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sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#258726: Oct 24th 2018 at 9:20:28 PM

If this guy is as inept as evidence seems to be pointing, I'm less inclined to doubt it than I was a few hours ago.

CharlesPhipps Since: Jan, 2001
#258727: Oct 24th 2018 at 9:32:34 PM

"Never assume a criminal is smarter than he appears." —One of the cardinal rules of detective work.

Edited by CharlesPhipps on Oct 24th 2018 at 9:33:00 AM

Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.
kkhohoho (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#258728: Oct 24th 2018 at 9:33:30 PM

So basically we've got a Real Life Stupid Crook?

Edited by kkhohoho on Oct 24th 2018 at 11:33:48 AM

sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#258729: Oct 24th 2018 at 9:33:49 PM

I used to collect the America's Dumbest Criminals books, I know crooks can be dumbasses.

M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#258730: Oct 24th 2018 at 9:34:45 PM

[up][up]More like a real life stupid attempted mass murderer.

Yeah, whoever this person is they're likely to be a complete idiot. But they still tried to kill a bunch of people. I don't find this remotely funny.

Edited by M84 on Oct 25th 2018 at 12:35:40 AM

Disgusted, but not surprised
AzurePaladin She/Her Pronouns from Forest of Magic Since: Apr, 2018 Relationship Status: Mu
She/Her Pronouns
#258731: Oct 24th 2018 at 9:36:43 PM

I'm mostly worried about two things.

1. If they aren't caught quickly enough, they can do something like this again. And that time, they'll have learned.

2. The possibility of copycats. Just this one inept person is bad enough, a group of them would be far worse.

Edited by AzurePaladin on Oct 24th 2018 at 12:37:02 PM

The awful things he says and does are burned into our cultural consciousness like a CRT display left on the same picture too long. -Fighteer
sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#258732: Oct 24th 2018 at 9:37:54 PM

also every bomb out there means a chance it won't be caught in time to stop.

megaeliz Since: Mar, 2017
#258733: Oct 24th 2018 at 9:39:43 PM

[up][up][up] No one is saying it’s funny. Just saying that thinking the person behind this anything other than an angry disaffected idiot, is giving him way to much credit.

Edited by megaeliz on Oct 24th 2018 at 12:43:03 PM

CrimsonZephyr Would that it were so simple. from Massachusetts Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
Would that it were so simple.
#258734: Oct 24th 2018 at 9:51:12 PM

The perpetrator was likely a Trumpist — is it really that surprising that he's so far come off as completely idiotic?

Edited by CrimsonZephyr on Oct 24th 2018 at 12:54:06 PM

"For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die."
CharlesPhipps Since: Jan, 2001
#258735: Oct 24th 2018 at 9:56:07 PM

I laugh at him to deny him respect or fear.

Same way Spike Lee treated the KKK in Black Kkklansman.

Edited by CharlesPhipps on Oct 24th 2018 at 9:56:29 AM

Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.
Gilphon (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#258736: Oct 24th 2018 at 10:00:45 PM

I mean, the truly terrifying thing that you don't need to be anyone smart or special to be become a mass murderer. Indeed, being smart is kind of a detriment to becoming a mass murderer- somebody clever enough to think through the consequences of their actions will probably conclude that it's not worth the personal price tag.

But any idiot can cause a lot of damage if he has sufficiently little respect for the social contract.

Hylarn (Don’t ask)
#258737: Oct 24th 2018 at 10:03:50 PM

I think that also brings us back to the stupid conclusion that the return address being Debbie Wasserman Schultz, was a half baked attempt at framing her.

Rather than a frame job, I think the most likely logic is something like "She's the Democrat's ruler, they have to let something from her through!"

CharlesPhipps Since: Jan, 2001
#258738: Oct 24th 2018 at 10:13:10 PM

America's love of fame is what I blame a lot of these terrorist acts on.

