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Top: Samshud-din Jabbar, New Orleans Truck Attacker, in an undated passport photo provided by the FBI. Bottom: Matthew Alan Livelsberger, Las Vegas Tesla Cybertruck Attacker (Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department)
The New Year’s Terror-Truck Attacks
At 3:16 AM on January 1, as revelers in New Orleans were still soaking in the joy and marinating in the alcoholic vapors of the freshly birthed year of 2025, a black man driving a recently rented white Ford F-150 Lightning pickup truck barreled over Bourbon Street pedestrians for three blocks. After crashing into a hydraulic lift, he exited the truck and began shooting, only to be shot dead in a gun battle with police. Counting the fourteen hapless celebrants he’d slaughtered by blunt-force trauma with his truck, he would be the fifteenth fatality.
A few hours later in what is technically the unincorporated town of Paradise, NV, a recently rented Tesla Cybertruck pulled up outside the front entrance to the Trump International Hotel Las Vegas. Within seconds, the vehicle exploded. The white driver would be the only fatality, but as of this writing, the FBI is claiming he died of a self-inflicted gunshot to the head moments before the explosion. Disputes linger over whether the deceased drove the Cybertruck or it drove him…whether he shot himself before the explosion or was killed in the blast…and even whether the “deceased” might still be alive.
As info and disinfo began trickling out about the suspects, a picture formed of two men—one white and one black—who may have acted alone and almost certainly didn’t collaborate, but both of whom might have been unwitting Deep State pawns used to stir chaos just weeks before Trump’s inauguration. Since they are both presumed dead, they won’t be able to confirm any posthumously released statements and messages they allegedly made regarding their political motivations.
The New Orleans truck-rammer, one Samshud-din Jabbar, appears to have been a Texas-born Southern Negro with no Arabic blood. Despite the perp’s comically Arabic name, his father was born as Masterson Young but changed it to “Abdal Rahim Jabbar” after converting to Islam and before getting married. Most of his family, despite being saddled with the surname “Jabbar,” continued worshiping at a Baptist church. In the FBI-provided passport photo, Jabbar looks lighter-skinned and more Islamically bearded than he did in this 2013 pic in the Army or this later promo video as a property manager.
An unnamed Army spokesman told Click2Houston that Jabbar served in the U.S. Army from 2007 to 2015 in IT and HR, was deployed in Afghanistan for 11 months ending in January 2010, and later resumed working for the Army Reserve ending in 2020.
As 2024 drew to a close, Jabbar had been divorced three times, was sinking in a quagmire of alimony and child-support payments, and was living alone in a “squalid” Houston trailer home, surrounded by roaming goats, cats, and chickens in a predominantly Muslim neighborhood.
The FBI says that the night before the Bourbon Street massacre while driving from Houston to New Orleans, Jabbar posted five Facebook videos addressed to his family. In these videos, he initially claimed that he intended to kill his family members but fretted that doing so would divert the media’s attention away from “the war between the believers and the disbelievers.” The recently “radicalized” Jabbar also claimed to have “joined” ISIS over the summer—as if that’s possible, and as if ISIS still exists in any meaningful way.
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Central to the initial narrative was the allegation that Jabbar’s truck had an unfurled ISIS flag on a pole on the hitch that was eventually placed on the ground and photographed once daylight came. The feds say he also placed explosives in coolers near Bourbon Street that never detonated.
The feds also say that Matthew Alan Livelsberger, the 37-year-old suspect in the Trump International Las Vegas Tesla Cybertruck Explosion, had placed “a detonation system composed of fireworks, gas tanks, and camping fuel” in his rented vehicle’s cargo bed.
Livelsberger, an active-duty Green Beret on leave from his base in Germany, was reportedly “just months away from completing the 20 years of service required for a full retirement package.” Like Jabbar, he’d served in the Afghan War.
Also like Jabbar, Livelsberger was distraught by family estrangement problems. He divorced his wild-eyed first wife in 2018. His second wife, whom he married in 2022 and had a baby girl with about eight months ago, was said to have left him “recently” over suspicions of infidelity.
In the days right before his death, his former girlfriend Alicia Arritt said he texted her “out of the blue,” boasting about his rented Cybertruck and how it made him feel like a superhero. Arritt, who’d served as an Army nurse in Germany and dated Livelsberger in between his two marriages, said that when she first met him in 2018, he’d described his life as a “personal hell,” spoke of mental exhaustion and emotional pain, struggled with depression and memory loss, and showed signs of “traumatic brain injury” after facing the violence of deployment.
The FBI says that after the Cybertruck explosion on New Year’s Day, which somehow burned Livelsberger’s body beyond recognition but left his military ID and phone mostly unscathed, they retrieved two text notes from the phone. Excerpts:
Fellow Servicemembers, Veterans and all Americans, TIME TO WAKE UP! We are being led by weak and feckless leadership who only serve to enrich themselves.
