America - The Official Thread

[UKMikey]

FDNY reporting 4 injuries at this time (including the suspect.) Could have been much worse - there is pretty much zero vetting for weapons in and out of that terminal - not really like getting into an airport for instance. Hope that this is not the beginning of the usual pattern - this sort of chaos creator sometimes get set off like sympathetic detonation - one starts, the others all come out of hiding.

Apparently his weapon went off prematurely.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/11/nyregion/explosion-times-square.html

 

[Johnnypenso]

27 year old Akayed Ullah is under arrest. Footage is available of the explosion, which, as these things go, was relatively small. He was walking along a tunnel or covered walkway when it went off. Fair warning though. It's about as potato as a video camera can get.

 

[DK]

Apparently his weapon went off prematurely.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/11/nyregion/explosion-times-square.html

"Four Lions" is getting too real.

 

[photonrider]

Apparently his weapon went off prematurely.

So it appears; not the climax he and the rest of the bang-gangers were expecting.

 

[UKMikey]

So it appears; not the climax he and the rest of the bang-gangers were expecting.

Not sure he was part of a gang as such. If so it's a very loosely knit one. He was a big fan of ISIS(/Isil/Daesh/Islamic State/whatever they're called this week) but according to Andrew Cuomo he was a lone wolf like the Uzbek vehicular murderer last Hallowe'en.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/12/11/new-york-subway-bomber-suspect-akayed-ullah/

 

[GOPhater]

 

[Joey D]

Are you going to post things other than just pictures from Twitter or Instagram? It's cool to have an opinion about something, but a little context would make for a better conversation.

 

[Johnnypenso]

Are you going to post things other than just pictures from Twitter or Instagram? It's cool to have an opinion about something, but a little context would make for a better conversation.

What are the odds he answers with a meme?

 

[Northstar]

What are the odds he answers with a meme?

Going off his history, he won’t respond at all.

 

[Spurgy 777]

Are you going to post things other than just pictures from Twitter or Instagram? It's cool to have an opinion about something, but a little context would make for a better conversation.

I don't think he's interested in having a conversation.

 

[TexRex]

things other than just pictures from Twitter or Instagram

Well, this appears to be the source:

https://www.transparency.org/news/feature/corruption_in_the_usa_the_difference_a_year_makes

Mind you, all I know of the entity "Transparency International" is that it was established in Berlin in 1993, and frankly I put little stock in polling anyway, as I believe it's easily--and regularly--manipulated, but social media can act as an intermediary source without manipulation of cited source information...not that I'm playing Devil's advocate either.

 

[Liquid]

Did anyone see Trumps speech? He was slurring pretty heavily, especially towards the end. Could be a lot of things but the first thing that came to mind was stroke....or maybe his dentures came loose...lol. Hope he's ok though.

I heard this week that the slurring was indicative that Trump has dentures and they were slipping out.

It... almost makes sense when I went back and watched it again.

 

[UKMikey]

Whoops... missed the Alabama thread below this one.

 

[TexRex]

"I wish the President would be President and stop being consumed with himself and his image."

 

[Dotini]

Apparently the FBI's Trump "insurance policy" is unravelling. What a shocker!
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-fbis-trump-insurance-1513210929

 

[BobK]

Apparently the FBI's Trump "insurance policy" is unravelling. What a shocker!
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-fbis-trump-insurance-1513210929

Could you perhaps give us a synopsis of the article? It's behind a paywall.

 

[TexRex]

Could you perhaps give us a synopsis of the article? It's behind a paywall.

It's regarding the text messages between FBI Mueller investigator Peter Strzok and FBI lawyer Lisa Page that have been all over the news the last day or so. Disparaging remarks [about Trump] abound; no proof of wrongdoing that I'm aware of.

Edit: Replaced FIB with FBI; blame GTA.

 

[Dotini]

Could you perhaps give us a synopsis of the article? It's behind a paywall.

Damn! It's now behind a paywall for me too.

Anyway, from what I recall from one brief read-through:
- FBI didn't think Trump stood a chance to win the election.
- Still, they planned an "insurance policy" in case he did.
- Agents including Strzok, Mueller, McCabe, Brit spook Steele, and others in DOJ were all involved at some point.
- Thanks to data releases obtained by Judicial Watch, it unravels that it was the FBI trying influence the election and not so much the Russians.
- So far Congress has been frustrated in its efforts to open this up, but are persisting.

Bernie zealot H.A. Goodman chimes in:

 

[TexRex]

Kentucky state Representative Dan Johnson (R) dead, suicide suspected, denied allegations of sexually assaulting a minor.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/14/us/kentucky-state-lawmaker-death/index.html

 

[photonrider]

Not sure he was part of a gang as such.

Never said he was.
It is annoying to have to find time to take words out of my mouth placed there by people whose command of the language is not on the same metaphorical and idiomatic level as mine - a reason I'm beginning to ignore notifications that you have quoted me.

Do please resist responding to misrepresentations of my posts.
Thank you. 👍

 

[UKMikey]

Not sure he was part of a gang as such.

Never said he was.
It is annoying to have to find time to take words out of my mouth placed there by people whose command of the language is not on the same metaphorical and idiomatic level as mine - a reason I'm beginning to ignore notifications that you have quoted me.

Do please resist responding to misrepresentations of my posts.
Thank you. 👍

Perhaps you could bring us lesser beings up to speed on who

the rest of the bang-gangers

are in this case then. Or don't, it's all the same with me.

Not sure how direct quoting someone's post is a misrepresentation.

 

[Johnnypenso]

Perhaps you could bring us lesser beings up to speed on who

are in this case then. Or don't, it's all the same with me.

Not sure how direct quoting someone's post is a misrepresentation.

It's a play on words. It's not meant to be taken literally.

 

[Rallywagon]

if you dont preface sarcasm or a play on words on the internet, you can bet your bottom buck someone is going to take it literally.

 

[Liquid]

if you dont preface sarcasm or a play on words on the internet, you can bet your bottom buck someone its going to be taken literally.

And it's called Poe's law.

 

[Rallywagon]

And it's called Poe's law.

Indeed, and apparently I need to be sure to proof read my posts before hitting that reply button.

 

[TexRex]

Indeed, and apparently I need to be sure to proof read my posts before hitting that reply button.

Join the club.

 

[Imari]

Apparently his weapon went off prematurely.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/11/nyregion/explosion-times-square.html

Honestly, the best defence against this sort of stuff is the fact that 99% of people are absolutely horrible at making any sort of improvised explosive device. And most of the people that have the skill to do it wouldn't, simply because of their training or affiliations. To be fair, it's harder than it looks to make a small, portable device that will actually injure or kill significant amounts of people just from proximity.

It's tragic when they try and more tragic if they succeed, but the reality is that a "terrorist" like this dude is likely to do significantly less damage with a small bomb than if he'd just grabbed a simple handgun.

 

[GOPhater]

 

[photonrider]

POTUS speaking at the FBI National Academy, Quantico, VA., a few minutes ago:

"The President of the United States has your back one hundred percent."

And:

"Criminals who kill police officers should get the death penalty."

 

[TenEightyOne]

Seems legit.