Joe Flood

  • Labor Day rallies in DC highlight new resistance movement

    FLARE rally and the Capitol
    FLARE rally

    It’s a new generation of resistance.

    Gone is the naïveté of the “protest, then brunch” crowd and the belief that we could somehow shame our government into doing the right thing.

    Instead, you get calls to fight with everything we got. No more going high when they go low. You want low? We can go lower.

    “I’m tired of playing by the rules when the other side doesn’t. I want revolution.”

    That was the Jolly Good Ginger, a speaker at the FLARE Rally Against the Regime demonstration outside of Union Station on September 2, 2025.

    The crowd roared. This was an event organized by veterans – not the old hippies of Stephen Miller’s imagination.

    If the call for revolution sounds vaguely communistic, it’s because it is. With skyrocketing inflation and a system rigged against ordinary folks, people want change.

    There is no more going back to the old order. People who trusted in our system of checks and balances have been proven wrong. Merrick Garland. Hakeem Jeffries. Chuck Schumer.

    After a decade of struggling with a tyrant, finally, maybe, the Democrats are getting it. Or maybe they’re being dragged along by supporters who don’t want to cave like our elite class.

    At the FLARE rally, a Trump supporter rushed the stage and tried to interrupt the speakers. In a kinder, gentler time, maybe he would’ve been allowed to speak.

    This isn’t the tolerant left. The Trumpkin was pushed out of there to jeers and boos. We don’t have time for that nonsense.

    It is time to get in shape. It is time to run.

    The Freedom Run

    Freedom Run
    Freedom Run on 14th St

    A couple days earlier, there was another rally. 

    The Freedom Run on Labor Day brought hundreds of DC-loving runners to 14th and U. This is a city of runners and they assembled to jog through the District to protest Trump’s fascist takeover of DC.

    I could hear them coming from blocks away, the chants echoing off the buildings as they ran:

    “Free DC! Free DC! Free DC!”

    The abuse of this city by masked agents of the federal government has enraged the people of Washington. Seeing your neighbors kidnapped and thrown into the back of a van has a radicalizing effect.

    Where is Everybody?

    Trump claims that the city has never been safer and that the restaurants are full.

    The opposite is true. DC hasn’t felt this empty since covid.

    There is a void. People of a shade darker than lily white are afraid to come to DC. Or if they live in DC, to go outside. Checkpoints manned by masked agents have been set up on major roads. SUVs with tinted windows prowl neighborhood streets. Helicopters loiter overhead. If your papers aren’t in order, you risk being taken away.

    Good Stuff Eatery
    Noon on a Wednesday at Good Stuff Eatery

    Yesterday, I was at Good Stuff Eatery. A couple blocks from the Capitol and the burger place was absolutely empty. No line to order. I went upstairs and I was the only one in the dining room. At noon on a Wednesday with Congress back in session. Where is everyone?

    Turns out renditioning Latinos, scaring off foreign tourists, firing government workers and crushing the economy with tariffs is bad for business.

    The National Gardeners

    The National Guard picks up trash by the White House

    Arming the National Guard and placing them at the monuments doesn’t help tourism, either. Not that they do much. They stroll the National Mall, watch kickball and occasionally pick up trash or rake leaves.

    DC has nicknamed them the National Gardeners.

    “An infantry unit to rake? That doesn’t make any sense,” as one National Guard officer put it.

    They were ordered away from their homes for this photo-op, to please the Mad King as he moves our military around like toy soldiers.

    Coming to Your Hometown

    I still haven’t seen the masked men of ICE. They are busy up the hill from me in Mount Pleasant, kidnapping people as they go to work and take their kids to school. Last night, from a strangely deserted Logan Circle, I could see two helicopters hovering over the neighborhood.

    When they’re not brutalizing families and destroying property, ICE agents and other occupation forces like to hang out at the Wawa downtown. (Follow Amanda Moore to see what ICE gets up to after dark.)

    All of this is laughable, absurd and ruinously expensive. Trump cut billions from Medicaid to fund a private army.

    He’s beating up on DC because he can. We’re not a state.

    But if you think this isn’t coming to your town, think again. Get ready. All of that stuff about the Constitution, checks and balances, the rule of law – none of that matters if people don’t stand up for them.

  • White House Tries to Counter Sandwich Guy Sensation

    August 19, 2025

    Banksy-style posters of Sandwich Guy have begun to appear in DC. Using a popular symbol of resistance, they feature a protester about to throw a Subway sandwich, inspired by the man who threw a footlong at federal agents one drunken night on U Street.

