Monday, September 22, 2025

The Deeper Meaning Of Charlie Kirk's Death And Memorial

Here are a few clips to get this started.

First, Secretary of State, Marco Rubio.

Second, Vice President J D Vance.

Next, Erika Kirk.

Now, President Trump.

Finally, Andrew Klavan.

They are not all the same. There is a line running through them, but they are not the same. The Overton Window has shifted dramatically. 

The dominant question on the right, now broadly permissible as a result of Charlie Kirk’s death, is this: How do we best follow Christ in the realm of politics?

It is incredible to me that such a question is now front and center in the Republican party. It would have been unthinkable even 3 weeks ago. As a believing Catholic, I haven't felt comfortable discussing my faith in public in 20 or 30 years. 

I have a friend who teaches natural family planning at marriage preparation classes. She's no dummy, she can see other Catholics wince when she brings up the topic. She shared with me a little of the embarrassment she feels, even among her fellow Catholics, at the subject. She hesitates to discuss it unless required by the classes.

That's the Overton Window in action. What is permissible speech in public? The Overton Window limits what we will discuss with each other, even in private, even among friends. When JD Vance said he had felt uncomfortable discussing his faith in public, he meant even the speeches he gave at red-meat, MAGA events.

The Secretary of State went full Father Mike Schmitz, not just in public, but in front of a memorial service whose size equaled those of JFK and MLK. When have you ever heard that, in such an enormous venue, from the person fourth in line for the Presidency?

I didn't watch the whole thing, but I watched much of it and every speaker got up and talked about their Christian faith. It was the central theme of the day. Not MAGA, not Trump, not the political enemies, not even the murder of Charlie Kirk. While Charlie's assassination was the catalyst, the end product of the reaction was this conversation.

How do we serve God in our politics? How do we gain the courage to speak the truth? How can we be more like Charlie Kirk in our daily lives?

I have no doubt that the regime media will focus on Trump's profession of hate. They absolutely should do that. The President of the United States, at a massive event for a Christian preacher, pled allegiance to hate. But you have to see it in context. If you know anything about Trump, you know he's a showman, full of bluster, speaking in hyperbole all the time. He is the greatest, everything he's ever done is the greatest, all of his achievements are like nothing we've ever seen.

Trump's profession of hate had an undercurrent of regret and doubt. It was an admission, not a call to action. When he talked about Erika's forgiveness, he didn't do what he usually does to people who disagree with him, calling her names or saying she was a failure. No, instead of that, he said that she might be able to convince him he was wrong and he needed to wish the best for everyone, even his enemies.

Amazing. Fantastic. Miraculous.

We don't know where this is going to lead, but we do know that it has utterly changed the conversation we are all having with each other, at least on the right. We are now having the correct conversation, as Andrew Klavan has been asserting for years now. The most important questions are about the Truth and both politics and culture are downstream of that. 

Don't get angry and avenge Charlie Kirk. Imitate him instead.

I'll leave you with this one, staggering quote. Imagine a world where Elon converts and uses his platform, his wealth and his powerful persuasion for Christ.

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Friday, September 19, 2025

Marginalized Pornography

Within the very progressive Diocese of San Diego, a common theme from the pulpit is how we must lift up the marginalized. It's driven me bonkers, but it's taken me a while to understand why.

There is no such thing as the marginalized. The term comes from social justice and cultural Marxism academic literature. It implies all that you would suspect given that pedigree. Its root is the verb "to marginalize" and it's freighted with the Marxist concepts of oppressors and oppressed. Oppressors marginalize people. The oppressed are the marginalized.

Further, it carries with it the woke hierarchy of victim groups. When you talk about the marginalized, people know you mean blacks, LGBTQWERTY, women, the homeless and so on. The flip side is that straight, white men and their allies are the ones doing the marginalizing. Everything is about power and systems of oppression.

Just taking the homeless as an example, you can see that the term doesn't make sense. My middle brother was an addict and an alcoholic. He was homeless when he died. To our diocese, he was a member of the marginalized. In reality, that man was in no way, shape or form marginalized by anyone. He was an utter sensualist. There was no immediate pleasure he would not forgo whether that was sex, drugs or booze. He slept with anything that wore a skirt and consumed anything that made him high.

Our family tried to "uplift" him many times, but that always ended in theft, betrayal and sometimes violence.

The racially marginalized are equally nonsensical.

Here, the white girl was the oppressor. The black guy who had just stabbed her in the throat was the marginalized. Dittos for the black passengers who walked past her as she bled out on the floor. You can find the full story here if you aren't familiar with this iconic image.

