In connecting with young people, Charlie Kirk achieved for Republicans what the party had attempted to do for decades, The Wall Street Journal reported.
Kirk, the Turning Point USA co-founder and CEO assassinated last week during a rally in Utah, used public appearances and social media to inspire young conservatives. He expressed views that included opposition to abortion and same-sex marriage.
Kirk’s Instagram account has more than 12 million followers.
In connecting with young people, Charlie Kirk achieved for Republicans what the party had attempted to do for decades, The Wall Street Journal reported.
Kirk, the Turning Point USA co-founder and CEO assassinated last week during a rally in Utah, used public appearances and social media to inspire young conservatives. He expressed views that included opposition to abortion and same-sex marriage.
“He’s probably the most influential person in our generation,” said Grand Canyon University student Carlie Jo Ahrenstorff, 21, the Journal reported.
“I thought it was super cool that there’s someone younger who was going to all these universities, and who did believe in God and really made that known,” said Olivia Hubbard, a 19-year-old Christian from Iowa.
Kirk’s speaking style appealed to young Republicans and helped bring them into the party.
“You felt like he spoke to you and he had this skill of making you feel like he was close to you,” Jon Fleischman, a longtime conservative activist and former chair of California’s chapter of Young Americans for Freedom, told the Los Angeles Times. “He is irreplaceable. Nobody could beat Charlie Kirk.”
White House assistant press secretary Taylor Rogers, 24, started a Turning Point USA chapter at Clemson University.
“In some way, he influenced everyone who is my age that is working in the White House today,” Rogers said, the Journal reported.
Kirk’s influence also has been felt in Congress.
Charlie is the reason why I’m in Congress today,” 36-year-old Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., told the Journal.
Kirk recruited Luna to work at Turning Point USA as the director of Hispanic engagement in 2018.
Former NCAA swimmer and conservative activist Riley Gaines, 25, credited Kirk with sending her to college campuses to speak with students.
“It’s Charlie who really gave me a platform, inviting me early on to just speak with him about it, offering his advice, his guidance,” Gaines said.
At his 9/11 memorial speech last week, President Donald Trump announced Kirk will be awarded the prestigious Presidential Medal of Freedom.
“Let me express the horror and grief so many Americans at the heinous assassination of Charlie Kirk have felt,” Trump said in brief remarks before remembering 9/11. “Charlie was a giant of his generation, a champion of liberty, and an inspiration to millions and millions of people.
It isn’t necessary to respond with violence to the escalation of leftist domestic terrorism.
All we need to do, other than arrest, convict and execute domestic terrorists, is DEFUND everything they value.
Their public schools where kids get taught militant transgender Communism, their universities, their welfare programs for illegal gang members, their socialist schemes, their NPR, their enviro-Nazi and medical fascism programs like the CDC–just defund ALL of it.
Make them fend for themselves, or else perish from the cultural scene.
In time, their irrational influence will wane. If we don’t do this, then we will continue to subsidize our own destroyers.
Witness the results of doing that. Just this week.
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Dear “transgenders”: Why is it necessary to murder people in order to protect your rights? Why can’t you simply demand the right to be left alone — a right which you already enjoy?
Why is unqualified, unconditional acceptance of everything you say, do and believe required in order for people to escape your wrath, and to avoid being executed in cold blood?
It seems, transgenders, that you are making life a hell of a lot more difficult for yourselves by embracing terrorism as a means of liberation.
“We’re in the civil war. It’s not coming — it’s here. And it’s one-sided. The left is killing the right. The left is silencing the right. People are terrified to even speak their views in public, afraid of being attacked. It’s a one-way civil war.”
The flags of 11 sovereign indigenous tribal nations were permanently raised recently at the Minnesota State Capitol in St. Paul, during a ceremony at the new Tribal Flag Plaza.
Gov. Tim Walz said of the ceremony, “Minnesota is moving in a direction that everyone is welcome.”
I’m not sure about that, but, based on recent tragedies in Minneapolis, it appears murderous nut-jobs are welcome.
I have respect and admiration for Native Americans and their history, but I am more than a little leery about continuing to emphasize our differences instead of the things that make us American. And the 11 different “sovereign” tribal nations didn’t always play well together amongst themselves.
Walz’s claim that “everyone is welcome” in Minnesota is simply untrue. It is most assuredly not true of President Trump, whom Walz wishes would “make news,” meaning die, soon.
And probably not his supporters, either, meaning roughly 40% of his fellow citizens are persona non grata, as well. Tampon Tim did make the state a sanctuary for illegal aliens, though. And those seeking abortions or transgender surgeries.
You know the LGBTQ flag is welcome at the Capitol, as is the trans flag by itself. And in some of the state’s schoolrooms, too. But you know the governor wouldn’t raise the “MAGA” flag at the Capitol, if there was one, even though there are far more people in that group than the others referenced thus far. (Based on his past history, I wouldn’t be surprised if Walz someday allowed the flag of China — or even that of the Chinese Communist Party — to fly at the Capitol).
Meanwhile, a full-sized Palestinian flag has been hanging in the hallway of a Brooklyn high school for months, despite complaints from Jewish teachers at the school. The banner has been prominently displayed at Leaders High School in Gravesend, though no one claims to know who hung it. But, hey, it’s been there for months and only the Jewish teachers seem to mind, for some reason, so it’s all good, right?