    There are several of the iconic posters in the West End, which is where ICE sent a heavily-armed convoy to arrest the sandwich guy.

    The neighborhood is known for its four-star hotels, juice bars and yoga studios. 

    Sandwich Guy offered to surrender. But the White House wanted some cosplaying media so they sent more than a dozen officers from multiple agencies with automatic weapons to the West End. And then they turned it into a Sicario-style video, as if they were conducting a raid in Fallujah, rather than rolling by Tatte to pick up a veteran in a luxury apartment building.

    How much did this pointless, unnecessary and idiotic operation cost? We’re cutting Medicaid so that ICE can make hype videos.

    It wasn’t the only example of fascist movie-making in DC this week.

    In another dumb operation, ICE filmed themselves violating the First Amendment as they tore down an anti-ICE sign in Mount Pleasant, a Latino neighborhood in DC.

    They left a dildo behind, too.

    But you don’t see that in the government video since this was too embarrassing even by debauched DHS standards.

    They are not sending their best people….

    All this Leni Riefenstahling seems to be an attempt to counter citizen videos.

    They arrested a DoorDash driver on R Street. Masked men jumped out of a vehicle and tried to grab him. Understandably, he tried to run, as you would too if masked men tried to grab you.

    You can tell that these masked men don’t have law enforcement experience because they couldn’t get a hold of him and gave one of their own officers a concussion during the process.

    All the while they were jeered by people from the neighborhood.

    The only pushback has come from locals. Mayor Bowser has been on vacation in Martha’s Vineyard; the City Council is on recess. The national Democrats? Old and weak.

    Sandwich Guy has done more than any elected official.

    That is why there are posters of him around the city.

  • J6 News Roundup: Miami Reunion Splits Movement

    J6 News Roundup: Miami Reunion Splits Movement

    August 14, 2025

    There’s a reunion of January 6th insurrectionists in Miami this weekend. But not everyone is invited.

    This reunion is only for “original” J6ers. The celebrity ones. The men (and it’s almost all men) whose names you would recognize. The celebrity prisoners held in the DC Jail who had their own cheering section outside the walls.

    But if you were held in some prison out west or didn’t make it to trial, you’re out!

    And like high school girls excluded from the party of the year, the remainders are big mad. They’ve been complaining in their Facebook forums and one of them even wrote (well, used AI to write) a long cry of agony about how UNFAIR it all was.

    He even created an image to illustrate his sadness:

    Tater is sad

    Who is an Official J6er?

    It’s been an issue since the pardon: who is an official J6er? Do you include the more loathsome characters, like the pedophiles? What about the drug addicts? The guys who cheated on their wives with fangirls?

    And what about the supposed antifa members and the ones who took plea deals?

    Attempts to create an official list of J6ers have fallen apart for this reason. The J6ers can’t stop feuding over clout, credit and money.

    The insurrectionists are meeting in Miami to record another version of Justice for All, which is the Star Spangled Banner with some Trump rambling in it, first performed by J6 prisoners in the DC Jail.

    Which surprised me, since no one knows where the money went from the first one; the J6ers complained that they didn’t get paid.

    But if you ask questions, you won’t be invited to the party.

    Freedom Corner Forgotten

    Also left out of the Florida funfest: the simps and stalkers, including the chuds of Freedom Corner, who held a nightly vigil outside the DC Jail for more than two years. Once the prisoners were pardoned, they were forgotten.

    Some of the chuds have managed to reinvent themselves, like Corinne Clifford, who seems too crazy for the White House Press Pool (but she’s there) and records videos of herself on the unsafe streets of Georgetown (LOL) while she casually admits to voter fraud.

    Or fan favorite, GloryBeef, who drives around DC in a minivan full of junk, filming suspicious people on the street. She recently went in search of “bad” areas of the city to show Trump.

    Seeing a group of black men coming out of a building, she said it was a flophouse. It was a church, Beef.

    Chaos Agent Uncovered

    Finally, in the category of IYKYK, She Who Shall Not Be Named revealed the truth: she was an antifa chaos agent. She was a damn good one. Almost as good as Agent Sean in Joliet, IL.

