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Hi, this is Free Thinking through the fourth Turning. My name is Sacha Stone. The Left Red Pills America. Congratulations psychos. You did it again. The death of Charlie Kirk and the reaction to it have shaken millions of Americans, at least those who managed to hold on to their humanity in the past 10 years. Even if the prominent Democrats in the party tried to project a uniform message of decency to condemn the violence and offer condolences to the family, it was increasingly evident that they were no longer in control of their own party. Not even President Barack Obama himself could set the tone for these people. So consumed with hatred are they. Maybe they thought selling fear for 10 years and calling Trump and his supporters an existential threat was a good idea because it would motivate their voters to the polls. Instead, they've created a Frankenstein monster that is now roaming the quiet countryside and scaring the crap out of normal Americans. They want all of us in this country to join them to agree that Charlie Kirk got what he deserved. He supports gun rights after all. That alone meant they would shed no tears for him, his wife or his kids. That was the least of it. On TikTok, Blue sky and X they went on and on, plastering the social media apps with negative stories about Kirk to erase any legacy the right might try to build in his name. For podcast listeners, here is a video montage from TikTok and I'm not saying she deserved it, but I'm saying God's timing is always right. We need to locate Charlie Kirk's killer because I want to give him a nice firm handshake. I don't think a lot of you liberals and even self proclaimed leftists have learned anything from history. Really. It is an objectively good thing when fascists die regardless of how they were taken out. Caring more about how people are celebrating the death of CK instead of what he represented and what his legacy was and being relieved that he's no longer to inflict harm upon people with his rhetoric is certainly a choice. This is a man who spent his entire adult life making other people who were not exactly like him miserable. If you are not a cisgender, straight, white, able bodied, European, American, Christian Republican man, CK did not like you. In fact he thought that you were lesser than him that you had. You should have less access to the same rights that we all should have than him. This is a man who said that if his 9 or 10 year old child was r worded he would force her to carry that baby, that pregnancy to full term. That man was morally bankrupt. So you're not going to try to moralize my relief that he is gone from this world when he made paycheck after paycheck off of the dehumanization of so many individuals who were not right now. You want to know why I'm so stoked? Go ahead and Google Charlie Kirk. Go ahead, Go ahead, read the Read the latest headlines and you'll see why I'm so When conservatives die, they leave no discernible legacy behind that can be pointed to that improved anyone's life at all. When's the last time you thought of Rush Limbaugh? When's the last time you thought of Jerry Falwell? These men were titans of their time. They spewed hate into the world relentlessly. The last thing Charlie Kirk said on earth was gang violence. He was stoking racial hatred. If you look at what he tweeted in the last 24 hours, it's all about trying to get people to hate black people, right? This is what he spent his time on earth doing. Nobody deserves to be shot because of their political beliefs. And maybe they thought the rest of America would agree that they should close off their hearts and separate themselves from their empathy to serve the greater political cause that has taken the place of just about everything else in their lives. But they miscalculated how normal people view violent death, especially political assassinations. On TikTok, many users were expressing their anger at the left, and some of them even said this was it. They were no longer a part of the Democratic Party. Here is a video compilation. Finally, when it comes to the death of somebody, it's like it doesn't matter who they are, it doesn't matter what they think. Nobody deserves that. I could see if you just heard about it, but you saw it on camera and you still saying you ain't sad about it. That's like your humanity is now lost. Like, politics is making, like, some of them crazy. And that's why I was just like, oh, y' all are drinking Kool Aid right now, and I'm not gonna drink that. Like, I'm gonna just walk off. And that's one of the reasons why. And it's the nail in the coffin. Because if you, if you are so politicked out that you cannot cry with somebody on alive, you're not as moral as you think you are. Sorry, the lifelong blue voter. I don't have anything else to add to this Charlie Kirk assassination. Horro. What I do have to communicate is a sense of just like complete despair and horror and shame for My own political party. I have posted political content interspersed with my regular content for 10, 15, 