The flags of tribal nations are okay, BLM flags too, as are LGBTQ flags — or any of their derivatives — on government property in parts of the formerly United States. Even the Palestinian flag is apparently welcome in some government buildings today.
But, in Minnesota, the state flag itself, which actually depicted a Native American as well as a farmer and other denizens, had to be redone so as not to offend native Americans. The new flag is symbolic of nothing, though it does bear a vague resemblance to the Somali flag, which is fitting—and perhaps no accident — as Somali refugees now make up a measurable percentage of the North Star State’s population, and continue pouring into the state inexorably. Perhaps Democrats in charge at the Capitol should fly a white flag, too, symbolizing their abject surrender of the state to Somalis and other migrants, many of them Muslim.
Let us hope we don’t go the way of England, where the home country’s national banner can be removed due to the “narrative challenges” it purportedly presents. (Meaning it could somehow offend Muslims.)
But, in Minnesota, the state flag itself, which actually depicted a Native American as well as a farmer and other denizens, had to be redone so as not to offend native Americans. The new flag is symbolic of nothing, though it does bear a vague resemblance to the Somali flag, which is fitting—and perhaps no accident — as Somali refugees now make up a measurable percentage of the North Star State’s population, and continue pouring into the state inexorably. Perhaps Democrats in charge at the Capitol should fly a white flag, too, symbolizing their abject surrender of the state to Somalis and other migrants, many of them Muslim.
Let us hope we don’t go the way of England, where the home country’s national banner can be removed due to the “narrative challenges” it purportedly presents. (Meaning it could somehow offend Muslims.)
When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, many in the West breathed a sigh of relief. The Cold War was over, the Iron Curtain had fallen, and communism, it seemed, had been defeated. The red flags were folded, the statues of Lenin came down, and the free world declared victory.
But the reports of communism’s death were greatly exaggerated.
Communism, after all, is not a nation or a regime. It’s not a border or a flag. Communism is an idea — and ideas, especially seductive ones, do not die with the fall of governments. Like a parasite, it simply finds a new host.
In fact, communism is perhaps one of the most adaptable parasites in modern history. It changes its name, adjusts its slogans, softens its image, and re-emerges under the guise of compassion, equality, and justice. But beneath its ever-shifting appearance lies the same core DNA: centralized power, government control, suppression of dissent, and a utopian promise that never quite arrives.
Communism rarely walks in the front door wearing a red star anymore. It comes in through the side window, dressed in the language of fairness and social justice. It tells people that profit is theft, that success is exploitation, and that if only the right people had total control, society could finally be perfected.
It offers a seductive vision: a world without poverty, without inequality, without suffering. A paradise on earth — if only we would surrender a little bit of freedom, a little bit of property, and a little bit of control to the state. “Don’t worry,” it says, “we’ll take care of you. Everything will be free.”
But of course, nothing is free. The government has no money of its own. It only has what it takes — from you. What begins as redistribution quickly becomes confiscation. The promise of “enough for everyone” turns into shortages for all. The “equality” that’s promised ends up meaning equally poor, equally dependent, equally powerless.
In the end, what communism delivers is the opposite of what it promises. The dream of universal prosperity becomes the nightmare of forced conformity. The workers are not liberated; they are enslaved — not to a corporation, but to a bureaucracy. The free stuff was never free. The cost was freedom itself.
The tragedy is not just historical. The 20th century saw communism leave a trail of destruction across continents — tens of millions dead, countless lives broken, societies shattered. And yet, despite the blood-soaked record, the idea persists. It appeals most strongly not to the poor — who often know better — but to the comfortable, the idealistic, and the discontented in wealthy societies who imagine that the system is rigged and that utopia is only one revolution away.
And so, the parasite moves on — from Lenin’s Russia to Mao’s China, from Castro’s Cuba to Chávez’s Venezuela, and now to the hearts and minds of young people in the very countries that defeated it.
But here’s the truth that must be said plainly: communism doesn’t fail because the wrong people were in charge. It fails because it is built on a lie — a lie about human nature, a lie about economics, and a lie about power. It assumes people will work as hard for the benefit of strangers as they will for themselves. It assumes planners can replace markets. It assumes that if you just give enough power to the state, the state will use it wisely and never abuse it.
History says otherwise.
So we must stop pretending that communism is a noble idea that was simply mismanaged. It is not a noble idea. It is a dangerous illusion — one that always ends in control, corruption, and collapse.
It may wear a new face in each generation, but it always leaves the same scars.
Last year, leftist activists repeatedly urged Justice Sonia Sotomayor to retire, hoping Biden could appoint a younger liberal replacement. In addition to her age, health concerns were also a factor. Last year, we learned that Sotomayor travels with a medic due to her Type 1 diabetes, an extraordinary precaution that underscores the seriousness of her condition. Records showed she’s required medical assistance during travel and regularly carries medical supplies. While she’s managed her diabetes since childhood, at her age the physical and emotional toll of serving on a court where she’s perpetually outvoted must weigh heavily.
