“Friends” are falling away like dead leaves. I’m trying to take my cue from the falling autumn leaves… it’s okay to let go of the past, and sometimes it can be beautiful.

One of the rough ones happened this morning. Opening up FaceBook to do some author stuff, and I run into someone I thought was a friend, posting up the entire of the “ciao bella” song that Kirk’s shooter had on one of his bullets. Just that, just the words of the song and nothing more. I realized that’s basically a threat right now. I didn’t hesitate to delete and then block him, but it hurt.

Another wasn’t Charlie specific. A very old friend (r/l tho we don’t get to see each other very often and interact more online) posted about “why can’t they learn that their stupid 2A stuff isn’t as important as the kids that were just killed?!” I admit… I hesitated. I thought long and hard. She didn’t threaten anyone directly. But then again, she IS threatening. When someone is telling me that my protected Constitutional rights are “not as important,” you’re giving someone tacit permission to use weapons to take my rights away. And that’s not directly violence, but it’s definitely the precursor to it. And so I deleted and blocked her, too.

When Charlie got shot, I ran out of fucks to give. There are no more chances. I don’t care if you’re liberal, but if you glorify the death of someone (and that includes schoolkids) then I don’t need you as my friend. If you want to have the government take away my personal rights, then you obviously don’t want to be my friend.

On the other side of that line, though, other things are happening. A friend’s wife, who I’ve known online for a while but never really met, introduced herself at a wedding I attended on Sunday. She took me aside and said she wanted to make sure I was okay, because she knew so many people who were hurting over Charlie. She calls herself a liberal, but said she’s been desperate for a conservative friend who is willing to talk and listen and debate (gently). We’re going to get together and have some chats, and go over some ideas and such. There are some parts of conservatism that I consider myself qualified to speak on (1A and 2A, for instance), and others where I will likely reach out to friends for help. I explained that I’m squeaky brand new… and that I’m also only conservative right now (imo) because the mid-line has moved so far right because of leftist stupidity, and that in any sane world, I’d be considered slightly left of center, a moderate. It was a good conversation.

It was also good to show up at a wedding, escorted by my boyfriend (who was packing), only to find myself surrounded by a handful of people who were also packing, and one who was very much open carrying a beautiful 9mm. I complimented him on both his sidearm and his holster (which was very nice), and he smiled and said in times like these, it doesn’t pay to be unarmed. It felt good.

The Irish fought for independence for far too many years. There were multiple uprisings. It was very much an asymmetric war.

This song spoke to me earlier this week when thinking of how the left thinks and acts. I wish I had the skills to set new lyrics to this tune to describe how the murder of Charlie is the start of major change.

From Friday, Sept 12, 2025:

‘Civil War’ Mentions Surge Online After Kirk Assassination
The term has increasingly been invoked on social media after major political moments, highlighting divisions among Americans.

Mentions of “civil war” on X

Data includes posts, reposts and replies from July 1, 2025, to 7:45 p.m. Eastern time on Sept. 11, 2025.Source: Tweet Binder by AudienseBy The New York Times
Sheera FrenkelStuart A. Thompson
By Sheera Frenkel and Stuart A. Thompson
Sept. 12, 2025, 5:03 a.m. ET
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Minutes after the shooting of the right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk in Utah on Wednesday, calls for civil war began appearing online.

The term “civil war” was mentioned on Wednesday more than 129,000 times on the social platform X, according to an analysis by The New York Times. On Thursday, it was mentioned at least 210,000 times. That was up from a daily average of around 18,000 in previous months. Many of the posts that included the phrase were reposted on other platforms, including Truth Social, TikTok and Instagram.

The talk of civil war came largely from Republican lawmakers, right-wing media personalities and conservative podcasters, according to a review by The Times. Some questioned whether America was already engaged in a civil war over its values, while others called for violence after Mr. Kirk’s death.

Among those who used the phrase were Alex Jones, the creator of Infowars, a right-wing media platform; Chaya Raichik, who is behind the prominent LibsofTikTok social media account, which frequently attacks the L.G.B.T.Q. community; and Andrew Tate, the right-wing influencer known for his misogynistic views.

