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The Dems Double Down on Murder

Posted on September 16, 2025 by theartfuldilettante

1 John 4:16 (King James Version) And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.

Libs are certainly not the brightest bulbs on a Christmas tree and certainly missed the compassion gene as they are doubling down on assassinations. How about a little self-reflection and admit the calling everyone you disagree with Hitlers and Nazis is leading to innocent people getting murdered. Challenging and defeating you in the arena of ideas is not the same thing as murder and assassination.

Their defense is both sides do it too, which is simply a lie since the only thing even Biden was able to point out was Charlotte from twenty years ago and that one is not a sure thing. Every murder and violent act in the past thirty years has been done by Dems and especially in the last ten since they pushed Antifa and BLM. It was rumored at the time both of them were controlled by the Shadow White House in DC, which needs to be investigated.

While America is in near agreement murder is not a valid method of political debate, except for the most radical ten percent, Old Media is excusing this as if Charlie Kirk brought it on himself. The morbid reality of the bullet going through his voice box is completely lost to liberals who despise free speech. Liberals are extremely tolerant of everyone they agree with.

The Dimwit Party should be on every show lecturing their own people that the vilification of Conservatives has to stop and stop immediately. They should be condemning every person on the web who is celebrating his death and should attend the funerals in mass, but they won’t. They would rather do the fake outrage and mouth the words since they agree with the murder of their opponents just like every other communist in the world. They seem to think George Bush is still in office who was always above the fray.

This is a manmade Satanic cult which worships at the altar of dead babies and moral relativism. Jesus said they would hate you in his name and you can certainly see they hate God and Jesus and everyone who believes. This is why they had to kill Charlie and will be killing more in the name of stopping fascism and saving democracy. All words to stir up their crazies to shoot more conservatives.

What they do not understand is the Christian Church has just been unified as a Brotherhood fighting a war of us against them. This is God against Satan and Christians against a demonic cult out to kill them. The message the cult is sending is Christians are now fair game to be shot and killed, they are not only fine with it but making moral arguments for it.

Their cult believes in societal morals rather than personal morals. You can be the evilest person on the planet but if you are for stopping Global Warming, pro-black, abortion, and homosexuality, you are a good person. You can be a drug addict, liar, cheat, and now murderer, but if you agree with the main tenants of their Satanic Cult, you are a good person. Look at the guy who shot the CEO in the back, he is now a hero to the cult as well as the black kid who stabbed the white track kid in Dallas, murder has become normalized in the cult.

This is backfiring on the Dum Cult as people are turning from these lies and to the truth of the Bible. Charlie Kirk was starting a revival among the youth and especially young men who are tired of the lies. They have been lied and vilified since their first day of school and are starving for the truth in God’s word. In a world that lies to you 24/7 including murder is good for society, the truth is in short supply and the Bible has spoken it for three thousand years.

It seems so simple for the Democrat Communist Party to come out and saying murdering your political enemies is wrong and will not be tolerated let alone celebrated. You can expect the sun to rise in the west before that statement is uttered.

Pray for Revival

Bray/Forests for Oregon

The Warning Was Sounded — But No One Wanted to Listen

Posted on September 16, 2025 by theartfuldilettante

The Warning Was Sounded — But No One Wanted to Listen

There may come a time, years from now, when future generations will ask:

“How did they let it happen?”

How did nations as strong, as historic, and as proud as those in Europe — the UK, France, Germany, the Netherlands — fall into decline so quickly, and so obviously? The answer will not be complicated.

They were warned.

And they didn’t want to listen.

The UK Is the Canary in the Coal Mine

The United Kingdom, once an empire that spanned the globe, now finds itself shrinking — not just in economic power, but in cultural and national confidence. The system was already strained:

• Decades of high taxation and welfare spending,

• A shrinking industrial base,

• A growing culture of dependency,

• A political elite more concerned with global optics than domestic reality.

This was all before mass migration was added to the equation.

Today, the UK is being asked to absorb millions of migrants — many of whom do not speak the language, do not have the skills to work, and do not wish to integrate. Meanwhile, working-class citizens are taxed into poverty to fund housing, healthcare, and legal support for those very same migrants.

It’s no longer just unfair — it’s unsustainable.

The Social Contract Has Been Broken

Western democracy functions on an unspoken agreement: “Give us your loyalty and labor, and the system will take care of you.”