Once again, Sotomayor expressed frustration with her experiences on the Supreme Court with a conservative majority during an appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, where she admitted just how difficult it is for her to stomach her conservative colleagues on the bench.
“She taught me to look for the best in people,” Sotomayor said of her mother. “That was the lesson that moment gave me, and it’s one I look for in my colleagues.”
Of course, the justice couldn’t resist making it clear how much she disagrees with the Court’s conservative majority. “I don’t agree with them much. At least not with the majority. And they can be really frustrating. And there are moments when I want to scurry out of the room. But I don’t. And what I look for to maintain our collegiality is the good in them,” she explained.
Sotomayor may insist she’s trying to see the good in her fellow justices, but her remarks show just how deep the ideological divide really runs on today’s Court. While she frames it as collegiality, the underlying message is unmistakable: conservatives are a constant source of frustration for her.
She said her mother was right and added there was good in “almost” everyone.
Sotomayor also appeared on “The View” Tuesday, where she warned about “the price we pay” when asked about the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade and other hotly debated rulings by the 6-3 conservative majority.
“Why do you see these decisions as so dangerous to our freedoms? What do you think ordinary Americans should take away from what seem to be very prescient warnings?” co-host Sunny Hostin asked Sotomayor.
“The price we pay is whatever is happening today, as I indicated, is going to affect a lot of people. But it affects your future. It affects the conduct of leaders in the future, because what we permit today is not going to be duplicated exactly tomorrow. It’s going to be something different,” Sotomayor began.
The question isn’t whether Sotomayor will retire—it’s when. But one thing seems clear: I can’t imagine her stepping down while Trump is in office. By not retiring under Biden, she’s effectively gambling that a Republican won’t win in 2028.
That’s a risky bet, and one that could backfire badly. In the meantime, she’s stuck on a Court that keeps handing down constitutional victories for the conservative majority, and the misery shows.
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I am a parent of female child who has Rapid Onset of Gender Dysphoria (ROGD). This is a new phenomenon where a child, who was perfectly happy in his or her body until right around puberty, suddenly announces that he or she is the opposite sex. In the case of my daughter, when she developed this condition, she threw away all of her feminine clothes, cut her hair super short, refused to go out in public without a chest binder and stopped shaving her legs. And, of course, she came up with a new male-sounding name and insisted that everyone use it, along with the associated male pronouns.
With ROGD, from the parent perspective, the change is abrupt and without warning – thus the term “rapid”—but that term is somewhat deceiving. ROGD doesn’t quite pop up out of nowhere despite how it might initially appear, nor does the body incongruence of gender dysphoria spring up organically as the gender ideologues proclaim. It is not something that the ROGD child always felt. And the trans identity is not something that child determines on her own. Rather, it is carefully manufactured and cultivated on the internet and in peer groups, like a tended-to plant. The pretty pot is placed out; the dirt is added; the seeds are implanted; water is carefully poured; and the pot is placed in the sunshine, so that it can grow stronger and bigger until, eventually, and tragically, the child who was happy in her body is no longer recognizable, and not just by sight. Her personality changes to be sullen, combative and disengaged. She is no longer jovial or interested in much of anything unless it related to being trans.
Let me take you on the journey of how my daughter was groomed into being a trans identifying child at the age of 13—and I assure you, my story is not uncommon, I have heard its refrain echoed from many others with ROGD kids. My daughter’s story began innocently enough, with a friend joking to her that she always took charge of the games that they came up with at the playground at school. Take-charge girls are like boys, her friend said, and she gave her a male nickname.
That same year, my daughter got her period. She was the first in her friend group and it was heavy and a nuisance. Her breasts developed. Naturally, she did not like these sudden changes, as most girls initially don’t. Most girls in my generation spent a few years wearing baggy clothes to cover up their maturing bodies. These days, that perfectly normal and to-be-expected discomfort is a clear sign of being trans, per the internet.
Also in 7th grade, after their sex ed class at school, my daughter’s all female friend group sat in my backyard discussing what sexual categories they fell into. “I think that I am an L” one announced. “L” stood for lesbian. Another said that she was agender. My daughter said she was L or pansexual. All 5 girls chose a label other than what is now referred to as “cis” or in my daughter’s words, the scorned and derogatory term “basic”. I was concerned about this new language so I attended our public school’s sponsored sex talk. It was put on by Pflag, I believe. The presentation was senseless. Gender is fluid, yet immutable. There are 46 genders and all kids regardless of age should announce pronouns at introduction. I was the only parent interrupting them to question their illogical logic. I was eventually told, essentially, to shut up.
I am a parent of female child who has Rapid Onset of Gender Dysphoria (ROGD). This is a new phenomenon where a child, who was perfectly happy in his or her body until right around puberty, suddenly announces that he or she is the opposite sex. In the case of my daughter, when she developed this condition, she threw away all of her feminine clothes, cut her hair super short, refused to go out in public without a chest binder and stopped shaving her legs. And, of course, she came up with a new male-sounding name and insisted that everyone use it, along with the associated male pronouns.
