Flip Flopper in Chief
Flip Flopper in Chief
Junious Ricardo Stanton
In the
1950’s Big Joe Turner an R&B artist recorded a song entitled Flip Flop
and Fly which became popular on the R&B charts, what was called “race
music” back in the day. That song came to my mind recently when I was thinking
about Donald J. Trump. Flip Flop and Fly reminded me of Trump’s constant flip
flopping on every issue, whether it was peace to war, his on off and on-again universal
tariffs, whether he would defend the US Constitution or violate it, work with
Congress or be an autocrat; on and on.
The
American people and this nation deserve better. The world deserves better but
we are only in the first ten months of his new administration and his recent
actions do not bode well for global geopolitics, domestic tranquility, harmony
or fiscal prosperity for everyone rather than a few multi-millionaires and
billionaires.
The American Empire is in rapid decline and
the Trump presidency like those of his immediate predecessors is having a
deleterious and exacerbating impact on its decline. In a country longing for
stability, a sense of sanity, restoration of tradition and prosperity, Trump
campaigned as a peace candidate, one who was going to Make America Great Again.
People fell for his rhetoric and okey-doke. People believed his bombast, his
hyperbole that he was going to end the war in Ukraine once he was sworn in,
that he would end the slaughter, genocide and ethnic cleansing in Gaza
immediately; people actually believed him.
Thus far he has done none of this.
Trump said he was going to increase
foreign and domestic investment into America. He promised to revive American manufacturing,
increase domestic innovative industrial technology and jobs. He said he would
accomplish this within hours and days after being sworn in; and people actually
fell for his flim flam. He has done none of this; in fact his policies are
counterproductive to his promises! His
groupies and people who wanted change from the Biden fiasco overlooked Trump’s
wishy washy flip flopping and even made excuses for him.
I get it, people are afraid, COVID
took a heavy toll on our psyches, our bodies and our economic wellbeing and as
a result people were/are anxious. Inflation (the debasement of the US currency)
is steadily increasing, meanwhile people’s standard of living and life
expectancy are decreasing. I understand the frustration.
I know abrupt and rapid societal change is
stressful, especially when people feel they have had no say in the massive changes
imposed on them which are severely impacting their lives. I get it, the
fearmongering and fear porn is impacting our psyches.
COVID was/is a driving factor in
this. The societal disruptions of the lock downs, the tyrannical “sheltering in
place” orders, mandatory inoculations of what have proven to be untested,
unsafe and harmful mRNA concoctions, dividing the nation into essential and
nonessential categories was devastating.
In such a milieu, people crave
stability, a sense of certainty, they desire familiarity, what we consider
normal and we seek a return to comfortable circumstances even if they are not
the best. Many people voted for Donald Trump because somehow, they believed he
would bring back a sense of normalcy; he would restore prosperity and the
nation to greatness. They were duped.
Some rationalized their vote for Trump by
saying he was the lesser of two evils. Trump won the 2024 presidential election
in a landslide. He won both the popular and the Electoral College vote
decidedly and decisively. For whatever reasons Donald Trump was reelected
president.
We the people, are reaping the whirlwind of his
election. The fact of the matter is, Trump’s flip-flopping and wishy washiness
are not providing his MAGA groupies nor anyone else a sense of comfort,
confidence and assurance things are going to be better despite what the
controlled media says.
Historically humans turn to their
leaders for answers and confidence, we expect them to be viral, vibrant and
vital. But with Trump, this is problematic. His constant flip flopping is a
clear sign of mental instability, and indecisiveness. Astute people recognize
his flip- flopping wishy washiness as a strong indication Trump is suffering
from major psychological problems and issues.
Trump’s flip flopping poses a clear
and present danger. His flip-flopping is hurting US farmers due to his
foolhardy trade and currency wars. His universal tariffs, his threats and warmongering
will have dire consequences. America’s allies are aghast at his pronouncements
and flip flopping. The Global South Globally is joining together to counter his
wishy-washy pronouncements and policies. Domestically, overstepping the bounds
of his office will have ominous consequences and his unconstitutional actions
are reshaping the political, economic and social landscape.
