The Wounded Beast

Posted on by Sarah A. Hoyt

Normally I hold 9/11 for memory and thought and for missing, maybe, that other timeline, where perhaps things would be better. Or at least we’d be more innocent and trusting.

Today I must write this. And the reason I must write this is another reason to miss yet another timeline where I might have been more innocent and trusting. Though perhaps it’s more fair to say: where a lot of us wouldn’t be so angry.

I had a brief dip through twitter, because No Man’s Land hit #3 in Galactic Empire. (Behind Brandon Sanderson and…. a zombie romance????) and I don’t want to anymore.

But I must say this. And do please understand it’s a very difficult post to write. Oh, not because what I have to say is unpleasant, but because I have to choose my words. And I’m sick. And apparently this feeling like you’re hollow and whatever batteries were powering you have completely died down is grief? (I don’t recommend this grief thing. It sucks, and I would return it to Amazon if I’d bought it there.)

What I must say is this: I understand your anger. I’m also slightly puzzled by it, but that’s because I come from a different time and place.

I always knew the left was violent and unreasoningly so. It’s in their philosophical DNA. They can’t help themselves. They were born of the French Revolution, hatched by Lenin, and they’ve been fed blood and innocents ever since.

When you believe history comes with an arrow and leads to your inevitable win, and also that your win equals the actual return to the Earthly paradise you place somewhere in pre-history (without realizing this is just a rewriting of Eden) before the “invention” of private property, any murder, any violence, any horror is justified, if it will get you there. If you could bring about paradise by a few murders, wouldn’t you? After all, it’s for the good of humanity.

That’s their well spring and what moves them.

More importantly their most basic “virtue” is envy. If you’re “downtrodden” and “held down” because “others have more” and that’s what radicalizes you, you’re going to be predisposed to revenge. After all, them over there are oppressing you all the time, by having more than you do. Or in the current incarnation, for being more normal than you are, for having better families, for being happier than you are.

So the murder didn’t shock me. The choice of victim did a little, but then again no. You see, they’ve convinced themselves that religious people hate them and want them dead (this is bizarre to the point of “what even?”) and therefore they’ve been on a rampage against the religious. Mostly a rampage of words and screeching, but there are a lot of unbalanced people on that side and that inevitably leads to murder.

They also piously believe the news and broadcasts, and the news apparently was obsessed with Charlie Kirk. I have a theory as to why, and it will come. But mostly because he worked in audio and appearances, and these people can’t read.

To the rest of us, he was a little milk toast, sometimes to the point of having fights with us, as well as with the left. G-d rest his soul. He was fighting with all he had. Just not the same as us.

But to me nothing of this is shocking, because I saw the communists firebomb the headquarters of all parties to the right of them (which included socialists) by the time I was 16.

“Oh, but not in America.” Pardon me for being David Brin, but “bet me.” Look, mostly you don’t remember how violent the left here is, because the media buried that deep. And history books never mentioned it.

I will grant you though that it’s not just we have social media now. They’ve gotten crazier and more blatant.

And that’s what I wish to talk about, so please listen.

That they murdered Charlie Kirk is not a sign that they are not in charge, or on the verge of winning, or that they will now start killing every one of us one by one. That’s movie reasoning and not real.

Oh, I’m not saying a bunch of us (I type us advisedly) aren’t at risk. Not much to be done about that and I knew what I was doing when I first spoke out. We all owe G-d a death, and cowards die many times before their time, as the Bard would say. I don’t hanker for martyrdom, nor am I rushing to meet the end, but if it comes because I spoke out, it comes because I spoke out. (Mom used to worry obsessively about this.) There are things that are more important than safety. (And to be fair, I think I’m at more risk or at least as high when I attend mass on a Sunday, or worse weekday mass as I am for having this blog. They are functionally illiterate and also ineradicably convinced that religious people want to murder them. Because some vlogger says so. In fact, anyone on our side working in video or appearing on the news is at much higher risk than myself, as has been proven, yet again.)

But it’s entirely possible they’ll go after a few more of us, maybe a lot more of us. They have lists, which in the way of all of these are more personal revenge than how important a person or cause is politically.

That’s almost irrelevant. I mean it’s relevant and tragic and horrible for those who die, but in the long run and for what matters it’s almost irrelevant.

What you must understand is the reason they are on a tear. And it’s not because they’re strong. It’s because they’re losing. They’re losing hard.

Yesterday I was ambushed by a doomer on X, telling me that they could just install world communism tomorrow, they were on the verge of winning.

That’s what’s known as “historical blindness and movie-thinking and also where has this person been the last fifty years?”

First of all, global communism was ALWAYS a pipe dream. We just didn’t realize it because our media, our establishment, our spy agencies are all so frigging bad. But communism can’t feed itself. Without the free world to parasite on, it dies. (Keep in mind that dying means a sort of general anarchy, but from that there’s hope of something emerging. And what’s there is NOT EVER world communism.)

But we didn’t know it fifty years ago. We didn’t know it, because no one would report fairly on communist countries.

Now? Now that’s stupid.

What we’ve seen since the USSR fell is not the triumph of communism, but the desperate grasping of a dying ideology to control power by any means necessary.

Think back to 2020. We weren’t the only ones where the left frauded or couped itself in. It was a trend all over the world, starting around 2018.

It’s just that unlike the triumphal take overs of the early 20th century, they couldn’t EAT what they chewed. As here, they could do a damn lot of damage, but they couldn’t really implement their agenda.

After yesterday, maybe you’ll believe me that if they could the left would have seen us all in camps or before firing squads. They just couldn’t do it.

Even in the hardest dictatorship there’s always the consent of the governed. If the people on the street are in White Mutiny, you can’t do it. You just can’t. You can do some things, but not impose the boot on neck you want to.

As I suspect the British are about to demonstrate. In spades.

They can’t. They no longer have something enticing to point out to. They no longer can keep the horrors of communism hidden. Yeah, I know “But more people believe in socialism than ever.” Yeah, no. Did that poll dig down to what they think socialism is? Because that’s the main thing. No one younger than me, I swear, has a firm grasp on what socialism is or for that matter that “capitalism” is just “the free market.”

They think socialism is anything done communally, like libraries or roads — and let me tell you, the fact the left has needed to redefine socialism to that ridiculous degree tells you they’re losing, too. — not confiscation of bank accounts and state apartments, shared with your local mad bum. And they think corporatism is “capitalism.”

So that poll is worthless.

In point of fact, on real things, the left is losing. If they weren’t aware of being a minority (I’m going to bet 25% at the most. And it might be lower today) they wouldn’t be so invested in opening the borders and vote fraud.

And they wouldn’t be so violent.

I’ve known since before 16 too that when communists lose an argument they try to kill you.

More importantly, they’re losing the demonstration. Milei is cleaning up Argentina (ARGENTINA people!) and Trump is — more than you think — quietly, behind the scenes, removing their sources of power.

Turns out a lot of international leftism subsisted because you and I were paying for it out of our tax dollars. Even billionaires like Soros aren’t commies for free, it turns out (You shouldn’t be surprised EVERY communist I’ve ever known has been grasping. Every single one. Just not openly and often very under the table.) Trump hasn’t fully removed that, but he has taken a substantial chunk out. And now he’s turned his attention to elections. And he’s putting the spotlight on how insecure vote by mail is. And, and, and–

They feel the doors closing. If they don’t do something RIGHT NOW they’re done.

And what they’ve come up with to do is of course murder. As I said, it’s in their DNA. They are an ancient beast out of nightmares, a Trex with a brain barely large enough to move its tail, but sharp and bloody teeth.

I’m not lying, and please understand I know this: they can do a lot of damage.

But they’re already dead. Once it enters this phase, an ideology is ALREADY DEAD.

I know you’re furious, I know you want revenge, but honestly THE WORST WE CAN DO TO THEM IS LET TRUMP DO HIS WORK and support the clean up of elections and tax money distribution with everything we are and everything we can.

And tell the truth. Telling the truth is the most lethal power of all. Tell the truth. About history about society. Yes, they might kill you for it. Take no risks you’re not prepared to take, but tell the truth.

Look, I too want blood. I have three axes which were given to me by the Minotaur (No. I haven’t lost my mind. If you’re in fandom, you know who he is). The axes would very much like to be taken for a spin.

And it’s not even that I’m old, and I’m tired. Or that I am bound by my religion to believe the most ridiculous of these blood-lusters are human.

It’s that I know the end result of that. It will start as “They put one of ours in the hospital, we put two of them in the morgue” but it always widens. It always goes local, personal.

If you don’t think so you need to study history more.

I’m at risk, yes, because I speak with an accent. Dr. Sowell, to name someone off the top of my head, is at risk because he’s black. A lot of my friends are at risk for being Jewish, because the young people think the opposite of the left is …. endorsing leftist hatred of Israel. A lot of my friends are at risk because they look like (they are, largely) old hippies. And then comes the personal. You’re at risk because your neighbor though nominally on the same side, once hear you say something he thought sounded like “Bernie Sanders has the right idea.” And besides, your lawn is a mess and he hates you for it.

This dance starts it doesn’t stop till the music stops on judgement day. I point you at Rwanda, Zimbabwe. I point you at the Balkans.

We are winning. Yes, we might have to pay in blood, but it will be less blood than if the dance starts.