But the system now asks everything from the citizen, and gives nothing in return:

• Laws protect the criminal over the victim.

• Borders are ignored while speech is censored.

• Pride in national identity is condemned, while foreign values are elevated.

• Honest criticism is labeled hate.

• Protest is treated as extremism.

At what point do people decide the system no longer works for them?

They Don’t Want to Change

There’s an old joke:

How many psychiatrists does it take to change a light bulb?” “One. But the bulb has to want to change.”

Europe’s ruling class does not want to change. Their commitment to open borders, globalism, and centralized EU power is not a mistake — it’s the plan. And no amount of protest, political opposition, or public suffering has shaken them from it.

So now the question is no longer “How do we fix it?” The question is: “What will break first?”

This Is Not Just the UK — This Is All of Europe

Across the continent, the same story repeats:

• Germany: Tens of billions spent on asylum programs, while citizens face energy shortages.

• France: Cities fractured by parallel societies and rising violence.

• Sweden: Once peaceful, now contending with gang warfare and grenade attacks.

• The Netherlands: Farmers pushed off their land to meet climate quotas — while migrant housing is prioritized.

It’s not just poor policy.

It’s deliberate social transformation — without the consent of the governed.

Let This Stand as a Record

This essay isn’t just a warning — it’s a timestamp.

So that when people ask:

“Did no one see this coming?” We can answer honestly:

Yes. Some of us saw it clearly. We spoke out. We were mocked, ignored, or silenced. But we said it — before it was too late.

There may not be a “soft landing.” But there may still be a reckoning. And when it comes, history should know that not everyone was blind.

Vanity/Anonymous

Disagreement is not a Physical Assault

Posted on September 16, 2025 by theartfuldilettante

You have to understand the psychology of leftists. Dissenting opinions make them FEEL like they’re being physically assaulted. And to leftists, feelings are of paramount importance. Feelings are truth — their own feelings, that is; not anybody else’s feelings.

With leftism, we are confronting the fusion of mental illness, narcissism and brute force: a truly lethal, unsustainable combination.

Michael J. Hurd

How did we get here? By submitting to the intimidation of the left

Posted on September 16, 2025 by theartfuldilettante

By Patricia McCarthy

In the wake of the assassination of Charlie Kirk, the internet is flooded with shock, grief, and horror at what has happened. It was also horrified at the thousands of leftists’ delight and celebration, congratulating the assassin.

Far too many of those who have been thanking the shooter, for reasons that are impossible to discern, seem to think they are the mainstream, that a majority of Americans agree with their ghoulish praise of this murderer.

How is it possible that these thousands, maybe millions of Americans, many of them teachers, professors, nurses, doctors, and of course, indoctrinated students, think that murdering a person with whom they disagree is not only acceptable, but something to be glorified? How did we get here?

We got here by meekly submitting to the aggressive, regressive left, by the dictates of DEI, wokery, and those who incessantly shove the climate hoax down our throats.

We normies, those of us who continue to embrace Judeo-Christian values and object to the left’s tyranny of gender ideology and all the nonsense that entails.

We caved to the imposed racism that is DEI, to their anti-family , pro-all things LGBTQ schemes.

We caved to what we perceived to be the all-powerful and intolerant left.

We let the radical Marxists who teach our kids from pre-school through high school infect them with the anti-American sentiment with which they themselves were indoctrinated. Those who then went on to college were likely to be forever hypnotized by Stalinist/Maoist versions of communism as the prescription for Utopia.

It has been a gross tragedy all around.

The end result? The horrific murder of Charlie Kirk, one of the most brilliant, important political figures in U.S. history. He was a force of nature and goodness. His mission was to bring young people back from the brink of the nihilism that the left promotes to the founding Biblical/Constitutional tenets of marriage, family, children, faith, and love of country — patriotism. And they killed him for it.

Why on earth did most of our elected Republican representatives in the House and Senate fall prey to the left’s “rules” of operation for all things racial, sexual, and criminal?

It began under Bill Clinton and escalated under Barack Obama.

Obama set back race relations at least fifty years. He studiously embraced all things LGBTQ, including the mutilation of children with gender dysphoria, an obvious mental illness.

Once Obama came to office, the already long and always left-wing media fell in line. Not one of them ever crossed the “light-bringer.” Our mainstream media capitulated and groveled to the whims of the Obama administration.

