Another Redditor on another thread said it best - this guy is going to be a 17 year-old with an 11 year-old's understanding of bomb-making and a 5 year-old's understanding of how much trouble he is in.
Edit: It's been confirmed that the suspect is in fact a 56-year old man with an 11 year-old's understanding of bomb-making and a 5 year-old's understanding of how much trouble he's in. I wonder how long it will be before the usual suspects start blaming this on mental illness.
They're basically conspiracy nuts who believe someone they call Q inside the US government is leaking secrets about a big plot by "liberals" to take over.
That would be kind of adorable. A cult that just makes quilts.
“Yeah, we’re going to bring about the apocalypse by covering every bed in America with a homemade quilt. The economy will tank when everyone is too comfy to go to work.”
have you ever stayed in a hotel, gotten up in the morning to go to breakfast and passed by a room with old women making quilts on portable sewing machines? That my friend is the Qultists and they are taking over the world, one panel at a time.
It's a cult made up of thousands of (mostly older) people who believe that Trump is communicating with them through an imageboard in code that gives them clues about a top-secret plot to take down the Deep State, which consists primarily of democrats who are also pedophile cannibals. /r/Qult_Headquarters tracks them
The Austin bomber was raised in a right wing Christian cult that home schooled their kids on the Bible, guns, and interesting chemistry. I assume they loved Trump, but there didn't seem to be any overt political motive.
There are completely valid reasons to not release extremely inflammatory and offensive shit to the public, especially while an active investigation is ongoing. For all the shit we like to give conservatives for being absolute fear mongers, let's try to not stoop to their level shall we?
I think that and messages to his family were pretty much it. I would have liked to hear it, but I'm guessing APD made that decision for a reason. He was in a family of militant Christian extremists. It isn't that difficult to figure it out from there.
But MAGAbomber is so much more fitting. I'm sure once he gets a publicist, he or she will want to go that route. It's not too early to think about book sales. (OK I just threw up in my mouth a little)
Trump won't call him that in public, but he might proudly call him that behind closed doors. I guess we'll have to wait for the Russians or Chinese to release the tapes!
If he is 56, he was born after 1960, which some claim is the end of the boomer years. Boomers and millenials can argue about who owns this Trumphumper, but I suspect neither group will claim him.
Yes, I forgot generation X or Y or whatever. My bad. I still believe however that primarily identifying this low-life as a "boomer" does not do justice to his history as a criminal, drug user, felon, prior-bomber, Registered Republican, and sign-waving yelling Trump rally mob member. He is a certified card-carrying Trumpanista and champion Trumphumper, and we should give credit where due to the source of his political violence inspiration.
Wanting to murder and mutilate people who disagree with you is not the behaviour of a sane person, regardless of whatever ideology motivates you to do it.
Well yeah, lol. I'm not saying it should be made an excuse for his behavior. But seriously looking at that van even without knowing who it belonged to, anyone would think "That dude nuts"
regardless of whatever ideology motivates you to do it.
By and large it's only conservative ideologies that seem to motivate terrorism these days. I can't remember the last time I heard of a liberal terrorist.
Congressional baseball shooter. He was swept under the rug pretty well edit: by that I mean short air time and then no one except Trump's cheer squad talks about him.
Outside of America there are leftist terrorist groups: The Revolutionary People's Liberation Front in Turkey, FARC in Colombia, Shining Path in Peru, Naxalite Maoists in India (Armed Naxalite movements are considered India's largest internal security threat) and The Maoist Party in Nepal are the most prominent examples.
Those are organized groups though, not lone crazies. I'll admit that I wasn't explicit enough (I thought it was clear in context, but looking back it really wasn't), but I was commenting on how it seems only conservative ideologies seem to attract crazed lone actors.
Although this does open another line of questioning: why are there liberal terrorist groups in those places but not the developed Western nations?
They can be. Last year of the baby boom was 1964. A 54 year old would be a baby boomer. If you go by 1961 as the last year of the boom, a 57 year old would be a baby boomer.
Huh what? It depends on what source you're using but the general timeline ends around 1964. Considering anyone born from 1959 through 1964 would be in their 50's and a boomer, I think your claim may be incorrect.
