It's been six years, and hospitals are still pushing the vaccine.
Unbelievable!
Dear Arthur,
You are eligible to receive an updated COVID-19 vaccine at no cost. If you are 65 or older, with a weakened immune system, or with other certain health conditions, you are at higher risk for serious illness from COVID-19. The good news is that updated COVID-19 vaccines are available, are safe, and are designed to give you stronger protection against severe illness, hospitalization, and death.
Getting vaccinated can help protect your health, keep you out of the hospital, and allow you to safely enjoy time with family and friends.
In fact, Trump proved the exact opposite to the world. His
epic reception of the Chinese president on September 23–25, 2026, was the
ultimate troll. The 47th President mocked the 46th
President, who had played the perfect puppet for Chinese interests at the
expense of America. If nothing else, Xi Jinping should have taken the hint that
his attempt to turn the United States against itself with corrupted leaders
failed. Trump also scheduled a B-2 Spirit bomber and four F-22 Raptors to fly
over their red-carpet reception, allowing Trump to flex our nation’s military
muscle before the leader of our main international rival. Most importantly,
China walked away from the latest summit with the President with no major
concessions from Trump to ease China’s growing economic challenges.
However, if Trump’s diplomacy doesn’t convince the public
that China is facing serious domestic problems, consider the disturbing trend spreading
among Chinese youth, which should provide the truth the West needs to know
about China’s future.
Since 2021,
Chinese Gen Z and younger are facing burnout like never before and responding
with a growing disengagement from the relentless rat race. They face daunting college
entrance challenges, fewer opportunities for studying in the United States
(thank you, President Trump, for putting American students first!), and a
foreboding career market, with little chance of upward mobility.
This generation of youth has labeled their movement Tang
Ping, or “Lying Flat,” in which they are engaging in a non-Confucian,
passive-aggressive rebellion against Chinese leaders, parents, and employers.
They see corporate demands yielding diminishing returns, and employment options
are not good. Instead of fighting for a better life, which is further out of
reach, they have opted for the following:
·They have given up the broader “Chinese Dream”
of owning a car, property, a home, or even raising a family.
·They have given up on “going big,” rejecting what
they deem empty consumerism.
·They don’t care about larger professional or
corporate goals, opting to opt out of life in general. It’s “quiet quitting,”
but with a Chinese twist.
·They do the bare minimum so that they can just
get by, since they are convinced there’s little hope of attaining anything
better.
The Chinese Communist Party is doing what it can to reverse this
trend, since the government craves a striving workforce culture to rival the
United States' ongoing hegemony in the world. The government has resorted to
deleting social media posts, including anything with the hashtag relating to Tang
Ping. The government has cracked down on the notorious ‘996’ (9 am to 9 pm,
six days a week) work culture. Large employers have implemented mandatory
clock-off times and shorter workweeks, too. Last of all, the Communist
government has labeled the whole push to urge young people to do as little as
possible as a Western conspiracy to frustrate Chinese productivity and national
success.
Yet all the prodding cannot make a Chinese ox drink, and they
cannot force Chinese youth to drink the Communist Party Boba-Tea of “Work Hard,
Get Ahead, Have Babies, and Make China Proud” when there’s little chance that
they can achieve any of this.
Even younger generations in China are succumbing to similar
Lying Flat middle-life crisis levels of disengagement. In one of the most
heart-breaking videos recently
posted on social media, a third-grade schoolboy from Tianjin (a major port
city in northeastern China) broke down in tears, slaving over a homework
assignment, while his mother filmed the entire nervous breakdown for the world
to see. He wasn’t crying because the assignment was difficult. He was wailing
because of a growing certainty that all his hard work would amount to nothing. He
was convinced that instead of wealth, success, and independence, he would turn
into another wage slave, or worse, end up in manual labor just to get by later
in life.
What’s particularly striking about this exchange is that
this little boy is openly challenging his mother, arguing with her,
contradicting her, and talking over her despite her best attempts to calm him
and redirect his attention to his studies. No matter how modern societies have
become, traditional Chinese Confucian culture places considerable emphasis on
filial respect and obedience to parents. Shockingly, this child dismissed submitting
to those norms, revealing desperation and exhaustion.
Another concern: why would a parent want to record her child
having such a horrible mental breakdown? At least she could have blurred out
her son’s face. Perhaps she was trying to alert the public to the increasing
stress and strain that Chinese children are facing?
What should the mother have done? She should have told him
to stop working right away instead of recording his emotional outburst, given
him a big hug, and then told him: “Yes, times are tough, but everything will be
OK.” If none of her assurances would have helped the boy, the mother should
have allowed him to be angry and let him release his emotions. Clearly, the
child was losing control of himself.
