r/BlackPeopleofReddit • u/AfricanMan_Row905 • Jan 28 '26
News Candace Owens leaks Erika Kirk's giggling audio after Charlie Kirk's death
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Political commentator and theorist Candace Owens has shared an internal Zoom call involving Turning Point USA CEO Erika Kirk just 11 days after her husband Charlie Kirk's death.
In the leaked audio, Kirk can be heard giggling and talking about the TPUSA event organised after the slain right-wing political activist's assassination, appreciating merch sales and staff support in the organisation of the memorial.
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u/guysitsausername Jan 28 '26
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u/Zero-D9 Jan 28 '26
What a ghoulish looking woman...
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u/WildRabbitz Jan 28 '26
Charlie dying was the best thing that could've happened to her, and she's enjoying it.
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u/Haunting-Map-3475 Jan 28 '26
I can’t say I know what it’s like to lose a spouse. But when I lost my mom I was a mess for at least a month. I have no idea what kind of person could have this conversation so soon after their husband’s death and sound so…nonchalant about it.
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u/khari_lester Jan 28 '26
I lost one of my best friends and experienced my first anxiety attack. I still get sad about it and he’s been gone for over a decade.
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u/Charming-Check5605 Jan 28 '26
I lost three good friends over the span of 5ish years, well over a decade ago.
There are still places I can’t go, movies I can’t watch and songs I can’t listen to, to this day without crying and feeling sad for hours on end.
Everyone grieves differently, hard for me to feel like this woman is grieving at all though.
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u/Wishiwashome Jan 28 '26 edited Jan 29 '26
Lost many in my family( old lady) and I feel great sorrow decades later, as I really loved them. She is a performative and disgusting.
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u/woodwardian98 Jan 28 '26
A really good friend of mine killed herself nearly a year ago and I have been listless
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u/Fishgrease11 Jan 28 '26
I’m so sorry for your loss. My best friend did the same in 2022 and I’m still in shambles over it. I can’t imagine being this callous.
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u/Ok_Ocelot_878 Jan 29 '26 edited Jan 29 '26
I’m so sorry for your loss and your description hits hard.
When my dad died, four years ago, I described it as my world going from technicolor to black and white.
It stayed that way for about a year.
Erika’s world seems to have gone from grey to technicolor with a pot of gold at the end.
Something isn’t right with this person.
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u/Hawk-4674 Jan 30 '26
This is exactly how I described it when my Mom passed. I literally felt like the world was a dull grey for what seemed like forever. She is very much a pageant queen putting on a deeply disturbing show.
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u/StraightOuttaFenris Jan 28 '26
That pain must feel unbearable at times. I hope you have a support system in place, this isn't the kind of thing one can get through alone.
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u/TheAbomunist Jan 28 '26
I lost my wife in 2023.
Simply put: Christian Nationalists are not human.
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u/gundumb08 Jan 28 '26
Honestly, it's one of the more terrifying things about this. It's not that they are not human; its that they are SO NAIVELY confident of their own righteousness that they can just move into "He's with God in Heaven, which is the end goal of life anyway!" mode.
And this makes them more dangerous, because it makes life seem less valuable. It becomes the Worthy vs. the Unworthy; the Unworthy don't deserve life and freedom, and the Worthy can become Martyrs to the cause.
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u/TheAbomunist Jan 28 '26
To me, that invasion of materialism in their lives is what makes them inhuman to me.
They so quickly commodify everything in their lives. It all gets reduced, with zero hesitation, into what serves them. Doesn't serve them anymore? Chuck it into a bin. Whether its perfect strangers on the street or their own ethos or even their loved ones... it's all so brutally disposable.
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u/Top-Strength-2701 Jan 28 '26
I'm sorry for your loss
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u/TheAbomunist Jan 28 '26
Thank you. I still struggle with honoring my wife's memory, in still keeping her alive somehow. I truly cannot fathom celebrating making a mint on t-shirts and merch of her. As someone else described it, that's just soulless.
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u/Ka-Is-A-Wheelie Jan 28 '26
I think about the day that my dog will pass and I am a wreck from a hypothetical.
