Charlie Kirk was on the youngest end of the Millennial generation. He didn't graduate from college with a fancy degree. He didn't have a skyscraper looking down on his fellow man. He wasn't a finance tycoon or tech savant.
Yet he led millions of Millennials & Gen Z, and who knows how many from Gen X & even Boomers, away from Leftistism, Socialism, Communism, & self-harming habits and cults.
Charlie knew and understood true, eternal wealth and sacrificed everything to show others it was possible to find those truths and live them too.
You really want to beat the Left? You really want to witness them weep and gnash their teeth?
Strip them of your influence over you.
1. Get involved with a REAL Church, not an affirmation circle that tells you what you want to hear instead of what you need to hear & that sin isn't a big deal.
2. Stop sleeping around, wait until marriage, and if you already haven't waited, stop now and wait, it's worth it.
3. Date with the intention of marriage. Do not "casually" date. That is a waste of your future. Be discern in your judgment of your future spouse.
4. Marry young. Stay married. Have multiple children.
5. Plant a garden. It doesn’t have to be massive, just a simple vertical garden on your patio of a small herb plant in your window. Gardening skills are transferable.
6. Stop consuming whatever mainstream media produces. Loyalty to a brand that cheers the demise of a Christ following, Gospel spreading, peace offering husband & father would dance on your grave as well.
7. Study history, theology, language, etymology, geography, debate, & science. And by study, I don't mean a 12 second TikTok about how they Aztecs were the good guys. I mean get into the books, the museums, the countries if you can.
8. Get healthy. Eat red meat, dairy, fruits & veggies. Get away from the boxed dinners and drive thrus. Go to the gym or simply do small exercises in your home like push-ups, sit-ups, and burpees.
9. Read the Early Church Fathers, the Bible, and the Catchechism. Father Mike Schmitz has two wonderful podcasts to help you;
The Bible in a Year
https://t.co/4oy2qbBat9
The Catchechism in a Year
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10. Learn a trade. Have a skill that you can show your children, friends, & family. Create and conserve beauty & greatness.
Reject the nihilistic, victimizing, defeatist mentality.
Reject The Left.
Charlie Kirk would have been president. His friends knew it. His admirers knew it. And his enemies knew it.
This universal confidence in Charlie’s future began with his countless political accomplishments. At 18, he founded Turning Point USA, which went on to become the most important cultural organization on the American Right. By 22, he was addressing the Republican National Convention. Three years later, he founded Turning Point Action, which led the get-out-the-vote efforts that delivered the first Republican popular vote victory in twenty years. In his spare time, Charlie published five books, hosted a national talk show, married a lovely wife, and fathered two beautiful children. All of that by 31.
Charlie’s appearance inspired as much confidence as his accomplishments. At a towering six-foot-five slouching, he joked that he had descended from the Nephilim—the giant “fallen ones” of the Old Testament. He might have been born with such a nature, as are we all, but he was not content to remain so. Charlie loved his Savior. The zeal with which he debated politics paled in comparison to the excitement with which he discussed religion. And his religious life bore fruit.
Turning Point launched a Faith division to focus specifically on his followers’ souls. There too, Charlie’s enthusiasm for open debate set the tone, as he invited atheists and even Catholics to take part. But he didn’t need a specific religious conference to convey his faith. Charlie Kirk’s religion bore fruit in everything he did.
Discerning observers believed in Charlie Kirk, not chiefly for his accolades or his appearance, but for his manifest virtue. Charlie’s prudence, the principal virtue in politics, built a generational coalition that helped to transform the American government. His temperance distinguished him as one of the few on the Right to eschew whisky, cigars, and every other delight that might have distracted him from his purpose, for which he had so little time. His sense of justice produced clarity in moral vision and grace for his opponents. His fortitude impelled him to enter the public square without a hint of servile fear.
Charlie’s only fear was the holy sort—awe and wonder, the beginning of wisdom—and his clearest virtues were theological: faith, hope, and charity. We mourn his death, we take up his cause, and we entrust him, as he confidently entrusted himself, to God’s care.
A dinner with @dlongenecker1 and Joseph Pearce reminded me why I’m Catholic: because this faith doesn’t live in abstractions.
Steak, Wine, and the Blood of Christ.
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You have enough coffee and shirts?
Never have enough slaps.
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Ladies,
He has enough tools. Enough ties. Enough mugs.
What he doesn’t have?
A five book adventure series that reads like Indiana Jones with a bad attitude.
If he misses the kind of stories where men drink whiskey, dodge bullets, and never ask for backup,,
He’ll want Cole Harper on his shelf.
Link below.
I hate putting things like this out here on the web, mainly because I have my pride and I've always been one of those that can always figure something out.
But here, goes.
Most of you know that I was hit pretty hard during hurricane Helene back in september last year and it took me almost 5 months to get my property back to normal.
That took a good hit on my finances and I had to go beyond my regular job of being an editor and a writer/ghostwriter which has sustained my livlihood for over 5 years now and take some work at a local sawmill to make back what was lost.
Since then, things have been okay, but over the last month or so, that hasn't been the case. Some unexpected and unforseeable things have happened and it's taken a pretty good toll on me financially. (A handful of you are close enough to me to know the details.)
All that being said, I still can't bring myself to ask for a handout or set up some cringy crowdfunding page.
What I can do is what I'm doing now and drop a link to my substack.
A subscription is merely $5/mo or $50/year. And yes, I haven't dropped a new post on there in some time because I've gotten overly busy with other writing projects, but I'm bringing it back starting today.
If you'd like to subscribe, the link is in the comments below.