With ROGD, from the parent perspective, the change is abrupt and without warning – thus the term “rapid”—but that term is somewhat deceiving. ROGD doesn’t quite pop up out of nowhere despite how it might initially appear, nor does the body incongruence of gender dysphoria spring up organically as the gender ideologues proclaim. It is not something that the ROGD child always felt. And the trans identity is not something that child determines on her own. Rather, it is carefully manufactured and cultivated on the internet and in peer groups, like a tended-to plant. The pretty pot is placed out; the dirt is added; the seeds are implanted; water is carefully poured; and the pot is placed in the sunshine, so that it can grow stronger and bigger until, eventually, and tragically, the child who was happy in her body is no longer recognizable, and not just by sight. Her personality changes to be sullen, combative and disengaged. She is no longer jovial or interested in much of anything unless it related to being trans.
Let me take you on the journey of how my daughter was groomed into being a trans identifying child at the age of 13—and I assure you, my story is not uncommon, I have heard its refrain echoed from many others with ROGD kids. My daughter’s story began innocently enough, with a friend joking to her that she always took charge of the games that they came up with at the playground at school. Take-charge girls are like boys, her friend said, and she gave her a male nickname.
That same year, my daughter got her period. She was the first in her friend group and it was heavy and a nuisance. Her breasts developed. Naturally, she did not like these sudden changes, as most girls initially don’t. Most girls in my generation spent a few years wearing baggy clothes to cover up their maturing bodies. These days, that perfectly normal and to-be-expected discomfort is a clear sign of being trans, per the internet.
With ROGD, from the parent perspective, the change is abrupt and without warning – thus the term “rapid”—but that term is somewhat deceiving.
I am a parent of female child who has Rapid Onset of Gender Dysphoria (ROGD). This is a new phenomenon where a child, who was perfectly happy in his or her body until right around puberty, suddenly announces that he or she is the opposite sex. In the case of my daughter, when she developed this condition, she threw away all of her feminine clothes, cut her hair super short, refused to go out in public without a chest binder and stopped shaving her legs. And, of course, she came up with a new male-sounding name and insisted that everyone use it, along with the associated male pronouns.
With ROGD, from the parent perspective, the change is abrupt and without warning – thus the term “rapid”—but that term is somewhat deceiving. ROGD doesn’t quite pop up out of nowhere despite how it might initially appear, nor does the body incongruence of gender dysphoria spring up organically as the gender ideologues proclaim. It is not something that the ROGD child always felt. And the trans identity is not something that child determines on her own. Rather, it is carefully manufactured and cultivated on the internet and in peer groups, like a tended-to plant. The pretty pot is placed out; the dirt is added; the seeds are implanted; water is carefully poured; and the pot is placed in the sunshine, so that it can grow stronger and bigger until, eventually, and tragically, the child who was happy in her body is no longer recognizable, and not just by sight. Her personality changes to be sullen, combative and disengaged. She is no longer jovial or interested in much of anything unless it related to being trans.
Let me take you on the journey of how my daughter was groomed into being a trans identifying child at the age of 13—and I assure you, my story is not uncommon, I have heard its refrain echoed from many others with ROGD kids. My daughter’s story began innocently enough, with a friend joking to her that she always took charge of the games that they came up with at the playground at school. Take-charge girls are like boys, her friend said, and she gave her a male nickname.
That same year, my daughter got her period. She was the first in her friend group and it was heavy and a nuisance. Her breasts developed. Naturally, she did not like these sudden changes, as most girls initially don’t. Most girls in my generation spent a few years wearing baggy clothes to cover up their maturing bodies. These days, that perfectly normal and to-be-expected discomfort is a clear sign of being trans, per the internet.
Also in 7th grade, after their sex ed class at school, my daughter’s all female friend group sat in my backyard discussing what sexual categories they fell into. “I think that I am an L” one announced. “L” stood for lesbian. Another said that she was agender. My daughter said she was L or pansexual. All 5 girls chose a label other than what is now referred to as “cis” or in my daughter’s words, the scorned and derogatory term “basic”. I was concerned about this new language so I attended our public school’s sponsored sex talk. It was put on by Pflag, I believe. The presentation was senseless. Gender is fluid, yet immutable. There are 46 genders and all kids regardless of age should announce pronouns at introduction. I was the only parent interrupting them to question their illogical logic. I was eventually told, essentially, to shut up.
With ROGD, from the parent perspective, the change is abrupt and without warning – thus the term “rapid”—but that term is somewhat deceiving.
I am a parent of female child who has Rapid Onset of Gender Dysphoria (ROGD). This is a new phenomenon where a child, who was perfectly happy in his or her body until right around puberty, suddenly announces that he or she is the opposite sex. In the case of my daughter, when she developed this condition, she threw away all of her feminine clothes, cut her hair super short, refused to go out in public without a chest binder and stopped shaving her legs. And, of course, she came up with a new male-sounding name and insisted that everyone use it, along with the associated male pronouns.
With ROGD, from the parent perspective, the change is abrupt and without warning – thus the term “rapid”—but that term is somewhat deceiving. ROGD doesn’t quite pop up out of nowhere despite how it might initially appear, nor does the body incongruence of gender dysphoria spring up organically as the gender ideologues proclaim. It is not something that the ROGD child always felt. And the trans identity is not something that child determines on her own. Rather, it is carefully manufactured and cultivated on the internet and in peer groups, like a tended-to plant. The pretty pot is placed out; the dirt is added; the seeds are implanted; water is carefully poured; and the pot is placed in the sunshine, so that it can grow stronger and bigger until, eventually, and tragically, the child who was happy in her body is no longer recognizable, and not just by sight. Her personality changes to be sullen, combative and disengaged. She is no longer jovial or interested in much of anything unless it related to being trans.