The Law of Consequences is always in operation;
it is universal, immutable and inescapable. Since it is a spiritual law, neither
Trump’s bombast and narcissism, the rhetoric of his party nor the plutocrats’
agenda can/will alter its reality! The
question for us is, what will the consequences of Trump’s flip flopping be, how
will they play out in the national and international stage? Time will tell. Be assured his flip flopping
does not bode well for an empire in decline.
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Omnicide
Omnicide
Junious Ricardo Stanton
This may be
news to some of you but humanity finds itself in a protracted, continuous war
in which everything and I mean everything, is weaponized for use against us.
Some call this Omniwar; I call it Omnicide which is defined as: the
multifaceted destruction of all life; human, plant and animal by human means. The objective of war is conquest, subjugation
and control. As we see in Gaza the goal there is genocide and ethnic cleansing.
No amount of propaganda and disinformation can alter this truth. This is
exactly what is happening to humanity on a global scale but on a more subtle
level!
While this idea may seem farfetched
or hyperbolic this is indeed what is happening. Life itself is under attack
under the guise of modernity, progress and human innovation. Not only is life
under attack, everything is being weaponized against us, the environment, food,
the media, our institutions and the government. It is an all-out blitz campaign
that includes ecocide, menticide, massive slaughter through wars, planned
famines, economic and political coup d’états, geoengineering and the systemic
altering of the natural order!
We should neither
be shocked nor surprised at what I am saying. Look at human history, we have seen humans
willfully slaughter whole species of animals like the Euro-Americas did the
buffalo in North America or what their kin did to the whales, Mexican Grizzly
Bears and Tasmania Tiger for a few of hundreds of examples.
We’ve seen and experienced humans
waging incessant wars that benefited a select few while doing irreparable harm
to humans, animals and the environment. Now this pattern has been accelerated
and ramped up through the use of modern technology driven by a psychopathic and
megalomaniacal mindset.
Humans are also responsible for knowingly
killing off myriad species of plants via deforestation, soil depletion,
poisoning, genetically modified organicisms which cause massive and wanton
ecological disruption. GMOs are now ubiquitous. The big money behind them have
successfully censored and suppressed the truth about the adverse impact of
GMOs. https://www.nongmoproject.org/blog/how-do-gmos-affect-biodiversity/.
This type
of killing was/is being done for numerous reasons: to enable the theft of
lands, the altering of the natural order, greed, ignorance but most importantly
a mindset of wanton indifference and callousness. Today this omnicide is taking
on a whole new focus; the violation of the natural order by psychopathic
megalomaniacs who see themselves akin to Lucifer the Biblical fallen angel who imagined
he could defy, defeat and supplant THE CREATOR.
These modern Luciferians are
arduously at work totally committed to creating and establishing a brave new
world order hellscape which includes the elimination of billions of human
beings! They know the consequences of their actions are evil and harmful to the
planet but they just don’t care. https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/324576#cons
Of courses
they are not going to tell us they deliberately plan to kill billions of us
although they openly say this among themselves. Even though we are in the midst
of this omnicide campaign, we have been duped into thinking it is not happening
and worse, we cooperate with their agenda. For example, in America alone
millions of souls are killed via abortion every year because we have been
programmed and duped to believe abortion is a natural right and how dare anyone
suggest it is part of a global depopulation plan. The fact of the matter is
abortion is a key plank in the global depopulation plan. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0306335621001503
Of course they don’t call it that,
they talk about sustainability, bridging the income, wealth and quality of life
inequality gaps that currently exist; but the bottom line is they want to
reduce the number of humans on this planet and one way is through abortion, sterilization
and contraceptives. https://www.resilience.org/stories/2020-09-23/bill-gates-global-agenda-and-how-we-can-resist-his-war-on-life/
Not
satisfied to stifle human reproduction using contraceptives, sterilization and
abortion, the globalists are pushing extremely dystopian measures such as
transhumanism, bio-digital convergence (melding humans with machines), gene
editing as well as the LBGTQ+ agenda. Much of their horrific agenda is hidden,
using noble sounding words to conceal their real agendas and plans. We have to
learn from history and focus on the consequences of behavior not their lofty
words! While they say one thing, they do another and their words do not match
their actions.
