‘The Motive Is a Mystery’

OH COME ON! 

Whenever a shooting happens that Democrats want to downplay, they deny the obvious. The motive of the shooter was a mystery! 

We have been treated to this gaslighting once again. 

The New York Times goes with the “conservative seized” framing, affirms the shooter’s “gender identity,” denies the obvious correlation between transgenderism and violence, and pretends throughout the piece that the shooter’s motive was a “mystery.”

Extreme reality denial. pic.twitter.com/v5LitANbNF

— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) August 28, 2025

All the Best People™ and the supposedly authoritative experts are insisting that we may never know the motives of the transgender-identified mass shooter who left a manifesto, videos including explicit threats to Trump, discussions of Queer ideology, hatred of Christianity, and a desire to strike out at his perceived enemies. 

We have a manifesto. We have pictures. We have video.

Democrats: “We may never know why he did this.” https://t.co/uFRkWJT3G5

— Amy Curtis (@RantyAmyCurtis) August 28, 2025

Yeah, right. No way at all. No dots to connect. Hardly any evidence of his thoughts. An entire journal discussing exactly what he was thinking had no evidence to suggest a motive. Maybe it’s Trump’s fault!

ABC reporter refers to “the name of President Trump written on the guns” without mentioning that the message was “k*ll Donald Trump” pic.twitter.com/XuPvv5subK

— Vince Coglianese (@VinceCoglianese) August 27, 2025

Or perhaps white supremacy? You know those Nazis are everywhere. 

Link: https://t.co/OpkPnCIH7n

— Tom Bevan (@TomBevanRCP) August 28, 2025

Whatever it is, it couldn’t be alphabet ideology, which is all about peace, love, and understanding. Not vengeance or anything like that. 

It’s not just that Democrats find the association between transgenderism–at least the variety that has become an ideology rather than an illness in need of treatment–and violence inconvenient and that it needs to be buried. 

No–these politicians promote that ideology. That photo is of Peggy Flanagan, Minnesota’s Lieutenant Governor. It’s obviously a threat. 

We are being told that any suggestion that this is an anti-Catholic hate crime is absurd. It is just the Trump administration stirring the pot. After all, the motive is unknown.

“His motive is unknown” pic.twitter.com/Dxy9567EVB

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) August 27, 2025

Westman hits all the left-wing ideological erogenous zones. Gender ideology, hatred of Jews, anger at Trump, and anger at religious people. It is no accident that in the wake of the shooting one of the Democrat talking points was attacking prayer itself. Hatred of Christianity and faith are implicit–and becoming explicit–in their ideology. 

The Minneapolis Catholic school shooter was Robin Westman.

He was a biological male who identified as a transgender “woman.”

Written on his guns and magazines were things like “kill Trump now,” “6 million was not enough” (referring to the Holocaust), “for the children,” “I’m… pic.twitter.com/KGEauspsTQ

— Leftism (@LeftismForU) August 27, 2025

Any sane person can, if they look at the facts and ignore the Best People™, identify the motive in 10 seconds. It doesn’t take a psychologist or FBI profiler to understand what is going on–Robin Westman practically screamed why in his journal and even on the very weapons he used. 

It’s amazing to watch liberal media continuing to use the same “unknown motive” talking points about the liberal transgender shooter yesterday. pic.twitter.com/Fo1ewhV1DE

— Vince Langman (@LangmanVince) August 28, 2025

It’s like saying Osama bin Laden’s motives remain a mystery. FFS, give it up. Conservatives aren’t “seizing” an issue–the Democrats are with their “gun control” narrative. We are pointing out the freaking obvious. Trantifa and its supporters–including a lot of politicians–are threatening the rest of us. We have to comply with their demands, or else. 

One year after Butler: Secret Service failures exposed, would-be assassin’s motives still unknown https://t.co/IhMY16E3i7

— Just the News (@JustTheNews) July 21, 2025

The “motive unknown” meme is not used to cover up only Trantifa crimes. It is the go-to line whenever a leftist commits a crime. We still don’t know the motives for the Trump assassin, for instance. 

One year after Butler: Secret Service failures exposed, would-be assassin’s motives still unknown https://t.co/IhMY16E3i7

— Just the News (@JustTheNews) July 21, 2025

How else can you pull off the “Republicans seized” narrative? When the facts all point in one direction, the facts must be denied or covered up. Why did a Bernie Sanders supporter shoot up a Republican Congressional baseball game? I guess we will never know. 

BREAKING: MORE TRANS VIOLENCE

Stevie “Olivia” Wilkins charged after allegedly trying to RUN OVER BORDER PATROL AGENTS

Wilkins showed up to scene where two illegal aliens were being arrested and reportedly charged the officers with his car.

Wilkins’ Linkedin lists they/he… pic.twitter.com/w7hUSOS9mx

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) August 28, 2025

It’s not only tiresome for us, but essential for them. They need to be able to gin up their supporters–remember how riots became public health?–while having plausible deniability when normal people start objecting. 

They know EXACTLY what they are doing. The Democrats gin up the violence, and then present their policy preferences as the means to stop it. It is a kind of extortion, but it depends on having a bit of plausible deniability. 

https://t.co/aGcPCDjwlu pic.twitter.com/S1II4iydto

— Flopping Aces (@FloppingAces) August 28, 2025

In this case, that dog won’t hunt. The manifesto is out there, the photos of the guns, the rantings of the killer, and the anti-Catholicism is there for all to see. The New York Times may try to bury the truth, but it is breaking through beyond alternative media. 

Will this become a “sharp as a tack” moment for the media, where their credibility takes a massive hit? 

🚨 WTF? MSNBC, after viewing the videos of the Minneapolis transgender sho*ter with “K*LL DONALD TRUMP” and anti-Christian paraphernalia: “A number of journals, number of writings, not all of them in English…writing about a host of things, won’t get into details.”

This is why… pic.twitter.com/XKMRvs9NQj

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) August 27, 2025

Perhaps. It depends on how long they keep this up and whether more reporters break ranks and look at the real issues at stake. There is a good story to be told about how many politicians are ginning up Trantifa. Peggy Flanagan, who is running for the US Senate from her perch as Minnesota Lieutenant Governor, just might get a question about how a knife is used to “Protect Trans Kids.”

Or, maybe not. 

Cultural turning points are rare, but they do happen. Biden’s collapse on stage in the debate dealt a huge blow to the liberal establishment. Something hidden became apparent to everybody, and it created shockwaves. The Nashville trans shooting didn’t break The Narrative, but a second anti-Christian trans hate crime might just do that. 

• Editor’s Note: The mainstream media continues to deflect, gaslight, spin, and lie about President Trump, his administration, and conservatives.

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