“Civil war,” Mr. Tate wrote in a two-word post on X after Mr. Kirk was shot. It has been viewed more than 16 million times.

The surging use of the term highlights the divisions among Americans and continues a familiar pattern of inflammatory language. In recent years, civil war has been increasingly mentioned on social media after major political moments in the United States, especially those that involve President Trump, according to a Times analysis of data from Tweet Binder by Audiense, a social media analytics company.

Rising “Civil War” Rhetoric

Online conversation about “civil war” in America took off after several recent political moments, including the F.B.I.’s raid of President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home in 2022, the assassination attempt against him in 2024 and the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

Two-day total mentions on X

Data includes posts, reposts and replies from July 1, 2025, to 7:45 p.m. Eastern time on Sept. 11, 2025.Source: Tweet Binder by AudienseBy The New York Times
After a 2022 F.B.I. raid on Mar-a-Lago, which was part of a Justice Department inquiry into Mr. Trump’s attempts to stay in office after the 2020 election, mentions of civil war on X rose to more than 118,000 over a two-day period. In July 2024, when a gunman tried to assassinate Mr. Trump at a Pennsylvania rally, more than 260,000 mentions of civil war appeared on X over the next two days, the analysis found.

Often, the phrase was used in warnings suggesting that right-wing Americans are being targeted in a civil war or goaded to start one. Other times, “civil war” was a call to action.

Jared Holt, a researcher at Open Measures, a company that monitors influence operations online, said mentions of civil war on major social media platforms show that the term is “not fringe.” Conversations on mainstream platforms increasingly resemble the kind of extremist content he sees on far-right social media sites, he noted.

“The real risk,” he said, “is that it creates a permission structure for threats and violence against perceived political enemies.”

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With the arrival of cooler weather, soups are definitely back on my go-to list of meals. I love soup, because I can have All The Flavors without all the damn calories. When it comes to soups and stews, a little goes a long way. Roast veggie soup is one of those “make it with what you have” recipes. There’s no one right way to make it, and pretty much anything you put in will make it yummy! This is my version of Roast Vegetable Soup.

Ingredients:

• 1 sweet potato, peeled and cubed
• peppers (mix of whatever colors/heats you like), large diced
• 1 large carrot, peeled and coined
• 1 red onion, large diced
• 2 large or several smaller tomatoes, whole
• 1 head garlic, most of the paper peeled away and the top cut off
• 1 to 2 cups of any combination of the following: cauliflower, kale, leeks, red skinned potato, celery, parsnips, turnip, chard, or whatever else you like
• salt and pepper to taste
• 1/2 tsp to 2 tsp each: cumin, thyme, oregano, paprika, marjoram, and rubbed sage
• 4 to 6 cups vegetable, chicken, or beef stock
• 1 can white beans, well rinsed

Preheat your oven to 400°F. Cover a large baking tray (lipped) with some parchment paper, then add in the potato, peppers, carrot, tomatoes, garlic, and other vegetables. Drizzle it all with olive oil, and sprinkle the vegetables with the spices. Toss it all together using your hands. Roast in the oven for 10 minutes, then flip all the vegetables over and roast for another 10 minutes. Add in any onions and/or leeks, stir well to cover them with the oil and spices, and continue to roast for a further 10 to 15 minutes, until the vegetables are tender and slightly caramelized. Remove them from the oven.

Set aside a small selection of the vegetables to add whole to the soup. Remove the tomato skins (they should simply slip off) and squeeze the garlic out of its skin. Add the tomatoes, garlic, and any vegetables you don’t want whole to a large soup pot and add in the stock. Bring the soup to a boil, then lower the heat and simmer for about five minutes. Turn off the heat, and blend the soup with an immersion blender. If you don’t have one, you can add it a bit at a time to a regular blender or food processor, but be careful because it will be hot.

Add in the reserved vegetables and the white beans, and bring to a simmer for 15 minutes to a half hour, to allow the flavors to meld. If you like dairy items, adding in a few pieces of parmesan rind at this point will make this a much more earthy, rich soup.

Serve in warm bowls topped with a drizzle of good olive oil, a drizzle of balsamic vinegar, and a sprig of fresh thyme or some croutons.

