Flotsam and Jetsam - Charlie Kirk's Killer Caught?

Of course, we're still talking about the assassination of Charlie Kirk. As far as actual progress towards identifying and arresting the actual killer, the authorities have video surveillance of a person dressed in black shirt and jeans with sunglasses and a hat and wearing Converse sneakers accessing the rooftop from where the shot was fired. It seems likely he concealed the rifle in his pants, causing him to limp. After the assassination, he is seen leaving the building and jumping down, and running off into the neighborhood with a rifle wrapped up. A footwear impression, a palm print, and forearm imprints were found where he left the building. Surveillance photos have been published, and the authorities as asking for tips. An older 30.06 Mauser rifle was found in the woods nearby, reportedly with one fired shell casing, and some unfired shells reputedly etched with transgender and antifascist symbols. I can't imagine the shooter can evade law enforcement too much longer, unless he goes into the hills and lives off the land like Eric Rudolph. Stacie McCain, FBI Press Conference Scheduled on Developments in Charlie Kirk Case UPDATE: Has 4chan ID’d the Killer? From NYPo, Charlie Kirk shooter is of ‘college age,’ authorities reveal they have video but will not release it yet. Matt Margolis at PJM, Is a Breakthrough Coming in the Hunt for Charlie Kirk’s Assassin? Kagan.Dunlap @Kagan_M_Dunlap, "BREAKING: The FBI has just released the photos of the Person of Interest in the assassination of Charlie Kirk Anyone who has tips should call 1-800-CALL-FBI." Sundance at CTH, FBI Releases Pictures of Charlie Kirk Assassin Suspect – Seeking Public ID Assistance and Utah DPS and FBI Provide Update to Investigation of Charlie Kirk Assassination. Twitchy,  FBI Releases Pics of 'Person of Interest' Connected to Charlie Kirk Assassination; Updated. Capt. Ed at Hat Hair, WSJ, Crowder: Kirk Assassin Engraved Trans and Antifa Messages on Ammo: UPDATE: FBI Releases Photo. Jeff Charles at TownHall, New Bombshell Report Reveals Disturbing Details About Kirk Assassination. Bonchie at RedState, New: Leaked Memo Reveals Disturbing Details About Kirk Assassin, Engravings on Recovered Rounds. Ace, WSJ: Recovered Rifle & Ammo Are Scrawled with Transgender, Antifa Messages; CNN Hides This Fact From Its Few Viewers By Calling the Cult Slogans "Cultural Phrases" "The FBI recovered some fairly clear pictures of the newest trans terrorist. This trans terrorist scrawled antifa and transgender death cult slogans on his gun and ammo -- exactly like the last trans terrorist child-murderer did." Hat Hair's John Sexton reports an Anonymous Official Downplays Reports of Statements Engraved on Ammunition. "Admiral" Levine, is that you? VodkaPundit at Insty cites ERIC S RAYMOND: "I don’t know anything other than public information about the assassination of Charlie Kirk. However, a primer follows about patterns in past political assassinations. I will sketch what scenarios an intelligence analyst would come up with looking at this one. The first and most important rule in this kind of investigation is: when you hear hoofbeats, think horses not zebras. In political assassinations, as an ordinary murders, the correct suspect is usually the most obvious suspect. Airport-thriller-style convoluted plots and false-flag ops pulled off by unlikely people or organizations are rare in the real world . . . " Insty say A FRIEND WRITES: “I hold open the possibility that Kirk’s murder was performed by foreign intelligence in an attempt to sow internal discord. So I’m not yet ready to blame the Left for the murder itself. However the *celebrations* on the Left are not a product of foreign intelligence. And everyone engaging in them, or excusing them, deserves far more than just blame. . . ” Ian at the Bugscuffle Gazette is adhering to the 72-hour Rule "Nothing that comes out in the first 48 to 72 hours should be taken at face value. Let the dust settle, allow the fog to clear, and wait for things to be checked and cross-checked, eh?"

OK, that was quick. Just in from the Peacock, Suspect in Charlie Kirk's killing identified: Sources "A family member saw the photos of the suspect and turned him into police, two senior law enforcement officials say . . . 22-year-old Utah resident Tyler Robinson." And, Trump says Charlie Kirk shooting suspect is in custody. I assume this will be most of tomorrows news. 

