10 dead 35+ injured in New Orleans terror attack

[hal2kilo]

Clearly, we need to deport all veterans.

No, we just love to hire them to be policeman.

 

[fskimospy]

That is an ISIS tactic. Do one atrocity and when the local authorities come to help set off a bunch of explosives.
Luckily they didn't seem competent this time.

That is an everyone tactic, called a double tap. My dad worked in CBR for the US Army in the 70's and that was standard doctrine they talked about.

(to the best of my knowledge the US does not employ this but plenty of other countries do. Russia has been called out repeatedly for these sorts of strikes in Ukraine)

 

[Muse]

The fact is that Bourbon St. was a soft target. The barriers in place with police presence was sufficient to prevent problems with law-abiding people but not terrorists.

 

[HomerJS]

This guy killed almost the same number of people as Dylan Roof. The Vegas mass shooter killed 60 people

Let's just see how the coverage compares. All were natural born citizens.

 

[Muse]

This guy killed almost the same number of people as Dylan Roof. The Vegas mass shooter killed 60 people

Let's just see how the coverage compares. All were natural born citizens.

Current CNN story:

https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/01/us/shamsud-din-jabbar-suspect-new-orleans-attack/index.html?iid=cnn_buildContentRecirc_end_recirc

 

[Amused]

News on the Trump tower cyber truck explosion.

The driver was an active duty Green Beret master sargeant named Matthew Alan Livelsberger.

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/01/02/us/tesla-cybertruck-trump-hotel-wwk-hnk/index.html

 

[Jaskalas]

GWB chickens have come home to roost?

 

[eelw]

Doh he was shot in the head and then they set the ugly truck on fire

 

[sactoking]

Considering New Orleans and Las Vegas were both military i think it's appropriate that we discuss deportation for all active duty and retired military personnel.

 

[MrSquished]

Considering New Orleans and Las Vegas were both military i think it's appropriate that we discuss deportation for all active duty and retired military personnel.

They both served on the same base too.

So the Las Vegas Wankpanzer guy was a huge Trumper it turns out. I'm pretty sure he specifically rented a Cyberstuck to make a point due to Musk being the actual president.

 

[pmv]

Considering New Orleans and Las Vegas were both military i think it's appropriate that we discuss deportation for all active duty and retired military personnel.

Surely it's obvious that the vast majority of problems are caused by Americans. Just deport all citizens.

 

[IronWing]

Surely it's obvious that the vast majority of problems are caused by Americans. Just deport all citizens.

You have no idea of how appealing this is.

 

[[DHT]Osiris]

Surely it's obvious that the vast majority of problems are caused by Americans. Just deport all citizens.

Hey uh, those of us with native blood will stay behind and keep the lights on. Definitely won't blow the ports up on your way out.

 

[Indus]

the Las Vegas Wankpanzer guy

I can't stop LOL'ing at this.. my sides hurt!

 

[uallas5]

kinda crap bomb making skills for a Green Beret Master Sergeant. I mean Timothy McVeigh was only a Bradley gunner and look at what he was able to build.

 

[IronWing]

If you are just about to blow yourself up anyway, why shoot yourself? This is not logical.

 

[[DHT]Osiris]

kinda crap bomb making skills for a Green Beret Master Sergeant. I mean Timothy McVeigh was only a Bradley gunner and look at what he was able to build.

A terrible accelerant and a bad explosive. Wondering if it was just meant to send a message with a suicide rather than something more destructive.

 

[MrSquished]

If you are just about to blow yourself up anyway, why shoot yourself? This is not logical.

It's probably a less painless way to die than to burn to death.

 

[Heartbreaker]

So the Las Vegas Wankpanzer guy...

I just learned a new word, and a better word, I've never heard, to describe a Cybertruck.

 

[esquared]

I just learned a new word, and a better word, I've never heard, to describe a Cybertruck.

"Wankpanzer” is interesting not only for what it means but also for how it’s constructed. On the YCombinator Hacker News forum, user “Schmageggy”2 proposed in June 2022 that “wankpanzer” be categorized as a shitgibbon compound: “a single-syllable expletive followed by an absurd or innocuous two-syllable noun as a trochee.” Shitgibbon, of course, rose to prominence during the early days of the Trump White House residency. As Ben Zimmer noted in a February 2017 post for the Strong Language blog: “Shitgibbon has a lot going for it, with the same punchy meter as other Trumpian epithets popularized last summer like cockwomble, fucknugget, and jizztrumpet.” Ben traced the origin of shitgibbon in a follow-up article for Slate.

 

[MrSquished]

I just learned a new word, and a better word, I've never heard, to describe a Cybertruck.

Wankpanzer, Cyberstuck, Cyberschmuck (the driver)

I made up the last one. I had another one I made up but can't remember it. The other two are from social media

 

[[DHT]Osiris]

Wankpanzer, Cyberstuck, Cyberschmuck (the driver)

I made up the last one. I had another one I made up but can't remember it. The other two are from social media

Still a pretty big fan of Musklorean, Teslorean, etc.

Those were still cool cars though, at least.

 

[pmv]

"Wankpanzer” is interesting not only for what it means but also for how it’s constructed. On the YCombinator Hacker News forum, user “Schmageggy”2 proposed in June 2022 that “wankpanzer” be categorized as a shitgibbon compound: “a single-syllable expletive followed by an absurd or innocuous two-syllable noun as a trochee.” Shitgibbon, of course, rose to prominence during the early days of the Trump White House residency. As Ben Zimmer noted in a February 2017 post for the Strong Language blog: “Shitgibbon has a lot going for it, with the same punchy meter as other Trumpian epithets popularized last summer like cockwomble, fucknugget, and jizztrumpet.” Ben traced the origin of shitgibbon in a follow-up article for Slate.

Crikey, fascinating that that memory-rabbit-hole ends up tracing all the way back to Steven Wells and that era of the NME. I remember his ATTACK ATTACK ATTACK indie-kid-bashing Morrissey-hating bombast very well. So strange that some trace of it lives on to be hurled at the Orange Fuhrer-wannabe.

 

[MrSquished]

Still a pretty big fan of Musklorean, Teslorean, etc.

Those were still cool cars though, at least.

Oh and Incel Camino too

 

[pmv]

What a weird timeline we are in. What is going on?

First, registered Republicans keep trying to shoot Trump, now this...

Cybertruck blast suspect was a ‘Rambo type’ who loved Trump, family says

Exclusive: Matthew Livelsberger’s shocked uncle told The Independent that the Green Beret was a ‘supersoldier’

uk.yahoo.com

The active-duty Green Beret who was driving a Tesla Cybertruck that blew up outside the Trump International Hotel Las Vegas on New Year’s Day “was a 100 percent patriot,” his bewildered uncle said Thursday.

Matthew Livelsberger, 37, was “like a Rambo-type, for lack of a better word,” Dean Livelsberger told The Independent.

Dean, whose older brother is Livelsberger’s father, Roger, himself an Air Force veteran who served in Vietnam, said his nephew “loved the Army.”

“He used to have all patriotic stuff on Facebook, he was 100 percent loving the country,” he continued. “He loved Trump, and he was always a very, very patriotic soldier, a patriotic American. It’s one of the reasons he was in Special Forces for so many years. It wasn’t just one tour of duty.”