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your support. The Washington Post published a story about Tyler
Robinson's life and political views prior to the shooting of
Charlie Kirk. Okay, well, what his life in his views
before the killing, not that the story was published before
the killing, okay anyway, John Sexton, writing at hot air
dot com say is what they found is that Robinson
seemed to have a fairly bland the like sort of
a pos on both of their houses view of the
two political parties for quite a while, but that all
changed when he started dating his roommate. His roommate was
very vocal about trans rights and his disgust at the
reelection of President Trump. His boyfriend, Lance Twiggs is his name,
but was transing to Luna but told friends, you don't
have to change my pronouns or anything like that, which
is kind of weird, but okay whatever. So the story
in the Washington Post, of course, it starts off as
sort of like a rebuttal to Trump and Republicans who
are like, you know, they've been claiming that he was
radicalized by left wing extremists, but there's no evidence to
show that. And then, of course they spend the rest
of the article detailing what could be considered to be
evidence of the radicalization. It goes into detail which demonstrates
that Robinson was in fact radicalized by a left wing extremist,
his boyfriend. Here's from the Washington Post article. Some people
said they noticed changes in Robinson over roughly the past year.
His mother told police that he had become more pro
gay and trans rights oriented. That's a quote. And it
started dating a roommate who was undergoing a gender transition.
Friends confirmed the pair's romantic involvement and said the roommate
was distressed about anti trans sentiment. After the presidential election,
According to one person who was close to him at
the time, Robinson began to voice concern for the rights
of transgender people and to express disapproval of the new administration,
though the person said he wasn't really strident in those views,
which kind of makes sense. Right, you're young guy, you're
in this relationship now and your boyfriend, girlfriend, your friend friend,
your significant other. Let's say you'rees O your significant other.
They're all worked up about a particular issue that directly
impacts them. They feel under siege. They're literally trying to
genocide me, right, like that kind of a view. And
this guy Robinson, you know, being in this new relationship
where I've not seen any reporting that he had ever
had any relationship prior, he now starts to adopt some
of these beliefs, and he starts saying some of these
things makes sense, sort of like you know, Brad Pitt
kind of adopts the look of every woman that he's
in a relationship with. Kind of like that. By the way,
we've known this stuff for months. There is some new
information in the Washington Post article, but it largely confirms
what the initial read was when we saw the text messages,
and people, you know, dug up all of his social
media posts and they pulled up his gaming profiles and
all of that stuff. You know, his hanging out in
some multiple MMRPG, the online gaming world where like people
put on the virtual reality headsets and they become animals,
and then they're all in this world together with each other,
and then of course they proceed to engage in sex
x on each other virtually. Of course, although I have
a pretty good idea, like if you're rooming with a
dude that is confused about whether they're a guy or
a girl, and you go and virtually get dressed up
as furries, and you're engaging in this hyper sexualized behavior
in a virtual space, you could see how it might
progress to the physical space very quickly because you're gonna
get all lamped up in the virtual world, and in
the real world, you've got this roommate of yours that's
in the virtual world with you doing these things. So
it seems like a natural leap, you know, not even
a leap, it's really just kind of a step, you know.
So it all started when Robinson moved into an apartment
with two other guys. The apartment was regularly a scene
where Robinson's friends would gather to play a game called Magic.
The gathering friends regularly regularly came to the apartment to
play the card game. According to Scord Messages, that's a
messaging app, texting and audio and whatever. It's big in
the gamer world as well. Discord and so there were
four other men who were part of this little circle
that would play this card game Magic. They described Robinson
as a generally quiet presence who came across more as
libertarian or conservative, a fairly typical person in their southern
Utah world. He had a revolver, according to two people
who remembered him showing it off once. One of them
said he liked to practice shooting on public lands near
the Arizona border. He loved his guns, he loved his beer.
He hated the government. That's the impression that I got.
But things started to change when Robinson started becoming openly
affectionate with one of his roommates. Two of the Magic players,
they thought Robinson was straight until he and that roommate
grew openly affectionate, cuddling and then kissing in the apartment.
The roommate posted this is Twigs Lance. Twiggs posted Halloween
pictures with Robinson on a private Instagram account and under
the screenshot had written, my BF is the best love
you around That same time, the roommate quietly began coming
out to some people as transgender. This according to three friends.
Two others said they were not aware that the roommate
was transitioning. Okay, the roommate viewed Trump's election as a
loss for trans rights and was distraught more than once.
More than once the person. This person said he saw
Tyler Robinson cradling his sobbing roommate in his arms. It's
like you're going over to play the card game and
you walk in, like, hey, everybody, who's down for some magic,
you know, and and you've got Robinson holding an emotional
wreck of a person. I don't know that if this
was because of like some hormones they were taking Twigs
was taking, I don't know, Like I don't know how
like down the road of transing lance Twigs was. But
it's possible. I guess that you're getting shot up with
all of these estrogen shots and such that maybe that's
what made him really emotional and he was sobbing uncontrollably.
