Vaughn Hilpp

Individuality over group identity

[Michael Knowles @michaeljknowles]

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.

[Kevin DeAnna @VDAREJamesK]

The whole point of Charlie Kirk, who was hardly some radical, is that he would debate anyone, talk to anyone, dialogue with anyone.

And they killed him for it.

[RamLover69 🇺🇸 @GetRammed_69]

That’s why you’re down 0-2 to us at home

[Dylan O'Sullivan @DylanoA4]

C. S. Lewis, stop overthinking it and just act like a good person

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

Dame Maggie Smith has sadly passed away at the age of 89.

[Daily Wire @realDailyWire]

Footage from tonight's fair, unbiased debate:

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

I fully endorse President Trump and hope for his rapid recovery

[Collin Rugg @CollinRugg]

NEW: CNN's Jake Tapper, who apparently never realized Biden had cognitive issues before the debate, reads an incoherent Biden quote word for word on live TV.

Brutal.

"The reality is that the Democratic elites are mostly late to acknowledge these age inability issues compared to the rest of the public. The elites have been forced to reckon with it."

Tapper later read Biden's quote word for word.

"The fact of the matter is how can you assure you're going to be out on, you know, on your way to go, you know, work tomorrow Age, age wasn't, you know, the idea that I'm too old."

[Russell Brand @rustyrockets]

...I can't believe that just happened.

[Michael Knowles @michaeljknowles]

The kangaroo court has voted to convict President Trump. In other news, grass is green, and the sky blue.

[Dick Butkus @thedickbutkus]

Proud to be an Illini

[Vaughn Hilpp @VHilpp]

You clearly haven’t seen A Christmas Story

[Pádraig Belton @PadraigBelton]

Hi from America. Where Walmart doesn’t have a plug adapter for my UK laptop. But on the other hand, I can buy a rifle and ammunition.

[Vaughn Hilpp @VHilpp]

@jloading33 I think she is qualified based on her legal career. But the point of the questioning is to get a sense of her interpretation of the law. When she gives non answers to issues she will definitely vote on as a SC justice that’s concerning to many.

[Vaughn Hilpp @VHilpp]

@olgatokariuk @suspilne Beautiful, sad and eerily reminiscent of this scene from HBO miniseries Band of Brothers depicting the aftermath of destruction in WWII

[Seth Dillon @SethDillon]

I just received this notice that we’ve been locked out of our account for “hateful conduct.”

[Bret Weinstein @BretWeinstein]

If you live where people are still wearing masks, consider not wearing one--before the mandates end. The timeline for lifting mandates reveals the fiction. Not complying is key to recapturing your dignity and asserting your right not to be gaslit by your government.

[Vaughn Hilpp @VHilpp]

@jloading33 I think this is more about some westerners being *stupidly* shocked that this imaginary idea of global peace and harmony is just that, imaginary. Not disagreeing, just saying this casual racism is borne from extreme ignorance rather than racial prejudice imo.