Major Asian news sites, including Gutzy
Asian, The Online
Citizen, and Singapore-based
Mothership, commented on this sad scene, with some of the articles making
light of this boy’s meltdown. Perhaps Chinese government officials watched this
video, or at least they should, since this suggests that their efforts to turn
back the “Lying Flat” movement are failing.
Despite all the Chinese Communist Party’s pretenses, the nation’s
younger generations are not doing as well as President Xi Jinping would like us
to think. Rapacious business policies, unsound protectionism, and aggressive
anti-American chauvinism are taking their toll on Chinese youth, forcing them
into harsher competition for higher education and jobs which aren’t as
plentiful as before. A large cohort of unemployed and underemployed, educated
Chinese are simply dropping out in the face of increased surveillance state
pressures, economic decline, and cultural malaise.
China is in trouble, and President Trump’s ongoing trade war
and pressure tactics are taking advantage of these weak spots. There is no
better proof of China’s ongoing problems than a Chinese boy breaking down over
the stress and strain of school and career. Could that cry, multiplied by
millions of other young Chinese, turn into a collective shout and national
protest against the regime’s authoritarian measures? Who knows, but Chinese
youths’ “Lying Down” movement shows no sign of stopping; rather, it exposes
China’s ongoing national—and international—weakness in the face of President
Trump’s continued MAGA policies.
At first, I was thinking about not doing an endorsement list. A friend of mine contacted me in September 2026 asking me to provide a list of voting preferences for the LA County voters in my area.
I thought that most of the endorsement lists were adequate enough, plus the fact that more races have only Democrats this year, which would make listing an endorsement really problematic.
However, looking over the ballot this year, and recognizing that some of the endorsement lists from statewide organizations are questionable, and the long list of appellate justices to consider for retention or rejection, I decided to provide an endorsement list after all.
If it's a Democrat, it's a recommendation, not an endorsement.
So, here goes!
Every candidate and office is listed in the order that they appear on my ballot, so please forgive me if the list order seems strange or odd.
1. El Camino Community College Board Member, Trustee Area 5
Keicy Chung
She's a business owner who wants to expand applied tech and trade employment. The opponent is a proud member of her local PTA, which is an automatic red flag for me.
State Senator, 24th District
Brian Goldsmith
This race has two Democrats in it, so it's a clothespin vote. Goldsmith has been endorsed by Nathan Hochman, and he's been focusing on transparency and quality-of-life issues in his ad campaigns. I also have no problem with his receiving funding from tech corporations supporting data centers. Creating more AI hardware is a good thing.
His opponent is an out LGBT activist from West Hollywood. That is an automatic NO for me.
State Assembly, 66th District
Paul Seo
This race is a bitter disappointment. We have two Democrats in the Top Two because George Barks spoiled the preferred Republican candidate Jessica Maldonado's chances. He jumped into the race at the last minute, thus splitting the vote. Very disappointing.
We have to stop Berniecrat (and racist) Sara Deen from getting the assembly seat. Hold your nose and vote for Seo, who has a military and law enforcement background.
United States Representative, 36th District
No Endorsement
At first, I enthusiastically supported Houston Brignano. He was endorsed by the CRA and promoted by Pastor Derrick Gates.
After the primary, he received the endorsement of the Log Cabin "Republicans."
This is not conservative at all. This is a betrayal. I wrote Houston my opposition to this endorsement, and he just made excuses.
I cannot reward betrayal, and I cannot support a candidate promoted by a Pastor who then turns around and accepts the endorsement from an anti-Christian, anti-family hate group.
County Sheriff
Alex Villanueva
I voted for him when he was a registered Democrat in the primary and the general election during Election 2022 because he took a stand against mask mandates and COVID-19 lockdowns. He is now a Republican, and I am voting for him again. Robert Luna is a disaster to the LA County Sheriff's Department, a woke leader who kowtows to the LA County Board of Supervisors and refuses to take a stand against the corruption and general cultural malaise overtaking the county. An unprecedented number of sheriff's deputies have committed suicide or left the department because of Luna's mishandling.
Judicial Seats
Office 64 -- Write In Larry Elder
Both judicial candidates are so awful, so woke, so unqualified that I cannot vote for either of them.
Office 65 -- Anna Slotky Reitano
She has a broad array of sound endorsements, including the SoCal News Group. I will trust their judgment on this judicial nominee.
