Kirk, Part 3: The Deep Divide

PREAMBLE: Ladies and Gentleman, Super is happy for this discussion to continue if we can remain civil and disagree respectfully, updated as necessary. If not, comments will be removed and if necessary the blog closed and any future Kirk-related blogs closed for discussion. 

Part 1, by Wiz (more right leaning)

Part 2, by Prof Daz (more left leaning)

SYNOPSIS: Charlie Kirk spoke his final words at 12:23 p.m. on September 10, 2025, at Utah Valley University, in front of around three thousand people. Tyler Robinson, the 22-year-old alleged shooter of the 31-year-old Republican, remains under investigation. Utah’s governor suggested he may have been radicalized by the Left, though his MAGA-entrenched family and transgender partner complicate the narrative.

The attack shook the United States, exposing deep ideological fractures. Two days later, President Donald Trump concluded that “the radicals on the left are the problem” rather than the radical right who, he said, merely want to “stop crime,” framing the debate in partisan terms during a live Fox News interview. However, voices such as Jack Posobiec and Steve Bannon, speakers at Kirk’s conventions, had long used hard-line rhetoric, calling the Left “demonic” and urging the building of “an army of the awakened.”

History offers a far broader perspective. Abraham Lincoln, Yitzhak Rabin, Mahatma Gandhi, and Martin Luther King Jr. were assassinated by right-wing extremists. John F. Kennedy and Archduke Franz Ferdinand, whose death helped ignite World War I, were killed by left-leaning radicals. A two-way street.

Just months earlier, on June 14, Democrats Melissa and Mark Hortman were gunned down in their Brooklyn home by Vance Boelter, a hard-right evangelical, white Christian who disguised himself as a police officer. Married nearly 32 years, the couple left behind two children. The killings, however, received far less attention than Kirk’s death and did not prompt a presidential call to confront the radical right.

“What do they all share in common? Every political assassination is an attack on the collective; on our ability to disagree without destroying,” an academic observer noted. George Bernard Shaw called it the "extreme form of censorship."

Left or Right isn't the problem in my view. The greater danger lies in the radical mind and in how easily society nurtures the “us versus them” divide. As Desmond Tutu warned, “The moment we divide the world into ‘us’ and ‘them,’ we begin to lose our humanity.”

13712347853?profile=RESIZE_710xCharlie Kirk (above and below) is survived by his wife and two children.

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Married nearly 32 years, Melissa and Mark Hortman as well as Gilbert, their Labrador (below) leave behind two children.

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Boelter who assasinated the Hartmans allegedly kept a hit list of 70 targets, including Democratic lawmakers and even some anti-abortion clinics. The same early morning at 2am he invaded the Minnesota home (above) of the Hoffmans and their children who survived the shooting following surgery.

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    • Bobbo, you do not understand violence at all. You're black rectangle just gives you a hard-on for it

  • The bigger issue over left and right is MH.  The far right and far left likely have MH issues, whether it is insecurities, anxiety, feeling they are alone and seeking acceptance into any group that will have them.  Extremists prey on these people seeking to belong to something.

    There are idiots and loonies everywhere but as Charlie Kirk once asked a nurse, if an anorexic patient turned up to medical practice, would the Dr agree they are fat and tell them they should starve themselves or continue throwing up all their food.  No they would be treated and the issue identified.

    Body dismorphia is real but the same as others with other MH issues shouldn't it be discussed and treated before undergoing life changing alternatives.  I have a cousin who cried during puberty.  She wanted to be boy so badly, and was what was considered a tomboy.

    Now grown up with kids of her own she looks at gender reaffirming care and thinks what may have happened to her if she was a child now and it makes her fear the pressure kids are under.  Even the cool seemingly confident kids have sense of not belonging or body images as kid.  It is normal but being a femine man or a masculine girl is fine. 

    It is clear through demographics of famous people in Hollywood and in elite suburbs where being left isn't just cool but worshipped, that LGBT and trans kids are at an unnaturally high ratio.  Why is that, if it is natural then rates would be consistent across the board, or are the parents and society influencing these innocent kids to for attention and belonging.

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    HKF September 11, 2025 at 10:14am 

    The violent far left strike again, no doubt they will try to claim the killer was a right wing nut trying to escalate the dislike of the left.

