Yesterday, the United States entered a new and chilling stage of what I have called the “age of rage.” After two attempted assassinations of President Donald Trump, leading conservative leader Charlie Kirk, father of two, was gunned down at a campus event at Utah Valley University. I learned the news while I was in Prague to speak on my book,“The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage” and the growing attacks on free speech around the world. I never imagined that I would be speaking about Charlie’s murder and what it represents for free speech.
I cannot claim to have been a close friend of Charlie Kirk, but I knew him and respected him. In his relatively short life, Charlie energized a generation of conservative college students at a time of intense liberal orthodoxy and intolerance.
Kirk came up with the brilliant idea of challenging liberals to simply debate issues from abortion to immigration. His group would go to campuses and invite debate with signs reading “prove me wrong” and encourage liberals to engage in dialogue rather than violence.
The left had particular reason to hate Kirk. Campuses have long been the bastions of the left, reinforced by faculties which now have few, if any, conservatives or Republicans. Higher education has long been an incubator for intolerance; shaping a generation of speech phobics who shout down or attack those with opposing views.
Kirk struck at the heart of that power base. Polls show that most students do not feel comfortable speaking about their values in our universities and many conservatives hide their views to avoid retaliation from faculty and students.
Kirk was changing that but showing students that they could be open and bold about their views. He told them that they did not have to yield to orthodoxy and the groupthink. Now he’s dead.
What is most chilling about the murder of Charlie Kirk is that it was not in the least surprising. Not anymore.
The response to TPUSA was all too often rage and violence. Liberals and anti-free speech groups like Antifa would trash their tables and threaten the students. Recently, at UC Davis, police simply watched as a TPUSA tent was torn apart and the tent carried off.
Violent speech has long been acceptable on campuses so long as it targets conservatives. Teachers have called for others to “take out” Trump supporters and for the Secret Service to assassinate him.
University of Wisconsin Professor José Felipe Alvergue, head of the English Department, turned over the table of College Republicans supporting a conservative for the Wisconsin Supreme Court. He reportedly declared, “The time for this is over!”
At universities, professors have called for “detonating white people,” denouncing police, calling for Republicans to suffer, strangling police officers, celebrating the death of conservatives, calling for the killing of Trump supporters, supporting the murder of conservative protesters, and supporting the attempted assassination of President Trump. One professor who declared that there is “nothing wrong” with such acts of violence as killing conservatives was actually promoted.
At Hunter College in New York, Professor Shellyne Rodríguez trashed a pro-life display of students, telling the students that “This is bulls–t. This is violent. You’re triggering my students.”
When the students tried to engage the professor and apologized for upsetting her, Rodríguez yelled, “No you’re not — because you can’t even have a f–king baby. So you don’t even know what that is. Get this s–t the f–k out of here.” In an Instagram post, she is then shown trashing the table.
Hunter College, however, did not consider this unhinged attack on students to be sufficient to terminate Rodríguez. It only fired her after she later chased reporters with a machete. She was then hired by another college. She was shown in a later rally exciting the group with references to “slitting the master’s throat.”
At the University of California Santa Barbara, they did not even bother to fire a professor who pleaded guilty to assaulting pro-life students on campus. Professors actually rallied around feminist studies associate professor Mireille Miller-Young. She was later honored as a model for women advocates at the University of Oregon.
In my book, I detail prior “ages of rage,” including periods of political violence by anarchists, socialists, and other groups. I previously warned that we were not only following this same trajectory, but it was accelerating. The reason is the curious nature of rage:
“What few today want to admit is that they like it. They like the freedom that it affords, the ability to hate and harass without a sense of responsibility. It is evident all around us as people engage in language and conduct that they repudiate in others. We have become a nation of rage addicts; flailing against anyone or anything that stands in opposition to our own truths.
Like all addictions, there is not only a dependency on rage but an intolerance for opposing views. The difference between rage and reason is often one’s own views. If one agrees with the underlying grievance, rage is viewed as passion or justified fury at injustice. If one disagrees with those views, it takes on a more threatening and unhinged quality. We seem to spend much of our time today raging at each other. Despite the amplification of views on both sides, there is also an increasing intolerance for opposing views. Those views are treated as simply harmful and offensive—and, therefore, intolerable. Indeed, to voice free speech principles in a time of rage is to invite the rage of the mob.”
That addiction to rage has now claimed another victim who had the audacity to speak boldly and openly about his conservative views. What will follow will be the usual perfunctory expressions of sympathy and denouncing of violence by the very politicians who have fueled the rage.
In recent months, some of us have warned Democratic politicians about their violent rhetoric. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D., N.Y.) has called for people to take to the streets to save democracy and posted a picture brandishing a baseball bat.
Former Democratic National Committee deputy chair Keith Ellison, now the Minnesota attorney general, once said Antifa would “strike fear in the heart” of Trump. Liberal sites sell Antifa items to celebrate the violent group.
California Governor Gavin Newsom declared, “I’m going to punch these sons of bitches in the mouth.” It follows other violent rhetoric from Democratic leaders.
One House member explained to Axios, “Some of [our supporters] have suggested … what we really need to do is be willing to get shot.” Yet another admitted that constituents have told them to prepare for “violence … to fight to protect our democracy.” Others reported that liberals are talking about the need “to storm the White House and stuff like that.”
In one encounter, a lawmaker recounted that “I actually said in a meeting, ‘When they light a fire, my thought is to grab an extinguisher’. And someone at the table said, ‘Have you tried gasoline?’”
Some have. Protesters are burning cars, dealerships, and even lawyers and reporters on the left are throwing Molotov cocktails at police. We have also seen a massive increase in attacks on ICE officers, who are now covering their faces to avoid doxxing or retaliation against themselves or their families. The left has rolled out guillotines and chanted “We got the guillotine, you better run.”
Just before he was shot at Utah Valley University, Kirk rallied the group with its signature chant of “prove me wrong.” The response was to kill Charlie Kirk.
