Peyote-Loving 'QAnon Shaman' Vowed to Attend Inauguration, Left Chilling Note for Pence: Docs

[Wicked Blue]

Daily Beast
Pilar Melendez

The so-called QAnon Shaman who stormed the U.S. Capitol last week in Viking garb before sitting in Vice President Mike Pence’s chair on the Senate dais admitted to federal agents he intended to return to D.C. to “protest” President-elect Biden’s inauguration.

“I’ll still go, you better believe it,” Jacob Chansley bragged in an interview with FBI agents the day after the violent insurrection. “For sure I’d want to be there, as a protestor, as a protestor, fuckin’ a.”

The admission by Chansley, also known as Jake Angeli, is one of several prosecutors detailed in an 18-page detention memo arguing for the 33-year-old Arizona man to be held before trial.

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Prosecutors said Chansley should be detained because the “self-proclaimed leader” of QAnon has previous felonies, doesn’t have a stable job, and lied to authorities about his drug use, telling them he only smoked weed “three times weekly in the past” but bragging on a podcast about taking mushrooms and peyote regularly.

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Surprised he didn't demand fresh organic peyote with his jail meals.

[regnaD kciN]

1. Trump has all "the best people"...

[lagomorph777]

6. Trump has a magic mushroom and he likes to share it.

Maybe Peyote Dude would like to take a hit?

[MontanaMama]

19. You almost owed me a keyboard!!

I'm at work too...

[MagickMuffin]

2. He's learning the wrong lessons with his peyote journeys

and that's a shame.

[NoRoadUntravelled]

9. It's easy to tell the ones that are only looking for a quick trip to power.

Ultimately, he will find no ally in the plant world.

[BobTheSubgenius]

30. He should switch to salvia.

Often, and in large quantities. Darwin doses.

[MagickMuffin]

31. He already looks like he's taken the Brown acid

Hopefully he won't ever get to trip again.

[calguy]

3. The FBI will appreciate the evidence he gave them

[Buns_of_Fire]

4. Well, fish head soup is organic, isn't it?

I heard on the TV machine this morning that Whole Foods doesn't deliver to federal prisons. Tough luck, nutball.

[Nevilledog]

36. ...

[underpants]

5. "It's only a matter of time, justice is coming."

What? Now THAT’S a threat now?

[lagomorph777]

8. Probably a recognition that he's fucked.

[Harker]

26. Considering the scaffold outside and the chants about

suspending Pence from it, I wouldn't see it as unreasonable to consider that it might have been written as an implied threat. Understanding the context more fully might help clarify intent.

[VA_Jill]

7. This little boy

with his cosplay costume and his mommy issues, is running around hurling threats like an angry six year old. Only problem is, he's armed and dangerous. Keep his ass locked up.

[Celerity]

10. brain damaged idiot druggie

[Hugin]

11. I hope it was organic Peyote.

[TheBlackAdder]

34. He can attend the inaugruation -- Take some peyote and attend it in spirit. 👻

[SWBTATTReg]

12. You know, sometimes I make jokes and references to these people living in their

Mom and Dad's basement still, when still in their 30s (and some even older). No job, on drugs, prior convictions.

What more can I say? Why does this person think that he has the unilateral right to determine what is right vs. wrong over the rest of us, who do in fact, work, don't do drugs, and no convictions?

Maybe I am wrong in thinking this, but I got a sick feeling that most of these thugs that overran the Capitol in Wash. DC do not work, do drugs, have convictions, etc. Were they hired out?

Because I was wondering how these people all got off on a Wednesday, had the money to drive or fly, stay at a hotel/pay for meals/etc.? And they are protesting what? Pls. tell me what they are complaining about. I didn't catch it...

[FakeNoose]

15. One possibility ... they're on Pootie's payroll

Or the Mercers are paying him, and that's almost as bad. There's something really puzzling, but evil, about this Jake Angeli guy. An enterprising journalist needs to dig into his past.

[JHB]

18. A good many of the people identified so far do have day jobs...

...or at least had them before they threw them away.

Lawyers, real estate agents, business owners, whatever job that dope who wore his work ID badge to the insurrection did, cops, etc.

[Hekate]

38. Thanks. We need to keep that in the forefront. It's shocking how far the sickness has spread...

We can’t just be mocking some people’s lack of teeth when so many white collar professionals and LEOs are involved.

[IronLionZion]

20. Immigrants and liberal lockdowns stole their jobs

The QAnon movement is very diverse with the common theme of distrust/paranoia. Some have plenty of money and good jobs. Some are broke with nothing better to do. Pretty much all probably have some level of mental illness. Several RW groups have organized travel to DC for this event, with local state capitol events for the ones who can't afford to travel.

[Roisin Ni Fiachra]

13. I call BS on his peyote claims.

Peyote is a powerful medicine, and no one who uses it regularly could possibly worship Trump.

There are no Trump worshipers among the membership of the Native American Church.

[CentralMass]

16. I have to go back some decades but as I recall, taking hallucinogens was no magic cure for

for assholes.

[IronLionZion]

21. He's from Arizona so it's probably easily available there

And he claims to be a shaman. His "viking" outfit looks more Native American with the coyote tails and bison horns.

[Initech]

14. Crappy job? Check. Criminal record? Check.

Trump just attracts creeps and low lifes, because he's a creep and a low life himself.

[SoCalNative]

17. Booted out of the Navy?

Check.

[TNNurse]

22. OK, y'all are really smart and well informed.

Please share with me the legal definition of "Shaman" so he is getting those rights.

And what, pray tell, is a shaman diet???

Really.

[Harker]

27. He's ashamin' himself. That's for sure.

He seems to have been nurtured on a steady diet of nuts.

[TNNurse]

29. Nice

[happybird]

35. I'm not familiar with the source, but this is an interesting article about him

https://religiondispatches.org/q-shamans-new-age-radical-right-blend-hints-at-the-blurring-of-seemingly-disparate-categories/

[dameatball]

23. One more a-hole that thinks he will wiggle out of prison and get some radio talk show gigs

[LudwigPastorius]

24. Fake Chief Burned-out Buffalo says what?

If he's a shaman because he likes to take shrooms, I'm Mahatma Gandhi because I like a nice curry.

[srose58089]

25. Shaman Man should try the bowling ball test

It is becoming hard to find words that describe the madness of some people. I wonder if tRump told Shaman Man to hold a bowling ball 5 feet over his big toe and drop it while saying don't worry I can make it float what he would believe after his toe is smashed. Fake Gravity, Newton is part of the radical left, My toe isn't broke, You tricked me that bowling ball wasn't organic etc. etc.

[yuiyoshida]

28. The Dude should have just smoked weed at home, .. man!!

instead of facing a prison sentence...

[Mendocino]

32. Maybe he was trying to

impress Jodie Foster.

[panader0]

33. Please don't blame it on the mushrooms and weed,

I'm 70, and have smoked "weed" since '66 and have taken peyote and psilocybe
mushrooms several times in my past. Always a good thing. And now weed is legal
in my state.

[Gothmog]

37. I have special dietary restrictions

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