I had to watch this through tears. I am devastated by his murder. But even more devastated by the attacks on him by ignorant, hateful liars. This man was a husband. Father, son, brother and in many ways, my friend. I never met him. I watched him evolve. I learned from him.
I am a Jew and his teaching me about the Lord Jesus who he loved, helped educate me. His love of scripture brought me closer to my Judaism. I could extrapolate the beauty of his love and apply it to my life.
I grieve for his family and for our country. Its a bad nightmare . He was martyred just like Jesus.
This Rosh a Shana, he will be remembered at my table. He will be named as well as the hostages being held by Hamas .
Thank you. Erika Kirk should sue her for defamation and make her show the world she cannot defend her characterization of Charlie. She should bankrupt that idiot. AOC would have to settle to prevent the entire US from seeing Charlie's videos in context.
Like Nick Sandman, the Catholic school boy the MSM defamed as a racist when he respectfully stood there as adult leftists assaulted him. Or Kyle Rittenhouse who's life was destroyed by the MSM. He was found innocent and sued the pants off them..
These people, especially the government, need to be exposed for the liars they are and punished for it. Charlie's kids will see this one day. It is incumbent on all of us to make we "prove them wrong" and preserve the truth of who Charlie Kirk REALLY was.
A little cognitive dissonance is going on here, Sasha.
We know that, regardless of what's actually been said or done, Democrats will warp it to fit their narrative and make things up whole cloth when they don't have enough to work with.
So why is there ANY hesitation to use every tool at our disposal to shut them down and drive them out?
People keep saying, "Ooooo, you'll regret letting the Trump administration go after them like that. When they're back in power, they will..blah blah blah." There are several flaws in that argument. First and foremost, it's bold to assume that the Democrat party as it currently exists ever gets control of the government again. If the midterms don't deliver for them and they remain a minority in Congress, their donors will start deserting them in droves. People don't spend big money to support politicians who can't do anything for them.
Secondly, the left does not need the thin fig leaf of precedent to justify turning the government on their enemies. If they don't have one to work with, they'll just make one up. Or they'll find a different justification. Or they won't offer any explanation at all for siccing federal agencies on red states and right-of-center public figures and candidates. They'll just do it.
So I say let's start prosecuting people like AOC and Jasmine Crockett on whatever pretense can be found. Convict Pelosi of insider trading. Jail Schumer for threatening officials. Arrest Newsom for interfering with federal officers. Give up the fantasy that our side has to "be better than them" and do unto them what they would, and have, done unto us. We have, literally, nothing to lose because even if we show forbearance and "play nice", we'll be vilified and demonized anyway. If the left is going to hang us if it gets the opportunity regardless of what we say or do, well, I'd rather the blood in my mouth be from fighting than biting my tongue.
I see we disagree on this. IMO we don’t prosecute people on any pretense that can be found because that reactionary behavior leads rapidly to a dysfnctional low-trust society that throws morals out the window and replaces it with tyranny of a tribe. The counter to bad speech is more speech, which is happenng in the post above and here https://substack.com/@thatskaizen/note/c-158148222 and in other places, I’m sure.
They're going to do exactly what you just said noone should do if they get the chance. My evidence for this assertion is that *they already did it when they had the chance. Twice.*
Think about this like a combat sport. When they pulled their dirty tricks during the Obama (IRS targeting) and disastrous Biden presidencies (Facebook and Twitter censorship), we checked with the ref and were informed that while their conduct was frowned upon, it wasn't technically against the rules. No penalties were called that got anyone kicked off the field.
Playing by a different set of rules than your opposition is a good way to lose. We should not handicap ourselves by turning our principles into a suicide pact.
Modeling the society we want not the society we have is fighting back not a suicide pact. I take your point but disagree with the part about destroying our principles. The American experiment is over at that point.
Thanks for the beautiful video, Sasha. I’m a devout Buddhist and it almost made me want to convert. I didn’t know much about Charlie until this, and now I know all I need to know. So sorry I missed him….
When she called him those things, I laughed. She couldn't have been more wrong.
I have done a lot of thinking about Charlie. Although no one has ever said, I think it's very possible he had a photographic memory. He knew WAY too many facts, figures, names, you name it.
How to buy voter loyalty? AOC plays the "race card". That's all she has.
