Leaked data reveals a surprising fact about who funds the Proud Boys

[LiberalArkie]

According to a report from USA Today, the Proud Boys were the recipients of a flood of donations after they were involved in Washington, D.C. street skirmishes in late December -- just weeks before the Jan. 6th Capitol insurrection.

Of note, the reports states, is the fact that more than 80 percent of the money that came through the Proud Boys' GoSendGo crowdfunding page came from contributors with Chinese surnames.

USA Today is reporting that, based on information provided to them by the whistleblower site Distributed Denial of Secrets, $106,107 was raised for medical costs with the bulk coming on late in the evening of Dec 17th.

According to the report, "A donor named Li Zhang gave $100. A few minutes later, someone named Jun Li donated $100. Then Hao Xu gave $20, followed shortly by $25 from a Ying Pei. In all, almost 1,000 people with Chinese surnames gave about $86,000, which the led USA Today's Will Carless to write, "Why would people from China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, and members of the Chinese American community, donate to an organization with deep ties to white supremacists, whose members flash white power signals and post racist memes on social media?"

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https://www.alternet.org/2021/05/proud-boys/

[lagomorph777]

1. Intriguing. Connected to the Chinese government, perhaps?

[Escurumbele]

19. Or maybe fake names to implicate China into it?

Let us not forget that republicans love to blame everything on China while keeping blames away from Russia.

[lagomorph777]

21. Unfortunately, Turd weakened us and opened the door to more than one foreign enemy.

But, yes, it's possibly a false-flag operation. Seems like a stretch, though, because the names only came out after a hack.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

26. As has "Citizens United"

[lame54]

22. But they accepted the money from "China" as opposed to Russia...

How does that make them look good?

[marble falls]

35. These are real people who've left China - https://democraticunderground.com/100215399516

[blm]

2. Epoch Times propaganda swallowers.

Moonies 2.0

[OneGrassRoot]

4. This. n/t

[hadEnuf]

10. Epoch Times equals stinking RW garbage.

Besides, I can't stand that little dick they have on their TV commercials.

[reACTIONary]

38. I bet you nailed it. nt

[sir pball]

41. Ding ding ding

I had the profound displeasure of being in DC, literally 1.5 blocks from the Capitol, for the first "Stop The Steal" circus in November (December?); a fairly large subset of that group was Chinese exiles who've gone absolutely bonkers for Trump's virulent anti-"CCP" message. Nothing (particularly) nefarious about these donations.

[TexasBushwhacker]

43. That's the first thing I thought too

Interesting since there's so much anti-Asian violence lately because if Trump and his whole "Chinese flu" bullshit.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

3. Wonder if they're real names (nt)

[RussellCattle]

16. Reminds me of "Sum Ting Wong, Wei Too Low, Ho Lee Fuk and Ding Bang Ow" after that....

....airliner crashed in San Francisco.

[marble falls]

36. Real names -

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/05/04/proud-boys-chinese-americans-community-support-donations/7343111002/

[SergeStorms]

5. It's painfully obvious....

that the enemies of the United States will do, and are doing, anything they can to destroy the country from within. Americans are so shallow and self-centered they'll tear each other to shreds over the littlest thing. China and Russia are more than happy to supply those "little things" via Facebook and Twitter. They believe they can destroy this country from within without ever firing a shot.
From what I've seen in the past few decades, they're probably correct.

[KS Toronado]

14. Exactly what I'm thinking.

[BlueNProud]

28. Yes this is serious f ery.

[MineralMan]

6. I'm not sure much can be read into this, frankly.

1000 donors gave a total of $86,000. Small potatoes, really, with no donations over $100, apparently.

It might mean something, but that something may not be not particularly significant, really.

I'm not sure any conclusions can be drawn from just this information.

[pandr32]

18. +1

[druidity33]

40. I think blm may have nailed it upthread...

Moonies. Makes perfect sense to me. Epoch Times coaligns with all Trumfuckery. It's like tithing to them.

[Buns_of_Fire]

7. I was wrong. I would've guessed Lane Bryant, Macy's, and Army-Navy Stores.

[IronLionZion]

17. What's with the yellow skirts/kilts?

more range of motion when they fight Aunt Tifa?

[Heartstrings]

20. "Aunt Tina"!!

Good one!

[David__77]

24. The yellow is for libertarianism or "anarcho-capitalism."

The kilt is an attempt to channel “European culture.”

