Anybody watching CNN right now?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

They are interviewing MAGAbomber's former employer - she said he was a very good, reliable employee (he was a driver for her business) but personally weird as shit - and he told her he was a white supremacist and that she'd burn in hell along with the blacks and the Jews because she's a lesbian, and she wouldn't let him drive his van for work during the day because of the stickers, and inside the van were dolls with their heads cut off and nooses and swastikas.

[renate]

1. wow... she's a pretty easy-going boss

I like to think of myself as easy to get along with, but I'd take exception to an employee telling me I would burn in hell... especially if he's got dolls with heads cut off, swastikas, and nooses in his van.

[Beakybird]

5. Reminds me of an AA meeting:

"Next week, I'm going to come with kerosene and light of all of you on fire!"
Rest of group: "Thank you for sharing."

[icymist]

38. I think you forgot to use the 'sarcasm' smilie. n/t

[allgood33]

24. What kind of boss hires a guy like that? Just wondering.

[canetoad]

26. A reasonable,

Non-judgemental one?

[paleotn]

53. Umm, no.

Publicly stating at work they are a white supremacist and Jews, African Americans, LGBTQ, [fill in the blank] are going to burn in hell, is well outside the realm of anything reasonable. Lets just say that doesn't contribute much towards a professional, supportive and inclusive work environment and probably scares the shit out of co-workers. More than enough reason to be shown the door.

[canetoad]

56. Fine

Spend as much time as you like blaming the magabomber's employer, because you know, she's the real villain here, not the guy who made and posted the bombs.

[kerry-is-my-prez]

60. Correct. You don't want somebody like that representing your business. Employees are "agents" of

your corporation and YOU can be sued if they do harm while they are "on the clock." They are representing you and your company. You are basically responsible for their actions when they are working for you. They can still cause you a huge PR problem when they are off the clock.

[Gore1FL]

33. The GOP members of the Senate Judiciary Committee? nt

[DemocracyMouse]

47. Nice! :-)

[joshcryer]

34. Someone who hates high turnover and desires reliability.

[Corvo Bianco]

71. It's a tough line to walk.

On one hand somebody with all their shit together doesn't need you or the job and they will let you down. On the other hand you pick the guy who sleeps in his van with headless mannequins and he's only reliable until he burns the town down.

[FakeNoose]

44. I think he was delivering pizza, or some kind of food

Not sure but the lady who tweeted the photo that her husband took, said this guy made the delivery. The van was so weird that her husband took a photo, and remembered it a year later when it was shown on CNN today. Then he recalled the guy and said, "Oh yeah, that's the guy!"

More info and photo on this post from earlier today.

link: https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=11325940

[jmbar2]

59. desperate - tight labor market.

[alfredo]

42. Reminds me of the woman with a toaster that made an image of Satan.

When asked why she hasn’t bought a new one, she replied “all in all it makes good toast.”

[CCExile]

50. My first wife

thought she was a chicken, but we needed the eggs, so...

[alfredo]

66. +1

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

51. +1

Ha!

[maxsolomon]

2. other than that, mrs. lincoln

how was the play?

[targetpractice]

25. So many great options...

But, I nominate your reply for "The WIN". Thanks, maxsolomon!

[doc03]

3. They cut to a Trump ralley in Charlotte and the morons

are chanting CNN sucks.

[dubyadiprecession]

58. I thought they didn't care what the media says?

As their slogan goes, "I really don't care, do you".

Why hate CNN? Just don't watch CNN if you don't like it.

[dewsgirl]

4. He was a pizza delivery driver, I think. I

Can't imagine that van rolling up to my house with my delivery.

[lunasun]

14. Well no delivery tip here.. sorry you want me dead on your off work hours! And any pizza place

allowing a driver to use that van in the evening gets knocked off my call list anyway

[dewsgirl]

20. Definitely not. I want to rearend every deplorable

in front of me that has a MAGA sticker, if I saw that van in front of me, I think my brain would have imploded.

