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In a world of influencers be a Berean

[David Burge @iowahawkblog]

Alpha Karen

[Ted Cruz @tedcruz]

Bingo!

[David Reaboi, Late Republic Nonsense @davereaboi]

Of course. The world needs Hamas to exist in order to continue the fight against the Jews, so they don’t need to get their own hands dirty.

[Bonchie @bonchieredstate]

Can’t feed their people.

Can build giant Lego dolls to set on fire.

Totally sane, rational country ready to turn over a new leaf and join the international order.

[Insurrection Barbie @DefiyantlyFree]

I am a person who studies patterns. They exist for a reason.

The Candace/Tucker/MTG/DSA crew all believe in the following:

1. Data centers are some of evil government power grab to destroy your entire life.

2. Israel controls the world. They are responsible for capitalism, usury, pedophilia, every war, communism, our foreign policy and both Presidents in both parties for 50 years.

3. AIPAC makes up 5% of lobby power but own 100% of the politicians.

4. Jews are the problem, so is Judaism not Islam.

5. Every real problem boils down to Epstein or Israel.

6. The Constitution is not sufficient.

If Russia, Iran and China walked into a room a devised a plan of how to demoralize and destroy America from within it would be this.

Lose the AI race.

Lose leverage in the Middle East.

Usher in Multipolarity.

Let the pendulum swing so far left and then so far right that one side torches the first amendment and strips America of the one thing that separates her from the world. The separation of church and state.

Our enemies couldn’t have come up with a better plan than these people.

[Insurrection Barbie @DefiyantlyFree]

Christians don’t bear false witness against people to millions of people, especially about a widow.

[Dumisani Washington @DumisaniTemsgen]

Rahm Emanuel: Benjamin Netanyahu has got to go!

Republicans: The nerve of that guy!

Donald Trump: I may decide to back Bibi's opposition. He needs to be more rational.

Republicans: 👀

[Arynne Wexler @ArynneWexler]

The Eulogy Charlie Kirk Deserves
Written 9.11.2025

Charlie Kirk died as he lived: fighting for the soul of the next generation.

He was on a college campus, in the belly of the beast. He knew there would be people who hated him. He knew that it was time away from his wife and kids. He knew it wouldn't make him the money that other ventures could. None of that mattered, so long as there were people he could reach and inspire.

And Charlie didn’t walk out. But that is, and now was, the magic of Charlie Kirk. He was the man who never walked out of a fight. He never walked out of a chance to persuade someone. He never walked out on his friends, on his family, or his country. He never walked out on the chance not just to defend America, but to champion what made America great.

He strode into every lion’s den with the righteous courage of a Daniel come to judgment.

Whether it was Cambridge or Utah Valley, Charlie Kirk didn’t walk onto college campuses in normal times. He visited them during the height of the Great Awokening, when the pseudo-apostles of George Floyd and gender ideology were busy tearing down statues, tearing through American history, and tearing up American values. Charlie Kirk stood athwart all of this, not impotently yelling from the sidelines as previous generations of conservatives did, but with a listening ear and a quick tongue, even in the face of furious, screaming, jeering crowds.

Before Charlie Kirk, the Right gave up on college campuses and treated youth as a punchline. Charlie Kirk, on the other hand, dared to listen, to be present.

There is no one I can point to in this country who cared more about the next generation of America than Charlie Kirk.

And yesterday, he was shot by a cowardly, vicious animal whose name may never be known, and which – even if it is – deserves to be forgotten. I will not dignify that animal. Instead, I will say what Charlie Kirk meant, even though there is something unbearably surreal about trying to encapsulate the movement that he built. It is trying to summarize a story that ends midsentence.

Many have remarked on the similarities between the 60’s Left and today’s Right. On those terms, there’s only one appropriate comparison: Charlie Kirk was our Martin Luther King Jr., and not only because we’ll always remember where we were when we heard he was shot. In an era when young conservative men were treated like pariahs – ostracized, shamed, scapegoated, dehumanized, and demonized – Charlie alone could channel their rage without being consumed by it. He not only felt their pain, but genuinely worked to fix it, which gave him the moral authority to tell them to rise above their worst instincts: to take the high road to self-betterment rather than one of the many primrose paths to self-immolation.

