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

These guys are serving almost 200 years and none of their bombs went off...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/21_July_2005_London_bombings

hopefully he won't inspire other MAGAbombers. sometimes pure incompetence can prompt other people to step in and show how it's done

stealing from FB: "caught red-hatted"

Is it too early to call a presidential pardon? Because, really, he's being treated so unfairly. Sad!

(xp) LOL

Underwear and Shoe Bombers didn't detonate anything either. Nicknames go to intent, apparently...

Something that's maybe worth pointing out (which I believe someone referenced upthread): these attempts at political assassination (and, however inept the attempt, let's call it what it is) often wind up having apolitical motives (see: Reagan, Wallace, etc.)...buuuut that really doesn't seem to be the case here at all, even if the dude is mentally ill. This was a fairly coherent response to Trump's incoherent calls for violent action.

“I’d like to begin today’s remarks by providing an update on the packages and devices that have been mailed to high-profile figures throughout our country and a media organization,” Trump said, before further confirming that the suspect had been apprehended. He did not mention that the devices were almost exclusively sent to prominent critics of his administration.

https://splinternews.com/trumps-reaction-to-cesar-sayocs-arrest-was-a-total-shit-1830028080

i'm sure if the bombs were sent to entirely right wing politicians and fox news, he would have described it as "high-profile figures" and "a media organization"

Heck, I'm impressed he confirmed this was real at all and that the suspect exists.

conspiracy theorists already suspicious about the lack of vandalism on the van and that fact that the stickers aren't faded from being out in the elements in sunny Florida.

Obama speaking in Wisconsin right now, mentioned Mitch McConnell and the crowd started booing and he brought back "Don't boo, VOTE!"

really refreshing to hear him speak

https://memegenerator.net/img/images/6484742.jpg

the official Sayok complaint: https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5022026/Attachment-1-1.pdf

weird detail:

Each of the 13 IEDs was packaged in a tancolored
manila envelope lined with bubble wrap. Each was stamped
with approximately six self-adhesive postage stamps each bearing
a picture of an American flag. Each envelope listed a return
sender of “DEBBIE WASSERMAN SHULTZ” at a particular address in
Florida (“Schultz Office-1”). Each envelope misspelled “Florida”
in the Schultz Office-1 return address as “FLORIDS” rather than
“FLORIDA.” The return sender and the target-recipient listed on
each envelope was typed in black ink on white paper.

i can understanding misspelling Schultz, but...FLORIDS?

that's just a fundamental misunderstanding of the letter S

Was it typed?

The Day of the Florids

Obama speaking in Wisconsin right now, mentioned Mitch McConnell and the crowd started booing and he brought back "Don't boo, VOTE!"

this didn't work well enough last time!!!

A is right next to S on a QWERTY keyboard

Looks like he probably used a WHARRGARBL keybaord

A is right next to S on a QWERTY keyboard

His fingers were probably slippery from the baby oil he'd just been using in his stripping routine.

thread got good

this didn't work well enough last time!!!

compromise: how about we boo AND vote

A is right next to S on a QWERTY keyboard

― flappy bird, Friday, October 26, 2018 3:40 PM (twenty-three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

we got a fuckin forensic specialist over here

looks like the bomb was set to go off at...
https://media.tenor.com/images/3a0f91339c1cff1c34a15665a9e74fa1/raw
four QWERTY

A is right next to S on a QWERTY keyboard

― flappy bird

it's a logical theory. but no, i choose to continue to believe that Sayoc thinks it's FLORIDS and spelled it that way accordingly

You mean Aayoc, don't you?

to borrow from Danielle Steele, i have my own opinion, and that is that everyone is entitled to their own facts. truth is not double plus truth, so i make the alternative facts i want to see in the world
john 3:16

wait

matthew 3:16

NEW: Pres. Trump tells @ABC's @CeciliaVega he did not see his face on suspect's reported van. "I heard that he was a person that preferred me over others," he says, "but I did not see that." https://t.co/javKRtGcDi pic.twitter.com/8J6SbKOurn

— World News Tonight (@ABCWorldNews) October 26, 2018

He preferred me over the others, he just wanted to murder them that's all

if only there was some way for the president of the United States to access information from law enforcement agencies about this

that initial pan in on the video is kinda crazy lol

..."Oh, hi Mark!"

compromise: how about we boo AND vote

Happy Halloween

there are fine people inside of Sayoc

weaboo and vote

The Seminole tribe owns Hard Rock Cafe!?

idk what AJ+ is, but this sounds less than ideal

Texas election officials confirmed that voting machines used in 30% of its counties (including its biggest) are switching people’s votes, including the Senate race between Ted Cruz and Beto O’Rourke. The GOP-appointed officials say they have "no legal authority" to update them. pic.twitter.com/UGui2ox15H

— AJ+ (@ajplus) October 26, 2018

if only there were a better, more reliable way to count votes

lol if that election is close oooh boy

That's Al-Jazeera's logo.

Trump, asked if his rhetoric is to blame for the bombings, replies, "Not at all, no. There is no blame. There is no anything." (via CBS) pic.twitter.com/833hzPrxpV

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) October 26, 2018

"There is no anything" = November title

"Everything is permitted."

always fun to remember that his greatest regret of his presidency is that he condemned the charlottesville nazis

p sure no one is using voting machines in Texas to vote at the moment

xp

not sure what you mean Οὖτις

there is no anything, nothing is real, and nothing to get hung about, strawberry fields forever

lol

Is this some kind of hair splitting over the fact that they are electronic?