Charlie Kirk's Murder: My Reaction

Sep 10, 2025 | By Rudyard Kipling

[Lazamataz]

Regarding Charlie Kirk's murder, I have only this to offer:

It was not part of their blood,
It came to them very late,
With long arrears to make good,
When the Saxon began to hate.

They were not easily moved,
They were icy — willing to wait
Till every count should be proved,
Ere the Saxon began to hate.

Their voices were even and low.
Their eyes were level and straight.
There was neither sign nor show
When the Saxon began to hate.

It was not preached to the crowd.
It was not taught by the state.
No man spoke it aloud
When the Saxon began to hate.

It was not suddenly bred.
It will not swiftly abate.
Through the chilled years ahead,
When Time shall count from the date
That the Saxon began to hate.

-- Rudyard Kipling

[Lazamataz]

The left has woken a sleeping giant.

[Vendome]

[Lazamataz]

My reaction.

[Beave Meister]

“The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.”
Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

[Kudsman]

It will be nice to have more people freed from the left’s spell. We are going to need a lot of therapists when the dust settles.

[kvanbrunt2]

good one laz

[crusty old prospector]

With a terrible resolve.

[dware]

The left has woken a sleeping giant.

I've heard that far too many times in the last 30 years.

[Uncle Miltie]

The left seems intent on sparking a Civil War.

Which they will lose badly, quickly and with much bloodshed.

Hmmm…..

[Morgana]

I’m still in shock.

[ShadowAce]

The left has woken a sleeping giant.

I thought that with the Trump shooting.

Forgive my cynicism, but I'm not sure another assassination will wake up the Right.

We're just frogs in the pot.

[Lazamataz]

Hemingway also captures truisms, in the written word, in ways that I still struggle to master.

[Impala64ssa]

Says it all. Thanks, Laz

[ckilmer]

that’s been coming for a long time.

Maybe the president will react to this killing the way he did to mugging of big balls.

[Lazamataz]

Trump was an assassination attempt. This was an assassination.

[Zathras]

Exodus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_TfM0SwdJE&list=RDz_TfM0SwdJE&start_radio=1

[Zathras]

Music to consider while visiting this thread.

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

The left has woken a sleeping giant.

We're about to find out if you're right, or wrong. Folks have been putting up with it a LONG time, so why change now?

[MileHi]

I have no words...

[SkyDancer]

Absolutely!