And all the while it was surveilling us, enabling our enemies, China and Iran -– and undermining our allies, such as Israel.

As Megyn Kelly said just the other day, Obama was a “slick snake.”

Indeed, he was.

Then Joe Biden, a man for whom even Obama had contempt, came to office via a stolen election and went on to do more grievous damage to this nation. All of the above, thanks to the anti-American, progressive left, which operates as if it is above the law. They believe they are entitled to win by any means necessary, For far too long, the Republicans let them win by all manner of nefarious means.

Will the assassination of the great Charlie Kirk be a wake-up call for all the weak Republicans in Congress who have let the left have its way with us all?

The phenomenal outpouring of grief throughout the country and the world should be the biggest wake-up call of all time.

And about all those Republicans who are deathly afraid of bad press in the New York Times or Washington Post, CNN or MSNBC, may they slink away like the self-aggrandizing snakes they are. May a new generation of men and women with Charlie Kirk’s courage and talent take their places.

Millions of those Americans have, in response to this terrible murder in cold blood, thrown off their fear of being “cancelled” by the vicious left.

It seems they will be afraid no more.

Kirk’s death is indeed a turning point.

May it be a cataclysmic turning point that eviscerates the left that is celebrating Kirk’s monstrous assassination. Those people are quite without a moral core. They are empty, soulless, angry, hateful people. If employed, they should be fired. They should be cancelled like the left has cancelled anyone and everyone who dared to support Trump. They should all live in shame.

May Charlie’s death be a force for dramatic, necessary change in America. We got here, to this terrible moment of the first high-profile overtly political assassination since RFK, by surrendering to the ever-escalating Marxist character of the Democrat party.

We must not surrender for another day.

The left’s violent rhetoric meant to incite mentally unstable people to kill must stop. The despicable people who spend their millions making these things happen must be indicted and jailed. We know who they are.

“The important thing to know about an assassination or an attempted assassination is not who fired the shot but who paid for the bullet.” –Eric Ambler

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Why Politicians Don’t Want to Solve Problems

Posted on September 16, 2025 by theartfuldilettante

Why Politicians Don’t Want to Solve Problems

Here’s a theory I’ve been thinking about — and the more I look at the world, the more it seems to hold up:

Politicians don’t actually want to solve problems.

Because there’s more money, power, and influence to be gained in keeping those problems alive — especially in times of chaos and fear.

Let me explain.

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💰 Crisis Means Cash

Every time a major problem surfaces — whether it’s war, climate change, crime, or public health — billions of dollars get thrown at it. Committees are formed. Programs are launched. Studies are commissioned.

It looks like action, but too often it’s just theater.

Behind the scenes, that money flows into the hands of consultants, contractors, nonprofits, and corporations with political connections. In many cases, these programs never actually fix anything.

Why would they? If the problem goes away, so does the funding.

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😨 Fear Justifies Control

Fear is one of the most effective tools in a politician’s toolbox. When people are afraid, they’re more willing to:

• Accept surveillance or censorship “for their safety”

• Support emergency powers “for the public good”

• Vote for politicians who promise to “fix it”

Once those powers are in place, they rarely go away — even after the crisis has passed.

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🗳️ The Perks of Perpetual Problems

If you solve a problem, you lose a campaign talking point.

But if you keep a problem just bad enough, you can keep saying:

“We’re working on it — just give us more time, more power, and more money.”

It’s a great way to get re-elected without ever delivering results.

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🧾 Follow the Money

Most government programs are complicated — by design. That complexity makes it easy to hide waste, corruption, and “skimming off the top.”

The bigger the problem, the more layers of bureaucracy. The more layers, the more opportunities to quietly redirect funds to friends, donors, or pet causes.

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😇 Is Every Politician Corrupt?

No, not all of them. There are honest public servants out there. But the system itself is built in a way that often rewards dysfunction more than results. Even well-meaning politicians can get caught in the machine.

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🤔 Final Thought

This isn’t about left vs. right. It’s about how power thrives in chaos — and how solving problems can be bad for business in the political world.

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Be Careful of the Cornered Democrat Rat

Posted on September 16, 2025 by theartfuldilettante

We all know that when you corner an animal, it will fight tooth and nail for its survival. This means that even supposedly meek creatures will defend themselves with a surprising level of frenzy and violence. The choice for any cornered creature facing death is to go out with an all-out snarl.

