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Charlie Kirk ally reveals 'absolute miracle' that may have saved lives during fatal shooting (www.foxnews.com)

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Turning Point USA spokesman Andrew Kolvet on Saturday said Charlie Kirk's surgeon called it an "absolute miracle" that the bullet that killed him didn’t exit his body because dozens of people were standing behind him when he was shot.

"I want to address some of the discussion about the lack of an exit wound with Charlie. I’m usually not interested in delving into most of this kind of online chatter, and I apologize this is somewhat graphic, but in this case, the fact that there wasn’t an exit wound is probably another miracle, and I want people to know," Kolvet, the executive producer of "The Charlie Kirk Show," wrote in a lengthy post on X.

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[–] eyelevel@lemmy.world 50 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

It's so fucking weird the way they are idolizing him and his death.

Flags at half-staff, people losing their jobs, AI videos of Kirk with Jesus, bills proposing bronze statues of him, and now "his neck miraculously stopped the bullet and saved innocent bystanders"?

Like I know they don't really believe any of it, but it's still so weird. It's getting to be like North Korea levels of kooky.

[–] slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 9 points 2 days ago

Well in north korea they are forced to worship their great leader and/or don't know anything else. Americans do it for no reason at all.

[–] Mirshe@lemmy.world 20 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This is their Blutfahne, their Blood Flag. It's mythmaking - you just have to get people outraged enough and they'll believe pretty much anything they're presented with. I truly believe they had all this in the tank for when Trump keeled over (actually I think they were drawing this up before he nearly bought it in Butler PA), but martyrdom is a POWERFUL force, especially in a critical mass of people who are primed for martyr culture in the way the largely-white-supremacist-flavored American Evangelical communities are. The GOP is pissed that nobody successfully took a shot at Reagan, either Bush, or Trump I, so now they're latching on in an attempt to get SOME gas on the fire before it burns out.