"Baby, I'm thrilled."

That's what a University of Texas at San Antonio student told Christian Collins when he asked whether she was happy with herself. She had just stepped up to a Turning Point USA microphone and read a poem celebrating the murder of Charlie Kirk.

Then she told Collins he was brave to be out there with "no protection, no nothing, no like neck brace."

Charlie Kirk was shot in the neck at Utah Valley University on September 10, 2025. Collins was standing about three feet away from her when she said it.

The event was TPUSA's "Pick Up the Mic" at UTSA on October 27. The idea is simple. TPUSA sets up a microphone on campus, and any student who wants to can walk up and say whatever they like to a conservative speaker. That day the speaker was Collins, founder of the Texas Youth Summit.

The student introduced herself as "Pamper Baby." She started by announcing that she'd taken a Plan B pill that morning and, as an immigrant, felt "kind of guilty." Then she cited "freedom of speech" and pulled out her poem.

It was a parody of "The Night Before Christmas." "It was the night before the Kirkiversary, and all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse." A few lines later came "The podcast fell silent, the hot takes grew weary, for tomorrow, dear friends, is the great Kirkiversary."

Kirkiversary. She took the day a husband and father of two was gunned down in front of a crowd of college students and turned it into a holiday.

She finished by inviting everyone to a "Squirt for Kirk" party. "BYOE." "Vaccines included, sh*t's free. See y'all there." The crowd cheered. She signed off with "That's all!" and a sip of her smoothie.

Sen. Mike Lee watched the video and named the part that's hardest to shake: "The giggling is especially unsettling. She genuinely thinks this is cute."

Collins asked if she had a question. What she had was the comment about his neck. He answered with four words: "I'll pray for you."

He posted the exchange afterward: "At @UTSA for Pick Up the Mic, a student read a poem celebrating the assassination of Charlie Kirk with such glee, then told me I was brave to be out here without my neck covered."

TPUSA contributor Jack Posobiec had heard enough. "I don't know what else to tell people. The Left wants us dead. I am not using hyperbole; they are openly celebrating murder, violence, and the slaughter of their political opponents."

Pick Up the Mic is a bet conservatives keep making on hostile campuses: give the other side the microphone and trust that open debate beats shouting. Collins kept his end of it. He stood there, heard every line, and answered with a prayer. She used her turn to remind a living man exactly where the last one was shot.

She also made a point of telling the room she's an immigrant. Nobody has said whether she's here on a visa, a green card, or a passport. Weeks after Kirk was killed, though, Marco Rubio's State Department started revoking visas from foreign nationals who celebrated the murder. That policy is already on the record.

The video surfaced October 28 and went viral within hours. UTSA has not responded publicly, and no disciplinary action has been announced.

College campuses spent a decade building safe spaces to protect students from words they didn't like. At UTSA, a student cheered an assassination at a campus event, on camera, to applause. So far the university can't find a single word to say about it.

Collins posted one more line after the video spread: "This is the climate. We pick up the mic anyway."