This is where the Democrat party movement finds itself. Snubbed at the polls, cut off from sub rosa USAID sustenance, humiliated time and again by the ever adroit Donald Trump, and hemorrhaging its plantation BIPOCs, the party has resorted to obscenities, outright antisemitism, and the defense of criminals everywhere (including drug-runners on the Caribbean Sea) as its tonic for combating The Donald.

Our commonsense hope that the Democrats would finally wake up and realize how much their foaming-at-the-mouth hatred, projection, trans adoration, scenery-chewing (Hakeem Jeffries), and irrationality (Stephen King) is costing them has been dashed. Charlie Kirk’s murder did that.

Now we stand in the bright light that brings clarity. The Democrat party has been taken over by nihilists, distorted beings who aim to bring us, our country, and our civilization down to ruin. Any hope that so-called moderate Democrats might amass their collective huevos and rally to the defense of their country flickered out on September 10, 2025.

What’s going to happen now will be actions and counter-actions that move us closer to, God forbid, a hot civil war:

Trump will continue to discover and prosecute government officials guilty of bribery, mendacity, cover-ups, and dereliction of duty. The MSM will continue to bray that this is revenge or witch-hunting or simple persecution of good people who are only trying to resist fascism and uphold democracy. Consumers of the swill that the New York Times and NBC and similar outlets discharge will get ratcheted to ever higher levels of outrage. When pollsters ask them if it’s sometimes OK to assassinate a political foe, they’ll nod yes, emphatically yes.

Trump will continue ICE raids in many heavily Democratic towns, where compassionate liberals have been so kindly putting Mexican and Guatemalan laborers to work, albeit at bargain wages. This will only further enrage the party’s dependable gentry sheep who live in those places. Democrats will counsel resistance, question the legality of deportations, and begin to physically assault and resist ICE officers.

When ICE and fellow law enforcement officers begin fighting back, somebody will get hurt, and this will further piss off people on both sides of the Great Divide.

Trump will continue to flood the Democrat zone with soldiers. The ostensible reason why Democrats oppose using the National Guard to fight crime in big Democrat cities is that it is an unconstitutional use of the military. The real reason is that, as Pat Buchanan said about the Rodney King riots in Los Angeles in 1992 when the military arrived, “the mob threatened and cursed, but retreated because it had met the one thing that could stop it: force, rooted in justice and backed by moral courage.”

As long as the spigots pouring out taxpayer money keep producing gushers that keep city politicians living high, a few additional murder victims every weekend is a small price to pay for staying in power. Sending in the troops disrupts this hallowed Democrat custom.

This too will enrage the gentry whites who live in the Upper East Side, Bel Air, Winnetka, or Atherton. They’ll buy the canard that Trump’s enforcement efforts are also racist, because so many big-city mayors are black (although there are some Latinxos and Latinxas).

Trans people, who are either psychotic or grifters, will continue to bathe in solipsism’s sweet assurances that their “identity” is a more powerful thing than nature or even God. With rare exceptions, there’s no coming back for them. When the outside world refuses to bend to their wills and challenges their delusions, they will be that frantic animal pushed into a corner.

To preserve their precious self-regard, they have become willing to kill or maim. We can expect more trans people to pull the trigger against their imagined foes. Some will be successful, widening the gulf between Democrats and MAGA/flyover people. I cross my fingers and say earnest prayers that the likes of J.K. Rowling and Riley Gaines are protected by fierce and capable guards.

The Democrat party will implode. It’s well on its way to becoming a rump socialist party, akin to the Peace and Freedom and Green parties, although heavily armed and mentally unstable.

Like nature, politics hates a vacuum. A party substantially less angry and delusional than the current Democrat party could rise as a genuine challenge to the Republicans’ current — and probably temporary — hegemony.

There are many people who don’t like the GOP or Donald Trump but draw the line at incessant cries of “fascism!” and “Hitler!” They might be enticed to join a party that can present a coherent challenge to the right that consists of more than schoolyard insults and taunts.

The question is whether there are enough stable and sane persons of integrity remaining in the Democrat party to make a move to leave it and create something more rational — and patriotic.

The deluded elements of the rump Democrat party will continue to believe they can win. They’ll continue to push notions that men can become women simply by asserting so, or that slaves from 160 years ago and illegal aliens from today “built this country.” (The best examples of “women” they’ve offered so far are such hilariously tone-deaf interpretations as “Lia” Thomas, “Dylan” Mulvaney, and “Rachel” Levine.) The fact that normal people reject such notions will infuriate the rumpists.

