Kraken Unleashed

The Righteous Anger Of A Man Who Just Buried His Assassinated Friend

If you did not get to watch J.D. Vance’s closing remarks as he guest-hosted The Charlie Kirk Show, sit down, strap in, and listen to one of the most powerful political speeches you will ever hear. I have cued the video to the right point:

Vance spoke with incredible passion — the passion of a man who just had to bury a friend who had his throat blown out by a 30.06 rifle bullet in front of his wife and children. I have zero doubt — none — that he and this administration are going to break these leftist lunatic networks. Note well that he many times praised decent Democrats, and distinguished them from the crazies. And he admitted that there are some crazies on the Right. But he cited statistics showing that, in his words, “this is not a both-sides thing.” Far, far more people on the American Left believe that political violence can be justified than on the Right (for example).

Vance quoted large parts of the Nicene Creed. Has anything like that ever happened? He said, “Have faith in the Lord, be bold, and glorify Him.” Vance emphasized repeatedly, with great force, that there can be no unity with people who glorify political violence. And he said the administration is going to go after the networks that fund the crazy left. He mentioned George Soros’s Open Society Foundation [later denied by the magazine] and the Ford Foundation as funders of The Nation magazine, whose Elizabeth Spiers wrote a foul article about Charlie Kirk. Quote from it:

He was an unrepentant racist, transphobe, homophobe, and misogynist who often wrapped his bigotry in Bible verses because there was no other way to pretend that it was morally correct. He had children, as do many vile people.

More:

There is no requirement to take part in this whitewashing campaign, and refusing to join in doesn’t make anyone a bad person. It’s a choice to write an obituary that begins “Joseph Goebbels was a gifted marketer and loving father to six children.”

I mean…what do you do with that? Vance said Spiers smeared Kirk by claiming he said black women don’t have the brainpower to do the work of others. The Nation had to file this correction to the piece:

Rude? Sure. But that is not remotely saying that all black women aren’t smart. Yet that’s what The Nation writer initially said, and the Washington Post’s Karen Attiah repeated:

It was a lie. Attiah got fired by the Post last week. Why? According to her:

The reason? Speaking out against political violence, racial double standards, and America’s apathy toward guns.

Grok says:

According to Attiah's account in her September 15, 2025, Substack post, the Post labeled her Bluesky activity as "unacceptable," "gross misconduct," and a potential endangerment to colleagues' physical safety—allegations she called baseless and rejected outright. She claimed the paper fired her abruptly without any discussion or due process, violating its own journalistic standards of fairness. The Post's social media policy requires journalists to avoid content that could question their editorial independence or the outlet's fairness, and Attiah's posts were seen as crossing that line, particularly in the politically charged context of Kirk's assassination.

I read her posts in her Substack, and I think she’s just what she has been for as long as I’ve been reading her: a liberal racist. I’m not sorry a liberal racist is not working at the Post anymore. But I don’t want people fired simply for rejecting Charlie Kirk’s politics. Supporting political violence — that’s the red line. It could be that the Post realized that it no longer wishes to platform left-wing racists who feel comfortable routinely demonizing white males as white males. Good. We on the Right have been watching for many years this double standard, in which left-wing writers and commentators could get away with saying objectively racist things against whites that would get whites fired in a heartbeat.

Lest we forget, here’s a link to a thread of people fired in 2020, the Year Of Our Floyd, for the flimsiest pretexts. The media will memory-hole this in the days and weeks to come. And look: the courageous liberal writer Jesse Singal is incensed that the most influential online left-wing thinker is actually saying online that Robinson was a right-winger. Singal’s point is that the left lives in an epistemic bubble where it cannot accept facts that violate its narrative. Still, I don’t see where Spiers’s article, as wicked as it is, is not protected speech.

The line about Kirk’s children really incensed Vance, who talked about his own political opponents coming after his kids. The vilest thing anybody ever said to me — and given my years in the business, this takes some doing — was a gay New York Post reader who wrote to me that he hopes my newborn son dies of AIDS. The second-worst thing was a liberal former friend who wrote to me that that same little boy ought to be taken away from me because I voted for George W. Bush, proving that I am an unfit parent. I suspect that ex-friend of 40. years would think someone. shooting me for my political views was justice. It’s hard to face this, I tell you.

