So we’re back to the Turn-of-the-Century, Wild Eyed Anarchists, eh? I fully expect a round of political assassinations aimed at softer targets in state and local governments or organizations.
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I don’t know that Tucker’s stuff requires a decoder ring. He’s pretty clear and obvious with what he spouts.
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Addendum: the pandemic makes things worse, too. With so much isolation being the norm, some group is bound to lose control and start a paramilitary attack…that will fail…but will cause unnecessary harm to others.
The Delta Variant is coming. All due to the ignorant anti-vaxxers who apparently know more than the 99.9% of the actual epidemiologists in the world.
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Years ago I was talking to a friend about a mutual acquaintance whose careless online behavior had gotten her in trouble. An extremely smart person, too, but oblivious to the risk. My friend said, "It’s called the World Wide Web." 
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cuz that’s what they do in the movies
better to go with tannerite, …, and possession of which is easily excused
Explain the easily excused part?
There are others—I’ve heard of two, Lambda and Epsilon.
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Aren’t pipe-bombs illegal on their face? Seems like one is intending to break the law if one builds them at all…
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I hope to hell I am wrong.
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January 5th or 6th, if those two bombs were intended to go off. And yes, they planted bombs at both parties’ HQs.
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I don’t know, a lot of the time if you aren’t “plugged-in” to that world, it just comes off as total gibberish mixed with non sequiturs.
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No explanation in the article as to why they didn’t play their white privilege card.
Curious.
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Yes, but nothing specifically GQP. Not like this event in CA, where the Dems were singled out. And those bombs were planted in such a way to make it look like ‘ANTIFA’ but the fingerprints were clearly from the insurrectionists.
This will all ‘out’ at the hearings.
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It’s the moving parts and connections that let the Feds find these groups and wrap them up. I don’t believe we’re going to see any mass terrorist attacks from groups like this. They’re too disorganized and leak like a sieve.
What I worry about are the solo terrorists, the ones who are so antisocial and mentally unbalanced that they can’t participate in groups or talk about it with others. So the Feds can’t find them ahead of time. Like that guy that set off an RV bomb in downtown Nashville on Christmas Day last year. Thankfully didn’t hurt anyone, but there was no advance intel on that guy.
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There’s always Inigo Montoya. Old habits die hard.
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Yes, but just being discovered later doesn’t make them more virulent. From what I’ve read those two aren’t as bad as delta.
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Wow. I didn’t know about those. Oh, boy.
Actually, Pandemic Days have been good to me. I have more time to exercise, more time to chill, I only eat two meals a day now.
I’m watching Tina Fey on a Saturday Night Live episode from 2009. And I’ve had more time to spend on seeing to my mother’s numerous needs since I placed her in a nursing home last year.
And I have other personal projects in play. Maybe, in about a year, I’ll officially retire. From having to work for someone else, that is.
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I think:
- The command-and-control structure of these groups (amateurish as it might be) was severely disrupted by the ongoing federal investigations and arrests.
- While the next generation of leadership and activists needs time to take over “operations” (again, amateurish as it might be), they will want to act as soon possible to cement their legitimacy as leaders.
- Because today’s national security apparatus makes it nearly impossible to successfully target national politicians (unless you have a rogue POTUS behind them), I fully expect the next round of targets to be similar to the California Democratic HQ - less secure, more accessible officials and organizations at the state and local level.
Also @randome, don’t forget that the Pillow Guy and other associated CPAC nut jobs have already given them their next operations next date, 13 August.
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I agree, most of the larger groups are not smart enough to hide their tracks. It’s the loners we have to worry about. They’re not smart, either, but being loners, they have fewer connections for law enforcement to find.
But there’s always the chance that some group that is truly smart will make a world-wide ‘statement’ by succeeding where the others have failed.
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No argument there. We’ve been lucky, compared to, say, Europe, but I hope we weren’t only lucky. I do question whether our homegrown knuckleheads have either the discipline or willingness to die that certain groups abroad do. They seem mostly bored, not terribly bright, and willing to believe stupid things.
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Yeah, if the MyPillow guy is any indication, they will continue to flail about until Alzheimer’s finally makes them forget to breathe.
Here’s hoping that that’s the worst of it.
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