Boys Will Be Boys
More scandals about Clarence Thomas have come out since yesterday. Harlan Crowe, the billionaire who has been paying for trips, gifts, and housing for Clarence’s mom in order to bribe a Supreme Court justice, also paid for private boarding school for Clarence’s nephew who was in his custody — $6,000 a month. Not only that, conservative judicial activist Leonard Leo used one of his dark money groups to finance the sale of Kellyanne Conway’s polling firm (the business that she had built up before she sold her soul to the devil and went to work on the Trump campaign and then later the Trump administration.) In return, she told Trump who to pick for the Supreme Court, per Leonard Leo’s direction. He also directed her to pay Clarence Thomas’s wife, Ginni, an extra $25,000 for “consulting work” and keep it off the books. The money came from a nonprofit that filed a brief in a landmark voting rights case that went before the Supreme Court.
Roger Stone, Alex Jones, MAGA Republicans and Trump must be very nervous today now that 4 Proud Boys have been convicted of seditious conspiracy. These Peter Pans didn’t come up with trying to overthrow the government on their own. They’re too dumb and immature. They were informally “hired.” Now that they’ve been convicted, it’s only up from here. Roger Stone, Alex Jones, MAGA Republicans and Trump could be next.
Gavin McInnes started the Proud Boys in Canada in 2016, right when the whole American MAGA movement started. The Proud Boy creed is, “I am a Western chauvinist and I refuse to apologize for creating the Western world — or the modern world.” The organization is so unorganized that some chapters collect dues and some don’t. There are no bylaws or officers. Every chapter is autonomous. Those who chat the most on Telegram have the most influence. It’s more of a fraternity where insecure men take refuge in one another, drink beer, act tough, and cause trouble.
If the number of boys gathered was large enough and they were drunk enough, they’d go beat up liberals. They got national attention when they’d show up at BLM protests in Portland and get violent. The media helped their image by reporting that they were putting Antifa in their place, the mythical anarchist group that the Republicans concocted to create a bogey man for Fox News viewers. Antifa means anti-fascist and the group was nothing but a rag tag group of far left idealists who, like the Proud Boys, were not organized. Most of them showed up at events where the Proud Boys were at, dressed in sinister black, ready to fight evil, which only helped the myth get bigger.
When the Metropolitan Republican Club hosted Gavin McInnes one night, the Proud Boys showed up and beat people up on the street chanting, “Kill more Nazis!” and “ARE YOU BRAVE NOW FAGGOT?!” After beating people up, they posed for a group photo flashing the white power sign and then headed for the bar. Fox News reported, “Antifa is at it again.”
Their anti-Antifa and anti-BLM antics caught the attention of MAGA stars who sought the boys out to provide them with free security. Beating liberals up at far right speaking engagements was way more fun than beating them up in Portland. Their own personas grew and before they knew it they were filmed at Trump’s MAGA campaign rally in Colorado. They were wearing matching shirts so they looked organized.
The Oregon Republican Party hired the Oathkeepers and the Proud Boys as security. The Proud Boys also provided security for Ann Coulter, Kyle Rittenhouse, and Roger Stone.
In Washington DC, Alex Jones had a security team of 15–20 people that circled him “in case any of his fans ran up to hug him or whatever.” The Proud Boys added reinforcement to his paid security team and helped him on and off stage to speak in front of the Supreme Court. Afterwards, they drank at Harry’s Bar because it was a Republican hangout and they knew they’d never get kicked out no matter how awful they were.
The Proud Boys battle cry is, “Fuck around, find out! Fuck around, find out! Fuck around, find out!” and they have one rule — they can’t masturbate because they believe it depletes their supernatural male essence.
The de facto leader of the Proud Boys, Enrique Tarrio, lives with his mom.
Canada’s House of Commons unanimously passed a motion to designate the Proud Boys as a terrorist organization.
Trump took notice of the Proud Boys and pulled them into his vortex when he gave them a shout out during a presidential debate, “Stand back and stand by” which the Proud Boys took literally. They believed their commander in chief had ordered them to fight on his behalf. Membership in the group grew three times after that. New recruits were eager to be part of the next episode of the Celebrity Apprentice. They all bought their own tactical gear and just showed up at the Capitol without a central command or a plan. A lot of them got caught and are paying the price for being gullible idiots.
Because the Proud Boys believed Trump and thought of themselves as true Patriots, they were emboldened to believe that their 1776 Returns plan was necessary and heroic so they did it right out in the open. These guys were so stupid you can get a hold of their plan by googling it. They left evidence of their crimes online and on paper. They recorded their Zoom call meetings.
Lots of Republicans have had their pictures taken with the Proud Boys, but not a single Democrat.