But this happened repeatedly. In February, the roommate erupted, so
Twigs erupted at a friend who was visiting from out
of town and came to the apartment for a game
of magic, and, according to two people there, as this
visitor began to say something about transgender athletes, the roommate
interrupted him from another room and shouted repeatedly to shut up.
Robinson just sat by quietly on a couch and then
like everybody got quiet, and then they just started playing again,
just like awkward. But I mean, think about what that
must have sounded like.
Speaker 2: Shut up, shut up, shut.
Speaker 1: Up, screaming from another room. So again a little unstable.
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Post talk to a whole bunch of people, interviews with
twenty one people who knew Tyler Robinson, as well as
reviewed hundreds of messages he exchanged online over the past
five years. And what the Washington Post report, what their
deep dive investigation has revealed, is that Tyler Robinson was
pretty milk toast, pretty normy, and then moved in with
a couple of dudes, started playing a lot of video
games and started hooking up with the dude one of
the roommates, and that roommate then began transing and was
an emotionally unstable mess about all of the attacks on
transgenders and all this and they're trying to genocide me
and all of that, and then he went out and
murdered Charlie Kirk. And so seems like the initial read
on this that this guy Robinson had gotten radicalized after
he had left home, you know, with his conservative, Maga
Republican parents, because that was the initial narrative that the
media tried to spin, remember, was that, oh, he came
from a conservative household. It's like, well, then why would
he kill Charlie Kirk. That doesn't make any sense. And
then the parents came out and they were like, oh, yeah,
he started to change his political views, began shifting far left,
and yep, yeah, well that this seems to track. Then,
after Robinson started dating his roommate, According to one person
who spent a significant amount of time at the apartment
during this period, after he started dating the roommate, Robinson
began criticizing conservatives for fear mongering on trans issues. Robinson
also complained about right wing figures in the news, including Trump,
and apparently after the attempt on Trump's life, Robinson made
some joke that everybody obviously knew it was a joke,
but joking about, you know, an attempted assassination of a
political candidate. But then he began complaining a lot about
right wing figures in the news, and we knew this
as well because we've seen some of those screenshots we
talked about Charlie Kirk. After the shooting, Robinson asked a
few of his friends. So, after the shooting, while they're
looking for Tyler Robinson, Robinson asked some of his friends
online what they had heard about the shooting. When the
FBI put out photos of a suspect, it was his
parents who thought the images looked like their son. Now,
I also recall that the firearm that was used, the
long gun, was a distinctive kind of rifle, and the
father of Tyler Robinson recognized the rifle as Robinson's grandfather's,
and so they started asking Robinson, Hey, where's Grandpa's gun,
because they noticed the gun found at the scene looked
a lot like grandpa's and it was distinctive. It had
some attachments to it or something. I forget exactly what,
but it was unique. They asked him to come over
to their house and talk, and during that conversation, Robinson
reportedly confessed to his father and they convinced him to
turn himself into police. The Washington Post story. Again, this
is John Sexton at hot air dot Com. The Washington
Post story makes a pretty convincing case that Robinson did
this because he became emotionally involved with a trans person
who was emotionally invested in hating conservatives and shouting down
anybody who disagreed. Robinson adopted those views as his own,
and then it seems acted on them. He wasn't a
trans shooter, but he was a shooter motivated by trans
politics and one trans person that he had become very
close with. I guess we'll eventually get some sort of
a denial about some or all of this during his trial.
Some people would rather believe that this is all just
a mystery or it's all just a conspiracy. But it
does not seem very difficult to understand. It doesn't. It's
pretty straightforward. This is one of the things when you
sit through enough actual court trials and I don't know
what that number is. It's probably different for everybody, but
I've sat through several in my earlier days as a reporter,
and the stuff that you learn in the trial and
the motive that gets laid out for the jury is
oftentimes bizarre because the rational, logical people looking at the
evidence and listening to this ridiculous plan or motive, and
you're just like, why would you do that? That's stupid
and I'll never forget. There was a prosecutor, I believe
it may have been Gentry Claudill in the ray Caruth
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the plan. It was stupid, but that was his plan.
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appear to be the case. You may not understand it,
but all of the evidence supports this idea that he
killed Charlie Kirk in order to satisfy his boyfriend to
make his pain go away. Right, he adopted that pain.
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US House yesterday voted to pass a bill that could
imprison healthcare providers for providing.
Speaker 1: This is CNN. Okay, should I should have said that first?
