TPUSA recreated the Charlie Kirk assassination booth so people could take selfies in it. These people are sick!
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  • 134 points Zealousideal-Yak-824

    Dude .... You can't claim about you using your leader's death to make money with crocodile tears in baseless conspiracies and then do shit like this.

    They are literally recreating the Kennedy assassination route and it's still morbid to this day

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  • 123 points Thundersting

    At this point I'm surprised they're not selling blood stained merch.

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    53 points RandAlThorOdinson

    Give. It. Time.

    I PROMISE YOU, that will happen. I can't say when or how long, but it will happen.

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    27 points Kid_Vid

    Didn't some audience member run up and grab all the bloody shirts and merch they could to sell?

    Idk if they were a supporter, but someone definitely did that.

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    9 points MessiahOfMetal

    Even if they weren't a supporter, it's an abhorrent thing to do anyway. It's similar to my lack of understanding on how anyone can do museum tours where the displayed items belonged to famous murderers.

    I have a morbid curiosity about shit myself but that's just a step too far for me. I didn't even see the point in those days of queues we saw when Elizabeth 2: Electric Boogaloo died a few years back. I get the whole "paying their respects" thing, but it just felt a bit weird to me.

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    6 points RandAlThorOdinson

    People are animals man

    That's the answer to a lot of "why" questions in general really

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    0 points RandAlThorOdinson

    Clever lol

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    2 points jhargavet

    It was barely a week and I saw a giant lifted king ranch with rip Charlie sticker... Like how do you turn murch out that fast?

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    1 points jermysteensydikpix

    Online vendors were selling tshirts with Trump's stupid "fight fight fight" pose minutes after the shooting incident in Butler. I assume they just have to whip something up in Photoshop and then push their way up search results. They can sell the stuff before it's physically created.

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    8 points Dr_CleanBones

    The article in People Magazine says many of the attendees are also wearing the same shirt he was when he was shot.

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    20 points Mortambulist

    I find that hard to believe. You can fit at most 2 people in one shirt. Maybe 3 if they're children and it's a big shirt.

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    6 points thousandfoldthought

    Incoming Shroud of Charlie

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    2 points jermysteensydikpix

    "We found this to be a forgery. The DNA from the dried blood matches the population from south India"

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    1 points b0ingy

    OMG it’s winter ima totally make and sell the “charlie kirk neck scarf”

    ok I’ll just let myself out now

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  • 53 points AliceTheOmelette

    Quoting his own words means you need to be named, shamed and fired. But then they're fine with this

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    34 points RandAlThorOdinson

    Yeah but they did this

    His death belongs to them, to be bought and sold as a commodity

    So it's cool

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  • 28 points RogueKhajit

    So let me get this right; if I say CK was a racist and I refuse to waste time grieving him, I'm an evil leftist who takes joy in his death.

    But it's ok for them to recreate the scene of his death to use as a tourist trap and literally profit off of it.

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    12 points critically_damped

    Hypocrisy is the central pillar of fascism. This really needs to stop being a surprise to people.

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    3 points RogueKhajit

    Which is why we should be calling out the hypocrisy every chance we get.

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    3 points Nabrok_Necropants

    Are you familiar with the crucifix?

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    3 points RogueKhajit

    Well yes the hypocrisy of Christianity has never been lost on me.

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    2 points Nabrok_Necropants

    Its the same people doing the same thing

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  • 37 points Chrysalii

    There is nothing they won't turn in to a grift.

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    19 points Throot2Shill

    The true heart of American christo-fascism is stupid moneymaking schemes.

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    3 points Zero-89

    Fun fact: The second iteration of the Ku Klux Klan was a pyramid scheme on the side.

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    3 points Throot2Shill

    How far back in history do we need to go before the cults were just zealots and not grifters? (probably the dawn of humanity)

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  • 15 points NitWhittler

    They need to sell vials of fake blood and play gurgling/splatting sounds.

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    12 points RandAlThorOdinson

    Just set up a slime booth from Nickelodeon but with fake blood

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  • 16 points bowens44

    there is nothing these ghouls will not use to grift.......

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    7 points MessiahOfMetal

    Like when Trump sold shite with pieces of the suit he wore when that supporter was shot dead behind him (the event where Trump pretends he was also shot, despite a lack of evidence).

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  • 17 points NumerousScallions

    So all the "when Charlie Kirk died, dEmOcRaTs mocked him," can be followed up with "and Republicans made a mock up of his death scene so they could take selfies at it." I don't want to hear any shit out of magats, we are definitely not the same. What is even sicker is that the new TPUSA CEO, Erika Kirk, approved this display. Smfh

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    3 points AgreeableRaspberry85

    Of course she did. Anything for a buck.