This measure seemed good at first because it restricts bargaining power for some public jobs in the county. However, this measure would extended collective bargaining for the remaining public employees so that the county cannot force its best, final offer on those unions. The measure has too much sleight-of-hand for my taste, and the unions most likely pressed for this measure so that they could extend negotiations to an arbitration board and get more money.
County Measure E
NO
This proposal expands the oversight bureaucracy. We don't need more investigators or quality control officers. We need less government. Period.
Governor
Steve Hilton
Yes, I wanted Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco, but I pledged to vote for the GOP nominee come November, no matter who. I even told Hilton that at the CRA Convention in February that I would vote for him.
On another note, while his staffer tried to protect him from my questions, Hilton approached me directly and said, "Look, I know you're supporting the sheriff, and that's fine. What should I do differently?"
He actually wanted my thoughts on improving his chances. I respect that.
After the primary, I have noticed Hilton showing real effort. He is campaigning all over the state, putting himself in the public eye as much as possible. He's gotten plenty of great press, and he forced former AG Xavier Becerra to debate! The public, especially Republicans in California, still don't appreciate how incredible that is!
I was worried that Trump would be too liberal as President, but for both terms he has exceeded expectations. I trust Hilton will, as well.
He has my vote.
Lieutenant Governor
Gloria Romero
I have liked former state senator Gloria Romero, even when she was a Democrat. She was not crazy; she cared about school choice; and she pushed for key reforms in the state legislature.
Now she's a Republican, and she's not afraid to fight for what is best for California. She even voted for Trump, and she was not afraid to tell the public:
Secretary of State
Donald Wagner
The rest of the statewide executive offices are easy to endorse. Republican all the way, but it's worth adding a little to convince anyone who is thinking about sitting out the election, or if there are independents or disaffected, open-minded Democrats who want to consider GOP options.
Don Wagner is not afraid to meet with small groups or large. He has attended a number of picnics to meet with the people. He fought against vaccine passport proposals in Orange County. He wanted to take a stand against SB 54 when he served on the Irvine City Council.
Controller
Herb Morgan
I just found out that the McClatchy News Group, which owns the Sacramento Bee, has endorsed Morgan for State Controller.
That alone should encourage everyone to vote for him.
He's a conservative committed to rooting out corruption and waste. He wants to audit all the state finances. He has a plan, and he's committed to getting it done.
Treasurer
Heather Hawks
I have nothing extra to add besides the fact that she has business experience, which her opponent was the Lieutenant Governor who couldn't compete for Governor!
Attorney General
Michael Gates
Michael Gates is the celebrated city attorney for Huntington Beach. He has led multiple fights to secure the vote, protect the city, and protect children from predators and perversion in the classroom.
He's a true zealous advocate who will fight for the best for California.
Insurance Commissioner
Ben Allen
This is another clothespin vote, since two Democrats made it into the Top Two.
Jane Kim is a Berniecrat, and Bernie Sanders will be holding rally for her in Los Angeles on October 5th, 2026. We need to stop a crypto-communist from taking over the insurance industry in our state.
State Senator Ben Allen is an outlandish progressive, but he will not be as crazy. He fought for local control in the South Bay regarding housing issues, and he helped push back on the "conversion therapy" ban somewhat in 2018. I have met him one time, and in 2015 he worked with Republican State Assemblyman David Hadley to pass school choice for military families in the state of California.
Board of Equalization, Third District
Mike Gipson
This is another clothespin vote between two Democrats. Mike Gipson is the establishment pick with all the money and power behind him from every political interest in the state. A Democratic political consultant informed me that he is functionally illiterate. He can sound out words, but he has no idea what he has read.
But the alternative is worse. Sukaton is a Bernie Bro. We need to stop the communists at all costs.
State Superintendent of Schools
Sonja Shaw
She's awesome! She has been the most outspoken fighter for kids across the state, including no boys in girls' sports or spaces, no keeping secrets from parents, and focusing on education, not indoctrination. The Democratic Party is scared of this woman, and Governor Gavin Newsom took extraordinary steps to limit her power should she get elected.
She's a threat to the corrupt, child-abusing status quo. We need her for State Superintendent!
Statewide Propositions
One --- NO!
No bonds. NONE! EVER!
Two --- NO!
The argument for an increased rainy day fund is really an argument to increase spending and taxes. NO!
Three -- NO!
It's an extension of taxes previously passed by initiative. We need to stop these taxes!
Four --- NO!
Tax dollars should not be used for campaigns. You want to run for office? You spend your money or raise the money through private donations.
Five --- NO!
This initiative aims to gut the voters' recall power. Don't let them do it!
