9/16/25 Friends of Charlie Kirk: Matt Walsh, Ben Shapiro, and Michael Knowles (Interesting discourse between 3 who do not always agree)
https://salemnewschannel.com/host/charlie-kirk/full-episodesCharlie’s principles:
-go to where the people are
-go to the people who disagree with you
-go do Biblical, values, and political outreach
convince people they need to make a choice
-prove me wrong was about asking simple questions as truths can’t be proven wrong
Points made:
-can’t have unity with people who celebrated the murder of Charlie Kirk
-there are always people we can convince
-people need to make that choice
-they must choose to side with the demons or the side in civil discourse
-marketplace cannot survive if you just kill it off
-the people who celebrate murder illuminates the other side
-an employer doesn’t owe the employee a job if they do not reflect
-and employer has the freedom to choose who works for them
It works both ways:
-speech being cancelled= true, normal, and right
-speech being cancelled= objectively vile and even illegal
-right = no institutional power over them
-left= has institutional power
-the battle is the truth vs. a lie
-harness the beating heart of America
-sharpen you mind=campus tent revivals (Charlie’s legacy)
Problem: no internal accountability
Clips of Charlie haters: What they perceive
-take the failures in their own lives who externalize those into a shadowy group of people who are responsible for all of their own failures
-and then you say those who are victimizing me to the point of they are erasing me (ex. trans-genocide)
-then you say if those people who are trying to kill me then its self-defense
-speech has become violence
-justifies that its self defense for me to shoot someone like Charlie to silence their words of violence
Clip of a young woman asking why are you so hateful?
-She perceives facts as hate because it is a denial of her sense of identity and a sense of threat that justifies violence
-violence is the after effect
-extreme ideologies result in extreme violence ex. BLM and Islam
-conspiracy theory that all our failures are the fault of these other people
-these people are trying to harm us therefore we are justified in doing violence to them
-by their very existence they are harming me
-they are evil for just existing
-not surprising murdering people is celebrated as it is looked on as liberating the world of their evil existence
-post fact justification after the murder
-most political debates do not end in killing someone
-vast majority of political violence is not from the right
-medias and politicians try to classify killing by the left differently
Freedom of Speech:
Response to Pam Bondi (she cleared up her statement)
-hate speech is illegal
-threats of incitement are illegal
-celebrating the killing of Charlie is not illegal, but does have social consequences
-Antifa is now identified as a terrorist group
-they give money to groups inciting violence
****Stephen Miller clip:
-we have to route out the people who are funding the violence
-we need to have an organized strategy to go after the organizations that are promoting violence in this country.
***Unfocused anger or blind rage is not a productive emotion (Stephen Miller)
-Focused anger, righteous anger directed for a just cause is one of the most important agents of change in human history
Channel all of the anger:
-we have to follow the money over the organized campaign that led to this assassination
-a goal to uproot and dismantle these terrorist networks:
-organized doxing campaigns
-organized riots
-organized street violence
-organized campaigns of dehumanization vilification
-posting people’s addresses
-combining that with messaging designed to uproot the triggers that incite violence in the organized cells that those who carry out and facilitate the violence
-it is a vast domestic terror movement
****Goal: to identify, disrupt, dismantle, and destroy these networks and make America safe again for the American people
How do we restore order?
-the left has a monopoly on violence
-conservatives do not turn to violence
-the left are enemies of western civilization
-they want to dismantle and tear down patriarchy
-as conservatives we want to conserve western civilization
-we have disagreements on how to do this but we are all fans of civilization
-we understand that we just walk up to a guy and just shoot him
-we know we can’t have that to have a civilized country
-these assassinations are what we see in 3rd world countries
-we fundamentally know this is a bad thing
-the left do not see civilization itself being a good thing
-violence is always a tool in their arsenal
-the religious right see a God centered ordered universe
-we can discern
-we have a duty in the world to act within that universe in rational ways
-we have duties to God to do the things that God told us to do
-we are told not to kill people (not to murder people)
-if you do not believe any of that and you believe the world is just a system of power that every argument is a guise for power and that all arguments at their essence are just a way of me getting power over you then the response to the attempt to get power over you is to use power in response and that leads to revolutionary violence
-left that is so nihilistic in its desire to see every argument silenced
-Charlie was killed to silence the argument
-It was the thing he died doing
-he was making the argument
-to many annihilationist's see the argument as just a form of power that is to be met with a bullet
-warnings from Charlie
Now what?
-we have a fork in the road
-we must in our power to make sure America doesn’t fray
-he wanted revival not revolution
-he wanted the blood of Jesus not blood in the streets
-he wanted a country that his kids could inherit and be prosperous and thrive
-his tone was revival
-the left doesn’t have the same tone
-the great rational leftist model = slice and dice them
-media and politicians in their nice studios push violence and defend the leftist lunatic that carries the violence out in our streets
-do not neglect the the law-do not neglect the politics of our country
***justice contained by the authorities and the structures that we the people voted for vs. anarchy in the streets
-we need unity that is not just random
We unite for what? What purpose? To do what? Around what?
-conservatives unite by putting aside squabbles
-we mourn with each other
-unite as friends/the enemy in the battle on the battlefield
-you can’t have any marketplace of any kind if you shoot up the marketplace
-the loud and widespread celebration shows us that
-step 1: we want to have a robust conversation in a good country
-step 2: question mark-no liberty is no order-cultural response-government to do its job
-step 3: flourishing and speaking and national unity
Closing:
-we trust Charlie
-get back to Christ
-keep the Maga coalition together and grow it bigger
-conservatives unite stop squabbling
-focus on long term unity
-big movement change
-reasoning Charlie went out to talk to people who disagree
-build around those core values
-Bible, free markets, family, coalition around values he lost his life for
***Be better = personal accountability = own your mistakes and your successes