This is a really great video from the recent national march in Great Britain:
Some inspiring content to round out the day.
Everything Right
I was thinking today, Charlie Kirk’s parents really did everything right. At 31, he was in a wonderful place in terms of maturity and life goals. He clearly had a ton of psychic energy to achieve incredible things. Clean-living, extremely knowledgeable, and well-read. He radiated calm and positivity. All of his friends, even much older ones, say that he was a constant source of support for them.
His parents need to publish a parenting manual. I’m sincerely interested in how they achieved these results.
Good News
God is good.
Breast Is Best and Female
A breastfeeding group on FB banned references to women and mothers. We can all guess the country where it happened:
You can’t even call yourself a woman when you breastfeed. What a victory for feminism.
Please note the standard rhetorical trick where noticing objective reality is equated with murderous intent (“debating the validity of people’s existence”). Being called a woman doesn’t threaten anybody’s existence but this is a neat shortcut to make the use of the word “mom” an equivalent of genocide.
P.S. The group in question also banned the phrases “breast is best” and “fed is best” because they are also somehow exclusionary.
Selective Vision
Of course, liberals are using Bondi’s stupidity to point out gleefully that conservatives are also against freedom of speech. Even though every conservative in existence spent the last 12 hours denouncing Bondi and asking for her firing over these comments.
My X feed is very boring right now because it contains nothing but conservatives denouncing Bondi and liberals pretending that conservatives agree with her.
We don’t agree. We are disgusted and have denounced constantly, endlessly, and insistently.
Another Bondi Mess-up
It gets worse:
The market economy worked exactly as it should have in the Office Depot situation. The company fired the workers who were refusing business from paying customers. Take the win and move on. That’s the only normal reaction here. Making it government business is as anti-conservative as anything can possibly be.
There Is No Hate Speech
It’s very heartening to see principled unity on the Right regarding AG Pam Bondi’s statements that “there’s free speech and then there’s hate speech.”
There is no such distinction in our constitution and there shouldn’t be. The concept of “hate speech” does not exist legally and should not exist morally or intellectually.
Moreover, we should retire words hate and phobia (outside of clinical settings) for a decade or so because they’ve been overused and no longer mean anything.
It’s great that there’s such a concerted pushback on the Right to Bondi’s statements. Her words should be a fireable offence. This should be the end of her legal career.
Great Idea, Bad Execution
I watched “The Charlie Kirk Show” for the first time today. It was a beautiful idea to organize a tribute to Charlie led by JD Vance as a host. But the execution was embarrassingly bad. Terrible sound, pathetic editing. The plan was to show clips of Charlie debating on college campuses in the breaks between guests. That was messed up beyond belief with clips poorly cut, one segment repeating several times from different points. There are hundreds of excellent clips where Charlie does all the work. A ten-year-old should be able to get a good, representative collection and put it in the show seamlessly.
JD Vance should not be hosting any shows because he was gauche, fake, wooden, and kept interrupting the guests to tell them that their time was up. He recited the Nicene Creed, and that’s great, but he somehow managed to do it very clumsily and unconvincingly.
This is very symbolic of the entire administration. The plans are great but the execution is weak and embarrassing.
In absolutely any endeavor, the idea is about 15% of the success. The other 85% are all execution. If you can’t execute, it doesn’t matter that you have the most brilliant idea ever. You still fail.
The Other Chicken
We came to the stand with rotisserie chickens. Only 3 chickens were left, two natural and one smokehouse.
“I don’t want the African American chicken, mommy,” Clara said. “I want the other one.”
Slowly
He’s slowly figuring it out.
Veeeery slooooowly.
Might actually get it in the next decade or two.
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