Dennis Prager remembers Charlie Kirk

 

What a wonderful and heartfelt homage to Charlie Kirk, from a close friend Dennis Prager, himself a wise man. 

Xiamen, Fujian, China. 25 June 2014

From my trip in 2104. Checking out the pre-wedding photo shoot.

I was first in Xiamen in 1976 when it was named the first of China’s Special Economic Zones. 

It was just a fishing village. An interesting one. The island just off the mainland part of the city, was and remains car free.  All you heard wandering around the cobbled streets was the sound of music and the light burble of humans, babes and greys. 

Xiamen had been a place of Portuguese colonials. Less benignly of Muslim conquerors. Today it’s pretty. Compared, that is, to other Chinese cities. 

“Super typhoon Ragasha lashes Hong Kong” | SCMP

Waterfront, Tsimshatsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong 

Sitting here in Discovery Bay, HK, 10:00 am, Super typhoon Ragasa is just to our SSE, winds pretty strong. Ragasa is a Tagalog (Philippines) word meaning “fierce and great”. 

Byron, our labradoodle, refuses to go out for a wee-wee, so we have close 👀on him…

A woman and her child were swept into the sea when they went to the rocks to “watch the waves”…

From the free article at South China Morning Post:

Hong Kong has woken up to a downpour triggered by the highest-level No 10 warning, which shut down the city, as Super Typhoon Ragasa edges as close as 100km (62 miles) south of the city.

The weather forecaster, which upgraded the No 9 signal issued at 1.40am to the hurricane warning an hour later, has said Ragasa will be closest to the city between 6am and 9am on Wednesday.

The weather has deteriorated rapidly overnight, with winds strengthening quickly and reaching hurricane force offshore and on high ground at first.

The Observatory also warns of frequent heavy squally showers, large waves crashing along the shoreline, and a significant rise in water levels. It has urged residents to stay indoors. Keep reading…

“What explains the black–white homicide gap?” | Aporia

The gap, in America, is huge. Blacks are more than 20 times more likely to murder than are whites or Asians. Why? The most often cited reason is poverty. It's also the least likely. According to research, science and the data.

Long article on the subject, from Noah Carl, writing a magazine I’d not heard of, Aporia. 

I've done a quick skim. It does seem to include the most likely three or four factors. 

The least likely is poverty. Which we know from the fact that Black homicide rates in poor African countries do not correlate with levels of poverty. I've driven the length of the African continent. The poorest countries are some of the safest. There, that's my anecdotal evidence. 

I've long known about the Cultural reasons proposed. I would guess that's a large to,largish factor. Culture affects behaviour. Behaviour affects how you interact with people. Get angry and kill them? Or argue it out? 

The Testosterone reason I've never heard of. Males have more T than women. They kill more than women. Still. The author gives this factor little weight. 

IQ is clearly a touchy one. Is there a cross-racial correlation between IQ within a given ethnicity and homicidality? There would have to be so, inter-ethnically, not just intra-ethnicity, to give it any weight. 

The sad thing is, it’s very, very difficult to discuss this issue calmly, especially in the U.S.. To the Left it’s “poverty wot done it”, and poverty is, of course, the fault of the white man. If you look for other reasons you’re a bigot. Sigh….

“I’ll rip the tongue out if anyone who criticises our dear prophet” | Muslim leader in U.K.

	Robby Starbuck ⁦‪@robbystarbuck‬⁩ If your king, prime minister or president invites this into your country, they are no longer your king, prime minister or president. How quickly you realize that dictates the survival of your way of life.   23/9/2025, 12:14 pm

As British historian Rafe Hayden-Mankoo says: "Muslims are not like Sikhs. They are not Mormons. They are not Jews. They are not Hindus. They are not even atheists. They are of a supremacist, aggressive religion. Of a religion that works to our overthrow. The overthrow of western civilisation to be replaced by an Islamist one. 

They are loud and they are dangerous."

All the rest of the millions of immigrants to the west — Chinese, Christian Africans, Asians of all sorts, Eastern Europeans — all live well and peacefully in the west, they contribute more than they take, they integrate, they learn the language. 

