…The feelings I felt yesterday in the wake of Kirk’s heartbreaking shooting reminded me of those I felt as a 16-year-old kid learning about 9/11 in real time. I didn’t know anyone at the World Trade Center, or responding to it, that day, yet I felt as if I did and as if I too could feel their pain and distress; likewise, I only met Charlie one time, when I shook his hand as he exited the stage at Dream City Church at an event in January 2022. Because he operated in the same circles as me, and was close to many of my friends and trusted colleagues, I felt as if I knew him by extension. While the loss of life on 9/11 is drastically greater and the worldwide impact reverberates to this day, the feelings of shock, horror, and disgust are very familiar. I struggled to sleep last night, and can only imagine how those close to Charlie must feel. That includes friends and family, and his many colleagues and pupils attached to him through his extensive body of work.
In my capacity as Second Gentleman of Arizona’s 17th Legislative District, I have learned it is nearly impossible to be involved in Republican political circles without crossing swords with Turning Point USA. I remember taking issue with some things Charlie said around election time last year and voicing those on X, but I’ve never doubted that the organization sought to stay true to its values and get the brightest young minds involved. I’ve run into 18-year-old kids all over the country who want nothing more than to pass down a freer nation once they become parents and grandparents, such as those who ran my event in Erie, Pennsylvania, last year from the Penn State Behrend campus. TPUSA is everywhere, and to extent any criticism of higher decision making at TPUSA to the collegiate ranks is tasteless and unnecessary.
This isn’t the right space to speculate on why this happened or who did this. Too many things already don’t add up, but my pain in this moment is about the loss of reverence for human life, which our country cannot sustain. Charlie did monumental things in the political world, and one thing I have no doubt over is that this moment will create thousands of Charlie Kirks from every corner of the nation. Yesterday, I heard from many friends I only hear from sporadically who are outraged about what just occurred in full view of the American people. These are not hardcore political minds by any means – they are normies, people who vote but view politics through a lens of exhaustion and begrudging duty.
A time of radicalization is upon us, and it’s about damn time if you’re a normal, red-blooded American attempting to reach across the proverbial aisle to people who hate your guts.
I am not talking about the figures and analysis you normally read in this newsletter, or how this mindless killing with impact the political world (and it will). That can and must wait, and if not for a prescheduled interview with Sean Spicer today and an event that simply cannot be rescheduled, I’d give it a few weeks before I would feel alright jumping into business as usual. The time has come in which the normal, head-in-the-sand moderate or weak Republican is finally aware of the danger posed by the ideological left. The leftist base of the United States is a terrorist front, plain and simple, and they possess an ideology antithetical to everything the founding fathers believed. If you’ve read Captain K’s Corner long enough, then you should know by now that the left’s default party, the Democrat Party, is getting its brains beat out month after month in every single state that registers voters by party. They are losing politically, and because they are losing in the peaceful game, their shock troops have a different game in mind.
That game is a deadly one, as we discovered yesterday. I cannot and will not use my platform to call for retaliatory violence, but if you think this is going to stop because every significant Democrat posted their phony sympathies on X, you are out of your mind. Left-wingers who spend all day consuming propaganda mainstream media, getting ideas from influencers on social media, and communicating exclusively with those who hold their hate-filled ideas will continue to strike, because their political ideology is their world and indeed their religion. They are turning the United States into a third-world nation in decorum and behavior, and as many pointed out yesterday, have now broken the social contract that makes us Americans.
The left are not Americans. They are demon-possessed, hate-filled sycophants for a cause of evil, and I am done mincing words and playing nice. Van Jones, Katy Tur, TMZ, and all the other idiots who had wisecracks, what abouts, and blame sharing are complicit, as are the many weak politicians and pastors across this country who refuse to call evil evil. You aren’t dealing with a political movement anymore. We are playing politics, not them. You are dealing with a nest of evil so thick it wouldn’t go away if the Republican Party won every presidential election from here on out and gained trifectas in all 50 states. It’s not going to simply go away, because it has been fed toxicity, evil, and suggestively violent ideas for decades now. Rachel (Mrs. K) pointed out yesterday that most of this falls on Barack Obama, who had an unprecedented opportunity to do good, and to heal divisions, mend fences, and point the nation away from self-destruction. Instead, he ushered in more hatred, division, and racism than any man should possibly be capable of. The damage he brought to America could have only been done by design, and it was that damage that gave birth to the political motivations of Charlie Kirk.
