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Jesus Christ this photo... ".. Members of the group Patriot Front ride the metro on the 250th anniversary..." (Original Post) demmiblue Saturday OP
Heavens.. that woman. I feel the need to apologize to her for this country today hlthe2b Saturday #1
Definitely. calimary Saturday #125
God what a bunch of weenies. NBachers Saturday #2
As Chrissy Teigen said....PABs. Ritabert Saturday #4
PABs??? mwmisses4289 Saturday #6
Here: Celerity Saturday #11
Thank you. mwmisses4289 Saturday #16
Somebody supplied the link for you. Ritabert Saturday #15
Pussy Ass Bitch dave99 Saturday #126
I was gonna say bunch of mummies. forgotmylogin Yesterday #133
You know you're doing the honorable thing True Dough Saturday #3
Cowards they will not show their faces and have to be in a large threatening group. Botany Saturday #9
Large threatening group is the point. wnylib Saturday #65
Lemme guess.... They are anti-mask MAGA, too? NM Grins Saturday #115
That is chilling PatSeg Saturday #82
They're so brave they don't dare show their faces. Idiots. Hope they get sun stroke. Vinca Saturday #5
Exactly popsdenver Saturday #54
Those losers refused to wear a mask to protect people from COVID. yardwork Saturday #7
Yes, you are right. sheshe2 Saturday #23
And ICE Jilly_in_VA Saturday #28
Losers! yardwork Saturday #38
Bade??? Amaryllis Saturday #121
I think it was a typo, "badge". HeartsCanHope Yesterday #129
Thank you! Jilly_in_VA Yesterday #134
The modern Day KKK azureblue Saturday #77
Patriots they are not. Not even close. mwmisses4289 Saturday #8
They are celebrating the Fourth by trying to break the Guiness World Record for biggest DC circle jerk. Midnight Writer Saturday #10
I'm imagining being that young black woman on the bus. MineralMan Saturday #12
My first thought MM popsdenver Saturday #55
She looks aware and alert Alice Kramden Saturday #113
Damn! My legs have more color than those cave dwellers arms. taxi Saturday #13
Gee, they look like ICE orthoclad Saturday #14
They're doing so well they couldn't organize and oasis Saturday #17
Don't they usually ride in the back of Disaffected Saturday #19
yep rampartd Saturday #52
Too hot today for those wimps. 2MuchNoise Saturday #71
Yup! Turn off the AC. mwooldri Yesterday #135
Yeah, but U-Hauls don't have air conditioning! TommyT139 Saturday #81
You win! Jilly_in_VA Saturday #30
They took Metro on purpose. Raine1967 Saturday #47
... Solly Mack Saturday #18
Amen! paleotn Saturday #36
Oh my. A picture is worth 400 years right there. That's a Pulitzer level picture IMO n/t Cheezoholic Saturday #20
Reminds me of a Norman Rockwell painting. oasis Saturday #27
Definitely! Yikes! electric_blue68 Saturday #56
Kudos to that young lady Disaffected Saturday #21
I certainly wouldn't! LeftInTX Saturday #44
They wouldn't sit DiverDave Saturday #85
Probably, unless Disaffected 18 hrs ago #142
They look like Klansmen released from a burn unit after a cross-burning mishap. RedWhiteBlueIsRacist Saturday #22
Not my America. Shameful. Nanjeanne Saturday #24
Look at the expression on the poor woman's face. Boomerproud Saturday #25
Nothing says Happy 250th birthday to America IcyPeas Saturday #26
Public transportation? Walleye Saturday #29
Oh the irony! paleotn Saturday #35
Intentionally, I think, in order to intimidate people. wnylib Saturday #70
Are they marching at the Fair today or near it? underpants Saturday #31
JFC buzzycrumbhunger Saturday #32
Look at this idiot close up. I hope his nose gets sunburned. IcyPeas Saturday #33
Can't get girlfriends. paleotn Saturday #34
The sheep died. twodogsbarking Saturday #37
Not yet, maybe TommyT139 Saturday #87
Pathetic Incels Aviation Pro Saturday #39
I hope so Mossfern Yesterday #139
These are the FAS that we are ANTI. They better hide their faces! Martin68 Saturday #40
Hey, ICE needs a holiday too! JCMach1 Saturday #41
And here they all are in D.C. chowder66 Saturday #42
I hope that the good citizens of the Metro D.C. area beats the shit out of them. Knock off Nazi Uniforms Botany Saturday #60
A couple of troops of Brownie Scouts could do it. nt Wednesdays Saturday #109
No one in DC reacted to J6 tonekat Saturday #110
May they all get heat stroke RockCreek Saturday #61
Creepy creeps are fucking creepy! 💀 ShazzieB Saturday #43
Obviously, they're criminals if they're hiding their faces! LeftInTX Saturday #45
Amazing pic. CanonRay Saturday #46
Patriots? HA! -misanthroptimist Saturday #48
What a bunch of chicken shit assholes debsy Saturday #49
