Proud Boy leader Ethan Nordean lashed out at Trump on Jan. 20, when it dawned on him that he’d likely be going to jail for the ex-president, according to new messages revealed by prosecutors last night. pic.twitter.com/JX1MvvsGR2
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) May 14, 2021
Goodness gracious, who *could* have expected?…
So glad he was able to pardon a bunch of degenerates as his last move and s— on us on the way out," Nordean said in an expletive-laden message about the former president. "F— you trump you left us on [t]he battle field bloody and alone." https://t.co/irFwmyuGzX
— John FitzGerald (@TheTweetOfJohn) May 14, 2021
To have your shame spattered all over USAToday!
… Nordean is one of several members of the extremist group with ties to white supremacy whose members describe themselves as “Western Chauvinists.” He’s among the more than 400 people who have been charged for their alleged roles in the deadly assault on the Capitol on Jan. 6.
Prosecutors say Nordean, along with other Proud Boys members, planned to push through police barricades and force themselves inside the building that day. Nordean, the self-described “sergeant-at-arms” of the Proud Boys’ Seattle chapter is facing several charges, including conspiracy, obstruction of an official proceeding, and aiding and abetting.
In a court filing Thursday, prosecutors detailed communications sent through the instant messaging app Telegram that they say show additional evidence that Nordean and other Proud Boys members conspired to breach the Capitol. Prosecutors included the anti-Trump diatribe in which Nordean seemed to acknowledged he and others are facing criminal charges because they followed Trump’s lead…
The filing was in response to a motion by Nordean’s attorney accusing prosecutors of failing to timely release evidence that contradict allegations of a conspiracy. Defense attorneys cited several messages sent after Jan. 6 in which Nordean said that storming the Capitol was not planned and that he no longer wants to be involved in politics.
Prosecutors dismissed the allegations, saying the trove of messages extracted from Nordean’s phone are “far from being exculpatory” and contain additional evidence of a crime…
I am not a lawyer, but I’m sensing a ‘led astray by bad companions’ defense. Not the easiest lift, when the prosecution submits evidence that the defendant is a charter member of the ‘Bad Companions of the Month, Armed Rabble-Rouser Division’ club…
It was similar in character to some of the whiplash other Trump-supporting extremists experienced when they realized he wasn’t planning to rush to their aid — like Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes as the riot was underway. pic.twitter.com/KnqIk27Vcy
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) May 14, 2021
I wonder if Ron Coleman will sue me if I observe that the Proud Boys are gullible dipshits https://t.co/CXOkFovpla
— EveryKneeShallBowHat (@Popehat) May 14, 2021
I further assume this is being ciruclated now because the official GOP leadership has decided to go with the ‘Misguided Tourists’ explanation for their followers’ violent actions on January 6th…
Republicans recast deadly Jan. 6 attack by pro-Trump mob as ‘normal tourist visit’ Via @ColbyItkowitz https://t.co/3h2fuwbcO2
— DonnaCassata (@DonnaCassata) May 12, 2021
The Thin Black Duke
I don’t think there’s going to be a sequel to 1/6.
Baud
Trump treated you like he treated the rest of us.
dr. bloor
The Congressman from Georgia who characterized the insurrection as a “normal tourist visit” isn’t even the craziest representative the state has sent to Congress, which highlights the extent to which the efforts and successes of Abrams et al last election cycle were nothing less than superhuman.
Roger Moore
@The Thin Black Duke:
I wish I had your confidence. If there isn’t one, it will be because the Capitol is too well defended, not because the MAGAs aren’t interested in it.
The Thin Black Duke
@Roger Moore: If these white punks saw truckloads of cops in riot gear, they’d turn around and go home. School kids at a BLM protest have more courage than these guys.
David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch
Who could have known
It’s not as if the Chancellor of Dump University had a long history of fleecing
supporterssuckers.Baud
@The Thin Black Duke:
This is correct.
mrmoshpotato
CRY HARDER, TRUMP TRASH!