His death could succeed in forcing the thousands of conservative and libertarian students back into the shadows of our campuses and classrooms. We cannot allow that to happen. Charlie Kirk challenged not just the left to debate but the right to be heard in higher education.
Yes, this is an age of rage. However, amidst the rage and the violence, there are a special few who have defied the threats and the attacks. The writer George Bernard Shaw once said that unreasonable people expect the world to conform to them. He then added that that was why all history is made by unreasonable people.
Kirk was one of those wonderfully unreasonable people who refused to yield; refused to be silenced. Despite unrelenting attacks by the media and the establishment, he remained undeterred and unbowed. Students need to remember not how Kirk died, but why he died. His loss is Charlie’s final challenge to all those today wringing their hands and muttering the usual expressions of shocked regret. Kirk would likely say, “prove it.” Speak. Defy those who spend their time silencing others rather than speaking themselves. If you want to honor Charlie Kirk, speak out, speak boldly on both the right and the left. Prove them wrong.
Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro professor of public interest law at George Washington University and the author of the best-selling “The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage.”
Here is the black heart of the problem:
College Fix is reporting a survey that finds 1 in 3 students think some violence is appropriate to stop speech they don’t like.
https://www.thecollegefix.com/1-in-3-students-say-some-level-of-violence-acceptable-to-stop-campus-speech-survey
Now survey the faculty on the same issue.
DEI, socialism, and communism have corrupted our universities. Increasingly they look like schools in Communist China. Rigid, intolerant, and vicious. And so many of the faculty in the soft subjects seem addicted to plagiarism. Fire them. Show some respect for genuine scholarship.
Some of this comes from the lefts idiotic equating speech with violence.
Look at the posts on this blog from left wing nuts accusing those on the right of violence, of attacking them.
They universally mean people on the right defending their beleifs – often defending immutable truths.
Regardless as the old adage goes – “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but your words will never hurt me”
Unless you are a left wing nut who equates disagreeing or criticizing you with actual violence.
“Unless you are a left wing nut who equates disagreeing or criticizing you with actual violence.”
The right does this too. Turley calls criticism of those on the right “attacks on free speech”. Trump is calling for violence against the left. What does that say for the right? Both sides have this problem.
The right has been constantly calling for violence and revenge these past two days. They have been the only ones escalating the rage and violent rhetoric. What did the left do? Nothing. Those on the right are frustrated by the fact that they don’t know who killed him or why. So they do what they always do start laying blame and condemning the left because making assumptions and making rampant speculation is easier in the absence of the facts.
I was an adjunct in academia, watching it go downhill for years, and I can tell you that faculty is absolutely infested with “the problem,” you describe:
you don’t fire them—THEY fire you!
Illiteracy, Incompetence, Plagiarism, and Grade Inflation are rampant for the sake of DEI, and if you don’t play along you are removed.
Dianna,
Thanks for the personal observation. As to grade inflation I saw a report that the most common grade in Harvard is an ‘A’
I suppose to get a C you have to be a Republican.
What a great man Charlie was, He has so many great quotes, here are a few that could be put on his tombstone.
“Reject feminism. Submit to your husband”
“I think it’s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the second amendment to protect our other God-given rights. That is a prudent deal. It is rational.”
“America has freedom of religion, of course, but we should be frank: large dedicated Islamic areas are a threat to America.”
“If I see a Black pilot, I’m going to be like, boy, I hope he’s qualified.”
“If you’re a WNBA, pot-smoking, Black lesbian, do you get treated better than a United States marine?”
Yes indeed, a great man, racist to the core. Maybe you have a favorite quote? Feel freee to be as racist as Charlie, trump certainly is.
Yet another “sincere” leftist’s celebration of Charlie Kirk’s life.
Your quotes utterly fail at illuminating CONTEXT. Racism was not Kirk’s schtick, but rather intelligent observations, factual analyses, and even a bit of satire—all of these high IQ skills are lost on the emotionally-ill, mind-virus-riddled, murder-driven left.
If you cannot have respect for the dead, go let off steam at a riot, not here.
Really? I think it is disgusting someone killed Kirk, Nobody deserves that. But don’t pretend Kirk was a saint. He was an AHOLE. He pedeled hate to make money and get himself fame. It worked. It worked for trump as well. Notice how trump fawned all over Kirk and virtually ignored all the Democrats killed at the hands of trump supporters? No I’m sure not, Fake news. Right?
Please, put this in context….
“If I see a Black pilot, I’m going to be like, boy, I hope he’s qualified.”
CONTEXT: DEI, the illogical, dangerous, and pernicious installment of the provably unqualified, based on mere skin color not intelligence quotient or mastery.
The claim is not that Kirk was a saint, but a decent human, like you are, shortcomings and all.
WAAAY off topic, but please name the democrats killed by Trump.
Dianna, do you have reading comprehension difficulties? I did not say trump killed anybody. I said trump supporters killed people. Do you deny this fact?
Trump supporter’s killed who? Name them. Are you going to spew about the cops on J-6?
On June 14, 2025, Minnesota state representative Melissa Hortman was assassinated in a shooting at her home in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, United States. Hortman, the leader of the state House Democratic caucus, was killed alongside her husband, Mark. Earlier that morning, state senator John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette, were shot in their home in nearby Champlin and hospitalized. Police responding to the attack on the Hoffmans checked on the Hortmans’ home, where a man fired at them. The shooter escaped, sparking the most extensive manhunt in Minnesota history.[3]
The authorities identified 57-year-old Vance Luther Boelter as a suspect and captured him on the evening of June 15 in Green Isle, Minnesota. He was federally charged with murder, stalking, and firearms offenses. The state charged Boelter with two counts of second-degree murder and two counts of attempted second-degree murder. Hennepin County attorney Mary Moriarty announced her intention to upgrade the charges to first-degree murder before a grand jury.[4]
There’s always some overlap, but it’s the political left that has consistently shown a taste for political violence and a habit of celebrating the deaths of their opponents. Just watch how the media smirks when a right-leaning figure dies.