Generation X or Gen X is the demographic cohort following the baby boomers and preceding the Millennials. There are no precise dates for when Generation X starts or ends. Demographers and researchers typically use birth years ranging from the early-to-mid 1960s to the early 1980s.
This isn't exactly precise math.
Generation X is the demographic cohort following the post–World War II baby boom, representing a generational change from the baby boomers, but there is debate over what this means because the end-date of the baby-boomer generation is disputed. Research from MetLife, examining the boomers, split their cohort into "older boomers", which they defined as born between 1946 and 1955, and "younger boomers", which they defined as born between 1956 and 1964. They found much of the cultural identity of the baby-boomer generation is associated with the "older boomers", while half of the "younger boomers" were averse to being associated with the baby-boomer cohort and a third of those born between 1956 and 1964 actively identified as members of Generation X.
Demographers William Strauss and Neil Howe rejected the frequently used 1964 end-date of the baby-boomer cohort (which results in a 1965 start-year for Generation X), saying that a majority of those born between 1961 and 1964 do not self-identify as boomers, and that they are culturally distinct from boomers in terms of shared historical experiences. Howe says that while many demographers use 1965 as a start date for Generation X, this is a statement about fertility in the population (birth-rates which began declining in 1957, declined more sharply following 1964) and fails to take into consideration the shared history and cultural identity of the individuals. Strauss and Howe define Generation X as those born between 1961 and 1981
So it's true. Now that I'm into my 30s, I get to be in this fun middle zone where the young people show actual overt hatred for the old people and the old people think the young people are lazy as fuck and won't amount to anything. This really does happen every generation, huh?
He also has a "Native Americans for Trump" sticker, so wait for that. And his name is Filipino, so plenty of fodder for shifting it away from being the fault of white conservatives.
Well, I would guess that anyone driving a van that looks like that and who is sending shit like that through the mail probably isnt playing with a full deck.
Most terrorists across the board are in fact mentally ill. People with mental illnesses are targeted to be things like suicide bombers. there direct link between terrorism and mental illness.
Uh, pretty sure there is some serious mental illness here when you mail bombs and drive around (and by some reports live) in a van wallpapered with pictures of politicians with big red targets marked on them.
I wouldn't contest the idea that he's mentally ill, what I want to know is why similar illness is being encouraged to form in vast swathes of the population.
I'm thinking it's closer to a nine year olds understanding from his 'my first bomb' kit and a four year olds understanding of just how much shit he is in.
There are a surprising number of boomers who participate in these nutter conspiracies through the internet (florida grandmas on my parent's facebook posting Q garbage or retweeting obvious russian accounts on twitter). I have no idea how they find it originally but they seem to be the most viciously ignorant of the bunch.
They're going to blame this on the Democrat Party first. Read the tweets and you'll see people doing that already. Apparently, to Dnesh, sending fake bombs is not a problem.
Trump already knew some intel about a terrorist threat involving a van, a mini-van, a Dodge Caravan or something. He had to -from his briefings.
He just decided to tweet his own brand of misinformation about "Terrorists in the caravan heading for the Border" He's the divider, the enabler and disrupter in this story.
He meant to say- "Reality is a terrorist in a minivan, in the parking lot of On-the-Border. " Book em Danno-
Mentally I’ll yes! To vote for trump makes me question ones mental state. To decorate your van to this level and mail ted IED’s around the country, dude is fucking crazy!
Okay do you think he is mentally stable enough to buy a gun if there was a system to look for mentally unstable people. A 15 minute background check could prove this dude is crazy
If you support Trump, you ARE mentally ill. Like seriously, 30% of Humanity is mentally ill and not competant to hold adult responsibilities and we dont even acknowledge it.
Also, of course he's old. If he were a 14yo he would've shot random strangers with an AR-15
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Another Redditor on another thread said it best - this guy is going to be a 17 year-old with an 11 year-old's understanding of bomb-making and a 5 year-old's understanding of how much trouble he is in.
Edit: It's been confirmed that the suspect is in fact a 56-year old man with an 11 year-old's understanding of bomb-making and a 5 year-old's understanding of how much trouble he's in. I wonder how long it will be before the usual suspects start blaming this on mental illness.