20 years at this point. And I've never, not once worried about being a target from violence on the left. I've barely worried about it on the right, you know, like. But the way that left wing terrorism is blooming and the way that people on the left are accepting it, supporting it, being callous, heartless, up. Anyways, what are you guys having for dinner? Oh, thoughts and prayers. He died for what he loved. It's disgusting. And to realize that it's just so hypocritical. Oh, gun reform this, gun reform that. But if we don't like them, right wing terrorism this, fascism that. But if we don't like them, again, it's the reaction from the left being like, whatever. I have a pit in my stomach about how low we have sunk. I'm having a very strong reaction to the Charlie Kirk thing, which is strange. I mean, it's not strange, but I hated him. Like, his videos would pop up and I would see red. He made me. I despised his beliefs. But I think it makes me feel even more hopeless seeing the people that I do agree with who have the same beliefs as me laughing about it and celebrating it. Because I think that's like, when evil really wins, is when we're all so desensitized to this kind of shit that you could be happy about someone being murdered. This whole Charlie Kirk thing, you know, I'm a left leaning moderate, but the left has done a really great job of pushing us all over to the right the past. Well, the past year. And I'm so sad because what Charlie Kirk brought to the table was conversation and debate. And that's why I liked him. I didn't always agree with him, but damn, we need more conversation and we need more debate. And all I can hope is that all of these kids that showed up on these college campuses to debate him or to agree with him or whatever. I hope we end up with thousands more of Charlie Kirk. So breaking fucking news. Charlie Kirk got shot in a neck. That was the last bastion. I can't be a liberal no more. You see the comments? I hope the gun is okay. The same people asking for moral decency. I cannot in good faith align myself with you guys anymore. I once had a headache. You'll be all right. Because you don't agree with him politically. If you voted Democrat like I did, you voted for a party that does not exist anymore. This is not the Kennedy Democratic Party. This is not the party of people that want to give back to their community, that they believe in kindness for everybody, equality and acceptance. None of these things exist anymore in the Democratic Party. I am ashamed of the Democratic Party and I have been for a long time, which is why I consider myself an independent. Democrats and liberals and people that are all like, you know, peace and love and equality and unity have come onto this app to say the most horrific things about this 31 year old man. And in Washington they asked for a moment of silence. And Democrats were booing, were audibly booing. And Jennifer say just registered as a Republican. From unaffiliated podcast listeners. A tweet from Jennifer say in honor of Charlie. Today I registered as a Republican. I was unaffiliated, ordered an American flag from my yard, had been meaning to anyway. This was the day I worked hard to stay in the light amid so much darkness. I went to work and kept going. And Colin Wright redrew his famous chart showing how far the left has moved away from the center and the right. This is the last thing the Democrats needed. All they have left is Zorhan Mamdani and Gavin Newsom's meme factory of would be Nepo babies of the Lincoln Project. They have no vision, no hope, no policies, no fixes, no solutions, nothing. All they have is this. Their hatred of anyone who doesn't conform and comply. Their approval rating has never been lower, Registrations are down by the millions. They're losing the support of Gen Z. They have no plan to bring voters in except to draw more militant fanatics. And now they've once again exposed how lacking in any common decency they have become. Congratulations, Democrats. Oops. You did it again, podcast listeners. A collage of tweets from X. I'm unfollowing anyone sympathizing with that man even a little bit. Right wingers have moved on from fake demands to tone down the violent rhetoric to fantasizing brazenly about murdering left figures. He had wife and kids. Well, Hitler had a wife too, so apparently if it was around 1945, we would have likely had a timeline full sympathy for him. The idea that black people would pray for a racist is insanity. I mourn for his kids. I do not mourn for him. All I'm gonna say is the universe gives you what you put out. Charlie Kirk is the reason Charlie Kirk got shot. And from the New York Post, Blue sky posters threatened Trump, Elon Musk, Ben Shapiro immediately after Charlie Kirk's assassination. They're an army of Lord of the Flies whose parents coddled them and raised them to believe all their finger paintings were masterpieces, that their traumas defined them and were gentle parented. And when that didn't work, they were drugged into perfection. They don't seem to understand that no one deserves to die just for