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And I'm Carl Markowitz.

We remain abnormally consumed with the murder of Charlie Kirk.

I'm sure that is true for a lot of you out there.

I hear from a lot of my normie friends whose jobs are not in politics,

who are not online all the time,

that they really can't stop thinking about Charlie and what happened,

and it's affected them so much.

So we're going to talk about it some more today. And today we're

going to start with why did the killer did this and all the different reasons that crazy people

on the internet have invented for it. Yeah, there has there has been an attempt to sort of make sure that everyone left of center and anyone else they can grab

understands that a groiper, a right-leaning far-right person is the person who perpetrated this crime.

Now, those same people will tell you, oh, we must be very measured and slow to come to conclusions about motives.

I will grant you that, right?

Like, there's an Occam's razor here where if someone's killing Charlie Kirk, I think we can guess what that person's political leanings and motives might be.

But there are assassinations that happen that are just a crazy person.

Jared Loeffner shooting Gabby Giffords is one.

Hinkley shooting Reagan is one.

These were not politically motivated, but they are assassination attempts, right?

In this case, we now have evidence that it was not some far right-leaning person or someone who agreed super hard with Charlie

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