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Charlie Kirk was a troll, a well funded one and nothing more (Original Post) AStern Sep 2025 OP
Basically a latter-day Rush Limbaugh dalton99a Sep 2025 #1
I know, it's like he's a gawd or something!!!!! a kennedy Sep 2025 #2
He was a hate merchant. These RWers learned from Limbaugh to Nixie Sep 2025 #3
Kirk was funded by Foster Friess. sop Sep 2025 #4
+1. Friess was a huge RW financier dalton99a Sep 2025 #6
Unknown has been. Time for Trump to release the Epstein files. Emile Sep 2025 #5
He was an extremist Christian cleric Torchlight Sep 2025 #7

a kennedy

(36,346 posts)
2. I know, it's like he's a gawd or something!!!!!
Fri Sep 12, 2025, 10:24 AM
Sep 2025

pleaaaaaaaaaaaase. Just stop with honor of a guy, HE IS NOT A GAWD!!!!!

Nixie

(18,105 posts)
3. He was a hate merchant. These RWers learned from Limbaugh to
Fri Sep 12, 2025, 10:31 AM
Sep 2025

grift — it’s a whole $$$$ cottage industry they tap into for the bucks. Grifters galore, with the added benefit of the Bible to hide behind.

Merchants of hate.

His wife is getting a Masters degree or something like that in Bible studies. It’s on her Instagram page. We should use her own medicine: God called Charlie home and wants you to be alone in this world with two children. Amen. Now go away.

sop

(19,307 posts)
4. Kirk was funded by Foster Friess.
Fri Sep 12, 2025, 10:33 AM
Sep 2025

Foster Friess, a conservative Christian and wealthy businessman who gave millions to Donald Trump and other Republicans, provided early funding for Charlie Kirk's organization, Turning Point USA. In 2012, Friess gave Kirk a five-figure check to launch the group to promote conservative christian politics to young people.

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