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Proud Boys, Stand Back and Stand in Prison

Proud Boys, Stand Back and Stand in Prison

Good for the Justice Department. But women have been trying to warn you about incels since 2007.

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May 04, 2023
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Virtually no one is ever tried for sedition. (Wiki)

So dashing Enrique Tarrio, the Proud Boys chainsmoker leader who is always decked out in weird tactical athleisure and whose cool signature t-shirt reads, “You know I always keep that MF thang on me,” in reference to his fat manly gun, is guilty of sedition. 

He was convicted today, May 4, of seditious conspiracy for leading a violent mob in attacking the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in hopes of making Trump a forever monarch.

But how can this be? He said he was an American patriot? And his sedition, well that’s, flips through civics textbook, oh yes—that’s the incitement of the violent overthrow of the American government. 

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