SO MUCH THIS:  One of the reasons why Marxists make such poor managers is that if they are presented with a situation which cannot be addressed by Party doctrine, they are largely indecisive. 

IT’S ITS OWN KIND OF HELL:  Pandora’s Box. The aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s assassination.

THEY CAN’T. SO IT’S GOING TO GET UGLY:  Meditations on ghouls. Might want to get them under control.

IF YOU ARE NEAR YOU MIGHT WANT TO HELP THESE PEOPLE:  California Coffee Shop’s Charlie Kirk Support, Fundraiser Sparks Backlash.

WE NEED ANSWERS:  I still haven’t read a single investigative journalism deep-dive on why every country in the Anglosphere, Eastern Europe, and Japan all simultaneously pulled the “More Immigration” lever so hard it apparently snapped off right around late 2021.

And this is for: The Xless.

NO. HE DIDN’T. HE WAS A SENATOR:  Joe McCarthy Had Nothing To Do With the House Unamerican Activities Committee.

WE’LL NEED COOL HEADS AND A LOT OF LUCK TO BRUSH THROUGH THIS:  Avoid Making Irrevocable Decisions.

YES, I’VE BEEN PLAYING WITH THE BOTS AGAIN. I HAVE NO IDEA WHY THIS SINGER CAME OUT LOOKING LIKE CHARLIE MARTIN!  Skip Hayden’s No Man’s Land.

But I’m cool with it.

FA’D, FO’D.

BREAKING – Arkansas leftist Kerri Rollo, who destroyed a Charlie Kirk memorial in front of the Bentonville courthouse, has not only lost her job but has also been evicted from her home and reduced to begging online for money, which no one is giving her. pic.twitter.com/OmDyHYzDn6

— Right Angle News Network (@Rightanglenews) September 17, 2025

ANALYSIS: TRUE.

Jimmy Kimmel isn't funny

— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) October 6, 2017

OPEN THREAD: Let not your hearts be troubled.

WELL, THAT’S KIND OF COOL: Doomed ‘cannibal’ star could soon explode in a supernova so bright it would be visible during the day.

THE 21st CENTURY IS NOT TURNING OUT AS I HAD HOPED: In love with a Luigi Mangione chatbot.

In this short clip, an unnamed woman proudly declares both her infatuation with – and ability to create an artificial construction of – Luigi Mangione outside of a Manhattan courthouse, where he has recently been absolved of various terrorism-related charges. Wearing an “I ♡ Italian Boys” T-shirt with an illustration of his face, the woman lists the many reasons why an AI chatbot, presumably trained on Luigi Mangione-related trivia, offers her the perfect romantic companionship. She gets to talk to him every day, she says, as a best friend and partner with whom she can plan a future and name their children. And, the woman adds, although she is aware that this might make her something of an imposter, the fact that Luigi studied AI at Stanford meant that this was an all-round reasonable thing to do.

It’s easy to write off this case as simply a harmless, albeit quite eccentric, example of the many ways in which young people are using AI today. But to do so would be to miss something much more provocative about how society has changed in the past decade. It’s the future of romance, she added in her clip. But it’s not. It’s the future of everything.

Something she notes in her monologue is that her Mangione AI-bot “fights her battles for her.” This seemingly innocuous statement is particularly interesting if you remember that a low locus of control – the term psychologists refer to when discussing whether people feel in control of their own lives or not – correlates quite strongly with support for political violence today.

I’m pretty sure that The Matrix and Her were intended to be viewed as warnings, not how-to guides for life in the 21st century.

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): More fodder for my “seductive AI” book.

21st CENTURY HEADLINES: Flying cars crash into each other and catch fire in China.

SOMEBODY’S ABOUT TO DROP AN EXCITING SUBSTACK! Jerry quits Ben & Jerry’s, saying its independence on social issues has been stifled.

UNSURPRISING: Meditation And Mindfulness Have a Dark Side We Don’t Often Talk About. I’ve had devoted yogis tell me quite seriously that getting too deep in this without proper training can expose your mind to demons. That’s apparently a longstanding belief in the field.

