Alleged Charlie Kirk Assassin Reportedly Lived With Transgender ‘Partner’
Authorities have arrested Tyler Robinson
Antifa, gay furries, and bomb codes? What the engravings on the Kirk assassination bullets may mean
Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk was assassinated on Wednesday in front a massive crowd at Utah Valley University. Officials provided confirmation on Friday that the evidence suggests that the suspected assassin, Tyler Robinson of Washington County, is another radical leftist.
Utah Governor Spencer Cox (R) indicated at a press conference on Friday that Robinson's roommate showed investigators messages on Discord allegedly sent by the suspected assassin, providing insights into the shooting and Robinson's apparent ideological capture.
'Hey fascist! Catch!'
In addition to apparently discussing the need to retrieve a rifle from a drop point, the messages allegedly referred to Robinson's engraving of ammunition.
Cox confirmed that investigators found an inscription on a spent fire casing that read, "Notices bulges, OwO what’s this?" — a reference to an online meme that has been used to mock gay furries — as well as the following inscriptions on unfired shell casings:
- "Hey fascist! Catch! ↑ → ↓ ↓ ↓" — the arrows are an apparent reference to a move in the video game Helldivers 2 that sets the stage for the deployment of a large bomb;
- "Oh bella ciao, bella ciao, ciao, ciao, ciao," lyrics from an Italian folk song that has been embraced by anti-fascist movements and various leftist causes and features in the violent Spanish TV show "Money Heist." Willem van Spronsen, the Antifa terrorist who firebombed a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in July 2019, apparently referred to the song in his final statement; and
- "If you read this, you are gay, LMAO."
When pressed about the meaning of the engravings, Cox noted that the "Hey fascist! Catch!" inscription "speaks for itself."
A family member of Robinson told investigators that the suspected assassin had become more political in recent years, said Cox.
Utah State University confirmed that Robinson attended USU for one semester in 2021 before dropping out.
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During a recent dinner, Robinson allegedly said in conversation with another family member that Kirk was coming to UVU. "The family member also stated Kirk was full of hate and spreading hate," Cox said.
In the moments immediately before Kirk was struck in the neck by a single shot fired from a distance of roughly 200 yards, he was asked by an audience member, "Do you know how many transgender Americans have been mass shooters over the last 10 years?"
"Too many," said Kirk.
There was, for instance, the March 2023 Covenant School massacre in Nashville, where a trans-identifying woman murdered three 9-year-old children — Evelyn Dieckhaus, William Kinney, and Hallie Scruggs — and three adults — teacher Cynthia Peak, custodian Mike Hill, and head of school Katherine Koonce.
'Is this the end of a dark chapter in our history or the beginning of a darker chapter in our history?'
In April 2024, a male-identifying woman planned to shoot up an elementary school and a high school in Maryland but was thankfully stopped in time by police, then later convicted.
The attendee then asked, "Do you know how many mass shooters there have been in America over the last 10 years?"
Kirk responded, "Counting or not counting gang violence?" and then was knocked back by the assassin's shot.
Robinson, who has been booked into the Utah County Jail, is not the first radical captive to leftist thinking allegedly to draw blood in recent weeks.
The trans-identifying man who shot up a Catholic church full of children last month in Minneapolis displayed statements on his weapons that include, "Where is your God?"; "Kill Donald Trump"; and "I'm the woker, baby ... Why so queerious?"
The trans-identifying radical who allegedly gunned down a father in a Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, park on Aug. 28 is another leftist who allegedly stated, "The protection of Palestine requires the eradication of western based genocidal white supremacy," condemned "f**khead crackers"; and said of Israelis, "We should kill them all, save Palestine and be jus [sic] be done with it."
Governor Cox compared the violent trend to the campaign of violence waged on American soil in the second half of the 20th century
"Is this the end of a dark chapter in our history or the beginning of a darker chapter in our history?" said the governor. "If you look at true political assassinations in this country of someone of this stature, this feels a lot like the late '60s."
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, leftist terrorists routinely committed political murders and bombings. For instance, the Weather Underground — an offshoot of Students for a Democratic Society — executed scores of bombings, including the Jan. 29, 1975, attack on the headquarters of the U.S. State Department.
"We will be brave," President Donald Trump told reporters on Thursday. "We have radical left lunatics out there, and we just have to beat the hell out of them."