    Since receipts are the in thing i thought i might leave one of my own from the original Charlie kirk blog.

  •  I wish i knew
    which button to push
    So i'd know how to please you
    It's sad but true
    but i keep lookin'
    on down the line
    All i see is chaos and pain
    Scared and hiding
    in the blaze
    our fucking lives are not your game
    You try to play us just the same
    Just wish i knew
    which button to push

                       apologies B,Fanning

  • I mean no offence to anyone here, purely my own opinion, neither ‘Left' or ‘Right’ aligned, as I personally believe these two spectrums of political & ideological beliefs are purely a mythology, a tool or weapon, for division, for distraction, control. 

    At it’s core, the idea of choosing a definitive side - ‘Left' or ‘Right’ - is extreme in nature. This ideological absolution feeds and nurtures extremism, extreme beliefs, violence and extreme results.
     
    It’s tribalism. A definitive loyalty to either tribe that clouds or destroys the ability for constructive debate, for understanding, for open-mindedness, for empathy.
     
    Debate, negotiation, understanding, its constructive, its empowering. Watching a young father's death celebrated for his views, or young parents murdered for theirs, regardless of your tribe, is a reflection of how disassociated we have become.
     
    These two-sided political factions developed during the French Revolution, a dictatorship, where regardless of your beliefs & ideologies, you were forced to pick a side, your life, your salvation depended on it.
     
    Fear, threats, violence, death, not exactly the best strategy for liberation? Here we are, 220+ years later, and the same irrationalle remains. 
     
    Truth, justice, equilibrium, don’t exist in an imbalance, they can’t be separated into two political divisions. They can’t exist in the ‘us verse them' mentality. 
     
    At the heart of these ideological factions lies division, division is a powerful means of control - its far easier to control masses divided, than united.
     
    Division weakens us, it distracts us. Our political leaders and governing bodies are the ones consistently fuelling these fires.
     
    Because politicians and media alike thrive on polarities, the conflict sells, the fear mongering motivates, and chaos of fighting divisions distracts us from far deeper & more pertinent questions of those empowered. 
     
    Humans are complex, we evolve, we grow, develop, we are shaped by experience, turmoil or trauma, by education, faith, pain & happiness.
     
    It ts embarrassing to the human race to assume we are so un-evolved, that our ideological stances & beliefs should remain confined into one loyal tribe, as though we all stand at a t-intersection & must decide a direction, in absolution.
     
    It is irrational, and void of critical thinking.
     
    Politics, ideologies, beliefs, are far too complex to be confined into just two thought processes, they are multifaceted, as we should be?
     
    We truely are being challenged right now, there is so much frustration, anger, suffering, and resentment grows towards those who we feel are causing the problems.
     
    If it wasn’t for the ‘Left’, or if it wasn’t for the ‘Right’, everything would be great.
     
    Would it though?
     
    Completely eliminate one side of the debate, and whichever remained would more likely start turning on themselves than live in harmony.
     
    All of a sudden, some just aren’t ‘Left’ or ‘Right’ enough, that group is too ‘Centre-Left’ or that faction is too ‘Extreme Right' and history would continue to repeat itself. Tribalism repeats. 
     
    Who knows where this ends, but signs are troubling. Parts of Europe are fracturing under ideological tension, and the US seems perennially on the brink of civil unrest. Online discourse has become hositle, and people are dying, not for their actions, but for their beliefs and words, and thier deaths celebrated - hisotry repeats. 
     
    When a young father or young parents are murdered, for nothing more than their words, their beliefs, how can we not feel sadness for how irrational this has all become.
     
    No offence intended, purely opinion.
    • Great post NOS.

    • I used to think like this NOS, but it really feels like i need to choose a side in this. So i did. I chose the Broad Church, not the Christofascists(they hate being called that, but the only reason to attack abortion is.). Fuck their Purity tests. I mean, they see Prof Daz as a huge threat and dangerously hateful. I'm not having it. I chose a side

      and people are dying, not for their actions, but for their beliefs and words.. his words actively encouraged the actions of others and his beliefs were christofascist. 

