Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds
September 11, 2025
I DON’T LIKE THESE: Flush door handles are the car industry’s latest safety problem. The Insta-Wife’s car (not a Tesla) has these and I don’t trust them.
21ST CENTURY HEADLINES: Congress probes UFOs in hearing on whistleblowers, transparency.
FINALLY, STICKING TO THEIR EXPERTISE: The New School offers $10,000 course on ‘How to Steal.’
CHANGE:
Today, as the left celebrates the demise of one this country’s best men, Charlie Kirk, I can no longer hold out hope that the left can be saved. Democrats are the party of death.
I am registering as a Republican, in the name of Charlie. A man who gave me a platform and always…
— Erin Friday, Esq. (@ErinFriday75490) September 10, 2025
9/11/2001 was a watershed, but I feel like this is another.
WE HAVE RAISED UP A CLASS OF DANGEROUS PARASITES:
Am I the only one who’s deeply concerned about how violent so many teachers are? Holy cow … https://t.co/vcvoK4FXAu
— The🐰FOO (@PolitiBunny) September 11, 2025
It’s not a coincidence that almost all public displays of support for his death are from teachers and public/government workers
— Mauty480 (@Mauty480) September 11, 2025
So many “educators” are celebrating. This explains the national report card. https://t.co/MpUfMMqJwZ
— Michele Tafoya (@Michele_Tafoya) September 11, 2025
IN MICHAEL WALSH’S AGAINST THE CORPORATE MEDIA, Charlie Kirk’s chapter: The Falling Half-Life of a Lie.
THE NEW YORK POST COVER TODAY NAILS IT:
— Tom Bevan (@TomBevanRCP) September 11, 2025
FLASHBACK, 2009: SO WHAT AM I DOING FOR SEPT. 11TH? In the past I’ve given shooting lessons to a Marine, and over the years I’ve blogged, not blogged, etc. This year, I’m going to a Tea Party.
UPDATE: Andrew Breitbart, hanging with his homies.
Plus, me with Jim Hoft, Andrew Breitbart, Dana Loesch, and Adrian, whose last name never heard. He came all the way from Texas, though, which is pretty cool.
More pics at Foundingbloggers.com.
Today:
New Yorkers:
Tomorrow is September 11th.
Here is Zohran Mamdani with Hasan "Americans deserved 9/11" Piker.
Tomorrow, don't allow Mamdani anywhere near the 9/11 Memorial, first responders, or pretend to care.
Unlike Mamdani, real New Yorkers stand with our FDNY and NYPD pic.twitter.com/1YGNF1Wlgy
— Shabbos Kestenbaum (@ShabbosK) September 10, 2025
A FRIEND WRITES: “I hold open the possibility that Kirk’s murder was performed by foreign intelligence in an attempt to sow internal discord. So I’m not yet ready to blame the Left for the murder itself. However the *celebrations* on the Left are not a product of foreign intelligence. And everyone engaging in them, or excusing them, deserves far more than just blame. How the fuck can killing a young father in front of his children just for saying WORDS ever be considered something worth celebrating? The Left is mentally sick. Diseased. Ungrounded. Truly delusional. The evidence for this is overwhelming.”
You know what’s sad? I’ve seen two kinds of liberals today. The first is just stupid evil trash, dancing in the blood, and celebrating murder. They’re basically demons.
Then there’s the ones who are still somewhat decent people trying to be human. Only before they can make a statement first they have to write this giant list of criteria and addendum of “Charlie Kirk said mean things and I disagree” and fucking paragraphs of fucking bullshit about how he was super bad and filled with hate, that way the other libs can know they are still pure and untainted so they don’t get eaten too, and ONLY THEN can they come out and declare assassinating people over politics is bad. (Even if they are racist sexist transphobic hate mongers who attack “marginalized communities”, and I want you vapid fucks to imagine I read that part in the most unctuous, smarmy, self righteous tone possible)
None of you fucking pussies can just come out and say murder is bad. Oh no. Gotta make sure your tribe of abusive weirdos doesn’t turn on you first.You fucking cowards. I saw a bunch of these today.
Sad part is these kind of people are so up their own ass in the tribal virtue signaling, and so used to these group think purity tests, that they probably don’t even think of it anymore. Placating the bullies is reflex, because you are scared you don’t want to be the next one to get eaten. Look in your heart and you know it’s true.
Fucking pathetic, the lot of you.
Well said.
WELL, THAT AND THE FEAR OF BEING RANDOMLY STABBED BY A CRAZY GUY WITH 14 PRIOR ARRESTS: Exodus: Affordability Crisis Sends Americans Packing From Big Cities.
