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“Erika Kirk will continue his legacy, and will be a fearless advocate for the most elite airpower force in the history of the world whose warriors keep our nation safe, strong and free.”

Do you think Erika Kirk could even describe to you how airplanes fly with a basic grade school explanation?

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[–] spykee@lemmings.world 6 points 14 hours ago

Airwrecka Kirk\

Yes, I spent way too much time on my work machine to sculpt this.

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago

gurgle gurgle

Erika Kirk's husband

[–] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 3 points 13 hours ago

At this rate, some rando will become the Ghengis Khan of America, simply because all possible opposition is so fucking stupid.

[–] Bakkoda@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago

She chose a career over her relationship. I thought we were supposed to support feminism?

/s

[–] maxxadrenaline@lemmy.world 11 points 21 hours ago

I think the house and senate are all brainwashed if they let bullshit pass this far. They’re all useless.

[–] mazzilius_marsti@lemmy.world 13 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

look at title

shrug, another joke post maybe

look at community name

Holy shit its real !

jump out the window

[–] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 7 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

I remember going to the Air Force Academy as a kid when we went to visit my aunt who'd moved to Colorado Springs for work. We did the tour, and the guide said that it was one of the hardest schools in the world to get into. I have the feeling admissions will soon be based on your X posts and how many Trump coins you have. Fucking gross.

[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 48 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] Reygle@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago
[–] TronBronson@lemmy.world 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

it says right there she won a beauty pageant. Checkmate liberal

[–] smeenz@lemmy.nz 2 points 15 hours ago

Yeah but she's clearly far too old for donny

[–] oldscratchXV@lemmy.world 28 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And what exactly are the qualifications of some former beauty pageant winner and widow of some dead far-right racist, anti-science, anti-intellectual monster to be in such a position?

[–] Slovene@feddit.nl 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

former beauty pageant winner

Seems like Trump is trying to turn the White House into the Playboy mansion.

[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago

The Play-Doh McMansion

[–] TrollTrollrolllol@lemmy.world 4 points 21 hours ago

Temu playboy mansion maybe

[–] lechekaflan@lemmy.world 3 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

Oh wow, here comes the Goering with high heels.

[–] SparkyBauer44@lemmy.world 0 points 13 hours ago

Me thinks more of them boys will becomr men, if ya catch my drift.

[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Imagine the qualified USAF officers reading her shitty advice about cadet selection.

[–] FatVegan@leminal.space 2 points 22 hours ago

Assuming these terrorists care

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[–] Ghostie@lemmy.zip 19 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] TronBronson@lemmy.world 3 points 20 hours ago

It’s a neat way to make tax dollars disappear

[–] ours@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Cronies gonna crony.

[–] HalfAFrisbee@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago
[–] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago (3 children)

What is she going to bring to the table here? How to grift off a dead husband you didn't love, abandon your children to grift, and be the side chick of a guy who fucks couches?

[–] entwine@programming.dev 2 points 21 hours ago

What is she going to bring to the table here?

Trump gets a cut of the TPUSA merch sales

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Her ability to crank the afterburners on benefitting in her career from her husband dying has impressed even the Air Force's most aggressive fighter pilots.

Only the toughest Warfighters can execute such high-Greed maneuvers.

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[–] flop_leash_973@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

I wonder if she will have a nice couch in her office for Vance when he visits.

On a more serious note, it is amazing how well her husbands killing has worked out for her professionally.

[–] matlag@sh.itjust.works 1 points 17 hours ago

Her husband was not a big fan of women having a career.

[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

it is amazing how well her husbands killing has worked out for her professionally.

I feel its more of a "never let a crisis go to waste", but I can't blame people for wondering if she was involved. I don't know if she's just full to the gills on botox or what, but her grief felt performative.

[–] BigDaddySlim@lemmy.world 107 points 2 days ago (6 children)
[–] orbitz@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Hey it could be a DUI hire like others too...I don't know much about her if that could be accurate but if she's going with that ship she's a fucking douche. No one with any sense of morality would ever accept a position from them.