Most of all, if they are new immigrants, they are grateful. 

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Ao Chalong Bay, Phuket, Thailand, 7 December 2011

Just after our Kings Cup sailing regatta, at Kata Beach, Phuket. From our boat, Xena anchored at Ao Chalong Bay in the south of Phuket island. We went on a cruise around the islands with some friends. 

Recognising the delusion of a “Palestinian State”

	David Collier ⁦‪@mishtal‬⁩ Today the world gathers to recognise a 'Palestinian state' that is run by terrorists who say they want to wipe out the Jews. Western nation's leaders celebrate it. State media like ⁦‪@BBCNews‬⁩ are basking in it. For some in Europe, it seems like the Holocaust just wasn't enough.   22/9/2025, 7:20 pm

Australia is part of this.

As in Britain and France it's more to do with domestic politics than international affairs. They have to placate the now substantial Muslim vote. That they welcomed into their borders. Who hate the values of their host counties and whose ideology aims to destroy all Dar-al-Harb the world's non-Muslim lands. 

The Palestinians already have a state. It's called Jordan. 

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Liberals wake up

 

It's true as the lady above says that there's a huge amount of deliberate misleading and selective editing done by the left about things that the right says 

And horribly, they did it of Charlie Kirk.

Sudanese desert graves, October 2011

From our Cape Town, South Africa to Cairo, Egypt, cross Africa classic car trip, 2011. 

Previous "Jimmy Kimmels" on the Other Side

From Swampist. 

Commenting on the meltdowns on liberal media over Jimmy Kimmel being fired by ABC. They're calling it all sorts of "crushing of free speech", and "we need to be very afraid". Swampist below, doing a bit of "Whataboutism".

Well, so what?

Whataboutism is just another way of saying hypocrisy. It's needed to highlight the hypocrisy.

Which is everywhere today, on every channel of the MSM. CNN and MSNBC especially. They're going crazy. Hating what's being done to one of theirs, Jimmy Kimmel, when all those people below were done by them, to the conservative tribe...

At the very least, it's interesting. Isn't it?

Roseanne Barr – Fired by ABC/Disney and her hit show Roseanne canceled overnight in 2018 after one tweet. Hundreds of cast and crew lost their jobs.

Gina Carano – Fired from The Mandalorian in 2021 for social media posts that didn’t fit the Left’s politics. Dropped by her agency too. Megyn Kelly – Fired by NBC in 2018, her morning show canceled after comments about Halloween costumes. Dave Chappelle – Netflix employees staged a walkout and demanded his comedy special be pulled for “transphobia.” The Left tried hard to cancel him. Joe Rogan – The Left pressured Spotify to drop him, running coordinated campaigns and advertiser boycotts over COVID discussions. Tucker Carlson – Taken off Fox News in 2023. Liberal activists bragged about advertiser pressure campaigns that helped force him out, costing thousands of downstream jobs. Parler – Apple, Google, and Amazon colluded in 2021 to wipe the entire platform off the internet. Tens of thousands of small creators and businesses lost income overnight. J.K. Rowling – Blacklisted from events, attacked by activists, and pressured out of projects for speaking her mind. Mike Lindell – MyPillow pulled from major retailers, banned from Twitter, and targeted with advertiser boycotts. Alex Jones – Simultaneously banned in 2018 by YouTube, Facebook, Apple, and Spotify. Coordinated erasure celebrated as a model for censorship. Patterns are clear: Coordinated advertiser boycotts. Public celebrations of people losing jobs and businesses. Two sets of rules — the Left can lie (Russia hoax, Covington kids smear, Jussie Smollett, etc.) and laugh about it, but the Right gets destroyed. Accountability only ever goes one way. The Left has spent the last decade perfecting cancel culture, destroying jobs, nuking shows, wiping platforms off the internet, and laughing while people’s lives were ruined. But sure… Jimmy Kimmel smugly lying about a political assassination? Totally fine.

