The story we can’t escape is the murder of Charlie Kirk.  I didn’t know Charlie,  but I knew about Turning Point USA.  It’s an organization that mobilized young voters by telling them something they had never heard before – the truth.  Shocking!

Charlie was murdered last week by a young man who decided that it was justified to kill him, or for that matter anybody else, who held and expressed opinions that he did not share.  In the aftermath of the killing, we’ve been subjected to the same tired story, that political violence resulting in the murder of a man who did no one any harm is to be expected because – “Both sides do it.”

The “both sides do it excuse, is what I’ve been calling liberal answer number two.  When you tell a liberal, a progressive, or whatever they’re calling themselves nowadays a fact, you always get one of two answers.  Answer number one is, ‘That’s not true,” even though it is true, or answer number two, “Both sides do it.”

Even were that true, it wouldn’t justify wanton murder.  Only it isn’t true.  Currently, the Left is spinning the yarn that 76% of violent political acts are being perpetrated by “right wing extremists.”  To these imbeciles I say, “Please give me the names of the last three right wing extremists who committed politically motivated murder.”  If you don’t have the names, then tell me where it happened.  They can’t, because it’s a fantasy, but one to which all dedicated leftists subscribe.

How long have I been saying on these pages that leftists all suffer from the same mental disorder, which I call “delusions of rectitude?”  Having convinced themselves that they’re always right, it’s just a short step to concluding that anyone who disagrees with them is wrong, and is a dangerous extremist who must be killed.

That perverted rationale was played out last week, and Charlie Kirk was the person who paid with his life.  And after he was killed, we were treated to the same tired excuses.  The leftist lap dog media told us Kirk was “divisive.”  That means, Charlie didn’t agree with them.  Remember the leftist psychosis.  We’re right, so if you disagree, you’re divisive.  Never forget that these twisted bastards really believe they’re in the mainstream, so if you dissent, it’s you who are out of step.

Of course, the reality is that, if they were right, then Donald Trump never would have been reelected,  The Democrats think it’s perfectly acceptable to foment  violence by demonizing Republicans as fascists, or Nazis.  They’ve said that Republicans, and anyone who dares to support them are deplorables, who are existential threats to democracy.  They’ve called Trump Hitler, said he should be targeted, and Biden said he should be put in a bullseye.

When they tried to kill Trump twice, they said it wasn’t their fault.  To the Left, Charlie Kirk was divisive because he dared to challenge young people to think for themselves.  He went onto college campuses, those places that are supposed to be venues for the open exchange of divergent ideas and opinions, and dared to suggest that what the young people were being fed was propaganda, rather than the truth.

To add insult to injury, Charlie never yelled, preached or put down the kids.  He went with a smile, with an open mind, and with a tent emblazoned with the logo, “Prove Me Wrong.”  He invited those who disagreed with him to step up and have a conversation.  In so doing, Charlie committed three capitol crimes so far as leftists are concerned.

He supported free speech, especially speech that was uncomfortable or controversial, the very speech that the First Amendment was designed to protect.  Democrats oppose free speech.  They’re the people who chase conservatives off campus to silence them.  They’re the people who weaponized social media to gag and deplatform conservative voices.  And they’re the people who killed Charlie Kirk.

Kirk’s second offense was to advocate for the values of faith and family.  He invited young people to embrace religion, to get married, and to have families.  Leftists are opposed to religion, and the most dedicated left wing ideologues oppose traditional families.

But Kirk’s most egregious offense was to break the Democrat stranglehold on young voters.  Largely through the efforts of Turning Point USA, young men made about a 30 point turn from Democrat to Republican between 2020 and 2024.  This was unforgivable.  Kirk was working the Democrats’ side of the street, and beating them at their own game.  They had to  do something to stop him.  They did.

A recent poll found that 34% of self-described liberals think violence is always or usually acceptable to get what you want.  Another 42% found violence to be sometimes acceptable.  Is it any wonder leftist violence is out of control?

Democrats stirred the pot with their lies for years.  The leftist drumbeat went on 24 hours a day, seven days a week.  Trump is Hitler.  Democracy is over.  Elections will be cancelled.  Your rights will be stolen.  Trump and his supporters must be targeted.  And their mind-numbed followers, victims of years of educational malpractice, isolated by the Covid lock downs, spending hours on violent video games and communicating solely online, without face to face human contact, ate up their crap.