Military and vets move on DC starting now. Militias facilitate and augment this activity.
Occupy every major road along fed buildings and the campus of fed buildings by the hundreds of thousands.
Lock the highways around down with semis right after everybody gets in. Hold until the purge is complete.
Try peaceful means first, but be prepared to fight to get the Dems out of the fed government and military by any means necessary. They all must go and a hard reset must occur for our country to avoid collapse….
This was not a terrorist attack, it was a wakeup call. Americans only pay attention to spectacles and violence. What better way to get my point across than a stunt with fireworks and explosives.
Why did I do this? I needed to cleanse my mind of the brothers I’ve lost and relieve myself of the burden of the lives I took.
Consider this last sunset of ’24 and my actions the end of our sickness and a new chapter of health for our people. Rally around the [sic] Trump, Musk, Kennedy and ride this wave to the highest hegemony for all Americans.
It seems counterintuitive to blow up a Tesla outside a Trump hotel to show support for both Trump and Musk and to encourage a military-led “purge” of Democrats from government. If one had a suspicious mind, one could interpret it as a covert attempt to make Trump supporters look like domestic terrorists.
Even stranger is an email that Livelsberger allegedly sent to retired Army intelligence analyst Sam Shoemate on December 31 before the Cybertruck explosion. Tidbits:
What we have been seeing with “drones” is the operational use of gravitic propulsion systems powered aircraft by most recently China in the east coast, but throughout history, the US. Only we and China have this capability. …
China has been launching them from the Atlantic from submarines for years, but this activity recently has picked up. As of now, it is just a show of force.… There are dozens of those balloons in the air at any given time. The so what is because of the speed and stealth of these unmanned AC, they are the most dangerous threat to national security that has ever existed. They basically have an unlimited payload capacity and can park it over the WH if they wanted. It’s checkmate.
You need to elevate this to the media so we avoid a world war because this is a mutually assured destruction situation.
In the email, Livelsberger—if he actually was the sender—claimed to have personal knowledge about war crimes committed in Afghanistan that the Department of Defense and CIA covered up in 2019 while Trump was president.
Assuming that what happened in New Orleans and Las Vegas weren’t independent “lone wolf” attacks and were either orchestrated by or at least exploited by the current regime, it all seems suspicious. Do we really need another moral panic about ISIS and Islamic terror? Citing the New Orleans attack, Adam Schiff and his crazy Jewish eyes say we do. He also says it’s why he opposes Trump’s nomination of the lateral-lisping, cross-eyed street shitter Kash Patel to head the FBI.
Today is January 6. There’s no need to remind you of this date’s significance, nor of Adam Schiff’s role in pushing the “insurrection” narrative. Clearly, the only sane conclusion about the New Year’s terror-truck attacks is that they were Deep State psyops engineered to force us to pick sides between a Jeet and a Jew.
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It’s awfully convenient that when it would be helpful to have a living killer on hand to tell us their motivations, they always seem to perish. CEO murderer of course lives and takes on celebrity status. NO driver was Islamic by his own admission, but didn’t seem to express joy at leaving this world as a martyr. Why not? Why would the Tesla bomber use such primitive methods if he was trying for an impactful event? Both of these attacks reek of federal involvement. I’m curious, are both sites still closed off while the investigations are ongoing? Or have they been cleaned like the PA Trump shooting suspect perch? They can only claim incompetence so many times before it becomes a pattern. These both stink.
I didn’t know the body was burned beyond recognition. Probably means Livelsberger died in Ukraine and they’re using him as some kind of message to Trump and Musk. According to people on the ground and others with very good connections in Ukraine, Americans have been killed during the war with Russia, yet we never hear a news story about them. Any time you hear about an American service member dying during “training”, assume it was in Ukraine.
“Burned Beyond Recognition” simply means that the person’s face in the morgue or a photograph thereof would not be recognizable to somebody who knew him. So instead they have to identify the body via dental records, or fingerprints if they can actually get them. And there is DNA in addition to that which can be checked.
Also, the fact that his ID is not damaged as much as one might suspect is not necessarily a miracle. There are too many variables involved. The ID was in his wallet and he might have been sitting on it at one point, etc. Human bodies are mostly made of water so they don’t burn like dry cordwood except in Holocaust stories.
The detonation of the incediaries and explosives at the time of Livelsberger’s self-inflicted gunshot wound has not been explained to us yet as far as I know, but it isn’t that crazy. If he lit a fuse to his fireworks, that would account for it. He could have command-detonated things some other way or used a simple time delay.
The news media reported that he had “camping fuel” (basically Coleman camping fuel is just overpriced unleaded gasoline that you buy in gallon jugs at Walmart) or I understand what they really meant was propane gas cannisters like for grilling.
