Boogaloo Boys at Ohio Statehouse
Proud Boys Not Welcome
https://twitter.com/LisaBennatan/status/1350874911322025984
Boogaloo Supports BLM?
Michigan Boogaloo Protest
We come in peace. But I am pleading with you with tears in my eyes and cracks in my voice. If you continue to oppress the American people they will remain rational no longer. My message is vey simple. We can do this together or we can start fighting pointlessly and kill each other.”
No Show in Utah
I’m out at the Utah Capitol approx 2 hours after the time a permit application said a Boogaloo rally would start, and 12 minutes before some flyers said a rally would start, and the grounds are basically empty, save for law enforcement, troops and some dog walkers
Boogaloo Virginia Style
Mike Dunn, a leader, told Reuters they are open carrying rifles and using 40 round magazines in defiance of local laws. Police say they aren’t breaking laws.
What About New Hampshire?
Boogaloo Slang
NPR Reports ‘Boogaloo’ Is The New Far-Right Slang For Civil War
The word “boogaloo” once represented a fusion of people and cultures. It was both a musical sound and a dance. Now, it’s favored on the far right as shorthand for an uprising against the government.
Boogaloo Racist Meme
Also consider The ‘Boogaloo’ Started as a Racist Meme
At the protests that have broken out across the country after George Floyd’s death at the hands of Minneapolis police officers, so-called boogaloo bois have been a conspicuous presence. Members of the overwhelmingly white online subculture have shown up to protests heavily armed and clad in Hawaiian shirts – a reference to the “big luau,” an adaptation of the word “boogaloo.”
Among the loose online network of adherents, the boogaloo is often presented as a race-blind call for armed insurrection against government tyranny. “The boogaloo movement is (for the most part) a libertarian group,” a member posted in a boogaloo-themed Facebook group after a week of protests. “The boog is not the people vs the people, the boog is the people vs the government. It’s a revolution, not a civil war,” he wrote. Many members of the movement see the recent outbreak of protests as the potential kickoff for widespread revolutionary upheaval, where citizens will unite against the perceived tyrannical state.
But a look at the movement’s origins and its online communities make it clear that its politics are much more complicated than straightforward libertarianism, and that few of its adherents are interested in aligning with Black Lives Matter or antifascist protesters against police brutality.
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- This state capitol protest was a huge fizzle all around, at least so far, and gratefully so.
- I do not expect fireworks on January 20 inauguration either.
- Boogaloo is one hell of a name for a group professing support for BLM, assuming of course there is any central set of beliefs.
I suspect the Boogaloo Boys (BOIS) are akin to the Tea Party. Groups of people opposed to government in general but no widespread cohesive principles.
Mish
The Mini-14 is a great rifle. One of my sons has a cerakoted one. My favorite is actually my Tavor. My other son has an FS2000 (a strangely unique rifle).
Without America there is no Canada. The Chinese would abscond with British Columbia and the French East Canada would separate from the middle provinces. The one indispensable capacity that America has is vitality and energy. When you look at that ridiculous Trudeau mirage of a cabinet all I see is dissolution and separation in Canada’s future. Who will fight for Canadian unity. No one it appears.
Maybe not to heavy on principles but looks to me like a lot of heavily armed kids without any intelligent leadership or grasp on reality. When I was their age these kind of armed protests were unimaginable.
We lacked the ease of internet porn and had to spend our time and money in pursuit of willing females. Walking around with a gun and neck-beard definitely was a no go.
It just goes to show History doesn’t repeat itself, but it sure does rhyme.
From the Atlantic: an article on the fall of the third Republic in France:
What is especially useful to remember about the Dreyfus affair now is the point of no return it represented, the repugnant embrace of lies by one half of society, educated people who were not ignorant but who had simply ceased to care. For them, the truth was irrelevant; what mattered was preserving their vision of the nation, regardless of the facts.
Ho Hum not much to be concerned about so far. Most people don’t want trouble which includes most of these fringe extremists groups and when confronted with the strong law, they melt away. Now if only the same would have happened with the BLM rioters, we would have been spared much destruction in American cities.
They’ve melted away.
The names of these groups… pseudo bad asses guised as patriots using laughable names like “Proud Boys” and the “Boogaloos”…
I can’t be the only one smirking when I hear names like this and see the cast of Deliverance standing in front of government buildings, right?
The cast of Don Quixote.
You’re correct.
You’re not the only one… 😀
The boys are a product of the 2nd amendment and resulting deep seated societal worship of gun rights, which has been corrupted for political/tribal gain, not unlike religion. Many Americans worship two idols, God and the gun, in the name of liberty and justice. However they haven’t learned the “for all” part.
I continue to have more and more problems in how the 2nd amendment is being applied. Groups like Boogaloo should be labeled terrorist and not be permitted to own and carry. Boogaloo was involved with the plot to kidnap Governor Whitmer. We have a domestic terrorism problem in the USA that we have not come to terms with. Chris Wray spoke about it. Ironic that Trump complains about foreign terrorism yet more Americans have died at the hands of domestic terrorists
“We have a domestic terrorism problem in the USA that we have not come to terms with.”
Store owners across major US cities heartily agree with you.
“I continue to have more and more problems in how the 2nd amendment is being applied. Groups like Boogaloo should be labeled terrorist and not be permitted to own and carry. “
I continue to have more and more problems in how the 1st amendment is being applied to people who don’t support the 2nd amendment, so we should silence those who advocate broad revocations of the 2nd amendment.