Wish I were there AverageOldGuy Saturday #50
Pussy-ass bitches... GiqueCee Saturday #51
Takes all kinds..... BeneteauBum Saturday #53
Omg! That poor young woman must be terrified Joinfortmill Saturday #57
Over 400 in Washington DC. Trump has to get the numbers up for his rally, somehow. Doodley Saturday #58
That poor woman! What a photo! electric_blue68 Saturday #59
Look how lily white they are Jimi du Ranty Saturday #62
At least they're being woke swong19104 Saturday #63
Deplorable. Despicable. Disgusting. Disgraceful. 3catwoman3 Saturday #64
As pale as 500 year old vampires. Ilsa Saturday #66
They definitely look like they're just going into town to have fun. Just being tourists. n/t aggiesal Saturday #67
OMG 😳 just awful TommieMommy Saturday #68
We are all that young woman. Baitball Blogger Saturday #69
Happy birthday America 🇺🇸 live love laugh Saturday #72
What a bunch of fools! n/t mntleo2 Saturday #73
You misspelled "tools." nt Wednesdays Saturday #111
I wonder if any of them said anything to her. SidneyR Saturday #74
Are these the folks that are going to show up at the polls in November? kentuck Saturday #75
Let them sombitches try. hamsterjill Saturday #78
as in 1/6 -- azureblue Saturday #76
I thought the group was Patriot Affront. nt Gore1FL Saturday #79
They are an affront to all true patriots. Haggard Celine Saturday #103
With any luck liberalgunwilltravel Saturday #80
Modern day KKK Stuckinthebush Saturday #83
We don't need no water purr-rat beauty Saturday #84
That guy in the upper left looks like he's packing a pistol strapped to the back of his head under his mummy mask 0rganism Saturday #86
After I read your message, I zoomed in and looked at others MerryBlooms Saturday #95
That would make way more sense, but usually that stuff is tiny these days 0rganism Saturday #98
It look like they're trying to use old school equipment to me MerryBlooms Saturday #119
OMG Kali Saturday #88
The guy with his back to the camera looks like he is wearing his tightie whities over his head. Nictuku Saturday #89
You can bet they weren't wearing those masks in 2020 during Covid. JohnnyRingo Saturday #90
Those ass clowns tried to crash a Pride event hoosierspud Saturday #91
Their despicable attitudes and activities are reprehensible enough. 3catwoman3 Saturday #92
They think it makes them look tough Woodwizard Saturday #94
"They think it makes them look tough." 3catwoman3 Saturday #102
Couldn't these freaks charter mzmolly Saturday #93
Our nation's finest....assholes. surfered Saturday #96
That young lady deserves an award, or free therapy. Good God y'all. Cowards and traitors. Guess hoods are out of style. Evolve Dammit Saturday #97
As others have pointed out here, it's a new kind of hood. nt Wednesdays Saturday #112
Patriot Front Nazi Jared Boyce --- Right wing anti-LGBTQ but pro-child pornography Norrrm Saturday #99
Trump invited his fascist gestapo to DC B.See Saturday #100
Cowards! MLAA Saturday #101
The small man parts brigade The Wizard Saturday #104
FUCK THESE COWARDS Skittles Saturday #105
Their mothers threw away the kids and kept the afterbirth. The Wizard Saturday #106
LOL! some_of_us_are_sane Saturday #108
50:50 mix of repubs snd feds. Melon Saturday #107
The real Patriots weren't wearing masks when they signed the declaration of Independence Unrepentant Fenian Saturday #114
hmmm, it is hotter than Hades there, and these jerks are all niyad Saturday #116
I see the KKK has new uniforms now nini Saturday #117
And these are the people the Republicans actually want in DC. Karasu Saturday #118
I hope they collapsed from the heat LeftInTX Saturday #120
I'll bet they're sitting in the seat by the door that is traditionally reserved for the disabled and elderly Betty Boom Saturday #122
They don't even have the smarts to know how ridiculously stupid they look. llmart Saturday #123
Brats ... looking for attention. 🤬 nt Raine Saturday #124
the known downside of the internet dave99 Saturday #127
Photo dawgdan Saturday #128
The United States 1957 vs. 2026: LetMyPeopleVote Yesterday #130
so depressing. RandomNumbers Yesterday #140
Can you find the one decent, honest and trustworthy looking person in this photo? Festivito Yesterday #131
MAGA mummies. n/t forgotmylogin Yesterday #132
Today's KKK Mr.Bee Yesterday #136
Please explain to me; AverageOldGuy Yesterday #137
Fkg cowards finally found a face mask theyre willing to wear Fullduplexxx Yesterday #138
This photo will become a part of our history LetMyPeopleVote 19 hrs ago #141