Anne Laurie
Nah, they’d shove another Ashli Babbitt up against the barricades, wait for her to be wrapped up & zip-tied like an unwieldly overseas package, and then run for home, bitching about police overreach all the way.
The next St. Joan of the Narrative Arc may turn out to be a teenage boy, or a Social-Security-eligible male veteran desperate to prove he’s still got it, but it won’t be the big manly Proud-Guy-Oaf-Keeper thugs busy thumping their chests for the media.
John Revolta
“Stand down and stand by, but don’t stand so close to me”
Redshift
Yeah, I’d say if the exculpatory evidence you’re focusing on is “I definitely wasn’t doing crimes” messages sent by your client after the job went bad, you’re admitting you have no case.
mrmoshpotato
@John Revolta: “I think everyone who stormed the Capitol was a coffee boy.”
Baud
@John Revolta:
Old fascist, the subject
Of Proud Boy fantasy
He wants him so badly
Knows what he wants to be
debbie
@The Thin Black Duke:
You’re confident truckloads of cops would comply with that order? I’m not. Not at all.
MagdaInBlack
@Baud: Not bad ?
debbie
@Redshift:
Hopefully, he also no longer wants to vote.
Lord Fartdaddy (Formerly, Mumphrey, Smedley Darlington Mingobat, et al.)
We really need to beat the (electoral) shit out of the Republicans next year. If we don’t, I don’t know if we can come back from what they’ll do. Next year is really it. We bought ourselves some time, and that’s a great thing, but we can’t get lazy or complacent now.
RSA
@Baud and John Revolta:
This is one of the funniest things I’ve read in a long time. LOL.
Anyway
I was too late to comment on Nancy Smash continuing the House mask requirement. At my work place we got a clarification this week based on inquiries from employees. Everyone continues to wear masks indoors except when you are alone in offices. That means masks in labs, cubicles, hallways, coffee machine etc. “Low density” stays on as well.
I never wear a mask when I am out fora run or walk or in the parking lot.
steppy
oh, that’s a shame.
I wish to God that everyone from the jackasses at the bottom of the hill where I live to Elise Stefanik to Short-Eyes Gaetz to these Proud Boy fucks can be made to realize that ETTD. If there is one thing more certain than death and taxes, it’s that Fat Bastard will abandon you as a covfefe boy as soon as it’s convenient for him to do so.
I also wish to God that someone (Liz, Kinzinger, someone who is not a has-been like Christine Whitman) will just cross the Rubicon and form the Conservative Party or whatever. It’s the only way to leave the Trump humpers and the Qs behind in their horrible nationalist racist conspiracist rump.
Martin
@The Thin Black Duke: Pretty sure there will be. May not look like 1/6, but I don’t see how we don’t get through 2022 without violence given our current trajectory. Not ruling out it being liberals turning to violence should a state legislature overrule a popular vote, given that the GOP is opening that door.
lowtechcyclist
@Baud:
Well done!
Tony Jay
Battlefield? It was a barely defended building where your country’s democratically elected Government were starting the job of cleaning up the massive landslide of shit you and your fellow dough-faced Redshirts had spent the previous four years splashing around in like giddy cave-trolls.
And the only people ‘bloody and alone’ were the Capitol Police your slapdick stormtroopers beat half to death with knock-off American flags before you all ran away.
The fucking nerve of these losers.
CaseyL
Those fascist choads aren’t remorseful. They’re upset their Orange God didn’t come to their aid, and they’re VERY upset they might have to suffer actual consequences of their actions. They’d all do it again if they thought the next time would succeed.
I wish them nothing but ill.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
This is pretty common in cults. When people get disillusioned and fall away from the cult, they get REALLY pissed. And then tend to be the most virulent attackers of the cult.
A Ghost to Most
When you realize that the leopards are eating YOUR face …
dmsilev
@Baud:
His bone spurs are still giving him trouble?
Ken
Nordean says “he [TFG] woke us up,” so was “woke” not a bad thing in January?
