WaPo tells us what we already knew about Charlie Kirk's assassin (12-18-2025--Hour2)

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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. Shut up, shut up, shut. Up, screaming from another room. So again a little unstable. You know. Stories are powerful. They help us make sense of things, to understand experiences. Stories connect us to the people of our past while transcending generations. 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The Washington 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 trial when he said, don't blame us for ray Caruth's plan. We didn't come up with the plan, but this was the plan. It was stupid, but that was his plan. And that's I think what people have to kind of come to terms with on this is like, this does 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. Here's a great idea. How about making an escape to a really special and secluded getaway in western North Carolina. Just a quick drive up the mountain and Cabins of Asheville is your connection. Whether you're celebrating an anniversary, a honeymoon, maybe you want to plan a memorable proposal, or get family and friends together for a big old reunion. 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The US House yesterday voted to pass a bill that could imprison healthcare providers for providing. 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 bigot for noticing that's usually thrown into all right, if you're listening to this show, you know I try to keep up with all sorts of current events, and I know you do too. And you've probably heard me say get your news from multiple sources. 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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. All right, that'll do it for this episode. Thank you so much for listening. I could not do the show without your support and the support of the businesses that advertise on the podcast, so if you'd like, please support them too and tell them you heard it here. You can also become a patron at my Patreon page or go to thepetecleanershow dot com. Again, thank you so much for listening, and don't break anything while I'm gone.