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Ben Collins
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The Daily Beast
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EXCLUSIVE: A pickup truck parked at the U.S. Capitol and bearing a Three Percenter militia sticker on the day of the Jan. 6 riot belongs to the husband of freshman U.S. Rep. Mary Miller of Illinois, who approvingly quoted Adolf Hitler a day earlier https://trib.al/8P4I8kq
9:40 PM · Feb 25, 2021
https://www.thedailybeast.com/rep-mary-millers-husband-owns-three-percenter-militia-truck-at-capitol-riot
RockRaven
(14,974 posts)especially his phone data on the day of the attack...
Was he inside or outside? If inside did he communicate with those outside, if outside did he communicate with those inside?
captain queeg
(10,208 posts)Is it that 3% of Americans own 50% of the guns? Thats what I think it is.
Downtown Hound
(12,618 posts)only 3% of all Americans took up arms against Britain during the American Revolution.
What's funny is that even if they could win today with only 3% of the population on their side, they don't have anywhere near that number.
wnylib
(21,487 posts)joined or actively supported the American Revolution was around 33%, or 1/3, according to what I've read. Maybe those fools who call themselves 3 percenters don't know the differenece between .03 and .30.
Cha
(297,322 posts)radical noodle
(8,003 posts)Cha
(297,322 posts)Aloha!
dchill
(38,505 posts)"The group's name derives from the erroneous[9] claim that only three percent of American colonists were actively fighting in the field against British forces at any given time during the American Revolution"
Progressive Jones
(6,011 posts)dchill
(38,505 posts)SergeStorms
(19,201 posts)they can start and win a second American revolution with their nonexistent 3%. I believe they couldn't get past the first Dunkin Donuts with the paltry amount of "committed soldiers" usually in attendance.
Leghorn21
(13,524 posts)Standing by for further developments goddamit
Chris Miller
Progressive Jones
(6,011 posts)Cha
(297,322 posts)Aryan Shite.. & Too Stupid to actually think their way out of the shit hole they put themselves in.
Captain Zero
(6,811 posts)Now.
Midnight Writer
(21,768 posts)Three Percenters, Oath Keepers, Sword of the Lord, Promise Keepers, Blue Lives Matter. They are all big around here.
We used to have American Nazis, Christian Identity, Ku Klux Klan.
But back then nobody elected them to anything bigger than School Board or County Commissioner.
By the way, in my precinct, Trump took 76% of the 2020 vote.
SergeStorms
(19,201 posts)I feel extremely sorry for you. I don't know how you do it. I'd run away from there like a scalded dog.
Progressive Jones
(6,011 posts)That's a very rural, very Red district. The University of Illinois is up near the North end of the district.
The rest is mostly farming and coal mining.
Midnight Writer
(21,768 posts)Lots of very small congregations, sometimes meeting at someone's house.
I'm in the farm part of the District.
SergeStorms
(19,201 posts)where church isn't over until the snakes are back in the box? Evangelicals....another group who sold their souls for some far right judges.
Celerity
(43,414 posts)SunSeeker
(51,574 posts)Demovictory9
(32,457 posts)calimary
(81,322 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,350 posts)Whiskeytide
(4,461 posts)... when they have to admit to being either an insurrectionist or a completely clueless idiot. Both are good looks for them.
AwakeAtLast
(14,130 posts)My ancestors settled the area, so my ties here are strong. It is a blood red area, with some of the most radicalized people I have ever seen. I don't know if I can live here much longer.
DeminPennswoods
(15,286 posts)and other assorted weapons?
MagickMuffin
(15,943 posts)That dumbass asked cops where his truck was, he couldn't locate it.
ETA:
An Alabama man allegedly parked a pickup truck packed with 11 homemade bombs, an assault rifle and a handgun two blocks from the US Capitol building on Wednesday for hours before authorities ever noticed, according to federal prosecutors.
Another man allegedly showed up in the nation's capital with an assault rifle and hundreds of rounds of ammunition and told acquaintances that he wanted to shoot or run over House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, prosecutors said.
DeminPennswoods
(15,286 posts)also the laugh.