He accomplished two important things with this line of questioning: 1) He exposed abortion for what it really is, stripping away the euphemisms that hide its barbarity, and 2) he revealed that abortion's proponents are too embarrassed and uncomfortable to have the conversation without the euphemisms because it makes them look monstrous. In other words, they care more about how they're perceived than anything else, including the wellbeing of innocent, defenseless babies. So they are, in fact, monstrous — and terrible at hiding it.
Very well done.
Absolutely the most unnatural and unholy thing I've witnessed in my career. Because it is nothing but pure and unfiltered demonic seething and spite to publicly torment the widow of arguably the most unifying and apostolic leader we had immediately after his martyrdom.
I’m so sick of people saying, “well, maybe Erika should stay home!” Bro, that is none of your business. How do you know where her kids are? How do you know they’re not with her? How do you know she’s not home 95% of the time? Also, it doesn’t affect you! Just pray for her protection and strength and keep your busybody thoughts to yourself
Maybe Christ saved him before he died. I hope so. Otherwise I can only imagine that he’s being eternally tormented by the screams of the infants he murdered. One day, Praise God, Jesus will return and do away with abortion forever
This morning, no matter how we vote or what banner we stand under, we should be on our knees.
Our sons and daughters are in harm’s way.
Today is not a day for argument or political advantage. It is a day for prayer — for the protection of heaven over our troops, for courage in the field, for clarity in the fog of war. And for wisdom — deep, steady wisdom — for our leaders and for our President as they carry burdens few of us can fully comprehend.
When a nation takes bold action, the cost is never abstract. It is borne by families, by service members, by generations yet to come. So we pray that every decision is guided not by pride or anger, but by discernment, restraint, and a sincere desire for peace.
May those entrusted with planning and command be led by conscience and by a spirit greater than themselves. And may the people of Iran — the Persian people with their ancient and noble heritage — one day be free to stand, to rebuild, and to chart their own course toward liberty and human dignity.
God protect our troops.
God guide our leaders.
And may peace, rooted in justice, be the final outcome. @SecRubio@DeptofWar@realDonaldTrump #IranRevoIution2026 #prayforpeace #godsavetherepublic
Hey @elonmusk, please make it mandatory that wherever an account is based - country - be featured in an account’s public profile. Foreign bots are tearing America apart. Thanks.
Some of y’all have completely outsourced your critical thinking to influencers and it shows.
You’ve lost the ability to ask simple questions. You’ve shut your brain off and allowed yourself to be swept up by compelling narratives that don’t actually add up. And the rot is so deep that you reflexively assume anyone who does ask questions is being paid off, manipulated, etc.
You’re not as smart as you think you are. Start there.
As I said earlier, everywhere I have knowledge of the things Candace Owens is alleging, it's the same story: some little kernel from which she grows a twisted vine of lies, bearing evil fruit. This newest case is no exception. It's monstrous, as is her wont.
It is very clear to anyone who actually knew Charlie that in these newest leaked PRIVATE texts (seriously, these leaks are disgusting, btw) that he was experiencing immense frustration. I have no reason to doubt that he meant what he said, given that his executive function was extremely high and often like that, but it's also clear he was venting and could have been talked off a ledge.
Charlie felt bullied about how he should handle issues about the discourses about Israel. He was increasingly being accused of holding a stance (antisemitism or the willful support thereof) that went against his views, his heart, and his soul. He felt cornered by former friends and donors who disagreed with how he was handling it and the consequences of those decisions, who were acting according to their own consciences in LOVE, not HATE, for their friend Charlie Kirk.
He expressed his frustration about this IN PRIVATE to trusted counselors. Candace Owens is taking advantage of that, quite maliciously. It is evil.
I can completely relate to how he felt and understand it. In much lower stakes, I went through similar in February 2021, and forward, when I was accused of antisemitism even though I was certainly in no way antisemitic. It messed with me. It was bad.
The details of my accusation are simple -- far simpler than Charlie's situation. "Noticers" on the Right were "noticing" lots of people of Jewish ethnicity associated with Communism, Bolshevism, Critical Theory, and Woke Leftist causes. They were making the hasty generalization that it's all a Jewish plot, as they do, and a genuinely antisemitic reactionary movement was on the rise as a result of their recruitment efforts.
I had noticed this happening and tried to say something about it, foolishly trying to cram a complicated idea I didn't have the right vocabulary for into a single 280-character tweet. It was taken badly, as me accusing Jews of causing antisemitism, which wasn't my intent at all. I thought I was blaming the reactionaries for recruiting off "noticing" (which I couldn't name at the time), but once the cascade of accusations started, it couldn't be stopped. The Left joined in gleefully, as did the early radical Right. (This, incidentally, is also what Megyn Kelly cancelled me over in February 2021, btw, but I'm not saying she was part of the radical Right here.) It cost me a lot.
