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The Unravelling Accelerates
Steyn Online ^ | 10 Sep 2025 | Mark Steyn

Posted on 09/11/2025 6:21:32 AM PDT by Rummyfan

Minutes before we went on air, Charlie Kirk, the founder of Turning Point USA, was shot on stage in Utah. A quarter-hour after the show ended, President Trump announced on Truth Social that Charlie was dead. As I write, a second suspect has been taken into custody.

UPDATE: Like the first suspect, he has been released. So, as of now, the killer remains at large.

There are disturbing Internet posts from the hours before his death....

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The left's bloodlust is everywhere. Ari Fleischer appears to be an agreeable cove - I don't know him - but this is insufficient to the moment:

Laura Ingraham
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Ari Fleischer says colleges must change course:

“We cannot have these splits where colleges are no-go zones for conservatives and the administrations are just fine with that. They should seize this moment, announce the Charlie Kirk Lecture Series, and welcome at every campus...

There was already a "Charlie Kirk Lecture Series" - or, more accurately, a Charlie Kirk Debate Series. That's what Charlie Kirk did. He would go anywhere and debate anyone. And they killed him for it. As I have said since my own free-speech travails began almost two decades ago:

Mark Steyn: 'The Left Doesn't Want to Win the Debate, They Want to Cancel the Debate'

(Excerpt) Read more at steynonline.com ...


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1 posted on 09/11/2025 6:21:32 AM PDT by Rummyfan
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To: Rummyfan

If they shot Charlie Kirk, who wouldn’t they shoot?


2 posted on 09/11/2025 6:31:29 AM PDT by popdonnelly (All the enormous crimes in history have been committed by governments.)
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To: Rummyfan
Amid the many other threads this morning, this one has got little attention. One line -- the last -- screams to be read and heard.

"There is insufficient common humanity to hold America together."

3 posted on 09/11/2025 6:33:46 AM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: Rummyfan

Universities are full of left wing bastards. They’ve been fighting to take over the universities since I was in college decades ago.


4 posted on 09/11/2025 6:37:54 AM PDT by popdonnelly (All the enormous crimes in history have been committed by governments.)
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To: Rummyfan
Black people have a right to violence

As I've posted here many times, there is a violence in black culture that needs to stop. This woman openly states it's their right to be violent. Really? Under what warped sense of reason is that right? This belief is a black problem that needs a black solution. As long as you have blacks who believe this, blacks will continue to be the main source of violent crime that is 4x their representation in the population. Rather than black leaders who make a living stirring the racial pot (e.g., Al Sharpton, Joy Reid, Don Lemon), we need blacks with a reasoned voice to fill the void.

5 posted on 09/11/2025 6:41:40 AM PDT by econjack
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To: Worldtraveler once upon a time

Bump.

Our differences cannot be resolved. They don’t want dialogue, Kirk tried that and was branded a Nazi then killed for his efforts.

America has become a house divided that cannot stand. There will be no peace until one side or the other is vanquished.


6 posted on 09/11/2025 6:46:37 AM PDT by AAABEST (That time Washington DC became a corrupted, existential threat to us all...)
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To: Worldtraveler once upon a time
"There is insufficient common humanity to hold America together."

That is a great and sad summary of America today.

7 posted on 09/11/2025 6:54:11 AM PDT by kosciusko51
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To: popdonnelly

Agreeable “cove”? Is that some kind of slang I’m not familiar with?


8 posted on 09/11/2025 6:54:14 AM PDT by sam_whiskey (Peace through Strength. )
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To: AAABEST

Yep. And as Steyn said, it will be a bloodbath.


9 posted on 09/11/2025 6:57:41 AM PDT by TTFlyer (Lenin: that by the infliction of terror, a well-organized minority can conquer a nation.)
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To: AAABEST

You are right. America is a divided country. The leftists are more intransient. The right less so.


10 posted on 09/11/2025 7:06:32 AM PDT by Bobbyvotes (Term limits will get rid of corrupt politicians faster than losing in a casino)
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To: econjack

There are plenty of black people with reasoned voices and constructive things to say on the issues. But they have to be heard, and the public forum today is largely online. The gatekeepers are predominately leftist and they privilege the propaganda narrative while silencing RightWorld voices.

Big Tech and the media are the underlying problem. The left controls the megaphones.

The Right is slowly building its own information ecosystem. One of the emerging problems is policing the crackpots. On the left, in Big Media and academia, the crackpots have been mainstreamed and the lunatics are running the asylum. Those dangers exist on the Right as well, although to this point, we have done a somewhat better job of setting limits.

11 posted on 09/11/2025 7:40:27 AM PDT by sphinx
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To: popdonnelly
They’ve been fighting to take over the universities since I was in college decades ago.

They mostly won that battle decades ago - longer than Charlie Kirk lived.

12 posted on 09/11/2025 8:07:20 AM PDT by libertylover (The HBM (Has Been Media) is almost all AGENDA-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
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To: sam_whiskey
Agreeable “cove”? Is that some kind of slang I’m not familiar with?

It is a British slang term for a man, a fellow. It is a very old term.

13 posted on 09/11/2025 8:23:04 AM PDT by Avalon Memories (Obama & Biden Inc. really did provide opportunities for Trump to be murdered.)
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To: econjack

That “right to violence” is also highly contagious.


14 posted on 09/11/2025 8:45:34 AM PDT by Buttons12 ( )
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To: econjack

“” Rather than black leaders who make a living stirring the racial pot (e.g., Al Sharpton, Joy Reid, Don Lemon), we need blacks with a reasoned voice to fill the void.”

You forgot to mention how you’re going to go about fulfilling that “need”.


15 posted on 09/11/2025 8:53:53 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they. control you. )
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To: Buttons12

Everyone talks about the coming civil war....not too worried about that. What terrifies me is the short span of time before a civil war ignites: “The settling of scores”.


16 posted on 09/11/2025 9:26:57 AM PDT by DCBryan1 (Inter arma enim silent leges! - Cicero )
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To: aquila48

I’m not sure anyone has the answer. I’m just hoping someone steps up and tries.


17 posted on 09/11/2025 9:48:20 AM PDT by econjack
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To: Worldtraveler once upon a time
"There is insufficient common humanity to hold America together."

Mine was damaged severely yesterday and whatever was left is being flushed by every Marxist statement issued today.

18 posted on 09/11/2025 9:51:09 AM PDT by Kudsman (I am Charle Kirk)
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To: econjack

Well, needs very seldom fulfill themselves.

When you or I have a “need” it is you or I that have to do something to fill it.

Hoping that it’ll take care of itself is just accepting it.

When we’re faced with an uncomfortable situation we have three choices - fight it, flee it, or accept it and knuckle under.

We on the right have mostly opted for the third option. Until we reach a critical mass of people that want to do one of the other options, things won’t change - in fact they’ll get worse.


19 posted on 09/11/2025 10:04:45 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they. control you. )
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To: aquila48

I couldn’t do it if I wanted to because I’m white. There has to be a black person who can effectively communicate with the black population and suggest viable ways to solve the problem.

I would start with the repair of the black family. Almost 75% of black kids are raised in a home with no father. I would change the welfare laws to say that homes with the father present get full benefits, and homes where that is not the case get less (75%??). I think black mothers would put a lot of pressure on the fathers if thousands of dollars per year are at stake. Being a father is easy...being a parent is not. Time for the fathers to step up and play a part in parenting their children.


20 posted on 09/11/2025 10:16:35 AM PDT by econjack
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