From the Free Bacon, RIP Charlie Kirk: American Patriot, Faithful Christian, Ardent Zionist. Spiked says Charlie Kirk was a better anti-fascist than most of the left, "His rage against Hamas and its barbarous Jewphobia was moral clarity in action."  Reddit Lies @reddit_lies "Charlie didn't "Live by the sword" he was shot while encouraging literally anyone to disagree with him in good faith." Insty, YES: “Charlie Kirk was killed in the open—on a stage—while doing what Americans are supposed to do best: debating, disagreeing, and sharpening one another in public.” Professor Ornery Dragon on  The Assassination of Charlie Kirk "A friend pointed out on Facebook that when it is your M.O. to call all your political opponents “literally Hitler” or “actually Hitler” or any other similar phrase, it is just a small step from there to justifying killing your political opponents because they are “literally Hitler.” Kirk’s murder is being justified by a number of commentators because they consider his views radical and thus worthy of murder. That is sick and disgusting." Hat Hair's Duane Patterson, What to Write When You're Staring at a Blinking Cursor on a Blank Screen. Dave Strom at Hat Hair, People Mourn Charlie Kirk's Assassination; UPDATE: Student Posted Death Threat Yesterday and Words Are Violence, They Say. Alpha News @AlphaNewsMN, "Minnesota Democrat Erin Maye Quade shares posts trashing Charlie Kirk as a "racist" and "white nationalist" who "radicalized Trump supporters to violence" just hours after he was assassinated. Maye Quade is a sitting state senator from Apple Valley." At Lawrence Person's BattleSwarm Blog, The Charlie Kirk Assassination And The Failure Of Woke. From Althouse, Charlie Kirk's pitch to students was "be a conservative because that will allow you to speak your mind, to truly be free, and to buck this oppressive system of liberalism all around you...."  cites Ezra Klein, "Kirk was practicing politics in exactly the right way. He was showing up to campuses and talking with anyone who would talk to him," and "Charlie is already in paradise with the angels"/"We take comfort in the knowledge that he is now at peace with God in heaven." "Said RFK Jr. and Donald Trump." Holden Culotta @Holden_Culotta "Mike Rowe: “It feels like somebody … shot the First Amendment.” “I think something extraordinary is going to happen in the days and weeks ahead.” . . ." Bob Hoge at RedState, Man Who Was Questioning Charlie Kirk As Fatal Shot Rang Out Speaks—'It's Hard to Grapple With'. Ashley McCully at PJM thinks Charlie Kirk’s Assassination Video Is the New Falling Man for a Social Media Age.

Matt Vespa notices The NYT's Obituary for Charlie Kirk Is an Absolute Disgrace. Brad Slager at RedState, The Intent of the Charlie Kirk Assassination Continues With the Media's Reaction: They Demand Our Silence. At Da Signal, ‘Mainstream’ Liberal Media Covered Themselves in Shame After Kirk’s Assassination and One Thing the Left Can Do If It Wants to Prove It Actually Opposes Political Violence, "SPLC Must Remove Turning Point USA From 'Hate Map.'" VodkaPundit at Insty, SOME PEOPLE WANT WAR. MAYBE THAT’S WHAT THEY’LL GET, I DON’T KNOW: Jennifer @babybeginner. "URGENT. FYI. After Charlie Kirk, on the sky app there are people asking for the next person to be targeted. These include JK Rowling, Matt Walsh, Trump, Ben Shapiro, Libs of TikTok, Elon Musk, and Andy Ngo. I took as many screenshots as I could." NYPo, Bluesky posters threaten Trump, Elon Musk, Ben Shapiro immediately after Charlie Kirk’s assassination, sick images show. James Woods @RealJamesWoods, "TMZ erupting in cheers." Quote Tim Sharp "Listen to this video of @TMZ announcing the death of Charlie Kirk. You can audibly hear the staff cheering as the receive the news that Kirk has died. It is seconds before it is relayed to the on air host. Disgusting." Capt. Ed, TMZ Backpedals: We Weren't Laughing About Charlie Kirk's Assassination. Trust Us. A Driscolly post at Insty, CAROLINA PANTHERS FIRE EMPLOYEE AFTER SOCIAL MEDIA POST ABOUT CHARLIE KIRK’S FATAL SHOOTING: "The Carolina Panthers have fired an employee in the team’s communications department due to an insensitive social media post about the fatal shooting of conservative activist Charlie Kirk in Utah, a source familiar with the team’s decision said Thursday." Insty, WE HAVE RAISED UP A CLASS OF DANGEROUS PARASITES: Michele Tafoya @Michele_Tafoya "So many “educators” are celebrating. This explains the national report card." Quote Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok, "Joanna Schveder, a teacher at @CHUHSchools posted that she hopes Charlie “never finds rest and always suffer in eternity. That’s karma.” Any comment @CHUHSchools?" Jim Treacher, Murder Is Wrong, Even If You're Angry About Losing a Debate Or all of them. The Telegraph, Oxford Union president who debated with Charlie Kirk appears to celebrate shooting. At the Freep, Matt Continenti asks Who Will Stop America’s Slide Into the Abyss? Mark Steyn sees The Unravelling Accelerates. Insty, INVERTING THE CLAUSEWITZ CLAUSE: Western Lensman @WesternLensman "Anderson Cooper: Far right podcasters are profiting off rhetoric saying there’s a war targeting conservatives. Dan Goldman: That’s incredibly dangerous. These far right podcasters need to realize this is not war. Chris Murphy, two days ago: We’re in a war to save the country."

