Erika Kirk's cringe-inducing meltdown and Hillsdale College honorary doctorate have shocked observers, with critics comparing her delusional self-image to Angie Baby. The analysis argues social media fuels this dysmorphia, allowing her to curate a false reality while attempting to usurp Charlie Kirk's legacy post-September 10th. Mocking her fabricated soldier honeymoon story and Pat Sajak's bored reaction at the ceremony, the segment concludes that TPUSA persists in broadcasting her nonsensical content under the delusion it is charming, despite her lack of genuine accomplishment. [Automatically generated summary]
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The Erica Phenomenon00:12:28
People still cannot get over Erica Kirk at the White House Correspondence Dinner.
They still can't get over that.
It is the weirdest thing.
The stuff that she does, the stuff that she says, but the way she acts absolutely positively is cemented, cemented in the collective mindset of us.
Candace said it best.
Which is not a surprise, but she says something to the effect of, and I don't know what the particular phraseology is that Erica looks like she's taking a bridal photo.
Like she's taking a bridal photo through the sheer lace or the chiffon or whatever the hell it's called.
With her hair in a braid, it was about her.
I see this all the time among people, not necessarily young people, not necessarily kids, but people who are emotionally and realistically.
Immature or delusional, or who are living in some kind of a la la land.
You've heard this before, and depending upon who you are, this might be so repetitive you don't understand the novelty or the sincerity of it.
Erica Kirk lives in a world, it's like Angie Baby, living in a world of make believe.
I remember that, Helen Reddy.
She lives in this Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, whatever the hell it is.
It is a world that says, This is what I wish it was.
This is the ultimate filter.
It's the ultimate filter.
Filters.
See, I hope you recognize me.
Maybe you've seen so much of this, you don't realize it because of habituation and because you're used to it.
The filter for me means hey, why don't you make the room a little darker?
Can you get rid of that glare?
That's a filter.
Would you like a sepian tone?
Would you like this tone?
Would you like a sepian tone?
Would you like more of a black and white?
Versus that's a filter, okay?
To other people, to most people, a filter is let me knock 75 pounds off.
And the filter is what you want to use when the FBI wants a term, a picture of you after you've robbed a bank.
It changes what you want the world to do.
To be, not the way you think it is, but the way you want it to be.
It's a big difference, a big difference.
If there was a filter, if there was a platform that actually showed the way you saw yourself, not the way you want to see yourself, but the way you actually did see yourself, it would be horrible.
You would look like grandmama on Adam's family, or I don't even know what.
You would, because most people see themselves in a far more pessimistic view.
I know that sounds.
But believe me, I know what I'm telling you.
Social media, I know this isn't social media, this was a thing, but social media unlocked, it potentiated this particular part of people.
Alcohol potentiates the anxiolytic and the sedative effects of diazepines and Valium.
Alcohol does it, cause it, it potentiates.
Diazepine kind of knocks you out, but alcohol fortifies it.
Social media and the illusion of this.
Potentiates the potential that many people have for self delusion.
She is the perfect example.
There is no Erica Kirk.
Let me say this again.
There is no Erica Kirk.
There is no wind.
You see the results of the wind.
You see trees bending over it.
You can't see wind.
You know, you can't see thunder.
You can hear it.
You know what I mean?
You can't hear lightning for that matter.
This is bigger than anything you can imagine right now.
This idea, this Erica Kirk.
And the thing about it is, the number one trait of it's almost like a form of dysmorphia is that they don't see it.
They don't understand it.
You could sit there all day and say, What are you talking about?
They're saying, You don't.
Erica, this is an event that has nothing to do with you.
You.
In essence, like Candace said, you called what a bridal photographer to take pictures of this?
You have this, who are you looking at?
Just looking out the window.
The music, what are you doing?
Are you waxing profound?
Are you surveying the land that you've conquered by virtue of your pulchritude?
What is this?
What is the theme?
And there is no theme.
This is about, you don't understand something.
I want to be important, but I want to be beautiful.
I want to be beautiful.
Stop laughing.
This is what she's telling you.
I don't care about the Hillsdale.
Do you think that she's going to proudly hang or display her Hillsdale, whatever this honorary doctorate?
Doctorate?
It's like giving, I don't want to give any examples, but giving her an honorary doctorate.
A doctorate?
Her?
Doesn't she have one?
Her phony titles?
She's an imposter.
But an imposter is trying to be something.
She doesn't even know what she wants to be.
She's an imposter where you fill in the blank.
Well, what are you?
I don't know.
It's like stolen valor.
What branch of the service are you in?
I don't know yet.
I want to steal the valor.
I just don't know enough about the areas of the military for me to.
Doesn't make any sense.
I realize this.
Because I've never seen anything like this.
I've never seen anything like this.
And what's so funny about all of this is that what do the.
I almost kind of don't blame her.
I know it sounds weird.
I really, I don't think she knows anything.
I think this, I think she has been, if you really went back to it, if you looked at this girl's life, When she was in the formative years, there was no formative years.
I think it never, it's like there was no foundation that was set or something.
I don't know what it is.
And sometimes I think to myself, you know, this is pretty doggone mean stuff here.
But it is because you wanted to insinuate yourself as the CEO of Charlie's world.
You're trying to co opt, you're trying to block out Charlie's shadow, Charlie's influence with your own, and you're not doing anything.
You're just blocking the shot.
You're standing behind somebody, you know, photobombing the.
The story.
Imagine if, God forbid, there is a Wikipedia 20 years from now.
What will they say about her?
What will they say?
What will they say?
You know how they say this is a past lives, early history, where'd you grow up?
Okay, we got that stuff.
But what did you do?
She was virtually anonymous for most of her life until September the 10th.
