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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsProud Boys and Allies to Rally in D.C. to Capitalize on 'Trumpstravaganza'
We are expecting a lot of Trump supporters, and especially battle-ready Trump supporters, All Out D.C. organizer Jesse Sparks said.
Will Sommer
Updated 07.02.19 9:30AM ET Published 07.02.19 4:35AM ET
Washington, D.C.s Fourth of July week will go from a sweaty fete of fireworks, security checkpoints, tanks and sunscreen to what is shaping up to be a protest-fest, featuring some of the pro-Trump rights most extreme groups two days after the Donald Trump-centric festivities.
Members of the far-right Proud Boys mens group and their allies will rally in D.C. on July 6, just a week after violence at rival Portland rallies ratcheted up tensions between groups on both the right and left. The Proud Boys event and a rival counterprotest threaten to add even more tension for whats already shaping up to be a hot, strange week in Washington.
The Proud Boysself-described Western chauvinists who adhere to a dizzying array of rules, including restrictions on how much they can masturbate will be joined by a number of right-wing internet personalities at the Rally for Free Speech at D.C.s Freedom Plaza.
The events website lists a number of right-wing internet provocateurs, including conservative smear-pusher Jacob Wohl, anti-Muslim activist Laura Loomer, British far-right activist Milo Yiannopoulos, and former Pizzagate promoter Jack Posobiec. The bill also names a host of lesser-known social media figures, including YouTube prankster-turned-congressional candidate Joey Salads and Copper Cab, the YouTuber who became famous in 2010 for the viral gingers have souls video.
The rally, which will be held just blocks from the White House, is ostensibly about social media companies banning right-wing figures like Loomer and Wohl. According to Proud Boy leader and event organizer Luke Rohfling, though, the event is also aimed at left-wing antifascist activists after Quillette writer Andy Ngo was attacked last weekend in Portland.
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Proud Boys and Allies to Rally in D.C. to Capitalize on 'Trumpstravaganza' (Original Post)
DonViejo
Jul 2019
OP
Llike this, except instead of whitehoods & robes--white shirts., nazi/kkk symbols, tiki torches...
RestoreAmerica2020
Jul 2019
#2
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,586 posts)1. Jacob Wohl, come on down. NT
RestoreAmerica2020
(3,438 posts)2. Llike this, except instead of whitehoods & robes--white shirts., nazi/kkk symbols, tiki torches...
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)3. the party of
Nazis will be spending the working class money to spew total hatred. The Republican party is no longer a USA member of democracy.
Bayard
(22,128 posts)4. I predict violence
How can this not end in a brawl? I imagine there will be plenty of left counter-protesters.
I'm wondering how they police their masturbation rule...... And what the penalty is for over-doing it?
hlthe2b
(102,343 posts)5. Yet another reason to boycott it and let Trump look out onto empty seats and streets.
Blue Owl
(50,489 posts)6. Tanks n' Wanks
n/t
GaYellowDawg
(4,449 posts)7. I'm SO tired of all these assholes who are so ready for violence.
"Battle ready" and shit like that. Every single one of them is nothing more than a damn brownshirt.