Guilt was used to transfer wealth, transfer from the working people to those not working for a living. Giving someone a government job doesn't mean they are earning their paycheck; most likely quite the opposite is true.
Fani Willis and Letitia James are marginally educated people working in the government, but AOC is as well. A law degree is just memorizing procedures and memorizing (wrong) opinions of judges (justices), hoping to infer substantive due process. No learning, just memorizing. The law is supposed to be simple, but any simpleton can get a law degree and pass the bar if good at memorizing.
AOC has a undergrad in international relations and economics. As a PhD in Macroeconomics, I am reminded almost any time AOC speaks that undergrads memorize their way through school, and typically masters students do as well.
AOC doesn't know any more about Keynesian economics--even though that is what she is pushing--that FED Chairman Jerome Powell. No surprise, Powell only has a law degree, which is a glorified masters because law school is not supposed to be mandatory for the Bar exam and only the 1st year of law school has any value. It was made mandatory in the 1950s, with the unspoken motive to prevent or deter blacks from becoming lawyers. Blacks were getting their rights back during the 1950s, and few people could afford college, let alone another 3 years of law school. The scheme worked until the easy lending for tuition that occurred several decades later.
Congress is full of marginally educated people who can't see the forest for the trees, and even if they can, the committees are all about power and seniority. Trump is only Fordham University smart--2 years before his dad's wealth got him into Wharton Business School at Penn.
On the surface, learning-impaired government workers who are good at memorizing shouldn't be a problem, and might be a blessing. However, with the introduction of income tax and the FEDERAL RESERVE in 1913 (JD Rockefeller Sr. was the behind-the-scenes catalyst), the public are on a slippery slope with the power of government growing each decade.
I had to watch this through tears. I am devastated by his murder. But even more devastated by the attacks on him by ignorant, hateful liars. This man was a husband. Father, son, brother and in many ways, my friend. I never met him. I watched him evolve. I learned from him.
I am a Jew and his teaching me about the Lord Jesus who he loved, helped educate me. His love of scripture brought me closer to my Judaism. I could extrapolate the beauty of his love and apply it to my life.
I grieve for his family and for our country. Its a bad nightmare . He was martyred just like Jesus.
This Rosh a Shana, he will be remembered at my table. He will be named as well as the hostages being held by Hamas .
May his memory be a blessing.
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Thank you. Erika Kirk should sue her for defamation and make her show the world she cannot defend her characterization of Charlie. She should bankrupt that idiot. AOC would have to settle to prevent the entire US from seeing Charlie's videos in context.
Like Nick Sandman, the Catholic school boy the MSM defamed as a racist when he respectfully stood there as adult leftists assaulted him. Or Kyle Rittenhouse who's life was destroyed by the MSM. He was found innocent and sued the pants off them..
These people, especially the government, need to be exposed for the liars they are and punished for it. Charlie's kids will see this one day. It is incumbent on all of us to make we "prove them wrong" and preserve the truth of who Charlie Kirk REALLY was.
AOC who called Elon stupid…..irony!
I can't watch AOC. It would be time I'll never get back and just frustrate me.
I feel like you could have skipped the last three words of the title.... but yes, she certainly showed it in her comments about Charlie Kirk
A little cognitive dissonance is going on here, Sasha.
We know that, regardless of what's actually been said or done, Democrats will warp it to fit their narrative and make things up whole cloth when they don't have enough to work with.
So why is there ANY hesitation to use every tool at our disposal to shut them down and drive them out?
People keep saying, "Ooooo, you'll regret letting the Trump administration go after them like that. When they're back in power, they will..blah blah blah." There are several flaws in that argument. First and foremost, it's bold to assume that the Democrat party as it currently exists ever gets control of the government again. If the midterms don't deliver for them and they remain a minority in Congress, their donors will start deserting them in droves. People don't spend big money to support politicians who can't do anything for them.
Secondly, the left does not need the thin fig leaf of precedent to justify turning the government on their enemies. If they don't have one to work with, they'll just make one up. Or they'll find a different justification. Or they won't offer any explanation at all for siccing federal agencies on red states and right-of-center public figures and candidates. They'll just do it.
