It’s Saturday, so you have time to do the things you love: linger at a coffee shop, devour a magazine, or dress up in Daft Punk cosplay and ancient Roman legionnaire armor to fight the rise of socialism in Texas.
Hey. You do you.
Evan Mintz, of the Houston Chronicle, is at an anti-Antifa (how meta) protest at Hermann Park, in Houston, and let’s just say it is a cast of characters. The protest is aimed at supposed Antifa members who, after the removal of a Robert E. Lee statue in New Orleans, are emboldened and want to take down a Sam Houston statue. Not only are the members of This is Texas armed, they are interesting.
At Hermann Park and there's enough guns here to lead a mild insurrection. pic.twitter.com/fBtCbJfZhK
— Evan (@evan7257) June 10, 2017
"They want to take the statue"
— Evan (@evan7257) June 10, 2017
Who?
"… liberals" pic.twitter.com/QvkkrQM4kT
Nothing says anti-antifa like armbands and guns in a public park pic.twitter.com/aRIyrf8n6m
— Evan (@evan7257) June 10, 2017
"The time for reasoning and negotiating with these people have passed" pic.twitter.com/k79uM9reSJ
— Evan (@evan7257) June 10, 2017
Though those people are interesting enough on their own, the brunt of the scorn online is being directed at this dude, who wore Roman armor because the Antifa has knives.
He's worried that antifa will use knives so he got roman armor. Asked if I knew what Pepe was. pic.twitter.com/KNQMS7eiSJ
— Evan (@evan7257) June 10, 2017
The trolling is coming hard and fast.
https://twitter.com/djlavoie/status/873595451500630016
https://twitter.com/iamLoafman/status/873601499946942465
https://twitter.com/KELLYWEILL/status/873591974259044353
looks like we'll have to switch to pilum and blunt weapons https://t.co/OSLqNqO3M8
— Mobile Fruit Gundam 0069 (@bogvvitch) June 10, 2017
https://twitter.com/daviddashcoby/status/873599733046136833
This thread is unreal. The alt right is run by a bunch of guys in suits. Their army: the kid that sat in the back of class & ate his binder. https://t.co/83HtRRscUr
— Dr. Andrea Milne (@MyPenHistorical) June 10, 2017
https://twitter.com/calvinstowell/status/873594284078977025
https://twitter.com/RiseUpHarleyQ/status/873592483762106368
This is so delightfully stupid and I am laughing, laughing as the world burns down around us all because everyone's gone mad https://t.co/MIN62u42rL
— Laura Lorson (@prairielaura) June 10, 2017
https://twitter.com/LeifReigstad/status/873572438436696064
https://twitter.com/StephanieCarvin/status/873593939017830400
As for whether that armor will save him, well…
FYI there are no antifa. Or BLM. Or anyone besides suburbanites with guns and internet weirdos
— Evan (@evan7257) June 10, 2017
He’ll do fine against cats.