# Bombs keep turning up at prominent Democrats houses **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 24, 2018, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bombs-keep-turning-up-at-prominent-democrats-houses/823428 "2018-10-24T13:52:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![Uncommon\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Uncommon\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncommon_Sense)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2018, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bombs-keep-turning-up-at-prominent-democrats-houses/823428/141 "2018-10-25T14:27:25Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > Ever heard of Occam’s Razor? This is Occam’s with a twist. ---
**Author:** ![Uncommon\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Uncommon\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncommon_Sense)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2018, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bombs-keep-turning-up-at-prominent-democrats-houses/823428/142 "2018-10-25T14:28:26Z")
> [@Evil\_Economist](#): > > Are aliens noted for the quality of their pipe bombs? Well, they’re not NOT noted… ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2018, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bombs-keep-turning-up-at-prominent-democrats-houses/823428/143 "2018-10-25T14:28:26Z")
> [@Uncommon\_Sense](#): > > This is Occam’s with a twist. Occam’s Razor cuts straight. That’s the whole point. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2018, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bombs-keep-turning-up-at-prominent-democrats-houses/823428/144 "2018-10-25T14:31:13Z")
> [@Ashtura](#): > > …I do not think these “bombs” were meant to go off, I think they were meant to send a message. Like a horse head in your bed. My guess is a can of hair spray and a lighter is about as likely to go off… One of the many articles pointed out that there is no need to have the clock display visible. ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2018, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bombs-keep-turning-up-at-prominent-democrats-houses/823428/145 "2018-10-25T14:32:58Z")
I think the fact that De Niro was targeted is pretty telling towards the loony right wing nutter as the perpetrator. Why target him? Well, because he said mean things about Trump, that’s why. Not that the others on the list weren’t strong indications, but I think he’s the key target in determining the kind of person(s) who did this. ---
**Author:** ![Ashtura](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ashtura/32/2963_2.png) [@Ashtura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ashtura)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2018, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bombs-keep-turning-up-at-prominent-democrats-houses/823428/146 "2018-10-25T14:39:46Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > One of the many articles pointed out that there is no need to have the clock display visible. Maybe not, but not a single one of them went off, which means the trigger was garbage. All of these have been described as things that could potentially explode, not that they were likely to explode. If you want it to kill it’s intended recipient, you’d have it wired to go off when the package was opened. A timer would be stupid. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2018, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bombs-keep-turning-up-at-prominent-democrats-houses/823428/147 "2018-10-25T14:48:19Z")
My guess is that designing a triggering mechanism that will go off when the package is opened but\* won’t\* go off when it is being tossed around by the USPS is incredibly difficult. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2018, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bombs-keep-turning-up-at-prominent-democrats-houses/823428/148 "2018-10-25T14:49:09Z")
Now Biden supposedly got one. Is this one nutjob, or several? Obviously the police should keep as many of the details secret as necessary, but I still wonder - do all these seem to come from the same person/persons? Maybe it really was Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, in a deeply laid false flag operation which she intended as a distraction from a love triangle between her, Bernie Sanders, and Bret Kavanaugh, with assistance from ISIS, the Honduran caravan, and Robert Mueller, and a director’s credit for Putin and guest starring the Illuminati. Wheels within wheels… Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2018, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bombs-keep-turning-up-at-prominent-democrats-houses/823428/149 "2018-10-25T14:51:29Z")
Did many of the intended recipients actually try to open them? My impression is that most were intercepted by authorities who had experts open them. The ones that weren’t intercepted were reported to authorities by the recipients without being opened. Am I wrong about that? ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2018, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bombs-keep-turning-up-at-prominent-democrats-houses/823428/150 "2018-10-25T14:53:58Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > Maybe it really was Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, in a deeply laid false flag operation which she intended as a distraction from … You mean Debbie Wasserman-Shultz? The one who has an office in Sunrise Florids? ---
**Author:** ![Ashtura](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ashtura/32/2963_2.png) [@Ashtura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ashtura)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2018, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bombs-keep-turning-up-at-prominent-democrats-houses/823428/151 "2018-10-25T14:58:33Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > My guess is that designing a triggering mechanism that will go off when the package is opened but\* won’t\* go off when it is being tossed around by the USPS is incredibly difficult. Most triggers do not go off by being “tossed around”. These were not nitroglycerin bombs. It’s not terribly difficult. I’ve looked up Kacziynski’s methods enough to know that, and the bomber certainly would have too if he was at all serious about this. If he used a timer, he didn’t really care if it reached it’s intended target or if there was collateral damage. ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2018, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bombs-keep-turning-up-at-prominent-democrats-houses/823428/152 "2018-10-25T15:03:45Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Turns out that was a lie. Seth Abramson said, No word on which “official” lied and said there was to wrongly cast today’s attempted terrorist attacks as bipartisan. > [https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/1055135453114966016](https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/1055135453114966016) Any bets that the Trumpists will still be parroting this fake fact a week from now? _A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on._ > [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Fox news commentator blames the liberals. > [Fox News Guest: Bombs Could’ve Been Sent by Liberal ‘Trying to Get the Democratic Vote Out’](https://www.thedailybeast.com/fox-news-guest-bombs-couldve-been-sent-by-liberal-trying-to-get-the-democratic-vote-out) Yawn. Dog bites man. FoxNews is just another InfoWars now. ```auto [quote="MrDibble, post:117, topic:823428"] This is the Pit, you can name names. [/QUOTE] **HurricaneDitka** is the one who started a thread on Trump's "mobs - jobs" quote. He especially liked it "because it rhymed." This human turd is by far the stupidest Trumpist posting here. **Ditka** is also on record as supporting the 1995 bombing by right-winger Timothy McVeigh's (168 dead, 680+ injured) as "not entirely unreasonable;" likes to "poke libtards in the eye;" and is so proud of that quote he asks for a cite of it. :p Ditka embarrasses himself every time he gets in a thread involving simple arithmetic. I remembered the "poking libtards in the eye" quote because he received a Warning for it, and *I asked, successfully, that the Warning be rescinded!