Starting this Wednesday, there will be a new weekly feature tentatively named “Charlie’s Voice.’

The goal is to produce a persuasive article to carry Charlie Kirk’s voice forward.

The guidelines are something like this:

• Take a left-leaning stance, position, or statement at face value.
• Listen to the statement/argument as if a single person were presenting it to you, face-to-face.
• Extract from the statement/argument the actual points of the person presenting.
• Using persuasive language, present your counterargument in such a way that it brings that person closer to our ideals and goals.
• Maintain neutral language, no gotcha phrases, no barbed zingers.

I do not expect this to be easy, which is why I’m asking for help from you.

Submissions go to info@troglodite.com. We’d prefer a Google Doc, LibreOffice document, or a Word document. Submissions will be edited for grammar and may be sent back with red pen if more than grammar changes are required.

Please include the byline you wish to have your article published under.

Examples

If you want to write on these topics, feel free; I’m putting them out here now because I will be working on something for Wednesday.

President Trump is a felon.

Example response:

You are correct; Donald Trump was convicted in a New York state court of 34 counts of falsifying business records.

If there are 34 counts, does this mean that Trump was convicted of 34 different crimes? The court says yes; maybe you won’t agree with the court.

Over the course of nine months, Trump signed 9 checks to Michael Cohen. The checks were normal checks with a memo line. The prosecution claimed that the text on the memo line was fraudulent, resulting in 9 different counts. Because that memo line was repeated in a ledger, each entry in the ledger became another count.

The prosecution decided that there were 4 counts for each check that Trump wrote, leading to the 34 count number. All of which were for the payment of one bill.

This would be similar to you buying a new set of golf clubs on credit, then writing a check once a month to pay off the bill, but instead of writing “New golf clubs,” you wrote “Entertainment.”

The prosecutor’s argument was that anything apart from “hush payment” was fraudulent.

There will be more, of course; this is just the start.

I look forward to your submissions.

My office chair has been failing for about a year now. The gas tube gave up the fight. The left armrest had cracked. And the entire thing had become one uncomfortable mess.

As somebody who sits in front of his computer for many hours per week, this was unacceptable. Worse, it was painful to sit for more than about an hour. After an hour, the discomfort was making it difficult to program or get other work done.

I bought a new chair. I’ve spent the last couple of hours sitting in it. There are different issues, but mostly it is me getting used to the new chair. It is nice to have my eyes at the correct level for my screens.

Auburn Duck Race

This is an event that Ally has been attending for a few years. She dresses in period garb, does a cooking demo, and sells her cookbooks. Normally I drive her out to the event, drop her and her gear off, head home, and then go and pick her up after the event.

We were both uncomfortable with her being in a crowd after what happened to Charlie, so I went along and stayed. SIG P365, two spare magazines, truck gun briefcase.

Nothing happened; we had fun, plenty of people, some book sales. I got to see one of my clients in person and met his family.

Shit Talk from Leftist

I had mentioned to Ally that the amount of Trump and right bashing on the Reddits had gone down. I spoke too soon. It is still full of hate and evil.

She’s right! Donnie started this!

J6 was the most violent thing in living memory. That’s the problem; MAGA lives in a completely different reality from what is actually going on. They don’t have the mental capacity to apply critical thinking skills, they just ride on hatred and lies.

I think I’m going to have a “speak out” day once a week.

Trump Announces Huge Development in Manhunt for Kirk Assassin – by Leah Barkoukis, 12Sep2025
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2025/09/12/trump-on-suspect-custody-n2663222

Trump says Charlie Kirk’s suspected assassin has finally been captured — allegedly turned in by his father – by Joseph MacKinnon, 12Sep2025
https://www.theblaze.com/news/trump-says-kirks-suspected-assassin-has-finally-been-captured-allegedly-turned-in-by-his-father

“I don’t know how to communicate with you except through violence.” – by Chris Bray, 11Sep2025
https://chrisbray.substack.com/p/i-dont-know-how-to-communicate-with

Charlie Kirk and the William Wallace Effect: His Death Will Inspire More Courage, More Freedom
https://www.westernjournal.com/charlie-kirk-william-wallace-effect-death-will-inspire-courage-freedom/

What Charlie Kirk Predicted About “Assassination Culture” Will Chill You To The Core – by Michael Snyder, 12Sept2025
https://michaeltsnyder.substack.com/p/what-charlie-kirk-predicted-about
surveys have discovered that we have reached a point where literally millions upon millions of Americans think that politically-motivated violence is at least somewhat justified.

