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Bomber potentially in custody

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Let’s see what happens this afternoon and I’ll defer to Adam on any interpretation/analysis.

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  1. 1.

    MisterForkbeard

    This will be interesting. We’re going to find out REAL SOON whether or not this is an establishment Democratic plot, or a lone wolf with health issues.

    I’ve been told by my friends on the right that these are the only two possible choices.

  6. 6.

    germy

    @Cheryl Rofer: So if it turns out he’s not a liberal trying to make conservatives look bad, will all the fox news and talk radio and twitter RW’ers say “Gee, we were wrong…”

  8. 8.

    Cheryl Rofer

    I would like to know more about the bombs themselves, but we probably won’t hear from the FBI until they’re confident of their analyses.

    NOW the kitties, who are pestering me to death.

  10. 10.

    rikyrah

    Meet Vickie Lee Jones.

    She was shot & killed by a white supremacist YESTERDAY in the parking lot of a grocery store in Louisville.

    She was a kind, warm, giving soul. She just retired from the VA Hospital.

    Moved to her new neighborhood to be safe. Murdered by a bigot. pic.twitter.com/ZAS7cpQvzY

    — Shaun King (@shaunking) October 25, 2018

  14. 14.

    The Moar You Know

    Wasn’t going to take long. People fortunately have no idea how closely shit like this is being looked for.

  17. 17.

    Gravenstone

    @rikyrah: Possible this was the schmuck/patsy who did the parcel drops, as they likely have video or stills. Obviously we’ll learn more with time.

  20. 20.

    The Dangerman

    Luckily, this asshole didn’t do something really terrible like accost someone in a Restaurant.

  22. 22.

    The Moar You Know

    Laughing my ass off looking at the pics of that van. Might as well have spray-painted on the side “I MAKE BOMBS FOR TRUMP”.

  24. 24.

    germy

    In Trump's third tweet since the announcement of an 11th and a 12th bomb, he finally mentions the bombs. But he only mentions them to complain that they have slowed his "momentum." Not to express concern. Not to even say that he is being briefed.— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) October 26, 2018

  25. 25.

    r€nato

    I may just have to tune into Fox News Channel to see how they spin/not cover this. Who wants to take the other side of the bet that they avoid showing close-ups of the pro-Trump shit on his van?

  26. 26.

    Horse_dave

    I think you’re correct. Debbie Wasserman Schultz was/is using mind control to make the haters look bad. It’s the only possible explanation.

  29. 29.

    germy

    @trollhattan: Ain’t gonna happen. No waterboarding.
    I wonder how many rallies this guy attended, holding up a sign right behind PEETUS.

    And I’m guessing Fox will pixelate or blur the van stickers.

  32. 32.

    MisterForkbeard

    @rikyrah: My guess is that this guy was probably the only real terrorist, but he was egged on and directed towards bomb plans “as a joke” by various 4chan/The_Donald/Breitbart types who shocked, SHOCKED that he would actually do this.

  34. 34.

    r€nato

    what’s the over-under on Trump tweeting that this guy is innocent until proven guilty?

    good people on both sides!

  36. 36.

    Bruuuuce

    CNN reports that in California, a possible thirteenth package has been found, addressed to Kamala Harris. Needs confirmation, but it would be no surprise at all.

  41. 41.

    r€nato

    right now right-wing bloggers are frantically searching the web to find anything at all to tie this guy to the left. “He had a New Revised Standard Version of the Bible on his bookshelf, not King James Version! Obviously a liberal!”

  42. 42.

    dmsilev

    @Kay:

    I can’t believe he drove that van for the bomb drop offs.

    I’m going to go out on a limb and predict that this guy was not exactly Professor Moriarty.

  44. 44.

    The Moar You Know

    My guess is there will end up being 14 bombs (14 words)

    @A Ghost To Most: didn’t and probably wouldn’t have thought of this, but I’d lay down cash money on the chance of you being right.

  45. 45.

    Sloane Ranger

    Slightly off topic but is it legal in the US to drive a vehicle with so much of the back and side windows covered?

  55. 55.

    r€nato

    There is a photo out there that is a close-up of the side of the van. It is 100% right-wing pro-Trump anti-left memes. One of Michael Moore with a target on his face. I wish I could post a pic here, don’t want to bother with uploading to my server and posting the link that way.

  56. 56.

    stan

    Holy crap, there are rifle sight crosshairs on some of those photos.

    Yeah, fox news will yell at everyone to ‘stop politicizing mental illness’

  61. 61.

    The Moar You Know

    @Cheryl Rofer: Jesus. Well, they’re going to have to go with Plan #2: ignore this, because the “bomber is obviously a Dem” isn’t going to fly here.

  62. 62.

    NonyNony

    I mean, Cesar Sayoc doesn’t sound like a ‘mercan name, so maybe they’ll play up the “dangerous foreigner” angle?

    Naw – they’re going to go with “mentally ill individual” I’d bet. They’ll avoid discussing the politics around it at all – except maybe Shep Smith. He might get into it I suppose.

  64. 64.

