The social media phenomenon surrounding the murder of Charlie Kirk behaves exactly like the one that existed in the early days of Covid. The replies and quote-tweets here are telling. I’m actually shocked.
Multiple unsynchronized cameras at the scene create an effective higher-temporal-resolution sampling net, providing greater coverage of the critical milliseconds than any single camera could achieve on its own.
If a high-velocity rifle impact had struck the exposed flesh of outer Zone 2 of the neck near the jugular, we would reasonably expect at least one frame — and likely more — showing evidence of rapid flesh cavitation or associated blood spatter. However, there are zero frames depicting flesh cavitation that could account for the observed shirt or necklace movements. There are also zero frames showing blood spatter coinciding with the arrival of the Mach cone or the moment of impact.
These two signatures are highly expected in a high-velocity rifle wound to this specific anatomical location. Their complete absence across the available multi-camera coverage is difficult to reconcile with that scenario.
Andrew is lying through his teeth. I would take a lie detector test on this. He told me explicitly, that Bibi offered “to take Turning Point to the next level and Charlie said no”. This was in the course of the same conversation where he told me that Charlie declined to have Bibi on his show. The ONLY REASON I knew that Bibi Netanyahu called in the Hamptons was because of Andrew Kolvet.
Men should not be capable of telling a bare-faced lie like this. We are a weaker society because of men like this.
Our nation was founded by rejecting a failed system that no longer served We the People. Through their undaunted courage, our Founding Fathers birthed this nation and created a system that empowers us to replace the government when our leaders fail us.
In our lifetimes, we have watched our government drag us into pointless wars to sustain an empire that enriches and empowers only the elites, while the American way of life deteriorates here at home.
We are blessed in this: 250 years ago, our Founders didn’t merely grant us the right to change our government—they made it our duty.
We now face an onslaught of propaganda claiming that, despite another foolish war in the Middle East and rampant corruption, those in power have our best interests at heart. This is designed to deceive, provoke, and demoralize us. Don’t take the bait. View it all with clear eyes and resolve to change it.
This nation is not merely “an idea” to be reshaped by the selfish whims of those in power, nor is it a “failed experiment.” This nation is our home, our heritage, and our sacred duty to preserve for future generations. By breaking free from the failed political system that enabled this rot, we can restore our wounded Republic.
Rejoice that we live in the greatest, freest nation the world has ever known. Never give up hope. Never stop fighting for what it is our duty to protect.
God bless the United States of America.
Charlie Kirk loved this nation. He understood what was at stake and fought for it. It’s worth revisiting the conversation we had a year ago this month. Happy 250.
Elon Musk just put a price tag on obedience. It costs $200,000.
Musk: “You don’t need college to learn stuff. Everything is available basically for free. You can learn anything you want for free.”
Every lecture. Every textbook. Every framework ever written. Free on any screen in any country right now. The entire knowledge monopoly collapsed in a decade. Nobody updated the price tag.
Musk: “Colleges are basically for fun and to prove you can do your chores. But they’re not for learning.”
Strip the ivy and the branding. What’s underneath is a four-year obedience trial. Can this person follow instructions on a schedule without asking why.
Musk: “There is a value that colleges have, which is seeing whether somebody can work hard at something, including a bunch of annoying homework assignments, and still do their homework assignments.”
That is the entire six-figure value proposition. Not what you know. Not what you can build. Whether you can be managed. The establishment doesn’t need you educated. It needs you domesticated.
Musk: “If you’re trying to do something exceptional, you must have evidence of exceptional ability. I don’t consider going to college evidence of exceptional ability.”
The system doesn’t produce exceptional. It produces manageable. It takes the most creative years of your life and teaches you to wait for instructions. That is not education. That is containment.
Musk: “Gates is a pretty smart guy, he dropped out. Jobs is pretty smart, he dropped out. Larry Ellison, smart guy, he dropped out.”
They didn’t leave because they couldn’t keep up. They left because the ceiling was underground.
8 billion people now carry the same library in their pocket. The one these institutions charged a lifetime of debt to access.
