American ISIS: Two Military Members Commit Terrorist Acts On New Year’s Day

A disturbing, if unsurprising start to 2025

In America, on New Year’s Day 2025, a Texas-born US Army veteran, self-proclaimed to be radicalized into ISIS ideology, rented a pickup truck from an app called Turo, set multiple IEDs, and murdered 14 people by running them over on Bourbon Street, before dying in a shootout with police.

Hours later, a Trump-supporting active duty Special Forces officer, on leave from a post in Germany, rented a CyberTruck — also from Turo — filled it with fireworks and explosive chemicals, drove to Trump Tower Las Vegas, shot himself, and exploded the car with himself inside it.

These type of terrorist incidents are, sadly, hardly novel in the world these days, but these are US Armed Forces service members turned domestic terrorists, sending a message through violent action almost simultaneously.

Apparently both of these terrorists spent time at Ft. Bragg, now Liberty, which is the home of US military psychological operations, and where Mike Flynn spent most of his career. While there is currently no confirmed linkage other than Turo, the timing & their military careers, these incidents are already being intentionally confused and weaponized.

There is a lot going on here, to say the least.

I was told by now we would have flying cars but instead we have American ISIS on the loose — and Kash Patel coming in to run FBI.

If you have time, this evening, I will be doing a livestream with my podcast partners at 7PM PT / 10PM ET to try to sort some of this out and talk about the long, long year to come. We have a nice community and it’s nice to be around others who share a common reality. Hope you can come by!

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