hlthe2b

(115,350 posts)
1. Heavens.. that woman. I feel the need to apologize to her for this country today
Sat Jul 4, 2026, 11:14 AM
Saturday

and our regression to those most ugly times...

calimary

(91,627 posts)
125. Definitely.
Sat Jul 4, 2026, 10:24 PM
Saturday

If I were on that bus, I’d sit with her, with me on the aisle to block the reach of any idiots or potential evil-doers. “Don’t try making Grandma mad!” (Besides, THIS grandma earned her black belt, the hard & slow way, in karate school!)

True Dough

(27,754 posts)
3. You know you're doing the honorable thing
Sat Jul 4, 2026, 11:16 AM
Saturday

when you have to hide your face!



Useless wannabe thugs.

Botany

(78,371 posts)
9. Cowards they will not show their faces and have to be in a large threatening group.
Sat Jul 4, 2026, 11:23 AM
Saturday

We have them here in Ohio. Proud Boys.



wnylib

(26,934 posts)
65. Large threatening group is the point.
Sat Jul 4, 2026, 01:31 PM
Saturday

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.

popsdenver

(2,886 posts)
54. Exactly
Sat Jul 4, 2026, 12:59 PM
Saturday

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........

sheshe2

(99,144 posts)
23. Yes, you are right.
Sat Jul 4, 2026, 11:41 AM
Saturday

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.

mwmisses4289

(5,272 posts)
8. Patriots they are not. Not even close.
Sat Jul 4, 2026, 11:23 AM
Saturday

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)
10. They are celebrating the Fourth by trying to break the Guiness World Record for biggest DC circle jerk.
Sat Jul 4, 2026, 11:25 AM
Saturday

When I see this picture, I hear Lee Greenwood singing "I'm Proud to be an American..."

MineralMan

(152,120 posts)
12. I'm imagining being that young black woman on the bus.
Sat Jul 4, 2026, 11:27 AM
Saturday

OK, I can't actually imagine what she must be thinking. I can try, though.

taxi

(2,785 posts)
13. Damn! My legs have more color than those cave dwellers arms.
Sat Jul 4, 2026, 11:28 AM
Saturday

It's a safe bet to say the skin on their hidden faces would turn sunburn red in mere minutes.

TommyT139

(2,556 posts)
81. Yeah, but U-Hauls don't have air conditioning!
Sat Jul 4, 2026, 01:53 PM
Saturday

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.

IcyPeas

(26,012 posts)
26. Nothing says Happy 250th birthday to America
Sat Jul 4, 2026, 11:47 AM
Saturday

Than these pieces of shit showing up.

Patriot Front
ICE militia on our streets

This is not America

IcyPeas

(26,012 posts)
33. Look at this idiot close up. I hope his nose gets sunburned.
Sat Jul 4, 2026, 11:59 AM
Saturday

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.

TommyT139

(2,556 posts)
87. Not yet, maybe
Sat Jul 4, 2026, 02:09 PM
Saturday

...but these young women are going to looking for husbands any minute now.

...[W]e’ve 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

Mossfern

(4,935 posts)
139. I hope so
Sun Jul 5, 2026, 10:41 AM
Yesterday

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.

chowder66

(12,732 posts)
42. And here they all are in D.C.
Sat Jul 4, 2026, 12:19 PM
Saturday

Literal Nazis are marching through the streets of DC for America’s 250th. This is Trump’s America.

Hoodlum 🇺🇸 (@nothoodlum.bsky.social) 2026-07-04T15:06:25.298Z

Botany

(78,371 posts)
60. I hope that the good citizens of the Metro D.C. area beats the shit out of them. Knock off Nazi Uniforms
Sat Jul 4, 2026, 01:13 PM
Saturday

A couple of High School football teams could do it.

RockCreek

(1,662 posts)
61. May they all get heat stroke
Sat Jul 4, 2026, 01:16 PM
Saturday

And Emergency services be too overwhelmed to treat all of them.

-misanthroptimist

(2,012 posts)
48. Patriots? HA!
Sat Jul 4, 2026, 12:33 PM
Saturday

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)
49. What a bunch of chicken shit assholes
Sat Jul 4, 2026, 12:49 PM
Saturday

They are so scared of their “values” that they don’t dare show their face.

GiqueCee

(5,179 posts)
51. Pussy-ass bitches...
Sat Jul 4, 2026, 12:51 PM
Saturday

... 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)
53. Takes all kinds.....
Sat Jul 4, 2026, 12:59 PM
Saturday

Clowns to the left of me, Jokers to the right……Here I am, stuck in the middle with you.