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The REAL reason Crimson died: Why Alabama’s problems go way deeper than Kalen DeBoer’s poor performance against Florida State
On Saturday, August 30, the Florida State Seminoles, who finished last season with a dismal 2-10 record, pulled off a shocking victory against No. 8 Alabama Crimson Tide. The underdogs dominated with a revamped offense led by new quarterback Tommy Castellanos, who accounted for 230 total yards and a touchdown, and a defense that stifled Alabama’s running game, limiting the team to 74 rushing yards.
The Seminoles’ triumph sent shock waves through college football, marking a stunning start to the season.
Furious Alabama fans are venting over head coach Kalen DeBoer’s performance, with some speculating about raising nearly $70 million to cover the buyout of his $87 million contract. Amid this unrest, rumors have swirled about legendary former coach Nick Saban returning to the sidelines or former NFL coach Jon Gruden being considered as a replacement.
“Kalen DeBoer may need to go. Nick Saban probably would be an upgrade. ... Josh Gruden would be a significant upgrade and an incredible story,” Jason Whitlock agrees.
But Alabama’s woes go way deeper than a “coaching problem,” he says.
The Crimson Tide’s biggest issue is something mainstream media would never dare address: Its obsession with LGBTQ+ activism overshadows winning football games.
“The BLM LGBTQIA+ silent P alphabet mafia is ruining sports,” Jason says.
Wide receiver Ryan Williams, the Tide’s best player, he says, is an “alphabet soldier” who’s driving the culture at Alabama.
Not only does Williams regularly don painted fingernails, but he entered the Seminoles’ Doak Campbell Stadium on Saturday carrying a stuffed T. rex, which is some kind of “anxiety doll.”
“And you’re wondering why the team is soft,” Jason scoffs.
“When your sexual identity and your desire to show off your feminine side, your womanly side, your alternative lifestyle side becomes the agenda, you got a problem that will affect the entire locker room,” he says.
“The head coach has to walk around on eggshells. He can’t talk the way that he used to talk because the best player might be offended.”
“Feminine energy doesn’t win football games. ... Toxic masculinity and energy — that’s what wins football games,” he says.
As long as Alabama allows its “soft” culture to fester, its football will be subpar, he argues.
To hear more of his commentary, watch the video above.
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Dave Landau calls out 'the science' in wake of Minneapolis school shooting
The debate around stricter gun laws is raging after a deranged transgender gunman slaughtered two children and injured at least 17 others at a Catholic school in Minneapolis.
The shooter, Robert Westman — who changed his name to Robin Westman — posted videos to social media that show a handwritten manifesto with “kill Donald Trump” and “for the children” scrawled on gun magazines.
And while the left believes guns are to blame, others are focused on what they believe to be the shooter's clearly deteriorated mental state.
“Nobody’s talking about how hopped up these kids are on any psych drug you can imagine,” BlazeTV contributor Jeremy Ryan Slate tells BlazeTV host Dave Landau on “Normal World.”
“I think it comes down to the SSRIs. Like, that is the thing that really needs to be handled because it was actually ... Jim Marrs ... he did a really big deep dive when he was still with us, obviously looking at a lot of the school shootings and the amount of SSRIs that are linked to them,” Slate explains. “And that is the problem that needs to be handled.”
“I think there’s way too much, maybe in therapy, looking into the past and not the present or future, because I think all that buildup also and then treating it is not – I don’t know. I went to high school for five years, so I could be way off,” Landau says, lightening the mood.
“Well, with therapists it seems like the past is just an endless well to keep you coming back,” BlazeTV contributor Austin Robertson chimes in.
And it’s not just therapy and SSRIs that are plaguing the youth.
“You even see this with a lot of the transgender stuff that’s been in the news, as well. If you see how quickly they’re prescribing people hormones after one appointment with somebody, I think it’s very similar to how SSRIs are given out,” Slate says.
“That whole thing is confusing to me,” Landau says. “Because I don’t know the stats and all the levels of it, but obviously, I think adding hormones on top of hormones and somebody’s certain age has got to be extremely dangerous.”
“I just feel like sometimes science oversteps,” he adds.
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Chip and Joanna Gaines embrace LGBTQ ‘spirit of the age’ and ‘punch back’ at Christian fans
Chip and Joanna Gaines’ new show, “Back to the Frontier,” has stirred up backlash from their Christian supporters, as it features a homosexual couple who used a surrogate to become fathers to their two boys.
The Gaineses did not take the backlash well, with Chip doubling down on their position by writing in a post on X: “Talk, ask qustns, listen ... maybe even learn. Too much to ask of modern American Christian culture. Judge 1st, understand later/never.”
“It’s a sad sunday when ‘non believers’ have never been confronted with hate or vitriol until they are introduced to a modern American Christian,” he added.