Nucler for Australia

Who knew? That the Australian National University is doing research on Nuclear Energy? I didn't.

Especially given that Australia, bizarrely and scandalously enough, does not allow any nuclear energy in the country, BY LAW!

There's an outfit called Nuclear for Australia, which I've mentioned before, and which is lobbying for Australia to get real, to get with the rest of the developed world and to put nuclear energy on the agenda. It's run by a young livewire called Will Shackel and the Patron is an Australian of the Year, Dick Smith.

I mean: isn't it major hypocrisy of us to sell our uranium -- a product that we say is unsafe for us to use ourselves -- to others in the region, as the second largest exporter of uranium on the planet. 

Meantime I've been approached by my alma mater, the ANU, to support their work on nuclear energy. 

Their proposal is here. 

It's not for me, as I want to focus more on pushing the political and public opinion side. Some may be interested, however. 

Part of my response: 

Thank you for sharing the proposal on supporting Australia’s nuclear capabilities at ANU.

I believe Australia’s approach to climate challenges, renewables, and net-zero goals should include nuclear fission energy. While fusion always seems to be "thirty years off”, fission is proven globally over 80 years of theoretical research and practical implementation.

Current politics — anti-nuke Labor, greying Greenies, and testy Teals—block any progress. They stress safety, cost, and timeline concerns; none of which true.

Our real challenge, it seems me, is the rather Sisyphean task of shifting a stubborn boulder of public and political perception. If ANU’s nuclear scientists were to engage directly in the political fray with evidence-based advocacy, that would be compelling. The proposal highlights ANU’s strong research expertise and the Heavy Ion Accelerator Facility. What I’m looking for is a strategy to counter the anti-nuclear narrative and to influence policy.

That’s why I said in my WhatsApp yesterday that I'll direct my meagre efforts more to the political side, to shift that boulder of misperception, via lobby groups like Nuclear for Australia.

 
Others, however, may be interested in supporting the nuclear research activities laid out in the paper — grateful if you could let me know if it would be ok for me to pass it on.

Thank you again for the information and best wishes sourcing funding for the exciting nuclear research that's being done.

Wow! Adam Carolla gets savagely roasted by his fans!

 Have a look!

Adam Carolla and Jimmy Kimmel go way back, to “The Man Show”, to before both became famous. Jimmy somewhat more famous than Adam, what with his own show on ABC “The Jimmy Kimmel Show”, an all. Which show has just been“indefinitely suspended”, aka fired and cancelled, by Disney and ABC.

I’ve long liked and followed Adam for his common sense takes on everything and everyone. 

On the Kimmel thing, I grant it’s tough to balance long friendship with the fact that that friend, Kimmel, says some pretty horrid things, in the guise of “comedy”, and that Adam’s fans have no patience for it.

His fans and followers, me included, are having none of it. None of Adam’s excuses for his mate, Jimmy. Especially not his claim that Jimmy is “generous”. To his friends like Adam, no doubt. But he’s not in the least bit, not in the teeny tiniest bit generous to half the country, the half that didn’t vote for his woman, Kamala. 

Have a look at the comments in the video above. 3.5 thousand at time of writing. Not a single one, mine included, is sympathetic to Adam’s soft take on his friend Jimmy Kimmel. The most popular commenting “Your loyalty to Jimmy Kimmel is crossing well into poor judgment territory”. 

Quite. 

Charlie Sheen on Charlie Kirk

What a couple of Charlies!

And what a relief to hear someone say something fair and kind about the fairest and kindest of men. The liberal leftie media, the Tik Tokkers are out in swarms, dancing on Charlie Kirk's grave, yipping it up for their ghoulish followers. While Charlie, the Sheen one, has nice words for Charlie, the Kirk one. 

Charlie Sheen on Charlie Kirk: 

"He didn't demean people. He didn't ridicule people. He didn't belittle people. Or embarrass them. Or do any 'gotch'as'. 

He would show up for his debates as well-prepared as he could be, as passionate as he could be. A fine and wonderful man, a caring father and husband, a wonderful friend."

