Trump ally and conservative pundit Charlie Kirk shot at Utah event [now reported deceased, same date 10SEP2025]

They’ve given a name:

22 year old Tyler Robinson.

They found his parents’ socials and it looks like he’s been shooting forever. There are pictures of him as a little kid target shooting with a hunting rifle.

That’s not good news for Imagine Dragons

Cue the conspiracy-theorizing that he changed his last name from Rubenstein…

There’s a live press conference now but I can’t link it because I did in the other thread and Discourse doesn’t like duplicate links.

Rifle had a scope.

Addressing the writing on the bullets.

The writing on the cases was indeed not the image above, but all four slogans sound pretty meme-y. It’s the “how many layers of irony” problem again.

The slogans were:

“notices bulge, what’s this” which I assume is the Trans related one.

“If you read this you are gay” which makes me wonder how many layers of irony deep this goes

“Catch this fascist” seems self explanatory

“Bella ciao” no idea.

Kash Patel then said “this is what happens when you let good police officers do their job”. By “this” I assume he means “the suspect’s dad catches him and turns him in”?

“Why should I change? He’s the one who sucks!”

Sounds more weeby anime stunted social development internet meme kid to me, but I’m not an expert. I get the impression based on the memes is there’s a lot of anime that depicts a girl confused about, you know, basic male anatomy and the idea that men could be aroused because “clueless” is apparently the scenario they fantasize about.

It could be both.

In a month no one will mention Charlie Kirk again.

A folk song adopted by the Italian partisans during WW2

Thank you, someone mentioned that in the P&E thread as well.

Given the other three slogans I was expecting a modern internet meme - I completely overlooked the possibility that it’s an analog meme :wink:

If only this was true.

At first blush looks like “internet edgelord” rather than anything coherent.

Resurrected by the TV hit, Money Heist which romanticizes criminals (some who are LBGTQ) with a societal axe to grind.

The song is a partisan farewell as he leaves to die for freedom

Sorry, that’s just cope. ChatGPT is actually pretty good, generally speaking.

We listened to Kash Patel’s press conference on the way into work. My husband asked, “Is this an awards ceremony?” Just praising Trump (unnecessarily) and talking about how awesome they all are for being on the job when Robinson turned himself in.

I just want to add, for the record, that Fascism is a good thing and we need a lot more of it.