Video by Meade. Photo by me:The vigil for Charlie Kirk at the Wisconsin State Capitol in Madison this evening. pic.twitter.com/36fewdHDPQ
— Ann Althouse (@annalthouse) September 13, 2025
I was avoiding the sun in the tree shadow. Meade stepped into the light:
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At the vigil for Charlie Kirk at the Wisconsin State Capitol in Madison this evening — "How Great Thou Art": pic.twitter.com/pXVnC0tij6
— Ann Althouse (@annalthouse) September 13, 2025
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Where's all the counter protestors?
The ones who took over the Capital in the insurrection?
I notice nobody came down to spout their slogans at this event. Maybe they thought they'd get the everloving fuck beat out of them if they showed their pussy faces at this event.
I guess they're still busy on Bluesky high-fiving each other over their successful guerilla operation against America and probably don't want us taking photos of them to add to our collection.
It being Madison, I am guessing everyone was respectful.
Yes, I know that comment sounds angry. Democrats need to know something going forward.
There will be no quarter given. NONE.
Prof, what sort of police presence was there? Weren't the Dem rulers afraid of you all? JSM
Aren't they rightous? The counter-protestors? Didn't they strike down a made man in the Nazi Regime? Why are they not out celebrating their glorious victory against those who toppled our Actual Democracy?
Didn't they strike down Literally Hitler's Stormtrooper, in a glorious battle that required but a single shot?
Where are they?
I see no dancing in the streets behind this group.
Aren't they the resistance?
There were no counter-vigil people. It wasn't a protest. There were no signs and no rabble rousing. The vigil participants were mostly singing and there were a few speakers, who were hard for me to hear, but they seemed to mostly be speaking in a religious mode, with references to freedom of speech.
Songs sung: Amazing Grace, My Country 'Tis of Thee, How Great Thou Art, God Bless the USA, and the National Anthem.
I am happy the event happened and that you and Meade were there. I wish 100 times more people showed up. I am about to watch the wife (Erika) speak for the first time.
Cheers all.
Good.
BTW - I'm watching The Jesse Watters show tonight.
Pease watch it later on youtube if you can. or steam it
His interview with Tim Pool is chilling.
The killer was a REdditer - Reddit is far left
Can see on X. Says will start soon.
She is talking now. Go to X.
Great video and great photo. Yes, no counter protesters. Everyone very nice. Very mid-west. Too bad that's not the rest of the USA.
Charlie Kirk was Mr. Nice guy conservative. Mr. Lets have a debate. And the Left murdered him. Lesson learned. I hope.
I wish peeps would read more history. Imagine being Charlie Kirk in 1917 Russia. "Hey Mr. trotsky, lets have a debate!" or 1936 Spain, "I respect your views, you respect mine. Lets talk".
Thats 2025 USA. Its not 1980 anymore. Gosh, I many disagree, but I'll fight for your right to say it. It Sontag time. "They don't need freedom of speech in the USSR, they have Socialism".
I'd love to sing kumbaya. But we need to face reality.
"There were no counter-vigil people."
They've obviously seen the beat downs that have been circulating on social media of what happens when the counter-vigil people show up to shit on an event.
Lots of big dudes beating the shit out of Democrats who dare show their fucking faces in public.
And that's the way it's going to stay. For the rest of their lives. They have scurried back to their rat holes. And they will stay there.
Forever.
I've seen vigils and tributes to Charlie from all over the world. It is has honestly helped me feel less bad about his murder to see how much of an impact he had.
"She is talking now. Go to X."
Not wise to the ways of X, how do you find it?
"Prof, what sort of police presence was there?"
I saw a lone policewoman watching over. Probably was at least one other somewhere.
Downtown Madison was completely sedate. Crowded, lots of students, but no one was acting out at all.
"Charlie Kirk was Mr. Nice guy conservative. Mr. Lets have a debate. And the Left murdered him. Lesson learned. I hope."
Here is the lesson: You can debate people of good intention. Maybe you can convince them with your logic and your facts. Maybe you can cajole them. Maybe you can wrap your arms around a fellow debater and have a beer after the argument. At Oxford, where they are gentlemen.
But that is not the world we are living in. The Democrat Party cannot WIN the debate; therefore they can brook no debate.
The fact that you WISH to debate them is OFFENSIVE and VIOLENT to them. They will STRIKE YOU DOWN if you attempt to debate them. They see words as violence because of course they cannot win in a debate of words. The only way they can win is to murder the opposition.
Man has been fighting this for our entire existence: you have good people, and you have bad people. And bad people NEVER come back from the dark side. NEVER.
STOP. TRYING. TO. SAVE. THESE. PEOPLE.
They don't want to be saved and cannot be.
Erika Kirk committed herself to continuing Charlie's mission. Highly recommend watching her speech.
Yes - Watch the Jesse Watters show from the beginning to the end. Tim Pool and Erika Kirk.
You will need tissues.
The Democrat party cannot be saved. It is pure rot.
Tommy Robinson's big London march is tomorrow morning - 5:30 AM Madison time. Probably a little different from your vigil, Prof. JSM
The Dems are pure evil.
