Yeah I'm not sure my first instinct upon hearing W-S's office had received a bomb would be "antifa." It may turn out that way, but it seems less likely than the alternatives.

I’ll be surprised if it’s anything but a disturbed lone wolf. But disturbed lone wolves are a big part of why freebasing the normalization of conspiracy theories for political gain is a destructive and unethical choice.

So is this more “secondary target” or more “I’ll frame her for it nyeh heh!”

Now reporting that Kamala Harris got one too, so that goes against my Antifa theory

I definitely didn't have "October 24, 2018" on my "When will the culture war turn hot?" prediction.

Not for nothing, but you're probably not a good mail-bomber if 100% of your packages are intercepted and none explode.

i wonder though if all of these are distractions for something bigger to happen today....

I feel like 4-5 mail bombings to prominent American politicians and one of the largest news organizations in the country qualifies as a "something big."

tis why i said something BIGGER...

My Junior high had a bomb threat called in. They evacuated us for 2 hours. All the police were at the scene dealing with that and while that chaos was happening...the same people who called the bomb threat in ended up robbing a bank on the other side of town.

That is what is sticking in my head today.

You just described the plot to Die Hard with a Vengeance.

This is actually pretty consistent with the success rate of basement bombs mailed to political figureheads.

Doesn't seem to be the case, just an overabundance of caution: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/ ... sed-to-her

lol. I did didnt i?

In any case, it happened to me in 7th grade!

angry mob those dems

Eric Trump has to be the bomber, right?

I think it’s an error to equivocate the “liberal mob” talking point nonsense with this. The problem isn’t a right wing mob. It’s that the president and the conservative media establishment together refuse to temper **any** false or exaggerated messaging that they consider personally beneficial. They create a sense of legitimacy around these fantasies that make their adoption by damaged and dangerous minds inevitable.

It’s not a mob problem. It’s an issue created by the total abdication of professional responsibility by people in leadership or public positions. It’s the willingness to accept moments like this as the cost of what they see as resultant victories.