    Don’t trust everything you see on the internet ;)

  • Trump to Return Pike to His Plinth

    • June 20, 2020. Toppled statue of Albert Pike.
    • Pike is down
    • June 20, 2020. Toppled statue of Albert Pike.
      statue plinth covered in graffiti

    Trump will return the statue of Confederate General Albert Pike to Washington, DC. It was toppled by Black Lives Matter protesters in 2020.

    Albert Pike wasn’t just a traitor to the Union – he was a traitor to the Confederacy, too.

    He was an insubordinate, incompetent general who rebelled against the South because he wanted to keep his own private army of Cherokees who scalped Union soldiers. Read his Wikipedia entry – it’s wild.

    After the Civil War, he managed to get a pardon from President Johnson, who sold them to former Confederates. Sound familiar?

    Pike remained a die-hard racist. After the war, he said:

    the white race, and that race alone, shall govern this country. 

    He helped to develop the rituals of the Ku Klux Klan and Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (though they disavow him now).

    In 1901, at the height of Jim Crow, a statue was erected to him amid the courthouses of Judiciary Square – a clear message to the black citizens of segregated DC.

    Times changed but, despite this, the Pike statue remained since it was on federal land. The city of Washington could do nothing about it.

    Until the night of June 19, 2020, when a crowd of Black Lives Matter demonstrators attached ropes to it and tore it down.

    The morning after, I went to see the toppled Pike, down in the dirt where he belonged. It was a celebratory atmosphere as people took selfies with the statue. The National Park Service arrived, hoisted the defaced statue on to a truck and hauled him away.

    To the graveyard of history, it seemed. But now Trump, who loves a good traitor, plans on returning Pike to his plinth. The Confederate general will be back in October.

  • Lawn Chairs and Livestreams: Three Years Since the 1776 Restoration Movement

    1776RM arrives on the Mall
    The 1776 Restoration Movement was characterized by lawn chairs and livestreams.

    July 23, 2025

    Chud. Hold the Lawn. Frankie Bobby, your car is on fire! Flopper. Pooping in a bucket for freedom. 500 trucks. Johnny Troy and the Hayseeds. Old-fashioned porn. Voodootifa. Anarchy Princess.

    If you’re familiar with these terms, then you remember the 1776 Restoration Movement (1776RM), the right-wing cult that occupied a block along the National Mall three years ago this month.

    Slipping into the city on July 6th, 2022, they livestreamed themselves sitting in lawn chairs for freedom. Pledging to restore a constitutional republic (something they could not define), their sedentary protest lasted less than 30 days before being driven out by online and IRL trolls, who harassed them 24/7. And the Park Police threatening to tow their cars.

    I was fascinated by this movement. I couldn’t believe how they livestreamed everything – even their crimes! It was like a Spinal Tap version of the January 6th insurrection.

    I was not alone. Their constant livestreams fueled an online industry that clipped and shared the dumbest moments from this fascist comedy of dysfunction for all the internet to enjoy.

    Here are some of the things that I wrote about the decline and fall of the 1776 Restoration Movement:

    The Humiliation of the 1776 Restoration Movement
    The 1776 Restoration Movement Learns to Love the Swamp
    Who Defeated the 1776 Restoration Movement?
    How Cults End: The 1776 Restoration Movement
    The Chud Glossary

    And if you want to know more about how the experience changed me, get my book: How I Became Red Bike Guy. Seeing and interacting with these idiots made me the person who would one day heckle fascists.

    red bike guy cover

  • J6 News Roundup: If Only Trump Knew!

    J6 News Roundup: If Only Trump Knew!

    June 30, 2025

    Soviet citizens sent to the gulag often thought it was some sort of mistake. “If only Stalin knew!” they would exclaim as they were loaded onto the train cars.

    History repeats itself in 2025 as another set of cultists cloak their disappointment by blaming staff instead of the dictator.

    After the election, January 6th rioters made lists of people that they wanted arrested – Joe Biden, Anthony Fauci, Merrick Garland, even the corrections officers that supervised them in the DC Jail.

    They expected military tribunals followed by executions. They wanted retribution.

    And they wanted compensation. They were “veterans” who fought for Trump and were entitled to not only cash, but military benefits as well.

    The $5 million awarded to the estate of Ashli Babbitt put dollar signs in their eyes. If a dead “patriot” was worth $5 million what about a live one who spent years in jail for Trump? The Proud Boys sued for $100 million for their “wrongful imprisonment” on behalf of Dear Leader.

    But, like with Stalin, he doesn’t appear to be listening. 