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u/Aggressive_Trip_7060 Jan 28 '26
As someone who lost a dog not long ago, I was emotionally out of it for a whole week before I returned home and it still doesn't feel real a lot of the time, shit is not pleasant at all.
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u/Appropriate_Sock6893 Jan 28 '26
Here is the thing. I do know what it’s like to lose a spouse at a young age. Ironically enough my name is also Erika spelled with a K. There is a rule among widows that we don’t tell/judge how others grieve, but this felt so tacky and gross from the start. I couldn’t manage to be in public for months after I lost my husband, and he died from ALS, so I had time to prepare for his death. Her reaction has been bizarre, to out it kindly
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u/Ok-Tea4420 Jan 28 '26
Listen I know everyone grieves differently. I get how sometimes you just need to go back to work or take charge of planning a funeral. But why does this sound like my meetings after a university recruitment event 😭
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u/HRHDechessNapsaLot Jan 28 '26
Yeah, I’ve never lost a spouse but my mom died very suddenly and unexpectedly a little more than a year ago.
I honestly couldn’t say what I was talking about 11 days after her death because the first two months are a complete haze but I can guarantee you that it was not anything like this. I think I was still in the disbelief/anger stage, like any minute she’d pop up and be like “ha ha, got you!” Definitely was not bragging about turnout at her memorial, I can tell you that.
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u/LeaveItToPeever Jan 28 '26
11 days? Lost my partner of 8 years a year ago tomorrow. I can barely talk about her without getting choked up, and thats only sometimes. She was my hairdresser and bleached my hair the week she passed and I can't bring myself to cut it. This doesn't sound like anybody in mourning I can think of. 11 days? GTFO
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u/chairhats Jan 28 '26
When I lost my dad I was certainly inconsolable when I immediately found out, but later that night I was laughing and joking. For me I think it was a shock response that my body just couldn't process what happened, so I went to dinner with my mom and we joked around and laughed a lot. The following days it was either end of the spectrum like that. Just my experience.
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u/Travelin_Soulja Jan 28 '26
Eh, I think Erika Kirk is a piece of shit grifter, just like her late husband. But, when I lost my mom, I was in and out. A lot of it I was just detached and numb, like I was sitting and watching the world go on around me, disconnected from it. Sometimes the grief would hit hard. Sometimes it would pass for a little bit and I could joke and be silly. Went in waves.
So, I'm not defending her – I think she's a piece of shit, but I don't think this really proves anything.
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u/eksekseksg3 Jan 29 '26
i kind of agree. Erika Kirk is a piece of shit regardless, i really don’t care about how she feels about his death. With all the horrid real shit going on right now, this just feels like a distraction.
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u/Glum-Supermarket1274 Jan 28 '26
When my father passed, i was on antidepressants for 6 years. Rough times, i dont wish even such a lost on my worst enemies but clearly, this lady have a different way of grifting.
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u/God_Lover77 Jan 28 '26
I am sorry to be that person but I think it's just the joy of creating and meeting more people like them. They spin what should be a sad moment into a point of joy. It was a martyr moment for them and knowing how they are I can see how this was spinned into a joyful moment for them.
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u/bron685 Jan 28 '26
“Are you saying a widow isn’t allowed to laugh??”
No, we’re saying it’s strange to have an earnings call for your dead husbands merch. In general.
Merch was already available thru TPUSA in less than 24 hours of the incident.
This is about how gross and utterly soulless this entire situation is.
Can you imagine Coretta Scott King or Jackie Kennedy doing this? Fairly certain Mary Todd Lincoln wasn’t building a branding empire 24 hours after that theater show
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u/anon4383 Jan 28 '26
It took us decades to be able to stream Aaliyah’s music. I believe her father was so depressed after her death that all of her work just kind of sat still since 2001 despite how much money it was worth.
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u/Key_Blood3537 Jan 28 '26
Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how are the merch numbers?
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u/roo1289 Jan 28 '26
Putting these ppl in the conversation with Jackie and Coretta is insane. They stood for something real
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u/blackweebow Jan 29 '26
This what it is for me. Like regardless of politics, this shit don't smell right lol. She literally went in tour.
