Proud Boys splintering after Capitol riot, revelations about leader.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Will more radical factions emerge?

The Proud Boys are having a rough time. The self-described "Western chauvinist" drinking club has long been a refuge for white supremacists, anti-Semites and assorted extremists seeking a veneer of legitimacy.

But in the wake of the violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol last month, the group is in some disarray, as state chapters disavow the group's chairman and leaders bicker in public and in private about what direction to take the Proud Boys in.

Proud Boys chairman Henry Tarrio, who goes by Enrique, was arrested days before the Capitol riot and charged with two federal weapons charges. Three weeks later, Tarrio was outed as a longtime FBI informant, a role he has now admitted to. The news about the Proud Boys leader came as other members of the group were arrested for their involvement in the violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. Then, on Feb. 3, Canada designated the Proud Boys as a domestic terrorist group.

The barrage of controversy, discord and betrayal seems to have been too much for at least three state chapters of the Proud Boys, who used the messaging app Telegram to denounce Tarrio and proclaim their independence from central Proud Boy leadership. That raises questions about the future of the group, and also has experts concerned about more radical factions of the Proud Boys, or a newly-branded gang, emerging.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/proud-boys-splintering-capitol-riot-110012440.html

[TwilightZone]

1. "what direction to take the Proud Boys in"

I vote for off a very high cliff.

[Wounded Bear]

3. You mean like....?

[TwilightZone]

5. That works.

As does this:

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[Johnny2X2X]

2. I hope Proud Boys membership comes with a lifetime of regret and consequences

This group deserves to have the fact they joined an anti American Democracy white supremacist terror group follow them until they die. I want this to cost them job interviews 20 years from now.

[SWBTATTReg]

4. Serves them right. Idiots have been mouthing off and being bullies and now that they were at the

front of everything that went on, they are chickening out, when faced w/ the rest of America staring at them and their act of supporting an insurrection, and other things, all hateful and exposed to the rest of us, ugly. They are ugly. They lost everything when they did that and guess what? Their so called leader mr. bigmouth trump, has disappeared, no where to be seen, nada. They been had by donny boy, and now are realizing it.