Thirty-Seven --- NO!
The state should not be creating loan programs for anyone or anything. You want to buy a home? Save your money; don't spend mine!
Thirty-Eight --- NO!
I am disagreeing with Reform California and other organizations on this one. Public-Private partnerships should not be getting our money. I don't care what the research is for; California is going broke, and we need to stop spending we don't even have.
Thirty-Nine --- YES!
If you cannot prove that you are a citizen, you should not vote. Voter ID is a necessity, and even third-world countries like India require voter ID before citizens can vote. The heading for this initiative is not confusing to me, and no one but citizens should vote, and they should prove they are citizens to vote.
Forty --- NO!
This is the billionaire's tax that will turn into another middle-class tax. NO!
Forty-One -- YES!
Stops taxes. How can you not like that?
Forty-Two --- YES!
Stops taxes. How can you not like that?
Forty-Three -- YES!
This initiative would raise the threshold to pass bonds in municipal, county, and other elections. I completely support this. Only those who pay taxes should be voting on whether to raise taxes. Bonds and other tax hikes at the municipal level should require massive buy-in before passage. Local governments should focus more on balancing their budgets and cutting spending rather than taking more from taxpayers.
Forty-Four -- NO!
This measure wants to layer more red tape and fines on community health clinics, which are suffering from lack of funding as it is, plus all the federal Medicare and Medicaid fraud! We don't need to make their operation and governance any more difficult.
Forty-Five --- YES!
This measure will put a stop to the CEQA abuses that labor unions and corporate interests rely on to stop building projects.
State Judicial Seats
These can be considerably complicated, and California has a unique system in which the governor appoints the State Supreme Court and appellate court justices, but we the people can vote to retain or reject them.
My criteria was basic: was the judge or justice first appointed by a Republican? If so, I vote to Retain. If not, I vote to Reject.
I am urging voters to RETAIN THESE TWO JUSTICES ONLY, AND REJECT ALL THE OTHERS
RETAIN:
Brian Hoffstadt
He was appointed by Governor Schwarzenegger, and he clerked for Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. He's not a radical or even a Democrat, I presume, based on his resume and first appointment.
Kenneth Yegan
He was appointed by George Dukmeijian, and his first appointment was in 1990! He's old-school, as far as I'm concerned.
California has a chance to break the cycle of Democratic
doom and destruction.
A chance, but not a certainty. Election 2026 has been awash
in good polls, bad polls, and lots of politicians trying to get a win over
entrenched and endangered incumbents.
The California Governor’s race is a contest of a different
sort.
For the last three election cycles, there were no nationally
broadcast debates between the two candidates running in the general. From 2014,
in which Governor Brown was all but assured re-election and participated in a
small debate, to 2018 and 2022, in which Gavin Newsom didn’t bother with much
of a major debate, either, since he was assured victory.
This year, though, things are different.
Eight years of Gavin Newsom have waged their fair share of
destruction.
For the first time in 16 years, the Republicans have a
somewhat conservative candidate who is not afraid to confront bad leadership
while making inroads to bring in conservatives as well as reach independents
and disaffected Democrats.
I supported Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco, and I was
crestfallen that he didn’t make it into the Top Two. I was worried that Steve
Hilton, the GOP nominee this cycle, would be another lame liberal who would
disappear after the primary, having made the consultants and media class happy
while doing nothing for the grassroots and the generic voters.
Hilton has happily surprised me. He has been campaigning
much harder than previous Republican statewide candidates. He has connected
with everyday voters, proposed unique policies, and has managed to keep his
name in the press and the limelight.
He’s articulate, prepared to respond to any question or
challenge. When I confronted him over some of his views in years past, he
didn’t shy away from me. A few minutes later, he accepted that I was supporting
his opponent, but he asked me what he could do to improve his campaign anyway.
He also spoke on multiple podcasts and attended every
debate. Those smart moves helped assure his ascent to the general election.
He has dogged his Democratic opponent, former Congressman,
California Attorney General, and Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier
Becerra over his frequent failures as a politician. The negatives following
Becerra over his mismanagement and loss of hundreds of thousands of migrant
children at the border have dragged down his campaign.
Hilton has done such a superb job of maintaining the
pressure that Becerra conceded to a live, nationally televised debate. This
didn’t happen in the three previous election cycles. I knew this would be a win
for Hilton because I spoke to a previous Republican challenger who ran against
Becerra when he was a Congressman from Downtown Los Angeles. He was so
ill-prepared and outmatched, that most of the audience acknowledged the
Republican as the better of the two. Not that it matters, though, since Becerra
continued to get elected by double digits in supermajority Democratic Downtown
LA.