Earlier, I
mentioned menticide the deliberate destruction of a people’s mind. Through
indoctrination, constant mind entrainment and propaganda we are being programmed
and subjected to a deliberate psychological operation whereby an alternative
reality, a false narrative, traditional humanitarian values are being
supplanted and replaced by anti-life depravity under the guise of “modernity,
progress and innovation”; all of which has been created to manipulate us into
acquiescing to their Luciferian agenda.
It is not
merely one thing, it is a panoply of multifaceted weaponization designed to either
kill or enslave us in a techno-feudalistic hellscape the Luciferians are
constructing as we speak. https://theglobalelite.org/will-humanity-survive-global-elites-depopulation-agenda/
Wake up!
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We're Condemned to Repeat the Past
We’re Condemned to Repeat the Past
Junious Ricardo Stanton
A Spanish
philosopher named George Santayana said, “Those who cannot remember the past are
condemned to repeat it.” We are witnessing this axiom playing out in front of
our eyes in real time on a daily basis. We are being conditioned through
propaganda and sophisticated mind entrainment to have short attention spans and
memories. The powers who shouldn’t be want to keep us as my friend Chatherine
Austin Fitts says, like mushrooms, in the dark and feed a constant diet of cow
manure. They want to stifle our critical thinking and common-sense approach to
living.
As we scan
our current socio-economic-geo-political landscape we see many parallels to fairly
recent and ancient history but because we have been fed cow dung, kept int the
dark and gaslit we don’t remember the past or its significance to the present.
We have been subjected to an induced amnesia via mind control, miseducation and
propaganda.
A case in
point is our current political milieu where we have a president, who took an
oath to uphold the US Constitution and abide by its separation of powers and
assigned duties yet sets policy using executive orders, to bypass the
Constitution and the role and duties of the legislative branch! To be fair this
is not all Trump’s doing nor is he the first to do it. The US Congress has long
abandoned and abdicated any pretext of doing the people’s bidding and business.
For the most part they are crass money grubbing grifters for hire to the
highest bidder willing to stuff their campaign coffers and political action
committees with unlimited amounts of cash, perks and bribes.
The US Supreme Court exacerbated this trend by
ruling in a landmark case entitled Citizens United v the Federal Election
Commission (FEC) that what used to be called “dark money” can now be given
in unlimited sums to candidates and restrictions on campaign contributions by
corporations, unions and other collective entities are a violation of the First
Amendment’s free speech clause!? They actually ruled huge corporate donations
do not lead to corruption or the appearance of corruption!?
One justice wrote that disclosure requirements
dampen free speech and should be invalidated altogether! Yes, they actually
wrote that in a 5-4 decision with a straight face! That 2010 decision became
law and has had and is having a profound impact on elections ever since. You
can’t make this stuff up.
Obviously,
justice Kennedy, joined by Chief Justice Roberts and Justices Scalia, Alito,
and Thomas forgot history. Apparently, they were oblivious to the past, and
lost all common sense and connection to reality. Are they saying unrestricted and
unlimited infusions of campaign funding by corporations, unions and organized
special interest groups like the Military Industrial Complex, Big Pharma or the
Zionists don’t set a dangerous precedent; or that huge infusions of cash in
election campaigns won’t outweigh the smaller contributions of individuals,
poorer and less organized groups? Clearly, they are neither students of human
nature nor history.
Obviously,
they forgot the corruption of the Harding Administration’s Teapot Doom
Scandal, New York’s Tammany Hall, or the myriad examples of how
money influences elections as well as policy. Some time when you have a few
moments to spare log onto https://www.opensecrets.org/news/reports/a-decade-under-citizens-united to follow
the money and see just how massive money donations influences local, state and
national elections.
