We still do not know who was responsible for the assassination of Charlie Kirk, but what we know right now about motive, according to reporting in multiple outlets, is the killer engraved the ammunition used to murder him with pro-transgender ideology – to the surprise of literally no one.
Possible Motive
I have a lot of thoughts on this. Of course that is the first thing I thought of yesterday. I am sure it ran through a lot of your minds as well as the story started to unfold. Charlie was outspoken on the trans issue and many issues. But there is one particular group that has been running around killing Americans in the name of transgender ideology lately, and it is transgender activists or individuals or those who proclaim that they are. That doesn’t mean they are all murderous, but there is a particularly high percentage committing crimes these days, and it is responsible and important to say so. That is what Charlie was doing.
The thought that this was a person acting to avenge some sort of trans person or objecting to Charlie’s stance on the trans issue is entirely chilling to me because, when Charlie and I first became friends, this wasn’t even an issue he was talking about that much. But he was seeing that it was resonating with some on the right and was a growing topic, and he told me that one of the reasons why I kept appearing in his social media algorithm and catching his attention was because we were talking about this issue.
And of course, like many on the right, it became more and more in his lens over the past few years because it has grown in the public sphere. It is hard to avoid. But you’ve got the vast majority of Americans right now ignoring it out of a sense of politeness or a misperceived sense of kindness.
Standing Firm
And then you’ve got this smaller faction of us who have been jumping up and down about it. Charlie became one of them, and I, of course, am one of them and will continue to be one of them.
And on that front, to Charlie’s killer: There is no such thing as a trans child. Men cannot have babies or “chest feed” an infant. A man cannot become a woman. A woman cannot become a man. Those are truths, and you will hear them here relentlessly. And it won’t just be me. It will be many of us on the right who will not be silenced and who will make it our mission now to continue saying all the things that you thought you silenced with that bullet.
And guess what? You can’t take us all out. If people are true to Charlie’s legacy, if college students and high school students who felt inspired at all by Charlie feel the need to live up to his example, they will say it too, and they can’t take us all out for speaking the truth about one of the most divisive, awful issues we have ever had infect our culture.
Latest Reports
I would love to say the left is learning, that the media is learning, and that now they see, yet again, that this was an issue behind a brutal assassination, a murder of one of our national gems; that they’ll see the error of their ways; that they’ll start realizing they cannot keep coddling this dangerous ideology. But I know it won’t be this way. I know it’s not true. I know because I understand the media.
And I know because I saw CNN after Steven Crowder was the first to report about the ammunition and then The Wall Street Journal ultimately matched his reporting. CNN popped up a chyron on their screen and put up an article on CNN.com that said “phrases related to cultural issues” were engraved on the cartridges.
Here is what the reporting from Steven Crowder – which he said came from “an e-mail from an officer at ATF” – actually says: “All cartridges have engraved wording on them expressing transgender and anti fascist ideology.” There were phrases on the cartridges expressing “transgender and anti-fascist ideology.” Those are not “cultural phrases.” CNN knows that and won’t write it because it is still a sacred cow.
Speaking Truth
You can’t say anything about the transgender thing because they are so unstable you might cause another one to do it, or because they’re in the protected category that cannot be criticized, or you’re a bigot. How many times has that word been used against me for speaking truth on radical gender ideology. Me, Billboard Chris, Riley Gaines, anyone who speaks the truth about this issue, and not just this issue.
And it is not just this issue. The “anti-fascist” terminology is clearly a reference to Charlie’s support of President Donald Trump because that is what the left says about Trump. ‘He’s a fascist,’ ‘his attempts to undo Joe Biden’s immigration mess is fascism,’ etc.
The left and the media – but I repeat myself – use this phrase as though it is not even controversial. It is regularly thrown out there as though it is just factual. But when it comes to actual facts about trans violence? That needs to be buried with amorphous, meaningless phrases like “cultural phrases were on the ammo.”
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