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Bombs sent to Obama, Soros, Clinton, CNN, multiple other targets, info still forthcoming

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  • nexuscrawlernexuscrawler Registered User regular
    Its TMZ as a source so take it with a grain of salt but they're reporting the CNN package was addressed to former-CIA head John Brennan

  • enlightenedbumenlightenedbum Registered User regular
    CNN reporting the pipe bomb sent to its office was targeted at John Brennan.



    Yahoo legal reporter.

    Debbie Wasserman Schultz also a target.



    Tampa news anchor

    The idea that your vote is a moral statement about you or who you vote for is some backwards ass libertarian nonsense. Your vote is about society. Vote to protect the vulnerable.
  • abotkinabotkin Registered User regular
    zepherin wrote: »
    I never understood why Soros is some Right wing boogie man. I mean I see why Bezos get's hate, but Soros just seams...I dunno kinda random.

    Explosive Ordinance Disposal.

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  • ZomroZomro Registered User regular
    How ironic that the side accusing liberals as being violent terrorists are, themselves, escalating into violent terrorism.

    It's almost like they were full of shit and projecting their desires onto their opposition.

    Trump downplaying this or blaming it on Democrats is pretty much a given, but what are the odds he says something offensively insensitive about it at one of his rallies?

  • enlightenedbumenlightenedbum Registered User regular
    This is what happens when you dehumanize your political enemies.

    The idea that your vote is a moral statement about you or who you vote for is some backwards ass libertarian nonsense. Your vote is about society. Vote to protect the vulnerable.
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  • ChaosHatChaosHat Hop, hop, hop, HA! Trick of the lightRegistered User regular
    enlightenedbum wrote: »
    This is what happens when you dehumanize your political enemies.

    Well that and the implication that they should all be jailed. If Hillary/Beto/whomever SHOULD be jailed but they aren't because they're too powerful and connected you're just asking your crazy fans to try and take the law into their own hands.

  • VeeveeVeevee WisconsinRegistered User regular
    They are now moving the bomb from CNN headquarters

  • wazillawazilla Having a late dinner Registered User regular
    Remember that time Trump joked about Clinton getting assassinated during the general

    Good. Fucking. Times.

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  • CouscousCouscous Registered User regular
    Oghulk wrote: »
    So I guess baby boomers can stop talking about how the late 60s were so much worse than today because there were so many political assassinations back then

    Bombings through the mail were amazingly common back then. It was kind of ridiculous.

  • abotkinabotkin Registered User regular
    Sorry, needed to make a joke. This story has really shaken me this morning. I just... I don't know, I suppose something like this was almost an inevitability with Trump being Trump and getting away with it as POTUS. Just... fuck.

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  • PhasenPhasen Hell WorldRegistered User regular


    Rupar works for thinkprogress.

    I don't know how the right has any leg to stand on anymore.

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  • mcpmcp Registered User regular
    Zomro wrote: »
    How ironic that the side accusing liberals as being violent terrorists are, themselves, escalating into violent terrorism.

    It's almost like they were full of shit and projecting their desires onto their opposition.

    Trump downplaying this or blaming it on Democrats is pretty much a given, but what are the odds he says something offensively insensitive about it at one of his rallies?
    We'll, he's got one tonight, so we'll see pretty quick.

  • XaquinXaquin Right behind you!Registered User regular
    Phasen wrote: »


    Rupar works for thinkprogress.

    I don't know how the right has any leg to stand on anymore.

    they never did, but they'll prop themselves up on guns and sally forth

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  • SyphonBlueSyphonBlue The studying beaver That beaver sure loves studying!Registered User regular
    Hey guys, don't worry about the media taking a both sides are to blame tack with this story.

    BECAUSE SENATE MINORITY LEADER CHUCK SCHUMER ALREADY FUCKING BEAT THEM TO THE FUCKING PUNCH WHY IS THIS GUY STILL IN OFFICE

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  • PhasenPhasen Hell WorldRegistered User regular
    Fuck chuck

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  • RedTideRedTide Registered User regular
    McCarthys office was vandalized.
    LETTER BOMB!
    McCarthys office was vandalized.
    LETTER BOMB!
    McCarthys office was vandalized.
    LETTER BOMB!
    McCarthys office was vandalized.
    LETTER BOMB!

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  • DoodmannDoodmann Registered User regular
    Chuck Schumer is quickly becoming the Neville Chamberlain of this tale.

