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BBC news:

The FBI says it has discovered more than 150 bombs during a raid on a farm in Virginia – thought to be the largest such cache seized by the law-enforcement agency in its history.

Brad Spafford was arrested on 17 December in Isle of Wight County, 180 miles (290km) south of Washington DC, after a tip-off that he was stockpiling weapons and homemade ammunition on the property he shares with his wife and two young children.

Investigators say some of the devices were found in a bedroom in an unsecured backpack labelled "#nolivesmatter" - an apparent reference to a far-right, anti-government movement.
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Mr Stafford had allegedly used photos of US President Joe Biden for target practice and expressed hope that Vice-President Kamala Harris would be assassinated.

Fortunately a neighbor alerted authorities before this idiot could murder a bunch of people.

Oh, and BTW, when are those leftie riots going to start? It was supposed to happen the day Trump got elected, right? I think that was DOPE's prediction.

There's a reasons the FBI sees far right violence as the biggest domestic threat at this time. But maybe Trump can call the FBI off of his Brown Shirts.

There is an interesting conversation between Harry Litman and Rep. Jeremy Raskin on the Talking Feds podcast related to this.
https://art19.com/shows/talking-feds/episodes/9629...
In a special 1-on-1 taped before a live audience as part of the Talking San Diego series (www.talkingsandiego.net) , Harry sits down with Congressman Jamie Raskin to discuss a theory of Second Amendment rights that has proliferated in recent years, including support by elected officials such as Matt Gaetz. That is an insurrectionary theory according to which the Constitution protects the right of the people to keep and bear arms in order to use them against their own government when they perceive the government has become tyrannical. Raskin completely shreds the theory as a matter of history, text, and constitutional structure. He concludes that “the real Constitution rejects the right wing fantasy that random banks of disgruntled armed citizens can claim the powers of the constitutional militia.”

If there's a transcript of that podcast, I'd read it.

Modernly, the prefatory clause is just an introductory clause and has no effect on the operating clause. The prefatory clause mention the militia and they will point to that as proof. But U have to tell them - no, if you want to make that clause meaningful, then you run the risk and that meaning restricting guns mentioned in the second amendment to the militia. The militia was mentioned in the initial Constitution and it restricted the creation of the militia to the Federal and State governments. There are no self appointed militias. There are gun clubs that call themselves militias, but they aren't unless the state created them. There are a few historical militia that are recognized by their states, but those fellows are historical and not loony.

Most of them don't understand that to get the individual rights that they have in the Second, the claim that the prefatory clause limited weapons to the militia had to be refuted and it was and now has little meaning. The Constitution is clear that the militia is created by the State.

Next they'll go to the Federal Code on militia and the National Guard and say they are still militia because it mentions the organized and unorganized militia. The organized militia is the National Guard, and there's also a naval unit too. The unorganized militia is simply the pool of able bodied men and women from which you can recruit and draft. It isn't recognized by the State and is not a Militia.

So there are no self appointed militias, but there are individual rights to keep and carry.

I searched and couldn't find one. In the comments several people were asking for one too, but there were no responses. I was curious to see if there was a free AI transcription app, but only found subscription based services.

The well-regulated militia strikes again.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/jan/...

So a Sheeple Scout decided to go for a drive.

So a Sheeple Scout decided to go for a drive.

Jedi, this is why you’ve lost all respect. 10 innocent people are dead. Dozens are injured, including two police officers who were shot in the shootout that ended this incident.

And all you can do is babble about “sheeple”.

—Peter

So a Sheeple Scout decided to go for a drive.

Jedi, this is why you’ve lost all respect. 10 innocent people are dead. Dozens are injured, including two police officers who were shot in the shootout that ended this incident.

And all you can do is babble about “sheeple”.

—Peter
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LIBERALS HAVE DONE THIS TIME AND AGAIN.


FURTHERMORE, CLUB 401K LIBERALS HAVE SYMPATHY FOR SHEEPLE SCOUTS AND WANT TO LET THEM IN - -- AND WANT ACLU TO PROTECT THEM FROM DEPORTATION.......but you have a problem with computer geeks.

Stop your sanctimonious flag waving shit. Less people care about it now anyways.

the people who *claim* to take up for are killed by a person that normally you'd call me "racist" for not wanting in the country.

You get the assist on that goal. Not me! Wanna play? Let's play.

One reporter says this person crossed the border. Have to confirm that.

Turns out it’s an ex-Army guy.

LIBERALS HAVE DONE THIS TIME AND AGAIN.


FURTHERMORE, CLUB 401K LIBERALS HAVE SYMPATHY FOR SHEEPLE SCOUTS AND WANT TO LET THEM IN - -- AND WANT ACLU TO PROTECT THEM FROM DEPORTATION.......but you have a problem with computer geeks.

