[Federalist] Charlie and Erika Kirk will never celebrate a five-year wedding anniversary, but their brief marriage is a moving example of why marriage, rooted in faith, is the fount of joys that last beyond our own lifetimes and can change the world.
The clearest and sweetest way for marriage to change the world comes from raising children, and anticipating grandchildren and descendants through generations who will blaze trails beyond our imagination. The Kirks were blessed with two children, and it is evident they delighted in parenting.
But even in marriages where children don’t come, mutual devotion enriches both spouses’ lives because it multiplies what is possible. For Charlie, it is the promise of a devoted wife who will build on his work and keep it thriving.
"Everything that Turning Point USA built through Charlie’s vision and hard work, we will make ten times greater through the power of his memory," Erika said Sunday at her husband’s memorial service. "Chapters will grow; thousands of new ones will be created. TPUSA Faith will add thousands of new pastors and congregations."
She could go do something different. But when something is important to your husband or wife, it should be important to you, too, and to Charlie, sharing the Gospel of Christ with young men was important.
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Not pushing so much as supporting his choices and his work, Skidmark. I’ve seen men pushed beyond their ability to fulfill the wife’s ambition — neither was made happy by it.
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^#3 @TW: I have been reading the book "In the Beginning: Crucial Lessons for Our World from the First Three Chapters of Genesis" by Dr. Monica Migliorino Miller. Perhaps you would find it interesting. Here's a quote of the author in an interview about the book (link)
One of the most fun things I did in writing this book, was to give the true meaning of what it means for God to have created that woman. We have the translations from the original Hebrew. For example, a lot of times it’ll be, “I will create the helpmate.” In the Elizabethan English, the help meet or the suitable partner. The helper fit for him. We’re all over the map in terms of what word. What’s the original Hebrew word? The ezer, okay? I will create the ezer, E-Z-E-R. Okay, in Semitic languages, the ezer is a savior figure. Somebody who rescues somebody who’s in serious trouble, okay? For example, if you were in a car wreck on the expressway and the Good Samaritan comes along, yeah, you would call that person somebody who came to help me.
Okay, but what’s the deeper context of the person who stopped and helped you in the car wreck? Somebody who probably saved your life. Called 911, got you out of a burning wreck, or whatever. That’s what the woman is doing for Adam. She is rescuing him, saving him from the problem of his original isolation. Then you have this fantastic eruption of, basically, the first human speech. The first human speech is about unity and communion between persons. This one at last, it’s a celebration of the other. This one at last is bone of my bone, in flesh of my flesh. Then we get the ultimate meaning of what it means to be human. For this reason, a man shall leave his father and his mother and cling to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh. I argue in this book, and it goes to the whole issue of contraception and abortion as well, the woman is the center of human communion.
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Interesting, Melancholic. The rabbis argue (because rabbis always argue — that’s how they work together to figure things out over the millennia) that mitzvahs, that is mandatory good deeds, of prayer in synagogue and study are required of men but not of women because women are intrinsically holier, so for them such things are optional. Granted, I understand there also is a prayer for men thanking God they were not born female, but given that I regularly am grateful to not be male, that seems more parochial than s3xist.
[JustTheNews] The FBI's proposed domestic-terrorism category, "Transgender Ideology-Inspired Violence and Extremism," would build on frameworks for radical Islam, antisemitism, Oversight Project says. Transgender motivation in examples is muddled.
Eight years ago, white men marched through the University of Virginia carrying torches and chanting "Jews will not replace us,"
…that one’s a lie. It was actually “You will not replace us.” Referring to Jews made no sense whatsoever in context. But the Democrats were looking for something to tar the marchers with...
implying the planned removal of a nearby Robert E. Lee statue signaled a threat to their lives that justified preemptive force.
In the wake of seven years of violence allegedly motivated by transgender ideology and similar "eliminationist rhetoric," conservative groups are pushing the FBI to create a new category of "domestic violent extremists" who practice the "potentially unlawful use or threat of force or violence, including incitement to unlawful violence."
