Last week, I watched the FBI press conference that gave us more details about the guy who killed Charlie Kirk —Tyler Robinson — and I had a lot of thoughts run through my head, but the one that I couldn't get past was that this young man was 22 years old. By all accounts, he came from a supportive middle-class family and had opportunities others don't have. He had his entire life in front of him and could have done absolutely anything he wanted.
But instead of pursuing some dream career, starting a family, building a business, traveling the world, or whatever, he chose to murder someone because that someone said some things he doesn't like. And now he'll either spend the rest of his life in jail or he'll die at the hands of the state of Utah. He wasted every bit of privilege and opportunity he had handed to him because he thought some other person was "hateful" and wanted to quiet him. Instead, he made that person's ideas even stronger and his voice louder.
Robinson's own people said he'd moved to the left politically over the last year or so, which surprised absolutely no one who is paying attention. While they're not all that violent, there's a epidemic of Democrats and leftists who are absolutely unhinged and demonstrating some truly disturbing behavior because they don't like Republicans or don't like Donald Trump.
Here's another one that really got to me. Last night, I saw a post on X from American Frontline Nurses Executive Director Nicole Sirotek. She claims there is a woman in an ICU on a ventilator who is around 25 weeks pregnant and who will most likely die. Why? She wanted to prove that Tylenol doesn't cause autism because Trump said it might. So, apparently, she took a lot of it, went into liver failure, and ended not only her life, but potentially the life of her baby. She left her husband in a situation where he's having to make some of the toughest decisions he'll ever face, and she's forcing all of her other friends and family to grieve a woman who was young and healthy enough to get pregnant and probably had several years of life left to live. She wasted it all because she didn't like Donald Trump.
🚨 Pregnant liberal took so much Tylenol after hearing Donald Trump say it causes autism she’s now in the ICU and is going to die
— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) September 25, 2025
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Incidents like these are becoming so prevalent that we can't just blame them on mental illness anymore. Perhaps it's natural selection at work, but either way, they're now part of a normalized left-wing ideology that's becoming more pervasive.
When I sat down to write this article, I had several more examples like these — people who have, what's the saying?....cut off their noses to spite their faces — but I think these two paint a vivid enough picture. These two individuals gave up the one single most precious thing they had — their lives — and all the perks and wonderful things that come with life over... well, political disagreements.
Now, I know it's easy for me to sit in my ivory tower and cast judgment. My team won big in November 2024. The guy I voted for is president. Republicans run all branches of government. But it hasn't always been this way. I lived through 8 years of Barack Obama. As I've mentioned before, I wasn't a Trump person in 2016 and basically checked out of politics for the next however many years because of it.
And hell, some of the things that I endured during the Joe Biden administration had a profound impact on my life. For example, I watched helplessly as my own mother spent her final weeks alone in a cold ICU room, wondering why I wasn't by her side because my Democrat-led county, emboldened by the heavy-handed governance of Biden’s era, wouldn't allow hospital visitors even though we were nearly two years into the pandemic and neighboring counties didn't have the same restrictions.
There were times when Biden was president that I contemplated leaving the country permanently. I was spending weeks in Costa Rica and felt much safer, more comfortable, and freer there than I did here.
But here's the thing: I never wanted to kill anyone. I didn't run out and get 20 COVID vaccines and then try to get COVID just to prove a point for social media. I got angry, I got sad, I grieved, yes, but my life went on.
Even now, I find myself in a place I never thought I'd be again: working in right-wing media. I spend my entire days and weeks listening to people on the left say some of the most vile and horrific things. I have a front-row seat to their stupidity and hatred. I see them call my side "Nazis" and "fascists" because we like law and order and know there are only two genders, and I hear them use language that sounds like some sort of dog whistle for an anarchist revolution — that would be if they were actually organized enough to pull something like that off.
But you know what? I hear all of that. I get mad. I rant about it — this article was supposed to be much more of a rant than it's turned out to be. I might vent to colleagues and political friends, but then I shut down my computer and go do other things. I go outside. I hang out with my animals. I talk to my friends. I read. I pray. I ride my bike. I watch a movie. I swim. I go somewhere. I do something fun.
None of this is worth giving up my life for. None of it's worth sitting in a jail cell or committing suicide, willingly or unknowingly. Taking the focus off myself, none of it is worth putting someone else's loved ones through the pain and suffering they'd endure if they lost their friend or family member over a political disagreement.
In recent days, it feels like many on the left have lost sight of that. There is so much more to the world than your political beliefs. It doesn't matter what you think or whom you voted for. You can still find joy when you go out in nature, visit a new place, participate in a hobby, or spend time with people who matter.
I know there probably aren't many, if any, Democrats reading this, but if you are, next time you feel like you're so overcome with rage against Donald Trump or anyone else on the right, just stop and do something else. If you can't manage even that, well, I feel bad for you. You've fallen prey to a nasty disease that your crumbling leadership seems intent on spreading. Don't give up your life for that. It's not worth it.
