It’s a beautiful autumn, with the sun out and the economy getting better and relative peace and quiet in the country, and then you realize that a substantial number of the people we share this country with want to see us dead. No one wants to have that realization, and a lot of people will try to deny it. After all, it’s easier to deny unpleasant truths than to face them forthrightly. But we need to face this one forthrightly. We need to look at exactly what’s happening, confront it, and defeat it. Because if we don’t defeat it, they’re going to defeat us, and then they’re going to murder us. How do I know this? Well, there’s a thing called history that used to be taught in schools, but you can find out all about it through the magic of the Interwebs if you have any doubts about what I’m saying.
And you shouldn’t have any doubts about what I’m saying because it’s manifestly true. There are a lot of people who want us dead. They are just currently incapable of doing it. We need to keep things that way.
September 10 was the first anniversary of when some leftist pervert, likely with the foreknowledge of a bunch of his fellow leftist perverts, murdered Charlie Kirk for the crime of speaking freely about things they didn’t want said. And it wasn’t just any murder. It was a large-caliber round that blew apart his neck. The reaction of a normal human being to this is shock, disgust, and a desire for justice. That’s what made the reaction of so many seemingly normal people, and plenty of freaks, too, so disturbing.
They celebrated it. They were happy about it. They were glad he was shot to death while his family watched. And they want more of it. They want it to happen to you.
Now, most of them haven’t said that openly just yet — the part about wanting to kill you. Some certainly have. There’s always some college professor out there who wants to exterminate the white race or kill the kulaks or whatever. But there’s no reason to believe the other celebrants don’t share that view. It’s reasonable to assume that if you approve of something, you want more of it, and what was particularly troubling was how normal so many of the people celebrating this slaughter appeared.
Yeah, there were the fatties, the commies, the perverts, the rainbow hairs, the furries, but also relatively normal-appearing people like the college student daughters of major executives, or feminine male-identifying types posting their best wishes for the “Kirkiversary.” Some of them even went out in public, like this one who actually baked a Kirk-killing cake. This girl, an undistinguished mid of the type who is human wallpaper in all our lives, took the time to assemble ingredients, mix them, bake them, decorate the resulting cake, and then took it out in public and allowed herself to be photographed, commemorating the murder of someone who thinks as you and I do. Oh, she said she was sorry after she was caught, and probably after Daddy told her he was cutting off all her money if she didn’t unscrew things before the blowback on the family got too intense. But still, she thought this was OK. And she thought it was OK because she was glad Charlie Kirk is dead, and if she’s glad Charlie Kirk is dead, it’s reasonable to assume she would like you dead, too.
You don’t feel comfortable doing this sort of transgressive thing unless you really believe it. That’s why, when they get caught and apologize, it’s fake. Don’t buy it, like the sissy invertebrates of the University of Utah College Republicans. Good Lord, what’s more useless than a Utah Republican whose name isn’t Mike Lee? Be angry. You have a right to be angry. You have a duty to be angry. So be angry and act accordingly.
Here’s a pro tip – when people tell you, directly or indirectly, that they want you dead, you should believe them. We were told for decades by the psychotic, pagan, Muslim fanatics that they wanted to kill us, and all the smart people responsible for our foreign policy told us, “No, that’s crazy talk; they don’t really mean it.” This was while terrorists around the globe were killing Americans, but even after terrorists came and killed nearly 3,000 Americans here on our soil, you still have people denying the obvious. It’s obvious because the killers say so. They’re not hiding it. In fact, they like rubbing it in our faces and calling us “Islamophobic” when we believe them.
They want us dead. Are you man enough to believe them when they tell you that? Or would you rather believe everything is sunshine and hugs?
When senior Democrat politicians giggle like schoolgirls as the names of Americans butchered by 7th-century desert cultists are read at memorial services, you can safely assume that they would be happy if your name were added to that roster. And given power, they would add it to the roster of the dead. Again, how do I know? Again, history, because history shows that when Muslim fanatics or communists get power, they kill everybody they had been saying they were going to kill all along. They even kill each other. The communists helped Khomeini launch his primitive revolution in Iran, and the first thing he did when he took over was shoot the communists. Sure, even a broken clock is right twice a day, but you get my point.
Our enemies are vicious, and given the opportunity, they will be even more vicious. Right now, they’re only vicious in the manner of cheesy little mean girls. They say nasty things about you on social media. They call you racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, and whatever other -phobic or -ist label somebody just invented — a couple of weeks ago, the socialists got together, and one of the things they started complaining about was how exercise constitutes “fat genocide,” so fatist is apparently a thing now.
But all they can do — for now — is talk. All they can do is try to convince us to submit. Sadly, too many of us comply. For some bizarre reason, a substantial number of Americans allow themselves to be browbeaten into serfdom. A country that was born because we gave the middle finger to people who tried to tell us what to do and tried to take our guns now has a substantial part of the population eager to jump into handmaiden gear at the behest of the local imam and give up any means of protecting ourselves from tyranny. But that last part makes sense, since they are the tyranny that we have our guns as a means of protecting ourselves from.
As with so many things, it really does come down to guns. Guns represent a counterbalance to the governmental monopoly on violence that exists in every single tyranny. The fact that we are armed, and the fact that we are ornery enough to use our freedom steel in the event that the aspiring tyrants so substantially undermine the rights granted to us by our Creator, we have no alternative, is what keeps us free. Now, we’re a long way from that. We still have an election system that mostly functions, and a court system that intermittently functions, but guns in our hands, along with the courage and capacity to use them, are our insurance against a time when the people who care nothing about our freedom except to squash it take real power.
I’ve written extensively in my Kelly Turnbull books and my oral history novel about a second American Civil War on what would happen if America had a constitutional crisis followed by conflict. Civil wars are the least civil of wars. I served in the ruins of one, trying to keep the opposing parties from butchering each other further. Villages of different ethnicities that had existed for centuries a mile or two apart were intent on slaughtering each other. That’s what civil war means. And giggling girls doing TikTok dances about people like us being shot through the neck gin up a level of hatred they have no conception of. They’ve always lived in peace, peace created, imposed, and defended by the very same people they hate. It has never occurred to them that we might hate them back, and when that happens, it’s going to get ugly.
That is why we have to win through the political process. We have to beat these guys at the ballot box and in the culture. It’s all hands on deck to save America, and, collaterally, to save the very same people who would be happy to see us die. Because the alternative is very, very ugly, and it’s an ugliness they fueled with their hate.
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