September the 10th.
In law, you probably know this.
Certain things, most things end with the death of the parties or with the death of the.
Participants, contracts end, you can't libel the dead, you know, that kind of thing.
Testamentary matters, probate, only kick in when somebody dies.
You can't probate a will if they're not dead.
What normally kills a legal matter in probate activates it.
You have to be dead.
In a strange way, by analogy, she is testamentary.
She only came alive when Charlie died.
She was a nullity.
She didn't exist.
She was there.
She exists like the tree behind you in the photo existed.
It's background.
It was just there.
It didn't matter.
When you looked at the picture, you go, oh, nice tree.
You say, no, no, it's not the tree.
Look at, oh, there's people about there.
It depends upon what you're focusing on.
She's the tree.
She was like, she was the background.
Oh, yeah, you're the wife.
And there was nothing wrong with that.
There was nothing wrong with that.
Most people, most, like Candace always brings as an example, Kobe Bryant's wife was certainly a very important part, but she said, I'm not, he's the star.
I'm a proud mother.
I'm his, you know, whatever.
And most people are like that.
Most people are saying, okay.
There's something weird about somebody who says, what about me?
Don't forget me.
What do you mean don't forget you?
What are you talking about?
It's not being able to enjoy.
And respect what your husband or spouse or whatever has earned.
It's a weird thing because why?
Because again, she's almost like you're going to love this one.
Ready for this?
She's almost like Hillary Clinton.
Hillary Clinton wanted, above all, to be she wanted to be the grand, the grand dame.
All her life, she was told, You're going to be something.
And then there was Bill Clinton.
Attorney General, two terms as president, I mean, as governor.
Then he goes and becomes president, two terms of that.
She has to wait.
Here comes Barack Obama, two terms of that.
She waits, she waits, she waits.
But the difference is she was smart, she was accomplished, and she could have done it.
She was treacherous, had no soul.
But the point is, Erica didn't have that.
Erica just, I'm sure Lori Franz must have said, listen, honey, we.
The only way you're going to do anything is if you walk into it.
If somebody, God forbid, if somebody dies or if somebody leaves you money or something, because we've tried everything.
And by the way, it's so funny, and this is a bit tangential, a bit elliptical, but what are you going to do?
This is the woman theoretically who is so into looks and what people look like.
I'm sure Laurie Frondler, her mother, was a woman who most people cared about their looks, always tried to take care of herself, well appointed.
She was trying to be a respectable woman, and blah, blah, blah.
And yet, yet, interestingly enough, when she was in the hospital suffering from whatever the heck this thing was, this, this, and then we hope, of course, she's well, but she was looking, I mean, frail and just haggard, as you can imagine, being in a hospital, being near death.
There, there, there she is.
There was Erica showing again me standing up.
Rise up, mother.
I'm here for you.
It's me.
Look at me.
Virtue signaling.
Look at me.
Look how I am able to put my own interests aside from my mother.
I, she is.
There is no end.
There is no end to this self absorption, this discontinuation of reality.
Here's reality, here's Erica, and it's cut.
Virtue Signaling and Reality00:02:02
It's like a hemispherectomy.
It doesn't, it's, and the more you look at it, I remember this, what inspired this, I saw a short or something on Candace's.
He has some interest.
Judge Judy laughing or.
Cat Williams, whoever edited it was very good.
But that shows you.
Sometimes the edit reminds you of this.
And here's the best part.
If there is a best part.
You think somebody would say at TPU, I say, listen, Erica, you got to sit this one out for six months.
You got to let people miss you.
You got to, how can I miss you if you won't go away?
I think Dan Hicks sang it.
You just will not, there is no, and every time you raise your head, it's worse.
And Hillsdale College, what were you doing?
Did you see that event?
If you see it, the best part was, did you see Pat Sajak?
Did you see Pat Sajak?
Did you see him?
Did you see the look on his face?
I remember one time, a long time ago when I was a kid, I went to this guy who was famous for taking out wisdom teeth.
I had mine taken out.
And what he did was, he really, I mean, he really loaded you up.
He would knock you out, paralyze you.
I mean, there was no pain because he would use, I think, anesthesia, which was a little bit excessive for a doctor's office.
But anyway.
But before we gave you the anesthesia, oh, this guy was Dr. Feelgood.
He gave everybody, either at a van or something, I mean, really loaded them up.
And he said, What we want you to do is we want you to, how do I say this?
We want you to be in this, how do I say this?
We want you to be in this segment or whatever it's called.
But before we do the actual surgery, We're going to give you the out of bed, sit in the waiting room and wait.
So I don't know what they did, I walked in with this waiting room full of people loaded on out of bed.
I mean, it was the wildest thing you've ever seen in your life.
Waiting Room Delight00:01:36
It was wild.
It was wild.
It looked like people were just like a methadone clinic or something.
Everybody was like high on this stuff.
That looked like Pat.
Pat Sajak, he was just, even he's bored out of his mind.
She didn't even realize nobody went to hear this stupid, and I'm sorry, the story was made up about how it was on their honeymoon and the soldiers, the honeymoon that he has to finish his class of Hillspeed.
Is there any?
She's so weird that if she told me, if she told me or gave me, believe it or not, a menu, if she was a waitress, I wouldn't believe it.
The specials today are, no, they're not.
And yet, for some reason, and I'm sorry, I plead guilty to our delight.
To our content delight, she just keeps pumping this stuff out.
And TPUSA keeps allowing it.
Nobody says anything.
Nobody stops it because they're under the delusion that somehow people find it charming.
It's unbelievable.
It just, I could go on and on, but I'm not.
The level of analysis of this, which is so incredible because we still are all saying we can't believe what we're saying.
What do you think, my friends?
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