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You know it’s bad when the lip readers and body-language experts start weighing in. Over the last week, the internet’s most dubious commentators and rumormongers have turned their attention away from their usual targets and toward an unlikely (and in all likelihood imaginary) pairing: Vice President JD Vance and Charlie Kirk’s widow, Erika Kirk. All it took were some photos of the two sharing a warm greeting on stage at a Turning Point USA event in Mississippi.

At first glance, Vance and Kirk do look a little too familiar in the photos—why does he have his hands on her hips? Why does she have her hands in his hair ? When paired with a quote from Erika Kirk t

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