The only product the university still sells is the belief that you need one.
@LostMyHats No snakes in Alaska. (Spare me the rare occasion someone finds one in the furthest SE corner of the state). And we are actually growing the Christian population here. Come on up! Great job on snake killing and all your other endeavors lately!
Islam is evil. Obviously. All demonic religions are. And Islam has a long history of unfathomable violence everywhere it goes, and has plagued Christianity for as long as it's existed. That's why I've advocated for an end to not just Muslim Mass Migration, but ALL Muslim migration to the West. We're full.
That said, when we talk about a systemic campaign of anti-Christian persecution and the organized harassment of Christianity in Israel, people bring up Hezbollah. Talk about Israelis who keep spitting on Christians, you'll be asked about Hamas. It's pathological. It's intentional. The "what-aboutism" is a part of a very intentional public marketing campaign, because if you're thinking about Islam, you're not thinking about Israel.
The reason Israel gets talked about - other than that we aren't subsidizing Hamas or Hezbollah with our tax dollars (much) - there's another, more Biblical reason:
We're told in the Bible to shoulder the burdens of our fellow CHRISTIANS (Galatians 6:2) - not unbelieving Jews, not pagans, not Muslims. But, CHRISTIANS. And the Christians in Gaza aren't as worried about Hamas. They're worried about Israel. And they are *substantially* more worried about Israel. And that makes sense, because Israel has murdered waaaaay more innocent people - including Christians - than Hamas ever dreamed about.
But it's not just about bombing Christian churches for no discernible reason and killing nuns with sniper fire. The indigenous Christians in Israel face treatment at the hands of Israelis that no Christian on Earth should have to endure. Yes, they get treated worse in Nigeria. We're not funding Boko Haram or providing them missiles to shoot at churches during worship. We're funding Israel.
When I made a comment on Tucker about the Ottoman Millet system, comparing Ottoman and Israeli treatment of Christians in Palestine, it caused a small uproar. Some alleged things I did not, in fact, say. Others assumed my intentions were to minimize Islam's evils, whitewash history, paint Muslims as misunderstood angels, or outright deny Islamic atrocities in other places or eras.
The thing is, as one prominent critic reluctantly admitted in the first few minutes of his rather lengthy diatribe, my claim was, "technically accurate." I'll translate: "Technically" means "inconveniently." It gives history a wrinkle, and we like history to be flat. We don't like our historic facts with asterisks. And, I provide all the receipts in this article, down to the last detail, in careful footnotes with links to see the evidence for yourselves.
The case is simple: Out of geopolitical pragmatism, the Ottomans' Status Quo was adopted by most of Europe and retained long after the empire ended. The system it produced made Europe hesitant to support a Jewish state because it worked for Christians. It was functional, and most sides were content, and so content, they didn't want to mess it up. Their philosophy was simple: "If it ain't broke, don't fix it."
While the Ottomans were genocidal outside of Palestine, they recognized the tinderbox that the Holy Land could easily become and treated it differently. So no, they didn't tax churches. While they taxed Christians a special tax, it purchased privileges unavailable to everyone else. Christians didn't have to enlist in the Ottoman and Muslim army. They couldn't be dragged into Sharia courts. Christian communities were given local autonomy for their community government.
They weren't "equal" citizens in the sense of a liberal democracy in the 21st Century, and they couldn't carry weapons - but neither can the British. That tax was collected by the church leaders, with the right to exempt the elderly, children, widows, and the disabled. And it also protected them under imperial decree, forbidding anyone from laying a finger on their head under threat of bodily punishment and fine. Pilgrims were off limits and protected by Janissary guards. And the Ottomans' firmans and capitulations structured a legal system giving Holy Sites' upkeep and repair imperial sanction, permanent protection, and a mechanism to fund it. In certain cases, like the 1868 repair of the rotunda roof of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, they even contributed to its renovation.
This is in contrast to their regime of terror generally everywhere else, and compared to anywhere else in the world where people were conquered, even in Christian empires, God preserved and protected Christians in the Promised Land from those who otherwise ran a brutal regime.
