Thursday, January 02, 2025

Cybertruck Explosion at Trump Las Vegas Hotel

Police are investigating the explosion of a Tesla Cybertruck outside the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. Police said a cybertruck pulled up in front of the hotel near a glass entrance, then smoke started coming from the vehicle and it exploded. The driver was killed and seven people were injured in the explosion, police said without naming any suspects.

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WATCH: The moment a Tesla Cybertruck exploded this morning in front of Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas

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-- MeidasTouch (@meidastouch.com) January 1, 2025 at 2:33 PM

Comments

Haha.

Suck it Fat Boy, this is your life from now on.

#1 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-01-01 05:49 PM

2025 CyberPintos are going to come with complimentary fire extinguishers.

#2 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-01-01 06:07 PM

Musk needs to be deported.

Hertz would help, after all the now worthless stock he stuck them with.

#3 | Posted by Corky at 2025-01-01 06:20 PM

Another rented truck. Weird.

#4 | Posted by gracieamazed at 2025-01-01 07:11 PM

Both trucks rented on the same app, I hear.

"Cybertruck that exploded and truck in New Orleans attack rented on same app"

abcnews.go.com

#5 | Posted by Corky at 2025-01-01 07:44 PM

No way of knowing if there's a connection since they haven't named the driver yet.

#6 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-01-01 07:46 PM

Musk needs to be deported.

Its wasn't a battery explosion idiot.

You don't get the link between the Truck and Trump tower? FFS delete your account.

#7 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-01-01 08:47 PM

No way of knowing if there's a connection since they haven't named the driver yet.

Yeah both were Electric Trucks rented from the same DIY rental "company", both used in a terrorist attack, just a coincidence...

You too, delete your account.

#8 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-01-01 08:49 PM

Staying at a Trump hotel and driving one of Elmo's box on wheels sounds dangerous. Has Luigi been blamed yet for this by Fox News or OAN?

#9 | Posted by a_monson at 2025-01-02 08:58 AM

Matthew Livelsberger, an Army vet, in another rented vehicle, weird.

#10 | Posted by gracieamazed at 2025-01-02 11:10 AM

Green Beret as well. Tim McVeigh wannabe.
That makes two military vets.

In a militarized society, the first ones to go berserk are the front liners.
My father was a front liner. All the potential killing or terroristic acts he ever did (although he never admitted to any) was done OVER THERE.

"I am in a world of ----"

#11 | Posted by NerfHerder at 2025-01-02 12:28 PM

Another great job by the Biden/Harris intelligence agencies. If they stayed out of Melania's panty drawer and focused on actual crime we would be a lot safer.

#12 | Posted by fishpaw at 2025-01-02 12:53 PM

Why are all of these right wing ---------- committing acts of terror?

#13 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-01-02 12:56 PM

A Tesla cyber truck exploding in flames in front of Trump towers.

A Trumpy Classic.

Sign of the times.

#14 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-01-02 01:04 PM

No way of knowing if there's a connection since they haven't named the driver yet.
#6 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-01-01 07:46 PM

Maybe it was a healthcare CEO? I hear they're dropping like flies.

#15 | Posted by redlightrobot at 2025-01-02 03:29 PM

Wait, he was a MAGAt?

Hahaha!

#16 | Posted by rstybeach11 at 2025-01-02 04:22 PM

Yet another terrorist attack not perpetrated by a leftist

#17 | Posted by truthhurts at 2025-01-02 04:41 PM

Special Forces?

Given his understanding of energy and explosive force, I'm thinking he's more Special Ed.

#18 | Posted by horstngraben at 2025-01-02 07:00 PM

There's also this ...

Car-sharing app Turo defends security standards after New Year's attacks
www.latimes.com

... Both the vehicles used in two New Year's Day attacks in New Orleans and Las Vegas were rented through Turo, a car-sharing app.

The attacks thrust the San Francisco company that created the app, which relies on a model similar to Airbnb to enable users to rent cars directly from their owners, into the spotlight and raised questions about the ability of such peer-to-peer services to adequately vet users for possible safety issues.

In a statement, the company defended itself, saying it's committed to the "highest standards in risk management." ...


#19 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-01-02 07:56 PM

@#19 ... which relies on a model similar to Airbnb to enable users to rent cars directly from their owners ...

OK, I have to ask ...

Why would a sane person rent out their personal car to a total stranger?


#20 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-01-02 08:02 PM

Why would a sane person rent out their personal car to a total stranger?

Cuz they have a ------ car?

#21 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-01-02 08:08 PM

Why would a sane person rent out their personal car to a total stranger?

#20 | POSTED BY LAMPLIGHTER

Money. People do the strangest things for money.

They even rent out their homes to total strangers!!

Why would a sane person rent out their personal car or homes?

Money. Money .. money .. money.

#22 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-01-02 08:16 PM

imo, I would say that Turo has just earned itself a warranted and, unlikely desired, slot on the FBI watch list.


#23 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-01-02 08:23 PM

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#7 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-01-01 08:47 PM
You don't get the link between the Truck and Trump tower? FFS delete your account.

I think we all get that: Musk + Trump = BFFs (for now ?)... Was that the right answer? Is there a prize? Or just too easy?

#8 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-01-01 08:49 PM
Yeah both were Electric Trucks rented from the same DIY rental "company", both used in a terrorist attack, just a coincidence...

Except that in Vegas it was not an "attack" or act of "terrorism" - it was really a suicide / self-immolation using Musk's Tesla Truck with low-charge explosives and space in front of LV Trump Hotel, not trying to ram the entrance or intended to harm anyone else, with whatever weird political/personal message that entails TBD... so yeah, most likely only a few similarities / coincidences.