Classifying people as marginalized makes no sense at all. As Solzhenitsyn said, the dividing line between good and evil runs down the middle of every human heart. We're all complex people. Catholics, perhaps not including our clergy here in San Diego, believe that all people are fallible, sinful creatures that cannot perfect or redeem themselves on their own. That includes whoever it is the clergy think they're describing when they used the term "marginalized."

So what's up with all the talk about the marginalized?

When you use the term "marginalized," you put them in the context of the Marxists' oppressor-victim framework. The discussion from that point on forces anyone disagreeing with you to take up the flag of the oppressor. You are airbrushing away the agency of these people the way lingerie models have their flaws airbrushed away in Photoshop. It's porn.

When our clergy tell us to uplift the marginalized, what are we going to say, "No, I don't want to uplift the marginalized?" You force us to accept your unspoken premise that these people are helpless victims of an unjust system created by people like us who are privileged at their expense. We are the villains and now we must pay back what we owe.

It's all nonsense, it's all moral pornography. Your frisson of onanistic pleasure that comes from helping the less fortunate by your speech alone becomes all the greater because now you are helping, not just people who are in a bad way, but utterly innocent and helpless people who are in a bad way. You can't hope to find anyone who better fits Jesus' reference of "the least among you" than the "marginalized."

It's like an AI version of the perfect lingerie model, a chick crafted by your prompts to have just the right hair, the right skin, the right measurements, the right pose, the right facial expression and the right garments to arouse you to the very heights of ecstasy.

The marginalized do not exist in real life because Marxism is utterly wrong, but they do exist in your head. Each of the social justice progressives has their own internal image of the marginalized, just like porn addicts each have their own distinct fetishes.

A good way to put an end to this kind of talk is to bring up concrete examples. My brother, for one. Just how do you plan on uplifting him when he's just going to rob you to get another hit? How about the black guy on the train in Charlotte? Are you planning on uplifting him as he stands with the white girl's blood dripping from his knife, muttering, "I got that white girl?"

Or maybe these guys in South Africa. For the social justice crew, black South Africans are prime-grade marginalized beef on the hoof. Go ahead and uplift them as they destroy their own infrastructure in the process of stealing a few dollars worth of scrap metal.

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Tuesday, September 16, 2025

All Bark, No Blog

The puppy is just killing me. It takes up my every morning which is when my creative juices flow. It's getting bigger and easier to manage, but it's still needy and wife kitteh needs her morning sleep.

Sigh.

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Thursday, September 11, 2025

Having A Psychotic Boss Leads To The Assassination Of Charlie Kirk

I've been pondering this concept for a while and the shocking assassination of Charlie Kirk yesterday forced it to the surface.

What is the next logical step after this?

How about the radicalization of the Democrats?

The Democrats get a large percent of their money from small donors which means the base. As their popularity declines, so does their pool of donors. As their popularity declines, their base becomes more and more radical because the squishier ones leave. Their popularity is now at historic lows.

As their popularity decreases, they are forced to spiral in towards their far-left base which means their rhetoric has to become more and more frenzied and hateful to keep the money flowing. Hence "the end of Democracy" and "fascists" and all the rest.

If their starting point was that everyone who disagreed with them was a racist, a homophobe, a transphobe, a fascist and more, where else can they go as their base moves farther and farther left?

How do you appeal to psychotics?

Addendum

It is nearly impossible to be a conservative and not understand the left's positions because we marinate in them every day. They permeate our entertainment, schools and news media. We bathe in the water of the left.

It is very common for the progressives to have no idea why conservatives think like they do because people like Charlie Kirk have been edited out of their world. I can't tell you how many news sources and public figures described Charlie as "divisive" and then cherry-picked some of his positions, putting them in the worst light possible. They deliberately removed all neutral reference points. They wanted you to hate him.

As the left spirals down into their base, their base stays whipped into a frenzy of ignorant, self-reinforced hate. That's a recipe for more and more violence.

More than that, Charlie Kirk along with Ben Shapiro, Matt Walsh and lots of other thought leaders on the right make it a habit to speak in large, public forums and then make sure the progressives in the audience get an unedited, uninterrupted chance to challenge them in the Q&A.

That dialog was precisely what Charlie was doing when they shot him. 

You punish the things you don't want repeated. If you're going to punish free and open conversations about politics, be prepared for the alternative.

