

Sunday

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

Ilsa

(63,336 posts)

4. Decent people would have let her grieve more quietly,

Reply to imanamerican63 (Original post)

Sun Sep 21, 2025, 09:34 PM

Sunday

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

womanofthehills

(10,405 posts)

11. Turning Points supposedly has 85 million

Reply to Ilsa (Reply #4)

Sun Sep 21, 2025, 10:21 PM

Sunday

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 🙃🙃🙃

hunter

(39,973 posts)

22. She could have stayed home.

Reply to Ilsa (Reply #4)

Sun Sep 21, 2025, 11:42 PM

Sunday

I suspect this was a marketing decision.

MrWowWow

(1,377 posts)

5. One Big Klan Rally

Reply to imanamerican63 (Original post)

Sun Sep 21, 2025, 09:58 PM

Sunday

Any crosses burned or were those saved for later?

Maru Kitteh

(30,711 posts)

9. The production team is working that idea for the next martyr funeral

Reply to MrWowWow (Reply #5)

Sun Sep 21, 2025, 10:16 PM

Sunday

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.

B.See

(6,769 posts)

6. all that they planned it to be,

Reply to imanamerican63 (Original post)

Sun Sep 21, 2025, 10:05 PM

Sunday

apparently

Grim Chieftain

(641 posts)

13. Yeah, it almost out did the memorial service for the murdered schoolchildren

Reply to imanamerican63 (Original post)

Sun Sep 21, 2025, 10:25 PM

Sunday

Oh, wait a minute...

RussBLib

(10,208 posts)

15. Perhaps they'll take this show on the road

Reply to imanamerican63 (Original post)

Sun Sep 21, 2025, 10:26 PM

Sunday

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

mitch96

(15,501 posts)

16. "It was a propaganda production"....never let a good crisis go to waste... Niccol Machiavelli...nt

Reply to imanamerican63 (Original post)

Sun Sep 21, 2025, 10:46 PM

Sunday

Javaman

(64,543 posts)

17. Their updated version of a

Reply to imanamerican63 (Original post)

Sun Sep 21, 2025, 10:50 PM

Sunday

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

(60,569 posts)

18. Remember the outrage when some people were political at the Wellstone memorial?

Reply to imanamerican63 (Original post)

Sun Sep 21, 2025, 10:56 PM

Sunday

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

Gimpyknee

(708 posts)

19. What memorial service?

Reply to imanamerican63 (Original post)

Sun Sep 21, 2025, 10:56 PM

Sunday

Randomthought

(936 posts)

23. I took theater as an elective in college and I have seen a lot of over emoting

Reply to imanamerican63 (Original post)

Sun Sep 21, 2025, 11:49 PM

Sunday

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

(936 posts)

24. You are so correct

Reply to imanamerican63 (Original post)

Mon Sep 22, 2025, 12:05 AM

Monday

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.

usonian

(20,862 posts)

25. Fireworks? How cheapskate.

Reply to imanamerican63 (Original post)

Mon Sep 22, 2025, 12:08 AM

Monday

Unfounded rumor has it that he wanted something a bit better.

Tanuki

(16,088 posts)

26. Rick Wilson astutely summed up Erika days ago:

Reply to imanamerican63 (Original post)

Mon Sep 22, 2025, 12:10 AM

Monday

Link to tweet

Randomthought

(936 posts)

27. LOL

Reply to Tanuki (Reply #26)

Mon Sep 22, 2025, 12:36 AM

Monday

walkingman

(9,874 posts)

28. These people absolutely make me want to throw up.

Reply to imanamerican63 (Original post)

Mon Sep 22, 2025, 12:51 AM

Monday

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

Irish_Dem

(75,383 posts)

29. Just when I think the US cannot humiliate and disgrace itself any further.

Reply to imanamerican63 (Original post)

Mon Sep 22, 2025, 06:00 AM

Monday

It goes further down the ugly spiral it is in.

Gum Logger

(234 posts)

32. It was a kabuki dance

Reply to Irish_Dem (Reply #29)

Mon Sep 22, 2025, 10:59 AM

Monday

The Repukes gain from being kinetic

Irish_Dem

(75,383 posts)

33. yes they get the Nobel Prize for Kabuki Theater.

Reply to Gum Logger (Reply #32)

Mon Sep 22, 2025, 11:01 AM

Monday

Amazing job.

Emile

(37,802 posts)

30. More in common with the 1934 Nuremberg Rally.

Reply to imanamerican63 (Original post)

Mon Sep 22, 2025, 06:26 AM

Monday

LetMyPeopleVote

(170,297 posts)

34. The only family member to speak at this event was the widow

Reply to imanamerican63 (Original post)

Tue Sep 23, 2025, 05:49 PM

Tuesday

This was really a MAGA grifting session and not a memorial

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