Let me take you on the journey of how my daughter was groomed into being a trans identifying child at the age of 13—and I assure you, my story is not uncommon, I have heard its refrain echoed from many others with ROGD kids. My daughter’s story began innocently enough, with a friend joking to her that she always took charge of the games that they came up with at the playground at school. Take-charge girls are like boys, her friend said, and she gave her a male nickname.
That same year, my daughter got her period. She was the first in her friend group and it was heavy and a nuisance. Her breasts developed. Naturally, she did not like these sudden changes, as most girls initially don’t. Most girls in my generation spent a few years wearing baggy clothes to cover up their maturing bodies. These days, that perfectly normal and to-be-expected discomfort is a clear sign of being trans, per the internet.
Also in 7th grade, after their sex ed class at school, my daughter’s all female friend group sat in my backyard discussing what sexual categories they fell into. “I think that I am an L” one announced. “L” stood for lesbian. Another said that she was agender. My daughter said she was L or pansexual. All 5 girls chose a label other than what is now referred to as “cis” or in my daughter’s words, the scorned and derogatory term “basic”. I was concerned about this new language so I attended our public school’s sponsored sex talk. It was put on by Pflag, I believe. The presentation was senseless. Gender is fluid, yet immutable. There are 46 genders and all kids regardless of age should announce pronouns at introduction. I was the only parent interrupting them to question their illogical logic. I was eventually told, essentially, to shut up.
Then, in 8th grade, my daughter stopped being a good student. She became obsessed with an older girl she met, who identified as a boy. My concern grew. I started to go through all of my daughter’s devices, old, obsolete i-phones and kindles. During my initial investigation, I saw some odd texts and TikToks but nothing too worrying.
After a night in which my daughter had a panic attack, she started to open up to me about the cause of her pain and anger, and why her behavior had changed so dramatically. She gave me all of her passwords for all of her accounts, even her secret ones. She admitted to having accounts in every possible platform – Discord, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and TikTok – some that I had no idea existed. I spent the next couple of weeks going through each device and every platform. What I saw made me physically ill.
My daughter’s crush, the girl who identified as a boy and was 3 years older than my daughter, had sent her a 10-minute video of herself masturbating with an enormous dildo. Yes, I had child pornography on my device. That older girl discussed fisting and described in intimate detail female anatomy and orgasms to a group of some 6 or so 13-year-old girls online. This girl admitted to having been sexually abused as a child. She admitted to being obsessed with pedophile cases and serial killers. Now, she was passing that abuse onto my child and other kids. She admitted to meeting random people in the city’s park to smoke pot and engage in sexual acts.
The young girl followers treated this older girl as a sage. They hung on every word, asked her for advice, watched her endless of stream of TikToks, with her drug induced dances in Super Hero costumes with bulging packers. They listened to her stories of being on acid and mushrooms. My daughter got interested in the dark arts, because that is what this older girl liked. My daughter started asking for everything that this older kid liked – a tarantula, a throne, various records, a nose ring – you get the idea.
I now knew why my daughter had become unrecognizable. The history on every device was filled with pornography, and the porn was mostly guy-on-guy. It was violent porn. It was anime porn with rape scenes, pregnant cartoon men being sodomized, gang bangs with cartoon children. There were internet sites that contained written porn, with beatings, followed by forgiveness and sex.
My daughter had been sucked into the dark web.
She was only 13.
There were searches for ball gags, hand-cuffs, whips and leather outfits. There were surveys to determine what deviant sex acts she would partake in. There were Discord and Instagram chatrooms where girls discussed whether they are bottoms or tops, givers or receivers, abusers or abused. There were discussions of turn-ons with weaponry. There were images of cartoon dogs giving oral sex. My daughter started drawing penises on her walls in her room, her shoes and her pants.
accessed my daughter’s group chats with young girls from across the country where they were teaching each other how to disassociate with their bodies so that they would be comfortable posting pictures of themselves naked. Advice that included things like “since you are really a boy, your girl body really isn’t yours so it’s no big thing to sell pictures to stupid men for money”. There was a tutorial for how to find a “sugar daddy” and how to set up an amazon account so he could buy you things. The more seasoned trans identified girls would say “don’t worry you can start off slow, just show your midriff. You can hide your face and show more.” Find a sugar daddy who does not screenshot snapchat, otherwise you will be all over the internet, some 14-year-old warned. One girl bemoaned how long it took her sugar daddy to climax while he watched her dance.
I dove in deeper. I looked at all of my daughter’s followers on TikTok – the followers were MTFs, FTMs, young girls showcasing bouncing breasts, tongues simulating oral sex by 14-year-olds, grown men following, kids advertising their trans-ness which increases their followings and invites predators. I delved into her Twitter followers, and found men posting gang bangs with demonstrations of things that I can never unsee. I read the written porn that my daughter had read. It was beyond disgusting.