Charlie Sheen is the son of his famous Dad, Martin Sheen. Martin, a very far left, pacifist, fellow traveller of the likes of Noam Chomsky and Susan Sarandon. Martin, Charlie's liberal, progressive dad. 

So that makes Charlie Sheen the same, right? That makes Charlie S. a progressive, a leftist, just like his dad. That's how it works. We're told by CNN and Jimmy Kimmel. The Charlie Kirk shooter's family is conservative Republican. So the shooter is too! That's how it works, see?! 

Muslim Mayor of Michigan city to non-Muslim: “Get out out town. You don’t belong here!”

	Congressman Randy Fine ⁦‪@RepFine‬⁩ Muslims are now telling Americans to get out of their own cities. This isn't some Free Palestine protestor, this is the Mayor of Dearborn, Michigan.  They want to replace you. Are you listening yet?   17/9/2025, 11:35 pm

Discovery Bay Ferry, November 2022

What a lovely cloudscape. Very John Constable. 

That's Disneyland the white buildings on the left. 

In the distance, just to the right of centre, is the International Commerce Centre Hong Kong, which has a Ritz-Carlton Hotel on it uppermost 25 stories. On ICC's 108th Floor is a dining room and the Ozone Bar with splendid views out over to Central, the Peak and into the South China Sea. 

In the gloom, on the far right above is Central's 88-Storey International Finance Centre building, where Jing worked at UBS for many years. 

The boat is our Discovery Bay ferry, from Central to our DB in about 20 minutes.  Which took Jing to her UBS each morning. And which I also used to take to my Wall Street Institute offices. 

View from the Ozone bar, 108th floor ICC. Over Central HK, 
the Peak and South China Sea

"Blasphemy laws for Australia" | Topher Field

 

I don't know Topher Field*. But I've just watched this video above, and he speaks well. He sets out the issues and problems with the proposed "National Response to Islamophobia". Basically that it is indeed a blasphemy law. 

You can't criticise Islam, because it is, well, Islam. Not so for other religions. You can make all the fun you like of them. "Jesus Christ, Superstar"? Fine. "The Book of Mormon"? Be my guest. But: "There's a problem with Islam"? Or the musical "Ma Man Mo"?... oh... no.. no, no, you can't say that! How dare you! Blasphemer!  ("You are to be stoned to death!")

And to add insult to injury, the Australian taxpayer is being asked -- demanded -- to pay for their own subjugation To pay for Islamic propaganda in the schools, to pay for Islamic indoctrination in the media, to pay for Islamic promotion in the public service. We are going to pay to force ourselves to believe that "Islam is a Religion of Peace".  My God Allah, what an irony!

I started this blog 16 years ago, after I'd read the Koran and found what a horrid book it is. What a dangerous book it is. What a manual for terrorism it is. What a demand for supremacism, for homophobia and for misogyny it is. Things have not got any better since then. The Koran has not got any more benign or peaceable. The demands of this tumescent, this supremacist religious idology have not gone away. Indeed, as we see from Topher Field, they have become ever more importunate. 

Avast! Away with ye! We're done with Islam. At least, I am. Stop the importation of more people with a value system that hates our values, that wants to overturn our values, of an ideology that aims to install Islam as the "Only true religion" and for all our society to bend to its will. 

This "National Response to Islamophobia" report is just another step on the way. If we can't bring ourselves to stop the immigration of peoples who hew to a fascist ideology (which is Islam) -- and I'm going to grant that's an impossible ask in today's multicultural western societies -- then at the very least, can we stop doing silly and self-destructive things, can we stop our suicidal moves, can we cease funding our own demise?? 

Just that? At least? Resist. Say NO to Islamisation. 

ADDED: I've gone back on my own blog here, and found an interesting post from 2014, which remains relevant today. It's quoting Raheel Raza on the issue of Islamophobia. I see the tricks he explains are being used, every one of them, in the "National Response to Islamophobia".  Raheel Raza:

Islamists have been successful in building the Islamophobia industry: it diverts attention from activities they would probably prefer not be noticed, such promoting sharia law in the West, stealth jihad and a push to implement a global Islamic Caliphate, among many others.

