Strange Cube - Murder, Minneapolis and Erika Kirk (Video Essay)

0:00Hey, everybody. I'm back with another video essay this week. I'll be reading my latest titled strange cube Murder Minneapolis and Erica Kirk as always if you haven't signed up yet Please subscribe at bravenewnormal.substac.com You can sign up for free or as a paid subscriber paid subscribers receive early access to all episodes of the brave new normal podcasts exclusive paid only essays and full access to all of my weekly live stream recordings with payment and scurry I harp on this a lot, but I'll say it here Substac is extremely important for me and everything that I do. I am routinely suppressed on x I am a ghost on YouTube. I no longer even really exist on Instagram Which gives a fuck it's Instagram, but you get the point if you sign up at substac Everything that I produce goes directly to your inbox. I don't send spam. I don't send calls to action I will never send you a poll or ask you what your favorite color is It everything that goes to your inbox is something that I have produced and that I've poured my blood sweat and tears into

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2:08An iPhone hovers behind her intimate farewell Perhaps on a pressure from the media team to show the world what they did to him He was the head of a powerful political organization Many believed he was a future president Now she's being poured into the mold of Jackie Kennedy a sympathetic figure who arrives from the ashes to eclipse the Groose of memory of her husband's assassination The TPUSA machine must roll on there's money and power at stake The storyline of Erica Kirk's transformation from faithful wife to fearless leader Begins in the chapel's viewing room and climaxes with fireworks at turning points America fest Every second in between is a delicate process of character development The video and images in the viewing room are designed to establish our tragic hero The preceding speeches and scripted interviews served to strengthen our image Every subtlety every sentence every nuance is crafted to build a mythology When she glides through the glowing white sparks to take Charlie's place on stage The audience experiences a carefully constructed euphoria a release of tension that was manufactured for this exact purpose

3:13The phoenix has arrived Jackie Kennedy disappeared from the public eye when John was murdered Erica Kirk was an afforded that privacy She was thrust into a scorching hot spotlight the instant Charlie's heart stop beating The inauthenticity of her grief didn't stem from a lack of love for her husband It was a reaction to the awareness that the world was watching closely and constantly and at a time where every human being travels with a high resolution camera eager to achieve virality She behaved the way she was expected to even if it wasn't how she genuinely felt right when she was expected to feel it Because of those expectations she appeared robotic She had an organization to save millions of dollars to manage and an entire political movement hanging in the balance As I'm sure was made clear to her by the brain trust at turning point in every republican parasite and turning points orbit There was no room for honesty for exhaustion For a day to just forget about Charlie and turning point in the unexpected catastrophe that ripped her life to pieces The maga right wanted a grieving widow

4:15So she in turning point dialed her anguish up to 11 with a voyeuristic peak into what should have been a private moment and it was weird We'll never know who murdered Charlie Kirk Tyler Robinson is almost certainly just the tip of a deliberately obfuscated spear of Tyler Robinson is attached to that spear at all Nobody who understands the basic laws of physics Conrassionally square the cartoonish narrative cash Patel's FBI squeezed out in the wake of Kirk's assassination Candace Owensden by it. She was Charlie's friend as she's reminded us on a continuous loop since TPUSA security detail folded his body into the back seat of an SUV She's been on a tear trying to find Charlie's killer Weaving a convoluted web of conspiracy that involves the CIA Israel France TPUSA insiders her own dreams Erica Kirk and a fleet of Egyptian planes Her hunt for Kirk's assassin is routinely pushed her show to the top slot on global podcast charts coincidentally generating millions of dollars in ad revenue

5:15That's weird too We've crossed the interdimensional plane into a hall of mirrors universe Everything appears normal at first glance, but becomes increasingly distorted the longer you stare at it Our relationship to governments and monarchies has always been one of skepticism from a distance Journalism was established as a legitimate vocation because citizens deemed it necessary to create systems of checks and balances over their ruling classes America's founding fathers included the press in their constitution because they understood it as a vital mechanism in maintaining a free democratic republic So when it became undeniably obvious traditional media networks were infected by intelligence agencies and absorbed by private interests It left a vacuum to be filled by anyone brave enough to broadcast widely unknown often highly controversial counter narratives It took a few decades But when the public came to realize that the French voices were less tinfoil fetishes as they were so frequently accused by the compromised entities And more curious true seekers public trust shifted to the independent sources

6:16And with it the legacy media ad model was crafted onto streaming platforms opinionated citizens became instant field reporters and homemade newsrooms were erected in townhouse basements Journalism as a discipline was redefined and loosely applied to anyone sharing disjointed theories to a selfie camera Platforms like YouTube X and TikTok featured millions of commentators and podcasts Most of which presented interpretations of current events shone through a partisan or ideological lens As the streaming platforms dwarf traditional news networks the networks began to editorialize their own reporting to compete in a shrinking market They once dominated What resulted was an ecosystem where sensationalism boosts visibility and factual information is secondary to preferred narratives A woman is shot three times after blockading ice agents in Minneapolis The video clip of her death rips across social media feeds Multiple angles zoomed in zoomed out slow motion amateur analysts painstakingly review the footage to determine who was at fault

