r/qualitynews • u/SaulKD • 5d ago
FBI seizes one of the largest stockpiles of homemade explosives in its history
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/01/fbi-homemade-explosives-virginia45
u/HughGRection1492 5d ago
How is this not bigger news? Oh yeah, Murica. Must be a white guy. No billionaires were injured or offended.
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u/Nimrod_Butts 5d ago
Liberals are too uptight to point out he's a conservative.
Meanwhile if a school shooter did things JDVance did they're a liberal trans activist, to conservatives
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u/notPabst404 1d ago
The left really needs more of a voice in the US. Left wing media will absolutely call this out but has too little of a reach.
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u/ULessanScriptor 19h ago
How much more of a voice can they possibly have?
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u/notPabst404 18h ago
A lot seeing that the left only have a voice on internet platforms with little reach. Even the Washington Post shifted heavily to the right, refusing to run an anti-Trump cartoon at the bidding of Bezos.
Similar with the LA times, they refused to run a piece critical of Trump's 'gorilla channel' transition team. The media are dominated by the center right and far right and that needs to change.
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u/Sangyviews 3d ago
Thats just not true.
Ill never forget the headline of when they identified the shooter who tried to kill Trump, it was something like 'shooters name, Registered Republican, identified'
Thats the first thing liberals do is question the political identify so they can decide if they want to be upset or not.
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u/Nimrod_Butts 3d ago
You're probably still mad it hasn't been a liberal yet just Republicans with integrity
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u/InsertCleverNickHere 19h ago
I mean, what does it say when the only two assassination attempts on Trump were from his own voters?
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u/Picasso5 5d ago
I mean, I think we all take that for granted now. I “lib” ain’t gonna stockpile pipe bombs. Conservative white males are pretty much the only profile that fits, that and their strange bedfellows, religious conservative Muslim men.
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u/Kidatrickedya 3d ago
Two peas in a pod both who will use each other until it’s just them left to battle it out. They are all hateful and stupid.
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u/Most-Information4650 4d ago
Remember that time multiple shooting acts happened at schools and against Trump and the people who pulled the trigger were registered democrats, good times. Almost like it happened recently.
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u/Fit_Addition7137 4d ago
Go back to counting the silverware and leave the thinking to the adults please.
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u/Fort_Yukon 4d ago
Which shooter that targeted trump was a democrat?Because one was a registered Republican and the other an independent.
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u/FriedenshoodHoodlum 4d ago
Both were, if you listen to his sources, of course. But you do not do that, thus you do not know "the trüth". You see, what is objectively true does not matter to certain people. They have their own truth and act aber believe accordingly
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u/Fort_Yukon 4d ago
Neither one was a registered Democrat. One was a Republican, the other was unaffiliated.
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u/FriedenshoodHoodlum 4d ago
I do not deny that. His "sources" be those real tabloids, conspiracy believers and spreaders online or anything else, they do. And with that given the US little point in talking to such brainwashed individuals. They have their own "truth" and "reality" which curiously differs in certain points from what you and I know to be true and real.
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u/No-Pianist5365 3d ago
funny how the registered republican spewed cnn and msn bullshit word for word before being roused to murder. but the tabloids are why anyone would say that guys registration is merely that and could even be from the reddit encouraging dems to register republican to fuck with primaries.
almost like you should believe when they show you what they are instead of what they say they are
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u/SleepsNor24 4d ago
Trump was shot at by one of his own. On average white republican men are likely terrorists.
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u/AContrarianDick 4d ago
Well in fairness, those guys who were aiming for Trump were just trying to spare MAGA getting their hearts broken when Trump said we need to open our borders to immigrants to take American jobs. You know, that thing he did recently in between his rants demonstrating his increasing dementia symptoms.
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u/Zestyclose_Pickle511 4d ago
That has not ever happened, you are living in a distorted reality that you are afraid to let go of, even though that tiny bit of intellect you have is doing it's best to try and help you escape it. Ya doofus.
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u/Most-Information4650 4d ago
The lady school shooter bruv.
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u/Zestyclose_Pickle511 4d ago
"multiple shooting acts... Registered democrats". You're a liar, you lie. Stop lying to yourself so that you can join reality.
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u/rpleas3 3d ago
The two or three incidents involving Trump all involved people who were registered Republicans. And for school shootings most of them have right-wing ideologies. But let's just say they were left leaning. Either way it's pretty much only Democrats who are calling for common sense gun legislation. So I don't understand the point you're trying to make
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u/notPabst404 1d ago
Dude is a well off conservative white man, so the corporate media is brushing it off. Only the AP, Guardian, and maybe NPR will cover it.
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u/Guidance-Still 5d ago
Because the media would assume and make up what the bombs were going to be used for
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u/No-Pianist5365 3d ago
everyone i know has heard of this.
they question whether the explosive devices were usable because “professionally trained explosive technicians had to rig the devices to explode them”.
a redneck with missing fingers thats been making homemade fireworks with PLASTIC pipe for decades
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u/chrissie_watkins 4d ago
Article injects an unprompted mention of anti-Trump violence:
Last year’s presidential election campaign saw two assassination attempts against Donald Trump before he eventually won the race for the White House against Kamala Harris.