Also, I don’t know how much the Tesla batteries contributed to the explosion but I’ve heard that they go up like a roman candle when shorted out. Doing a lot of damage with a big body count didn’t seem to be Livelsberger’s motive, at least.
Anyway, the Clark County Sheriff’s Department and the Feds have Livelsberger on CCTV and litterally logged into every Tesla charging station on I-25 and I-40 between Denver and Vegas, and probably CCTV at every rest stop or convenience store that he drove by or stopped into. I believe the Sheriff mentioned that he had charged up the Tesla in Kingman, Arizona.
They were able to use traffic cameras almost in real time along I-70 to track Bryan Kohberger ─ the Washington State criminal justice PhD candidate from Pennsylvania who is suspected of the stabbing murders of four University of Idaho students at Moscow in 2022. Kohberger became a suspect in the first place from his cellphone tower pings near the murder loft and driving past the am/pm convenience store.
The Feds can probably also pull cell foam records on Livelsberger’s tower pings and maybe even get texts from the carrier despite not having an undamaged phone. If this were a domestic dispute, they probably would not bother but this is national news so they are going to pull out the stops.
And finally, Livelsberger’s “manifesto” sounds like a raving lunatic ─ as pretty much they all are. I think if it were really a psyop, the best Ritchie Boys wannabees could surely have done it much better, and maybe make it more incriminating for the incoming administration than a bunch of vague J6 crap that nobody cares about now that Trump has been elected and will likely be doing some beaucoup pardons.
Unhinged spree killers are just like the garden-variety school shooters that seek attention and maybe have nothing else to live for except going out in a blaze of glory.
As far as the dusky Jihadi in New Orleans, he sounds like he would have annihilated his own family just to get even with the world, but decided that doing something for Mr. Allahu Akbar with a rented motor vehicle would be more noble somehow.
Really, I don’t see any mystery here whatsoever. It might have been New Year’s Day or it might have been the 4th of July, it is big enough that it’s going to get its due media coverage.
Normal people would not want their dying legacy to be a shïthead that massacres a bunch of people, but these are not normal people. And there are probably many just like them ─ maybe only lacking the agency to rent a car or to focus long enough on completing an actual “goal” or whatever it was meant to be.
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Well said Scott. I always enjoy your comments.
Wow, that lengthy explanation looks like it could have been written at Langley. It’s longer than Goad’s whole article. My new policy is that whenever the government releases information, I assume they’re lying. Goes back to “2 weeks to flatten the curve.” And everything you listed could be true, the feds could tell us they pinged his phone all the way and a dozen nuns saw him. Thing is, the guy was living his life, 19 year vet, ready to collect his fat pension and a high paying government job after he retired, yet he “writes” a crazy manifesto. I don’t buy it.
It is good to be skeptical. But usually the best explanation is the simplest one. And in this case it seems that Livelsberger had mental issues. This could have gone on for some time as he held things together. Plus, his personal life seems to have been in quite a mess. A guy can get crushed by one divorce, let alone a string of Krazy Kates. Plus, I know for a fact that the Army will indulge and tolerate binge drunks with a serious keep-it-together problem far more readily than any other employer ever would (not saying that this was the case here). Anyone prior service probably has plenty of stories that could be told like this. Serious or borderline mental illness is difficult for the rest of us to understand simply because we are not mentally ill and our world is usually somewhat rationally ordered. We are just not going to see a dude with a truck bomb at the valet parking as some kind of Robin Hood who wants to die for our sins.
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I agree that these were sporadic attacks, and they basically were what they look like for the most part, not government psyops or anything, but I do think the left is covering up with Livelsberger. Initially, they said they weren’t sure it was really a terrorist attack. They tried to deny that it was a terrorist attack. Then that he’s a Trump supporter and then that it doesn’t make sense because he was such a warrior that he could’ve killed all the Trump supporters if he had wanted to. I think that they’re making up that letter. They’re trying to make it sound like he was a right wing activist when he was really a left-wing activist. Clearly, his target was Trump Tower. The motivation was to scare people from going to Trump properties, as goad alludes in the excellent stem article. The left doesn’t want there to be an equivalent to January 6. It’s much like the would be assassin in Pennsylvania. We’ve never learned anything about him—what his motive was, or what his writings were. They are just taking it out of the equation. They’re covering up a lot in an effort to make it seem there’s no left wing terrorism. Just my uneducated theory based on the news data we’ve all seen.