7:16What's clear to any unbiased observer is that this was a collision between two distressed individuals in a pressure cooker scenario One a military veteran an ice agent tasked with locating needles in a haystack amidst aggressive protesters and beating his ability to do his job and the other A passionate anti-Trump activist who joined the Minneapolis ice watch with the explicit intent to disrupt the deportation efforts It's a tragic inflection point in an upward trajectory of escalating tensions Western cities and world and conflict destabilized by radical policy economic uncertainty driving people to extremes mobs gathering in the streets ritual protest designed to performatively expunge whatever evil has been identified by the pack leaders But the issue is never the issue most of those people holding signs and chatting slogans don't know what they're protesting against These are tribal dances choreographed to exercise the bad spirits a release of the anger anxiety and fear that grows out of the unknown Our entire lives have been politicized what we consume where we live

8:20Which facts we agree our facts and which are to be ignored Everything in our world has a political connotation attached to it We can't escape the ideological hooks. There's a message baked into every song and movie popular culture produces signaling an affiliation to one tribe or the other We are routinely forced to check ourselves against the rules and regulations of whichever tribe we belong to Tribes that present as tribes but are functionally psychopathic religious cults Identity politics reduced us to our immutable characteristics and then slingshot at us into whichever cult most corresponds with our three defining nouns In the event you were an outlier such as a middle aged white liberal or young black conservative You were either expected to grovel at the feet of your historically oppressed masters or accept life as a token cult representative whenever accusations of racism are thrown around And it's also fucking weird its mind bending Another protestor is shot and killed in Minneapolis A nice agent has his finger bitten off by a rabid activist

9:22The ritual swings into the human sacrifice phase Nobody seems to notice. This is all happening right as a multi-billion dollar Somali fraud was uncovered in that same city Minnesotia congresswoman Ilhan Omar and governor Tim Waltz poor fuel on the fire Minneapolis mayor Jacob fry tells police to stand down Ex-president Barack Obama releases a statement encouraging the rest of America to follow Minneapolis's example Blood is spilled in sub-zero temperatures to satisfy the gods of money laundering The corruption is so endemic the bureaucrats have resorted to inflaming gang violence in their own districts as a method of diverting attention away from their criminality The cults are so captured by their desire to destroy the other side Neither recognizes how easily they've been manipulated into fighting on behalf of the people robbing them More blood more gnashing of teeth more death Meanwhile their religious leaders rake in millions through various schemes to redirect the last few drops of middle-class wealth into the oligarchical ocean Charlie Kirk's murder sent his careening into a lake of fire

10:25It deepened the bloodlust on the left and put the right wing in a defensive posture the unthinkable became an option commentators widen the gap Charlie Kirk became a gold mine of valuable content Not just a discourse around his assassination, but all of the waves that rolled off of it The millions of trusted chattering heads locked on to their audience and held them in a state of hatred and paranoia The conversations soon turned from the assassination itself to reactions from the opposing cult mentally a leftist fervently celebrated his murder American flag clad conservatives promised retribution The commentators repackaged the clips and blasted them into circulation Further increasing hostilities with every revolution around their echo chambers until they gained enough force to penetrate the neighboring bubble Nobody is closer to finding the truth and they were in that one shocking incident when Charlie frozen his seat with a 30 odd six-sized hole in his neck Nobody seems to care either The truth only matters when it aligns with your preferred narrative

11:26If not it can be warped to fit the narrative or discarded completely The commentators decide what the truth is and they know what version of the truth their audience wants Charlie Kirk built an empire preaching to his choir He was a master of linguistic contortion Carefully straddling the line between objective reality and hyperbolic conservative dogma Erica Kirk inherited a global congregation of developed followers With the expectation that she would carry on the tradition of his traveling tent revivals electrifying crowds with the same vigor But Charlie was a true believer one of the only true believers in the cesspool of right-wing evangelists This is why every attempt to replace him with a shiny new snake handler is failed And why Erica Kirk's public appearance is felt performative Charlie was an expert navigator of the new media landscape But there was substance at the root of his sermons The commentators orbiting the black hole left by his death will never fill that void because they lack the authenticity that propelled Charlie as a cultural vanguard There are the Joel Austin's and Peter pop-offs of political slot

