A preview of today’s Fort Lauderdale “Protect the Children” anti-LGBTQ hate rally backed by a slew far-right usual suspects like Moms for Liberty, Gays Against Gr**mers & Proud Boys.
Let’s take a dive into who will be there, their ugly histories and the unfolding drama. 🔥 1/
Before we start, it should be mentioned that none of the featured speakers for the rally live in Broward County. They are being shipped in from across the country, Orlando, Miami and Palm Beach.
ALSO — Attend the counter protest today at 11am at A1A & Las Olas. 2/
The first featured speaker is Anthony Raimondi aka “Conservative Ant” who has previously worked with Illinois Proud Boys and celebrated a bakery being vandalized and windows being smashed by a far-right activist after hosting a drag show. 2/
Anthony Raimondi is also part of the group “Gays Against Gr**mers” whose founder Jaimee Mitchell has plenty of links to extreme far-right politics.
In reaction to the Colorado Springs Club Q Shooting she went on Tucker Carlson to say this … 3/
And if that wasn’t enough to convince you “Gays Against Gr**mers” not only fuels & provides cover for the current wave of far-right driven LGBTQ panic, check out this archive on GAG founder Jamie Mitchell’s online history (since censored by Twitter). 4/
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The next “featured speaker” is the washed up leader of Miami Moms for Liberty, Eulalia Jimenez.
We’ve extensively documented her association w the Proud Boys, her QAnon believes & pushing endless mountains of fear, lies and demonization of the LGBTQ community. 5/
In this shocking video posted after the tragic Uvalde school shooting, Miami M4L leader Eulalia Jimenez repeated the baseless far-right conspiracy that the shooter was transgender & a result of the “war on children” + “[LGBTQ] agenda.”
Moms for Liberty is a hate group! 6/
Third speaker is Jordan Toste, also affiliated w far-right “Gays Against Gr**mers.”
He recently shipped himself from Orlando to speak at the September Miami school board meeting against a resolution for LGBTQ history month. Also a former fan of drag shows. 7/
The final featured speaker is Elon Gerberg who operates as “Florida Fathers for Freedom,” which is only him.
Elon is a commercial investment advisor for SVN Partners recently relocated to Palm Beach Co. and the main organizer of the rally. 8/
As is common in far-right circles, Elon Gerberg got his start during the pandemic denying COVID, railing against vaccines & masks, then jumped to anti-CRT & now pushes gay/trans panic themed content.
In April he promoted the bunk “furries” in schools conspiracy. 9/
People shouldn’t be fooled by Elon Gerberg’s “normie” persona.
For several years he’s peddled misinfo on COVID & associates + organizes w Proud Boys, M4L, J6 rioters, extremists like Laura Loomer & his BFF Chris Nelson who we exposed participating in Nazi chat groups. 10/
A further sign of the politics driving this fake “protect the children”rally is looking at who is promoting it:
Floridians First, a well know front group for local Proud Boys & twittlerless Miami QAnon maven Isabella Rodriguez aka #RedPillBabe. 11/
Hate rally organizers Elon Gerberg & BFF Chris Nelson seem frantic by the prospect that this time around they will be greeted by counter protesters — so they’ve agitated right-wing media to beat the drums of the “antifa boogeyman” AND called the police to babysit them. 😂 12/ twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
But they don’t realize — or maybe they do — that whipping up their conspiracy pilled supporters into a panic is probably not going to work out well for them.
Just look at this dweeb Rick the Beach Condo King (😂) posting about about “knife fights” and “destroying” people. 13/
The rally has also attracted the attention of literal Nazis led by Josh Nunes of Jacksonville , FL who showed up to the TPUSA conf in July.
Not surprising since the current “gr**mer” LGBTQ narrative is merely a reboot of ideas the actual Nazis embraced. Look it up. 14/
Not to worry though, the “head on a swivel” QAnon figure #RedPillBane has already pre-baked Nazis showing up as being an “OpticOpp” orchestrated by antifa.
You do know that “antifa” means “Anti-Fascist” right? 🤯😂 15/
Rally organizers like Elon Gerberg’s BFF Chris Nelson have already proclaimed he doesn’t care because people said lots of bad things about him. 🥴
This rally hasn’t even started and it’s already a mess! 16/
Hope to see you all at the counter protest and follow our account @MIAagainstFash as we continue to expose the far-right and hate mongers of south Florida. 🌴⛱️😎
Today’s Fort Lauderdale fake “Protect the Children” led by a slew of far-right groups is already turning into a grift.
The merch is modeled here by far-right social media figure Anthony Raimondi aka “Conservative Ant” who has no children. 🤑
Follow along as we live post on the rally!
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