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underpants

(182,271 posts)
Thu Jan 28, 2021, 08:23 AM Jan 2021

White Privilege Card - California would-be terrorist carried one



Napa Man Arrested For Explosives Had 'White Privilege Card', Allegedly Planned to Blow Up Twitter and Gavin Newsom

https://sfist.com/2021/01/27/napa-man-arrested-for-explosives-is-another-crazy-trumper/


A Napa businessman whose January 15 arrest we learned of last week, turns out to have been allegedly plotting to attack the state Capitol, as well as Twitter and Facebook, all in the name of Donald Trump.

Much like this unhinged idiot in the East Bay who was arrested by the feds this week, Napa resident Ian Benjamin Rogers, 44, was taken into custody by federal agents earlier this month following a tip that he was in possession of several illegal weapons. As KTVU reported, Napa County sheriff's deputies served a warrant at Rogers's business, British Auto Repair of Napa, on January 15, and found a cache of over 50 firearms, including illegal assault rifles and automatic weapons, as well as five homemade pipe bombs, 15,000 rounds of ammunition, and several pounds of gun powder.

A federal bomb squad went about detonating the five devices outside the business, using a makeshift bunker made out of rubber tires. The Napa Valley Register, whose offices are very close to British Auto Repair, reports that employees were instructed to stay on the newspaper's property while the bomb squad and its robot were at work.


Among his possessions, according to federal agents, was a piece of Trump-era swag for the white supremacist set: a White Privilege Card that looks kind of like an old Diners Club card or something, with the number all made out of "45" and the tagline "Trumps Everything."



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White Privilege Card - California would-be terrorist carried one (Original Post) underpants Jan 2021 OP
Jeezus Delphinus Jan 2021 #1
Poor fellow malaise Jan 2021 #2
Looks Like A Touch Up... JimGinPA Jan 2021 #3
Indeed malaise Jan 2021 #4
Down to the very follicle! GulfCoast66 Jan 2021 #10
+1,000 malaise Jan 2021 #12
Pretty hairy situation! hatrack Jan 2021 #16
Hairy and scary malaise Jan 2021 #17
These people make me feel embarrassed to be white. dewsgirl Jan 2021 #5
LOL underpants Jan 2021 #7
Obviously a lone wolf type... Hugin Jan 2021 #6
Etsy. underpants Jan 2021 #8
Weird. Hugin Jan 2021 #11
Just another piece of Trump terrorist merchandise malaise Jan 2021 #13
Along with the easy breezy Trump hair dye. Hugin Jan 2021 #14
Of course malaise Jan 2021 #15
Kick dalton99a Jan 2021 #9
Thanks for the detail. Yikes. Nt. underpants Jan 2021 #25
Sorry, bud. Real white men slather bronzer on their face. You don't make the cut. Midnight Writer Jan 2021 #18
Scary ... but on the side issue of the white privilege card - its odd that THEY made it karynnj Jan 2021 #19
But they're not rascists. Noooo. n/t malthaussen Jan 2021 #20
But, but, but, there is no white privilege. onecaliberal Jan 2021 #21
Race narcissism NEOBuckeye Jan 2021 #22
"... Rogers's business, British Auto Repair of Napa.." Doc_Technical Jan 2021 #23
This too. underpants Jan 2021 #26
They disassembled the pipe bombs? Glad I don't have that job. Hermit-The-Prog Jan 2021 #24
Card Carrying White Supremacists NEOBuckeye Jan 2021 #27
Another illiterate loon for Trump. SergeStorms Jan 2021 #28
Does anyone know Corgigal Jan 2021 #29

Hugin

(32,778 posts)
6. Obviously a lone wolf type...
Thu Jan 28, 2021, 09:29 AM
Jan 2021

Made that card up himself. Nobody would sell anything like that as there's no money in making them.

Hugin

(32,778 posts)
11. Weird.
Thu Jan 28, 2021, 09:45 AM
Jan 2021

I haven't seen that particular product featured in their ads.

Along with the ties, vases, earrings, and other baubles.

Hugin

(32,778 posts)
14. Along with the easy breezy Trump hair dye.
Thu Jan 28, 2021, 09:51 AM
Jan 2021

But, I insist he was a lone wolf. Just like the other thousand or so lone wolves who all independently simultaneously decided to storm the US Capitol building. Completely, unprompted by any outside source.

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malaise

(267,800 posts)
15. Of course
Thu Jan 28, 2021, 09:53 AM
Jan 2021

although some did brag that they were following Trump's orders.
I can't wait for the trial to begin.

dalton99a

(81,065 posts)
9. Kick
Thu Jan 28, 2021, 09:44 AM
Jan 2021
On Jan. 10, four days after the Capitol attack, Rogers texted a friend: “We can attack Twitter or the democrats you pick” and “I think we can attack either easily.” The other unidentified individual wrote back, “Let’s go after Soros,” referencing George Soros.

Rogers said that would require a “road trip,” whereas, “We can attack Twitter and democrats easy right now burn they’re (sic) shit down.”

On Jan. 11, Rogers texted the same person: “I want to blow up a democrat building bad ... The democrats need to pay.”

He again referenced the presidential election.

“I hope 45 goes to war if he doesn’t I will,” Rogers texted.

Rogers continued on his texts, according to court records: “I’m thinking sac office first target ... Then maybe bird and face offices.”

Minor wrote that she believed the Napa man was referring to the offices of Gov. Gavin Newsom in Sacramento and Twitter (“bird”) and Facebook (“face”), since Trump had been removed from both social media platforms.

A Napa County Sheriff’s Office bomb technician examined the pipe bombs seized from his business and determined they were fully operational.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Suspected-far-right-extremist-with-White-15903047.php

karynnj

(59,474 posts)
19. Scary ... but on the side issue of the white privilege card - its odd that THEY made it
Thu Jan 28, 2021, 12:53 PM
Jan 2021

The clear message for most (ignoring the Trump stuff) is that the card is for the holder's full life time -- and the claim is "scot free". This actually has a modicum of truth (on a more limited level) for all of us who are white. The difference in penalties - especially for the young - for similar transgressions leads to huge differences in lives.

Here, they are not just not denying that this privilege exists, but are reveling in its existence.

Doc_Technical

(3,504 posts)
23. "... Rogers's business, British Auto Repair of Napa.."
Thu Jan 28, 2021, 05:33 PM
Jan 2021

Anyone who works on British vehicles is a frustrated masochist,
corrupted by Joseph Lucas the "Prince of Darkness"

SergeStorms

(18,882 posts)
28. Another illiterate loon for Trump.
Fri Jan 29, 2021, 12:04 AM
Jan 2021

Even with his "white privilege " he's an ignoramus. All the advantages this country bestows on white idiots like him, and he still insists on fucking it up.

Corgigal

(9,291 posts)
29. Does anyone know
Fri Jan 29, 2021, 12:07 AM
Jan 2021

what is the name of this color blond?

Just in case I go underground and become an informant.

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