THE NEW RULES ARE BITING HARD:

🚨BREAKING: Disney’s ABC has OFFICIALLY removed Jimmy Kimmel from the air nationwide, effective immediately and indefinitely, after his lies regarding Charlie Kirk’s assassination.

This action comes after our exclusive report and interview with FCC Chairman Brendan Carr on… pic.twitter.com/uD9LQlaQWa

— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) September 17, 2025

Previously:

BREAKING NEWS: Official ABC broadcast affiliate Nexstar is REMOVING Jimmy Kimmel from all 32 of their ABC stations until Disney answers for Kimmel’s despicable attack on Charlie Kirk.

Great job @NXSTMediaGroup. Thank you for standing up for Charlie

HERE: https://t.co/BvLYdTEK8I pic.twitter.com/QuABDoLVLi

— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) September 17, 2025

AT LEAST IT’S NOT BOEING THIS TIME: Apparent engine problem delays Cygnus’ arrival with ISS, says NASA. “NASA said in a blog post that a new arrival date and time was under review after the Cygnus XL’s main engine “stopped earlier than planned” early Tuesday during two burns designed to raise the orbit of the craft for rendezvous with the ISS.”

FLIES AND MOSQUITOES SEEM UNTOUCHED: Insects Are Disappearing Even From “Untouched” Landscapes, Study Warns.

CHEAT AND RETREAT: ABC news star makes groveling APOLOGY after gushing over Charlie Kirk assassin’s ‘very touching’ texts to his trans lover.

UPDATE: Gutman’s Dog Day Afternoon rerun yesterday is how the vegan sausage gets made by the DNC-MSM:

Here's how this will play out, here's the meta-script, and please don't laugh it off.

How this all started is not how it will end. A story that began with a clear traditional moral shape, an innocent victim, a vile perpetrator, will be transformed using secondary characters, new… https://t.co/mYpxnfmwfm

— Walter Kirn (@walterkirn) September 17, 2025

As is this: MSNBC’s Brandy Zadrozny: In Death, Charlie Kirk Became the Main Character in a Conspiracy Theory.

DAVID DESROSIERS: Prove Charlie Right.

A young man, who was being groomed to be a moral monster by our culture and the passions it unleashes, heard the dog whistle call to arms, seized the opportunity of a public event in his home state, and did what was collectively seen by his ilk as necessary and proper.

To do so, he suspended morality, the rule of law, and human decency in order to serve what he and too many others see as a higher political purpose. Sadly, this moral madness is what is taught in our nation’s colleges. This is the ethic that guided the global left – paired now with America’s identitarian vanguard –to fundamentally remake America.

Their immoral reasoning not only led to the killing of Charlie Kirk, but it is also the rationale of messianic monsters through the ages. In the 20^th century alone, under the guise of National Socialism and global communism, it led to the murder of a hundred million souls. Social media has given it another Great Leap Forward. It is the justification for the show trials, the guillotine, the oven, the suicide vest, and the lone sniper.

DesRosiers writes, “What does Charlie Kirk’s assassination portend for our country? I see the potential of a natural turning point towards the good, the restoration of the First Amendment’s spirit, and a return of political, civic, cultural, religious, and economic toleration. That would be a big rainbow following a storm.”

I hope he’s right, because the American left have arrived at a very dark place: When Charlie Kirk Died, So Did the Democratic Party. What’s Coming Next Is Even Worse.

I’LL TAKE HEADLINES FROM 1939, ALEX: Poland Is Slowly Preparing For The Unthinkable: War With Russia.

I MEAN, WHO’S THE MARKET? Over-the-counter overdose reversal drug Naloxone fails to sell. I considered adding some to the first aid kit I carry in my car but decided that it was expensive and I was very unlikely to use it.

NOT LIBERAL, NOT PROGRESSIVE: Meet the Illiberal Left.

I asked my AI assistant to argue that celebrating Charlie Kirk’s assassination was somehow liberal or progressive. And it told me it couldn’t. Not really.

