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Atrele Kasha's avatar

"“Trump is f---ing pissed that Charlie is out causing problems for him in the Black community,” said another person close to Trump who claimed direct knowledge of his thinking."

Really? And he's not fucking pissed about the problems HE's causing for him in the Black community?

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Daniel O'Riordan's avatar

So, if it's a grift, I assume Charlie's kicking back 10% to Trump for the vig?

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hvdv's avatar

What does Kari Lake do for a living? I mean, losing one whole political race does not bring in a paycheck, exactly. And there's no way spending all your time at Mar-a-Lago comes free either. Who keeps this woman in hideous pantsuits and why?

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Sko Hayes's avatar

She's been grifting off "election fraud" since 2020. she does a lot of speaking events because she's very good in front of a crowd and easy on the eyes and says all the things MAGA likes.

She's trying to mend fences with the McCain Republicans in Arizona to get more support for her Senate run, but it's not going well.

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Daniel O'Riordan's avatar

If the McCain Republicans mend fences with her, they're going to get what they deserve.

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meh's avatar

She was a popular TV personality; that tends to pay well.

And I'm sure she did some grifting during her time trying to not lose elections.

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Eric  Anderson's avatar

She was a local TV news anchor in Phoenix.

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DemoCat's avatar

It’s a bit absurd that a misfit wingnut like Kirk would be paid millions to share his ugly opinions. But that’s American “conservatism” in 2024. No doubt many unpopular teens are inspired to wear a diaper and shout conspiracy theories to get rich. I wouldn’t personally accept $10 million to have 60% of America dislike me, while looking like the winner of the Weirdest Mr. Potato Head Contest.

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Ethereal Fairy's avatar

I thought it was clever of him to get paid, to indulge in his personal diaper fetish, (why else would you even suggest it?) Kent state gun girl (whatever her name was) was so humiliated over participating that she quit the org and hasn't been heard from since.

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Wookiee Monster's avatar

Whatever happened to that Fallkirk center for rightwing propaganda at Liberty Diploma Mill? Did that shut down after Jerry Jr was booted out?

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Zyxomma's avatar

Charlie Kirk

He's a jerk

Lives in a manse

Shits in his pants.

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Villago Delenda Est 🇺🇦's avatar

𝘗𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘱 𝘞𝘰𝘯𝘬𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦 𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘦𝘷𝘦 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮 𝘰𝘧 𝘣𝘶𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘊𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘪𝘦 𝘒𝘪𝘳𝘬’𝘴 𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘵 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘣𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘹.

This is a worthy aspiration!

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Daniel O'Riordan's avatar

Perhaps room for a Ben and Jerry's off the lobby?

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Bitter Scribe's avatar

𝘊𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘪𝘦 𝘒𝘪𝘳𝘬 𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘦𝘥𝘭𝘺 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘢 $4.75 𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘪𝘯 𝘈𝘳𝘪𝘻𝘰𝘯𝘢 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢 𝘣𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘰 𝘰𝘯 𝘍𝘭𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘥𝘢’𝘴 𝘎𝘶𝘭𝘧 𝘊𝘰𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘩𝘦’𝘥 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘬𝘦𝘦𝘱 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘨𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘱𝘢𝘺𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘰𝘯...

OK, I really don't get why punks like this asshole and Matt Walsh, etc., make so much money spewing their idiotic shit. Do their loser idiot audiences pony up THAT much? Do they draw THAT many eyeballs?

Or is there some shithead billionaire somewhere who subsidizes all this?

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Ethereal Fairy's avatar

Wingnut welfare is generous.

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Runfastandwin's avatar

credit cards

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meh's avatar

Credit cards owned by early boomers in their 70s and 80s who dern well don't like change and figger that this here young'un will fight for their right to say <racial_epithet> and deal with all the evil done by {{{those people}}}

In other words, crazy senile old racists.

It makes me unreasonably happy that the kids of these dipshits won't get an inheritance bc mummy and daddy spent it all on red hats, gold sneakers, and political contributions to a grifting wannabe billionaire.

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Zap's avatar

Yes to both.

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SLY_3's avatar

A pair of standard "content creator" revenue streams are passive income from autoplay video ads, and inflated view and click-through numbers that are presented to autonomous online advertisers. As mentioned in the above article, the data farming ops of these PACs are obvious but very profitable.

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Land Shark 🇺🇦 🏳️‍⚧️'s avatar

Option B. People like Rebekkah Mercer and Betsey DeVos.

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Ethereal Fairy's avatar

🎯Yes it's couch change to them.

