'We Are the Storm'
The friends and wife of Charlie Kirk honored his life and legacy during an unprecedented memorial service Sunday in Arizona, his adopted home state. But my pick to click is Stephen Miller.
Happy Monday!
Like most of you, I spent a good part of the afternoon watching the tribute to Charlie Kirk, who was assassinated on September 10 in Utah. (Still hard to type those words.)
Reports indicate people started lining up in the wee hours of the morning on Sunday hoping to nab a seat in the State Farm Stadium, home of the Arizona Cardinals football team. Mourners eventually filled every seat in the 60,000-seat arena while others watched from overflow areas.
Video montages of Charlie’s life told the story of the kid from suburban Chicago who started the greatest youth political movement in modern times, inspired millions to get involved, got married and became a father relatively young (for this generation at least), and helped Donald Trump win re-election last year.
Speakers included his incredibly courageous and devout wife, who publicly proclaimed her forgiveness of the man who murdered Charlie, Vice President JD Vance, Tucker Carlson, Jack Posobiec, and Donald Trump, Jr. among others. The president closed the tribute by describing Charlie, whom he considered like a son, as “a martyr…for American freedom.”
As I watched the speakers offer tender and even funny recollections of their experiences with Charlie while emphasizing his devotion to Christianity, I couldn’t help but wonder how many people, especially teens and young adults, were hearing about the power of faith for the first time? How many were hearing Christian music—the performance of “The Blessing” was mesmerizing and so on point for Charlie’s promotion of faith and family—for the first time, finding themselves unexpectedly moved by it? How many felt an emptiness in their heart momentarily filled in a way that only faith and love and hope can?
Many observed, either on stage or in social media posts, how they felt the hand of God in the arena. My hope is the hand of God extended across the land, touching those who need it most, particularly our youngest generation besieged by loneliness, despair, hopelessness, and fear. And if reporting is accurate, attendance at church since Charlie’s murder skyrocketed as have purchases of the Bible along with other indications of a renewed, or new, interest in Christianity.
But there was some fire and brimstone, too. My friend Jack Posobiec talked of how to fight back and save Western civilization:
But Stephen Miller, the president’s longtime advisor and dear friend of Charlie, channeled my inner most thoughts. You don’t want to miss this one:
Here is a link to the full video of the memorial tribute:
👍👍 Thanks, Julie! You’re right - the Miller segment was awesome!
One can only imagine the diaper change the Left Progressives are in need of, after yesterday. Double doses of daily SSRI and cannabis gummies, washed down with multiple glasses of a fine red wine. But, very importantly as China cracks down on religious and speech freedoms, Chairman Xi must be in a mindset of concern, imagine what he is thinking when he sees a. Stadium filled with pissed off American’s rage in their hearts and quelled by Erika Kirk saying “I forgive my husband’s killer” or words to that effect? Well ole Xi can have all the martial parades he wants but he has to be saying “Charlie Kirk has become a problem for the CCP…” How to stop a movement. Mao started one and couldn’t stop it, it rolled until 40 Million were dead. So our enemies have a problem now. Oddly one could surmise that Vladimir Putin is smiling broadly, he figures “I can do business with this crowd.” The western leaders, Stamer, Macron, Mertz, all laughed when Joe Biden literally took a dump in his pants at the Normandy celebrations, look here folks, ‘Merica is a joke! We have free run of the funny farm. If they watched 10 minutes of yesterday’s proceedings at any point, they are looking for the nearest pharmacy, and asking for a bottle of Hemlock. Their fear? What if “I am Charlie” comes to a theater near me?! News flash, it’s like the shock waves after 100 kilo tons of a nuclear weapon detonate, the blast is bad alright, the shock waves do the down range damage in 360 degrees, and then of course the radiation. It gets everything that survived the blast and the shock. It is going to get interesting…fast.