#HappeningNow "I came here to help, not get the shit beat out of me" – a member of Proud Boys, with visible blood on his face ushered away from Drag Queen Story Hour event in NYC as protesters chant "Fuck the Proud Boys" https://t.co/bXZXQWtfVH pic.twitter.com/ObbuyZXOVo
— Oliya Scootercaster ?? (@ScooterCasterNY) March 19, 2023
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All I can make out in the clip below is NAZIS GO HOME, which I doubt is coming from the Proud Boys…
And here in the West Village, the NYPD is giving an armed escort to the Proud Boys, who are shouting slurs at people on the street. pic.twitter.com/GEkRUfklRW
— Max Burns (@themaxburns) March 19, 2023
Meanwhile:
Bring it on. I want the airwaves flooded with images of braying MAGA fascists blubbering and brawling with cops while their Dorito Duce is led away. https://t.co/phBjVmGrd3
— Peter Wolf (@peterawolf) March 18, 2023
The j6 mob thought Trump was going to deploy the military to help them overturn the election, partly because he was saying that's what he would do, and then bing bong boom Trump becomes god emperor for life. Breaking him out of jail doesn't involve any of that
— Hemry, Local Bartender (@BartenderHemry) March 19, 2023
Don't get me wrong obviously Trump would like a large mob to break him out of jail but the promise now is not "I will lead you to glorious & final victory over the loony left" but "you will now be responsible for my fugitive ass"
— Hemry, Local Bartender (@BartenderHemry) March 19, 2023
Lots of concern over if Trump's calls for a protest could be a "set up." "This could be a massive, nationwide set up to get more Patriots into prison," one user wrote.
— Zachary Petrizzo (@ZTPetrizzo) March 18, 2023
Straight from the horse’s… mouthpiece. The Daily Beast quotes Ali Alexander (widely suspected of turning over his J6 comrades to the Feds), as “Officials Prep for Protests as MAGA Sycophants Push ‘Patriot Moat’ Around Mar-a-Lago”:
… The idea of creating a protective barrier around Trump at his Mar-a-Lago estate led to chatter about what type of rifle ammunition could take down low-flying aircraft sent to take the former president into custody.
Earlier on Saturday morning, “Stop the Steal” leader Ali Alexander suggested “100,000 patriots” should “shut down all routes to Mar-a-Lago.”
Despite publicly calling for action to take place, Alexander said he wouldn’t be participating in such an event.
Likewise, Alexander claimed on Telegram to have spoken to far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones—who also expressed zero interest in organizing another protest in the name of Trump.
“He’s not protesting either,” he added of Jones. “We’ve both got enough going on fighting the government. No billionaire is covering our bills.”
During an “emergency” Saturday broadcast, Jones carefully attempted to thread the needle between supporting Trump’s calls for protests over a possible indictment—and warning his own followers of potential fallout from such events turning violent.
“Do not be provocateured [sic] into violence,” Jones said, while warning his followers of dubious agents attempting to hijack pro-Trump rallies…
Other ultra-MAGA personalities took swings at Trump for even suggesting protests after the events of Jan 6.
“The last time Trump’s biggest fans protested on his behalf, he left them all to rot in jail without so much as a penny from him in legal fees,” right-wing pundit Jesse Kelly wrote. “Not a penny. Shame on him for this. Do NOT go to a blue area and protest for this man. Ignore this.”
Similarly, Steve Bannon ally Grace Chong discouraged Trump supporters from attending protests while declaring: “Don’t be stupid.”…
See the thing to do is to rout them, being careful to get 4k videos of them running out of breath and tripping out of their cargo pants, and then put those guys in jail too. https://t.co/uFIC4XNRTy
— Gary Alexander (@grylxndr) March 19, 2023
Handy visual aid!
— Mutter ?????? ?????????? (@NutterMutter) March 19, 2023
War for Ukraine Day 389: Sunday! Sunday!! SUNDAY!!!!
Urza
Need some hysterical laughing emojis here.
Sister Golden Bear
The Proud Boys forgot the 11th Commandment: Thou Shalt Not Fuck With Drag Queens.
kalakal
I love the welcome NYC is giving the Nothing to be Proud of Boys.
As for the ‘Patriot Moat’, a flooded ditch sounds like the very place for these dimwits. Espescially in Florida, we have gators, pythons, water moccasins etc in every puddle. I think the brain eating amoeba are out of luck though.
Suzanne
LMMFAO.