I started calling random contacts from her phone. There were adult men answering. An anorexic male college student who was taking estrogen. Strangers from other states.
After several tries, I stripped my daughter’s phone of all internet access. I stripped her school iPad of the most egregious sites. I bought a safe and locked up all the phones and devices. I got her a new phone number so that I could block all of the pedophiles and groomers with whom she was in contact.
I would love to say that was the end of it. But, you see, the plant that grew from the groomers could not be cut down so easily. It kept replanting itself, regrowing as addiction is wont to do. The pull of the porn was so strong, that my daughter had friends give her their old phones. She had friends send her screen shots of “food” (her word for written porn). She ran away, stating that I abused her because I blocked the internet.
So, you tell me, is my now 15-year-old daughter’s trans-identity organic? Is it her transman identity her authentic, true self? Is her self-realization that she really is a boy something that should be celebrated? I know and you know now that she was transformed slowly and methodically with intent by those who prey on young vulnerable kids.
This week after finding yet another stowaway phone, my daughter offered to transform back to being a traditional girl – wear bras, grow her hair out, wear stereotypical female clothes, tell everyone to use her female name – in exchange for access to the internet with limited controls. Is she so addicted to porn that it trumps her alleged “trans identity”? Is she merely offering to bide her time until she is 18 to transition again? I don’t know. I am not sure what we will do, but one thing that I am sure of is that this ROGD group of kids does not come by their cross-sex identities organically or authentically. Someone plants the seed. Someone waters the seed and someone places it in the sunshine and cultivates it carefully for reasons of their own. And our children are the unwitting victims.
The Globalists Killed Charlie Kirk & they have names, see below.
Charlie Kirk’s death was a result of years of globalist de-humanization of conservatives, especially conservative Christians.
Globalists hate GOD!
These globalist “killers” are responsible for a campaign of de-humanization. For many years now, they demonized all of us with labels like racist, fascist, Nazi, far-right, or anti-this & anti-that, all for no reason other than to cause enough people to hate with such passion they were/are willing to resort to the most heinous of actions…such as murder or other demonic acts of power.
They censored us, they de-platformed us, they labeled us, they imprisoned many, they did anything they could to shut down our voices, all to achieve their evil ONE WORLD ORDER. A mission they are desperate to accomplish.
Charlie Kirk’s brutal assassination is a stark warning to many other public personas to shut up, or your next. Trump’s two known assassination attempts were a warning to him (don’t kid yourselves).
Despite humanity discovering how horrible they are, these same globalists will refuse to back down.
This MUST come to an end (but won’t).
Why?
They see humanity as something to control & if things in America don’t radically change, if the @realDonaldTrump administration doesn’t go to a WAR footing & gut the “deep state”, the globalists will achieve their reprehensible mission.
Yes Mr. @POTUS America is a nation at WAR & we must start acting like it.
This isn’t about a few bad apples in parts of the federal government that can easily be rooted out. This is a pervasive, insidious dark undercurrent of tens of thousands of actors throughout all our institutions of power. They exist at the local, state, federal, corporate, & military levels & they are organized, well funded & well resourced in many other ways.
We need to rip the band aids off now!
How do they operate?
They still have their media networks. They own most politicians, they control our education system from elementary to institutions of “higher” learning, they own other influencers worldwide such as those in Hollywood, all who are being paid in some form or fashion to promote the globalist agenda & help achieve the globalist goal of One World Government.
Don’t believe me? Just listen to what many of these “killers” have said in the past.
Who are they?
Their names have become all too familiar. They are Soros, Obama, Clinton, Biden, Gates, Schwab, Macron, Starmer, Merz, all, and many others, are part of a liberal-globalist elite that over decades demonized their political opponents & accepted an unholy alliance with Godless societies & other like minded -isms. They’ve been smart to muddy the battlefield’s lines of distinction. Like an insurgency, where the enemy walks among us.
Charlie Kirk’s brutal & very visible public execution is now clearing those battle lines up. And trust, Tyler Robinson was a patsy in their network of insurgents.
So What?
There is a war being waged, yet we are not fighting as though we’re at war. But make no mistake, our nation & our freedoms are under attack.
The globalists hate us, they despise us, they want many of us dead, but trust when I say this…THEY FEAR US!
They fear us because we still profess a love of God. We still outwardly demonstrate that our Christian principles & values remain first in the lives of the majority of Americans. We don’t require new laws from the likes of Sharia or Canon or the whim of a dictator or king or communist premier.
We only require that all who wish to live in America (generations that came & new generations to come) assimilate & join TEAM AMERICA!
We The People are done being demonized. Like many, I want the Trump administration to see the reality & get to work. Gut the deep state & stop pretending like this is politics as usual.
Freedom and hope are everything and worth fighting for.
It’s been a very sad few weeks, first with the tragic and senseless murder of Iryna Zarutska on a train in North Carolina on August 22, and now with the assassination of Charlie Kirk in Utah on September 10. These two killings have suddenly focused the attention of a lot of previously complacent people, and provided some very useful education about the kind of world we live in. But what are the lessons to take away?