So, was the killing of Melissa Hortman and her husband political? Absolutely.
Was it aimed at the left as a whole? No, or at least, we can’t say that with any certainty. What’s clear is that the murders were rooted in anti-abortion zealotry, and the targets were chosen specifically because they supported abortion rights.
The killer was a former employee of the Walz admin. Another nutty lefty, not one of ours. Sorry, nice try
You are an idiot. When lesser-qualified individuals are chosen to do complex tasks, the quality will fall. That will cause well-qualified individuals to lose status by assumptions of affirmative action.
He “named them” already Ms Bec.
He totally conceived a fantasy and puked it all over this blog like the ignorant (or lying) stooge that he is.
The driver surrounded by a mob, threatened, and prevented from escaping?
The guy who registered Republican, then independent, alleged by a single source to be a “Trump supporter”?
Name one ldlot liar
Dianna Bec
So the context of “If I see a Black pilot, I’m going to be like, boy, I hope he’s qualified.” is DEI.
So when you see a black pilot, the first thought you have is that he is an unqualified DEI hire.
Now I get the context.
The context is that you are a racist.
You have absolutely no credibility.
A person is not a racist just because YOU leftists say so.
There are indeed many unqualified people working all kinds of jobs everywhere, and DEI gave many of these people the reigns in life-and-death fields of importance, for the sake of racial sympathies, so much less than for “professional qualification” reasons.
You all have cooked up this racist chimera, made it to a battering ram, to smear and disarm, so you can get away with destroying meritocracy. Who better to USE and rum like puppets than black people. You all are the ones practicing racism (surreptitiously),
and Charlie Kirk knew it.
But if your very FIRST thought upon seeing a black pilot is that he is a DEI hire, without any other information, then you are a racist, just like Charlie.
That’s what the quote is about.
Charlie said “If I see a Black pilot, I’m going to be like, boy, I hope he’s qualified.”
He didn’t say “If I see a Black pilot, I’m going to try to find out if he is qualified”
He just assumes the pilot is DEI.
He is a racist, just like you.
Critical Diversity Theory and Cecile’s Scalpel inform us to be wary of anyone who has practiced DEIst policies and holds Diversity (e.g. racist) beliefs. Based on the liberal character of academic, corporate, and government actors, often in collusion (“fascism”), the precautionary principle advises people to trust but verify. People have been poorly served by left-wing ideology, and will take time to unravel its corruption, and mitigate its progress.
That said, diversity of individuals, minority of one. #HateLovesAbortion
Your’e like a dripping faucet at midnight. You’ll drivel your racism-stuff all night long—no wonder you all are so mentally-ill.
Can you go get some electric shock treatment in the morning, straighten yourself up, and show some respect for the dead? A human being was publicly executed, in cold blood, and all you can focus on is political, hypocritical, drivel, on an on about your pet peeves.
“But if your very FIRST thought upon seeing a black pilot is that he is a DEI hire”
Nope.
You created this mess – NOT Kirk.
Typical left wing nut – blaming others for the messes you make and then pretending that chanting racist, hateful hating hater will deflect from YOUR stupid responsibility.
There is absolutley zero doubt in most anyone’s mind that there are lots of highly qualified black Pilots.
The Red Tails are an example of top notch black pilots during WWII.
Prior to Biden and Obama we could count on the fact that pilots that came through the military – regardless of Race were highly qualified.
But you DEI nutjobs F#$Ked up the military.
Hopefully that can get straightened out before we actually have to fight a war.
Kirk correctly assumed DEI – because those of you on the left literally forced businesses accross the country to use DEI as hiring and promotional criteria.
That would be he is bigoted based upon his own experiences of dealing with “people of color “. That would not make him a racist, it would make him cognizant of the stereotypes that he would see evidenced everyday. Perhaps he watched too many episodes of the first 48, or went to a Waffle House at 2:00AM, it doesn’t make him a racist.
“. . . without any other information . . .”
Pretty sure that decades of affirmative action special favors, and corporate DEI hires in the airlines count as “other information.”
Don’t you love the gall of the Left? First it promotes racist policies. Then it condemns those who wonder: Was that person hired because of racist policies?
That’s a stupid comment. DEI promotes people by race rather than merit. What you call “racist” is logic, truth. If someone, anyone, is promoted by a standard other then merit, and that person has your life in his hands, you’d have to be an idiot not to question whether he was qualified. Then again, you *are* an idiot. You’re a pathetic loser trying to pretend other people who are being logical are racists. Your ideology says math is racist, showing up to work on time is White Supremacy, and all that other blah blah blah garbage you leftists spew until it makes everyone else vomit. GFY you pathetic beta-male dweeb.
Credibility?! You all, who condone murder, are the arbiters of “credibility” ?????
Charlie’s public execution has opened our eyes to your stealing the upper-hand with hypocritical virtue signaling, which you do here. You’ve learned well, how to feel good about yourselves, while you perpetrate and approve of atrocities.
Rather than go off on your signature “issues,” why don’t you show some humanity and a little respect for the dead. And PROVE you are the one with the real CREDIBILITY.
Dianna – the left-wing trolls come here just to spread hate. Hate is all they have. They go to where people are grieving and spread misery. As human beings, they are complete failures.
Thanks for your care, OMFK. Today, I am heartbroken beyond anything I could have imagined, wanting to fight for someone whose spirit and intelligence I respected and loved so well, knowing I can’t save his life—but maybe I can help save his reputation from the evil rantings of cold-hearted.
Charlie’s organization, Turning Point, has proven to be aptly named, for it speaks a truth that we all felt when we got the news yesterday, framing how we have grieved all day, today. Tears, many tears, for the loss of our hero.
I strongly suspect that this murder will NOT have the effect that the left desired.
I understand your anger at the left wing numbnuts that think this is the right moment to piss all over Kirk.
