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      And I’m tellin’ ya Charles Entertainment Kirk was an animatronic rat used to distract children, drunks, and drunk children from the subpar conditions that surrounds them. You can’t kill him because he was never alive, he was just a mouthpiece with an oversized head and vaguely human face created for a corporation.

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    But his defense attorneys now argue that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives ‘was unable to identify the bullet recovered at autopsy to the rifle allegedly tied to Mr Robinson.’

    “Unable to identify” is quite a bit different from “does not match.” Think fingerprints: “we can’t make out what was recovered from the scene” is different from “we can make out what was recovered, and it isn’t the suspect’s fingerprint.”

    There may also be different levels of certainly in these types of analyses, and this is just arguing that less than 100% certain means “unable to identify.”

    But Kirk’s widow, Erika Kirk, has called for full transparency in coverage of the trial, saying: ‘We deserve to have cameras in there’.

    Damn, she really does just want to maximize her TV time.

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      She wants to spectate her murdered husbands alleged killers trial to capture an audience.

      Is she selling a book yet? Or crosses, or healing crystals? What’s the grift.

      Disturbing. good grief.

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      It wasn’t a bullet, it was a bit of shrapnel from an exploding under-the-shirt microphone. It was supposed to blow out Charlie’s shoulder but it decapitated him instead. I saw enough people get shot on old Liveleak to know that bullets do NOT do that. 100% Mossaad assassinated him. they always have an unsympathetic (to Americans) patsy ready to go. With JFK it was the unstable Oswald, who the KGB rejected as a terrible shot and a weirdo. They got a steady stream of those walking in, some CIA assets.

      • Decapitated means seperating the head entirely from the neck

        The wound was not that

        It was a hole and blood went bllublublllubggg as mr. Small faced charlie thought hie last few transphobic slure as he faded into darkness, and we let the archdemons take him

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    If it turns out kirk was a false flag that’d honestly be so fucking funny because literally no one ever truly gave a shit about him and those that pretended to already stopped pretending. Like they’d have just offed this stupid nazi kid for nothing.

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      those that pretended to already stopped pretending.

      MAGA doesn’t do martyrs because they’re all sociopaths, and nobody cares about anyone else, beyond their immediate utility. A dead guy has no utility at all, so once the initial shock fades, nobody cares enough to keep the torch lit. Nobody cares enough to do that, except maybe Erica, because she wants to keep the money rolling in, so his name still has utility for her.

      The minute his name becomes a liability, she’ll be like “Charlie who?”

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      I believe Kirk’s assassination was the continuation of the Trump’s “failed assassination.” It was another message to Trump from an opposing clique of the govt.

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        It’s full on tinfoil hat, but it could be an attempt at manufacturing a Horst Wessel.

        If that’s the case the perpetrators might have thought his maga semi-celebrity status would have helped making martyrdom more easily reachable, only for that to spectacularly backfire because of his semi-celebrity status

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        It’s because Kirk said, on stream, that secular Jewish people are the #1 funders of radical open borders policies. He tried to talk Trump out of Iran strikes and turned down a nine-figure contribution (bribe) from Netanyahu himself. Kirk was going to be president someday, he had that JFK magic. MOssad saw the next JFK coming and took decisive action.

  • They’re dumping petty stuff on the defense, eating up all their time and resources, while holding back the main evidence. They’ll present the main evidence at the prelim hearing on April 17. That gives the defense a little over two weeks to get through 20,000 files and prepare for the actual ballistics and DNA evidence given during the hearing. It’s a weird thing to do if your case is as airtight as this should be.

    Oh, hey, look at this:

    https://www.sltrib.com/news/2026/03/30/washington-county-sheriff-nate/

    Washington County Sheriff Nate Brooksby resigned and announced his retirement on Friday, ending an over 30-year career in law enforcement, according to the Washington County Attorney’s Office. Brooksby’s resignation comes after the county received complaints “from individuals who were concerned with operations at the sheriff’s office,” Deputy County Attorney Courtney Sinagra told The Tribune.

    I’m gonna guess someone fucked up, likely because of political pressure from above, and the main evidence is now messed up. They’re trying to ratfuck the defense and get away with only using sad tweets to convict.

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        As it should be, that’s the Free Market at work. If these MAGAs want to keep amping up the violent, racist rhetoric, and abuse and exploit citizens, they can expect that the market will evolve to match them, and if it goes far enough, the solution to the MAGA problem will become violent.

        The Health Care CEO received his market correction because he had pushed his Sociopathic policies so far it spawned a customer so angry, they decided to do something drastic about it. As a result, his company backed off of those policies, and people started receiving treatment that had been previously refused. Even better, OTHER companies loosened their policies as well. It’s a PERFECT example of the Free Market at work.

        Recently, we heard about the CEO of Five Guys giving their employees a small bonus, because a poorly conceived sales promotion made life really difficult for employees, and apparently he got death threats from his own workers. He responded the only way a Sociopathic Oligarch can - by throwing money at it. Eh, it’s a start.

        Now that MAGA is seeing actual Free Market responses to their behavior, the smart ones are starting to back off.

        Keep up the pressure, make them FEAR for their very lives.

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    All this really means it that the bullet was so malformed, it couldn’t be matched to the rifle. It’s not that it doesn’t match the rifle, and matches some other unknown weapon, it won’t match ANYTHING, it’s too mangled.

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    The claim in the headline doesn’t seem to be the same claim his defense attorneys are actually making. From literally this same article:

    But his defense attorneys now argue that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives ‘was unable to identify the bullet recovered at autopsy to the rifle allegedly tied to Mr Robinson.’

    “They can’t prove it matched” and “it didn’t match” aren’t the same thing at all. The stuff that matches a fired bullet to a specific gun barrel, like trying to line up the striations on the bullet with the rifling, is prone to error and differences in investigator judgment (remember they’re working with a bullet that has already been deformed by hitting something). (And I have very little confidence in it; I have, in previous comments, referred to it as “tea leaf reading.”) But to prove it wasn’t fired from a specific barrel, you’d need a (pardon the pun) smoking gun: wrong caliber, rifled in the wrong direction, something like that. If they had that, they’d call it out instead of making the weaker “unable to identify” claim.

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      That’s because it’s not a bullet, it’s a piece of shrapnel from an undershirt microphone. I wore one when I shot a video for a factory. Just like the exploding pagers.

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    daily mail is an absolute rag and i have no reason to believe anything published there is true BUT it would be so funny if it was so i have to believe it now

    • It’s extremely weird if the rifle wasn’t the one that the bullet came from. If this is true than what happened? The ( feds)? steal the alleged shooters rifle and then falsify all these texts and then plant the gun in the woods and don’t use it for the assassination? That’s comical levels of incompetency but par for the course with this admin