He hung out for a while after the CPS leak, but iirc the last straw was Kurt finding out Nick had a lawtube group chat he wasn't invited to. I don't recall the details, but I do remember being baffled that such a small thing caused him to turn.
Kurt didn't turn on Nick in the sense of what a normal person considers betrayal. Kurt's major sin against Nick was saying that the search warrant that led to Nick's arrest was virtually unassailable, to the point that even "if" he could attack parts of it, he wouldn't be able to attack enough of it to matter in a way that would lead to it being invalidated.
Nick shortly thereafter messaged Kurt and told him they weren't friends anymore. If you're thinking "Wow, that's a really gay and bitch-made thing to do" just remember it's Nick.
Remember that the entire reason Kurt even met Nick in the first place was because Nick (during Weeb Wars) was hyping up Ty Beard's work for Vic, and Kurt said he didn't think it was very good and was probably going to fail. At the very beginning of their friendship, up until its dissolution (by a perpetually butthurt faggot), Kurt was willing to say what he believed and stood by it despite him saying something that people (or whatever you want to call anime fans) didn't want to hear. Whether you like him or not, Kurt is principled, and Nick doesn't have any principles.
People like Vic and Kurt deserved a better friend than whatever the hell Nick pretended to be.
Obviously Rekieta's digs were getting to Kurt and now that he has revealed this, it is only going to get worse for him.
If you honestly think Nick was ever going to stop, I have a bridge to sell you. He's too much of a fucking lunatic to ever quit willingly. The only way Nick would stop is if there's a significant legal threat to stop him "
or else", or if he dies...and we're finding out from his HRO shit with Aaron that even a legal threat may not be enough to get him to stop.
Additionally, if Nick is going to smear Kurt by calling him a pedophile, I think it's fair for Kurt to call him whatever the fuck he wants. Nothing Kurt has said is even nearly as bad as being called a pedophile.
you're saying Runkle is a disingenuous faggot who will play dumb?
Worse, Runkle is a Canadian.
From his tone that almost sounds like another of those "it'd be a shame if something were to happen to it" mafioso threats that he likes to poorly emulate every so often like he thinks he's living in a movie. How exactly is that schizo fantasy supposed to "come up" after all this time? If he has his way the bodycam intervention appeal will fail and the bodycam lawsuit will get dismissed on the pleadings, which leaves no opportunity for discovery requests and depositions to expose the fetid cesspool of corruption that is Kandiyohi County Court Administration, so will he have to sue the County to go off on this fishing expedition?
I think he's suggesting that the bodycam footage will manage to leak even if Nick is able to prevent its release through standard channels.
And you know what? I agree.
I said it ages ago and I still stand by it, I still think there's a plan for a backup of the bodycam footage to come out (possibly by being released on the Farms) but whoever has it is waiting to drop it because they hope they will not have to resort to it if it comes out through the regular process. The people of Kandiyohi fucking hate him, at least enough of them do to decide to work together to gather intel on him, and I do think there's a conspiracy to make sure Nick gets the maximum felt. And it's based as fuck, too.