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SBminisguy30 Nov 2022 8:55 a.m. PST

I dunno what to make of this news -- all five rental cars used by POTUS Biden's Secret Service entourage for his Thanksgiving retreat at Nantucket burst into flames the day after Biden left.

*Why was the Secret Service in rental cars??

*Was POTUS in a rental, or did he have The Beast available to him or some other armored POTUS-mobile?

*If it was Fate, how can the rental agency explain all five cars burning at once -- or do Hertz cars routinely burst into flames and it's no biggie?

*Was this active sabotage intended as a Message for Joe's handlers?

*Or was this a failed hit and someone got the date wrong on the timers?

Five Secret Service rental vehicles that were used by President Biden and his retinue over the Thanksgiving weekend are now burned. The Secret Service vehicles burst into flames in a parking lot on Monday, just one day after the president left from his Nantucket vacation. (Video above.)

Biden and his family spent Thanksgiving at the island retreat. As reported by Fox News, the Secret Service rented five vehicles from Hertz for the president and his family. All five of them caught fire in the parking lot, according to footage that was first obtained by the Nantucket Current.


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35thOVI Supporting Member of TMP30 Nov 2022 9:07 a.m. PST

All damage seemed to be in the front of the vehicles. They say they are not EV. Not much on this, agreed.

Personal logo Legion 4 Supporting Member of TMP In the TMP Dawghouse30 Nov 2022 9:51 a.m. PST

Yes, seems a bit concerning … and appears there is no answers being released. There has to be more to the story. My first thought was many of Secret Service could have been killing or injured.

doc mcb30 Nov 2022 10:51 a.m. PST

Five different makes of car.

Thresher0130 Nov 2022 11:32 a.m. PST

Seems like a greenie on the rampage to me.

VERY interestingly, the Secret Service is supposedly NOT investigating this very curious occurrence, and is leaving it to the rental car company.

That reinforces my hypothesis considerably.

I believe one may have been an EV, and reportedly it was listed as possibly having a fire issue, but still, 5 on fire, and just the fronts of them (engine compartments only) seems quite curious indeed if the fire was to spread from one to the others.

Also, this occurred within 40 yards of a jet fuel storage tank, so……..

dragon6 Supporting Member of TMP30 Nov 2022 12:57 p.m. PST

The report I read said the vehicles were parked nose to nose. Perhaps the EV burst into flames and caught the vehicles to each side (if it was in the middle) and adjacent

Escapee Supporting Member of TMP30 Nov 2022 1:17 p.m. PST

Gas guzzler under recall for battery connection issue was the culprit. No EVs. Common for Service to rent vehicles for certain trips, cost effective.
Fox the only mainstream outlet even reporting this. I thought Watters was a comedian?

Anyways, knock yerselves out and have fun!

Inch High Guy30 Nov 2022 1:23 p.m. PST

Where was Kamala at the time? Asking for a friend.

35thOVI Supporting Member of TMP30 Nov 2022 2:44 p.m. PST

Tort you have a link to the story that reports that? Thanks

All I have found is a "may have". Have not heard a definitive yet.

" The vehicles belong to the Hertz fleet and the cause of the fire may be related to a battery recall work on one of the vehicles that had not been carried out, the Nantucket Current reported."

SBminisguy30 Nov 2022 3:33 p.m. PST

Gas guzzler under recall for battery connection issue was the culprit

If that's what happened, maybe. Even if any of the few conditions under which this could happen (faulty battery cells, short circuit that didn't get stopped by a fuse popping, etc.) caused the battery to catch on fire, why would the other cars also be burned as they are? A modern vehicle has a fire shield inside the hood, and a fire wall between the engine and the passenger area which helps prevent it from spreading past the engine block – let alone to other cars from 6-10 feet away. Looks like a particularly intense fire.

When the King's Chariots burst into flames, we should know why, from the mundane to the mad.

Stryderg30 Nov 2022 7:24 p.m. PST

Chain lighting spell, cast by an outraged shaman. Yeah, I'll stick with that.

SBminisguy30 Nov 2022 8:03 p.m. PST

+1 Stryderg

Oberlindes Sol LIC Supporting Member of TMP30 Nov 2022 8:37 p.m. PST

I can guess which shaman.

Blutarski30 Nov 2022 8:48 p.m. PST

IF one of those vehicles was an EV (perhaps retained for a propaganda photo-op?) and IF is was taken on a drive along the beach (Nantucket being an island) and IF salt water got into a battery pack ….. ?

When was the last time anyone ever heard of such an event involving a president's Secret Service vehicle park?

Or maybe the rental agency annoyed Joe …..