Simply put, the Left created thousands of mindless, soulless, amoral monsters and turned them loose.  And now Charlie Kirk is dead.  His wife lost her husband.  His children lost their father.  Yet the Democrats still don’t get it.  It’s still not their fault.  Nancy Pelosi said, “People don’t have any intention of saying something that’s going to lead to something dangerous,”  “But we cannot take responsibility for the minds that are out there and how they hear it.”  Bullshit.  When you’re the one who warped those minds, you are responsible.

Democrats don’t think so.  They couldn’t even sit still for a moment of silence or a prayer on the floor of the House of Representatives.  When it was requested, Democrats shouted “No!”  The detestable Chuck Schumer warned, “This is not the time to point fingers.”  That’s true, especially since all the fingers are pointing at Chuck and the rest of his perverted party.

Then Illinois Governor Fatass Pritzker weighed in.  “We saw the shootings, the killings in Minnesota.  We’ve seen other political violence occur in other states, and I would just say it’s got to stop.” (Is that like a Joe Biden, “Don’t?)  “And I think there are people who are fomenting it in this country.” (You figured that out, huh?)  Pritzker knew just who to blame.  “I think the president’s rhetoric often foments it.  We’ve seen the January 6th rioters, who clearly, have tripped a new era of political violence.”  Sure, blame the victim.  He equates trespassing with murder.  A new era of violence?  No mention of the pre-January 6 BLM and Antifa riots that burned and looted cities, including Chicago, killed scores of people and injured thousands of police officers.

The useless media picked up the theme.  MSNBC spokes-idiot Katy Tur worried, “You can imagine the [Trump] administration using this as a justification for something.”  Yeah, like maybe law enforcement and public safety.  That would be a shame, huh Katy?

Since fired, MSNBC ‘s Matthew Dowd said, “he’s [Kirk] been one of the most divisive, especially divisive younger figures, in this, who is constantly sort of pushing this sort of hate speech, or sort of aimed at certain groups.”  “And I always go back to hateful thoughts, lead to hateful words, which then lead to hateful actions, and I think that’s the environment that we’re in.” “People just… you can’t stop with these sort of awful thoughts you have, and then saying these awful words, and then not expect awful actions to take place.”

What an ass.  “Hate speech” is any speech a leftist hates.  Dowd’s message was plain – Charlie Kirk deserved what he got.  Representative Anna Paulina Luna called the Democrats out. “Y’all caused this!”  “I am done with the rhetoric this rotten House and corrupt media has caused. EVERY DAMN ONE OF YOU WHO CALLED US FASCISTS DID THIS!”  That’s telling them Anna, but it will do no good.

Prayer vigils and memorials to Charlie were held all over American and all over the world.  Most of the participants were young people who embraced Charlie’s message.  Leftists desecrated memorials to Charlie Kirk, and disrupted prayer vigils with violence.  In person and online, leftist ghouls reveled in Kirk’s murder, some chanting and dancing in the streets.  And therein lies the difference between the Left and decent people.  They celebrated Charlie’s death.  We celebrate his life.

There are signs of hope.  Scores of the most repugnant celebrators of Kirk’s death have been fired by their employers, signalling that responsible businesses may have some common decency, or at least, are no longer cowed by the Woke speech police.

Meanwhile, the work of Turning Point USA will continue.  The murder of Charlie Kirk isn’t the end, it’s the beginning.  Those who thought killing Charlie would kill his movement are sadly mistaken.  Much as Admiral Yamamoto warned after Pearl Harbor, they have awakened a sleeping giant and filled him with a terrible resolve.

The gloves are off.  We’re no longer giving Democrats the benefit of the doubt.  We’re no longer presuming that they have good intentions.  They have proven otherwise.  We’re no longer going to hold our tongues to spare the feelings of people who consider assault, murder and firebombings appropriate political behaviors.  The next time one of them tries to spread his, or more likely her, bullshit, challenge him, civilly but strongly, and on the spot.  Be “divisive.” Their only tactic is to tell a lie often enough that it will be believed.  The only antidote for that poison is the truth.  Evil can triumph only if good people do nothing.

I have to wrap this up.  It’s already the longest Frank on Friday I’ve ever done, but the events of the last week really pissed me off.  The only way to convince Democrats to stop the violence by their supporters is to punish them at the ballot box.  Even if the elected Democrats won’t accept it, Charlie Kirk’s murder has further damaged the Democrat brand.  Take a page from Obama Butt Boy Eric Holder.  “When they go low, we kick them.”  Now is the perfect time for a few swift kicks in Leftist asses.  Figuratively, of course.

And to those who believe killing Charlie Kirk will benefit the Left,  I commend to you the words of Schmuck Schumer, “You have released the whirlwind, and you will pay the price.  You won’t know what hit you.”