Democrats today showed us their murderous colors
The left’s response to this murder
is to celebrate it
I had an essay planned for completion this afternoon on how to reform our education system, but that can wait until tomorrow. What matters today is the public assassination of Charlie Kirk, the founder of Turning Point USA, a college-focused pro-American conservative organization that has done more in the past ten years to reshape American culture than any pundit or politician anywhere.
Why was Kirk murdered? The murderer is still at large but we can make a reasonable guess. Kirk, only 31, was an outspoken conservative who unequivocally believed in the fundamentals of American society, including freedom, small government, color-blind rules, and the right of every person to pursue happiness. This is not propaganda on my part. I have listened to many of Kirk’s speeches and appearances, and at no time did he do anything to contradict these conclusions. If anything, he made these beliefs crystal clear to anyone who would listen.
Because of those beliefs, he had become a major opponent of the Democratic Party and its now radical Marxist/leftist/queer agenda, which also now hates America and everything it has stood for since its founding almost 250 year ago.
As such, the left — including numerous mainstream elected Democrats and their minions in the propaganda press — have repeatedly slandered him — without any evidence — as a fascist, racist, Nazi, hate-monger, and bigot. Those ugly words — utter lies — made him a target for the crazies on the left, and now one of those crazies has snuffed out his life prematurely.
The left and its propaganda press will work hard to make excuses for this evil act, but as they do so they will simply prove my point above. Already anchors on MSNBC are slandering him again, calling him “divisive” and “awful” who said things that upset people and thus we shouldn’t be surprised he was killed. “It was HIS fault!” On social media leftists are celebrating this evil act, showing us how utterly evil they are.
Charlie Kirk
Kirk’s work will go on. In fact, expect it to expand considerably on campuses nationwide. The American people will no longer tolerate this evil. They are going to shut it down, aggressively, and with joyous fervor. And the left will once again scream “Facists!”, but the only fascists Americans will see are the murderous hate-mongering people on the left.
As for Kirk and his family, today’s events are horrible beyond words. We can only express the deepest sympathy to his wife Erika, who is now left a widow with two small children. She and those kids have been robbed of a husband and father, for no more reason that the words that Charlie Kirk spoke.
America stands for better. Kirk knew this, and spent every day of his short life trying to bring our country back to its original values of freedom and good will. It is our obligation to honor that man and those values and do whatever we can to make his dream a reality.
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I am dumbfounded. Charlie was a special man with a drive and clarity to bring forward the good behind the American exceptionalism.
There is the obvious and often stated excesses of the opposition with their hyperbole, and further obvious and excess lack of accountability of the same. Our general media is flawed to the point of wicked. Outliving them like we did the communists of the Cold War era seems to be a forlorn challenge.
God be with us.
The MSM could simply have ignored this–their coverage will come back to bite them…. let’s see if somebody puts some money behind a foundation with his name.
Ironically his last appearance was about the other heinous murder where the victim
-wasn’t assaulting cops
-wasn’t stealing
-wasn’t on an overdose tear
But
*was* safer had she stayed home in Ukraine, even with Putin’s missiles in the air.
Every one of these blasted celebrities need to be brought back and forced to live in high crime areas their policies created.
Despite this one-two punch, I still haven’t seen flash mobs or looters.
Gee, I wonder why.
If “leftistlaywer” up there really is a lawyer, I sure hope she has to face the bar association in her state and explain why she should retain her license.
It’s amazing how many people on the left are saying “they said hateful nasty things, they deserved it!” without realizing how that could rebound on them if the right was willing to stoop down to their level.
I would recommend any and all donations go to Turning Point.
At least until someone official sets up an account for the family.
The family will be targets for theft too. Elon needs to bathe that family in money–their breadwinner paid a far higher price.
The celebrations on the Left come as no surprise.
It used to be that even if a public figure was loathed, it was considered very poor taste to wish for harm or death to come to him.
However, we have reached a point where a person maliciously and savagely murders an insurance executive, only to be praised by “journalists” and their guests, and by crazies on X and Tik-Tok who would prefer to say he’s handsome.
We can only pray for Kirk’s family, and for the possibility that this senseless violence will have a few of the more reasonable people in the Democrat Party realizing just how awful the Left has become.
I am old enough to remember exactly where I was when President Kennedy was assassinated. I was in Mrs Barlow’s 4th grade classroom.
I remember the first time I heard Rush Limbaugh. He had just started at KFBK in Sacramento. I was in the San Francisco Bay area, and the “50,000 watt blowtorch” radio station reached us driving up Hwy 880.
I remember the first time I heard of Charlie Kirk. In 2015 and 2016, candidate Donald Trump would mention and praise the incredible work “Charlie” was doing.
What Charlie has created will probably echo in eternity. Turning Point is aptly named. Turn away from the Left’s hatred.
Last April Charlie warned us about the violence of the Left:
“” Assassination culture is spreading on the left. Forty-eight percent of liberals say it would be at least somewhat justified to murder Elon Musk. Fifty-five percent said the same about Donald Trump.
In California, activists are naming ballot measures after Luigi Mangione.