Any non-Muslim who questions the Islamists' intentions to promote the agenda of the Muslim Brotherhood is immediately slapped with an Islamophobia fatwa [religious opinion], thus rendering most well-behaved and civil Westerners, silenced and apologetic.

This is not only racist but, for the most part, a form of emotional extortion intended to extract special concessions from well-meaning but gullible people the West.

Islamophobia is also a convenient pseudo-cause around which to whip up young followers: they are informed, whether true or not, that they have much to be aggrieved about and that the only solution is to close down free speech, demonize all who might have an opinion that differs from theirs or who ask "inconvenient" questions, and to start creating an authoritarian political movement in which they might feel a meaningful participant.

From: "The Real Agenda Behind the Combat Islamophobia push". Raheel Raza. Gatestone Institute.  

"Islamophobia is an invented term". My post 10 January 2011. Yes, it was invented by the Muslim Brotherhood for the very purpose that it's being used above: to silence criticism of Islam. 

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*Topher Field, from his YouTube Channel: 

• Multi-Award Winning Australian Documentary Film Maker
• Multi-Award Winning Libertarian Political Commentator
• Human Rights Activist
• Author of Good People Break Bad laws

Progressive goes back in time to kill Hitler

 

Thanks to good old Babylon Bee!

The reference here, to those that perhaps don't pay full attention to the daily political grind, is to the Democrats' tendency to call Trump the new Hitler and the Republicans all Nazis. This didn't start with Biden though he gave it a strong push, in his infamous October 2024 speech, and has been repeated endlessly by all Democrats from the most senior, like House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and presidendial candidate Kamala Harris, to the rank-and-file Democrats. 

It's what's being argued about right now. The Republicans, from Trump down, saying that the constant tarring of Reps as Nazis and fascists, is what got Charlie Kirk murdered. By a deranged guy who said, on the bullet casings, that he's killing fascists. All of which the Dems are denying. Though some are not. It's ongoing battle as I write. 

Namibia, September 2011

This is in the capital of Namibia, Windhoek, in 2011. I'm at the local classic car club, next to a MkII Jaguar. 

This was on our 2011 trip, from Cape Town to Cairo, with about a dozen classic (aka old) cars. We went up the west coast of Africa, then across the middle via Botswana and Zambia, to the east coast, up Tanzania, Kenya, Ethiopia, Sudan and Egypt. 

I covered most of it in my blog back then, here. 

Weird and bizzare takes on Charlie Kirk. The Bad Faith and Hypocrisy of the Left

Posted here on Bluesky

I keep hearing people on the Left saying stuff like that above. That he "incited violence". That he dealt in "hate speech". That he hates women. That he's racist. That he's anti-immigration. And so on and blah, blah, blah on. 

I'm sure these people have never watched Charlie in action. At universities talking and debating with thousands of students, standing room only, to listen to this man. If they did so, they could never, in all conscience, say the horrid things about him that they do. He is a kindly man, who talks and debates with good humour and grace. 

These people can only be passing on what they've heard from someone else on the Left. Where they've decided he's too dangerous a character. He gave more youth votes to Trump 47 than at any time this century, as the CNN polls guru Harry Enton has pointed out. Therefore the man is dangerous. Dangerous politically, that is, because he's so effective. 

What do you do when you can't debate him. Cause you'll lose. Just smear him with lies. Knowing your faithful acolytes will repeat all the lies. All the "hate speech" nonsense. All the incitement nonsense. 

The above is by John Hampshire, who I was at school with in the 1960s in Canberra. He's left X and now is on Bluesky. This was the place people like John moved to, so's to avoid, they said, "the toxic environment" of X. He used to have something on his X profile that he's "open minded". Nothing in various posts of his convinces me of this.... 

Now, on Bluesky, the biggest thing is all about deciding with Right wing, which conservative politician or influencer they want to murder next. It got so bad that even Bluesky moderators had to step in. Follow anything about Charlie Kirk on Bluesky and see if you can find a tiny morsel of tolerance and kindness. These people over there are hypocrites. They're bloodthirsty inciters of murder. They are a murder cabal. 

