JP Sears Mocks Erika Kirk, Blames ‘Zionists’ For Blowback

JP Sears isn’t a spiritual guru, but he plays one on YouTube.

The digital comedian started his social media career by playfully tweaking self-help experts. The over-reaction to the COVID-19 outbreak found him reinventing himself as a conservative cutup. He broke out in a big way by mocking Fake News reports and other progressive targets.

His Awaken with JP YouTube channel boasts more than 3 million subscribers today, a direct result of his transformation and wit.

Now, he’s evolving once more.

The comedian released a video earlier this week mocking Erika Kirk, the widow of late conservative icon Charlie Kirk. Her crime? Acting weird while taking over her late husband’s TP USA enterprise.

It’s a role she was thrust into when an assassin’s bullet struck the young man in the neck on Sept. 10 last year. She wants to keep his legacy alive because the late leader would have wanted that.

She knew him best.

On the surface, the skit is cruel and tasteless. Yet sometimes humor can be both and still be worthwhile.

Remember how comedians quickly found something to laugh about in the awful days following the Sept. 11 attacks? It was a way to distract us from our pain and let the terrorists know they couldn’t rob us of our humanity.

They even made a documentary about that black humor response cycle.

The jokes had a purpose, even if some found the humor offensive.

Mocking a widow for acting “weird” following the shocking loss of her husband and the father of her two children lands differently. Especially coming from Sears, a comedian who has spent years burnishing his bona fides as a right-leaning cutup.

What’s the point of the skit? Conservatives abhor the unofficial “punching down” rule established by woke scolds, but why would Sears target a grieving widow in the first place?

His follow-up video may hold some answers. His non-apology sounds suspiciously like another influencer who has veered into crazed, anti-Jewish conspiracies.

Candace Owens.

Sears addressed his critics in a new video. Here’s part of that response.

According to JP Sears, if you are repulsed by him attacking Erika Kirk and accusing her of murdering her husband, you are “Israel first.”

Just how the woke left overused the word “racist,” these people are doing the same with “Israel first.”
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He blasted the widow for seeking fame and treating her husband’s business like a business. He said slamming Erika Kirk’s fame-seeking behavior as weird is simply “calling balls and strikes.”

Oh, and he thanked Owens for retweeting the sketch. Owens has spent weeks spinning the wildest conspiracies regarding Charlie Kirk’s death, routinely attacking Erika Kirk in the process.

Sears also connected his detractors to, wait for it, Israel.

“Here’s what I see as a common denominator within the majority of them,” he said. “They’re conservatives in what we might call Israel First conservatives, relative to America First conservatives, or Zionists, is another way to say this.”

“Seth Dillon is incredibly pro-Israel,” he added about the Babylon Bee CEO, one of many critics who roasted the initial sketch.

Late in the non-apology clip, Sears played up the conspiracy that Charlie Kirk feared Israel would target him for death for withdrawing his support from the Jewish nation. To do so, Sears misinterprets Kirk’s texts leaked following the assassination.

As soon as the conservative leader turned on Israel, he was killed. Sears calls it a coincidence, suggesting it was anything but.

Just asking questions, right?

No wonder Owens shared Sears’ initial clip.