Well, I had 80% of a piece written and then discovered the article was from May. Can’t use that. But this? Ha, it’s new news, so I can. Owensboro, Kentucky. A protest was organized after someone noticed a Proud Boys gathering in a house next to the park. We can already see where it’s going to go from here. From Raw Story:
Militant leftists and Proud Boys clashed on a soccer field in a public park in western Kentucky over the Fourth of July weekend, escalating to members of the two opposing groups drawing firearms, according to video and a police incident report. The armed confrontation took place on July 5 after antifascist protesters assembled in a parking lot at Thompson Berry Park in Owensboro, Kentucky, and walked towards a double chain-link fence separating the park from the backyard of a private residence where the Proud Boys were gathering. The display of firearms took place after the Proud Boys jumped the fences and ran at the antifascist protesters. During the fracas, a woman was knocked to the ground, and the Proud Boys seized at least one of the leftists’ banners before forcing them to retreat.
See what I mean? We already knew *something* was going to go wrong when seeing the name Proud Boys. These idiots were part of the assault on the US Capitol on January 6. And *that* went very wrong, very fast. I’m still stunned by what happened on J6. Just the *idea* was bad enough, but when it started? That became some effed up shizzle. Of course, El Presidente Imbécil LOVED every minute of it and would not call them off. That’s worse than the assault. He just *watched it* for hours. But, *ahem*, back to our article.
The protest against the Proud Boys was organized by the Progressive Labor Party of Kentucky, a revolutionary communist group, which issued a call to “oppose the Proud Boys” in defense of “the interconnected queer community” in the midst of an ongoing effort to “remove books from the local public library.” The protest drew a contingent of antifascists from Middle Tennessee, along with Owensboro locals. A video posted by the Bluesky account of the Nashville-based Antifascist 615 group shows a woman leading a small child inside the private residence after several Proud Boys jumped the fence to confront the leftist protesters. Another video shows a woman with the Proud Boys angrily confronting an antifascist live-streamer about one of the leftists “pointing a f—ing gun when there are kids in the way.”
That’s a more than valid comment. They shouldn’t have pulled guns in the first place, for *either* group. But they did, and we’re lucky. No shots were fired, so it didn’t escalate. That would have been worse, and I would not want to read the news in their evening report that someone got hurt. I’m not sure either group would have held back if one person had pulled the trigger.
Members of the Proud Boys told police officers who responded to the disturbance that “one of the protesters was ‘brandishing’ a weapon at the group,” according to an incident report. The leftist protesters, in turn, told the police that “the Proud Boys pulled multiple firearms at the group.” When officers arrived on the scene, they found the two groups in a verbal argument. The Proud Boys started walking back to the residence, and the antifascist protesters headed back to the parking lot. The police did not make any arrests.
It’s great that someone managed to pull together a group of protestors to meet the Proud Boys. It seems they were able to do so pretty damn quickly. But whoever pulled the gun first, and whoever responded by drawing theirs, well, that’s a different story.
I know this is minor compared to all the other things Trumpolini is doing. I chose to put this out there to remind people that there *are* protestors still, and they’re out there. I know there’s another huge protest planned to make some “Good Trouble” later this month. If at all possible, I intend to be there. If not, I can watch pictures of all the people getting posted all over the place. And I can make some Good Trouble here at Pz. Thanks for sticking with me!
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I like the Trumpolini name
I got it from Concinnity (lawd, hope I spelled that right), who got it from someone else. It is close to perfect, yes?