Messin' With Shitheads
Antifa's here! You know you're doing something right when street preachers greet your arrival with that. Not sure how they how they figured that, I've yet to see a penny of that Soros money...
Saturday was Louisville's Pride Parade and Festival and my partner was in the parade so I wasn't about to miss it. @derangedvisions had inspired me to try and capture the joy and gaiety of Pride, so I headed to the parade with my telephoto lens and a 50mm in reserve.
'Best laid plans of vice and mayhem' and all that. As I was walking along the parade route looking for a good spot to post up I noticed a section of sidewalk curiously devoid of onlookers save for two guys. Motherfucker. Unfortunately, I was altogether too familiar with them from my clinic escort days.
Not sure how but they seem to make their living traveling around the state berating people in the name of Jesus. Couldn't keep them from doing that during the parade but I could keep'em from having an easy time of it.
Went and stood between them and the parade, don't know what good that did but it sure seemed to annoy them. In no time other bystanders joined in the fun and before long we were moving up and down the sidewalk in a surreal, antagonistic dance.
Even the folks in the parade joined in, some for just a short while, others stayed the rest of the parade.
Who goes to a parade and doesn't want candy? These shitheads. They seemed awful hangry but every time someone came over from the parade and tried to give them candy they acted like it was a live grenade.
Shalom y'all. A good Samaritan ran up and improved their sign for them. If candy was a live grenade then anything rainbow colored was the debbil hisself. At least that's the only explanation I can think of for two grown men frantically stomping a rainbow beer koozie.
'Eat shit and die, Joey.' There's only so much hate you can listen to one person spew before you can't help but tell'em off. It was kind of wild, he was quite comfortable with shouting slurs at people but Aunt Tifa knowing his name, not so much.
Naturally, things got even more lively after that. Apparently the shithead motto is: 'If at first you don't succeed, get in their faces and yell some more.'
Don't know about where y'all live but folks around here don't take too well to that sort of behavior. Y'all already know where this is going. Soon enough push came to shove rather literally and we damn near scrapped, but John here was more interested in threatening than he was doing.
Got two free sessions of 'Pray the demon out of you' in the process, worked about as well as one would expect. I want my money back! In one of those weird quirks of adrenaline the parade was seemingly over in a flash and I remember next to none of it but all except a couple of shitheads seemed to have a good time.
God bless southern hospitality.
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God hates flags.
I didn't fucking stutter, patriots.
Seems you and Tom Morello somehow ended up on the same page.
Lol, what a story! 😄 Good thing is you've managed to capture these moments perfectly and write the story as well. You did a great job @coloneljethro
Thank you. Lol, what a parade 😄 Don't think I've ever gotten that much exercise or adrenaline from a parade.
I mean, that guy can't even make a decent sign. Duct tape and different-sized words. It's like he woke up and thought, hmmmmm, what should I hate today??
Pretty much. They made the news back in 2020 for yelling Islamophobic shit at a bunch of Muslim middle school kids leaving the state capitol. I've had to listen to him rant about how women shouldn't be allowed to vote, he's a real piece of work.
Ew.
Look at these histrionic clowns with their bullhorn, impotent hate signs and ignorance. Fucking losers.
If it wasn't so obnoxious it'd almost be funny.
True mate! I reckon laughing at them is important though. It is deadly serious; their hateful conduct. Massive problem.
Their position was never reasoned to in the first place, so they can't be reasoned out of it. Social pressure via ridicule and mocking disdain might be the most effective way to stop them... maybe. Or at least make their audience think twice.
Oh yeah, laughing at them is important, plenty of times that's been the only thing keeping us from losing it with them. A massive problem that it seems like many would just as soon ignore. It's sort of surreal, the media ignores them usually and unless people have personally encountered their nonsense they don't realize this still is a regular occurrence.
Lol, at one point every time they would yell something out we'd just yell back "your mother!" Don't think anything will ever completely stop them but yeah, mockery and ridicule seem to be the most effective way of countering them.
Parade is always interesting and I always enjoy it whenever I witness it...
I'm glad that it was a good one for you
Thanks! Just wish I'd gotten to see more of the actual parade 😄
Maybe they were hangry because all the were offered was candy, that shit doesn't stick to your ribs. Maybe they needed brisket!
Maybe they had the diabeetus, we forgot to ask first. Hell yeah, tenderize that brisket!
how much dumbass you have to be to go there and annoy other people.... naa
Right! If you don't like it, you don't have to be there. Lol, I really just wanted to take photos of a parade but just couldn't let them try to ruin it for everybody unhindered.
This post makes me so happy. Not the bigotry, and overall waste of flesh that those two represent, but the fact that people banded together to block their hatred, and make something humorous of it.
This bit was hilarious - I can just imagine that spastic dance about the sidewalk. 😂
It was beautiful seeing people come together like that, just wish that wasn't necessary.
Lol, their dance was a sight to behold. I missed getting a shot of it so I picked the koozie up afterwards and tossed it at their feet again just to see if they'd do it again. They did. 🤣🤣🤣