Eyewitness Who Snapped First Picture Of Would-Be Bomber Gives Her Account

Sydney Bobb, a rising senior at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, snapped the first picture to publicly circulate of Floyd Ray Roseberry, the man police have identified as the would-be bomber, outside the Library of Congress. 


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1385182

One-dollar bills.

Why does he hate George Washington? Too nice to his slaves?

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…stopped a Supreme Court police officer to alert him to the situation, but he said it was the jurisdiction of the Capitol Police.

Only the best.

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Looking at the photo, I’m reminded that stereotypes exist for a reason.

And I’m guessing several strippers will be getting by on less in the next few weeks.

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"It’s hard to satirize someone who self-satirizes." – Christopher Buckley

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I would give a few of my own dollars for this guy to tell me exactly how Joe Biden has failed him and not met his exacting standards for good governance.

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Passing the buck is always an effective inter-agency cooperation strategy.

Sheesh.

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He’s not Dotard Trumpp.
He’s not a Republican.
That’s more than enough reason for him.

Pay up.

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It is amazing to realize that this particular element of our society has always been here, right next door, and always living among us. It is bewildering to understand that this element was mostly hidden…until Dotard T rumpp came along, and made domestic terrorism a normal thing to do.

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I pay you nothing. I doubt you’ve bombed anything in your whole entire life.

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Bizarre the people in charge pretty much ignored the students who informed them.

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So he’s emblematic of the voters Trump brought to the polls that every GOP pollitician without exception is striving to appeal to now. That’s just fucking dandy.

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I listened to this guy’s video on Josh’s other post.

He sounds exactly like you would expect.

Is self-parody a thing now?

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And these are the same White males who bemoan their loss of “power” (to women, to POC, to Gays) – like the guys who barely made it out of high school had any power in the first place.

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If TFG isn’t on the ballot these idiots won’t vote again.

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Let the betting begin on how many minutes until Sean Hannity spearheads the Ray Roseberry Legal Defense Fund.

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Bobb said she is only in D.C. in the first place because UW offered the one-month study away program as “half-assed compensation” for students who were supposed to study abroad in India or Botswana before COVID-19 scuttled those plans.

OT but, I love her assessment here. Universities use so many superlatives and adjectives to describe their programs, when really, “Half-Assed” is so much more appropriate, especially in this case. How I wish that administrators would phrase more of their dispatches like so: ​

“The University has just announced our new Half Assed Strategic Action Plan to compensate those undergraduates who were screwed out of their study-abroad deposits! Those of you bound for Botswana or India, you get a 2 credit course in the nation’s capitol! If you were bound for Italy, your Falbos Bros. coupons are in the mail.”

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HA!!!
I’ll have you know I made a spectacular confetti bomb back in high school. I blew it up at a party in celebration of the Brazilian Carnival. Lots of confetti in our beer. We drank it, anyway. We were only 17, and were just so excited to be drinking beer! Lowenbrau! Good German beer! Back in 1982, anyway.

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How old is this guy? He looks old enough to have voted since 2000! (I could be off by a year or so). I registered to vote on my 18th birthday – and the number of primaries/elections/special elections I have missed SINCE 1978 is less than a dozen.

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I like the sound of that!
Make it so!

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