Note, though, that I heartily endorse bringing to room temperature ANYONE trying to attack you, or trying to attack anyone in your sight. That’s not a joke.

Other than that: The beast is dead. It just hasn’t fallen over.

The most deadly phase of a war is the mop up. That’s when you take the most casualties. The enemy has nothing left to lose and can give vent.

I won’t tell you that we won’t have more of these. I have the uncomfortable feeling that they tried with a lot of other people before hitting Charlie.

I won’t tell you that you’re perfectly safe at church (and for some reason they seem to hate Catholics particularly just now. No idea why even.) I won’t tell you you’re safe at a demonstration.

You’re not safe. Life isn’t safe. The world isn’t safe. But you can’t live hiding under the rug. And some things are worth doing. Square your shoulders, decide what you have to do. Then do it. Death will come either from it or from merely living. Death is the price of being alive.

But I can tell you with absolute certainty that in the end we win they lose. Yes, even if this ends in strife and blood. I’d just like to win before 100 years. I have children. I might have grandchildren. (And I have ducttape ones.)

As for “We can’t reconcile.” and “We can’t share a nation with people like this.” Well, your ancestors did.

After the revolution, after the civil war, wounds were bound, and people learned to live together, even though each had done horrible things to the others.

You will too. And most of them not-media-personalities are mostly dumb, lied to and histrionic. Which is bad enough, but not evil incarnate.

That’s all I have for you today.

If this must fall into an endless war of revenge, then it must. But I believe — I hope, I pray– America is better than that. I won’t answer for the rest of the world. But I believe America is better than that.

And that when the smoke clears, our flag is still there.

May G-d bless you and keep you. And may His hand be upon us these perilous days.

Lest we fall.

228 thoughts on “The Wounded Beast”

  2. I am bothered less by the murder (tbh, I had scarcely heard of Charlie Kirk before yesterday), than by all the people I am seeing on FB and other places who seem to be absolutely gleeful.

    As well as the posts praising the women who went up to Trump at a restaurant and called him Hitler to his face. So stunning! So brave! If they aren’t currently in prison, then he’s nothing at all like Hitler.

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      1. When Democrats call their opponents “literal Nazis” and Trump “literally Hitler” they are projecting. If you look at the positions taken by the actual Nazis, and compare them to Democratic Party ideology and policies, it is the Democrats who are far more deserving of being called such, down to the ingrained institutional rabid hatred of Jews.

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    2. Charlie Kirk wasn’t someone I’ve followed explicitly. Mostly because I’m not an audible person, I’d rather read the discourse than listen to it. Not someone if see a picture of I could identify. But I have listened to short segments of his discourse with students. I knew who he was when the news hit (since news put his picture on the screen).

      Agree. I’m horrified by Kirk’s murder. My heart aches for his wife and children. I’m shocked they went after a non-politician (not in any legislature or head of government), but a private citizen for a private organization proving civilized political discourse.

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      2. Sadly, I’m not.

        They scream it over and over again. If you opposed trans indoctrinating your kids, then you endorse genocide. If you support Israel, then you endorse genocide. If you support making neighborhoods nicer and safer, then you support genocide. Even the slightest disagreement with them makes you guilty of one of the greatest crimes of the modern-ish era. And he publicly advocated for those positions. Why, it’s as if he was pulling the trigger himself!!1!

        Given that, how could he not be a target?

        There are the people pushing this crap just to get wealth and power. But there are also the people who really do believe it. Both are dangerous, albeit for different reasons.

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        2. The true believers are something else.
          One idiot a couple streets over triumphantly raised a tranny flag on Thursday. They’re quite proud of themselves. And awfully smug.

          I’m happy to see them receive whatever horrible thing comes their way. (I’ve also discovered that I’m now mature enough that I only briefly considered using herbicide to paint a giant penis on their lawn.)

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    4. I’ve been pretty aware of Charlie Kirk since we had a Turning Point USA rep visit our town GOP committee meeting 4 or 5 months ago. Now I pretty much support just about everything Turning Point is doing to encourage young people to think for themselves and discover the benefits of conservative though versus liberal socialism. And I agreed with most of what Charlie Kirk was saying, until he decided to weigh in against the sole GOP member running for mayor of NYC. Most of what Kirk was saying about Curtis Sliwa made very little sense.

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    5. If President Trump was ‘another Hitler’ he’d confiscate everybody’s guns, nationalize the schools, censor all dissent as ‘Enemies of the State’ and impose socialized medicine. He’d have gangs of thugs out rioting in the streets, killing his opponents and setting fire to government buildings.

      All of those things are being done, but not by Trump or his supporters.

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    6. How did the Secret Service let the mob get so close to Trump and his companions. Could have very easily been yet another assassination attempt.

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    7. Many of the shriekers are bots, for foreign ops actors, stirring our pot.

      Many are live foreign ops actors, stirring our pot.

      Many are “useful idiots”, acting on behalf of foreign ops actors, stirring our pot.

      Do NOT mistake volume of sound for number of nincompoops.

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  3. I guess I’m not that shocked either: I had my ‘leftists will kill me and cheer’ moment after the Gifford’s shooting, when I had a coworker tell everyone that every right winger ought to be shot in the back of the head and nobody said anything.

    The thing that’s been poking at the back of my mind the last day or so is ‘what army?’

    I know the left wants to rule over all and many would cheerfully kill any right winger sympathizer they can get their hands on, but them and what army? Their assassins have to date, all been insane people with a rifle and little else. Their rent-a-mobs are completely disorganized and cannot feed themselves without food trucks dumping coffee and donuts on them.

    I genuinely do not see how they can win anything.

    What bothers me is the realization or even just the fear of realization of how many people I deal with are just empty skin suits with nothing to them beyond their tribal identity.

    It is disconcerting, like living in the Night of the Body Snatchers, not knowing who will unzip their head to show something not even remotely human inside.

    Or maybe we’re the aliens, and that is what most humans are really like?

    Divorce is as stressful as the death of a spouse, because in part, the person you thought you had married now no longer exists. This feels like that. People I thought I knew are gone. Not because the person is dead, but because the person I believed they were is gone forever. And I expect they are only the first, and more will become ghosts soon. And the seeds of doubt planted will certainly claim still more.

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    1. I’ve been through a series of these: 2001 was the first, but Sad Puppies counts too. Over and over and over. That I still trust people is the miracle, particularly given mom’s family’s tendency to paranoia.

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      1. It is because you are willing to take risks. Trust is risk. Always. I’ve been burned by trusting friends, family members, and one (at the time) future wife. I have lost money, blood, time, and more esoteric things that still matter. Why trust?

        Because, somewhat like the lottery, sometimes you hit the jackpot. One good friend that will stand unflinchingly beside you on the gallows is worth a thousand burnt “friends” that let their greed, pettiness, or selfishness take control. One.

        Also, as my cousin likes to say, if you decide to marry said friend, you get to make even more good friends so long as you raise ’em right. He’s got four so far. And number five on the way.

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    2. This one appears to be smarter than the average. I saw a post arguing this is a zealot, not a nutcase or a pro. But zealotry does not necessarily make you stupid.

      It appears he obtained a gun that’s extremely common in Utah (per the ILOH). He seems to have worn long sleeves, jeans, a baseball cap and sunglasses (making himself as hard to id as possible). Gun abandoned in the woods, wrapped in a towel (?), with shells engraved with “antifascist and trans ideology,” statements, which makes him sound like someone riffing off the Annunciation school shooter. Or a believer in magic, or both. But he seems to have had his exit strategy planned out, which included avoiding suicide by cop.

      (I took the morning off after communion, on the, “don’t push too hard,” thought, so have been scrolling. This is a summary of current information).

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      1. Yeah. If it does turn out he had actual state backing, I expect the wrath of God to come down on whatever state that was.

        I’m hoping he just turns out to be a more competent fruit than usual. Become if some state power is trying to blow up the US, there will be Hell to pay.

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        1. Let’s hope that if there was state backing that it wasn’t the same Deep State that has engaged in a campaign against Trump since 2015. I would not put it past that cabal.

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      2. An older common bolt action hunting rifle, .30-.06. Sources did mention a “magazine”, but I’ve heard of “as old or older than me” with non removable feed through slot to store rounds called a “magazine” (legit definition? IDK.) Did individual even have to go through background check to get said hunting rifle?

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        1. That’s a legit definition. A “Magazine” is basically a box with a spring that holds the cartridges in the firearm. They can be detachable or integral.

          Not sure what Utah’s laws are, but if private purchases of long guns are legal in the state, shooter may not have gone through a background check. Or he could have just stolen it.

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          1. Not surprised.

            But description definitely said “older”. Since magazine covers both detachable and fixed, who knows.

            The .30-.06’s I’ve shot all had internal magazines (kicked like a SOB). VS the .233 single shot without a magazine (pretty wood stock rifle that is fun to handle and shoot).

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        3. I’ve seen it described as a scoped, bolt action Mauser, not sure if sporterized M98 or civilian, but the only Mauser (S American Mil-surp) I owned had a fixed compartment, known as the magazine. Nothing detachable, but it might have had a trap door to dump the cartridges. It’s been gone some 30+ years, so my memory is really vague. (It might have had a trap door to dump cartridges).

          No idea on Utah rules. It might have fit under Antique and Curio, but that still needs the background check, if I have it right.

