The devices might have had some powder in them. Whether they did or not wasn’t revealed, as far as I know. But if they were all like the one in the picture presented in the news, they wouldn’t have worked. And the one reportedly shown by CNN obviously didn’t work. And in that photo, there was a clock. Mail devices don’t work with clocks. In another photo shown by Fox News, IIRC, something like an x-ray was shown. There was no blasting cap apparent in that one.
The devices were essentially fake. And the Hispanic suspect went too far in trying to present himself as a Republican, while he was sacrificing himself to try to sway the elections to Democrats.
He’s not the only one to try to sacrifice himself that way. There were obviously several others who tried to do the same in attempts to take away our Second Amendment protections. Each of them conducted themselves as vain con artists by going way too far in their false characterizations of themselves.
They images falsely presented by them or their handlers are like mad caricatures. That’s how organized criminals have often conducted themselves: extremely flamboyantly. It’s a pride thing.
Listen, folks. There are some very influential people behind the bizarre hoaxes. Some of the are probably billionaires. So expect more attacks like the one we’ve just seen. Their resources are enormous.
Reminds one of the Nazi Reichstag fire maneuver, which allowed the Nazi wing of German Socialism to assume dictatorial power to “protect” Germany from the Bolshevik wing of the Socialist movement. (They tricked a Communist mental case to actually trigger the blaze, as I recall.)