[IronLionZion]

33. It might channel a nice cool windy draft

[DBoon]

39. I thought the kilt was because sheep have uncannily sharp hearing

the can hear a zipper being undone for miles away.

[lagomorph777]

29. Cooling for their tiny proud boy bits.

[Escurumbele]

32. "Aunt Tifa"...LOL, that is great

[hadEnuf]

8. Makes sense.

Trump and his Brownshirts accused Biden of being in the pockets of the Chinese, so naturally it was Trump who was in the pockets of the Chinese.

Either that or they were setting up the Asian community for the forthcoming brutal terrorist assaults that we are now seeing.

[uponit7771]

9. K&R, Read about China's "Cultural Revolution" and compare what the GQP is sending America

... through if not damn near 1 to 1 match

[rickyhall]

11. You think proud boys meet in bars, drink a lot of beer? Just askin'...

[marble falls]

30. "But mom said I can only have four people at a time in the basement, check out my OG X-Box." ...

I don't see these guys sitting in a bar where the real angry brain-dead are lurking. A yellow and black kilt would not be sending the message they thought it would.

Besides sleeping late and getting stuff for free none of them have a clue what Syndicalist Anarchism is about.

[h2ebits]

12. Alternet strikes again

I read most of the Alternet articles just because they are so available but. . . .

I'm old enough to remember the time when computers were just becoming available--not the PC's but the big mainframe ones. I spent a number of years fighting the phrase: "If it's on green bar then it must be right." Programmers write code; they are not necessarily good at math.

That's how I view Alternet and a lot of Internet content. Writers write; they are not necessarily good at analysis. Proceed with caution.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

25. You need to read words 4, 5, 6, and 7 from the OP

Alternet is just the aggregator. If you have a beef with the article, look up the USA Today source and make your beef with quotes from the source article.

[progressoid]

27. The USAtoday article:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/05/04/proud-boys-chinese-americans-community-support-donations/7343111002/

[multigraincracker]

13. trademarks--including for 'coffins'--The Trump family's cozy ties with China

https://frontpagelive.com/2020/05/18/trump-ties-china/


Donald Trump has a relationship with China that has changed almost on a daily basis. While he criticizes the Chinese government, Trump has made money in business dealings there, as well as with Chinese investors.

What’s more, his children have also profited from their myriad businesses in China—and are poised to make more whenever they leave office. Ivanka, for instance, has been granted a great many Chinese trademarks, including for “coffins” (see below).

In a 2011 interview with Forbes, Trump described his relationship with China as, “I deal with China, as an example, a lot. It is never easy. And, I’ve made some very big deals with the Chinese. I’ve come out on top, I’ve come out in great shape. I sell apartments to Chinese people. I get along great with them. It’s not like I’m anti-China.”

Here’s a list of all the public dealings Trump and his family have had with China.

[Tiger8]

15. I think the donations are legit

Totally explains why The Proud Boys, Alex Jones, etc. keep pushing their "Anti-Communist" credo.

It's all bullshit to us, but many people have been traumatized by Communism.

How do right wing groups find them? Maybe place surveys for "Attitudes toward Communism" on websites popular with Chinese Americans to build email lists - which they use to further indoctrinate them and turn them into supporters.

[David__77]

23. I guess they are Falun Gong supporters.

...

[marble falls]

31. Non paywall origional link to USAToday article ...

... Just another reason to loathe Alternet.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/05/04/proud-boys-chinese-americans-community-support-donations/7343111002/

[FakeNoose]

34. It would be foolish to think only American credit card numbers have been stolen

Clearly that's not the case ... and this may be proof right here. A lot of the credit card theft of the last 30 years has been done by Russian and eastern European thieves who are very good, and don't often get caught. Are they only stealing American credit cards? Well ours have been easier to steal online because it took us longer to switch to the "smart" cards with microchips.

The European banks were onto them immediately and changed their entire credit card system to chipped cards which kept them out. The US banks waited another 20+ years before changing. The point is that the Russian & eastern European bad guys will steal from wherever they can. They're using false identities and stolen data to fund the fascists everywhere, including the Proud Boys and others in the US.

So, does this mean some of the thieves are actually operating in Asia now too? I'd say so.

[Kid Berwyn]

37. Divide America to Conquer same.

Romanesque.

[Journeyman]

42. And so the Proud Boys could just be "useful idiots" . . .

Interesting. And quite foreseeable.