As America debates the motives of its most recent mass shooter, Joshua Jahn, who killed one ICE detainee and injured two others in Dallas, Ken Klippenstein has again talked to the childhood friends of the man who pulled the trigger. And guess what? His motives are far from crystal clear.

According to Klippenstein’s reporting, Jahn’s longtime friends caution people from assigning coherent political motives to his actions, noting, “He was most certainly an edgelord, an irony guy.” One of the anonymous sources speculates that the “ANTI-ICE” message written on one of the bullet casings wasn’t sincere, and was most likely an attempt by Jahn to further stir up outrage between the right and the left.

Breaking: Audio of Gladioperator Joshua Jahn (who shot immigrant detainees at an ICE facility today) has emerged in which you can hear him dropping a bomb on a Dallas comedy club

Not the first painfully boring 4chan comedian false flag, won’t be the last https://t.co/BVPW9Zy6Z0pic.twitter.com/njN3I58D8u

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But that’s not all we can take from Klippenstein’s reporting, who also was given an audio recording of Jahn performing stand-up. In the three-minute clip, Jahn jokes about reality TV, Tinder and his taste for classical jazz music. His Tinder joke goes like this: “It’s a matchmaking website, so if you don’t know how to start a fire, use Tinder.”

The clip is a hard listen as Jahn gets few laughs, and the laughs he does get feel like pity ones at best, though to his credit, he admits that “it’s only his second time doing stand-up.”

Klippenstein’s sources all say they pulled away from Jahn as his “edgelord” behavior began to make him a bummer to be around. Either way, the stand-up clip is so bad it’s hard not to be reminded of the Joker’s infamously awful stand-up routine in Todd Phillips’ 2019 film, The Joker.