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FBI: "This is an intentional act of terrorism". (Original Post) mobeau69 May 2025 OP
Wow!!! MarineCombatEngineer May 2025 #1
And if it did it wouldn't be terrorism. mobeau69 May 2025 #2
Correct, in fact, if it did blow up by itself without the help of a bomb, MarineCombatEngineer May 2025 #3
My first thought. mobeau69 May 2025 #4
Or a Ford Pinto!! GP6971 May 2025 #6
LOL. MarineCombatEngineer May 2025 #7
I saw one at a car show not too long ago. I had a 74 wagon... GP6971 May 2025 #10
LOL good one DENVERPOPS May 2025 #16
Who ever said it was an act of terrorism at the FBI will be looking for a new job soon. dem4decades May 2025 #5
Only if it was a white male mercuryblues May 2025 #9
Using extra words makes it sound more "official like". live love laugh May 2025 #8
There's the domestic kind, too nilram May 2025 #11
Reproductive Center in Palms Springs blown up. . . .nt Bernardo de La Paz May 2025 #14
What is? Polybius May 2025 #12
The Reproductive Center in Palm Springs blown up. . . nt Bernardo de La Paz May 2025 #13
Looks like pro job: shaped charge into clinic, vehicle blown back to garbage bins at back, not much sideways force. nt Bernardo de La Paz May 2025 #15
Margie finally got one right NBachers May 2025 #17
Nope - terrorism is shooting a health insurance CEO QED May 2025 #18
is that from the "real" FBI, or the "Trump FBI" ??? Jack Valentino May 2025 #19
They haven't said anything yet about the suspect, but I have my suspicions. tornado34jh May 2025 #20
If he was in the truck when it blew up, Warpy May 2025 #22
Well, considering that this isn't the last time we have seen people attack clinics that deal with women's care tornado34jh May 2025 #25
I was first thinking that this was the work of a MAGAt... regnaD kciN May 2025 #26
I've gotta go with terminally stupid Warpy May 2025 #27
Face-Palm Springs. C Moon May 2025 #21
So no "mental illness" or "typical tourist behavior" excuse this time IronLionZion May 2025 #23
One dead and FBI says Mountainguy May 2025 #24

MarineCombatEngineer

(17,646 posts)
1. Wow!!!
Sat May 17, 2025, 08:25 PM
May 2025

Patel's FBI doesn't miss a thing.
No fucking shit it's an intentional act, vehicles don't normally just blow up.

MarineCombatEngineer

(17,646 posts)
3. Correct, in fact, if it did blow up by itself without the help of a bomb,
Sat May 17, 2025, 08:32 PM
May 2025

I would venture a guess that it was a Tesla Cybertruck.

MarineCombatEngineer

(17,646 posts)
7. LOL.
Sat May 17, 2025, 08:46 PM
May 2025

Are there even any of those still around?
Had a friend way back in the day who stuffed a 351 Cleveland engine and a 4 speed trans in it, it was a butt ugly car, but it was FAST.

GP6971

(37,613 posts)
10. I saw one at a car show not too long ago. I had a 74 wagon...
Sat May 17, 2025, 08:59 PM
May 2025

POS. Got rid of it after 2 years.

mercuryblues

(16,169 posts)
9. Only if it was a white male
Sat May 17, 2025, 08:55 PM
May 2025

Then the motive is white washed. Only brown skinned people are called terrorists in Maga world

nilram

(3,469 posts)
11. There's the domestic kind, too
Sat May 17, 2025, 09:39 PM
May 2025

If they're referring to the Mexican ship crashing, it seems like it's too soon to know. But Patel is a pretty big ass, so maybe that's what they're talking out of.

On edit: I read "intentional" as "international." Oops.

Wonder if they can provide an example of accidental terrorism?

Polybius

(21,505 posts)
12. What is?
Sat May 17, 2025, 09:43 PM
May 2025

The ship hitting the Brooklyn Bridge? I'm stuck at work and that's the only alert I got all day.

Bernardo de La Paz

(60,320 posts)
15. Looks like pro job: shaped charge into clinic, vehicle blown back to garbage bins at back, not much sideways force. nt
Sat May 17, 2025, 09:46 PM
May 2025

QED

(3,267 posts)
18. Nope - terrorism is shooting a health insurance CEO
Sat May 17, 2025, 10:24 PM
May 2025

Bombing of reproductive care clinics and school shootings are just garden variety killings.

Just in case:

Jack Valentino

(4,338 posts)
19. is that from the "real" FBI, or the "Trump FBI" ???
Sat May 17, 2025, 10:36 PM
May 2025

Of course your post lacks any information than some alleged unidentified quote,
so I have no idea WTF you are talking about....


tornado34jh

(1,521 posts)
20. They haven't said anything yet about the suspect, but I have my suspicions.
Sat May 17, 2025, 10:38 PM
May 2025

If it is what I think it is (a right wing-terrorist), then I don't want to hear the right bitching about 8647 when one of their own bombed a fertility clinic. Again, I am not saying that is what occurred, but I am very cynical about what is going on. Now the FBI, headed by an insurrectionist, thinks this is terrorism? I don't believe a word they are saying. This isn't the first time we have seen people do violent attacks something like this. The cynic in me really thinks there is something going on behind the scenes. I don't believe their hypocritical messaging when they say, "Oh this is terrorism" while at the same time they are trying to cut women's care.

Warpy

(114,381 posts)
22. If he was in the truck when it blew up,
Sat May 17, 2025, 10:55 PM
May 2025

he's probably just a fine coating of greasy ash in the immediate vicinity. This wasn't a little bomb.

He might have used a fuse like McVeigh did, in which case he's long gone and will have to be traced through seriial numbers and/or VINs on any piece of metal they can find. It will take a while.

The dead person in the parking lot might not have had anything to do with it, it could have been someone having a very unlucky day and cutting through the lot on the way to the hospital.

We're not going to know much for a while, so expect people who are expected to say something when they can't possibly know anything for sure (unless the bomber mailed a manifesto to the media) to make silly statements like the above.

tornado34jh

(1,521 posts)
25. Well, considering that this isn't the last time we have seen people attack clinics that deal with women's care
Sun May 18, 2025, 12:29 AM
May 2025

I have to be suspicious of what is going on. Again, maybe it isn't a right-wing terrorist, but history tells us that we have seen people attack abortion centers and other similar things, and many of them are on the right, so I am not leaving anything out.

regnaD kciN

(27,456 posts)
26. I was first thinking that this was the work of a MAGAt...
Sun May 18, 2025, 01:38 AM
May 2025

…who was stupid enough to think “reproductive services” meant “abortion clinic.” However, it appears that fertility clinics like this are also on the far-right target list, because they’re supposedly helping LGBTQ+ couples have families.

Warpy

(114,381 posts)
27. I've gotta go with terminally stupid
Sun May 18, 2025, 01:14 PM
May 2025

whether or not he used a fuse or detonating device and got away, because he obviously didn't read the fine print on the signs.

I just hope they go through his life with a fine toothed comb, catching all the lice who supplied him with knowledge and materials (if not the bomb, itself) and propagandized his feeble brain to the point he had lost his humanity.



 

Mountainguy

(2,145 posts)
24. One dead and FBI says
Sat May 17, 2025, 11:35 PM
May 2025

they have a person of interest, but are not searching for a suspect.

Sounds like they think the bomber died in the car.

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