This guy is a numbnut, so I'm leaning more towards option A.
Almost all of the XRay images of the devices that have been released thus far, have shown that these devices were made with little to no technical know-how regarding making a timed detonator. The wires were not close enough/connected to cause a spark, the wiring/soder seen in the images was almost like a 1st graders first attempt at welding, and honestly the list goes on.
Yeah, if he wanted to make a real bomb, he shoulda used pigeon shit.
Real talk though, I hope they throw the book at him. Terrorists deserve as much.
Trump just said in a live interview about the bombs that he didn’t see stickers with his face on the van, his rhetoric is not to blame for any violence, and then started talking about the republicans winning the mid terms
he said he could even tone up his rhetoric toward the media and how unfair it is to republicans
then walked off
Take this with several grains of salt because it’s mostly my own conjecture, but I believe it’s because they want to convince people to fight each other rather than risking an uprising. I’m sure Trump would be stupid enough to outright do it, but everyone else in the administration isn’t.
I think there’s a method to the madness. If the GOP ordered government institutions to use force against civilians, they’d have a much higher risk of losing their seats and power or worse. The objective of the GOP I think is mainly to maintain their grip on power and to advance their political agenda, which would be much harder and messy if they inadvertently cross a line where the half of the public sees an armed uprising as justifiable.
From a strategic standpoint, it just makes sense for an authoritarian government to let others do their own dirty work. By using effective propaganda to manipulate the masses into attacking your enemies, you don’t need to use guns or the military to enforce your will. Also it’s much harder to fight against since the attacks could come from anywhere by seemingly anyone motivated enough to carry them out. When people are willing to commit violence on your behalf, you don’t really risk anything and avoid the heavy backlash which would normally come from government sanctioned violence against its own people. Government officials can just pass the blame onto “extremism” or in this case the victims themselves if many people hate them enough.
It’s far more convenient and advantageous for them to leave things as they are. Also if the first high profile acts of violence are committed by Democrats, the current administration would have enough public support and influence to initiate a crackdown.
If the Republicans lose big in the midterms I'm afraid this event will be blamed and called a hoax by the president, which will be picked up by his millions supporters and taken by other people with violent intentions as cover for their actions.
If Trump's most vapid supporters are so far gone mentally that they'd resort to violence in response to the Democrats' winning in a fair election then we, as a country, are so beyond rescue that it's not even funny. We already had a massive civil war less than 200 years ago; we don't need another.
"peaceful Trump supporter" is an oxymoron.
I don't think that the average Trump supporter would become violent, I just think they would become more accepting of violence aimed at Democrats if Trump ran with the line that it was a false flag or otherwise tried to minimize it.
This is going to be the new spin, ala George Zimmerman. Make it about race, and not the thing he did. And they say that the left is obsessed with identity politics.
If he does it and the guy straight up kills someone, I'm not even sure what to say lmao
Well, he's Native American according to the stickers on his van.
Still pretty disgusting that they're using this as a talking point, though.
The right loves identity politics, they cynically weaponize whenever they have the opportunity.
I mean, it's a really stupid thing for them to get hung up on, but he isn't a "white male". Half his shirts/stickers are about him being Native.
I'm enjoying a well deserved roasting on social media the GOP is getting, espically to these dumb ass comments.
An old white(ish) guy makes some shoddy pipe bombs, and a few people are trying to claim "eh, well, they didn't work, so it's fake / he didn't actually mean to try to kill people, it's just a prank that went too far."
On the other hand, a brown terrorist tries (and fails) to set his shoe on fire, and we're still taking our shoes off at the airport 17 years later.
That van screams "I pipe bomb democrats"
*uses footage of Antifa, disparate cells that hate the Democrats as much if not more than the Republicans*
wow look at this LEFTIST MOB called the DEMOCRATIC PARTY. we can't let these VIOLENT CRIMINALS win in November
*guy with Trump stickers plastered all over his van makes and sends pipebombs to prominent Democrats and former Obama administration officials*
hey guys no hold on wait a sec lets not jump the gun here lets not paint with a wide brush not every trump supporter is like this come on lets cool it down with the rhetoric.
https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1055845750423334913
What a coincidence that the guy has a "CNN sucks" sticker on his van
His name is literally an anagram for Accessory
Q predicted this.
Big surprise, the tribe he's claiming to be a member of is denying any association.
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/statement-from-the-seminole-tribe-of-florida-seminole-gaming-and-hard-rock-international-300738784.html
Twitter found two weeks ago that a death threat made by the soon-to-be-bomber was not a violation of their rules
https://twitter.com/RochelleRitchie/status/1055867631461416962?s=20
Imagine the feeling of vindication lol
There was a point where I argued for the_donald's sanity and collective state of mental wellbeing here and I would like to apologise profusely.
Fuck them, fuck Trump and fuck this guy.
We're sliding into very, very dangerous territory and it's unnerving to see, I hate myself for debating in a way that enabled these complete and utter bloody fools to make their agenda appealing.
Wow. That's seriously scary.
That would mean having to actually enforce their rules.
Huh. I didn't know Hard Rock was owned by the Seminole Tribe.
What's that? Twitter not taking threats of violence from the right seriously, but still continuing to shut down parody accounts from centre to left individuals when they make harmless jokes?
Jack is almost certainly laying down some law at Twitter HQ to keep the right wing accounts banned, after all he refused to let them ban Alex Jones and the likes until media pressure forced him to. But god forbid anyone who isn't right wing make jokes at the expense of right wing figures. That's a banning.
