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Vehicle explosion at Trump Hotel In Vegas

Discussion in 'Too Hot for Swamp Gas' started by ThePlayer, Jan 1, 2025 at 3:38 PM.

  1. WC53

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    Warranty issue
     
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  2. chemgator

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    You'll have to be more specific. Trump's every thought about women starts with "T" and ends with "A".
     
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    This event appears to foreshadow where the Musk-Trump relationship is heading. Did they sell tickets to see it?
     
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  4. WC53

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    Are the EV autonomous driving software radicalizing their occupants? Inquiring minds
     
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    A rented Musk car that is filled with flammable stuff and ignites at a Trump property seems awfully coincidental. We will see though, stranger bad luck has happened.
     
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    Not at all. I follow the facts. Musk already checked the vehicle and nothing was wrong prior to explosion.


    When one is resorting to trying to say I’m rooting for it to be terrorism tells me you are playing politics, not me.

     
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    By the way, again maybe a coincidence, but I saw a report that both the NO truck and the LV one were rented on the same app, Turo. Not exactly a common way to rent cars, but may be nothing. .
     
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    Things like this keep happening in Biden‘s America. I won’t miss it.
     
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    Turo is pretty common. Plus, I'm not sure one can rent a Cyber truck from Enterprise.
     
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  11. oragator1

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    Again, could be coincidence, but if this was a purposeful attack (and we still don’t know for sure), 2 cars in 12 or so hours used in attacks using the same app is quite a statistically improbable event. Heck two attacks at all, but especially using cars as the primary delivery mechanism in 12 hours is highly improbable, short of some form of coordination. Made slightly less improbable by the date they happened.
    But it’s still lots of speculation until we know more, just musing for now.
     
  12. GatorBen

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    Seems close to confirmed as of now - CNN reporting that authorities believe the Cybertruck was loaded with fireworks, gas tanks, and camping fuel that was connected to a detonation system controlled by the driver.
     
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    The cyber truck did contain the blaze. New commercial coming up.
     
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    It’s a very common way to rent high end cars and EVs though.
     
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    Happily he only took himself out as he didn’t think this one through very well. Gasoline isn’t really explosive and fireworks have limited explosive power.
     
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    Yeah this seems like a kind of ham-fisted attempt at making a thermobaric weapon by someone who didn’t realize that the “fuel” in most fuel-air bombs are substances way more reactive than white gas and racing fuel, or who didn’t think through the fact that - outside of a pure stroke of luck - those canisters are more likely to just make a really big fire than a really big boom because they’re neither reactive nor pressurized enough to ordinarily be explosive.
     
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    Missed the cyber truck when i initially looked at the picture
     
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    I've hearrd cybertruck tires.don't last long. One guy complained online that he had to change his after 6000 miles. Kai's dress is less than $60. Her shoes are $250. Golf handicap 0.0. Useless info I picked up watching her videos with Bryson DeChambeau and Grant Horvat and her grandpa. She calls Elon "uncle."
     
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    Driver of the bomb truck being reported as a 37 year old former Army Special Forces soldier from Colorado Springs

    What Matthew Livelsberger's social media reveals about Cybertruck suspect


    He began as a special forces communications specialist, a role he held for nine years. He then became a special forces intelligence and operations specialist, a role he had for seven years.

    Livelsberger then became a special forces operations manager and team sergeant, a role he held for a little under two years, before becoming a remote and autonomous systems manager in November.