    So, they blame the “globalists” that surround him like Chief of Staff Susie Wiles. If only Trump knew!

    No Justice, No Checks

    Despite the promises of hack lawyers, some of them are starting to realize the truth. Everything was a lie. No justice, no checks.

    Disappointment is the thread running through the J6 community. It was almost easier to be in jail than to struggle with the messy business of real life.

    Some retain their faith in Dear Leader while others pull away or go insane.

    Remember the QAnon Shaman? The war-painted face of the January 6th riot, the tip of the spear, the embodiment of the MAGA movement deleted his Twitter account after going all-in on conspiracy theories too out there even for his fellow J6ers.

    The most prominent of the J6 groupies, Suzzanne Monk, also peaced out, pleading exhaustion at the endless demands upon her. She no longer has the time or money to keep rescuing J6ers who get in trouble. Monk penned a novel-length Twitter post about her thankless efforts and endless humility which none of you ungrateful bastards will recognize.

    Or it could be that she realizes that she won’t be getting a piece of the multi-million dollar J6 settlement, being a mere advocate and not a victim. If there is money to be got, no chance in hell a J6 rioter is going to share it with her.

    The Funeral Will be Livestreamed

    Yet, some remain loyal. If only Trump knew! Bart Shively, who was convicted of assaulting police officers on January 6th, recently passed away.

    To honor him, a GiftSendGo was set up by racist Jake Lang, who interjects himself into every newsworthy event. Funds raised will go to the family, he claims, an assertion so dubious that even his fellow J6ers were skeptical.

    The funeral will be livestreamed. Several of the chuds of Freedom Corner are planning on attending. With their cameras. Imagine the family, in their moment of private and personal grief, and suddenly a bunch of YouTubers zoom in for the shot, while thanking their viewers for the SuperChats.

    No one should be surprised. J6ers and their superfans film everything, including their own crimes, car crashes and a groupie giving birth (no link provided, you’re welcome), so why not a death, too?

    The Chuds Discover AI

    An inability to use the English language properly is a chud “tell.” If they can’t write a sentence without a dozen mistakes, then you know that they’re a Trump supporter.

    Until now.

    The chuds have discovered AI and with it, they’re using it to make coherent paragraphs out of their jumbled drivel. No more referring to someone as a “looser.” Instead, they give it a prompt like “why deport all illeagles” and ChatGPT produces a mini-essay of intolerance for them.

    I saw it myself when a barely literate J6er went from writing incoherent Facebook posts to perfectly constructed three-paragraph arguments. No typos, no misspellings and with a neat little summary at the end.

    We are in the era of AI slop now where you can’t believe anything produced by anyone anymore.

    Remember when the internet was going to make the world a better place? Instead, you have livestreamed funerals, online grifting and communications outsourced to computers.

  • J6 News Roundup: Stalking, Harassment and More

    J6 News Roundup: Stalking, Harassment and More

    June 24, 2025

    The problem with writing about January 6th rioters is that being a sane and productive member of society, you look at their actions through the biases of logic and decency, neither of which exist among the violent misfits that comprise the men who attacked the Capitol and the women who support them. Those who seek reasonable explanations for their post-pardon behavior are going to be frustrated and annoyed with their continued stupidity. They literally never learn, despite the universe hitting them over the head again and again.

    If I was a convicted felon who received a pardon, I’d take the opportunity to start over. Get away from politics, change my name and thank the gods for a second chance.

    But chud logic being what it is, J6ers have done the opposite of what a normal person would expect and instead have sought to monetize their grievances and relitigate the events of a day that America would prefer to forget.

    J6ers Demand Placement on Honorary Plaque

    The real heroes of January 6th were the police officers who bravely defended Congress. A plaque was created to honor them. Republicans have refused to hang it up. They won’t do this one little thing for the men and women who protected them on that dark day.

    January 6th rioters have not slunk away in shame over their behavior. Thinking that they’re the heroes, they have demanded inclusion on the plaque meant to honor the police. This is akin to putting a tribute to Hitler on the WWII Memorial.

    J6ers Harass Widow

    David Walls-Kaufman was one of the first rioters who forced his way into the Capitol. He knew the layout well – he used to work there. Walls-Kaufman hit a police officer over the head with his own baton, an injury that led to his suicide a few days later. His widow sued and was recently awarded $500,000.

    You’d think that J6ers would stay silent about a grieving widow receiving some measure of recompense for her suffering. You’d be wrong. 