I strongly suspect this will be a “turning point”
As Maya Angelou said – beleive people when they show you who they are the first time.
MAGA will be enraged and seek vengance – but the left and right are NOT mirrors of each other.
MAGA vengence is not likely to be more political assassination.
It is likely to be more Charlie Kirks.
It is likely to be more cutting funds to these elitist left wing nut institutions that are producing left wing nut assassins.
There likely will be “vengance” – just not trading one assassination for another.
DEI is based on Diversity (e.g. racism, sexism). DEIsts have promoted individuals based on color, sex, etc., not the content of their character, or their skills. DEIsts are racists, sexists, class bigots who have sabotaged people for profit and leverage. #HateLovesAbortion
Dianna nailed it – and you.
If you do not want people to wander about the qualifications of minorities – do not require making choices on criteria other than competence.
DEIsm is a bigoted doctrine that discriminates between individuals based on the color of their skin, their sex, their class, etc.
DEIsm (e.g. racism, sexism, etc) has sabotaged human relationships, adding an additional “burden”… uh, burden, to discern character amidst colored judgments and labels. Abort.
One step forward, three steps backward. Strict scrutiny is advisable to mitigate its progress and collateral damage.
No, you are too stupid to understand what he was saying
Context? Please explain this context…
President Donald Trump on Thursday told reporters that “we just have to beat the hell” out of “radical left lunatics,” following the killing of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk.
You’re way off topic now, and the real issue for you is Trump [the usual OCD – TDS ! Charlie, just a brilliant speaker, was in the way….
What Trump said, is not much different from Biden’s Marine-Swaddled “RED SPEECH,” but at least Trump has a very real and serious reason: PUBLIC EXECUTION.
You are only outraged when you can’t have the upper hand, but the spate of killings, beating the hell out of those in opposition, is actually the extreme-left’s M.O. Go have a look at what your comrades are doing on TikTok.
Yesterday Charlie Kirk was assassinated by a left wing nut.
Did Trump assassinate anyone yesterday ? Ever ?
Salena Zito got this in 2016
Trump supporters take him seriously but not literally.
His detractors take him literally but not seriously.
No one was beaten up over what Trump said.
Charlie Kirk was assassinated yesterday and your deflecting from your responsibility and pissing on his grave.
When MLK was assassinated – only revolting people responded immediately assailing him for his infidelities.
John Say,
“Yesterday Charlie Kirk was assassinated by a left wing nut.”
We don’t know that. Nobody knows who the shooter is. Your false claim is one of the reasons there is so much animosity on the right. Making false claims without evidence.
“When MLK was assassinated – only revolting people responded immediately assailing him for his infidelities.”
Yeah, those on the right. There were right-wing nuts celebrating his demise too. Funny how that is left out.
Hey dumb pos, he was a left wing nut. GFY
” . . . ‘we just have to beat the hell’ out of . . .”
It’s called a metaphor.
As in: BTHO LSU or Clemson or UT.
Mr. Bug: Only two of your quotes relate to race: 1) that he would be concerned that a black pilot on a flight he was taking was qualified; and 2) whether a black, lesbian WNBA player received more favorable treatment than a marine. But your examples don’t prove your assertion that Kirk was “racist to the core” (whatever that might even mean).
First, if affirmative action policies favor black candidates for pilot licenses, any safety-conscious passenger would wonder if his/her black pilot was as good as other candiates who had been passed over. Affirmative action policies explicity subordinate competence to skin color.
Second, I assume that the WNBA quote comes from the decision of the Biden Adminstration to prioritize the release of Brittney Griner, an WNBA player, over the release of Paul Whalen, a former marine. https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/3767108-why-the-us-was-able-to-bring-home-brittney-griner-but-not-paul-whelan/ That puzzled many of us. It might seem natural to prioritize release of the member of the military instead of an athlete, esp since the athlete had admittedly taken drugs into Russia. Kirk’s suspicion was that the Biden Adminstration was playing the race politics game, and I think he was probably correct. The racist was Biden, not Kirk. And it would have been strange if he had referred to Brittney Griner as “white” when she was not white.
“He has so many great quotes, here are a few that could be put on his tombstone”
What is your problem? Do you lack the intelligence to discover and interpret what Charlie Kirk said?
Elvis Bug is a loser. He met Charlie once and he (Elvis) peed his pants and just stammered incoherently because Charlie is a real man and Elvis is a loser dweeb beta-male weakling dipsh!t wet noodle frightened little girl.
I wish i could meet Elvis bug the drunken spastic in person. I would beat the shit out of him with my bare hands and not think twice about it
He is a despicable kunt, who runs his fat mouth on the internet, a real “clever provocateur” as he sees himself.
I would take pleasure in breaking the fingers on his “abnormally large” hands.
Yep, Elvis lives in the gutter aside of his empty bottles. He doesn’t know what a real man is.
“Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. … Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her” (Ephesians 5:22 and 25, ESV).“[Submit] to one another out of reverence for Christ” (Ephesians 5:21, ESV).
Equal in rights and complementary in Nature.
Feminism, racism, etc. are class-disordered ideologies under the Diversity (i.e. bloc ideologies) umbrella.
DEIsm (e.g. racism, sexism, ageism) is a noxious doctrine and progressive condition that denies individual dignity, conflates sexes, denies lives deemed unworthy or a “burden”. That said, diversity of individuals, minority of one. Lose your “secular” religion. #HateLovesAbortion
You seem to equate offending your values with racism.
ALL freedom comes at a cost. Though I would note that the evidence on Gun rights is that “cost” is LOWER crime rates. But even if it did not – would you give up all your rights to be perfectly safe ?
That is literally slavery. That is what you are selling.
I am not a big fan of fundimentalist christianity – particularly of the WestBoro Baptist church variety.
But Rev. Phelps and his followers are not murder people, are not committing acts of terrorism.
Nearly all religious violence today comes from islam. That does not make all muslims dangerous or terrorists.