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Jedi, come back. You're too far out. There's not that much air out there.

One reporter says this person crossed the border. Have to confirm that.

That reporter was blowing smoke up your butt.

Lambo, attack what I said - not me.

You won't - because you'd have to admit you are anti immigrant in cases that it hurts wages of 401K IT people --but NOT in cases where you feel its politically incorrect.

Again, every time you make it about "me" - I reply with current events.

That reporter was blowing smoke up your butt.

Your nickname might need to be Coach Beamer.

Turns out that the truck went over Eagle Pass, Tx. a couple of days ago and changed hands. What does that tell you about the number of people involved in this?

Turns out that the truck went over Eagle Pass, Tx. a couple of days ago

Doparooni said: One reporter says this person crossed the border.

Mainstream media:

SNIP The man driving the vehicle has been identified as Shamsud-Din Jabbar, 42, a U.S. citizen from Texas, the FBI said.

FBI special agent Alethea Duncan said in a news conference on Wednesday afternoon that a black ISIS flag had been flying from the truck's rear bumper. The vehicle was a Ford pickup truck and appears to have been rented, the FBI said.

"We do not believe that Jabbar was solely responsible," said Duncan. The FBI is working to determine the man's potential affiliations or associations with terrorist associations. A person familiar with the investigation told CBS News that at this point, neither ISIS nor any other foreign terror organization has claimed responsibility for the attack. SNIP

Just a little while ago that black flag was only black with no markings, now it is an ISIS flag. The ISIS flag is distinctive. And what happened could have been worse.

SNIP Weapons and potential improvised explosive devices, or IEDs, were located in the vehicle, Duncan said. Other potential IEDs were also located in the French Quarter. Two have been found and rendered safe, Duncan said. FBI technicians are working with law enforcement to find any other devices and determine if they are viable. If they are found to be viable, the technicians and law enforcement will "work to render those devices safe," the FBI said. SNIP

So we were lucky. So far no indication on detonation devices. Did timers not go off? Just how did they expect the devices in the truck to blow?

It looks like a confirmed terrorist attack - doesn't have to be from foreign sources, there's likely a cooperating American source - at least the driver. I always just wait, speculating a lot right now isn't a good idea.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/new-orleans-vehicle-c...

More updates:
-The truck was rented in Mexico in November and went over the border then
-Bollards that were supposed to be in place to stop this sort of thing were. Ring replaced, so they had a cop car there instead
-The suspect drove right around the cop car and accelerated down the street (immediately chased by the cop car)
-Now reports say there is video of more people planting improvised explosive devices around

-Now reports say there is video of more people planting improvised explosive devices around

Great. Now I just note that. I neither have to believe or disbelieve because it will be fleshed out shortly - then will seem to plateau for a bit. There isn't any reason to come to any conclusions yet.

It looks like a confirmed terrorist attack - doesn't have to be from foreign sources, there's likely a cooperating American source - at least the driver. I always just wait, speculating a lot right now isn't a good idea.

I'm sure Fox and friends are already blaming Biden's FBI for utterly failing to do its job. And of course, this would never have happened if Trump was President and Kash Patel was leading the FBI. Oh wait, doesn't Kash want to send most of the FBI packing? ☹️

Oh wait, doesn't Kash want to send most of the FBI packing? ☹️
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Most? Not even close, probably a fraction of a percent. Agents in field offices who just want to do good police work are petty safe. Washington entrenched FBI bureaucrats, not so much. Patel knows where documents and whatever other evidence of questionable FBI decision making and coverups can be found. All he has to do is bring a little sunlight and transparency to the leaderships behavior and then let public outrage takes its course. For example, the final report on disciplinary actions resulting from Butler.

Bad day for the left. Multiple ISIS “junior varsity” terror attacks with links to the southern border.

Bad day for the left. Multiple ISIS “junior varsity” terror attacks with links to the southern border.

Nope. They can't catch them all. If they didn't have to investigate domestic terrorism, they'd have more time for this.

Nope. They can't catch them all. If they didn't have to investigate domestic terrorism, they'd have more time for this.

I know! So many parents at school board meetings and little old ladies praying outside abortion clinics. There’s only so many hours in the day, amirite?

ope. They can't catch them all. If they didn't have to investigate domestic terrorism, they'd have more time for this.
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Paris, Berlin, Hamburg, Sweden.


I'll continue to reply with real current events.

I know! So many parents at school board meetings and little old ladies praying outside abortion clinics.

Well, no, there are definitions for terrorism. And as of now, the connection across the border is unlikely because it's two months old, so it night be considered domestic. If they're radicalized over the internet I'm not sure how it's counted.

