# Charlie Kirk is Dead

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charlie-kirk-is-dead/1022935>\
**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [September 11, 2025, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charlie-kirk-is-dead/1022935 "2025-09-11T07:35:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2026, 10:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charlie-kirk-is-dead/1022935/361 "2026-02-02T10:41:33Z")

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What other occupation did she have, though? Her husband set up an organization and she just stepped into a place at the head. Pretty common story apart from The Who and the organization.

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**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2026, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charlie-kirk-is-dead/1022935/362 "2026-02-03T02:49:44Z")

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> [@Love\_Rhombus](#):
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> Pretty common story apart from The Who

Is that an allusion to “Meet the new boss: Same as the old boss”

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**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2026, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charlie-kirk-is-dead/1022935/363 "2026-02-03T11:05:27Z")

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I wish I was that clever.

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**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2026, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charlie-kirk-is-dead/1022935/364 "2026-02-03T16:10:01Z")

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> [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](#):
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> There’s also a strain of antisemitism that gives Israeli Jews a “pass” out of a misguided belief that their values align perfectly with those of red-state America: muscular, gun-toting, militaristic, patriotic, etc.

I thought the reason red state America loved Israel so much is because they’re hoping Israel will usher in the end of the world and the second coming.

FWIW, Erika Kirk seems like a psychopath. Not as an insult, just a genuine observation. It would explain why she acts the way she does. Her faking sadness that her husband is dead is a classic psychopath trait (faking emotions when people are watching). Psychopaths don’t have emotions, but they try to fake them in social situations in order to fit in.

Charlie was a monster too. Its amusing that he always said gun deaths were an acceptable price to pay for the 2nd amendment.

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