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          1. My expectation is that Democrats will demand a complete ban on bolt action rifles. They consider anything as a useful pretext to try to strip Americans of the fundamental right to bear arms, as they know the only chance they have of imposing totalitarian socialism is to first disarm the populace, the way Canada, the UK, Australia, and others have.

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            1. I don’t. Because that wasn’t anything remotely close to an “assault weapon”. It was a deer rifle, the kind that any number of hunters own.

              One of the cards the gun control crowd likes to play is “of course we aren’t after your deer rifle, just weapons of war”, and at least until now, plenty of Fudds could be counted on to agree with them.

              Go after this type of rifle, and they lose that cover; they also expand the list of targets to something even more impossible.

              Of course, they may not be that smart any more.

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          2. Given the proven competence of journalists, I’m not at all certain “Mauser” wasn’t just used to describe the bolt action.

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        4. I’ve seen a number of lefties playing the “see! See! We need ‘common sense gun control.'”

          I, of course, pointed out that none of their so-called “common sense” proposals would have had any effect on the Charlie Kirk murder, so all they’re doing is waving the bloody shirt for political purposes.

          Scum.

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    3. 46% of the guns ion the planet are in the USA. Most of those are privately owned with the vast majority by those of Kirk’s ilk then Waltz’s. “What Army” would need to be a very, very big army.

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      1. It is very clear that the Democrats/left hope that the “what army” will be the U.S. Military, which is why Obama and then his puppeteers during Biden’s nominal term were so aggressive in pushing leftist ideology and purging all who resisted. And they would use it against political opponents. Remember Eric “Bang Bang Fang Fang” Swalwell expressly threatened the use of nukes on Americans in any domestic strife.

        As I have noted, I am of the opinion this is why the cadre around Biden invited Russia’s invasion of Ukraine; they truly hoped it would spark a global conflict, or that Putin would shoot off a couple of nukes, precisely to use as a pretext to grab power in the US and to persecute political opponents. The perpetrators of the Russia Collusion Hoax would have had no qualms about using such events to summarily declare political opponents traitors and Russian assets and use the full power of the US military against Americans, while declaring an emergency that required the “suspension”, i.e. elimination, of the U.S. Constitution and its protections.

        Could they have pulled it off-only if they had multiple miracles in their favor. However, it would have been ugly and caused immense damage that would last many years. Unfortunately they are delusional and arrogant enough to think that such schemes would be certain to succeed, making the wreckage from them even worse.

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          1. In any large organization you are going to find loud mouthed morons. And the one rank they quoted in that article seems… interesting: The Navy guy with 17 years in and he’s a PO1 (E-5)? Does someone with more experience than me have an opinion on whether that makes sense?

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            2. Petty Officer First Class is E-6, equivalent to Staff Sergeant in the other services. One step below Chief Petty Officer, E-7. I don’t know what promotion speeds are in today’s Navy, but it takes at least 5 or 6 years to make E-6, and that’s if you walk on water. Promotion to Chief takes…longer.

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                2. Apparently, an E-6 can stay in up to 22 years before being forced out. He’d have to make E-7 to stay any longer than that, so 17 isn’t a stretch. I made E-6 in 5 1/2 years, but then issues in my personal life blew up any chance of E-7, so I got out after 9. FWIW, I was selection board eligible both times I took the E-7 exam.

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    4. but them and what army? Their assassins have to date, all been insane people with a rifle and little else. Their rent-a-mobs are completely disorganized and cannot feed themselves without food trucks dumping coffee and donuts on them.

      You missed the “zombie army”, the de–institutionalized mentally ill / substance abusers, illegal immigrants, jihadis, and the racially radicalized population who “got the white girl” in Charlotte. Those are overlapping populations…. but not synonymous. And every single one of them can be directly traced to the Leftist policies that have not been resisted effectively.

      And they inflict far greater casualties, in dead, injured, and “missing” / discouraged, than most people here have been willing to acknowledge. Those casualties continue, and increase, until we’ve lost as many normies as we would in the awful alternatives.

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      1. That is not power. That is merely squatting over the rubble of Detroit writ large.

        The problem becomes, once the law has no meaning they have no functional fighters to prevent them simply being killed out of hand. And they do not have the force to actually do more than create that rubble in more than a few deep blue areas.

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        2. I’m sure Iryna Zarutska would have agreed with you about the power level….. or people being pushed onto subway tracks….

          I just can’t seem to disregard what gets inflicted on ordinary people by the barbarians.

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          1. People who take even minimal streetwise precautions are very much harder to kill, rob, or otherwise harm.

            People who insist on being oblivious rabbits are going to feed the occasional wolf, crazy or crafty. Harsh but true.

            I had a co-worker who insisted it was his right to read his iPad on the DC metro. He got -repeatedly- robbed. Eventually, one of the robbers frightened him enough to where he payed attention, and stopped being an oblivious idiot rabbit person.

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            1. Victim blaming is also a tactic.

              Are there behaviors that make it easier, or harder? Of course. And absolutely NONE OF THEM excuse the root cause being our knowledge that there are monsters among us, and avoiding the responsibility for taking the effective actions to neutralize them, whether by confinement or death.

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              1. Then there is “suicide by street’. If you ride a bus or subway in condition white, earbuds, and ignoring everyone around you, you are going to get goblin attention. You are a walking sh!tmagnet.

                So knock off the “victim blaming” bullcrap.

                She made a -lethal- mistake. To ignore it is to allow, even encourage, others to make the same, easily avoidable mistake. And feed the effing Goblins.

                No, you do not have a right as an adult to walk around in condition white and expect the Goblins to leave you alone. You have a moral duty, at least to yourself, to watch out for yourself at the very least, and others preferably.

                She chose poorly. Others must learn not to do so. Fast.

                Grow the eff up.

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              2. It is entirely morally ok for me to walk down an unlit street in a bad part of town with cash hanging out of my pocket.

                It is also entirely stupid of me.

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                  1. Yes and No.

                    If you don’t realize that you’re inviting a person to attack you, then you’re just stupid/foolish.

                    If you are attempting to invite an attack while prepared to deal with the attack, you might have crossed the line into immorality.

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      2. The BLM rioters? Remember how they remained safely in blue cities?

        The problem with all those groups you mention is that they are dangerous to those who want to herd them and hard to both aim and keep on aim.

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  4. These damned stupid, ignorant fools do not realize what they are calling down upon us all. They think Civil War 2.0 will be a short, neat, distant thing that they can watch on CNN or MSNBC or FOX or whatever while you sip your beverage of choice and then cheer when it’s all over because “those people” finally got what they deserved.

    Go read up on the Yugoslav Wars. Read all the grizzly details about the Siege of Sarajevo; the Massacres at Bijeljina, Prijedor, Zvornik, Višegrad, Foča; the camps at Omarska and Trnopolje; the casual brutality and barbarism that would have made Heinrich Himmler sick to his stomach. Watch the documentaries. Look at the pictures. Find the uncensored ones if you have the stomach for it. Watch the Dennis Quaid movie Savior if you want a sanitized version.

    What they’re calling down? It will make 1990s Yugoslavia look like Sesame Street. And it will not be short and neat and far away: it will last for years, spill supertankers of blood, and it will be coast-to-coast and in your neighborhood 24/7/365. And there will be no winners; everyone will lose. It’s just a matter of how badly and how quickly.

    Pray I’m wrong. Pray fervently that I’m wrong. Because I fear it’s inevitable; that we passed the point of no return long ago. But today may have been the spark that lit the powder keg. Because like him or hate him, Charlie Kirk was willing to talk. And talking may well have just been taken off the table. Permanently. God help us.

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    1. The Reader notes our own history is full of similar episodes. He just finished The Fate of the Day: The War for America, Fort Ticonderoga to Charleston, 1777-1780, Rick Atkinson’s 2nd volume in his history of the Revolutionary War (highly recommended by the way). The Reader never fully appreciated the level of atrocity and counter atrocity committed by both sides in the middle stretch of the war. Then there was Bloody Kansas running up to and through the Civil War, and the decades long conflict with Indians as the country expanded westward. We tend to see our own history through the lens of the 20th Century, when the country was (relatively?) tranquil domestically.

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      1. I just added it to my to-be-read shelf in my library account (I’m about to head out for a week-long outdoor sales event, so I don’t want to put it on hold right now, but I do want to be able to find it when we get back).

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    4. A century ago, the Demonrats’ enforcers wore white hoods and robes, today they sport black hoodies and masks. Same rotten filling, different wrapping.

      At least if the balloon goes up, they’ll be self-identifying.

      (Please note, I fervently pray every day that the ballon stays uninflated and grounded.)

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    5. Talking is always on the table. You just have to accept the risk. Civil wars are not something to be fucking about with. No matter how bad you think they are or were, it will be worse. Quite literally unimaginably worse. And I know, yes, some of us are writers and have very good imaginations.

      Let’s not go down that road. Talk. It works. When communication fails, bad things happen.

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        1. Apologies, but that is too narrow. When you talk, you are not simply speaking for the benefit of you and your interlocutor. Just as internet arguing is a spectator sport, so it is in person as well.

          Are there those who are inconvincible and a threat? Yes. Were times more rational, those would be hung or shot.

          But the other side is not filled to the brim with wild eyed zealots. Not even close. I’d be surprised if the number were as high as 5%. There are the unwilling, caught in the mob, the idiots that go along with everything, the lazy, and so on.