One possible lesson is that the world is just irretrievably filled with anger and hate, to the extent that the best that sensible people can do is withdraw into their bunker, keep out of blue states and away from people who follow leftist and woke ideology, stick to a limited circle of family and friends, and avoid dealing with the broader world to the maximum extent possible.
I do not subscribe to that approach. Yes, there is a lot of anger and hate in the world, but also an equal or greater amount of goodness and beauty. And the thing that makes life worthwhile is participating in the fray, and trying to improve things. So here I am living in Manhattan, deep behind the enemy’s political lines, posting my contrarian positions publicly and participating in various ways, however fruitless in the short term, to move the political needle here at least a little. Hey, it’s fun.
Is this dangerous? Maybe a little, but not in any way that I can immediately perceive. I’ve certainly never received any death threats, or really any threats. Maybe that’s because I haven’t been particularly effective.
Charlie Kirk took the business of confronting the left on their own turf to a new level all his own. In his case it was clearly risky, as he was well aware. He went to the places that the left thought were their sacred sanctuaries, college campuses, and organized thousands to resist indoctrination in the official religion. He was the ultimate heretic against a powerful religious cult. He faced constant threats and physical confrontation, but he kept at it as a happy warrior. It took great courage to do what he did.
Should Kirk have stayed away from the fray in order to avoid the fate of an assassin’s bullet? I strongly suspect that if he had known that an assassin was out for his scalp, it would not have slowed him down. He understood that important undertakings come with risks. We need more like Charlie Kirk who are willing to take big risks and refuse to be silenced. (I’m not meaning to suggest that Kirk is the only one who has had the courage to soldier on in the face of the left’s hate and cancel culture and lawfare. Many have done so, and have paid with their jobs or their life savings or their freedom. Kirk is unusual in having been killed.)
But how about the case of Ms. Zarutska, killed by a violent and psychotic career criminal on a public transit facility. With nearly all large cities in this country under the control of Democratic administrations that are explicitly lenient in treatment of recidivist criminals, surely Ms. Zarutska’s case teaches that it is best to avoid public transit facilities in big cities entirely if at all possible.
That conclusion might seem obvious to almost the entire readership here, but again I am going to disagree.
First, let me establish my bona fides. I have lived in Manhattan since 1975, over 50 years, and in that time have taken our subway an average of about 15 times per week, or a total of between 30,000 and 40,000 times over that period. And I have never experienced an incident where I felt I was at risk.
But, you ask, aren’t there large numbers of potentially dangerous and psychotic people roaming the subway system? Absolutely. I would estimate that on average I observe a potential dangerous person on average once or twice a week. So why haven’t I felt at risk? Is it just luck?
There may be some luck involved, but much more important is observing a few simple rules:
– Always be aware of your surroundings. Yes you can read a newspaper or look at your phone, but you must not fail to keep track of who is around you.
– The people who are dangerous, in my experience, always broadcast their danger in obvious ways. Often they are agitated, fidgety, walking up and down energetically, lying across several seats, talking to themselves or even shouting. They present themselves in ways that overtly signal hostility, which could include facial expression, hair style, tattoos, clothing, lack of clothing, or other such things.
– Your first mission in situational awareness is to spot any of these people who are near you. And then — you promptly put as much space between them and you as possible. Subway stations are plenty big enough to do this. If you are on a platform, you can put a couple of hundred feet between yourself and such a person in a fraction of a minute. If you are in a train car, go to the next car. You do not need to be conspicuous or obvious about this. Just quietly get it done. Then go back to reading your book. But always keep half an eye out to see if that person, or another such, gets near.
– If the person of concern is particularly aggressive, once you have gotten far enough away, you can call 911. I have only done this very rarely.
If you follow these simple prescriptions, I do not think you are at any more danger on the subway than on the street. I cannot guarantee that you will be at zero risk on the subway, but remember that there are dangerous and psychotic people on the street as well. And by the way, you should also follow my rules when walking on the street.
If you look at the video and stills of Ms. Zarutska on the Charlotte train, you will see that she violated all of my rules. Here is a link to a New York Post article with many pictures. Ms. Zarutska walks into the train car and appears not to notice Mr. Brown. Brown is very obviously a person of concern: he is fidgiting regularly; his facial expression is dubious to say the least; he has dreadlocks half way down to his waist; and he is wearing a hoodie that is pulled up over his head even though it is a warm August night. He is very clearly signaling to the world to be wary. She should promptly and inconspicuously put some distance between herself and this guy.
But instead, she sits down right next to him, with him in back of her where she can’t see him. And she proceeds to bury her head in scrolling her phone. And she is also wearing ear pods, so she can’t hear him either.
Nicole Gelinas of the Manhattan Institute wrote a piece for City Journal on September 10 taking the opposite position from me on what Ms. Zarutska should have done:
She has no reason to avoid this young black man, Brown, 34, dressed in a hoodie, who, as she sits down, appears to be struggling to stay awake (he has been muttering and making jerky movements in the moments before she gets on the train). . . . Even if she had looked behind her, or saw the man in her window’s reflection, she has no reason to fear him; he might appear fidgety, but lots of people fidget on the train. Zarutska scrolls through her phone, at one point nearly dropping it. . . . Nothing out of the ordinary is going on here.