The left is being whipped into a violent frenzy. Any setback, whether losing an election or losing a court case, justifies a maximally violent response.
This is the natural outgrowth of left-wing protest culture tolerating violence and mayhem for years on end. The cowardice of local prosecutors and school officials have turned the left into a ticking time bomb.””
I’m physically sick. Not just from the news of the assassination, but at the leftist celebrations of Kirk’s death. RIP Charlie Kirk. Prayers for his family.
Kirk was particularly worrisome to the left because he didn’t just make the rounds of the usual right leaning outlets.
Kirk was going into the heart of leftist’s strongholds, the universities.
Universities are where the left breeds new adherents and activists and Kirk was threatening to “infect” these embryonic Gretas/AOCs and Zohrans with kernels of truth.
When he was assassinated, Kirk was at the first stop of his latest tour:
“Featuring Charlie Kirk and special guests along the way, this on-campus offensive strike will hit over 25 campuses across the country . . . carrying a powerful message of truth, patriotism, and freedom back to major schools and into the lives of hundreds of thousands of young students. “
It’s been a hard week with Iryna and now Charlie.
I have no words for the reprehensible and despicable reaction to violence from far too many of those people. It is not too much to acknowledge they are evil and demonic.
It’s a great loss to his family, I am so sorry for his widow and children. It’s also a loss to the college kids who were exposed to a different and truthful point of view.
For me, this is reminiscent of the assassination of Dr. King … right down to the target being a strong advocate for judging people not by the color of their skin, but the content of their character.
While his opponents treat people as children and pets, absolved of responsibility beyond mere submission to the ruling elite, Charlie Kirk treated people as adults, respecting their liberty while expecting responsibility on their part. That is why they viewed him as “divisive” and “hateful” in their self-righteous myopic minds, projecting upon their children and pets their own learned helplessness that puts credentials and outside authority over common sense and personal responsibility.
Charlie Kirk respected the only sustainable social contract we have … his opponents run roughshod over it.
It is the return to respect for that contract, that is THE way out of this destructive conflict.
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Investigations should begin with former members of the Secret Service and the FBI.
It is likely the assassin was himself older than Kirk–maybe double his age.
The killer is (probably) not a student but is perhaps a former professor with great knowledge of the locale.
The Unabomber is proof that preppers and survivalists aren’t the only individuals who live like hermits outdoors. The murderer might have access to an old bolt-action heirloom periodically used at best. The wooden stock replaced.
The killer was patient–not a hothead. Likely no social media presence.
There was one shot–all that is needed for a relatively stationary target that doesn’t move around as much as The Donald.
Now, we hear that a “person of interest” (i.e. suspect) was detained then released. Likely an anti-Kirk protestor.
There is a chance-however small –that the assassin and the student were known to one another. Here is an example of a potential (one way) discussion which came before today’s crime:
“You are my get away. I don’t mean a driver. After you hear the shot-cause a scene. I’ve been moving handfuls of rolled up maps all day, an old telescope.”
“My rifle is in none of those.”
“You see that old CRT atop the metal dolly with the huge videotape machine underneath–resting on the lower tray? That’s where my rifle is–standing up through a hole above and below.”
“If Security checks anything, it will be my maps, my scope–I even have a violin case, which I will act nervous around when they search–if they search.”
“I will leave with the other thousand humanoids after your stunt–but we can no longer speak together–ever.”
“I will have the spent cartridge mailed to you before I go to hospital.”
“If you are feeling brave, implicate yourself as we discussed–my deathbed confession will exonerate you as a martyr and you can sue the conservative press.”
“Otherwise, wait awhile and mail it to our media friends as a keepsake.”
My thoughts and prayers go out to those affected.
Don’t judge all Democrats by the postings of a few people. It’s not clear why the assassin shot Charlie Kirk, but you’re speculating anyway. Might be right, but it’s the sort of rush to judgment that you condemn media for doing.
Democratic leaders are condemning this shooting in very strong terms. Why? Because there’s been a cycle of political violence against Republicans and Democrats that is very worrisome.
Violent January 6 attack on the Capitol by Trump’s MAGA supporters
Two attempts on Trump’s life
Two Democratic lawmakers killed in Minnesota with the wife of one of them wounded in June.
The burning of the Pennsylvania governor’s mansion in April — Democratic governor
And now Charlie Kirk’s assassination.
We may have entered a period of political violence not seen since the 1960’s. Let’s hope that doesn’t happen.
D. Messier: I will let what Kurt Schlichter wrote today answer you:
Note that of the two examples of Democrats getting attacked that you cite, both were not done by conservatives, but by leftists. In Minnesota the killer had close ties with the Democratic Party. In Pennsylvania the arsonist attacked Shapiro because he was Jewish and had expressed support for Israel. Though some reports claim the arsonist supported Trump, there is little reliable evidence to confirm that. It seems implausible considering his actions.
My toleration for the hate-mongering of the left has reached its end. It has raised the temperature to a boiling point — resulting in these hateful acts. It must stop.
And I know I am not alone in this.