There are quite a few studies of people often being more confident in their beliefs/knowledge having partial / "incomplete information" about a subject than those who have "complete information" (where that is possible) - "Illusion of Information Adequacy" is very useful in game and probability theories, among others.

Illusory Truth Effect
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#24 | Posted by CutiePie at 2025-01-03 04:32 AM

Army Green Beret behind Las Vegas Cybertruck attack wrote New Year's Eve letter signaling mental health crisis

www.cbsnews.com

#25 | Posted by Corky at 2025-01-03 09:20 PM

Both the Las Vegas and New Orleans vets had worked at Fort Bragg (now called Fort Liberty), the expansive North Carolina military base which has become notorious for mysterious homicides, an epidemic of drug overdoses and rampant child sex abuse (Also: one such example.
Both had also participated in the US occupation of Afghanistan.

Don't let ANYONE tell you there isn't a correlation.

#26 | Posted by Nerfherder at 2025-01-03 09:44 PM

More on the above from Stars and Stripes.

Maybe certain right-wing military vets living in that beautiful and wholesome state of North Carolina (sic) will care to comment ...

#27 | Posted by NerfHerder at 2025-01-03 09:52 PM

Don't let ANYONE tell you there isn't a correlation.

The question is more like was there coordination, which seems unlikely.

#28 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-01-04 12:07 AM

More interesting than conspiracy-seeking are a couple of similarities that are actually a lot more recent ones, which are also more likely to have been the triggers for suicidal actions:

Shamsud-din Jabbar was divorced 3 times, the most recent one (2022) turning nasty, with his wife getting a restraining order and eventual child custody, and his latest real-estate management business (he previously started several unsuccessful companies) was bleeding money - he was seriously in debt, with child-support payments and going broke. Whether or not he had PTSD before, that's extremely stressful and creates fertile mental ground for isolation, radicalization and/or violence. He initially wanted to "only" kill his family, but that wouldn't get that much media attention.

Matthew Livelsberger (Cybertruck in LV) had clear signs of PTSD (and probable TBI) and just days before he staged the "spectacular, attention-grabbing" suicide he was apparently dumped by his second wife (they have an 8-month old child).

Investigators in Livelsberger case should also look into possibility of him being treated, or self-treating, with psychedelics - there has been a lot of hype recently about using a range of psychedelics (ibogaine, ayahuasca, ketamine, psilocybin/shrooms, mescaline/"San Pedro", LSD+MDMA/"Candy Flipping", etc.) to treat PTSD and TBI, but little, if anything has been published about side-effects, such as HPPD and so on...
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#29 | Posted by CutiePie at 2025-01-04 07:51 PM

@#26 ... Don't let ANYONE tell you there isn't a correlation. ...

How many soldiers pass through Fort Bragg each year?

#30 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-01-04 07:57 PM

@#24, 29

Thanks for the info. But these two comments seem to be the first from you that did not post links.

That said ...

@#24 ... it was really a suicide / self-immolation using Musk's Tesla Truck with low-charge explosives and space in front of LV Trump Hotel ...

Maybe the Las Vegas bombing was a Timothy McVeigh attempt with miscalculated explosive power?



#31 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-01-04 08:02 PM

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#31 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-01-04 08:02 PM
Maybe the Las Vegas bombing was a Timothy McVeigh attempt with miscalculated explosive power?

He was a Green Beret, he knew very well how much power needed to be inside "bulletproof" fortified Cybertruck (which is why it was chosen in the first place) to minimize the unintended casualties. Also, he would put a much higher load inside the truck bed instead of fireworks - it was designed to create a spectacle, to get enough media attention, not to harm people or property.

www.nbcnews.com - Soldier who died in Cybertruck left writing criticizing government :

"We are the United States of America, the best country ... to ever exist, but right now, we are terminally ill and headed towards collapse." "This was not a terrorist attack. It was a wake up call. Americans only pay attention to spectacles and violence. What better way to get my point across than a stunt with fireworks and explosives. ... I need to cleanse my mind of the brothers I've lost, and relieve myself of the burden of the lives I took."
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#32 | Posted by CutiePie at 2025-01-04 08:15 PM

@#32 ... What better way to get my point across than a stunt with fireworks and explosives. ...

Yeah, that's what I have seen in your prior comments.

Many thanks for the follow-up. Appreciated.

So, it seems he knew what he could have done, but chose to do a stunt with low-power pyrotechnics as a way to get his point across.


#33 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-01-04 08:39 PM

How many soldiers pass through Fort Bragg each year?

Difficult to say but the base population is around 40,000.

#34 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-01-04 09:35 PM

@#34

Found this ...

Welcome to Fort Bragg
https://www.soc.mil/NewComers/FortBragg.html

... Welcome to Fort Bragg, one of the U.S. Army's largest installations in the world.

The installation covers about 161,000 acres, or 251 square miles, stretching into six counties. More than 55,000 military service members and about 12,000 civilian personnel work at Fort Bragg, with about 25,000 family members living on post. ...


Woof. Six counties. 251 square miles.


That is not Fort Wadsworth.

Fort Wadsworth
https://www.nps.gov/gate/learn/historyculture/fort-wadsworth.htm

... Fort Wadsworth is one of the oldest military installations in the nation. The site occupies 226 acres on the northeastern shore of Staten Island, on the Narrows of New York Harbor. Rich in history and natural beauty, Fort Wadsworth affords you the opportunity to observe an important part of our nation's history, while offering magnificent views of New York Harbor. You can sit at the overlook and watch the harbor, ride your bike (click here for bike path map), run or walk through the fort.

Find a detailed history of Fort Wadsworth here.

...


#35 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-01-04 09:47 PM

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