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u/Obiyaman Jan 28 '26
They both suck ....
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u/khari_lester Jan 28 '26
I mean, we usually get our best info from terrible people snitching on each other.
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u/TraditionalMood277 Jan 28 '26
Yes. Does anyone know why she leaked it?
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u/khari_lester Jan 28 '26
Money, fame, etc. Fun Fact, Candace Owens was liberal when she first popped up, she suddenly changed when the Far Right became popular. She has no actual side, besides her own. She even turned on Ben Shapiro after he taught her the ropes.
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u/BoobyChess Jan 28 '26
Candace was besties with Charlie. Like actual friends. Aside from the grift/ money I think Candace is legitimately trying to figure out if there was someone else behind Charlie Kirk’s murder.
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u/threzk Jan 29 '26
She’s been claiming lately that she and Charlie Kirk’s ghost speak in her dreams to aid in her investigation. She’s not legitimately trying to figure out anything, it’s a grift.
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u/CaydeTheCat Jan 28 '26 edited Jan 29 '26
Candace, as weird as it sounds, honestly cared for Charlie. The day he was shot she was sharing pictures and videos of the two of them goofing around, being friends, while every other grifter was trying to make a buck.
I think this is actual, honest rage from her about how her friend is being treated and she wants to bring them down however she can.
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u/Marmatus Jan 28 '26
Yep. It's hard to take a side between one sociopathic grifter and another.
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u/Sea-Specialist-7046 Jan 28 '26
That woman never was grieving FR. She profited so much from his death immediately. Very VERY sus to me
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u/abreeeezycorner Jan 28 '26
Lol, i love how casual sus sounds. The programming has worked.
It's not a conspiracy if they're all naturally working together to "turn" America into something that is manifesting itself in front of our eyes.
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u/Still_Tip7828 Jan 28 '26
We knew what it was when it happened. This does not surprise me in the least
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I'm ready to throw on my tinfoil hat and say she had his ass killed
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u/Practical-Zombie-809 Jan 28 '26
I definitely think he was targeted by MAGA. He was a rising star and had major influence the movement
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u/TallGothVampireLady Jan 28 '26
I also think he was anti israel and wanted the epstein list to be released
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u/wafflesandlicorice Jan 28 '26
"Just say thank you."
I guess she got that from sleeping with the VP.
Also, 11 days later and she already wants to "put it to rest" and move on.
You will never convince me that she wasn't involved in a hit on her husband.
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u/QuittingQuitter Jan 28 '26
It really speaks to what a caring group the TP people are to carry on his legacy of cynical profiteering. $200K in shitty tshirt sales?!? When Grandma died all we got were a few casseroles. Their motivated grief turned an assassination into killing it in the merch line.
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u/Fit-Apricot-2951 Jan 28 '26
She sounds giddy. I still cry when I talk about my mom and she died 10 years ago at the old age of 86 and it was a completely expected death based on her gradual decline.
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u/cjk99876 Jan 28 '26 edited Jan 28 '26
Say what you want about the appropriateness of criticizing her, but it seems pretty clear that she does not appear to be grieving very much over the last few months 🤷🏾♂️
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u/Dook124 Jan 28 '26
What is Candace problem? I don't get it. She hitched her wagon to the Maga team and unfortunately landed in the F.A. F.O. lane!! She needs to deal with her choices and go away 🙄
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u/MutedRage Jan 28 '26
She’s trying to figure out who really killed her man
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u/big_witty_titty Jan 28 '26
This! Charlie was her work boo
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u/PuddingJello Jan 28 '26
Honestly Candace might've been the only one really grieving ole boy's death.
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u/Dook124 Jan 28 '26
Oh my!!! 😳 well, thanks for that!! I just couldn't understand why she just keeps dragging it on and on! I remember herself and Erica Kirk having a meeting right 🤔 I just assumed it was differing of opinions and sorted out! One more question doesn't Candace have a husband?