This year, Californians are open to change for a change.
Democrats who had gladly (blindly) voted for Newsom have told Hilton that they
will vote for him this time around. They don’t want repeat offenders released
onto the streets. They want to end the homelessness crisis with enforcement and
accountability. They want affordable housing, gas, and groceries.
They want a state that works again, and Hilton has the plans
and the panache to make it all happen.
In the debate on September 30th, 2026, Hilton
showed his suave command of the issues while rebuffing Becerra’s desperate
attacks.
Hilton talked about how Democrats are the ones who created all
of California’s problems. They have controlled all the levers of state
government power for the last sixteen years. Does anyone think that the same
people can fix them?
Becerra talked about red tape and other hazy issues as the
real problem, combined with no ability to call out the real culprits.
On AI regulation and expansion, Hilton mentioned that even though
the major AI firms are based in California, Texas and Arizona are getting all
the business and revenue, while California keeps losing money as more
businesses flee. Hilton also suggested that AI regulation should protect
children above all, and it should be banned in the classroom because students
have become so accustomed to relying on Grok, ChatGPT, etc., to answer all the
questions that their learning has been stunted.
Becerra claimed to care about protecting jobs, when in reality,
he’s just kissing up to the California labor unions endorsing his campaign, who
don’t want innovation cutting into their power.
As expected, Becerra hid behind Donald Trump throughout the
entire debate, chanting “Trump” as a distraction to throw Hilton off. It didn’t
work, and it was the best he had.
Hilton jabs Becerra with slurs and insults from his
Democratic colleagues during his time in the Biden Administration, Susan Rice’s
epithets “Idiot” and “B*tch A--.” Those insults stung Becerra and elicited some
shock and laughter from the public, but will it sway voters to the GOP in
November?
On data centers (as contrived an issue as any other), Hilton
talked about construction for jobs, while Becerra worried about the energy and
resource costs to the state. California has been wasting millions of gallons of
water per year under his watch, and now he cares about water usage?
Immigration came up, as well. CNN moderator Jake Tapper deserves
credit for comparing illegal crossings under Biden vs. Trump 2.0. Becerra had
to admit (subtly) that Biden did a bad job, and Trump did a better job. He
conceded that we need a secure border, but then attacked Hilton for only
wanting white immigrants while seeking to deport non-whites like himself: The
race card, the last refuge of a desperate Democratic scoundrel.
Hilton rebuked him for that crass attack, then stated that
he would work with the loopholes in the state’s sanctuary state law to deport
the serious criminals in the state. I wish Hilton would get rid of all the
illegals, but I suppose he’s picking his fights now to get the job done once in
office.
In one of his strongest hits, Hilton slams Becerra for losing
400k migrant children into the hands of traffickers because he refused to
control the border. New
York Times reported on this massive failure, and Becerra was at a loss.
Other questions touched on the “climate crisis” (leading
question), election integrity, vaccines, and healthcare. Becerra tried to turn
the healthcare question into an abortion issue, but to her credit, Dana Bash
stopped Becerra from talking about abortion and told him to focus on
healthcare. CNN admits that abortion is not healthcare. WOW!
CNN then asked about homelessness, a particularly sticky
issue for California. Tapper and Bash reported on homelessness across the
country during Becerra’s tenure as HHS Secretary!
He also gave Newsom an A for handling homelessness. Oh
brother!
At the end of the
debate, Becerra earned an F, and Hilton was the clear winner. No guarantees
that scoring a media victory will translate into a Hilton victory come
November. Democratic voters in California have remained committed because of
“Orange Man Bad,” and they probably won’t abandon their national obsession to
improve their state.
Ynon Kreiz (co-CEO) and David Ellison (just CEO) of Paramount-Warner Bros. (Getty Images)
After a year of bids, lawsuits, and 12 attorneys general, the only thing left between Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery is a calendar. On Wednesday, a federal judge approved the company's settlement with the states that sued to block the $111B merger, and the close is tentatively set for Tuesday, Oct. 6. The exec shuffle (so far):
Minutes after the ruling, David Ellison named outgoing Mattel boss Ynon Kreiz co-CEO. Ellison keeps strategy and creative, Kreiz runs day-to-day operations, and every business reports to both. It's a co-CEO arrangement where only one of them has the "co."
Cindy Holland stepped down as Paramount's streaming chief on Tuesday, leaving HBO boss Casey Bloys poised to run the combined streaming operation.
Ellison has reportedly asked CNN CEO Mark Thompson to stay, though no deal is done (Thompson wants assurances of editorial autonomy).