Funny how apparently all the 'christian/godly' (outspoken ones) types are attaching themselves to the apparent anti Christ. Well probably not literally but the description fits 1:1 and I'm an atheist but I think the Bible had a good description of that charlaton.

I recall reading some old philosopher and they described the worst person, it was Trump. I could never find it again forget but it was Plato or Aristotle I think. There have always been those types in all of history. Somehow the US was hoodwinked into actually giving him power, rather than run him off like the snake oil salesmen he is.

[–] BigDaddySlim@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm not religious either, but I'm aware of the core principles of Christianity. Trump is the embodiment of greed, and goes heavily against what the Bible teaches, look no further than "love thy neighbor." He actively goes against that core principle daily. I'm sure someone has done a full write up of all the things trump has done that's against the Bibles teachings, yet these Bible loving """Christians""" swear he's the second coming of Jesus and was appointed by god.

It's a cult, plain and simple. Christians follow him because a good amount of them are conservative, because their believe is only surface level. It's only faith when it's convenient and "against gods wishes or whatever" when it's against their conservative beliefs.

Christians that belive trump is the greatest and sent to us by god haven't read the same fucking book they're constantly quoting, they're hypocrites and traitors to themselves and their supposed beliefs. He is in fact the antichrist according to these people's own book.

This is the true Trump Derangement Syndrome, because once again, every accusation is a confession of the Repulikkkan party.

[–] skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

"Could American Evangelicals spot the Antichrist?"

The answer is, resoundingly: no, they cannot, despite having an entire Where's Waldo-esque guide to spotting him listed in their holy book that they love to claim to have read.

I'm an atheist (reading the Bible critically will do that to you); and even I readily recognize that Trump, and men just like him, were explicitly called out and warned against in Revelations, among other chapters.

[–] tover153@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago

You've missed the point, they KNOW he's the antichrist. They need him to be to get to heaven without actually dying. I'm the child of old conservative evangelical christian ministers, and I can tell you at 80+ they are more terrified of dying that any other single thing.

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[–] frog_brawler@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago

I bet she's qualified for that.

[–] Salamanderwizard@lemmy.world 122 points 2 days ago (13 children)

Getting hep c and being discharged with 1 week of boot camp left seemed like a curse when I was 21...but now that I have seen all the bullshit Trump is doing...at 33 I can say thank God for hep c.

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[–] LordOfLocksley@lemmy.world 64 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The only DEI hire that Republicans approve of

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[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 64 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Donald Trump is cancer. Literally couldn't be a worse person. And he thinks the concept of "qualified" means "is liked by people in power". If this administration doesn't depress you greatly, nothing will.

Nothing of real value is given value by this administration. Only money and hoarding it matter, and nakedly so. They're literally citing greed as why starting a war is ok. "we're going to make a lot of money" is something actually said out loud by politicians in defense of a war. I cannot imagine how this government could get more corrupt.

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[–] aproposnix@scribe.disroot.org 88 points 2 days ago (6 children)

So basically she's there to help brainwash service members into accepting the coming Apocalypse where they will be embraced by baby Jesus.

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[–] Noite_Etion@lemmy.world 77 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Kirk, a former Miss Arizona beauty pageant winner, was also recognized by Trump during the president’s State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress in February.

She was hired because of ~~nepotism~~ her qualifications...

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 49 points 2 days ago (6 children)

She was hired because she's proven herself to be a valuable psychopath and propaganda operative; those are the only relevant qualifications to the American nazi party.

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[–] barnaclebutt@lemmy.world 44 points 2 days ago

Oh my god, congratulations Erika. Look how far you got exploiting that bullet in your husband's neck! Amazing. I'm sure his gay rumours were untrue, and that you loved each other so much! I hope you also one day get that closeted couch fucker away from his dirty foreigner wife! Such inspiration. Beautiful.

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