'A Total Failure': The Proud Boys Now Mock Trump

[BlueWavePsych]

Source: NYT

After the presidential election last year, the Proud Boys, a far-right group, declared its undying loyalty to President Trump.

In a Nov. 8 post in a private channel of the messaging app Telegram, the group urged its followers to attend protests against an election that it said had been fraudulently stolen from Mr. Trump. “Hail Emperor Trump,” the Proud Boys wrote.

But by this week, the group’s attitude toward Mr. Trump had changed. “Trump will go down as a total failure,” the Proud Boys said in the same Telegram channel on Monday.

As Mr. Trump departed the White House on Wednesday, the Proud Boys, once among his staunchest supporters, have also started leaving his side. In dozens of conversations on social media sites like Gab and Telegram, members of the group have begun calling Mr. Trump a “shill” and “extraordinarily weak,” according to messages reviewed by The New York Times. They have also urged supporters to stop attending rallies and protests held for Mr. Trump or the Republican Party.




Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/20/technology/proud-boys-trump.html

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House of cards

[Irish_Dem]

1. A cult has no true core values, they just worship a leader.

When the leader leaves or loses face, the cult is done.

[LiberalLovinLug]

40. Until the next Great White Hope asshole comes along

[Irish_Dem]

42. Yep. :(

[SunSeeker]

2. They're pissed Dear Leader didn't give them pardons.

Suck it up, buttercups! And find bail money!

[pwb]

3. Proud Boys? Sounds like they just got their first pubic hair?

Great name freaks.

[LuvLoogie]

11. We can call them The trump Boys, can't we?

[PatSeg]

4. I'm really not surprised

Trump should have seen that coming.

[Nitram]

5. Right wing everlasting devotion and loyalty has a very short half life.

I like the way they say Trump failed without acknowledging that they failed.

[marble falls]

6. I think they should get behind Lindsey Graham or that fuck-wad Hawly. After then, hmmmm ...

... The quiet and even dumber one: Eric Trump?

[SoFlaBro]

7. They can fuck right off with their racism, bigotry, homophobia, and sexism.

Get that bail money together soon, shitbirds.

[Dakota Flint]

8. It's just like I thought

The "proud boys" are now acting just like the Germans did after WWII...I was never a nazi...

[AntiFascist]

9. He just can't win...

[WinstonSmith4740]

10. I haven't felt this good in 4 years.

New President, new day, on the road back to normalcy, and now this? The Proud Boys are turning on him. We need to make sure he knows that even his staunchest supporters think he's a loser.

[patphil]

12. All I can say to the Proud Boys is that it takes one to know one.

Trump = failure
Proud Boys = failure

I doubt these boys will ever be men.

[keithbvadu2]

13. "Hail Emperor Trump," ... That's their idea of democracy, eh?

“Hail Emperor Trump,” ... That's their idea of democracy, eh?

[COL Mustard]

14. Remember, The Proud Boys Are The Modern, American Edition

Of Ernst Rohm's Sturmabteilung. Go back and read German history from 100 years ago. We aren't out of the woods yet, as long as those groups exist. I'm still concerned, even with President Biden (I love typing that) in office.

Remain vigilant.

[ProfessorGAC]

15. Clear Evidence

This is abject proof it takes them 15-20 years longer to figure things out than it took us here.
And, about 40 years slower than people who actually know the fake.

[dclarston13]

17. Very true

There will be more and they will be smarter and better spoken. We must be vigilant.

[hadEnuf]

22. Trump was just the vehicle for fascists like the Proud Kidz to further their causes.

They'll put out an ad for a new emperor and worship him once they find one - if he can deliver for them that is.

[birdographer]

27. Hawley wants to be that guy

We need to get him out NOW.

[hadEnuf]

31. I agree, he does need to be thrown out.

And depending on his role in the insurrection, hopefully charges of treason too.

[niyad]

28. Welcome to our DU family.

[mahina]

38. Welcome to DU

[Ligyron]

16. Well, they're getting smarter anyway.

[StarryNite]

18. tRump used them and they used tRump.

Sounds like the affair is over.

[Skittles]

19. if anyone would know FAILURE, it's the PROUD BOYS

they can all go FUCK THEMSELVES

[Buckeye_Democrat]

20. Knew it would happen, but that was fast!

People who are obsessed with "converting" others always turn on their own eventually for not being "pure" enough.

Spanish Inquisition, in-fighting between early American Puritans, etc.

Follow the logic of it. What happens if they ever managed to convert everyone, yet still had conversion of others as a guiding principle. Something's gonna give.

[Jon King]

21. When you hear them speak they are stuck in middle school...

I saw an interview with a group of them from S. Florida. They seem to need some kind of return to when they were big deals in school. Lots of talk about male bonding, getting together and having a beer. Same when the Oath Keepers started in the 1990s, they first went to baseball games together and said they needed to have groups to bond. Same with motorcyle gangs, more guys who can never grow up.

Most mature guys move on, start a family and/or a career and mature year by year. Maybe see some high school buddies at a class reunion, text every now and then. Their relationships are with their families, coaching their kids, co-workers, etc. They do not need to have a bunch of dudes around to support them all the time.

In the end, all these guys are really very scared and helpless and can't adapt to real life after high school.

[turtleblossom]

39. It's called "Arrested Development"

1. arrested development - an abnormal state in which development has stopped prematurely. fixation, infantile fixation, regression. abnormalcy, abnormality - an abnormal physical condition resulting from defective genes or developmental deficiencies.

https://www.thefreedictionary.com/arrested+development

[volstork]

23. Well,

THAT didn't take very long....

[ancianita]

24. Losers mocking their loser leader, just like losers do.

[Cha]

25. The "Stand By" No Fly Boys?!

[yaesu]

26. so a few dozen extra strength idiots think they matter? Like, tRump has always played idiots like a

cheap piano. They will all end up in prison, dead or moved back into mommy's basement and play puter games.

[NEOBuckeye]

29. Proud Boys' loyalty is as firm as a flaccid penis

Something they should be all too familiar with.

[world wide wally]

30. Well, duh

[StevieM]

32. They'll still probably support him when he runs again in 2024. (eom)

[llashram]

33. total idiots

STFU, they have no standing nor voice anymore. Just like their cult leader, they should slink off and never bother adults again. Pathetic.

[IronLionZion]

34. "or the Republican Party"

These assholes should just fight among themselves, tear apart their own party. It would "be best" for everyone.

[IsItJustMe]

35. I am sure some of them think this way. While others may be denouncing

the totalitarian turd in order to get the heat off their own backs. Just a thought.

[Initech]

36. I say this with 100% sincerity: fuck these fucking assholes.

I wish they would go back under the troll bridge from which they came! And they don't deserve to be anywhere near any position of power ever again!

[Dopers_Greed]

37. Right-wing in ruin

[DSandra]

41. Stupid idiots, they thought it was their time

Instead, they find out at the last minute that Trump is a con, and they are left alone. America is destined to be a multicultural country, and they have no choice but to accept that.

[BobTheSubgenius]

43. That turnaround didn't take very long at all.

If they could pick up the...let's say "clues"... that quickly and turn their views completely upside down, I have to wonder where they've been up till now.