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Coldwater

(228 posts)
Tue Sep 23, 2025, 07:34 AM Tuesday

Charlie Kirk co-founded Turning Point USA when he was 18 years old.


But now we know his real Turning Point was at the age of 16 when he applied to West Point Military Academy and was rejected.

According to a former High School classmate, after he received an admission rejection letter, he went full-on racist.

He couldn’t accept failure and blamed it on a black applicant to the academy, any black person.



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Charlie Kirk co-founded Turning Point USA when he was 18 years old. (Original Post) Coldwater Tuesday OP
Who's that? marble falls Tuesday #1
Watch the Video Coldwater Tuesday #3
Absolutely not. Chalkie whatshis face is dead in the grave and meanwhile TACO's still here. Refocus. marble falls Tuesday #6
Yes, I know, TACO wants the whole enchilada Coldwater Tuesday #9
Ya know.... FarPoint Tuesday #17
May be? Try definitely is 100%. Wiz Imp Tuesday #19
What does one know at age 18? /nt bucolic_frolic Tuesday #2
He was mentored by Bill Montgomery Coldwater Tuesday #7
What does one know at age 18? bucolic_frolic Tuesday #8
Angry and vulnerable Coldwater Tuesday #10
I read that he listened to and was influenced Tree Lady Tuesday #18
Charlie Kirk is basically the campus preacher. yardwork Tuesday #4
It was a huge grift and it's unlikely his wife will be JI7 Tuesday #14
Charlie who? Emile Tuesday #5
lol Coldwater Tuesday #12
Rejection was his malaise Tuesday #11
From what I saw White Males make up a large majority JI7 Tuesday #13
Because he didn't meet their standards Coldwater Tuesday #15
Reading the application process to USMA just now, 16 year old racist niyad Tuesday #16
When I was eighteen years old, I was a member of a culturally-diverse organization. Aristus Tuesday #20

marble falls

(68,734 posts)
6. Absolutely not. Chalkie whatshis face is dead in the grave and meanwhile TACO's still here. Refocus.
Tue Sep 23, 2025, 07:48 AM
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Coldwater

(228 posts)
9. Yes, I know, TACO wants the whole enchilada
Tue Sep 23, 2025, 07:53 AM
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but it's still important to understand why Charlie Kirk became the ass he became

FarPoint

(14,231 posts)
17. Ya know....
Tue Sep 23, 2025, 08:27 AM
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Just maybe one can sense he was just another trumpian style grifter......the misses may be as well....

Coldwater

(228 posts)
7. He was mentored by Bill Montgomery
Tue Sep 23, 2025, 07:49 AM
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Co-founder of Turning Point USA who was in his late 60s at the time.

Coldwater

(228 posts)
10. Angry and vulnerable
Tue Sep 23, 2025, 07:57 AM
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and recruitable into the ranks of far-right groups.

So, Charlie shouldn't accept any responsibility for his actions?

Tree Lady

(12,761 posts)
18. I read that he listened to and was influenced
Tue Sep 23, 2025, 10:53 AM
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By Rush Limbaugh when he was young and that opened the door to the rest of it.

Another life Rush ruined. So many were addicted to listening to his garbage.

yardwork

(68,147 posts)
4. Charlie Kirk is basically the campus preacher.
Tue Sep 23, 2025, 07:44 AM
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Every university has one. When I was in college there was a guy named Brother Jed who made the southeastern university circuit. His show was pretty entertaining. He'd rail about the evils of drinking, drugs, rock and roll, and sex. Mostly sex. He was very preoccupied with sex.

In more recent decades it seemed that each major university got their own assigned preacher. The local guy was meaner than Brother Jed had been.

Charlie Kirk just took it up a notch in terms of publicity and reach. Instead of an old man dressed in a black suit, "Charlie" looked like the students. Instead of shouting about damnation and brimstone, Kirk pretended to "talk" with his audience. But it's still the old message: "There are people among us who are evil. Drive them out or be destroyed by them."

JI7

(92,704 posts)
14. It was a huge grift and it's unlikely his wife will be
Tue Sep 23, 2025, 08:06 AM
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able to make as much money.

I think she mostly married him was because of the money from that.

JI7

(92,704 posts)
13. From what I saw White Males make up a large majority
Tue Sep 23, 2025, 08:03 AM
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of those that go there. So why did all those white men get in but he didn't ?

niyad

(127,536 posts)
16. Reading the application process to USMA just now, 16 year old racist
Tue Sep 23, 2025, 08:23 AM
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and future communuty college dropout would not have come near qualifying.

Aristus

(70,969 posts)
20. When I was eighteen years old, I was a member of a culturally-diverse organization.
Tue Sep 23, 2025, 11:15 AM
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Dedicated to using teamwork and cooperation to make our country better and safer: the United States Army.

It amazes me how many "patriots" out there somehow seem to skip the whole "serving your country" thing...

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