"The ground has shifted. It doesn't exist anymore." [TRANSCRIPT of historian's 4 min video analysis of public reaction to Charlie Kirk's assassination]

x.COM ^ | September 11, 2025 | @shipwreck quoting TikTok @thatthingIdo

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[H/T grey_whiskers]

Below, X.com account @ShipWreck has posted two brief video clips, approximately 4 minutes in combined length, from a student of US History posting on TikTok regarding the public's responses to the murder of Charlie Kirk. Basically, she's analyzing the public response for clues which, historically, would indicate the direction the country is moving.

It looks like the original Part 1 and Part 2 video clips were created by @thathingIdo on TikTok. TRANSCRIPT BELOW THE IMAGE.

September 11, 2025

~~~~~TRANSCRIPT BEGINS~~~~~~

Part 1 is 2:13

https://x.com/shipwreckshow/status/1966248255618179173/video/1

I've said it before and I'll say it again. 

I've had too much education and too much training to ever see historical events the same way other people do. 

I'm a PHd student of American History maintaining a 4.0. I'm not watching the event; I'm watching the public. 

I'm watching the peoples' reaction to the event because that's going to determine what happens next. Here's the pattern I've observed. 

The initial response to the assassination of Charlie Kirk was celebration in the streets. There were people standing on street corners holding signs. There were individuals who were coming all over Social Media cheering, clapping. They were dancing with disco party lights in the background.

It was a national celebration that someone had been assassinated. Historically speaking, national celebrations of the assassination of political rivals does not go well. 
Historically speaking, it doesn't go well. 

And very shortly after that, within an hour, the dominating discussion became a condemnation of those celebrations, with many people feeling like something has flipped.

Some fuse has been lit. Nobody knows what's coming. Nobody knows what's happened. There's a feeling that something has turned. 

As somebody who has studied history, you're right; something has been lit. Nobody knows what it's attached to yet. 

Nobody knows where this is going to go, but something has been lit as it always does when you have national celebrations of political assassinations. 

Over the next several days, even weeks, I will be looking for additional patterns to emerge, because there are patterns that you can follow. There are things that pop up that let you know just what exactly is coming. 

And that's what I am going to be watching for. The rollback and the illogical fallacy arguments have already begun from the celebrators and the individuals who supported their celebrations.

But even with that rollback, it's not enough to stop the momentum that has started on the side of those who find the celebrations abhorrent. 

You should be paying attention, because the next few days are going to be really interesting. 

PART 2 (TikTok video) 1:42 https://x.com/shipwreckshow/status/1966248255618179173/video/2

What I'm watching right now is to see where we are in the arc of escalation. 

Interestingly there's a pattern in history where there's a 20 to 30 year buildup of grievance before there ends up being a major revolution or an assassination. In this country we've had 20 to 30 years of grievance. 

We had children raised up under the grievances of their parents, and now they have what's called an 'inherited grievance.' 

Where their parents will tolerate the injustice that they see, the children will not tolerate it, and they are more likely to engage in much more physical and violent manners to be able to change the world because the grievance is their entire life. It becomes their identity.

 Those who initially celebrated the assassination have not only clawed back their initial celebration, but they are also de-legitimizing the event itself. 

This is because a counter-shift has occurred. A targeted group is no longer tolerating, and is making a shift to retaliate. 

The group that was celebrating, the initing group, is now trying to de-escalate the situation by drawing the conversation back to where the initial political grounds used to be, but the ground has shifted; it doesn't exist anymore. 

So what's happening now, in this particular arc, is we're looking at a legitimacy crisis, and I am specifically checking to see whether or not the initiating group, the ones who celebrated, are able to establish legitimacy again. 

If they can survive, if they can find their footing again, this event will be sanitized to be able to preserve them long-term. 

And if they can't, this will accelerate.

~~~~~~~TRANSCRIPT ENDS~~~~~~

[mdmathis6]

Trump mentions Soros by name as an enemy, the first president to do so. This will have ramifications far beyond mere words. Soros will have to go to ground, he and his wreched progeny. A lot of lefty groups are going to lose their funding!