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  • 13 points stevemnomoremister

    They'll never admit it, but the day of Kirk's murder was a great day for them. Their sense of persecution is off the charts, and they love that more than anything. It makes them feel as if they're Jesus.

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    3 points stefanopolis

    Too right. The religious right loves nothing more than being persecuted.

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  • 23 points brokenman82

    wtf?

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    6 points United-Big-1114

    Ditto!

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    2 points 11thStPopulist

    Sick!

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  • 11 points jmarinara

    How long until the actual site is a religious site and a pilgrimage destination?

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    9 points Multigrain_Migraine

    About two days after it happened, probably.

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    5 points Spaztor

    yeah when they cut down the crime scene tape

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  • 8 points Easy-Environment-784

    I bet a lot of them are wearing a little golden torture device around their necks, death obsessed, sex obsessed, punishment obsessed.

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  • 5 points Drew-CarryOnCarignan

    What does the big lettering on the backdrop say (behind the woman on the left side of the tent)?

    "American Comebain"?

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    6 points shandangalang

    American Comeback. The material is just kind of folded, which is obscuring parts of the letters

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    12 points WhatzMyOtherPassword

    Cumbalm. Its like chapstick, but salty. For REAL americans. Not those sissy libs

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    4 points organik_productions

    It's comeback, I think that's just a still from a poor quality video

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    1 points Sassy_Sarranid

    Yeah, I'm gonna need some proof this was real, because a lot of the details like that scream AI to me.

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  • 4 points funktopus

    That's fucked up. I didn't even like the guy and its weird seeing people that did do shit like this.

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    2 points MessiahOfMetal

    I refuse to believe any of the conspiracy theories about the Kirk murder and the attempted shooting on Trump last summer (because rational-minded), but they seem awfully determined to create a martyr to rally the supporters behind and consolidate their movement into a fully-fledged religious thing.

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  • 6 points BurtonDesque

    /r/ToiletPaperUSA

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  • 3 points SitaSky

    The crazy part is there are people taking pictures in the recreated murder booth. What a great memory to cherish for years. Conservatives are fucked in the head.

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    2 points merrysunshine2

    I mean, they do love crucifixes too.

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  • 3 points Brilliant-Ad232

    Let's prove them wrong again

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  • 3 points nostemsorseeds

    Definitely needs a dash or two of red paint.

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  • 3 points Trix_Are_4_90Kids

    Psycho behavior.

    Normalized psycho behavior.

    It’s not just the organization. It’s been running through America since the pilgrims. It’s normalized and very psychotic. When you make violence your trademark…

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  • 3 points MeMilo1209

    Ghouls.

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  • 2 points Bug_Calm

    Morbid AF.

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  • 2 points Spare-Dingo-531

    I don't think this is too morally wrong..... but it is definitely tacky in the most American of ways possible.

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  • 2 points PoizonMyst

    Oh okay.🤨Not beating the allegations ...

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  • 2 points RandAlThorOdinson

    They wear those around their dicks actually

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  • 1 points dustractor

    If humanity is still around in 2000 years there will be a cult whose followers wear booth jewelry to mark themselves as members.

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  • 1 points TR_abc_246

    I glare at this and say “STOP!”

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  • 1 points TinPin94

    What a bunch of ghouls

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  • 1 points Healthy_Candle_4545

    U/thundfin this is your people you must be so proud

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  • 1 points ColdIndependence5820

    Anything for a buck. MAGA has no shame.

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  • 1 points RandAlThorOdinson

    What is the purpose of the post and what is the red thing on the ground just underneath it? Anyone know?

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    1 points NuQ

    what is the red thing on the ground just underneath it?

    That's a pair of clown shoes in case people want the full experience.

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    1 points RandAlThorOdinson

    Fucking lmao

    Perfect answer thank you.

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  • 0 points Numerous-Holiday-890

    I was a fan of Charlie Kirk and was saddened by his death. But this shit is disgusting. They're literally profiting off of his death with this nonsense, and that's not okay 

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  • 0 points Senor_Ding-Dong

    I'm not fan of this guy or TPUSA, but this is a bit disingenuous. Aren't they just setting up the thing he traveled around with all the time for his little debates? I don't imagine they are advertising this as a murder re-creation scene. Edit - I see there is a video of I assume a reporter presenting it as such, but did she just come up with that herself?

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  • 0 points ohmnivalent

    Chat, is this real?

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