>>Nope. They can't catch them all. If they didn't have to investigate domestic terrorism, they'd have more time for this.<<

I know! So many parents at school board meetings and little old ladies praying outside abortion clinics. There’s only so many hours in the day, amirite? = Dope

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I wonder what our liberal apologists see here,

I>In the earliest public comments after the attack was reported, New Orleans mayor LaToya Cantrell told the media that the attack was a "terrorist attack." However, she was immediately contradicted by FBI Special Agent Althea Duncan, who confidently declared that this was "not a terrorist event," a public posture that the FBI maintained for a significant amount of time in spite of apparently being aware that the suspect had driven a truck packed with explosives into a crowd while flying an ISIS flag.

What I see is the FBI yet again lying to the American people about what they know. Here they could have said the large ISIS flag suggested there could be a terrorist connection which is under investigation along with other possible motives.

It is almost like FBI default position is to first exercise spin control, then later backtrack if forced to. The initial whitewashing of the suspect's support for ISIS is just more evidence of the rot existing within the FBI leadership. "Did FBI Special Agent Althea Duncan get orders from Washington to issue this particular initial assessment?" I wonder if liberals even see this as an important question.

In the earliest public comments after the attack was reported, New Orleans mayor LaToya Cantrell told the media that the attack was a "terrorist attack." However, she was immediately contradicted by FBI Special Agent Althea Duncan, who confidently declared that this was "not a terrorist event," a public posture that the FBI maintained for a significant amount of time in spite of apparently being aware that the suspect had driven a truck packed with explosives into a crowd while flying an ISIS flag.

What I see is the FBI yet again lying to the American people about what they know. Here they could have said the large ISIS flag suggested there could be a terrorist connection which is under investigation along with other possible motives.

It is almost like FBI default position is to first exercise spin control, then later backtrack if forced to. The initial whitewashing of the suspect's support for ISIS is just more evidence of the rot existing within the FBI leadership. "Did FBI Special Agent Althea Duncan get orders from Washington to issue this particular initial assessment?" I wonder if liberals even see this as an important question.

What I see is someone who is grasping at a way to criticize the FBI because they want to. First, you have no idea if your first paragraph is true. you haven't identified the source - it's the BLAZE. Whoop de doo.
MBFC Overall, we rate The Blaze strongly Right Biased and Questionable based on the promotion of conspiracy theories and numerous failed fact checks.
Yes, a good contender for plastering dog shit on the policy board.

2nd. It isn't meaningful, and your analysis is biased. Even if it were true, who cares? Well, you do. It's great how this slight difference that no one cares about, engenders "lying", "spin control", "evidence of rot within the FBI leadership" "orders from Washington". Look at all those innuendo implications and assertions from - nothing. It could easily be just protocol. The rot is posting this to the board.

"Did FBI Special Agent Althea Duncan get orders from Washington to issue this particular initial assessment?" I wonder if liberals even see this as an important question.

Could you please link the source you are referencing about Mayor/Agent Duncan.

A responsible agency rep should not jump to possibly false conclusions like the Dope and the Orange Rapist, or reveal information that may negatively impact an imminent situation.

"Fox News contradicted President-elect Donald Trump’s statement that Shamsud-Din Jabbar, the terror suspect in the New Year’s vehicular attack in New Orleans, was a “criminal coming in” to the country.

While reporting on the attack Wednesday, a Fox News White House correspondent says over video edits of Trump: “To be clear, Molly and Brian, the suspect was born in the United States. He served in the United States Army. He was a veteran.”

Earlier, Trump called the attack “pure evil” in a post on Truth Social, the social media platform he owns."

What I see is someone who is grasping at a way to criticize the FBI because they want to. First, you have no idea if your first paragraph is true. you haven't identified the source - it's the BLAZE. Whoop de doo.
MBFC Overall, we rate The Blaze strongly Right Biased and Questionable based on the promotion of conspiracy theories and numerous failed fact checks.
Yes, a good contender for plastering dog shit on the policy board. - Lambo

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Just because I quoted from the Blaze, which I readily admit is biased right, does not make the incident did not occur. There were other sources in my search results but this one was succinct compared to others and did include the name of the Agent. So I picked it. Sheesh. It is one thing to disagree with my opinion, some people make that mistake all the time, but to disbelieve the incident ever happened because.....Blaze? Are you not not even curious?

How very weird that all these MAGA no-nothings want to kill the FBI because Trump thought they were mean to him.

We sure are living in strange times.

Just because I quoted from the Blaze, which I readily admit is biased right, does not make the incident did not occur.

Since I never said it didn't occur you are making a false point. But do us all a favor - look this up and find out why it happened, if it did, and report back.