Unlike many other conservative influencers who claim to speak for young people, Charlie did not do this as a cynical ploy to protect donors. Quite the opposite.

I had the privilege to be with him a month ago for an off-the-record, high-level discussion with some TPUSA donors, where the topic unexpectedly became home-ownership among young people. It was a topic that Charlie chose. And in a room with people who arguably paid his salary, a lesser leader would have simply parroted what the people with money wanted him to say, but not Charlie Kirk. He refused to let that dictate his words. He refused to give up on the idea that young people deserved to experience the American dream, because as a man who never finished college and yet who ended up leading and shaping an entire movement, he personified the American dream.

I never once saw him look at his phone during the two days we met. Even when we disagreed, it was as if he had nowhere else to be. Like right there, in that moment, all that mattered was the subtle thrust and parry of intellectual fencing between two minds. He was preternaturally laser-focused, and despite the fact that he was both a literal and figurative giant (6’5’’ even when slouching), he somehow never made you feel small.

And it worked. In refusing to accept what his nearest historical analogue, William F. Buckley Jr., called “the failure of the conservative demonstration,” Charlie Kirk demonstrated that conservatism could be fun.

He made it look youthful, edgy, clever, and cool.

He bled aura.

When Turning Point started recruiting influencers, their videos were consistently good, with cool stages, obvious production value, and slick messaging. When the GOP needed to create its own ground game to compete with the Democrats’ longstanding advantage in mobilizing voters, who did they turn to? Charlie Kirk.

There was a season last year when wearing MAGA hats became a daring fashion statement even in places like New York City. Charlie Kirk did that.

He was able to pull all of this off not just thanks to talent, but thanks to conviction.

As the name of his organization implies, Charlie recognized that we were at a turning point in this country. He recognized the violence of the Left. He recognized that younger generations had much bleaker prospects than their parents. He cared about that deeply, which is why he went to these college campuses over and over again, even long after he no longer needed the exposure, and when he probably could have done countless other things that would’ve made more money.

But he still made time to do it. He made time for everyone. Countless friends have mentioned in the wake of his death that they had spoken with Charlie in the past week – not to namedrop, but because he made himself available to everyone all the time. In many ways, it felt like he was the whole movement’s pastor.

What he could not have foreseen was that the true turning point was the moment of his death. At the risk of sounding disrespectful to the victims of 9/11, this moment very well may change America even more than September 11th. 9/11 only showed us that we weren’t safe from the rest of the world; 9/10 showed that we aren’t safe from each other.

No doubt, the shooter and the Leftist ghouls cheering him on meant for this to be a public execution. For Charlie Kirk’s blood to be shed with a million cameras watching, and to spell out an implicit message in our mind: Don’t you dare be publicly conservative. Don’t you dare try to fight. Keep your mouth shut, or this will happen to you.

The shooter is a fool.

We know what we saw.

We saw Charlie Kirk die on the battlefield, trying to ward off violence with speech because, in his own words, “when civilizations stop talking, civil war ensues” – only to be struck down by the sting of a cowardly, sniveling insect cowering behind his scope just as the pathetic social justice warriors of Bluesky and TikTok cower behind their keyboards.

We know that courage is always cool, and cowardice is always cringe.

They think they can scare us just by shooting one of our leaders? We’ve seen this movie before. When President Trump was shot, only to be saved by God with a last-second head turn, he told us how to respond to this kind of barbarism with a single word:

Fight.

Fight.

Fight.

And we will.

We might be too early in the stages of grief for it now, too shocked to react, but the moment will come when shock and denial give way to anger. Anger which will burn and cleanse. When Trump was shot, but survived, our anger was somewhat stayed because his survival made us feel as if we’d been wrapped by God in a protective blanket. Instead of feeling fear, we felt destiny. But what the Left failed to realize was that that blanket did not protect us; it protected them.

