An armed man arrested at the U.S. Capitol said he planned to kill Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, and burn down The Heritage Foundation, federal authorities say.
Ryan Michael English, 24, of Massachusetts (), was found with a knife and two Molotov cocktails on Monday afternoon near the south door of the Capitol, U.S. District Court records say.
"I'd like to turn myself in," English said after he approached a U.S. Capitol Police officer, the records say.
Officers detained and searched him and found he had a folding knife, a lighter and two 50-mililiter bottles of vodka with a gray cloth attached to the top.
English told officers he went to the Capitol to kill Bessent, who was being confirmed as Treasury secretary. He said he had more Molotov cocktails in his car.
He said he left home on Sunday with the intention to kill Hegseth, who he called a "Nazi," and Johnson, as well as burn down The Heritage Foundation. He said he aimed to "depose" the officials and send a message, records say.
As English headed to D.C., he stopped at a library in Chevy Chase, Maryland, and saw Reddit posts about Bessent's confirmation hearing. He then altered his intended target, the records say.
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No frickin' way. Is that a typo? Those are nips... airplane bottles!
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Not to mention vodka doesn't burn
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Seriously. Fricker can't even procure some styrofoam and gasoline. I swear these people get their entire brain filled by movieslop and gameslop thinking it's real.
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they 100% do lol. these people are hypersocialized and stunted. they feel ashamed of themselves for even having an aggressive thought in the first place. when they do, this is the type of cartoonish shit they formulate
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Uncle Ted talked about this
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Uncle Ted was, in fact, right about everything. Well, almost at least.
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I wouldn't call getting all your ideas from movies because you have no friends socialized.
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Youd think they would at least try it out to make sure it works, like build a couple and go throw them innawoods.
Oh wait, they're terminal hustle-and-bustle-cels and probably get "anxious" and "cptsd" when they see more trees than buildings.
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I think the warning is overblown but it is pretty painful straight
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Wym it's fine it says inflammable
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What a country.
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!boozers they aren't kidding about watering it down. I love my 80% whiskey (drinking it makes you thirsty!) but yea it did give me serious stomach pains and make me vomit a lil blood
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if you aren't puking and/or pooping blood you aren't drinking enough
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I think you are just weak
I drink straight up gasoline and other than a coma once I'm fine
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Are you Brazilian or an abo
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I don't know
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At that point ur drinking ethanol and the type of spirit is just a formality lbr
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Yeah I hadn't thought of overproof vodka, I thought that was basically only everclear.
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What the frick? I mean alright I guess
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It can burn if warm, but pretty reluctantly.
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I think poors actually buy those in liquor stores
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God's most dangerous radicalized redditor
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after that civil war movie came out, me and some of the boys spitballed ideas for what we'd do if it happened for real and ours were waaaay better than what we've been getting.
between this guy and the vegas guy, america is not sending its best insurgents.
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At least leftoids are trying...
When's the last time a rightoid actually made good on his seething? Might actually have been before 9/11...
Like, for all the pearl clutching and panic, was there ever an actual serious assassination attempt on obungo?
This is the most significant attempt i could find:
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the vegas guy you just lumped in with the lefttards was a righttard
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The dude with the fireworks in his tesla truck? Wasnt he pretty left/libshit? Iirc his manifesto was seething about warcimes in afghanistan
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Yes, his manifesto seethed about "war crimes" in Afghanyland. It also seethed about the drones over New Jersey being Chinese and made with reverse-engineered alien technology that America was incapable of detecting. And all of his friends said he was constantly beating them over the head with MAGA shit.
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Oh ok i didnt really follow it beyond the first headlines
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This guy had the spirit
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Yeah but thats exactly why they're so cucked. They seethe all about muh boogaloo and then they let tyrone and Chaim frick them in the butt and say thank you.
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Quite a few mass shooters, including the original chudjack
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True, but always against kids or random minorities
No one has had the balls to hit an actually protected political target.
Well, there was that one foid that got domed but survived i guess...
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In 2016, a Brexiteer shot and stabbed a Remainer MP to death. That's the only one that comes to mind
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You know its over for your ideology when a bong has more balls than you lmfao
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Lmao wtf is with these soyterrorists who immediately turn themselves in. The guy who "threatened" Kavanaugh did the same thing. It's the terrorist equivalent of ODing on a nonlethal amount of tylenol as a cry for help
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Feds: Now let them have it!
Leftists: (holding out wrists, fists with palms to the floor) Here you go I've been very bad I should go to jail.
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The chances of this being higher than zero send me so fricking much lmao. Just the thought of three letter agencies perpetually in a sitcom loop trying to get limp wrist millennials to commit terror acts and always resulting in pathetic duds
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Everybody wants to be Nelson Mandela, nobody wants to spend decades in prison. They think doing this will garner unending praise from like-minded dipshits in exchange for a few months in a cell with zero risk of getting shot along the way. And since they were already unemployable losers, it's not like a criminal record will have any effect on their job prospects.
Of course, the reality is that even a pathetic attempt to assassinate a high-ranking government official is still an attempt to assassinate a high-ranking government official. This idiot is going away for a long time.
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I hope there's a wave of surrendering copycats.
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REDDIT STOCHASTIC TERRORISM REDDIT STOCHASTIC TERRORISM REDDIT STOCHASTIC TERRORISM
REDDIT STOCHASTIC TERRORISM REDDIT STOCHASTIC TERRORISM REDDIT STOCHASTIC TERRORISM
Edit: Weirdly, I can't find anything about this on Reddit itself. I mean, the original posts where the Redditors would've been sneeding about the guy. Maybe they wiped them already. Only one with any traction is crypto bros:
Some threads I find were removed by mods:
Is there any of these fricking undelete things that work on Reddit still?
