Today rocked my world.
I painted (at least one coat) yesterday. I was working fast and wrapped up about 2:30 p.m. I ended the day a little early because I wanted to give the paint a few hours to dry before the temps dropped below 60°F.
This morning, one knee was killing me. It woke me up about 4:30 a.m. I managed to walk the dog. I should have gone to the grocery store, but I was hurting really badly and decided to take it easy. There’s tons of stuff I should have been doing. Instead, I looked for a job because I could sit. I took consolation that at least the front of the house doesn’t look like tobacco row. Even though, I still need to finish the stairs.
I was sitting at my desk, using the big computer monitor, so I tuned into a live stream of Charlie Kirk’s talk at a university in Utah. It was playing in the bottom corner of my screen.
I just so happened to glance at that window after hearing the person ask a question about the trans bullshit. Then there was a crack.
I knew it was a gunshot, probably a rifle. I saw Charlie Kirk pitch back and a gush of blood from his neck, and I figured based on the blood loss he was a dead man. I was sitting there watching the chaos unfold and realized I’d just watched a murder.
In the 30 minutes afterward. My mind stopped. This kind of thing doesn’t happen in America.
Yesterday, the video broke showing Iryna Zarutska’s murder by an animal who’d been arrested and released 14 times by an overly permissive legal system. One of the things that shocked me watching that poor girl bleed out was the complete lack of human compassion from the other people on that train. There were five people who just sat there. Even if they only thought she’d been punched, not one of those people asked her if she was alright.
One person commenting on Iryna Zarutska’s murder brought to everyone’s attention that another young woman had been murdered and thrown to the side of a bridge by an illegal immigrant in Maryland. Her name was Dacara Thompson.
Another innocent life ended on her way home from work; she was discarded like trash. Then there was another commenter that said her relative had been murdered by a homeless man getting off the light rail in Studio City on her way home in August of 2024.
Following these horrific incidents broadcasting on X and the graphic video, I was planning not to get on X today. Iryna Zarutska looked at her killer; she was confused, frightened, didn’t understand why he’d attacked her in the first place, and perhaps didn’t realize that she was fatally wounded. I’ve been told that people being stabbed often think they were only punched.
That video hit me so hard.
Then today, I just wanted to watch/hear Charlie Kirk debate university students. But no, I saw a murder instead. What the fuck?
I didn’t agree with all of Charlie Kirk’s views, but I will say he always made me stop and think. To reevaluate my opinions and beliefs, and sometimes he changed my mind. I enjoyed listening to him debate. I respected his logic and the way he constructed rebuttals on the fly. He was wicked smart.
The common element is criminal behavior. But more so is that criminals seem to believe they can act with no consequences. Or they have no fear of consequences.
We have judges that step in to contradict presidential authority. Other judges will release violent criminals with a promise to return for their court appearances. Still others block ICE from doing their lawful duty. Then we have members of Congress specifically delaying the installation of the President’s nominees.
The implications are frightening because it speaks to a coordinated effort of a cabal within the government, to stop the will of the people, to endanger us all. Then politicians and the media tell us we’re insane Nazi, racists, White Supremacists, for simply wanting to live in peace and safety. You know, the guarantees of the Declaration of Independence, and rights enshrined in the Constitution.
Charlie Kirk’s assassination, according to the Governor of Utah, was political. Kirk was not a politician; he was a citizen exercising his 1st Amendment right to free speech. He wasn’t hostile; he simply could debate and tear apart irrational arguments.
He was no threat to anyone except leftists.
His murder could be construed as a message. It’s a familiar message, and we’ve heard it for at least 6 years.
“Shut up, you Nazi fuck! You’re a conservative; you’re evil; you’re the problem.”
Another message is:
“We tried to censor you; we tried to terrify you; that didn’t work; now if you ignore us, if you make us mad, we will kill you.”
We even heard a sitting president (Joe Biden) for those who may not remember say, “White supremacy is the single greatest threat to our country.”
Guess what? It’s not the conservatives or even the white supremacists that are killing people.
It’s people from the left!
Kirk was critical of the transgender mob. He recently and correctly pointed out that the majority of recent school shootings were committed by transgendered nut jobs, and their targets were children. The latest children attacked were praying in a church. How can anyone disagree that children being targets is fundamentally wrong?
What is wrong with pointing out that transgenders appear to be more prone to violence than the general population? Is it true? If yes, then what argument can you make against truth?
It wasn’t conservatives or white supremacists that burned down city blocks, or looted, or rioted. It was the left. It was progressive liberals who told us to ignore the evidence of our own eyes.
It wasn’t conservatives that brought the economy to a grinding halt, nor did they lock us in our homes, or force children out of schools, arrest lone surfers, or fishermen, or mask 2-year-olds. It wasn’t a conservative president that tried to mandate vaccinations with vaccines being distributed via an experimental use authorization. It was leftist fearmongers claiming that unvaccinated people should be put in camps. All over a virus that had, at worst, a 96% survival rate without the vaccine.
In the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination, the Left on X and TikTok are celebrating his death. They’re literally posting videos of themselves dancing, laughing, and wishing he rots in hell. These same people started a GoFundMe for Decarlos Brown Jr. who admitted he “got that white girl,” Iryna Zarutska.
What the fuck? Why would I want to be within a million miles of people with that mindset?
MSNBC immediately tried to victim-blame Charlie Kirk as controversial. They tried to suggest that it was perhaps a Trump supporter shooting a gun in joy. They went on to say that Kirk was a divisive figure. TMZ had people cheering and laughing on air when the news hit that Kirk had been shot. Another politician tried to frame the murder as Charlie Kirk getting what he deserved, for what? Asking questions? Debating?
I’m angry. I’m sad for Charlie Kirk’s family.
But I’m most worried that if this keeps going, average people will conclude that the only way back is to push back with more and decisive force than the left can even begin to fight.
There may come a point when conservatives simply decide, “What the fuck, we’re hated no matter what. Let’s give these people something to hate.”
If that happens, it will get very, very ugly.
There are unconfirmed reports of shell casings with trans rights messages carved into them. From that, for the moment, we can assume that some deranged leftist chose to assault the First Amendment by silencing Charlie Kirk.
We won’t know for sure until the shooter is caught and investigated back to kindergarten. But it’s probably a safe assumption because contrary to what the leftist media and politicians would have you believe, Conservatives don’t think assassination is a proper tool to get their way.
Only leftists or Democrats choose assassination when they’ve lost the argument. See Abraham Lincoln for historical context. Then look at virtually every single assassination in this country moving forward. (Note: I said virtually…) There are no doubt some outliers to my broad generalization.
This assassination of someone who debated, who simply used his voice and words, who was a man not afraid to praise God publicly, who was a young loving family man, hasn’t silenced conservatives. It did knock a lot of people off the fence between left and right to the right. It radicalized a lot more people on the right, and pushed our Republic one step closer to the precipice.
If the country goes over the precipice, I don’t know if that will look like civil war. However, as tired as people on the right are of protests, blocked freeways due to protests, crime, looting, rape, and murder, I wouldn’t be surprised if whatever it’s called, if it comes, it’s going to be a bloodbath and a lot of innocent people are going to get hurt.