From Jasmin Crocket to AOC to Bernie To Newsum To Walz To Biden to Obama to Pelosi to Schumer and Schitt - to Kinzinger to Cheney to Polis to Pritzker to Whitmer to all of them all of them all of them and all of them. They along with the billionaire tech giants - have ruined our nation.
How Great Thou art...
"STOP. TRYING. TO. SAVE. THESE. PEOPLE."
Yeah. I don't know what's wrong with some many conservatives. They never seem to understand were in a cultural war. Or maybe its a political war. I don't know what to call it. But there's a group of people who want to impose their political views on the rest of us. By any means neccessary.
And the only alternative is fight - or submit. And not, "Hey, lets get our guns and shoot someone". Shoot who? You need to start thinking and fighting smart.
"The Democrat party cannot be saved. It is pure rot." -
Abraham Lincoln, to his wife, Mary Todd Lincoln, on the eve of the battle of Manassas.
We're not fighting against Muslims. We're fighting against the Left. A muslim didn't kill Charlie Kirk. He was a leftist guy from Utah. This isn't about Israel, no matter how much Ben Shapiro wants it to be.
Its about the Left taking over in the USA and imposing their view on us, through censorship or violence.
The same people who are celebrating Charlie's death - are lying about who killed him and why.
Because leftism is a cancer.
They struck him down.. and now he will become more powerful than they could possibly imagine.
Reap what you sow.
Here is more proof of the leftists and their lies
"Maybe its a political war. I don't know what to call it."
Call it what it is: it's a guerilla war. History is filled with them. This is how the communists and fascists fight. Many have been successful in toppling entire countries, primarily because nobody takes them seriously in their infancy.
The Democrats have organized themselves to fight a guerilla war against the United States and the American people. They can no longer win elections. They have been cut off from their thieving of the taxpayer money in the Treasury. They are rabid. They have rabies. They are acting as rabid dogs, cornered. And even Old Yeller had to be put the fuck DOWN.
Old Yeller could NOT. BE. SAVED.
Donald Trump needs to act. And he needs to act against this threat NOW. Time only helps the enemy to plan.
I'm glad evil leftists didn't ruin the vigil.
@FLC
Do you have a life outside of posting on this blog?
I have often thought that there is something hinky about you.
The Democrat Party cannot WIN any debate. So they call everyone a fascist and brainwash with hatred and build killers.
JE SUIS CHARLIE
“Downtown Madison was completely sedate. Crowded, lots of students, but no one was acting out at all.”
How disappointing that must be to so many here.
Mrs Kirk referred to the "evildoers," plural, who killed her husband (z''l). Constantly referring to it as the act of more than just one person. And referring to the movement, not just Charlie (pbuh), as the intended victim.
Need to get her on the road for the big memorial services in every city remotely associated with him: Chicago, DC, Phoenix, Lynchburg VA, Palm Beach. Invite Sharpton and all the former Presidents to speak, too. JSM
Trump does need to act - especially with the left's voter fraud system. Get Biden's illegal aliens out.
The current Democratic leftist movement is evil.
Inag - I am glad the horrible leftists stayed home and didn't bother the folks at the vigil.
FLC and RCOCEANII are frustrated wannabes who think that everyone else needs their keen insights and sage advice in order to achieve success in love, life, and politics.
The venue and public forum chosen by the assassin make this crime an especially heinous murder and civil rights violation.
Narr brags about his legs, claiming they alone are shorts-worthy.
@RCOcean - You must never give up on trying to reason with others. I have long worried about the contest of the two great animating principles in this country and their fundamental incompatibility - the desire for liberty, and the desire for equality. The desire for equality was originally constructed as "equality under the law" but long ago morphed into equality of life outcomes. This is fundamentally incompatible with liberty and the law has been systematically altered in efforts to achieve equality of outcomes.
Unsatisfied with the results, the neo-Puritan progressives continue to push ahead with the quest. The transformation of the left with regard to freedom of speech in my lifetime is as dazzling to me as the mainstreaming of homosexuality and attendant demonization of normal men. And as the left, through the Democrat Party, came to control more and more of the institutions of this country, they have worked unceasingly to corrupt and control the use of the English language in speech.
But what then is to be done? When attempts at reason ultimately fail, what is left but separation or civil war? And no one should wish for civil war - no house would be untouched by sorrow, some as deeply as the house of the Robinson family of Utah, or the family of Charlie Kirk.
I don not wat war - but I also do not want to live with the people who killed Charlie Kirk. That is Obama(D) on down.
MY legs are entirely shorts-worthy. My wife assures me my calves (developed in youthful soccer days) still impress.
"FLC and RCOCEANII are frustrated wannabes who think that everyone else needs their keen insights and sage advice in order to achieve success in love, life, and politics."
Well thanks Narr. But I'm not frustrated, I"m just a guy writing on the internet. I'd love to read your "keen insights and sage advice". Got any?
Maynard wants to know: "Do you have a life outside of posting on this blog?"
