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Charlie Kirk and the madness of the left
American Thinker ^ | 10 Sep, 2025 | Andrea Widburg

Posted on 09/11/2025 5:50:23 AM PDT by MtnClimber

I met Charlie at the start of his career and came away impressed. He mattered. And now he is dead, as the leftist fever swamps celebrate.

As you all know, Charlie Kirk was killed today, leaving behind a wife, two young children, and a movement. I had the pleasure of meeting Charlie nine years ago, at the start of his amazing rise as a voice of young conservatism, and I came away deeply impressed, a perception that never left me. But to understand both Charlie and his death, you need to understand the madness of the left. (And no, we don’t yet know who shot him, but I’m pretty sure it wasn’t someone with MAGA hats in his closet.)

Almost exactly nine years ago, a young man named Charlie Kirk stepped onto the stage at the 2016 Republican National Convention and blew everyone away. At the time, he was only 22, but, with Bill Montgomery, he’d already been leading Turning Point USA for four years. Outside of college campuses, though, where he was trying to make headway against overwhelming leftism, few had heard of Charlie. After his speech, though, every conservative knew who he was.

Back then, I was the speakers’ chair for a small conservative organization in Marin County. I emailed Charlie and asked if he’d come to speak to our group, and he instantly agreed to do so. On October 12, 2016, he came to Mill Valley, had lunch with us, and then gave an hour-long speech. I wrote about it in a post that same day:

I had the privilege of hearing Charlie Kirk speak today. Oh. My. God. Charlie is a human dynamo: incredible intelligence and moral decency wrapped up in pure energy and passion, presented through the medium of a riveting presence.

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: charliekirk; leftism

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1 posted on 09/11/2025 5:50:23 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

This article contains numerous posts captured from Bluesky social media. They were pretty disgusting. The leftists were celebrating.


2 posted on 09/11/2025 5:50:38 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

Liberals love to hate.


3 posted on 09/11/2025 5:57:10 AM PDT by FreedBird (p)
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To: MtnClimber

Bkmk


4 posted on 09/11/2025 6:00:36 AM PDT by sauropod
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To: MtnClimber
When Mike Johnson asked for silent prayer for Kirk, the Dems went nuts.

I believe the House opens each session with a Prayer.

Boy, they are sick.

5 posted on 09/11/2025 6:02:03 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Sacajaweau

He should yank them out of their committee spots.


6 posted on 09/11/2025 6:09:20 AM PDT by suasponte137
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To: MtnClimber

Stop Democrat violence now!


7 posted on 09/11/2025 6:14:25 AM PDT by Pres Raygun (Repent America!)
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To: MtnClimber

Losers can’t handle the truth so they have to kill. The reason Marxism and communism always fails.


8 posted on 09/11/2025 6:24:37 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Remembering Charlie Kirk. 1993-2025.)
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To: FreedBird

DEMOCRATS ARE the party of hate.

BLUESKY and the celebration of cold blooded MURDER need to be exposed by the WHITE HOUSE, Congress, and every Conservative.


9 posted on 09/11/2025 6:28:44 AM PDT by LeonardFMason
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To: LeonardFMason

If they follow the money, the funding for hate will be exposed.


10 posted on 09/11/2025 6:42:06 AM PDT by FreedBird (p)
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To: MtnClimber

“If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun.”-Obama

Kirk’s sharp wit and tongue was too much for them, so he was shot.
“”When the debate is lost, slander(and murder) becomes the tool of the loser.”— Aristotle


11 posted on 09/11/2025 6:50:25 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ( REOPEN THE MENTAL HOSPITALS CLOSED IN THE 1970S!)
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To: FreedBird

Leftists have also just made a martyr, and given him stature so much larger than life.

Today there are a hundred thousand voices echoing Charlie Kirk, shortly there will be a million, and the number will continue to grow exponentially, reaching even the most tone-deaf. There will still be plenty of dead souls beyond redemption, but we shall know them, and from that point deal with them in the manner to make them ineffectual. Not kill, not imprison, not by cursing, but to make isolated and as examples of how NOT to approach the world.


12 posted on 09/11/2025 6:51:16 AM PDT by alloysteel (When in doubt, run about, scream and shout.)
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To: alloysteel

Many liberals are criminals.


13 posted on 09/11/2025 6:52:45 AM PDT by FreedBird (p)
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To: MtnClimber

Remember the Alamo
Remember Charlie Kirk!


14 posted on 09/11/2025 6:52:46 AM PDT by MichaelRDanger
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To: MtnClimber

The Left is a Terrorist Movement

We are up against people who want to kill us. Not just Trump or Charlie Kirk. All of us.
September 11, 2025 by Daniel Greenfield

Let’s be clear here, the murder of Charlie Kirk is not an aberration, no more than the near murder of President Trump was. Violence is not an aberration, it’s at the heart of what the Left is. The Left is a terrorist movement. Period.

The Left exists in two states.

That’s it.

When the Left is in power, then it kills people legally, and when it’s out of power, it strives to take power by killing people ‘illegally’.

Charlie Kirk was murdered by a Left that is not currently in power. If the Left were fully in power, it could have done so legally as it did to so many in Russia, China, Cuba, North Korea and across so much of Latin America.

Charlie’s death, like Trump’s attempted assassination, reminds us of what the real stakes are.

We are up against people who want to kill us. Not just Trump or Charlie Kirk. All of us who defy them.

15 posted on 09/11/2025 6:59:51 AM PDT by Bratch
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To: null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; bgill; bitt; ...

https://badlandsmedia.tv/atf-email-describes-rifle-and-ammunition-found-after-charlie-kirk-shooting/

..”The weapon reportedly contained one spent round and three live cartridges, all engraved with phrases reflecting transgender and anti-fascist ideology.”


16 posted on 09/11/2025 8:17:34 AM PDT by bitt (<IMG SRC=' 'WIDTH=500>)
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To: bitt

Which matches those faces on social media cheering. Evil demons.


17 posted on 09/11/2025 8:40:15 AM PDT by bgill
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To: MtnClimber

https://nypost.com/2025/09/11/us-news/fbi-releases-first-images-of-person-of-interest-in-charlie-kirk-assassination/
FBI releases first images of person of interest in Charlie Kirk assassination


18 posted on 09/11/2025 9:30:24 AM PDT by bitt (<IMG SRC=' 'WIDTH=500>)
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Thanks for the post. Does not look like a tranny.


19 posted on 09/11/2025 9:46:58 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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”The weapon reportedly contained one spent round and three live cartridges, all engraved with phrases reflecting transgender and anti-fascist ideology.”

Does this mean the democrat sexual weirdo community goes back to killing our children next time?

20 posted on 09/11/2025 10:19:42 AM PDT by GOPJ (Drop off a few thousand red MAGA hats for Chicago's South side...<P> <I> <B><big><center> )
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