Tensions, already running high, now will become stratospheric. Erika Kirk said it plainly: “You have no idea what you have just unleashed on this country.” The great unwashed, we deplorable MAGA types, have been long suffering and slow to rouse. No more. Fed up normal people will start pushing back. That might be enough to bring on a hot civil war, perhaps beginning sporadically in the cities, and then later spilling out into the countryside.

The left will lose the war and face extinction. In his novel American Apocalypse, Kurt Schlicter outlines in dramatic detail how an open armed clash between the Reds and the Blues will lead to the final defeat of the left — and if there is one, the Democrat party — in this country.

The left, for all its passionate delusions, simply lacks the skill, tactics, logistics, discipline, organization, and courage of the people it will try to openly suppress. Of the tens of millions of private firearms in this country, the vastly greater percentage is held by patriots and MAGA types. Feral city gangs, like the ones that roam and terrorize Chicago and Los Angeles neighborhoods, will become some of the left’s irregulars. But they will be way out of their element when it comes to fighting men and women who only need one round to dispatch a foe. Punks who have to expend dozens of rounds to murder someone cannot match a disciplined and well trained opponent.

Some stooges in the military will identify with the left and take some troops with them to the dark side. But a majority of officers and troops will refuse to go along. Neither side will have the resources to patrol and control a 3 million-square-mile country. So each side will have to win hearts and minds, and I have no doubt which side will be the better at doing it.

It should be obvious to the leftist proponents of violence that they are roosters who think they have the power to summon the dawn. They have no idea of what they are about to stupidly bring down upon themselves.

Patrick Totty, American Thinker

Megyn Kelly exposes the mainstream media lies about Charlie Kirk

Posted on September 15, 2025 by theartfuldilettante

Megyn Kelly exposes the mainstream media lies about Charlie Kirk

“F*** you for not doing your homework and just trying to paint him as some crazy racist — These people need to be defeated, not reasoned with”

– New York Times was saying about Charlie was, oh, he was very controversial. He said things like Martin Luther King was a bad guy. Yes, he did say that. You know why? Because MLK’s own biographer, a Pulitzer Prize winning biographer, broke the story that MLK was in back rooms allowing women on his staff to get sexually molested by others right in front of him and seemed to kind of enjoy it. That’s what Charlie was talking about.

The stories no one else would talk about.

– That Charlie had questions about the Civil Rights Act of 1964. You know why? Because Charlie actually studied people like Shelby Steele, who wrote all about how the black middle class was rising prior to the reign of Lyndon B. Johnson, who infantilized the black community, setting them back by generations with his great society programs. Do some homework.

– This is a mainstream school of thought within the intellectual African-American community. Never mind. That’s where Charlie got it.

F*** you for not doing your homework and just trying to paint him as some crazy racist. It was just ridiculous.

That’s the New York Times’s take, okay. So I have been avoiding taking all this on because I just like, you’re not going to convince these people. And why should we bother? Who gives a sh*t? We’ve already moved on without them.

You can’t persuade them. You can’t persuade these lunatics who are online celebrating that Charlie’s dead — You can’t, all right, just stop. It’s like these people need to be defeated, not reasoned with.

All we can worry about is motivating our side. It’s like Don Jr said, we had somebody who reached out to the other side and would listen to them and debate on fair terms.

And to quote Don exactly, they f***ing killed him.

Megyn Kelly, X

Trump Vows ‘Very Major’ Probe of ‘Problem on the Left’

Posted on September 15, 2025 by theartfuldilettante

After years of being excoriated for saying violence and “good people” were on “both sides” in Charlottesville – a campaign narrative weaponized by former President Joe Biden – President Donald Trump is fully rejecting equivocation on leftist violence and assassinations.

“The problem we have is on the left, if you look at the problem,” Trump told reporters on the tarmac in a media scrum Sunday night. “The problem is on the left. It’s not on the right like some people like to say is on the right.

“The problem we have is on the left. When you look at the agitators, when you look at the scum that speaks so badly of our country, the American flag burnings all over the place, that’s the left. That’s not the right.”

