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Charlie Kirk was assassinated by a young man madly in love with a member of the furry community.

"You Call it Madness, But I Call it Love"
On the radio in the Depression
Nailed the dichotomy right in between
The thought and its expression.
In the Annals of Romantic Gesture
You've got your Taj Mahal,
Your Trojan War, which showed how far
Men will go to score;
Your Abelard and Eloise
Defied the pope's decree,
Your vast Hearst Castle
Oversees the sea,
Your Hanging Gardens of Babylon...
Comes now, Tyler Robinson.

He thought for a while that he had gotten away with it. He had driven up to the Utah Valley University campus in Orem that morning from his home in St. George. At 12:23 pm he aimed a rifle and fired one fatal shot from the roof of a one-story building. Then he ran across the roof, jumped off it, and ran towards the northeast end of the campus. He stashed the weapon as he fled through a wooded area, intending to retrieve it when the coast was clear. Then he found a vantage point from which he texted his lover, Lance Twiggs. Their exchange:

Robinson: Drop what you are doing, look under my keyboard. I had the opportunity to take out Charlie Kirk and I'm going to take it.
Twiggs: What?????????????? You're joking, right????
Robinson: I am still ok my love, but am stuck in Orem for a little while longer yet. Shouldn't be long until I can come home, but I gotta grab my rifle still. To be honest I had hoped to keep this secret till I died of old age. I am sorry to involve you.
Twiggs: You weren't the one who did it, right????
Robinson: I am, I'm sorry.
Twiggs: I thought they caught the person?
Robinson: No, they grabbed some crazy old dude, then interrogated someone in similar clothing. I had planned to grab my rifle from my drop point shortly after, but most of that side of town got locked down. It's quiet, almost enough to get out, but there's one vehicle lingering.
Twiggs: Why?
Robinson: Why did I do it?
Twiggs: Yeah.
Robinson: I had enough of his hatred. Some hate can't be negotiated out. If I am able to grab my rifle unseen, I will have left no evidence. Going to attempt to retrieve it again, hopefully they have moved on. I haven't seen anything about them finding it.
Twiggs: How long have you been planning this?
Robinson: A bit over a week I believe. I can get close to it but there is a squad car parked right by it. I think they already swept that spot, but I don't wanna chance it.
Robinson:  I'm wishing I had circled back and grabbed it as soon as I got to my vehicle. I'm worried what my old man would do if I didn't bring back grandpa's rifle. I don't know if it had a serial number, but it wouldn't trace to me. I worry about prints. I had to leave it in a bush where I changed outfits. Didn't have the ability or time to bring it with.
Robinson: I might have to abandon it and hope they don't find prints. How the fuck will I explain losing it to my old man... Only thing I left was the rifle wrapped in a towel.
Robinson: Remember how I was engraving bullets? The fuckin messages are mostly a big meme. If I see "notices bulge uwu" on Fox News I might have a stroke.
Robinson: Alright I'm gonna have to leave it. That really fucking sucks.
Robinson: Judging from today I'd say grandpa's gun does just fine idk. I think that was a $2k scope ;-;
Robinson: Delete this exchange.
Robinson: My dad wants photos of the rifle... he says grandpa wants to know who has what, the feds released a photo of the rifle, and it is very unique. He's calling me, not answering.
Robinson: Since Trump got into office, [my dad] has been pretty diehard MAGA.
Robinson: I'm gonna turn myself in willingly. One of my neighbors here is a deputy for the sheriff.
Robinson: You are all I worry about love.
Twiggs: I'm much more worried about you.
Robinson: Don't talk to the media please. Don't take any interviews or make any comments. If any police ask you questions ask for a lawyer and stay silent.

Tyler Robinson made it back to St. George without grampas's rifle and without getting caught. Next day, Thursday, 9/11, the FBI found the murder weapon in a bush, wrapped in a towel. Also that day, Tyler took part in a group chat online with some fellow gamers. As reported by Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs in the New York Times,

"The F.B.I. had just released two grainy surveillance images of a skinny young man in a cap and sunglasses walking in a stairwell on the Utah Valley University campus, and had asked for the public’s help in identifying the suspect.

"Tagging Mr. Robinson’s username on Discord, a messaging platform, an acquaintance attached the images and wrote 'wya' — where you at? — with a skull emoji, suggesting that Mr. Robinson, 22, looked like the man being sought.

"Mr. Robinson replied within a minute. His 'doppelganger,' he wrote, was trying to 'get me in trouble.'

“'Tyler killed Charlie!!!!' another user wrote, apparently in jest.

"That was on Thursday afternoon, around 1 p.m. local time. It was not until later that night, nearly 34 hours after the shooting, that Mr. Robinson was arrested on suspicion of carrying out the assassination of Mr. Kirk, 31, a conservative pundit whose killing has inflamed the political world.