It's why written so poorly as it is? Okay, so
let me rerack this. CNN reports the House on Wednesday
voted to pass a bill that could imprison healthcare providers
for providing gender affirming care for minors. It's not gender affirming,
it's gender denying or And I heard RFK Jr. Did
a statement. It wasn't a press conference because I don't
think he took any questions, but Vince Cokeley carried it
live when he was making the comments, and so I
was listening and he kept referring to it as gender
rejecting surgeries and treatments. Yeah, it's not care. You're not
providing health care. I mean, you can go the other
direction here too, like CNN is telling us. You know,
when they see this is what it means when you
control the cultural institutions in a society. And that's part
of why Trump has prompted so many people's brains to
break on the left. And don't get me wrong, and
I say this all the time, Trump derangement syndrome. It
afflicts people on the right as well. You can't it
happens when you can't see anything else except through this
prism of Trump. Okay, but this is one of the
reasons why the left has gone so bonkers in the
Trump era. Is that a couple of different things have
all sort of collided at once, and Trump is the
avatar of it. I've said this from the beginning. He's
not the cause. He is a symptom of this collision.
And part of it is the erosion of cultural institutional
control by the left right. They have been able to
dominate the cultural institutions for so long they don't know
what losing feels like. And when people, uh, COVID was
part of this right, when people started seeing what the
media and democrats, but I repeat myself, when they started
seeing what the left was doing and the you know,
the medical professionals and all. Like, one of the biggest
moments in the in the COVID era or error was
when all of the doctors came out and signed that letter.
Remember I don't even remember how many there were, was
like a thousand doctors. There's some ridiculous amount of doctors
who came out and they were like, we know it's COVID,
we know you're on lockdown, we know you're not allowed
to go to the hospital to visit your dying father.
We know you can't hold a funeral with more than
ten people. Right, they gave us all these restrictions, But
then when the summer of fiery but mostly peaceful riots
broke out, they were like, no, no, no, this is fine.
Racism is a bigger health threat than COVID. They literally
wrote a letter that said that, so, like, go out
to the streets, get yourself tear gassed, so you're like
hacking and coughing all over the place, That's all fine,
because it's for it's against racism. When people saw this
and they saw like the insanity of these policies, that's
another focal point or another tipping point. I guess it
would be this collision where it's like, you know what,
I don't believe you anymore. And people lost so much
faith in the institutions, in these cultural institutions because there
were no guard rails these things. These institutions got taken
over completely by a postmodernist Hegalian view and they just
went nuts and they kicked out everybody. They censored people. Right,
I haven't even talked about the big tech media censorship
apparatus that was built up. So now when they try
to craft narratives and they just in like and this
is a perfect example of it. This framing. Whenever talking
about transgender treatments, right, they're always saying gender affirming care.
It's a euphemism. It's the preferred branding of the left.
They don't adopt the preferred branding of the right, like now,
like we hear, it's not pro abortion anymore. They turned
it into various things along the way. Because one side's
pro life, they've always been pro life. They don't feel
the need to rebrand it's pro life. The other side is, well,
what is it now, women's reproductive healthcare or something? Right,
they keep rebranding it with other euphemisms to try to
mask what it is that they are actually espousing because
on the right, you know what, people on the right
call these things, like when you're putting a sixteen year
old in for surgery to eliminate their genitalia, you know what,
you know what the right calls that gender mutilation. Mutilation.
So the House passed a bill called the Protect Children's
Innocence Act. This is for kids. Keep in mind, kids
who are not allowed to modify their body in permanent
ways via tattoos, but are allowed to ingest a bunch
of puberty blockers, which they were originally were telling us, Oh,
these are reversible, no problem whatsoever. You can stop taking
them and then you'll go right through puberty. Yeah, that's
not true either. RFK Junior also talked about the windfall
for the medical profession that engages in these treatments, these procedures,
because you've created a patient for life. They can never
not require your medical services for the rest of their life.
They will becoming to your clinic for their hormones for
you know, problems that arise when the surgeries don't work
quite right, like because you can't make a reproductive system
in somebody. I don't want to be too graphic, but
if you have not ever seen this what the surgeries
look like in the aftermath they I mean, it's it's horrific.
It's horrific. So the bill was sponsored by Marjorie Taylor
Green of who I am not a fan, but it
would make it a Class C felony to treat minors
with gender affirming care like surgeries. Well, wait a minute,
I thought we weren't doing surgeries on children, right, that's
what we were told. There's a pattern. It's always the
same pattern. It's this thing is not happening, and then Okay,
it's happening, but it's not a lot. And then you
get to the final stage, which is, Okay, it's happening,
but it's a good thing. It's happening. It's always the
it's always the pattern with this stuff. Voter ID was
the same way. It's not happening. Okay, it's happening, but
it's not a lot. Okay, it is happening a lot,
but here's why it's good. Oh and also you're a
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as they make the media landscape more transparent. I got
a message from Russ regarding the CNN language. He says,
I'm genuinely surprised that CNN did not slip life saving
into their gender affirming care line. That's true, I don't
know why. By the way, the House vote on this
bill yesterday was two hundred and sixteen to two hundred eleven.