However, even as my heart thrums with desire to see justice done, I have only one warning for my fellow members of Charlie’s movement: There will be those who want to use this moment to argue that we must meet violence with violence, and anarchy with anarchy. Ignore them. Ours is the party of justice, not vengeance. Of authority, not caprice. Of right reason, not blind rage. Ours is the party of good old-fashioned American law and order. Yes, we must punish this act of horror implacably, but not irrationally. It would be a great shame if the man known so well for “owning” his opponents with facts and logic became the unwitting tributary for the Right to abandon both.

Yes, they shot the one man who wanted to change their minds. But ask yourself this: would they have shot him if he weren’t succeeding? Would they have shot him if they did not fear minds being changed even more than bullets? Of course not.

I think we should give them what they fear. I think we should give it to them good and hard. There may no longer be a Charlie Kirk, nor anyone who can fill his shoes. But there is a movement he made, and while today feels like the day the music died, Charlie Kirk showed us all that we could be instruments of God. That as one, we can fill the void he left. Let us punish, yes, but let us also persuade, because to our enemies, that is the greatest punishment of all.

It’s what Charlie would want. And no, that’s not speculation. Charlie said it. When he was asked how he’d want to be remembered, he said, “I want to be remembered for courage for my faith.” What greater act of courage is there than to testify on behalf of the truth, even in the face of an assassin’s bullet? To die debating, unafraid to engage and to understand?

Let us mourn Charlie Kirk, and let us be worthy of his memory. The memory of a man who chose his voice over violence. And if anyone disagrees with us, let us have the courage to offer the same defiant challenge which flew over Charlie’s head during his last day on earth:

“Prove me wrong.”

Safe home, Charlie. Thank you for everything. God bless you.

[Bonchie @bonchieredstate]

Absolutely insane that it had to come to this.

A Democrat governor pardoned a man who raped a 10-year-old girl, all to play politics over his immigration status.

Bleak. So bleak.

[Joel Berry @JoelWBerry]

Israel is a proposition nation, like America.

But unlike America, they try not to give citizenship to people who hate them and want them dead.

[Reverend Jordan Wells @WellsJorda89710]

I cleaned out my classroom today.
One year ago, I was forced to resign from my teaching job in Florida simply because I’m a Black conservative who refused to hide my Republican values.

They couldn’t handle a teacher who actually believed in real education, personal responsibility, and traditional American principles. So they pushed me out.
It was painful. Walking through that empty classroom, boxing up the last of my things… it hurt. But today I’m stronger.

A full year later, I’m running several successful businesses, building real freedom on my own terms, and still standing firm in my convictions.
They tried to cancel me. Instead, they awakened me.
Never apologize for being a Black conservative. Never bow to the mob.
#BlackConservative #FloridaTeacher #StandFirm #Republican #CancelCulture #WalkAway #ConservativeBlackVoices #EducationNotIndoctrination

[Insurrection Barbie @DefiyantlyFree]

Just a reminder Satan too was just asking questions in the Garden of Eden.

[heuristic light @heuristic_light]

@Jack4462Jo @ShabbosK Red Herring

[heuristic light @heuristic_light]

@ShabbosK This should go viral..

[Shabbos Kestenbaum @ShabbosK]

The Tyler Robinson trial has exposed how mainstream blatant stupidity has become.

I explain why this phenomenon, particularly from the Woke Right, is so dangerous:

[𝐍𝐢𝐨𝐡 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐠 🇮🇷 ✡︎ @NiohBerg]

Dear @LauraLoomer, please use every lever of influence you have to make sure Trump sees this video along with all the others.

They are trying to make a mockery of him, as well as promising to murder him.

This will never end until the regime ends.

[Rabbi Brian Samuel @rabbriansamuel]

If you believe that Yeshua will return to save Israel and establish His Kingdom on earth, do not let others dismiss you with labels like “Dispy” or by associating you with people you have no connection, like Darby or Scofield.

You are being biblical, standing firmly upon God’s Word, and understanding His scriptural promises exactly as they are written.

Period.

[David @DavidFischer]

This night I give praise to the Most High!
Thank You for giving us Your Son so we could spend eternity with you!

And all God’s people said? AMEN!

[Eylon Levy @EylonALevy]

By my count, this is the SEVENTH time Trump has said Erdogan planned to join the war on Iran’s side and attack Israel.

I don’t think he’s joking.