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Striving to be a better servant; Learning to build a better boat.

[MJBenoit @mj_benoit]

@Supersonic_Red Outstanding!

[Stefan Moore ★ @2StefanMoore]

Our beautiful 13 year old daughter, Ashley, passed away from #BrainCancer just two months after this video was taken. 💔

In those final weeks, the disease had cruelly stolen her ability to speak, move freely, or even swallow, yet she remained fully aware & trapped in her own body.

#ChildhoodCancer is devastatingly real & it robs far too many Children of their futures.

All we ask is for more people to understand this harsh reality & to help keep Ashley’s light & story alive. If her courage touches you, we’d be deeply grateful for a follow, a repost, or any support to amplify the voices of Children fighting

🩷 Ashley 🩷
#Forever13

[MJBenoit @mj_benoit]

@DrShayPhD Wonderful insight - thank you!

[Cernovich @Cernovich]

What the UN did today to our President is disgraceful. We should cut their funding totally and evict them from New York. We don’t need them.

[Michael Knowles @michaeljknowles]

In the wake of Charlie's assassination, many people are demanding that we redouble our devotion to the "free marketplace of ideas." The call seems at first glance courageous and noble. In reality, it is reckless and impractical. We had an open marketplace of ideas; the Left shot it up.

Not only have extreme leftists committed violence in the marketplace of ideas; more scandalous still, mainstream left-wing voices have cheered and made light of the violence. There can be no open marketplace—of ideas or anything else—under such conditions.

Marketplaces require rules, confidence, and common media of exchange. They require, in other words, order. Liberty requires order. One cannot be both free and undisciplined, for instance, or free and ignorant. We know this philosophically, and we also know it intuitively. It's why we don't let toddlers vote.

What we require now is the reassertion of order. We must insist upon the acceptance of basic truths and moral goods, not as the asymptotic goal of endless debate but as the axiomatic foundation without which debate cannot occur. We must foreclose certain antisocial behaviors and suicidal ideologies. We must, to borrow a phrase from Chesterton, stop "the thought that stops thought."

In practical terms, this means we must stigmatize certain evil ideas and behaviors, and we must ostracize people who insist upon them. More practically, this means that people who persist in such disorder should lose their social standing. In certain cases, they should lose their jobs. There must be consequences.

With any political reform, it is wise to err on the side of caution. The offenses that merit such ostracism should be particularly egregious. A good place to begin would be with those who celebrate the murder of an innocent man.

[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.

[Secretary Sean Duffy @SecDuffy]

Rachel and I are in complete and utter shock. We don’t know what else to do at this moment other than pray for a miracle for this devoted Christian father and patriot.

Jesus, King of the universe, please wrap your loving arms around Charlie Kirk and his beautiful young family. Please heal him and deliver our nation from the political and religious violence that has afflicted us.

Amen.

[Will Cain @willcain]

I can’t believe I just had to announce on live TV the death of a friend. I can’t believe this is where we are in America.

Charlie was a man of God. A Christian. A Patriot. A family man. A husband and father. And a really good man.

Everyone, everyone counted him as a friend. That’s because in a business of narcissism and competition Charlie supported everyone. He texted, he DM’d, he called, he cheered you on and complimented your work.

Charlie was also a legendary influence. Most notably on young people. College kids on gameday kickoff and my own kids asked if I knew Charlie Kirk. He won over a generation.

He also counted Americas leaders as his friends. I know.

Charlie was incredibly persuasive and an unparalleled debater. He engaged and invited those who thought him wrong. Even those that thought him evil.

It says something real that the only rebuttal to stop Charlie was violence. But it won’t stop Charlie. Because it won’t stop us. You just lifted up Charlie.

[Riley Gaines @Riley_Gaines_]

I don't any words right now & I probably won't for a long time. Lord be with his family, TPUSA staff, all who knew him, and all who admired him.

No one loved this nation, God, or the truth more than Charlie.

[Robert F. Kennedy Jr @RobertKennedyJr]

Once again, a bullet has silenced the most eloquent truth teller of an era. My dear friend Charlie Kirk was our country's relentless and courageous crusader for free speech. We pray for Erika and the children. Charlie is already in paradise with the angels. We ask his prayers for our country.

[MJBenoit @mj_benoit]

@SwampCajun63 I enjoy your posts!
Best,
Mike

[🇺🇸 ERIC BOLLING 🇺🇸 @ericbolling]

Merry Christmas friends 🌲

[MJBenoit @mj_benoit]

@Stephen_Geiger Lessons unheeded

[MJBenoit @mj_benoit]

@vindownes Sincere Condolences Vin

[Bo Jackson @BoJackson]

Everyone please take a moment to pray for all of the tornado victims who lost their lives in Alabama and Mississippi this weekend and for everyone dealing with the aftermath of these horrible events.

[MJBenoit @mj_benoit]

@JackCarrUSA Definitely a good candidate for a remake. Solid storyline regardless of time period.