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Maj John Bell
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No, it is not his base. The most generous estimates place total proud boy membership (both active and inactive) at less than 7000 people TOTAL.
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Maj John Bell
Maj John Bell
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MSgt Steve Sweeney - "You guys," implying that I'm what? Pick whatever you believe to be the major tenets of the Proud Boys and tell me where I stand on those issues since you "know where [I] will stand on any given issue." Let's start out with what you think my ethnicity is and go on from there.
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Maj John Bell
Maj John Bell
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MSgt Steve Sweeney - Do you lack the intellectual courage to answer the question on Proud Boy membership?
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Maj John Bell
Maj John Bell
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SSgt (Join to see) - I've come to realize the good MSgt is the political equivalent of a turkey buzzard. Lacking a syrinx—the vocal organ of birds—its only vocalizations are grunts or low hisses. Won't vocalize his own positions so that they might be put to the test. A scavenger he rarely puts forth his own opinions he just picks at others. Ask him a question about his views and he just glides on by.
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Maj John Bell - I agree. Probably why he blocked me when I was persistent on getting an answer out of him. He reminds me of a MSgt who ruled by position, not talent or leadership skills. i.e.: Anyone junior found every excuse to get the heck away as soon as the end of day "bell rang".

John C Maxwell did a wonderful job describing the 5 Levels Of Leadership (in the same titled book). Level 1 is Position. Someone got promoted into a position and that is the sole basis of their authority.

https://www.johnmaxwell.com/blog/the-5-levels-of-leadership1/
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SSgt Owner/Operator
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I see we are using the zero research, know not thy enemy approach to posting stories. Proud Boys makes up, what, 7ish thousand? Trump got how many votes? 70 million? 0.01% is his base? This sir is why your posts hold no weight.

Yet here you are supporting, or at least never speaking out against, abortion in the 9th month, every white person is automatically racist, the riots over the last few years were "mostly peaceful protests" (compare that to DT's statement that there are good people on both sides and how you roasted him for it). How you can contain in your head all the terrible things your party is doing to this country and not go insane I will never know. You live on dichotomies!
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The Proud Boys could still enter the rallies if they didn’t display their insignia. Some people want to paint Trump as being disloyal to the PB, but that’s not how he treats those loyal to him. A successful leader realizes when it’s necessary to forbid a small part of his base from possibly provoking and disrupting the others while also trying to unite the many, many different groups that make up his total base.
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CWO4 Terrence Clark
CWO4 Terrence Clark
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Sgt (Join to see) Very well put, sister Ann. But I'm confident the good COL understands that internal diplomacy
well. After all, his own leanings are to a party that contains groups that favor murdering babies, have denied God, believe that America is not and never was great, send their anarchist brown shirts into the streets to burn, riot and pillage, are determined to destroy the very rights that draw immigrants from every corner of the globe, are rapidly returning us to segregation and Jim Crow, and whose every move is to put us in to a one world socialist government. LTC Eugene Chu
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CWO4 Terrence Clark You gave an horrifyingly accurate example of enemy factions stacked against America. Disturbingly, the majority of immigrants clamoring to get in are not even aware of the dark, dystopian future for the United States, and same goes for some Dem/Liberals who would really care if they knew.
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