Oh, it could parrot slogans: “speech is violence,” “silencing hate is progress,” “free speech isn’t free from consequences.” But it couldn’t make a coherent case within the older framework of liberalism, usually referred to today as classical liberalism — the one that prized free speech, debate, and persuasion. Because there is no argument in that framework that justifies shooting a man for talking.

That realization hit me like a hammer.

It’s not just that the left leans differently on facts or values. It’s that we no longer share the same definitions of words. “Liberal,” “progressive,” “justice,” “violence,” “safety,” “democracy” — these words have been redefined until left and right mean opposite things when using them.

• Violence used to mean fists, knives, bullets. Now, on the left, it means words.
• Safety used to mean freedom from physical harm. Now it means freedom from disagreement.
• Justice used to mean fairness. Now it means equity — enforced sameness of outcomes.
• Liberal used to mean defending speech, even speech you despised. Now it means silencing “dangerous” speech.
• Progressive used to mean reform. Now it means control in the name of inclusion.We literally are no longer speaking the same language.

  This is why Charlie Kirk’s words were intolerable. He didn’t threaten anyone’s life. He threatened the redefined reality that today’s leftists live in. By speaking clearly and persuasively, by listening and debating, he proved that disagreement was still possible. And that was enough to make him a villain in the new vocabulary of “progress.”

  That’s why his death was mocked, his vigils defaced, and grief for him romanticized away by the media. Because in their framework, silencing him was liberalism. Celebrating him would have shattered their narrative. And seeing us mourn him and lionize him as a martyr is intolerable to the intolerant.

As Melissa Chen tweets, “By refusing to debate, it helped to enthrone their ideological superiority.”

It’s because the left enjoyed cultural and institutional hegemony over the last decade. By refusing to debate, it helped to enthrone their ideological superiority.

Remember they had full control of the institutional stack. We are talking an end-to-end self-credentialing and… https://t.co/ExFWqeVSOc pic.twitter.com/3naWy94KiY

— Melissa Chen (@MsMelChen) September 17, 2025

UPDATE:

Note: there's not one prominent Leftist anywhere in the West doing what Charlie Kirk did, i.e. issuing an open debate challenge to all comers and saying "Here's my view, I invite you to try and prove me wrong". None of them are willing to subject their views to that scrutiny.

— Ben Scallan 🇮🇪 (@Ben_Scallan) September 17, 2025

OBAMA OPENS UP ON KIRK ASSASSINATION, SCOLDS TRUMP FOR ‘EXTREME’ RHETORIC:

Former President Barack Obama addressed the assassination of conservative political activist Charlie Kirk on Tuesday, calling the killing a “tragedy” that poses a “threat to all of us” before scolding President Trump for contributing to a dangerous political climate.

Speaking with journalist Steve Scully at the Jefferson Educational Society in Pennsylvania, Obama cast Kirk’s assassination as part of an escalating trend of political violence.

“Regardless of where you are on the political spectrum, what happened to Charlie Kirk was horrific and a tragedy,” Obama said. “And when it happens to some but even if you think they’re, quote, unquote, ‘on the other side of the argument,’ that’s a threat to all of us. And we have to be clear and forthright in condemning them.”

The former president also took it as an opportunity to criticize President Donald Trump and his administration’s handling of the aftermath of the assassination.

“When I hear not just our current president, but his aides, who have a history of calling political opponents ‘vermin’, enemies who need to be ‘targeted,’ that speaks to a broader problem that we have right now and something that we’re going to have to grapple with, all of us,” Obama said. “But I will say that those extreme views were not in my White House. I wasn’t embracing them. I wasn’t empowering them. I wasn’t putting the weight of the United States government behind extremist views.”

Bill Ayers, Bernadine Dohrn, Al Sharpton, Eric Holder, and Joe Biden could not be reached for comment. Not to mention Barry himself:

After the Pulse night club shooting, Barack Hussein Obama flew straight to Florida and did a speech excoriating Republicans for not passing gun laws and directly blamed them for the shooting. https://t.co/5ebocCq1tI

— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) September 17, 2025