BECAUSE THEY’RE LOSING? Why the Left Wants the Right to ‘Lower the Temperature.’
Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds
September 14, 2025
FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF EARTH-SHATTERING KABOOMS:
Ukrainian drones strike a Russian top oil refinery, sparking massive fire https://t.co/3gN7lzxGvJ pic.twitter.com/5spXRtEMGD
— New York Post (@nypost) September 14, 2025
MY LATEST SUBSTACK ESSAY: When the Preference Cascade Becomes a Flood: Everything is becoming clear.
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CHANGE:
The movement is now 100 times bigger. The demons have failed. https://t.co/ypcBvtDwbY
— Catturd ™ (@catturd2) September 14, 2025
UNITING THE KINGDOM:
Maybe Starmer has actually done something useful. He has united the British public against him. https://t.co/hpTHoM2iTN
— Lord Talbot (@Lord_Talbot64) September 13, 2025
SETH BARRETT TILLMAN: On Reconciliation. “It is said that at the negotiations at Appomattox Courthouse Lee and Grant were both frank and civil during the course of discussing the surrender of Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia. Afterwards, Grant sent food to Lee to feed his (and, then, their) nation’s former enemy soldiers. Celebrations for Grant’s soldiers came only later not while Lee’s soldiers remained present. Again, in ending active hostilities, the first step towards national reconciliation was frank and civil discourse. I do not think our present and future is or will be as difficult as was Grant and Lee’s. But we too have to think about national reconciliation.”
I’VE BEEN WRITING ABOUT THE SECRET SERVICE’S PROBLEMS SINCE THE BEGINNING OF INSTAPUNDIT: Secret Service Faces New Scrutiny After Agent Cheers Charlie Kirk’s Murder.
JONATHAN TURLEY: ‘Prove me wrong’ — Charlie Kirk and the age of rage.
Charlie was brave, and he was brash. He refused to yield to the threats while encouraging others to speak out on our campuses.
He was particularly hated for holding a mirror to the face of higher education, exposing the hate and hypocrisy on our campuses. For decades, faculty have purged their ranks of conservatives and libertarians. Faced with the intolerance of most schools, polls show that a large percentage of students hide their values to avoid retaliation from faculty or their fellow students.Charlie chose to change all that. TPUSA challenges people to engage and debate them. The response from some on the left has been to trash their tables and threaten the students. Recently, at UC Davis, police stood by and watched as a TPUSA tent was torn apart. . . .
Charlie was hated because he exposed the left’s intolerance of opposing views … all in the purported cause of achieving greater tolerance. By challenging others to debate, he triggered a generation of speech-phobics who are more interested in silencing others than speaking on their own account.
Charlie was hated for stripping away the pretense and self-delusion of those canceling, blacklisting, and attacking others for holding opposing views. He did so by standing in harm’s way.
The conservatives that Kirk coaxed out of the shadows can honor his memory by showing that they will not be silenced. They can step forward and renew his same challenge: “Prove me wrong.”
Yes.
September 13, 2025
OPEN THREAD: You know what to do.
PROFESSOR CARRINGTON, CALL YOUR OFFICE: Aurora alert! Butterfly-shaped ‘hole’ in sun’s atmosphere could spark geomagnetic storm Sept. 13-14.
“IF YOU STRIKE ME DOWN” . . .
Crowds are now chanting “we are Charlie Kirk” in South Korea 🇰🇷
This movement is worldwide..
pic.twitter.com/cQvkSTrciI— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) September 13, 2025
NEW STATUS QUESTION: What’s your protocol?
MY LATEST SUBSTACK ESSAY: When the Preference Cascade Becomes a Flood: Everything is becoming clear.
UPDATE:
That’s why “it feels like something is different now.” They have realized the left is playing for keeps and sees them as subhuman monsters. Watching otherwise pleasant leftist friends or family or colleagues celebrating Kirk’s death on main with their real names attached. It’ll…
— nic carter (@nic__carter) September 13, 2025
YEP.
This is what they would have done to Trump and his supporters if he had lost.
We cannot risk letting these people take power again. https://t.co/7LGEsRdvrs
— Nate Fischer (@NateAFischer) September 13, 2025
WELL, THAT SOUNDS NICE: Tested! The Porsche Panamera Turbo S E-Hybrid Is a 5,700-Pound Sedan That Runs Like a Supercar.
SOLID ADVICE:
The British government should listen to it’s people.
The government of Nepal didn’t.— DToecutter (@DToecutter) September 13, 2025
NEWS YOU CAN USE: Concealed Carry: The First Steps.
BEWARE OF CUTENESS: The perfect robot guide dog shouldn’t be cute.
My guess is that they wasted 17+ months on pointless meetings, then threw something together at the last minute, cheating with ChatGPT.
THERE ARE TOO MANY: Vandals spray-paint ‘Kill all Charlie Kirks’ on Seattle Central College sign.