having a different opinion. And when one person's death means nothing to you and all you can do is make a video where you calmly recite the reasons you don't care and why no one else should care what is left of you. Podcast listeners A young woman on TikTok Charlie Kirk created the culture that killed him Charlie was professional provocateur. He used inflammatory fallacies and thought terminating cliches to embolden those who have always held power. Straight, white cisgendered men. He even convinced some marginalized people that they could gain power by aligning themselves with these systems. Patriarchy, white supremacy, Christian nationalism. He profited off of this rhetoric at the expense of others humanity. Charlie Kirk created the culture that killed him. One where gun violence is so normalized that even children are seen as collateral damage. Did he see his own life as a fair trade? How about his wife's husband? How about the father of his children? But it's not just the policies that may have cost him his life. I'm not sure if Donald Trump would have been elected without Charlie Kirk and his influence on Gen Z men. Regardless, he was Trump's ally, a faithful servant to a regime that glorifies violence and something good men do. Fascism is here in part because of Charlie Kirk, and fascism is violent. But America has always been violent. Saying there's no place for political violence in America is as hollow as giving a thought and a prayer. Between the shooting at UVU and the school shooting in Colorado, America was built on political violence and continues to enact political violence every day. It's easy to condemn political violence when there's a hand on a trigger. It's harder to condemn everything that put the gun there in the first place. Or the tax dollars funding a genocide, or the policies that disappear. People who don't look like Charlie. We dream of a world without violence, but we live in one that demands it. Fascism can't be voted out or petitioned away or debated into irrelevance. It must be confronted. And confrontation under fascism is never peaceful. Political violence has been a daily reality for indigenous people, black Americans, trans individuals, Palestinians. The difference now is that the people who thought they were safe, who thought violence was only something that happened to other people, are feeling it too. This is the cost of the culture that Charlie Kirk built. This is what happens when a nation worships guns and is taught to fear each other more than they fear power. Political violence has always been here. It's just now everybody is going to feel it. They sound like modern versions of the Stepford Wives who say exactly what they're supposed to say, repeating it almost word for word like robots. Here is another Charlie Kirk didn't deserve this. He said a few deaths a year are worth it if it meant preserving our God given right to bear arms. He actively fought against women's rights, he's openly Islamophobic and he spreads anti trans rhetoric. He supported the ethnic cleansing in Gaza and he said the Civil Rights Rights act was a mistake. He called vaccine requirements a medical apartheid and said that empathy is a made up word. How many children, teens and adults have died by suicide because of his rhetoric? How many school shootings did he excuse this year? How many women died because they couldn't get access to safe abortions? How many hate crimes happened because of him? Spare me the empathy because he didn't believe in it either. And let's be clear. The only people I have sympathy for are his kids, not his wife. She chose him, she stood by him, she supported him and she co signed everything he said and did. She laid in bed with that man knowing exactly who he was. The only people I will feel sorry for are his children. They didn't choose this and now they have to grow up with the weight of his legacy. Someone said that his daughters didn't deserve to grow up without a dad. Well, they had a dad and he openly said he was would force his daughters to give birth if they were raped. I think they're actually better off without him. There is no one to pull them back from the brink. They collect so many likes that it messes with their heads. Their followers demand more, give us more. They're punished if they dissent, if they disagree, if they do any critical thinking whatsoever. Anyone who uses TikTok in any social media app knows that it's dominated by the left. We built it after all, oh so long ago. Even the Democrats themselves are under the control of the fanatics in their party. Which is why they all felt emboldened to boo Charlie Kirk's name when they called for a moment of silence. Even if they didn't agree with it, why would they want to show the public just how petty they are? What purpose is a gentle lady from Colorado rise. Let's, let's, let's. Wait a minute, wait a minute. The house will be in order. The House will be in order. The House will be in order. Not that we needed this tragic event to expose that ugly truth. It's been obvious for some time now that the left has been hijacked