Warner Bros. film chiefs Mike De Luca and Pam Abdy are reportedly on their way out, with Paramount's Josh Greenstein and Dana Goldberg expected to oversee both studios. Nothing's official yet.
WBD CEO David Zaslav is expected to exit with more than $550M in stock and cash. Quite the parting gift.
Who's Kreiz? A veteran operator with 30+ years in media. He co-founded Fox Kids Europe, ran Endemol, and sold Maker Studios to Disney for $500M before taking over Mattel in 2018. There, he pushed the toymaker into Hollywood with 'Barbie' as the breakout (still Warner Bros.' highest-grossing film ever). Ellison had reportedly been courting him for months.
Looking ahead… Ellison still has to name the company. (The internet has offered "WarnaMount" and "ParaBros" free of charge.) He also has to sort out multiple studios and 50+ cable networks, and the $6B in promised cost savings will likely fall to Kreiz, who earned a cost-cutter reputation at Mattel. The org chart drama is just getting started.
Galatians 4:6 - And because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying out, “Abba, Father!
Have you ever realized that God was never known as “Father” until Jesus came to earth and revealed Him as such? In His prayer to His Father, Jesus said, “And I have declared to them Your Name, and will declare it, that the love with which You loved Me may be in them, and I in them” (John 17:26). What name was Jesus referring to? It was the name “Father.” If there was anything close to Jesus’ heart, it was to introduce God as “Father” to us.
In the Bible, Jesus said, “Therefore, do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’…For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things” (Matthew 6:31–32). Once, He said, “If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask Him!” (Matthew 7:11).
Jesus wants you to always have this image of God in your mind—that He is your Abba, Father. Why? Because He wants you to know that there is nothing more important or too insignificant for the Father when it comes to His children.
Imagine a father playing with his five-year-old son, when he notices a splinter embedded in his little boy’s thumb. The concerned father asks, “When did you get this?”
“A few days ago,” the boy answers.
“Why didn’t you tell Daddy about it?”
“I thought you were too busy and that I shouldn’t bother you.”
If you were that father, wouldn’t it break your heart to hear your child say this to you?
A splinter in one’s thumb may be a small thing, but there is nothing too small when it concerns your child because if it affects him, it affects you too. Now, no matter how old you are today, you are still God’s child, so don’t think that your problem is too small for God. If it is important to you, it is important to your Father too. Beloved, always remember that He is your Abba, Father!
In
a previous article, I reflected on the first anniversary of Charlie Kirk’s
death. With the passage of time, it’s appropriate to reflect on why his legacy
was so powerful and controversial, even among conservatives.
Charlie Kirk was not just an incredible organizer, activist,
minister, and speaker.
We need to recognize that he made some bold advancements in
conservative political philosophy.
There have been many articles written about Charlie Kirk's
incredible personality, charisma, energy, and political drive. Not as much
attention has been paid to the work and the writing that he did.
In his final book, Right Wing Revolution, he released
numerous seeds of truth, conservative insight, and common-sense campaign and
culture war advice that a proper review and discussion merit their own
column.
I want to start with one of his most controversial
assertions: his opposition to the Civil Rights Act. In fact, he spoke against
all the Civil Rights Acts that were passed in the 1960s. Starting with the
warnings of Barry Goldwater, the Republican US senator who suffered a landslide
loss to Lyndon Baines Johnson in the 1954, 1964 presidential election, Kirk
outlined how the fundamental statutes of the Civil Rights Act had set the stage
for DEI, critical race theory, affirmative action, systemic racism, and all the
other culture war problems that the United States is facing.
This is a necessary but difficult topic to tackle. US Senate
candidate Rand Paul of Kentucky stated plainly that the Civil Rights Act should
be repealed, and straightaway he had to walk back those remarks for fear of
risking the US Senate seat that year, 2010. Washington Post columnist George
Will mocked Rand Paul, reminding him that he was running a campaign for the US
Senate, not hosting a seminar on libertarianism.
15 years later, the United States has witnessed the
harrowing consequences of affirmative action, critical race theory, diversity,
equity and inclusion policies and programs, and ultimately the woke agenda,
which has metastasized from the whole civil rights morass, crowding out natural
rights, freedom of speech, and economic liberty. The Right and the rest of the
country are recognizing that the Civil Rights Act of the 1960s has been
distorted. Now, under the guise of civil rights, schools and other facilities
are forced to allow men into women's sports and spaces. The Supreme Court has
even perversely ruled (Clayton v. Bostock) that Title 9 of the Civil
Rights Act of 1964, when it speaks to no discrimination based on sex, must also
include sexual orientation and gender identity. Such broad constructions have
undermined our constitutional liberties and our natural rights. They have also
created unprecedented litigation and government bureaucracy.