For the first time in my life, I added coverage for acts of terrorism to my business insurance policy this year. Yes, we have a domestic terrorism problem in the US.
Same, my broker said it’s now required
Would the Boston Tea Party have been a Terrorist activity? I believe our country was founded on what would be classified toady as Terrorist activity.
Don’t fall for the governments branding of actions to suit their needs. Why are these people feeling the need to act as such? You think they just woke up one morning and decided the Government was not looking out for them anymore?
Trump fed white nationalists a bunch of lies about the election for months, riling them up. These are your patriots racists who took over the capital trying to hang Mike Pence and Nancy Pelosi over a valid election. in 1776 the colonies stood up against a foreign power and not it own government.
Let’s not forget the racist MSM and US President who pushed the lie that “there is a culture of racism in our nation’s police force.” Six Dallas cops shot and killed by a BLM member after Obama said that, yet no call for him to be impeached.
Since they say they aren’t for Trump, it’s hard to know what they are for. Nevertheless, here is a musical tribute to the Boogaloo Boys:
Carl, says “video unavailable”, dammit!
Oh, sad… 🙁
You can still go to YouTube to watch it. It’s Weird Al, singing “Dare to be Stupid” a style parody of Devo.
I was joking, of course the video’s available, just conveying the silliness.
Why am I suddenly remembering the Dave Chappell skit where he’s the blind leader of the KK, but doesn’t realize he’s black?…The look on the faces of clansmen as he walks by….hilarious.
There was that Key & Peel racist Zombie one, where it’s the apocalypses, Zombie’s turn away when they approach, a Zombie couple roll up the car window as they approach.
The scene in Blackkklansman when his fellow officers first realize he’s talking to Dave Duke, they’re keeling over laughing, trying not to blow his cover while he’s on the phone, one laughing so bad he has to leave the room.
Any time I see nitwits like the ones in the picture above, I can’t help the smirk, knowing how ridiculous they are….they just look ridiculous.
Ridiculous indeed, but they’ll do for the media and political establishment that are starved for white supremacists.
And, we’re talking about how many guys? A couple dozen? I’m thinking they are way, way outnumbered by the “journalists” writing their press releases.
This is what passes for “news”?
But, thanks for the laughs, fellow Mish commenters. The world can never have too much funny entertainment.
The Boogaloo Bois Prepare for Civil War
More revolutionaries.
What an absolutely dashing bunch of devil-may-care Musketeers.
If you absolutely have no chance whatsoever of EVER getting a date, you can always buy an AR-15 knock-off and dress up in paramilitary drag and walk around the Capitol with 40 in the clip and one in the chamber……manly men.
They better be careful that they aren’t going to be what gets served up for dinner at the Big Luau.
Instead of knock-offs, they could buy actual Armalites and have a true AR-15 (Armalite Rifle). Or get a larger Armalite AR-10, one of my favorite rifles bit a heavy bugger.
I don’t get these guys end game. Revolution is never pretty. If you dislike your state, change the government or move. If you dislike the Feds, do the same. Talk and engage people with reasons why they should follow a certain path.
They are (some of them, maybe most of them) people who would rather bitch about inequality rather than actually do anything (like save and sacrifice) to get ahead.
They’re the most disposable people in our society…..young, broke white males.
They can’t make the money their own parents made. They can’t even get a girlfriend, some of them.
They believe, rightly or wrongly, that civilization is collapsing and they wish to accelerate that process by leveraging peaceful protests into riots……do some looting to get a little swag….
“Who cares?”, they say…..let’s stick it to the evil capitalists…..these people have sorted ordinary shopkeepers into the same category as the GS Vampire Squid. Their view is that anybody who has a pot to piss in is their enemy.
They are dangerous……because they’re delusional, they’re okay with violence (as long as it isn’t turned on them), and they have very little to lose.
I’m not a lover of the AR design…..although I’ll say they’re really accurate as long as there’s no wind.
I shoot the same round in my ancient Mini-14’s that I bought for what amounts to pocket change now. I’ve been planning to do a Mini-14 accuracy upgrade on one of mine that I bought long ago and never much used…They have a lot of cool stuff to make them better these days.
I’m an amateur gunsmith. I’ve built many interesting 10-22’s including a 10-22 mag that might be my favorite in a real SHTF scenario….float like a butterfly…sting like a bee.
You can’t buy the donor 10-22 magnums anymore new. Ruger quit making them. Wish I’d bought more.
Different guns for different things. I have something for most needs you could name. No fifty calibers…..but I do have several .45/70’s that are easier to shoot and pack nearly the same punch.
I even have a Wehrmacht Mauser with swastikas on it….although it has a Shilen barrel and a Timney trigger and a bedded synthetic stock. That’s my deer rifle.
Those boys are the sore losers of the American Experiments, now just as 4 years ago.
Mish, did you ever see the movie Breakin’ 2 Electric Boogaloo? I saw it at the Evergreen Plaza movie theater about 45 years ago on a date. The good news is that we went to Palmero’s down 95th Street afterwards, then Maple Lake, if you know what I mean and I think you do.
Loose cannons wanting to use a cannon. Get a job and get a life. If you have much of any IQ you’ll find yourself seeing how stupid and irrelevant you are.
For citizens that want to own a gun, forming a militia fits the letter of the 2nd Amendment. Perhaps we’ll be seeing more of these aimless, but peaceful groups. At that point, passing a new amendment might be problematic.
I was in the Metal Militia in 1983
Better to be judged by twelve than carried by six.
As long as you’re white.