Mail Bombs Sent to Clintons and Obama (Man Arrested)

[Scomagia]

You shouldn't assume the perp is a male. It's somewhat more likely but not certain.

I'm giving 70% odds it's male.
Now there might be a female involved though, terrorism is getting more gender equal these days.

That's reasonable.

[Loben]

Heh.

[Torrocca]

Look, I think people are missing the forest for the trees; Obama can’t have been sent a mail bomb by right-wing terrorists because Obama doesn't exist-there never actually was a black 44th president, and just like the holocaust, AIPAC is rewriting history for political ends. Why is it important to Israel that Americans believe that there was a black president? Two words: Oil.

[Vassenor]

Heh.

What's so funny?

[Xadufell]

Look, I think people are missing the forest for the trees; Obama can’t have been sent a mail bomb by right-wing terrorists because Obama doesn't exist-there never actually was a black 44th president, and just like the holocaust, AIPAC is rewriting history for political ends. Why is it important to Israel that Americans believe that there was a black president? Two words: Oil.

I get you're trying to be funny, but it comes off more as you having a stroke.

[Loben]

Heh.

What's so funny?

something i read in the onion about chuck Schumer being glad he never took Stances meaningful enough to warrant a bombing attempt.

[Trumptonium1]

Look, I think people are missing the forest for the trees; Obama can’t have been sent a mail bomb by right-wing terrorists because Obama doesn't exist-there never actually was a black 44th president, and just like the holocaust, AIPAC is rewriting history for political ends. Why is it important to Israel that Americans believe that there was a black president? Two words: Oil.

You're about as funny as Saturday Night Live.

[Torrocca]

Look, I think people are missing the forest for the trees; Obama can’t have been sent a mail bomb by right-wing terrorists because Obama doesn't exist-there never actually was a black 44th president, and just like the holocaust, AIPAC is rewriting history for political ends. Why is it important to Israel that Americans believe that there was a black president? Two words: Oil.

I get you're trying to be funny, but it comes off more as you having a stroke.

Are you implying that you have definitive proof that this... "Obama," as they call "him," actually exists and is indeed not a conspiracy started by Mossad on the order of AIPAC and Netanyahu?

[Loben]

Look, I think people are missing the forest for the trees; Obama can’t have been sent a mail bomb by right-wing terrorists because Obama doesn't exist-there never actually was a black 44th president, and just like the holocaust, AIPAC is rewriting history for political ends. Why is it important to Israel that Americans believe that there was a black president? Two words: Oil.

You're about as funny as Saturday Night Live.

thats an insult to SNL back when it was funny.

[Genivaria]

This is what I get for not watching the news, my GF told me about this over the phone from work.
Is it strange that one of my first thoughts were "wow we really need to get a gun." ?

[Petrasylvania]

Look, I think people are missing the forest for the trees; Obama can’t have been sent a mail bomb by right-wing terrorists because Obama doesn't exist-there never actually was a black 44th president, and just like the holocaust, AIPAC is rewriting history for political ends. Why is it important to Israel that Americans believe that there was a black president? Two words: Oil.

You're about as funny as Saturday Night Live.

Given you probably consider The 1/2 Hour News Hour to be the height of comedy...

[Saiwania]

Obama is to blame for the ACA for the most part, so the motive for revenge with regards to him is clear. His dumb law only destroyed the private health insurance market in all the wrong ways. It had the net effect of increasing access to health insurance but not facilitating its affordability. The only people who benefit are the people who can use Medicaid. All the people who previously had cheaper insurance saw their rates go way up.

What else do you think is going to happen if you force private health insurers to take people with pre-existing conditions and require health insurance plans to cover certain things that a lot of people don't want to pay for? The outcome of course, is that health insurance premiums soar in order to pay for the extra burdens and costs of providing health care to people.

Obama didn't even go all the way, which is to destroy private healthcare entirely with a single payer system.

[Ifreann]

Look, I think people are missing the forest for the trees; Obama can’t have been sent a mail bomb by right-wing terrorists because Obama doesn't exist-there never actually was a black 44th president, and just like the holocaust, AIPAC is rewriting history for political ends. Why is it important to Israel that Americans believe that there was a black president? Two words: Oil.

