Garrett Baker

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[Old Stock Appalachian 🇺🇸 @TheAmRev]

The Heritage American debate isn’t just about severing your connection to the American past.

The more sinister idea is that what you do today carries no inheritance forward.

Serve your country. Build something. Sacrifice. Endure. Die for it.

Then be told your descendants have no special claim to your story, no right to take pride in your sacrifice, no deeper connection because of what you gave.

Once you convince a people that inheritance, lineage, and posterity mean nothing, you’ve weakened one of the oldest reasons men sacrifice for a future they’ll never live to see.

That is fertile ground for any system that wants loyalty transferred from family and inheritance to the state.

[Geiger Capital @Geiger_Capital]

This is 100% accurate.

The left has completely moved on from climate change, net-zero, electric car mandates, etc. The climate panic faded and their ideas were all wrong, so for 2028 the new existential threat that needs regulating is AI.

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

Lindsay Clancy had a "psychotic break." Which is why she planned the murder, researched her plan on Google, sent her husband away from the house, and then methodically executed her children over the course of several minutes. I never knew that you could plan your psychotic break like that. Just pencil it into your calendar. I'm learning so much about "mental health" from the morally bankrupt imbeciles on this site and TikTok. Thank you for this education.

[Nicholas J. Fuentes @NickJFuentes]

Lindsay Clancy strangled her three children to death & Candace Owens says she is “obviously not guilty” because big pharma made her do it.

Now women are lining the streets to cheer for the murderer as she arrives in court after they raised $1,000,000 for her.

This is pure evil.

[Logan Hall @loganclarkhall]

It must be nice to have a political party that cares about winning more than it cares about norms and principles. I wonder what that’s like.

[Auron MacIntyre @AuronMacintyre]

We warned you where this was going

We begged you not to take us here

But you bought the ticket anyway, so enjoy the ride

[JD Vance @JDVance]

A while ago, probably in 2017, I appeared on Tucker Carlson's Fox show to talk about God knows what. Afterwards a name I barely knew sent me a DM on twitter and told me I did a great job. It was Charlie Kirk, and that moment of kindness began a friendship that lasted until today.

Charlie was fascinated by ideas and always willing to learn and change his mind. Like me, he was skeptical of Donald Trump in 2016. Like me, he came to see President Trump as the only figure capable of moving American politics away from the globalism that had dominated for our entire lives. When others were right, he learned from them. When he was right--as he usually was--he was generous. With Charlie, the attitude was never, "I told you so." But: "welcome."

Charlie was one of the first people I called when I thought about running for senate in early 2021. I was interested but skeptical there was a pathway. We talked through everything, from the strategy to the fundraising to the grassroots of the movement he knew so well. He introduced me to some of the people who would run my campaign and also to Donald Trump Jr. "Like his dad, he's misunderstood. He's extremely smart, and very much on our wavelength." Don took a call from me because Charlie asked him too.

Long before I ever committed (even in my mind) to running, Charlie had me speak to his donors at a TPUSA event. He walked me around the room and introduced me. He gave me honest feedback on my remarks. He had no reason to do this, no expectation that I'd go anywhere. I was polling, at that point, well below 5 percent. He did it because we were friends, and because he was a good man.

When I became the VP nominee--something Charlie advocated for both in public and private--Charlie was there for me. I was so glad to be part of the president's team, but candidly surprised by the effect it had on our family. Our kids, especially our oldest, struggled with the attention and the constant presence of the protective detail. I felt this acute sense of guilt, that I had conscripted my kids into this life without getting their permission. And Charlie was constantly calling and texting, checking on our family and offering guidance and prayers. Some of our most successful events were organized not by the campaign, but by TPUSA. He wasn't just a thinker, he was a doer, turning big ideas into bigger events with thousands of activists. And after every event, he would give me a big hug, tell me he was praying for me, and ask me what he could do. "You focus on Wisconsin," he'd tell me. "Arizona is in the bag." And it was.

