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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJesus Christ this photo... ".. Members of the group Patriot Front ride the metro on the 250th anniversary..."

Jesus Christ this photo...
— Greg Pak (@gregpak.net) 2026-07-04T15:01:23.657Z
hlthe2b
(115,350 posts)and our regression to those most ugly times...
calimary
(91,627 posts)If I were on that bus, Id sit with her, with me on the aisle to block the reach of any idiots or potential evil-doers. Dont try making Grandma mad! (Besides, THIS grandma earned her black belt, the hard & slow way, in karate school!)
NBachers
(19,684 posts)Ritabert
(2,890 posts)mwmisses4289
(5,272 posts)Celerity
(55,485 posts)mwmisses4289
(5,272 posts)Ritabert
(2,890 posts)dave99
(767 posts)forgotmylogin
(7,974 posts)True Dough
(27,754 posts)when you have to hide your face!
Useless wannabe thugs.
Botany
(78,371 posts)We have them here in Ohio. Proud Boys.
wnylib
(26,934 posts)They want to intimidate people, just waiting for the moment when they can move beyond mere intimidation.
Expect to see more of this crap as we get closer to election day.
Grins
(9,614 posts)PatSeg
(54,184 posts)Vinca
(54,615 posts)They are so brave, they don't want to show their faces, just like Border Patrol and ICE........Chicken Shits.........
All of this could have been avoided if the Capitol Police, inside the Capitol on J6th, had just started "dropping" each of the seditionists as they broke through the windows and doors........
yardwork
(70,127 posts)sheshe2
(99,144 posts)However these masks are just another version of the mask/hoods worn by the KKK. They were used then to cause fear, intimidation and violence anonymously just like ICE is doing now.
Jilly_in_VA
(14,779 posts)don't forget THOSE weenies---the ones with a bade they won't show!
yardwork
(70,127 posts)Amaryllis
(11,580 posts)HeartsCanHope
(1,828 posts)Jilly_in_VA
(14,779 posts)spazzy fingers and bad proofreading.
azureblue
(2,783 posts)different hoods. Same crap..
mwmisses4289
(5,272 posts)They wouldn't know patriotism if it bit them in the ass, slapped them upside the head and threw them to the ground.
Midnight Writer
(26,054 posts)When I see this picture, I hear Lee Greenwood singing "I'm Proud to be an American..."
MineralMan
(152,120 posts)OK, I can't actually imagine what she must be thinking. I can try, though.
popsdenver
(2,886 posts)She looks mortified...........
Alice Kramden
(2,996 posts)And unintimidated
taxi
(2,785 posts)It's a safe bet to say the skin on their hidden faces would turn sunburn red in mere minutes.
orthoclad
(5,318 posts)oasis
(54,459 posts)pay for a private bus for transport.
Disaffected
(6,738 posts)a U-Haul van?
at least soros rents busses for us!
2MuchNoise
(972 posts)mwooldri
(10,836 posts)Give them a taste of the London Underground.
TommyT139
(2,556 posts)So they'll take advantage of a little socialism when it suits them.
It would be a shame if a sudden train deceleration sloshed this drug store brand cheap floral perfume on those nice white face gaiters. I swear, I was just holding it up so I could read the label, as an educated consumer should do.
Jilly_in_VA
(14,779 posts)Raine1967
(11,705 posts)This photo is why.
Nauseating for our city.
Solly Mack
(97,495 posts)Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Round"
&t=41s
Fuck the racists.
Cheezoholic
(4,188 posts)oasis
(54,459 posts)electric_blue68
(28,074 posts)Disaffected
(6,738 posts)who doesn't move over for one of those cretins to sit down.
LeftInTX
(35,066 posts)DiverDave
(5,280 posts)Next to her.
Racist fucks.
Disaffected
(6,738 posts)they wanted to harass her.
RedWhiteBlueIsRacist
(2,451 posts)Nanjeanne
(6,888 posts)Boomerproud
(9,435 posts)We know who unleashed this.
IcyPeas
(26,012 posts)Than these pieces of shit showing up.
Patriot Front
ICE militia on our streets
This is not America
Walleye
(45,878 posts)paleotn
(23,169 posts)wnylib
(26,934 posts)underpants
(197,985 posts)buzzycrumbhunger
(2,489 posts)Thats horrific (This from a pasty Celt!)
