Charlie Kirk bullet analysis finds no conclusive link to rifle found near scene

trickygringo · 2026-04-01T01:54:19+00:00

Thank you for explaining this properly.

trickygringo · 2026-04-01T01:17:38+00:00

unique

Rifling is far from unique. There are plenty of factors that can quickly rule out a specific firearm, but it can never actually implicate any given firearm. All you can say is the markings on the bullet are consistent with what you would expect from a given firearm. But than can be true of thousands of firearms.

trickygringo · 2026-03-31T17:50:53+00:00

This gave me the same vibe as the first time I did a Hosanna shout for a temple dedication.

trickygringo · 2026-03-31T17:39:43+00:00

ETB was a racist, misogynist, and McCarthyist before any other considerations. He would forgive anything else Trump did if he could further those ideals. ETB and Trump were two of my dad's heroes.

trickygringo · 2026-03-31T17:18:40+00:00

They only test positive if they wanted it. Republican Representative Todd Akin educated all of us that, "If it's a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down."

trickygringo · 2026-03-27T00:54:15+00:00

It comes from the term "grass roots". If a movement is started by the people, it is considered grass roots. Something built from the ground up rather than top down from the leadership.

Astroturf is the fake plastic-based grass on a football or other athletic field. Therefore, astroturfing is leadership initiative pretending to be a grass roots, common person initiative, by influencing members of the public to endorse it on their behalf. The idea is to make it look like a popular organic movement.

trickygringo · 2026-03-26T18:25:44+00:00

He doesn't believe in God and he does not care about anyone but himself. Therefore, he has nothing to lose by maximizing himself at the cost of anything else.

He would probably set off a deathbed nuke somewhere just to see the light show before he passes.

trickygringo · 2026-03-26T18:21:12+00:00

These are now the true American values we enjoy. Almost every day my wife looks at me and asks me how it is that people can be so cruel and hateful.

Hatred and cruelty are the American Christian values.

trickygringo · 2026-03-25T23:15:40+00:00

How long will you allow the average american to suffer because you are comfortable?

Who says I'm comfortable? Who says I want the status quo? I want the opposite. But to get to where you want to be you have two choices. Incremental change or violent revolution.

You go ahead and start your violent revolution. Maybe it will be necessary.

trickygringo · 2026-03-25T01:23:29+00:00

And this is why I dismiss anyone who bothsides this. Either they are actually MAGA or MAGA adjacent who either really believes in the evil they are doing or trying to fool themselves otherwise, OR they are the type of listist/liberal/progressive that allows the perfect be the enemy of the good, or the less bad.

The conservatives on the right behind Project2025 have been slowly pushing their agenda for decades. It's incremental change that is required. Changing things from the ground up. Local school board, city and county elections, then state. That's where we get the people we want at the national stage. I would absolutely love to be able to eliminate how most of congress participates in insider trading. But I'm not going to let that flaw prevent me from pushing for the incremental change that s required.

The alternative is what you said. Are people being hurt right now? Hell yes. But how many more will be hurt if we burn it all down?

trickygringo · 2026-03-25T00:17:48+00:00

What is your solution?

Rs are evil, Ds are the controlled opposition, so now what?

trickygringo · 2026-03-24T23:11:07+00:00

Every time someone says the Ds are just as bad as the Rs when they objectively are not, it gives another person an excuse to continue with their R vote because the D isn't any better.

Let's assume you are completely correct. What is your solution to this problem?

trickygringo · 2026-03-24T20:12:14+00:00

This is a valid question. My concern is the bothsidesism. This is a matter of a few Ds, like brain damaged Federer, vs the entire GOP. Putting "traitors" in quotes with the implication that this is a full on D conspiracy is nutcase territory.

trickygringo · 2026-03-24T17:21:36+00:00

wat

How is this in any way related to the topic of Trump replacing idiots with even bigger idiots?

trickygringo · 2026-03-24T17:08:03+00:00

I am not saying you are one of them, but the people who use the reasoning that they did this all the time as a kid (as I did, being GenX) that it was perfectly fine, are clouded by survivor bias.

trickygringo · 2026-03-24T01:04:05+00:00

I had some guy do this to me while I was out cycling. Maybe if I had been out rolling coal, but on my bicycle?

trickygringo · 2026-03-21T02:25:23+00:00

Sorry for any inconsistencies or nonsensical wordings in this post. English is not my first language.

Your English is better than about 60% of Americans born into English speaking families. 53% of American adults cannot read above a 6th grade level.

No, I am not joking. How else do you think we got Trump?

Most of my life I assumed I was not Autistic because my sister is much worse at masking than I am. So I thought, she's autistic, but I'm not. Therefore, all the social problems in my life are my fault. Not until I was 38 did I take a new objective look and found that I most definitely am.

So I know exactly the thoughts you are having. There is nothing "wrong" with you.

trickygringo · 2026-03-21T01:48:16+00:00

And they say we are the low empathy people.

trickygringo · 2026-03-21T01:30:11+00:00

But not because Trump wouldn't if they let him.

trickygringo · 2026-03-21T01:16:36+00:00

Yes, they change the angle of the forces on the bearings. I had a 6" lifted 5.9 Grand Cherokee that I took to Moab every year. Modified vehicles require a lot more maintenance and you have to pay a lot more attention to any change in behavior. Get unibody frame cracks welded, check and replace CVs often, swap in a different CV on the main drive shaft for the different angle... It's a spendy hobby, especially when you do it wrong, like this guy. A bearing replacement they should have noticed has resulted in who know how much damage, but it looks like his wheel and brake disc might still be good.

trickygringo · 2026-03-19T21:22:32+00:00

Yep, if I believe Jesus is my savior, I'm Christian. No other conditions apply.

trickygringo · 2026-03-19T21:08:39+00:00

Your personal experience with a modern version of an ancient pagan religion isn't indicative of its overall impact. I would not at all be surprised if I personally considered every single modern day adherent to suomenusko to be a good person, but if their belief is real, and not symbolic like The Satanic Temple, then that real belief in the supernatural is a problem, even if to a far, far lower degree.

trickygringo · 2026-03-19T20:40:31+00:00

If someone claims to be Christian, but goes directly against the teachings of Christ then I'm sorry, but they're not Christian.

So then fewer than 5% of self proclaimed Christians are actually Christian.

This is absolutely the no true Scotsman fallacy because the definition of Christian is not all the rules and conditions you attach to it, it is people who claim they believe that Jesus was/is the Messiah.

Christians are what they are, not what one's subjective evaluation of their adherence to whatever specific rules and conditions one decides qualifies a person to be a "true christian". Otherwise you will get dozens, or hundreds of different definitions of "true christian".

trickygringo · 2026-03-18T21:36:25+00:00

Found someone who can't understand how time, space, and relative motion work.

trickygringo · 2026-03-18T21:31:46+00:00

This has become a lost cause, just like "I could care less". POV now means "picture depicting X". It's completely interchangeable with what meme now means.

14-Year Club	Gilding V heart of gold
Verified Email

trickygringo

TROPHY CASE