But it does dictate the odds. It is not racism to speak a truth that some fine offensive.
Most of the remarks you cite tie to specific events – Yes a WNBA, pot-smoking, Black lesbian, does get treated better than a United States marine.
I am not a big fan of fundimentalist christianity – particularly of the WestBoro Baptist church variety.
Comparing the vile actions of that church with the teachings found in the Bible can’t possibly result in anyone intelligently saying “this is fundamentalist Christianity”.
Might as well say that Biden and Pelosi are sterling examples of fundamentalist Catholicism – while they do their level best to legalize elective birth control abortions throughout America… stopping just long enough to go to mass, give their confession, and take Communion.
Now… if you were an acolyte of the Rock Fairy Religion of Atheism – those experts on Christian theology – you might have an argument to make in attempting to justify that claim. An article of faith for Atheists is proving their faith by denigrating deist religions… and in particular, focusing on the Christian religions.
As an agnostic, I find the Atheist cultists even more annoying than the Hare Krishna beggers. And I see very little in the WestBoro churches actions that give them a veneer of being able to claim they’re Christians. Or Biden/Pelosi being Catholic fundamentalists.
Once again, a lefty pos lacking intelligence to understand what Charlie was saying while sumeltaneously misquoting him to make him look bad. So you are a lying pos and an ldliot. Congrats
There is a website that is generating a list of Left wing types who are celebrating Charlie Kirk’s murder online. Presumably people are reporting them to their employers. An eye for an eye leaves everyone blind. Good luck with that
Expose Charlie’s Murderers
Charlie Kirk was murdered.
Is an employee or a student of yours supporting political violence online?
Look them up on this website. Say “NO” to political violence
https://www.charliesmurderers.com
One thing you will never see on this blog: any of the left-wing commenters admitting that perhaps murdering Charlie Kirk was going a little too far, and that perhaps some of the extremist rage rhetoric on the left is a bit over the top and may perhaps be instigating the leftist political violence, including the Kirk assassination but also other violence such as firebombing Tesla dealerships, killing an insurance CEO, trying to assassinate President Trump twice, killing embassy workers in DC, lighting the Jewish governor of PA’s house on fire, and so forth. Instead they will always blame the victim for disagreeing with the left-wing ideology and being articulate about it, which they falsely refer to as “hate speech,” or their dementia president will say the biggest threat is “White supremacists” (that nobody ever sees or hears from). There is a verifiable assassination culture on the Left, and it got turbo charged by Luigi Mangione. The sharks tasted blood and it’s become a feeding frenzy. The liberal commenters on this site will never, ever admit there is even the slightest particle wrong on the left even when it leads to deadly violence. You can take that to the bank.
Turley hits the ball, but still ducks the meat of the matter by his “both sides” disclaimer B.S….even as he and the intelligentsia-media produce a 50 to one (or worse) lopsided listing of violent predations by Leftists. Leftist-style Logic applied to the OKC Bombing in the wake of WACO and Ruby-Ridge ATROCITIES would support Tim McVeigh and company giving reasonable justification, IF indeed “Both sides” were equitable in their mainstreaming of political and social violence. Moderates are Do-Nothings and See-Speak-and-Hear No Evil mass of morons who will doubtless never be roused to save their Republic let alone their Western Civilization. We are at a Crossroads (yet again) and no matter the excuses offered, social-media prodding, or foreign agency involvement, the FACT remains that the Left in Europe and the Americas are willing ready and able to join in on spreading the virus of violence no matter the consequences. They have thrown their laudable Liberalism and sheep’s clothing into the rubbish pile and exchanged it for a Trojan Horse filled with ravenous wolves. Anarchism (Evil) and Occultic-Marxism finds its ideological host within the Progressive-Socialist Culture and Political Parties, and they intensify and fan Cultural War flames into intensifying conflagration. Rebellion against Nature and Nature’s God necessitates unrelenting attacks upon society and individuals in Courtrooms, schoolrooms, Statehouses, streets and stages. Moderate, mainstream Criminal Domestic Terrorists posing behind decades of activism, “democracy”, non-profits/foundations, and a legitimized 2-Party System must be dismantled with dogged severity. Varied Spineless and supine calls for calm are disingenuous posturing for Leftist advantage and regrouping, forgiving and forgetting enable the perpetrators and allow continued abuses. Feared Toxic Masculinity must arise in all its forms and counter with Forcefulness starting in Academia, Law Schools, and all other captured institutions until Leftism is vanquished and rendered a footnote in Human History.
for those wondering what happened to Gigi, it appears she found a new gig as a witch on Etsy casting evil spells on conservatives.
We Paid Some Etsy Witches to Curse Charlie Kirk
These days, witches cater to more than just personal grudges. And it’s not uncommon for them to channel their energy toward thwarting Republicans (there’s even a subreddit devoted to casting nightly hexes on Trump). Are you interested in punishing Kirk for the years of regressive rhetoric he’s shouted at America’s youth and anyone within earshot? Here at Jezebel, we’re about to find out if there’s a spell for that.
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Editor’s Note: On Monday, September 8, we published the humorous piece titled “We Paid Some Etsy Witches to Curse Charlie Kirk.” The piece was intended as satire and made it absolutely clear that we wished no physical harm. We stand by every word.
But in light of Wednesday’s events, and on the recommendation of our lawyers, we have removed the text. To be clear, this decision was driven by an abundance of caution for our staff and to avoid the piece being misused in a tense and volatile environment, not by a change in our editorial judgment. We may republish at a later date, but out of compassion for the victim’s family, we want to make clear that we prioritize an end to violence over anyone wanting to read about Etsy witches.
“driven by abundance of caution for our staff…..out of compassion for the victim’s family”
uh huh. it has Gigi’s signature gobbledegook all over the place
Satanists and witches always play like it’s all make believe. All just fun, games and humor. They’re liars every one.