    Online, they’ve said some of the most hateful things that you can imagine, claiming that the officer killed himself over the “shame of standing for treason.”

    In a brief moment of hope, I thought that J6ers and us real patriots could find things to agree upon, like prison reform. Now I see that’s impossible. They really are the worst people on the planet.

    J6 on J6 Crime

    Fortunately, they are their own worst enemy. It’s not enough for them to fight with Congress, the police, liberals, antifa, etc… They have to fight each other too.

    Goad Gatsby has an excellent writeup of the comedy that was the case of Dominic Box vs Ally Rose, a legal dustup so dumb that the judge was left asking, “Why are we here?”

    It’s a case of mean tweets, in which a J6er got stalked by one of his fans and turned to the court for relief. These J6ers love to talk about how tough they are but then run to the law when someone mentions them on Twitter.

    It’s a Cult

    There are moments when J6ers come so close to the truth.

    Trump ran on no more wars and instead stumbled his way into war with Iran.

    Most J6ers instantly discarded their “America First” beliefs to follow Dear Leader into the quagmire. We have always been at war with Eastasia!

    But some remembered Trump’s promise, resisting the call to join yet another conflict in the Middle East.

    And were attacked for it. If you didn’t support the war, you weren’t loyal to Trump. You weren’t true MAGA.

    My leader, right or wrong – wait, that’s cultish behavior, they protested, with no sense of irony.

    Suzzanne Monk, the “Captain J6” who claims credit for the J6 pardons, finds herself cast out of the cult.

    She’s so close to recognizing the truth, that MAGA is a cult. The moment you diverge from Trump, you become a hated apostate.

    But she won’t get there. None of them will because that would require a few seconds of thought.

    January 6th rioters and their supporters dwell in the realm of chud logic, where Trump is infallible and they are his special children who can do no wrong.

  • The Sad Parade: The Trump Spectacular was Idiocracy, not Triumph of the Will

    The Sad Parade: The Trump Spectacular was Idiocracy, not Triumph of the Will

    June 16, 2025

    It’s Monday morning in Washington, DC, and the cleanup from Trump’s parade continues, as workers take down security fences and empty overflowing trash cans.

    I almost left town for this event, expecting a visual scene comparable to Leni Riefenstahl’s Triumph of the Will, with soldiers saluting the Dear Leader to the deafening cheers of red-hatted MAGA hordes.

    But instead, we got something out of Idiocracy – a confused and disjointed “perade” featuring soldiers casually strolling down the avenue as a sparse crowd wilted in the heat.

    The signs were there ahead of time. A couple days before the parade, I went to the National Mall to check out how they were destroying my beloved city. It was a maze of anti-scale fences that stretched from the Air and Space Museum to the Lincoln Memorial. More than 18 miles of them.

    Once inside the secure zone, I couldn’t figure how to get out – and I live here! After ending up trapped by the FDR Memorial, I biked across the Potomac River rather than go back across the Mall, only to discover fences on the Virginia side as well.

    The Sad Parade

    Saturday afternoon at the Trump Parade. Where is everyone?

    Fortunately, not many people attended. That was evident when I rolled down to check out the scene on Saturday afternoon.

    During big events on the Mall, the police close 15th Street by the White House. During the Women’s March in 2017, this was an unbroken sea of people that extended for more than a mile.

    But on Saturday, hardly anyone was there, despite this spot being just a few blocks from the entrance to the parade and within walking distance of several Metro stops.

    The crowds might have been stuck elsewhere. There’s an excellent thread by Doug Landry, a communications expert and event planner, that highlights how poorly this event was organized, in terms of crowd management and logistics. I wasn’t the only one who couldn’t navigate the vast security theater; thousands were forced to walk miles in utter confusion.

    Maybe they shouldn’t have fired all the experts and replaced them with talentless Trump cronies! Read Amanda Moore’s piece in Mother Jones about how MAGA took over America250, the organization behind the Sad Parade.

    The Refuse Fascism march on 14th St in Washington, DC

    Where I did find a crowd was Logan Circle. The No Kings movement had planned demonstrations around the country (which were historic and massive) but had excluded DC, not wanting a confrontation.

    Refuse Fascism led a march anyway. Hundreds of people marched down 14th Street to the White House for a demonstration. They chanted, “Trump must go now!”

