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3. Personality cults disappear when the cult leader dies.

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Wed Sep 24, 2025, 09:59 AM

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Erika Kirk can't keep Charlie's audience [View all] marmar Sep 2025 OP

TPUSA will go bankrupt in a couple of years. valleyrogue Sep 2025 #1

"Moved on to where" is the question TheProle Sep 2025 #11

TP going bankrupt would be great, but IzzaNuDay Sep 2025 #33

And JD won't keep Trump's momentum lame54 Sep 2025 #2

Yup, it's a cult of personality. GoCubsGo Sep 2025 #5

J "Davenport" Vance? thomski64 Sep 2025 #19

Personality cults disappear when the cult leader dies. sop Sep 2025 #3

She's the "wrong" gender. She's suppose to be home taking care of all the babies. Biophilic Sep 2025 #4

Also maga totally rejects forgiveness. Too woke, too empathic/sympathetic. Not manly-man enough. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Sep 2025 #8

Ya, empathy is evil, or so St Charlie told us. Biophilic Sep 2025 #10

except they are hypocrites, always Kali Sep 2025 #15

Some Kirk fans might even suggest that she's practicing DEi, Heaven forbid. nt allegorical oracle Sep 2025 #24

Bummer /s Dave Id Sep 2025 #6

Ironic, to use the word titillate,when the article is about a nipple malfunction. BattleRow Sep 2025 #7

There are videos where people do stupid challenges JI7 Sep 2025 #9

Back to the Kitchen and fix my dinner. BurnDoubt Sep 2025 #12

The evangelicals will abandon her... SickOfTheOnePct Sep 2025 #13

Clarification Requested DET Sep 2025 #27

Not when they're born... SickOfTheOnePct Sep 2025 #28

Amanda Marcotte always expands and clarifies my vague notions cally Sep 2025 #14

Of course not. Charlie's followers assume women submit to men, not lead Raven123 Sep 2025 #16

TPUSA was founded in 2012 by Charlie Kirk and Bill Montgomery. Both are dead now. sop Sep 2025 #17

I am truly disturbed that he had brakester Sep 2025 #30

Kirk's major appeal was to misogynistic young men. No woman, including Erika Kirk, could possibly replicate that appeal. Martin68 Sep 2025 #18

Which is the safer bet? USS_Dauntless Sep 2025 #20

She'd fit right in with all the other blonde former beauty queens on FOX News. sop Sep 2025 #23

Which pays the most? Christian Nationalists don't come cheap. nt allegorical oracle Sep 2025 #25

She could hook up with a dude just as awful mdbl Sep 2025 #21

She only wants the $$$$$$$$ to keep coming in, obviously. nt Exp Sep 2025 #22

His videos were heavily edited. He didn't need to show her mistake. underpants Sep 2025 #26

Kirk's real strength brakester Sep 2025 #31

I predict they will install Benny Johnson clevergrrrl Sep 2025 #29

Erika gfarber Sep 2025 #32