A challenge has been sent to one of the elites of the elites...this should be interesting to watch if the Soros globalists decide to pick up the gauntlet Trump just threw down!
Soros is old, thouh so i believe a lot of the evil work is being done threw his family now.

[reasonisfaith]

These people are stupid.

They never thought she would lose.

[sauropod]

Review

[StAnDeliver]

"Interestingly there's a pattern in history where there's a 20 to 30 year buildup of grievance before there ends up being a major revolution or an assassination. In this country we've had 20 to 30 years of grievance."

BS. What we need to do, is stomp out the grapes of wrath against an poorly-aging dialectical diabolical evil named Marxism.

Over a century and a half later, it is no better than it was then -- a tool of Satan.

'Cyclicalism' is no more than a cynicism that gropes an emerging generation for a moment in time. The Soviet / Internationale columns in the 30s before WW2, the young Boomers in the 60s, and then these stuned, stoned Generation Beelzebub.

Make . Marxism . untenable .

And this nonsense will end.

[21twelve]

It is so sad and terrible to see the ramifications of affirming the mental illness that leads people (mostly younger kids) into the transgender cult. A cult that is normalized and promoted by politicians, therapists, doctors and other “experts”.

I hope that part of this “ground shift” is the beginning of the end of the woke mind virus and the trans cult. And bringing these kids to Christ.

[1FreeAmerican]

My big sis is a writer and editor and she says the same thing, and will often edit closer to the way people speak, rather than the grammatically correct version.

[Political Junkie Too]

In what respect do you believe the Democratic Left is acting according to fascist principles?

Let's use the definition from Wikipedia as a guide:

Fascism is characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy, subordination of individual interests for the perceived interest of the nation or race, and strong regimentation of society and the economy.

Opposed to communism, democracy, liberalism, pluralism, and socialism, fascism is at the far right of the traditional left–right spectrum.

Let's start with the last point: "fascism is at the far right of the traditional left–right spectrum."

I'm partial to the circular model rather than the linear model that has two endpoints. The linear model puts fascism at the far-right edge and communism at the far-left edge. In the circular model, fascism and communism are neighbors, separated by anarchy. That's why I'm uncomfortable with a model that suggests that fascists can only exist on the right.

Taking the characteristics of fascism one by one:

1. dictatorial leader:
   • President Trump has complied with EVERY court ruling against him while pursuing legal appeals to many unconstitutional district court orders by judges who exceeded their jurisdictions.

   • The Democrats are blue-slipping EVERY Trump nominee requiring confirmation in the Senate, denying him his full administration.

   • 
     • Biden forced vaccine mandates on private sector worker in order to keep their jobs and health care coverage.

     • Biden forced vaccine mandates on the military or face dishonorable discharge and loss of pension.

2. centralized autocracy
   • Which side hid the infirmaties of the President so that the unelected staff can run the country for four years?

   • Which side nullified the primary result in its own party voters and installed a candidate that nobody wanted?

   • Which side tightly controlled access to the President, kept him away from most people, and lied about their interactions with him? Kamala Harris went from "I was always the last person in the rooom" to "zero substantive role in any of the administration’s key work streams," according to her new book.

3. militarism

   I'll insert Antifa here as a quasi-paramilitary arm of the left, despite being "rag-tag" youth with homemade gear, masks, skateboards, and backpacks. Still, they are coordinated, mobile, and very violent.

4. forcible suppression of opposition

   This one might take a little bit of table-setting...

   • Once President Trump exited his first term, the left turned on him with a coordinated lawfare strategy using "novel" interpretations of law never-before seen and tailored soley to apply to Donald Trump and nobody else so they could convict and jail him:
     • Jack Smith in DC and Florida, resulting in the armed raid at Mar-a-Lago.

     • Fani Willis in Atlanta, trying to turn Trump's request for "finding votes" (aka aggressive signature validation of Biden votes, reviewing disqualified Trump votes, recounts and precint tally sheet reviews) into a RICO scheme.

     • Letitia James in New York trying to bankrupt Trump with misuse of consumer fraud protection laws and take away his business licenses.

     • Alvin Bragg in New York trying to criminalize a legal non-disclosure agreement as election finance fraud in a case he was ineligible to prosecute.

