I don’t know how to write this…
But I’ve spent a ton of time today thinking about Charlie Kirk today.
Especially his wife and kids today on Father’s Day.
I remember the night Charlie died, my wife and I were just sitting in bed watching Charlie’s videos and at one point,
She looks at me and goes,
“I used to hate him and I have no idea why.”
Charlie had a way of making people stop, listen, and actually engage. You didn’t have to agree with him. You didn’t have to like him. But he believed people were worth talking to.
Watching someone like my wife go from assuming she knew and hated him… to actually listening to him… reminded me how powerful a conversation can be.
There’s this line I recently read in CS Lewis’s book “The Weight of Glory” that has stuck with me.
“There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub and exploit - immortal horrors or everlasting splendors.”
I’m just beginning to understand what that means, but it’s obvious to me that Charlie… he knew.
He knew the stakes were eternity and he took that job seriously.
He was the best I’ve ever seen at making people feel heard, even when they disagreed with him. He could walk into hostile rooms, face people who despised him, and still choose conversation over contempt.
That’s why he was such a threat… not because he wanted people to fight.
But because he wanted people to think.
And they killed him for it.
I remember sitting on the podcast studio Green room at TPUSA waiting to go on his show a few months ago, and I saw Charlie’s daughter running around playing and my son played with her for a moment.
I can’t explain it, but in that moment I think I finally understood the full weight of evil.
To murder a father whose great crime was the fact that he was willing to talk to anyone about anything, no matter if you hated or loved him…
To remove him from his wife and young kids…
And then for them to celebrate his death in such grotesquely evil ways…
I don’t think I’ll ever get over it, honestly.
My biggest takeaway from Vance on The View is honestly how shitty and undisciplined the hosts STILL ARE. After all these years they still get basics facts wrong, flub easy questions and can’t get through a segment without yelling at each other.
Vance handled it all very well.
Gotta be honest, this @ufc event at the White House looks spectacular. This is a big time show. I’m not there, and we all know all the complaints folks had about renovations at and around the White House, etc, but — to be fair — this is some impressive stuff I’m looking at. Props to UFC President @danawhite and the show they’ve put on. It’s Bigtime. Plain and simple!!!
I really don’t understand the hate Jaxon Dart got for introducing President Trump. Good or bad..if you support Trump or not..you're in a lose lose situation. Politics and religion are difficult for sports. Folks have the right to believe in whatever the fuck they want.
I don't know..I just live by a code..As long as it's not interfering with my shit..do whatever you want because you've got to take whatever you're on up with God. I'm too much of a sinner to be judgmental and political.
I’m a MAGA Republican. That doesn’t make me your enemy. It means I see things differently. We can disagree on politics and still respect each other. That used to be normal. 🙏🏻🇺🇸
I would like to publicly endorse Scott Pressler for Chairman of the RNC.
Tyler Bowyer as co-Chair.
No one cares more about Republican base strategy on a grassroots level than these two.
It would mean Republican majorities for the next 50 years.
Time to do what must be done.
💥NEW: Megyn Kelly to Stephen A. Smith on TRUMP🙏
“I would endorse him again. I don’t regret endorsing him — and I thank God still that he won.”
“The two main things that I was hoping Trump would do, he has done: I wanted him to push back against the trans insanity and I wanted him to close the border. And I give him an A+ on both of those.”
“In the hierarchy of what was most important to me, Trump has delivered — and continues to deliver — on a lot of them. And I could go on about the things that I like about Trump.”
@nicksortor I would really really really REALLY appreciate it if Leftists stopped trying to murder Republicans.
That would be GREAT.
JUST 1 MONTH WHERE REPUBLICANS DO NOT HVE TO WORRY ABOUT BEING KILLED.
THAT WOULD BE GREAT.
Just so we are ALL CLEAR on what happened today...
Educators and school administrators single-handedly CANCELLED SCHOOL for 700,000 North Carolina students...
...INCLUDING MY SON!!!
To wave signs around in the street instead.
The signs vary from:
a) F**K ICE!!!
b) Defeat Trump's Agenda
c) Trump is a N*ZI
d) ICE OUT!!!
e) Protect trans kids
f) Refuse fascism
g) Stop bombing schools
DO NOT TELL ME THIS WAS ABOUT KIDS.
IT NEVER WAS.
This was ADULTS using 700,000 children, INCLUDING MINE, as political leverage against a president they don't like.
That is despicable.
You know better... DO BETTER.
Hey @jimmykimmel, what is funny about this?
Joking is one thing, but wishing death on the President by telling Melania “Mrs. Trump, you have a glow like an expectant widow”?
That’s not comedy, that’s dangerous rhetoric.
We’re better than this.
Yet he stayed loyal, supported his boss’ decisions, and didn’t have a public temper tantrum.
Now, he was instrumental in brokering the peace deal.
This is actually a good illustration of how you maturely navigate politics and handle internal disagreements.
He deserves respect for how he handled it.
Most people on this platform won’t get that. Because they’d rather blow up years of progress to have a self-aggrandizing, virtue signaling moment.
Their Rumble podcast and praise from leftists is more important than actually doing the hard work of politics.
They don’t understand that politics is a team sport. Or that you need to have influence over decision makers if you want influence over decisions.
Stephen A. Smith. I’ve known him for nearly 20 yrs. Hadn’t seen him for 3 yrs-way too long. He cracks me up. Makes me mad. Makes me smile. Makes me think. Constantly. And when we sat down in my living room to tape my show, he also made me cry. That’s what friendship is all about. This is an incredibly special episode. So grateful for this man.
@stephenasmith