Three Democrats supported the measure, four Republicans opposed it. I
don't have the Republicans that were opposed, but the three
that were for it three Democrats were Vicente Gonzales, Henry Quaar,
the recently pardoned Democrat, and Don Davis from North Carolina.
Ahead of the vote, Representative Sarah McBride, who's a dude,
criticized congressional Republicans as being obsessed with trans people. They're
consumed with this and they are extreme on it. See
it's always this again. Here's rule number two of journalisming,
which is, when the scandal involves a Republican, then the
story is the scandal. When a scandal, which this is
all of this is a scandal, when the scandal involves
a Democrat, then the story is the Republican reaction to
the scandal. See when you notice the thing, the bad
thing that's happening, and you're like, whoa, whoa, whoa, what's that? Like,
shut up, bigot, you know it's not happening. Okay, maybe
it's happening, but it's it's not a lot. Okay, it's happening,
but it's it's good. From The New York Post, a
peer reviewed study commissioned by the Department of Health and
Human Services reports that the evidence used to back such
practices as hormone therapy for kids is flimsy at best.
Back in January, President Trump slammed the brakes on the
medicalization of minors with Executive Order one four one eight seven,
restricting the quote maiming and sterilization of patients under the
age of nineteen, and part of that order was a
study to look at the standards of care. First released
in May, the report has now been affirmed by ten
researchers and groups who found no faults with the findings.
In other words, a peer review, and the report advised
that doctors treating minors with gender dysphoria should focus on
psychotherapy until more is known about medical interventions. Quote. They
were given the chance to show mistakes, to show errors,
and they were not able to identify any in the
initial report. That's according to doctor Leor Sapir, a senior
fellow at the Manhattan Institute and one of the researchers.
Sapir stressed the initiative was bipartisan and an ideologically diverse group.
Most of the authors, he said, are liberals Democrats. They
wouldn't vote for Trump if he forced them to. These
logical findings are a major pivot away from the last
decade when our medical industry was captured by trans ideology
and activists who rule like mob enforcers, canceling anyone who
might even suggest gender affirming care isn't appropriate for miners.
Debate and dissent on the issue was squashed on social
media for years. This is a piece by Kirsten Fleming.
At the New York Post Hospitals opened gender clinics from miners,
and parents were manipulated into putting their kids on puberty
blockers or cross sex hormones, or even getting surgery by
clinicians who would warn them with something like would you
rather have a dead daughter or a living son? This
is what parents who had no idea what any of
this was about. This is what they were being told.
I always say this when talking about the transgender issue,
dysphoria or dysmorphia. I have sympathy for people who are
going through this kind of a thing because I can't
imagine what it must be like to think that a
part of your body doesn't belong, much like I could
not imagine believing that you are four hundred pounds when
you're actually ninety pounds and at risk of dying due
to malnutrition and starvation. And I know the people who
are you know, transactivists. They don't they don't agree with
this analogy. But I've never heard a good explanation for
why it's not appropriate. Because it's the same sort of dynamic.
It's your brain telling you that there's a part of
your body that is wrong, that something about your body
is wrong. Your brain is telling you something that is
not real, and that kind of you know, cognitive dissonance
has got to be disturbing. There are people they are
called transabilists. Since North Carolina did it's HB two, the
bathroom bill, what ten years ago, I started reading a
lot of material, a lot of the research on this stuff.
There's a whole category of this kind of confusion, this dysmorphia,
this idea that my arm should not be here. There
are people who believe that they should be blind, they
should be crippled. They can't walk, but you can walk, No,
I can't. There was a similar kind of social contagent.
People thought they were glass. This happened what two hundred
years ago or something, and it struck the wealthy. They
thought they were glass. They literally believed that they were
made of glass, and so they didn't want anybody coming
near them because they could be they could be shattered literally,
And there was one doctor who literally beat his patient
to prove to the patient, you are not made of glass. Reality.
That was the cure and Eventually it dissipated and nobody
thinks they're made of glass anymore. Doctors were threatened with
the loss of their license if they did not know
follow the protocols. Now like that period of just what
five years ago seems almost like a fever dream, but
it's not totally in the rear view mirror. Gender affirming
care was actually a central part of Zoron Mamdani's campaign.
New York's incoming mayor has promised to budget sixty five
million dollars that the city actually doesn't have to turn
the Big Apple into a hub for medical transitions, including
from minors. Mamdani has vowed to coordinate with the New
York State Attorney General and district attorneys to investigate and
hold public hearings on hospitals that deny trans youth these treatments.
They want to be a destination so people from all
over the country can go to New York City, kids
can go to New York City. Not sure if this
law passes, not sure if that's going to be legal.
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