All I can say is, I doubt that Ms. Gelinas is a regular subway rider. She is just wrong in this instance. Brown gave at least four clues that he was trouble (the fidgiting, the facial expression, the dreadlocks, and the hoodie).
I am not meaning to suggest that Ms. Zarutska bears even the slightest blame here. But this incident can provide a valuable lesson for the rest of us on how to conduct ourselves in a dangerous world. Definitely, the City of Charlotte and its courts and prosecutors bear substantial blame for not keeping this obvious menace in custody in light of his long record of prior violent acts. But even much stricter bail and incarceration policies than were followed here are never going to remove all dangerous people from the streets and the trains. You need a modest degree of wariness to survive in this crazy world.
So is there any reason to ever use the subway, or for that matter to ever come to New York City? Both provide a great opportunity to observe the range of humanity — the good, the bad and the ugly. If you stay cloistered among “your kind,” you’ll end up with a very warped view of what the world is about. And if you come to New York and refuse to get on the subway, you could find many places inconvenient and expensive to get to, and you’ll miss out on half the reason you had for coming.
I want to go out on a limb and predict that the tragic death of Charlie Kirk will lead to protests and riots and chaos in the street.
However, it will not be led by Republicans outraged by the assassination of that great and good man.
It will – as it almost always has been – the work of Democrats, Democratic Socialists and those even farther out on the left wing of America’s political spectrum.
Please mark my words here. Charlie Kirk’s assassination will trigger violence, as it so often does, on college campuses. Maybe this weekend, almost certainly next week. There will be many – paralleling George Floyd, for instance, or the Ferguson riots in St. Louis – that started around an individual or a specific and narrow location.
Friday – yesterday as I write this – I saw the first inklings of the progressive left’s actions.
Don’t take my word for it.
Here’s what NBC, one of the vanguard far-left “mainstream media” has to say about this:
Following the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk this week, educators across the country have found themselves facing swift termination or potential discipline after allegedly sharing opinions on social media about the killing.
The more biased “industry media,” such as edweek.com, had this to say in an article’s headline.
Teachers have been among those who are alleged to have posted controversial and inflammatory comments about Kirk—prompting widespread doxxing, disciplinary actions in several states, and warnings from state officials to educators about inappropriate online statements.
More involved in political “free speech” issues – supporting colleges and universities that support free speech only for designated groups – none of them conservative – are publications like Rolling Stone:
People are losing their jobs for criticizing slain ‘free speech’ advocate Charlie Kirk. Journalists, publicists, and college faculty have been fired after calling the right-wing influencer a divisive figure and making light of his assassination.
The conversation around the assassination of right-wing activist and Donald Trump ally Charlie Kirk on Wednesday during a campus event at Utah Valley University has been fiery, to say the least.
Graphic footage of 31-year-old Kirk, being fatally shot in the neck has gone mega-viral, inflaming passions on all sides. The public has imagined a full spectrum of deranged political motives for the killing. Prominent members of the MAGA movement are using Kirk’s death to call for a “civil war” with leftists they accuse of inciting violence.
These were the increasing outpouring of statements and public comments by the news media, as well as academics, who are writing and making provocative statements about the failings of Charlie Kirk. Especially triggering are comments about how much Kirk deserved execution because of his bold statements in favor of:
The importance of Family and Children
Belief in God and the Bible
The need for everyone to register and vote
The importance of “constitutional conservative” views on how American ought to be governed, and how all of us, left and right, should be able to enjoy our constitutional rights
The importance of conservatives standing up for the rights of all Americans, not just conservatives
Looking back over recent violence-in-the-streets issues, there is a pattern that affects our society.
If it holds true, and I think it will, we’ll see violent rioting, on campus, especially colleges that stand up in favor of civil discourse – the last thing the far left desires.
We can expect suspended or terminated faculty members to become martyrs – around whom the rallying cry will trigger tens of thousands – or more – college students to march, violently, against any person or college who stands up against the vitriol and hatred already being spewed out against Charlie Kirk, and against anyone who dares mourn him.
The pattern will follow that set by the “four dead in Ohio” riots based on a tragic shooting of protesters at Kent State University in the spring of 1970, or the Black Lives Matter riots much more recently.
Almost inevitably, the right will do something that is, in terms of society, “right,” but which outrages the Left. Using anti-hate speech policies and laws, faculty members who speak out without a care for the consequences will be sanctioned for what will be, accurately, hate speech.
Then the Left will go crazy – again almost always beginning on campus – with violent rioting justified as “protesting.” The media will inevitably call the bloody, fire-breathing riots “almost always peaceful,” and … we’re off to the races.
Ned Barnett is a prolific writer and a regular content contributor to American Thinker. A long-time political activist – he worked with the late, great Lee Atwater in President Ford’s reelection campaign, along with many candidates for the US Senate, the House of Representatives and state Governors. Earlier this year, Ned ghost-wrote a campaign bio for a candidate running for Governor in the Midwest.
When he’s not being “political,” Ned ghostwrites books – 19 published so far. Ned also writes and publishes his own books as well – 41 and counting. He helps writers as a co-writer or writing coach. He helps authors “self-publish” their book, as well as promoting their books, which he’s done since 1982. For more information, contact Ned at 702-561-1167 or nedbarnett51@gmail.com
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