          There are the otherwise intelligent that have never had occasion to even so much as question the tiniest thing in that ideology, because they are marinated in it. So deeply in the cult, they have quite literally never seriously heard of the outside world. At all.

          Talk, and sometimes there will be ears that hear you that you do not even see. Talk, because that is what civilized men do, and I do not want to see an entire half of the country (more like a bit under a third, spitballing say 28%) burn.

          Fight when it is called for. I’m not saying turn the other cheek, far from it. Protect what’s yours. But this is not a call to battle. It is a call to peace.

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          1. “Talk, and sometimes there will be ears that hear you that you do not even see.”

            From what I’ve gathered, that was a large part of why Charlie Kirk did the campus talks that he did. He would go into a hostile campus and calmly discuss issues with whoever wanted to talk. The angrier the other person became, the calmer Charlie was. Even if the other person left unconvinced, if just one person in the audience was swayed, it was a win.

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      2. My current gut feeling is we’ll be getting a streamed-live exemplar from airstrip one, the shock of which will hopefully enable us to pull this side of the pond back from the edge.

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        1. Yes and no. It’s like arguing in public – this is a spectator sport, and the prize is the loyalty of the uncommitted.

          They kill retail, but it co voncws wholesale.

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        2. Disagree. That logic ends in mass graves and barbarism. If the left so fears our words that they want to kill us all (or at least those speaking up), that tells me what we need is more speech, not less.

          There are other things in process that are working that do not require bullets at this point. DOGE. Trump. Election law reform (still want inky fingers, not just paper ballots). Legal reforms (viz Scotus).

          Do not let a coward’s bullet and a martyred fellow distract you from the things being done that are working. They don’t want you to see that, they want to drag us down to the level of the mob. The left wants us mad? Sure, let’s be angry.

          But anger is also passion, not just wrath. We can channel it to productive means. It can also grow into cold purpose. The more they throw tantrums (riots) and do things like this, the more attention they grab, the less attractive they are to even the ones nominally on their side.

          The left has its chosen martyrs and heroes and they are pathetic losers. Ours are better, but we prefer them alive. All the dumb chum bucket mass shooters and assassins are insane lefties so far. I’d rather we put a pin in that and have none of them, of either party, but we can only control ourselves, individually.

          The left is not in power. Not totally. If they were, we wouldn’t be having this conversation in public. You and I, and several other people here would be either in camps or rotting in a mass grave and feeding the worms.

          Words have power, too. Let’s use them before we have to start shooting people.

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    6. The hostile foreign powers feeding the Lefty pipe dreams have convinced them they are Legion and invincible.

      Their hostile foreign masters don’t care that their puppets will certainly lose. Just that they keep America too busy to interfere in other nations schemes.

      They are the “Trade Federation” to the Sith. They think they are the Jedi. The Sith were playing them both. Note that both got exterminated down to a handful of evaders. And the Republic fell.

      Nah. Ain’t happening. Putin is impatient, as his days are numbered and running low. He just poked Poland, which was about the third dumbest move possible. Xi has his own issues, and too, isn’t getting younger.

      Gonna get interesting. Meanwhile, not time to “flip the switch”, except in local immediate self defense. But if you are called to defend yourself, do please make a good, successful, and legal show of it. It will discourage the enemy, Bigly.

      Meanwhile, range time. Rotate the cupboard stock. Perform the Preventive Maintenance Checks and Services (PMCS) on your vehicles, and yourselves. Learn new skills. Seek Joy. Seek His will. And see how that can all fit together nicely.

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  5. I don’t know if y’all have ever heard of it, but there’s a book about the terrorists that haunted the US in the period roughly 1965-1975. It’s called Days of Rage. I had it out from the library, but it’s a real doorstopper and I didn’t get around to reading it. I’m old enough to remember the last days of that nonsense, though.

    The Weather Underground, the Black Liberation Army and other such outfits really thought they could ignite a revolution in the US and were busily planting bombs (I don’t think they went in for assassination, but I could be mistaken). The Symbionese Liberation Army kidnapped Patty Hearst and killed some officials, but never spread beyond the San Francisco Bay area. I’ve read a lot of the stuff they put out, and while they were nutcases, they were serious about what they wanted. They were basically cosplaying, aping outfits like the Tupamaros, the Cuban revolutionaries, the Chinese communists, and others whom they ignorantly worshipped. ).

    Sissy Spacek starred in a made-for-TV movie about this. It’s called (IIRC) Katherine. It follows a young woman who’s gradually radicalized out of a “liberal” mindset, who ends up blowing herself up making bombs, like the Weather Underground in Greenwich Village.

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    2. Reminder that the leadership of the Weather Underground, Bill Ayers and Bernadette Dohrn, were mentors and close companions of Barack Obama, and are regularly feted by the Democratic Party. Those bomb-making radicals are the ones who now control the direction of the Democratic Party. To the Democrats, the Marxist revolutionaries are the good guys, the more violent, the better.

      When Democrats engage in their rancid demonization of all who disagree with them, the KNOW that the radical nutcases and zealots among them will act on it, and the violence and murder are anticipated and intended consequences. It is why they almost immediately resumed their insane rhetoric as to Trump almost immediately after the first assassination attempt. They truly do want him dead.

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    3. I think it’s good to remember that America has weathered these kind of storms before. It’s not easy. It’s not pleasant. But you can get through it.

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    4. I was a teen/pre-teen back in those days, but IIRC there were several targeted killings of LE that would count as assassinations. I believe the SLA had plans for such before that day they found out what the letters SWAT stood for.

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    5. I was raised to be part of that crap.

      …

      I got better! (grin)

      …..

      But seriously, todays nincompoops are a pale imitation of 60s radicals. Over the years, I have known a number of “formerly” idiots. They all sold out and went legit.

      Its that American virus at work.

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  6. I am glad to see that there are people being sacked for being publicly gleeful on social media about the Kirk assassination. So maybe we are winning and they are losing and lashing out in a panic.

    But that so many, may progressives are OK with the assassination of people with whom they disagree … that’s putting us all into a very dark place.

    We can’t go on, living like this in the same country with people cheering on political murder.

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    1. I fear that many of those sacked for celebrating murder are only temporarily discomfited. They’ll be rehired when the furor dies down, or get hired elsewhere for the same job and pay.

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      2. I don’t think they will. One of the reasons the left is losing the culture war is that the internet is forever. People who spew evil like that online can’t hide from it (and the rest of us have wised up enough to know to always make screenshots).

        And while sadly I’ve still seen more than not celebrating his murder, I have also seen more than a few democrats or not-republicans who are absolutely horrified at what their supposed “friends” are celebrating. And they’re standing up and saying “I didn’t like Charlie Kirk, but he shouldn’t have died for it, and it’s evil to celebrate his death like this.”

        The tide is shifting. It’s been shifting for a while, I think, but this…this might just be the thing that pushes actual sane people over into putting an end to the democrat party. Not, I sincerely hope, with violence, but by erasing them as a viable political power in this country. (The dems need to go the way of the whigs)

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        1. …and for once it’s a proper use of “but…” in a sentence. At least when what follows doesn’t contradict what came before the but.

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        2. Streamer Shoe on Head was one of those horrified Dems. She posted on X today to say that while she still believes the leftist stuff on things like economics, she’s horrified by the reactions of so many lefties to Kirk’s assassination.

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          1. I like ShoeOnHead. She is wrong about any number of things, but she never crossed the line into believing that people who disagree are evil, and she *hated* the gender BS last I saw.

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    2. I think a lot of the media have come to the realization that if Kirk was a target, then they might be as well. And the right largely views them as political operatives. Trying to calm things down is self-preservation for them.

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      1. And their assumption that the right will immediately jump to trying to kill them says a lot more about them than it does the right.

        (Not that I haven’t slapped down at least one allegedly-right scumbag claiming he hopes someone’s wife/kids get raped or killed and then maybe the guy won’t believe the left is “peaceful.” I say allegedly because, as I told him, that’s the kind of shit a lefty posts while pretending to be conservative.)

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    3. I wonder how many really sometimes. I’m sure there are some, but I also know they employ armies of sockpuppets, and Russia and China are stirring the pot. A few thousand hardcore nutters are bad, but they’re potentially easier to handle than millions.

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  7. Amen. Amen.

    You won’t catch me *running, *jogging, or *walking, to the fight. OTOH might catch me defending the neighbors (because I’m here, and we’re next), from the back of the **attackers. (What? You think I’m stupid? I’m old, not an idiot.) Not a chance of this happening.

    (*) Don’t be laughable. I’m old. Moving quickly towards anything went away decades ago.

    (**) Legit “attackers”, legit authorities will be obvious (if for no other reason that they have to telegraph by locking down the very close grade school before any legit raid). Those leave alone. Don’t have those type of neighbors. Most of the neighbors are also “old”, older than we are. The type of neighbors that would require police custody are the type the police take in nice and quiet. Happened, right next door, supposedly we were home, didn’t know it’d had happened for weeks. To be fair the neighbor always had legit meetings at the house, plus given the location of the grade school, the neighborhood at our end of the street always has cars parked out front for school drop/pickup/functions. We’re not going to take unmarked detective cars as “something is going on” curiosity.

