The UTSA Student Who Celebrated Charlie Kirk's Murder Is Sorry Now. The Timing Tells You Why.

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The UTSA Student Who Celebrated Charlie Kirk's Murder Is Sorry Now. The Timing Tells You Why.

On September 23, a 19-year-old UTSA student named Isa Casahuga walked up to the mic at a Turning Point USA event on campus and introduced herself as "Pamper Baby."

Then she read a poem about Charlie Kirk's assassination. She was celebrating it.

She called it the "Kirkiversary." She worked in "a shot to the neck," which is how Kirk was killed. She invited everybody to a "Squirt for Kirk" party. When the speaker, Christian Collins, asked if she was happy with herself, she said, "Baby, I'm thrilled." Then she told him he was brave to be out there with "no like neck brace."

Collins said he'd pray for her.

She wasn't sorry that day. She wasn't sorry the next week, or the week after that. Five weeks went by.

Then on October 27, Collins posted the video, and it blew up. Suddenly her name and face were everywhere.

Then she posted an apology.

She called her comments "deeply insensitive." She said, "I understand why my words caused so much pain and I take full accountability for them." She called what she said to Collins "beyond inappropriate and hurtful." She addressed Erika Kirk and the kids.

"Deeply insensitive" is one way to describe it. She stood on a stage and cheered a man getting shot in front of his wife and children. She made his murder into a holiday. She joked about his neck wound to another conservative's face. Her apology talks about "words" that "caused pain," like she'd made an awkward joke at Thanksgiving.

Plenty of people watching didn't buy it. A lot of them thought she looked like she was reading off a script. Podcast host Brian Atlas said she "uses scripture to deflect accountability." Babylon Bee CEO Seth Dillon said, more or less, that she seemed mostly sorry people were calling her what she'd shown herself to be.

It's hard to argue with him. In September, in a room full of college kids, she was "thrilled." In late October, the whole country saw the tape. A few days later, she had a statement ready.

UTSA says it "takes the matter seriously" and is looking at it through the student conduct process. That's all it'll say. It's citing federal privacy law. No action has been announced. You can probably guess how fast things would've moved if a conservative student had stood up and celebrated a dead progressive.

Erika Kirk is raising two kids without their dad. Isa Casahuga wanted to throw a party about it.

Now she's sorry. It only took five weeks and the whole country watching.


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