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  • CoinageCoinage Heaviside LayerRegistered User regular
    "Phasen wrote: »
    I don't know how the right has any leg to stand on anymore.
    Well, James Hodgkinson was pretty fucking bad, although it feels like they haven't milked that nearly as much as they could since as a mass shooting it obviously invites follow up questions they don't like.

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  • AuralynxAuralynx Darkness is a perspective Watching the ego workRegistered User regular
    Doodmann wrote: »
    Chuck Schumer is quickly becoming the Neville Chamberlain of this tale.

    Chuck's neverending dedication to trying to return to past norms is mind-boggling.

  • XaquinXaquin Right behind you!Registered User regular
    edited October 2018
    Coinage wrote: »
    "Phasen wrote: »
    I don't know how the right has any leg to stand on anymore.
    Well, James Hodgkinson was pretty fucking bad, although it feels like they haven't milked that nearly as much as they could since as a mass shooting it obviously invites follow up questions they don't like.

    was that the baseball field guy? I thought he was legitimately mentally unstable?

    edit: apparently he wasn't so much crazy as just plain horrible

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  • No-QuarterNo-Quarter Nothing To Fear But Fear ItselfRegistered User regular
    Oh fuck and retire Schumer, jfc

  • ChaosHatChaosHat Hop, hop, hop, HA! Trick of the lightRegistered User regular
    I don't have an issue with the Senate Minority Leader trying to build bridges and take it neutral with some "both sides" stuff. This is the shit you get Warren and your flunkies to go out there on.

  • PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    ChaosHat wrote: »
    I don't have an issue with the Senate Minority Leader trying to build bridges and take it neutral with some "both sides" stuff. This is the shit you get Warren and your flunkies to go out there on.

    I do because its equating explosive devices to god damn vandalism, not even the same motherfucking ball park.

    I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.

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  • MatevMatev Cero Miedo Registered User regular
    I’m done with the right wing committing crimes under the cloak of “You dared call me out on my bullshit.” and Democrat politicians covering for them. It’s bullshit.

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  • RedTideRedTide Registered User regular
    It's like Harry Reid never left.

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  • JavenJaven Registered User regular
    ChaosHat wrote: »
    I don't have an issue with the Senate Minority Leader trying to build bridges and take it neutral with some "both sides" stuff. This is the shit you get Warren and your flunkies to go out there on.

    But Schumer's statements act as a barometer for where the greater party stance lies, which reduces the credibility of statements made by the more liberal Democrats. It's a clear display that Schumer doesn't have their backs.

  • ChaosHatChaosHat Hop, hop, hop, HA! Trick of the lightRegistered User regular
    Preacher wrote: »
    ChaosHat wrote: »
    I don't have an issue with the Senate Minority Leader trying to build bridges and take it neutral with some "both sides" stuff. This is the shit you get Warren and your flunkies to go out there on.

    I do because its equating explosive devices to god damn vandalism, not even the same motherfucking ball park.

    The problem is the right won't see the difference and dredge up a bunch of crap like Hodgkinson. I just don't see how him going out and saying something like "Right wing people are fucking crazy" will help him at all.

  • MazzyxMazzyx Comedy Gold Registered User regular
    I just want to point out we are more focused on circular shooting our own instead of the fact that multiple Democratic politicians and at least one news agency have been targeted with a terrorist attack. And that alone should make you sit down think about what is more important and should be the focus and messaging. Instead of worrying about a tweet by Schummer instead maybe focus on the fact violence has been attempted which is probably inspired by an entire group of politicians who are currently in the majority and that we should be asking about their rhetoric instead of focusing on a stupid tweet by a single senator that will probably be retracted or changed in a few hours anyway.

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  • enlightenedbumenlightenedbum Registered User regular
    ChaosHat wrote: »
    Preacher wrote: »
    ChaosHat wrote: »
    I don't have an issue with the Senate Minority Leader trying to build bridges and take it neutral with some "both sides" stuff. This is the shit you get Warren and your flunkies to go out there on.

    I do because its equating explosive devices to god damn vandalism, not even the same motherfucking ball park.

    The problem is the right won't see the difference and dredge up a bunch of crap like Hodgkinson. I just don't see how him going out and saying something like "Right wing people are fucking crazy" will help him at all.

    Reality is better than unreality.

    The idea that your vote is a moral statement about you or who you vote for is some backwards ass libertarian nonsense. Your vote is about society. Vote to protect the vulnerable.
  • CouscousCouscous Registered User regular
    Almost nobody outside of relatively few twitter users will see that Schumer tweet.