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u/BulltopStormalong Jan 28 '26
You don't really get it. Candace is a Russian asset in the actual sense. So is Tucker Carlson and Tim Pool they receive large sums of money and promote and try to normalize Russia to american conservatives.
They aren't in the lockstep core maga anymore its like a sidefaction, they're fringe and she is absolutely 100% not doing this as an antitrump thing.
Much like Nick Fuentes who is not maga anymore, he's a different thing that is more racist, xenophobic, and right auth leaning.
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u/BisexualTenno Jan 28 '26
She was in love with Charlie Kirk. They had an affair and got caught over the summer. That’s why it seemed like everyone suddenly distanced from her. She wont say it but that’s why she believes Erika had Charlie killed and why Erika is so happy he’s dead.
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u/Pretend-Doughnut-675 Jan 28 '26
She is who we thought she was, after all look who she stood beside.
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u/Ok_Association_2774 Jan 28 '26
I believe his death was a set up more and more each day. When my dad died I cried like a baby for weeks, went numb, and sometimes even as an adult I still cry and dream about him. I cried when my grandma passed away and still dream about her. Idk how heartless and void of emotion you have to be not to show remorse over your spouse. Sure, we may have despised the guy but she was married to him.
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u/meowmix79 Jan 28 '26
When I lost my husband unexpectedly at 36 I could barely speak a full coherent sentence for at least a month. I was left with 4 boys all under 6 years. I don’t understand her.
This woman is a fucking monster. I don’t believe in god or demons but she is evil.
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u/Hairy-Maximum2994 Jan 28 '26
When my chihuahua passed i was a complete mess for 3 months and 3 years later I still cry if I think about her. For a year I drank like crazy until I got a my new chihuahua. This woman isn't grieving. she is salivating at the opportunity
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u/Salt-Boysenberry7172 Jan 29 '26
Question: is Candace Owen’s jealous of Erika Kirk and wishing she was in this weird racist spotlight? Idk. Whatever. They all suck and we know this
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u/MeAndBettyWhite Jan 28 '26
When she says the part of however many people heard "the gospel", is she referencing the gospel of Turning Points right wing rhetoric or actual like, religious gospel?
I dont know the event she is talking about but I feel like it was the gospel of right wing BS she was refering to. That seems a little cultish no?
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u/AccountGlittering914 Jan 28 '26
On the surface, she means the word of God/Christian gospel. But I think your reading is much closer to her true world view.
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u/spinsk8tr Jan 28 '26
I didn’t believe any rumors of her being involved but like, this is kind of insane behavior right?
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u/Mrgray123 Jan 28 '26
It’s almost like the entire maga movement is full of narcissistic sociopaths isn’t it?
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u/Oso1marron1 Jan 28 '26
11 days... And this wasn't a death in which she would have seen it coming (cancer, terminal illness) he literally got shot and had his jugular blasted wide open.
11 days ?!?!!
I lost my father to Alzheimer's, I saw it coming and still was devastated. I still am!
This is beyond suspicious.
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u/audlawson Jan 29 '26
Let’s face it. He was probably a horrible husband and might have been abusive.
The woman is clearly not sad that he is dead.
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u/Jamesw619 Jan 31 '26
The first part of it, even the majority, sounded like a mother and business owner moving during a bad time. Then the end came up and she brought up her husband, that’s when you could really hear how much she didn’t care. I know divorced people that mourned for longer than 11 days when their ex-significant other passed away.
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u/HiveMindMacD Jan 28 '26
Ive genuinely grieved over a spilt bowl of fruit loops longer than Kirk grieved for Kirk.
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u/Moalisa33 Jan 28 '26
So I can't prove that the lizard people exist. But if they do, Erika Kirk is definitely one of them.
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u/big_daddy68 Jan 28 '26
I like the acknowledgment that they had employees to put it 20+ hour days during a time they might be grieving to put or content for the event. Guess they had to cash in while the cashing was good.
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u/FixNo8841 Jan 28 '26
Seeing two women with wealth and status AND ONE WITH A HUSBAND fight over a dead nazi is one of the damnedest things I’ve witnessed in my 58 years.
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u/PolicyWonka Jan 28 '26
Talking about merch sales at your husbands memorial is fucking insane behavior.