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Ethereal Fairy's avatar

Yes, they never met an asshole they didn't want to fund, to harm democracy.

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SLY_3's avatar

They are neo-feudalists and their actions in business and politics are begging for tax reform and antitrust legislation.

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Ethereal Fairy's avatar

Inresting take.

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Daniel O'Riordan's avatar

Why do they always fuck with the office supplies?

Romney's Bain Capital took my favorite office supply store, Office America, gutted it, and gave us Staples. Now I find that the office equipment and supply catalogue from like forever is nothing more than glossy shit paper because of whom it enriches.

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CripesAmighty's avatar

The Junk Mail King--by the landfill-clogging metric ton. Never heard of that 'internetz' thing, apparently.

Bet somebody enterprising could make bank offering "Nazi-and-junk-mail-free" office/packing supplies.

Do well by doing good, and all that.

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meh's avatar

Which is why one never, ever buys from ULINE.

EVER.

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Lund-O-Matic's avatar

There’s a urinal with a ‘splash mat’ with his name on it down at the airport that I enjoy using.

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BrianW's avatar

Except every police department in the country.

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meh's avatar

Yah. I spent years working as a tech for a vertical supporting public safety, and you speak the truth. They know what they're supporting, too.

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BrianW's avatar

My wife worked for a local PD and I worked for an SO. I can't speak for my department, but her HQ building was awash in Uline catalogs.

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Ethereal Fairy's avatar

I recycle the catalog as soon as I get it I finally managed to unsubscribe. I never subscribed in the first place.

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meh's avatar

I use it for firestarter; it’s probably its highest and best use.

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AKLynne's avatar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AC0XQ74YnWE. I'll bet ol' Charlie would ... his pants over this news item. (African American women on flight as pilot and co-pilot.)

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Thixotropickle's avatar

Charlie Kirk: If an apple head doll and a dried-up gumdrop had a baby.

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LuluBean12 StarGeezer's avatar

So many of these guys are so homely that you can almost see RWNJ and MAGA written in the capillaries on their foreheads.

Why do the RWNJ woman all go for mask-like second-Hollywood-wife faces? maybe the lack of visible RWNJ or MAGA under their skinis is what keeps them from making more money and keeps them less influential.

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meh's avatar

The straight-blonde-hair-in-a-particular-cut, blue-eyed, vacant-stare look is a weird conforming thing. The Cut did a good article about it in 2017, noting that the specific look here is a proxy for whiteness, which MAGAts so love:

https://www.thecut.com/2017/08/politics-of-blonde-hair-from-persephone-to-ivanka-trump.html

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Daniel O'Riordan's avatar

And it was probably a revenge fuck thing for both of them.

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Delmarva Peninsula's avatar

"Jordan Peterson, Matt Walsh, Tim Pool and Allie Beth Stuckey, who came to his defense..." Sheesh. Imagine that cocktail party...

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Mavenmaven's avatar

“MLK was awful,” Kirk said. “He's not a good person. He said one good thing he actually didn't believe.”

He's been repeatedly calling Fani Willis "Big Fani", etc etc.

He's been saying blatantly racist things for a while, but in the general approach, like with the Navalny-vaccine lies, Trump offers some statement that he doesn't like Kirk but also gains from Kirk's appeals to the base so that there's enough deniability and Trump fans can claim both sides.

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Daniel O'Riordan's avatar

Was Trump afraid "Big Fani" was going to drive away all the blacks who didn't mind him referring to Letitia James as "Peekaboo"?

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Mavenmaven's avatar

Yes, pretty much lol

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biff murphy's avatar

Sorry Charlie...

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ManchuCandidate's avatar

Organizing a group of burn it all down pseudo revolutionaries is that in the end they want to burn everything down including themselves. When it gets to the infighting, this is fine with me.

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meh's avatar

As my very wise brother says, "LET THEM FIGHT."

I'll go make more popcorn.

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Trux Mint In Box's avatar

His company is “non profit” but he has multiple mansions. No wonder they want less IRS agents.

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JamesSmith's avatar

name two places that are fucked because of climate change

"And Charlie Kirk reportedly has a $4.75 million mansion in Arizona and a beachside condo on Florida’s Gulf Coast"

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Dorothea is a Democrat's avatar

He's probably planning on getting together with fellow conservatives to build a sandbag wall against the sea.

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ManchuCandidate's avatar

Name two places where they can't get home insurance in less than five years.

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Trux Mint In Box's avatar

I thought the same thing. One is going to have no water and the other will have too much in about ten years.

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meh's avatar

The economists he knows have told him on average he'll be fine :p

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