The left shot Steve Scalise, the left burned down cities in the “Summer of Love,” the left’s pet animals murder innocent people with impunity after being sprung from jail over and over again, the left shot Donald Trump, and now, someone still at large and most likely on the left (unless we are dealing with an even more complex issue), shot Charlie Kirk. And these demons are celebrating online like they’ve just won the lottery, and no, I’m not talking about a few isolated cases. These people should be opposed, doxxed, and publicly shamed for their hate-filled beliefs and if possible, deported to South Sudan with their illegal alien haters-in-arms.
Pastor Steve Cassell won’t agree with me, and that’s fine. He’s the pastor, and I’m just a disgruntled and increasingly pissed off former Army officer. I no longer desire unity in America, not unless the left is squashed. They exist only to be defeated, and if your response to Kirk’s untimely killing is to run and hide, this wasn’t for you anyway. It’s fine to be scared. Rachel and I spent a lot of time yesterday in a state of shock, and we both know many people who were close to Kirk. This hits especially close to home in Arizona. There are community centers we were hoping to use for her upcoming reelection campaign that are digging in on “no guns” policies, and I’m afraid I’m going to have to use my influence to publicly shame them into reverting to common sense solutions.
Mrs. Trump said it best yesterday, when she spoke of Kirk’s family:
Charlie’s killer should be rounded up, given a quick trial, and publicly shot, as should every would-be political assassin in America regardless of ideology. The natural instinct to seeing such violence front and center is to run the other direction. Many young people who admired Kirk will be scarred for life, especially if they were on scene in Utah. What those people should know the most is that Charlie died using his God-given talent and gravitas in the field he cared about the most. That alone outweighs any disagreement on the right over issues that are constantly part of infighting on this side of the political equation.
How should you respond to this?
Preferably hung. Regardless of race, creed, conviction.
Public education is a dismal failure – unless the goal of lefty teachers is to produce armies of dummies they and their liberal buddies can manipulate at will.
I remember debate being the way issues were discussed.
Then dumb people couldn’t debate so – at first – they tried to redefine words so as to, by definition, win their argument.
Later, dumb people couldn’t even win by twisting the definitions of terms so they began having tantrums. Some tantrums were small but many were large.
When that didn’t work dumb people took to weapons.
We’ve seen 5 assassinations/attempted assassinations this year alone!
We’ve seen assassins held up by dems as if they were heros.
Open carry is legal in Utah and you should see Salt Lake City today!
People are walking around with their gun hanging by their side or un a gun bag.
All over the place!
The fact that the ammo from the recovered gun has pro-tranny and pro-anarchy phrases written on it makes me think of how inarticulate trannies are.
Find the dialogue between Piers Morgan and a “non-binary” person named Penny.
Astounding.
She can’t even explain a thing, but demands you bow to her pronouns and delusions.
I meant to add a bottom line:
It really is a Rubicon if these dems force America to accept the delusions and wildest imaginings of crazy people as equal in intellectual power to what sane people think.
HAD IT NOT BEEN FOR DOLE ED.DEPT WOULD BE HISTORY. 44 years ago history!
I volunteer for firing squad.
58 59 years ago had some successful experience shoot bad guys!
Cold blooded Killer who should be Hanged Sot Electrocuted Gas or Lethal Injection no stupid Appeals
FALSE!
the “die has not been cast” by this!
If 3/31/81 was not Rubicon, AND IT WAS NOT; this’ll never be.
Ronny lovin Charlie was a good, great man; but no Ronny!
had liberals not taken im out he may have become another Ronny; he said many times Ronny was the bestPRESIDENT EVER!e
But at 31 hw was not “THE LEADER OF THE FREEWORL”!
A term that since GWB has no meaning!
The leftists are always turning to violence when they lose and Kirk was the Victim of a scum sucker who is a far left Bolshevik scum sucker