* Obviously I'm a slow learner. If I had understood **Ditka**'s nature at that time I'd have wished him to drown in a cesspool. ``` ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2018, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bombs-keep-turning-up-at-prominent-democrats-houses/823428/153 "2018-10-25T15:05:26Z")
> [@BlankSlate](#): > > I think it’s most likely a false flag false flag operation. With crisis bombs. ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2018, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bombs-keep-turning-up-at-prominent-democrats-houses/823428/154 "2018-10-25T15:05:58Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > > [@](#): > > > > Originally Posted by Shodan > > Maybe it really was Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, in a deeply laid false flag operation which she intended as a distraction from … This poster is the only active Doper on my Ignore list. Thanks for reminding me why, I guess. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2018, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bombs-keep-turning-up-at-prominent-democrats-houses/823428/155 "2018-10-25T15:10:54Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > My guess is that designing a triggering mechanism that will go off when the package is opened but\* won’t\* go off when it is being tossed around by the USPS is incredibly difficult. With my experience of their losing packages (one found three months later) and tearing holes in others, I don’t think having them handle and deliver explosives is a very good idea. ---
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2018, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bombs-keep-turning-up-at-prominent-democrats-houses/823428/156 "2018-10-25T15:11:27Z")
from what I recall the FBI did not have any leads that pointed to the unabomber. they only caught him due to his brother reading the manifesto and thinking it was him and calling the FBI. ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2018, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bombs-keep-turning-up-at-prominent-democrats-houses/823428/157 "2018-10-25T15:13:29Z")
> [@WolfpackJeep](#): > > Migrants? Don’t you mean ISIS TERRORIST OPERATIVES SNEAKING INTO THE COUNTRY BECAUSE THE DEMOCRAT PARTY WON’T SECURE THE BORDER? The all-caps is a nice touch. Gives it that _authentic_ loon look. ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2018, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bombs-keep-turning-up-at-prominent-democrats-houses/823428/158 "2018-10-25T15:15:40Z")
> [@septimus](#): > > Any bets that the Trumpists will still be parroting this fake fact a week from now? > _A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on._ > > Yawn. Dog bites man. FoxNews is just another InfoWars now. > > ```auto > **HurricaneDitka** is the one who started a thread on Trump's "mobs - jobs" quote. He especially liked it "because it rhymed." This human turd is by far the stupidest Trumpist posting here. **Ditka** is also on record as supporting the 1995 bombing by right-winger Timothy McVeigh's (168 dead, 680+ injured) as "not entirely unreasonable;" likes to "poke libtards in the eye;" and is so proud of that quote he asks for a cite of it. :p Ditka embarrasses himself every time he gets in a thread involving simple arithmetic. > > I remembered the "poking libtards in the eye" quote because he received a Warning for it, and *I asked, successfully, that the Warning be rescinded!* Obviously I'm a slow learner. If I had understood **Ditka**'s nature at that time I'd have wished him to drown in a cesspool. > > ``` I got that little butthurt troll to go away for something like 7 weeks this summer. I consider that to be my greatest contribution to to the SDMB. Too bad it didn’t stick. ---
**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2018, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bombs-keep-turning-up-at-prominent-democrats-houses/823428/159 "2018-10-25T15:17:51Z")
Predictably, conservatives are refusing to acknowledge that their hostile and vitriolic rhetoric is playing a role in inciting real-world violence. The usual “both sides do it” tripe. This is, honest to goodness, why I quit Facebook and why I don’t miss it - or more specifically, why I don’t miss them. I don’t miss seeing posts from wacky shit-kicker relatives or ‘friends’ about George Soros-funded sex trafficking rings run out of pizza parlors, or whatever bullshit Alex Jones is peddling. And understand something: they’re not poor white working class who have fallen on hard times and need some sympathy and understanding. These are adults who are making conscious choices about how they view the world around them. It’s a choice they make: you could say they’re ignorant, but not because they can’t access the truth. They don’t want the truth. They want the truth to be whatever the hell they want it to be. They don’t want to give up their prejudices, because to do so means giving up their sense of superiority. They don’t want to change, they want YOU to change. They want others to live on THEIR terms, and if people resist, then they’d just as soon condemn them to hell for it. A lot of us don’t understand their mentality, but I’m telling you it’s fucking deadly. They’re not just friendly, harmless folk who live in the suburbs. What’s inside their heads will disturb you once you scratch beneath the surface. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2018, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bombs-keep-turning-up-at-prominent-democrats-houses/823428/160 "2018-10-25T15:26:55Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > And if the Pubbies don’t like the association, then they need to publicly dis-identify (Is that a word? It should be.) with the Party. That’s the reason for the first time in my life I voted straight Democratic ticket. No, not all Republicans are evil, but to avoid being tarred with the thump brush they need to get out from under the Republican umbrella! (Welcome to ThelmaLou’s Metaphor Festival.) I voted Dem all down the line and didn’t even bother checking any of the Reps’ credentials, for the first time ever as well. I suppose there are some ‘good’ Republicans out there but the Republican party as a whole needs to be taken out to the woodshed and punished severely. Assuming the party can drive itself back up the cliff it has fallen over, I’m seeing being asked for the next twenty years (ala post WWI and WWII), “What did _you_ do during the Trump Administration?” “I wrung my hands and tut-tutted a lot,” won’t cut it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bombs-keep-turning-up-at-prominent-democrats-houses/823428.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bombs-keep-turning-up-at-prominent-democrats-houses/823428.md?page=9)