# So what's up with these 'Proud Boys', anyway? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 30, 2020, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-up-with-these-proud-boys-anyway/921896 "2020-09-30T15:58:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2020, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-up-with-these-proud-boys-anyway/921896/161 "2020-12-13T22:02:09Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > > [@John\_DiFool](#): > > > > Trumpites are spontaneously turning into Scotsmen?! > > Trump’s huge appetite will come in handy for once, except that there is no way he would be able to spell blancmange. Really looking forward to his face when he’s first presented with haggis. ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2020, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-up-with-these-proud-boys-anyway/921896/162 "2020-12-13T22:26:39Z")
I’ve never thought of Trump as the Great Chieftain of the Puddin’ Race. Might fit if carrots were involved. ---
**Author:** ![Aspidistra](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspidistra/32/3894_2.png) [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2020, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-up-with-these-proud-boys-anyway/921896/163 "2020-12-13T23:37:21Z")
“Wee sleekit cowering timorous beastie” on the other hand, probably captures his internal mental state quite well ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2020, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-up-with-these-proud-boys-anyway/921896/164 "2020-12-13T23:53:58Z")
There’s a photo of PBs in their kilts, underwear-less, with FUCK ANTIFA written on their butts. ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2020, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-up-with-these-proud-boys-anyway/921896/166 "2020-12-14T21:16:23Z")
And many people have pointed out that it’s impossible to write FUCK ANTIFA (or anything else) on your own bare butt - so they must’ve had some sort of little pre-show event where they enjoyed painting each other’s bare asses. I wish they’d live-streamed it. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2020, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-up-with-these-proud-boys-anyway/921896/167 "2020-12-14T21:38:40Z")
I thought they weren’t supposed to masturbate? ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2020, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-up-with-these-proud-boys-anyway/921896/168 "2020-12-14T21:45:35Z")
Getting off on someone painting your butt is hardly masturbation. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2020, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-up-with-these-proud-boys-anyway/921896/169 "2020-12-14T22:55:10Z")
Right, they just do a reach around. When your political… movement is so, so easy to make fun of, perhaps you need a better message. Butt (heh) These guys are clowns that just want to shoot off their… weapons. When your leader is a moron, perhaps it’s time to look for someone different. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2020, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-up-with-these-proud-boys-anyway/921896/170 "2020-12-15T02:42:23Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > Butt (heh) These guys are clowns that just want to shoot off their… weapons. These guys are clowns that just want to shart off their… weapons. FTFY (oops! During the ‘fuck antifa’ siging.) (“apologies, my brown-splattered comrade”) ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2020, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-up-with-these-proud-boys-anyway/921896/171 "2020-12-15T04:15:20Z")
It’s okay, they can be literal Brownshirts now. (Brownsharts? Now I will personally think of them as the Brownsharts.) ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2020, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-up-with-these-proud-boys-anyway/921896/172 "2020-12-15T16:03:18Z")
> [@OttoDaFe](#): > > > [@Ludovic](#): > > > > > [@John\_DiFool](#): > > > > > > Trumpites are spontaneously turning into Scotsmen?! > > > > Trump’s huge appetite will come in handy for once, except that there is no way he would be able to spell blancmange. > > Really looking forward to his face when he’s first presented with haggis. Make sure there’s ketchup handy ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2020, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-up-with-these-proud-boys-anyway/921896/173 "2020-12-29T21:57:23Z")
Have any of these mooks expressed concern about [this Latino](https://floridapolitics.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Enrique-Tarrio-1000x548.jpg) being in charge for the past couple of years? That hombre is almost as dark as [Tiger Woods](https://cdn.newsapi.com.au/image/v1/2a0e3651be0f804b9dc390c610518376)! I’m guessing either most of them don’t know or they’re as disconnected from reality as Trump. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2020, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-up-with-these-proud-boys-anyway/921896/174 "2020-12-29T22:20:26Z")
Well, well, well, at least one has had enough of a non-white being in charge. > **[A Proud Boys leader is trying to rebrand the group as explicitly white...](https://www.sun-sentinel.com/2020/11/11/a-proud-boys-leader-is-trying-to-rebrand-the-group-as-explicitly-white-supremacist-and-anti-semitic/)** > > One of the leaders of the Proud Boys, the far-right group that President Donald Trump told to “stand back and stand by” during a presidential debate, is trying to rebrand the organizati… > Kyle Chapman, the founder of a “tactical defense arm” of the Proud Boys known for engaging in street violence, claimed in a message on the encrypted chat app Telegram that he has staged a “coup” against the [current leader of the Proud Boys](https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-ne-proud-boys-leader-downplays-coup-20201112-hcwnvrdolfa4tkdwtk46cqgwaa-story.html) — a Cuban man named Enrique Tarrio. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2020, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-up-with-these-proud-boys-anyway/921896/175 "2020-12-29T23:31:38Z")
Aw the Proud Boys not getting along. Is this where there’ll be an actual coup, then? The divisiveness - so sad. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2020, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-up-with-these-proud-boys-anyway/921896/176 "2020-12-29T23:54:55Z")
That article is more than a month and a half old. I guess the “coup” failed. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2020, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-up-with-these-proud-boys-anyway/921896/177 "2020-12-30T01:13:54Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > Kyle Chapman Yea… a failure of a “coup” by [a failure of a little man.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyle_Chapman_(American_activist)#Attempted_takeover_of_the_Proud_Boys) “I was just joking… No I wasn’t…” ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Greenjeans](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.greenjeans/32/551_2.png) [@Mr.Greenjeans](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Greenjeans)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2020, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-up-with-these-proud-boys-anyway/921896/178 "2020-12-30T16:02:31Z")
Definitely one of the fine people we were told about. He should go FOAK himself. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2021, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-up-with-these-proud-boys-anyway/921896/179 "2021-01-11T01:26:40Z")
Federal government in Canada is considering adding the Proud Boys to their list of terrorist groups. [https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-proud-boys-terrorist-group-1.5868073](https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-proud-boys-terrorist-group-1.5868073) ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2021, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-up-with-these-proud-boys-anyway/921896/180 "2021-01-11T05:41:37Z")
Is it just me or does it seem like the Proud Boys were missing in action on Wednesday? I guess they were there but they seemed to be flying under the radar while we we’re all paying attention to shamans and bondage fans. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2021, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-up-with-these-proud-boys-anyway/921896/181 "2021-01-11T06:40:11Z")
I don’t know how this has been so quickly forgotten by so many: the Proud Boys were instructed to wear only black so that they would appear to be Antifa folks when they caused a ruckus. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-up-with-these-proud-boys-anyway/921896.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-whats-up-with-these-proud-boys-anyway/921896.md?page=10)