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    1. I’ll admit I’m not the sort to say “I’ll stand with…” someone.

      I’ll be off in the shadows getting a flanking position. Maybe I play too much X-COM 2. Need a laser sight and some Talon rounds for my Vektor rifle.

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      1. Yes. Kind of what I meant. Do not plan on being out in open. I’d just be another target that does not last very long. Good that it is extremely unlikely neither we nor our neighborhood will be targets. Despite me posting here. I doubt anyone is going after the pet postings on FB.

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  8. Charlie had that golden retriever energy, happy, playful, loyal, friend to mankind. He wasn’t bombastic. I considered him soft, even milktoast in quality but he had a heart of gold. It showed. It showed in how he treated others. I feel like they just killed John Wick’s dog and I’m waiting for Wick to clean up. And that’s not how Charlie was. That’s not what I think he’d want to happen. It makes me sad. I don’t know how to square what seems necessary with the way he chose to live his life.

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    1. John Ringo made that connection as well. Now I’m seeing the “let’s not bicker and argue over who killed who” thing some of the progs are stammering as something like that phone scene from the first John Wick movie. (Or the Swamp Castle sketch from Holy Grail.)

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      1. I don’t think it’s the correct course of action. I see it rather as manipulation. If feels like something out there wants the US in a civil war. Apparently talking is scary so we need to talk more.

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          1. Wait, I double negatived that – well, say lah vee. All y’all hereabouts surely get what I was slow pitching.

            [Indy voice]: Commie Bots. Why did it have to be Commie Bots?[/Indy voice]

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  9. I’ll quote myself (who better!) from an Insta-comment on schools as a pickling brine of the Left:

    We told them that they have a unique mission to spread truth, taught them to gratefully and unquestioningly accept whatever lies we told them, then filled their heads and quivers with malicious and virulent falsehoods, claiming it was education, and told them “Go, thou, and do likewise.”

    What should you expect?

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  10. being a cynical, grumpy, s.o.b. I am not startled or shocked at all by either his murder, nor the vile replies from the leftoids. I do worry about what they are trying to do. I’ve got family and friends I care for, and even the blissfully ignorant non-political ones would suffer greatly from the crap that they want to start.

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  11. The North of Ireland issue was just about over in the 60’s. We lived there and I’ve spoken to an awful lot of people who agree. People were marrying across the faiths and it’s hard to hate your grandchild. It could have been so different.

    then the Commies marched and some moron sent the Parachute Regiment rather than an ordinary country regiment. they opened fire and then the burning started, atrocities burn. Here we are 5 decade’s later with completely segregated cities and all the dead. Total, absolute, complete waste and only the f-cking commies won.

    I lost my home, three generations lost their childhood, for nothing. Anyone running around preaching civil war is an enemy.

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  12. The lunatic fringe would gladly shoot any one of us if they could identify where we lived, what we looked like, and had the opportunity. You never know what will set them off, and unless you have eyes in the back of your head and constant awareness, you won’t see them coming, except maybe at the last second.

    Being shot at, or having your place shot up, by these deranged, evil psychopaths is no fun. You can’t live in fear, so the best you can do is ccw and stay moderately aware of your surroundings. I actually worry about some of you when you’re doing cons because a lot of those places are no weapons allowed zones (i.e. Low risk, target rich environments for mass murderers) and the guards and law enforcement for those events is still pretty thin on the ground.

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        1. Yeah, trying anything hostile around her would be… unwise.

          Speaking of which, how is the young couple doing?

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          1. Pretty well. His company is having some…. issues, so he hasn’t had a raise that was promised, so they’re… tight, but that’s normal for newlyweds.
            I hope — they’ll kill me if/when they read this — there’s a kiddlet soon, because they’re up to 3 cats and honestly they don’t have the space for more. :D

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            1. “they’re up to 3 cats and honestly they don’t have the space for more”

              You know, I understood every word in that sentence, and yet I cannot grasp the concept…

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              2. Not alone. We resemble that remark. In fact hubby is talking about a kitten or two for Buddy to have a friend. The semi feral who won’t, and the other 4 won’t, mingle with. Sigh. That would be 7 cats.

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            2. Regarding cats. Found an auto kitty litter setup by PetPivot (Amazon) that does not break the bank. Open top. Has an escape route if moves while cat is in it (shouldn’t but safety feature). No app.

              My review (under Diane P.)

              Conditional 5 star (been in use for 24 hours). Easy to setup. Took 10#s of clumping clay litter been using which is great. Cats using it by evidence. All the cats? That IDK. Also don’t know how often have to empty with 4 cats using. Probably will pick up a second for upstairs only cat. Will update review if product doesn’t last long. Note, does not have an app to monitor. Did not want an app, just unneeded sensors to break.

              ETA: If box “turtles” (upside down) then “used” box/bag is full. Normally box does not 100% turn over when cleaning (why I chose this product). Also lights will be solid on. No instructions stating “turtle” means “full”, but lights do. No instructions on how to “fix” “turtle” but easy to do. Turn off (unplug). Clean up used litter normally. Use side buttons to open like full cleaning and pull box. Wipe any clinging litter from undersides, put back upright in proper format. Plug back in and reset normally. It was a little over 3 days for it to do this. We have at least 4 cats using it.

              ETA2: Added picture. We officially have 3 now. Here are two in the utility room. Yes, they are big. Kind of the requirement as we have large cats. No worse than prior boxes using. Yes, they are open top. Another requirement as we have formal feral cat who does not closed in spaces. Also requirement that should a cat hop in while moving, never trapped. Not loud. Cannot tell when a cat has used without checking dump box/bag. Only question now is “will they last”. Also does work with long electrical extension, a requirement.

              (Actual setup for two units in utility room. The other is upstairs for the semi feral cat.)

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  13. Odd thing…Iryna Zarutska? Stabbed in the neck. Charlie Kirk? Shot in the neck.

    Might just be me, with the scar on my neck from this year’s continuing medical fun and games. But it’s an odd coincidence.

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    2. A number of people have noted that *no one* aims for the neck. Both professional and amateur shooters either aim for center mass (i.e. the torso) or the head (if they think the target might be wearing body armor). The current theory among many is that it was an amateur shooter who didn’t know to account for bullet drop over such a long distance, and that’s why Kirk was hit in the neck.

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      1. That’s what I thought – No doubt the shooter was aiming center of mass, but he screwed up the elevation of the shot, and it was almost a miss over Kirk’s shoulder. Just a fraction of a movement, a gust of wind, a gesture with the mic, as with DJT’s ear – i.e. total random chance – and this all would have been a far different tone today.

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        1. Something Don Jr. stated. (Paraphrasing) “How much a difference a millimeter is.” Because a millimeter to the right, and President Trump dies, is not #47. A millimeter to the left* and Charlie Kirk lives. One miracle, one tragedy.

          (*) Or right. Do not know which side of the neck was hit.

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      2. An alternative is that the rifle he supposedly used has a stiffer than normal trigger and he “jerked” it, but again that just points to someone who was shooting an unfamiliar weapon.

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        1. Just saw a photo of the firearm with a critique that the scope is mounted too far back for accuracy, explaining point-of-aim issues, and also noting as a result the perp might be sporting what is colloquially known as a “scope kiss” black eye.

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        2. Real life is not the range.

          If the target is moving, even a little, motion is greatly magnified in a scope. And most folks over-magnify when choosing a scope. 200yds does not need much magnification. 2x is plenty.

          The picture released suggests a 6x or more. -Way- too much for 200 yards.

          The shown scope is set way back in the mounts. This would work for Standing, or Sitting, or Kneeling, or “off the bench”, any upright-torso stance. Provided the shooter does not have a very long neck or a head-forward hold.

          Going Prone? Now the head moves significantly forward and you bonk your eye on the scope if not real careful. Side note. My neck is so long the tip of my nose tends to touch the charging handle of AR-15/M-16 type rifles when firing prone. I have to be -real- careful when shooting someone else’s scoped weapon.

          But Kirk’s assassin probably got excited, “jerked”, or rushed the shot. “Practiced novice” sort of thing.

          Why I spent so much time doing dime drills to perfect my trigger press. No jerk. Round goes where I aim it.

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  14. There’s a hole in my heart that the tears have filled in… Over time they have become frozen.

    I’m thinking a greatly increased full court press of investigations and legal process against the Left going after their power and funding, (foreign, elite and NGO connected), combined with a huge increase in local/state political action might be more effective than civil war.

    I’d prefer that to rough camping, staring through a scope and calculating windage.

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  15. Was the idiot the “talmudic communism” or whatever it was muttering guy on your mentions?

    I really need to know if there is a way to find IP addresses on people posting on X. I’d be curious to see which continent things like that come from.

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  16. “capitalism” is just “the free market.”

    Preach it, Girl! Although pedantic me would say capitalism is just a slur for the free market invented by Marx.

    “…when communists lose an argument they try to kill you.” It has ever been thus.

    Indeed, but considering how Lenin, Stalin, and others were released from prison by the Tsars after their terroristic acts, it’s hard not to conclude that the only workable response that might have spared us hundreds of million corpses comes from the Queen of Hearts.

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    1. I like to put it as “capitalism literally just means I can’t take your stuff unless you agree, which generally means I need to give you something. Everything else is details.,

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    2. Capitalism is a social and economic reward system based on voluntary exchange of value for value. Money for work, goods and entertainment for money, profits for investment.