    Among them was Patricia Eguino, last seen heckling Proud Boy Enrique Tarrio. Refuse Fascism told her to turn down her trademark death metal screams – she was scaring people!

    Meanwhile, parade-goers were disappointed. Several of my favorite chud livestreamers from Freedom Corner attended after grifting money to go, promising their viewers live coverage of the MAGA celebration.

    Instead, they got buffertifa, as demand crashed the network on Constitution Avenue. It was the worst possible result for livestreamers. No streaming, no viewers, no donations.

    Those watching on TV got a good idea of the pathetic nature of the spectacle – disjointed collections of military equipment drifted by while Trump and his employees (including Melania) tried not to appear bored.

    The soldier holding the drone has, rightfully, become a meme. It’s the perfect illustration of the end of our superpower status. Trump likes to boast about our unbeatable military but after seeing the Sad Parade, is anyone convinced?

    The indignities continued after dark. The poor management of this event meant that everyone had to exit at a chokepoint lined by concrete barriers.

    Awaiting them was a gauntlet of Antifa, marchers from Refuse Fascism and local anti-Trump demonstrators who heckled the red hat-wearing crowd with chants of “Trump sucks!” as they tried to find their way home.

    Filming the fiasco was Anarchy Princess, who captured some priceless moments of MAGA hypocrisy and dysfunction, such as J6er Chris Quaglin arguing with the crowd, white power fanboy Jake Lang running away and the “Proud Boy den mother” Suzzanne Monk bumming a cigarette off Antifa, a group that she claims are terrorists.

    The theme of the Trump administration is incompetence.

    The people who crashed the economy with tariffs, instigated riots with immigrant sweeps and failed to stop wars in Ukraine, Gaza and Iran, could not manage to put on a successful parade despite having $45 million and the entire US Army behind them.

    They say that weakness is provocative. So is incompetence.

    That’s the real message of the Sad Parade. America does not have its shit together.

  • Patricia Eguino Crashes the Proud Boys Press Conference

    Patricia Eguino Crashes the Proud Boys Press Conference

    June 9, 2025

    The Proud Boys are suing the US government for $100 million, claiming that their civil rights were violated when they were prosecuted for attacking the Capitol on January 6th.

    To announce their lawsuit, they scheduled a press conference that was billed as occurring “outside the White House.” 

    In reality, it was in Lafayette Park, across Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House.

    They couldn’t get anyone from the Trump Administration to meet with them. This was despite the presence of J6 supporter Suzzanne Monk, who claims that Trump followed her plan to pardon J6 supporters. It’s almost as if he doesn’t know her at all ;)

    Before they could even begin, they were kicked out of the park, along with hundreds of tourists, so that Trump could helicopter off to play golf.

    The cultists, not wanting to think that Dear Leader had forsaken them, blamed their booting on Susie Wiles, Trump’s Chief of Staff.

    The motley crew reassembled on H Street and clustered around Tarrio, a dozen or so people, most of whom were right-wing media or elderly female groupies.

    The “press conference”

    Tarrio spoke to the tiny crowd, accompanied by his straw hat wearing attorney, who looked like he just stepped out of a Tennessee Williams play.

    And that’s when Patricia Eguino crashed the traitor party with her trademark death metal screams.

    WARNING: LOUD!

    This isn’t the first time that she’s used her First Amendment rights to disrupt treasonous plots. Eguino was one of the very few counterprotestors at January 6th. She has also stood in the way of Proud Boy marches, ridiculed George Santos and made fun of the chuds of Freedom Corner (which is how I met her).

    A former local official, Eguino uses her caustic wit and Pyle megaphone to defend democracy.

    After their press conference was blown up, Tarrio and his gang retreated.

    Eguino wasn’t done. Following them down the street, she tore into Ivan Raiklin. The self-described “Secretary of Retribution” has a list of liberals targeted for court martial and execution. An associate of Michael Flynn, he even appeared on CNN to talk about it.

    Despite being full of threats, he’s a little man.

    Eguino mocked him, yelling, “KEEBLER ELF!”

    This combination of hilarity and disrespect is a winner. She’s been retweeted by the Meidas Network and other media outlets. Eguino is going viral like Anarchy Princess and that Red Bike Guy. And deservedly so.

    Follow @patriciaeguino for more death metal screaming and insults in defense of democracy.

  • Should J6ers Talk to Antifa?

    We need to talk if we’re going to save our democracy.