I get you're trying to be funny, but it comes off more as you having a stroke.

Look, I think people are missing the forest for the trees; Obama can’t have been sent a mail bomb by right-wing terrorists because Obama doesn't exist-there never actually was a black 44th president, and just like the holocaust, AIPAC is rewriting history for political ends. Why is it important to Israel that Americans believe that there was a black president? Two words: Oil.

You're about as funny as Saturday Night Live.

Is there an echo in here?

[Torrocca]

Look, I think people are missing the forest for the trees; Obama can’t have been sent a mail bomb by right-wing terrorists because Obama doesn't exist-there never actually was a black 44th president, and just like the holocaust, AIPAC is rewriting history for political ends. Why is it important to Israel that Americans believe that there was a black president? Two words: Oil.

You're about as funny as Saturday Night Live.

What's funny about providing definitive, factual proof that this incident couldn't have possibly been committed by a right-wing extremist terrorist?

[Hadin]

I don't care what you think of someone's political beliefs --- sending them a damn mail bomb is way too far. End of story.

[Petrasylvania]

This is what I get for not watching the news, my GF told me about this over the phone from work.
Is it strange that one of my first thoughts were "wow we really need to get a gun." ?

But we're supposed to be effeminate gun-hating soy eating beta NPC hippies who are genetically incapable of operating a gun!

[Foryis]

I'm sorry I made this thread so awkward...

[Xadufell]

I get you're trying to be funny, but it comes off more as you having a stroke.

You're about as funny as Saturday Night Live.

Is there an echo in here?

Just because something isn't funny doesn't mean only one person can point it out.

[Cannot think of a name]

Obama is to blame for the ACA for the most part, so the motive for revenge with regards to him is clear. His dumb law only destroyed the private health insurance market in all the wrong ways. It had the net effect of increasing access to health insurance but not facilitating its affordability. The only people who benefit are the people who can use Medicaid. All the people who previously had cheaper insurance saw their rates go way up.

What else do you think is going to happen if you force private health insurers to take people with pre-existing conditions and require health insurance plans to cover certain things that a lot of people don't want to pay for? The outcome of course, is that health insurance premiums soar in order to pay for the extra burdens and costs of providing health care to people.

Obama didn't even go all the way, which is to destroy private healthcare entirely with a single payer system.

What thread did you think you were posting in?

[Fartsniffage]

This is what I get for not watching the news, my GF told me about this over the phone from work.
Is it strange that one of my first thoughts were "wow we really need to get a gun." ?

It's a little strange. Shooting bombs is generally not advisable.

[Grand Britannia]

So can we call this a right-wing nutbag now?

Could have been muslim.

[Chan Island]

This is what I get for not watching the news, my GF told me about this over the phone from work.
Is it strange that one of my first thoughts were "wow we really need to get a gun." ?

No. In fact, quite a lot of people start to think that way when things start to look bad.

[The South Falls]

So can we call this a right-wing nutbag now?

Could have been muslim.

Or a 400 pound guy sitting on his bed.

[Chan Island]

Could have been muslim.

Or a 400 pound guy sitting on his bed.

Why not both?

[Torrocca]

Obama is to blame for the ACA for the most part, so the motive for revenge with regards to him is clear. His dumb law only destroyed the private health insurance market in all the wrong ways. It had the net effect of increasing access to health insurance but not facilitating its affordability. The only people who benefit are the people who can use Medicaid. All the people who previously had cheaper insurance saw their rates go way up.

What else do you think is going to happen if you force private health insurers to take people with pre-existing conditions and require health insurance plans to cover certain things that a lot of people don't want to pay for? The outcome of course, is that health insurance premiums soar in order to pay for the extra burdens and costs of providing health care to people.

Obama didn't even go all the way, which is to destroy private healthcare entirely with a single payer system.

This "Obama" should've gone all the way tbqh and become the Communist Anti-Christ that the right-wing claimed "he" was.

Is there an echo in here?

Just because something isn't funny doesn't mean only one person can point it out.

I, too, respect the rights of the Parrot People of the Parrot Kingdom.