September 10th began as one of the best days of my adult life. A new business I was helping out hit its first inflection point, the flywheels were spinning, I had quality time with the family. Cracked open a can of nitro cold brew and got ready for another day of war on X. 10/10 day. My wife said, “Charlie Kirk got shot.” I opened the video and then life changed for everyone. The grief fell down on me like a ton of bricks. I was not as close to Charlie as Posobiec and others were. Charlie would text me, like he would hundreds of others each day. He was a modern-day Benjamin Franklin, and I was fond of him from afar. Who wasn’t? Charlie was one of the most impressive men who ever lived. Will Durant would need to return to life to give Charlie’s life the treatment it deserves. I wasn’t sure what to make of him at the time. I watched his star rise at Turning Point and saw him navigate difficult media attacks and grow an empire. One of the first people I talked to was Jack Posobiec, who said what I was thinking, “We thought it’d be you.” That wasn’t an insult. He wasn’t saying it should have been me. All of us know that we might be murdered. It’s something we talked about frequently. Who will get shot first? We can say that it’s tragic to live this way, and so what? As men you accept that there are enemies of civilization, not many allies, and those on the front will be framed for crimes, sued into bankruptcy, or killed. I went to great pains to put my assets into vehicles for my children, to fund their 529s, to make sure that my family would have financial security. I nagged everyone in the fight to do this, literally telling people, “Assume you will be destroyed, your children will know their father was a historically significant person, your absence will be hard enough to deal with, don’t leave them broke too.” I embraced the Stoic and samurai ideals of meditating on death. (Since then I’ve returned to Christianity, that is a different story for another time.) I watched him show up at the RNC in 2016 shouting on a megaphone, “Socialism sucks.” Sadly, I lost most of my video footage from that era, but was able to locate that classic Charlie moment. (I posted it a couple of weeks before his murder.) Why Charlie? We kept asking that. Charlie was pure. If anything he was too righteous for this world. A lot of us to this day ask, “Why not me instead?” I racked my brain and reached some conclusions that may not look good in the written word without facial inflection, but here we go. Charlie was too pure. No one thought, “If I murder Charlie, then his followers will kill me and my friends and family.” I’m not saying this to criticize Charlie. He lived his Christian values. Some others on the right are seen a bit as more in the “grey area,” not walking fully in the light, as Charlie did. Morally it’s a question I fight with almost daily. Are we too pure? Will all of our families be lined up against the wall like Tsar Nicholas’ was, as the neo-Bolsheviks bayonet our children? Are we too Christian and kind? My own regrets. When text messages began to leak, my heart broke again. I’m going to carefully word these next sentences to avoid embroiling myself into the endless controversies and drama. I want no part of any of that and reject fully anyone’s attempt to bring me into it. I wish I had talked to Charlie more often. I had no agenda or angle to work. He needed someone older and removed from the day-to-day whose only question was, “How can I help you, Charlie Kirk?” We attended Charlie’s memorial service. Most impressive to me was the President of Hillsdale College. Even looking for this video has me choking up. This man loved Charlie. He didn’t see Charlie as a political tool or way to launder a pet political cause onto college campuses. This is grief. This is true paternal love. “Why is dad crying?” During a trip to see my sick father in the hospital, I was listening to the worship music from Charlie’s memorial, weeping on the plane. There was some comedic relief to the grief. I loathe worship music. Yet there I was playing megachurch jam band songs from the Charlie Kirk memorial. (Someone posted a Playlist on Spotify.) “How the f—k did I end up a weepy mess listening to this shit?” As the saying goes, you either laugh or cry. For me it’s been both. Between Scott Adams’s passing and Charlie’s, I was often getting up to leave the house. Had to walk, collect my thoughts, and go cry alone. I get over stuff that happens to me easily, probably too much so. My wife’s biggest complaint is, “You’re too nice and people take advantage of you.” My dad is the same way, and it’s something I’m working on with my oldest. You have to stand up for yourself. Not everyone shares our values. (In fact, most don’t, and they’ll even steal from you if given the chance.) Even so, there’s a lot to be said for not caring about yourself too much. The opposite end of that is endlessly brooding and greed. I can get over a lot. Charlie’s death is not something I am close to getting over. Charlie Kirk got us back into church. My wife and I hadn’t ever gone to church together unless it was for a wedding, and I hadn’t been inside a church to worship for decades. We went to a local church our friends attended, and it was packed. The pastor immediately mentioned Charlie’s murder and said he would talk about it. I hated the sermon, as did my wife. We wanted a message of vengeance, not forgiveness and contemplation, and brotherly love. I rebelled against Josiah B. Trenham’s homily calling for us all to reflect for 40 days. I’ve tried. I’m still full of hate and anger, almost one year later. Maybe my heart isn’t Christian enough, or maybe Christians have lost touch with the Polish Winged Hussars and other warriors who fought back against the Ottoman Empire and other primitives. Maybe Tsar Nicholas should have taken the Bolshevik threat more seriously. My wife said of the church service we attended, “Maybe that’s the message we needed to hear.” I don’t have it in me to forgive Charlie’s murderer, the far left, nor the Tech and Wall Street guys who funded it all. I am not Charlie Kirk. God knows I’m not Charlie Kirk.

The Bataclan theatre ISIS attack in 2015 was as gruesome as October 7th. How could anyone vote Democrat after that? How could you not be "far right"? What exactly is your problem? You want third trimester abortions that badly? You'll surrender the West so you can kill kids?

