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On Halloween weekend, left-wing podcaster Kyle Kulinski crossed a bright line when he posted a photoshopped “Spirit Halloween” style costume image mocking Erika Kirk, the widow of Charlie Kirk, labeling it a “fake grieving widow grifter” and ridiculing her public grief. The crude image showed smeared mascara, exaggerated “fake tear drops,” and a bag of cash, and quickly spread across X and other platforms, drawing immediate outrage from conservatives and many onlookers who still remember how raw this wound is.
This wasn’t a clever bit of satire — it was a deliberate, public humiliation of a grieving wife less than two months after her husband was killed while speaking on a college campus. Millions saw the post within hours, and Kulinski did not retract it; instead he doubled down with further jabs about “stages of grief,” proving that some on the left see cruelty as a political tool rather than a lapse in judgment.
Let’s be clear about the context: Charlie Kirk was fatally shot while addressing a crowd at Utah Valley University on September 10, 2025, a national trauma for millions of conservative Americans who saw a young, outspoken leader cut down at a campus event. That assassination — a real, violent act that left a family and a movement grieving — makes Kulinski’s mockery not just tasteless but morally repugnant.
What makes Kulinski’s behavior especially galling is the resurfacing of an old photo showing him smiling next to Charlie Kirk at a past event, underscoring the hypocrisy of mocking a family he once shared a public stage with. Conservatives are right to point out that political opponents who once engaged in civil debate should not celebrate a man’s death or lampoon his widow; decency and basic human respect are not partisan luxuries.
Leading conservative voices and journalists publicly condemned Kulinski’s post, calling it “extremely ugly behavior” and questioning how anyone with a shred of decency could post such an image so soon after the assassination. The outrage was bipartisan in tone if not in cause, because most Americans — regardless of party — understand that mocking someone’s grief crosses a universal line.
This episode is a reminder of the moral rot at the heart of today’s left-wing outrage machine: when winning is everything, empathy becomes a casualty. Hardworking Americans deserve commentary that fights for ideas without celebrating the suffering of families; if social platforms and advertisers have any backbone left, they should stop enabling predictable cruelty dressed up as “content.”