*. We have a duty to pursue happiness. Perhaps sanctuary States for normal, ordinary people is long overdue. Some governors might give it more thought. Really seriously normal people with safety for its citizens and children.
“I’m terribly sorry when anyone is shot.“
“But I’m sure he doesn’t mind because he has said that shootings and gun deaths are a price he is willing to pay for nearly unfettered abilities to possess and use firearms.
“I support sensible firearm control and perhaps he will too.”
– Carol Siemon, Former Ingham County Prosecutor, Michigan
Worthless POS says what?
We already have PLENTY of firearm control; what we don’t have is plenty of EXTREME LEFTIST-murderer [that is, mental-illness] CONTROL!
“A transgender Team USA BMX cyclist made a series of social media posts Wednesday celebrating the assassination of Charlie Kirk. Chelsea Wolfe, who was present for the U.S. women’s BMX team at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021 as an alternate, made the celebratory posts on the athlete’s Instagram story.”
“Wolfe previously said in a March 2020 Facebook post that the athlete hoped to “burn the American flag” at the Tokyo Olympics.” “My goal is to win the Olympics so I can burn a US flag on the podium. This is what they focus on during a pandemic. Hurting trans children,” Wolfe wrote on Facebook on March 25, 2020.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/transgender-team-usa-cyclist-celebrates-charlie-kirk-s-assassination-on-social-media/ar-AA1Mn5rd?ocid=winp2fptaskbarhover&cvid=61398a94bf9142049ec3b4952d046896&ei=9
A law enforcement sources is now reporting that the ammunition recovered with the murder weapon is engraved with “transgender and anti-fascist ideology.”
https://archive.is/MZnmP
Ed. note: In today’s parlance, “anti-fascist ideology” means fascist ideology.
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He’s trans so they’re looking for either a man or trans woman. He may be in plain sight.
Best wishes one and all. Thank you, PT , for your endurance.
Off-topic JUNK, like the one just below this, are used to bury real and cogent responses to the issue at hand, so I will repost pbinca:
“I doubt that this assassination will cause independent-thinking college kids to cower. It might well have exactly the opposite effect — emboldening college students to enter into public dialog and debate with opposing points of view — in the style of CK, with respect, curiosity, acute listening, fact-based claims, and AUTHENTICITY.
More of what Charlie was doing will drive a stake through the heart of militant tactics, because it exposes them as signs of mental weakness and hyperdefensive shallowness.
JT’s belief that “rage” has infected most Americans is open to question. The “ragers” get selective coverage by media, way in excess of their % of the population. Most of the Americans I know are NOT swept up with rage. Those who are spend way too much time on screens, and not enough time interacting in person with other Americans.”
As has been pointed out, ChatGPT makes mistakes; it corrected itself below, denying that the judicial branch obtained any enumerated power to “INTERPRET” the Constitution.
The judicial branch has no power to amend, modify, or “interpret” the Constitution; it may only compare and make a determination.
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“The Constitution does not anywhere use the words interpret, modify, or amend when speaking of the judicial power.”
– ChatGPT
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To “INTERPRET” is to change the INTERPRETED object.
“THE INTERPRETER DOESN’T JUST RECEIVE MEANING; THEY ACTIVELY PARTICIPATE IN ITS CONSTRUCTION.”
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AI Overview
The idea that interpretation fundamentally changes the interpreted object is a core tenet of hermeneutics, a philosophical approach to understanding and interpretation. This concept has been explored across philosophy, linguistics, and the social sciences, leading to significant insights.
Foundational arguments from hermeneutics
Understanding is not passive but active: Unlike the assumption that a text or event has a single, objective meaning to be uncovered, hermeneutics argues that the process of understanding is a dynamic, creative act. The interpreter doesn’t just receive meaning; they actively participate in its construction.
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“COURTS MAY NOT DIRECT THE PRESIDENT – COURTS POSSESS NO EXECUTIVE POWER”
1. Judicial Power under the Constitution
Article III limits courts to deciding “Cases” and “Controversies.”
That means courts may interpret law, determine rights, and issue judgments between parties, but they do not have general supervisory or command authority over the executive branch or the President personally.
2. Orders Directed to the President
Historically, the Supreme Court has recognized that lower courts cannot order the President to perform specific duties.
Key case: Mississippi v. Johnson (71 U.S. 475, 1867)
Mississippi tried to get an injunction to stop President Andrew Johnson from enforcing the Reconstruction Acts.
The Supreme Court held: the judiciary has no power to enjoin the President in the performance of his official duties.
Rationale: The President is a coequal constitutional officer, not subject to judicial control except through impeachment or the political process.
3. Exceptions / Limits
Courts can review executive actions for constitutionality (e.g., United States v. Nixon, 1974), but even then, they generally address executive officers or agencies—not the President personally—when issuing enforceable orders.
When courts need “specific performance” (such as enforcing subpoenas, producing documents, or stopping unlawful actions), they usually direct their orders to subordinate executive officials, not the President himself.
4. Unconstitutionality of Direct Orders
So if a lower court issues an order compelling the President himself to take or refrain from action (a form of “specific performance”), that runs against the doctrine in Mississippi v. Johnson and exceeds Article III judicial power.
Such orders are generally regarded as unconstitutional intrusions into the executive function.
✅ Summary:
The Constitution gives courts judicial power to decide cases, but not to command the President’s official conduct.
Supreme Court precedent (e.g., Mississippi v. Johnson) makes clear that orders of specific performance directed at the President are unconstitutional.
Courts may declare laws or actions invalid, and they may bind executive officials, but they cannot treat the President as a subordinate officer subject to judicial orders.
– ChatGPT
Reading Article V of the Constitution, and its rigorous process for Amending the Constitution, there is simply no basis for any Court to circumvent this process by interpretation of Constitutional meaning that deviates from that which the Ratifiers believed was the meaning and impact at the time. Any significant change in meaning and impact requires Ratification — which requires broad popular support.