IcyPeas
(26,012 posts)And as others have said look at this poor woman's face. I apologize to her on behalf of the good people of the united states.

paleotn
(23,169 posts)What losers.
twodogsbarking
(19,956 posts)TommyT139
(2,556 posts)...but these young women are going to looking for husbands any minute now.
...[W]eve observed how young women are at the heart of the Maga movement: organizing at state and national legislatures, building social media followings, staffing rightwing advocacy groups, and enacting real gains for the Republican party.
That's from a very interesting article about Gen Z magat women. The article used the hook of this week's Supreme Court decision, but it's also about a new book on the movement as a whole, Esther's Army.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/01/rightwing-gen-z-women-supreme-court
Aviation Pro
(15,905 posts)Thank goodness the chances of them breeding is near zero.
Mossfern
(4,935 posts)I was going to suggest that somehow they be sterilized - they will just breed little haters.
These are evil thoughts that I am ashamed of ... but it's a survival thing I think.
Martin68
(28,382 posts)JCMach1
(29,276 posts)chowder66
(12,732 posts)Literal Nazis are marching through the streets of DC for Americaâs 250th. This is Trumpâs America.
— Hoodlum ðºð¸ (@nothoodlum.bsky.social) 2026-07-04T15:06:25.298Z
Botany
(78,371 posts)A couple of High School football teams could do it.
Wednesdays
(23,543 posts)tonekat
(2,607 posts)They're not going to start now.
RockCreek
(1,662 posts)And Emergency services be too overwhelmed to treat all of them.
ShazzieB
(23,128 posts)LeftInTX
(35,066 posts)CanonRay
(16,326 posts)-misanthroptimist
(2,012 posts)I don't remember the Founders wearing masks. In fact, I seem to remember that they signed their names to documents that would have been deemed treason had they failed.
These clowns with delusions of adequacy (which they think is superiority) have provided me with endless fun over the last fifty years. I verbally abuse them and humiliate them every chance I get.
debsy
(1,111 posts)They are so scared of their values that they dont dare show their face.
AverageOldGuy
(4,407 posts)Id likely be arrested for assault - rip off a mask and see what they do.
GiqueCee
(5,179 posts)... is the kindest thing one could call these cowardly shitweasels that hide behind masks and shades. They are malicious bullies to a man, or they wouldn't have anything to do with this bunch, who are only intimidating as gangs. Challenged to go one-on-one, and any of those clowns would shit his britches.
BeneteauBum
(1,012 posts)Clowns to the left of me, Jokers to the right
Here I am, stuck in the middle with you.
Peace ☮️
Joinfortmill
(21,996 posts)Doodley
(12,166 posts)electric_blue68
(28,074 posts)Last edited Sun Jul 5, 2026, 01:29 AM - Edit history (1)
And poster Disaffected pointing out her not moving; so one can sit. Bad enough they're all around her
Jimi du Ranty
(65 posts)..Straight out of the basement!
swong19104
(684 posts)Riding the metro instead of taking a car each.
3catwoman3
(30,322 posts)What bunch of chicken shits.
Ilsa
(64,803 posts)And I'm convinced the vampires are more human.
If there were such a thing.
aggiesal
(11,030 posts)TommieMommy
(3,259 posts)Baitball Blogger
(52,947 posts)live love laugh
(16,583 posts)mntleo2
(2,663 posts)Wednesdays
(23,543 posts)SidneyR
(257 posts)I wouldn't be surprised if they verbally harassed her.
kentuck
(116,205 posts)...to intimidate the voters?
hamsterjill
(18,017 posts)Bring it! I will be there to walk anyone who needs it into the polls. I'm White, I'm old, and I'm tired of bullies who are such wimps that they won't even show their faces. If any one of these assholes had a set of balls, they'd be volunteering to fight Trump's war. They are a bunch of limp-dicked cowards.
azureblue
(2,783 posts)Who paid for their expenses?
Gore1FL
(23,004 posts)Haggard Celine
(18,059 posts)liberalgunwilltravel
(1,319 posts)The heat will kill them.
Stuckinthebush
(11,226 posts)White hoods
purr-rat beauty
(1,702 posts)Let those mother fuckers burn
0rganism
(25,784 posts)At first, I thought it was a big tumor or a bizarre skull deformity or that I'd just looked at the picture wrong, but the closer I looked... it's a pistol and I can't unsee it. No one commented on it yet, though, so I did a triple take. Still there.