You should not be surprised to see Matt Peterson - shown in the video below coaching his friend @martyrmade on how to sell fascism to a wider audience - on a NatCon panel titled "American Right: The Next Generation." The National "Conservative" talent pool is a puddle.

America's ethos is, "The kid who didn't need to do homework." That's why the country did testing. To identify them. IQ is genetic. Wasting your childhood in front of a spelling bee book doesn't raise it. Striver culture is un-American.

Even though I’m not Jewish, October 7 really completely changed my political trajectory, because I finally saw that leftists were serious about supporting mass murder and rape in pursuit of “Land Back” decolonisation. Absolutely insane doomer pill watching leftist friends and Muslim friends immediately support the atrocities. I immediately started seeing all “Stolen Land” claims as a direct death threat to murder me and rape my loved ones in Australia. That’s literally just what “Land Back” means at this point. It’s a direct death threat against all Westerners everywhere

Expanding on earlier comments here (since I noticed a decent amount of Israeli comments/questions): People like Nadav seem to be under the impression that Netanyahu has uniquely angered the Democrats, and that replacing him with someone more "liberal" and "reasonable" will improve the relationship between Israel and the Democratic Party. But that deeply misunderstands the modern Democratic Party. There are two basic competing factions within that party - the DSA left, who see Israel and Zionism as fundamentally evil forces and who you won't be able to negotiate with, and the establishment Dems, who THINK they merely dislike Netanyahu, but in reality actually dislike *consensus Israeli public opinion*. What do I mean by that? Establishment Democrats believe very firmly in the two-state solution. Most of them also believe Israel has committed something close to a genocide in Gaza, and went way, way too far after 10/7. They believe you should not have gone into Rafah. Etc. Of the two factions, the DSA has quite a bit more energy behind it. Establishment figures like Hakeem Jeffries have to basically beg DSA figures like Mamdani not to run primary challengers against them. As a result, Establishment Dems have a strong reason to pander to the DSA left, and there are few issues that DSA types care about more than hurting Israel. So back to your own politics for a second. Let's say the left wins the upcoming election, and Eisenkot becomes Prime Minister. I think Republicans won't really care that much either way. Trump will be disappointed - he genuinely likes Netanyahu. (Indeed, I suspect that one of the first things he'd ask of a PM Eisenkot will be to make Netanyahu's pardon happen). That said, young Republicans are definitely not as solidly behind Israel as they have been in the past, and the lack of a compelling figure who can explain Israeli policy to Americans in English won't help you. But ah, you say, what if the Democrats win the White House in 2028? Say, an establishment type like Gavin Newsom? Well, here's what the first meeting between Newsom and Eisenkot will look like: Gavin: "Gadi, my friend! Great to see you. I'm thrilled that it's you and not that idiot Netanyahu in charge now." Gadi, in broken English: "Ah, yes, my friend, Gavin. Great to see you." Gavin: "Ok, Gadi, so when can we expect you to sign on to the two state solution? Bibi was standing in the way of that, but now we can do the right thing and give the Palestinians what they really do deserve." Gadi: "Ehm...I cannot do that. They would kill us." Gavin: "Gadi...I have to tell you that won't work for the United States. We expect you to work with us to create a Palestinian state, in short order. You understand my voters hate you." Gadi: "Ehm...I'm sorry, I just can't do that." Gavin: "You're going to need to change your mind, fast. Also, we're going to need you to withdraw from the Gaza Strip, Southern Lebanon, and the Hermon in Syria, immediately." Gadi: "Ehm...I'm sorry, I can't do that either." Gavin: "I'm sorry, WHAT? You are occupiers! That's not your land! Withdraw, immediately!" Gadi: "Ehm...I can't, sorry, we can't let Hamas and Hezbollah reconstitute themselves." Gavin: "Very well. You should head back to Jerusalem. Don't call us, Secretary of State Ocasio-Cortez will call you." You see the problem. There's no mainstream Israeli politician who will be able to mollify Democrats on policy. Honestly, Netanyahu will probably do better than Eisenkot at handling the Democrats, just because he's been handling American diplomacy for so much longer that he might scare Newsom into being more flexible. But hey, maybe you guys just are tired of Bibi, and want someone else running your country. It's your country, far be it for me to tell you otherwise. I'm just saying, if you think that Netanyahu is the cause of your diplomatic problems, you are flat wrong, and if you are going to replace Netanyahu and diplomacy is the thing you are worried about, you probably should be replacing him with someone like Bennett, who at least knows how to talk to right-wing Americans.

Agreed. Mackerel should do a concert in Gaza and the West Bank. Do you think he has the courage to do one?

We are supposed to be against cancel culture. If his audience has no problem with his shirt, why should we? When did we all become woke busybodies? I don't care what Mackerel or some hick lib "country" music guy is doing. I don't go to their shows. None of our business.

Huckabee Sanders posted on the ad on X. She could have kept it on local Arkansas television. Then none of us would have seen it. She wanted it nationwide. She wanted to build her brand for 2028. We are rejecting anti-white slop from the GOP. Tell HER to knock it off.

I will not lose audience trust by lying. People tell me what they tell me. I report it. If that angers people who are paid by Super PACS, run sketchy "lobbying" campaigns and influence peddle, so bet it. I owe them nothing. I owe the base everything.

We had it all wrong from the beginning. We thought the rent is where all the money was. It looks like the medical billing is where the real money is

Tesla.

No student loan debt and rent paid is it. We all have seen what happens to kids who don't work. It ends badly. Overdose deaths always get focused on as a "flyover state" issue. Not even close. It's a total mess out there, everywhere.