Charlie Kirk

Monday - mid afternoon

The maligning of Charlie Kirk continues on, with major corporations announcing firing people for engaging in such vileness even if the employees were doing it on their own, personal social media.  

Sick, disgusting people and I see it all over my Facebook feed coming from democrats who hated Charlie because they had been fed copious amounts of propaganda from left/communist run media outlets and commentators, politicians and Hollywood elites. 

However, what would Charlie say about this if he were here right now? He'd just shrug it off. I've watched hundreds if not into the thousands of his videos over the years.  People would come up to the mic at one of his rallies, insult him, call him names, whatever - denigrate him - and he would not respond in kind.  He would instead address whatever their dissent was directly.  

You see, Charlie was a Christian and if you are Christian, you are more interested in the person's soul and heart and seeing them come to the Lord Jesus Christ, receive the free gift of salvation simply by believing in Him and get their names written in the Lamb's Book of Life.  As a Christian who has endured the same kind of treatment from same-minded people in previous engagements, I can attest to the fact that you simply have to have thick skin and understand what the Lord wants to do. 

If you want the honest truth, if Biden or Harris were to have heart attacks today, keel over and die, I would take no pleasure in it at all.  I detest their politics but I do not detest the fact that they have also been created in the image and likeness of our God.  Their policies are from the pit of hell but their lives have been created by, who else? The Creator.  He said that he would have all come to know him, that all would come unto salvation.  That doesn't mean everyone will, of course, but that was and is His desire. 

When these people start maliciously destroying Kirk's name, pray for them.  Speak the Truth of the gospel to them. Talk about Jesus and point people to Christ.  That's what Charlie would want us to do and more importantly, that's what Christ wants us to do.  

I've even heard Christians talking trash about Charlie Kirk. I just don't receive it, I am not going to get into an elongated argument with them.  I will speak my mind about it, Kirk was always pointing to Jesus and quoting scripture that fit the conversation.. If you don't believe he's with the Lord, that is your right and choice. That doesn't therefore make it true, but getting into heated back and forth about it is simply not what I'm into anymore, not the things about Christ anyway.  

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Back to my normal stuff, if you came here looking for content about Charlie Kirk, that was it. This is actually my personal blog and I just go into stuff about current events in my life and yes, current events in politics as well.   Today's offload took 1 and a half hours, still a lot more than it should take but I guess there's nothing clogging the tube under the trailer.  

I don't know why it's taking longer, other drivers are reporting normal offload times for them. My manager texted me this morning asking if I would do an 8 am load on Wednesday?  That means getting up at 4 am and getting moving.  I said yes.  I didn't ask anything, I just said yes - otherwise I'd probably get stuck with the 2cd load and I don't want that.  

 Friday - morning

Well, they caught the assassin in the Charlie Kirk killing.  College aged kid, I'm hearing the family basically had him turn himself in.  I don't see, at least for right now, any "good" reason to have killed him beyond probably a hatred for Kirk's views on things.

Kirk took a traditional, Christian stand on all issues, which in the eyes of the left means he's a Nazi, white supremacist, racist, etc, you know all the adjectives they use, no sense in going into all of that.  The left have become so indoctrinated that they believe anyone that disagrees with them should be what, put to death?  Definitely silenced if the Biden administration and their quelling of any voices on social media which were on the conservative side is an indication.  

I don't know where this is headed.  Unless we can all find a way to have civil discourse, which is what Charlie Kirk always wanted even with people that were insulting him and lobbing profanities at him, the violence is going to grow.  It will get very dark and very ugly, a thing I hope doesn't happen.  The bullet was labeled with: "Hey Facist, catch!" from what I am seeing.  They can take this guy off the streets, they can try him, find him guilty and attach the death penalty to him but how is that going to stop this senseless violence and killing?