Is this common practice for F47's paramilitary goons? Seems between this and the high temperatures, a person could get real uncomfortable, maybe even a tad ornery...
MerryBlooms
(12,637 posts)A bunch of them have lumps under those hoods. I'm thinking communication gear?
0rganism
(25,784 posts)Maybe some of them use bulky old headset equipment so they can pretend it's untraceable? I'm probably just not used to seeing the chonky headsets anymore.
MerryBlooms
(12,637 posts)I can only zoom.in so far... But that's what it looks like to me
Like, ebay purchased lol
That woman surrounded by these creeps
I would love to see this on Time front page celebration USA trump 250th!
how embarrassing!
Nictuku
(4,693 posts)Haha!
JohnnyRingo
(21,107 posts)Not one of them.
Some people are just fucked up. We can't fix them.
hoosierspud
(253 posts)In Coeur d'Alene, ID a few years ago. Someone at their hotel saw them loading up into the back of a rental moving truck and called the cops. They were stopped and arrested before they made it to the event.
3catwoman3
(30,322 posts)Last edited Sat Jul 4, 2026, 03:45 PM - Edit history (1)
Do they have any idea how ridiculous they look in their matching costumes? A bunch of mindless copycats.
Hey, morons - you look really stupid with your faces covered!
Woodwizard
(1,354 posts)I have a group of yahoos that love to burn rubber on their lifted loud diesel trucks it is a 13 percent grade on my road so easy to do. Not little burnouts 200' ones.
I had enough and painted in flourecent orange in 2' high letters TINY DICK on the road over them. For the last 3 weeks no burnouts and somebody painted over it. Making fun of the idiots they pay attention to.
They do it again the paint comes out.
3catwoman3
(30,322 posts)And how wrong they are about that. It makes them look like the cowards they are.
mzmolly
(52,886 posts)a bus?
surfered
(15,267 posts)Evolve Dammit
(21,870 posts)Wednesdays
(23,543 posts)Norrrm
(6,239 posts)Patriot Front Nazi Jared Boyce
Right wing anti-LGBTQ but pro-child pornography
https://crooksandliars.com/2023/05/patriot-front-member-facing-30-years-child
B.See
(9,081 posts)to celebrate America's democracy. As in, "Authoritarian Dictator/King Parades Masked Terrorists/Insurrectionist in Nation's Capitol."
But hey, they're NOT a cult of despicable reprobates
(sarcasm)
MLAA
(19,871 posts)The Wizard
(13,978 posts)all punks, incels and skells.
Skittles
(173,769 posts)the same vile assholes who couldn't bring themselves to mask up for the common good during a fucking PANDEMIC
The Wizard
(13,978 posts)some_of_us_are_sane
(3,876 posts)Melon
(1,975 posts)Unrepentant Fenian
(1,163 posts)niyad
(135,638 posts)masked and hatted up? I hope they suffocate.
nini
(16,834 posts)Same asshole cowards.
Karasu
(2,414 posts)LeftInTX
(35,066 posts)They belong in the back of a U-Haul
Betty Boom
(507 posts)Its just the kind of shitweasels they are
llmart
(17,790 posts)If I saw them I would just point and laugh my ass off.
Raine
(31,287 posts)dave99
(767 posts)letting shit contact each other
Hand that photographer a Pulitzer Prize for that picture
LetMyPeopleVote
(184,463 posts)The United States 1957 vs. 2026:
— Mrs. Betty Bowers (@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social) 2026-07-04T21:21:45.618Z
The same vibe, an innocent black girl surrounded by the same damn problem, white supremacy.
RandomNumbers
(19,383 posts)Festivito
(13,965 posts)That's her!
forgotmylogin
(7,974 posts)Mr.Bee
(2,007 posts)AverageOldGuy
(4,407 posts)I was born 1944 in a crossroads cotton picking village in SW Mississippi where Jim Crow was the law and those trifling Blacks were kept on their place. I left at 18 and never looked back.
Can someone explain to me the difference between these clowns and the Ku Klux Klan that I grew up with. You know - the Klan that protected us white people from the n#####s, Jews, Catholics, and commies???
Fullduplexxx
(8,634 posts)LetMyPeopleVote
(184,463 posts)
