I don't know about y'all, but I know for sure who shot Kirk. It was the old man that lives at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C.. He is constantly using violent rhetoric and threatening anyone not white. He's scaring the neighbors. That's the guy that did it.
Kirk probably wouldn't be dead right now if Trump wasn't elected, I fully believe that in some way or another
You know, I was actually like “Kirk who?” for a second.
May we all move on to “Kirk who?” that quickly.
True. I disliked all his talking points but he hasn't been a part of my zeitgeist.
I'm still not fully sure who he was. 3 days ago, I'd never heard the name.
Now suddenly the GOP are treating this as some holy figure bound to create conspiracy theories. Which will be parroted on Fox News, which means by 2pm, parroted by Trump himself.
.........and other than being a GOP podcaster, I still have no idea who he was.
I 100% assume that the McDonald's employee who called on him is fake in some way, and they tracked him down through some kind of spy apparatus shit and just don't want to give away their methods.
I have no evidence and I don't really know how these things work, it just seems way way more plausible to me.
Ok, I'll accept this conspiracy theory and add to it:
It was actually the surveillance software in the AI drive through.
Welcome to McDonalds
Would you like to report any serious crimes today?
Hi, I'm a near ghost that has evaded capture against all odds, would you mind holding my bag o' incriminating evidence while I order some nuggets?
President Not-Dead is excited about nuggies in his Huggies
That could be. I'm still vouching for the "conspiracy" that Luigi actually didn't do anything but was selected as a lookalike scapegoat. The similar looks is what prompted the McDonald employee to call, and they incompetently called the police instead of the tip line.
I haven't heard that his defense team is trying to claim that... I feel like if that was reality they would have. Maybe not, but I feel it.
What would the defense say? "That wasn't him, just someone who looks similar."
They already claim that by pleading innocent at the start.
Not really... "not guilty" can mean, he didn't do it, or else he was temporarily insane because he was in pain from his medical condition, or even Ed Snowden's "yeah I did it and it was illegal but at the end of the day I was right to do it and I think I can convince a jury of that." Or just the OJ Simpson "let's talk about something else for a while and change the subject" defense. It could be a lot of things.
But I do get it that that might be their defense and they're just not saying anything about it because they're waiting for the trial to lay out anything at all about it.
It's like the police always saying that they find a "passport" in the truck after some terrorist attack. They have inside informers and they don't want to disclose them.
this isn’t a conspiracy theory to the people saying it is. these systems are well attested to exist already. predictive policing is already being used. fucking watch yourselves. big brother sees all.
Snitches can’t afford stitches due to duplicitous economic machinations.
Snitches can’t afford stitches due to duplicitous ~~economic machinations~~ Bitches.
Of course not. We know how it is living in the trump times.
he lost his job too lol bootlicker
I swear if this guy is called Mario I'm going to lose my shit.
From the low res photos he seems like he might be hot. Two hot shooters in a row? IDK what this means for fall and spring shooting trends, but I like it.
Until Thomas Matthew Crooks I used to think that going by three names was the key element to being an assassin, but maybe it was being hot all along.
Maybe that's why Lee Harvey Oswald was killed. Not because somebody was upset he'd shot Kennedy, but out of jealousy he was going to be knee deep in clunge.
No one will get paid any reward. Some corrupt official is going to pocket that money.
Like anyone can claim a reward for a false flag murder anyway.
They used to say the rewards was for information leading to the conviction. If they don’t get a conviction, the reward is forfeit by default.
People are still gonna try though. They just have no legal recourse if the reward is not paid.
They just have no legal recourse if the reward is not paid.
To be clear, it's because while promissory estoppel and unilateral contracts are a very real thing you can sue over, sovereign immunity keeps that from being an option, particularly federally. If some private organization offered the reward you'd be fine, but when it is a sovereign immune government that hasn't waved it's immunity you're fucked.
Not only that, but one has to go through the FBI's tip line directly to be eligible. The McDonald's snitch called the police instead.
Roma traditoribus non praemiat
Rome doesn't pay traitors
A lot of these rewards have small print that says that reward is for substantial information that leads to the arrest and CONVICTION of a suspect. The suspect has been arrested, but not yet convicted. Maybe they'll get their money at the end, if Luigi gets convicted, which I highly doubt.
Otherwise, people would just be turning in randos for the rewards. They have to be credible enough suspects that they can be convicted.
Given how much information they lost during DOGE's bullshit. I don't think they bothered to record who the person was or even cared. Also they have a notorious reputation of never paying people.
I think it was Herschel, the Cracker Barrel Cracker that got canceled and reborn in a matter of days. He shot Charlie Kirk b/c he got canceled. Btw, that crowd in Utah was so white that mayonnaise was labeled spicy at the food court on campus. Also this, if the mf’er didn’t want to get shot, why in thee hell did he go to a school that coincidentally rolled back their policies regarding weapons/firearms on campus? There is that.
Probably specifically to make a point about how it's safer when there are good guys with guns or whatever
No one ever gets those rewards, or if they do, it's a couple hundred dollars for all your time they wasted.
Doesn't help to snitch to the government.
You have an article about this?
After initial news broke that they didn't dial the right number (she called 911, not the 1-800 tip line) officials walked it back and said maaaybe but we won't know until a conviction is final.
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