Messing with people’s kids is a third rail. Vance talked about some leftist activists who handed out information in the neighborhood of a White House colleague this week, identifying him as living there with his wife and kids, and encouraging neighbors to harass him this week. That happened to me once in Dallas, from a gay activist. It’s terrifying. I completely empathize with the vice president on this.

I could have done without the VP telling people to call the employers of those justifying Kirk’s murder, but overall, no, not much sympathy for me for these malicious people, who have a hell of a lot of payback coming. Don’t forget the thing that turned Vance (and me) into a pro-Trumper was watching how the Left’s smear machine went after his personal friend Brett Kavanaugh during the SCOTUS nominee’s confirmation hearing. JD realized that these people will stop at nothing to destroy anyone who gets in their way. A lot of us did around that time.

If you want a sense of the Kraken that this assassination has unleashed, watch this epic reaction from Greg Gutfeld when one of his co-hosts tries to whatabout this killing. Mostly I love this — but I remember that I felt exactly this way after 9/11, and that unrestrained anger led me to back bad, stupid things. Rage blinds. We have to make sure to go after the funders of violent radicalism while respecting legitimate dissent protected by the First Amendment. I’m not sure that this is a line that will be respected in the days to come. We will see.

This clip from the Attorney General about going after “hate speech” is chilling. THIS IS WRONG! I’m entirely in favor of the government doing whatever it is constitutionally permitted to do to dismantle these networks and organizations. But what Bondi said is blatantly unconstitutional, and should be resisted.

Me, I’m hoping to see the government do every possible thing to shut down this tranny thing. It should never, ever have gotten to this point. Get it out of the schools. End the privileges, and the politicization of medicine around this insanity. Do not forget that the deranged Rachel Levine got caught using his government power to compel scientists to loosen trans standards to expand trans surgeries to kids. That era has to end. I believe it just has, in a forceful way. This is what exists in Salt Lake City:

Go after them, hard! But what Bondi’s stupid remarks have done is to give the Left something to point to whenever the government goes after legitimate targets.

James Lindsay is right here. Moral clarity is not “the Right is Good and the Left is Evil.” Moral clarity is Solzhenitsyn’s dictum: the line between Good and Evil runs down the middle of every human heart. To adopt a No Enemies To The Right attitude in this current environment is to open the door to great darkness. Be warned!

Anyway, sh*t just got real up in here. Did you hear that evidence has been discovered online that a) a group of trannies and furries around Robinson (who confessed on Discord to the murder) might have had advance knowledge of this, and b) that Robinson was more deeply involved in this pervert furry community than we thought? What kind of degenerate country have we become? I do believe that Matt Walsh is right to a great extent that this is about Good versus Evil (I only dispute where he draws the line), but James Lindsay is also right when he said this is about civilization versus chaos. The forces of just order have to strongly assert themselves now. “Order” alone is not justice; after all, the fascists were all about order. Right order is the goal.

Watching Vance’s speech made me grateful to God for giving me a role in helping produce such a leader for a time like this. My prayer going forward is first for his safety, and second that his righteous anger leads him to seek justice (= the right ordering of things), not vengeance of the sort that stands to destroy the Constitutional order. That’s not what Charlie Kirk stood for. That’s not what I stand for.

The Courage Of Prof. Trevor Tomesh

Prof. Trevor Tomesh, computer scientist

I wish I could have copied-and-pasted this, because it takes up a lot of space to paste in screenshots. But it’s incredibly important. Read this:

OK, let’s stop right there. Sister Cindy (and her late husband, Brother Jed) have been around forever. They used to come to my campus at least once a year. They were incredibly offensive nuts. Sister Cindy used to call sorority girls “sperm-sucking Jezebels”. I doubt she ever won a single convert. But we all put up with them and laughed at them, because they were freaks, and we were college kids who could take a joke. The idea that college students need trauma care because of SISTER FREAKING CINDY is an unbelievable indictment of the absurdity of what college life has become under these woke administrators.