Are you kidding? I have a GREAT life.
As a newspaper reporter for 30 years (prior to my legal career) I learned to type faster than people can speak. I type about 110 words a minute.
I shot 78 on the golf course today and still managed to post a few comments on my phone. I also used a can of EZ Off Oven Cleaner and cleaned my stove after the round, while also posting comments here.
I love this blog. I've been commenting on it since its inception. Ann is one of the few people who mostly allow free speech (although even she has banned a few of my personas over the many years.)
So yes, I do have a life. I enjoy my life. I'm very happy. And I also understand that we all have a purpose in life. And my purpose both as a journalist and as a lawyer has been to try to bring truth to people.
I doubt I've succeeded. But it's been fun.
My town currently doesn't have any nose-ringed-puce-haired Antifa counter-protesters either. Lucky us.
"Narr brags about his legs, claiming they alone are shorts-worthy."
/thread
"You must never give up on trying to reason with others."
I'd love to think that. But could your reason with Stalin or Lenin in 1917? Could you reason with Hitler in 1933? Could you reason with Mao in 1948?
I think you need to just accept that some, on Left, can't be "reasoned with". They need to be defeated. I say the left, because the totalitarian "Right" died in 1945.
I'd say the problem is we're too reasonable. We're too open to debate. We're too nice. Charlie Kirk was nice. And loved to debate. And...
Look, this isn't what I want. But it seems what the left wants. I'm just sayin' open your eyes. See whats real. Stop imagining what you want it to be. Don't know the next step after that. I"m no political genius.
I worked a 10 hour day starting at 5:30, never sat down, and I still got a few comments in.
Some Negro said: "I have long worried about the contest of the two great animating principles in this country and their fundamental incompatibility - the desire for liberty, and the desire for equality.
The United States has NEVER stood for the desire of equality. Because we are NOT equal people.
There are good people. And there are bad people. There are hard-working people. And there are lazy fucks. Go to your job tomorrow. Which are the lazy ones? You already have the list in your head.
America was founded on the principle that every man is endowed with God-given rights. I won't elucidate them to you now, you know what they are. They are embodied by the Bill of Rights to the United States Constitution.
These are rights which enable men to become their highest form. If they so choose. IF.
IF.
But not all men aspire to that.
We are NOT all equal. And America has always represented that ideal. America's ideal is that you can do anything here that you aspire to.
But some have no aspiration. It's that simple. Some men just want to watch the world burn.
RCOcean - The time and place for more reason was with one young Aleksandr Ilyich Ulyanov in the 1880s when he was a student at Saint Petersburg Imperial University. Had he met a Russian version of Charlie Kirk before he met up with Narodnaya Volya, he might not have conspired to kill the Tsar, avoiding execution and the subsequent radicalization of young Vladimir Ilyich. Young Joseph Vissarionovich was a thug and was never going to be reasoned with.
The Democratic Party killed Charlie Kirk
turn up volume
@FLC - I did not say the desire for equality was a founding principle, I am well conversational with the founding documents. I said it is one of the great "animating" principles, has been for decades, and I stand by that claim. I agree that it is unachievable by any desirable means. And yet the progressive left persists. Kurt Vonnegut published "Harrison Bergeron" in October of 1961. Did it make the slightest impact on progressive thought?
FLC's account created in 2023, but he has been commenting here since the blog's inception lol.
There are vigils taking place around the world for this man in places like South Korea and Madrid. This is bigger than Charley Kirk, but he's earned the spotlight in what's starting.
I can't imagine my embarrassment and loss of self-respect if I was warped enough to be on the wrong side of this.
I'm not sure how it relates to today's arguments, but frontier America, small town America, America from the Appalachians to the Sierra (or maybe it was from the Mississippi to the Rockies) did think of itself as largely egalitarian, and having to cope with the real 20th/21st century urban and multicultural America was quite traumatic.
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Season 3 of "The White Lotus" was okay. Not great, not terrible, but watchable. Long arc television dramas have largely replaced movies (and novels?). "The White Lotus" benefited from that, allowing us to see characters develop over 8 episodes rather than over 100 minutes. But the series doesn't (in most cases) carry characters over from one season to the next, so you don't get to see the long form plot and development over several seasons. Most people would (I think anyway) prefer seeing the same characters and actors confronting new situations over the series' development, rather than see new characters facing what are largely very similar situations. I think that's eventually going to hurt the show. The series seems to be grinding down into repetitiveness.
Maybe you can wrap your arms around a fellow debater and have a beer after the argument. At Oxford, where they are gentlemen.
Is this supposed to be a joke?
The incoming Oxford Union president who posted, "Charlie Kirk got shot let's fucking go" and “Charlie Kirk got shot loool”.
He debated Kirk earlier this year.
Two of my Repub friends love government shut downs.I told them they are likely to get their wish, but both said as long as it doesnt affect my SS, FOOD STAMPS OR MEDICARE. Gotta love em... They despise socialism but their kids go to public schools,and they sure do collect. They are funny and I tell them pretty clueless... they just laugh
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