Following in line with the assertion challenging the Civil
Rights Act and Movement, the real greater activist leader who deserves our
respect is Charlie Kirk. He should replace Martin Luther King Jr. The martyred
Civil Rights Icon led a disordered private life, which has become very public.
Martin Luther King Jr was not a Christian in any real sense. He did not believe
in the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. He subscribed to communist
theories, and he also believed in the redistribution of wealth. The ample
evidence and documentation prove that Dr. King plagiarized his dissertation. He
did not even write the book Letters from a Birmingham Jail, nor did he
write his “I Have a Dream” speech.
When the United States Congress put forward legislation to
turn Martin Luther King Jr.'s Jr birthday into a holiday, President Ronald
Reagan was initially hesitant. There was a great deal of FBI evidence classified
about MLK. President Trump just released everything, exposing Martin Luther
King Jr not only as a moral failure, but also exploding the mythology around
him. King did not believe that all men are created equal. He favored
reparations, racial quotas, and affirmative action.
King’s commitments to government-driven social justice of
these pronouncements run contrary to the American constitutional order. The
United States has been fed a lie, and it’s time to destroy the MLK idol
Kirk was not afraid to crush the MLK/Civil Rights sacred
cows. He even referenced the controversial conservative polemicist in Right
Wing Revolution, Samuel Francis, who had issued broad criticisms of Martin
Luther King Jr. and the conservative movement as a whole, which was tripping
over itself to prove that they were “not racist.” He noticed how, instead of
dismantling the New Deal welfare state and restoring America’s constitutional
norms, i.e., conserving, political conservatives had settled for merely
reforming, streamlining, and optimizing the bureaucratic overgrowth of the federal
government. Furthermore, conservatives had gotten used to the left-wing power
structures winning the culture, and conservatives took no steps to change them.
Sam Francis called conservatives “beautiful losers,” content to lose gracefully
rather than fight and win the culture war.
Kirk quoted Sam Francis’ damning phrase “beautiful losers.”
Charlie Kirk also established a robust, intellectually honest, consistent
conservatism. But unlike Sam Francis, who tottered into the white version
of Martin Luther King’s racialism, Kirk rejected all racialism, ethnocentrism,
and white nationalism as conservative fundamentals. He restored a
recognition of the laws of nature and nature's God. He restored and rigorously
upheld a return to biblical values in our country. He
dared to articulate the truth that race is a social construct, not grounded
in genetic code or biological trace.
For too long, conservatives have focused on ideological
talking points, intellectual discussions, or collectivist meanderings. Charlie
Kirk made conservatism active, and he made it radical and intriguing enough
that younger generations wanted to get involved!
In his last book, Kirk shook conservatives by the shoulders,
telling all of us to pay attention to the increased victories that conservatives
have achieved. He further urged us to look at the extensive victories that
President Trump had accomplished, not just in revitalizing the Republican
Party, not just in broadening their appeal to different ethnic groups once
thought untouchable and holy belonging to the Democratic Party, but in how
Trump showed that they could take over the Supreme Court and start reshaping
the culture.
Charlie Kirk embodied and emboldened a broad vision for
American conservatism: That we could actually conserve our Republic, our
natural rights, our constitutional order, and most importantly, our Judeo-Christian
heritage.
Some of these letters make me laugh out loud. They can talk about how bad Trump is all
they want and I don't care.
So much rambling implies emotion more than reason, i.e. wokeness on steroids.
I hope you get as much of a laugh out of this as I did.
Dear Mr. Schaper : Pardon me for being brutally frank , but your hymn of praise to Trump in Town Hall today is mind-bogglingly stupid !
Donald Trump is by far the worst president in US history . None of our previous chief executives
has ever come remotely close to doing a job as atrocious as the mango Mussolini has been doing. He is the most corrupt, incompetent , clueless , inept , unfit, unqualified , unethical , unprincipled ,
dangerous, evil , egotistical , narcissistic , megalomaniacal , deranged lunatic with delusions of grandeur ( and competence) , arrogant , lecherous , classless , brainless, mindless , heartless , soulless , unhinged , despicable , pompous ass and horse's ass ever to be elected president of the United States .
Donald Trump is a total scoundrel without a shred of courage , humility , self control , discipline , sound judgment , ability to take any responsibility for his countless crimes and misdeeds not only as president , as a businessman and in private life , a dangerous malignant narcissistic sociopath and a pathological liar .