B

Dn Jackson Supporting Member of TMP01 Dec 2022 12:41 a.m. PST

Well, that's it, the secret is out. Our current POTUS is soooooo special his butt is only allowed to touch a particular vehicle once. After it has been sat upon by the mighty buttocks it must be destroyed. There is a section of Andrews AFB full of burned-out cars and trucks his derriere has graced.

Don't get me started on the number of Oval Office desk chairs we've 'burned' through.

:-)

Cerdic01 Dec 2022 8:49 a.m. PST

Fires in modern cars are very rare.

The only common denominator here seems to be their use by the Secret Service.

I'm wondering if the Secret Service had tampered with the electrics/electronics of the vehicles by fitting some kind of device such as communication/tracking/lighting and screwed it up…

Personal logo Legion 4 Supporting Member of TMP In the TMP Dawghouse01 Dec 2022 12:07 p.m. PST

Yes, this is not an accident IMO. One is enough to be concerned but five. I think this was done on purpose. But there has to be, again, more to the story.

Escapee Supporting Member of TMP01 Dec 2022 12:07 p.m. PST

35th, you are right,I went back and looked. I did jump the gun, although I am in no doubt about what happened based on this reporting. It would require some serious collusion to cover up an attack on POTUS, and why would it need to be done?

In any case, my apologies. It was this that I read, and I am taking the fire chiefs word. link

Escapee Supporting Member of TMP01 Dec 2022 12:18 p.m. PST

There are lots of common denominators. They are empty cars. There is video evidence. 22 others of this model had already burned, prompting the recall -these are first things to look at. There will be a team taking a look at forensics.

Threat assessment info on POTUS is classified. As far as we know, there was no context for this other than the recall on the defective car.if there is we will likely never know. The video and forensic should tell them how it started and spread.

35thOVI Supporting Member of TMP01 Dec 2022 2:23 p.m. PST

Thanks Tort. Probably like the underwater pipes, we will never really know. But… speculation is always fun. 😉

Personal logo Legion 4 Supporting Member of TMP In the TMP Dawghouse01 Dec 2022 2:35 p.m. PST

"It was aliens!" …

ROUWetPatchBehindTheSofa02 Dec 2022 6:00 a.m. PST

Another option is some kids are about to get a seriously scary visitation from law enforcement…

But I would have thought if there was anything really suspicious about the incident all hell would have broken loose fairly rapidly. I would have thought arson directed at the Secret Service, let alone the president, would have resulted in a robust response?

Personal logo Legion 4 Supporting Member of TMP In the TMP Dawghouse02 Dec 2022 9:27 a.m. PST

An inside job ? The 1st murder suspect is always the spouse or significant other ?

Or maybe those that guard the "King". Like Roman's Pretorian Guard ?

Can't be the Russians, PRC/CCP, Iran or AQ/ISIS ? They don't respect or fear the current US Gov't's leadership. So, to get rid of it would be to their disadvantage.

Aliens ?

SBminisguy02 Dec 2022 9:40 a.m. PST

I would have thought arson directed at the Secret Service, let alone the president, would have resulted in a robust response?

Dunno. This WH and their Establishment Media support directly purvey misinformation, so they routinely claim "Nothing to see here -- Hunter's laptop is Russian disinfo, move along." This is why we have rumors and conspiracy theories, because people don't trust what they say.

Was it a normal oddly time failure? Probably. But who knows? Was it an EV fire and it would be embarrassing to the regime? Dunno, and dunno how far people go to protect their job and avoid heat.

Personal logo Legion 4 Supporting Member of TMP In the TMP Dawghouse02 Dec 2022 1:08 p.m. PST

We may never know … but the missing computer is finally on the way to going public. So, who knows ? It is not the 51 former Intel guys who said the computer was Russian propaganda. Did they miss it or lied … or a little of both ? So, we may have a similar situation with "cargate" …

Escapee Supporting Member of TMP02 Dec 2022 3:36 p.m. PST

Jill Biden? It seems some people at the Ford plant in Kentucky made some Expeditions that catch fire. I would try to work that into your reports somehow.

35thOVI Supporting Member of TMP02 Dec 2022 4:31 p.m. PST

I'm going with underwear gnomes. 😉

Inch High Guy02 Dec 2022 8:09 p.m. PST

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

Personal logo Legion 4 Supporting Member of TMP In the TMP Dawghouse03 Dec 2022 10:55 a.m. PST

Good point ! You can fix stupid but it's going to hurt !


Jill Biden should be charged with Senior Citizen abuse !!!!
😃😄😆🤩

SBminisguy05 Dec 2022 8:31 a.m. PST

Good point, Inch High Guy!

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