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TexasTowelie

(117,365 posts)
Sat Oct 3, 2020, 02:33 AM Oct 2020

The Proud Boys are closer than you think

Did anybody else get a chill down their spine on Tuesday night’s debate, when President Trump gave a shout out to the Proud Boys? Anyone else flash back to the chaos in Charlottesville, the mayhem in Chapel Hill, the hatred on display in Graham?

Anyone else get a sinking feeling about the future of our republic?

The Proud Boys are more than just an idea in North Carolina. We have our own chapter — its president, Charles Donahoe, lives in Winston-Salem. They were in Fayetteville last month, about 40 of them, for a Qanon Save the Children March.

An NC House candidate, Heather Holmes (District 44), and state Senate candidate Sev Palacios (District 21), spoke at this event.

And why not? The president himself called them “fine people” after Charlottesville.

Read more: https://triad-city-beat.com/editors-notebook-the-proud-boys-are-closer-than-you-think/

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The Proud Boys are closer than you think (Original Post) TexasTowelie Oct 2020 OP
40 in North Carolina. For their "million proud boy rally" or whatever they called it in Squinch Oct 2020 #1

Squinch

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1. 40 in North Carolina. For their "million proud boy rally" or whatever they called it in
Sat Oct 3, 2020, 05:41 AM
Oct 2020

DC a few weeks ago, about three dozen showed up.

No. I didn't get a chill. My only concern is the aggrandizement the media and Donny Bodybags are giving to this small band of virginal basement dwellers.

QAnon, on the other hand, seems to have learned how to reach out to every susceptible loon out there.

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