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Live Updates: Manhunt Continues for Killer of Charlie Kirk, Charismatic Right-Wing Activist

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Mr. Kirk, a close ally of President Trump, was shot while speaking at Utah Valley University. The authorities were still searching for the shooter, with no one in custody.

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How is there not tons of images of the suspect not being pushed to public yet. There had to have been multiple security cameras on them at the time. Seems like they are waiting to find the "suspect" that will do the most damage to the left as possible.
- Because it was on a college campus and the shot came from over 200 yards away. That is a highly skilled marksmen.
  Have you ever had trouble accessing a building on a college campus?
  This was premeditated. Whoever pulled that trigger knew they were gonna have to blend in before being invisible before blending in again.
  Well probably know roughly what building and floor the shot came from sometime today. We'll find out it was a building anyone could get into and didn't have excellent surveillance, was under construction, or was otherwise vacant.
  
  university/college campus buildings are notoriously easy to get into. Doors unlocked pretty much 24 hours, Libraries open late, etc. I mean hell I'd still go to my University library and student lounge areas well after I graduated late at night to do work because the wifi was excellent and...no one bothered you. One night I even passed out and fell asleep in the lounge and no one woke me up. Plus Campus Police are like a middle ground between security guards and actual cops.
  So a dude rolling in to one of the buildings from like 200+ yards away to set up a shot with a rifle doesn't surprise me at all. It was a pretty good shot too if you saw the video so they had time. Probably had a decent amount of time to slip out also.
  
  Is 200 yards skilled?
  This is America, so I'm assuming y'all have better marksmen than me and that's not even a moving target. That's sub 200m shot, if you've got a stable firing position that's really not that bad.
The backtrack was a source of significant embarrassment for the F.B.I. director on a day when three former F.B.I. agents filed a lawsuit against Mr. Patel that portrayed him as a partisan neophyte more interested in social media, and swag, than in the day-to-day operations of the nation’s flagship law enforcement agency.
Yeah, good luck finding 'Mario', lol. You morons fired all the top employees in every department and replaced them with liars, cheats, and double-dealing sons-of-bitches.
Charismatic
What fucking universe are the NYT living in? This counts as sanewashing.
- The universe where Kirk OBJECTIVELY has millions of followers. That's right, your favourite and mine: the worst possible timeline!
  ITT: young white males deny reality
- Deception is technically a Cha skill I guess
- It’s the same people who thought Matt Gaetz would be a good babysitter.
  
  There sure are a lot of prominent Republicans who have fucking weird looking faces. Gaetz, Greene, Trump, Vance, and formerly Kirk.
  It wouldn't surprise me one bit if the assassin was a right wing conspiracy nutjob who thinks he's targeting lizard people.
- One where they are wise and intelligent writers whose opinions people should care about
  So, yeah, they're all completely fucking delusional
- Liberals have a crush on fascists
if he simply hides inside of the Epstein files they will never find him.
Someone on mastodon said "Imagine the shooters name turns out to be Mario." Like holy shit, that would finally break me.
- fuckin hell, i needed this. lmao this gave me a good wheeze
- Or imagine if this was actually the guy who saved us from the United healthcare CEO, and Luigi was really framed.
  
  That would be comic book levels of awesome. We already have comic book villains IRL so it’s not that far fetched.
Whoever killed Kirk will have no problems finding dozens of people who will swear up and down that he or she was at a party somewhere else.
- Nobody killed him. His neck kinda just did that
  
  If it's a true assassination attempt the body has ways of shutting all that down
  
  I offer my full-throated agreement.
(looping GIF of Mario running)
People still starving amidst record unemployment. Way to set your priorities, america.
😂😂😂😂😂😂

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