      Socialism, fascism and communism are punishment systems based on taking value from people by force. If they don’t like it, that’s why Fearless Leader made Gulags and mass graves.

      All variants of Marxism always end up filling mass graves. This is a measure of their success, not their failure.

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  17. I am struck on how stupid this killing was/is. Beyond murder is not ok, it results in “the left” creating a martyr. While his organization was politically influential he was all about discourse, discussion, true inclusion of ideas and beliefs and for this the opposing philosophy could only use violence. It is a tell that the socialist ideas are truly DOA and this sort of reaction to being challenged is truly a symptom of the philosophy dying. If the response had been to meeting and using dialog “they” may have had a chance to recover/keep something but this response has closed that door.

    He was also such a ‘nice guy’ with a classic family and expounded traditional values and life style so how could he be dangerous (beyond the ideas)? This will be a trigger point or major impact point that history will look back on and identify as a true ‘turning point’ in America.

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    1. I don’t like the comments I’m seeing.

      To wit – Blogger: This is not good, but we need to keep calm and not do anything stupid.

      Commenter: We did! Enough! Fight, fight, fight, take it to the enemy, rraaaaaaawwwwrrrrr!!!!!

      Glowies, or idiots, or yes?

      (PS. Will be offline this weekend, in class.)

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  18. Empirically when “not real communism” dies it sheds everything that is not organized crime. In the case of the USSR the intelligence agencies went directly into the organized crime business, leveraging their extant contacts and killing their way into ownership, then after a bit that crime side took over the Rooskie government. In the Asian instances they kept up the front of the Marxian religion-of-envy dogma, some more so and some to a lesser extent, while running everything for the benefit of whatever crime family held power.

    The same thing happens to the various little commie groups – the Weather Underground basically devolved to an armored car robbery ring.

    This is why I think the El Salvador experiment has proven to be so successful – they simply decided to lock up all the criminals, and hey presto all the crap caused by being next door to born again communists in Nicaragua vanished.

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  19. I lean toward the comment by Gutfield last night; to paraphrase – You didn’t scare us, you woke us the F*** UP.

    Kinda like the quote from a Japanese admiral back in the early ’40’s, when he found out that the Japan’s official declaration of war hadn’t been delivered before the attack at Pearl Harbor . . . I fear we have awakened a sleeping giant.

    The worst thing is that the msm talking heads have no clue about the rule change Charlie’s assassination may bring about.

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  20. I pray that things don’t go kinetic. But as I told Tom Knighton, this feels different than past incidents. I wasn’t around for JFK, RFK, MLK, or Malcom X. But I remember Lennon, Reagan, JPII, and Trump. The atmosphere around this strikes me as being much more volatile. Maybe it’s just because that other than Lennon they survived. Maybe it’s the increasing instability in the UK, France, Germany, Nepal, the probing of Polish air defenses the night before, etc. But there seems to be an added rancor, or malevolence than what I’ve seen in the past. And it scares the living fecal matter out of me that we are teetering on the brink of a full on kinetic response.

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  21. I had a dream long ago which turned into a written fragment about a fellow who time traveled to a near future dystopia where the first question asked upon meeting a stranger was, “Are you a Democrat or a Republican?” The wrong answer would have you up against, or hanging from, a tree in short order. I pray that that was not a prophetic dream . . .

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    2. My proto-protagonist (protogonist?), proclaiming himself to be a Libertarian, found himself to be at the pointy end of dangerous objects from adherents of both sides at diverse instances. 😁

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    3. My paternal grandfather was from Belfast. Family story about his uncle (who would be my great-greatuncle) during the Troubles. This uncle had no political affiliation either Catholic or Protestant, and was a rather cowardly man in general. Well, one day he was walking down the street when he found himself surrounded by a group of men who asked him roughly, “What are ye?” Not being able to see any clue from their dress if “Catholic” or “Protestant” was the answer that would let him escape without a beating or worse, he hesitated, and the question was asked again, louder, “What are ye?” He said, “Well, fellas, ye see… I’m a Presbyfenian!” The men laughed, and let him go.

      If you don’t get it, search for “Fenian Brotherhood”. He was saying “I’m both,” meaning I’m neither, and did it in a clever enough way that the men decided to let him go. But he was really, truly afraid he might be killed.

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  22. First, to get my curmudgeoning out of the way early, I’ve been hearing “This leftist triumph is hollow; they’re really in their death throes” since at least 1992. When will be the beast die, already? (The most plausible answer is “never”: stupidity and malice are renewable resources.)

    TXRed is disturbed by many of the more bellicose comments here, but I’m finding they reflect a general reaction. I’ve seen a good number of people saying this event has finally radicalized them, or that it’s been war a lot longer than the last thirty-six hours, and the like. It’s affected me much less so, and on an intellectual rather than visceral level, but I’ve been walking tortoise-like on this road for a long time, never liking where it was heading.

    I do think we are close to The Flip, much closer than I originally would have thought this would bring us. My fear is that one more high-profile event in the next several days, say until a day or two after Kirk’s funeral, could push the switch past that unmarked line between “off” and “on.” (Then we see if the circuitry actually works.)

    One thing restraining us from throwing it right now is, fittingly, Charlie Kirk himself. It was his oft-stated desire for jaw-jaw to stave off war-war in America. Those most likely to be influenced by his politics, and those most likely to be incensed by his murder, are thus those most receptive to that message. That’s a big part of why the next week is so fraught with peril. A follow-on attack would shuffle Kirk, and that message, off the top of the deck, putting something new and probably much less restraining in its place.

    Let us hope, and even pray, that none of the usual suspects gets any stupid ideas for that while. But the enemy always gets a vote, and it takes two make a peace.

    Republica restituendae.

    And to add a blast from the past:

    Je suis Charlie.

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    2. Shane, not here.

      I’ve seen it across the blogosphere, mostly the center-right to harder right blogs. The blogger points out that, oh, say, picking off left-wing pundits is not the answer. Then at least two of the commenters (sometimes people I’m familiar with, others that are new to the blog) insist that they are out of patience, and that the time for restraint has passed, and it is time for blood and fire and to the barricades. Sometimes with an insult tossed in, accusing anyone who disagrees of being a coward, or secret Leftist, or whatever.

      I know there have been “Sic’ em!!!” types around for a while, always wanting a fight, trying to goad other people into doing something. It seems to be far more intense today. That’s why I wonder how much if it really is people who have decided that the Time Has Come, and how much comes from outsiders or loons trying to start trouble.

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        1. Clear. very.

          And much of the sh!tposting is foreign or foreign-afiliated “Lets you and him fight” on behalf of foreign regimes who want us to pre-occupied to screw up their adventures.

          Poo flinging howler monkeys, trying to start the Brownstorm.

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    3. The communists had more than a century to worm their way into the body politic. Heck some of ‘Honest Abe’s scribblings could have been cribbed from the in-funny Marx brother. The fall of the CCCP was the kill shot; we’re witnessing the death throes. Doesn’t mean the final thrashing about can’t be hazardous to standers-by.

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    4. “When will be the beast die, already? (The most plausible answer is “never”: stupidity and malice are renewable resources.)”

      Leftism is a mutant. It’s a bit of this, a bit of that, but fueled mostly by base emotions like greed, envy, sloth, and so on. The roots of it go back into prehistory, before the written word.

      There will always be the bandity types. Always. Barbarism is not dead, either. Civilization will always have its all too human foes. It’s easy to destroy. Even fun, sometimes. Building things is harder. Much harder, while there are those trying to tear down what you’re not done building yet, which is almost always.

      I have seen in the last ten years more waking up (not wokism) from normie bliss than in all my years. The left boiled the frog too fast. They got drunk on their own ideology and thought they’d be in power forever. To be fair, that’s happened, sort of, elsewhere. Commies take power and don’t let go. Sound familiar? ‘Course it does.

      Add to that, several types “on the left” are nothing more than mercenaries. They hold no ideology but remain loyal to the paycheck. And that paycheck is drying up. There are lefty folks quietly making contacts. Seeking refuge from the coming storm. All well and good- so long as they remain loyal, too. No quislings.

      Recall the pushback in Virginia- Northern freaking Virginia of all places- on boys in girls bathrooms that catapulted Youngkin to victory. Yes, he’s not as right as I’d like. But then, almost nobody is. Recall also the drift to the right of many others, for all their faults- Tim Pool, Candace Owens, etc. They aren’t perfect, and most of us would argue against them on several things. But then, we argue with each other even here (this is not a flag to allow forbidden hobby horses to be brought up AT ALL).

      Recall how the news and the media were almost unanimous, ubiquitous, and utterly penetrated with Commies for decades while so few people actually noticed. Recall if you can the absolute lock that they had on entertainment, education, more recently tech, the arts, and several “sciences” (climate, I’m looking at you).

      The cracks are obvious now, even to normies. They are slipping hard and they bloody well know it. Doesn’t mean they couldn’t claw back some power. Doesn’t mean there will never be another Democrat president even. Not unless the party completely implodes, which it could.

      They have lost so much already, and are still losing more. Yes, they will lash out and cause untold damage. No question. But, they will never again have the kind of unquestioned control they had forty years ago, where almost nobody even knew how bad it was. And if not never, at least not for untold generations. The internet broke the possibility of that and scattered the shards wide.