One more thing. Ben Shapiro made a typically brilliant observation about Charlie's assassination. This spells the end of open-air presentations like this. From now on, the venues for these things will be enclosed, tightly controlled and necessarily smaller. If you saw photos of Charlie's event yesterday, you'll see why this is a bad thing for all Americans. That crowd was huge.

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Thursday, September 04, 2025

The 8th Air Force And Islam In Europe

I know this is a detour from my series on Be Nice, Don't Judge in the Diocese of San Diego, but I just got a brain wave on a topic I've been pondering for years.

What will the world be like for us when Europe and Canada become Islamic? Given demographic trends, we're on track for that. 

What if the end result is a 1950s America where we prosper because our competition has been bombed into the Stone Age and we're the only ones with a functional, advanced economy? The analogy isn't perfect as we would share the spoils with Asia in a way we didn't in the 1950s, but the idea might be the same.

Is there a difference between the 8th Air Force and Islam?

Think about this: there isn't a single Muslim country where there are significant manufacturing, software development or investment industries. Quick, name an automobile brand that comes from an Islamic country. You can't because there isn't one.

It's not that they don't have resources, manpower or cash. There are plenty of Islamic countries awash in all three. It must be something cultural. I won't go into it here, but if you have read What Went Wrong by Bernard Lewis, it makes sense. Here's the book's blurb from Amazon.

For centuries, the world of Islam was in the forefront of human achievement -- the foremost military and economic power in the world, the leader in the arts and sciences of civilization. Christian Europe was seen as an outer darkness of barbarism and unbelief from which there was nothing to learn or to fear. And then everything changed. The West won victory after victory, first on the battlefield and then in the marketplace.

In this elegantly written volume, Bernard Lewis, a renowned authority an Islamic affairs, examines the anguished reaction of the Islamic world as it tried to make sense of how it had been overtaken, overshadowed, and dominated by the West. In a fascinating portrait of a culture in turmoil, Lewis shows how the Middle East turned its attention to understanding European weaponry, industry, government, education, and culture. He also describes how some Middle Easterners fastened blame on a series of scapegoats, while others asked not "Who did this to us?" but rather "Where did we go wrong?"

A lot of things went right for America in the 1950s. One of the chief among them was the fact that Europe and Japan were skeletons of their former economic selves. Are we headed back to those halcyon days once Britain, France, Germany and Canada become Islamic Republics?

Allahu Akbar, indeed.
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Wednesday, September 03, 2025

Who Are The Marginalized? Not You

After Bishop Devouring Mother smothered us with treacle at the recent Synodality Meeting, we got another earful about the marginalized from the pulpit on Sunday.

Who are the marginalized? Well, the homeless, the addicts, the migrants, the LGBTQWERTY crew, non-whites and women in general.

Recently, an illegal got a trucker's license from a deep blue state where they love the marginalized. Illiterate and ignorant of traffic laws or signs, he made a U-turn on an expressway from the right-hand lane and killed three people.

He is the marginalized. The people he killed are not the marginalized. Get that through your head, you judgmental bigot.

In Milan, a North African migrant beat and raped an 18-year old girl. I'm not going to post the details here, they are simply too horrible. He is the marginalized, not the girl.

The Marginalized Are Fetish Porn

Thinking about this, I came up with a definition of pornography. It is exaggerated sensory input designed to stimulate your particular desires. The porn star who is hung like a horse, the porn star with a D-cup, the family of migrants with eyes like anime characters, the homeless man who lost his job, they're all porn, some for the pervert, some for the be nice, don't judge crowd. The be nice, don't judge type love the way the marginalized excite their devouring mother fetish and give them a fantasy about cuddling and protecting and uplifting the weak and needy.

Here, we see two migrants, a transgender, a homeless person and a gay dude.

One of the worst things you can do to someone who is enjoying porn is to mess with their inputs. Imagine having a wonderful session with your laptop and someone presses the F11 key and your browser pans out to show you the camera and sound crew filming whatever filth you're enjoying. What a total buzzkill!

That's who we are to the Catholic Charities people, the bishops, the Church of England, Lutheran Charities and the race-obsessed progressives when we ask about the people killed by the illegal trucker or the girl raped by the North African. It's also why the churches and politicians are so silent about the victims. No one wants to be that guy, the one that wonders aloud if all this thrilling content featuring the "marginalized" is just so much porn.

The Real Penalty For Apostasy

Dig this. It gives you the true penalty for pulling back the camera on the porn - social isolation for you and yours.

That was Graham Linehan, a British comedy writer who got arrested coming off the plane at Heathrow. His story can be found here. It's worth a read to get a good sense of the direction the Elites are taking us all.

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