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.
this post was submitted on 11 Sep 2025
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
Even if the tip was useful they can just claim to wasn't and just not pay it out. Not like there's an oversize process for it. Once they have the guy they can find the trail with whatever data they have and say they did it without the tip.
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Over the last 20 years for every $2000 in reward money offered by law enforcement in the United States, less than $4 has been paid.
or $1 per $500, or $2 per $1000. sorry, it was asking for fraction simplification
I'm sorry, you're saying that only $1.214521 of every $607.2605 was paid out?
THIS IS AN OUTRAGE
Finally someone spells it out in a way I can understand. That's outrageous now that it makes sense.
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I didn't know rewards were common but have never looked into that, who reports those numbers even? They sound fun to go through
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Snitches can’t afford stitches due to duplicitous economic machinations.
Snitches can’t afford stitches due to duplicitous ~~economic machinations~~ Bitches.
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he lost his job too lol bootlicker
No one will get paid any reward. Some corrupt official is going to pocket that money.
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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.
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Of course not. We know how it is living in the trump times.
Like anyone can claim a reward for a false flag murder anyway.
If you know who shot him, no you don't.
Yes I do, mr. treason with 34 felony convictions, currently illegally occupying the white house, did it
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
They're not looking for the culprit. They're looking for $100k.
Gonna be a lot of false arrests and fingerpointing.
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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