The High Priest questioned Jesus about his disciples and his doctrine. Jesus answered him saying:
“I have spoken publicly to the world. I have always taught in a synagogue or in the temple areawhere the Jews gather and in secret I have said nothing. Why ask me? Ask those who heard me what I said to them. They know what I said.”
When he said this, one of the temple guards standing there struck him and said: “Is this the way you answer the High Priest?” Jesus answered him:
“If I have spoken wrongly, testify to the wrong, but if I have spoken rightly, why do you strike me?”
As everyone knows Charlie Kirk was a follower of Jesus Christ and it seems they had one thing in common.
Jesus was accused of all sorts of wrong by the Sanhedrin but despite speaking publicly in front of multitudes they were unable to find testimony that showed him guilty of anything.
Likewise we see Democrats from AOC to Ilan Omar along with multiple celebs and activists on the left claim that Charlie Kirk was a racist, a fascist, a homophobe and a white supremacist, they call him head of the modern Hitler youth, when they’re not cheering his murder that is or booing the idea of praying for him & his family.
But there is one thing that they DON’T do. They never link to video to back up these claims.
This is rather odd if you think about it. Charlie Kirk like Christ, spoke openly, he was at campus’ all over the nation and was interviewed all over the world. There are literally hundreds of videos showing him taking questions and answering them going back years. You don’t have to ask the people who heard him as Christ suggested, you can literally see what he said.
Yet none of these leftist calling Kirk all these names do so, why?
Well the answer comes from Catholic Cardinal who had no idea who Charlie Kirk was.
Timothy Cardinal Dolan on Charlie Kirk – "The more I learned about him, I thought this guy is a modern-day Saint Paul. He was a missionary, an evangelist, a hero."✝️ @MrsErikaKirkpic.twitter.com/hEtdxhS3k4
You see not knowing who Charlie was and not being familiar with his work he went online and checked out the videos and came to the conclusion that he was a hero.
And THAT’S why the left doesn’t dare link to any video to support their charges, because a person seeing the videos, the questions and the answers will see for themselves that their charges are unsubstantiated by the facts and that they are in fact liars.
The irony here is that Charlie, being very familiar with scripture would expect nothing less because as a servant of Christ he would remember the warning given to his disciples during the last supper discourses:
If the world hates you, realize that it hated me first.If you belonged to the world, the world would love its own; but because you do not belong to the world, and I have chosen you out of the world, the world hates you.
Remember the word I spoke to you, ‘No slave is greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours.And they will do all these things to you on account of my name, because they do not know the one who sent me.If I had not come and spoken to them, they would have no sin; but as it is they have no excuse for their sin.Whoever hates me also hates my Father.
The world hated Charlie Kirk, because the world is loyal to the prince of the world. That’s why those loyal to the prince of this world cheered his death loudly and publicly.
Oh, I am heartily tired of hearing about what Lee is going to do. Some of you always seem to think he is suddenly going to turn a double somersault, and land in our rear and on both of our flanks at the same time. Go back to your command, and try to think what we are going to do ourselves, instead of what Lee is going to do.
US Grant, at the Battle of the Wilderness 1864
One of the most famous scenes in movies is the opening speech of Don Corleone in the Godfather when he tells the undertaker who is asking for Justice for his daughter who was disfigured by men let off by the courts:
If you’d come to me in friendship, this scum who ruined your daughter would be suffering this very day. And if by some chance an honest man like yourself made enemies they would become my enemies. And then, they would fear you.
For the last 10 to 15 years or even more the woke mind virus has held ordinary Americans in fear of saying the wrong thing, or expressing an approved opinion. We had not reached the point of England where people were getting arrested but the fear was palatable and most of all those who perpetuated this fear to control us kept pushing in order to give the illusion, backed up by media and culture, that they were the overwhelming majority.
It could be something as simple as not putting out a Trump sign because you didn’t want your car keyed or your house egged, or keeping your mouth shut while a leftist ranted on at work about Trump being a Nazi.
Quite a few gave into this fear but a much larger amount of people simply wanted to get on with their lives and didn’t want to waste their time dealing with fools. They were quiet and quite a few were armed but in the end all they wanted was to be left alone.
The political left seeing an advantage in this kept pushing farther and farther and seeing no penalty for their actions didn’t bother to police or restrain themselves, in fact I suspect more than a few understood the monsters they created in places like Portland but realized that said monsters could easily turn on them.