“…courts…must…declare all acts contrary to the manifest tenor of the Constitution void.”
“…men…do…what their powers do not authorize, [and] what they forbid.”
“[A] limited Constitution … can be preserved in practice no other way than through the medium of courts of justice, whose duty it must be to declare all acts contrary to the manifest tenor of the Constitution void. Without this, all the reservations of particular rights or privileges would amount to nothing … To deny this would be to affirm … that men acting by virtue of powers may do not only what their powers do not authorize, but what they forbid.”
– Alexander Hamilton
The topic is Charlie Kirk’s senseless murder in the light of leftist-extremism and rage, a serious and growing problem of monstrous proportions that must be addressed. Perhaps you could save your legal-pontifications for another topical essay and another day.
ChatGPT: An online tool that simpletons and mental midgets can use to churn out a bunch of incomprehensible muddled BS to post in hopes that people (a) actually read it, and (b), come to the conclusion that the simpleton who had ChatGPT create his post is actually a sentient, rational adult.
I doubt that this assassination will cause independent-thinking college kids to cower. It might well have exactly the opposite effect — emboldening college students to enter into public dialog and debate with opposing points of view — in the style of CK, with respect, curiosity, acute listening, fact-based claims, and AUTHENTICITY.
More of what Charlie was doing will drive a stake through the heart of militant tactics, because it exposes them as signs of mental weakness and hyperdefensive shallowness.
JT’s belief that “rage” has infected most Americans is open to question. The “ragers” get selective coverage by media, way in excess of their % of the population. Most of the Americans I know are NOT swept up with rage. Those who are spend way too much time on screens, and not enough time interacting in person with other Americans.
The kids sought out the truth, which was Charlie Kirk.
The kids will continue to seek the truth, more so in the name of Charlie Kirk.
God Bless Charlie Kirk and Charlie Kirk’s Family.
Dr. Lomax who is an alien from another galaxy explains why humans will die without a single shot being fired in front of a senatorial investigation.
Charlie Kirk is the man David Hogg and Harry Sisson should have been.
Hell, more like Rosie O’Donnell is the man David Hogg and Harry Soysisson have become.
Now that makes more sense, Diogenes.
So, no Civil War?
That’s all you got?
Given pusillanimous milquetoasts like you, it’s a wonder this country was ever created in the first place.
If we had another civil war, as in a shooting war, you would not like the result.
“Dr. Lomax who is an alien from another galaxy explains why humans will die without a single shot being fired….”
So, no Civil War? Given pusillanimous milquetoasts like you, it’s a wonder this country was ever created in the first place.
Said as you stand there hidden behind your revolutionary rhetoric, hoping we will believe you’re somewhere in person holding your rifle aloft, looking back at us and bellowing “Follow me!”
Comfy sitting there on your mommy’s couch dreaming, General Walter Mitty?
In hindsight, Charlie Kirk’s death is the last point on America’s dysfunctionality timeline. Shouting down college speakers started in the 60s, progressed to safe spaces and triggers in the 70s and the rage kept building from that point.
Giuliani’s “broken window” policy of stopping small crimes in order to prevent major ones is acknowledged to be a significant factor in reducing crime in NYC in the 90s. But that was discarded and an alternative path was chosen instead, resulting in today’s cashless bail, antisemitic riots, storming university buildings and the like.
Few stood up to this steamroller but one was a University of Chicago dean, John Ellison, in 2020 who said in part in a letter to incoming students:
“Our commitment to academic freedom means that we do not support so-called “trigger warnings,” we do not cancel invited speakers because their topics might prove controversial, and we do not condone the creation of intellectual “safe spaces” where individuals can retreat from ideas and perspectives at odds with their own.
Fostering the free exchange of ideas reinforces a related University priority—building a campus that welcomes people of all backgrounds. Diversity of opinion and background is a fundamental strength of our community. The members of our community must have the freedom to espouse and explore a wide range of ideas.”
Maybe Charlie Kirk’s death on the eve of the 9-11 anniversary will prove to be a true turning point in the spirit of his organization’s name – Turning Point America. Let’s hope so as the alternative is a very deep rabbit hole.
“What, Me Worry?”
How did we become a country where the professional class, college professors(pro hamas,),medical doctors,(Covid ), scientists(climate crisis), and lawyers(law fare) have become more dillusional than the common citizen. I have a hard time wrapping my head around this. Is this the beginning of the end of our great country??
Without free speech, it may be
No. That was Lincoln.
Yes, anon, you’ll be plowing fields by the sweat of your brow. Back to the simple agrarian culture for you, my pretty, and your little dog, too.
Professor Turley,
Well said and well written.
Put slightly differently, they’re doing the exact same thing that led to Charlie’s death. When people have different views on an issue of public policy, it’s not enough for them to say, “I think you’re wrong on that issue.” They go further and say, “Not only are you wrong, but you deserve death for holding those views.” There is really no other way to interpret a comment that says Charlie reaped what he sowed because he believed in a robust enforcement of 2nd Amendment rights.
Put slightly different, belittling/condoning the death of Charlie Kirks assassination, as horrid as that is, is not – NOT – the “exact same thing that led to Charlie’s death.”
Either a fringe unstable lunatic or a ‘professional hit’ is exactly what led to Kirk’s death.
Evidently Charlie Kirk was a big fan of free speech. .. gotta love somebody whose slogan is ‘Prove Me Wrong’!
*now I’ll never have the chance 🙁
“Rep. Higgins said that any social media accounts from people who “ran their mouths with their smartass hatred, celebrating the heinous murder of that beautiful young man” must come down.
The Louisiana Republican also demanded that any users who posted those “belittling” posts be “banned from ALL PLATFORMS FOREVER.”
But Higgins wasn’t finished.
“I’m also going after their business licenses and permitting, their businesses will be blacklisted aggressively, they should be kicked from every school, and their drivers licenses should be revoked. I’m basically going to cancel with extreme prejudice these evil, sick animals who celebrated Charlie Kirk’s assassination,” he wrote.