Now, on to debunking the "Feminist News" post above that Hampshire re-posts, adding "there's no denying he was a most unpleasant piece of work". 

Actually, yes, there is denying it, John. I deny it. 

And I debunk it. 

The "Feminist News" account is inflammatory and factually distorted. Their characterizations are rooted in selective, exaggerated, or misleading interpretations of Kirk's public statements and activism, often amplified by critics on the left. 

Charlie was a prominent conservative activist known for mobilizing young voters, promoting free-market principles, and critiquing progressive policies—not for the blanket extremism alleged here.1. Claim: "Anti-immigrant"Debunk: Charlie has consistently advocated for legal immigration and border security, not a blanket opposition to immigrants. He supports pathways for skilled workers and has praised legal immigrants who assimilate and contribute to American society, such as in his 2019 book Campus Battlefield, where he argues for merit-based immigration reform. Critics often misrepresent his calls to enforce existing laws (e.g., opposing sanctuary cities) as "anti-immigrant," but he has explicitly stated, "I love immigrants; I just want them to come here legally" in multiple podcasts and speeches. This aligns with standard conservative policy positions, not xenophobia.2. Claim: "Anti-abortion"Debunk: Yes, he is. And so what? Charlie is openly pro-life, while I am pro-choice. So what? He views abortion as the taking of innocent life, a position shared by millions of Americans across faiths and politics. It has a moral basis, one I understand and respect, even as I hold opposite views. You don't kill a man for that view. As he would say: how about you don't kill millions of the unborn?3. Claim: "Anti-women's rights"Debunk: This is a gross distortion. Charlie supports women's rights in areas like equal pay, education access, and anti-trafficking efforts, often highlighting conservative women leaders (e.g., TPUSA's female chapter heads). His critiques target what he calls "radical feminism," such as opposition to gender quotas or certain transgender policies in sports/women's spaces, which he frames as protecting biological fairness—not denying rights.

Charlie speaks up for the traditional family  (I posted on this the other day). In doing so he expands women's rights. He encourages women to feel they can just as well choose to be mothers and home makers as they may choose to follow a career and remain single. Until now, that's been cast as somehow a betrayal of women. It is not. It's an empowerment. 
4. Claim: "Anti-anything-human-rights"Debunk: This hyperbolic phrasing lacks specifics and is unsubstantiated. Charlie's activism through TPUSA focuses on "human rights" in conservative terms: free speech on campuses, Second Amendment rights, religious liberty, and economic freedoms. He has condemned human rights abuses abroad (e.g., China's Uyghur camps) and domestically (e.g., police overreach in some cases). 

In his 2024 book Right Wing Revolution, he argues for policies that uplift all Americans via opportunity, not division. Accusing him of being "anti-anything-human-rights" is a vague smear without examples; it's contradicted by his voter registration drives that empowered marginalized conservative communities, including Black and Hispanic youth.

5. Claim: "Very racist"Debunk: Charlie has faced racism accusations for critiquing progressive identity politics. He has called  BLM "Marxist", which they are, by their own admission. He questions reparations as do many Black scholars. He has repeatedly denounced actual racism. 

In a 2021 debate, he said, "Racism is evil, and conservatives fight it by judging people on character, not skin color—MLK's dream." 

Fact-checkers like PolitiFact rate many "racist" claims against him as "mostly false," stemming from guilt-by-association with broader right-wing rhetoric rather than direct evidence.

6. Claim: "Islamophobic"Debunk: I'm much stronger than Charlie on the issue of Islam! It's what started me on this blog and gave it its name. The spread of radical islam across the west, purposeful and relentless ought to have us all worried, not retreating to tired cliches like "Islamophobia", a term invented by the Muslim Brotherhood to deflect from the criticism that Islam and jihadism deserves. 

