Brace Belden

Brace Belden
Nickname(s)
  • "Bad Boy" Brace Belden[1]
  • PissPigGranddad[2]
  • PissPigGrandma[3]
  • President Chaos[2]
Born (1989-10-13) October 13, 1989 (age 35)[4]
San Francisco, California, U.S.
Allegiance Rojava
Service / branch People's Protection Units
United Freedom Forces[5]
Years of service2016–2017
Battles / warsRaqqa offensive

Brace Robert Belden is an American podcaster and union activist who volunteered to serve with the People's Protection Units (YPG), a Kurdish militia, in the Syrian Civil War.[6][2] Belden is also widely known by his former Twitter handle, PissPigGranddad. He is currently the co-host of the podcast TrueAnon with Liz Franczak.

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference ThrasherWildThing was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ a b c Wiedeman, Reeves (April 3, 2017). "PissPigGranddad, the Punk-Rock Florist Who Fought ISIS in Syria, Is Coming Home". Intelligencer.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference nomore was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ "Brace Robert Belden, Born 10/13/1989 in California". California Birth Index. California Office of Health Information and Research. Retrieved May 22, 2017.
  5. ^ "This is how an American florist and a Georgetown graduate wound up fighting ISIS in Syria". Tampa Bay Times. Retrieved April 28, 2023.
  6. ^ Goldstein, Sam Jaffe (January 30, 2020). "Jeffrey Epstein Is a Feature of Our System: A Conversation with Liz Franczak and Brace Belden, Hosts of "Trueanon"". Lareviewofbooks.org. Retrieved September 20, 2020.