      Do not let wrath and tears sway your mind. That innocents will be caught and ground up in this is, indeed, a tragedy. An inevitable one. It isn’t one that you or I could stop, no matter how hard we try. We can only control ourselves, and that only with self discipline.

      A disciplined life is an effective one. Absent that, too much chaos overwhelms a great deal of effort.

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      1. We’ll see. Right now here in the Commonwealth the Reader’s sense is that ‘Orange Man Bad’ is a more powerful message than ‘Abby Normal voted for boys in girl’s bathrooms’ in our election this fall. It is clear that Spanberger is being groomed for bigger things if she wins. Now that the Reader no longer has family ties here, he is looking at the prospect of a quick exit if she wins.

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        1. Yes, the Enemy gets a vote…. and Milei’s cleanup of Argentina just had one:

          https://thespectator.com/topic/is-it-all-over-for-milei/

          The Argentine peso lost 5.6 percent to the dollar and the Merval stock index plunged by 13 points on Monday after the flamboyant President’s party trailed the leftist opposition Peronist party of former President Cristina Kirchner by 13 points (47 percent to 34 percent) in local elections in Buenos Aires province – which, with 40 percent of the country’s voters, is the country’s biggest and most populous area.

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  23. I wish my wife would stop insisting we sit in the back of the church, with our backs to the door, especially for weekday Mass. I wish I could get her to read you.

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        1. It’s one good argument for the stupid modern churches with arrayed banks of pews, basically half a circle. I am absolutely certain, however, that those architects were not thinking of converging lines of fire…

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      2. This is the only argument for the stupid church-in-the-round designs. I am absolutely certain, however, that the architects of those were not thinking of interlocking fields of fire…

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          1. Is that what some the Protestant churches call all those deacons and suchlike around the back wall who are carrying?

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  24. Of course we’re winnjng. The other side is a bunch of losers and deadenders. And I think they realize the murder of Charlie Kirk was A terrible mistake. A lot of leftists on X are pretending they are trying to cool things down while the MAGA Nazis have been promoting violence all along. People celebrating? Don’t believe your lying eyes.

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  25. Of course we’re winnjng. The other side is a bunch of losers and deadenders. And I think they realize the murder of Charlie Kirk was A terrible mistake. A lot of leftists on X are pretending they are trying to cool things down while the MAGA Nazis have been promoting violence all along. People celebrating? Don’t believe your lying eyes.

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  26. Of course we’re winnjng. The other side is a bunch of losers and deadenders. And I think they realize the murder of Charlie Kirk was A terrible mistake. A lot of leftists on X are pretending they are trying to cool things down while the MAGA Nazis have been promoting violence all along. People celebrating? Don’t believe your lying eyes.

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  27. Alot of the people who think they believe in socialism think, “Socialism is just being nice to people!” They are tragically, perhaps fatally, naive.

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  28. …they’ve convinced themselves that religious people hate them and want them dead

    The funny (not funny Ha Ha) thing is that they will cover and make excused for the one religion that actually does hate them and wants (at least a good chunk of them) dead. For instance Queers for Palestine

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    1. I just saw something recently by someone who was there during the revolution in Iran – the radical mullahs made common cause with the Iranian communists to get the revolution to happen (with financial and logistics aid from the Soviets of course, since the Iranian revolution destabilized the largest and most powerful U.S. ally in the middle east, and then Jimmeh pulled U.S. overt and covert support for the Shah), and then as soon as the Shah was ousted by the “coalition”, the mullahs arrested the communists and killed them all.

      But no, this time is different…

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      1. I want some of them dead. Fauxi and Granny-Killer Cuomo are mass murderers. ‘Bang-Bang Fang-Fang’ Swalwell is a traitor. Gruesom and Big-Mouth Bass are complicit in 12 deaths from the L.A. fires. The judge that set Iryna’s murderer free for the 14th time. There are more.

        I have a little list… 😡

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    3. Saw and listened to the video today.

      I follow Nick Freitas. I do not subscribe to his channel. Do not always watch his longer videos, mostly the short pithy ones. This one I watched all the way through.

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  30. “After the revolution, after the civil war, wounds were bound, and people learned to live together, even though each had done horrible things to the others.”

    While I agree with the overall thrust of this article, I must disagree here. The reason that people learned ot live together after ACW I is that the victors made conscious efforts to honor the honorable on the losing side.

    Those military bases getting renamed? The statues getting pulled down?

    I have no hope whatsoever that the Left will earn that particular lesson.

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      1. It only happened because BOTH sides slaughtered each other … the scale was balanced …

        When the scales are balanced MAYBE can live together …

        never forget the actual quote “The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is it’s natural manure”. 

        We need some tyrants blood still …

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        1. And when it *doesn’t* stop with the tyrants? You guys got lucky as hell in the 1770s – it could very easily have gone full French Revolution, plus settling of scores. Really want to roll those dice again if you can avoid it?

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          1. Your last sentence is key. Because the alternative is increasingly looking like surrender.

            https://thefederalist.com/2025/09/11/the-left-has-never-been-held-accountable-for-political-violence-and-that-must-change/

            But, and I am hardly alone here, I am increasingly concerned that there are forces on the left that cannot be debated, they must be made to feel pain until they stop. I pray that this can be done within the bounds of the law and the Constitution, not that the left has much cared about those restraints.

            The Left cannot leave us alone, because they wouldn’t be the Left if they could. Any similarities between them and Islam’s “House of War / House of Peace” dichotomy are entirely intentional.

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            1. i’m going to say ‘yes but’.

              Their informational monopoly is gone, their taxpayer funding has been gutted, and their foreign sponsors are coming up on demographic collapse. If you can hold onto government through the census and reapportionment, they never win again.

              Civil war is their *only* shot at regaining legitimacy. The slow path is much more certain.

              I want them buried, so let’s not throw them a rope to get out of the quicksand they are sinking in right now.

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          2. Actually, most Americans don’t know what happened to the Tories post-War for Independence. While not quite full-on French Revolution, they were beaten, burned out, some murdered, and thousands left the United States for Canada.

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  31. I have no religious guardrails (lifelong atheist) … and my default would be the Keyser Soze method …

    But I do agree that any public revenge will be counter productive … how about midnight burials in remote fields ?

    but lets start with getting all the ghouls fired … then a long life of public humiliation for them …

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    1. Is that a rhetorical suggestion, or are you trying to be practical? I hate sneaking around people’s places at night. Dogs, kids toys, their pet cat gets underfoot, not to mention furniture placement. And even Democrats can have firearms at home. Target identification while wearing night vision goggles is tough unless you train a lot with them. Transporting the bodies is always risky. And Uncle Sam has DNA on all military members for the past several decades, so you do not want to drop hair, get a nosebleed, or even touch anything with your bare hands in the building.

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  32. I posted a link to a Yoo-Toob video from Virginia state representative Nick Freitas, and it seems to have vanished into WPDE Purgatory. It starts with a post he made, then continues with his response to the Speaker. I’ll quote his post here:

    I am told that as a state representative this is the moment where I’m supposed to express my heartfelt condolences and then stand in solidarity with those on the other side of the aisle as we condemn political violence and stand unified as one people.

    But we aren’t “one people” are we?

    The truth is we haven’t been for some time now, and there is really no point in pretending anymore, if there ever was.

    We are two very different peoples. We may occupy the same piece of geography, but that is where the similarities seem to abruptly end.

    I convinced myself for a long time that whenever the left called me a racist, a bigot, a fascist, a “threat to democracy” for even the most innocent of disagreements, that it was simply hyperbolic rhetoric done for effect.

    And now the “effect” is a widow and two orphaned children, because the left couldn’t bear the thought of a peaceful man debating them and winning.

    I don’t think they realize it yet, but murdering Charlie is going to be remembered as the day where we finally woke up to what this fight really is.

    It’s not a civil dispute among fellow countrymen. It’s a war between diametrically opposed worldviews which cannot peacefully coexist with one another. One side will win, and one side will lose.

    Charlie tried to win that fight through argumentation, through discussion, through peaceful resolution of differences.

    And the other side murdered him.

    Not because he was “extreme” or “inciting violence” or any other hyperbolic slur they hurled at him. They murdered him because he was effective. Because he was unafraid. Because he inspired others and made them feel like they had a voice, that they were not alone. And he did it at the very institutions which have fomented so much hatred toward conservatives.

    I don’t want to “stand in solidarity” with the other side of the aisle. I want to defeat you. I want to defeat the godless ideology that kills babies in the womb, sterilizes our children, turns our cities into cesspools of degeneracy and lawlessness…and that murdered Charlie Kirk

    Social media is aflame right now with leftist celebration of Charlie’s death.

    I wonder if any among them understand what has just happened. If there is a Yamamoto somewhere in their midst warning, that all they have done is awoken a sleeping giant.

    I doubt it. I think they gave up such introspection and self-awareness long ago.

    I don’t know exactly what will happen next. I just know that it won’t be the same as what has happened in the past.

    There will be thoughts and prayers…Charlie would have wanted prayers. Not for himself but for those left behind and for the country that he loved.

    But then there will be a reckoning.

    My Christian faith requires me to love my enemies and pray for those who curse me. It does not require me to stand idly by in the midst of savagery and barbarism…quite the opposite.