Imagine being such a dumbfuck that you actually thought Donald Fucken Trump would bail your ass out.
You know, I’m starting to think that these graduates of the School of Hard Knocks or Trump University maybe should have gone to real college.
Sister Golden Bear
Speaking of Nazis, one the U.K.’s leading TERFs, Posie Parker, is on a hate tour of Australia. At a rally in Melbourne earlier this week, about a dozen “seig heil”ing actual Nazis showed up in support—and the police shoved counter-demonstrators out of the way so they could stand with her. Neither Parker now her compatriots said anything to disavow them — although the TERFs are now claiming that they weren’t actually Nazis because they didn’t display any swaztikas (which are illegal in Oz).
Unlike the States there’s major fallout, intense criticism of the cops, a move to ban the Nazi salute, and Parliament is taking about kicking out an MP You ho attended the rally.
Alison Rose
“I came here to help, not get the shit beat out of me”.
Yes, well, the Good Lord had other ideas, Sparky. Literally everyone else would be thrilled to see you get the shit beat out of you.
It’s amazing how these guys wanna act so tough and yet they are absolutely terrified of a person who wasn’t born with a uterus wearing a dress and lipstick. Fucking snowflake babies.
Dan B
@Sister Golden Bear: Truth! There was the Sandbox, a gay bar in Tacoma near Ft. Lewis. GI’s would go to beat up queens and the Drag Queens would beat them up. When the MP’s came they would arrest the GI’s and wonder who beat them up.
TiredOfItAll
Of course this is all gruesome, but the New Yorker in me couldn’t help laughing at “Go back to Long Island!” This is going to be an interesting week, maybe.
Alison Rose
@Sister Golden Bear: I saw a reference to this in a FB group and for a moment I thought they mistyped and meant Parker Posey, but thankfully not. Posie Parker is garbage and I hate sharing a last name with her.
Sister Golden Bear
@Dan B: Heh. Reminds me of the song “Urban Struggle” by the punk jesters the Vandals, which mocked Urban Cowboy craze and had a line about cowboys starting fights with the punks — and getting their asses kicked. Based on real-life events, one the seminal Orange County punk clubs shared a parking lot with a cowboy bar. Hilarity ensured.
prostratedragon
@TiredOfItAll: That was my favorite part too.
gwangung
Making fun of them is so satisfying…AND it’s the right rhetorical response. Nothing defangs their power as a good mocking as they behind the skirts of their cop buddies.
Betsy
Did I hear that correctly? in the first video, the nazi fuckwit is begging the crowd for a metro card because he can’t walk to where his stupid car is parked on 18th St?
West of the Rockies
@Suzanne:
Yeah, it’s almost like they’re kind of stupid.
West of the Rockies
@Sister Golden Bear:
Posie Parker is not Parker Posey, is she?
Betsy
@Alison Rose: sounded like they forgot subway fare, too. Maybe Nurse should have safety-pinned it to their shirtfronts
Tony G
Are the NYPD somehow required by law to provide an armed protective escort to the fucking Proud Boys? If not, then they should do no such thing. If there are NYC cops with nothing else to do but to provide an escort to fascists, then the NYPD budget really needs to be cut.
The Moar You Know
“I came here to help, not get the shit beat out of me”.
My only regret is that I wasn’t there.
Anotherlurker
@TiredOfItAll: The “Go back to L.I.” phrase rings true. I grew up there and still have strong ties to the area. But I always knew L.I. had more than its share of scumbag NAZI assholes.
I live in the SF East Bay now and am very happy here.
The only things I miss about The Island is the fishing. LI Sound, the South Shore and Montauk, especially.
Mai Naem mobile
I have no problem with MAGAts surrounding the MangoMansion. Let Ron Dysentery deal with them. He can call the National Guard in. Just make sure its a bunch of Trumper SS agents and Trumper agents from the NY FBI trumplandia office protecting Mango.
Suzanne
@West of the Rockies: I would say that we should put people that stupid in institutions for everyone’s safety, but prison will suffice.
Anotherlurker
@Tony G: NYPD is a bunch of fucking NAZI assholes. They are scum from top to bottom.
This pains me greatly because my nephew, my godson, is a 20 year asshole member. The kid is a great disappointment to me.
Ruckus
@Suzanne:
They didn’t do their part and get him the permeant crown he was supposed to have as king of the US. Even though we don’t actually have a king, other than King and Queen of the HS prom, or people with the last name of King. It’s what has led me to believe that he’s fucking crazier than an insane asylum inmate.