by the modern equivalent of the Manson family. Joe Biden was the George Spahn like figure who presented the mask of normalcy for what was most definitely not normal. All they had to do was the bare minimum, either stay silent or offer condolences in some generic comment on free speech and how political violence is never okay. But they couldn't even do that. Why? Because there is nothing left of them. All they have is this pathological need to control everyone and everything. Whether it's destroying the careers of convicted thought criminals or celebrating their assassinations. All they know is they wanted them gone. In all of their lies about Charlie Kirk, their endless posts with hundreds of thousands of likes that prop up their own manufactured goodness as if to say, see, we still have the moral high ground. They come off somehow looking worse than they ever have. Charlie Kirk was a nice guy. They're celebrating his death because they didn't know that. And they didn't know that because no one would tell them. Not their own social media feeds, not the legacy media. And when Ezra Klein tried to tell them with a New York Times op ed called, Charlie Kirk was practicing politics the right way, they began attacking him too. Because of course they did for podcast listeners. A tweet by Matt Granger. I had my differences with the head of Trump's Hitler Youth, but we both wanted the same thing, to make America great again. The dehumanization is a feature, not a bug. Here is Benny Johnson and Chris Cuomo. I don't really care how we got here so much. There is a lot of blame to go around. I do not see you guys as victims. You give as good as you get. There is a lot of anger. There is a lot of exaggeration. It is all hate for profit on the fringe of this battling binary political system. My question is. I am. I am. My question is now what? Charlie Kirk has never advocated. Charlie Kirk has never advocated violence ever. Charlie Kirk was only. I'm not saying he. Nonviolent. A nonviolent peaceful debater. He went into places where he knew he was hated in order to engage. I never. I agree kindly that he was not about to say that. I get the same thing. Hold on. It's not. Hold on. I'm not talking about it with Charlie. Benny, don't play games with me. I'm giving you latitude because you deserve it. Because this was your friend, and this is scary and it hurts. And it could have just as easily been you. The dehumanization is wrong. It's wrong. But Benny, you'll never be able to chew me out, Chris, because I'll never dehumanize I hear that Joe Biden gets a terminal diagnosis. If I hear that Joe Biden gets a terminal cancer diagnosis, I'll say a prayer for him. I I'll say that I hope he lives the rest of his days painless. That's exactly what I said. And every person that I know and respect, and I know them all in my ecosystem said the same thing. Not a single one celebrated Benny. Single one of us celebrated Joe Biden's terminal cancer diagnosis. Now I can show you a endless series of tiktoks and celebration posts and T shirts made celebrating this travesty. There is a fundamental difference of those who glorify death on the and it is demonic and it's dark and it needs to be all right. But it needs to be. I hear you. The left so badly wants this to be a both sides issue, but it isn't. The right mourn the death of Congresswoman Melissa Hortman. They did not blanket X or Blue sky or any other social media site smearing her for podcast listeners. A Tweet from political polls. 77% of Republicans believe it is always unacceptable to feel joy at the death of someone they oppose, while only 38% of Democrats share this view from YouGov. They would not have posted something like this on the right podcast listeners. A tweet from Beth Ayers I just know if Hitler would have died in 2025, y' all would pull the I'm not a Nazi and I didn't agree with his views, but he was a human being. Y' all are sick. Rest in piss, Charlie Kirk. But until the people with the real power on the left condemn them, nothing will change. They can make any false reality they want, they can tell themselves any lies they want. But we've now seen in how they've responded to something that would shake any normal person out of their partisan stupor. Could cost them not just for the midterms, but but for 2028 and beyond. They think they have the narrative well in hand because the media is so supportive of everything they do. But every once in a while they go too far and they end up red pilling Americans who shrink back in horror at who and what they've become and want no part of it. I'm not saying the left killed Charlie Kirk. Maybe someone on the left did, maybe they didn't. It doesn't really matter because they've shown their true colors in this perilous moment in our history. It's like that scene in the Dead Zone when Martin Sheen picks up the baby to protect himself. There is no unseeing that. I want to thank all of you from the bottom of my heart for the tremendous support you've given this campaign. You've made this campaign the most talked about, the most exciting, the most important