When I was in the US Army, all of the old timers would tiptoe to their pensions. And I was there in the 1980s when there were still a whole lot of Vietnam vets around. Now, even if the guy lost it because of his personal life, why does he rent a tesla and blow it up “after” shooting himself? In front of a Trump building? The simplest explanation is sometimes the best, but often isn’t. Although, if you always accept the simplest explanations, it probably gives you peace of mind. I’m not wearing a tinfoil hat, but I don’t believe anything they say anymore. Covid, 2020 election, Biden’s genius, there’s no inflation, the border is secure, Livelsberger is just crazy, all the simple things your government told you about. Buy it if you want. Not me.
I’m not as conspiracy-minded as many, but something about that note on Livelsberger’s phone immediately read as fake to me. It just feels so on the nose, almost as though they’d planted a note on him that said “Just so you know, I did this because I support Trump!”
Jan. 6 wasn’t no steenkin’ “insurrection.”
Summer of Floyd was an insurrection (any way you measure it)!
Consider calling it that, publicly.
As usual, stuff here you won’t see anywhere else. The Trump-supporting car blower-upper in front of a Trump building to shine a light on weak and feckless (kudos for using “feckless”) leaders appears to have been planned by Jussie Smollett. I think it’s headed for a place right next to the ice-cold case file of the 2017 Vegas shooter.
The Biden thing they’re trotting out where he calls “white supremacy” the greatest terrorism threat was said to black college grads. Way to send them out into the world. Biden blows.
Obama told a different class of black college grads: “I appreciate groups like Black Lives Matter.” So take it to the streets and put yourselves in harm’s way. He and the. missus will be on Richard Branson’s private island if you need ’em.
Isn’t Livelsberger a jewish lastname?
Why don’t you just look it up?
It’s not, but I will admit that looking it up didn’t give me anything useful.
Snivelsberger would be more appropriate.
A Jewish green beret?
DarkPlato: January 8, 2025 A Jewish green beret?
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Matthew Alan Livelsberger was no Jew. https://www.msn.com/en-us/public-safety-and-emergencies/general/from-bronze-star-to-baffling-end-green-beret-named-in-vegas-tesla-explosion-stuns-army/
Army Special Forces are not what they were in the 1960s, having since been sterilized almost beyond recognition to those os us who served in SF back then. We were practically all-White and unapologeticly racist — unlike today’s PC SF.
Still, SF standards today are higher than for average soldiers. Livelsberger seems to have been a model soldier, a decorated E-8 Master Sergeant with an American flag tattoo, no less. Who can say how combat affected him?
Thanks, Mr. Goad, for that image of his “wild-eyed first wife.” Married to her could have flipped a switch in his brain and made him crazy.
Thank you.
DarkPlato: January 8, 2025 Thank you.
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No problem, DP. Some here probably think Alfred Rosenberger was Jewish.
If you get a chance, read the latest article from MilitaryCoruption.com. It’s titled “Have DEI hires infected the pentagon?” It’s more evidence of how dysfunctional the Department of Defense and the military apparatus is.
Bigfoot: January 8, 2025 If you get a chance, read the latest article from MilitaryCoruption.com. It’s titled “Have DEI hires infected the pentagon?” It’s more evidence of how dysfunctional the Department of Defense and the military apparatus is.
Thanks, Bigfoot. I found that site — it’s <shock!> racist!, though it won’t admit it. Thank goodness for it anyway. I didn’t find that specific article. Didn’t need to.
We should all know by now how corrupted the PC U.S. military has become. I saw it coming back in the ’60’s. Never saw a Black officer until well after I’d been through Basic Training. Then, when in AIT (that’s we called Advanced Infantry Training) in 1967 at Fort McClellan, AL, all female soldiers had their own branch of the Army, headquartered there: the Women’s Army Corps (WAC’s). Now White males are less than 50% of the Army and are culled or never allowed to enlist if they show any racist tendencies.
There were a very few non-White Special Forces personnel back in the 1960s. We liked it that way. The few who were SF were qualified, not Affirmative Action-types — not yet. When I tell people that they cannot believe me.
An example: in the 1968 presidential election those of us who were deployed were not issued absentee ballots like today. We had a mock election anyway at our B-team and the result was 100% for the “racist” George Wallace and his VP candidate, Curtis “Bombs Away” Le May, who wanted to bomb the Viet Cong back into the Stone Age.
There’s a wonderful essay put up lst week by John Massaro: https://nationalvanguard.org/2025/01/keep-talkin-trash-donald/ John mentions Vietnam veterans favorably in it and gives a link to a site that honors them. It’s about time: htpp://vvmf.org
Damn, no audio version. Love your readings, hope this isn’t permanent. Cheers
As per Occam’s Razor, Manchurian Candidate or Parallax View type theories are less likely than these two guys being troubled and having their lives upturned by messy divorces/separations. A lot might be said that divorce doesn’t show bias towards men, but from the way they acted out, it becomes a stretch to imagine they were cool headed reasonable types in their relationships.
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