Charlie Kirk said it back in November of 2016:
You can tell a lot about a person by how they react when someone dies.
There’s a number of unanswered questions about the assassination… the murder of Charlie Kirk… But one thing is very clear… the man was killed because he was exercising his rights of free speech. He was someone the left couldn’t control. So, let’s examine the reactions, on a purely random basis.
We’ll start with J.D. Pritzker:
And I think that think there are people who are fomenting it in this country. I think the President’s rhetoric often foments it. We’ve seen the January 6 rioters who clearly, you know, have tripped a new era of political violence.
Matt Dowd, MSNBC:
And I always go back to hateful thoughts, lead to hateful words, which then lead to hateful actions. And I think that’s the environment we’re in that people just you can’t stop with these sort of awful thoughts you have, and then saying these awkward words and not expect awful actions to take place. And that’s the unfortunate environment we’re in.
Those are the less despicable comments. Bluesky is a Mosh pit of hate right now… of celebration a good man is dead, and I won’t repeat any of it here.
GLAAD:
Kirk cultivated national influence by attacking queer rights, targeting transgender people, and framing equality as a threat to American values.
Equality? No. That was never the issue because equality was NEVER what GLAAD has been about. What we’re seeing here is GLAAD piling on, at what is, apparently, in their view, is an opportune moment.
There are so very many vile comments I can’t even think about fitting them all in here… and a lot of them I’m reluctant to give voice to in these spaces… all celebrating the death of Charlie Kirk… someone they lost the debate to years ago. Else, blaming Kirk himself. Essentially, saying “Hey, stop making us assassinate you.” They couldn’t control Charlie Kirk, and they killed him for it.
Jeff Carter says it very well, this morning:
The left in the US is violent and always has been. It is their way. It is their culture. John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln. McKinley was shot. In the last decade, Republicans have been shot, beaten, and threatened with assassination. Unions have used violence to get their way. The George Floyd riots are another example. Senate Leader Chuck Schumer threatened two sitting Supreme Court Justices. When people showed up at their homes, he didn’t do a thing. Van Jones called Kirk a racist last night on CNN. The violence and calls for violence are on the left for the most part.
Yes, a few Republicans have done stupid stuff. But it’s not close to equivalent.
A DOGE employee was brutally beaten in DC. Big Balls was trying to help someone who was being mugged. Democrats defended the attackers. A Ukrainian refugee was brutally murdered on public transportation in Charlotte, and the Democrats defended the murderer. In Pacific Palisades, Democrats are twisting the law and regulations to take the property away from the prior owners before it burned. They want to social engineer.
Here is the progression of how it all happens. As an out-of-the-closet Republican in far-left Chicago, I know. I experienced it.
First, they laugh at you. “You’re crazy.” They try to pass it off when you throw data at them. The other day, a person tried to tell me that it was Republicans who discriminated against Blacks after the Civil War, all the way through Jim Crow. It was Democrats.
“No way. Oh, that’s above my pay grade.” That’s the next thing they say. They don’t want to confront the facts. They have no argument against them, but they want to live in their bubble and just believe whatever they have been told.They will tell a few political jokes that make fun of conservatives to see if you laugh. You laugh because you have a sense of humor. Conservatives have a great sense of humor. Leftists do not. It’s a mean sense of humor.
Then, they might try to debate. “You’re a rational Republican, not one of those crazies.”. When they lose, they escalate.
The next level of escalation is to call you names. Maybe it’s behind your back. Maybe it’s to your face. “You are a racist, Nazi, fascist,” fill in the blank. They try to destroy your reputation. They don’t invite you to things. You are deliberately excluded. Shunned. You become a non-person.
When you become a non-person, they can do anything to you. Any despot knows that. Any terrorist group knows that.
Then, they don’t do business with you. No email. No phone calls. No passing or including in deals. The best thing for them is if you go away.
This happens in friendships, too. You have experienced it, I am sure. I have. In the biography on US Grant written by Ron Chernow, Grant’s father-in-law was pro-slavery, and Grant got along with him. Not famously, but they got along. Left-wingers cannot do that. They can’t get beyond it.
Thing is, the folks working against America have gotten bolder. As an example and as an extension of my thought about 9/11… here’s a photo of NYC Mayor candidate Zohran Mamdani with Hasan Piker, who is known to have suggested publicly that “Americans deserved 9/11” .
Luigi Mangione has become a cult figure for having taken out one of them… and Luigi Mangione Merch is a hot seller today. Then, there’s James Harr… who created a set of playing cards with 52 CEO’s for his followers on social media to, as the phrase goes, “unalive” next. Now of course the police showed up shortly afterward, which caused him to post that “I guess I got someone’s attention”, or words to that effect.
It has become more important than ever that all of us become involved in fighting against this violent overthrow of America… and make no mistake, what I’m describing here… and what we were all witness to yesterday… is nothing short of that.
But who set this up? There’s the rub.
As I said yesterday: This was, it seems to me, a professional level hit job…. This guy was no amateur. That comment is not nearly as bold as it sounds. The shooter was up on the roof of that building well in advance of the event, and managed to hit his target, shooting downhill, and under a canopy… in one shot.
As to who did the killing, or perhaps more correctly who financed it… Cui Bono, seems to me should be the guide, here. And perhaps a look at a post removed from Tiktok late yesterday, but captured and reposted elsewhere might give us a clue: (Sorry, the vid is on X and doesn’t embed well.
“Charles James Kirk. Mr. College Drop out does not know whats coming tomorrow. Be ready. This isn’t a threat. It’s a promise” https://x.com/i/status/1965915962794012677
Glenn Reynolds… well, a correspondent of his, echoes my own thought:
“I hold open the possibility that Kirk’s murder was performed by foreign intelligence in an attempt to sow internal discord. So I’m not yet ready to blame the Left for the murder itself. However the celebrations on the Left are not a product of foreign intelligence. And everyone engaging in them, or excusing them, deserves far more than just blame. How the f___ can killing a young father in front of his children just for saying WORDS ever be considered something worth celebrating? The Left is mentally sick. Diseased. Ungrounded. Truly delusional. The evidence for this is overwhelming.”
One small disagreement I have with this… I suggest that the reactions to this killing among the left… particularly the ones I’ve pointed out… are the direct result of decades of influence of outside sources. I certainly would not exclude the Chinese from the list of suspects there. As for the shooter himself, he or she seems too much the professional for it to be a random crazy we’re dealing with. And that is well within the realm of the possible for China, as well. Granted, speculation at this point, but it’s the most logical conclusion based on currently available facts.
I would be remiss if I didn’t mention that today is 9/11. And that’s where we are now. We are now at war because the left can’t argue their positions logically, much the same as the Islamic nutjobs back in the day. Like any war, it’s not one I personally wanted, but again like any war, it’s been thrust upon us.
I decided on 9/11… (My God… 24 years ago, to the day!) …that I could no longer be a bystander. I had to speak out, against the people who were attempting to bring America down by means of massive violence.. That was the day Bitsblog was founded. Here is the first post to this blog. It addresses those issues and that need. .. a need which has not diminished in the 24 years since that day. As it was written, we were still in shock and watching the rescue efforts and the early stage investigations…. and the feeling, frankly, is exactly the same.
Odder still… my most recent post about all he implications of Kirk’s death, should be posted at the same time of day we were just learning of the events in NY, DC and Pennsylvania. It’s unclear to me, the implications of that observation. But I can’t help feeling uneasy about it.