[lunasun]

27. I think their brains have shriveled and want no interaction . Trumpers are the new zombies

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=11324495

[dewsgirl]

40. I agree 1000%.

[kerry-is-my-prez]

61. And he probably would assault anyone who dared disagree with them. His employer could be sued

or worse.

[BigmanPigman]

6. Yeah, I just posted it.

She said he hated Rachel Maddow too. Earlier when CNN was showing his twitter/Facebook posts and I thought I saw Rachel's face on one of them. Now I am fairly certain it was her picture after hearing his employer speak.

I would NEVER have been in a van alone with a guy who often said that I was a mistake and he would like to put me on an island to be burned up.

[BumRushDaShow]

7. Yup saw that interview

She seemed to be a toughie herself. This guy was wacked.

But the analysis going on right now is good in terms of them basically saying that this whole thing with embracing the campaign and white supremacy has filled an obvious void in his life and gave him a reason to get up every day.

[appalachiablue]

8. Native American and a white supremacist, never voted till 2016,

rap sheet-- doesn't make much sense.

[obamanut2012]

12. The Seminole Tribe has stated he is NOT one of them

As he states. He is not on their rolls.

[appalachiablue]

15. Saw it, ty. Tom Steyer coming up

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

13. The Seminoles have issued a statement saying he's not one of them

and he has no relationship with them.

[appalachiablue]

16. got it

[dalton99a]

31. "Sayoc's only connection to Native Americans was that he once dated a member of a tribe"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/bomb-suspect-has-long-arrest-record-including-bomb-threat/2018/10/26/b03f97a6-d94a-11e8-8384-bcc5492fef49_story.html
Bomb suspect was cash-strapped ex-stripper devoted to Trump
By Michael Biesecker and Stephen Braun | AP
October 26 at 7:41 PM

Altieri, his cousin, said Sayoc’s only connection to Native Americans was that he once dated a member of a tribe.

Sayoc was born in New York City. His mother was Italian and his biological father was Filipino, and his parents separated when he was a young boy, Altieri said. After his parents separated, Sayoc was “kind of rejected” by his family.'

[Cha]

54. The MAGABomber is Definitely NOT Native American..

Just a big fucking brainwashed LIAR.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=11326472

[appalachiablue]

57. I know, wish that hadn't been spread around. My cousin in MN

was m. to a Fla. native American guy, Seminole and she has close Ojibwe friends.

[lapfog_1]

9. holy crap... she let him represent HER business by driving his own van

with all that crap on it?

I wouldn't let him and his van anywhere near my company... even if he just parked in the parking lot of my business.

[MaryMagdaline]

17. They don't call our county Broweird for nothing

People used to watch America’s Most Wanted just to see if their neighbors were on that week.

[lapfog_1]

19. now that's funny... and probably a little bit true

[Liberal In Texas]

65. Like how we used to watch "Cheaters" as a guilty pleasure.

Until we saw that it was shot here.

Oh well.

[MaryMagdaline]

68. You'll never have to live our shame

We all just cringed when we saw it was Florida again. And Broward. Our county is full of weirdos. I was immensely proud of the Parkland kids, but then I remembered that their killer is from here, too.

[BumRushDaShow]

37. ....

[sinkingfeeling]

10. She said he believed that anybody who wasn't white would burn in hell.

[lunasun]

11. OK dolls with their heads cut off and nooses and swastikas, wth?

[elmac]

35. by looking at the guy I would bet that he has abused steroids in the past

and that stuff can really give you anger issues.

[lunasun]

49. Body builder / ex stripper so you may be right - residue from younger years or jacked his head

[lunasun]

70. Correct you are

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=post&forum=1014&pid=2187578

[rockfordfile]

18. Sounds like she should have called the police a long time ago.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

22. She's way more tolerant than I'd have been.

She said she didn't feel she could fire him because of his politics because he was a competent employee, but I wouldn't have let that van anywhere near my business. And I wouldn't feel bad about firing an employee who told me I was going to Hell.