  • SyphonBlueSyphonBlue The studying beaver That beaver sure loves studying!Registered User regular
    Mazzyx wrote: »
    I just want to point out we are more focused on circular shooting our own instead of the fact that multiple Democratic politicians and at least one news agency have been targeted with a terrorist attack. And that alone should make you sit down think about what is more important and should be the focus and messaging. Instead of worrying about a tweet by Schummer instead maybe focus on the fact violence has been attempted which is probably inspired by an entire group of politicians who are currently in the majority and that we should be asking about their rhetoric instead of focusing on a stupid tweet by a single senator that will probably be retracted or changed in a few hours anyway.

    That statement wouldn't be getting retracted or changed without our outrage though.

    Also, we can multitask

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  • JayKaosJayKaos Registered User regular
    The DWS one strikes me as odd, has she been a target of the alt-right at all since they stopped beating the "DNC rigged the primary" thing as hard to try and sway Sanders supporters pre-election?

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  • MazzyxMazzyx Comedy Gold Registered User regular
    SyphonBlue wrote: »
    Mazzyx wrote: »
    I just want to point out we are more focused on circular shooting our own instead of the fact that multiple Democratic politicians and at least one news agency have been targeted with a terrorist attack. And that alone should make you sit down think about what is more important and should be the focus and messaging. Instead of worrying about a tweet by Schummer instead maybe focus on the fact violence has been attempted which is probably inspired by an entire group of politicians who are currently in the majority and that we should be asking about their rhetoric instead of focusing on a stupid tweet by a single senator that will probably be retracted or changed in a few hours anyway.

    That statement wouldn't be getting retracted or changed without our outrage though.

    Also, we can multitask

    I will say otherwise and a lot of that is due to the fact that Senator's offices job are to put out the most inoffensive thing possible but make a response. And this as someone who does interact with them regularly as part of my job.

    As more information comes in, there will probably be a press conference. An official statement. And a general condemnation of all violence towards politicians and those express free speech and so on.

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  • EncEnc A Fool with Compassion Pronouns: He, Him, HisRegistered User regular
    I'm happy that so many of these have been intercepted and nobody has been hurt yet.

    Hopefully the person is caught asap and publicly pilloried.

  • HenroidHenroid Mexican kicked from Immigration Thread Centrism is Racism :3Registered User regular
    ChaosHat wrote: »
    Preacher wrote: »
    ChaosHat wrote: »
    I don't have an issue with the Senate Minority Leader trying to build bridges and take it neutral with some "both sides" stuff. This is the shit you get Warren and your flunkies to go out there on.

    I do because its equating explosive devices to god damn vandalism, not even the same motherfucking ball park.

    The problem is the right won't see the difference and dredge up a bunch of crap like Hodgkinson. I just don't see how him going out and saying something like "Right wing people are fucking crazy" will help him at all.
    Well for starters it will make people that are Not-Republican like him more. Who is he trying to pander to here, Republicans who aren't going to vote for him because he's a Democrat?

    Vandalism is vandalism. A bomb is a fucking attempt on lives. There's a wide-gulf of difference and Schumer is a fucking idiot.

  • AbsalonAbsalon Lands of Always WinterRegistered User regular
    Haha you disgusting cowards way to ruin Based Trump's final stretch tactic of making the media focus on the Scary Caravan to horrify all the geriatrics.

  • ChaosHatChaosHat Hop, hop, hop, HA! Trick of the lightRegistered User regular
    Like it's a tweet that will appeal to theoretical independents and everyone in this thread (or forum basically) are going to be voting D regardless of what he would tweet.

    Ain't nobody going to be swayed by "Republicans caused this attack on my fellow Democrats with their harsh rhetoric" and it's just going to allow low information voters/citizens to throw up their hands and say "Oh man, Democrats say Republicans are trying to kill them, Republicans say Democrats should be in jail, who knows?" At least trying to rise above gives a stark contrast between the "They're all criminals" party and "We should all together to condemn acts by both sides."

    And if both sides DID explicitly condemn this shit instead of vaguely asking 2nd amendment people to take care of their problems, then maybe this shit wouldn't happen!

  • GaddezGaddez Registered User regular
    Jesus christ schumer, prominent individuals within your party were targetted for assassination in what was clearly a planned attack. This is not the time to fucking play the "both sides are the same" card.

  • spool32spool32 Contrary Library Registered User, Transition Team regular
    That Shumer statement seems perfectly legit to me, and also a wonderfully subtle juxtaposition.

    I mean, he puts office vandalized and bomb threat in the same image. It's a great way to highlight and pre-empt the bs.

    I mean, he could have put this next to the bombs and been legit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Congressional_baseball_shooting

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