Fighting Nazis, a Zesty Form of Community Theater – by Chris Bray, 12Sep2025
https://chrisbray.substack.com/p/fighting-nazis-a-zesty-form-of-community
We’ve indulged an enormous amount of dimwitted cosplay from childish moral narcissists. You see the cost. Stop. Stop. Stop. Stop tolerating this monstrous idiocy.

Secret Service Agent Appears Compromised in Wake of Kirk Murder – Alarming Posts Allegedly from Inside Agency Coming to Light –
by Jack Davis, 12Sep2025
https://www.westernjournal.com/breaking-secret-service-agent-appears-compromised-wake-kirk-murder-alarming-posts-allegedly-inside-agency-coming-light/

After Charlie Kirk’s Murder, Politicians Can Back Away From the Brink, or Make Matters Worse – The political class has been pushing the country towards a conflict nobody should want. – by J.D. Tuccille, 12Sep2025
https://reason.com/2025/09/11/after-charlie-kirks-murder-politicians-can-back-away-from-the-brink-or-make-matters-worse

7 Horrific Incidents of Violence Against Conservatives – by Tyler O’Neil, 10Sep2025
https://patriot.tv/7-horrific-incidents-of-violence-against-conservatives/

The Assassination of Charlie Kirk and the Rise of the ‘Far-Right’ Left – How the Violent Left is Becoming the New Far Right of History –
by Matt Morris, 11sep2025
https://sgtreport.substack.com/p/the-assassination-of-charlie-kirk

Anonymous website outing miscreants who celebrate Charlie Kirk’s murder has leftists on edge – by Chris Donaldson, 12Sep2025
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/09/12/anonymous-website-outing-miscreants-who-celebrate-charlie-kirks-murder-has-leftists-on-edge-1584523/

Form The Line! – By John wilder, 12Sep2025
https://wilderwealthywise.com/form-the-line/

Anti American left – by Divemedic, 12Sep2025
https://areaocho.com/author/14583007051962299381/

Charlotte Stabbing Suspect Reveals Reason for Crime, And Now He Wants His Body ‘Investigated’
https://americanjournaldaily.com/charlotte-suspect-reason-crime/
Stabbing Suspect Reveals His Insane Reason for the Attack – It’s the Nuttiest Excuse Ever So…totally bonkers.
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via Miguel Gonzalez from Miguel’s Substack miguelgg@substack.com, 12Sep2025

“They killed John Wick’s dog.”- John Ringo (And if he didn’t say it, it still applies)
https://miguelgg.substack.com/p/they-killed-john-wicks-dog-john-ringo

A bit of History is good for the soul. – Sadly, Liberals have no soul.
https://miguelgg.substack.com/p/a-bit-of-history-is-good-for-the

He ain’t wrong.
https://miguelgg.substack.com/p/he-aint-wrong

Please stop defending them. – They never have nor will they ever return the favor.
https://miguelgg.substack.com/p/please-stop-defending-them
I am siding with Divemedic (where I stole the video link. H/T) on this one

The finger that pulled the trigger is down….
https://miguelgg.substack.com/p/the-finger-that-pulled-the-trigger
…………………..
Fighting Words – by Divemedic, 12Sep2025
video – 00:01:55 – https://x.com/OldStateSaloon/status/1966157740801405287
https://areaocho.com/fighting-words/
Fighting words are: “Words which by their very utterance inflict injury or tend to incite an immediate breach of the peace.”
This comes from the Supreme Court case Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire (1942). The Court held that certain “well-defined and narrowly limited” categories of speech are not protected by the First Amendment—including fighting words. Just being offensive isn’t enough. The speech has to be:Directed at a specific individual. Likely to provoke an immediate violent reaction.

