I’m starting to get tired of all the winning.
Looks like it is a parody of the ISIS flag, FWIW.
Seems VP Joe Biden was targeted, also. (Reuters)
Anyone seen James O’Keefe recently? I wouldn’t be entirely surprised if his outfit happened to turn up some heavily edited video purporting to show some local Democratic operative or other discussing a fake bombing campaign.
Yes, I linked to a tweet that makes this point back in post #85, but no one seemed to have noticed.
It gives a whole nother meaning to “false flag”.
I fully expected Trump to “revert to normal” at his rally but, goddamn, his flippant attitude really pissed me off. He is a monster. Fuck him and all the republicans who support this evil asshole.
Senate candidate Leah Vukmir blames Tammy Baldwin and the Democrats.
https://www.alternet.org/election-03918/leah-vukmir-tammy-baldwin-extreme-left-bombs
Fox news commentator blames the liberals.
Tammy Baldwin? Hell, why not throw in Amy Klobuchar while you’re about it! Don’t let that reputation for “Minnesota nice” fool you, these people seethe with bloodthirsty rage!
Thankfully none of the bombs detonated. A roundup is available at TPM: it was last updated this morning, but they said they would keep it up to date:
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/prime-beta/a-running-list-of-the-reported-targets-of-package-bombs
Recipients include George Soros, the Obamas, the Clintons, former CIA Chief John Brennan, Eric Holder and Maxine Waters.
Those not receiving a bomb, but whom had faulty reports include NY Governor Andrew Cuomo, the San Diego Tribune and the White House.
It’s sort of obvious that the vics were heavily vilified within the Breitbart universe. If it’s a false flag op, the perp was smart enough to choose the targets according to a right wing pattern, but dumb enough to scare people before an election. Because scared people tend to shift in an authoritarian direction. So I don’t think it’s false flag.
But we shouldn’t rule anything out. Vox has a solid explainer on the topic: the best part came at the end:
[INDENT] What we don’t know
The full list of who was sent packages.
The identity of the sender or senders.
Their motive(s).
Details about the explosive devices themselves.
Whether all of the incidents and devices are related.
[/INDENT] That’s good reporting.
I’m rather shocked Nancy Pelosi didn’t get one. If it turns out she didn’t, I will very curious to learn why.
Of the targeted recipients, so far (tune in tomorrow), only one is active in government at this time. Clinton, Obama, Brennan and Holder are not in office, Soros has never held any office, Waters alone has a government post, and not an especially prominent one. It seems like the work of one person who is pissed off about the loss of stormfront, or something, and chose names that were seared into his neuron. The odd choice of targets does not suggest a false flag action – but I could be wrong.
Fuck you to everyone who pretended that Eric Holder’s, “When they go low we kick them,” remark was a call for mob violence. In context it obviously was not, but you kept beating that drum and now someone tried to murder him.
Seriously, fuck you. I mean this generally, but I am also specifically directing this at, at least two, specific posters on this board who were pushing this.
Got a link? Sometimes us non-US folks have some difficulties keeping up with names and issues. Cheers. ![]()
Most likely, the bomber(s) live in Ms. Waters’ district.
Foo. Sorry for the double post.
It just occurred to me that there may be a racist component - Ms. Waters is just about the highest profile black woman in Congress. She’d be just the sort of target a MAGAt would like to hit.
Still, I’d give it 2/3 that it’s a constituent, 1/3 that it’s racially motivated.
I was intrigued by this bit from Yahoo! News:
If someone’s going to get their hate on and into action, they really should do a bit of research first.
This is the Pit, you can name names.
Dick! Johnson! Peter! By an amazing coincidence, these are all pricks too!
Another package was found at a restaurant owned by Robert De Niro. It’s possible that he was targeted for Dirty Grandpa and not politics. Too early to tell.
You expect that from a MAGAtt?