    So every time I feel tired, every time I feel discouraged or overwhelmed, I am going to watch the video of a good man being murdered in Utah…I will force myself to watch it…and then I will return to the work of destroying the evil ideology responsible for that and so much more.

    Rest with God, Charlie, your fight is over.

    Ours is just beginning.

    The Democrats have been at war with America since 1861. We only thought it was over.

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      1. There is apparently an effort to classify that quote as fabricated, evidently on the grounds that there’s no YT video of him saying it.

        Academia on the whole is pretty annoying.

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  33. Oh, the media, the colleges (and thus the whole education system,) the State Department and many of our intelligence agencies were taken over by the Soviets back in the day. And they’ve all been lying to us since.

    Like, well, the Republican Party of Alachua County, Florida, had for years, maybe decades, their front window and their headquarters trashed. Police had ‘leads’ but nothing ever came of it. Was it ever reported in the local media? No. Did it ever get reported by state or national media? No.

    Drop a white glazed donut in front of a leftist HQ and it will get turned into some sort of ‘white nationalist power’ power play. Attack a repub HQ and it’s not even the sound of crickets.

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  36. I don’t know if we can get through this without large scale violence. My biggest fear is when that day comes, it will turn into an orgy of blood. Lists will be made, and everyone will add their personal animus focus.

    Target discrimination won’t exist, and “kill ’em all” will be the standard.

    Like the scene in Civil War.

    “What kind of American are you?”

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    1. There is a story trying to escape my brain. It started when I told someone I see myself as an old retired warrior. There is a knock at the door. It is the King, he invites me on an adventure. This is how i see my life. I told a guy, he said “that sounds like the start of an interesting story”. It is.

      The story takes place in 2429, in a world where civilization has crashed hard. No electricity, just a world of slavery. The king invites the warrior to join him on an adventure to create a haven where people are free to make, in a world of takers.

      What I realized as the story reveals itself: This is a world one inch away from ours. Trump does not move his head, the bloody civil war starts. Civilization crashes. I think this story is a prophetic warning of the choices and dangers we face. In 1860, no one realized the horrors coming, just as in 1914, no one knew. A third American civil war will kill billions, as the world economy crashes.

      I find it amazing we live in a time where men like Musk, Trump and Kirk lived. They are men in the arena as T.R. described more than 100 years ago. (If I knew how to link it I would link to Teddy’s speech, but you will have to find it yourself.)

      I know Gods hand is upon us, but He does not promise it will be easy. God invites us on an adventure, just step out in faith.

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        1. If creation is 3 dimensional in time, our universe is a single line. Easy for God to interact with. Is there a preferred line, or does our free will influence what happens to “our” line?

          When I stretch my brain to the breaking point I can compretend 5 spacial dimensions, and 3 of time. I can’t get to 11. Yet.

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          1. It’s an interesting thought, how many dimensions can our minds handle? We can see and touch the “standard” 3. We can conceptually visualize at least 1 dimension of time, and possibly two if we can visualize forks in time. Not at all sure what a 3rd dimension of time would look like, since while I can imagine a fork branching into the T2, I have no idea whether T2 is sideways or up and down to the usual forward and back of T1; so where does T3 go? If T2 is imaginary time, then is T3 Imaginary Imaginary time?

            Ugh. I need some chamomile tea for this headache.

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            1. Not imaginary, but real. I picture our line as being on a plain extending “left and right” as alternatives, not just forks, but real time, but we need an infinite amount of different times at the same time to handle all the possibilities. So clearly at least 3 dimensions of time, since every quantum decision creates another “time”. It also is space time, so it gets really hairy when you add two additional dimensions of space. Which I think you need to handle the real additional dimensions of time.

              As I said, It hurts my brain to attempt to stretch to 5 and 3. That is where my brain starts to short circuit. Yet I think this is important in both quantum mechanics and theology. With multiple additional dimensions, there is more “room” for God. Also, it helps explain the quantum weirdness. How two things can be in the same place, at the same “time”.

              So cause and effect are just fixtures of our limited perspective. It also helps explain how free will and predestination are both 100% true at the same “time”.

              May your brain not be damaged too much by these thoughts.

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              1. Can’t damage what I never had. ;-)
                On the other hand, there’s a distinct difference between “damage” and stretching a muscle, or mind. A good stretch improves speed and capacity.

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  37. A little bit of good news today. The second B-21 has made its successful maiden flight, and is reportedly now at Edwards AFB for testing.

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  38. Saw something amusing on X. Instead of a the full segment, it was just a picture of internet Hitler, followed by a picture of one of his generals. And it wasn’t a meme (or I would have sent it to our hostess for Saturday), but rather a couple of bits of dialogue for the reader to attach to each of the pictures.

    Internet Hitler: “When Charlie Kirk’s murderer is caught, castrate him.”

    General: “You’re not going to believe this, but…”

    (note that Kirk’s killer hasn’t been positively identified yet, so we don’t know whether the killer was really a post-op trans; though the autists on 4chan think they’ve figured out who did it)

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    1. Guy’s dad turned him in. God, that’s got to be tough on a parent. Well, this way his kid lives a little longer than if the feds had to shoot him to get him. And I figure he’ll have 5 to 10 years before they get around to executing him, assuming they get a good conviction.

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  39. Pingback: Instapundit » Blog Archive » THE VICTORIOUS ARMY TAKES THE MOST CASUALTIES DURING MOP-UP:  The Wounded Beast.

  40. Posted a comment about the Troubles in Belfast, got a URL with “unapproved” and “moderation-hash” in it. Would someone go fish my comment out of the mod bin? Much appreciated.

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    1. In case it helps anyone find the specific comment, the “moderation hash” was 097fc81f5a31b72f8b483c781060dfbd

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  41. Our Hostess noted

    and for some reason they seem to hate Catholics particularly just now. No idea why even.

    I think perhaps I have a possible set of reasons for this odd distaste.

    First there is the Catholic Church’s opposition to abortion the most holy sacrament of these leftist want to be Baal/Moloch worshippers. The Catholic church has opposed this since it first became law of the land in 1973. In addition Catholic doctrine is also opposed to homosexuality and transgenderism (the lesser sacraments of the leftist faith).

    If Catholicism were a minor religion this would be ignored but with the Catholic faith representing ~20% (yes I know not all are devout, it is the same in all denominations, the true church is at best an improper subset of the church visible and usually the overlap is far smaller). The catholic church has something in the 50-60 Million person range. On top of that in blue areas like Massachusetts, Illinois and California it is the most obvious opposition to the Leftist cause.

    Catholicism has mostly avoided a leftist infiltration (though not completely C.F. Liberation Theology). This frustrates and baffles the Left who have utterly penetrated almost all of the Mainline protestant denominations upper echelons including ECUSA (Episcopalian), UMC (United Methodist), PCUSA (Presbyterian Church), ABC (American Baptist, second largest US Baptist denomination, mostly in the North) and the UCC (Congregationalists, and several other folks with theology similar to that of POresbyterian, but with polity held in the congregation). There exist orthodox splinters of all of these, though their numbers are far smaller and the SBC (Southern Baptist) remain strongly orthodox and almost reactionary.

    I think the main way the Left got the Mainline Protestants was through invading the seminaries. Protestantism is very strong on Sola Scriptura (by Scripture Alone), generally eschewing revelation outside the early church cannon. What the Leftists did was use a variety of attacks to question the validity of scripture. One technique in particular should be familiar to readers of Genesis They say in essence “Did God Say X” just like the serpent in Genesis 3:1(NET translation)

    Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?”

    The Catholic Seminaries have seemed more resistant to these attacks. Also getting into the Catholic hierarchy requires more devotion (i.e. becoming a priest) than being some level of director in the Mainline Protestant denominations.

    That said are a fair number of orthodox protestants OUTSIDE the old mainline denominations (E.G. Evangelicals of various flavours including Southern Baptists), and even a few faithful remnants within them but their numbers are smaller than those of the Catholic Church AND they tend to be more heavily present in Flyover country/ the South which for the present the Left has written off as uninteresting or irrelevant.

    Basically they most certainly hate the Evangelicals/orthodox Christians, but we aren’t quite as in their face as the Catholic Church is and as recalcitrant. So they focus on the more obvious threat first, hoping the traditional divisions will keep the Christians divided.

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  42. “Note, though, that I heartily endorse bringing to room temperature ANYONE trying to attack you, or trying to attack anyone in your sight. That’s not a joke.”

    Quite so. It’s not just those with a loud voice like Kirk or Trump, or you with a medium loud voice, or me with a rather small voice, though, that are at risk.

    Too many places, you can turn a corner and encounter a mob of violent thugs, and be beaten, if not murdered. Not because you foolishly wandered into a “bad” neighborhood, or ever made a “hateful” comment on some social media site. Because you were THERE. Be watchful, be prepared.

    (GPS systems can track road work and accidents to help you avoid them – they should also have “murderous mob” alerts.)

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      1. @ snelson134 – I can see outlines of a future-dystopian tech in that:

        GPS: Warning! Reports of mob action ahead. Alternate route advised.

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        1. Oh, I can too. Me being me, I can see two related problems with that: blue zone governments refusing to send the alerts, and if public reporting is allowed, the system being jammed with false reports.

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          1. Agreed.

            I suppose the story-plot would be the hero/heroine circumventing those obstacles for whatever MacGuffin drives them.

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