Kevin Harrub

[Kevin Harrub @KevinHarrub]

@MattWalshBlog Dang Matt! Just because u have a great ability w/ words & given your subject matter, an easy target - doesn’t mean you have lower yourself to his level. U might need to take a break from X madness. I have, and I find I’m less triggered today than last week.

[Angela Morabito @AngelaLMorabito]

No one else has the range

[Andrew Kolvet @AndrewKolvet]

.@MrsErikaKirk just posted this in Instagram and I want everyone possible to see it so I’m posting it here too:

You loved witnessing excellence.
It’s why you loved sports so much. You loved watching the best of the best perform at the level of greatness God intended for them.

When we first started dating, we went to the basketball court to shoot around. I loved seeing you in that element because time was irrelevant. It was just us, the sound of sneakers squeaking and jump shots. We bonded over how Jordan was the GOAT and you told me about your basketball days in high school and I told you about my basketball days in college. Just two athletes escaping the demands of the world for a minute.

I remember seeing on your wrist a red bracelet. You never took it off, it said “work harder, be better.” And everyday you did just that. Years later, one day after an event on campus a student asked you about your bracelet, and you gave it to them. I have no idea who that student was or where they are today, but I have no doubt they’re working harder and being better, because you set the tone.

This is one of the last photos taken of you before you were murdered. I look at it and can’t help but see excellence. You’re in your element. You’re in athlete mode. Training for this exact moment, mind, body, and soul. To me, this is your “Jordan” photo. Permanently etched in time, held in my heart, as I admire your greatness. Forever.

I pray you’ve had the most amazing week in Heaven. I love you.

[Alveda C. King, Ph.D. @AlvedaCKing]

I know the pain of losing loved ones to assassination. Charlie Kirk stood for life, faith, and truth—unashamed of Jesus. Now is not the time to attack him, but to honor his legacy, pray for his family, and ask: Where will you spend eternity?

[ZUBY: @ZubyMusic]

The world was better when we didn't know what everybody was thinking.

[Kevin Harrub @KevinHarrub]

@ZubyMusic THAT IS THE ABSOLUTE TRUTH ZUBY!!! THE ABSOLUTE TRUTH!

[Kevin Harrub @KevinHarrub]

@WalshFreedom @JohnFetterman Joe, that’s all you got? “He’s fascist”, Trump’s a fascist. Me beginning to think, you know not what you speak about.

And after all that’s gone down the last few days , you’re still using that speech?

Please. Sit down.

[Kevin Harrub @KevinHarrub]

@BarryMarkson1 Sir, your grift is so blatant and foul smelling. Please stop. It’s not becoming and I, like many, am so done with gaslighting.

[Kevin Harrub @KevinHarrub]

@JohnJHarwood You are apparently completely blind to the truth. For those of us that didn’t vote for Obama, but smiled slightly when he won, because maybe, he would help bring people together in his “hope and change” message - we were totally disappointed when all he did was divide.

[Kevin Harrub @KevinHarrub]

@RobertMSterling Thank you for taking the time to write this. Perfectly communicated.

[Robert Sterling @RobertMSterling]

(Warning: long rant)

My liberal friends are completely oblivious about how radicalizing the last week has been for tens of millions of normal Americans. Zero clue.

I’m not talking about people who are “online”; I mean regular, everyday Americans. “Normies.” People who scroll through Facebook posts and Instagram reels from the Dutch Bros drive thru line. Political moderates who have water cooler chats about Mahomes touchdowns and Bon Jovi concerts, not Twitter threads or Rachel Maddow monologues.

Millions of them. Tens of millions. They’re logging on, they’re engaging, and they’re furious.

And I’ll be candid: They blame you guys. They blame the left.

Regardless of whether you believe it to be justified, they think you’re the bad guys here. And they are reacting accordingly.

I can already hear some of you racing toward the comments to start screeching in moral indignation, so I’m going to be blunt: Shut up and listen to what I’m telling you. Your movement will lose any semblance of relevance if you don’t develop some small measure of self-awareness, and—absent someone force-feeding you bitter medicine—you guys collectively lack the humility to do this on your own.

Here are the facts:

Fact 1. Tens of millions of Americans started the week seeing a 23-year-old blonde woman—a young woman in whom virtually every parent watching pictured their own daughter—stabbed in the neck by a career criminal. These people then found out the murderer had been released from jail 14 times over.

