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  1. Idiocracy indeed! Feds seek 8 years for 'Bullhorn Lady' who smashed a Capitol window during Jan. 6 attack Ryan J. Reilly Thu, October 12, 2023 at 2:47 PM EDT·4 min read WASHINGTON — Federal prosecutors are seeking eight years in federal prison for a Pennsylvania mother of eight who conducted "surveillance" on a lawmaker's home a few weeks before she smashed a window with an ice ax and a giant cardboard tube during the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Rachel Powell, who was 40 when she took part in the 2021 attack, was found guilty in July of nine charges, including felony counts of interfering with officers performing their duties and obstruction of an official proceeding. A sentencing hearing for Powell, now a grandmother of six, is set for Oct. 17. Powell was identified by online “Sedition Hunters,” was named and interviewed for a piece in The New Yorker that ran a few weeks after Jan. 6, and was arrested in early February 2021. She has been on home confinement since September 2022 after violating her prior conditions of pretrial release, including by visiting a brewery with her 71-year-old employer/boyfriend. After Donald Trump lost the 2020 election, prosecutors said, Powell developed an "obsession with keeping former President Trump in power," and talked about how she had "conducted surveillance at a female legislator’s home." Powell joined "caravan" protests in Washington in November 2020, where she said she walked around "with a little beater bar all weekend and wasp spray and knives in my bag." On Jan. 6, before she smashed the Capitol window, prosecutors said, Powell was on the front lines as the mob overwhelmed police. “Come on up, people, don’t be shy!” she yelled in one video, as she pushed against police barricades with her body. Powell, prosecutors wrote in a sentencing memo, had shown an "utter lack of remorse" for her conduct, which she bragged about online. “IT WAS F--KING WAR TO GET IN. IF YOU WERE NOT HERE THEN STFU," Powell wrote the day after the attack. She said rioters "weren't f--king welcomed in" and that there was “lots of security" that "had to retreat into the building and fight back because patriots were relentless.” Police, she said, "didn’t open the gates. The people trampled them. It was war.” Since the Capitol attack, Powell has changed her tune, prosecutors noted, writing that she "has tried to portray herself as a victim and tried to shift the narrative from 'war' to 'police brutality.'" But video of her actions Jan. 6, prosecutors said, left little doubt about her intentions, even if Powell now claimed — as she did in one recent interview — that she only broke the window "so that people had somewhere to go.” A key video that went viral after the attack showed Powell using a bullhorn to organize rioters to "take the building," advising them on the layout of the suite of offices they'd entered as others plotted how to advance further into the Capitol. "People should probably coordinate together if you're going to take the building," Powell declared, in the tone of a flustered school trip chaperone trying to corral a group of teens. Powell, her attorney claimed in a defense sentencing memo, is "remorseful for her outrageous conduct that day." Powell was "susceptible to manipulation," Nicholas D. Smith wrote, because of a brutally harsh upbringing that "was like something from Oliver Twist." Her impoverished parents "routinely engaged in violent altercations in front of the small child," Powell's mom was an alcoholic and drug addict and Powell was sexually abused beginning at age 12, he wrote. Powell has been diagnosed with "posttraumatic stress disorder; paranoid, schizoid and negativistic personality traits; and major depressive disorder," he added. Just before the verdict was returned in her case, Powell's partner/employer Joseph Jenkins, Jr., brought three of her children to a fundraiser for Jan. 6 defendants at Trump’s property in New Jersey, where the former president posed for photos, signed a copy of his book and gave one of her children a “Make America Great Again” hat, which he wore to court for his mother’s verdict. “Trump said he’ll be pardoning as soon as he’s in,” Powell wrote in a post on X. Jenkins, in a letter of support, maintained his belief that the 2020 election was stolen, pointing the judge to the conspiracy film "2000 Mules." "According to most Trump voters, the election results in Pennsylvania, where Rachel lives, appeared to be fraudulent. Trump had, and still has, huge support in our state," he wrote. "Books have been written, documentaries aired, lawsuits filed, and investigations remain pending." Several of Powell's supporters also downplayed her conduct in letters to the court. "If there were ever a person I know who would be brave enough to help bring order during chaos," one supporter wrote, "it would be Rachel."
