She Called It Freedom of Speech

[November 2, 2026]  A week ago, at a Turning Point USA “Pick Up the Mic” event at the University of Texas at San Antonio, 19-year-old Isabela “Isa” Casahuga Lemgruber (who introduced herself as “Pamper Baby”) stepped up to the microphone and recited a short parody of “‘Twas the Night Before Christmas” that mocked the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

She also promoted a “Squirt for Kirk” event and told the speaker, Texas Youth Summit founder Christian Collins, that he was “brave” for being on campus “with no protection, no nothing, no like neck brace.”

Collins later posted the video on X, describing it as the student reading the poem “with such glee.” It spread rapidly, drawing intense backlash.  Here is his video:

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.

I told her I’d pray for her.

This is the climate. We pick up the mic anyway.
https://t.co/ZfipQsosaF

— Christian Collins (@CollinsforTX)
October
27, 2026

This is the story of what not to do with your life.  And it’s a lesson on how the radical Leftist ideology, so pervasive on American campuses, is ruining lives.  We allow it to happen and those who most suffer will be those who fall for it.

Online users quickly identified her as a Houston native and St. Agnes Academy graduate (a private Catholic girls’ school). Her parents were identified in reports and online posts as Houston realtor Paula Lemgruber Casahuga (Brazilian-born) and Guillem Casahuga (a partner at Arthur D. Little); some posts noted a Brazilian/Spanish immigrant background and claims she is a naturalized U.S. citizen.

A website with her name and the poem appeared, and there were calls for expulsion from college, deportation, and broader consequences. Speculation about her citizenship status circulated but was not independently verified by outlets such as Newsweek.

Yesterday (November 1), she released an apology video.  In it she said that after “much prayer and reflection” she wanted to sincerely apologize for the September 23 comments.

She specifically apologized to Erika Kirk, her children, and the Kirk family (calling her words deeply insensitive given their loss), to Christian Collins (saying the remarks were “beyond inappropriate and hurtful”), and to anyone else she may have hurt. She stated that political violence is never acceptable and referenced Christian values.

Many online responses treated the apology as late, scripted, or motivated by the backlash and doxxing rather than genuine remorse.

Here are the top, rather obvious, lessons for the socially immature to read carefully:

1. Actions have consequences:
   Free speech protects you from the government. It does not protect you from the public, your university, future employers, or the people whose dead family member you just mocked on camera.
2. Ideology can override basic human decency:
   Treating the assassination of a political opponent as material for a gleeful parody poem is not “edgy.” It is a failure of judgment and character.
3. An apology that only appears after the damage is done rarely repairs the damage:
   The video apology came after the identification, the doxxing, the university review, and the national backlash. Most people will reasonably conclude it was driven by consequences rather than conscience.

Character is revealed by what you do when you think no one important is watching; not by what you say after you’ve been caught.

The damage Isa has done to her future (and to her family’s future) is already underway. Whatever the final cost turns out to be, it will be high: expensive, stressful, and reputation-destroying, and it will play out over years, not days.

She may still graduate, and she may eventually find work. But the video, the poem, and the apology that followed will remain searchable for as long as the Internet exists. Future employers, graduate programs, and people she has yet to meet will be able to watch her mock a man’s murder and then watch her explain herself only after the backlash arrived.

She called it freedom of speech.  That is now a permanent stain.

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