When asked if there are investigations going high up into leftist groups, Trump said, “they’re all under investigation,” adding “we’ll see” what comes of it after the assassination of Charlie Kirk and the two attempts on his own life on the campaign trail.

“They’re already under major investigation,” Trump continued. “A lot of the people that you would traditionally say are on the left, already under investigation.”

Even foreign countries and officials celebrating the death of Kirk are under Trump administration scrutiny.

“We are looking at names,” Trump said. “We don’t like that. That’s not right.

“We wouldn’t celebrate if something happened on their side, and we don’t.

“These are sick people. These are really deranged people.”

Kirk, 31, was shot and killed last week at Utah Valley University. Authorities have charged Tyler Robinson, whose online affiliations reportedly included pro-trans and far-left organizations now under scrutiny. One such group, Armed Queers Salt Lake City, has since wiped its social media presence.

Law enforcement is also examining Robinson’s relationship with a live-in partner, who is cooperating with investigators, as well as online posts that hinted at potential threats ahead of Kirk’s campus appearance.

Utah Republican Gov. Spencer Cox confirmed the probe is exploring whether Robinson acted alone or with help from others. Trump vowed the investigation would be “very major.”

Eric Mack ✉

Eric Mack has been a writer and editor at Newsmax since 2016. He is a 1998 Syracuse University journalism graduate and a New York Press Association award-winning writer.

The Godfather of Global Disorder, Trump is Right: George Soros Belongs in Prison.

Posted on September 15, 2025 by theartfuldilettante

by John Mac Ghlionn

September 14, 2025, 10:16 PM

Trump’s latest broadside landed with the familiar thunder of one of his off-the-cuff declarations. In a rather interesting interview with NBC News, he called for billionaire George Soros to be “put in jail.” To his critics, it sounded like yet another wild Trump line, a flourish designed to inflame. It carried the same cadence as the time he promised “fire and fury” for Kim Jong Un, or when he declared NATO allies were “delinquent” freeloaders, or when he warned that the European Union was a “foe” in trade. Each line was ridiculed, painted as reckless exaggeration. And yet, time and again, those same lines revealed uncomfortable truths that polite opinion preferred to ignore. Trump’s style makes it easy to dismiss him. But if everything we have seen about Soros is true, his words deserve more than a shrug.

The Soros question matters because it embodies the clash between sovereignty and subversion.

Soros has spent decades funneling money into the arteries of the American left. His Open Society Foundation bankrolls activists, academics, and political operatives who wrap their work in the language of “justice” and “equity.” In practice, that money has underwritten campaigns to weaken police, abolish bail, and elect prosecutors who refuse to prosecute. The result is not legitimate justice but lasting disorder: theft normalized, violence excused, and citizens trapped in cities that no longer feel safe.

George Soros is not merely a donor. He is a designer. He builds networks that outlast elections. He funds think tanks that shape language, NGOs that craft narratives, and media outlets that amplify them. His fortune converts ideology into policy, bypassing the regular checks of democracy. The pattern repeats across continents.

Eastern Europe during the 1990s, Soros money flowed into opposition movements, toppling governments and reshaping political orders. Hailed as a liberator, he was anything but. The costs were staggering. Sovereignty diluted, dependence on foreign funds entrenched, and aid organizations more loyal to donors than to the citizens they claimed to serve.

In Western Europe, his influence was just as disruptive. Through expansive lobbying networks, he championed mass migration, open borders, and supranational rule. Leaders who resisted were swiftly branded xenophobes or authoritarians. Nations that complied saw their political landscapes permanently altered. Hungary’s Viktor Orbán has made Soros the centerpiece of his political struggle precisely because his country became ground zero for this battle. Sovereignty on one side, Soros-backed networks on the other.

In Latin America, his foundations financed campaigns that elevated grievance politics into governing principles. Identity, not citizenship, became the currency of legitimacy. The results were predictable: division, polarization, and democratic institutions eroded from within.

In the United States, the same blueprint is visible. Soros has perfected the art of seeding local power. By spending relatively modest sums on district attorney races, he transformed the justice system from the bottom up. Cities like San Francisco, Chicago, and Philadelphia live with the consequences: lawlessness defended as compassion, prosecution rebranded as oppression.

This is why Trump’s blunt charge strikes a chord. When he brands Soros a “bad guy,” he is pulling from a record too extensive to ignore. And when he warns about Soros’ son Alexander—who now chairs the Open Society Foundations—he is pointing to a dynasty, a political fortune set to last generations. What looks like kindness to many on the left is, in fact, empire-building without borders.