But what Trevor Tomesh says is very serious. More:

Prof. Tomesh is a young Catholic. If you want to write him a note of encouragement, here’s his faculty page, with an email address.

There can be no more important thing for university administrators to do right now than to make clear, forceful statements in favor of free speech and free intellectual engagement, especially on college campuses. Charlie Kirk was assassinated on a college campus, because of his words. And these gutless admins at Tomesh’s college — and no doubt at many, many others — prefer to look away, instead of using this as a teachable moment.

There is so much rottenness in the system. So much. I’ve talked over the past decade to conservative and Christian college students who are scared to say what they think, even scared that others on their campus will find out that they are conservative. What have college admins and professors done to make their schools places where no one has to be afraid to speak? What have universities in America become?!

Yesterday, on my daily walk along the Danube, I ran into Andy Coleman, an American Christian who does activism on behalf of the persecuted church. He had interviewed me once, but we had never met. We talked about Charlie Kirk’s murder for a bit. He said that there is something massive rising among young men in America, a huge swing to the Right. This, of course, was underway before Kirk’s killing, but the Kirk slaying will no doubt accelerate it. He said it could go either to a good place (e.g., social and religious renewal), or to a very, very dark place (e.g., racism, political extremism). But something is coming that is going to annihilate the expectations of the Olds like us. He sees it everywhere.

Things like what Trevor Tomesh talks about, these are pushing young men (and women too, I’d guess) farther to the Right. It is perfectly obvious to these young people that their elders in charge of institutions don’t care about them, unless they fit into a narrow ideologically left category.

Let me post something I read yesterday from a Tucker Carlson interview with Charlie Kirk, who, recall, was a Zoomer (he died at age 31). Here is what Kirk told the host only one month ago (full interview here):

All I’m saying is I am here as a messenger of the next generation. I’m telling you this is bad.

This generation can’t own anything. They owe so much more money than generations prior. This is the most indebted generation in history. And I double checked that. Gen Z owes the most money in any history, any generation in history. So we wonder why then all of a sudden, hey, you want to go buy a home now at the age of 38, your credit score is destroyed, your spending habits are terrible. You don’t want to save and you don’t think you should save.

And you know what I hear from some of them is they say, well, why should I save? When what I saw around me is that you need to get into this economy and spend, spend, spend, because the savers got wrecked in 2008. Again, that’s an oversimplification, but there is economic nihilism that is set in to a lot of this next generation where they’re not participating in any of the upside right now, any of the upside of the last five years. In fact, they’re only seeing the downside. They’re seeing their apartments get smaller, their rents go up, their groceries get more expensive.

… And here’s why it should concern conservatives, because when I’m at dinner parties raising money, some of our donors are a little indifferent about this. They’ll have kind of like a hey, pull yourself up by the bootstraps attitude that’s hard to shake. I don’t have that attitude. I actually have a lot more compassion for the 23 year old that is working a double, double shift and can’t afford anything. But even if you don’t care about them, you’re not going to like the politics that comes next.

University administrators, college professors, do you get it? Do you? Do I?

Allister Heath On Broken Britain

Tremendously important Triggernometry podcast interview with Daily Telegraph editor and financial writer Allister Heath, who warns that the British economy is in extremely dire straits. He lays it out in great detail. I had no idea it was so bad. Public spending is totally unsustainable, and taxes are already so high that there’s not much juice left to squeeze out of the rich, who are fleeing the country.

Heath says at one point that the “sensible Left” — people like J.K. Rowling — defeated gender ideology in Britain, but wokeness is still quite powerful in his country:

And the far left ideology that is generally known as wokeism or whatever you want to call it, is a very bad set of beliefs. It's a belief that completely demolishes every single foundation of Western society. And it was designed to do so, right?

And Marxism only destroyed part of society. This is a comprehensive destruction of all aspects of Western society, everything. And it needs to be fought, it needs to be taken very, very seriously.

I think J.D. Vance is going to do this. I pray he fights well, and justly, not tyrannically.