Posted on 05/13/2020 12:24:32 PM PDT by Olog-hai
They carry high-powered rifles and wear tactical gear, but their Hawaiian shirts and leis are what stand out in the crowds that have formed at state capital buildings to protest COVID-19 lockdown orders. The signature look for the “boogaloo” anti-government movement is designed to get attention.
The group, which uses an ’80s movie sequel as a code word for a second civil war, is among the extremists using the armed protests against state-at-home orders as a platform. Like other movements that once largely inhabited corners of the internet, it has seized on the social unrest and economic calamity caused by the pandemic to publicize its violent messages.
In April, armed demonstrators passed out “Liberty or Boogaloo” fliers at a statehouse protest in Concord, New Hampshire. A leader of the Three Percenters militia movement who organized a rally in Olympia, Washington, last month encouraged rally participants to wear Hawaiian shirts, according to the Anti-Defamation League. On Saturday, a demonstration in Raleigh, North Carolina, promoted by a Facebook group called “Blue Igloo” — a derivation of the term — led to a police investigation of a confrontation between an armed protester and a couple pushing a stroller.
Another anti-lockdown rally is planned for Thursday at the state Capitol in Lansing, Michigan, site of an angry protest last month that included armed members of the Michigan Liberty Militia. Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, a Democrat, has been the target of violent threats on Facebook forums, including a private one called “The Rhett E. Boogie Group.” …
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>>If I roll up with a mobile guillotine... Then things could be considered heading in an “extreme” direction...
That’s what the Left did when Bernie lost the nomination. They started a Guillotine 2020 campaign hashtag.
They sure had Lucinda Dickey depicted rather provocatively there.
i dont care if its a code word or not
i am tired of nutjobs taking over words and rainbows and whatever for their ‘causes’
when i talk about cwii, i SAY CWII
I have been wearing aloha shirts since the early 90s. In winter I will change into one when I get to school or work. When I started ccw nobody knew because I did not dress any differently.
Sounds more like “not” to me.
punny
i believe a substantial amount of it is.
The meme is based on the movie "Breakdancing II: Electric Boogaloo" where any bad movie sequel had "Electric Boogaloo" added to the end of it. Eventually, a bad sequel to anything had "Electric Boogaloo" added to it.
Variations include the "Big Igloo" and "Big Luau", hence the igloos and Hawaiian shirts.
We are currently living in the bad sequel of the Civil War.
All of it.
Didn’t meant to say they are bluffing. I have no idea whether they are or not. But if you use a gun to make a point...DON’T be bluffing.
In other words, if she “calls their bluff” that is, if she sends armed men to disarm them, publicly, they can either surrender or open fire. They put themselves in that position and they have no other choices.
I think, today, we have been such sheeple for so long that if I were out there with a gun I would expect the authorities to try the “call his bluff” play sooner rather than later.
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