That's it. That's the argument. And those facts are helpful when answering a question. The question is why the Ottomans inherited Palestine with 20% Christians in 1517, and passed it off to the British in 1917 with 20% Christians, their population steady. Then, the Israelis took it from the British in 1948 with 20% Christians. Why, after 77 years, has the Christian population in Israel - that remained steady for four centuries - suddenly collapsed to 2%?
That type of economic collapse is usually associated with ethnic cleansing and the Bubonic plague. By comparison to modern Israel, the Millet System is a good apples-to-apples comparison to figure out what went wrong. Recently, churches were told they had "back taxes" to pay - which they haven't paid in 17 centuries - totaling millions of dollars. When they couldn't afford it, their bank accounts were frozen and they were threatened with land confiscation. Christians are spit on in the streets. Jewish arsonists burn down churches, and police don't respond to calls for emergency services or prosecute the criminals. The Lehava and La Famlia gangs engage in organized violence against Christians. Clergy were turned away from church on Easter.
And, despite not hearing it in American media, all the major church denominations are complaining about holy sites falling into disrepair. Despite making billions from Christian tourism, the Israeli Dept of Tourism isn't funding upkeep for Christian sites. Christians are fleeing. And in the polls of those leaving, they're placing the blame on their treatment at the hands of Israel, or the economic collapse caused by the Gaza genocide.
I didn't invent the claim that they had it better under the Millet System. That's a charge made in an official statement from the indigenous denominations of Israel, who've been there since before even the Ottomans ruled. They'd know.
So, why can't someone who has been outspoken about the evil of Islam, the one who raised the biggest stink about Russell Moore's mosque-building efforts, who advocates for NO Islamic migration, and doesn't quibble about Islamic atrocities, mention a single historic caveat about a historic reality? The answer is, it's not allowed.
It's not political propaganda. It's religious. It's rabbinic. The Talmud and Rabbinic teachings deny - in no uncertain terms - Imago Dei. The difference between the Christian belief in this doctrine and the Jewish denial is one of the biggest, most fundamental differences between our two religions. It's one of the reasons that a "shared religious heritage" is pure myth. We believe people can *become* evil. Jews believe the goyim are *ontologically* evil. That's the difference.
In order for YOU to support THEIR behavior, you need to accept THEIR religious suppositions. History must remain flattened for this to succeed. Stereotypes must not be questioned. Exceptions must not be thought possible. Islam must not only be evil, but Muslims must also be evil, and ALL Muslims must be evil (including the ones who don’t know what Islam is because they’re tiny and still have their baby teeth). Even our Christian hope that their souls are salvageable must be discarded as a dangerous thought.
Muslims must not only be evil, but they must also be as evil as humanly possible. Any fact or data point that could make them be perceived as less evil might lead to someone asking, “Why did you bomb that apartment building of 300 people to kill one guy?”
If Muslims are not ontologically evil, from birth, and irreparable and unsavable, it will lead you to question why the IDF's "Daddy's Home" targeting system waits for them to get home to kill their wife and kids, too, before firing. It will lead you to ask why they've killed more children than adults. They don't want you asking.
Muslims, for this Israeli propaganda op to work, must have a complete monopoly on evil. Because if they don't, then maybe some of that evil is shared by Israel, too. That is why any attempt to say, "Hold on a minute. It didn't always used to be like this in Palestine," is met with accusations of being some kind of "Islamic Apologist."
If there was a time when there was an imperfect system, with imperfect people, that still functioned better for Christians than what exists under the Israelis now, then that means there are reasons for the current chaos and an explanation for the hellscape that is currently the Middle East. That's more complicated than Israelis want it to be.
If history is complicated, then so too is the present. And Americans thinking through things carefully is not in the Israelis' best interests.
Read more at Insight to Incite. Link in bio. Audio available.
I asked her, "Have you seen what they do to Tucker's guests?" My daughter's response was, "So."
She was telling me that none of it changes the calculus. The math is simple. You have one shot. You say the thing that matters. You get off the stage. What happens in the comment sections afterward is not your problem, and more to the point, it’s not your business.
