US Politics, October 2018: next week will be even longer

BREAKING: Authorities intercept suspicious package that was sent to former AG Eric Holder, officials tells @PeteWilliamsNBC. pic.twitter.com/3otSSLPxb3

— MSNBC (@MSNBC) October 24, 2018

so what's the list so far?

obama
clinton
cnn
soros
debbie wasserman schultz
holder
brennan (or was he just the addressee for the cnn bomb?)

The lengths libs will go to win the midterms i swear

looks like both sides to me

Pon de mailroom

lol

+ office of Kamala Harris

who's the 2020 frontrunner now eh

the harris one ended up being not a bomb, per something i saw on twitter

NBC News: Per a statement from Sen. Kamala Harris' office and local police there is NO suspicious package at the Senator's office in San Diego and the item police did check out was not addressed to her and was found to not be a device of any kind. Reported w/ @anblanx

— Tom Winter (@Tom_Winter) October 24, 2018

who's the 2020 frontrunner now eh

guilty lol

Ah, I see they evacuated but it was a false alarm.

I have a suspicious package in my shorts

It seems highly likely everyone can correctly guess about that package.

Hi. Former Secret Service here. In fact, I was trained in Technical Security (mitigation of explosive, radiological, hazardous materials, chemical, and biological threats). You have no idea what you’re talking about. None. https://t.co/3GaCEJBbpC

— J.J. Hensley (@JJHensleyauthor) October 24, 2018

"bombs" vs "explosive devices", and the whitehouse is going with "terrorizing acts"

Statement on suspicious packages: pic.twitter.com/pYSbDvCvuk

— Sarah Sanders (@PressSec) October 24, 2018

strategy of tension

cuomo says he got a bomb as well, although his spokesperson said he didn't earlier today

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/cuomo-announces-device-sent-to-his-office-as-well

spox: he did not get a--
cuomo, rushing to the mic with a re-taped Amazon Prime box: I RECEIVED A PACKAGE

for cuomo getting his own bomb is a matter of prestige

one of the drudgeries of being a late capitalism political figure is wondering why you didn't get a package bomb

trump is supposed to talk about this shit in 10 minutes. will be very tough for him to resist both sides-ing it

not quite sure why a righty loon would target BillHil and Debbie *now* -- they did their part in getting us here.

voting Green against Cuomo for governor, hope he wins with 49%

yeah i mean the thing i try to keep in mind at times like this is that perps of this kind generally have no coherent worldview to express mail, as it were

true, the guy is probably like Trump w/out money

not quite sure why a righty loon would target BillHil and Debbie *now* -- they did their part in getting us here.

... dude, come on, the right's fixation on the evils of the clintons is inflexible, thanks for owning the libs again tho

but Bannon + Fox want her to run again.

not quite sure why a righty loon would target BillHil and Debbie *now*

Maybe they mailed the packages months ago, but the failing post office only just now got around to them.

Maxine Waters also got a package

yes. Chris Riotta's twitter feed has been good for hearing updates. From his reporting a "suspicious package sent to Maxine Waters has been intercepted by Capitol Hill police - this may be the package discovered at the congressional mail facility in Maryland". Also, the suspicious package at the DWS office may have been one returned from Eric Holder's office

HRC is their Prometheus, they want her liver pecked out every day and regenerated so she can run again.

Maybe they mailed the packages months ago, but the failing post office only just now got around to them.

― Josh in Chicago

real lol

Someone ask Pete King when he was last at the post office.

— Richard M. Nixon (@dick_nixon) October 24, 2018

the package sent to "John Brenan" at CNN was delivered by courier, according to Shimon Prokupecz

I can’t believe the official white house statement was a screenshot of something written on the iphone notes app

trump just gave a statement of sorts, at the beginning of a regularly scheduled speech on opioids. he gave a pretty generic boilerplate denouncement of "threats and acts of political violence", to which he received a standing ovation, said "thank you", and then said "that was a very bipartisan statement"

i can xp

I live in Trump-y country and can affirm that 80% of the comments on the local paper's article about the attempted bombings are along the lines of "FALSE FLAG FROM DEMORATS!" with like 40 likes apiece.

1/4 of the commenters in question are burly 50something guys with salt-and-pepper beards who ride Harleys fwiw.

(don't see Nate Silver factoring my demographic analysis into his forecasts smdh)

rush limbaugh has already made that his position, a couple hours ago.

it's amazing to me that so many people not only entertain the possibility of false flags in situations like this, but that they are so absolutely CERTAIN about it, even as the event itself is still unfolding! and even more amazing than that is that they are ever taken seriously again, in any walk of life, by anyone who knows them.

https://ptpimg.me/ixl649.png

on the other hand, some of my mom's 70something leftist friends have convinced themselves that the migrant caravan was instigated by the right wing. both sides!

very bad people on both sides

these are people influenced by those who argue the earth is flat and Obama is literally an emissary sent directly from hell

he received a standing ovation, said "thank you", and then said "that was a very bipartisan statement"

"I pooped today! ......... General Kelly helped me flush."

very good boy

my mom's friends are strangely receptive to my snopes-esque attempts to correct their conspiracy theorizing. they're like, "oh, thanks. hmm, I guess I was wrong." you'd think after 20x posting weird unsubstantiated things from websites like bluewave4real.biz and realizing it was dubious, you'd develop a stronger bullshit detector.

btw why is rush limbaugh so seldom mentioned these days? did he lose his audience to Fox News? was he just outpaced by even crazier, more craven right-wing people? back in the early 2000s he was the face of the right-wing media.

he's still incredibly popular, he's just not the most outrageous right winger anymore

he must be held together with string and chewing gum at this point, how has he not had a fatal coronary by now?

you'd think after 20x posting weird unsubstantiated things from websites

I still see Trump's bogus "I'd run as a Repub, they're stupid" quote regularly. Some folks never learn.

i've seen "kavanaugh's first vote was to disenfranchise native americans in North Dakota" regularly over the past two weeks and had to correct people