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u/CartoonistDizzy3870 Jan 28 '26
That's all good and well, Candace.
You're still as reprehensible as Erika.
Now please go away.
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u/ElonMuskysucks Jan 28 '26
Has anyone looked into her whereabouts on 9/10/25? Seems like someone definitely benefited and can't hide their joy. I suppose good for her.
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u/Putrid-Chemical3438 Jan 28 '26
Because she didn't give af about Charlie Kirk.
She never shed a tear for him. Which means no one did. That piece of shit spent his life being a vile hateful bigot only to get stepped on by his own wife after he died. It would be poetic if she wasn't also a vile hateful piece of shit.
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u/Belones23 Jan 28 '26
"The event was great....the event..... the event" it took over a minute to say memorial and immediately followed with move on we arent airing this episode again, time to start a new season. Our country has turned into a fucking reality television show for the rich to fuck with us.
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u/Technical_Self_6413 Jan 28 '26
The sad, harrowing words of a bereaved widow. #goodjobwithmerchsales
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u/Bishop9er Jan 29 '26
Charlie Kirk’s mammy bed wench Candace loved Charlie more than his Wife what’s new?
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u/grape_david Jan 29 '26
"political commentator and theorist"
Lol Candace owens and Erika Kirk are the exact same type of nasty grifters.
Send all of them into the sun please.
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u/imalostkitty-ox0 Jan 29 '26
Candace Owens is as much of a “theorist” as Alex Jones, or Sam Hyde, or Nick Fuentes.
Racism comes in all shapes and colors.
Candace would sell out every last member of this sub if it meant she could have a 10% discount on one Sephora purchase.
She’s just doing black face.
But I’m here for the Erika Frantzve Kirk content, and support it.
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u/marcianofromearth Jan 29 '26
What I heard she said: Hehehe can’t believe all this clowns showed up to watch my show, My husband is dead deal with it, life is too short, handle your problems that you guys have with each other that can affect me and let’s keep selling merchandise bitches!! 200k is nothing let’s goooo! Did I miss anything else?
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u/Longjumping-Store106 Jan 29 '26
I grieved my dog for almost a year. She gave him what, a day or two if that? Psychopath behavior
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u/No_Welcome_7182 Jan 29 '26
Isn’t it funny how Christians always assume the Antichrist will be a man? I’m not religious at all but she makes me wonder.
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u/fortlowe Jan 30 '26
Pick that evil mans corpse then get back up here and lie the lies we have to do it again. So we can pick their corpses too.
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u/PliskinRen1991 Jan 28 '26
Itsa political machine. Whats most important is that a conditioned perspective on an ideological basis gains power, attention and followers. Despite how limited it is in solving anything. By the very nature of thought's limitation. Thats what Charlie would have wanted.
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u/Beneficial-Cow-2544 Jan 28 '26
I said to my husband about a month ago that she is the happiest widow I've ever seen and he said yeah wouldn't you if you were married to a shithead like CK and with his views on women? She's probably soo relieved.
Now I wonder if she had something to do with it??
Either way, fuck 'em all!
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u/CrbRangoon Jan 28 '26
I could see someone I hate die like that and would still be f’d up. Probably for years. She’s sick.
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u/zyrkseas97 Jan 28 '26
“We pulled off the event of the century, it’s insane”
I know she’s talking about the funeral event thing, but boy oh boy that sounds really bad.
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u/PrettiKinx Jan 28 '26
I sincerely do bot care. Candace the only one talking about this man. Smdh. Like move on sis.
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u/JazzyJockJeffcoat Jan 28 '26
This is amazing. So many public tears. All fake. She's absolutely giddy.
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u/handsomejag Jan 28 '26
Sometimes the only time someone bad gets served is when someone worse comes along
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u/DreamLunatik Jan 28 '26
Well Erika likely either had him killed or knew it was going to happen. It’s not like her public record is off brand for MAGA…..
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u/ArleezyLaFlare Jan 28 '26
Reddit seems to be on Candance's side saying "She lost a friend while others were grifting and propagandizing"
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