I’m not dead.
I have just been transfixed by the news cycle on X since the death of Iryna Zarutska went viral and which was followed by the even more viral assassination of Charlie Kirk on Wednesday. It is hardly the first time that I have been unable to focus and write about a major breaking news story.
My mother-in-law was also down here visiting us and the kids last week. The fact that Charlie Kirk was gruesomely murdered in front of his wife and children and the world for debating liberal college students was deeply unsettling. I watched his grieving widow Erika address the nation and explain that she told their daughter that “daddy was on a work trip with Jesus.” It left me wondering whether engaging with these insane people on the internet and risking becoming a target of a lunatic was worth it. Is owning the libs worth never getting to see your children grow up or your grandchildren?
I felt like I needed to “touch grass.” I wanted to spend more time with my family and less on politics. I certainly wasn’t in any rush to chime in and state what should be obvious to everyone.
Charlie Kirk was the most mainstream conservative in America and he was murdered for being a “fascist.” The ghouls who celebrated his death and who took pleasure in destroying his family consider all of us “fascists.” The lunatic who did this will doubtlessly inspire other copycat killers. Virtually everyone who reads and comments on this website is much further to the Right of Charlie Kirk.
It is amazing that something like this didn’t happen years ago. It got me thinking what Auburn or Pikeville or Charlottesville or Gainesville had been like in 2017 if Antifa had brought guns to those Alt-Right events and had attempted to shoot and kill one of the speakers. In those days, these people were content to “punch Nazis” which was transgressive at the time, but eight years later and in the wake of Luigi what we are seeing is that assassination culture has been layered on top on Wokeism. They still believe that “speech is violence,” but now believe that justifies them taking a shot from 150 yards away.
In Utah, I think one era ended and another began with Charlie Kirk’s assassination. These people have turned to violence. The age of triggering and owning the libs is over. Debates are over. I’m not sure when exactly it began, but this cultural moment peaked in 2016/2017 and it has ended in 2025. Force will now be used to crush the Left in a government crackdown like in the late 1960s and 1970s.
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