Splainin: I said this: "First, you have no idea if your first paragraph is true." Me now: You still don't know if it's true, but, you aren't entitled to think I said it isn't true from anything I said. Please do not do this in the future.

Just because I quoted from the Blaze, which I readily admit is biased right, does not make the incident did not occur

Yeah, it’s not like there’s not video of her saying exactly what you said she said…

Turns out the Vegas terrorist is another ex-soldier as well.

Dope Turns out the Vegas terrorist is another ex-soldier as well.

Yup. And he leased his Tesla from an active duty soldier. How does a Sgt afford a Tesla truck? Selling pets to Haitians, perhaps?

I wonder if all these army guys are actually the perps who were "eating the dogs, eating the cats, eating the pets of the people who live there?"

Oh no, they've gone from eating pets to shooting and bombing.

The man connected to the rental of the Tesla Cybertruck that exploded outside of a Trump Hotel in Las Vegas on Wednesday is a US Special Forces soldier assigned to the 10th Special Forces Group.... on active duty but was on leave from Germany, where he had been serving with the 10th Group, at the time of the incident.....

When does Trump apologize for wrongly attributing these attacks by Army guys on border issues?

(Recalling the shooters and bombers of cops in Oakland and Santa Cruz during the BLM protests were also active duty US soldiers)

WAAA WAAAAA people died!

Waaa Waaa the cops I want to defund died!

Why cats and dogs talk now?

Waaaaa Waaaaaa

"Bad day for the left. Multiple ISIS “junior varsity” terror attacks with links to the southern border." - Dope

Bad day for Dope. Perpatrators of the incidents had nothing to do with the southern border and their link to ISIS was through an unnecessary and expensive war that Dope himself supported; Dope looks like an idiot yet again for using poor sources of information.

"I know! So many parents at school board meetings and little old ladies praying outside abortion clinics. There’s only so many hours in the day, amirite?" - Dope

Gotta laugh at idiots who think the FBI was investigating "school board meetings and little old ladies praying outside abortion clinics". That is what a person gets when they use sources of information that lie to them and make them look like idiots. They would be better using sources that told them the whole story.

"Did FBI Special Agent Althea Duncan get orders from Washington to issue this particular initial assessment?"

'is this an important question' is a few steps down from 'Just asking/insinuating/accusing because deep state, russia russia russia, her e-mails, pizza pedphiles all got the cult goood n' riled up, benghazi beghazi benghazi.'


It's a shiny thing. A squirrel. A red herring. Not even a molehill; a typical Fox-style question that is impossible to prove or disprove, and is never going to be followed up on, but boy oh boy the Hannity fans love to create them.

Agent Duncan should have prefaced her statement with 'at this time.' So sue the agency. She followed up saying they'd know more later.

"Bad day for the left. Multiple ISIS “junior varsity” terror attacks with links to the southern border." - Dope

Dope, are you ever embarrassed by being made a fool by your right wing media sources? Get some real news.

Bad day for Dope. Perpetrators of the incidents had nothing to do with the southern border...Dope looks like an idiot yet again for using poor sources of information.

Yes Dope plays the fool like he does every day, a modern day Sisyphus, but instead of pushing a boulder Dope pushes ignorance, lies and misinformation. This is the life of one who cannot think critically.

Carl Sagan saw it coming...
"Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking.
I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time—when the United States is a service and information economy;
when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few,
and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues;
when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority;
when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true,
we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness.
The dumbing down of American...a celebration of ignorance." ~Carl Sagan

The dumbing down of American...a celebration of ignorance." ~Carl Sagan -

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I see some consistency with what Ramaswamy recently said about American culture.

This is the life of one who cannot think critically.
I don't see it this way, as I really do believe he thinks critically. It is more a matter of Garbage in, Garbage out. I know Dope also thinks most progressives fail to think critically and it is for the same reason. With different inputs, critical thinking will generate different outputs.

Our personal filters (frames) result in accepting certain pieces of information and rejecting others. We see the same thing with all deeply held beliefs, like religion. All contradictory evidence is ruled as either insignificant or faulty. Keep in mind that most progressives do the same thing in rejecting information the supports the conservatives viewpoint.
Alan

, clutching our c̶r̶y̶s̶t̶a̶l̶s̶ Bibles and nervously consulting o̶u̶r̶ ̶h̶o̶r̶o̶s̶c̶o̶p̶e̶s̶ conspiracy theories, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness.

Is that better?

clutching our c̶r̶y̶s̶t̶a̶l̶s̶ Bibles and nervously consulting our h̶o̶r̶o̶s̶c̶o̶p̶e̶s̶ conspiracy theories, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness. Is that better?

That is perfect!

Also: Instead of rotting in a prison cell, the rapist who instigated a violent insurrection will soon be the president.
How far America has fallen...

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