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School board member bragged of drinking Fireball and Coors Light in Capitol on Jan. 6, FBI says

Miles Adkins, a member of the Frederick County School Board in Virginia, was charged in connection with the Jan. 6 attack after he was identified by online sleuths.

An elected member of a Virginia school board — who allegedly bragged about drinking Fireball and Coors Light in the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 attack and said he was in touch with a member of the far-right Oath Keepers that day — was arrested by federal authorities Tuesday.

Miles Adkins, a member of the Frederick County School Board in Virginia, faces four misdemeanor charges: entering and remaining in a restricted building, disruptive conduct in a restricted building, disorderly conduct in a Capitol building and unlawful picketing in a Capitol building. Court records show that Adkins was scheduled to make his first appearance in a federal courtroom in Charlottesville on Tuesday.

School board member bragged of drinking Fireball and Coors Light in Capitol on Jan. 6, FBI sayshttps://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/school-board-member-bragged-drinking-fireball-coors-light-capitol-jan-rcna140744Open linkView original on lemmy.world
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"I drank fireball and coors lite in the capitol," Adkins wrote in a message after the attack, according to an FBI affidavit. As he left the Capitol, he was also captured on video yelling, "Let's go get a beer, let's go get a beer!" the FBI said.

It was like 2:15 on a Wednesday afternoon ya treasonous drunkard...

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lemmy.world

Misdemeanor? Uhhhh...try Felony! You can get charged with a felony for having drugs on you, but entering a capitol building BY FORCE isn't a felony?!

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For many of these folks, it was the absolute pinnacle of their lives.. smh "Let's go streaking through the quad!" for old people..

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These are people who peaked in high school and never had anything to look forward to in life.

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lemmy.sdf.org

Look, fuck this guy for probably being a fascist or whatever. But I'm not going to pretend hitting some fireball and slamming a cold one inside of the capital isn't rad as hell.

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kbin.social

Idk man, I'd definitely choose something other than fireball and coors.

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dannoffsreply
lemmy.sdf.org

I'll give you the Coors because that shit sucks, and I don't even like fireball but if there's ever a time for it, its while illegally occupying a federal building.

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kbin.social

If you're gonna LARP being a revolutionary (even a fascist one), at least do it right. Get yourself some nice wine, brandy, or whiskey.

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lemm.ee

Y'all want to drink 40 proof Canadian whiskey mixed with sugar and cinnamon when storming the US capitol?

At least do the nation the honor of drinking something 80 proof from Kentucky for fucks sake.

Just a bit of national pride is all we ask for.

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dannoffsreply
lemmy.sdf.org

I mean, the only country to successfully capture the Capitol was Canada.

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See, if he was drinking the northern blend because he knew his history, I would tip my macaroni to him.

Somehow i doubt it.

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The time for fireball is with ciders at a camp fire. Storming the capital calls for whisky.

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lemmy.sdf.org

Monster trucks are also redneck shit, that doesn't make them not rad as hell.

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dannoffsreply
lemmy.sdf.org

It absolutely is, it must suck to have an innate aversion to fun.

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lemmy.world

Amazingly enough, there are many ways of having fun that do not involve looking at trucks or drinking shitty beer.

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lemm.ee

I feel life draining from me just reading your comments

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Sorry... shitty beer and monster trucks are "things poor people like?"

That sounds like a crazy and weird stereotype.

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lemmy.world

It wasn't cold, it was in his tactical khaki cargo pockets the whole way there.

And as we all know, A ONE THAT IS NOT COLD IS SCARCELY A ONE AT ALL.

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lemmy.sdf.org

Finally a legitimate counter to my comment. I can excuse storming the Capitol, I cannot excuse a warm pocket beer.

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dannoffsreply
lemmy.sdf.org

People are taking this way too seriously. It was also rad when Jimmy Carter's son smoked weed with Willie Nelson at the whitehouse.

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I feel like taking things way too seriously is just a common theme on this site.

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