Expose Charlie’s Murderers – A very useful website – 12Sep2025
https://miguelgg.substack.com/p/expose-charlies-murderers
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via AREA OCHO – https://areaocho.com/
Here’s 2 and a half minutes straight of Democrats explicitly calling for political violence. – 12Sep2025
https://areaocho.com/left-advocating-violence/
vfideo – 00:02:20 – https://x.com/i/status/1812325538620420349

Motives Unknown – 12Sep2025
https://areaocho.com/motives-unknown/
…the MSM is saying that no motive is yet known for the shooting, and they don’t know if it was political or not,

Winning Hearts and Minds – 12Sep2025
https://areaocho.com/17566-2/
If we have entered a phase where people who talk are being silenced through assassination, the time for talk is over. The blog has to go, and it will be time for other tactics. If people aren’t having discussions, they are fighting.

Warning Sign – 12Sep2025
https://areaocho.com/17560-2/
I have been saying since 2020 that one of the signs that a revolution is nearing its completion is the disappearance of people who can make trouble for the revolution. It’s a sign that the revolution is beginning to eliminate those who can make trouble for them.
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CAUTION CONSPIRACY ZONE – cum KILO salis
Did Someone Close To Charlie Kirk Give A Signal To The Assassin That It Was Time To Take The Shot? – by Michael Snyder, 11Sep2025
https://michaeltsnyder.substack.com/p/did-someone-close-to-charlie-kirk?
Charlie Kirk ASSASSINATION CONSPIRACY THEORIES Go Viral
video – 00:03:21 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dU5HXGNukoY

I think Charlie Kirk would agree with one of the lesser-known heroes of the American Revolution
“I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.” – Nathan Hale, Sept. 22, 1776

in no particular order 

Utah officials deliver update on Charlie Kirk assassination investigation, security at event – by Cooper Williamson, 10Sep2025
https://www.theblaze.com/news/utah-officials-deliver-update-on-charlie-kirk-assassination-investigation-security-at-event

Charlie Kirk assassination witness says shot did not come from the crowd – by Andrew Chapa, 10 sept2025
https://www.theblaze.com/news/charlie-kirk-shooting-witness-rooftop

‘You woke us the f**k up!’ Greg Gutfeld fires off message on Fox News after assassination of Charlie Kirk – by Carlos Garcia, 10Sept2025
https://www.theblaze.com/news/greg-gutfeld-charlie-kirk-woke

Leftists show their true colors after Charlie Kirk is shot — and it’s absolutely sickening – byChris Enloe, 10Sept2025
https://www.theblaze.com/news/leftists-show-their-true-colors-after-charlie-kirk-is-shot-and-it-s-absolutely-sickening

The Morning Briefing: Assassination and the Watershed Radicalization of the American Right – by Stephen Kruiser, 11Sep2025
https://pjmedia.com/stephen-kruiser/2025/09/11/the-morning-briefing-assassination-and-the-watershed-radicalization-of-the-american-right-n4943527

Trump Vows to Hunt Down Everyone Involved in Charlie Kirk’s Assassination – by Katie Pavlich 10Sep2025
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2025/09/10/trump-remarks-from-white-house-charlie-kirk-n2663104

The NYT’s Obituary for Charlie Kirk Is an Absolute Disgrace – by Matt Vespa, 11Sep2025
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2025/09/11/the-nyts-obituary-for-charlie-kirk-is-an-absolute-disgrace-n2663115

They Murdered Charlie Kirk and They Must Pay – by Kurt Schlichter, 10Sep2025
https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2025/09/10/they-murdered-charlie-kirk-and-they-must-pay-n2663112

Did TMZ Staffers Cheer About Charlie Kirk’s Assassination? The Video Is Damning. – by Matt Vespa, 11Sep2025
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2025/09/11/did-tmz-staffers-cheer-about-charlie-kirks-assassination-the-video-is-damning-n2663122

After Charlie Kirk Was Assassinated, Dems Kept Saying This Phrase. It Was a Little Jarring. – by Matt Vespa, 11Sep2025
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2025/09/11/after-charlie-kirk-was-assassinated-dems-kept-saying-this-phrase-it-was-a-little-jarring-n2663107