Fact 2. Two days later, tens of millions of Americans watched a video of Charlie Kirk get murdered speaking to college students. Millions of these people knew who Charlie was; millions of them didn’t. Upon seeing the video, however, these normal Americans from across the land and across the political spectrum agreed that he was the victim of a terrible, fundamentally unjustifiable crime, and their hearts broke in sympathy for his family. Good people who had never even heard the name Charlie Kirk before wept.

Fact 3. Immediately after seeing the footage of a peaceful young man get shot in the neck, these same people logged onto Facebook and Instagram (remember, we are talking about regular Americans, not perpetually online Twitter or Bluesky users) and saw some of their local nurses, school teachers, college administrators, and retail workers celebrating this horrific crime. Not just defending it, but cheering it.

These are all facts. You may not like the implications of these facts, and we can certainly debate the underlying causes thereof, but, indisputably, they are nevertheless factual statements.

Here’s what it means for you, the Democrats reading this:

These normal, middle-of-the-road, non-political citizens just become politically active. They realized that politics cares about them, even if they don’t particularly care about politics. After watching Iryna Zarutska and Charlie Kirk both bleed out from the neck, they think their lives and the physical safety of their families—the bedrock of human society, the foundation of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs—depend on political activation, whether they desire it or not.

These people are now sprinting—not jogging, not walking, but racing—to the right. Because they blame you guys for everything that just happened.

When they see footage of Decarlos Brown stabbing a Ukrainian refugee to death, they don’t see just one demon-possessed man. They picture every university administrator, HR bureaucrat, and DEI apparatchik that ever lectured them about systemic racism, the “carceral state,” or the need to release violent crime suspects without bail in the name of social justice.

They then think back to conversations they’ve had with their cop friends—their buddy from high school who quit the force after getting tired of being called a racist, their friend at the local YMCA who vents about having to release career criminals because Soros-funded prosecutors aren’t willing to file charges—and they realize everything the left has told them over the last five years has been utter bullshit.

And they blame you. Because, even if you count yourself as a moderate Democrat, your party supported the district attorneys, city council members, and mayors that let fictitious concerns about mental health and racial justice supersede very real concerns for their family’s safety.

When these Americans see blood erupt from the side of Charlie Kirk’s neck, they don’t see just a martyred political activist. They think of every extreme leftist they’ve ever met who (1) calls anyone to the right of Hillary Clinton a fascist and (2) constantly jokes—“jokes”—about punching Nazis and “bashing the fash.”

They realize that there really do exist people who wish to see them dead for their moderately conservative political beliefs, their Christian faith, and even the color of their skin. They ask themselves if the violence visited upon Charlie might one day show up on their own doorstep.

And they blame you. Because, even if you’re just a center-of-the-road liberal, you lacked the courage to police your own ranks. You let modern-day Maoist red guards run loose across every facet of society, and what started with social-media struggle sessions has now turned to 30-06 bullet holes.

When these Americans log onto social media and see their neighbors justifying, celebrating, glorifying murder, they realize that some who walk among them are soulless ghouls at best, literally demon-possessed at worst. These people—whether they faithfully attend church every Sunday or only attend with relatives once a year, on Christmas Eve—start talking about things like spiritual warfare. They implicitly understand that no normal human casually celebrates the mortal demise of a peaceful person.

And they blame you. Because, even if you condemned Charlie Kirk’s murder, they probably haven’t seen you condemn those in your own movement who cheered it on. They view you as complicit in allowing heartless fellow travelers to celebrate death, and it repulses them.

For all of these situations, what has your response been? Nothing but bullshit.

In response to Iryna Zarutska bleeding out on the floor of a train, you post bullshit statistics about reductions in reported crime, when everyone who’s ever been to a major urban center in the last decade knows that actual crime has skyrocketed, only for victims not to waste their time reporting it to cops that don’t have the manpower to respond and prosecutors that seek to downgrade as many felonies as possible to misdemeanor citations.

In response to a 31-year-old man taking a bullet to the neck in front of his family, you post nothing but bullshit whataboutism.