The Heritage Foundation and its spun-off Oversight Project explained the proposed "Transgender Ideology-Inspired Violence and Extremism" category in a public, four-page memo and a more contextual eight-page memo shared exclusively with Just the News.
They are also circulating a petition to convince the FBI to create the new tracking category, which Oversight Project President Mike Howell told Just the News can be implemented immediately by the FBI from its blueprint, without congressional action.
He emphasized TIVE is "not a designation of transgenders per se," and that the four-pager specifies the category does not encompass people who "identify as transgender, or support LGBT causes or transgenderism" and simply use "offensive and hateful speech," as long as it remains nonviolent and distinct from First Amendment exceptions.
But Howell confirmed that common rhetoric in transgender ideology, especially the conflation of words with violence and refusal to recognize a person as the opposite sex as life-threatening, is a core feature of the TIVE designation, which he compared to Islamic terrorist expression that portrays peaceful opposition as a "life-or-death struggle."
If a jihadi is holding a sign that reads "they're going to blow us up" while sitting in front of opponents, "right after 'they're going to blow us up' is the justification" for preemptive force against opponents, Howell said, agreeing with Just the News that the Unite the Right refrain "Jews will not replace us" fits that framework too.
Transgender and Islamic terrorist ideology share some elements, he said: "There's recruitment, there's high-minded academic cover, there's money and unfortunately there's violence."
His group shared several posts by or about transgender Alejandra Caraballo in response to the Harvard law school instructor's BlueSky post claiming the TIVE proposal shows "they want us all eliminated" and that it would "label all trans people as domestic terrorists" based on "completely made-up instances of terrorism" and statistics.
"This is an example of an element of TIVE rhetoric," The Oversight Project said. "The notion that opposing Transgender Ideology is a form of violence ('eradication' here) leads people to justify violence," such as Caraballo calling on people to "accost" Supreme Court justices who voted to overturn Roe v. Wade after the attempted assassination of Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
Howell told Just the News that Caraballo fits the "first half of the definition" of TIVE by embracing "eliminationism" and giving people with serious mental health issues the idea that "you're trying to kill us, therefore violence is justified."
Asked whether parents of gender-confused children could be swept up in a TIVE designation, Howell said those who promote the TIVE worldview and push the eliminationist message on troubled youth are "adding fuel to the fire." The FBI also tracks extreme racism, and a parent who ran a children's camp that uses racial-eliminationist rhetoric would be targeted, he said.
The Supreme Court's refusal to create a transgender protected class, on the basis that the identity is so amorphous, is not a hurdle for a TIVE designation, Howell said.
Transgender ideology is a "blob of terminological confusion" composed of a "super blob of disaffected people," but so is radical Islam, which is composed of many sects at odds with each other as well as infidels, he said. "It's time to get the ball rolling."
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Well, of all my knowledge of antisemitic groups, trannies weren't on my radar.
Go figure.
Oh right, I forgot the Nazi tiki torch parade. Yes, the great replacement conspiracy theory specifically targets Jews. Surprise, Nazis are antisemites. Then one of them ran over a lady with a car and the media went to town on the Pepe the Frogalt-right and broke them up. The people are still around but they're not an organized threat like they once were. The ropes that bound their bundle of sticks together were cut and now individuals are easily snapped in half.
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The Trans violence issue is not very helpful to Democrats. Calling us bigots for noticing is becoming less and less effective with each funeral of a school kid.
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James A. Fields Jr., 28, of Maumee, Ohio, serving life in prison for his actions that day— also in the Rantburg archives as James Alex Fields, Jr. — had a long list of mental illness diagnoses that ended with schizophrenia long before he drove into that crowd. Link So his positions on the issues of the day ought to be considered nothing more than an expression of his insanity rather than reasoned convictions about anything, as well as his decision to accelerate into the crowd.