What Comes After Charlie Kirk’s Assassination An anti-revolutionary’s death brings a new reckoning – byBen Domenech, 11Sep2025
https://thetransom.com/p/what-comes-after-charlie-kirks-assassination

“Dark Moment For America” – Trump Addresses The Nation After Kirk Assassination – by Tyler Durden, 11Sep2025
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/shots-reportedly-fired-charlie-kirk-event-utah-valley-university

Charlie Kirk’s blood is on the left’s hands – by Maureen Steele, 11Sep2025
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/09/11/charlie-kirks-blood-is-on-the-lefts-hands-1584140/

Two days before he was killed, CNN went on the offensive against Charlie Kirk – by Vivek Saxena, 11Sep2025
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/09/11/two-days-before-he-was-killed-cnn-went-on-the-offensive-against-charlie-kirk-1584159/

Obama actually says we have no idea what motivation was for Charlie Kirk assassination – by Mariane Angela, 11Sep2025
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/09/11/obama-actually-says-we-have-no-idea-what-motivation-was-for-charlie-kirk-assassination-1584072/

Kirk Assassination Police Audio Leaks, Contains First Full Description of Suspected Killer Along With Exact Location –
By C. Douglas Golden, 11 sep2025
https://www.westernjournal.com/kirk-assassination-police-audio-leaks-contains-first-full-description-suspected-killer-along-exact-location

What happens after Charlie Kirk? – The killing of a political commentator may mark the moment America stopped being insulated from the grip of ideological violence. – by Zahra Sethna and Stephen Mostad ,11Sep2025
https://www.collapselife.com/p/what-happens-after-charlie-kirk

New Bombshell Report Reveals Disturbing Details About Kirk Assassination – by Jeff charles, 11Sep2025
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/jeff-charles/2025/09/11/ammunition-in-kirk-assassination-engraved-with-transgender-and-antifascist-ideology-n2663133

Law Enforcement Announces ‘Breakthroughs’ in Charlie Kirk Investigation – by Jack Davis, 11Sep2025

https://redstate.com/bonchie/2025/09/11/update-fbi-announce-kirk-assassation-weapon-found-other-details-about-the-shooter-n2193827

Internal Memo Reveals New Details About Weapon Used in Kirk Assassination, Engravings on Recovered Rounds – by Matt Margolis, 11Sep2025

“ATF and other law-enforcement located an older model imported Mauser .30-06 caliber bolt action rifle wrapped in a towel in a wooded area near the campus. The location of the firearm appears to match the suspect’s route of travel.” “The spent cartridge was still chambered in addition to three unspent rounds at the top fed magazine. All cartridges have engraved wording on them, expressing transgender and anti-fascist ideology.”

Why Charlie Kirk’s assassination will change us in ways this generation has never seen – by Christopher Bedford, 11Sep2025

Charlie Kirk Assassination: What We Know…Or, More Accurately, Don’t Know – By Tom Knighton, 11Sep2025

https://bearingarms.com/tomknighton/2025/09/11/charlie-kirk-assassination-what-we-knowor-more-accurately-dont-know-n1229865

September keeps smelling of death.- by Miguel Gonzalez, 11Sep2025

https://miguelgg.substack.com/p/september-keeps-smelling-of-death

Twenty four years ago, we were attacked and we got to witness the enemies of our country dance and pass celebratory sweet pastries in the Middle east.
Yesterday we were attacked once again, but the dancing and celebration was done by people inside our country.
We are at war once again.

Memes by Themes #20: The Intellimafia – by Margaret Anna Alice, 11Sep2025
https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/memes-by-themes-20-the-intellimafia

The Morning Briefing: Assassination and the Watershed Radicalization of the American Right – by Stephen Kruiser, 11Sept2025
https://pjmedia.com/stephen-kruiser/2025/09/11/the-morning-briefing-assassination-and-the-watershed-radicalization-of-the-american-right-n4943527

Trump Vows to Hunt Down Everyone Involved in Charlie Kirk’s Assassination – by Katie Pavlich 10sept2025
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2025/09/10/trump-remarks-from-white-house-charlie-kirk-n2663104