campaign in the history of this great state. And I've come here personally to thank you for that. They might think the silencing of Charlie Kirk will cripple the MAGA movement and everything he's done to build Turning Point USA and mobilize the young. But because of his death, MAGA will be more energized, not less, more motivated, not less, more determined than ever to save America from this madness. And they must, because they're our only hope. Charlie Kirk has left a legacy, whether they realize it or not. It isn't just how psychotic they've become and how so many of us have fled, but it's all of those young people he inspired who adored him. Podcast listeners of TikTok. My high school kids talked about Charlie Kirk all morning. Positive conversations about Charlie Kirk all morning. They're impacted. They're mad, but passionate. Compassion all morning. These kids are smart. These kids are smart. He touched them. They knew who he was. He made an impact on their lives. They talked about his debates. They talked about his topics. Smart kids. This impacted them, these high school kids. They know. They know. They will remember the assassination of Charlie Kirk. It will shape their youth the way the killing of Martin Luther King Jr. RFK and JFK shaped generations before. They will know that he was killed to silence him. And they will remember how the left reacted to his death. And they will grow up knowing that it was wrong. Most of all, they will know that he built a movement that would ultimately defeat the most powerful political machine in American history. And if he can do it, so can they. Thank you for listening to my podcast, Sashastone.com and rest in peace, Charlie Kirk. And peace and love. And God bless his wife Erica and their two beautiful children. And remember to thine own self be true. I heard there was a secret goal that David played and he please the Lord. But you don't really care for music, do you? Well, it goes like this. The fourth, the fifth, the minor fall and the major lift the baffled King composing hallelujah, Hallelujah Hallelujah? Hallelujah? Hallelujah? Your faith was strong? But you needed proof? You saw her waiting on the roof? Her beauty and the moonlight over through you? Well, she tied you to a kitchen chair? She broke your throne? And she cut your hair? And from the lips she drew the? Hallelujah? Hallelujah? Hallelujah? Hallelujah? Hallelujah? Baby, there's a guide above? But all I've ever learned from love? Is how to shoot somebody who I drew up? It's not a cry that you hear at night? It's not somebody who's seen the line? It's a call and answer broken? Hallelujah? Hallelujah? Hallelujah? Hallelujah? Hallelu? Hallelujah? And hallelujah? Hallelujah? Hallelujah? Hallelu.
Date: September 12, 2025
Host: Sasha Stone
In “The Left Red-Pills America…”, Sasha Stone delivers a passionate, contemplative, and critical monologue exploring the cultural and political aftermath of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk’s assassination. The episode examines both the overt jubilation and the dissociative horror expressed online and in progressive circles, exposing what Stone argues is the left’s rapid moral and cultural decline. Using real social media posts and reactions, the episode charts the way the political left, in Stone’s view, has “red-pilled”—or awakened—millions of Americans by revealing, through their reactions, a profound loss of empathy, decency, and humanity. Stone weaves personal reflections, sampled commentary, and biting social critique to pose questions about violence, partisanship, collective morality, and the future of American politics.
[00:00–07:30]
Key Insight:
Stone positions the reaction to Kirk’s assassination as a kind of Rubicon moment for the left, exposing a dangerous degree of moral desensitization and hatred.
[07:30–23:00]
Notable Quote:
“If you voted Democrat like I did, you voted for a party that does not exist anymore. This is not the Kennedy Democratic Party… None of these things exist anymore in the Democratic Party. I am ashamed of the Democratic Party and I have been for a long time, which is why I consider myself an independent.” ([16:45])
[23:00–37:00]
Notable Moment:
Stone recalls a Democratic response during a congressional moment of silence for Kirk, where Democrats were “audibly booing,” highlighting the crescendo of public contempt ([39:00]).
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Key Data Point:
[48:00–56:00]
[56:00–End]
Sasha Stone’s episode is a raw, unsparing indictment of leftist groupthink after Charlie Kirk’s assassination, capturing a moment of national crisis where empathy has seemingly dissolved into partisan poison. By curating visceral commentary from across the spectrum and adding her own searing analysis, Stone frames the wave of celebration and indifference as catalytic, “red-pilling” vast swaths of Americans and reshaping the future of U.S. politics. The episode is both an elegy and a rallying cry for decency, debate, and the possibility of redemption after tragedy.
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