New video of pipe bomb suspect released.

[Rev. Rye]

Besides the fact that you’ve spent the entire thread mocking people for taking the threat seriously?

I mock those that jump on board the bandwagon  because they find a version of a story that fits what they already believe.

Beliefs are not facts.

They deserve mocking .

Beliefs only deserve mocking when they go against the known facts. And, at the moment, nothing known goes against the hypotheses that a Trump supporter planting the bombs A) to do some legitimate harm, even if their limitations prevent them from doing much harm, B) as a diversionary tactic to draw police away from the Capitol, or C) just to scare the DNC and RNC. Indeed, it looks like the FBI thinks these are likely hypotheses.

And, while Trump's supporters have far more to lose from a bomb attack, frankly, that hasn't stopped them before and if they're dedicated enough to baseless conspiracy theories about how Trump won the election in spite of literally all the evidence pointing to that to the point where they're willing to storm the capital and overthrow the government, forgive me for not assuming that their moral calculus is going to work the same way yours did.

If they catch the guy and it turns out it was actually, I dunno, some weird sort of ad campaign for their TV series and the timing was an unfortunate coincidence, or that it was actually a false flag committed by the left to make the opposition look worse, then arguing that it was a Trump-supporter's plot would deserve mocking. Until then (or some other information comes out), these hypotheses are valid.