# Florida Man charged with stealing Speaker's podium **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [January 10, 2021, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/florida-man-charged-with-stealing-speakers-podium/930157 "2021-01-10T02:28:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 142
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2021, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/florida-man-charged-with-stealing-speakers-podium/930157/142 "2021-02-20T05:11:42Z")
_One defendant, who was among those earlier indicted, Jessica Watkins, wrote in the weeks before Jan. 6 that if Mr. Biden became president, “our way of life as we know it is over,” the indictment said._ _Ms. Watkins, 38, who served as an infantryman in the U.S. Army from 2001-2003 under her previous name, Jeremy David Watkins, was deployed to Afghanistan, and received an “other than honorable discharge” after “the Army determined that my presenting as a female was unacceptable for a soldier,”_ Okay, a trans Trumpist military veteran. I think I’m going to slot this person in next to the Mongolian Neo-Nazis in my mental filing cabinet. This world really never ceases to be an interesting place. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/florida-man-charged-with-stealing-speakers-podium/930157)._