Weathered Out and Wistful

Charlie Kirk, leading by example on standing for the Kingdom...

I revisited this video today.

We got weathered out after five hours or so on the Wind Farm. So I ran some errands, swinging by Academy Sports to grab some ammo for a tactical shotgun class I got coming up this weekend, and a little folding stool for sit down time in between slingin’ lead. Waco is a neat little town, and being away from Texas for years, i’d forgotten just what a great sporting good chain Academy can be.

After, as I usually do, I put YouTube on in the background while I cleaned the motel room up, swung some Russian Iron, and cooked some food. I like the Jubilee Media “Surrounded” series. If you’re not familiar, one person of a given political position sits at a table “surrounded” by twenty folks on the opposite side of the fence. I cued up two, both were Conservatives I like in a room full of “Woke” college kids. I LOVE me some Jordan Peterson, but first up was Charlie Kirk. Not a day goes by that I don’t lament what we lost.

What struck me that I hadn't noticed before wasn't Charlie's patience, he was legendary for that. I can only remember him losing his cool twice. Once with a group of White Nationalist kids trying to interrupt a speaking event, and once when Cenk Uygur got loud at a different event. I remember that one because he called Cenk out by name, and after his death, the Left presented it as him calling someone a “CHINK” to paint him as a racist.

It was that universally, with the notable exception of Mason, these kids were as ignorant and misinformed as they were smug, dismissive, hostile...and overall just shi*tty PEOPLE.

Parker did his usual "shift topics every two seconds im smarter than you" bit, Naima got CLOWNED on 13 do 50, but they all sat around high-fiving each other like they had actually made points. Lacking an even BASIC understanding of history or logic, the LOT of them think emotional arguments, zingers, and talking louder means you win the debate.

But MAREN. MAREN was the GEM. The frosting on the hate cake. Being calmly and rationally fronted out on the actual percentages of abortions being premised on rape, incest, or threat to the mother’s health (about three percent for ALL combined, by the way), she went straight for the throat, appealing to emotion (the default setting for women AND Leftists), she postulated a scenario where Charlie’s daughter was raped and became pregnant.

Living in a world, as they do, where FEELINGS are everything, principles and a moral compass be DAMNED, Maren though she had a slam-dunk.

Now, because Charlie was a man of principle, feel about it however you will, he responded that he would encourage his daughter to carry the child to term. Apparently, Maren hadn’t considered that one’s moral principles might override an appeal to emotion. She grew considerably flustered as Charlie attempted to explain his moral framework, talking over his every word, “NO, I’M SPEAKING” seven times in a row, even bringing up the one, ONE instance of a FIVE YEAR OLD being pregnant, and finally, just as her time ran out, exclaimed…

”I HOPE YOUR DAUGHTER LIVES A VERY HAPPY LIFE AND GETS AWAY FROM YOU”.

Here’s where Charlie showed who he really was. And, by extension, who we…and ME in particular, need to strive to be. The best way for a Christian to testify to his faith is to lead by EXAMPLE. Now, put yourself in that position, as I did, as a thought exercise. How do you suppose you would have reacted?

Would you have dragged her through the Daddy Issues mud? Spewed a few slurs? Would you have BARTed on her and gone surgical, slicing verbally to the bone on every weakness, every vulnerability her stammering had just exposed, all the while using the word F*** as punctuation? Would you have given in to your pride? Your wrath? One could certainly be forgiven for same in such a moment…

Not Charlie. He merely said “okay…that was extremely nasty, we’ll talk again”, and then proceeded to try to understand her belief system, even as she continued to pile on the hostility. She found herself in front of him at the table several more times, and he acted as if the previous exchange had never even happened.

These Jubilee kids have the audiences that they do for a reason: They are generally speaking, ignorant, misinformed (often willfully), and SMUG and CONDESCENDING in spite of the previous two facts. Their audiences, tens of thousands per, are likely all of the above to a far worse degree, if they see people like Naima and Parker as role models to be emulated or, GOD FORBID, as superior intellects whose ‘sage’ advice, political opinions, or worldview are to be considered. In short…we live in a world SURROUNDED by these horrible, SHITTY human beings.

And every single week we will inevitably be put into a position, either in public or on social media, where we have to suffer the drivel that spews from their misinformed maw. We will be challenged. We will be tested. And sooner or later, we will have a Maren say something horrible. Remember, as Charlie did in that moment, that you are on display. And so is your FAITH. Respond in a way, optimally, that will leave any fence-sitting Grazer spectator knowing two things, ONE, that you are not going to give them the reins of your emotions by feeding into the vileness of THEIR failings and inadequacies and their attendant coping mechanisms, but more importantly TWO…that you are NOT to be trifled with. In short, cut it loose or shut it down, HARD.

Engaging with these damaged people is a thing to be avoided, and as fruitless an endeavor as exists in this damaged world that they (and Screwtape, the Master they don’t even know they serve) have delivered us into. But remember that you are always on stage. And strive to live in a way that an observer, seeing that, will think “Okay…so THAT is how a Christian behaves in situation X. I can get behind that”. Don’t beat yourself up. I FAIL more often than i’d like to admit. But pray on it. And stay the course.

In the final analysis…people will be talking about Charlie Kirk DECADES from now. Maren and Parker? Hell, I had to pause the video to write this ‘cuz I had already forgotten their names. Which one would you rather be?|

God Bless, Deus Vult, and AMEN.

-The Rev