  2. That's what I thought looking at the photos... it's a 2021 so maybe that was the default color combo that year. IDK.
  3. Ad says "Fender American Pro II"
  4. Oh man, I want to buy this guitar... I'm not going to, but I thought you all should know
  5. First of all I wish them peace. ( I sincerely mean that) A very good friend of mine had a similar experience, devastating, it's been over 15yrs and they still are brutally scared. I wish your friends were more thoughtful though, current attacks on women's rights are FORCING girls/women to have that same VERY traumatizing experience because they can't get care. Fetus is non viable?, carry it to term and have it die in your arms or until you miscarry... doesn't matter to us if you might die, we're pro-life! Like you said, we all have our life experiences, I just have a hard time thinking that rational adult complex humans can only hold one thought in their mind to the exclusion of all others. I think it takes willful denial.
  6. How about anti-abortion but for medical care for trans kids... (The ones who commit suicide >80% of the time with out care) Soooo pro life bro! These posters seem to really know some basic bitches. Only care/think/vote for one thing only! I need to get out more.
  7. Well, One of us needs to wake up. I hope it is me, this dream sucks.
  8. Sorry, But if your "single issue" friend votes for Trump because of their religious extremism, they are part of Trump's coalition. They don't get to have it both ways. Also if they are so heavily anti abortion, I wonder what their thoughts are on other social issues? I bet they dove tail nicely with the GOP's thoughts and ideas. If they are voting for MAGA nominated court appointees, then they are voting for a WHOLE RAFT of Maga policies. They are like the "undecided" voters, they don't need more info, they just don't want to admit it.
  9. Just stay with me on this for a minute... Big thematic questions, none of minutiae of "policy and deeds" Is there ANY American of voting age that doesn't remember the Trump presidency? Did they see ANY coverage of Jan 6th? Are ANY republicans nominated for election that aren't/haven't vocally paid fielty to Trump? Isn't Trump the defacto (if not outright) head of the GOP? Are GOP policies set/endorsed by Trump? Really basic questions... so if they vote(d) GOP, they knowingly voted for Trump and his policies. Making them a....???
  10. Nope, Can't vote GOP and not be Trumpkin/Magat They aren't holding their nose. They like it, they just know better than to admit it. Which kinda makes them worse.
  11. IIRC they were destroyed. Some posters had been angling to get them for shag tailgates. Loco may or may not have been a poster on that MS paint thread... If so, it was all deleted in the great threefiddy migration This ^ What ever happened to the Negrepchamp? I laughed my ass off with people trying for the kill shot on him. Like a caged court jester you could poke with a stick
  12. Non starter... GQP support for Israel exists only to ensure the Jews are returned to the Holy Land so that we can have the End Times. You have to remember the GQP base were the ones cos-playing Nazis in Charlottesville chanting "We will not be replaced". Nevermind the fact that Israelis have fought for a homeland and they aren't likely to settle for UP Michigan or the like.
  13. I bet the situation in Israel has lit a fire under their asses. Now is when they need to me making political hay.
  14. That's like putting unleaded in your diesel. Kinda the same but not compatible
  15. I'm going to be cautious of this one, I've BEEn burned before.. 1/10 do not recommend unless you're a dentist
  16. He has like 12 different kinds of local honey! But how?
  17. listen just for the vibe, then the lyrics
  18. I'm not trying to be anyone's internet Israeli girlfriend
  19. A few scattered thoughts from a pleb... The tweet about special forces is awesome, if there is one thing I know about clandestine military groups, it's that they definitely need more help with their social media presence The outrage machine has been turned on and turned up Fuck the Russians, Fuck Hamas, Fuck Iran... list too long What has Hamas done to Israel that Russia hasn't done to Ukraine? So why is the outrage machine only now going full blast? Russia can fight back, maybe? And maybe this a way they are fighting back. Russia is the big winner here, arms, money, and attention is off the old non sexy war for towns with no vowels... There's a new hotness that needs ALL the weapons and every politician will line up to send them.
  20. Lulz, of course it does! Does it take bitcoin for the seat heater?
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