Despite the guy being a right-wing lunatic:
The informant told authorities that Spafford was using pictures of the president, an apparent reference to Joe Biden, for target practice
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u/Guidance-Still 5d ago
Hmm who tipped off the FBI
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u/madbill728 5d ago
I live in Hampton Roads. Local news said a neighbor turned him in after he lost three fingers with his science project.
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u/Guidance-Still 5d ago
Damn really good thing they investigated
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u/madbill728 5d ago
Lol. Yep, I’m sure the next the right will say is how he got arrested for just being a conservative. Fuckin terrorist.
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u/Beautiful-Plastic-83 5d ago
Naw, they'll find a 10 year old Facebook post where he says he's glad he got Obamacare, and claim he's a radical Liberal terrorist, despite the fact that he donated to every conservative candidate in existence.
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u/Guidance-Still 5d ago
Or the left will make up shit about what he was going to do as well , those things work both ways
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u/prof_the_doom 5d ago
In response, prosecutors reiterated why they believe Spafford is dangerous, writing that “while he is not known to have engaged in any apparent violence, he has certainly expressed interest in the same, through his manufacture of pope bombs marked ‘lethal,’ his possession of riot gear and a vest loaded with pipe bombs, his support for political assassinations and use of the pictures of the President (Biden) for target practice.”
https://apnews.com/article/homemade-bombs-seized-virginia-firearms-c68488480ef8bd3de7b432272399aa28
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u/snarkywombat 4d ago
Pope bombs? Are those the modern equivalent of the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch?
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u/madbill728 5d ago
Sure, butthisguy would have donesome damage, even missing three fingers. Normal people don’t do this. Oh, news also said he was using targets with Biden’s face on them. It’s okay if you are a R.
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u/Cost_Additional 5d ago
He's for sure not normal and should probably be watched. Using a pres picture for shooting is 1st amendment in believe. You can make bombs, just have to store them correctly/potential paper work. Same with the rifle, paper work.
This is what he will be charged with, not having the registration on the rifle and the storage of explosives.
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u/Guidance-Still 5d ago
Who said that was ok ? Just those try to bait people
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u/madbill728 5d ago
Funny thing, an old Navy buddy of mine lives in SD, and told me about some guy the FBI visited because he was stockpiling ammo. My old buddy said "he was targeted for just being a conservative." This is how they think. Oh, and Fox news blaring all day. Hs wife is even worse.
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u/Guidance-Still 5d ago
Like people don't have CNN and MSN blaring all day lmao it works both ways
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u/nspider69 5d ago
Nobody is being radicalized by CNN or MSN, because at worst it’s just left-biased news. Fox has become a straight up propaganda machine. It’s not a fair comparison.
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u/RebelJohnBrown 4d ago
For stockpiling ammo? Fuck conservatives but what's wrong with that? Ammo is expensive gotta get it in bulk, lowers the cost. They also go quick at the range.
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u/No-Pianist5365 3d ago
lost fingers couple years back.
local redneck lost fingers with homemade explosives is pretty common and plastic pipe is for fireworks metal is for bombs
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u/HughGRection1492 4d ago
Didn’t you get bombarded with the CEO shooting “News”? I sure did. The feds are charging him with terrorism. I’m an old man but this act didn’t terrorize me. But I’m not the CEO of an insurance company that denies cancer patients medical care.
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u/fomites4sale 4d ago
“Homemade” makes them sound cheap and crude.
Artisanal explosives. Now you can overcharge for them at a boutique.
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u/Creepy_Amphibian_516 4d ago
Well guys, we missed all the signs for the exploding Tesla and one of our own war heros in the driver's seat, let's save face.
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u/MannyMoSTL 15h ago
JFC … “The investigation began in 2023 when an informant told authorities that Spafford was stockpiling weapons and ammunition, according to court documents. The informant, a friend, told authorities Spafford had disfigured his hand in 2021 while working on homemade explosives. Prosecutors said he only has two fingers on his right hand. The informant told authorities that Spafford was using pictures of the president, an apparent reference to President Joe Biden, for target practice and that “he believed political assassinations should be brought back,” prosecutors wrote.”
APNews: FBI found 150 homemade bombs at Virginia home during search in December, prosecutors say
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u/No-Market9917 5d ago
What a weird time for the guardian to release this story…
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u/benigntugboat 5d ago
Paperwork that released a.lot of the details was just filed on Monday. By the prosecutors
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u/Loud_Ad3666 5d ago
Why is it weird
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u/No-Market9917 5d ago
Active terrorist conspiracy and this story gets dropped on the same day. Just odd timing is all
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u/oneloneolive 5d ago
“Investigators seized more than 150 pipe bombs and other homemade devices when they searched the home of Brad Spafford north-west of Norfolk in December.”