BlazeTV host Steve Deace of the “Steve Deace Show” is disappointed in the Christian couple.
“You are watching Chip and Joanna Gaines now continue to descend into the abyss,” Deace says. “Now, what I think will be fascinating about them is they have chosen — well, Chip in particular tried to be a keyboard commando tough guy the last time they got exposed and went about not just deconstructing his faith, but reconstructing and attempting to say, no, they actually represent the true light of Christianity.”
“And that generated a way bigger level of backlash than what I’ve seen with others who have gone down this road,” he adds.
Deace explains that this is a common pattern that unfolds when it comes to Christian television stars like Chip and Joanna.
“What you see is using us to gain an audience. And then once you gain a certain foothold of that audience and credibility with said audience, to the point now that you cross over as something that’s known mainstream,” Deace explains.
“Once that crossover happens, then the offer is brought to you from the spirit of the age. Bow to the shibboleth of the damned, the rainbow jihad. And they pretty much all do,” he adds.
Now, what Chip has done by calling out his own base may have caused irreversible damage.
“They chose not to just abandon their base or assume that their base would not know and just stay with them no matter what. They chose to punch back at their base. So we’ll see if it works out for them or not,” Deace says. “It’s a bold choice, Cotton.”
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All-female marketing team DESTROYS Cracker Barrel
An eight-woman marketing team concocted a rebrand of the legendary breakfast spot Cracker Barrel — and it could not have gone worse.
The rebrand oversaw the removal of the old country white man and vintage type from the logo and replaced it with sterile, soulless lettering. This got the attention of Americans across the country, who then took a deeper look into the company's policies.
“Look at all these DEI policies they have. Look at all the LGBTQ stuff they had,” BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock says on “Fearless.” “And the next thing you know, Cracker Barrel, its stock is plummeting. People are starting to boycott the way people boycotted Target.”
“This was a disaster put on by this eight-woman marketing team,” he adds.
Whitlock believes what’s happened to the once-beloved company is part of a bigger cultural issue and can be blamed on feminism.
“They’ve made diversity the ultimate goal rather than excellence. That’s what this is all about. And so they look at everything. They look at the logo and the branding and everything from the past when it was a competition among men. … They look at anything like that from the past as, ‘That’s bad, that’s evil, that must be eradicated, that must be erased,’” Whitlock explains.
“And so they get triggered,” he continues. “They see, ‘Why is an old white man the logo for Cracker Barrel? Let’s remove him.’ And they’re doing this throughout all of American society. Eliminating male leadership because they have convinced everybody that diversity is the goal.”
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‘KPop Demon Hunters’: Paganism and LGBTQ propaganda for kids
“KPop Demon Hunters” is the latest Netflix hit to hypnotize a generation of children — and it’s one that BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey of “Relatable” will not be letting her own children watch.
The animated movie is about a KPop girl group, HUNTR/X, who double as magical fighters that battle demons with their music.
“I don’t know if I would say it’s part of, like, the very dark trend of trying to get kids into the demonic. You could maybe argue that. I’m not totally sure that I would say that when it comes to this particular movie,” Stuckey says.
While Stuckey notes that there are “no explicit LGBTQ themes,” she does point out that there are very androgynous-looking characters and that a young child would not be able to understand the characters and story.
“A teenager might be able to decipher, okay, fiction, nonfiction, obviously not biblical. But honestly, before the age of, like, 13, 14, I do not think so. I think that it is very spiritually, theologically confusing,” Stuckey says.
She also believes it would be confusing to a young Christian as the film “draws heavily on shamanism,” which is a folk religion.
“It is based on this idea that shamans can connect with the spiritual world through ceremonies. They can foresee people’s futures using the Chinese calendar. They can assist with tasks like naming children, arranging marriages, or choosing lucky dates for events like weddings, moving homes, starting businesses,” Stuckey explains.
“Korea has a long cultural history of female shamans who use music and rituals to drive away evil spirits, which the movie mirrors in HUNTR/X’s demon-hunting song,” she continues. “So there is explicitly a religious motivation and pagan ideology that undergirds this.”
“It’s not just, ‘Oh, Christians are looking for things, and they’re taking things too seriously.’ No, the film is actually based on this pagan idea of shamanism that there are these mediums that can communicate with the other side and that can fight off evil spirits and really encourage this kind of paranoid superstition that so many people of all different kinds of religions fall into,” she adds.
Stuckey also takes issue with the way the demons are portrayed.