JEFFREY CARTER: Reflection. First Gutted. Then Angry: Charlie Kirk was Murdered For His Speech.
Related:
You can tell a lot about a person by how they react when someone dies.
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) November 27, 2016
I INITIALLY READ THIS AS SELF-SURGERY, WHICH WOULD HAVE BEEN A BIGGER BREAKTHROUGH: AI-guided cameras make solo surgery possible in step towards surgical automation.
September 10, 2025
CALLING THEM OUT:
Trump calls out left-wing political violence directly and harshly.
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) September 11, 2025
Related:
This was posted yesterday on TikTok yesterday and deleted.
“Charles James Kirk. Mr. College Drop out does not know whats coming tomorrow. Be ready. This isn’t a threat. It’s a promise” pic.twitter.com/3lPd0GpT4b
— Mostly Peaceful Latinas (@mplpodcast305) September 10, 2025
Kash Patel's FBI needs to do to Antifa what J. Edgar Hoover's FBI did to the KKK
— Will Chamberlain (@willchamberlain) September 11, 2025
My friend just texted “This is Archduke Ferdinand bad” and I can’t stop thinking about it.
— Kira (@RealKiraDavis) September 10, 2025
A SMALL MEASURE OF ACCOUNTABILITY:
🚨 BREAKING: Matthew Dowd of MSNBC has been fired after his comments about Charlie Kirk. Rare MSNBC W 👏🏼 pic.twitter.com/v88UdIFGvU
— Autism Capital 🧩 (@AutismCapital) September 11, 2025
Now what about Katy Tur?
OPEN THREAD: Hump Day.
THE KEY WORD IS “CLAIM:”
Charlie Kirk was the kind of conservative that progressives claim to like. Calm, rational, substantive, open to respectful engagement with the other side. But they unremittingly demonized him anyway.
— Randy Barnett (@RandyEBarnett) September 11, 2025
Charlie challenged the Left in good faith to honest debates about the soul and future of America. They shot him for it. https://t.co/CpiYySAFtR
— Ilya Shapiro (@ishapiro) September 10, 2025
A generation of nutjobs have convinced themselves that disagreeing with them, and not simply giving them whatever they want, is violence and even genocide.
And so they view physical violence against people who disagree with them as justified. https://t.co/ZAtF8VPtTe
— Sunny (@sunnyright) September 10, 2025
Remember when you said "If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun?" https://t.co/6nbHuHgGiU
— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) September 10, 2025
UPDATE: He’s not wrong:
BREAKING: Argentina President Javier Milei releases a statement:
“The left is always, at all times and places, a violent phenomenon full of hatred.”
He’s right. pic.twitter.com/1h1QCjGKie
— Ian Jaeger (@IanJaeger29) September 10, 2025
MORE:
Charlie’s assassination proves that this is no longer a debate of ideas.
The Left lost the debate, so they resorted to violence.
The Left have breached the social contract. They lie, cheat, steal, and murder, to get their way.
We are at war, whether you know it or not.
— Clandestine (@WarClandestine) September 10, 2025
Today was an inflection point. The assassination of Charlie Kirk, coming on the heels of Iryna Zarutska's murder, is the perfect storm.
There is no turning back from what happens now.
The Left gloats because they don't understand what is happening.
Today will be shock.
In the… pic.twitter.com/ey75iNmLOb
— Grummz (@Grummz) September 11, 2025
Following some snide comments on X today, I feel I need to make the following observation:
If guns caused political violence, there would already be a lot of dead Communists in the streets.
— Eric S. Raymond (@esrtweet) September 11, 2025
The center holds. Barely. For now. Don’t take that for granted. Reader John Steakley writes:
The right thinks the left is stupid. The left thinks the right is evil.
I confess that it took me a while to fully understand what this statement meant. What it’s saying is that the right measures the left intellectually, but the left measures the right emotionally. Each side concludes that the other fails.
The right says that the left’s math doesn’t add up. The left says that the math is irrelevant as long as the outcome feels good.
But each side’s response to the other is starkly different. One side doesn’t resort to violence against those who can’t do math, but the other side proudly resorts to violence against those on the right cast as evil.
These two sides aren’t even speaking the same language. They aren’t pursuing the same goals. And they aren’t measuring each other or themselves by the same standards.
The right is appalled by Charlie Kirk‘s murder. But if it turns out to be a politically-motivated murder, the left will ultimately feel it as emotionally justified (despite whatever lip service they initially offer). And that feeling in the heart of the passionate left will invariably shock the cooler minds on the right.
This is where the right faces an existential decision: do they cower away from the emotional violence, resort to counter-violence, or stick together and stay the peaceful intellectual course?
I hope they choose the third option. But it is always the most difficult.
Indeed.