12:29False profits pushing miracle spring water to a gullible audience Desperate to believe in narratives that absolve them of all accountability in the ongoing cult wars Charlie Kirk was an important counterbalance to the madness His method of debate was a gateway to wider discourse It served dual purposes first to expose the lunacy of the radicalized left And second to establish a common ground where the larger discussions could happen He engaged with anyone willing to challenge him And although the engagements were often combative they were a stabilizing force They humanized the other side and allowed us to see each other for who we really are Regular people stumbling around in the darkness looking for a light switch Minneapolis is the first sign of things to come Without open dialogue we exist only as avatars and a fictional reality made up exclusively of communists and fascists The protesters appear to be cosplaying as revolutionaries because they are The politicians appear to be larping his Che Guevara-esque revolutionary figures because they are

13:31The ice agents appear to be operating as America first mercenaries because they are None of this is real to anyone involved or observing because we've been propagandized to a point of total disconnection The tangible universe is now just a social construct to be interpreted through ideological filters that have grown to become religious face We created more satisfactory gods because God didn't fit the rigid dogmas of our new world And every year this new world keeps getting weirder All right So little inside information I attempted to do this the other day and it took me three and a half hours And I could not read out loud So I am very very surprised. I was actually able to do this today Yeah, so this essay is going to feel a little bit dated when you read it I didn't intend it that way. It's just With a lot of my writing lately I've been taking a really long time with ideas to kind of like drop them down number one

14:31Just because a lot of this stuff is really complicated and I really want to work out in my head Like exactly what I'm trying to say But the other part of it too is just that It's just that I don't have a lot of time the podcast is is chewing up so much of my time and so This year what I'm going to do is I'm going to pull back a little bit on the podcast And I completely don't worry guys still going to be around But I'm thinking I'm going to be writing more and the hard thing is is when I put something out In the same week that I put out a podcast the essay just disappears in the mix amongst the podcast and all the Promotion and things that go on around it So I'm going to probably alternate like two weeks on two weeks podcast one week essay two weeks podcast one week essay But this year I'm going to do a ton of more writing I've really been itching to write and the thing that's been bugging me is just that I got away from it quite a bit last year So anyways and and also to With my essays Um, and this isn't like a flex or anything. This just reality

15:33um A lot of my essays recently have resurfaced and are getting millions and millions of reads and previously got millions of reads And so what's happened is it's I'm aware that there are lots and lots of people reading my words now So I really want to like be careful with the way that I word things and not be as loose as I used to be kind of tighten it up a little bit Although I am writing another essay right now that is really fucking loose and so I don't know whatever anyways um I really wanted to explore this uh concept With this essay the both the Minneapolis the events and Minneapolis which are ongoing and have totally disappeared from view because obviously there's a war Going on right now. I know the one in the Middle East so Minneapolis is kind of at the back of people's minds But also to like the the the Erica Kirk subject and the way the people have attacked her um You know, I'm not going to lie. I I'm I'm on social media like anybody else and I've seen a lot of weird

16:35a lot of strange behavior On her and TPSA's behalf and I am one of those people I I don't necessarily know if Tyler Robinson pulled the trigger perhaps he was involved perhaps he was Uh, somehow enlisted to shoot Charlie Kirk But the thing is just the general physics of it all and and everything that happened on that day It just to me it just doesn't sound like Tyler Kirk or Tyler Say Tyler Kirk or there Tyler Robinson shot Charlie Kirk Seems like there's a whole lot more going on there and so I wanted to explore that as well because You know, I like like like everybody else like I saw that video I think was like a week or two after his assassination where they were in the funeral parlor parlor and there's this like really morbid video of her and she's like leaning into his casket like rubbing his hand But it all it felt like she was acting felt like her performance and they really turned me off Like I thought it was really fucking gross like first of all

17:35I thought it was really gross that they would Do that that they would film that because it's a Very intimate. I mean as an intimate a moment as you can get um But also to it was just like it just felt like she was performing and I and I can see how people's antennas went up Right because it minded to my spidey senses tingle does like this This just doesn't feel like somebody who's actually grieving over the loss of a husband But then you know as time went on and as I watched the character development right because what they did was through social media They slowly but surely built the Erica Kirk character Until that moment when she walks out on stage at America fest like it was a very carefully doctored and scripted process And you know for me again is somebody who observes things from like a From like a like a and it will Observes things from an authentic viewpoint I can see all of the manufacturing going on in it and it Disturbs me little it gives me an unsettling feeling and I and I know a lot of you out there saw the same thing

18:40But then I thought about it and I was like yeah, but this is a huge political organization like this and not only that but in the social media age one uh in in the social media age In a medium that Charlie Kirk dominated And so of course it's going to be scripted of course it's going to be performed And I don't think any of that is an indicator of you know guilt on Erica Kirk's part or TPSA or whatever I think what it is is it's just that that's the era we live in Where everything is entertainment everything is is um Scripted everything is manufactured everything that you're watching especially on the right um What's what's happened with the with the maggot conservatives is that they've become the new media the new The new media corporations and the new the new media entities, but the thing is is they don't have like the marketing Expertise the advertising ability that the the previously legacy