It’s generally a bad idea to push a well armed population beyond their endurance, because people eventually decide they’ve had enough and once you push a person who only wants to be left alone past that point bad things tend to happen.
And that brings us to the aftermath of the murder of Charlie Kirk.
When we had a Christian society that valued life it was axiomatic that people would not celebrate a political murder or frankly any murder. One might not worry if criminals murdered criminals as that was considered part of the risk of being one, but the murder of a political figure for expressing & debating those who disagree with them in public? Unthinkable.
But once, thanks to the rise of abortion & gay marriage and the transgender business the political lines became split along religious lines. While it is not an absolute rule odds are if you were and are against these three things you were a Christian and thus a republican, while if you were for it, you were a Democrats.
It started in the 1970’s, continued in the 1980, and by the rise of Barack Obama the lines were pretty much set.
Now the thing about Christianity is this. The core principles, beyond the divinity of Jesus include the following:
The equality of man before God in value and love
The love of neighbor and even of enemies
When your culture embraces this, you can get along with those who disagree with you.
But when half of the culture decides those are not values they share, who decide that those who disagree with them are worthy of suffering and death the social compact was shattered.
And the reaction of leftists all over the nation has done this.
We see that poor Ukrainian girl murdered in Charlotte Iryna Zarutska who could be their daughter and realize that the left doesn’t care if violent lunatics’ are free to do this because they see political gain in having them free.
We see that poor hotel manager Chandra] Nagamallaiah BEHEADED by an illegal immigrant who was let free by the Biden administration with just two weeks left before Trump took office and realize that could be them at work while the left marches against deporting such people.
And last of all we see people openly celebrating the murder of a young man with a wife and two kids because he argued for opinions opposite of theirs opinions that we share.
If it was the odd crank on the net we wouldn’t care, but the sheer number of teachers, physicians, college administrators, members of government and the military and those in various industries that serve the general populace who have taken to the net either on video or via social media to celebrate the murder of Charlie Kirk has been a great shock to many who are suddenly realizing that these people who they work beside would celebrate their deaths for agreeing with him.
Now mind you, they have a perfect right to hate Charlie Kirk, they have a perfect right to say they’re glad he’s dead, either at home or in private or public conversations, they even have the right to post what they did. It’s not a criminal offense and I would object to anyone being prosecuted for such a thing.
We also have rights, and when you go on a public platform, and appear in the public square and in our workspaces or in a place where our children are being taught and publicly celebrate assassination, not because they’re a terrorist or that we’re at war with an enemy or because a person is a gangster or mafia guy to whom such a thing is an occupational hazard, but because you disagree with the person’s political opinions and dared to openly and effectively debate others, then we have the right to very publicly call you out.,
For this breaks the social compact, it actually shatters it. This is a trust society and we can’t trust them anymore. The line is crossed and something must be done.
If we were leftists who had rejected Christianity the solution would be rather simple, we would slaughter them and say good riddance. The right is certainly well armed enough for this, but we don’t just pay lip services to those Christian beliefs, we actually believe them and thus such an option is off the table as it is grave sin that puts one’s soul at risk.
Furthermore like in the Godfather scene above, while these people have celebrated murder these people online have not actually murdered anyone. Consider this exchange prior to the Godfather quote above:
Don Corleone: I understand. You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, you made a good living. The police protected you and there were courts of law. So you didn’t need a friend like me. Now you come and say “Don Corleone, give me justice.” But you don’t ask with respect. You don’t offer friendship. You don’t even think to call me “Godfather.” You come into my house on the day my daughter is to be married and you ask me to do murder – for money.
Bonasera:I ask you for justice.
Don Corleone: That is not justice. Your daughter is alive.
So instead us worrying about what they will do to us, we’re thinking about what we’re doing to them. They are being named and shamed and pressure is being put on the institutions & businesses that employ them. Such people have no place in government, or in law, or in teaching or in medicine. And if you own a private business that serves the entire public you can’t have someone on staff publicly cheering the death of someone for having the same opinions as half the population.
So now hundreds, or even perhaps thousands of people will lose their jobs. I suspect most if not all of them had no issue when Roseanne Barr or Gina Carano lost their jobs over public statements that didn’t involve cheering for political murder and if it was 1968 they would have no problem doing the same to anyone who celebrated the murder of MLK or RFK but they never dreamed their actions might actually have consequences.
If they didn’t get it before they get in now. Some might celebrate themselves as maryters but I suspect most of them may have figured out they’re crossed a line…
…and now they fear us.