I can't think of any message on Earth that could be worth that treatment, and what would follow the interview. Nothing. I knew it would be brutal, and didn't want it. I had an invitation to go onto what is arguably the biggest platform in the world, douse myself in gasoline, pull out a lighter, and self-immolate in front of millions of people.
I could not think of another single cause, besides the gospel, that would make it worth what would follow. Days, maybe weeks, of being flogged by Israeli bots, war lobbyists, random critics, old enemies, or jealous online Reformed evangelical war lords in blind rage that they were not asked instead. The only thing that could make any of that worth it, is talking about Jesus.
I knew they were coming. Old critics. New critics. Jew critics. Come what may.
I was praying for a single opportunity. God gave me the whole interview. Worth it.
Charlie Kirk spent years criticizing Islam, and nothing happened to him. But the second he criticized Israel and “jewish donors,” his microphone suddenly blew up.
Coincidence? You decide.
We worship an ethnic Hebrew who preferred to go by an intentionally universal title, “Son of Man,” who decreed the destruction of the Jewish Temple (Matthew 24:2), personally ended kosher law (Mark 7:19), retired the Old Covenant and gave us a new one in His own blood (Hebrews 8:13, Luke 22:20), called the founders of modern Judaism ‘sons of the devil’ (John 8:44), said that anyone who denies Him rejects Moses (John 5:46-47), and their Synagogue worships the devil (Revelation 2:9, 3:9).
Then His hand-chosen Apostles taught that God no longer sees people as Jews or Gentiles (Galatians 3:28, Colossians 3:11), that believers in Jesus are children of Abraham (Galatians 3:7), that unbelieving Jews are not (Romans 9:6-8), and referred to the Church as the circumcised (Philippians 3:3), as His chosen nation (1 Peter 2:9), and as the ‘Israel of God’ (Galatians 6:16).
The Book was written by the Holy Ghost (2 Peter 1:21), with multiple books written by non-Jewish hands (Luke/Acts), for the benefit of all men (2 Timothy 3:16-17). And the BIG REVEAL of the whole Book is that Jesus came to save the goyim (Ephesians 3:6).
Stop trying to turn the Son of God into your tribal bush deity and some simp mascot for a desert war cult. He’s the King of Kings. Have some respect.
This year’s NDAA is a grand-slam home run for Alaska! I secured 56 provisions and a historic $2.6 Billion for our great state—the biggest military construction budget for one year that we’ve ever gotten.
One part of the NDAA is a bill I introduced called the “Alaska National Guard Rural Community Revival Act.” This legislation directs the Pentagon to develop a plan to revive the Alaska National Guard in Rural Alaska— including reopening, investing in, modernizing, and staffing the infrastructure and armories in Rural Alaska that were and are so important to defending our nation and keeping our communities and state safe.
Let’s follow Romans 11. I’ll make it simple:
“Does God throw away His people?”, he asks in verse 1. NO. Paul emphatically says God has NOT cast away the Hebrew.
Great news! But this doesn’t mean what YOU want it to mean. Keep reading.
SAME VERSE: “For I myself am an Israelite…” Paul’s example, his proof, that God hasn’t discarded the Hebrew people is that HE happens to be one.
WHY does Paul point to himself? Paul is showing for the record that despite being an ethnic Hebrew, he has been redeemed by faith in Jesus. He didn’t point to the Pharisees, the priests, to the crowd to whom he was speaking, but to himself, that any ethnic Israelite who believes in Jesus can still be saved.
Obviously, no one should deny this, nor allege that Jews are outside hope of salvation.
His next example, verses 2-5, he reminds them that God always has a remnant, like the 7 thousand who didn’t bend their knee to Ba’al, despite most Israelites murdering the prophets. Some, Paul says, “are chosen by grace.”
