After reading a long article about Kirk in the Boston Globe

[DFW]

I have come to the conclusion that Kirk and his followers were the kind of people who think the film "The Stepford Wives" had a happy ending.

[The Blue Flower]

1. His wife is feeling her freedom

She's stepping out of his shadow in a big way. Making sure the camera is on her for a change. Emoting for all the world to see. I won't be surprised if she takes over his organization very soon and very publicly.

[DFW]

5. Considering the male preppies interviewed and potrayed in the Globe article

The absolute LAST thing they're going to do is follow some woman who seeks to take over the leadership of the organization their macho messiah founded. Of course, if she truly follows in her beloved Charlie's footsteps, all she is doing is being a placeholder until the next macho leader steps up, at which point she will step aside and melt back into the background where she belongs. For her to do anything else would alienate a lot of the boys who swallowed his macho line up to now. That might set up an entertaining power struggle.

Ave Carolus, morituri te saludant!

[liberal N proud]

29. She didn't even let his body get cold

Right out there pouring gasoline on the fire

[Silver Gaia]

41. I had the same thought.

I know she is grieving, but that made no sense whatsoever.

[chelsea0011]

9. Her speech looked like a call

to rise up for the coming Christian “jihad”.

[Crunchy Frog]

23. She sounds like she's delirious with grief.

[malaise]

15. She has to continue the gravy train

This is a business

[TexasBushwhacker]

19. Yes, she's pissed because she had already

picked out her suit to wear when he would be inaugurated as Vance's VP. She reminds me of Anne Romney. Mitt wanted to be POTUS, but Anne EXPECTED to be FLOTUS.

[Bengus81]

36. I'm betting that Ron Desantis's wife felt the same way..and then it was gone in a flash

[Queso Delicioso]

26. Sheeeit, this is grifting's holy grail.

She's set up for life, courtesy of the rubes and a single bullet. Nice work if you can get it.

[valleyrogue]

21. She has had an independent career from Kirk including working in real estate.

She is hardly a SAHM. I would bet she could clearly handle Turning Point USA.

Also unlike her late husband, she actually completed college. That would somewhat undermine some of what Charlie preached.

From Wikipedia:

Kirk attended Notre Dame Preparatory High School in Scottsdale,[8] and later Arizona State University, where she studied political science and international relations.[1][9] At Notre Dame, she played basketball and volleyball, earning the Matt Arnold Sportsmanship and Teammate Awards.[8] She later played basketball on the women's team of Regis University in Denver, Colorado, for two years.[6]

She participated in the Miss Arizona USA 2012 pageant, which she won on her 23rd birthday, and then represented Arizona in Miss USA 2012,[6] but failed to place.

In 2017, she attended Liberty University, where she obtained a Juris Master degree and a doctorate in Christian leadership.[10][11]

For the record, she graduated from Arizona State University, not just "attended" it.

She was five years older than Charlie, clearly well past the "wall" of 25 that her husband thought women should be married.

She was out of his league.

[Scrivener7]

34. That "Masters" is a bogus program that takes a couple of months. I'm imagining the doctorate is the same.

[CharleyDog]

39. the google tells us:

Juris Master is a 30-credit-hour master's in legal studies that can be completed on a part-time basis.

[IbogaProject]

37. Changed her maiden name to obscure her heritage

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Her grandparents may have come over with the wave of "good Germans" mixed w open lower level Nazi in early 1953 to rebuild the GOP. But someone pointed out the dropped name was Sweedish, and I'm giving up trying to sort that out. The GOP is full of a million or more Nazi-American decendents. She is now advicating hate and protoviolence so I only expect trouble from her. I hope the kids turn progressive and refute all this but only after they are adults.

[CharleyDog]

40. Maybe "trans identity"

I was daydreaming it would be fitting if they identified as "trans identity" in their adolescence/early adulthood.

[SheilaAnn]

33. No doubt about that. I could tell immediately she has an agenda and intends to be "big" in this arena. Another one,yikes

[kerouac2]

2. Or may be overheard saying...

If I was in charge of the Republic of Gilead, I would do things way better... For one thing, the commanders are way too soft.