> “What about January 6th?” (Honest answer: After you let Liz Cheney spend two years operating a star chamber in the House, combined with countless other failed attempts at “lawfare” against Trump, no one cares anymore.)

> “What about Mike Lee making a dumb joke on Twitter about some guy in a mask in Minnesota?” (No one outside of Utah, DC, or Twitter knows who Mike Lee even is.)

> “What about Paul Pelosi?” (That’s not comparable to Charlie Kirk getting shot, and we all know it. And, again, Paul who?)

> “What about regulations on assault rifles?” (That’s not going to get you very far when one of these killers used a knife and the other one used a common hunting rifle.)

In response to teachers, healthcare workers, and thousands of other liberals cheering on Charlie’s murder, it’s nothing but more bullshit and misdirection.

> “It’s not THAT many people celebrating!” (Yes, it is. Everyone has seen it on their Facebook and Instagram feeds.)

> “I thought you guys didn’t support cancel culture.” (We don’t cancel people over their opinions; we’re more than happy to see people lose their jobs—especially their taxpayer-funded jobs—for actively cheering on murder, though. If you can’t see the difference, that’s your own shortcoming.)

All bullshit. Not even smart bullshit, but stale, mid-grade, low-IQ bullshit. Ordinary Americans see right through it, and they don’t like how it smells.

You probably don’t like hearing this. But you need to hear it.

Because I’m right, and, as you reflect on this, you know I’m right. The ranks of my political movement gained millions of righteously angry new members this week. We have a mandate to ensure these crimes never happen again, and that’s exactly what we are now going to do.

If you want to keep a seat at the table as we do so, you’d better clean house and start policing your own.

[Military Arms @MAC_Arms]

…and they want to pretend they don’t know how we got here.

[Chad Prather @WatchChad]

I keep seeing people post about how Charlie Kirk said he “hated the word empathy.” (I’m looking at YOU…. skinny-jeans, stool sitting, iPad reading, designer glasses preachers out there…..ok that’s rough, but you know I’m right. Right?)

Charlie’s point about hating the word empathy wasn’t that he despised compassion, but that he drew a sharp line between empathy and biblical compassion. “Empathy” as our culture defines it has become weaponized. It demands that you feel exactly what someone else feels and, in doing so, surrender truth, logic, and boundaries.

Still reading? Good. Buckle up.

“Empathy” today doesn’t mean caring for people. It means surrendering truth for feelings. It demands that we celebrate destructive lifestyles, affirm harmful decisions, and silence truth under the guise of “walking in someone else’s shoes.” The result? A culture more fragile, more offended, and more easily manipulated than ever before.

Real compassion calls us to love our neighbor, but also to tell the truth that leads to life. Toxic empathy, on the other hand, insists we affirm every lie, every delusion, every self-destructive choice or else be labeled hateful.

This is why families collapse. Why children are confused. Why leaders cave under pressure. Empathy, stripped from truth, becomes tyranny disguised as kindness.

We don’t need more fake empathy. We need courage. We need compassion rooted in truth. We need people willing to care enough to speak what is real, even when it hurts feelings. Because lies kill, but truth sets people free.

If you disagree….well I feel sorry for you. See what I did there? Love y’all.

[Cernovich @Cernovich]

The secular world is at war with your children! You are not a paycheck or worker ant. You are the SPIRITUAL LEADER of your house, all dads better understand it. Do not let this demonic planet and materialism worship ever let you forget it. SPIRITUAL LEADER is your first role.

[Kevin Harrub @KevinHarrub]

@mmpadellan

[Batya Ungar-Sargon @bungarsargon]

Charlie Kirk's killer murdered him because he agreed with every prominent Democrat that views they disagree with are hateful and dangerous. I want unity—but first they have to take responsibility, admit the truth, and explain how they will change. That's how we move forward.

[Steve Deace @SteveDeaceShow]

Gen X, we have the older/adult children and the discretionary income. So we have the time and resources. We're also the only generation that voted for Trump in the last election. So we know what time it is. Time for us to step up and lead.

Faith without works is dead.

[Kevin Harrub @KevinHarrub]

@JoJoFromJerz Given democrats propensity to stir up and promote violence with their rhetoric, and use of “ism” language - your reflection would seem to be all blather.

[Kevin Harrub @KevinHarrub]

@mjfree Your words ring hollow and untrue Morgan.