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!reportmaxxers, here's the /r/news thread. It's exactly as ridiculous as you'd expect.
EDIT: Some more threads I've found:
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These people are literally insane
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How do you report whole subreddits? Trans lives matter
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Hegseth is a Nazi.
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REEEEEEEEE, at least link the actual article: https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/armed-man-at-capitol-threatened-to-kill-scott-bessent-pete-hegseth-mike-johnson/3827471/
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new standard of proofing unlocked, screenshotting a greentext about linking to an instagram post from someone who screenshotted a tweet
Try to keep up, plebs
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It's hilarious how shitty these leftoid attempts are, except for the dude.
And still at least they're actually trying, meanwhile rightoids spent the last 4 years seething about a stolen election and cumskin genocide, but didnt even try to kill Biden once.
Absolutely cucked.
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Why turn yourself in? They can give up on the idea and go home. No one would know.
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They're redditors
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Look at the plan he had to perform his noble act of terrorism. We're clearly not dealing with someone capable of thinking a plan through. He probably expects that he'll be hailed as a hero/martyr; I imagine many a Redditor will even do so. Of course, the years in prison probably won't allow him to bask in the glory, but...well, the whole "not planning things out" thing.
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Because the goal is to be that guy who got caught trying to kill the bad people
Whether the bad people die doesn't actually matter for this, so why even put yourself at risk?
Just turn yourself in, hey presto you're in the news
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Why did he kitty out?
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Because this is the first true case of Redditor Terrorism - fantasizing about your Avengers/Guardians of the Galaxy/Jedi #Resistance militia overthrowing the Gilead/Palpatine/Voldemort/Homelander/Thanos dictatorship of le GOP on reddit and BlueSky is very easy
Realistically though, the average redditor militias would kitty the frick out and suffer a collective mental breakdown as soon as they hear a distant gunshot, they would immediately seek to surrender or just simply Jonestown themselves !truthnuke !chuds !commenters
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This is exactly the same thing that happened with that redditor who planned to kill a supreme court judge. He saw the bodyguards outside their house and just immediately walked away and called 911 on himself.
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See a Nazi, punch a nazi
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Couldn' he just have walked or drove away and no one would've known?
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Yes. But he was a neurotic rebbitor.
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He saw how fortified the Capitol was and his r-slurred naruto inspired plans evaporated in real-time
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Why'd he turn himself in?
Current HP: 8/75
Current Mana: 130/250
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Leftist guilt.
Jan 6ers were barely awake, and still accomplished what they wanted (stealing queue bollards and podia and getting shot n shit)
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50 milliliters? Aren't standard beer cans like 350?
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You mean 12oz? Metric users aren't far down on the list of priority deportees. You can measure your trip home in kilometers, Pierre
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50ml is like a shot glass lol. Either this guy doesn't know what he's doing or the journ*list covering this is r-slurred
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He took the name "Molotov cocktail" more literally than usual.
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Brought some limes for his Molotov cocktail
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Homeboy was out there with airplane shooter molotovs lmao
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He just wanted to burn some small shrubbery to send a message
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Chevy Chase has a town named after him?!
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This is why I did not drink when I was 24. Especially if I had lived in DC. I don't want to wake up in a holding cell and find out I charged at the UAE ambassador with a rake and sharpened trowel.
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It would be if he sprinted into the building, got riddled with bullets and exploded due to the Molotovs he carried.
This was incredibly lame. He thought about committing acts of terror and reported his thought-crime to the police.
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Lol
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wait why is this title legible? @BWC everything ok?
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Bardfinn needs to step up his game, he's allowing extremists to develop under his watch
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This terrorist brought as many guns into the Capitol as the entire J6 crowd put together
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Frick you and your fricking religion. You worship a lie written by Bronze Age goat herders 3000 years ago, you fricking loser. Aww, the little theist loser needs his little Bible book because you're terrified of death, you fricking scared piece of shit. That's fricking pathetic. You're an adult, and you believe some backwards bullshit. Like, imagine believing in the Jedi Star Wars religion, for example, so why is it okay to worship your fake fricking Christianity bullshit? It's no different. But, while frick Christianity that doesn't give the rest a fricking pass. Frick Islam, Frick Judaism, Frick Catholicism, Frick Mormonism, Frick Shintoism, Frick Taoism, Frick Hinduism Frick Druze, Frick Jainism, Frick Buddhism, FRICK ZORASTRIANISM IN PARTICULAR. Stop fricking believing in this make believenonsense and follow the real world; science. As a closing statement, I'm glad your pathetic little religions are dying everywhere. While Islam is still growing as of now, it won't last, thank frick. Young Arabs, Malaysians Indonesians, Pakistanis, Indian, etc are less religious than ever, so are young Europeans, Filipinos and Americans and Latin Americans. Your only pathetic little strongholds are in poor African countries which you'd never live in, the only place where your shitty faith is growing. The rest of the world is leaving your shit, rationalism is growing. Gods aren't real. If they were, your religions wouldn't be dying and I wouldn't be sitting here, perfectly unharmed as I blaspheme your faith. Feel powerless yet? Frick you.
Snapshots:
https://instagram.com/washingtonianprobs/p/DFYlpTjR8Ie/:
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archive.ph (click to archive)
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I had no idea that snappy had access to this guy's trannifesto! !friendsofsnappy
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All those words won't bring daddy back.
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please please track him back to reddit please
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reddit radicalized another one. we really are falling behind, fellas
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