As a result of this confusing and unfair attack, as I saw it, I was frustrated in the same was as Charlie though for far smaller reasons and at far lower stakes. Why couldn't they see I was trying to help? Why were they accusing me of the thing I was trying to stop? I didn't turn antisemitic over it, and neither did Charlie to all available evidence, but I did let my frustration get the best of me for a while.
For example, Bari Weiss called me to talk to me about it, to talk through it IN PRIVATE. She was getting struggled for association with me, so powerful was the accusation (and the attacks were coming from Woke Left and proto-Woke Right, both -- against me and Bari, both). I yelled at her on the phone in my exasperation and frustration. It wasn't right, but I understand the frustration here.
While many Jewish people, particularly conservative Rabbis reached out to me with appreciation for what I had said and meant, it felt like a lot of Jews were not willing to listen at all and were accusing me of the opposite of my intentions even as I was trying to help them (as I actually had intended).
It all went really badly. I was hurt, frustrated, and furious. I felt betrayed and unappreciated. Maybe that's on me, but the feeling was real. I said worse things than Charlie did in those texts, PRIVATELY (and no, nothing antisemitic, just very cold things), but I was able to think longer on them and not fall to evil over that frustration.
As a result, I never turned against Jews, but I did for a while believe I had no interest or reason to help them as Jews (which isn't the same as doing so for individuals as individuals, even when Jewish). It took some time to get over this frustration.
About a year or so later, in 2022, I had already cleared of the frustration, and seeing the rising antisemitism on the Right as an increasingly serious emergency, I reached out to some well-connected Jewish friends and set up some meetings to discuss the problem of "J-pilling" in the radical Right sphere (radicalization or conscientization through "noticing" is "taking the J-pill", which was maybe helpful but didn't go far, I don't think.
Time and circumstances healed me of that frustration, and as is evident to everyone now, I am not, was not, and will not be antisemitic. I hate antisemitism and will not tolerate it, and it has cost me. A lot. A lot more than that silly episode back in 2021, in fact, and every last bit of the sacrifice is worth it.
My point is that the frustration passed and the seriousness of the situation had overwhelmingly overcome any fear or resentment I had obtained in my own "antisemitismic" witch hunt against me in the winter/spring of 2021 (which the Left never really let go of, by the way). A moment of frustration in a tough situation where you feel under attack doesn't define a trajectory in life for a good, reflective person. Charlie was such a person.
I can therefore only assume similarly about Charlie from everything I knew about him privately and everything I saw from him publicly. Time and circumstances would have turned him from any evil he might have been pulled toward in a moment of very human frustration, again with very high stakes under very high pressure that most of us cannot begin to imagine, also again: expressed IN PRIVATE.
In that moment, he felt bullied and felt compelled to do the opposite of what the bullies wanted. Rash, maybe, maybe unwise, maybe youthful, maybe foolish, maybe strategic, I don't know. Maybe just venting, even, IN PRIVATE to trusted counselors.
I tend to think if he had acted on any of these things it would have been an error in judgment and would have told him so -- had we gone through with plans to meet and discuss things sometime later this fall, which obviously never materialized. I don't know how he would have taken that either, though I do know I would have shared this story about my own experience had the opportunity come up.
I'm quite certain he would not have fallen into any serious evil in the end, though he might have made some serious mistakes before he recovered. I just don't know. Because of the circumstances, we don't have to and shouldn't speculate. We should think the best and most honorable things we can about Charlie, about my friend, who was a good and honorable man who hated evil.
So, so what? Let's suppose the worst. He very well may have ended up making some costly mistakes over this attitude, I don't know. He didn't, as evil fortune guaranteed. Still, in the time before that evil, his donors, as people can see in the PRIVATE text, were spooked, mostly about Tucker Carlson's continued prominence with TPUSA, especially after SAS and then the subsequent announcement that he'd be headlining AmericaFest. A lot of us were, not just Jews, and not just donors. It's been a tense year or two on this issue, and it has started coming to a head.
They were nervous about a lot of things going on. They were nervous about what happened as SAS and what might happen at AmFest and also about his unclosed relationship with Candance Owens, who has already fallen into evil unambiguously. They were nervous about the weird "focus group" panel he did with chapter leaders at SAS. They were nervous about Cenk and Dave Smith and many of the complicated decisions Charlie was making regarding the issue of Israel, which, at least up to immediately before those frustrated messages, he defended strongly and consistently (and the Jewish people even more so). A lot of us were.
As a result, some donors were leaving TPUSA, disproportionately Jewish or strong Jewish supporters (I have very little direct knowledge of these things, to be clear). I expect that would have accelerated, especially if Charlie acted on his frustrations as the PRIVATE texts indicated, and I don't know to what end. I could speculate, but it adds nothing. Besides, speculation is most of the problem here, so less of it is a lot more.