The woman he killed, Heather Heyer of Virginia, apparently died of a heart attack just before the car hit her group, not of being hit by his Dodge Charger. Her Wikipedia page makes her sound like a leftwing activist, which may make her a member of the Antifa militia group Redneck Revolt/John Brown Gun Club that went armed to that protest pretending to be white supremacists to cause trouble.
It’s interesting, Jairong, how you alternate between deep understanding and abysmal ignorance. In case you were wondering, this is one of your abysmal ignorance situations.
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Antisemitism is an awful belief/movement, cheapened by our Scourge's efforts to tie it to everything, including chlamydia and EV subsidies. Anything left out is White Supremacists
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[ZeroHedge] In the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk assassination as well as the confirmation that alleged killer Tyler Robinson is a far-left ideologue and gay man living with a transgender partner, the public's attention has once again turned to the issue of Antifa, an activist network that shares many similar political beliefs with the shooter.
Federal authorities are currently investigating the Discord sever groups used by Robinson in the lead up to the attack to find any potential co-conspirators. Discord has been identified as a common forum used by Antifa for organizing members for specific events while pretending as if their protests are random and "grassroots".
In the meantime, the corporate media is once again running interference for Antifa, claiming that the group is nothing more than a gaggle of disconnected people without no affiliation other than they "agree to oppose fascists".
Of course, simply declaring yourself the "good guys" does not necessarily make it so.
Indeed.
The Antifa of pre-war and post-war Europe used a similar tactic, claiming that they were a loose collection of concerned citizens seeking to fight fascism and participate in civil discourse. In reality, they were being directly funded by the Soviet Union and their ultimate goal was the downfall of the western world to make way for a communist "Utopia".
One expert on Antifa, Andy Ngo, says that the claim that Antifa is nothing more than a disorganized protest ideal is a lie. He notes that the decentralized cell structure of Antifa is similar to structures used by Islamic terror groups.
Ngo is deeply acquainted with the operations of Antifa; he has tracked hundreds of violent incidents involving member of the group over the years. He was also attacked and nearly killed by a mob of Antifa activists in Portland, Oregon after they recognized him in the street.
Portland authorities failed to arrest and prosecute the attackers despite some of them being identified on video footage. In a subsequent civil trial, Antifa intimidated the jury into returning a verdict which favored the assailants.
Andy Ngo and many other investigators into Antifa activities note that the group enjoys a number of protections, including legal protections and funding for operations. Financial aid comes from crowdfunding pages, but also from NGOs and even government agencies feeding cash into adjacent activism groups.
This helps to explain why Antifa protesters often have the same signs, the same tents, the same riot shields, access to safe houses, etc. Many activists travel from outside of the locations that they protest in, which means funding for gas, food, lodging, etc. Considering the average full-time protester isn't able to maintain a job to pay for these excursions, the money has to come from somewhere. NGOs and state government funds are the primary sources.
Antifa and related leftist groups exploit various civil and political conflicts, hijack these causes and then use them as a means to further their own goals. Recent examples include the mass deportation debate and the protests over Gaza. It's important to understand that leftist militants do not necessarily care about immigrants or Palestinians, they only see their "plight" as a useful tool for radicalizing activists into using violent tactics.
The problems of the world become the justifications for Antifa terror, melding gay, trans, migrant and Islamic grievances under a single communist umbrella.
The end game, though, is always the same. Burn the west to the ground. Burn free markets to the ground. Destroy as many conservatives and nationalists as possible in the process until there is no one left to oppose them.
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Remember how the Black Bloc folks were racking up sky miles during the Summer of Love. They need to be blocked from flying and have their passports pulled while we sort out whose going to jail.
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The Antifa of pre-war
Quite noisy until their paymasters found (temporary) common cause with the fascists; and then they were thrown to the wolves.
I would say to today's Antifa, "Thus endeth today's lesson - study and profit thereby," but these feral children have no sense of history. Their world did not exist before them and they somehow believe it will last eternally after they're gone.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