19:43News networks had so everything that they do is really transparent at least to me and You know we're in the influencer age where everybody is an influencer like the fact that some of these people are even You know people that anybody is interested in fucking blows my mind But anyways, that's just the era that we're in and her ascent to taking Charlie's place at that TPSA podium is not necessarily something that they had planned I think what a lot of people who are who are getting this Who are getting the same gross feeling that I'm getting they're misinterpreting like some weird concern They're misinterpreting what they're seeing for like some weird conspiracy You know to get rid of Charlie Kirk To turn turning point into back into the pro israel organization that it always was and and replace it with Erica Kirk And that everybody on the inside was in on it which Could could be can his own is might be right But what it looks like to me is just that

20:45They have a very or had I don't think turn I think turning point has lost most of its bite to be honest with you Most of its peel since Charlie has died, but What has happened is that you know they like they have this hugely powerful political organization And they have to figure out a way To slot in a new leader and of course Erica Kirk is the natural era parent to that to that podium And so I wanted to explore that in this essay and kind of try to find balance there You know because like on the on the other side of it like a lot of what can to soons is done is really It really grossed to me um, you know I don't know her personally. I've never met her. I've never encountered her in any way But again what she's doing Also seems very disingenuous and very motivated by profit As are a lot of the other people who are you know just frequently

21:46Speak Charlie Kirk's name and the other thing too that really bothers me is that Charlie has been Charlie Kirk in a lot of ways has been Deified he's become like a messianic Jesus figure which he never was You know Charlie was a deeply flawed person. I I felt like I didn't feel good about him being as involved With the Trump administration as he was because Not to speak ill of the dead, but in a lot of ways what Charlie Kirk did Particularly on his podcast was designed to inflame tensions And again, he was playing the game He understood the the new media landscape and he played the game and that's why at the end I kind of say he he straddled the line or not kind of I write He straddled the line between um What is the line? I can't even remember now He straddled the line between what did I say some reality and can and and hyperbolic conservative dogma

22:49Yeah, he often did that like he would he would very very carefully Make inflammatory statements to draw in the audience, but like I wrote in the in the essay He was a true believer and there was there was substance at the root of at the root of what he was saying Whether you agreed with it or not. That's that's a different story You know, I agreed with some of what he had to say and I vehemently disagreed with with With a well not not a lot, but more than what I agreed with and I felt like he often used race as a backdrop To send a political message which is just doing identity politics the same identity politics that the left does From the other side But that's my that's my perspective and that's that's my opinion you don't have to share it and that's That's kind of part of being in being alive and being human So for those of you who are about to hit the comments and call me all sorts of names. We don't have to agree on this stuff This is just what I saw and then of course with Minneapolis, you know, I wanted to juxtapose

23:54The the Erica Charlie Jericho Kirk Charlie Kirk religious element of it With what's happening in Minneapolis because what's happening in Minneapolis is again a choreographed tribal dance, you know, I don't I don't think that anybody who's out there actually protesting ice really give a gives a fuck about The people who are being deported I think what this is about is it's too religious cults colliding And that it could be any variety of issues But it's it's that the left the liberal left I wouldn't even sorry I shouldn't even say liberal because there are anything but the illiberal left feel this obligation to stick it to The Maga right and the Maga right have this feel this obligation to crush The liberal left and so what you what you're watching again. I wrote is that you know a tragic

24:55uh I can't even remember what I wrote but But you're watching is this slow escalation these escalating tensions that are resulting in violence and It's just it's it's very strange. It's a very weird time to be alive and of course now We're back in the Middle East and you know I Think the Trump administration and massively underestimated Iran As you know the Bush administration did with Iraq and Afghanistan and I'm right in the middle on this thing I'm writing an essay on this. This will be the next essay that comes out out after this one Kind of exploring the reasonings behind or the reasoning or the sorry the multitude of reasons behind uh This campaign in Iran and

25:56The mystery around it because none of us have been given a real explanation as to why The United States and Israel are doing what they're doing, but I think I have a good idea And I think that's it um Guys As you're watching this I am currently sitting on a beach in Jamaica and The reason I am able to do that right now is because of you all of you who have Who are paid subscribers on substack or subscribed on youtube signed up as members or signed up as subscribers on ex um For the first time in two years. I'm finally okay You know, I didn't talk about this on the podcast or on any of the live streams, but The first two years of brave new normal were really fucking rocky like really rocky and I ended up driving in uber for a year and a half Just to just to try to get this thing rolling into be honest with you. I you know, it's insane a man in his forties

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