Alison Rose
@West of the Rockies: LOL see my comment. No, it’s not even her real name, unlike the actress. Plus she’s British, blond, and disgusting.
randal sexton
@kalakal: “brain eating amoebas out of luck”. LOL. Made me spit take.
laura
Nazi punks fuck off.
karen marie
@Alison Rose: As they were walking down the street together, you could see how much those two Proud Boys wanted to hold hands.
I ended up at twitter after clicking on one of the videos. What a garbage fire. I really don’t get why anyone bothers with it at this point.
@West of the Rockies: “Kind of”?
Ken
Obviously this is a foolproof plan, because the FBI has no access to helicopters.
(Or teargas, for that matter, but I suspect they’d keep it non-confrontational. Especially since that would make the protestors look even more stupid.)
cain
@Tony G: For some reason “unpopular” groups like KKK, and proud boys get protection probably because everyone want to beat their ass.
It’s basically virtuous signalling showing that this country protects people who have unpopular opinions like you know, racism.
cain
@Anotherlurker:
Ugh – sorry to hear – I can’t imagine what kind of trauma would have gotten them to join such a thing. It’s almost always something like that.
Frankensteinbeck
@Suzanne:
This was one of the things that stood out to me as the Jan 6th arrests started. The insurrectionists did it assuming that they would not, could not get in any trouble for it. They were mind blown when they got arrested. They were a bunch of chickenshit cowards who had been sold that this was a zero risk walk in the park. They took all those selfies and stole stuff because they had absolutely no clue that they were in any legal danger.
Then they started whining for pardons and Trump ignored them. As is mentioned in passing in the OP, a fair number of them wrote Trump off then and there. I suppose we’ll never know how many.
kalakal
One thing that strikes me about all these nazi cos players is that they genuinely believe they are popular. Like those ‘freedumb trucker’ buffoons everytime they turn up in a city they expect to be greeted as though it’s the Liberation of Paris. And everytime the only thing that stops them being torn to shreds by the locals is a lot of police. Gravel has a greater ability to learn from experience than a Proud Boy
David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch
OMG Ole Miss upset overwhelming favorite Stanford at Palo Alto. David beat Goliath. They’re rushing the court, Mississippi’s coach is bawling. Number 1 seed goes down in opening round.
Another Scott
@Ken: Plus, it’s already surrounded on 2 sides by water, and a highway on a 3rd.
:-/
Google Maps tells me it opens at 7 AM Tuesday. Maybe that’s why TFG said he was being arrested Tuesday? (“You can’t arrest me when we’re closed!! I want my peeps to see it and save me!!1”)
Cheers,
Scott.
Betsy
@Frankensteinbeck: Just think, a couple thousand of the stupidest, most violent right-wingers in the country, the ones who showed they would go to the greatest lengths to do the very stupidest and most violent things, the most easily led into mass hysterical mob violence, now have criminal records at the federal level. That’s helpful :)
J6 was practically a screening device to sift out a good batch of the nation’s worst people.
It’s like those scam emails with the intentional misspellings and bad grammar to draw in the dumbest marks.
Now, if only we could put them all on one of Elon’s scammy rocket ships to mats. Sadly, those are as realistic as his other ideas, that is to say, just another Theranos type scam.
kalakal
@Betsy:
We could call it the C Ark
TheMightyTrowel
@Sister Golden Bear: A little more specificity – this happened saturday. Also, while the legislative action is good it’s only happening in the state parliament of victoria – so the state party is kicking out a state MP and the state is banning the salute. The actual PM of the whole country (who is nominally left within the centre left labor party) has not issued a single peep. In fact not one of the country’s newspapers reported on this for over 24 hours until the online outrage finally prompted a response from the Victorian state premier (kind of = governor). It’s pretty unpleasant. Anyhow, since the odious transphobe is travelling through my town later this week, guess I have a date with a pro-trans protest….
brendancalling
@Sister Golden Bear: now THAT was a great band! “I want to be a cowboy (I couldn’t make it as a Punker)”
Jackie
@Sister Golden Bear: Yes, they most certainly did!!!😂
RaflW
Jesse Kelly getting perilously close to calling Donald a grifter there.
[popcorn popping noises]
Jackie
@Betsy: No one supplied him with a golf cart.
Maxim
@Betsy: I heard “The police need to pay my subway fare.” Poor Friend of Sparky was apparently afraid he would also get his ass kicked if he tried to walk it.