      We are not going to unite around blatant lies and "othering people". Buckle Up

       

  • Six pages in and this blog is mostly fair remarks. In that spirit, what happens when we unpack the evidence in to-date and ask does ANY of it justify the public call by Republican leaders and influencers for open war on "the left", mass censorship of "the left", and threats of violent "retribution"? The point here should be that if someone IN FACT opposes political violence, they should oppose one act of political violence by the member of ANY group being SUFFICIENT warrant to visit political vengeful violence upon ALL members of that first group? If one denies this claim, and insists Member TR of Group L that commits political violence against Member CK of Group R is sufficient warrant for Group R to kill or censor all of Group L, then one MUST have an argument that all Group L are clones of TR. My suggestion is that all claims to such effect, which we can call a 'homogenization' thesis, are deeply suspect and most likely untrue. If so, that renders the "kill or censor them all" response UNWARRANTED.

    One piece of evidence is that Tyler was in a romantic relationship with a trans-person (Lance Twiggs). I am assuming for the sake of argument that this claim is true (some reports insist it was just roomies but most say romantic relationship). 

    Does Tyler being in a romantic relationship with Lance Twiggs, which necessarily implies Tyler was most likely himself somewhere in the LGBTQ set of intimate choices, either a) definitively identify Tyler as "a leftist", or b) warrant retributional political violence or censorship against either all LGBTQ people or agianst "the left"?

    I am very much hoping everybody realizes the answer to both 'A' and 'B' is NO.

    With regard to 'A', Tyler is not necessarily a leftist even if having an LGBTQ identity, because everybody knows gay or trans conservatives and everybody knows leftists who are not gay or trans. I know it is unfashionable and I am open to charges of either being uncool (geek) or (worse) elitist (academics are jerks is the modern thing)  by speaking precisely, but this is simple logic: if P then Q (a conditional statement) and if not-Q the not-P (contrapositive) are logically equivalent, so if one is true the other is true BUT if one is false so too is the other. 

    If the logic does not do enough work for you in this case (it should be sufficient), MAGA is full of gay or trans influencers. Being left or right is not determined by being gay or trans.

    Milo Yiannopoulos (HERE). Gay, UK far right, now stumps for Trump, including running a PR firm that air brushes the rough edges from Trump's far-right supporters. Actually, ex-gay he says, having found Christianity apparently. Caitlyn Jenner (HERE), former Olympic decathlon gold medallist, and formerly Bruce. From the perspective of an utterly boring straight white rapidly ageing man, Bruce was a serious athlete and a bit of a specimen for the ladies. Caitlyn is now a very prominent MAGA supporter, including telling (failed) presidential VP Tim Walz that she was more masculine than him. Peter Thiel (HERE). He is the billionaire tech-bro (founded PayPal) who introduced JD Vance to Trump and became Trump's Crypto-Czar. Thiel is a self-described conservative-libertarian, and now runs a defence contractor (Palantir) doing lots of work for Trump and is advising Vance what to do to be leader in 2028 (FYI Thiel is on record for despising democracy). Also, openly gay. Buck Angel (HERE). A transexual man who shifted from liberal to conservative. Angel is a Trump voter who talks extensively (HERE) about talking across divides of politics and identity, and indeed claims no one label describes him. But he strongly supports Trump - he is the GOP version of ‘but I have a trans-friend' - and argues that the left deserved to get Trump (for the excesses of the left in his opinion).

    There is already a forthcoming book on the issue of LGBTQ people who are MAGA. See Erlick Garland, Belonging through Exclusion: Understanding the Transgender Far Right (forthcoming 2026). Garland discusses why a minority of LGBTQ gravitate toward MAGA, usually around themes of reconciling family upbringing and/or very explicit political strategy to work from within; see HERE)

    Conclusion: what role Tyler's s*xual orientation had in his radicalization is yet to be known, but because the homnogenization thesis fails so spectacularly if you even think about it for more than a few minutes, there is simply no call to infer from Tyler's (very likely, at this stage of evidence) sexual orientation to EITHER a definitive call on his political identity OR that there exist grounds to target all LGBTQ or all 'the left'. NONE. If we do not condone political violence, then should we not all be agreeing that we should resist the narrative that says "oh you're LGBTQ" or "oh you're a leftie" and infers directly to "kill them all"?

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