Peace ☮️

electric_blue68

(28,074 posts)
59. That poor woman! What a photo!
Sat Jul 4, 2026, 01:05 PM
Saturday

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

Ilsa

(64,803 posts)
66. As pale as 500 year old vampires.
Sat Jul 4, 2026, 01:32 PM
Saturday

And I'm convinced the vampires are more human.

If there were such a thing.

aggiesal

(11,030 posts)
67. They definitely look like they're just going into town to have fun. Just being tourists. n/t
Sat Jul 4, 2026, 01:34 PM
Saturday

SidneyR

(257 posts)
74. I wonder if any of them said anything to her.
Sat Jul 4, 2026, 01:45 PM
Saturday

I wouldn't be surprised if they verbally harassed her.

kentuck

(116,205 posts)
75. Are these the folks that are going to show up at the polls in November?
Sat Jul 4, 2026, 01:46 PM
Saturday

...to intimidate the voters?

hamsterjill

(18,017 posts)
78. Let them sombitches try.
Sat Jul 4, 2026, 01:51 PM
Saturday

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.

0rganism

(25,784 posts)
86. That guy in the upper left looks like he's packing a pistol strapped to the back of his head under his mummy mask
Sat Jul 4, 2026, 02:08 PM
Saturday

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)
95. After I read your message, I zoomed in and looked at others
Sat Jul 4, 2026, 02:45 PM
Saturday

A bunch of them have lumps under those hoods. I'm thinking communication gear?

0rganism

(25,784 posts)
98. That would make way more sense, but usually that stuff is tiny these days
Sat Jul 4, 2026, 03:24 PM
Saturday

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)
119. It look like they're trying to use old school equipment to me
Sat Jul 4, 2026, 06:29 PM
Saturday

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!

Nictuku

(4,693 posts)
89. The guy with his back to the camera looks like he is wearing his tightie whities over his head.
Sat Jul 4, 2026, 02:16 PM
Saturday

Haha!

JohnnyRingo

(21,107 posts)
90. You can bet they weren't wearing those masks in 2020 during Covid.
Sat Jul 4, 2026, 02:16 PM
Saturday

Not one of them.
Some people are just fucked up. We can't fix them.

hoosierspud

(253 posts)
91. Those ass clowns tried to crash a Pride event
Sat Jul 4, 2026, 02:26 PM
Saturday

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)
92. Their despicable attitudes and activities are reprehensible enough.
Sat Jul 4, 2026, 02:28 PM
Saturday

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)
94. They think it makes them look tough
Sat Jul 4, 2026, 02:41 PM
Saturday

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)
102. "They think it makes them look tough."
Sat Jul 4, 2026, 03:47 PM
Saturday

And how wrong they are about that. It makes them look like the cowards they are.

Evolve Dammit

(21,870 posts)
97. That young lady deserves an award, or free therapy. Good God y'all. Cowards and traitors. Guess hoods are out of style.
Sat Jul 4, 2026, 02:55 PM
Saturday

Norrrm

(6,239 posts)
99. Patriot Front Nazi Jared Boyce --- Right wing anti-LGBTQ but pro-child pornography
Sat Jul 4, 2026, 03:29 PM
Saturday

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)
100. Trump invited his fascist gestapo to DC
Sat Jul 4, 2026, 03:31 PM
Saturday

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)

Skittles

(173,769 posts)
105. FUCK THESE COWARDS
Sat Jul 4, 2026, 04:18 PM
Saturday

the same vile assholes who couldn't bring themselves to mask up for the common good during a fucking PANDEMIC

niyad

(135,638 posts)
116. hmmm, it is hotter than Hades there, and these jerks are all
Sat Jul 4, 2026, 05:42 PM
Saturday

masked and hatted up? I hope they suffocate.

Betty Boom

(507 posts)
122. I'll bet they're sitting in the seat by the door that is traditionally reserved for the disabled and elderly
Sat Jul 4, 2026, 09:10 PM
Saturday

It’s just the kind of shitweasels they are

llmart

(17,790 posts)
123. They don't even have the smarts to know how ridiculously stupid they look.
Sat Jul 4, 2026, 09:17 PM
Saturday

If I saw them I would just point and laugh my ass off.

LetMyPeopleVote

(184,463 posts)
130. The United States 1957 vs. 2026:
Sun Jul 5, 2026, 12:49 AM
Yesterday

The United States 1957 vs. 2026:

The same vibe, an innocent black girl surrounded by the same damn problem, white supremacy.

Mrs. Betty Bowers (@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social) 2026-07-04T21:21:45.618Z

Festivito

(13,965 posts)
131. Can you find the one decent, honest and trustworthy looking person in this photo?
Sun Jul 5, 2026, 04:53 AM
Yesterday

That's her!

AverageOldGuy

(4,407 posts)
137. Please explain to me;
Sun Jul 5, 2026, 10:18 AM
Yesterday

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???

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