During Trump’s first administration his bone
headed trade wars and tariffs severely hurt US farmers. They lost the China
market for their soybeans. Trump was forced to quietly bail them out. The exact
same this is happening with his latest insane universal tariffs. https://citizenwatchreport.com/tariffs-are-killing-farmers-bailout-is-complicated/
History is repeating.
Keep in mind, now we are experiencing a
situation where Donald Trump’s family is reaping huge benefits from him being in
the White House just as Joe Biden’s family did when he was president. That is
how the game is played. It is a bipartisan thing and since we have forgotten
the past, we are now doomed to relive it.
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COVID Shots and Brain Fog
COVID Shots and Brain Fog
Junious Ricardo Stanton
Examining
America’s social milieu, you would not be thought out of touch if you concluded
this society is going crazy; hard and fast. It’s not just the incessant media
bombardment of negative news, mass shootings, corruption, gender dysphoria or
bone headed government decisions and policies; there is a prevailing sense that
mental illness is metastasizing throughout the country. We are at odds with our
neighbors, our co-workers, family and fellow citizens and the rancor seems to
be deepening. The partisan bickering is intensifying to the point people are
talking about civil war. This is insane.
There are
obvious signs and symptoms of increasing mental illness in this society. More adults
and children are reporting feelings of depression, anxiety and they are seeking
professional help. https://www.kff.org/mental-health/exploring-the-rise-in-mental-health-care-use-by-demographics-and-insurance-status/
Others are being prescribed psychotropic drugs or they are self-medicating using
drugs and alcohol. Substance abuse is prevalent in the US https://www.mastermindbehavior.com/post/addiction-statistics-dab8b
These are symptoms of a society facing
traumatic disfunction and disintegration.
There are a myriad of factors and
causes at work here, some are obvious while others not so much. The SARS COV-2
“pandemic” is a major factor and an ongoing stressor. Fear and anxiety are
rampant in America these days. People were deliberately misinformed and
constantly told, by the government and media, how dangerous and deadly SARS COV-2
was, when in fact it had a 98% recovery rate for healthy people.
The operative words in this context
are healthy people. The problem is the US is not a healthy nation by any means.
There are huge swaths of US demographics whose quality of health is extremely poor,
whose immune systems have been severely compromised due to their unhealthy
“lifestyles”. https://www.halletecco.com/blog/why-americans-are-unhealthy,
https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/5295701-americans-wealthy-but-not-healthy/
Obesity is rampant in the US as are
hypertension, diabetes, cancer, heart, Kidney and liver diseases. In an environment
of chronic disease such as America, introductions of unsafe materials into the
body under coercion and duress are bound to cause additional problems and
stress! The government’s COVID “remediation” efforts and policies culminating
in the roll out of massively hyped yet woefully untested and highly unsafe mRNA
inoculations in a nation which was already unhealthy and at risk, has
exacerbated America’s health decline.
The myriad adverse reactions to the
COVID shots that were originally suppressed by the government, media and Big
Pharma, are now being revealed and brought to light. Major health anomalies are
widespread and more and more are being discovered as time passes. There is ample
evidence the mRNA shots are causing major organ damage https://citizens.news/591443.html
and there is documented evidence the shots cause serious issues in
reproduction, such as stillbirths and miscarriages. https://academic.oup.com/humrep/article/38/12/2536/7308743?login=false
One problem is the government still
continues the bogus narrative that COVID shots are safe and effective and have
saved millions of lives despite the patently obvious facts the mRNA shots failed
to stop the spread of the numerous COVID strains or the resulting sickness!
Back to America’s
mental health problems, it is now being reported the COVID shots are negatively
impacting the brain, causing what is called brain fog as well as additional
harmful symptoms. https://thenewamerican.com/video/dr-stephanie-seneff-how-mrna-shots-induce-brain-diseases/.
Government propaganda claims brain fog is rare, that’s exactly what they said
about all the other adverse effects to the shots! By now we know this is a lie.
Symptoms of brain fog include long lasting dizziness, cognitive impairment,
diminished concentration, reduced abstract thinking ability.