[bigtree]

3. he'd taken his internet baiting and trolling performance on the road

...with a ready audience gaslighted into giving him room to spout his divisive and ridiculously prevaricating rhetoric.

[hlthe2b]

4. or the Salem Witch Trials...

[DFW]

6. Although.....

Contrary to popular portrayal, no woman was burned at or after the Salem Witch trials. Kirk might not have seen that as a sufficiently strong response.

[yardwork]

8. Women were hanged as a result of the trials.

And one man was pressed to death.

[Butterflylady]

14. Yeah, I remember seeing that in a movie,

About the trials. They put large rocks on him till he died.

[yardwork]

18. Really gruesome. It took him a long time to die.

I can't imagine.

[calimary]

22. That was probably the whole point.

The longer it takes, the longer the suffering.

Fucking sadists!!!

[BidenRocks]

30. maga?

[soldierant]

43. Giles Corey.

He was pressed to death because he would not plead. They could not "try" him if he would not plead, and therefore they could not confiscate his possessions. He did that so that his family would be abe to keep everything and would not starve. I would call that a hero's death. Think what you like about the witch hunters, but they did have enough respect for the law to make that work. Today's witch hunters are far worse.

[yardwork]

44. I'm not sure they're worse.

The Puritans were really bad. I think it's just come full circle. That particularly American to stealing from the poor and one's neighbors and cloaking it in Christianity.

[cally]

7. Could you provide a link or at least a title so we can find article to read?

[littlemissmartypants]

10. There are five currently on CK in the BG...

You can do a web search like I did and decide which one looks most interesting to you. I'm done reading about him.

[DFW]

12. I have a subscription, so I hope you can click on this and get there

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/12/business/charlie-kirk-campus-politics/?et_rid=328657375&s_campaign=todaysheadlines:newsletter

[IbogaProject]

38. For Educational use

https://archive.is/hstiQ

[dflprincess]

11. I gather you mean the original "Stepford Wives" not the remake?

Charlie and his pals would hate the remake's ending. (Though they'd probably walk out of the movie when they realized it included a Gay couple.)

[DFW]

13. I have been living in Europe too long. They made a remake?

I only know the one with Katherine Ross. I guess that's the original, since I know of no other version.

[dflprincess]

16. The remake was done in 2004

Had quite the cast, Nicole Kidman, Bette Midler, Glenn Close, Matthew Broderick, to name a few.

[DFW]

17. Well, whaddya know. I had no idea.

I had been spending most of my time here before then, so it's no wonder I only knew of the original. I only remember that Katherine Ross was in it, but I'm sure there wer some other well-known actors of the time.

[dflprincess]

20. I think Paula Prentiss was in the original

But that's the only other name I remember. Been a long time since I saw it.

[Crunchy Frog]

25. Tina Louise who played Ginger on Gilligan's Island.

[DFW]

27. Was she Katherine Ross' best friend?

The last but one to be "remade, who Katherine Ross stabbed to find out she was a robot? I remember she was dark-haired, like Paula Prentiss, but that is about all I remember.

[BidenRocks]

32. Richard Benjamin married Paula Prentiss in 1961

They did a TV show, He and She 1967 - 1968. I remember watching that.
He turned to directing and she continued acting.

They are still together.

[BigmanPigman]

24. I watched it and it is silly.

Here is a preview...you decide. It's on TV a lot as well. Two thumbs down from me.

?si=13DyNPmE3OyJsAcF

[DFW]

28. So many remakes are. I don't even know why anyone bothered to remake this film

Although, I have seen the remake of "The Italian Job" and thought the remake with Mark Wahlberg better than the original with Michael Caine.

[BigmanPigman]

35. What timing...it is on again right now!

I was channel surfing and there it was on MGM+. Of course I had to think of your earlier post. I am NOT watching it!

[barbtries]

42. I've been in the US all along

and didn't know it.

[chouchou]

31. As far as her deep thoughts, I personally am reminded of William Shakespeare's...

...Much Ado About Nothing,