It would be very nice if it didn’t reach this point, but one must live in reality. This is where we are, where we go from here is anyone’s guess however there is one other aspect of Christianity that does comes into play here.
Then Peter approaching asked him, “Lord, if my brother sins against me, how often must I forgive him? As many as seven times?”
Jesus answered, “I say to you, not seven times but seventy-seven times.
Matthew 18:21-22
That’s a non-optional doctrine because if we don’t we condemn ourselves as the Our father says: Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.
If these people seek forgiveness we are required to forgive but will they have the humility to ask for it?
Lady Adrasta: Why haven’t you died? Organon:I’m sorry, my lady. It was an oversight.
Doctor Who: The Creature From the Pit 1979
Yesterday I picked up my son from work and he told me about the shooting of Charlie Kirk who was not reported dead by the time I dropped him off and got myself home.
By that time the online left was already dancing a jig and while some places like Jezebel who literally hired witches to curse him two days ago (and whose comments on the article I can no longer access (unexpectedly of course) suddenly added this editors note to their piece:
We Paid Some Etsy Witches to Curse Charlie Kirk
If the far-right misogynist with a bad haircut wants to villainize independent women, Jezebel is more than happy to be the hag of his nightmares.
Editor’s Note: This story was published on September 8. Jezebel condemns the shooting of Charlie Kirk in the strongest possible terms. We do not endorse, encourage, or excuse political violence of any kind.
(BTW If you believe that editors note then there are thousands of Nigerian email scammers dying to meet you)
We’re also seen some of the loudest voices that were screaming Nazi & Fascist a few days ago suddenly deciding that political violence is not a good idea, largely because it hit them that conservatives are well armed and very angry at the moment.
This hasn’t stopped the left online from celebrating loudly with plenty of people cheering about the murder even to this extreme point where a leftist crashed a vigil for Kirk shouting that he deserved it got kicked out and played the victim online
Here’s Jacob Nestegard (@statefarm_206) being pushed out of the vigil tonight after he ran around screaming that Charlie deserved to die, and that he would have shot Charlie himself.
Now for those few people who side with the left out of habit or a joiners who might still have a semblance of a conscience this should bring the obvious Mitchel & Webb question: Are we the Baddies?
But there is a more fundamental and much more obvious question worth asking to those few on the left who are not so brainwashed as to be unable to think.
You have been calling us Nazi’s for decades, you have been calling us Klan members, you talk about how guns cause violence and seek to disarm us. You keep telling how right wing violence is the scourge of the nation.
If this is true why aren’t we killing you right now?
Why aren’t leftist enclaves in Red states running red with blood? How come you aren’t being hanged from every lamppost in Texas or Georgia or Wyoming? How is it that, since as you claim guns cause violence, we haven’t used those guns to execute you with two in the back of the head? Why aren’t cities burning?
Mr. Nestguard is the perfect example. If there was ever a person who put himself in a position to be sized by an angry mob and lynched where he stood, Mr Nestguard interrupting a vigil for a murdered Charlie Kirk screaming that he deserved it and wished he did it himself, that would have been it. Yet all they did is push him out so he could go online and play the hero to his fellow psychopaths.
Yet we are not.
Part of it is all that Christianity that you hate which tells us that we should not murder you.
Part of it is the knowledge that not a single one of you is worth the cost to our souls if we did it.
But most if it is because we aren’t the people you claim we are. That we never were the people you’ve claimed we are because if we were the life expectancy of a CNN or MSNBC or ABC pundit would the shorter than a mayfly.
As I put it the moment I heard Charlie Kirk had died:
The Media left should thank their lucky stars that we aren't what they publicly claim us to be #CharlieKirk
Mind you it’s still possible that you will drive us to the breaking point and the Devil will be doing his best to push us in that direction and once that line is crossed it’s going to be very hard to put that genie back in the bottle.
But before that happens take this moment to ask yourself the obvious question I’ve raised and realize that you’ve been played badly by the media, by the professional left and by those seeking power for their own purposes.
You have a choice to make for yourselves, we on the right will do our best to keep our own souls, I suggest to try to rediscover your own.
“You have done this deed in secret, but I will bring it about in the presence of all Israel, and with the sun looking down.'”
2 Samuel 12:12
One of the arguments I’ve been making over the past few years is that nobody should be surprised at the level of deceit, double dealing and corruption in the Biden Administration for the simple reason that people who steal an election don’t steal it for the sake of altruism. If a group of people are willing to steal a national election to gain power, obviously lying about the health of the president, not helping citizens devastated by natural disasters (remember the train derailment in Palestine preceded North Carolina by years) and using a foreign war and/or the power of the pardon as a personal slush fund is not going to be beyond them.