Leftists and Muslims Celebrate Kirk Assassination – by Pamela Geller, 10Sep2025
https://gellerreport.com/2025/09/leftists-and-muslims-celebrate-kirk-shooting.html/?lctg=92233992

ASSASSINATED: The Great Charlie Kirk Shot Dead – by Pamela Geller, 10Sep2025
https://gellerreport.com/2025/09/assassinated-the-great-charlie-kirk-shot-dead.html/?lctg=92233992

Two days before he was killed, CNN went on the offensive against Charlie Kirk – by Vivek Saxena, 11Sep2025
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/09/11/two-days-before-he-was-killed-cnn-went-on-the-offensive-against-charlie-kirk-1584159/

Utah Gov Spencer Cox reminds America that the the state still has death penalty in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination –
by Harold Hutchison, 11Sep2025
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/09/11/utah-gov-spencer-cox-reminds-america-that-state-still-has-death-penalty-in-wake-of-charlie-kirk-assassination-1584074/

Obama actually says we have no idea what motivation was for Charlie Kirk assassination – by Mariane Angela, 11Sep2025
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/09/11/obama-actually-says-we-have-no-idea-what-motivation-was-for-charlie-kirk-assassination-1584072/

What happens after Charlie Kirk? – The killing of a political commentator may mark the moment America stopped being insulated from the grip of ideological violence. – by Zahra Sethna and Stephen Mostad ,11Sep2025
https://www.collapselife.com/p/what-happens-after-charlie-kirk

September keeps smelling of death.- by Miguel Gonzalez, 11Sep2025
https://miguelgg.substack.com/p/september-keeps-smelling-of-death

Witnesses say ‘there was not enough security’ prior to horrific Charlie Kirk assassination by Andrew Chapados & Rebeka Zeljko, 11Sep2025
https://www.theblaze.com/news/charlie-kirk-witnesses-security-team

The Intent of the Charlie Kirk Assassination Continues With the Media’s Reaction: They Demand Our Silence By Brad Slager, 11Sep2025
https://redstate.com/bradslager/2025/09/11/the-intent-of-the-charlie-kirk-assassination-is-displayed-in-the-media-reactions-they-demand-our-silence-n2193838

The paths forward – Responding to the assassination of Charlie Kirk – by Surak, 11Sep2025
https://surak.substack.com/p/the-paths-forward
Where are the riots, like after the drug overdose death of George Floyd? An assassin destroyed Charlie Kirk’s jugular vein while he was on a university campus answering a question regarding transgender ultraviolence. The ammunition had written messages on it supporting transgender ultraviolence. We have been warned sternly by the “experts” about the “fascist” nature of America’s Christian majority, yet for some reason, those Christians are going about in quiet prayer.

Dana Loesch: ‘Restorative Justice’ Killed Ukrainian Refugee – By Tom Knighton, 11Sep2025
https://bearingarms.com/tomknighton/2025/09/11/dana-loesch-restorative-justice-killed-ukrainian-refugee-n1229868
but wait – there’s more
Judge’s ‘promise’ let career criminal walk free to butcher Ukrainian refugee after his MOM said he should be locked up
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15078101/judge-released-decarlos-brown-iryna-zarutska-stabbing.html

Statement on the Assassination of Charlie Kirk – by Daniel Miller, 10Sep2025
https://texianpartisan.com/news/statements/statement-on-the-assassination-of-charlie-kirk/
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Via a Mormon blog I follow – 11Sep2025
I hope I’m wrong.
But tonight feels like some sort of invisible line has been crossed that we didn’t even know was there. The last time I felt like this was 9/11 when it was clear, without knowing the how and the what, that the world was about to change forever.
Like the rules of the game had been permanently altered and there was simply no going to back to the innocent, peaceful past.
I didn’t feel like this when an attempt was made on President Trump’s life. If I had to rationalise why I didn’t, I guess it’s because several US Presidents have been shot at and even assassinated. Somehow it was within the realms of the possible, no matter how awful.
But to murder a young father simply for doing debates and mobilising young people to vote for a party that represents half of America? This is something else.
Charlie’s death is a tragedy for his wife, his children and his family. I don’t pray often. I am praying for them tonight.
But I fear his murder will be a tragedy for all of us in ways we will only understand as time unfolds.
I hope I’m wrong. (Konstantin Kisin)