[UniteFightBack]

30. Thank you....terrible judgement in my opinion. An important requirement of the job is the car

and you hire a guy with a car like that? WHAT?

[moondust]

21. Saw some of it.

Yikes. He got his license to drive hazardous materials in North Carolina.

Despite all the crazy stuff she didn't feel she could do anything because freedom of speech or something.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

23. He says he got a hazmat driver's license but we don't know if that's true.

It sounds like he's not a model of truthfulness; apparently he's lied about being a member of the Seminole tribe.

[appalachiablue]

43. Lady kept on about 'it's a free country, free speech.' Too much methinks.

[gopiscrap]

28. typical republican

[UniteFightBack]

29. I'm sorry but it makes ZERO SENSE to hire someone to to deliveries with a van like that....

what the actual fuck lady.

[Grasswire2]

32. I'm wondering how many people are scraping decals off their vans tonight.

We were told by authorities today that if we see a vehicle or someone with memes of faces with targets superimposed that we should say something to authorities.

[BumRushDaShow]

39. None.

They really don't care and they will most definitely get away with it because "free speech".

But if you are black and have a tail light out or a sticker on your rear window, then that might result in a fatal traffic stop.

[MrQRO]

36. Here's what I was thinking earlier today....

An African-American tries to use a pool @ their own complex, or enter their own complex,
and some "Eagle-Eye" calls the cops....

This freak oozed "I'm a danger to the public", and it was "all good"!
Someone here on DU even saw the van and took pics, they thought it was SO weird!

Where were the 50 scared and outraged calls to the law?
Why didn't his tolerant boss say that this guy was over the edge?
This guy was posting all over social media that he was going to lose it..... Nothing!

So, If you're of color and look sideways, instant cop call... You are a REAL threat.. It's all good.

SMH!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

41. The problem is that he hadn't done anything illegal. The crap on his van

is protected speech even though it's offensive and scary. If you call the police you'd be told they can't do anything unless he commits a crime. Being weird isn't illegal. Having extreme political views isn't illegal. If he'd threatened someone that would be different, but apparently he didn't, at least not recently. The tolerant boss thought he was weird as shit but she kept him on because he did a good job, showed up on time, didn't steal, and she didn't get complaints from customers (she didn't let him drive for her during the day). People can't be arrested just because they're so weird that they might do something.

[MrQRO]

63. I understand that!

My point is that just being a person of color in anyplace....
Seems to warrant a call to the cops.....
This guy was a walking, talking, moving, billboard for issues, and... silence!

I understand that there is no probable cause, no law against being weird, etc., etc.,

My Point is that a person of color gets a call for just going about their daily business, and this guy
was a poster boy for "something's up"... and nothing!

Just trying to point out the double standard...

I suppose the subtlety of the issue is lost here somehow.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

64. Of course it's ridiculous. I was thinking only of the MAGAbomber's behavior

before he got into bomb-making. I agree 100% that this country is seriously messed up when people of color can't go to a swimming pool or a picnic in a park or get access to their own apartment without some racist busybody calling the cops while an obvious nutball like Cesar Sayoc is pretty much ignored. You'll get no argument from me.

[iluvtennis]

46. +++ agree.

Welcome to DU MrQRO.

[iluvtennis]

45. OMG. I'm speechless. What a sick bastard. Glad he's off the streets.

[YOHABLO]

48. The correlation between fanaticism and mental impairment seems to be a common denominator

within the flock of Trump supporters. So nothing in his history surprises me.

[Cha]

52. Well Shiiiiiiit

[Hoyt]

55. Wouldn't want someone like that delivering my pizza.

[John Fante]

62. If you ignore the fact that he was Ed Gein-lite, dude was a totally

solid employee.

[PunkinPi]

67. Complete interview for those that missed it...

Link to tweet

[USALiberal]

69. WTF??? Most normal people would fire this nut job. nt