June (or JUNlPER)

You mentioned you were homeschooled in this tiny town for high school.

Do you think that being absorbed into this world so quickly once you got to college, like beyond any sort of ideological beliefs you held or didn't hold, like did the community element draw you in faster than anything else?

Because that's kind of what it seems like for a lot of these people.

Which is ironic, of course, because all of these same people are the ones who are now cracking down on civil liberties for everyone in this country.

That's absolutely right.

And I also want to address perhaps a small elephant, but not bird in the room.

Hey.

No, it's actually we're not at the book yet.

The elephant that I want to address is is you're pretty.

Well, I mentioned that because this ecosystem of right wing media has a penchant for young, traditionally attractive right wing women.

It's also very dominated by white men.

I don't know.

Like, what was the gender dynamic there?

I've watched other interviews you've done.

You said that when you started doing conservative activism, you advocated against, for example, like most conservatives do, social programs, mainly for the poor, like Medicaid, while you were still on your dad's health care plan.

And I think a theme that someone could identify through a lot of your politics and then this arc that you would eventually go on is that, you know, you didn't really care about certain issues until they showed up at your doorstep.

For those who don't know, and Ashley can't speak about this in her own words right now because she's still in this ongoing custody battle with Elon Musk for her child, but it was pretty well documented in a long form Wall Street Journal essay that Elon essentially with all of the women in his life

uses money as sort of a cudgel for abuse and for people around him to behave in a way that he likes and that's advantageous for him i think a lot of wealthy people do that to a certain extent with the people in their life but you can imagine the richest man in the world to the greatest extent and so actually when you say and i know you can't comment on those things directly but you know a lot of people i would imagine are are going to comment

on this episode as they have on other tweets that you've made about how, oh, well, she was kind of ousted from the right because she ended up becoming a single mother and they turned on her.

And so now she's trying to grift to the left.