Benw
@Sister Golden Bear:
“And the Lord looked out among her people. And saw that gender was a spectrum, and it was good. And that some boys did like other boys and some girls did like other girls; and it was good; and that some did not like either at all, and it was good. And some boys did themselves dress as girl, and the opposite was also true, and it was good. And that some did not wish to remain themselves with the gender they were assigned at birth based on outward signifiers of their sex, and it was good. And the Lord raised herself a great land called NYC, in which she spoke, ‘cometh to this land and fuck around, and ye shall find out.'”
Ken
This sounds like Cyril Kornbluth’s The Marching Morons, where the rockets didn’t actually have to get to the other planet, or even be airtight.
I suppose that story hasn’t aged all that well, considering it involves genocide on a massive scale.
rikyrah
OT
Can a FrontPager look into the seaweed about to attack Florida.
I want to know if there’s something that can be done to fight it.😳😳
RaflW
@Tony G: There’s about 36,000 NYPD officers. It’s a big city, but JFC that’s nuts.
LAPD at 10,000.
Chicago has around 11,600.
Houston ~5,300.
If LAPD was at the same force:population ratio as NY, they’d be 16,300
Chicago is +/- in line with NY’s ratio
Houston is way lower than the NY proportion
Anyway, allocating a couple dozen “NY’s Finest” on scooters barely even causes a ripple in one of the 77 precincts.
Anotherlurker
@cain: I don’t know what happened to him. He didn’t want to go to college so he took the NYPD test and did very well. When I heard he was joining the force, I had a sinking feeling.
I remember talking to him 6 months after he got out of the academy and he stated that ni$$er! were really low life.
I am baffled because my brother and sister-in-law were not a place he would learn such attitudes.
I think he felt that he had to fit in with the NYPS culture and the culture is racist and exclusionary.
In his first 12 years on the force he racked up 24 complaints for the use of excessive force. He was disciplined once.
I found this out by going to the NYC Civilian Complaints Review Board website and searching his name. To his credit, I guess, he has not had a complaint in the last eight or nine years. Maybe marrying in his 30s and now having 2 young kids mellowed him. I hope so.
Frederick Stibbert
The Intracoastal waters are shining like an ormolu pissoir, he is traveling down the highway, hoping to foment a civil war.
Down to Disgraceland, Disgraceland, east of West Palm Beach, down to Disgraceland.
Proud Boys & Karens & Roger Stone are going to Disgraceland.
& his traveling companion is “thirty-nine” years old, she was a child during his first marriage. I have reason to believe, she’ll often be deceived in Disgraceland.
HumboldtBlue
@Benw:
This has got to be a motherfucking rotating tag.
different-church-lady
“Trash a bank if you’ve got real balls”
prostratedragon
@David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch: Second round. Still very impressive for Ole Miss.
Kent
Jennifer Ruben nails it today and she brought the goods. Here’s a gift link which should bypass the paywall: wapo.st/3n33O82
RaflW
@kalakal: Relatedly, there’s be a lot of whining in recent days by Minnesota Republicans that they aren’t getting any respect or bipartisanship (though a good data journalist has found that something like 25% of GOP amendments to state legislative bills are getting added, even if the bills overall are all Dem sponsored).
And I keep pointing out: The GOP hasn’t been able to win a single statewide race of any sort – governor, AG, US Senator, S.O.S. – for twelve years.
You’re in the minority and have little power … because that’s what you’ve earned. Last year you fielded bad candidates and lost control of the one chamber you’d held. Because you embraced the Covid-crazies and the MAGA noise and we, collectively, in Minnesota, are sick of that shit.
Sister Golden Bear
@Benw: Brilliant!
Mai Naem mobile
@Kent: let’s not forget that on average they’ve probably lost more people due to COVID than the rest of the population.
Sister Golden Bear
@RaflW:
Sounds like they’re headed towards the same irrelevancy that Republicans have in statewide politics in California. Uff da. /s
Redshift
@Betsy:
You bet it is. You know those sentences many in then got that seemed infuriatingly low? That’s because if the sentencing guidelines for someone with no record. If they pull crap like that again and get caught, it’ll be easy worse. The ones who aren’t incurably stupid will think twice because of that, and the ones that are will get put away for a long time.
Alison Rose
@Sister Golden Bear: I don’t know if any Repubs have said they’re running for DiFi’s seat, but I’m sure a few will try. It’s kind of cute. Makes you wanna pat them on the head and be like “Sure, buddy, you run for that seat, you’re gonna do great!”