These symptoms have a deleterious effect on
human emotional stability and behavior. Psycho-social issues such as feelings
of anxiety, social withdrawal, depression, hopelessness and helplessness,
worthlessness, problems sleeping, distress and lack of productivity, problems
processing information, finding the right words to use and slowed reaction time
are also being reported.
Many of these symptoms are being attributed
to COVID itself not the shots, however researchers are discovering proteins
that are causing inflammation they call prions that do not match with
the SARS COV-2 virus. There is speculation these proteins have misfolded causing
inflammation in the brain. Another possible explanation is the proteins are the
result of the COVID shot introducing spike proteins that misfold. https://www.techtimes.com/articles/300998/20240125/unlocking-insights-prion-proteins-covid-19-mrna-vaccines-prion-diseases-emerge.htm
If this is true, the CDC, Big
Pharma and the government have a lot of explaining to do! The problem is they
are not going to enter into a dialogue willingly. More research needs to be
conducted on how COVID shot induces brain inflammation which in turn induces
brain fog.
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Now Is the Time
Now Is the Time
Junious Ricardo Stanton
The concept of time is an artificial construct
invented by humans to help us understand the processes of living by providing
reference points using such notions as the past, present and future. Humans
have marked time differently over the millennia. Some used the moon, others the
sun while others invented calendars to mark the passing of days months and
years.
But in the end, time is merely a man-made construct
something all cultures internally agree upon to suit their needs and purposes. In
our era, we say things like: time marches on, time stood still, or time is
speeding up. It is none of this, because the concept of time is something we
make up, it is not real, it is not an actual thing.
Many of us
are fascinated by time. We’re always focused on some aspect of time, the past,
the future and the present. Unfortunately, most of our focus is in the form of
worry, anxieties, apprehensions, anticipations and expectations. Remember when
you were younger you couldn’t wait to turn a certain age or you felt you couldn’t
wait for your natal day, a holiday or special event to arrive? That was in the future
something you were enthusiastically anticipating. On the other hand, there were
things you dreaded, maybe a doctor’s visit, a school examination or a
conversation with teacher, your parents, a girlfriend or boyfriend. All of these
were couched in the concept of future time.
On the other
hand, many of us are overly fixated with the past. We spend inordinate amounts
of energy and thought thinking about, emotionalizing, rehashing, regretting and
reliving events and experiences that have already happened not only to us but
others whether a few days, months or even lifetimes ago. For example, history
is seen as the past, some of us want to leave it there and not remember it at
all while others carry it with them constantly for better or worse. We spend
our energy often agonizing about our experiences, or joyously reliving them
because of what we accomplished and achieved or didn’t.
From a
practical perspective all we have is now, the present. The past has already happened
and the future is yet to occur. Yes, we can learn many valuable lessons from
our past, our history impacts our present because life is a continuum, on
ongoing process. We can use past
experiences to help us navigate the present. We are all creatures of habit. We
tend to do things over and over again often because it feels “comfortable” or
because we want to fit in, conform to others’ expectations and demands of us,
their norms or our cultural patterns. All
we have is now, that being the case let us decide to use this now, this moment
to be our best selves.
The best
way to effectuate this type of self-actualization and transformation is by
living in the now, being aware of the present, what many call being mindful.
Our present can be better than our past if we choose it to be regardless of happenstance
or what is going on around us. We have the power to alter our lives, we have
the ability to effectuate change, to either deconstruct or reconstruct our
lives by changing our thoughts, attitudes and our behavior. We have the ability
to refashion and change the trajectory of our lives for better or worse. This
is a powerful ability one very few of us take full advantage of because too
often we are stuck in the past, worrying about the future or conforming to
someone else’s vision or agenda!
Daily we
are manipulated by nefarious forces using highly sophisticated technology to
create a false reality and manufacture a state of being which benefits and
enriches them totally at our expense. They want to enslave us in a dystopian technocratic
hellscape. They do this by keeping us distracted, deceived, discombobulated and
divided. We can escape their manufactured milieu by thinking critically, being
aware, mindful and envisioning a purposeful life for ourselves here and now. We
can not only alter our own destiny and quality of life; we can help change the
world for the better. It is possible. Now is the time, take full advantage of all of
its possibilities and potential.