   • Two assassination attempts on President Trump, one bullet grazing his head.

   • The assassination of Charlie Kirk, who was largely credited with delivering the youth vote for President Trump. The assassination not only removed a future political candidate, it's also an attempt to suppress campus organizing on the right.

   • Debanking conservative leaders and businesses in market sectors the left doesn't like.

   • Which side created "cancel culture" to silence anyone who challenges the left on social media?

5. belief in a natural social hierarchy

   This is another one that requires "interpretation."

   • Depending on who one listens to, the gist is that the American left "dehumanizes" the right in order to delegitimize their opinions. If one is a "nazi" or "racist" or "homophobe" or "misogynist" or "xenophobe" then their opinions don't matter. If someone is "Hitler" then it's okay to take extreme measures to remove them from "civil society."

   • The left is described as supporting the "oppressor => oppressed" model where "white supremacy" is evil and minorities (ethnic, racial, sexual, "intersectional") are victims. This is the new social hierarchy according to the left. Coincidentally, everyone on the left became victims and everyone on the right became oppressors.

   • Then there is the patriarchy. Male = bad. The left believes "The Handmaid's Tale" is real.

   • However the left slices and dices it, they always end up on the top.

6. subordination of individual interests for the perceived interest of the nation or race
   • Which side demands strict adherence to the orthodoxy? Who sees people as expected to vote according to their race, ethnicity, or gender? Who is accused of have a "plantation" mentality and calls conservative African-Americans "Uncle Tom" for voting against the left?

   • Which side can't see beyond the skin and calls people "Breakfast Tacos" and plays racy Tejano music on their phone that was only put there for that appearance?

   • Meanwhile, who took his same rally, unaltered, and went to The Bronx and to New Jersey to appeal to new voters?

7. strong regimentation of society and the economy
   • Which side complains about millionaires and billionaires, oligarchs, wealthiest 1%, taxing the "rich," paying their "fair share," and then takes their campaign funds from George Soros and Big Pharma?

   • Which side campaigns on free mass transit and free grocery stores, more rent control and less landlord rights, despite proven failed attempts in other cities, all paid for by tax increases on the people most likely to move away?

-PJ

[Drew68]

What he said about "extremists on both sides" yesterday was brilliant as well.

“I’ll tell you something that’s going to get me in trouble, but I couldn’t care less,” the president responded. “The radicals on the right oftentimes are radical because they don’t want to see crime. They don’t want to see crime.”

“They’re saying, ‘We don’t want these people coming here. And we don’t want you burning our shopping centers. We don’t want you shooting our people in the middle of the street,’” Trump added, appearing to nod to instances of right-wing vigilantism in recent years.

“The radicals on the left are the problem. They’re vicious, and they’re horrible,” Trump said. “And they’re politically savvy, although they want men in women’s sports. They want transgender for everyone. They want open borders.”

[clearcarbon]

"...a counter-shift has occurred. A targeted group is no longer tolerating, and is making a shift to retaliate."

The ancient maxim of "an eye for an eye," while uncivilized, never went away. It may be suppressed, but always lies just beneath the surface.

[Political Junkie Too]

And I left out the violent takeover of university campuses and the chasing away of Jewish and Israeli students?

Jews side with the left, and it's the left who is attacking them.

-PJ

[The Truth Will Make You Free]

I think the culture has turned a corner.

Charlie’s organization is called TURNING Point USA.

[Theodore R.]

We don’t want to unite with Dems, but many, many RINO senators and congressmen do.

[The_Media_never_lie]

We don’t want to unite with Dems, but many, many RINO senators and congressmen do.

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The don’t want to represent the conservative, America first people. They want to live the comfortable life of the ruling elite. They are simply members of the RINO party.

[Political Junkie Too]

You asked me a question, and I replied. You've now gone dark on me, despite actively posting all day yesterday.

Was my answer not what you expected, or not worth at least acknowledging that I took the time to answer you?

Why did you bother asking me if you were going to ignore me afterwards?

-PJ

[ROCKLOBSTER]

We don’t want to unite with Dems, but many, many RINO senators and congressmen do.

That's why they call them RINOs.