It's not. In fact, I suspect it will motivate other lone actors to do the same thing.  We are turning into a moral less society, a society devoid of God, a place where you think: I need to start carrying a firearm with me everywhere to be able to defend myself.  Maybe it's been that way regardless, but it seems to be getting worse.  I carry in my vehicles, I haven't been concealed carry too much.  I am not an aggressor, let's be clear. I want to be able to defend myself in any situation where some "person" wants to start trouble for no more reason than they think I am an enemy.

That's it. They think Christians/Conservatives/Republicans are enemies. I don't think that way about Democrats.  I despise their politics, that doesn't therefore make me want to beat them to a pulp or kill them.  In fact, from a Christian standpoint, the Bible says we aren't fighting against flesh and blood, we are fighting against spiritual principalities - paraphrasing.  In other words, we are fighting against the devil and his minions.  Satan is the father of liars and his is very, very good at lying and putting little thoughts into people's brains and getting people to think something is that it isn't.  

I have what is happening to this nation, but I also realize that evil is present everywhere and it's not going away until Christ returns.  When satan is thrown into hell for 1,000 years, there you go.  God sees the end from the beginning, He knows all of this stuff was going to happen, the reason he doesn't intervene in a global basis is because of free will.  You can choose God or you can choose the world and it's ways.  It won't be like this forever.  

Again, nothing will bring back Charlie Kirk. He was a beloved man of God that the Lord used to change people's lives for the good. For HIS good, the Lord's good and His glory.  Kirk is with Christ, that is consoling, but it doesn't change the fact that a major voice to the youth of this nation has been permanently silenced.  

What's more disturbing is the parade of the left taking glee and joy in the fact that Kirk was killed. Now, they are calling for Matt whoever, apparently another conservative commentator, to be killed and of course they are beating the drum for Trump to be assassinated.  Mind you, this is just disagreement with political viewpoints.  We aren't talking about the North against the South.  We aren't talking the Japanese wanting to take over the entire world.  How did we get to the point where disagreements on views turned into the desire to kill your opponents?

Social media, the internet and 24 hour news media pumping out propaganda, plain and simple.  We used to read newspapers for our news or the nightly news.  We weren't fed instant news 24 hours a day and certainly we didn't have these commentators in our living rooms whenever we wanted to watch them at any time of the day.  I just have a hard time wrapping my head about the left wanting to have a communist society.  You can't discuss the history of communism with them, they go off in wild tangents and tell us that this will be a "new" version of it, those "old" people didn't do it right.  

No. No. And NO.  It's an evil ideology that has no place in modern society. But it has place because people are easily swayed by public opinion. Mob rule.  Majority manipulation.  

And when we can't be at peace with ourselves, in our own nation? We become vulnerable to those malicious government actors that want to rule the world.  China, I suppose, the biggest threat. Russia.  Iran.  I think the Chinese communist government is the biggest threat not only to the US but the entire world.  

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I'm getting off of that subject for now. But, Kirk's assassination has greatly impacted me.  It is obvious that until something major happens that somehow pulls us together, if that is even possible, we are going to see more of this.  And then we'll see vigilante justice. And all kinds of violence will erupt and we will end up in a civil war. God knows I hope that doesn't happen, I really don't.  I want peace. 

Anyway, the kitchen sink keeps backing up and no amount of drain clogging stuff or even putting small snakes down the drain pipe seems to be working, so I'm awaiting a plumber to show up.  They didn't give a time, they just said "we'll be there as soon as we can get to it". I'm on their list, I know they'll show up today but when? No idea.  It takes precedence.  The dishwasher pumps down into that drain and we are facing a real mess if we don't get it fixed.  

I would have been over at the property digging out that line right now, in fact, I would have had that done and over to the electric store for the correct sized line. Then back and dig out a trench by hand if the ground isn't too bad and try to get that done.  I need that all set up.  I just hope this plumber doesn't take all day to get here.  

Oh well, they'll get here when they get here, fix the problem, charge an arm, leg and a half and then I can either go get busy or not depending on what time it is.  It's almost 11 am and I grow less and less motivated as the day passes.  A day off is very nice.   Half tempted to buy a commercial grade drain snake, it's $400. I bet the plumber is going to charge at least $200.