Fair Economist
I am much more concerned they will win the 2022 elections and then steal 2024. According to polls Republicans are significantly more interested in politics right now, and that bodes ill for 2022.
Yutsano
” You fucked up. You trusted him.”
zhena gogolia
My hero is Michael Fanone.
J R in WV
@Tony Jay:
Tony, thanks for turning your unique skills onto our own local facscists… amazing how your invective fits the GQP almost as well as it fits your own Tory Fascists!
Not quite as much QQQ and a dash more BDSM in Old Blighty… enh whut?
RobertDSC-iPhone 8
Fuck your feelings, shitbag.
J R in WV
@Fair Economist:
Yeh, all 27% of them… !!
;~)
I gotta try to stay optimistic — IT’s Friday Night~!~
L85NJGT
”only the best and most serious people……”
EmanG
There’s a great community on reddit called “Leopards Ate My Face”. This has been featured.
HumboldtBlue
@EmanG:
Yeah, that’s a great sub.
Steeplejack
@EmanG:
Link, for the non-reddit-savvy?
James E Powell
I watched a short video of Stefanik’s press conference. It was a long rant about the radical socialist policies of Biden & Pelosi. Who believes this shit? Everybody’s life is basically the same except a lot of people have cash that they would not have if Rs were in charge.
It was a press conference and the first question should have been “You were elected to this leadership position in your party because Lynn Cheney refused to go along with the Big Lie but you are willing to do that, how can we believe you about anything?”
Spoiler alert: Nobody asked her any such thing.
persistentillusion
@Tony Jay: I admire your gift for invective, sir.
James E Powell
@zhena gogolia:
It still stuns me that Republicans are all “We support the police!” & “Blue Lives Matters!” & putting that blue stripe flag on their pick up trucks. Then an actual police officer is injured and speaks against their insurrection and they are like . . .
The press/media are to blame in this sense. They will not confront Republicans on things like this. They never do anything that will make right wingers mad at them. Are they scared of the mobs or are they scared of their owners?
James E Powell
Apparently, a duplicate post. Sorry, on Friday nights I am a wine & cheese liberal. In this case a very – perhaps too – drinkable Willamette Valley Pinot Noir.
HumboldtBlue
Clap your hands everybody, the Philadelphia 76ers have clinched the No.1 seed in the East for the NBA playoffs!
lurker
@James E Powell: jealous..
ETA: … gave it some more (decidedly sober) thought … definitely jealous…
Doc Sardonic
@HumboldtBlue: They’ll get knocked out by the winner of the play-in game. /s
Mike in NC
@James E Powell: The MAGAts would describe you as a “whine and cheese libtard”. I’m enjoying a cheap but nice Australian Pinot Noir.
James E Powell
@Mike in NC:
The cheeses are a gruyere and a port salut (am I supposed to pronounce either of the t’s?) on triscuits. It feels like I’m living the dream.
lurker
@James E Powell: it’s riscuis if you skip the ts. Pretty sure that’s not right. still sober though, so questionable judgment
HumboldtBlue
@Doc Sardonic:
Boo!
Elsewhere, this absolutely perfect.
I won’t be ignored Andrea
NotMax
@James E Powell
When it comes to the gourmet cheese, no need to wrestle with achieving cachet, hasten to pronounce the Ts.
;)
Uncle Omar
Proud Boys revealed as RINOs.
BigJimSlade
<snark>ALL the Cheneys aren’t treating him fairly.</snark>
Oh, Damn. That was just another who posted his comment to mock him. But how sweet it would’ve been!
Just Chuck
@James E Powell:
Not even. They are actively disparaging the injured and dead officers. They are scum.
Jay
Guy murdered his wife, then cast a ballot for TFG using her ballot.
Jay
Urban Suburbanite
@Just Chuck: That’s completely on track for these Freikorps cosplayers. They threw a huge fit in Salem (Oregon) when state troopers actually pushed them out of the state capital building they were breaking into, rather than continuing to pander to them.
There are those who call me...tim... (Still posh)
We trusted him and he left us naked and afraid!
Where’d we go wrong?