Edited by CharlesPhipps on Oct 24th 2018 at 10:13:20 AM

Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.
tsstevens Reading tropes such as You Know What You Did from Reading tropes such as Righting Great Wrongs Since: Oct, 2010 Relationship Status: She's holding a very large knife
Reading tropes such as You Know What You Did
#258739: Oct 25th 2018 at 4:05:38 AM

The same Trump Jihadists claiming false flag are the ones that also claim that any mass shooting is also staged. Seems to be a case of trying to gain some unearned fame by now, the idea of crisis actors and faking bad video to make the point and a real attack staged as a fake attack by real ISIS terrorists to push for anti gun laws had run it's course. It's reached the point of attention grabbing now.

Fifteen bucks say if it turns out to be a Trump terrorist then his self appointed secret police will claim fake news.

Currently reading up My Rule Fu Is Stronger than Yours
Swanpride Since: Jun, 2013
#258740: Oct 25th 2018 at 4:23:55 AM

I am wondering...whenever the right wing accuses someone of doing something, you can BET that they are doing it themselves. So...which false flag have they planted?

LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
#258741: Oct 25th 2018 at 4:34:25 AM

The return address probably.

Oh really when?
NoName999 Since: May, 2011
#258743: Oct 25th 2018 at 5:37:13 AM

Surprise, surprise another person who was very critical of Trump gets a bomb threat.

Meanwhile prominent conservatives are still saying this is a false flag operation.

And yet, the left is considered divisive because of political correctness, aka human deceny.

Edited by NoName999 on Oct 25th 2018 at 5:38:46 AM

NoName999 Since: May, 2011
#258744: Oct 25th 2018 at 5:43:35 AM

Double post: A bomb was addressed to Joe Biden

A darkly humorous thing was that Biden called for unity last night. Again, the GOP just doesn't care.

speedyboris Since: Feb, 2010
#258745: Oct 25th 2018 at 6:19:13 AM

In news unrelated to the bomb scares, and in a surprise to no one, Trump's cell phone is being spied on by China and Russia, because he refuses to use one with good security features. [slams head into wall]

Edited by speedyboris on Oct 25th 2018 at 8:19:40 AM

Steven (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
#258746: Oct 25th 2018 at 6:20:23 AM

And rain is wet.

Remember, these idiots drive, fuck, and vote. Not always in that order.
M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#258747: Oct 25th 2018 at 6:23:50 AM

Trump has always been the kind of person who cares more for his own creature comforts and convenience than for little things like national security.

Disgusted, but not surprised
tsstevens Reading tropes such as You Know What You Did from Reading tropes such as Righting Great Wrongs Since: Oct, 2010 Relationship Status: She's holding a very large knife
Reading tropes such as You Know What You Did
#258748: Oct 25th 2018 at 6:42:59 AM

Can it honestly be defined as spying if the president is complicit in sharing with his dictator pals?

Currently reading up My Rule Fu Is Stronger than Yours
Lightysnake Since: May, 2010
#258749: Oct 25th 2018 at 6:51:16 AM

About this conspiracy thing? As soon as 2018 is over, we need to get worried and stumped for 2020. If and when Trump loses, he will not go quietly into the night. He's liable to stamp and rage immensely if he loses, and there will be a not inconsiderate portion of America who will instantly believe a Democratic win is illegitimate.

TobiasDrake (•̀⤙•́) (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Arm chopping is not a love language!
(•̀⤙•́)
#258750: Oct 25th 2018 at 6:53:08 AM

"Never assume a criminal is smarter than he appears." —One of the cardinal rules of detective work.

Yeah, that's a pretty solid rule of thumb. People usually aren't half as clever as we like to think they are. Someone who sends out mail bombs is not likely to be a cunning Chessmaster carrying out a master plan, but...well, see signature.

Remember that time a terrorist attacked an airport by driving his car bomb into the security bollards designed explicitly to prevent someone from driving a car into the airport? And then it exploded and, while on fire, the dude ran into the airport and was promptly kicked in the nuts by airport staff?

9/11 gave people a skewed impression of terror attacks. It was basically a Nat 20. A lot of terrorists wind up thwarted by their own idiocy. Crime is usually a lot more simple than what you might come up with when sitting around trying to plan out the perfect crime.

Edited by TobiasDrake on Oct 25th 2018 at 7:54:47 AM

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