Roger Simon at Am Ref thinks the Ramifications of Charlie Kirk Assassination Could Be Huge "Martin Luther King Size." Dave Strom, It's Getting Harder and Harder Not to Hate the Left, But... "We can't let hate fill our hearts." At PJM Stephen Kruiser discusses Assassination and the Watershed Radicalization of the American Right. VodkaPundit at Hat Hair VIP, Thursday Essay: Charlie Kirk's Assassination Changes Everything. According to Mark Hemingway at Da Fed, The Left Has Never Been Held Accountable For Political Violence — And That Must Change. Nick Freitas has a video, My Response To The Left… Ian Bruene @J_Von_Random, "I'm putting a marker down: I think we are going to have a whirlwind of "purges" of a completely non-violent nature for the next couple weeks to a few months. At the end of that a lot of evil-presenting people will have theoretically been taught a serious lesson (assuming they are capable of learning). And things will function better because the sabots have been removed from the machinery of society. In this time leftists will probably kill a few more people in their panicked thrashing, but the effect will simply be an even more strident "No. You *WILL* behave from now on, this is not a discussion." from the American people. The switch has been flipped. I've never seen anything close to think kind of anger and fed-upedness. And being Americans we aren't going to do stupid flashy dramatics. We're going to be as civilized about it as humanly possible." Francis Turner at Hombre d'Oliver is Making Lists "Of People Who Won't Be Missed." "The US is not yet quite at the stage of death squads rounding up the usual suspects and giving them a dose of General Pinochet’s Helitherapy." Othman @OthmanOnX, "If you want to directly contribute to holding Democrats accountable for celebrating Charlie Kirk’s murder, DM me. We need (virtual) manpower." Rebekah Jones @GeoRebekah, "MAGA just published a hit list of people they're calling "Charlie's Murderers." It's a list of about a dozen people who MAGA does not believe properly eulogized a white supremacist nationalist online. I'm on the list. . . " DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican, "Hello, Ms. Jones. You built your name on falsifying data, so playing the victim now follows the same pattern. Democratic politics reward grievance, we all know that. So I’m writing you as someone who has actually been doxxed and death threatened from the ends of the earth. Verifiable facts. More verifiable than yours. Only today, when the consequences of your side’s rhetoric come into view, do you finally protest. That timing tells the story. If you had faced genuine pressure before, you would have condemned the dangerous language your allies have normalized. Instead, you indulged it. And used it to cry victim. . . " Ace, Oh No! This Is Just Turrible! "JTLOL posted this: jimtreacher.substack.com @jtLOL "The real victims are the people who posted gleeful celebrations of Charlie Kirk's cold-blooded murder, under their own names" -- journalists, typing away at this very moment. Little did he know, the report had already been filed: Wired exclusive: "Right-Wing activists" are naming, shaming, and doxxing the assassin-cheerleaders, and some of those assassin-cheerleaders are getting, they claim, death threats!" planefag @planefag "Conservatives pushed back against using "cancel culture" tactics for *years.* Overnight, that has flipped 180 degrees. We're not talking about big public figures, either. Just normies on social media. I can't emphasize how big a vibe shift this is. It's seismic." John Sexton at Hat Hair VIP, Crossing the Rubicon: Slate Says the Right's Response to Political Assassination is 'Ominous' and More Person of Interest Photos Released and What to Make of the Backlash (Update) jimtreacher .substack.com @jtLOL "They said the worst part of the Charlie Kirk assassination was the right's response. And I disagreed." Raymond Ibrahim at PJM on Charlie Kirk’s Murder: Stop Calling Evil "the Left". Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius "Today is, I think, a very appropriate day to revive this famous quote from the late, great Charles Krauthammer: “To understand the workings of American politics, you have to understand this fundamental law: Conservatives think liberals are stupid. Liberals think conservatives are evil.” ... So if you think someone is stupid, you go to where they live and try to convince them of their stupid errors. Like Charlie Kirk did. But if you really, truly believe someone is "evil," you kill them. Like what some stupid, evil person did to Charlie Kirk. I don't know how we break this unholy paradigm." Insty, ALEX WROTE THIS JUST A FEW HOURS BEFORE CHARLIE KIRK WAS ASSASSINATED: "I am seeing many people who are saying that the murder of Iryna Zarutska is radicalizing them. . . . And now to the list we must add: 5. People should be able to engage in civil discourse on a college campus without worrying about taking an assassin’s bullet to the neck. Whatever happens next, if Kirk’s assassination doesn’t harden our resolve, then we’ve already lost."