    May 31, 2025

    Is it better to talk to your enemies or shun them?

    That question roils the J6 community, the people who attacked the Capitol on January 6th and those that support and take advantage of them.

    For some J6 advocates, like Suzzanne Monk, talking to antifa is verboten. If you’re seen talking to antifa, even if it’s just a harmless online interaction, then she’ll cut you off from access to her fundraising network. 

    Why? Because it’s dangerous. Antifa wants you dead, according to Monk. Or in jail, and this vast shadowy network has the means to make that happen. 

    Who is Antifa?

    Everyone is antifa, according to the J6ers, a label that is used so widely that it effectively becomes meaningless. If you think that January 6th was a crime, then you’re antifa, too.

    The chud fear of antifa is so pervasive that it’s hilarious. I first saw this during the days of the 1776 Restoration Movement (1776RM), the trucker convoy spin-off that briefly camped out on the National Mall in 2022. Every time something went wrong, they blamed antifa, even when it was their own incompetence or bad luck.

    The suffix -tifa was soon attached to everything by the online audience watching their never-ending fuckups. 

    1776RM was spectacularly pranked again and again. An online benefactor promised the “patriots” that he was sending them 100 Subway sandwiches. When none arrived, the chuds blamed antifa, and the term Subtifa was born. And then came Voodootifa and Witchtifa after other pranksters left voodoo dolls outside the 1776RM encampment. When chalk messages mocking the group appeared, antifa was again blamed and online wags coined the term Chalktifa.

    Even I was called antifa. I went to take photos of their demonstration. They blew an airhorn in my face and called me antifa. That’s my antifa origin story. That and January 6th.

    J6ers Talk to Antifa

    Despite the paranoid fear of antifa, J6ers talk to them. Why?

    Most of America doesn’t want to hear anything about January 6th. They want it to go away, since the idea of a mob storming the Capitol doesn’t fit into the myths that we tell about ourselves. We’re not supposed to be that kind of country.

    And most Americans opposed pardons for J6ers, rightfully appalled by the idea that the supposed “back the blue” Donald Trump just opened the jail doors of Arkham Asylum and let violent convicted criminals out into the country.

    “Normies” don’t want to hear J6 stories.

    But you know who does? Antifa. J6ers and antifa are both interested in the events of that day.

    There’s been a number of online Spaces on X, hosted by J6ers, where so-called antifa members have been invited to speak, much to the consternation of J6 gatekeepers like Suzzanne Monk.

    One on the topic “Should We Speak to the Enemy” lasted 12 hours!

    This issue is one of the key points of contention in the J6 Civil War, as J6ers and their advocates fight over money, leadership and clout.

    But conversations are taking place. Mostly polite ones, with people sharing their views, while agreeing to disagree.

    The so-called antifa, who want to murder and entrap people, turn out to be really good listeners. Empathetic and interested in a way that normie Americans never would be. People like Anarchy Princess, Corey Cullington and Laurie.

    And they’ve even found things to agree upon, such as:

    1. Prison Reform. Going to prison convinced many J6ers that the American penal system is harsh and counterproductive. Danean MacAndrews was sentenced to the infamous “Rape Club” aka FCI Dublin and since then has become a passionate advocate for reform. She spoke in a Space about the women she met and how they were overcharged and discarded.
    2. Economic Populism. Both sides realize that the American Dream has been rigged by the rich for their benefit. The election of Donald Trump was, in many ways, a desperate attempt to change that. If the left and the right ever come together on a message of economic populism, the result will be a new revolution.
    3. Fear of the Deep State. J6ers believe that they’re being monitored by the FBI and three-letter agencies. So do many on the left, especially in the Trump era. Our government has surveillance capabilities that the Stasi could only dream of. Limiting the reach of these agencies is something that should concern all of us. 

    The J6 community is not a monolith. You don’t have to listen to their Spaces long before you hear some weird stuff, like how the FBI used 5G to cause a car crash or that there are 100 antifa members embedded in the J6 community. Antifa members so dedicated to the cause that they went to jail rather than disclose their secret identities. (I love “The Americans” style of this conspiracy theory.)

    And the usual minimizing of their crimes. “Sure, he swung a bat at the police but lots of people had bats!”

    So, I’m not going to kumbaya it and say that everything is going to work out fine. This is still a very dark time. 

    But it’s better to talk than not to talk. It’s hard to “other” your enemy if you discover that they’re real people with hopes and interests just like you.