    Bill Arnold

    @MisterForkbeard:

    My guess is that this guy was probably the only real terrorist, but he was egged on and directed towards bomb plans “as a joke” by various 4chan/The_Donald/Breitbart types who shocked, SHOCKED that he would actually do this.

    This is my guess as well (~50%). If we want to stick with the term stochastic terrorism (I like it, but I like stochastic algorithms in CS, and biology) then it needs to be updated to explicitly cover orchestrated (mass) micro-targeting of easily-influence-able individuals.

  65. 65.

    lgerard

    Funny how lowly rated CNN, and others, can criticize me at will, even blaming me for the current spate of Bombs and ridiculously comparing this to September 11th and the Oklahoma City bombing, yet when I criticize them they go wild and scream, “it’s just not Presidential!”— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 26, 2018

    Love how trump refers to the current spate of Bombs, as if this is a recurring phenomenon and part of the usual political process..

  67. 67.

    germy

    I see from Sayoc’s resume that his last listed employment was Brett Kavanaugh’s life coach.

    (sarcasm tag)

  69. 69.

    Cermet

    The fake news (aka fox) will spend ten seconds on it in their news program and every single other shit spewing talking head there will ignore it.

  70. 70.

    r€nato

    This is definitely a time when we should follow Dickhead Cheney’s 1% Principle. If there is even a 1% chance that a Trump supporter could be a terrorist, we must act and act decisively to neutralize the threat.

  73. 73.

    r€nato

    well it’s already started… a FB page named “Indiana People for Arizona Immigration Law” is claiming the guy is a Democrat, therefore Democrats are behind this. Feel free to find that page and deluge them with insults and scorn.

  86. 86.

    Kay

    The bullseyes on the people he targeted are freaky, because they’re in specific places- Clinton is her face, some are on the heart, etc. He took so much care with the placement. Hillary Clinton clearly gets the brunt, BTW. They should up her security. It’s so odd how they still hate her so much because they won! She’s absolutely no threat to them. It’s like winning just made them angrier.

  90. 90.

    r€nato

    @Kay: As I keep saying… angry when their guy loses; even angrier when their guy wins.

    I am starting to think they are just miserable people, period.

  92. 92.

    r€nato

    you know, when Obama won, then won again, I was happy about it. Not angry AF at those who didn’t like him.

    There is truly something wrong with these people who are fanatical in their devotion to Dear Leader. Like their cult leader, they seem to have a bottomless pit inside of them that cannot be filled up, and knowing that at some conscious or unconscious level just feeds their anger and desire to lash out.

  93. 93.

    El Caganer

    @Kay: I think it’s because they believe in magic, and their lives didn’t magically get better when their team won. Couldn’t possibly be the fault of their White Savior, though, could it?

  94. 94.

    C Stars

    I just need a moment to take in the fact that in a week when a shooter gunned down two African-American senior citizens and then claimed “Whites don’t shoot whites,” and a guy driving this nutso Trump van seems to have sent 13 bombs through our postal service, one of the only discernible tenets of the modern GOP is decrying “identity politics”

    I know the hypocrisy has always been thick with these folks but jfc…

  95. 95.

    r€nato

    rage, like cocaine, is a helluva drug. They were filled with it on a daily basis for eight years and they just can’t kick the habit, even when they got everything they could have possibly wanted two years ago.

  96. 96.

    Kay

    @r€nato:

    @daveweigel
    28m28 minutes ago
    More
    New NPR/PBS/Marist poll has Ds up 10 on generic ballot. This was the poll, a few weeks ago, that sparked the “Kavanaugh backlash/enthusiasm gap” panic among Ds. A few weeks is a long time.

    They need constant infusions of fighting or they trail off and get depressed. They’re like drug addicts. It’ s why Trump gets more and more frantic- he has to keep them juiced up all the time and the hit has to be bigger each time.

  99. 99.

    The Pale Scot

    @r€nato:

    we should follow Dickhead Cheney’s 1% Principle.

    If I had won that lottery thingy, that would have been a full page ad in every paper in the US for a next two years

  100. 100.

    Kay

    @schrodingers_cat:

    He has to keep ratcheting it up because really he’s a bore. He’s the loudmouth at a country club who everyone patiently endures. He uses those dumb words- “spectacular”, all those, because there’s no real energy or interest in what he’s saying.

    I can’t bear his voice. It has so much self-regard in it. Such a broad braggy sound. Ugh. It’s like nails on a chalkboard. My husband watches CSPAN and I have to leave the room. I can’t do it.

  106. 106.

    Ruckus

    @Kay:
    They won but there is still no magic happening. There are still blacks actually walking free. There are women running for office, far more than ever before. They won but things aren’t the better they thought they’d be. They know the truth, but they can not admit it, they are pretty useless as humans. They know it, we know it and they know we know. They are ratcheting up because they can’t understand how the rest of the world doesn’t see things in plain black and white like they do. They know only two sides of anything. And their side isn’t getting anywhere. They won, why isn’t everything better? My answer is of course that they are full of shit. They are so full of shit it’s coming out their ears, nose and throats and it’s all they can see, smell and taste.

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