The entire Right has to band together. Enough of this in-fighting bullsh@t. We are up against demonic forces from the pit of Hell. They’re killing us in our churches. They tried to kill our president. They killed Charlie, one of our greatest advocates. Put the personal squabbles aside. Now’s not the time. This is existential. A fight for our own existence and the existence of our country. (Matt Walsh)

Like all of you, I am utterly stunned and heartbroken and sick to my soul today. It is unimaginable to write these words. I met Charlie Kirk when he was 18 years old, a young man so eager and determined that I immediately turned to a friend and said, “That kid is going to be the head of the RNC one day.” Charlie became even bigger and more important than that. It was a privilege to watch this principled man stand up for his beliefs and create the single most important conservative political organization in America. But more importantly, Charlie was a good man, a man who believed in right and wrong, who stood by his Biblical values. All of us will miss him, and I can’t imagine the pain of his beautiful young family, and we must all pray for them. And we must pick up the baton where Charlie left it, fighting for the things he believed in so passionately. And we must fight for a better America – an America where good people can speak truth and debate passionately without fear of a bullet. I weep for Charlie’s family, and I weep for my country today. (Ben Shapiro)
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Jasmine Crockett’s Stance on Police Troubling Considering her Stance on 2A
https://bearingarms.com/tomknighton/2025/09/11/for-once-jasmine-crockett-gets-it-right-on-police-n1229866
“Law enforcement isn’t to PREVENT crime! Law enforcement solves crime, okay? That is what they are supposed to do.”
(Translation: the police aren’t there to protect you, they are there to draw the chalk outline of the dead person. You can defend yourself to decide who is in the chalk outline. – jlr)

I was scanning TikTok when Charlie Kirk was shot. One of my conservative ladies gave out the news on an unexpected “live” thingie, and I went looking, panicking. Yep, it’s real. Damn. God damn. God FUCKING damn!

My lizard brain is currently doing shots of imaginary coke right now, hopping itself up to keep me aware of everything going on around me. I keep seeing things out of the corner of my eye and it turns out to be dust motes. I’m trying not to shut myself down right now, but also not to get so caught up that I lose track of life.

Why’s this under “prepping” today? Well, we need to be aware that when violence happens, we tend to REact. And frankly, I don’t believe we (and when I say “we” right now, I mean everyone who isn’t an absolute nut job, regardless of political stance) can afford to react. Act, yes. React, no. Reaction is instant. It’s brought about by the aforementioned lizard brain. It engages our “fight or flight” mode, and if we are reacting, we are not thinking.

When we’re in a personal emergency, that’s a good thing. It gets the adrenaline going, gets you up and moving, and might save your life. But with something like this, it’s just not useful. It hypes us up with nowhere to go. And while I trust the people I generally hang out with to be “head on a swivel” without being nut jobs, I don’t trust everyone else. I know too many on the Left who are excited and happy over this, and too many on the Right who have been itching for an excuse and who are using Kirk’s shooting as that excuse and damn the realities. NONE of it is good. Not one damn motherfucking bit of it.

I have enough EMT training to know that he wasn’t going to survive that shot. He lost so much blood in that initial burst that there was simply no way. The second hint was that his team picked him up and moved him. They don’t do that if there’s a chance he’ll survive; instead they form a shield wall and let the EMT do their work. There are lots of rumors out there (see my previous post on rumors) regarding what happened, who did it, and the reasoning behind the assassination. Like Chris, I’m waiting. I need to hear good, quality information from reliable sources, as difficult as that may be.

I will tell you what I think happened. I think a nutjob (very possibly with a septum ring and ties to the Left, but no guarantees) decided that the First Amendment was not worth protecting, and decided to make Charlie a signpost about what happens to people who don’t lap up the narrative from the Left’s breast. I think it was meant to do a few things. First and foremost, I believe it was meant to enrage the Right and hopefully spur people into doing stupid things (those REactions). Second, it took out someone who was effectively teaching young adults to think for themselves (because Charlie always listened to people and encouraged them to support their points). Third, it has been done in a way that makes it a chilling effect.

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