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gopiscrap

(24,475 posts)
Tue Sep 23, 2025, 12:16 AM Tuesday

I am curious as to why Kirk's parents

and sibling didn't attend his funeral...sounds like a dysfunctional family to me

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I am curious as to why Kirk's parents (Original Post) gopiscrap Tuesday OP
funeral or the AZ rally? msongs Tuesday #1
I don't think that was a real funeral that was just a Maga rally oldmanlynn Tuesday #2
I read they are moderate Tree Lady Tuesday #3
That wasn't a "funeral", it was a far-right political rally... Jack Valentino Tuesday #5
I called it a modern day Nuremberg Rally MissouriDem47 Tuesday #6
Specifically, a "Totenehrung" RazorbackExpat Tuesday #12
Kirk had parents ??? Jack Valentino Tuesday #4
Was a DNA test done? markodochartaigh Tuesday #7
It seems Kirk's father canetoad Tuesday #8
Good catch CT harumph Tuesday #11
Jfc, try not to live your life in such a way that even your parents boycott your funeral Arazi Tuesday #9
The troll was born by immaculate conception dalton99a Tuesday #10
I read that his sister was a Bernie Sanders Jspur Tuesday #13

oldmanlynn

(730 posts)
2. I don't think that was a real funeral that was just a Maga rally
Tue Sep 23, 2025, 12:33 AM
Tuesday

I think that Ben, my Silas said it right it was basically a hate convention

Tree Lady

(12,761 posts)
3. I read they are moderate
Tue Sep 23, 2025, 12:40 AM
Tuesday

Makes me wonder if they don't like Trump and didn't like what their son was doing. To not go to a funeral is a big step, but if Trump turned my kids funeral into a rally I wouldn't go either.

RazorbackExpat

(621 posts)
12. Specifically, a "Totenehrung"
Tue Sep 23, 2025, 08:52 AM
Tuesday

That is, a ceremony during the Nazi Party's 1934 Nuremberg Rally that honored the dead

Jack Valentino

(3,382 posts)
4. Kirk had parents ???
Tue Sep 23, 2025, 12:47 AM
Tuesday

(yeah, after all the news coverage, it did not appear that they were still alive.
since nothing I read ever mentioned them)....


Seems they didn't care to attend a clown-show





markodochartaigh

(4,161 posts)
7. Was a DNA test done?
Tue Sep 23, 2025, 03:13 AM
Tuesday

It might make it quicker to make him a saint if it could be proven that he had only his mother's dna, so that it was a virgin birth.

canetoad

(19,527 posts)
8. It seems Kirk's father
Tue Sep 23, 2025, 03:17 AM
Tuesday

Worked at the architectural firm who designed Trump tower - Swanke Hayden Connell.

Probably irrelevant, but I found this:

Century-old architecture firm Swanke Hayden Connell files for bankruptcy
14 Jan 2015

News: Swanke Hayden Connell Architects – the firm behind the Fifth Avenue Trump Tower and the Statue of Liberty restoration – has filed for bankruptcy, claiming that it is owed $2 million dollars by a Russian client.

New York City-based Swanke Hayden Connell, which operated under different guises since 1906, has filed for Chapter 11 protection after failing to receive $2,296,505 (£1,511,987) in fees from a Russian client who refuses to pay.

...snip

Hayden's statement does not disclose the identity of the Russian client, who claims to have suffered damages as a result of alleged delays and omissions from the architects.

"There are also unresolved political and economic issues which may play a role in the outcome," it reads.
https://www.dezeen.com/2015/01/14/swanke-hayden-connell-architects-bankruptcy/

Arazi

(8,393 posts)
9. Jfc, try not to live your life in such a way that even your parents boycott your funeral
Tue Sep 23, 2025, 07:04 AM
Tuesday

😳

Jspur

(749 posts)
13. I read that his sister was a Bernie Sanders
Tue Sep 23, 2025, 08:54 AM
Tuesday

supporter. She probably didn’t have a good relationship with him due to differing political beliefs.

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