Charlie genuinely believed in and loved Jesus Christ. He had a profound faith. We used to argue about Catholicism and Protestantism and who was right about minor doctrinal questions. Because he loved God, he wanted to understand him.

Someone else pointed out that Charlie died doing what he loved: discussing ideas. He would go into these hostile crowds and answer their questions. If it was a friendly crowd, and a progressive asked a question to jeers from the audience, he'd encourage his fans to calm down and let everyone speak. He exemplified a foundational virtue of our Republic: the willingness to speak openly and debate ideas.

Charlie had an uncanny ability to know when to push the envelope and when to be more conventional. I've seen people attack him for years for being wrong on this or that issue publicly, never realizing that privately he was working to broaden the scope of acceptable debate.

He was a great family man. I was talking to President Trump in the Oval Office today, and he said, "I know he was a very good friend of yours." I nodded silently, and President Trump observed that Charlie really loved his family. The president was right. Charlie was so proud of Erika and the two kids. He was so happy to be a father. And he felt such gratitude for having found a woman of God with whom he could build a family.

Charlie Kirk was a true friend. The kind of guy you could say something to and know it would always stay with him. I am on more than a few group chats with Charlie and people he introduced me to over the years. We celebrate weddings and babies, bust each other's chops, and mourn the loss of loved ones. We talk about politics and policy and sports and life. These group chats include people at the very highest level of our government. They trusted him, loved him, and knew he'd always have their backs. And because he was a true friend ,you could instinctively trust the people Charlie introduced you to. So much of the success we've had in this administration traces directly to Charlie's ability to organize and convene. He didn't just help us win in 2024, he helped us staff the entire government.

I was in a meeting in the West Wing when those group chats started lighting up with people telling Charlie they were praying for him. And that's how I learned the news that my friend had been shot. I prayed a lot over the next hour, as first good news and then bad trickled in.

God didn't answer those prayers, and that's OK. He had other plans. And now that Charlie is in heaven, I'll ask him to talk to big man directly on behalf of his family, his friends, and the country he loved so dearly.

You ran a good race, my friend.

We've got it from here.

[Greg Price @greg_price11]

This is by far my favorite video of Charlie Kirk and it should be required for everyone in America to see

[Mike Novogratz @novogratz]

It all started with a call from a close friend in 2013: "You need to read the bitcoin whitepaper."

Five years later, I founded Galaxy.

1,319 days ago, we began the process to become a U.S. public company. Tomorrow, we ring the bell on Nasdaq.

This isn't the finish line. We're just getting started.

[James Woods @RealJamesWoods]

His rendition of Doc Holliday in Tombstone was what every actor dreams of achieving. So many wonderful performances. Sad to lose him so soon.

RIP Val Kilmer.

[Hard Pass @HardPass4]

We’ve waited 4 years for the nightmare to be over.

Today is the day.

Let’s fucking go.

[Zack Kelberman @KelbermanNFL]

Bo Nix dropping an absolute BANGER on Instagram before his first #Broncos playoff game.

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

https://t.co/jpKiSzdRUs

[FischerKing @FischerKing64]

Before Obamacare it was possible to buy health insurance that covered a catastrophic event (like cancer) and just pay out of pocket for a checkup. Obamacare means you have to pay more to subsidize all kinds of things that don’t impact you. And of course it has led to further consolidation in the industry.

It’s a little like how Dodd Frank supposedly reformed the financial industry but really just locked in the dominant positions of the largest banks - the only ones that could afford the compliance costs.

Any kind of big federal regulation that aims to ‘solve’ a problem usually just entrenches the largest players and makes life worse for normal people.

[Geiger Capital @Geiger_Capital]

*TRUMP'S CRYPTO ADVISORY COUNCIL EXPECTED TO SETUP PROMISED BITCOIN RESERVE

Oh my god. He’s really doing it.

[Dr. Eli David @DrEliDavid]

“If printing money would end poverty, printing diplomas would end stupidity.”
— @JMilei

[OKUNG @RussellOkung]

society wants to tame you, wants you predictable. but greatness demands wildness.