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Cargo pants are OUT! Red Bike Guy video on Rachel Maddow [1]

['Joe Flood', 'View All Posts Joe Flood', 'Author', 'Joe Flood Is A Writer', 'Photographer', 'Web Person Washington', 'Dc. The Author Of Several Novels', 'Joe Won The City Paper Fiction Competition In In His Free Time', 'He Enjoys Wandering About The City Taking Photos.']

Date: 2023-05-16  

I yelled at the Patriot Front because I didn’t think they should march through DC unopposed.

I’ve seen a lot of protests in Washington. I’m a street photographer and have documented fascist groups like the 1776 Restoration Movement and the J6-loving chuds of Freedom Corner.

There are always counterprotestors to the fascists. I’m the one who takes the photos; I leave the counterprotesting to the professionals with their megaphones and signs.

But on Saturday, the Patriot Front slipped into the city without telling anyone (except the cops). There were no counterprotestors.

I had to be the counterprotestor, to represent all the people in DC who despise these right-wing cosplayers.

Rolling up on bikeshare, it was an absolutely perfect tableau as the young chuds listened their dapper leader speechify at the Washington Monument.

And I was going to crash it!

I didn’t know I was being filmed, and that it would go viral, and that I would hear my name on Rachel Maddow within a couple days. At that moment, I was just determined to ruin their day.

Update: check out the new RedBikeGuy site for some of your favorite insults on a t-shirt!

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[1] Url: https://joeflood.com/2023/05/16/maddow/

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