Posted on 09/12/2025 11:40:27 AM PDT by Ronaldus Magnus III
Charlie Kirk and Rush Limbaugh had a few things in common. From a young age both were passionate conservatives. Both were college dropouts. Neither saw the value in cooling their heels on a college campus when they already knew what they wanted to do with their lives. And both found their biggest successes when they broke the mold and decided to create organizations that suited their personalities and dreams, and in turn transformed political and media landscapes.
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On Rush, Charlie said, “He was funny, he was charming, he was light-hearted, and he was wicked smart. He was on top of all of it…early. He saw it all with clarity across the landscape. He wasn't crazy, he was early, and they tried to take him out....God bless you, Rush. We're in a much better time in America. Thank you.”
I really miss Rush right now.
I was missing them both yesterday. Think about it...neither went to college. THAT fact probably saved our country. For now.
Thank you for posting this
Charlie’s knowledge of the Bible was unmatched and fascinating.
As we know Charlie was a Rush baby. Rush educated many youngsters who are now young adults like Charlie. These young adults especially Charlie in his unique way started educating the next generation which I am sure Turning Point USA will continue full speed ahead. Thank you Rush and THANK YOU CHARLIE.
I have spent my adult life trying to recover from college.
This is exactly right and don’t forget about Andrew Breitbart, he too showed us. The way to win is to be unexpected.
All three were amazing humans, and all three strove to be “different”. Not weird or bizarre, just thinking outside of the box and coming up with both truly unique but at the same time effective ways of dealing with problems caused by progressives.
Rush had his massive megaphone but otherwise was the least activist out of the three; Charlie, Andrew, and Rush. Still.
Progressives expect us all as conservatives to lie down and don’t be a bother. We need to bother the progressives.
Think different, be different. Be a Charlie, be an Andrew, be a Rush.
My college years were great, but I graduated in 1983. The first two years were at the community college, so I was home.
I am sorry your experience was bad. Did you graduate recently?
Two of my nieces were messed up from *university, which I think led to their cousins (my other nieces and nephew) opting for trade school type educations.
Both are gone. Breitbart too. So who will step up? We already know the usual suspects so should it be an unknown? He or she will have to earn their stripes if no one current is up to the task.
Did you graduate recently?
I graduated in 1986. I should have graduated in 1976.
I’m still trying to figure out how to make a decent living.
I am sorry. I never really got into a career or making a living, either. A whole lot of things in the world changed after graduation. My major was home economics. The department doesn’t even exist any more...anywhere. My husband was an auto worker, otherwise who knows.
Are you a vet?
Defeat? From Charlie Hebdo to Charlie Kirk, anti-speech TOTALITARIAN collectives and individuals are acquiring more murderous allies in their quest for domination. They are worldwide. They are in America. The are in our institutions. They are in our local, state and national government. Who or what can stop them?
“”Rush educated many youngsters who are now young adults like Charlie.””
Not just the “youngsters”. I always had a radio on at my desk in our flight operation in OC, CA and one day one of our pilots walked in and asked if I’d ever heard of a guy from Sacramento named Rush Limbaugh. He told me where to find him and I never listened to anyone else again.. He came on at 9 in CA until noon so he was my “companion” for a lot of years. Until then I had always listened to a guy (British) named Michael Jackson - liberal - but what did I know?????
Ironic that we had moved from Sacramento to OC years before and I wasn’t a “youngster”...Rush probably wasn’t broadcast at that time...don’t know if I ever learned how he ended up in Sacramento or if I did, it’s long been forgotten.
Fast forward to our retirement and moving out of CA to GA where I didn’t listen to him anymore as I couldn’t sit and do nothing but listen to him. Retirement - different world.
Are you a vet?
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No but my dad was a vet. He served in the pacific during WWII and later went to the Korean war. Then he did a 30 year career with the army. after his years of service he tried to go home to the family farm but he never made it as my mom didn’t care to go there. And then after his first heart attack—he needed to be near a place with a good hospital—which ruled out the family farm. He was buried, however, not too far from the farm where he grew up.
That is a bit sad. My dad was going to farm, but times changed for him as the did for me. A small family farm wasn’t going to make it. He kept the farm, rented it out, and went into computer programming. It was perfect timing.
My older brother lived in the family farm after my dad died and lived there for about 20 years before he left and sold it.
Its an area of Pennsylvania where houses built and lived in by my ancestors go back all the way to the late 1700’s. I loved to visit there but didn’t care live there.
Your dad sounds like a good combination of bright and wise.
He was. That was not something that I always recognized .
My dad lived a good life. Better imho than his seven children. Nor did I always recognize that either. But I would say that about 90 percent of what I believed to be true was wrong at age 40. That percentage has been coming down slowly in the last three decades.
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