These people are just f****ng insane!

[Ohiogal]

How does a person get so brainwashed to do something like this? I just can’t wrap my mind around it....

*****

According to an affidavit, during national news coverage of the capitol riot on Jan. 6 in Washington D.C., the video footage showed a woman in a pink hat, a black jacket with a fur-lined hoodie using a bullhorn telling others how to gain control of the Capitol. Investigators say they later identified the woman as Powell.

Once inside, the affidavit says Powell was seen using the bullhorn to give instructions about the layout of the building and instructing others on how to "take this building." She also noted that they “have another window to break," according to the affidavit.

The 40-year old Powell faces a maximum sentence of 47 years in prison for the charges, maximum fines of up to $600,000, and up to seven years supervised release.

https://www.wfmj.com/story/43300889/mercer-co-woman-faces-up-to-47-years-in-prison-for-attack-on-us-capitol

[Buckeye_Democrat]

1. I'll be curious to learn if she was ever a religious fanatic.

That's my guess about her initial path into fantasy world, but time will tell.

Edit: Specifically the kind of religion that directs attention outward, to find "outsiders" who supposedly need converted -- e.g., evangelicals.

[Ohiogal]

5. Either that

or just very easily swayed. Feeble minded....

[SharonAnn]

16. Powell, 40, a mother of eight children, told the magazine that she was the woman in the pink hat

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/agents-visit-home-of-pink-hat-woman-pictured-at-capitol-riot/2021/02/04/5709322a-6735-11eb-bab8-707f8769d785_story.html

[Buckeye_Democrat]

18. I can't read that article because of the paywall.

Did it delve into her past?

Edit: Even that horned-helmet weirdo was recorded leading a prayer to Jesus on the Senate floor, with pretty much all of the other nutcases participating.

Edit2: And based on the last two CNN Presidential exit polls, both Clinton and Biden would have won the "white vote" too if none of the white evangelicals had voted. (They instead voted at a higher percentage than their percentage of this country's population, and overwhelmingly for their orange savior.)

[certainot]

23. 8 abused children

[aeromanKC]

25. Reminds me of the Jesus Camp movie

Yep, child abuse in my eyes.

[spinbaby]

29. I would guess yes

Being from Mercer County and having eight kids would be a clue that she is or was involved in one of those quiver full churches.

[Ohiogal]

4. Me, too.

I hope they are convicted in court and rot in prison.

[SheltieLover]

21. Absolutely!

[shanti]

3. Bye, kids n/t

[sheshe2]

6. She did not do any of this on her own.

She knew the layout. I want the names of all those that helped her.My money is on some of our GOPeeeeeee congress critters.

You know they did.

[Ohiogal]

7. Absolutely

It sickens me to think they encouraged and enabled them.

[sheshe2]

9. I know, Ohiogal.

Sickens me as well. I think the new Q's were on it. There were others that I can think of.

[Ohiogal]

12. Yes.

And of course the President of the United States was only too happy to help out.

Did you ever think you’d live to see the day something this happens in America?i sure didn’t

[sheshe2]

14. He was the head cheerleader.

It is all on him.

[malaise]

28. This woman was supposedly teahing her children right from wrong

Go figure

[JDC]

17. I read some commentary she made last week (here on DU)

And in the interview she said her actions were "spontaneous." She was calling in office and hall proximity specifics from the outside. No way was she not prepared for her actions. And like you say, she was helped.

[SheltieLover]

22. Yup

[dhol82]

8. I thought pink hat was just given leave to go on a vacation to Mexico.

[Ohiogal]

10. That one was from Texas,

This one is from PA

[sheshe2]

11. Pink hat is in jail....

I think there was another one. Way to many to keep track of.

[Blue_true]

19. No, pink cap is poor.

Only the well off ones are even being given bail and released from jail. Pink cap lady’s vacation is going to be a change of federal prisons over a few years.

[tblue37]

20. Pink hat is Rachel Powell; Mexico vacation is Jen Cudd.

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[dhol82]

26. Thank you.

[MagickMuffin]

13. She tried unsuccessfully thank Goddess to overthrow our government.

Powell faces a maximum sentence of 47 years in prison for the charges, maximum fines of up to $600,000, and up to seven years supervised release.

I don't want to ever see her released.

[Irish_Dem]

15. I think much will be written, researched, discussed about the insurrectionists

for years into the future.

I think at this point there is an overriding psychological profile with many subgroups.
And variations.

[Mazeltov Cocktail]

24. Unfortunately, these people are heros to a substantial portion of our population...

It boggles the mind to realize that many millions of our friends and neighbors, even family condone and even admire this woman.
Trump and the QOP, especially enabler Moscow Mitch bear the responsibility for the radicalization of this woman and the others who stormed the capitol...

[KY_EnviroGuy]

27. Here's Ronan Farrow's article on this woman again for those that may have missed it.

A Pennsylvania Mother’s Path to Insurrection
How claims by Rudy Giuliani and Alex Jones spurred a parent of eight to become one of the Capitol riot’s biggest mysteries, and a fugitive from the F.B.I.
By Ronan Farrow
The New Yorker
February 2, 2021

Link: https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/a-pennsylvania-mothers-path-to-insurrection-capitol-riot

(snips)

Last summer and fall, Powell said, she attended various protests, including anti-mask rallies. “If there was a protest in Harrisburg, I was there for almost all of them,” she told me. On July 4th, she drove for four hours to join members of several far-right groups, some of them armed, who gathered at the Gettysburg National Military Park, purportedly to protect Civil War monuments from desecration.
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At the July 4th demonstration in Gettysburg, Powell met Kevin Lynn, the founder of a group that advocates for the hiring of American workers in the U.S. technology industry. Last August, after Lynn’s group placed ads pressing Trump to restrict the outsourcing of jobs overseas, Lynn met with Trump at the White House. Lynn told me that he had attended the Gettysburg protest to document the event, and that he interviewed several participants, including Powell. Afterward, the two stayed in touch. “I would say we’re friends,” he said. Before Trump’s “Stop the Steal” rally in Washington, D.C., Powell told Lynn that she planned to attend, and they agreed to go together. On January 5th, Powell and Lynn met near Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and drove to Washington in his car. At least two other friends, the owners of the bookstore where Powell works, drove in another car.

The article provides and excellent review on how she became radicalized. A while back, she was a fence-riding liberal but with strongly held libertarian thoughts, which appears to be the root cause of her transformation. She is rabidly anti-mask and anti-statue removal - therefore racist and staunchly libertarian.

KY..........