Critics will call Trump’s demand for prison political theater. But his past “bluster” has a habit of aging well. When he railed against China’s trade practices in 2016, the establishment scoffed—until the numbers confirmed the damage. When he said Germany was “captive” to Russian gas, European leaders rolled their eyes—until Putin turned off the taps. His words are blunt instruments, but his instincts often cut closer to reality than the pompous pronouncements of the ruling class.

The Soros question matters because it embodies the clash between sovereignty and subversion. Soros’ defenders insist he is a benefactor for democracy, but his clear-eyed critics see something darker. The same man celebrated in Brussels as a visionary is vilified in Budapest as a saboteur. Both images cannot be true, yet both define him. Deep down, every honest observer knows which one is real.

The timing of Trump’s remarks, in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s brutal assassination, made them even more pointed. Conservatives already feel hunted, targeted by a left increasingly tolerant of political violence. Soros, in this context, does not appear as an abstract donor. He appears as the man funding the very forces that smear, silence, and, in their most extreme corners, applaud attacks on ideological rivals.

So, does George Soros deserve to be behind bars? If justice still means anything, if law is applied without fear or favor, then the answer is not just yes—it is emphatically yes.

American Spectator

Pastor Lucas Miles, one of Charlie Kirk’s closest friends, declared him a “martyr” and said he knew of the real dangers he faced as a conservative leader.

Posted on September 15, 2025 by theartfuldilettante

Miles’ new bestseller “The Pagan Threat: Confronting America’s Godless Uprising,” includes Charlie Kirk’s foreword – his last published words before his tragic death.

In his foreword, Kirk predicted “terrifying dangers” ahead for Christians who speak out on the issues facing our society

Miles emphasized that Kirk viewed his work as a calling and knowingly took risks for his faith. “Charlie understood there was danger for all of us,” he said.

“He was willing to go out there and do what he did every single day and put himself out there at risk of personal peril.”

Miles, senior director of USA Faith at Turning Point USA, said the threats are real and won’t end with Kirk’s death.

“We’re going to take time to honor him as we celebrate his life through this memorial this next weekend,” Miles said.

“But then we’re going to do what Charlie would want us to do,” he added.

“And that’s keep moving forward and really dedicate the rest of our lives every waking moment, to try to fill the tremendous gap in this world by the loss of his life.”

Miles said Kirk’s foreword to “The Pagan Threat” is a powerful gift that now carries eternal significance.

“He wrote just a really powerful foreword for this book, which is, you know, now for me, just eternally just left a mark of gratitude in my life for just that endorsement,” Miles said. “He was the best among us.”

In the foreword, Kirk wrote: “A fearless warrior for Christ, Lucas is a man built to stand for the truth in a time of great apostasy.”

Kirk continued: “Don’t just read Pagan Threat — internalize what it has to say. Then, share its message with your Christian friends, before they are seduced by Paganism themselves. We have a faith and a country to save.”

Miles said Kirk’s death is a call to action for Christians across the nation. “Go to church today. It’s not too late. Go to church. That’s what Charlie would want you to do. And ultimately, you know, find a rekindling with your relationship with Christ,” he urged.

In his book, Miles outlines a seven-step plan for Christians, parents, and church leaders to counter what he describes as the growing influence of Marxism, neo-paganism, and woke ideology.

He said Kirk shared those warnings in his foreword, making “eerily prescient” comments about dangers facing America.

“This younger generation has experienced tremendous trauma,” Miles said, citing COVID-19 restrictions, gender ideology, and social unrest as shaping forces.

“That’s what Marxism does. And so we have to push back against that. It’s so important that we get this road map so that we can really stand strong and confront this pagan threat that’s out there.”

As Kirk wrote in his final words, Miles added, “America is too great to lose.”

Pastor Lucas Miles, one of Charlie Kirk’s closest friends, declared him a “martyr” and said he knew of the real dangers he faced as a conservative leader, Miles told Newsmax’s “Sunday Report.”

Miles’ new bestseller “The Pagan Threat: Confronting America’s Godless Uprising,” includes Charlie Kirk’s foreword – his last published words before his tragic death.

In his foreword, Kirk predicted “terrifying dangers” ahead for Christians who speak out on the issues facing our society.