Reminds me of an SFGate headline from June last year after Dahle won the GOP primary: “California Republicans Send Latest Sacrifice to Gavin Newsom”. Accurate, considering Newsom won by nearly 20 percentage points.
Kelly
@Anotherlurker: Made his bones he’s a full member of the gang now
Ruckus
@Suzanne:
Maybe they should have paid attention in high school.
Or possibly elementary school too.
Going through life with the education that they do seem to have acquired by watching it wave bye bye may not have been their smartest move.
Betsy
@Redshift: Nice!
And I do understand that federal crimes are especially costly and personally burdensome to defend oneself against, because you have to have a lawyer who’s admitted to practice in federal court (more expensive and harder to retain) and your case must be heard at a federal courthouse, which aren’t in every two-horse county seat, needless to say.
Benw
@HumboldtBlue: @Sister Golden Bear: thanks!
opiejeanne
@Frederick Stibbert: Applause. I recognized the original just from the first line. Well done.
Odie Hugh Manatee
@Sister Golden Bear:
I have a blue and gold round patch on an old jean jacket of mine that ‘honors’ cops.
It’s a gold pig on a blue background with a gold border and the words in gold:
PRIDE INTEGRITY GUTS
at ten, two and six o’clock. Hippies had it right when they called them pigs.
Aussie Sheila
I wouldn’t be surprised if the PBs and the rest of the militias have so many fbi agents in them now that after the sentences are imposed, some chapters will consist of so many agents largely unknown to each other, that in a couple of years there will be court cases involving various branches of law enforcement.
Lets hope so. They are a menace and threaten the monopoly of violence that keeps a state relatively secure from fatal insurgencies
NotMax
The score: Pride 1, Proud 0.
ExpatchadPutin has become Stalin, the destroyer of worlds
@Dan B: THE GOOD OLD DAYS
Back in the 70’s a couple of us were negotiating purchase of Der Box until the prissy straight owners realized that it was a moneymaker.
Changed my life, it did!
rikyrah
Thank you, NYC👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Show those clowns the door
WATB!
Baud
Dark Brandon would never do such a thing.
Matt McIrvin
@cain: It’s also because the city police like Nazis and Klansmen and agree with them.
lowtechcyclist
@Matt McIrvin:
Indeed. We all remember what sort of police protection the George Floyd protesters got. And how certain other elements were referred to by the cops as “armed friendlies.”
lowtechcyclist
@Kent:
I’m looking forward to living long enough to see those evangelical assholes slide into irrelevance.
@Frederick Stibbert:
Brilliant!
Omnes Omnibus
Not the case in my experience.
lowtechcyclist
@rikyrah:
“There are certain sections of New York, Major, that I wouldn’t advise you to try to invade.”
Matt McIrvin
@lowtechcyclist: One the one hand they’re aging and outnumbered. On the other hand they have a lot of guns, allies in law enforcement and a willingness to kill and destroy. I expect the violence from that quarter to only increase.
Sister Machine Gun of Quiet Harmony
@cain: Gay Pride parades get police protection too
Brit in Chicago
“obviously Trump would like a large mob to break him out of jail” —to lynch him? I see why one might want to, but really that’s going too far. The rule of law is important.
Boris Rasputin (the evil twin)
I seem to remember that moats were cesspools (cesspits?) for castles, were all the waste was dumped. Unspeakably nasty for anyone living in the castle, but no one in their right mind would try to wade or swim through a moat.
“MAGAT moat” does have a ring to it.
RaflW
@Sister Golden Bear: That would be great. But the senate is a one-seat margin, and while our districts aren’t gerrymandered, we have a population-concentration issue.
Our A.G. race was a straight D-R matchup and Ellison only won by 0.84% (20,800 votes). So R’s remain in striking distance, but can’t find the right formula with their MAGA bullshit. If they moderate slightly, they could start winning – and then like Pawlenty, govern to the right of their campaign positions.
There’s anecdotal stories that what Walz and the Dems are doing is attracting liberals to move here. More than anecdotes in terms of families with trans kids. Enough to increase margins? Hmm.
And our state senate will stay on a knife’s edge since our “D” seats win by 10-40% but the exurban and mid size town “R” seats win by 2-5%.
trucmat
@rikyrah:
Reminds me we got a laugh last night when I called our cat a WAKB. Told him to stop begging and that he was being a whiny ass kitty baby.