I beg to differ. I believe strongly that the tendency among some in our society to express that people who hold opposing views on social policy issues make them deserving of death did indeed lead to Charlie’s murder. He received death threats constantly and had to have a security team. Unfortunately that security team did not prevent this killing from taking place. I hope there’s some analysis as to why so others can be better protected in the future.
In the US Kirk should not have had to have a security detail.
This is supposed to be a civilized country where we do not murder each other over politics.
Regardless, the Analysis is pretty simple – if you are conservative – your life is at risk if you speak in ways that offend the left and you do so outside.
Presidents get security that can protect you from snipers at 200yds (MAYBE).
Pretty much no one else does.
If you think the celebration of murder is not the same thing as murder, go have a look at what “progressive thinkers” are posting on TikTok—the vile laughter and celebration is indeed proof of the progressives permission and encouragement for murder culture. You grasp at mere straws to paint a neat picture of the pure evil you cover up, and AGAIN, show you have no guts.
dg, you’d never step out, bravely, to fight for REASON as Kirk did. Instead like a political-toadie, you’d rather call out Higgins’, who is justified in his grief and anger over MURDER, than to shine the light on your uncivilized comrades.
REASON would be to repeal the 19th Dumbmendment.
Thanks for the DumbNews. If that’s a personal dig, it clearly is not probing enough to 1) unpack the post, and 2) its shallow premise fails to take into account that we are, ALL DAY, talking about the acts [good and bad] of those not addressed by the 19th Amendment. We need to repeal your kind of hate.
What America needs is lots and lots of babies.
The fertility rate is in a “death spiral.”
Where’s the future in having no people?
We must all do our part; I mean, unless we’re…
Well, if your post is serous, it is imperative to admit that women are central to this mission of making lots of babies, and it’s best not to bash them for having the right to vote—you wont get any cooperation that way—though I happen to agree that the purple-haired young “teachers,” and the blue-haired “old hippie,” white-women are a BANEful voting block.
Now, if you are criticizing a net-negative change in culture and society, after “women’s lib,” that’s a serious matter worthy of discussion, but you’ll get nowhere insulting women, while beating your chest.
Charlie Kirk, and his beautiful wife, modeled the healthy and normal family situation, which extreme-leftists cannot abide, thus we have the death spiral of the fertility rate, to put it simply….
“Either a fringe unstable lunatic or a ‘professional hit’ is exactly what led to Kirk’s death.”
At this point we do not know – but the probability runs against either of these being true.
This assassin was good enough to kill Kirk from 200yds, but not good enough to hit him in the head.
And not good enough not to be picked up on video traveling through campus.
That is evidence that he was NOT a professional hit AND not an unstable lunatic.
We will likely know soon enough.
But the odds do not favor either professional hits or unstable lunatics.
They seem to favor a Trans activist.
I wouldn’t cry to see exactly that happen to those vile people. But at the same time, I would oppose any politician wanting to punish them for engaging in hate filled speech. I doubt Kirk if he were still alive would approve of that either.
As for dgsnowden attempting to successfully debate Charlie Kirk… in your wildest wet dreams, Skippy.
It takes a special kind of crappiness to go up to the wife of a man who was just brutally murdered and say “he reaped what he sowed” because he supported Constitutional freedoms for everyone. Same in kind, different only in degree, from what liberal pundits in the media and some a’h0le trolls in this comment section are doing today. See some of the anonymous comments earlier today. See also here:
https://www.themidwesterner.news/2025/09/fmr-ingham-prosecutor-carol-siemon-mocks-charlie-kirk-assassination-im-sure-he-doesnt-mind-after-supporting-nearly-unfettered-abilities-to-possess-and-use-firearms/
OTOH, this based rapper is right on in his reaction. Much more commendable:
https://x.com/KoryYeshua/status/1965933851823464640
“OTOH, this based rapper is right on in his reaction. Much more commendable:
https://x.com/KoryYeshua/status/1965933851823464640”
Kansas, he is correct. The events are fabulous, and if you go and speak to the young people attending, you will be impressed with how they act. I have been and was more than pleasantly surprised. Kirk was building leaders for the future.
They’re young and knew the left was wrong. They needed a leader and Kirk showed up. Kirk fulfilled a need. The leadership isn’t in colleges.
Gretchen Witmer is a case of extreme mental illness. Let’s recall her Doritos communion skit? She’s truly ill. There’s something desperately wrong.
The idiot voters of Michigan – not you Edward Mahl – actually chose her over eminently more sensible and intelligent Tudor Dixon. They asked for mental illness, they got it.
I do not get it. Democrats today are not even close to the calibur of past democratic politicians.
I do not understand how some of the purportedly stellar democrats do not loose election to door stops.
But then as we see here all the time – the intellectual prowess of the left is stunted.
An intelligent person who choses to beleive most of the nonsense those on the left beleive has severely intellectually handicapped themselves.
“I do not understand how some of the purportedly stellar democrats do not loose election to door stops.”
Because candidates on the right are usually worse and when elected fail to govern or end up corrupt.
I am going to try to engage in “wokespeak”, so help me s@@tlibs.
“But for” haters like Charlie Kirk and his mindless MAGA followers we would already have achieved the mulitcult, leftist utopia.
And while violence is bad (except against “nazis”) it is sometimes necessary for achieving our political and social goals.
Imagine a world without hunger, injustice or inequality. Haters such as Charlie Kirk and his MAGA followers prevent this world from occurring.
Didn’t Comrade Lenin say, “You cannot make an omelet without breaking eggs?”
Sh@@libs, how did I do?
antonio
The left’s constant claims of existential threat to democracy and Hitler comparisons didn’t help either.
Antonio – Your comment exemplifies the madness with which the left has lost all reason. Being in a constant state of rage, out of the frustrations of “not” reaching imaginary and unattainable goals, somehow justifies violence? Get some psychiatric help –