I first met Charlie Kirk more than ten years ago. At that time, he was very young, and possessed an evangelical naivety that was relatively foreign to a Canadian.
He was truly and somewhat amusingly shocked, for example, at the pervasive smell of marijuana on the streets of Toronto.
It was obvious, however—despite that sheltered mien—that Charlie was someone deeply and singularly committed to a unique mission, and that he would be driven to learn everything necessary to its success.
I met him in person another dozen times after that, and was asked to speak at a number of Turning Point events.
I enjoyed the events. It was a very good thing to see thousands of enthusiastic young people trying to make things better in their somehow endearing conservative American way.
It was also fascinating to watch Charlie develop in sophistication over the years. The bravery he showed in presenting a truly conservative viewpoint on university campuses was part of that development, as was the ferocious skill he developed at debating contentious issues, under trying conditions, for years.
My wife, Tammy, and I met his lovely wife Erika with him on several private dinners. They made a truly admirable and mutually respectful couple. We had plans to make such meetings a regular occurrence—but life, and death, got in the way.
I was not informed about Charlie's murder for several months after it occurred, in consequence of my recent illness. It came as a terrible shock.
It is also truly awful to see what a spectacle has been made of his demise by pathological actors across the political spectrum.
He was a solid, decent, hard-working, truthful, brave person.
We are all—right and left alike—lesser without him.
On the right: because he was an example and a leader.
On the left: because he would willingly talk across the aisle, and in good faith.
There will come a day—and too soon, I am afraid—when even those who vilify his memory will long for the days when people such as Charlie existed, and made such civilized talk a priority.
I had the privilege to sit down with Charlie and talk with him about his life and the world not so many months before that was no longer possible: https://t.co/1b3U5MxGB1
RIP Mr. Kirk. I write that in true sorrow.
~20,000 dead on EU roads a year. ~30% speed. ~25% alcohol. Big chunk distraction. FSD doesn’t drink, doesn’t do 200 km/h, doesn’t scroll Instagram. Europe delaying FSD is not caution. It’s keeping the crash types we already know how to stop. Thousands of those deaths are not “hard AI problems.” They’re drunk and speeding car drivers.
~20,000 dead on EU roads a year.
~30% speed. ~25% alcohol. Big chunk distraction.
FSD doesn’t drink, doesn’t do 200 km/h, doesn’t scroll Instagram.
Europe delaying FSD is not caution. It’s keeping the crash types we already know how to stop. Thousands of those deaths are not “hard AI problems.” They’re drunk and speeding car drivers.
~20,000 dead on EU roads a year.
~30% speed. ~25% alcohol. Big chunk distraction.
FSD doesn’t drink, doesn’t do 200 km/h, doesn’t scroll Instagram.
Europe delaying FSD is not caution. It’s keeping the crash types we already know how to stop. Thousands of those deaths are not “hard AI problems.” They’re drunk and speeding car drivers.
@ApoStructura Do not forget nowadays it is all about feelings, if the person sitting in the train and writing about that article feels like it was 5 sec to reach 800 km that it is his truth and you need to respect it :)
welcome to woke reality
DEAR CANADA! 🚩
For the first time in 250 years of our history, we have no seat at the table. We have been pushed aside, ignored, and treated as irrelevant on the world stage because we allowed it to happen. We handed the keys to this once great country to a pack of weak, self-serving, ideologically captured phony leaders who have no loyalty to the Canadian people. They threw our borders wide open to uncontrolled mass immigration we never voted for, flooding our cities, overwhelming our systems, and fundamentally changing the character of the nation our ancestors built. They did it with contempt for the very citizens who pay for it all.
They did something even more unforgivable. They stood by and enabled the chemical poisoning of our own population. Deadly synthetic opioids like fentanyl and other chemical weapons, have been allowed to pour into this country then flood into the United States and beyond, turning our streets and communities into slaughterhouses. Tens of thousands of Canadians are dead. Families shattered. Communities poisoned. And these cowards in power still refuse to do what is necessary to stop it. This is not just weapons-grade incompetence. This is betrayal.
We have taken zero responsibility. We have made excuse after excuse while everything we value is systematically destroyed with pathetic slogans like "Elbows Up."
Enough is enough. It is time to stop pretending and start fighting like our survival depends on it, because it really does.
Shut the borders! Stop the invasion! Crush the drug networks and the supply chains feeding them. Remove every last enabler, appeaser, and traitor from power. No more half-measures. No more polite language and virtue signaling. It's time to get raw and real. No more waiting.
Act now, or watch Canada die in front of you very eyes. The choice is that simple.
Truth Post 1/22/26
https://t.co/U0iQzLrXM8
White people are terrified of being seen as racist.
If white guilt permeates the online world and our schools, then our adults will feel guilty too.
This helps neither whites nor ethnics.
My ARC speech:
Finally, a politician speaking with full honesty and 100% critical thinking.
It’s rare to see someone from that generation openly admit where we — the adults — have made serious, sometimes enormous mistakes. The hardest thing is taking real responsibility instead of blaming the young.
Thank you Rupert for this courage and clarity. Britain needs more of this.
And thank you @elonmusk — because on this platform we can actually say these things directly without being censored.
Restore Britain 🇬🇧
Finally, a politician speaking with full honesty and 100% critical thinking.
It’s rare to see someone from that generation openly admit where we — the adults — have made serious, sometimes enormous mistakes. The hardest thing is taking real responsibility instead of blaming the young.
Thank you Rupert for this courage and clarity. Britain needs more of this.
And thank you @elonmusk — because on this platform we can actually say these things directly without being censored.
Restore Britain 🇬🇧
My generation has failed millions of young British men and women who now feel unable to raise a family in our country, in our home.
Inflation. Housing. Immigration. Energy. Crime. Jobs.
The last 30 years has been a catastrophic failure.
It’s very easy for people of my age to sit in mortgage-free homes bought for a fraction of what it’s proportionately worth today and blame young Brits for the hole they find themselves in.
I’m not going to do that.
Yes, there are people taking the piss. They were when I was younger.
The vast majority of young men and women in our country want to work hard, find their way in life and build a family.
It is NOT their fault that inflation continues to soar, wages lag, the housing market is stacked against them, brutal energy costs drive up everything, their town centres are filthy with no opportunities, hard work is taxed to oblivion, millions of third world migrants are prioritised ahead of them.
We force them through university for no good reason, then saddle them with outrageous interest which is essentially just another tax.
That is not their fault. That is our fault.
My generation should start taking some responsibility for the mess we have left.
And we should start being honest about the pain required to fix it. Because we have had it easy, and our children and grandchildren will be the ones who have to pay for it - our eye-watering national debt is a shame on my generation. It is a genuine disgrace.
A false reality, all propped up by borrowed and printed money. It’s a con.
I feel guilty about it. I am trying to do something about it. It’s what Restore Britain is all about.
To leave a better country than the one handed to us.
A country where young men and women feel able to raise their family. That’s the aim.
A Britain restored.
The African immigrant on the left has founded seven companies, directly and indirectly created 800,000 good paying jobs, created thousands of new American millionaires, developed reusable orbital rockets and brain chips that are giving independence to paraplegics, saved free speech, and can’t stop talking about how much he loves America.
The African immigrant on the right married her brother to commit immigration fraud, facilitated the theft of money intended to feed hungry kids, has used government to enrich herself, praises terrorists, and can’t stop talking about how much she hates America.
Leftists want the African immigrant on the left punished with punitive taxes and deported, but will try to run over law enforcement and get shot in the face in support of the African immigrant on the right.