So I say let's start prosecuting people like AOC and Jasmine Crockett on whatever pretense can be found. Convict Pelosi of insider trading. Jail Schumer for threatening officials. Arrest Newsom for interfering with federal officers. Give up the fantasy that our side has to "be better than them" and do unto them what they would, and have, done unto us. We have, literally, nothing to lose because even if we show forbearance and "play nice", we'll be vilified and demonized anyway. If the left is going to hang us if it gets the opportunity regardless of what we say or do, well, I'd rather the blood in my mouth be from fighting than biting my tongue.
I see we disagree on this. IMO we don’t prosecute people on any pretense that can be found because that reactionary behavior leads rapidly to a dysfnctional low-trust society that throws morals out the window and replaces it with tyranny of a tribe. The counter to bad speech is more speech, which is happenng in the post above and here https://substack.com/@thatskaizen/note/c-158148222 and in other places, I’m sure.
They're going to do exactly what you just said noone should do if they get the chance. My evidence for this assertion is that *they already did it when they had the chance. Twice.*
Think about this like a combat sport. When they pulled their dirty tricks during the Obama (IRS targeting) and disastrous Biden presidencies (Facebook and Twitter censorship), we checked with the ref and were informed that while their conduct was frowned upon, it wasn't technically against the rules. No penalties were called that got anyone kicked off the field.
Playing by a different set of rules than your opposition is a good way to lose. We should not handicap ourselves by turning our principles into a suicide pact.
Modeling the society we want not the society we have is fighting back not a suicide pact. I take your point but disagree with the part about destroying our principles. The American experiment is over at that point.
Thanks for the beautiful video, Sasha. I’m a devout Buddhist and it almost made me want to convert. I didn’t know much about Charlie until this, and now I know all I need to know. So sorry I missed him….
When she called him those things, I laughed. She couldn't have been more wrong.
I have done a lot of thinking about Charlie. Although no one has ever said, I think it's very possible he had a photographic memory. He knew WAY too many facts, figures, names, you name it.
If Ocasio didn't make some crass comment, it would be worrying...
How to buy voter loyalty? AOC plays the "race card". That's all she has.
Guilt was used to transfer wealth, transfer from the working people to those not working for a living. Giving someone a government job doesn't mean they are earning their paycheck; most likely quite the opposite is true.
Fani Willis and Letitia James are marginally educated people working in the government, but AOC is as well. A law degree is just memorizing procedures and memorizing (wrong) opinions of judges (justices), hoping to infer substantive due process. No learning, just memorizing. The law is supposed to be simple, but any simpleton can get a law degree and pass the bar if good at memorizing.
AOC has a undergrad in international relations and economics. As a PhD in Macroeconomics, I am reminded almost any time AOC speaks that undergrads memorize their way through school, and typically masters students do as well.
AOC doesn't know any more about Keynesian economics--even though that is what she is pushing--that FED Chairman Jerome Powell. No surprise, Powell only has a law degree, which is a glorified masters because law school is not supposed to be mandatory for the Bar exam and only the 1st year of law school has any value. It was made mandatory in the 1950s, with the unspoken motive to prevent or deter blacks from becoming lawyers. Blacks were getting their rights back during the 1950s, and few people could afford college, let alone another 3 years of law school. The scheme worked until the easy lending for tuition that occurred several decades later.
Congress is full of marginally educated people who can't see the forest for the trees, and even if they can, the committees are all about power and seniority. Trump is only Fordham University smart--2 years before his dad's wealth got him into Wharton Business School at Penn.
On the surface, learning-impaired government workers who are good at memorizing shouldn't be a problem, and might be a blessing. However, with the introduction of income tax and the FEDERAL RESERVE in 1913 (JD Rockefeller Sr. was the behind-the-scenes catalyst), the public are on a slippery slope with the power of government growing each decade.
So beautiful ... thank you for putting this together ...
Thank you Ms. Stone ! Love your views and reporting !
interesting review on garbage author Elizabeth Gilbert's latest book which The Guardian surprisingly condemns & describes as "excruciating to read... solipsistic (narcissistic) and self-indulgent" ~ https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/sep/11/all-the-way-to-the-river-by-elizabeth-gilbert-review-excruciating-to-read .
There is an interesting phrase she uses that expertly sums up the AOC's & describes every damn dimokkkrat;
"there are very few things that will make me hate someone more than when they threaten my favorite delusions about myself”.