We Didn’t Start The Fire 🔥

 Charlie Kirk’s wife says “the people” [sic] who killed him have “started a fire”🔥 and that her cries will “echo around the world like a battle cry.”

Assuming anyone knows who she is, or who her husband was. He was doing the college circuit at colleges no one had ever heard of, after all. And he was an “influencer” among a small group of young men who are terminally online. Not unlike the description of the shooter and the things he reportedly inscribed on his ammunition (apparently decipherable to gamers, an even more invisible-to-the-public group).

The same people Trump has never heard of.

Imagine devoting your life to this man just for him to move on from your death to a ballroom in 0.5 seconds. https://t.co/sKxMWD2N4D

— Ally Sammarco (@Ally_Sammarco) September 13, 2025

He’s already dropped Kirk like a bad habit. Of course, Trump’s reaction to anybody’s death is: “Not me!”

I sympathize with the grief Mrs. Kirk is exhibiting. I hope she isn’t exploited in her grief, imagining her husband was a major public figure.

OTOH, she's quite sensible compared to this:

And in Texas:

TEA Commissioner Mike Morath said in a letter sent Friday to superintendents that the agency has learned some Texas public school educators posted or shared “reprehensible” comments related to the assassination.

“These educators’ comments do not reflect the vast majority of Texas teachers who are dedicated practitioners that work diligently to serve more than 5.5 million impressionable young minds in our classrooms,” Morath said in the letter, in part.

All documentation of educators who shared inappropriate content will be referred to TEA’s Educator Investigations Division, the letter stated.

Morath said the posts could violate the Educators’ Code of Ethics, and each case will be reviewed to determine whether sanctionable conduct occurred.

“While the exercise of free speech is a fundamental right we are all blessed to share, it does not give carte blanche authority to celebrate or sow violence against those that share differing beliefs and perspectives,” Morath wrote. In the letter, Morath encouraged superintendents to report any additional inappropriate content being shared through TEA’s Misconduct Reporting Portal.

“I commend the swift action taken by the leadership of the districts that employ these educators,” Morath wrote. “Respect is a core tenet of what we teach and reinforce to our students, and together, we can ensure that such values continue to be reflected in our Texas public schools.”

And what does “reprehensible” mean? This, it would seem:

“While the exercise of free speech is a fundamental right we are all blessed to share, it does not give carte blanche authority to celebrate or sow violence against those that share differing beliefs and perspectives,” Morath wrote.

So if you post that it’s ironic Mr. Kirk died given his statement that some deaths are the price of the 2nd amendment (as many, many people have), or just quote his words (or reposting videos?), that could be “sowing violence against those that share differing beliefs and perspectives”? Excuse me? Isn’t that what Mr. Kirk did?

I’m just glad I’m not teaching anymore. The 1st amendment guarantees you the right of free speech. It doesn’t guarantee you can keep your job for speaking freely. And you certainly can’t sue back into employment, especially teaching. Which they seem more and more determined to drive people out of. (Any superintendent who turns in a teacher to TEA will soon find they have no teachers worth employing, because morale in that district will crater.)But that’s another rant. 

This won’t last long. But some people are determined to be in charge of other people. Land of the free to be abusive. Home of the brave when they can be in a mob. And public officials happy to show they can “own the libs.” Or just run amok with delusions of grandeur.