“They’re scary-looking, but they’re also bumbling idiots. ... And so, on the one hand, you get the impression that these are very scary individuals carrying out the task of trying to steal your soul, but also that they are harmless, that they are powerless, and that there is some kind of human figure with the power to stop these demons if we worship them,” she says.
“But the people that are demanding our worship, these HUNTR/X people, are obviously human beings with supernatural powers, not the only person who does have the power to defeat demonic activity and Satan himself—Jesus Christ,” she continues.
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The woke party’s favorite costume: Moderation
I usually enjoy David Harsanyi’s critiques of the left. But in a recent column, he drew a distinction I can’t accept. Quoting Rahm Emanuel’s plea for Democrats to rally behind “Build, baby, build!” Harsanyi praised politicians he believes embody a centrist alternative to the party’s radicals: Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear, Virginia gubernatorial candidate Abigail Spanberger, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, and North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein.
Harsanyi presented these figures as the future of a Democratic Party that might rediscover moderation. He contrasted them with open socialists like New York City's Zohran Mamdani, whom he regards as the party’s worst tendencies made flesh. In his telling, Beshear, Spanberger, Shapiro, and Stein represent a kind of Democratic “loyal opposition” that conservatives should welcome.
Abigail Spanberger shows how the Democratic ‘moderate’ label works: not as a rejection of cultural radicalism but as a smoother delivery system for it.
That picture collapses under scrutiny. On social questions, the supposed moderates fall squarely in line with the party’s most zealous activists. Beshear, though personable and pragmatic on some issues, is an LGBTQ fanatic who promotes woke causes across Kentucky. Spanberger has been a reliable ally of the gender-identity movement and has now gone so far as to support biological men competing in women’s sports. Stein in North Carolina vetoed four separate bills meant to curb DEI excesses and limit radical gender programs in his state.
These aren’t minor disagreements tucked around the edges. They reveal a deeper truth: The “moderates” whom Harsanyi and Fox News commentators now flatter are not moderates at all. They dress the same ideology in calmer rhetoric. Spanberger, the supposed pragmatist, sounds indistinguishable from Tim Walz or Mamdani when she explains her social positions.
So why do some on the right elevate them? Because these Democrats don’t call themselves socialists, don’t chant slogans for Hamas, and don’t traffic in the same racial agitation as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Jasmine Crockett, or Omar Fateh. But the distinction is cosmetic. On gender, DEI, and race politics, the so-called moderates embrace the same policies.
This misreading exposes a larger problem on the right. For years, the Republican establishment avoided direct confrontation on cultural issues, preferring to rally donors around national defense, Israel, or deregulation. On marriage and gender, Republicans surrendered the ground years ago. When the Supreme Court decided Obergefell v. Hodges in 2015, Conservatism Inc. shrugged. Now, some seem relieved to pretend “moderates” in the Democratic Party represent a saner alternative. They don’t.
And the Democrats know it. Clinton-era strategists at the Third Way think tank now tell their party to tone down the woke jargon and talk more about housing or infrastructure. But Third Way doesn’t advise abandoning cultural radicalism — only camouflaging it. The goal is simple: Keep core constituencies like college-educated white women and black urban voters while soothing independents with bread-and-butter messaging. Beshear, Stein, Spanberger, and the others know their futures depend on that balancing act.
This is where Republicans must stop indulging illusions. They will be forced to fight on this terrain whether they like it or not.
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In Virginia, Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears — a black conservative who supports Trump’s immigration policy and holds traditional views on marriage and gender — trails Spanberger despite Spanberger’s increasingly open embrace of the left’s cultural program. In Northern Virginia’s suburbs, her positions do not hurt her. They energize her base. The clearer she becomes, the more firmly those voters rally to her side.
That is the lesson Republicans cannot ignore. Spanberger shows how the Democratic “moderate” label works: not as a rejection of cultural radicalism but as a smoother delivery system for it. Sears, to her credit, understands the stakes. She knows she cannot avoid the social questions. If she does, she loses. Her only path forward is to expose Spanberger’s record and force voters to confront it.
What’s happening in Virginia is the same fight Trump is waging nationally — against a cultural left entrenched in the administrative state, NPR, and the universities. These battles connect. They will not fade, and the right cannot win them by pretending “moderates” exist in the Democratic Party.
If Republicans cling to that illusion, they won’t just lose a governorship here or a Senate seat there. They will lose the defining fight over culture, identity, and the moral core of the nation. The Democrats’ so-called moderates are not the antidote to radicalism. They are the mask that allows it to advance.
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