Charlie meantie has criticized radical Islamism and jihadist terrorism (what sane person would not?), but he distinguishes this from Muslims as a whole. In a 2016 speech he said: "I support peaceful Muslims and their right to practice freely—America is better for it." (I'm not sure American is better for it, but there you go. Shoot me).

Charlie has hosted Muslim conservatives like TPUSA's Muslim outreach director and condemned anti-Muslim hate crimes. He opposes Sharia law or Hamas.  Again, so what? So do I. They are both bad, and one is a registered terrorist group.  Even the leftist ADL grants that Charlie does not promote violence or blanket discrimination.

7. Claim: "Right-wing activist, Trump ally"Debunk: Yes, Charlie is a right-wing activist (self-described conservative) and Trump ally. So what? You can't work for a political party now? Unless it's the correct one?—This is standard political alignment, not evidence of extremism. Charlie's work predates Trump (TPUSA founded in 2012), focusing on campus conservatism broadly. Portraying alliance with a major-party leader as inherently disqualifying is partisan bias, not debunkable fact—it's opinion masquerading as analysis.

8. Claim: Along with other right-wing extremist influencers, has been "inciting violence for years"; "Charlie is neither a martyr nor a hero—he is a cause" (of violence)Debunk: This is the most egregious and unsubstantiated smear, lacking any specific examples of Charlie inciting violence. Charlie's rhetoric is fiery—critiquing "woke" culture, election integrity, or gun control—but he consistently calls for peaceful protest and legal action, e.g., "Fight with ballots, not bullets" in a 2020 post. 

No credible reports link his words to violent acts; the FBI has not investigated him for incitement. Post-assassination, leaders across the spectrum (Obama, Bush, Cox) condemned the shooting as an attack on democracy, affirming Charlie's role in open discourse. Blaming victims of violence for their own deaths (or others') echoes dangerous "both-sides" false equivalency, ignoring that Kirk was killed mid-debate on mass shootings—a forum for exactly the civil discussion the post mocks. His death, from a sniper's shot at a public event, underscores threats to free speech, not causation of them.

In summary, the Feminist News is not news at all. It's smear. It is partisan hyperbole, conflating policy disagreements with hatred to preempt sympathy after a tragedy. Charlie was a divisive figure—passionate about conservatism, often provocative—but evidence shows him as a debater and organizer, not the cartoonish villain depicted. 

Shame on the Feminist News for doing such a hatchet job. And shame on my old school mate for buying into this crud. I'm going to bet he's never seen a sigle video of Charlie. Except perhaps for some edited clips, juxtaposed to present the very worst of a fundamentally good and decent man. Something all too easy to do when there's thousands of hours of videos of him out there for the villainous to trawl through.

I''m done with the hypocrisy and bad faith of these people. Shame on them all. 

Gun Nutters on the Left

Clementine Ford is an Australian "influencer". Yuck! To the whole concept of “influencers”. (But then, I’m just a cranky old man who still blogs, for heavens sake).

And, Super Yuck for C. Ford’s vile views, her absent morality, her gloating over a violent death, her gleefulness at Charlie Kirk's murder. However many ad hominems I find for this piece of shite, they’re not enough. And that’s coming from a person (me) who hates ad hominem.

C. Ford says, with a smirk: "Why feel sorry for him? Charlie died doing what he loved: defending guns".

Well, NO. He did not.

On two counts: 

First, when he was shot in the neck by an extremist Leftie -- who could not abide Charlie simply debating --  at that very moment, the issue being discussed was transgender rights, not gun rights. 

In the tiniest tinge of silver lining, the guy debating Charlie at that exact moment was so profoundly shocked by that bullet in the neck, that he has since denounced his now former cult-mates, gone in hard against the gleeful hordes of monsters yipping it up for the death of a man who simply wanted to talk and debate. A man who said repeatedly: "When debate ends, that's when violence begins". Oh, sad prescience. 

