From Steve’s Substack – 9-10-2025
You already know what happened. An unknown assailant assassinated Charlie Kirk in Utah. The original “suspect” was not the shooter, and as Ian and Rita remind us over at the Bugscuffle Gazette,
72-Hour Rule, folks. Nothing that comes out in the first 48 to 72 hours should be taken at face value. Let the dust settle, allow the fog to clear, and wait for things to be checked and cross-checked, eh?
True. But there are things you can do now.
I never met Charlie in Person, but I did meet Andrew Breitbart. I wouldn’t call him a friend, but we did talk at events, and I have friends who consider him a friend. When his heart failed, the biological one, not the rhetorical one, everyone was reminded to #BeBreitbart.
I had been in the right-wing blogging business for a while before I knew Andrew, so that was easy. We were already there. And I think a lot of what has evolved since his passing is a result of ordinary people who were not there yet, getting there.
COVID did that—the Left’s response to the George Floyd overdose death in police custody, did too. Andrew Crooks’ shooting at President Trump. Those are a few of many recent examples, but as Konstantin Kisin observed today,
I hope I’m wrong. But tonight feels like some sort of invisible line has been crossed that we didn’t even know was there.
The last time I felt like this was 9/11 when it was clear, without knowing the how and the what, that the world was about to change forever. Like the rules of the game had been permanently altered and there was simply no going to back to the innocent, peaceful past.
This feels different and not just because we can watch the bullet hit Charlie in his neck and know he’s dead in that moment, and wonder if he knew it too.
He died for having the wrong opinion.
Some on the left will rejoice and dance, and if they do it on social media, you’d best capture it before the high ends. Before they realize it is not politically expedient to revel in the assassination of anyone, especially a 31-year-old man who had a wife and young children and whose only crime was being more intellectually agile than most of the people who disagreed with him.
The worst of them will say he deserved it. Did he? Did Iryna Zarutska deserve it because she was white and not black? Do children raped by illegal aliens deserve it? Did the children at Mass in Minneapolis deserve it? Did the border patrol agent in Vermont deserve it? Because if that’s the game, then please take the deepest breath possible…deeper, and 72 hours is not long enough.
Konstain is right. I felt it the first time I saw blood explode from Charlie’s neck, but it doesn’t have to be violence in return. I don’t think Charlie would want that. He’d like us to continue his work. Turn one Charlie Kirk into thousands.
Free speech is not punishable by assassination, but if that’s what the Left’s position is they should pay politically for it.
So, what next?
If you don’t know what to do or how to feel, #BeCharlieKirk. Be fearless, relentless, but optimistic. Take your mission to places where it isn’t as likely to be welcome. Spread the word of individual rights, the value of life, liberty, and human dignity. Teach and live by our founding principles.
Take up the reins, grab the banner, learn the talk, and walk it. Combat liberal nonsense with common sense. Some of us are already there, but we’d love the company and your help.
Progressivism is a violent, intolerant ideology. It creates serious problems that harm people and then robs others of their hard-earned wages based on the notion that only the government can fix it. If you object or complain, they suppress your speech, cancel you, sue you into poverty, incarcerate you, or rile up their base to commit violence against you.
The urge to respond in kind is strong, but don’t. Do something worse. Deprive them of relevance. Vote them into obscurity. Do the one thing they can’t stand more than anything else.
Win, even in death. Win.
#BeCharlieKirk
