Gee, who might be motivated to set off a bomb on Christmas morning?
[Update a while later]
Police swept apartment buildings before the explosion, perhaps saving many lives. I wonder if there was a tip?
[Update a couple minutes later]
Steven Kruiser is collecting links.
[Late-afternoon update]
Thoughts from Glenn Reynolds.
Yes, it does look like a rehearsal for an infrastructure attack. Or was it AT&T that was the target?
[Saturday-morning update]
A speculative Twitter thread.
Let me guess…Starts with an ‘M’?
Mormons, no….Methodists? No
Mennonites!
Methodists, obviously.
“rustlers, cut throats, murderers, bounty hunters, desperados, mugs, pugs, thugs, nitwits, halfwits, dimwits, vipers, snipers, con men, Indian agents, Mexican bandits, muggers, buggerers, bushwhackers, hornswogglers, horse thieves, bull dykes, trainrobbers, bank robbers, ass-kickers, shit-kickers and Methodists”
It wasn’t anyone with an “identity” starting “M”. Not their style. The time and date were deliberately chosen for empty streets. Either somebody with a little too much knowledge was practicing for next year’s main event, or the FBI and ATF setting up a pretext to crack down on Whitey starting 21 January.
But this sort of thing scares me. It’s precisely the kind of attacks I expect to see next year– against centralized infrastructure with minimal casualties. Did they know they’d take out so much communications in middle Tenn., or get lucky?
Although Nashville is neck deep in Somalis and other north Africans (Dell Nashville brings them to work in buses), Muslims don’t tend to give warning to reduce the casualties, and after a bombing run out in the streets to ululate.
I’m still contending that the target was probably AT&T. AT&T owns DC comics, which they are shutting down as a print comic because woke people have destroyed the comic book industry. Who thinks of deranged acts like this for living? Comic book writers. Who did AT&T just fire in large numbers? Comic book writers.
That, or it’s a classic DC Comics fan that’s outraged at the wokeness AT&T allowed to destroy the print comics. The FBI is on the case, and I can imagine Scully sifting through the debris, leaning over to pick up a half-charred magazine cover, and saying “Spiderman #37?” and then Mulder saying “That’s a huge clue Scully! That’s the issue where…”
But the explosion also took out ADT security systems across central Tennessee, as they were all routed through the AT&T hub. Obviously the US Treasury or Federal Reserve isn’t in Nashville, but the Country Music Hall of Fame is. So the real target may have been Roy Clark’s guitar, Glenn Campbell’s rhinestone suit, or Minnie Pearl’s hat.
In any event, I doubt it’s purely election related because it would likely take months for someone to have put everything together, unless they happened to just have everything lying around beforehand.
“and saying “Spiderman #37?” and then Mulder saying “That’s a huge clue Scully! That’s the issue where…””
Go on…
Well, as well all know, it’s the first time the Captain America character is used since the Secret Empire Books!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCIGs7kjVGA
Who knows at this point. After the last five years of violence, there are a lot of possibilities.
Doesn’t sound like the modus operandi of the M’s, I assume you implying Rand.
But since we throwing around baseless conjecture, I can think of a different set of M’s who like to attack those who pay the whatever wave socialist that work at CNN or operate a portion of the internet.
I’m not implying anything; I’m just repeating other reports.
Rand, you ever notice that there are crabby people who say crabby things regardless of a persons says or does?
By the way, be careful with those baseless conjectures. You might get warning messages stamped on your Tweets if you don’t watch out. Or something.
I’m betting that someone will be very surprised when they walk into their place of business Monday. I’ll lay my money on plain old crime crime.
One picture I saw looked like the bomb went off IN the building that I assume is the exchange. This implies some sort of shaped charge.
If they were planing on network disruption. not many times where it would cause less than 6:30 on Christmas Morning.
As always, the 48 hour rule applies.
This was a very odd one IMHO.
Definitely not the usual MO of terrorists, who tend to prefer, rather than avoid, a large death toll.
I also find it interesting that, in a city center infested with security cameras, so far we’ve seen one poor shot of the RV, and nothing of it when parked, nor of the bomber or bombers getting out, etc.
Well, the bomber seems to be a 63-year-old Nashville resident who had a house and an RV. If his basement turns out to be full of DC comics, do I win anything?
Well if you do and it is DC comics it won’t be Spiderman. Lee et al wrote for Marvel.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider-Man
Thank God the FBI is on the case. Special Agents Fife, Toody, Muldoon, Howard, Fine and Howard will no doubt produce an airtight case against whoever did this sometime before the turn of the millennium.
Or not.
Yeah, probably not.
Top. Men.
More likely a Richard Jewell patsy while the real culprits slink off into the darkness. Supposedly this was a major node in AT&T’s system housing an NSA collection point.
I lean more towards this being related to the internal war in this country between the deep-state/China people and Trump.
Since it appears that the NSA has sided with Trump, it makes sense to target C3 of your enemy. Particularly if they have data on election theft, or to prevent collection of data on the upcoming GA senatorial runoffs. Georgia is supposedly in the domain of the Nashville facility.