Pickup at Capitol on 1/6 with 3%er militia sticker belonged to husband of Rep. Mary Miller

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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]

1. Boy, it sure seems like the FBI should be looking at his phone records, emails, social media, etc

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]

2. Remind me about the 3%

Is it that 3% of Americans own 50% of the guns? That’s what I think it is.

[Downtown Hound]

4. It's a claim (debunked by most historians) that

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]

17. The actual percentage of people who

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]

9. I think it means they use

"3%" of their brain power.. if that

[radical noodle]

14. Winner!

[Cha]

21. rad!

Aloha!

[dchill]

3. Here you go, from Wikipedia:

"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]

7. What's their point of associating with that erroneous claim? Is it some kind of statement? nt

[dchill]

12. I think they just feel more entitled. To whatever.

[SergeStorms]

13. They believe...

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]

5. Well well well

Standing by for further developments goddamit

Chris Miller

[Progressive Jones]

8. Typical "Plastic Pinkie". nt

[Cha]

10. he & his wife look like Pieces of

Aryan Shite.. & Too Stupid to actually think their way out of the shit hole they put themselves in.

[Captain Zero]

11. Lock his ass up.

Now.

[Midnight Writer]

6. Hey, she's my Representative!

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]

16. Where do you live?

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]

18. Miller's district is in Southern Illinois, along the Indiana border. IL-15.

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]

19. You nailed it. Except you left out deeply religious. Loads of fundamentalist Christians.

Lots of very small congregations, sometimes meeting at someone's house.

I'm in the farm part of the District.

[SergeStorms]

28. The sort of place...

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]

15. "Hitler was right on one thing: whoever has the youth has the future," she told the crowd.

[SunSeeker]

20. I hate Illinois Nazis.

[Demovictory9]

22. "Miller removes anarchist militia decal from pickup truck, claims ignorance"

https://fox2now.com/news/national/miller-removes-anarchist-militia-decal-from-pickup-truck-claims-ignorance/

[calimary]

23. Pick 'em off. One by one.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

24. After Barr, is there enough of the FBI left to actually investigate, regardless of influence?

[Whiskeytide]

25. He said he didn't know what the symbol was. I love it ...

... when they have to admit to being either an insurrectionist or a completely clueless idiot. Both are good looks for them.

[AwakeAtLast]

26. I live in the south part of her district

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]

27. Is this the truck that was loaded with the ingredients to make bombs

and other assorted weapons?

[MagickMuffin]

29. No, that truck belonged to someone in AL, if I'm not mistaken

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]

30. Thanks for the info and

also the laugh.