Sundance, Vice President Vance Cancels 911 Appearances to Travel to Salt Lake City and Escort Body of Charlie Kirk Back to Arizona Aboard Air Force Two and President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump Attend 911 Victim Tribute at the Pentagon. PJM's Cathy Salgado, Trump to Award Charlie Kirk Presidential Medal of Freedom Posthumously. Ace, Trump Remembers the Victims of 9/11; Will Award Charlie Kirk the Presidential Medal of Freedom; Vows to Go After "Radical Left Lunatics" "JusttheNews:" 

Ace,  But Trump Didn't Lower Prices Yet!: Inflation Comes In at Negative 0.1%, Meaning Prices Came Down in July in Absolute (not Just Relative) Terms. "Trump has been making the case for months that we are no longer in Biden's "transitory inflation" phase. Jerome Powell never pre-emptively raised interest rates due to Biden's inflationary spending, and actually lowered them just before the election to boost Biden's chances, despite inflation still being well above the target rate. Meanwhile, he refuses to lower interest rates for Trump, despite 1, inflation near the 2% target, and 2, signs of a weakening job market. Well, inflation for July had been "expected" by "experts" to come in at 0.3%, for an annualized rate of 3.6%. Instead, they came in at -0.1%, meaning prices went down, and if this rate were annualized, prices would come down 1.2% for the year. As I've said, the fed fears deflation because people will tend to sit on their money if they know their money increases in value just by hoarding it. Will he finally reduce rates? Allegedly he's considering doing so for later this month, but just by a small amount. 0.25% or 0.5%. He's a left-wing deep state ideologue so he'll do whatever he can to push us into recession." PJM's Greg Byrnes explains Trump's Baby Bonds. Only a few years left to get pregnant!

Capt. Ed hears the Democrat Gerontocracy: Hell No, We Won’t Go. Walt Hudson at Hat Hair VIP sees Tim Walz Shamelessly Leveraging Dead Kids for Politics. Shabbos Kestenbaum@ShabbosK, New Yorkers: Tomorrow is September 11th. Here is Zohran Mamdani with Hasan "Americans deserved 9/11" Piker. Tomorrow, don't allow Mamdani anywhere near the 9/11 Memorial, first responders, or pretend to care. Unlike Mamdani, real New Yorkers stand with our FDNY and NYPD."

John Sexton is happy to report an Appeals Court Overrules Judge Talwani: Planned Parenthood's Funding Can Be Cut.

Shooting News Weekly is happy to see an About Face: After Being Exposed, JP Morgan Changes Decision to Refuse Service to Firearm Industry Executive.

More links at The Wombat's In The Mailbox: 09.11.25. The Wombat has posted FMJRA 2.0: Cramming For The Draft at the usual time and place.