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Oft Evil Will Shall Evil Mar
Instapundit Substack ^ | 21 Sep 2025 | Glenn Harlan Reynolds

Posted on 09/21/2025 6:45:50 PM PDT by Rummyfan

The title to this essay is a line from Tolkien. But I'm also reminded of two distinct lines from Star Wars, paired:

If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine.

I dunno, I can imagine an awful lot.

Charlie Kirk was a powerful force. He went from campus to campus and he talked to people. Generally when he was debating, he would put his microphone down, to reassure his partner that he wasn’t going to talk over them. He was respectful, and he was highly effective. He played a major role in winning over Gen Z to the conservative side. That’s why he was killed — murdered. He was murdered not because he was “hateful,” or “extreme,” but because he was effective.

But now, even dead, he’s beating them, worse than he ever did when he was alive.


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1 posted on 09/21/2025 6:45:50 PM PDT by Rummyfan
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To: Rummyfan

If you strike Charlie down, he shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine.


2 posted on 09/21/2025 6:49:57 PM PDT by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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To: Rummyfan

If you strike Charlie down, he shall become more powerful than you Lefty murderers can possibly imagine.


3 posted on 09/21/2025 6:50:24 PM PDT by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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To: Rummyfan

On a related note...

4 posted on 09/21/2025 7:39:08 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: grey_whiskers

Doesn’t Rolling Stone have some stories to fabricate?


5 posted on 09/21/2025 9:12:18 PM PDT by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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To: grey_whiskers

President Trump has that Clint Eastwood look !!

A.k.a. the F.A.F.O. glare.


6 posted on 09/21/2025 9:41:21 PM PDT by WildHighlander57 ((the more you tighten your grip, the more star systems will slip through your fingers.) )
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To: grey_whiskers

Wow. Thank you.

Data Republican is as amazing as Rolling Turd is despicable, speaking TRUTH to media “power”!


7 posted on 09/22/2025 2:39:24 AM PDT by Nervous Tick (Hope, as a righteous product of properly aligned Faith, IS in fact a strategy.)
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To: Rummyfan; All

An evil individual did kill Charlie. There are way too many evil individuals. Many of them want to kill all of us and our friends and families. They have no interest in debate. Stay alert, stay safe, stay armed, stay alive.


8 posted on 09/22/2025 4:27:45 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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