On January 6, 2021 , he committed the worst act of treason in US history by inciting a bloody insurrection in Washington with the insane goal of having himself illegally and unconstitutionally reinstated as president despite the fact that he KNEW that he had lost the 2020 election to Joe Biden , who was infinitely better qualified to be president , did a vastly better job and who is also an infinitely better man than Trump will ever be .
Trump lied through his teeth, claiming with absolutely no evidence that the Democrats had allegedly "stolen " the election from him .
And so many naive, gullible and clueless private citizens and right-wing extremist bloggers and commentators believed him and still do . Let's face it : Trump is nothing but a glorified con man and grifter who lied and cheated his way to being elected twice , aided and abetted by his slimy cronies in the private sector and assorted GOP members of congress . His first term weas awful enough but his second has been far worse .
Trump does not believe in Democracy , progress , justice, equality and rule of law and has been using the office of the presidency not to serve the American people but to enrich himself at the expense of those he allegedly serves .
Trump is a power-hungry would be fascist dictator of America who has abused his authority as president to a degree none of his predecessors has ever come even remotely close to doing . Even worse , he is a notorious sexual predator who has actually RAPED numerous women and actually raped girls as young as 13 ! on the private island owned by his late, unlamented pal Jeffrey Epstein .
We now have pedophile in the White House ! Trump was also probably the most corrupt, reckless and wasteful businessman in the history of business in America ,
He has never had a single successful business and all of his casinos went under . Approximately 1,500 lawsuits have been filed against him and as a housing developer in New York he discriminated against blacks who sought to buy homes from him and was sued by them .
Trump opened up the bogus "Trump University " and had to pay millions in reparations . I've barely scratched the surface of all the terrible things has done over the years . Richard Nixon was a president who became a criminal . Donald Trump is a criminal who became a president .
And since January 2025 Trump has done a staggering amount of damage to the US economy while claiming it is now better than ever . His idiotic tariffs have not only caused economic catastrophes in the US but worldwide .
He IS responsible for the impossibly high prices of gasoline and groceries etc .
Trump's illegal , unconstitutional , disastrous and idiotic war on Iran has caused the Strait of Hormuz to be closed . And Iran does is nowhere near having nuclear weapons . This is barely the tip of the iceberg when it comes to all the ways the criminal Trump regime has been screwing up America and the world .
The Trump cabinet , staff and advisors are a collection of some of the worst people in America . Trump did not choose them based on their qualifications , experience and abilities but because he knew they would be nothing but his derriere-kissing yes men and women .
Stephen Miller , Tom Homan, Kash Patel , Pete Hegseth , Todd Blanche , RFK Jr and the others ? This is the worst presidential team ever .
And there are absolutely no "communists " in the Democratic party or the Democratic Socialists of America . Mayor Mamdani . Joe Biden , Kamala Harris , Barack and Michelle Obama, Bill and Hillary Clinton , Chuck Schumer , Alexandria Ocasio -Cortez and Bernie Sanders ? Not communists at all . The Democratic party doesn't even have a far left wing .
But the Republicans , whom I call the REPUGNICAN party a.k.a . the GOP ( gross old perverts ) has gone so far to the right it only makes the Democrats kook far left in comparison to many Americans . The GOP has hit rock bottom and there is not a single person in it anymore with any brains, decency , integrity , common sense , competence or wisdom .
And it's absolutely terrifying to realize that the party does not have a single potential presidential candidate who would be an improvement over Trump . There is hardly a single Republican who does not belong either in prison , a mental institution or a home for the retarded ,'
Trump is no more fit to be president than a severely retarded person is qualified to teach nuclear physics at Harvard or MIT . Furthermore , what little mind he had to begin with has been destroyed by dementia .
Instead of speaking intelligently and coherently , Trump babbles idiotically . Why are so many Americans blind to this obvious fact ? His recent speech at the UN was a self-congratulatory pack of lies No one among the audience of diplomats could take anything he said seriously .
Trump should never even have been allowed to rub for president in 2024 , or 2020 and 2016 . He belongs in a mental institution, not the White House . but the Republicans in congress have been protecting him for ten years .
I don't know about you but I don't hate Trump . I FEAR him . And so do millions of other Americans , including so many Americans who have always voted Republican but now realize how incredibly foolish they were .
Please excuse this very long email, but I had to say all these things . PLEASE - wake up ! Donald Trump is an existential threat not only to the US but the entire planet ,
Robert Berger , a frightened American patriot and liberal .