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We're On a Slppery Slope
We’re On a Slippery Slope
Junious Ricardo Stanton
Donald Trump’s
deployment of the National Guard to Los Angeles California, Washington D.C. and
his threats to do the same in Chicago Illinois and Memphis Tennessee is placing
this nation in an untenable predicament. Under the guise of public safety, Trump is
using the National Guard for purposes they were not intended to serve. The
Natonal Guard is for emergencies: to assist in natural disasters or to quell
uprisings and riots. Usually, the
governor of the state is the one who calls for the activation of the National Guard
units in the state once he or she has declared an emergency, not the president.
The situation
in L.A. with the wildfires was an emergency yet neither the governor nor the
mayor called for the National Guard to be deployed. Trump took the unusual step
of bypassing both of them and calling for the deployment of the California National
Guard. There the guard performed a variety
of tasks from aerial firefighting using their planes and helicopters to try to
contain the blazes, on the ground firefighting, aid distribution, traffic
control and security.
In D.C. Trump’s rational for
deploying the Guard was to boost security, augment policing, and clean-up of squalor.
The Guardsmen and women were deployed around federal property as well as
several neighborhoods in D.C. The mayor of Washington D.C. did not request
assistance from President Trump and was resistant to his activation. Several
Republican governors supplied their Guard Units for deployment in D.C.
With
regards to Chicago and Menphis, Trump is threatening to send in the guard and
use them as law enforcement to supposedly augment those cities’ police
departments. The problem is, just like L.A. and Washington D.C. neither the Chicago
and Memphis mayors nor the governors of those states has requested federal aid!
Trump is literally militarizing the National Guard authorizing them to perform
duties the state and local governments have not requested! His Republican pal
governors are supply the troops to comply with Trump’s activation orders which
is quite unusual!
On the
surface it seems like Trump may be or could be considered well intended, but
upon closer scrutiny he is overstepping his bounds. Using high crime rate data,
Trump is playing on the fears, anxiousness and gullibility of the American
people, something this nation already has an abundance of. These cities are run
by duly elected mayors who just happen to be African-American which plays well
with Trump’s base who believe everything he says no matter how foolish, untrue
and fabricated it may be. Trump is subtly playing the race card insinuating
these elected officials are unable to deal with the problems in their own
cities and states. Meanwhile it is apparent Trump’s policies both domestic and
foreign are ineffective and wishy-washy.
The mayors acknowledge they have crime in their
city; all cities even Red State cities and towns have crime; but these mayors challenge
Trump’s assertions the crime rates in their cities warrant the deployment of
the Natonal Guard. In fact, the mayors say crime is down in their
municipalities. National statistics, even Trump’s FBI’s data, verify violent and
property crimes are down in the US, that homicides despite what the nightly
news says are down across the US!
Nevertheless, Trump is using
contradictory data to justify his actions. Trump ever the showman/circus barker
is using this disinformation to accomplish several objectives: one, he is brazenly
overstepping his constitutional authority, the Posse Comitatus Act
forbids deployment and use of troops in a law enforcement capacity, but Trump
is ignoring this. Second, by mobilizing
the Guard he is getting Americans used to experiencing soldiers on their
streets in a law enforcement capacity, third Trump’s deployment of the Guard is
complimenting the use of surveillance and biometric recognition technology such
as Palantir to spy on Americans and set up a Big Brother police state infrastructure
that would make George Orwell blush with envy. Lastly by calling on Red State
governors to supply and deploy troops in Blue State cities, Trump is exacerbating
the partisan divide in this country.
Whether or not Trump is aware he is
doing all these things is not the point, he could very well be an unwitting tool
of the Deep State. Trump is not the first US president to be used and played by
nefarious forces and interest groups like the Military Industrial Complex, the
banksters or foreign governments.