They’re not chosen by ethnicity. They’re not chosen by blood. Not all are chosen. SOME are chosen by GRACE. A grace that Paul says is *through faith* and *in Jesus*
Absolutely NOTHING in what Paul says indicates a corporate promise for the Israelites, a national promise, or a collective promise for the Israelites, and no promise is suggested based on bloodline. The promise is that by grace, Israelites can be saved the same as Paul, the same as Gentiles, by grace through faith in Jesus.
He says, “So too, at the present time, there is a remnant chosen by grace.” This is gospel talk, not Zionism talk. There’s not a speck of indication this is a special promise uniquely for Jews. This is a promise that Jews aren’t left out of the same promise God makes to anyone else.
In verses 7-10, Paul explains God has given many Israelites - but not all - a “judicial hardening,” a punishment for their various sins.
In verses 11-12, Paul gives a reason not to feel hopeless. God’s not done yet.
In verse 14, Paul says God will save “some.” Again, no corporate promise. God will save some of EVERY tribe, tongue, and nation, including ethnic Hebrews. This is the sense in which he’s not cast them away.
Verses 15+, Paul build his “Tree of Abraham/Tree of Faith” analogy. It’s pretty simple:
The trunk is Abraham. The roots are God’s Covenant promises and blessings, giving life to the tree.
Verse 17, Paul says unbelieving Jews are cut off the tree, on the ground, severed from God, from Abraham, and from the life-giving Covenant promises and blessings.
In their place (v19) wild shoots of believing Gentiles are attached to the tree, binding them to Abraham and giving them access to the Covenant and its promises. This is why in Galatians 3, Paul says WE are Abraham’s children and in Romans 9 says unbelieving Jews aren’t.
We are also told not to rub it in (be haughty) to those broken off, because that sucks for them (v18).
The good news in verse 23 is that ethnic Israelites can be brought back to Abraham “IF THEY DO NOT PERSIST IN UNBELIEF.” But this isn’t a special promise unique to Jews. This is true for everyone; Eskimos, Samurai, Hillbillies, Palestinians, starving pigmies in New Guinea can all be grafted if they believe. There’s no ethnic component here.
Verse 28, the “Deliverer of Zion” (Jesus) taking away their sins IS the Covenant. No Jesus, no Covenant. No Jesus, no blessings or promises.
The election, blessings, promises that follow in the rest of the chapter are entirely dependent upon them being saved by faith in Jesus. There is **nothing** that suggests a unique, genetics-based promise God has given the Jews by which they remain in Covenant with God outside of faith in Jesus.
There’s nothing here resembling a corporate, national promise to Jews, nor hope retained that outside of faith, they are considered God’s chosen people.
It says the opposite. The election is dependent upon grace, through faith, to those who believe.
I want to offer my sincerest apologies to those who I offended - especially my fellow Reformed Baptists who appear to be the most grievously vexed - for taking the opportunity to share the gospel and defend historic Christian theology without first receiving your explicit, written permission. Shame on me.
There I was, minding my own business, writing my I2I and NXR substack and raising chickens, and got an invitation to go on Tucker’s program, and didn’t stop once - not a single time - to double check it was okay with you. That’s my bad. I’ll own that.
I was, selfishly, excited to talk about the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus and Jesus’ role as a global Messiah to draw all men to Himself, and didn’t stop once to consider how this could affect your feelings. HOWEVER..
I have BEGGED YOU, for the love of God and with tears in my eyes, to boldly proclaim the truth as it pertains to modern Israel in the public marketplace of ideas and not just in your seminary lecture halls and Sunday School classrooms. I pled with you to grasp that NOW is your moment to herald the truth, that YOU were called to the task.
So, if you’re one of those complaining I am “not a good representative of Covenant Theology,” just remember I’ve been giving you a hard time for choosing not to represent it at all, just so you could avoid an antisemitism accusation. You chose silence.
Because, after all, I just raise chickens. But God gave me the opportunity, so I took it. Maybe - and just take this as free advice - be grateful the Truth was spoken, and the Truth was heard, and God’s Truth will accomplish its purpose, and will not return void.
The thing is, I didn’t orchestrate the invitation to speak. God did. Take it up with the Almighty.
Soli Deo Gloria.