"The Discord messages were the clearest glimpse yet of the suspect’s demeanor in the hours after the killing. They were shared with The New York Times by someone who knew Mr. Robinson in high school and has kept up with him in the group chat — which includes about 20 people — but said he had not seen Mr. Robinson in person for several years. He spoke on the condition that his name not be used, fearing harassment for being an acquaintance of the suspect...

"After Mr. Robinson joked that the gunman was his look-alike, another user suggested that the group could turn Mr. Robinson in and get the $100,000 reward that the F.B.I. was offering.

“'Only if I get a cut,' Mr. Robinson responded.

"Someone posted, 'Whatever you do, don’t go to a mcdonalds anytime soon,' a reference to the arrest of Luigi Mangione, who was found at a McDonald’s restaurant and charged with the killing of a health insurance chief executive in Manhattan.

"Mr. Robinson agreed and offered a supposed joke of his own, writing 'better also get rid of this manifesto and exact copy rifle I have lying around.'

"When another user suggested that the killing of Mr. Kirk would lead President Trump to send the National Guard to Utah, the suspect replied, 'in a red state??? nah CLEARLY the shooter was from california.'

"The suspect sent messages that suggested he was closely following the news: 'I heard the ammo had somethin about trans stuff on it, but they aren’t releasing photos or exact quotes,” he wrote. He added: “and also the claim wasn’t backed by the official fbi, just some dude in the briefing room.'

"A few minutes later, he joked: 'I’m actually Charlie Kirk, wanted to get outtapolitics so I faked my death, now I can live out my dream life in kansas.

"Mr. Robinson’s messages on Discord appeared next to his avatar, which was from a Garfield comic and depicted the confused face of Garfield’s owner, Jon Arbuckle..."

After Tyler turned himself in that night, a member of the group chat texted,  “I truly cannot distinguish if this is for real.”

Lance Twiggs now resides at an undisclosed location.  In one of the texts love-crazed Tyler sent from the scene of the crime, he singled out one of the messages he engraved on the bullets: "If I see 'notices bulge uwu' on Fox News I might have a stroke."

According to the transgender cartoonist Sophie Labelle, "'Notices bulge owo what's this?" is a "hateful meme used to harass the furry community, a common target of the far-right."

I didn't know there was a furry community, but AI brought me up to speed: "The furry community consists of people who have an interest in anthropomorphic animals (animals with human characteristics). Members often create their own animal-like characters, called fursonas, to represent themselves, and they engage in various artistic activities like art, writing, and creating elaborate costumes called pursuits. The community provides a space for creative expression, friendship, and for people to explore different aspects of their identity, with many members identifying as LGBTQ+ for feeling a connection to non-human forms."

I had to look up "kigurumi." It means "wearable stuffed toy" in Japanese.

There are some ads on TV designed to appeal to the furry community!

According to the New York Post site, "The transgender boyfriend of Charlie Kirk’s alleged assassin, Tyler Robinson, bounced between homes during his later years of high school because he and his family clashed over their Mormon faith." A Reddit account gave Lance's version: “Was told I was possessed by a demon and then within 30 mins kicked outta the house because I started laughing and wouldn’t go to the bishop for a blessing."

Relations with his parents were not totally severed, and at some point Lance moved into a three-bedroom townhouse in an apartment complex they owned. Tyler Robinson, a fellow gamer and internet chatter, moved in and another roommate moved out. Relatives of Lance's told the Post that he was addicted to online gaming. One told Fox News, "He hates conservatives and Christians. He hated us. He was not raised that way, but over the years, has become really detached  and been radicalized."

Tyler Robinson's mother blames Lance Twiggs for the changes her son has gone through in the past year.

Erika Kirk, was at the White House today (Oct. 14) accepting  a posthumous Medal of Freedom awarded to her late husband by Donald Trump. She is the former Miss Arizona and he is the former owner of the Miss Universe, Miss USA, and Miss Teen USA pageants.

It's remarkable how fast Tyler Robinson has disappeared from the news. Usually assassins have legs, media-wise for a minute. It looked like Tyler would too. Steve Bannon said on the War Room that the text messages between Tyler and his Lance were "too stilted, too much like a script to be authentic." Bannon suspected a connection to antifa (whoever they are).  He should have recognized grampa's rifle as proof of Tyler's textual authenticity

Although no one with Steve Bannon's heft is now questioning the Official Version of the Kirk Assassination, the great American tradition of not believing the O.V. is being carried on by a valiant few online. For example: "My wife and I watched the video of him jumping from the roof a dozen times. There is no rifle in his hands. He has his backpack or his long sleave shirt blowing in the breeze, but it is not a long gun. You can tell for sure that it is not. He is running full speed, so its not stuffed down his pants –not that you could stuff a 30.06 with a scope down your pants anyway, let alone run, and jump a roof. After the 10th time or so she turned to me and said 'He is the patsy.'  That is the only reasonable explanation."