What does this mean for us? It
means we are already on an extremely slippery slope, one that, along with the
other bone headed moves Trump is making, could take this nation into the abyss
of a technocratic police state, and this is not hyperbole.
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Don't Fall for the Okey-Doke Again
Don’t Fall for the Okey-Doke Again
Junious Ricardo Stanton
The murder
of Charlie Kirk was merely one of numerous shootings, killings and murders that
occur in America on a daily basis. The fact he was a political influencer is
immaterial. He was a Soul whose life like so many in this country was
needlessly and prematurely snuffed out. Whether it was a political hit or a
random act of violence is not the issue, the issue is there is a lack of
respect for the sanctity and importance of life, a lack of morality in a
culture that uses gratuitous violence as the predominant form of entertainment.
Then when something like this happens, we feign shock and horror despite the
fact violence has become a rampant daily occurrence.
Unlike the
hundreds of Americans who are shot and killed in America on a daily basis, Charlie
Kirk was somewhat famous, he had a media following, he had a platform, he was
the darling of the right, a conservative influencer and organizer. He was a
personal acquaintance of Donald Trump; he campaigned on his behalf and Trump
included him in his MAGA circle of supporters and acolytes.
As a “celebrity” Kirk was known and
revered in right wing circles and held up for his public pronouncements and
ideology. His strident commentaries reflected an animus against liberalism,
progressives and their policies.
Kirk rose to prominence within
ultraconservative circles when he co-founded Turning Point USA a student-based
organization in 2012. The organization grew nationwide and became his major
platform for his ideology. He was supported by wealthy and influential
Republicans and toured the nation sponsoring debates between young, college
aged Republicans and Democrats after dropping out of Harper College a community
college near his home in suburban Chicago Illinois.
Kirk had been influenced and radicalized by The
Tea Party an insurgent group that denounced US fiscal and to some degree US
foreign policies. He was a skillful organizer and he targeted younger Americans
with his message. Soon Turning Point USA became one of the largest conservative
organizations of its kind in the US. Kirk railed against the culture wars and
what he considered Marxist influence even publishing a list of college
professors whom he considered purveyors of “leftist” propaganda. His professors list caught on and through it he
gained even more attention and followers.
Kirk distanced himself from the virulently racist
Neo-Nazi fringe of the right and embraced Christian Nationalism which is still predominantly
White oriented. He was a supporter of Donald Trump during his 2016 presidential
run, he hobnobbed with Trump’s sons and became a key player within the Trump
wing of the Republican Party.
Turning Point USA subsequently established
several subsidiary organizations and Kirk became a role model for young
conservatives due to his zeal and organizing skills. He had a popular podcast;
he authored several books, he sponsored college and university speaking tours
around the country where he promoted free market capitalism (which doesn’t actually
exist), limited government and he was a harsh critic of America’s current
socio-political-economic conditions. Charlie Kirk was shot and killed on September
9, 2025 at a college in Orem Utah where he was speaking.
Now the Right is in arms about his
murder. They are calling it a political assassination and making him into a
martyr. Many are saying his murder is the opening salvo of a new US “Civil War”!
Donald Trump has ordered the lowering of all US flags to half mast in honor of
this man.
Meanwhile several HBCUs were closed and put on
lockdown due to threats. However, there is no evidence these threats had a
direct correlation or connection to right wing supporters of Kirk!
Nevertheless, US history is replete with examples of White ire and outrage
being focused against Blacks due to the Whites’ fears and prejudices over the
economy, their tenuous socio-economic status or whatever boogeymen and hobgoblins
they conjure up rather than dealing with the root causes of whatever problems
real or imagined they are experiencing. Today
in the US right wing White males are full of anger and angst; who knows what
they might do. Look at what they did on January 6, 2020. The Left is just as
animated and agitated and the nation is polarized and divided.
We must remain vigilant but don’t
fall for the okey-doke. There may be civil unrest but there is not going to be
a civil war. In our communities we are more likely to be the victim of a home
invasion or random attack by our own then by rabid right-wing fanatics! We have
our own issues to resolve and truth be told we cannot rely on White folks or
the government to do so.
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