All I will say for sure is that this frustration didn't match the contents of his heart in anything he ever displayed in public or PRIVATE to me or anyone else I know who knew him well. He was a man torn to pieces over these critical issues of our time, and he was making decisions beyond the capacity of most of us mortals at the mere age of 31 years. Some grace is allowed here, even given his stature and station.
What is beyond conscience is someone using a PRIVATE moment of frustration against him and his memory, not to mention his organization and his legacy, in this vulnerable moment.
If he had made those decisions and they had been costly, they were his to make. I would have counseled him against them. Obviously, the others in that PRIVATE chat group with him also did. So did some donors, no doubt some who withdrew and some who stuck by him. Charlie was his own man, and these circumstances are difficult. Time would have told.
What Candace is doing is making it about herself and running a destructive operation against Charlie, his work, his memory, his legacy, and his organization, all for her own personal gain or the gain of anyone who might be pulling her strings.
She is alleging that she was going to be back in with Turning Point USA. Maybe, but I doubt it. This is very thin evidence of such. Maybe for a short season, but I doubt even that. Even despite Charlie's immense blind spot for his one-time mentor Tucker Carlson (understandable, I suppose), both he and Candace are on a runaway slide that would have eventually gone too far against Charlie's strongly functioning conscience, and that ugly season would have ended.
Candace's narcissism cannot allow for this reality to enter into her thinking or projection into the world, but it's still reality.
Worse, Candace is continuing to use this leaked PRIVATE messaging to bolster an absurd, slanderous, and evil allegation that Charlie's life was taken by either Israeli operations or Jewish donors who had become too angry and fearful of him and what would follow if he defected from an openly pro-Israel stance, especially publicly (which is not the same as going against Jews, which I don't think Charlie ever would have done in the slightest). Worse, she is putting it on Erika Kirk, his grieving widow, and TPUSA, his organization, to "correct," as though this evil deserves a substantive response.
This is vile. She is an awful woman for doing this, but her narcissism cannot allow this reality to enter her thinking or her projection of herself into the world. Still, it is reality.
Candace cannot handle that this story is not in any way about her. It is not in any way about Israel, which is her current favorite hobbyhorse to abuse. It is not in any way about Jews, no matter how much difficulty Charlie was dealing with on related issues, including with donors withdrawing funding (some, I know directly, did so VERY reluctantly and after discussion and counsel, in keeping with their own consciences, sad, not angry, about the circumstances).
Candace is doing great evil with a particularly vulnerable moment in Charlie's life, which happened to occur near the tragic and awful end of it. It is loathesome.
Candace should let the dead rest and the living heal here, but her narcissism cannot allow this reality to enter her thinking or her projection of herself into the world. Still, it is reality.
There's kernel of truth in one screenshot of a frustrated PRIVATE discussion presented out-of-context and without Charlie to have even had the ability to reflect, receive counsel, rethink, or even to act upon his frustration and then either repent of what came next or not and thus to reap its consequences. Personally, I believe he wouldn't have liked the fruit of the actions he was contemplating and would have regretted them and corrected, earnestly and honorably, to the best of his ability, had it come to that.
He didn't have that chance. Candace Owens should stop exploiting the fact of his death, his life taken in evil, which finally revoked that opportunity from Charlie Kirk, whether he would have done right from the start, done wrong and then right later, or done wrong and gotten lost.
She should also leave the PRIVATE contents of Charlie's PRIVATE communications alone. They're not hers. She has no claim on them. She has no right to do this, and she doesn't share them for any good reason.
She is not helping any investigation. She's only hindering. She's not bringing any light into the world through them, only speculation, rumor, division, and darkness. She is not elevating Charlie's memory but staining it in a cynical effort to advance herself and her crackpot hate narratives. She is doing nothing but evil here, and she should stop.
She won't stop, though, in her narcissism, which means you should take deliberate steps not to be party to her evil any longer. It's disgusting. Get away from it.
I was not Charlie's closest friend, but we were closer than many. I knew his heart quite well. I do not believe he would have descended far into any darkness, and if he had at all, he wouldn't have stayed there long. He was young, but he was also good and was also wise. Candace is saying the opposite not because it is true but because her narcissism or her mission compels it.
Do not listen to Candace. Do not eat from the wicked fruit growing on her twisted vines of lies even though they grow from a kernel of truth, presented to you on her terms and not Charlies, with no opportunity for him to have answered a word of it. She sows distortion and evil, and if you take of that fruit, you are doing the same.
Do not do this. Do not listen to Candace. Put it down, at the least, or stand against it, as you should.