Second, Charlie was killed by a mad Leftie who used a hunting rifle, the Mauser Model 98 (.30-06 caliber bolt-action rifle). A rifle that’s been around since 1897…

Me, I've never owned and will never own a gun. I'm bemused by American gun laws. I live in Hong Kong where guns are strictly controlled. Guns are also strictly controlled in the Anglosphere, in Britain, in Canada, in Australia, in New Zealand. They're strictly controlled everywhere in Europe and Asia. But... in none of these places are hunting rifles like the Mauser banned. To repeat: in not a single one of these strict gun-law countries are hunting rifles banned. Neither are they banned in a single U.S. state, not even the ones with  strong gun laws. 

So what's the point of moaning about "gun control", when the issue is irrelevant to the Charlie case. A mad Leftie can always get hold of a hunting rifle. (Just as a deranged racist on a Charlotte tram can always get hold of a knife). 

Of course the gun issue is handy for the Left. It allows diversion. As in:

... if a killing is done by a Right-winger, the story in the media is: Far Right, white supremacists, extremist MAGA are responsible. It’s the Republicans! 

But then... 

... if a killing is done by Left-winger the story in the media is: this could have been avoided with stricter gun-control laws, which the Republicans block. So, again, it's the Republicans! 

See how that works? 

In truth we should not expect any sense from a ning-nong who goes on Facebook with a farrago of immature flim-flammery like this: 

The cut-off bit at the end (as if we care what this imbecile thinks) is: "... and I think everyone should be gay".  That's how C. Ford's deep and meaningful FB post ends. That was posted, by the way, after her vomitous unloading of bile on how delighted she is that Charlie Kirk was murdered. Then on FB to say how kind and caring and peace-loving she is. Hypocrite, hypocrite, hypocrite. 

Note, by the way, C. Ford’s "... I love being a single mother". This relates back to my post yesterday about Traditional Family vs Feminist Push. Ford would happily — gleefully even — kill Charlie for his views on the Traditional Family, I’ve no doubt. If we think otherwise we're "losers" says C. Ford. Got that? You’re “losers” if you don’t believe in assassinating people you don’t agree with. 

What a shocking place we're in, when "influencers" across the world, openly -- proudly even -- say that it's just fine to massacre, to murder, to assassinate people for views you don't like. Think on that. Think on it. 

Is it too late to fix?  Perhaps. 

I can't believe that idiots like Clementine Ford will be influenced by anyone not on her side, people like me calling her out. She just mocks them, us, as "losers". This must be called out by her side. By the Left. By Left leaders. Who, in America, are doing the opposite. We had Nancy Pelosi, for example, when she was Speaker of the House, the most senior Democrat in the Congress, calling for "uprisings" across America. Because they lost an election. I mean... c'mon! Do better. 

The first stanza of "Oh my darling, Clementine":

Oh my darling, oh my darling

Oh my darling, Clementine

You are lost and gone forever

Dreadful sorry, Clementine

Does posting this stanza drag me down to darling Clementine's level? Is it too much? I mean only "lost and gone" from the "influencer" space. But is that how it starts? Then the slippery slope and soon you're cheering the murder of husbands and fathers? 

Wikipedia has C. Ford's Occupation as "feminist". Imagine that! One can be a feminist as an actual "occupation". Weird. This feminist who cheers the murder of a husband and father to a young girl. Some shit influence, right there. None of it, by the way, condemned by anyone on the Left or in the Democratic Party. Not a one. 

ADDED: another horrid Australian "influencer" Abby Chatfield calls on Americans to kill Republicans. As in, all Republicans. Kill them! She says straight to camera. 

If called out on their murderous euphoria, Democrats resort to the "it happens on both-sides" schtick. No, it doesn't. It's not two sides. It's one side. It's the Democrats directly enabling murderous mayhem on their very own Far Left fringe. And only they can fix it. Who will stand up and say it? 

Barack? I doubt it. Wifie Michelle? She of the "when they go low, we go high" fantasy? Surely not. Not Kamala either. She answered Anderson Cooper, who asked "Do you think Donald Trump is a fascist?" with "Yes, I do. Yes, he is a fascist". And what do you do with fascists? You kill them. So, no, not Kamala either. 

Who then? Who calls this out? If it's no one, we're in deep shite.