Raconteur Press is releasing an anthology about pirates and plunder this week, so I’m going to suggest you look towards my story, Last Ride on the Asia Express. Raconteur published it in their The Big Ones anthology showing World War II battles that never happened. Alternate history and other similar stories. I can assure you that the Marine Raiders of World War II never set out to hijack and plunder the Asia Express in Japanese-held Manchuria. That absolutely never happened, and every history you read will say so. But what if it did? What would it look like, and why would they do it? You can find out if you read Last Ride on the Asia Express, and the many other fine stories in The Big Ones.
You may remember demonstrations of the last few years where they chanted, “We’re coming for your children.” They meant it then and they mean it now. The simple fact is, based on statistics, that the more Leftist someone is, the fewer children they have. Some of it is just biology. Adam and Eve make kids. Adam and Steve do not. Some of it is social. They tell us that the planet is dying, so having kids is a terrorist act against the planet. Or they tell us that the responsible thing to do is not to start a family until you have gone to college and secured a good job, and so many people wait until they are financially secure to look at having kids. And by then, they are on the tail end of the biological clock. Older mothers have more complications, not just themselves but the kids. Children born of mothers in their 30s and 40s have far more health complications than kids born of mothers in their teens or 20s. That’s statistics. That’s, dare I say it, The Science.
So while an increasing number of Leftist families don’t get together until their late 20s at the earliest, often waiting until their 30s or 40s, Religious families often get started in their late teens or early 20s, because they are taught that the best thing they can do for the world is to have children and raise them up to take care of it. To make it better. And instead of having one or two children in their 30s or 40s, or just going to a foreign country and adopting a kid or two, they are having three or four or five kids, starting in their late teens and going through to their mid to late 20s. Their kids are graduating and starting a new life while their parents are in the prime of their lives in their 30s and 40s, 50s at the lastest, and they have healthy examples of moderately strong, fit, and active parents to take into their adulthood.
That’s why the Leftists chant, “We’re coming for your children.” They are literally breeding themselves out of the population. They have to take our children if their movement is going to survive into the next generation.
That appears to be what happened last week. The young man who killed Charlie Kirk had a good upbringing from everything we can see. A good Christian family who raised him up to being a functional young man who left the home to go out and learn how to do a job that would help him make a home and a life. That was him two years ago if the pictures and other things we see are accurate. And over a period of what looks like two years, they groomed him into being the kind of kid that inspired the meme about kids coming home from college and hating their families and everything they grew up liking.
And according to the evidence that has come out so far, they came for him, they took him, and they twisted him into the kind of person who would feel good about shooting a man who’s crime was saying things they hated. When they say “We’re coming for your children,” this is what they mean. They want to take our children and replace them with people who hate us just as much as they hate us. Someone who will cheer when someone kills us.
Charlie Kirk is not the only victim of this assassination. The first victim of the assassination was the former bright young boy that pulled the trigger. And the next victims are his own siblings who grew up with him, and Charlie Kirk’s children, and so many other children and young adults who saw the voice of their generation shot because he dared to say things that other people hated.
We have to make our children the kind of people who will build a better world for the children to come, and we have to make them mentally strong enough to resist the grooming of the Leftists, or the children to come will grow up in a far worse world than the one we grew up in.
Some people say now is the time for unity. To find a way to work together. That we speak to each other about finding a better solution. But the problem with that idea is that we’ve been trying to do that. We have been talking. Charlie Kirk was one of the foremost people talking. And they killed him because he said things they hated. And after he was shot dead, they went online to celebrate and cheer that he had been shot for daring to say things they hated. Telling all of us that they will cheer just as much after they shoot us as well.
I grew up in various Pentecostal and Evangelical churches that taught me to expect this. I’m not surprised that they hate us because I grew up reading the Bible where it says they will hate us. And while I wasn’t taught a lot of Catholic Doctrine, I do remember being taught about the Seven Deadly Sins and told giving in to them corrupted us. Made us worse people. That part of growing up straight and upright men and women of honor meant we had to fight them, not embrace them. Not celebrate them.
Lust. Gluttony. Greed. Sloth. Wrath. Envy. Pride
These are sins, and we should rebuke them. But Leftist Democrats have told us for years to embrace them. They want us addicted to porn and sex. America today eats more and is fatter than ever before, but they tell us that beauty comes in every size. They say that people should be able to steal things without being punished. They teach hatred of people based on the color of their skin. They teach that people should be envious of the things other people have and just take them. And I’m sure I’ve seen the word pride thrown around. It’s on the tip of my tongue… Whatever it is, the religious right has largely been taught to stand against these things most of our lives, which is why we generally stand opposed to them.
The people in the center and center-left haven’t, and often thing we’re a bit odd for that. But what they’ve seen in the last week has shocked most of them as well. They see the celebrations and the cheering at a man’s assassination and they are in many ways more appalled than we are. We expected it, so it didn’t surprise us. They are friends with people who are saying it. They work with people who say it. And they’re aghast. Because even those not looking for it recognize evil when it jumps up and down and screams in their faces.
I assert that there can be no unity with people who celebrate assassination and say people deserve to be shot because they say things these people hate. Sooner or later, everyone gets shot that way.
The only choices we really have are to embrace evil and let it command us, or rebuke evil and fight it. I say the only choice that will give our children a better life than the one we had is to rebuke the evil and make it clear that we are rebuking it and will not let it dominate us.
So I rebuke it. I call it evil and I rebuke evil.
Seeing the reaction on the Left to last week’s assassination of Charlie Kirk makes moving forward an interesting challenge.
So many people in trusted positions rejoiced and celebrated the assassination and many of them are just being fired. And they are broadcasting both their celebrations and their dismay at being fired. Teachers. Health Care workers. Security officials. Government employees. Okay, so not as many people trust them anymore. But people from all over the work force are reporting that coworkers are giddy about the assassination and that makes them worried about the people they work with.
The problem is that when people see other people celebrating the killing of another person, it really does change how people look at them. Now most people understand that self-defense is a good reason to kill, but Charlie talked. He went onto college campuses with other kids his age and talked to them about difficult topics. Most people know that talking isn’t violence.
But today people are seeing where it leads when they say that “words are violence.” And they see actual violence perpetrated against words. And they see Leftists celebrating that violence because Charlie Kirk said things they don’t like. And these same people consider how many of their own thoughts are things that the Leftists have said are violence in the past. And that is when people see themselves in Charlie Kirk. When they realize that the Leftists really do want them dead and will celebrate when they die.
Knowing that a significant portion of a major political party wants them dead is a major gut check for most people. They tend to start looking at the whole party differently. And if reports are accurate, many many people are not liking what they are seeing. Many people are terrified by what they see.
Some people say we need to talk about it. But Charlie was talking. And Leftists are telling us that is why he was killed.
It is difficult to move forward and talk to people when those same people are saying that if you say things they don’t like they will rejoice and celebrate when you are killed for it.
I finished another short story this weekend. Clocking in at a beefy 9.4k words, it is for an open call asking for between 6k and 10k size stories. So it is inside the range basket. They were asking for manuscript format I have never used before, so that took a bit of study and research to adopt for them. But I hit the open call. Now to sit back and wait and find out if they want it for their antho.
Whatever the case, another Captain William Carter story is in the basket. Bill returns home to New Haven in 1839, after having spent time fighting for the Texians in their bid for independence, and finds out that there are gargoyles hiding in New Haven. Gargoyles, bad tidings from the north, and an old Indian face he has not seen since he was young standing next to the Gothic Church on the New Haven Green.
What happens next is, of course, the rest of the story that I hope you will all get to read soon.

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