The thing is eventually stuff like this gets exposed and those who played along for personal or professional reasons are suddenly shocked SHOCKED that such things have been going on.
That is what happened yesterday when the 3rd stopgap measure passed overwhelmingly minus over 900 pages of fluff and graft that had been inserted in to gain democrat favor, but I want to point to a particular piece of this story that has broken out loud and long.
One of the talking points we have heard from the left is how cancer research was being funded in that bill and how the people looking for that research were hoping to get the funding they desperately needed and then Elon Musk tweeted and the kids with cancer were denied. Here is Sam Stein in the Bulwark:
By December 19, the provision had been axed from the bill, after Musk went on an X rampage, tweeting that the bill was a Christmas tree that was antithetical to conservative, small-government ambitions and threatening the primary lawmakers who supported it.
Nancy Goodman, the founder and executive director of Kids v. Cancer, called it “a completely heart-wrenching outcome.” Like Ellyn Miller, her child died of cancer (succumbing at the age of 10 to medulloblastoma). And like Ellyn Miller, Goodman had turned her grief into advocacy. She spent four years working on the Give Kids a Chance Act, which would have allowed FDA authorization of combination cancer treatments.
“We spent a lot of time putting together policies with broad bipartisan support to help kids seriously ill,” she said in an interview with The Bulwark. “How can it be that our society is not thinking about the most vulnerable children and doing everything they can to help them? How can we cut this out in the name of efficiency? How does that make sense?”
Goodman said she began to fear for the worst on Wednesday when she got calls from several staffers relaying that House Republican leadership was worried about the fate of the compromise bill and was trying to whip support for it. Those staffers suggested that she and others put together a letter from doctors and advocates and anyone in the pediatric cancer leadership community urging that it remain in the bill. They got more than 740 people to sign on.
Mr. Stein’s article was long and detailed but it did manage to leave out one rather significant fact.
It was that a stand alone bill for this funding had in fact ALREADY passed the House of Representatives in MARCH of this year and was sitting in the senate.
Why are you leaving out the fact that it passed as a stand alone bill last March but was never brought up for a vote in nine months in Chuck Schumer’s Senate?
Maybe it’s just me but I think that might be a significant part of the story.
And why didn’t these “cancer research advocates” know that their bill had passed the House ages ago and was now languishing in the Democratic Senate so that it could be used as a hostage against Republicans?
And why didn’t journalist Sam Stein know that, or choose to share it with his readers?
Reynolds suggested the answer was that he is an MSNBC contributor and writes for the Bulwark
Stein having been caught with a huge lie of omission then pivoted, blaming Rand Paul for this bill not being passed as he refused to allow unanimous consent to pass without making sure that the funding was not duplicating itself, that is, was not already funded by a different department, which is something that makes sense when you have a gigantic deficit.
But this as well has problems three to be percise:
The bill does not have to come up by unanimous consent, it can be brought to a vote under regular order.
Chuck Schumer and the Democrat Senate never made this bill a priority nor complained to the press about the Paul hold in 9 months
The Biden administration never once pushed for the passage of that bill.
Maybe it’s just me but given that the GOP was poised to take the senate in an election year and Donald Trump was on the ballot, an issue like “Senior GOP senator blocks bill for child cancer funding” might have been a strong issue. Kamala could have mentioned it in speeches, Trump and Vance could have been asked about it during debates and it could have been used in Senate races saying: “This is what happens when the GOP has power.”
Now you might think that any one of these things, particularly the 3rd would have been a no-brainer but apparently an issue that could be used to push hundreds of pages of graft and corruption was more important than using the power well you’d think wrong.
So alas for the left, this entire narrative fell on its face, except of course with those who remain in the bubble and refuse to leave it, but with ordinary Americans, the face of the press and the left was once again exposed for the people they were.
Didn’t surprise me of course, but this is the type of thing that people who usually don’t pay attention will notice.
Closing thought: With the exposing of the duplicity of the Biden Administration, the Democrat Senate and the Press on this issue the Gabriella Miller Kids First Research Act was no longer a useful tool to push forward 1300+ pages of the left’s graft. In fact every day that it remained unpassed by the Senate made it a visible liability for the Democrat left, the Biden Administration and the Media Narrative.
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